The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, February 16, 1950, Image 4
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
. Thursday, February 16, 1950
Jhe (Clinton (EhrontrU
Established 1900
WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher
HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant
Published Evefy Thursday By
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the Missourian makes is actuated by
[politics. He is running for re-elec-
jtion in 1952.
Heart Campaign
Underway in City
The' 1950 Heart Campaign is now
underway in the county with Col. R.
E. Wysor, of this city, as general
chairman. Co-Chairmen, as pre
viously announced, are Mrs. George
Attix of Laurens, and Mrs. B. F.
Wingard of this city.
1 It was announced yesterday that
the following ladies are in charge of
soliciting funds in the wards, to be
assisted by others: Mrs. W. P. Ja
cobs, Sr., Mrs. C. E. Galloway, Mrs.
J. P. Prather r Mrs. Billy McMillan*
Mrs. Dillard Boland, Mrs. C. W.
Cooper and Mrs. K. F. Mills.
CLINTON, S. C., THirRSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1950
jBelk's Story Is
To Be Published
gChapel Hill, N. C., Feb. 11. — The
story of the growth of a country i
store into a mercantile empire of al- ■
lt # s Here—Dollar Days
Today, Friday and Saturday are
Dollar Days in Clinton as will read
ily be seen from today’s paper, with
nt large number of merchants parti-
cpating in the special event spon
sored by the Merchants association.
The merchandise event of interest
most 300 stores is told in a volume
to be published this spring by the
University of North Carolina Press, i
It is thF story of W. H. Belk ofj
dozen and a half eggs for each man,
woman and child in the United
States. If people liked dried eggs,;charlotte. Lambert Davis, director t
President Truman, the philanthrop- of the press, said the book would
ist, at taxpayers’ expense, would, be issued in late spring,
probably issue a National Egg Month! The- book, tentatively titled “Wil-'
proclamation. ! liam Henry Belk: Merchant of the
But the difficulties are double. (1) South,” was written by Legette
*o -he buying public is heralded The hens woul d ^ a y on the job, pil-; Blythe, for years a member of the
urth m a number of'attractive ad - U P eggs, (2) Hardly anyone, staff of the Charlotte Observer. He|
vc-tisements I will eat dried eggs if he can help it J is author of several books and the
^ ’ ’ . . . , Even the hungry British gag at them.; recent drama produced in Charlotte,
During the three days special em-j A11 last year they bought, at fire-1 “Shout Freedom!"
rhasis will be .placed on the dollar lSa | € prices and with our money, on-' m
Americas monetary unit. The dollar j y a b ou t as many eggs as our Gov- « A/ , , ,
has more value today than it had crnment drie d i ast m0 nth. And it! Women Ot HlC Church
his time iast year or six months ago. ^ j-gp^^ by a government official
It will have more buying power in that the eggs in ^ cave are 5egin _
^Clinton stores. Local merchants want
To Elect Officers
to make new friends, they want to
enlarge the city's trade area, they j
, ning to smell.
What stupidity, what nonsense.
want to impress upon old and new An< * 1 * y0UF mc>ne ^ that is being]
customers that Clintoq is a good[^ ase
place to trade and that it is not ne
cessary for you to go out of town
to supply your needs. And they will 1 _ , ^ , , , . .
give vou bargains galore during the' P e °pl e af e still talking about high
three-day period. [prices even though the upward spi-
The Women of the Church of the'
First Presbyterian church will meet!
