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■■ vr f A * i'A * 7 % r * 4 * * 1 I ilhf (E Union (El|rontrU Established 1904 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant Published Every Thursday By THE CPJtONICLE 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, 1879. The Chronicle seeks t ic 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. 3 MEMBER: SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION National Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia Conclusions No less a person than General Ei senhower has said that “the army of and interest on National Bible, the entire world. Our literature, High school graduates should know Week. And the place to start is in mathematics, and science ought to that it was the investment of pri- ga r c/ 1 ' their res pc' n s rtji 1 i ty ° and d pa ss ^ ^ these f te3c |;- vate. capital the intelligent manage- ^^".ho" urge'greater and'greater same on to the church and other L* _ 3 d n ° w taughk as separate sub- merit of industry and the^sweat j er centr aii za tion of authority and . » agencies. BABSON'S jects I am most concerned that so few a team that made American great of our children (I won’t embarrass They should know that American adults) can ,explain how their city, free enterprise with all of its weak willing workers pu. ing toge.hei a> g rea j er dependence upon the Feder al treasury are really more danger ous to our forfn of government than uerprise wiui an m its vv ^ a ''" any external threat that can possibly state or even nation, is run. They nesses has made it possible for them be arraye d against us.” What are the don’t know enough about the his- to have the highest standard o 1V “. schools in your community teaching tory and development of our coun- ing in the world. about this? cations are over. Youngsters are back t r y to understand what really made Our high school graduates should at school. What will they learn this us great. They probably have read be given, in addition to a study of year that will make about the vulcanizing of rubber in the various “isms”, an impartial re- them happier, bet- 1839, the early sensitized photograph- port of the American businessman’s ter integrated per- ic plates in 1851, and the first At- point of view that excessive taxes Babson Park, Mass., Oct. 14. Va- C LINTON. S. t ., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20. 1949 Welcome for Homecoming |spreading like a prairie fire—is to| ed for ' them in t he public school- Clinton extends its hand Friday! high SDeed toward national insol . room the American workers stand- sonalities? What hie plates in 1851, and the first At- discourage venture capital and the will our schools lantic cable in 1866. They know, too, initiative that made us great. It; teach them about at>out the invention of the telephone should be made crystal clear to stu- j the greatness of and phonograph and of electric mo- dents that unless business, big and ( their country, and tors - the X-Ray, the automobile, air- small, can develop in the future as what made it great?, P' ane > and motion picture. it has in the past, the economic ad- Most of our, Education And Business vantages will not be as great for youngsters will But no one seems ever to have told future workers and investors as they learn that the Pil- them what has developed the inven- have been for past generations. Rar»v.B»t>M* grims landed in tions into great American industries. Plymouth. They will have heard of ’ the battle of Bunker Hill. They know something about Paul Revere. But they will never have set foot inside any plant, large or small, to catch the spirit and romance of American pro duction. Few will ever have contrast- NEW RELIEF I From croupy coughs, congestion and choked up feeling of colds when you use Vicks VapoRub this special way, too! It’s Vicks VapoRub Steam. Brings wonder ful relief with every breath. FREE—full size iar of VapoRub. Clip and send this ad with name and address to Vicks, Dept. L25, Box 1813, Greensboro, N. C. by Oct. 27, 1949. , , , . , high speed toward national insol- to old fnends returning; v while Congress sleeps. 1949 homecoming. in welcom for PC The occasion is a high spot each 1 year as townsmen renew acquain tances with college alumni. For ajl_ a b or Union BoSSCS The Democratic party has We Have Boot-Licked closer bond exists between the stu dents who go through their four-vear been tours at Presbyterian and the citi-' r a S ';’' y , ac ' used ot hav ‘"* >><•<“-«<*- sens of Clinton than is found in ^, la r ^ r f un “" s ev * r . a “** F n D , , I*. R- first ran for the presidency. But most similar relationships. •* ,. .. F F it wasn t the Both the city and college unions—it was the are bosses. The party figured that the small enough for personal contacts 1 bosses could lead them by the nose; to take solid toot Clinton encour- an d to make sure, they passed laws ages these contacts, and the stud- an d made rulings which gave those ents leturn its interest with deep bosses almost life and death pow- feeling. - er over the ordinary members. Probably the best example of this ybe game worked perfectly un mutual icgaid is the high esteem til a patriotic congress—the 80th, residents hold for faculty members passed a i aw _ t he Taft-Hartley law uho teach the students. It over- —which gave back the union mem- ..outd last Friday night when lo-; ber some of the freedom and digni- eal merchants and Chamber of (ty which as an American citizen he Commerce members teamed with' s ; e * tiUed to receive The b ig l a - thosi of Gieenville in honoi mg bor dictators went wild, they threat- Athlttie Dnector Walter A. John- en ed and cajoled, and scared the in- son and head Coach Lonnie S. Me- cumbent weak administration into its Millian. Clintonians are planning attitude against the Taft-Hartley more of the same at halftime this 1 i aw Friday night. i-,.., having ard of living, working hours, and ! conditions with those of the work ers of Britain, Russia, or even so cialistic Sweden. But our kids will know about Cae-; sar and ancient Romfc and Socrates and Aristotle. And they will make abortive attempts to learn Latin and French. I did! They will have their minds disciplined and their brains | sharpened by drawing meaningless geometric figures