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I I Pape Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Tharsday, September 7 r 1950 tThr (Clinton (Chrontrlr Established 190« WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.25 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Offioe'at Clinton, S. C n under Act of Congress March 3, 1879. The Chronicle seeks t ie cooperation of its subscribers and readers— the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opiniohs of its correspondents. MEMBER: SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION National Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia cence until guilt is proved is now de cadent. The members of the third class are the honest and virtuous. They hold offices. In primaries and other elec tions they are the chosen people. They are numerous. They are the guardians and baby-sitters of the cit izens. Government now thinks of cit Eat a good lunch, not a five-minute one with the other 55 minutes con sumed window shopping. Try to do something interesting and relaxing every week-end. Be just as curious about landmarks and rec reational facilities near your town, as you were at your vacation resort W as babes. When the democrats;™' '! way ? ' ook f * r '' n " m | vote tor presidents and congressmen? ther a ' d ', 0 the M *" J , they select the good, and once a per-; p ' opl ' Probably leave their town to 'son is in the pay of government;he!' n)oy . vacatlon d ‘ v "- s ;°" a ■" ° r n ' ar | becomes competent, honest, unself- 50 lru ' es lgate thc pos ' Take advantage of swimming, bowling and other recreational facil ities and make an o'.tasion of it just as you do in the summer. It is a boring procedure to while away Sat urday nights partying or dancing and to look forward to Sundays as a day CLINTON, S. C., THl’RSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 1950 Malik A Flop The Malik month is over. As Rus sia's representative at the U. N. Se curity Council, he was a flop, un cooperative and defiant we would say. His chief concern seemed to be support for North Korea since Sov iet Russia is the power behind the North Korean invaders. And with it .ill he was a big' liar as the record shows. ish, patriotic and a saint with charm. ! With this saying, Messrs. Humphreys, ; Douglas and Lehman will surely agree. The United States is now a social ized state. If the Americans shall ; neglect or refuse to “vote right” they | will have no “social security.” When all is said, why should Am- jCrican citizens have more freedom ;than Britons, Japanese and others? Can any reason be presented that i they should be considered Capable of managing their own affairs? The workers, many of them, hold them selves unworthy of being trusted with their wages and really wish the em ployers to be their agents in collect ing for their social security and so ciety dues. Daniel Boone was an independent gentleman. He is dead. So is inde pendence.—The News & Courier. a habit that you don’t realize how little it accomplishes for you in the way of health and beauty. Cotton Meosuring Expense A Boondoggle Plowing cotton under by order of government dictator is a big joke on the government this year. Lots of farmers have plowed it all under and many just won’t bother to do anythingr The government has di verted millions of tax dollars to pay cotton measurers which ought to have gone to Korea. They hdve run about importantly and busily meas socialist project and cotton measur ing is as communist as anything come out of Russia—and, as you can see, as utterly useless and destruc tive of individual initiative. It also i might be remarked that Mr. BolI<^[ Weevil is a more capable economist than the genius in the Department of Agriculture. —The Easley Progress. MARK WELL PUNCHMASTER—For ticket and other punching. A handy little office item. $1.03. Chronicle Publishing Co. Phone 74. COMMERCIAL PRINTING This completely equipped combi nation Newspaper-Commercial Print- uring and calculating and it all winds, ing plant can serve you bet up in a zero of completely wasted ef- goal la to give our customers fort. The economics of supply and | of service they want—to give for a big dinner. It gets , to be such demand can swamp any government a BETTER NEWSPAPER. sttebflPur s SKind tre Hinton Law Enforcement The new city administration has ajb.imcd office and we wish it well. Thc Chronicle, along with the dreat majority of Clinton residents, crease in the price of anything sold across store counters isn't going to do business any good. This country is plagued with spe cial taxation and double taxation of many kinds. Our state legislature Ll HOW To Keep expected to consider a general sales!—, .. . ^ tax when it convenes in January, [The Vocation which, if passed, will be just another v;| AW I nefinn tax shouldered upon the public. The HJSling spenders want more money all the time to spend. The retail excises are Isn’t it wonderful what a vacation conspicious examples and should be| can ^ c>u are rested, happy and repealed. The emergency that led to their creation is long over. Wearing Out Highways Roger Babson who writes a fea- content, and yoi^ feel better than ev- erf But come to think of it, you felt that way after last vacation, didn't you? That wonderful edge we get on vigor and vitality during vacation 'season is very short-lived. Usually,! i each tor Th. Chronicle. eluent The community Thu J haa a ,im " y art “ :l ' in ,oda - v ' 5 paper | ‘a «°° d alter our two weeks >: par.im.tun: importance A we'.l organized, alert police de- on our railroads as an investment. |'*' ,th P a y that we immediately set | ! Mr Babson savs. as the public' 0 - a tal *e on more work and pleas-! J ’S- * -S B! H! ■! "SR wen knows, that the trucks and* ure - and break down aU Lhal nice , V e- v common - V first nett /nH P lanes have an unfair advantage ov- ouoyance we’ve built up . , mmum.y s firs, need and, er the railroadj and that the com _ Buckle down to retain that vaca- ^ petition is steadily increasing, though glow before another day slips 1 ■the burden of developing our coun- Make up your mind to get the. try has rested heavier on the rail- >ame amount of rest, relaxation and | roads than any other industry. How are we to provide adequate i i-'Kp bud with highways to carry the huge modern n >: ,i> import- commercial trucks and trarers, is \ r. m of the a tremendous, real problem. The y fee; Presiden; enormous trucks are wearing out the most politically- highways as the motorist quickly • .r . our.trv ha- sees m Congress Wants To Quit Congrt'" a mts to adjourn and g K meering. Th: