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/ / i I * 4 Pape Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, March 29, 19^1 dllje (Clintun (EhrnntrU Established 19M WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher HARRY CU LAYTON. Assistant Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscnption Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.25 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C^ under Act of Congress March 3, 1879. The Chronicle seeks tae 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 inteVest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. Tlfis paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. MEMBER: SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION National Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia CLINTON. S. C.. THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1951 It Has A Bad Smell President Truman is back in Washington after a three-weeks va cation in Florida. This trip may bo expected to be followed by another jn the near future since Mr. Tru man is the champion “vacationist” of all time at taxpayers exoense. While away many things happen ed. The war news changed, the national mobilization program al most fell apart, and our national economy was under attack and still is. Still worse while the President ran away from government prob lems the American people had re vealed before them a display of big gambling, immorality, influence and corruption at high and low po litical levels, immorality which has been inspired and nurtured by a pattern of behavior set by the White House. In the RPC investi gation much startling evidence has been uncovered showing lax admin istration. personal and political fa voritism proving that this great lending agency has lost the confi dence of the American people and should be abolished now if a higher moral tone is to be restored in gov ernment The RPC boys, the in vestigation has shown, received ex pensive favors from those seeking enormous loans. The Tea Pot Dome scandal of the Harding administration had nothing on the revelations that have come out through Senator Fullbright’s committee. What this country needs right now more than it needs anything else is integrity, or just common honesty in government. Our moral ton* has reached a low ebb. Senate Goes Wild On Spending Our state senate has gone wild on an unprecedented spending spree, lead by Senator Edgar Brown of Barnwell fame, chairman of the fi nance committee, and is determined to have its own way to the utter disregard of taxpayers. The enor mous house approved spending bill was $142,771,174. The senate spend ers are increasing it each day until it is now nearly two million dollars above anticipated revenues this year, and almost five million higher than the originally recommended huose figure. Increased appropriations and sal ary increases are being made to cer tain groups who have the “bless ing” of the dominating senate group. It’s a grab game and the tragedy is that there are not en ough senators with the courage to stand up and fight and defeat what is taJdng place. Back of such wild spending is the three per cent general sales tax that is expected to be passed, to gether with a seventy-five million ■dollar bond issue. This sales tax will furnish an unprecedented slush fund for the politicians in Colum bia. We were told that the pro posed tax would yield $30,000,000 when the truth is it will produce several million more. Though The people are not told the truth, there will be all kinds of money for the legislators to pass around in the name of education. In the mean while taxpayers are informed they will not get tax reductions origin- ally promised to become effective July 1 with the sales tax. With the tax spenders in Wash ington and Columbia, the sky is the limit, taxpayers are ignored with more taxes being piled upon them ■until the confiscation point is reached. It looks as though it is just around the comer. Grows Bigger and Bigger When the public welfare depart ment was created during the early I New Deal days, financed by the federal and state government, we were told it was to meet an emer gency. We were in a disastrous de pression, millions of people were without employment, and the pic ture was discouraging. It seemed that something had to be done to bring relief tq those who were in distress. But look wh$t has happened. The emergency has been over for years, depression has been replaced with a general prosperity over the country, wages and salaries have increased, and those who want to work have wo difficulty in securing employ ment There are many people who just don’t intend working, go out on the streets and attempt to hire someone to cut wood, clean prem- or do other work and you will ’hat it is almost impossible. 