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/ I * V ' r Page Two I THE CUNTON CHRONICLE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1949 Ulhf QUinton (ElirnnirU Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant Published Everv Thursday Bv THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY’ 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., under Act of Congress March 3, 18 7 9. The Chronicle seeks i ie cooperation of its subscribers and readers— the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle 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. MEMBER: SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION National Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia methods and in the same pattern here under attack. | “If the antitrust lawyers succeed in destroying A & P, the way will be cleared for the destruction of every other efficient large-scale dis tributor. “There» is nothing even approach ing monopoly here, for, as every housewife knows, the retail grocery business is the most competitive in the country and we do only a small part of it. Nor was there ever any charges that we raised prices—for the whole basis of this Attack is the fact we sold our food too cheap. There is nothing in our operations, or in any previous court decisions involving us, or in the antitrust laws themselves to justify the dissolution of A & P. “Obviously, it is the theory of the' antitrust lawyers that the people of America have no right to patronize a company if their patronage will' make that company grow—and that any big business must be destroyed simply because it is big—and even if New Faculty Member US Population To Pass 150 Million Before January 1 Washington, Sept. 16—The Census Bureau estimated today that the Un- j ited States population was 149.452,- ! 000 on August 1. This was an increase of 237,000 lover the July 1 estimate. At that rate of increase, the population will 1 pass th,e 150,000,000 mark between now and January 1. The August i figure represents an increase of 17,782,000 or 13.5 per cent, over the 131,669,275 persons actual ly counted on April 1, 1940, the date loMhe last census. I ^The increase was 1,401,100 in the first seven months of 1949. This is about the same as the increase dur ing the corresponding period of 1948. SUBSCRIBE TO THe, CHRONICLE — .,i C LINTON. S. ( .. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1949 ROBERT DE DARDEL is a new .he public ge's hurt in the process. member of , he Presbyterian coll J "This action is just opposite to , , ^ s , the purpose of antitrust law’s, which i ‘ acu * t y f° r the coming year in the were meant to increase competition department of French. Mr. de Dardel and keep prices down. For if it sue- comes from Geneva (Switzerland) Another Court Change l™ 0nd ^ ade / n a PP° intment of an ceeds, it will serve only to cut down university He is a native of Switier _ w. -r i. .j i. .honorable and capable woman to the competition and force prices up. A i orir j Frc.-ident Truman has made anoth- , , r * . , , land and received his education in' tu t ’ c c: industrial commission in the hope of & Ps policy always maintained and i, n . u i,- „ a < r ..ppomUjicn to thelhS^Suprcme lmproving that C o mml ssion which 1, hep. a£e the spin, of ' 5-PIECE Court. There has been a complete turn- >ver in the members since 1937. In the term of the late President Roosevelt he appointed eight men to fhe ourt. President Truman has ap pointed four Th suubject to statewide criticism for “Frankly, the owners of A some of its policies. What happened 0 could make enormous amounts The senate would not show him the mone.y by breaking up this company, courtesy of confirming the appoint- as the antitrust lawyers wish, and ment which was within the law and selling off the parts, solely his responsibility. Those who ; .. But we beheve this attack is a 9. D “ ^ learning in that country. dt r T i nan T'rt ! b * V Pres !” I led the opposition posed as having thre3t t0 millions of con sumers who She ; ’ Minton 1S f mono P ol >'? n "h™ 08 , over women. iely on us {or qualit foods at low - ' H.r J t SCnat0 !r h "' as purel . y Poetical with echoes priceSi t0 hundreds of thousands of H.ir.