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/ y Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, April 5, 1951 pr (Clinton (ChrontrU 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 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 interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. Tliis 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 " I if any more were stjll out. They had more forcibly than it was preached * iiief “/■‘h n ^ ooirl ♦ r\ m . . . ... ...., . _ from our Baptist pulpit. There could 'Christ Cannot Be Limited CLINTON. S. C.. THURSDAY, APRIL 5. 1951 By MRS. ADELINE H. LOFTIS Clinton, S. C. Two patrolmen, patrolling the roads about Clinton, Saturday night were unsuspecting instruments in answer to prayer. It happened like this: I was on night duty at the Training School, with about seventy girls in charge. Around eight-thirty, by a little too much trust on my part, and a good bit of subertufuge on their part, four girls got away from the building. Officers of Clinton were alerted at once. Two of the girls were old in the ways of esca pades, but the other two were young, one not very long in the care of the school. These two, I knew, had been persuaded by the others. As I went about getting the girls settled for the night, all I could do was pray si lently t^iat these two might fee re turned before they fell into trouble. About eleven o’clock, a patrol car drew' up in front of the building. Quickly opening the door, I found two patrolmen, bringing back the two young girls—and also the other Good For fhe Country Only two states remain to rati fy the proposed 22nd amendiment to the Constitution, which would limit tenure in the presidency of the United States to two elected terms or to 10 years in case of succession from the vice-presidency. This makes it possible, unfortunately, for President Truman to offer again for a new four-year term in the office. This amendment, the need for which is apparent to all. will have a wholesome and helpful effect ana will clarify and enforce a rule which , has been traditional since George i Washingon's time, one that was' thrown to the wind in the early days i of New Deal rule. Rotation in this high office is sound and helpful to the Amercan 1 people. It will get away from that political nonsense that any one man is indispensible Bury It Now The country is shocked—if such is possible, by recent scandal reve lations from Washington brought out by an extended investigation of months During the investigation many evils have been uncovered by the committee, revealing a moral breakdown on the part of certain public officials. The lack of ethical standards in public affairs has meant big profits for th^ise on the “inside.” The RFC should have been abol ished after the late war as The Chronicle has said before Set up as an emergency government agency it .should now be given a decent burial. Why should such a power ful lending agency be functioning in competition to private banking and making loans that are question able, and that no sound Hank would make. There is multiplied evidence showing that a clean-up is in order and past due It has a bid smelling combination of politics with finan ces. and properly raises this ques tion—why hasn’t it been abolished? One of the main reasons is that a government bureau always tends to perpetuate its own existence. RFC should get out of the lending business. The public has lost all confidence in its administration as shown by substantiated charges of influence peddling Senator Wilson's Stand The wild spending state senate has pased a $149,237,718 approprta tn»n bill and sent it to the house which acted wisely and'sensibly in moving non-concurrence. The bill now goes to a conference commit tee named from both branches. If Senator Edgar Brown, probably the dominant member of the committee, is given his way, there is likely to be little reduction in the proposed bill which is now nearly three mil lion dollars out of balance, and more than six million dollars in ex cess of the ceiling pased by the house. On a roll call the senate by a vote of 30-10 gave third reading and re turned to the house the multi-mil lion dollar appropriations and sales tax bill. The record shows that Senator R. T. Wilson of this county, voted against the bill on third reading. He voted right in our opinion, and The Chronicle, together with thous ands of his constituents, commends him for taking a stand against what promises to be a slush fund to be enacted in the name of “education.” We ask this proper question: Why must taxes be increased thirty-five j or forty million dollars in order to finance an increase of $17 to $18 million in the appropriations for public schools? We are glad Senator Wiilson has refused to go along with the Colum bia politicians in such reckless and unnecessary spending. The big grab-bag game is cm. How To Lick Inflation We fail, as do millions of others, to see how higher taxes will check inflation for which government is largely responsible. Taking money from some and giving it to others only keeps the satne amount of cash in circulation and will have little effect upon the mounting cost of living. Extravagant spending on the part of the federal government has set an example which (ommunities and individuals have 4>een quick to fol low. Today the answer to almost any financial problem is to “apply for federal aid,” which is another way of saying Santa Claus,- whose bills must be met by the American taxpayers. It is unfortunate, but true, that initiative of communities and individuals has fast disappeared in recent years. The general atti tude is—why worry about the fu ture? If we save anything it will depreciate or go to taxes, and be sides the government can care for us if we are old or unemployed, provided w’e have made no provis