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— « It r" “ ‘r ■ +*&$**■ * ' “ "*• ■ , ..iijii mi ~>r ' ' ■' ' ^ ' . 7.^ ^ . *•* \ Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, June 14, 1951 (Elje (Clintmi (CljrmitrU Established 1901 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 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 ed angels having hearts-tftat guile could never enter. Negro slavery was an economic failure in the South. It was dis astrous to the South. It was ruin ous to white labor. About 10 per cent of the white Southerners own ed slaves, and the standard of liv ing of the poor whites was tram- plOjd down and kept down by Ne gro labor on plantations., That is one of the two main reasons that immigrant Europeans, Germans, Swedes and others, sought homes in the Northwest rather than in the South. del, Charleston, S. C., it was an nounced May 5 by Brig. Gen. J. Sladen Bradley, 25th Division com mander. CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 14. 1951 City By-Pass Badly Needed Heavy truck traffic through the main business section of the city is becoming a serious problem about which something must be done. The direct route from Atlanta to Charlotte via Clinton is now used day and night by the big Dox car trucks which proceed on their routes at high speeds, and many of them do not properly slow down even in the city. They are danger ous on the highways, they slow up I Negro slave labor and Negro free labor has not been and is not productive in wealth compared with the labor of white people. Its productiveness is improving—it improved immensely between the landing of Negroes first in Virginia and 1861—and is still improving. Always there have been some ex-, ceptional skilled artisans, and as singers and athletes they have nu merous creditable representatives. In cutting cord wood and hitting a baseball Negroes are the peers of white champions. Conceding that which the attor neys say about the Negro schools in South Carolina, the fact remains The 22 year old son of Colonel and Mrs. L. S. LeTellier, of The Citadel, he has been in Korea since July. He is a graduate of The Citadel, clas of 1949, where he was a civil engineering major. LeTellier received the Bronze Star medal for outstanding service against the enemy in Korea during the period January 31 to February 1, 1951 while serving with Com pany C, 65th Engineer Combat Bat talion. He was awarded the Oak Leaf Cluster for outstanding service while serving with the 77th En gineer Combat Company, of which he is company commander. Lt. LeTellier is a grandson of Carroll D. Nance of this city. Price and wage fixing will not that white workers, in ratio to the solve our problems. Government wealth production of the two races, is the No. 1 cause of inflation, have contributed and are contrib- Economy and efficiency in govern-, uting many dollars to Negro ment instead of politics—wull help schools to one dollar to their own check it and produce more expan- schools. sion and jobs. It was inevitable Had Negro schools been depend- from the start that OPS would fail. i e nt on Negro support since 1865 And Congress can’t, or refuses to how many Negroes, would be this see it. Dad's Special Day day able to read and to write their names? That which The News and Cou rier resents, that which sickens it, 1 ♦ u fcav.. .wpt-v' Next Sunday has been designat- is that many a Southern politician, advantage* over^pasenger^care eVPr ^ j ed as -Father s Day," and with all some of them white ignoramuses. ad\ antage P . g ' ., ! the problems he is confronted witn are in servile, suppliant and obse- Much complaint is heard dai! yi he deserves a little special atten-i quious manner, confirming filthy frem residents on Broad street of ^ lon sa y {he least. So it is not ; accusations incessantly droned and the noise made by the giant trucks. amiss tQ roll QUt the .. ed carpet i n i shrieked by the , Northern city all day and all night. The solution, his honor j “Liberals,” white and colored, to the problem is the building of aj observance of Father’s I a * ainst the white S 0 ^ by-pass by the highway depart-! Wh en the observance or rainers ment as is being done in many Day began thirty-three yta 1-3 8^ it was looked upon as a joke. Most folks said it was just another da y| • .... .. .. set apart for its commercial appeal. ad a |J c es in civilization, in lueracy, Thev said the same about Mother’s m industr y and business, have been because of the heavy increase m | lov when it waf started 43 years and are the Africans brought to the through traffic. Diverting it to a Day when it was started > ea : Southern states and “segregated” ...ill hurt th* r,tv ago. But that was not true, it has ° ana segregaiea. towns and cities to relieve heavy congestion in business districts. The need is becoming acute here In the last 5,000 years the one bloc, the one large group of Afri cans who have made substantial —The News and Courier. by-pass route will not hurt the city a 6°- ...