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Paee Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE L u Thursday, August 4, 1949 a hr (Eltntnn (T^runtrlr FsUbUshrd 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher HARRY C. LAYTpN. Assistant Published Everv Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COM PANT Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $2 00 Six Months $1 25 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C., unde'r Act of Congress March 3, 18 7 9. _______ ^ The Chronicle seeks l ic cooperation of its subscribers and readers— the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chropicle will publish letters of general interest when they "are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not'be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents.]jy - MEMBER: SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION National Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia fiq risk and the taxpayer taKes it all. But the genreous Trumanites, witij the aid of some speculator Republi cans, actually have provided that the government pay part of the rent of the Harlemites, Brooklynites. South- side Chicagoans, Detroit Commun ists. The rich man will cream off a handsome profit. Some of your con gressmen voted for this monstrous entering wedge of communism. They did not provide that the government pay part of your rent. You pay a tax to pay the extra gravy to the big city speculators. All the Eleanor- villes of New Deal days have been lost by the government to private speculators at give-away prices. The rich man has gloriously fooled the poor man when it takes the poor man’s taxes to lend to the rich man to build houses for the poor man at rentals so high it has to take more taxes to help pay the rich man his rent. Watch the big housing projects in your own states—see who owns them if they, make a profit — who owns them if they do not succeed!— The Easley Progress. f i as of 1950, become a taxpayer, Instead o(^a tax-eater. At the rate the federal govern ment is piogressing, Clark's Hill will not be finished for. several years— perhaps for five or six years. First federal appropriations were made .more than three years ago, and the project is only about a third com pleted. As to what the ultimate cost to the taxpayers will be, no one can say. The trend is spiraling upward. It already has gone from $42,000,- 000 to $76,000,000. If the dam takes long enough, it may yet rival TVA, at least from an expense standpoint. The News and Courier. CALL 74 — For your office needs Chronicle Publishing Co. xxxxacxxaaoonCTnnn How Much Will It Cost? CLINTON. S. C . THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1919 A Dreom Comes True m construction of such a hotel. Build ing conditions and costs made it im possible to proceed with the n-aiec removed after the war. Four vears 000.000 may be assumed to be cor- rect. has passed and they, are still with us i to impose restraints upon consum- That means that some place along t nc board of directors, elected j er buying The chronicle has long the line, the cost of Clark s Hill has t y tne stockholders, invested Pr^-, advocated the abolition of these been 1 increased by $34,000,000. For ally all funds on hand Which have lten drawing an average of two and' » : e half per cent interest until a -t! .k’t.O of the. building. 1 taxes. In spite of repeated demands, con gress won’t kill any wartime excise t^xes at this session, we are told by when the project was being “sold to the public”, five or six. years ago, the total cost was estimated at only $42,000,000. Original congressiorfal the house Democratic leader McCor- a PP r ; n ' a l^‘ Clark’s Hill was based The need >: a modern hotel in th- mick opening up the question, he on the S*?.000.000. 1 no *°nger a dream, but now said m jgf,t lead to repeal of all such' Rising construction costs cannot be ;.n assured reality within the next i ev i e; . anc j i oss 0 f heavy revenue, pleaded as an excuse, for as late as sever:., months The board of- .’di- That’s the reason—the spenders don't August 1946. the Savannah River rectors as will be seen from the news want l0 abolish anything. Electric company offered to build the columns of today’s paper, let a con- business tnen all over the na- identical dam for $45,000,000. The tract for the building last week and . u ' * ;>U5ine » s hien ah o\er .ne na comDany aDD ivi n e for a license construction u.ork .s Pvne-tPri to eot tlon are becoming aroused over con- ^ UII1 P d »y- ™ appijing ror a license mderwav this month Bv delavfn® ditions at Washington, over the inef- rom . th * .