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’ I — ■!■■■> THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Clean «) * Newspaper, Complete Newsy and Reliable ©hf GUmton If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE * You Don't Get the News Volume LI Clinton, S. C, Thursday’ August 17, 1950 Number 33 A Regular Chronicle Feature v Government Not Operating For America, Babson Thinks f % 1 President Apparently Still Playing Politics In War. By ROGER BABSON Gloucester, Mass., Aug. 10—The country is disappointed by setbacks In Korea and alarmed at the possible prospect of a third World War less than five years after the second. Ev en if we do succeed in Korea, it will not cause enthusiasm among us—on ly relief. For all thinking Arreri- cans know by now that th Russian ob jective is subjection of the whole world. So, of . course, any “peaceful’ solution of the Korean pro blem can only be temporary. For Rus- j,sia’s policy is to di vert America’s at tention from her strategy, disperse and scatter U. S. troops as thinly as possible all over the globe and to attack all “soft spots" everywhere from without or within. Past Stupidity We may be our own worst eni- mies. We have been blind and fool ish and some among us have even committed treason. Who on behalf of the U. S. consented at Yalta to the cutting in half of Korea, with Rus sia given control of the beat devel oped industrial part of the country? Who withdrew U. S. aid to Nation alist China because Chtang Kai-shek refused to take Communists into the government? China would have been a bulwark against tyranny in the Or- % ient. Who denied the military im portance of Korea and Formosa on ly a few months ago? Who ordered State Department files stripped of “derogatory’’ infor mation on employes as early as four years ago? Who put Alger Hiss in high position at the formation of the U. N. and at the world-dividing con ference at Yalta? Who partioned Germany so that the U.S., Britain and France had no access to its main city and capital except by grace of the Russians? Who withdrew our forces from Korea months ago? Who failed to deliver what the Non-Communist government asked in military sup plies? It doesn’t look to me as if our government has been operating for us. Its actions have encouraged the spread of communism, caused us an xiety of mind and a lien on our pock- etbook. Present Political Trends Months ago Senators Taft Know- land, and McCarthy, among others, attention to the danger in the Orient and the need from protective action. Today the President stil appears loath to reorganize the government on a non-partisan basis. There is still a failure to appoint the best brains and ability in the country to the most important administrative positions. Also there is a general feeling in Congress that all of Russia’s friends have not been cleaned out of gov ernment depatments. if a real emergency develops in the near future, we have reason to believe that price, wage and mater ial controls will go into effect im mediately Yet, it looks as if nec essary action would be delayed if possible until after the coming Con gressional elections. If controls come again, we should let our own Congressmen know that we want good judgment and re straint on the President’s appoint ees to control jobs. The American people know that they were pushed around by quite a few political crack pots of questionable loyalty during World War U Outlook For Commodities The transportation of foodstuffs great distances and possible losses of food-carrying vessels is always to be anticipated under war condi-! Crt-acf-v C orv ; r « tions. Therefore, no curtailing of^ 01 ^ 5 . 1 / ^® rv,ce crop production need be expected Examines Twenty-four in the next year. A sharp craclldown In f* sum Hr on civilian consumption can be ex- 1 FaCtS m V^OUnry pected before the Summer is over Now may be a good time to buy an automobile; be a good time to buy Special to The Chronicle. Columbia, Aug. 14. — Twenty-four an automobile; but there is no rea- i tracts, comprising 2,595 acres, were son for now hoarding foods, cloth ing or shoes. There will be some in ventory accumulation in business; but not on a large scale. The Korean War will tend to make department of education, announced this week. A total of 1,751 South Carolina residents were rehabilitated in the 1949-50 fiscal year. Their average weekly wage increased from ^5.80 to $25.95 as a consequence, a 347 per cent increase in earning power after rehabilitation services. THE CHRONICLE Completely Covers Clinton’s Trade Area for Advertisers There Is No Substitute for News paper Advertising examined in Laurens county by the forest management service of the state forestry commission during the 1949-50 fiscal year, the commission announced this week. In addition. prices fairly firm for the present. ‘ forestr y department personnel mark This applies especially to foods and i ed ^ ve tracts of timber, totalling 285 livestock. The latter may drop in late acres, with the volume marked Summer or early Fall. Grains will amounting to 456,532 board feet of tend to drop too unless weather or sawtimber. war developments interfere. Indus- i The forestry management program, trial materials will rise moderately, j of the forestry department consists This applies to metals, textiles, and 1 a * ree woodland examination for building materials. j any timber owner in any county. The Real estate, especially residential, i ^ ores ‘ er rooking the examination will could have an earlier slump than rec °romend .he best procedure for now anticipated because of an ex pectation among younger men of be ing drafted. This could curtail home securing the highest returns from the woodland. If a harvest of selec tively marked timber is recommend- purchases. All of these are of ftec- and the land °wner requests the essity short-term price trends' sub- ro rester t0 do the marking, this ser- ject to the “risk of war.” If great vice w;11 ** Performed for a charge,«► amounts are now thrown into de- 0 ‘ ^ cents per thousand feet of saw- J J fense, our government must cut c.v- tim ber marked, or 13 cents per star.- y ilian spending. If not, we are in for!^ ard cord °* P u lpwood marked. Fol- < * < * < > < > (> < ► * * < ► < ► o more inflation. We dangerous that is. all know h JW lowing the marking, the commission assists the landowner in selling the 'marked timber. < > < > Form-To-Morket Road Money Is Still Available Rehabilitated Persons Reported In County Special to The Chronicle. (> Special to The Chronicle (> Columbia, Aug.' 15. — During the - . . ■ .... - 1949-50 fiscal year employment was • j *** eni C ° un " obtained for 200 rehabilitated persons J! ty has funds remaining to it in the with handicaps in the three-county < > state highway department’s federal vocational rehabilitation district j [ aid and farm to market construction which includes Laurens county, P G Sherer. director of the vocational rehabilitation division of the state <» this, 4* I n MARK OF LUM DURR QUALITY TIMET0 GET THAT PORCH IN SHAPE WITH PAINT Easy to Apply Quick to Dry Protects, Beautifies and Preserves Pittsburgh Paint In a wide variety of colors. Stop in or phone 94 Free Delivery D.E.TRIBBLE CO. LUMBER and BUILDERS SUPPLIES PHONE 94 SINCE 1894 CLINTON, S.C. programs, a survey condu.tcn week for The Chronicle reveals. For the A-l program, the federal aid program for secondary highway construction, the county has an al location of $218,600, the whole amount of which has been allotted for projects and $209,500 contracted Over a five-year period, from the 1944-47 fiscal year through 1950-51, the county has been allocated $644,- 400 for the “C** program, the state farm to market construction pro gram. Project allotments total $747,- 450 for the county, and projects con* tracted total $701.61$, contracts ex ceeding allotments with the increase in coat of highwray construction. In addition to the $218,600 allocat ed to the county for federal aid sec ondary roads, $249,400 has been al located, but not contracted, for coun ty primary and urban projects. 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