'e^sAite appropriation bill car- nesJ a recommendation of $7,172,- 000 for public welfare, this amount to be supplemented by federal funds. There are those who need and must obtain financial help to live, we know, and we have as much of the milk of human kindness for the unfortunate as the average person, or those who are employed by the welfare department throughout the state. But we are satisfied there are chiselers on the rolls or the re quested appropriation of the state would not climb higher each year until it now has passed seven mil- j lion dollars. Too many people, we are afraid are dodging their res ponsibility to close relatives. Fed eral law forbids making public the names of those receiving welfare payments. If the names were made public it would in no way embar rass those actually needing help and relief. Defiant Union Bosses Sometimes we wonder if the present czars of the labor unions have, as yet. assimilated the true meaning of “America.” We wonder if the thinking of those men has become so distorted by the almost complete control which they exer cise over the lives of millions of human beings, that they can feel and think only in terms of self. Our country is m a finish war with Soviet Russia, if it comes. This war will continue until either we are defeated and liquidated—or un til the despots who rule Russia are destroyed or die of old age. Every ounce of energy of which we are possessed will be needed to avoid destruction. The government, realizing the danger, is—at long last—doing its utmost to make up for lost time and prepare for whatever the Kremlin may have in store for us. So President Truman appointed Charles E. Wilson, president of General Electric company, a self- made man with one of the best busi ness brains in the country—to col lect together and pull the strings which will make the nation click efficiently. And then what hap pened—the labor union bosses walked out on the nation. You know the rest. You saw a handful of union leaders take ad vantage of the threat to our coun try’s existence. You saw what cer tainly appears to be a callous at tempt on the part of these leaders —not the members—to blackjack themselves into positions of power in the operation of our government, for which they are in no way quali fied. Wilson in this important post, is being given just the standard treatment that labor leaders dish out to officials who do not bow to their demands. They are determined to make it uncomfortable for him as posible in the hope that he will lose patience and quit the job, which these rabid leaders will turn heaven and earth Ao fill with a par tisan of their own choosing. The union members whose inter ests these bosses disregard when they walked out are Americans. They have sons dying in Korea and being inducted for the expected war with Russia. These men’s live are just as much at stake as are those of other Americans. These men should demand, and en force the resignation of every union leader who had a hand in this dis graceful and unforgivable behavior. ■ 1 11 ■ 1 ^ Local Students Win Honors In Contest RETAILERS HAVE TOUGH PROBLEM Filling Out Ceiling Price Regulation Rquires Much Time and Paper. Washington, March 24—With a i loud groan, Sayre “Tuppy” Shafer lowered his six-foot-four frame in- j to a shoe-fitting stool and stared i around him at the shelves piled with shirts, underwear, pajamas, socsk, shoes and hats. He clutched in his hand an im posing document issued by the Of fice of Price Administration (OPS), i The document is known as “Ceiling Price Regualtion 7.” Shafer looked at it and said: “We’ll have to close the shop for a week just to read the thing.” That was three weeks ago, and Shafer feels better about the situation now. He found that the regulation wasn’t quite so complicated as it first seemed. But it does require a lot of paper work, and he is still far from finished with this paper work, i Shafer and about 200,000 retailers all over the country are preparing , “uricing charts” in order to deter- ' mine their new ceiling prices under regulation 7. They have to file the charts with the OPS by April 30. Originally the deadline was March 29, but the harassed storekeepers set up a cla mor for an extension and the other day the extension was granted along with a few minor amend ments to the regulation. Great was i the relief of the retailers. The retailer may start using his ' new prices as soon as he files the chart. After April 30, if he hasn’t ! filed, he is forbidden to sell any 1 goods covered by regulation 7. Regulation 7 covers the retail prices of all sorts of clothing (except fur garments), shoes, furniture, rugs, lamps, curtains, sheets, towels, and other household goods. The regulation unfreezes the prices of those goods, and freezes instead the percentage of “mark up" which the retailers can add to the cost of each item to determine his selling price. The immediate ef fect will be some price increases and [ some price reductions; apparently nobody knows how many of each. OPS officials admit that prepara- tiort of the "pricing charts” is a time i consuming operation. But they say the charts are no more complicated than under the OPA of World War II. Leaders of the American Retail Federation and National Retail Fur niture Association agree with that. No Standard Forms Actually, regulation T is patterned closely after an OPA regulation that came out in 1945. In filing a price chart, there are no ‘standard forms to fjll put. You start with a blank sheet of paper, or rather a pile of blank sheets. Each page ‘of the chart should represent one “category.” All the goods covered by regulation 