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Page Four f THE CLINTON CHHONICI E (Elinlon Qllirmtirlr Established 1900 WILSON \£\ HARRIS, Editor and Publisher HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY I Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $2.00 - Six Months $1.25 Eniered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C., under Act of Congress March 3, 1379. The Chronicle seeks l le 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 tpey are rot of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications -vtll no: 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 -SPORTS- Bv DONNY WILDER — Thursday, November 10, 1949 l LINTON, S. t .. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10. 1949 Truman Refuses To Act must pay. T:h> coa’. strike is still unsettled and • t ruiblic and business suffers be- of the defiant John L. Lewis. Ti seep tiie record straight, Pres.- ..t • : Truman has not turned his h.v - to bring about an agreement. In ’I'ide ation of the national wel- :art ne could days ago have used the .uith i i/.ed by the Taft-Hart It was left up to C.inton high Red Devils to keep up Clinton’s repu tation as a town with winning teams as Presbyterian College w'as up-set by the Citadel eleven and the Thorn- well orphanage crew was thrown 1 from the lane of the winning by the Greenbriar eleven. P. C. Stopped The ten second men from P. C. ' were kept bottled up all night as the A snowdown must came Bulldogs from Citadel bit a 27 to 7 which is 'Wt Lew T- on the dangerous FEPC wmen is scot - e ou t 0 f the Presbyterian Blue loaded with dynamite. Hose on the Johnson-Hagood Stad-' The Truman administra:ion is ium in Charleston, again putting forward a package of The Citadel tallied first in the first schemes to socialize agriculture,'med- quarter and were well on their way | icine. food, housing and power, and to the upset which they were play- to put across its civil rights pro- ing their hearts out. gram. Our people, we predict, re- P. C. struck back in the same quar- gardless of Washington pressure, will ter After the Bulldog touchdown Ynd settled the dispute and I no * ' ;3rea k their necks jumping on the Blake ‘ Kilo" Watts and Walter H Njnmtled miners would ^ anc ^ wa » on - ^ we believe in prin- Gooch played the role of die hards j ciple above expediency — we should as they rolled up four first and tens meet the issue squarely when the and rolled to the Dogs 20 yard line precinct meetings are held. before the boys from Citadel could ^ — get a good toe hold in their efforts to slow down the ten second men. But they did get their toe hold and the rally fell short at the exact spot cone back to work. dor.*. Truman apparently is a ate tor reelection The ofgan- 'ubor vote is a tremendous fac- letcrmming the outcome of •Yrtia' elections, as the record ate Roosevelt shows. President is a professional u: politician. Census Figures Given T’ t Consu.' Bun >au has released l.t .V i '•. m ,V- on t ne population of 1.1. . 1 ' ”,; 11* , 1 Jul* .* ! They are sig- • 'ii ,t tnoy ome just on the r . * ' - H' Otl .l.ll nation-wide ccn- . - . . 1950 A- , • Ji.:>. tiio u ni‘ed States pop- A is listed at 148.720.000. This it-rk' •' an m lease of 17.501.000. or !2 9 • v (.ent. since the last full cen- taken April 1. 1940 Coming closer home. South Caro lina .« estimated with 2,001,000, an increase for the ten-year period of ir; .re. ,se of 12 9 for the whole ( Tn. >• raises speculation as to C : t : s population will be. VV ] 1 1 its percentage of gain s Yot.r guess as quod as the leilov. y In 1930 the city’s population in the govt iment census was 5.643: 1940, n 704 .vhich showed almost no gain. W ’ .: will the 1950 figure be? It gain ■' c nnarable to the country A Question of Principle An advertisement appears in to day’s paper that could appear in no of the 20 yard marker, other country except America. We The Bulldogs were kept in the hole say this because it is a very unique'by the fierce charging of little Bozo advertisement from eompetitor> of Weir, who weighs in at only 230 tne Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea pounds. After the Dogs were made company expressing their friendship to understand that they weren't go- Inr this large grocery chain now uu- ing