on a blackboard and by stating geometric propositions and citing corollaries. Q. E. D.! But they cannot spell; they will be unable to write a business report, or speak 1 grammatically, or add a column of, figures or make accurate change. Ev en more important, will they have a grasp of our social, economic, and political problems sufficient to make 1 them intelligent voters? Education For American Civilization Present-day education ought to, feature the history and romance of American professions, industry, mer- j chandising and commerce to which the students owe their present high standard of living—the very best in Clinton and Presbyterian are more than just a city and an insti tution. separate and apart. They are interwoven through long years of service to each other. They have grown up together since the wean ing ytars after the founding of the college in 1880. It was known as Clinton College then. And there is intermingled the ev en stronger bond of a graduate's af fection for his Alma Mater. For most college graduates in Clinton to suffer cold and attended P C., and its Homecoming coal now) wh So the Taft-Hartley law been sidestepped, the labor big shots are again on the throne and it is going to require another patriotic congress (not Truman kind) tc bring these haughty dictators down to our level. At the moment the boot-licked hens are coming home to roost, and they’re roosting all over 12 million folks. We all have to suffer cold union laborers as well as on 125 mil lion of us common folks. We all have unger (there is no hat czar John L If You Don’t Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News is a day of tribute from them, too. ( Lewis waves hfs big expensive cigar Welcome P C. alumni and vis- at the poor saps'who together with us itors for Home-coming. ! are slaves. And don't stop with Lewis, there are Murray and Brid- Dodging Our Shore ges , a , nd s<;v f al f ° r «en im - ^ J . o , . portations. For this degrading sit- The Senate voted Sa urday night, uation Democrats and Republicans! by a close vote to shelve the Dis-! r nsible , those of the l2 m il- piaod Persons Bill for this session Uon union members who are still Dr. Fred E. Holcombe OPTOMETRIST Offices at 200 South Broad St. Office Hours 9:00 to 5:30 Phone 658 pi J of Congress by recommitting it to committee after holding up action on the measure for months. This kills the last chance at this session unaware that the Taft-Hartley law! gives them back much of their! freedom inspite of the repeal. But j . i u ,• „u A r 01084 o4 a U * 4 48 4410 4au44 o4 44le to liberalize the DP Act of 1948 to American farmers. They believed pern.it 134.000 more need y Europ- w i ld p romise that was madei ean refugees to come to the United them and they didn't even take the Staus. Thus far only a small num- ; trouble to count the oonsequences bei of these displaced persons have to themselves or t0 the publiC) if here from Europe Reports on those ises were kept, nher of such families located, In the me anwhile 380,000 mem- in _ 18 8at m ica ^ ty a,e , bers of Lewis' union are on strike, come a num ing good citizens and are eager to I work for their families. We our humanity, with cold weather fast approaching. ' ‘M’ 1 H i° d ‘ U ^ ) ? OIt This situation can’t go on much W “ b ^ s ' oureelv “ longer. Every citizen in this com-1 , , , . , I ^ :>OUIt ' es an munity where there is a critical coaC leadership in world affairs, and yet shorta ge_ 5h0 uld fire protests at the we refuse to do our share when hu- district . s congressman and the two man lives are at stake. Many o] senators demanding that they go these people are victims of war and t0 work and help se tti e this dispute., totalitarianism, due to no fault of For politlcal favor or because J theirs, and they need help, they are > fear> the Democratic party sold out asking for a chance to start life un i on [ ab or bosses. And because! o\ei again. And what does Con-: 0 f this fact, conditions get worse rath-] gress do? Filibuster and evade this : er than improve. What is happening! humanitarian measure intended to is disgraceful in what is supposed to j salvage deserving people from deteri- be a free America. We need a gen-| oration. ! eral house-cleaning in Washington) all along the line, beginning with j Two Billion Eggs the chief executive. We read much about government j # ^ eggs now-a-days. Spoiling eggs—' Notional Bible Week millions of them—are »a terrible! Annually the third week in the thing The Department of Agricul- 1 mo nth of October is designated as ture has 2,304,000,000 stored eggs, National Bible Week. The date is which are threatening to spoil be- October 17-23 to focus the attention 1 cause the government went into the of men and women on . th basi | egg business to hold up prices house- , principles of Christianity which wives must pay. A glaring example of' ^ .u • i government extravagance and med- 1 tn iij C u V1 12 h i W ^ r ^ IS f UP I dling. and for this enormous bill | ^ w hile to much of the American taxpayers must pay. 1 We call Ame a r - ca ° meaning Our egg crop is hatching trouble Q . tr . . na * u „„ 4lon - and y e4 we hav e little to pride ourselves upon as Christians. We and causing headaches. It is an ex ample of stupidity. Marching to Socialism Senator Byrd of Virginia, who al ways says something when he talks —said in a speech the other day, ‘America is on the march to social- ism . have the highest crime rate and de linquency in all history. There are three times as many people in pen- i al institutions as are attending un iversities and colleges. There is more intemperance, more legalized' selling and dfinking of liquor than ever before in the nation, more Those who observe and use their stealing, more murder, more disre brain, know that the Senator is gard and defiance of law. Racial! right, that the pace of the march is and class hatreds are rampant, and increasing to the tempo of expand- turning to the international scene ing federalized programs and in- 1 what do we see—a failure on the creasing national debt. This deficit part of multiplied millions of people financing of federal programs in ( to live up to the basic ideajs of time of peace is piling up a federal! Christianity. 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