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Thursday, July 13, 1950
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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GOVERNMENT MAKING SISSIES
OF CITIZENS, BARSON DECLARES
B&bson Park, Mass., June 28—
.Webster’s Dictionary definition of
‘Security” includes, freedom from
fear, freedom from risk, danger,
harm or the like.
I have sometimes heard men say
that it was too bad peace didn’t seem
to provide quite the stimulus for
greatness and dis
tinction that war
does. War often
calls forth not only
a man’s ability but
his capacity. Dwight
Eisenhower has of
ten stated that we
human beings will
not keep on living
if there is no strug-
Borer W. Babsoa S le and we wer e
kept in “perfect se
curity.” Would Columbus have ever
discovered America if he had been
seeking freedom from risk? Would
Patton have been a great fighting
general if he had been afraid to
swim the rivers or storm the bridges
with his men? Would Gandhi have
been ne beloved leader he was to
his people if he had sought first
of aK to protect his own physical
health and life?
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said,
“Nothing can bring you peace but
the triumph of principles.” Do we
admire or gather inspiration from
any of our heroes, poets, or phil
osophers because they were first
seeking recurity for themselves?
James Byrnes in a speech at the last
Conference of Southern Governors
is reported to have said, in effect,
that the people^ \frho settled this
country did not come here to estab-
0!h a government.
•Tthey came to escape tne tyrannies
of government. They were not
seeking security, but an opportunity
to enjoy freedom—the freedom of
self-development and accomplish
ment. Today the spirit of self reli
ance is unfortunately departing; too
many want to lean upon the gov
ernment; too many are thinking of
security instead of opportunity.
Too Maqy Dependents
Who or what has encouraged this
leaning, this moral weakness in the
United States? Our government it
self is encouraging it in every new
proclamation. It urges more aid to
farmers, more loans to small busi
ness, more health insurance and em
ployment security. Eadh and every
suggestion amoqpts to a promise to
spend more as a charity to support
this group or that—out of the peo
ples own hard-earned tax money.
Moreover, may I ask if the politicians
are doing this for the good of the
nation, or to get the votes?
What happens when a man knows
he’s going to be supported whethei
he does a good jab or a poor one?
He loses all Incentive to excel. The
ptiblic must realize by now that too
many of their government’s employ
ees feel “secure” in their jobs.
Yet, they don’t have to produce
anything which must stand factory
or retailer’s or consumer’s inspec
tion. Even more discouraging is the
attitude of some of our youth in the
schools. A friend of mine, who is a
teacher, says that healthy young
men, in their early twenties, claim
to be interested only in jobs which
will offer them old age pensions and
other benefits. As Americans, they
should be ashamed of themselves,
They Should be looking toward jobs
where there’s a chance to work up,
to earn advancement in an incentive
system, not in a “sure thing” system.
Pension systems should boom Flor
ida and California real estate; pen-
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sions may help level retail sales ov
er a period of years; but most pen
sion systems will never increase the
total national income.
Decay or Growth?
Bernard iT Baruch, adviser to
presidents, said in a recent speech
that we are swapping our indepen
dence for a “false gospel of secur
ity,” that the greatest threat to our
freedom is “too much government.”
; Do the American people want to
fbe-jtreated like babies, to b_e cared
for by their government from the
cradle to the grave? What happens
to children who are given everything
—except responsibility? They become
! greedy. They come to expect more
and more.
They become dependent and par
asitical. A strong moral fibered
I character is never developed at all.
There can be no personal or nation
al development without risk, chal
lenge and struggle.
County Allotment
State Income Tax
Smaller For Quarter
♦-—
Special to The Chronicle.
Columbia, July 11.—Laurens coun
ty last week received $5,570 as its
share of the 7 Vi per cent of the state
income tax distributed to counties
for the second quarter of 1950, State
i Treasurer Joe Bates announced this
week.
Laurens county’s allotment of the
I tax, which was collected during
April, May and June, is a smaller
amount than the country’s $8,680 al- 1
location in the corresponding period
in 1949. The total distribution to the
counties last week was $239,495, a
drop from the same period in 1949,
when the counties teceived 373,240.
The 7Vi per cent distribution of'
state income tax revenue is based
upon county population.
CREDITORS’ NOTICE
All persons having claims against
the estate of Frances Hampton (Fan
nie) Hatton, deceased, are hereby
notified to file the same duly verified,
with the undersigned, and those in
debted to said estate will please make
payment likewise.
ELIZABETH H. COPELAND,
JOHN McMORRIES HATTON,
Admniistrators.
, June 22, 1950. 13-3cw
Statewide Rabies
Law In Effect
Early In September
Columbia, July 10.—The law pass
ed by the 1950 legislature providing'
that all dogs must be inoculated !
against rabies will not go into effect I
until early in September as the
counties were given 90 days after
passage of the act to comply.
Heretofore, rabies rontrnl rneasnrAc-
have been left largely to the indiv
idual counties and cities but com
paratively few have enforced strict
programs.
Under the new law’, every county
and municipality must comply^. In
addition, municipalities are free to
put on further rabies control meas
ures.
The act provides that each county
board of health must appoint a li
censed graduate vetemarian or other
properly qualified person who shall
oe known as “rabies control officer."
In counties which have no board
of health, this officer will be ap
pointed by the state board of health.
The rabies control officer will be
' charged • with enforcing the provis-
J ions of the aJ*.
The law provides that owners
must immediately notify the county
i health department when an animal
is affected by rabies or is bitten by
1 another dog suspected of being rabid.
Around 3,000 persons took anti-
1 rabies shots last year.
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