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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, July 27, 1950
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( LINTON. S. C.. THURSDAY, JULY 27. 1950
knows—he well knows—that plenty
of money has been appropriated—
but he knows too the shame of the
steady retreat with the admission of
inferior equipment and inadequate
intelligence service. The president
and congressmen have not been tell
ing us that our forces were inade
quate and badly equipped. Instead
they have been telling the opposite
until the truth is shown. Greatness
and power is based largely on rep
utation. Our reputation has been
very seriously damaged. Either cor
ruption and graft have intervened to
let their army on the front down
with no adequate equipment, or the
information out of Washington has
(been false'that our defenses were
| adequate. It certainly grieves the
'citizens to know that our 18 and 19
I year old boys, innocent of the causes
of conflict, have been shot and bay-
onetted when wounded, an3 our
great Welfare State can't do anything
! about it. Has the Welfare gone so
j f ar that it comes ahead of national
| pride? We know that when all Am-
i erica gets in action we can win, but
I why should such a violent distur
bance be necessary to enforce a po- the celebration depicting the pa«t
lice duty in a small weak country. 60-year period.
—The Easley Progress. j —
Barrie Jean Wingard
In Atlanta Celebration
Miss Barrie Jean Wingard, accom
panied by her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
B. F. Wingard and son, Binkie, left |
yesterday for Atlanta where she will
take part in festivities for the open
ing of a furniture company.
Miss Wingard, with five other
beauty queens from Southern states,
will serve as hostess and model for
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Bloc Voting
Bl.n votin’ was prevalent in the
large: cities .n the first primary and
w.ll be a future menace in the state.
As an example: In ward 9 in Co-
.umbia there were only 50 white per-
.ms registered to vote. The remain
der were Negroes. In this ward Sena
tor Olm Johnston received some
thing over 1,100 votes. Governor
Thurmond received 40. Similar re-
'ults are reported in other city
wards, and the same was true in the
recent senat irial race in North Car
olina. It is reported that the solid
Negro vote was aligned against Gov-
ernor Thurmond, which is estimated
to nave represented some 40,000 of
the votes in the first primary. This
vot:ng group did not love the gover-
nor's opponent more, but they dared
not oppose Mr. Truman, who has
made a strong appeal for minority
votes.
Bloc voting means that someone
else, or some pressure group or or
ganization in the state or from Wash
ington. tells people how to vote. The
practice, which sprang up over-night
in the recent primary, will have a
far-reaching effect on future politi
cal races in the state.
has been attempted many times
through history and always — of ne
cessity—the catastrophic results. But
the leaders of this sort of movement
are seldom of the type which is sin-
i cerely interested in the welfare of
their fellowmen. They are as a rule
'selfish and ambitious characters
whose great passion is power over
the lives of others. Exceptions to this
| rule are few.
It took Socialists 50 years of plot
ting and planning to get control of
Successful old England: It has taken
‘them only four years to wreck it. The
English were badly weakened by two
world wars and were easy prey for
the socialistic planners. This country
has suffered but little from these
wars, and yet we are falling into
their trap with amazing speed. What
I has happened to us Americans that
we stand for this usurpation of our
freedom?
We had better become aroused as
a people and put a stop to socialism
before it is too late. There should be
I much house-cleaning of reactionaries
I in congress when November comes.
We must fight to preserve our sys
tem of free enterprise. Don't let what
has happened in England and else
where happen here.
Revival services
! nounced at Holly
have been an-
Grove Baptist
| church near the city for August 6-
13 conducted by the pastor, Rev. J.
!-tugh Hazle. Services will be held
j each evening at 7:30 with the public
cordially invited to attend.
A Great Nation
Shamefully Embarrassed
The American citizen is being for-
i ced to a defeatist attitude much like
I that of the Englishman who has seen
| the former might of his great nation
flaunted and ignored until he feels
now inferior to the rest of the great
world he ruled thirty years ago.
