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" te: I Thursday. April 5, 1951 SOCIETY... (Continued from page three) ed pink. Apple blossoms adorned the buffet. The honoree's mother, (Mrs. George W Taylor, poured tea, and others .assisting in the courtesies of enter-! taining were iMrs. John Spratt, Mrs.! William (Bailey Owens, (Mrs. C. By num Betts, (Mrs. Hugh Jacobs, Mrs. R. S. Owens, Mrs. S. G. Dillard, Mrs. W. W. Harris, Mrs. Rufus Sadler, Jr., Misses Virginia Neville and Cornelia Harris. A corsage was presented the bride- elect to wear for the occasion. Methodist Circles To Meet Monday The circles of the Woman’s So ciety of Christian Service of Broad street Methodist church will meet 'Monday, April 9th at 4 o’clock as follows: The Ellie Hatton circle, Mrs. W. H. Simpson, chairman and hostess. Mayme Johnson “circle, Mrs. Joe Edwards, chairman; Mrs. C. T. Thomason, hostess. Barden circle, Mrs. G. W. Hol lingsworth, chairman, will meet in the church parlors. The Sarah Glenn circle, Miss Rose Lee, chairman, will meet with Mrs. Ethel R. Pitts and Miss Jeanette Pitts at 7:30 o’clock with Mrs. Fran ces Warner, assistant hostess. THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Pa*e Seeei* WILSON REPORTS ON MOBILIZATION, PREDICTS SAFETY FACTOR BY <953 Prof. Glover Heads > Florida Street P.-T.A. New officers for the coming year were elected as follows at the meet ing on Tuaaday evening of the Flo rida Street Parent-Teachers associ ation: President. Prof. John & Glover; Vice President. Mrs. Julian Bolick, Secretary. Mrs. Francis Blalock; Treasurer. Mrs. Perry M Moore Him Sara Gary's third grade won the attendance prise Guest speaker for the evening was Mias Evelyn Keys of Green yille. secretary to Judge Richard of the children’s court Mias Uaruaaed the home influence • on a child, recreation and attitude • Washington, April 1 — Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson report ed to President Truman tonight that two years from now America should be strong enough to give us “reasonable safety against aggres sion” and a high-level civilian econ omy, too. But in these two years, he said, we have to keep up “the fullest degree of drive and unity,” and overcome the “tendency to let our enthusiasm ebb and flow.” Wilson submitted his first quar terly report as top man of the mo bilization program. It was a combi nation of: 1. A description of accomplish ments since the Korean outbreak. “Already,” said Wilson, “we have made America measurably safer.” U. S. armed forces have doubled in size to about 3,000,000 men. Mili tary orders are being placed at a rate of nearly $1,000,000,000 a week. More than a million tons of mili tary equipment have been shipped to our Allies in the last 12 months. 2. Plain words about the grimmer aspects of the next two years. Fighting inflation will be a tough er problem than getting produc tion, and if we fail, inflation can “sap he strengh of the economy.’* Military production will cause shortages of civilian goods and dis locations of manpower. Wilson set a 1953 target date for “building America’s might”—and he choee that phrase as the title of the report. He said that if we stick to our long-term decisions and don’t slack en our determination, then some tune in 1953 1. Our readiness to enter upon to tal mobilization (if need be) should be “suffirimL'’ 1 Production of civilian goods should be at least as great as the pre-Korean level. 3- The coming shortages of metal goods may begin to ease and “we can probably begin to talk about taking off controls “ This could be done, of course, only “If our program is “In all this effort,” he said in bold face type, “we have no other purpose than to restore and pre serve the peace.” Concerning •America’s total pro duction of goods and services, Wil son said it rose 10 per cent in 1950 to an annual rate of $300,000,000,- 000, and in order to meet both de fense and civilian needs, “we should attain a further increase of some thing like 15 per cent in the next three years, adding $45,000,000,000 to the total national output.” Concerning military production, Wilson said the defense department has placed $23,000,000,000 worth of orders for equipment since last Ju ly, more than half of it in the last three months. Actual defense spending—as dis tinguished from the placing of or ders—is running at the rate of about $2,000,000,000 a month, ap proximately double the rate at the time of the Korean attack. Wilson, at an advance briefing yesterday, told reporters he is sure by the end of this year defense spending will be somewhere be tween $3,000,000,000 and $4,000,000.