^ edera . . powe [ commission, he matter and re^nth caU n/ fo? briency. spending, wasting and bu- Promised ,t would complete the struc- t..e mat.er, and recen.l> calling for . .o,, of ron2rps . f our ture *n three and a half years and i.ew bids, the directors saved approx- reaucr „ n '* tnods of congress h ur est j mated that it would Day annual imately $16,000 over the previous es- > ear s a *' e: ybe war is over - A large t ^ $900 000 on the develooment F retail association w-hich represents on me development., The three-storv brick hotel will "• 500 merchants in this country and e Sava nnah company s applica- i..t .nree story brick hotel will „ . , . . H cnmmittpe tlon was rejected, on grounds that be erected on the most desirable Canada, has appointed a lommittee it wou i d not b e in the public interest >i:e :n the city for such a building in t0 oppose th f ternfic waste a " d ex - t 0 allow a private concern to build our opinion The hotel will be mod- travagance of government in the face ’ allow a , P r . l%ate concern to build of a decided decline in federal reve- and own the dam. ..1 .1 Uwlwll, l I A 1JII • vra. t.ve-lobby, adequate banquet taxpayers have been as.eep so long h.,i:. c'ffee shop, and other facilities. and have taken what ha5 been hand - T .t 'io'.e! should prove a valuable ed them lying-down. i u -t.on In all frankness we do not trade. 'believe : >r tije present that the cor- There are many in Washington P' ration *.vill be able to meet its an- who try to argue that government nuai interest obligations and at the cannot be operated on a business same time pay a dividend to stock- basis. The post office department holder?. Tnose who took stock in the with its annual deficit of millions is enterprise, to a large extent, did so an example. That argument just as public-spirited citizens, willing doesn’t hold water. There is no ex- and lie-irous of having a part in mak- cuse (except politics) for having half ing possible a modern hotel in the a dozen costly agencies when one i ;fy It- success to a very large ex- would suffice to do a given job. There tent will depend upon the manage- is no excuse for the size of the fed- ment. That is true of every hotel, eral payroll, still growing bigger in This places a heavy responsibility peacetime. And there is no excuse upon tne board of directors as re- lor the inereditable amount of dupli- } re.'C ntatives of stockholders to pro- cation of effort that is found through- Lie£iL-gl2jElyL and wisely in deciding out goverfiffient in all brahehes. vernment m a ■v retailer —, up "".e—management lease. They Every retailer — and every other snould be sure no mistake is maeje. business man as well — needs To It •' their responsibility to seek and wake-up and take an active part in fund tnc right person ta manage the the fight for efficient, economical hotel, rather than have some one government, national and state. Only • seek the job. We believe that with a public pressure can bring tt about, capable, experienced and right type and that pressure must be applied to of management the venture will be congressmen and senators alike who a success and render a real service do the spending of your money. No to the city and community. A good bureaucrat will economize unless he hotel draws people to a town, a bad is forced to. Billions of our tax one drives them away. Clinton has a money can be saved—if we demand number of peculiar advantages as a it. That means smaller take-out from hotel point, together with an unsur- your pay envelope. Only by f cutting passed location in the heart of the down inflated government can we growing Piedmont, and excellent save a free nation and ourselves from railroad and bus facilities that will destruction by taxation. All business contribute substantially to the sue- men had better wake up, face facts cess of this community enterprise. and demand relief or a general The Chronicle hopes the hotel will house-cleaning in Washington for be a popular and enjoyable commun- their own self-preservation. ity center, We believe it will prove ^ just that, and that our people will lake pride in the accom}ilishment •which is the result of a united com munity effort made two years ago and soon to become a reality. COMMERCIAL HOUSEHOLD WIRING ' Electrical Appliance Repairing and Electrical Construction Work Floor Plugs A Specialty ARNOLD M. CANNON 406 W. Maple St. Tel. 312-XJ Editorial Comment The Monstrous Flim-Flam I Textile workers in Easley paying rent for Negroes and for foreigners in Ne Retoilers Woking-Up There are many ways by which in New York! How absurd! You say efficiency and economy can be prac- —find out before you say it’s absurd, ticed by the federal government that It is a fact. A certain per cent of will stimulate business in this re- your withholding tax will go to pay i cessionary period. The trouble is the the rent of what Truman in his* spenders in the saddle don’t want to Housing Bill calls low class Ameri- curb spending as seerfl r by the huge cans (and foreigners). The billions approved appropriations by, congress have been turned loose for housing noted in the press almost daily.