Through the years we felt that the
United States was so powerful that
its thunaer alone could quiet little
countries and the meer landing of a
police detail would settle any trou
ble. But a regular procession of
events convinces that the great nation
has grown weak and flabby, degen
erated by corruption, graft and love
of luxury and ease. Every good cit
izen must be deeply embarrassed by
the happenings in Korea, which fol
low so closely the pattern of Pearl
Harbor and the Philippines. He
Put An End To RFC
The Reconstruction Finance cor-
The Hoarders
A housewife has reported this tel-
near...Allston Calhoun
THE WORKING MAN’S FRIEND’
SPEAKING TO YOU ON
Americanism Preferred
Aliston Calhoun has long been known as “The Working Man's Friend” because he
tells the truth on conditions affecting your work, your every-day existence and your
future.
TUNE TO
WLBG
LAURENS
860 K. C.
Every Saturday
At 8:00. A. M.
WCRS-FM
GREENWOOD
95.7 M. C.
Every Monday
At 8:30 P. M.
WKDK
NEWBERRY
1240 K. C.
Every Tuesday
At 6:45 P. M.
WESC
GREENVILLE
660 KC
Every Saturday
At 6:45 P. M.
an enormous lending agen- „ . .. ... ,
' u ephone conversation with her grocer:
cv <i ’.axp.ivers money, is being in- c . . ... 7 ... ... _
' She: ‘ And I d like some sugar,
. c.'Up.iUa ov a senate committee. , „
Pi c~:dt
Truman recently recom
mended that it be placed in the Com
merce Department, but the proposal
a as rejected by the senate. The in
vestigation that has been under way
snould no completed, there should be
a:i ashing of the questionable
rructicvs with which it is charged.
So bad is the record of some of its
too.
He: “About 50 pounds?”
She: “Fifty pounds. Heavens no.
What for?”
He: “Well, some people are buy
ing a lot of sugar these days. Korea,
you know.”
She: “I’ll stick to two pounds, as
usual.”
, t . Another housewife was reported i
nigh financing that Jesse Jones, once,... „ .. _ . ... I
. . 1 visftlhg a city grocery store with ai
its chief head, has recommended that . . . . „ . ... .
' ... . l. • heavy buying list. “I want a case of
the agenev be given a decent bunai, . , ,
, . , ”, . „ ’, tomatoes, one of corn, 100 pounds of
jock, stock and barrel. „ . .... * , K *
-ri otv- . j u „ sugar, large quantities of soap and
Thv RFC was created by congress •. „ . u v
, __ ,v_ other items. But why are you buy
ing in such large amounts?" the gro-
ceryman asked. “Well, I want to get
a pretty good supply before people
start to hoarding," she replied.
There are two opposite examples,
one of sound reasoning, the other a
me-first selfish attitude.
Macy’s, the world's largest depart
ment store, recently carried a page
advertisement in The New York
ising their customers to
I "buy only their actual needs" and
said hoarding is ridiculous and harm
ful. "There is no shortage of mer
chandise in our store,” the advertise
ment read, "and we urge normal
buying only.” A timely example for
all merchants to set, large and small.
The American people do not want
rationing and other controls as we
experienced in the recent world war.
SPEND 5 MINU1ES WITH US
—SEE HOW YOU CAN
SAVE $ 1000
as a depression agency as the excise
tax a as imposed on the public as a ;
war measure. It was set up to help '
sound business firms that needed and
de.-erved help to keep their operation
>olvent during an emergency period.