\ Truman of of next year’s senatorial race faint- farmers who relv on us for fast Low- ^ i ly he3 . rd and . detected in the back-■ cost dlstrlbutio n 0 f their products, The • c v usticp i • t h* V' 1 60 I Sr °j nd ’ ^O' ^ hoJ" Tnurrnond has an d t0 our no.OOO loyal employees, i ne ..t a justice x is expected to join made a considerably above the av- t te oera. wing of the court which erage governor. To his everlasting There has never been any Ques- ine..'i* that body will be about evenly I credit he has put an end to the par- f ion in our mind tf ! at u is good bus- <ii\!:!en and we may expect a contin- don racket. He would have been '^^ss and good citizenship to sell uatir of close-split decisions. able to accomplish much more* than food as cheaply as possible and we Mi Minton’s chief claim to fame he has had he not been blocked and fee l'tbat it is our responsibility to rests on his rootin’-tootin’New Deal- opposed by certain factions in the our customers, our suppliers, and^ ism as a U S. senator. He was one of the loudest and most irritating of the Roosevelt worshippers and when Mr. Roosevelt got around to his court packing scheme in 1937, Minton was < nr. o: the leaders, for this ill-fated scheme By many he was looked upon as a New Deal lackey. When he was legislature. When we get some de-j our ern Ploy ee s to defend this com- plorable conditions in Columbia, P an y and that^ theory by every legi- changed, we will have better govern- t‘ ma te means. . . ors, and not until then. • STOP BY . . . . . . and see the new John Deere Grain Drills and Powr-trol Tractors. Let us show you why John Deere is the Quality Farm Equip ment. J. R. CRAWFORD CLINTON, S. C. Hostess Set With Tray $1.75 Extra Trays to Match $1.19 * I How To Spite The Boll Weevil The Active Senator Senator Olin D. Johnston who is .*rie:ea:ed IP hls hoipe state in the (Chiefly concerned over reelectingi Baldwin. Ga.. Sept. 17.— Farmer Ce. lion ot 1940, as with most lame-; himself to 'this post next year, i» Floyd Lewallen said today he ij go- rfut k.-. a ;>la. e was made for him as again exerting himself in a fight to ing'to get even with those boll wee- » jud_. .;i the U S circuit court of -'•ave Fort Jackson. If there are to'vils, all right. And here's bow, ac- - .n Chicago at an annual sal-i be cuts and abandonments as pro- cor di n g to the Baldvrin fanmr- . > o. ':-V>oo. The Supreme Om. P^sed by Secretary of Defense John- .. Those W4ev ^ noT are attacldrig nil." i - of people think—should be son the junior senator who jumped tom;)- -ed pf men who stand at the on the Truman bandwagon about \ cry M' \\ )us : my late blooms. I’ve seen aa many as thirteen’in - a bloom. They're down P m the legal profession. Not midnight after the results of the tQ fJie stalks now _ anil by golIy , ni j n President Truman, or with election were known—wants those 1 ^ © j- t de essor. Truman’s appoint /s «r _A »> /-i I** a t - 4* ^ i rY ry serve ’em righ^” THOMPSON'S MORTUARY Complete Funerals $150.00 up AMBULANCE SERV ICE Phone 450-M Clinton, S. C. B L. THOMPSON and E. M. THOMPSON. Gen. Mgrs. Ideal for Gifts or Your Own Home HI RRY — LIMITED SUPPLY NO MAIL OR PHONE ORDERS me j i - w 1 .1 i; i* v cuts made in other na-N of th e ^ they starv * ^ death ! JSL ’ B8CRIBI:; 10 THK CHRONlLLf . ■ ■ , • y cuts maae in pmer 01 Tne : blbernatl0n s «a SO n sWts. That’U men:> are made on the basis of per- country.. And so he is ffightmg I ‘The Paper EverrWdy RemdiT — “A Credit To South Carolina” Air-Conditioned for Your Shopping Comfort son a. and political friendship which ’ tc keep Fort Jackson. So is May- moans ‘.hat the court is weakened. bank. Judge John Henry Johnson, of Those in Columbia who ar*T clam- AUendale. in hi- address to the New- oring against the order to close up berry county grand jury this week Fort Jackson use national diefense among other timely things said: “The mildly because the public inows real reason I have a lack of respect better. They are chiefly disturbed for the present Supreme Court is over the great economic value of because I can predict its decisions the camp to their city. They talk eight out of ten times in certain of the millions being spent in the type- o: cases " When the judge said cap.tal because the camp is f»ere. he has little respect for the high tri- Most frf the congressmen and sena- bunal as now constituted he was ex- tors orate about cutting expenses pressing the opinion’ of millions of and the swarms of federal'jobhnld- Ameri an citizens. ers devouring our natinal substance. ^ And then