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THE CUNTON CHRONICLE
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1949
Ulhf QUinton (ElirnnirU
Established 1900
WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher
HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant
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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.
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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
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“ ^ 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. •
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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
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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
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tne company a threat to the welfare
and living standards of ev^Ty /ttner-
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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. Look at the re-[ voluntary groups of individual mer-;
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