- 000 a month. He also said he does not believe congress will prevent this by cutting down the funds. Concerning civilian manpower, Wilson said all the foreseeable needs can be met without using compulsory measures. He said the president has reaffirmed the desir ability of giving each worker a free choice of his job. and government agencies “will carry out this pol icy." One of the grievances of labor leaders against the mobilization program has been their fear that some officials favor labor conscrip tion. Wilson, incidentally, made no attempt to review the squabble with labor in today’s report He said that in 1951 there mutt j be an mcsenee of SuMiOto to 4JtR- 000 workers engaged directly or in directly m defense production, in order to meet the goela He said longer hours of overtime will be required In many mdus- ' true. Later a the ARMY OFFICER SAYS TO MUCH INFORMATION WTHHEID FROM PUBLIC T Ik “This Is the first time I’ve been eat of shape since I start ed eatina the best grade West ern meats from William Childs at John R. Holland Grocery!” Chuck or Rib Roast Rout, lb. ... 65c Western or Load T-Bone, lb... 79c M&rgold Oleo, lb 25c Boneless Stew, lb 59c Neck Bones, lb. ... 25c Pig Feet, lb. . 19c Borden’s Biscuits, can . 10c Country Ham John R. Holland Grocery MUSGROVE ST. Phons 130-J the legislature will have tM.- 150.000 more to spend this year than last—by the legislature s own esti mates- The actual figure, taking in flation and better business condi tions into account, may be closer to $40,000,000 or $45,000,000 There also would be a few tax cuts, but they are minor. Assuming that the legislature's figure of $30,150,000 in new taxes has not purposely been placed too low, the next question is how the money will be spent. Governor Byrnes and the budgetmakers have said the purpose of the new taxes is to help the public school system— “to take South Carolina off the bot tom of the education list. Last year the state appropriated $32,44)6,233 to the superintendent of education. This year, the superin tendent would get $3,134,639; school buses $4, , >00,000; teachers salaries (formerly included in the superin tendent of education’s total) $33,- 900,000; school supervision $2,150,- 000; and school buildings $6,450,000. This last item would go toward re paying a $75,000,000 bond issue which the legislature proposes to issue for school buildings. By adding this year’s “education” figures a total of $50,134,939 is achieved, compared with last year’s $32,44)6,233. So the legislature, ap parently, proposes to spend $17,638,- 406 additional, an increase of more than 50 per cent—for the public schools. People who approve of increasing the allotment for schools doubtless will approve the increase of more than $17,000,000. But, remember that tax receipts are to be increased by sfbout $36,000,000. ' Thus it can be seen that less than half of the increased receipts would go to the public schools. The rest of the receipts are part of the poli ticians’ gravy train. The situation explains why the senate finance committee has been able to assign more funds to certain state agencies tha nthe agencies themselves asked for. Last year the spending program for the state totaled $119,253,596 This year, the Tiouse ways and means committee recommended the spending of $14(2,772,174. The house increased the total to $142,976,069. The senate finance committee in creased it to $146,193,396. And the so ru »« ’ Or *M wee | Manual when N la so why should I go to the trouble of getting It downgraded’’ a a a “No one can dispute the value of security, but there w much evidence to support the contention that a blind and ruthless application of se curity to information or intelligence can deprive us of much of its value." Whitney defined information as “mere facta” and intelligence as “the significance of those facts and the conclusions drawn therefrom ” Public opinion was slow to ap prove President Truman s plans for military aid to Greece and Turkey. Whitney recalled. The public never was told the reasons why the aid should be given quickly, he indi cated. because most of the reasons “bore a security classification.” He suggested that the Central In telligence agency be given the re sponsibility to decide whether a se curity classification should be lift ed. The questions the CIA should ask, he said, are; “1. Will the disclosure compro mise (betray) a source of informa tion? “2. Will it give aid or comfort to an enemy (or potential enemy) by providing him with knowledge con cerning our activities, or the re- susts of his own hostile acts? “3. Will it divulge the extent of our knowledge concerning the ene my (or potential enemy) and his activities?” “Even if the answer to any one or all of those questions is in the affirmative,” Whitney concluded, “the final decision as to whether or not the information should be released must take into account the possible value to be derived from clearing the report for public con sumption.” senate, which still hasn’t approved! the measure, already has increased it to $146,253,596. Up soars the total. And because of new taxes to be imposed on South Carolinians, the budget remains in balance. In fact, the prdbability is that the senate could increase the spending to $155,000,000—and still not go into the red. There iz no end to ptiblic spending so long as the people are willing to pay the taxes. How much can they I stand?—The News and Courier. 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