The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, July 13, 1950, Image 16
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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?
The income from the Gasoline Tax
has not been supplemented^ to in
crease and hasten the Construction of
the Farm to Market Hardsurfaced
Highways. Do you approve of the
new one cent per gallon tax on gaso
line which is not to be used for Farm
to Market hardsurfaced highways,
but to be used to help cover the
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