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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, July 20, 1950
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( LINTON. S. C . THURSDAY, JULY 20. 1950
Shelved Again
During the past week the FEPC
has bobbed up again in the senate
upon the ms:stance of President
Truman. Wh n the civil-rights
program was acted upon the vote
was 55 to 33 foi closure, nine short
of the required majority to get it
<n the floor for consideration,
which meant the dangerous propos-
al was again shelved for the time
being and properly so. But it may
be expected to come up again by
Senator Lucus, the administration
spokesman. The Truman measure
is a vote-getting appeal to minority
groups. Its passage would produce
a serious situation in the South es
pecially by creating sectional, racial
and civil conflict It is Truman pol
itics.
who is interested in good govern
ment, should go to the polls and
vote. There is no excuse for stay
ing away except a “don't care" at
titude. So we repeat that in the
second primary next Tuesday it is
your duty and privilege to vote and
you should plan ahead not to for
get this obligation and to be at
home on election day. The offices
to be filled in our county are im
portant, and you have an opportun
ity to share in the selections that
will be made.
We are reminding you of this de-
I finite obligation—one you should
! not shirk.
A Big Secret
In the recent senate race Senator
May bank was conspicuous by his
silence. He was asked by a prom
inent newspaper concerning a ru
mor that he was supporting Sena
tor Olin Johnston in return for
Johnston's support for Mr. Byrnes
for governor
When so queued Senator May-
h. nk replied that he was "absolute
ly neutral in the contest for United
States senator, and that he had nev-
< : iiscussod with Senator Johnston
the c.iiididaey for governor of Mr.
By. n« >
In the senate race one candidate
« neb i sad the national Democratic
'Truman> party, the other the state
Democratic party and platform it
»alopt» J at this year's state conven-
rn n.
Win n Senator Maybank runs for
• * lection again it is a pretty safe
t>et he will be forced to show his
l.md.
Neuti.ihty does not always hold.
New Election Law Works
Tn» recent legislature after so
long a time, enacted a long needed
election law which was tested in
the first primary. Until this year
we had practically no election law,
and with the enactment of the new
one vc hich was used the first time,
we have heard no complaint. To the
contrary general approval has been
giv* n all over the state on the way
the election was carried out. When
its passage was urged in the gen
eral assembly a certain group tried
to postpone or kill the bill. Some
of tf-
Ponic Buying Hurts All
Reports show that prices, parti-
, cuiarly on some food products, are
showing a sudden upward trend
due largely to “war scare" buying
I rather" than to actual war condi-
1 lions.
This is no time tor hysteria,
hoarding or gouging, for there pre
no shortages. Consumers should
buy their needs normally as they
are accustomed to doing.
In the last war there was outra
geous gouging and profiteering on
the part of many, and every pre
caution must be made against a
simular recurrance now that cer
tain price increases may be attri-
buttxi to the ccorld condition be
cause of the Korean situation There
is an abundance of food in this
icountry, millitfrts of dollars of var-
icd•commodities are owned by gov
ernment through the Community
Credit Corporation. It is hoped that
it will not become necessary to im
pose rationing which breeds black
markets as World War II proved.
If a general war were to explode,
lit would probably be necessary to
have all controls, but that is not
needed now. We are not in an all-
out conflict, and let us pray that
{such will not materialize.
All of us we say should exercise
precaution against panic buying.
Nobody wants legal controls if they
can be avoided. And what happens
depends almost entirely upon both
the seller and the buyer. Hoarding
hurts everybody in the^ long run.
Business men should be alert to
single out the exploiters and boy-
!cott such groups instantly when they
show their heads. There must be
intelligent government planning of
course, as we contemplate what
may be the outcome of the Korea
uprising, but it is no time for snap
judgement affecting what the Am
erican consumer eats, w r ears and
; uses.
But if we come to a wartime econ-
. omy it should include controLs over
wages, prices and materials, man-
power and production. No one group
should be given a chance to profit-
'eer at the expenses of another.
I ...
Senator Taft declared that it had
been brought" about partly by “the
bungling and inconsistent foreign
policy of the administration" and
I that the President’s decision to de
fend south Korea was a "direct re-1
pudiation of the policies of Secretary
Acheson.” As a consequence, he
demanded that Acheson resign and
"turn the state department over to
someone who can better administer
the program to w’hich he still is pos
sibly so violently opposed.”
Senator Taft also declared that the
President's order is an about-face
on the administration’s policy of op
posing aid for Formosa which w’as
recently debated in the senate.
