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I 9 Pape Eipht THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday. July 13, 1950 COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By Spectator Do you realize that this foray into 6.104 of these employed in covered the field of gasoline taxes for gep- manufacturing ^ enterprises in the | eral state purposes has broken the county, and paid $3,887,427 in wages, precedent that gasoline taxes must Twenty-seven covered manufactur- 1 be used only for highway purposes. j n g enterprises were listed for the and that this diversion of gasol.ne county, of which nine were textile Several items in the newspaper^ taxes threatens the completion o: pi an ts, interest me very much, in spite of the state system of improved high- F orty-one retail trade establish- the heat. This must be the right ( ' , ments employed 590 persons in Lau- time to start the day on a glass of Do you agree that it is time for the rens county and them S2 37,536; tomato juice with one cracker, run- pe°P le to o r . ld , S n ° r ? “j and twelve service industries em- n ng -bout full of pep until twelve J^res^nlible fo^he P lo - ved 163 persons and paid them o'clock, then taking a glass of but- ducks who are responsible for S62 277 j ri wages termilk with half a cracker, wind- uages - mg up the day with a glass of tea without sugar, and a whole crack- er. Such a diet would relieve one of all the discomforts of being over- the sorely burdened people? and the new tax burdpns laid upon | In the state as a whole 305,626 fed. I don't recommend such a plan Employment Commission for breakfast, dinner and supper, but Bulletin Gives I m merely theorizing at your ex- pense. Three visits to the table with County PlQUrCS light meals of that sort might bring 1 • about a loose belt, but one couldn’t Special to The Chronicle, fight the battles of life on that food. 1 Columbia, July 11.—A bulletin this backs of the covered employees received $165,- 482.155 in the three month period. The largest number of employees were in the manufacturing indus tries, which employed 198,752 per sons, pnd paid them $110,331,363 in wages. Textile mills employed 135,- 673 persons in this category and paid them $81,556,290. In the remaining state covered en- The best one could do on that would week from the South Carolina Em- [‘terprises, retail trade had the next | be a little shadow-boxing. 1 ployment Security commission re- largest number of employees, fol- ( If one would meet a real contender i cords the employment, payrolls, and lowed by contract construction,, in the race of life one must have employing units covered under the wholesale trade, service industries, some eggs and bacon, some low-! state unemployment compensation public utilities, finance and insur- country hominy and some home- law in Laurens and other counties of anee agencies, m i nin g- and agncul* made biscuits • ■ the state for the first quarter of the ture, forestry, and ashing. T “nk President Truman ' P~ ^ar, could be so "cocky” on a glass of', Durin g ^ three mo T nths of , tomato juice? He excluded the • last - vear 10 industries in Laurens Governors of South Carolina and cou t nt y employed 8 114 persons, wufh, Mississippi from the luncheon he a total payroll of $4,<82,986. The gave to ail the other forty six gov- I ar fft number of county employees,, emors of the Union. Republicans, 6 - 960 - herein manu^rturing^ enter-, Trumanites, real Americans and oth- P rise s, J^hich paid $4,271,839 in . < rw.-e. That was pitifully small/ wages. Textile mills accounted for really contemptible. All the Sen ators and Representatives from South Carolina and Mississippi should regard, the Truman discour tesy as an affront to their States. Harry Truman probably did not pay for that luncheon; nor was it given in a private home. The gentlemen who were invited were Governors, invited as Governors, not as indiv iduals. Now the President of the United States invited forty six Gov ernors of States, the affair being paid out of National funds for enter tainment. but Harry Truman used tne presidency and the occasion to snub Fielding Wright and Strom Tnurmond. Both Governor Thur mond and Governor Wright have been rebuked for the vote of Mis sissippi and South Carolina in 1948. Mississippi and South Carolina may soon say of the-r Governors, as some one said of Grover Cleveland, as 1J recall, “We love him for the enemies he has made " I outfit to explain that 1 can remember with some clarity | as far back as the days of Herbert Hoover; beyond that I sometimes de pend on Mr Alex Salle/ who re members everything, from the days I w?ien memory of man runneth not to the contrary. The papers tell us that the Wash ington Federal bureaucracy plans to [ investigate the financial operations of the States-Righters in South Caro- l.na 1 don't know in which bank the so-called Dixie-crats carry their overdraft, but 1 doubt if they ever had much money. The idea of an investigation is excellent, but let's in-| \estiga:e the Truman Party and the Colored Party in South Carolina at tne same time. If the gentlemen^of Washington want light let's turn it ( n. all the lignt. The South Carolina* Democracy .< not well supplied with money: nor nas it ever been, accord- r.g to my information. The next item in tne papers tells tnut Mr Truman urges the peo- ; » to elf.t "real Democrats” to Con-I "What is a real Democrat'.'' D.d you e\e: see a real Democrat? F< r many years I've wondered wha: (..stinguishes a Democrat from a Re- ; uuhean and a Socialist. I mean in | practice. I am a Democrat, because: 1 ,.m not a Republican or a Socialist,! Lutl don't know what a Democrat is sjpposed to believe. Perhaps I do; but what does he do about it? We have National, or Truman Demo crats, South Carolina Democrats; then we have hybrid-Democrats. If 1 take Mr. Truman as a Democrat 11 :.nd that he is a consistent spender 1 and hightax man. I am neither. As I sec it, our country needs a can sweep in Washington. Men | have fattened on the public so many! years that they now regard them-1 selves as a governing class of special’ rights and privileges. Men are thinking up and proposing all man ner of schemes for the purpose of; maintaining themselves in poWer. | Men use ships, of the navy, planes of: the Air Force, buildings of any gov-j ernme nt service as though the whole nation were subject to them and their whims. I enjoy that young candidate for the legislature whom I have quoted several times. Here he comes in again, in a display advertisement in his county paper: “Do you know that the total ex penditure of the State Government was increased from One Hundred Seventeen Million Dollars ($117,- dO.OOO.) in 1946-47 to One Hundred Sixty-eight Million Dollars ($168,- .000*000.00) in 1948-49, an increase erf Fifty-one Million Dollars ($51,- t'00,000.00)? (See State Comptroller General’s report for 1946 and 1947.) Doy you know that a war-time sur plus of Thirty-three Million Dollars ($33,000,000.00- has been disposed of; that there is a fcurrent operating deficit of approximately Eight Mil lion Dollars ($8,000,000.00) that the legislature has levied additional millions of dollars of new taxes upon the people to cover this deficit and to continue the existing Orgy of Ex travagance and Unbridled Spending? With this increase of more than Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000.00) in the annual expense of the State Gov ernment, DO YOU KNOW WHY? 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