anywhere through the hard der attack by the U. S. government charging blue wall they punted and as a m .ru,poly These competitors the Presbyterian backs again went v iluntar.lv make such statements on the rampage with ••Kilo” Watts because they interpret the A&P case and Walter Gooch spear-heading the as another threat against the great drive. This time the Blue Hose were Anierica:i system of free enterprise, determined to make a go of it and, The suit against this food chain ripped their way to the Bulldog charges it is a monopoly, just themp-' three-yard marker. Bill Jolley, from) posite opinion expressed by thou- Union, did the honors for the big sands of grocerymen and customers Blue team and Fred Barnum, P.C.’s all over the country. accurate extra point man placed the This suit has been commented up- ex * ra point kick squarely througn 'll" I' * ' - in a the country, including this one We seven 1° seven knot. j hold no brief for the corporation, but From this point on it was Citadel 3 1 what wc believe in fairness to both small S ame - The Bulldogs received many j whaY an d big business. The government breaks and capitalized on all of thenij ho\v° soems to be making its attack on the by the near perfect blocking of the othe* dangerous premise that size alone is work horses in the line and the pow- evidence of monopoly and that when er drives of the inspired backs, a business gets very big. no matter The P.C.ians fought back, strongly how well it serves the public, it couldn t quite make the twin should be broken up. But it is ridic- s l r 'P es - Blake \\ atts and Walter ulous to sav there can be anything Gooch kept the hopes of the team U! Oon. or 5 3 per cent, as against an 1 on editorially by newspapers all over the uprights to tie the game a? a ere.-.' oral a t • »'i ha- - T. tin j.i . coun -eon :o. been Cha . j* y - : w) e .erage it •he ill be 6,415; if our in- as large as the gen- will be 7.J£iL If the resembling monopoly in retailing Every store is in direct competition with other stores, and the customer alone decides where he will trade. - .me average as the state This suit, as we have said before, e count will be 6.000. involves a great principle which can u! increase indicated for affect all other fields of big business. - not large, for it shows I* this company under attack can be nwth in the past ten-year 1 destroyed—what is there to hinder been lower than for the other big businesses going the same .< whole It remains to be way? If we hold that a company be lli ib. count will be comes monopolistic because public' by*Tackin' alive as they reeled off several Dreak- 1 away runs but couldn't qu^te get shaken loose Red Devils Rip Honea Path After spotting the Honea Path Stingers 13 points the Red Devils came from behind to smear the Stingers with a 19 to 13 count. Things looked dismal for the home team as Lady Luck smiled upon the Stingers twice and the Honea Path club took advantage of the favoritism s up two touchdowns in : .;os and other states. We have patronage has enabled it to develope f : rst barter , -cug many economic and grow into great size, then wei A * Honea Path punt took a crazy T ind f ?r >- and y- are establishing a precedent that. bounce and hit Truman Qwens on! • u • li Yk T , j \ UOund t0 shoW . could s T lftly und « rm » ne our e * ono : the leg and the Stingers pounced on up :■ .he hr... report my. our living standards, our strength ' the ball on clinton . s S everi-yard line. 1 A- :or Clinton, we predict a cen- as a nation. A business, large or 5u- of approximate!} 7.000. Now you small—is built on confidence and ser-1 Audry Smith scored for the Stingers. mux 1 vour guess. vice, and fair dealing. There is no. After the ball had exchanged hands ! _ , , -gain a Honea Path back threw a other sound basis to bin d upon The | longi looping pass . Curty Braswell. outcome of this suit will vitally el- DevU safety man , hit the ball in an 1 tec: American business in the years attempt to knock the pass down but Trumonites Perturbed S< itn Carolina Trumanites have that lie ahead If government wins j 1 1 u 1 ^ .u r\r- -1 rt . guvcuuiicm vMiib. ms t ea d spun backwards into the omci order.- for an attempt to take what business may be attacked next.’ hanHs nf tho waitim, phH «.