••• and will relieve a situation that is grown from the beginning in se i- not only annoying but is becoming orient and interest, though o more dangerous. The Chamber of course it cannot rival .mothers f fil II . Comerce should push the com- spwiaj day^which comes in^Ma^.^ JOnDall JlBIIOlllQS plaint with the highway depart ment until a by-pass is provided Father has had a lot of days in 11 his time, and his experiences with!' them has been wide and trying. W L Pet., .835 .800 .668 .400 .334 .000 .. . . | /m x/ P . Many of these experiences have; Methodist 5 1 How Much Can You tat brought him happiness, others National Guard 4 1 When you, Mr.’ Taxpayer, go hardships, disappointments and of-1 Presbyterian — 4 2 into a restaurant or hotel for lunch, ten heartaches. But if he has been Clinton Mill 2 3 what do you pay for it? ! true ta his family and responsibili-1 Lydia Mill ‘2 4 We ask the question because it ties he has kept plugging along and! aptist Umi.h. ^ ^ was raised a few davs aco in a sen- has refused to be a quitter, lie haSj xwuiis ate speech by a * senator from' fallen down oftentimes, but he got National Guard 7, Baptist 0 (for- Michigan. He said that President up and started again, realizing that * • ,. x vr ii a •u;*i o Truman's budget for the The' 1 L° a di^r°.« “ ^ PresbTenan 9 Bap“ st 5. year, starting July 1. shows the^disgrace. Clinton Mill vs National Guard, rtate department headed by a fis-| When father looks at the calen- me fit Mr Achcion is nlannine to, da r Sunday he will know that it ^ rain spend that much on luncheon! for|« “ h i?" day- . He won ’t a £ y ra £; ydla Ml VS Clint ° n MlU PP foreign visitors. He said he found f uss about it in all probability. He w has been through many uncertain, difficult times, most of them have been about his family, but he has held his chin up and w’eathered luncheons for 18 persons at a total] through them as husband and fath- of 15,500. Get your pencil. This! e . r - Many a time he has taken a means luncheons in the first group! heking, he has gone to hed wor- will cost $8 93 for each meal, and ried and discouraged and probably in the second group $8.61 for eich couldn t sleep, but he got up smil- ; ing the next morning and started That raises another question Mr. I back at his job like a man. That | kl j ible for you to k md of a dad and fighter is cer-| LaurenS OlN Named two luncheon items in the depart ment’s budget—one to prbvide 75 luncheons for 14 persons at a total of $9,375, the other to provide 100 Methodist vs Baptist, PP rain. Gamas Tonight National Guard vs Presbyterian. Lydia Mill vs National Guard. Gamas Friday Methodist vs Presbyterian. Clinton Mill vs Baptist. Gamas Tuasday Lydia Mill vs Baptist. Methodist vs National Guard. Taxpayer. Is it possible eat $8 worth of food at one sitting? A lunch ranging from sixty cents to one dollar and a half or maybe two is about what most of us who toil and sweat to pay taxes—can! tainly entitled to some honor and recognition. Dad won’t say much about his day. But down in his soul he will think a lots about his family and afford. We are living on crumbs In 1 welfare and happiness, comparison with the big boys in ^b® evidence that comes to him in As Girl Stater Washington who enjoy every lux ury at the expense of their constit uents back home. Tox-Eaters Army Growing The federal civilian payroll now exceeds the $8,300,000,000 an- nual rate reached at the World War; bis heart. II peak, a congressional committee reports. The report shows that the The fifth Palmetto Girls State came to a close in Columbia Satur day with the election of Harriett Patterson of Laurens, as Girls Stat- the form of a gift, a kiss or kind*! er. Miss Patterson with the girl words of sincere appreciation from those dearest to him—will make him happier than the family will ever know. The homage he re ceives and deserves will spur him on with new courage, new* hop6‘ agers, Gloria Boland of Prosperity, and determination, and will warm government continued to add em- I'Segregation' to ployees at a rate of 1,500 a day in ^. 