Monday afternoon, February 20, at 1
the church. The annual election of,
Why Prices Are High
It means that the buyer is the
ral seems to have leveled off in most
[ officers and annual memorial service
for members who passed away dur
ing the past year will be observed at
this meeting. All members are invit
ed to be present. I
Tines. Yet a paper salesman calling
caincr in both ways. To sum it all , ,
no—all roads will lead to Clinton : on us >' esteFd . a >' re P^ rted he ^ ad J ust
today. Friday and Saturday where received advances on certain grades
VVSCS TO MEET
i-iKi. x jiua anu »janxxu«. W 00130 ’ 8 Society of Christian
nr^cnr'diaVlv Most everything is still high and in! Service of Broad Street Methodist
■ " •’ed for the %vent regardless of a11 Probability will remain so. The: church will meet Monday afternoon,
where vou reside If you" are smart tw ° Principle reasons are high labor j February 20, at the church at 4:00
nd thriftv you will not overlook this and manufacturing costs, and high o clock. All members are invited to
'taxes. We can t. have cheap com- be present.
< p port unity. You’ll find the latch- ... ... . . ^
string on the outside with a cordial modities-with a high production cost..
v e’.come awaiting vou. • ! That , 15 1 f xactl y where we stand - Tak e
^ men s shirts as an example. They are
c . <■* I I retailing at about three time the 1
expensive orossnoppers ; price they did ten years ago with the
The agriculture department’s bu- quality no better. When will they go,
xeau of entomology and plant quar-' down—you ask—not until manufac-1
nntine hired an airplane for two turing costs decline,
weeks for $2(,840 to spread grass- A good many customers probably,
hopper bait over-an area in the West I still think that present day prices
with a big, organized farm voting are ca used, in large part, by big prof- I
population. That was at a rate of its Yet factS( covermg a lor ^ list
>450 an hour. The plane, it was re- (0f consumer enterprises, contradict’
ported was bought from the war as- | completely. Meat is a good
sets administration by a private com- example. The reason the price of
pany for $6,653. an F food or other commodity de-
A plane the same type could c ij nes because the supply-demand
have been rented from a ^ ar 8®£ om " situation has become more favorable
mercial airline for about $150 an to the consumer . This fundamental!
hour-complete with pilot, co-pilot. law cannot be abolished) though gov . ;
ai.d stewardess. , ernment has been attempting to do j
That ? jus. one of thousands of tb j s thing for the past sixteen years,
examples of how taxpayers, money .. .
:s be.ng squandered. It is to be hoped e ne ^ a 10 rememoer this. In a
rhe grasshoppers got a good dose of,f iee . P rlces f ind their own.
That expensive bait. But .that- is e \ e : ..^ a f ur f^ eco 1 nomic forces |
doubtful, for a rancher reported that individuals or businesses drive |
the airplane corps in these high-i U P and dow ’’ n - I
priced rented planes were dumping nis 15 ‘] ue P rice charged
.0 son at random ! for everything, except when govern-.
And President Truman says we ment acts a f a price-fixer. The free
van't do anything to reduce expens- maiket 13 most honest and re-;
e< and stop extravagance. He says 1 s |] ons1 ' e markei ever devised. It is,
tit back and enjoy life, for by and by the consume r s greatest protection, j
all will be lovely, and we will have
the trillions. / Truman Politics
In the meanwhie the federal gov- _ I T1M . „
ernment is running $5,000,000,000 a ’ , on ® ast F’esident Truman got [ ti«"iJiafTMwo-wro)
year in the red as we travel the road a , ~ a -' eourt order to stop the coal
strike and a hearing on turning it
We buy, sell and
trade Horses; Mules
and Cows.
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To bankruptcy at high speed.
Consider the Hen
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MOTT ac CXPOtCO WITH
rworrsH ascowos root
into an 80-day Taft-Hartley injunc- ^f*^*^* 0 **-
tion was set for February 20. The
order was signed by a federal judge
.•^s stated here last week, the fed- after a presidential fact-finding
■era! Government is dumping 50,000,- board reported to the President that,
(100 bushels of surplus potatoes as a resumption of coal mining is im-
Tlu only way it knows to 'get rid of perative. though he has been telling 1
them Most of them-will rot in the the American people for months
meanwhile and the government tax-; there is no emergency. The order to
payers will stand to lose $100,000,- end the strike fell on deaf ears as
<)0f) jthe miners scorned the go-to-work
While the department of agricul- commands of Uncle Sam and John;
ture is destroying this mountain oi L *
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rto Krrmf
M—nt
jboUasu
'COSTS YOU NO MORE
For TU ConxJete
SOENTinc SERVICE
A. F.
ANDERSON
Rear Dillard’s Store
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South Carolinians are -eating Lewis and his crowd are for them-
tatoes. .That adds more stupidity to
5 he picture.