-hn .tvnnrH hands of the waiting end who stepped across the gool line for the second rally. » In the second quarter Curtis Free- 1 | man and Alvin Nabors ran like wild men and racked up seven first downs for the red team. Herbert Fallaw ' ! broke the ice by snatching a pass! The eighth football week of the from Curly Braswell and made the season ended just like all others, with initial Devil score. Hampton, Devil f Truman anY tTTin'Y ub^for' Wofford stin unbeaten and at the Quarter back who suffered a broken ^ W ro zo in n nrmMmic cl Wofford and P. C. Still At Top In Gridiron Race full control of the party next year. The secretary of the national faction c: the so-called Democratic party has ann ninced an eight-point pro- cram and called for. support of all and Yyaity to the party. This is the party that would deny states the ngh: to manage their own affairs. In short, they want the people of this state to swallow the socialistic pro gram < the next big election. President Tru- lop of the standing, man (he hasn’t said so) is now run- Presbyterian retains its se collar bone in a previous game went in to kick the extra point and he did -Uod 1 that mng for reelection and his organiza- place position though defeated Fri- 1 A \ *.r 1. * j 1 » . ... , , e ..ui- , ijusiuun, wiuugn ue.eaieo r ri Alvin Nabors tied the game up late •min a the vote of South Carolina 1 day bv The Citadel at Charleston .■ j . . .. s r K , ) . i . I«- - 4,, v-udaei di v.ndriesion, in » ne secon d point after Hampton am! me!> other .Southern state 127-7. The team will go to DeLahd, 1 had missed th e conversion i T.ne on.y persons perturbed over Fla., this week-end to meet Stetson, j After the ha i { Nabors racked up tne political situation in this state Clemson was deleated by Boston the t - lird dividend from the A f d T^'L 01 f. 0l 'T A0 - 21 ' and S,U1 stands ,hird 15 yaJd lin^Hamiton again mis^d. these a:e worried as shown by then Carolina defeated Marquette in Mil- the extra point kick and the score silence. Most of our congressmen and, waukee, Wis., 6-3. Carolina plays i ^^,9 to ,3 senators are afraid to oppose Presi- Miami there Friday, and Wofford dent Truman because of patronage meets Tennessee Tech. and other considerations, and theyi Erskine plays Newberry Saturday For the remainder of the game the two teams battled back and forth and the count remained 19 to 13. Devils Meet Newberry dodge "civil rights” which is bound ; at New berry in a Little Four game. L ' ^ 15.: ° mmv mivpn" The Citadel meets Virginia Military The Red Devils will try to keep lion- arc he?d early in the Spring. ’ 1 Institute * Du Q uesne wil1 be a* Clem- their ’49 record unblemished when People of this state who are op- son, and Davidson at Furman. they meet the Newberry Bulldogs , i All-games standings of the eight'in the final game of the season. . Washington wit, no, be .tightened by the ,M9 i a ,S1h7 .thing,on will no, be frightened by ^ the propaganda coming out of Wash ington Vice-President Barkley made 1 W L a trip to the state to “create har- j ^ .. ... 8 0 mony,” but his visit was a flop. More * >:esb ^ er ‘ an 4 3 .than one hundred thousand votes | ^ emson " ^ 4 were cast in the last election for Gov- South Carolina .... 2 4 ernor Thurmond, against thirty-five Citadel 2 4 thousand for Truman. South Carolin-j ^ T urman • - 7 2 ians are going to do their own think-, ^ ewberr y “ - 2 6 ing and voting, and the National | ^ rs * l * ne 1 6 Democratic party will find it outJ - This national Truman party is built ; on the boss system. Our people are W U U w fc not going to take orders from this I || || crowd. According to the President,' lights will bo the dominant is-j D C I I C C sue when congress convenes next ™• year, plus free grants and gifts to ■fa^TTlTT^^wnAn COLD everybody for which the taxpayers aaliliaUyi^^ MISERIES STRIKE I FAST T for the game. 0 j Thornwell Downed 0! Coach Dick Templeton’s Thornwell eleven was eliminated from the class “C” championship playoffs by Green- briar, of near Winnsboro, last Thurs day night. The Greenbriar boys proved to be 0' to much for Thornwell as they came from a seven point lead which Thorn well held in the first quarter and went on to win and to further them selves in the playoff series. 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