when economy is proposed A y^.. . . which reaches into their own baafc- WISG Move yards they let up an opposition yell It - noted that the Rev. Maxie 2nd depict the damage that will be Collin-, secretary of the South Caro- oone to local bus mess. Columbia, lina Federated Forces (temperance)like thousands of other cities, can get has announced publicly that he wall along without the IiKh subsidy from not seek re-election to that post next 1 big government spending. It ought year, the secretary being named each to stand on its own feet. Those who yea- at the January convention in know say that Fort Jackson is r.nt. Columbia. He should have resigned reeded now 'mth the war over four when he became active in national, years. It should have been abolish«d (Truman) politics. It is well that 1 along with all other expensive gov— Mr. Collins is giving up the office; 1 ernment installations / (set up for the With no personal reflection on his j war) that are not mrw necessary. ; ability or character, we d^.say that regardless of what Chamber of Cota- I when he almost overnight’" became! merce officials and professional cf- I an active leader in the South Caro- fice-holders like Johnston — have to I lina pro-Truman Democratic organ!-: say. Taxpayers will never get r>»- | zation which split with the state's hef they are hoping fur and talking: real “Democrats” last year—he hurtl about when those who make the ap- ! the work he heads and weakened propriations raise a howl protest w- | Lis influence. Partisan politics and 1 ery time a high official or senaur temperance d St go together. 1 like Byrd, speaks ovrt forcibly us The wettest of the wet was the ' favor of cuts taxpayers know sho rid | Roosevelt administration, followed ! lon = ago have been made. by the Truman regime which i s 1 » r C * A probably just as wet. The present A. (J CoiJS Sell A national administration which Mr. Collins endorses along with Messrs.; unreal r(J; VYenure Williams and Williams, and a few Qf AmPrimn People others, is not interested in what the j 9 r Federated Forces are attempting to, Great Atlaalic & p^Uic Tea-. Co. accomplish in this state. They are ; Char , otte N c yesterday more concerned with eh il rights pro- described the? Federal suit to dissolve CALL... TELEPHONE 117 Benjamin & Sons Expert Wo "k mans’rip CRANE Quality Materials w« have the new pen sensation possls, for FEPC and anti-segrega tion. tne company a threat to the welfare and living standards of ev^Ty /ttner- kan citizen. Speaking from headquarters, they as rto they would oppose the - action The Governor's Job There is still speculation ■whether James F. Byrnes will enter '-vith every legal means. The suit, the race for governor next year.' which was filed in the Federal Court Small grooups here and there have'for the Southern district ot New tried to draw him into the field of York, asked that the firm be broken candidates but little progress has up into smaller chains. It also ask- been made in spite of the trial politi- ed the court to dispose exf A & P cal balloons that have been sent up. manufaicturing and processing facil- A gentleman for whom we have ities. the highest regard asked us yester- The A & P statement: day, “Who would make a good gov- “This action is a threat to the wel- trnor for our state?” fare and living standards of every We replied—In our opinion under American citizen. If successful, it the present set-up in Columbia, the will mean less food on every dinner “rings” and strongly organized table and fewer dollars in every pay groups, it is impossible for anyone to envelope. This is not just an effort make a good governor. And we'will! to destroy A & P but an attack on stand by our opinion. The gentle--the entire system of efficient low- man said he believed he agreed with cost, low-profit mass distribution us. What can a governor do when which this company pioneered. Lis hands are tied by the genera) “A & P was the first chain store assembly. The authority is with that in this country and the methods we body. Other than a few appoint- developed have been adopted by ments and speech-making, the gov-,other grocers—as well as merchants ernor, regardless of who he may be— j in other lines. There are today lit- can accomplish only what the legisla- erally hundreds of chain stores and, ture will let him. 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