With
Canadian potatoes, A whblesaler in selves first and last. They have en-!
Charleston saici, yesterday that No. dangered the nation’s whole economy
1. Canadian potatoes can be sold in by the ruthless use of monopoly po-
that city for about $1.75 a hundred wers over whole industries,
pounds cheap£t than can Maine po-! Congress by the enactment of the'
political Wagner Act made dictators 1
of labor bosses like Lewis and oth-
the dumping potato policy ers, and produced endless strikes. To
settled upon, the government decid- break the power of these self-con- ,
ed the past week to give away its stituted autocracies which the labor
warehouse supplies of dried eggs and monopolies have gradually built up
dried milk 'that cost it about $115.- ' in this country, the ..Tail-Hartley Taw -
00^696-support"pro- was enacted. President Truman hates
gram. This is the third commodity this law, he advocated its repeal in'
the department of agriculture has his campaign for re-election. Con-1
placed on the Santa Claus give-away gress wisely refused to repeal the |
' Act and since then the President has I
This latest announcement said 73,- refused to use the law to secure a
DOO.OOO pounds of dried eggs, bought! supply of coal, an essential commod-
m 1948 and 1949, and 189,000,000: ity for the whole country. Having
pounds of dried milk acquired last i promised the CIO and A. F. of L. of-
year have been added to welfare ficials he would secure the repeal oft
purposes which means the encourag- the la^v, and failing to get Congress!
mg of people to expect something to act—the President has refused to
Tor nothing. The school lunch pro- use this weapon, the only one we
gram will be offered the foods free, have to^give relief to the country,
but we doubt if children will eat His attitude has been purely politi-
, , ca h an d one the American people
Take the lowly hen. She works do not approve.
vail day on one egg. It takes three The Taft-Hartley act should have
dozen—36 days’ work we are told— i been invoked months ago since Le-
to make a pound of dried eggs now
piled away in a cave in Kansas by
Government price-supp^ters. With
73,000,000 pounds i? storage, which
if about 2,628,900,000 eggs—this is a
wis has defied every attempt at set
tlement of the strike. For the pres
ent situation the President is re
sponsible by shirking his duty to the
country. It appears that every move
WANT TO SAVIi
MONEY ....
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When you buy a new car? If to,
•ee us about the Bank and Agent
Auto Plan, the economical way
of financing new car purchases
and insurance at the same time.
$. W. SUMEREL, Agent
CUNTON. S. C.
Jacoba Building—Tele. St
SHOP in CLINTON and SAVE!
— Look For-— ,
DOLLAR DAT BARGAINS!
THURSDAY — FRIDAY — SATURDAY
"\
FIRST 10 CUSTOMERS (LADIES OR GENTS)—
PLAIN GOLD WEDDING BAND
$12.50 value $5.00 plus tax
* . . ■ ■ —*—
FIRST 12 CUSTOMERS— ' . •
POCKET WATCHES
to $3.60
FIRST 10 CUSTOMERS— ■ -G_
GOLD FILLED LOCKETS
$1.00 plus tax
FIRST 24 CUSTOMERS—
—— Rhodium Finish
IDENTIFICATION BRACELET
(Engraving extra) $1.00 phis tax)
UGHTERS, $12.50 value $6.25
YOUR WATCH CLEANED FREE
With the Purchase of Any Expansion Watch Band—Materials Extra
ANY MERCHANDISE - up to $71.50
$1.00 Down . .ttt $1.00 Weekly
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