As a matter of record, however,
it was pointed out by observers that
in withdrawing all American troops
from Korea, the United States gov
ernment was merely keeping its
word with the Koreans, to the effect
that after the South Korean repub
lic was set up upon a national pleb-
escite of the people of that country,
the U. S. army was withdrawn as
per commitments made at the Pots
dam conference. It was pointed out
that Russia had failed in its agree- i
mer\t made at Potsdam. It was also
j pointed out that in his much-discus-
( sed foreign policy speech made re- '
cently at the National Press club, 1
Secretary Acheson pointed out that
one of the most binding moral com
mitments of this government was
1 support of the South Korean gov
ernment.
, With reference lo me Formosan:
affair, these observers point out that,
the President’s directive to the sev-
| enth fleet bears no resemblance to!
j the recent bill for Formosan aid
which was supported by Senator
Taft, Senator Knowland of Califor
nia, and others. That bill provided
i for money and arms for the Nation-
i alist government to do battle against
! the Communist forces on the Chin
ese mainland.
The Truman directive, however, i
declares tnat the U. S. fleet will pro
tect Formosa from attack from the
: Chinese Communists and at the
same time bars the Nationalists front
making war upon the mainland. In
other words, it demobilizes the Na
tionalist Chinese from making war
and at the same time protects Fer- V
mosa from outside aggression, which
is not a reversal of U. S. policy.
During this 81st congress several
j bills have been offered for aid to
; Korea with the following results. In :
I the third deficiency appropriation
I bill in 1949, $30 million was includ
ed for Korea to be spent by the Pres
ident between July 1, 1949. and Oc
tober 15. 1949. However, the senate
' did not complete action on the meas
ure until October 6, 1948, which
made the bill almost ineffective.
Dr. Fred E. Holcombe
OPTOMETRIST
Offices at
200 South Broad St.
Office Hours 9:00 to 5:30
Phone 658
As Washington Sees It. . .
THE NATIONAL SCENE
the ardent Johnston supporters
charged that it would disfranchise
great numbers of voters in the
Piedmont section because of insuf
ficient time in which to register. It
was a false alarm or smoke-screen
as an unprecendented state regis
tration proved. Every one desiring
to qualify to vote had ample time
with special deputies appointed to
assist the regular county registra
tion boards.
The new law is a forward step
in that it puts the state primaries
and general elections on the same
basis, and will make for honesty in
all « lections. Registration certifi-
cates required are good until 1958.
That is a big improvement over the Special to The Chronicle,
former enrolling requirement every Wash i n gt oni j u i y 2 0-The unde-
two years. And it will insure in c i arec i war j n Korea is likely to keep
both the primary and general elec- congress in session longer than the
tion a secret ballot to which every proposed date for adjournment set,
voter is entitled. a t August 1. As a result of the Ko-
The new' law will work entirely ‘ rean question, despite some critical
satisfactorily and is a reform we ! statements by Sen. Robert A. Taft
have long advocated. Those respon-j 0 f Ohio and Sen. Kenneth Wherry
sible for its enactment in the gen- : 0 f Nebraska, the senate acted as a
oral assembly have rendered a real un it in passing the draft act, in much
service to the state. stiffer form than seemed possible
^ several weeks ago by unanimous
Your Duty To Vote vote, and also the military assistance
The first pun,ary resulted in sev-l^ 1 , 1 ; which contained a , 16-million
, ttt , dol ar authorization for arms ship-
on.] run-offs for county offices and i ^
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one state contest in the second pri
mary next Tuesday. In this county
there are three races still to be de
cided.
There was a general apathy or in
difference in the first primary on
the part of thousands of voters as
the final 346,000 tabulation showed
against a state registration of more
than 500.000. The same was true
in our county. With a registration
of more,, than 13,000, only 6,970
votes were cast which was about
half of the reported voting strength.
This shows there are thousands who
are not sufficiently interested to go
to the polls and express their pre
ferences of candidates and have a
voice in deciding the kind of gov
ernment we are to have.
Every citizen, man and woman,*
ments to Korea and the Philippines,
by unanimous vote. The house re
corded only four 1 “nays" against the
draft bill.
On top of this, the house bill call
ing for a billion-dollar slash in ex
cise taxes and a roughly correspond
ing 'boost in corporation levies, sail
ed through that body by a vote of
375 to 14 and the senate is expected
to adopt the • measure without much
debate.
Sen. Millard Tydings of Maryland
called a halt to the much-discussed
loyalty probe investigating charges
by Sen. Joseph McCarthy of com
munism in the state department.
Senator Tydings said his committee
would issue an interim report, but
he did not rule out a reopening of
the hearings.
In debate on the Korean situation,
Phone 515
West Main Street
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25c
69c
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