The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, June 22, 1950, Image 4
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, June zz ,1350
a hr (Ulintmt (El^rmitrlr
Established 1900
WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher
HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant
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All-Out War Against
Boll Weevils Called
For By County Group
tonight by Mayor J. Macfie Ander
son, who obtained it from the district
U. S. Census Bureau Office.
Charleston’s tentative 1950 popu
lation is 68,243, Greenville’s 57,749.
. „ .| . , i Ten years ago Columbia’s popula-
T , he ^ boll ^ 1 J5° st . LaurensC 2. un - tion was 62,396, or 23,553 less than
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CLINTON, S. C„ THURSDAY, JUNE 15. 1950
Doesn't Make Sense
The government is preaching thrift
to the people in order to sell its_sav-
ings bonds and at the same time is
ty farmers $1,900,000 last year Thati that counted’thi’s year,
was the theme along which J.W. Tin-j The current totaI tor Richland «
s ey, chairman of the boll weevil ^ coun ty w hich is Columbia’s metro- j‘:
committee, talked at a meeting last ipolitan area> is listed as ui m That :>
ursday to discuss plans to con- represents a gain of 37,040 since 1940. »
i trol the “cotton crop destroyer.” 1 M
j Mr. Tinsley presided over the
meeting and stressed the seriousness
;of the weevil problem and said that
(“the hour is at hand for a solid front
on the part of everybody connected
with agriculture. The boll weevil
cost us almost two million dollars
last year. We can not stand such
tremendous losses.”
The chairman expressed his opin-
ion that the “best results in weevil
control would come where communi
ties cooperated in seeing that every
acre of cotton is poisoned accord
ing to recommended practices and
by applying the poison properly. He
said many dollars have been thrown
away in the past through improper
application of poison.
Mr. Tinsley declared weekly checks
I will be made and results published
THE OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
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spending ourselves so far into debt mittee The committee suggested
that we will never be able to pay that farmers with dusting equipment
do as much custom work in their
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the bill, as dollars become worthless.
spending billions of dollars beyond j cu rity — musT^e^basecT^n^rnakfne ^ communities as possible in order to;
its receipts to build the monument; both y ends meet That is the ^ | help those farmers who do not have,
to debt still higher. There s not much simple truth that the Truman crowd ‘ Tmmfv r n ^ I
mcenmc to practice thnft. relasestor^ognue We repeat what ports that co , ton ^ apes
Boptists Take Firm Stand 1 a Wa°M^n. need ^ we* punctured b, weevils.
The Baptists of North Carolina
were commended in these columns 1
recently for their firm stand in re-
Other members of the committee
present were: James D. Wasson of
Hickory Tavern, Fred Taylor, Lau- 1
rens, Rex Lanford, Waterloo, Rob- j
- es "iert Harris, Youngs, M. B. Henderson,
minority son pj ttS( 0 f
No Let-Up In Fight
fusing to accept federal or state aid President Truman and his ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
to build a new wing to their hos- ™en are determined to enact the | Qwings* J.’ L.Tdair, j‘r.r a nd"Hender-
pital at Winston-Salem. In announc- f l aw which certain minority
jng tneir dec-ision that denomination; ofoups are demanding. It is a vicious
said, “We are reasserting our cher- ( thU that will create trouble and ani-
ished loyalty to the principles of hiosity.
separation of state and church.” This For months Truman has been push- j
is a traditional Baptist principle and, ing for the enactment of such a law >
other denomihations would do well bue he has met with opposition. His
to show a similar independence. fioor leader. Senator Lucas, of Indi-
Columbia Takes
Population Lead
Columbia, June 17— Columbia,
with an unofficial population of 85,-
We note that a magnificent new 1 a na - now comes forward with an an- ; t ^fi Pa _ r f en Ji y it h a A a d T 31 " , cl ^ im
annex has been made to the Baptist | nouncement that another try is to be the r 1 1 e of South Carolina s largest
hospital in Atlanta costing nearly made for the passage of the bill. Of C1 Zi . ... „ * * , ,
two million dollars. Where did tne course, this means that Truman is The_tentative total was announced
money come from 1 Did they rush to! demandl hg h *s chief spokesman
the federal government seeking a that the proposal get back before
handout 1 No They raised the money | con t> re ss, for Truman is concerned
themselves without government aid. more in getting votes than anything!
A denominational hospital has, e ^ se -
much more heart than one built and Truman and his hand-picked At-
operated by government. torney General McGrath say tnere
The Baptist examples should be should be no separation of any kind,
emulated by other denominations. anywhere. This is one of the chief |
| aims of the so-called Democratic |
Wnr Tnxpc ^fill party Senator Johnston and some
a , others say we should remain in to
Congiess has been doing a lot of have a “connection” in order to get 1
talk.ng about wartime excise taxes, patronage and committee assign-'
and has made some small downward ments . Pnnciples should come ahead
revisions, but we still have them
vc:fh us.