—An -—here? No. in the city slums, where, example is an announced-allotment the Truman votes hang out. Will yesterday of $64,625,000 among the poor Americans get loans to own states for the national school lunch their own homes? No!- It is the rich program for the year ahead. $1,776.- speculators’ housing bill. To him that 427 of the amount coming to this hath tlje Government will give and state. It is no responsibility of gov- add unto what he hath. The govern-! ernment to feed children in school— ment will furnish tfie rich man the' that is the responsibility of parents, money to put up these great apart-1 Senator George, of Georgia, who ment houses so that he has to take C//£ SOME FOLKS TWO GLASSES AND THEY WILL MAKE SPECTACLES OF THEMSELVES. V ' ‘ l ' X -Vk If eye strain is causing headache, see an eye spe cialist. For simple head- " aches we carry a full line of the well known reme dies. M'GEE’S DRUG STORE Phone No. 1 Perhaps the most salient fact in . , . , . the press accounts of labor trouble “' 1,h 3 ,e ;'' other senators is attempt- a; Clark - S Hil , involves not the str , ke For Ion- vears there has beer "!* 13 r educe spending and debt and ^ the cost # , , he governmen ,. ;i . r lon ® • >ears , ine ‘ e ^ oeer give taxpayers a break — recently ... .km agnation for a modern new p r0 p 0sec i the immediate outright re- , o.ti *n who Xvno special wsrtimc excise The wite services qow 3re describ- Chamber of Commerce conducted | taon ao ., d , and ' <e !._ ing the Clark’s Hill dam as a $76.- a high-pressure stock raising cam-; vice ; These taxe , w 0 ere o imposed as ' a 000.0Q0 structure. Since the figure l -ngn to raise funds, to be supple-J war e me’-°ency measure and the ha s not been questioned or corrected n ccitcd with borrowed funds, for the prornise ma de that they ’ would be bv an - v government official, the $76.- ern throughout, a credit to a city ^ , . , much larger than Clinton It will con- nues - The - V are at last d emanding a At the time of the rejection, the * 'i ‘ortv-*wo 2uest *-00111' t*ach P ollc . v rl gi d economy in govern- government was maintaining that it k^i' .iu^b'h tsgXr with an Th. trouble is the American could build the project for $45,000.- r- j— ’ _ • 000—the same sum mentioned by the private power company. Then, like Topsy, the sum just i mm unity center for soq^al groups. Retailers know the kind of waste growed. On June 19. 1947, The Asso- t vL : ganizations and others as well which characterizes government to- tiated Press referred to the $46,000,- a : .g .onvemence to the traveling day. and they likewise well know 000 Clark’s Hill project. In July of 1 uo!: A ’. sto.kholders, and every that they would soon be headed Jqr. the same year. The Associated Press Kis;ne'> man in the cityjjiuiuld give bankruptcy if they allowed such spoke of the $46,000,700 project. On j tue venfure their moral support and practices to exist in their own busi- February 17, 1948, the news agency i .. ,tt‘ lor the good will and pat- ness, be it large or small. Competi- wrote of the $50,000,000 project. And :onuge f traveling men serving this tion is getting keener, instead of on November 22, 1948, The United m‘ :ii n of the state shortages we have surpluses in al- Press referred to the $75,000,000' The handicap of course, is the fact most all lines. The day of scarcity Clark's Hill project. *. a: tnc hotel will begin operation is over, even in the automobile in- Now, in the stories about the cur- \\::n a heavy bonded indebtedness, dustry. This means that the retailer rent labor trouble, the news services] 'i .- a as inev.table because sufficient must be on the job, that they must talk of the $76,000,000 project, and s: x tu’.d not be sold to finance meet new conditions, that they must say it “is about one-third completed.” ; : a ; o’ wnich will cost approx- intelligently merchandise and prac- If the Savannah River Electric | imaiec. $241.0011 The question is of- tice economy if they are to supply company had been granted permis-, ten a.'ked Will the hotel pay,’.’ “Will goods to the public at an acceptable sion to build the dam, the project !' p e a sound investment for the price, maintain high standards of would be scheduled for completion .'•. 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