war, nu mot T' uma minde, -cfn. t all the , gooo food that you got on vacation.! ' Occasional changes of scenery and' i normal recreation throughout the! year are other factors that contribute , to beauty and mental health. | Instead at picking up every stray : evening invitation that comes your r\e i:. v i ■ inks, talk' and plays politics'The truckers say they pay large ‘ime The 1952 election is thc | issue with him . _ _ .. . ■ way, make a rule to get eight hours traveling over the country.t . , . ,. _ * I sleep unless a late date is important. uxV a “nd thxt",. ('rue (cv'erybodt| Bu ; f*»'< *“ up InPPBWue 1 *.!! h,m |d.ies). however a, we have MidSe! l>ocaPS ' ,ou c,n U “ *" Wlth another war °n our hands. br ^ akdo ^ n / >f °“ r “ nder ”*1 a^wxl leuurely breakfast just po it.es >houid t>e forgotten and pork-j tho b‘S vehicles can bt seen by an>- ^ ^ ^ vacation. Don't gulp barrel nandouts ended \5e should °‘ ie Wl e > C5 idown coffee and toast while your be more concerned for the young are told by those who are sup-.eye, are to the clock, and don't men fighting and dying in Korea, posed to know, that it cost 22 P*r make your only exercise dashing for nnd congressmen Congress needs strong shots to cure the adjournment fever with which it is stricken than in the re-election of senators t cent more to build highways that wit! stand up under truck pounding than those built for private vehicles alone A reported study made in the state, of Pennsylvania indicates that it, cO'ts $4,900 a year to maintain each' mile of pavement used’ by trucksj and only $350 to maintain highways, over which the trucks do not oper ate. The situation has been further complicated by the fact that some; truckers have apparently made a policy of disregarding legal weight limits, and have sent their vehicles out carrying loads which literally murder the highways. In any event, the cost of building and maintaining the highways seems to have brought on severe headaches the bus or train at the last minute. A Political Appointment PrC'idcn! Truman has appointed M.iyor \V: hum O’Dwyer of New 5’ >rk, as ambassador to Mexico The mayor resigned am;d a great send- off from thousands of fellow citizens lo accept the new post. The appointment smacks of poli tics. a? do all of those made from the White House. The position is a im portant one, intended to create the be.A of relations between this coun try and Mexico The new appointee we would say is a weak appointment lor the ambassadorship. is a smart politician. He has no dip-, . 4 * vi- * „ , in most of the states—the big trucks lomatic training or experience and . . .. ... * K are largely the cause of i$. The ques tion which must be answered is I whether the trucks are actually pay- _. — . . ing a fair share of the enormous ex- I ime ror Action pense. A good many experts have It was reported yesterday that a come to the view that the trucks 12th arrest has been made in the aren’t doing that now. and so, as a probe of the disgraceful Klu Klux result, all other taxpayers and mo- Klun fracus recently at Myrtle Beach torists are indirectly subsidizing this that left a robed policerffarr dead, commercial business. And all the Sheriff C E. Sa^er of Horry county while they are wearing out our pub- has included Thomas Hamilton, self- lie highways and furnishing an un styled grand dragon of the Caro- fair competition to our heavily taxed linas KKK in the arrests made and railway systems, says he will continue the sweeping probe in which Governor Thurmond has given his whole-hearted sup port. The sheriff has shown forth right courage in handling this vicious uprising which shows the atrocious lengths to which kluxensm will go. Those guilty of this flouting of the law should be apprehended and vig orously prosecuted. There is no place in this state for those who with their heads covered with white sheets, would take the laws into their own hands. COMMERCIAL HOUSEHOLD WIRING Electrical AppHanc* Repairing and Electrical Construction Work Floor Plugs A Specialty ARNOLD M. CANNON 406 W. Maple St. TaL 312-XJ These Taxes Should Go Sentiment in congfess on eliminat- ln The Socialized State Great speeches in the United States senate by Messrs. Humphrey, Douglas and Lehman, advocarting withholding taxes on dividends, to gether with the law requiring em ployers to withhold a part of the wages of employes, inferentially di vide the American people into three classes. • Class No. 1 is composed of tens of millions of persons incompetent to take care of themselves, who would spend themselves into starvation or go to the poorhouse were not their Dr. Felder Smith Optometrist Laurens, S. C. 126 EAST MAIN STREET South Side TubUe Squ&ro HOURS FOR KYI EXAMINATIONS: 9:00 lo 5:99 Wednesdays 9:M to ItiSI Phone 794 for Appointment ing the retail excise taxes on various kinds of commodities has been on employers required to save for them the increase. Now that the Korean war is upon us, there is likely to follow a slow-down in the effort. These taxes, as we have said be fore, should long ago have been abol ished. They were imposed as war measures, not solely to raise more revenue, but to discourage the man ufacture and sale of non-essentials. The war has been over now five years, with another looming on the horizon. This law is return toward those days when workers had masters. When colored people were slaves in New York, New Jersey, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas and other states, their owners provided social security for them, supporting them in sickness and in old age. These slaves were properties. All the people are now in a state of semi-slavery. The government of the United States now masters the workers, Those who have stood for the re-I compelling employers to be its col- lention of the tax say that it only applies to luxuries, which is not true. What is a luxuary is a matter of in dividual opinion. The imposition of a special tax on rail, bus and air plane tickets is not a luxury. Travel is an every day essential. These retail excise taxes have hurt the sale of items to which they ap ply, running up as they do to 20 per cent, and it doesn’t take an expert to understand that so large an in lectors, or sub-masters. The people are not trusted to handle all the mon ey they earn; much of it they never touch, see or smell. The second class consists of em ployers and upon them government looks with suspicion. It would have them watched, convicting them of intending to steal and holding that they must in advance prove them selves not guilty of fraud and per jury. 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