7 are grouped into categories. For exam ple: category 117—men’s and boy’s shirts”, “category 501—bed linens”, “category 709—chairs and rockers”, and so on. Each page must have five col umns. In the first column the cate gory is named. In the second column are listed all the different costs that the retailer paid for articles in that j category which he was offering for sale on February 24. In the third column are the prices at which he was offering the arti cles on February 24. If an article was raised or lowered in price after having been priced originally, the retailer uses the original price in stead of the February 24 price. If an article was originally priced higher than the price the retailer would normally have charged, the normal price must be used. The retailer next computes the percentage mark-up in each instance and puts it in the fourth column. For example, if the cost of an item was 32 cents, and the offering price was 48 cents, the mark-up would be 50 per cent. Mark-Up Regulation v Henceforth the retailer must use the.same 50 per cent mark-up for any item in the category that costs him 32 cents. If he buys an item at a cost dif ferent from any of the costs listed in his second column, he arrives at his ceiling price by methods that would take too much space to de scribe in this story. In the fifth column, the retailer lists the last invoice he received for each cost listed in the second col umn. There are other things the re tailer must do. For example he must figure the average percentage mark-up for the whole category, and this average has an important part in determining ceiling prices. Also he must file certain other in formation besides the pricing chart. But that gives a general idea of ing with his spare time nowadays, what the typical store-keeper is do- Tuppy Shafer, though his store is small, has several hundred dif ferent items that he must put on his pricing chart. For example, he has 30 different prices on men’s slacks alone. One thing that bothers Shafer is that under his new celiings, he may be selling one line at two different prices, and he is afraid the custom ers will not understand why. For example, one particular of shoes may sell for 12.50 simply because he received the two pairs at different times and at different costs. Clinton high school was well rep resented at the Music Festival for the Western district held recently at Lander colege. Catherine Eichelberger was a first place winner for her contral to solo, “The Asra,” and Richard Jacks, a second place winner for his solo, “The Beaming Eyes.” The Girls Glee club sang “May Day Carol,” and "Follow Me Down to Carlow,” for which they won first place. The mixed chorus sang "Ezekiel Saw De Wheel,” and “Let All the World In Every Comer Sing,” and received a second place rating. These winners will attend the state contest to be held at Win- throp college the second week in April. ■I Ml ■ H' — MORE PEOPLE ARE READING THE CHRONICLE THAN EVER BEFORE! Morsholl Soys World Situation More Serious Than In 1950 Washington, March 2T.—Secreta ry of defense Marshall warned the United States today that the world situation is more serious than it was last November when the west ern Allies were shocked by costly reverses in Korea. The general did not go into de tails but made it clear that he was viewing the global picture as a whole. He said that is is unfortu-! nate that the United States is en- gaged in a struggle on the small ; Korean peninsula while Soviet ac- j tivity covers the whole world. He ruled out a purely military decision by General MacArthur to i order a general advance north of parallel 38 He pointedly told a news conference that any such de- • cision must be made on a political level. MarArthur’s job now, the de fense secretary emphasized, is to proceed “in accordance with the necessity to safeguard the security of his command. That is the com pelling factor that dominates his action.” Marshall brought the Far East back into the* world picture, how ever. by disclosing that two Nation al Guard divisions federalized last September will depart for Japan this Thursday. The 40th division from California will sail from the West Coast and the 45th guard division drawn from Oklahoma will embark at New Or leans. The army had announced some weeks ago that these divisions would be kept intact in Japan and complete their training there. The purpose of, their dispatch is to bol ster the United States garrison in Japan which was depleted by send ing combat units to Korea last year. General Marshall made his state ment about the increased serious ness of the world situation after expressing his great surprise at the speed with which the American public and some congressmen had reacted from their emotional shock last fall after the Chinese Reds plunged into the Korean struggle. LEMON PIE 9 in. 55c — 8 in. 40c TINMAN'S BAKERY Phone 334-W Dr. Fred E. Holcombe Office Hours 9:00 to 5 JO 200 Sooth Broad SL OPTOMETRIST Offices at Phone 658 Happy- and Free From Stomach Distress Keep eerreU er parsnip* fresh In s ereek #f clean damp sand. Lears part af the taps uncovered so 7*0 may pall them sat. AT A mm PRICE 5.95 Chambrays. 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