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Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, April 13, 1930 L olllf QUinlott (Ebrnnirlr Etta bllshed 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher HARRY C. LAYTON. Assistant Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscuption 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 Ue cooperation of its subscribers and readers— the publisher will at all timet appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are nn: of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications wtb not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. MEMBER vH TH C AROLINA PRESS' ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION Employees of General Assembly The March 8, 1950, issue of the i Charleston News and Courier car- j ries an informative and interesting article indicating some detail infor-; matrons of expenditures of the South Caroling General Assembly for cler- j ical and other assistants including door-keepers, elevator operators,! pages, etc. The legislative payroll for a two week period in February, 1950, amounted to $18,625.15 for the following groups: Senate regular payroll—50 i persons $ 5,558.75, Senate additional payroll 76 presone .... * 3,185.00 National Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia -House regular payroll^-46 persons 5,773.74 Both Houses special pay roll—13 persons L15TL00 Legislative Cour T payroll Id persons 2,952.66 iLMAL, 304 persons . $ 18.625.15 The Senate on January II, 1950, ( UNION. S Till RSDAY, APRIL 13, 1950 Invasion or Privacy In the census now urxic,: Important that every ma way nd child be counted, and woman Mat. all , adopted a resolution authorizing the appointment of such additional help, ; door-keepers and attendants as may be necessary for the proper opera- . , , .v, • • i f t » • tion of the Senate. Under the terms who believe in the principles of Jef- i, *• -e . , , . K ,, « i of that resolution <6 extra emo oyees lerson, Cleveland, Wade Hampton, 0 * f. , ■ ,,, , j ... .- r ., i ’ were added to the Senate rol s, which Woodrow Wilson and their like—are ■ « .. . , , , ,, . i . • , ,' provides nearly 3 attaches for each not going to sell out or be stampeded j , .. . , . „ . , . Senator. Most of the extra employees oy .the national party. Principles it •. , ■ toyc:a’c with t.u- euuinera.ora in s h 0U Id come above expediency. The ^ r .‘f f niveisl ^ o ■ >rdcr an ic cur ate job may be , {ate Democratic convention next thw ,° f * aCt u 3 ' i0ne - I week should stand on its feet and J S » 6 In the count, every fifth person carry out the clearly expressed wisji- oocasinnailv nr whiio ^ a th hivnig an mcon.c below $10,000 wiUfe s or the majority of our People 1» hours of a te^Slalile tl"y (3 da^a has no right to ignore the people it week) stud , h , , J ^ ^ *| represents. ! T , In the period covered there were 204 employees on the General As- be interviewed. The counters are in structed to get information about in dividual and family earnings, and other data. • , . But what has a person’s income got to do with the number of people in a city, state or nation? Our guess is that this question was put in the questionaire by a government bu- . . „ ... . T . >t is the only system with the dnv- reaucrat. It is an unnecessary inva- ■ _ , ui ^ mg force capable of helping this country realize ‘ its great potential ities. Seeds From the Some Pod The only economic system suffi- ciently dynamic in character to as sembly payroll at a cost in salaries of $1,862.00 daily. For the same period, the pay of si on of privacy. sure us of enjoying a century of I the state’s 170 legislators amounts great abundance is free enterprise,, to around $34,000.00 plus mileage. There urould seem to be some bas is for the recent statement of the" Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee when he told his coll- There are four major types of eco- eagues “We have been spending mon ey like drunken sailors.”—Bulletin A Big Vocation President Truman has wound up nomic organization now in existence his long Florida vacation, for which communism, socialism, free enter-• Stote Chamber of Commerce. the American taxpayers paid, and pi'iso, and hybrid types where pri- ! "■ has returned to Washington. It was cate enterprise operates under gov- . * . eported that he flew' back aboard a ernmental domination. Thb si-xty-four Election 10 United StotCS .special plane of the military air j dull4r~ question is, will we Ameri- trafnsport service. Tne Missouri gen-'cans be intelligent enough to keep fleman has more vacations than any the system That is responsible Senote Assured for and man we have heard of, while those; both our material abundance of us back home work and sweat to our personal freedom? help pay for government extrava- Out of Washipgton there daily -•'nee flow's a stream of proposed social- Here is a reported sidelight on the istic legislation with the approval .ovation just ended, reported by'of President Truman and others. Robert S. Allen in his daily syndicat- The tragedy is that most of this; Ther ,. ntr , rg ,., f „.-tT ' column - Mr A!len re P° rls on tbe, legislation has the approval of la-1 a p preciate Governor Thurmond’ eew,. from General Harry Vaughan bor unions. They ignore the fact' coS they wiU not fm aSTat he . :.T wnen Chief Justice Vinson of mat jobs are provided through a | accepted the' leadership of the States t -upreme court spent' the week- free enterprise system and private Rjcrpts D artv durin® an unforeseen end a: Key West he took m some.ownership Thev ignore nr else doi ® 0 ° , un ’ or ‘^^- Winning at nnker hecauee P „ ^ ^^ ^‘ do ^passe when the South, at the Phil- If Governor Thurmond should seek^ 1 the office of United States Senate this year, he will be elected by an overwhelming majority. There is no i mistake, however, as t<? prospects of a hard campaign, ’which will devel op unusual interest in the election. have less respect tod^for the o^e ? ^ ‘heir masters desire. We are couTd hold its- own. Governor Thur- ,,, p^dent o' thc Uni'ed States' head ^ d ln the direction as oth- mond accepted the leadership ded.- fh-i ever before h LnK< ^ Stat ? s er countries where Socialism exists. 