ion to provide for ourselves. We are rocking along running the dan gerous risk of economic collapse through extravagance. We are told from Washington that the American people must sacrifice until it hurts. Why should they when they have no such example set before them by President Tru man. members of Congress, and bu reaucrats who would perpetuate themselves in office by spending more money? There might be an effort to economize at home if the federal government would honestly < ndeavor to balance its budget, to cut out waste, extravagance and du- phcatidn. and stop catering to pres sure groups Stop keeping prices up for the consumer public through enormous parities, stop lending bor rowed money, and relinquish all re sponsibilities that belong to the states, communities and individuals, and start paying of our staggering public debt If such a course was adopted in Washington and honestly put into effect—inflation would vanish. Bor rowing and spending spells infla tion in capital letters An Erroneous Idea Yesterday we heard a gentleman lambasting the big corporations of the country and charging that they are owned by a handful of stock holders who are growing enormous ly rich. That is a false idea, and unfor tunately. one held by millions of people who are either uninformed or ignorant What is a stockholder, anyway' Is he a man rich beyond the dreams of avarice who. in company with a handful of other men on the same economic level, owns and enjoys the fruits of American corporate indus try' That idea still has credence with many, but it is far from the truth. A typical Amencan stockholder is the neighbor next door, regardless of what his job in life may be. For example, take one of the corpora tions listed on the New York Stock Exchange. It has nearly 1,000,000 stockholders scattered in every state in the nation. Of these, more than 250,000 people own from one to five shares—$150 to $750 worth at recent market prices. And not a single one of the 1.000,000 stock holders ow'ns as much as one-half of one per cent of the company’s stock. Or take an automobile manufac turing company with 400,000 stock holders. A third of them own less than $1,000 worth of stock and look with anticipation to their dividend checks each year. And so it goes, down the long line of listed securities on exchanges all over the country. Stockholders are. literally, millions of people— 15,000,000 to be more or less exact, and the number is constantly grow ing, which is a healthy sign. It is obvious that the great bulk of these people have average incomes—the really rich, despite the cries of the socialists and communists, are a mighty rare commodity. This great army of stockholders, many of them of this and every other commun ity—are people who have put aside a part of their earnings and invest ed it in varied concerns which pro vide us with goods and services of every kind—the concerns which help keep America strong and vig orous. Receives Infantryman's Badge In Korea With U. S. 1st Cavalry Division cn Korean Battlefront. — Corporal Donald McClure, brother of Mrs. James E. Anderson and Mrs. Mabry McCrary of this city, has been awarded the Combat Infnatryman’s Badge in Korea while serving as an Infantryman with the 5th Cav alry regiment. This badge, which is only award ed frontline combat infantrymen, distinguishes the actual fighting man from the rear area and service troops in a combat zone. A soldier must be a member of an infantry regiment to be eligible to receive it. two! I was so glad and thankful, I could not find any words to scold them. | With the courteousness their uni forms command, the policemen asked just “chanced’’ they said, to drive down this road and there the girls were. But to me it was not “chance”, it was God’s way'pf answering a si lent prayer. I am reminded of a story a minis ter's wife told me. She said in this small pastorate her husband had just acquired, she asked about the Wom an’s Missionary work. She was told only three or four ever went to the meetings. So, the first meeting after getting settled, she invited the pr- ganization to meet with her. She said silently to God all day. “If you will only give me eight women,” and she set eight chairs in a semi-circle in her living room. The hour for the meeting arrived. At a knock at the door, she hurried anxiously to open it. There stood her eight women! But—looking beyond them, were nine more getting out of cars! So, she found, early in her Christian work, that she could not limit our Christ . Doubtless, in the past week of ev angelistic services, some Christian has prayed that if just one on their prayer list would toe saved, they would be happy—and they have wit nessed more than one at God's altar. As we had for our theme “Christ is the Answer” for our weeks serv ices, so we can add, ‘Christ is also limitless” in His answers to prayer. This theme could not have been have been no greater concern over those without Christ, than that dis-! played by our pastor, and conse-' crated members of his congregation. 1 The song service, led by Mr. Bledsoe, 1 was prayer from beginning to end. We feel that God blessed us far be yond our deserts. We pray that all the new-comers to join us will find limitless answers to their prayers, i and unlimited service for our Master. It is our prayers, our worship, our service and our Adoration that is limited—never Christ! COMMERCIAL PRINTING This completely equipped combi nation Newspaper-Commercial Print ing plant can serve you better. Our goal is to give our customers the kind of service they want—to give Clinton a BETTER NEWSPAPER. TAKE INFLATION FIGHT TO CONGRESS ... This la the wny publican congresswomen took the fight against Inflation la the flott of the Home of Bepreoealattres. SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHSONIGLR EASY CREDIT TERMS