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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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Thursday, August 4, 1949
a hr (Eltntnn (T^runtrlr
FsUbUshrd 1900
WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher
HARRY C. LAYTpN. Assistant
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
.'•. 'ckn '.ners' 1 ” We cannot answer the service at a high level and hold their early next year. It would not have
cost the taxpayers a nickel. It would,
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