1 cated to the principles of state sov- McGroth In Action Attorney General Howard The Christian Science Monitor re- ereignty, and the high level of states- Icently ran an extremely revealing manship with which he identified the ■ series of articles on Russia by Ed-j South's cause drew acclaim from ev- Mc- mund Stevens, w'ho w’as that pa-' ery state in the Union. Grath. one of the closest cabinet men per’s Moscow correspondent forj His outspoken position on the is- to President Harry Truman, is ask- years. One of the articles dealt with 1 sue of federal aid to schools, which the supreme court to end the labor and the trade unions. I is a position typical .of South Caro- trine of "separate but equal’’ fa-j “Every one who works, down to i iina and its people, will not escape v-hLes for white and colored on rail- the last ditch digger, is ebing prod-' their admiration, ro.id- McGrath is appearing before ded and cajoled constantly into ! Not in many years has South Car- tne court in the case of a Negro who working at a faster pitch,’’ said Mr. J olina seen a public official oppose ■a a.- denied service in a railway din- Stevens. “One of the main agencies, j the hand-out paternalism of the fed- ng car, and this shows to what ex- but by no means the only agency. | eral government with such courage, ton: tiie Washington government is for getting the Soviet worker to j and it is the continual federal ex going in its effort to utterly destroy work harder and longer is the Sov- pansion into state and local spheres established yjstorr.s and practices iet union. The Soviet trade union i that is threatening the rights of the ihrougnout the South. It shows what has nothing in comnfqn, but thej s t a tes and producing a centralized the so-calied national Democratic name, with trade unions as con-i an d all-powerful government in j arty. opposed by those who believe ceived and practiced in western i Wellington. ;n states’ rights—stands for. If the countries. * | The people of South Carolina Washington crowd succeed in this While on paper the Soviet »: idei s h°uLd welcome Governor Thur- prot cdurc tnc-resH+t will be ip ut-! unions are pledged to represent .md ! mond s candidacy Tor United States t r!\ u ieck out public school system, defend the workers' interests, these i Senate, and find in it the assurance \\ i ha > e who spectacle of the Depart- provisions have about as much nf consistent and vigorous represen- ^ mm. o. Justice exerting its pi'^i'oga- a pd application as the civ- tation of the interests of South Caro- tive to try to overthrow the decision if libortips euaranteed in the Soviet lina and th e South in Washington.— 1 of the supreme court for the past SuuSrf^r^tual^we?Tf! Edgefield Advertiser. j .-evenly years and defying Congress rt( . r i sinn rp *id«.o elsewhere hevnnd which has consistently, and to the decision resides elsewhere, beyond recourse. The strike weapon, labor’s i refused l* i effective defense against arbitrary ! power, is as utterly outlawed as it betterment of both races abolish segregation. Tif ' ,f .«>» unprecetoited action. , n Nazj German or Fascis , u . o\ course, is the jiolitical view' of the . > present administration. It will go to' The Soviet trade unions func tion primarily as an enormous, well- POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR MAYOR any extent to have its way. if pos- ““ T w '**-; I hereby announce myself a can- - ible. What are we coming to when 0ll ? d nat,0 ? u W,de mach T f ° r tranS ' dldate f ° r Mayor of CIinton and • one department ot the federal o , 0V . - mdt.ng to the great working masses {pledge myself to abide by the results, eminent goes into court to fight the cndIess official ballyhoo cam-, of the Democratic primary. against another agency of the sam- palgns aimed at kee P in 3 the work - ; R - E ' WYSOR er c nstantly pepped up so that he j will exert his almost effort.” i T-.IL 1 M Stevens then went or. to de-| AoOrG MOrmOny I Oik iscritj some of the methods used to! Senator Olin D. aohnston told t.iejget the last ounce of sweat out of | Richland county Democratic execu-jthe workers and concluded: “The government. This TiumancraLsm ~ — — nitr wuiivci.t, diiu euiieiuueu. i lie , live committee the other day that he,workers, enyineers^ and technicians thinks the Democratic party in South conform, though tlje whole thing is, i Carolina should be unified and should 0 f course, strictly ‘voluntary’. They nave some connection with the na- we ij k now fhe price of nonconform- i tional party headed by Truman. Sen-^ lt y - ator Johnston, who is seeking re- The-same trend is evident where election is the gentleman who de- .socaRsm even 0 f a moderate variety ejared about 11 pm on Uie night of exists . ln England> for instance, the 948 presidential election that he more and more restrictions have w-ould da ve voted for Truman had ^ , aced on the freedom of work . not rain kept him from arriving from ^ and the trade unions are being used as instruments of governmental 1 his home at the polling place in time to vote.” That was a perfect per- .. , .. . , , ,. . . „ ., . j policy. Men and women in the key formance of climbing on the band- g, , • . . . , industries cannot change jobs with- wagon after the outcome of the elec- ... , tion was known out governmental plermission, and * Senator * Johnston wants a united ;" hen "? a * situation exist*, free la-, state party, like Vice-President Bark- bo ;, n V, ongt ’ r , , , ley advocated when he made his „ 11 a ! s to a sing f e fact - | “flop” political visit to Columbia 1 * 1 *^ and free enterprise are several months ago. That word “har- seeds from the same pod When one moqy,” now frequently used by a 18 distioyed, the other dies, too. [ few Trumanites in this state, means . n , helping to kill free enterprise ( that all of us should accept what we | n this Country, labor will be help- are asked to swallow and jump on * n g kd ^ ^ ree t a hor and jobs the tail of the national Democratic party for tear we lose Washington handouts and patronage. Yes, the senator wants harmony. He wants to be re-elected. 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