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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, June 14, 1951
(Elje (Clintmi (CljrmitrU
Established 1901
WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher
HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant
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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
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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.
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.. . . | /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-
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