Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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t I f I < I « J ♦ l •* ♦ 1 • i * ^ * I 'fc'' IHE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Cleon Newspoper, Complete Newsy and Reliable Volume III (Sift (Mtttimt (JUjrotttrlf ——a —a——— i — — b 1 1 .i.. ; -■ = = Gin ton, S. C, Thursday, February 22, 1951 If You Don't Read IHE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Number 8 Contribution To Citizenship By DR. W. W. BALL, in The News and Courier In the village of Joanna, South Carolina, a private corporation is as sisting in the production and devel opment of good citizens as well as good textiles. will have fire protection, running water, paved roads—conveniences that they would have in the Main street settlements—and will pay no city or town taxes. In the 1880’s and 1890’s “Martin’s Depot” was a station on the Laurens and Newberry railroad and there James S. Blalock raised on the com paratively level lands surrounding i: 600 bales of cotton on as many acres in a normal year—and that was champion cotton-raising for those days. The plantation supported 30 or 40 negro wage hands and tenant fanners. “The outside of the houses will be of asbestos siding and inside will be hardwood floors, tiled bath room and modern kitchen and cabinet.” The houses will have four or five rooms. Lockwood Greene Engineers, a Bos ton concern that has been building cotton mills for companies in South Carolina 60 years, have laid out this village in the beautiful wooded area and made the plans for the cottages. Mr. Blalock about 52 years ago en gaged in a novel and daring experi ment. He ‘built a small cloth-making mill. (Already he had a cotton seed oil mill.) , The experiment was at first not a success. So far as we are informed that mill was the first in the United States that converted in to cloth or yam cotton planted and cultivated on the same premises as that on which the mill was and on which the master had his home.. The mill passed into other hands. Martin’s Depot, meanwhile, had lost its name and was become “Gold- ville”—which is no matter and is set down because it is history. The mill was enlarged and enlarged again. Its ownership may have changed more than once. Now it is and has been some years Joanna Cotton Mills, a company prosperious and having a great plant, and persons motoring north from Newberry to Gary’s Lane to Kinards to Clinton will pass through a beautiful, dean, bright village where are trees and flowers and pretty cottages. That is the Jo anna that was Goldville so many years. That spreading, noble, fertile, com paratively level plantation that was white with cotton in October about as far as eye can see has been divid ed. It is no longer the spreading plantation and is not sustaining the negro workers and their wives and children, 150 or 200 one guesses. Jo anna is a manufacturing community. The grave of the planter and manu facturer, Mr. Blalock, is by the side of the road. The Joanna corporation (private and tax-paying corporation of a kind obnoxious to Santee-Cooper and Clark’s Hill) has cut a wooded tract of 50 acres by the side of the Laur rens road into lots of a third to half an acre. The Clinton Chronicle tells of the planning by the taxpaying corporation It is offering these lots for sale to workers in the company on “generous terms.” The down pay ment required is small. Persons who buy these lots and build on them GOLD THEATRE JOANNA, S. C. Morning Shows—10 A. M. Monday, Wednesday, Friday Matinee—3 P. M. Monday, Wednesday, Friday Night Shows—6:30 and 8:30 Every Night Admission 40c (33c plus 7c tax) Children under l2-9c \ Thurs.-Fri. Feb. 22-23 Halls of Montezuma In Color Richard Widmark Saturday Feb. 24 Bataan John Wayne Mon.-Tues. Feb. 26-27 At War With the Army Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin Wednesday Feb. 28 Three Musketeers Lana Turner Also CASH NIGHT NEXT— Tripoli The example of Joanna Cotton Mills ought to have attention of “Au thorities” that build with taxpayers’ money, that when they need or think they need more money have recourse to g^vernmnl, dear old Nurse. Home-owr.ership builds good citi- denship. Home owners hold their heads up. Joanna Cotton Mills is working for the development of men, women and children of character, as well as for dividends for sharehold ers and salaries for its higher work- | ers, executives. Joanna Cotton Mills is in a year ; contributing more to the citizenship ; of South Carolina than any tax-fed 'Authority has contributed in the last 10 years or will in the next 