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OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
B. Hubert Boyd. President J, P. Prather, Vice-President
J. Sloan Todd, Secretary-Treasurer
B. Hubert Boyd
J. P. Prather «
W. tV. Harris
J. B. Hart
T. D. Copeland
J. Sloan- Todd
T. H. Copeland
J. W. Finney, Sr.
R. H. McGee
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in
the
of committee appoinynents. And
. most of the talk we hear about the
Ing^.vA ipyisions made is a step miportance of “seniority” is all
^.ic right direction, but it is not This new senator recently
en i 0. the matter, whether or e j ected f rom Florida has no senior-
n 1 lhe P Fe ' e,1 t ingress takes fur- j t y but tbe American people can
act.on. Tne maintenance of, count on h j m t a i c i ng a s tand and
,.n i taxes, regardless of the per- having strong influence agaiijst our
cl .age figure, is a breach of socialistic government trentis. The
witn the American people now that same wllI be true of Smith or North
y.e way is long over. They are not Carolina if he is elected over his lib-
, i\ ,r> .axe*, they are added taxes ; era j opponent who is a Truman man
on e.ery day necessities for individ- and nas his bl essing.
u '\, , 1 ' : DJ ^! nevs ' , . , Attorney General McGrath is the
• ls ' rn *f nty e f sy tf t° r 2et, many lman wbo engineered Truman’s nom-
o. the politicians want the people to) ination and election . H e is the poli-
oj^^But it must not be forgotten tlC ian who while in the senate
that hese axes were strictly part led d tQ end segr e gat ion, which
of the wartime emergency legisla-. would be t0 the hurt of both raees
tion. They were imposed, not only
for revenue reasons, but to discour-
iSc tnc manufacture and use ol any- Mc0raUl _ we saJr> b ^
M , Hr n r°, ™''i" bU,e “'^.pledsecTto end segresaUon in the
South. A picture being given distri
bution shows him seated and Sena
tor Johnson of our state standing
near him and drinking a toast to
He introduced and sponsored FEPC
legislation.
man
war effort. They
oeing. in other words, at a time wnen
it was necessary to sharply reduce
civilian standards and habits, and
the people accepted trem in a fine
cooperative spirit.
But the war has long been over,
even though many in Washington
don't seem to know it. The shooting
war is over, the continuance of these
business-hurting taxes — with their
adverse effects on employment and-
McGrath upon his confirmation.
Joh.iston is the man who climbed
on the Truman bandwagon at 11
o'clock at night after it was cerfitin
the president had been re-elected.
He is the man whordeserted the Jef
fersonian Democratic party of South
Cacolina and now wants the people
trade —is inexcusable. They should 7 T “ “ .7 7 H
„ . , , j u .u c j 1 to return him to the senate. He is
no 1 mger be tolerated by the buying , „ j -.u u • ^
puo
openly charged with being the can
dictate of the CIO Political Action
/''ii.LD ■ . r« . . committee and does not publicly
Un the Kood to bankruptcy deny the accusation.
Piesident Truman, the champion! The record is that neither McGratn
spender of taxpayers’ money of all, nor Johnston has been snubbed by
time, still approves huge appropri- Truman and the CIO crowd.
ations for all sorts of projects, es-! m
pecially in the large city areas where T * ‘ 11 * T
there is tremendous voting strength.! • EOining UniOII 10
We can’t go on at the rate we are J Meet At Newberry
traveling. Our only hope is a new ( ^ , 7
national leadership and men in con- N6Xt lUCSGOy
gress who look to the need for a ♦-
sound national economy with a bal- The Reedy River Associational
anced budget, and less concern for Training Union mass meeting and
what certain communities and gov- , officers council will be held with the
ernment departments are demand-| Glenn Street Baptist church in New-
^ng. i berry on June 27 at 7 o’clock in the
There must come an end to federal evening. All churches in the associ-
grants to states if we are to escape ation with Training Union work and
bankruptcy. If this goes on much i those not having an active organiza-
longer the states will gradually give ( tion are invited to attend,
up all of their responsibilities and; The program: *
the federal government will absorb 1 7:00-7:10—Praise service led by
them. The result will not be a fed- ; Alvin Boone.
eral system such as was set up under; 7:10-7:1:0—Worship period led by
our constitution but a centralized Ray Snyder and young people of the
unitary government which can never First Baptist church,
fit th? 48 individual requirements i Special music by Miss Betty Jo
and special conditions of a country Sloan.*
like ours. Conferences, 7:25-7:55—Story con-
It is reported that the operation of ference led by Mrs. George Way; Ju-
the federal government will cost the nior conference led by Rev. James
incredible sum of six trillion ($6,- Mitchell; Intermediate conference led
000,000,000,000) in the year 2000 if
national budgets increase in propor r
tion of recent years.
Much of this extravagant spend
ing is political, and much is made in
the name of “security” for the peo
ple. Yet how can a nation produce
security by bankrupting itself? How
can a private business or corpor
ation remain secure when it spends
far more than it takes in? How can
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olyn Abrams; Adult conference; Sec
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lyn Lever; associate directors and
vice-presidents led by O, F. Mur
phy; directors led by Mrs. James
Mitchell.
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