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. • *• I / Pasre Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE 01 hp (filtntnn Ql^ronirlfr Established 190« imerican Legion LebaJI To Start 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 Month* $1.23 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. O, under Act of Congress March 3, 1879. The Chrbnicle seeks Ue 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 opinions of its correspondents. MEMBER: SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION National Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia Thursday, May 31, 1951 CLINTON. S. C. .THURSDAY, MAY 31. 1951 ministration finally forced con gress to assert itself. Once again our representatives began to repre sent us. But this phase didn’t last long. Almost immediately our agents reverted to "politicking.” Scarcely an important question arose that did not become a party issue. The welfare of the nation might be involved, but the party came first, with the loudest noise in Red Propaganda If it were not so shocking, we would have been amused when we read recently of the letter sent to President Truman asking him to bar American military aid to the Franco regime in Spain. This at a time when our own beloved country is in grave danger (so the experts tell us) and when we must have every ally we can obtain, es pecially the one which controls the mouth of the Mediterranean, which 1 coming from the Democrats occupies the only safety zone and their clamor for seniority, logical beachhead for our armies A rfect exam p le 0 f this at m western Europe and which has nt ^ the « MacArthur case ” two million trained fighters avail- Almost to a man the Democrat* m able we are told. congress took sides against the This letter was reportedly signed general. Almost to a man, the Re- by Paul Robeson, Howard Fast, publicans backed MacArthur. The Rockwell Kent and that other out- welfare of the nation was cast standing patriot, Harry Bridges aside. It was, and is still a party It contained also the names of fight. Already the Democrats are several Protestant bishops. Pro- hoping that by their stand they are testants generally should resent gaining prestige with the Truman the coupling of the names of bish- crowd which will probably result ops of their faith with those of m more hani-outs and other con- such men as Harry Bridges. i siderations for which the people We have reached a stage in back home must pay. world affairs when prejudices must The question which MacArthur’s give way to national safety. A sel- beliefs posed are desperately fun- fish man who would jeopardize damental. They might mean vic- the lives and liberty of his fel- tory or defeat for this country Is Thc^linton American Legion has had /wo hard weeks of pracitce in! preparation for their opening game of the 1951 campaign. Clinton start ing with thirty-five boys had to shorten their roster to twenty-five' and still by May 31, has to have onlyj twenty boys on the playing roster. ! Out of the remaining twenty-flve! there are ten boys from Clinton, five from Joanna, five from Laurens and five from route 1 just outside of Lau- , rens. Heading the catching list is | Jimmy Braswell who will also be j used in the outfield along with Glenn McGee who will try his hand at catching and holding down the hot corner. At first you will probably, see Rudolph Hamrick but if Hamrick isj ; used in the outfield, Clark will play | first. The rugged position will be the keystone sack which will be fought 1 1 for iby three hustling boys, Charles Oxner, Billy Farmer and Bone. Ken-; in full charge at the throttle. I neth Boyce playing along side Glenn [ The weakness of the Truman ad- McGee will be a sure fixture at short stop. In the outer gardens, Bobby Joe Galloway will be the sure fixture in center and will be helped by Clark, Elliott and Allen who will be battling' for the other two outfield posts. 