10 years. - W. W. B. WHWKEWUKWIHIWMWMKWHtmiimK As Washington Sees It... THE NATIONAL SCENE Special to The Chronicle. Washington, Feb. 20—The ringing challenge of General of the Armies Dwight Eisenhower and the effects of the price and wage control orders were the highlights of the busy week in Washington. , General Eisenhower confounded seme of the dissenters to the partici pation of the country in the defense of North Atlantic nations when he ’thoroughly and whole-heartedly sup- | ported the administration program t and declared that the preservation : of free America requires our partici- paiion in the defense of western Eu- ’ rope, and he refused to be placed in a straight-jacket of predicting just ; what that defense requires. He wants whatever is necessary, but immed- j lately he wants plenty of munitions ; ana arms for Europe’s armies and lone or more new American divis- iions, the latter for phychological ef- i f *ct. , Pointing to a rejuvenation of the fighting spirit in the nations of Eu rope, General Eisenhower urged Am ericans to “match the courage and self-sacrifice of the ragged, freezing members of Washington’s army at Valley Forge” and said, “if each of us proves himself worthy of his : countrymen fighting and dying in Korea, then success is sure, a glor- : ious success that will bring us ecur- l ity, confidence and tranquility.” ! General Eienhower, however, said i each American must do his part. “We j cannot delay, nationally or indiv- lidually, while we suspiciously scrut- I inize the sacrifice made by our j neighbor, and through a weasling logic, seek some way to avoid our own duties.” “If we Americans seize the lead, we will preserve and be worthy of our own past. Our children will dwell in peace. They will dwell in freedom. They will read the history of this decade with tingling pride, and, from their kinship with this ■generation, they will inherit more than can be expressed in millions, in acres or in world acclaim.” Michael V. DiSalle, director of the office of price stabilization, is run ning the gamut of criticism, beefing and just plain every day grumbling as a result of the general price freeze he ordered on January 26, with prices at the highest point in the nation’s history. Indicative of how this crit icism rolls off the Toledo mayor, however, is a story he tells concern ing an irate woman who spent 20 minutes berating him in a long dis tance call from Pittsbourgh. “It was just like talking to my wife,” DiSalle grinned, “for all I could say was ’yes’m, yes’m, yes’m, until she finished.” (However, DiSalle s price freeze, ac cording to the economists and to Di- Salle himself has logic behind it. For instance, setae farm leaders de clared that farmers would not pro duce if they were placed under price controls. Some said that industry would not produce either, without incentives. Said DiSalle, however: “I cannot subscribe to the theory or the view that controls will slow down production. We froze prices at the highest point in history and if people need some incentive besides the incentive of slf-preeervation, and the preservation of the nation, they certainly have the incentive of high prices under our order.” DiSalle said he saw in the near future, some astounding results in price rollbacks when final equitable and tailored regulations for each in dustry are completed. We will tie these regulations to a pre-Korean ’base and attempt to fix margins at that date and see what happens t° price. He pointed out that meat is uppermost in the minds of people, since it was meat that broke the back of price controls under OPA. He said there may be some price in creases before there are roll backs, likening the fixing of the price wage freeze to a speeding automobile when brakes are applied. “We saw a red light. We applied the brakes. That does not mean we automatically came to a halt. But we have slowed it down and we may have some time lag before we do come to a halt and achieve our ob- jedtiye, just as a car speeding at 60 miles an hour does not automatically halt when brakes are applied, but travels on some distance before com ing to a full stop.” Commerce, National Production Au thority, are available at the local Chamber of Commerce office. FOOD... Is An Important Item With Housewives You will find helpful Gro cery and Market News in THE CHRONICLE every week from leading food stores in the city. Read the advertisements reg ularly — they tell you about changing prices each week aad where you can supply your needs and buy to advantage. 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