3 . April, and this figure is climbing L«IVlllZOtlOn higher each month. On May governor, Carolyn Eddy of Colum bia, will attend Girls Nation in Washington, D. C., in August. Final appointments and elections included the • following: city man- Margaret Coats of Chappells. Nearly 200 rising high school se niors from all over the state receiv ed certficates and Girls State tm- blems. Mrs. Irvine Belser, chair man and director of Girls State, said that the session this year was considered the finest to date. there were 2,409,121 employees on By their admision that schools ... T ... , the federal payroll as compared for Negroes in South Carolina are Lf. LC I Cllier IS with an average of about 3,500,-1 not so well supported as are fV. nrn |.pJ | n 000 at the peak of World War II. | schools for white children (the ad- miwrcu A federal payroll of over eight' mission is truthful) spokesmen /or infantry m billion shows that we are rapidly South Carolina are bending to the,/^TH THE 25TH INFANTRY DI becoming a nation of tax-eaters wishes of the slanderers of ^be; VISION U. S. ARMY, May 10, (De- rather than taxpayers. And the Southern white people, contribut-i la y ed) ~ T b e . B [onze Star Medal Truman crowd is asking for more ing to their ridiculous, spiteful and, and the Oak Leaf Cluster have millions daily for defense and utterly false contention that tbe, been simultaneously awarded tp home non-essential expenditures Southern colored people have not Lt. Carroll N. LeTellier^ The Cita- COLUMNAR PADS, varied columns and description space. A necessity for inventories and tax tabulations. The that smack of jxditics smee 1952 is been well treated, presidential election year. i The Southern Negroes have been Such figures are alarming and; generously treated since they were show what is ahead for already brought to North America out 1 of Chronicle Pviblishdng Co. burdened taxpayers. There may be savagery—and SLAVERY—in Af- expected more taxes, more spend- rica. ing rather than retrenchment as The motives of the Southern advocated by Senator Byrd and a white people—and New England few others. In our own state traders—were not philanthropic. In thousands will be added to the pay-; a small percentage of cases the Ne- roll because of the sales tax and gro slaves were cruelly treated— school bond issue put upon the even as “free white labor” was in people without giving them no-! Massachusetts in 1849 and in Pitts- tice of what had been planned to burgh years after the Confederate be enacted by our recent general assembly. Controls set up in the Truman program have been a failure and have resulted in negligible price decreases. They are largely a po litical gesture. They defy supply and demand. Our economy is sick war. , Had Negro slaves not been brought from Africa (in those early years slavery was common in many parts of the world), in the United States would be no civilized Ne groes in 1951. Before they were emancipated because of the unprecedented na- [ Negro slaves h’ad learned the Eng- tional debt and huge government j lish language, they had been taught sending. It is stupid to think that the Christian religion, a few of inflation can be stopped by the them had come to be literate. In passing of laws. OPS expires June contrast with their African fore- 30. It should then be killed, buH bears, they were in 1861 a cultivat- the F resident is fighting for new *nu stronger economic „ controls which means thousands more will ed and enlightened people. To be sure they might have been even more nobly handled had the' be added to the federal payroll. Southern white people been wing- TINMAN’S BAKERY — Specials — CHIFFON CAKES — Fresh — Orange, Banana and Pineapple FRESH BANANA CREAM PIE OLD FASHIONED POUND CAKE OTHER ASSORTMENT OF PIES 307 N. Sloan St. Phone 334-W SAY T SAW IT IN THE CHRONICLE” Dr. Fred E. Holcombe Office Honrs 9:00 to 5:30 200 South Broad SL OPTOMETRIST Offices at Phone 658 ATTENTION, FARMERS! Insure Your Cotton Crop AGAINST DAMAGE BY HAIL. Rates for Laurens County $25.00 per $1,000 Insurance .See. B. 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