The war has been over now five
yens and conditions are just the op-
posite to what they were when RFC
was’ created, but it is still loaning
mil : >n of dollars, many of the
loan- pt.ng highly speculative. Gov
ernment has no right to put taxpay
er.' money into speculative ventures
a> many disclosures show it is doing
or. a large scale. It has, and is stili
making loans that are unsound, loans
that banks would not dare to make
beraj'e of their unsoundness for
their stockholders and depositors,
and many of them are secured
’ throng i political influence and pres- , , . , • , ,
,urc m :,e various states And there' Th . ere u ls no _ need for f u ' h Elation
n this other serious objection, com
peting .v:th private financing agen
cies by this non-taxpaying, subsi
dized competition and many others,
which ;s unfair and should be put
to an end in all fields of business. , . „ . . ,,
Jesse Jones, of Texas fame and • talked for many years now, and i
om o: :ne one hundred per cent l * ls who , le Um a e * h ? u s b f c ‘ 1
Rooseveit New Deal spenders until ^ | he chief cause for inflating the doe
, , lar. Its housing legislation and pro-!
ulative agency should be killed once j f 3 ™ has been the most inflationary,
factor of all which has trebled prices
with the beginning of what may be
a third war, and then may not—still
localized in Korea.
Panic buying hurts all alike, cre
ates scarcities and brings on more
inflation against which government I
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they nad a falling out, says this spec
ulative agency should be killed once
and for all. He is right, and there are
W.
for houses and building materials.
There is no scarcity of food. The
millions of American burdened tax-i
paver.- who will agree with him. AIL . ,
social.stic legislation should be re- 'i xp *” sl X, e governments Commodity,
vealed We are threatened with a war]^. redlt Corporation has on its hands j
that vill require billions of dollars, ' (in . C0I " pemi0n , Wl ^ P m ; at u e !**'
we are told. We have no money to Paying business) millions of bushels
bfc loaning, either on good or doubt- bales ’ bags - crat , es ’ ^rrels oi
, u j oa , je „ wheat, corn, cotton, potatoes, pea-
m inuts, dried eggs, milk powder, but-
TL C ' I* *■ T ter ’ c ^ eese > walnuts, prunes, and oth-
I he Socialist I rap er farm products it is givihg away
It isn't easy to become an efficient to schools, agencies and certain types!
farmer, or merchant, or politician. It of institution to keep prices up the
requires time and common sense and consumer must pay. It is now giving
experience. It is likewise difficult to away thousands of frozen turkeys,
master the intricacies of banking and Take sugar. Cuba was reported with
business and the industries. Men just; prospective surplus of l,00(y)00 tons
don’t start at the top in these or oth- before the selfish current buying
er lines they spend their lives at. And wave started. Or nylon hosiery. Ca- *
yet many young people are not sat- | pacity of this item has been multi- 1
isfied to start down and come up plied many times over what it was I
i
You cou/dpay $1000
mone and not get a//Dodge
room... ease of handling
... famous dependability/
Take 5 minutes and see for yourself just how Dodge
gives you roominess costlier cars can’t match. Take
the wheel and diseover handling ease money can’t
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through hard work, initiative, ’ability
and dependability.
According to the Socialist concept,
at the end of World War II. Our
socialistic secretary of agriculture
Brannan, says our food larder is
an industiial corporation can get too overflowing and that there is no need
large and tends to destroy the small of hoarding or increases in prices,
businesses. And yet their plans con- So it is seen there is no reason for
template a “corporation” which will
greediness, and that such selfishness
manage all corporations and all busi- hurts everyone in the long run. If
Your present car may
never again be worth
what weYigive you now.
Chances are it will more than cover tha
down payment on a big new Dodge I
Your present car may he worth more in
trade than it ever will he again. Share in our
success. New Dodge models are rolling off
the production lines in record volume, and
we can assure you early delivery on your
favorite model. Trade now—and save!
Uvsfs tkwdo/kn mom H*n
nesses, and to cap off their conceit
they believe they can operate this
vast “corporation” much more effi
ciently than can those with a lifelong
training
Now these Socialists know their
economic history far better than do
we dumb sheep whom they are rap-
legal controls come—the seller and
the buyer will be the blame. And if
prices rise unduly because of exces
sive buying or speculation, then there
should come rationing and price con
trol.
It’s no time to become hysterical
about what we eat, wear and use. If
idly penning in. They know that it we lose our heads or attempt to hoard
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