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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, April 13, 1930
L
olllf QUinlott (Ebrnnirlr
Etta bllshed 1900
WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher
HARRY C. LAYTON. Assistant
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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. But those
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