1 Rounding out the pitching staff finds Big Euel Boland, shifty 6 ft. 180- pounder as the number 1 hurler. Joe Spillers and Phillip are the other two promising right handers. On the southpaw side finds Richard Price and Revis toeing the rubber. Regular season play will begin on June 4 when Clinton meets Green wood at Clinton Mills park at 8:00. Also Ladies Night Saturday, June 2nd, when the local team will play the Buffalo Legion at 8:00 at the Clinton Mills Park. All ladies ad mitted free. Joanna Girls Earn Caps At Hospital Miss Joyce Smith and Miss Jackie Lovelace of Joanna, have completed their first six months of nursing school. Both are student nurses at Columbia hospital and' at special exercises held recently prejudice general’s theories but did ♦hat Holly GrOVC Church lows because of prejuidee, has no jt possible to conceive that every! in the auditorium of the hospital, place in the western world today. Democrat in the government be-' were presented their nursing caps, In our opinion some of the names Reved MacArthur’s theories, if symbols of the successful comple- signed to the letter are innocent carried out, would prove injurious tion of pre-clinical training. They dupes of the Red propaganda to* our position? Is it possible to, are the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. wnich has prevented the fortifying conceive that every Republican M. E. Smith and Mr. and Mrs. J. of the Spanish peninsula and has held in his heart the opposite be- W. Lovelace. thus created tne weakest Jink in lief? Maybe, w’e say, our nation’s ^ tne western defense. Could it be existence was endangered by DIUIa L | a#. that their pica to the President is adopting, or by not adopting, the BlC>,e J Ch00 * not founded upon prejudice ilone 0 Is there something in Den- ma k e any difference to the poli- 9 JJlTmc Ch^llel'No 5 5 n > 0t The Amen- ' iCianS "; h T t* employ , lo run The vacation Bible School will be- p« ip ?e h ve heard ^“a few pMrfofe'feom The m oW T * th ' Ho ” y Gro '’ e those patriots before. J£ uth Ld blei them The trace Ch n rC i. h ^ 0 ^ da,y ’ June 4 ' 8 - Thp hours And whore h?vc* road of that a ’*u 0Cl D ess tra Se- will be .9zl2--PreparattoTT d^v will ba America firet and always orYanf ^ ^ S ° /T ° f ^ type ' * held Frid^JurTe I zation - The Joint Anti Fascist A- 3 gre f t br f ach m our All children between the ages of Refugee Committee? Ask the at- f ata l. It is'u^o ^uTo"^ . . . terney general. ish our representatives in Wash- Hazle lS the P nnci P al If the signatures on this report- ington to represent this ronntrv—! ° { the sch ° o1 - ed letter to the President do not which is in peril—and forget party give the show away to the Ameri-:ii nes an d their own political fu- Sarah Chandler can public — then our cause is ture. r* j A l hopeless. Nothing would suit our enemies Graduates At Lander -*■ better, and we have plenty of them ♦ __ —than to have congress destroy its Miss Sara Bennett Chandler was , position in our constitutional set- a member of the graduating class ob- up. by just such stupid courses as at Lander college on Monday serve and think who hold sacred jt has been adopting. i morning. Miss Chandler is the the ideals of liberty—the most ap- — l daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl L Chandler who live near here. BANKS TO CLOSE The Bank of Clinton and M. S. Safeguard Our Freedom To American citizens who palling trend in the world todfcy is BOARD TO MEET the growth of collectivism. Prac- - tically all of the nations of the' f . T he executive board meeting of Old World have turned their backs Y h e Women-of-the-Church of the on freedom, and accepted, willing-* Presbyterian church will be ly or otherwise, the cruel' ideology h ?\ d . M ® nd *y a^mopn at four, Bailey & Son, Bankers, will ob- of the all-powerful super-state. oclock at lhc horne Mrs. Robert serve Monday, June 4, as a holiday —.-powerful super n Under collectivism, the individual ' Jwens is nothing, except insofar as he can be used to serve purposes of the government. The state is all. This leaves the United States al most alone as tne citr.del of a tradi tion of freedom wnich goes back Magna Carta. And this imposes on the government and the peo ple of the United States an enor mous obligation—to prove the dig nity of the .ndivjdual still lives, that the rights of man are a fact and not a myth, that individual freedom without government in terference and domination—is a vital force that will not be denied regardless of pressure groups. The only way to discharge this obligation is to become somewhat defiant and resist every encroach ment of Uie state qpon the rights and the prerogatives of individ uals. We have suffered from boss- ism rampant against which the people, if they can ever be aroused —must strongly rebel. To the ex-! tent that government continues to dominate us in our economic way of life, to that extent we will eventually have government domi nation of all other facets of exist ence. Those nations weffting collectiv ism are entitled to it, and facts prove it breeds war. The warn ing is out in big letters and should be heeded by all American citi zens. 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