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I , Page Four ? THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, June 28, 1951 £hp (Cltntmt (ChruntrU Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant Published Evtfr/’Thursday By THE CiptONJCLE 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 see^s 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 communicationa will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views $r opinions of its correspondents. MEMBER: SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION National Advertising Representative' AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia half that time. We cannot stand an-'failed to turn out because they didn’t'that you will always be proud of. other four years and hope to escape 1 seem interested in Legion baseball, the big bear which is impatiently awaiting our collapse. Under the dan gerous Truman policies and extrava- but it didn’t take long for them to find out that most of their mill play ers came from Legion ball clubs. The 1 gant and unsound leadership our i stands seem to fill up more and more American system of free enterprise! each game and I’m sure that if they that has made us great, is being! would turn out they would be well I threatened. To destroy this system ! pleased at the Legion j>lay in District through sponsoring socialism and un- 11. Considering that this is the first ! constitutional invasion of states’ i Legion team Clinton has Jimmy Braswell and Rudolph Ham rick had this opportunity last year and I am sure both boys will do ev erything they can to repeat. RUBBER BANDS are scarce. Good supply on hand. Also Letter Box Files. Pencil Sharpeners and other little needs for the office. Chronicle backed Publishing Co. rights — would bring more satisfac-! since 1948, they are doing an excel- 1 than lent job on the diamond. i To win a district title seems like something you have always wanted— | but to be entitled to play for the Upper State crown makes you feel that your ball club will be talked about and long remembered. I wish it were possible for everyone to get this opportunity, for it is something CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1951 TL« CamkamaS-Ian Iccha l° ur forefathers 175 years ago. Much The Segregation Issue | of our inde pe ndence has gone) and It is well (or the state that the t0 a dan g e rous degree is still being Clarendon county case challenging surrendered — through government segregation in the public schools has bureaucracy and control as we have been settled by a 2-to-l, majority de- gone towards a socialistic nation and cision handed down Saturday by a j s t a te. We are headed down the roadj federal court. The opinion from. to s t a tism—everyone unless a fool, which Judge Waring dissented, as can understand it—just the opposite w-as expected, held that state laws t0 ^ fundamental and sacred prin-i regai ding segregation are not , c ipj es ] a j d down by the framers of themselves in violation of the equal the Constitution, rights amendment to the U. S. Con- 1 ± , . . . - ^ stitution. In a cited case the decision I We take most of our birth<%y&.^$, Of the Supreme Court ruled that fa-‘ a °J coimse It is true, as re-j eilitics provided for the two r ^ aC es the F ° urth of thou S h thls could be separate so long as they ^ou\d not be ijue To most ot us it w ere substantially equal. Saturday's iS a a dav for recreation and decision also ordered that Negro a vacation rest. Independence Day school facilities be improved. The d °j S stan d [ or J usi that sort of thing ease through the agitation of a few and -P r °P ei ly so ~ rolief from the rnuid leaders of the National Associ- d a ily grind which mankind needs, at ion for the Advancement of Col- Unwittingly our forefathers did more ored People will now go to the Su- ^ an declare political independence premc Court for iinal decision. on that hot July day in 1776. With-; , ... , . , o out realuing it, they declared the It would be a sad day for South |ind dence Qf their descendants } Carolina should racial segregation be from ather thi _ from t , destroyed. It would create complica- from from lgnorancei frorn tyr .| turns, bitterness and racial d ‘sUi*- from unremlttmg toilf from < anccs-the very thing we need to, blmdness of mind and heart and for avoul. Our schools must remain aep-j individual freedom and mitiatlve in | arate and .f the faring opinion J contrast and itlon t0 govern J should finally prevail the Negroes ment reglment ^ ion> domination and would lose far more than the White people. The Negro race is enjoying good school speaking, at a very burden of our heavy education load *‘JT“r**‘_ ~‘T J is paid for by white taxpayers. Ne groes of the state wbo are not mflu- tion and rejoicing to Russia anything that could happen. Clinton Still On Top In Legion League By SAM OWENS The District 11 American Legion j baseball clubs couldn’t be any closer > as the season draws closer to the end. 1 The league lead has changed hands considerably during the campaign, but with six games left on the hook, Clinton is holding down first place by a slight margin of one game fol- | lowed by Whitmire, Greenwood and Columbia in a three-way tie for sec ond place. At the beginning of the season fans Dr. Fred E. Holcombe Office Hours 9:09 to 5:89 200 South Broad St. 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. Hubert Boyd Agent If it’s Nerves, See Your Chiropractor DR. C. I. HART 254 West Main Street LAURENS. S. C. BARBECUE DINNER WILL BE SERVED AT r v ; LAKE REYNOSA RENNO July 4th BOAT RIDES ZSe Swimming Free trend toward the welfare state. , ® .. Happiness is the goal we should 1 I*v be,ure us 11 y ' freedom and perfect self-command i. No other nation in history was fcmed by Northern agitators, and that born as ours was born; no other na- imhides most of them-prefer segre- tion *** dedicated to quite the ideals, gallon to nonsegregation. They know w bich ours is ddeicated; and no that their children will do better in ol ber nation is following quite the their own schools with their own P ath that ours is pursuing without teachers. If they can’t see this they * ree d and selfishness and acquiring are dumb other countriesf And so we repeat; ’ . . . j , | that the average American is wiser 1 The Chronicle stands or arsrosa-' , han he knows „ hen he k , nd ' ,on ° ( raf ' s ‘, n lh f SCh “‘f’ ,' hurlh “' pendence Day a day of recreation 1 homos and elsewhere. At the same ^ „ .... . and rest—a real family-ue-up day. trmc we stand (or r.i.rness to our col- Th art . symbo Uri„g the free-, arod people and honest deahnff with dom hs , ‘ | them m all transactions. There ts a oU)cr , c We must stan 5 proper attitude and place for touphokt and ore white people—the same is applicable to the colored people. The decision that separate public schools for the white and colored races is legal is sound sense and a victory for local self-government. Both races gain by the decree. uphold and preserve our in-; dependence and not sell it for a mess | of pottage. We Are In A Mess W£ll before the election of 1948, the American farmers had plenty of warning that if they helped elect Harry Tfuman of Missouri haber dashery fame, they would regret it 1 deeply. Well, they not only helped elect ;| School Election Ordered With only two weeks notice to pat rons and taxpayers of Hunter School District No. 5, the board of trustees him, they did elect him. He made has ordered an election to be held, them a lot of rosy promises which 1 next Tuesday, July 3, on the question, common sense should have told them 1 ot voting five additional mills for wa s just so much socialist bunk.; school purposes. The districts mill- They knew he was a professional- age is 28 mills, 18 for operating ex- p 0 jjtj c i an brought up in the Pender-i ponses and 10 for bonded indebted- g as t school. They had been fooled! ness, plus participation in the gen- man y times before by experts—and oral county high school levy of three y e t they fell for the same old soft mills. The assessed property valua- soa p T ruman had the great Western tion of the district is approximately i f arm vote in his “vest pocket,” as the two million dollars. The proposed; j a j e Cole L. Blease of this state used five mills increase will produce about sa y jsj 0w the farmers are begin- ten thousand dollars. n j n g to get “theirs,” while all the Each district under the new: law i ovef a doration and bdwing is made will also receive $5.00 per pupil for un i 0 n boys who quit the New the school year based on average at- o ea i bandwagon when they began to tendance, all to be disbursed mon ^“ realize that the Taft-«Hartley law ly along with the disbursement of w tiich Mr. Truman‘had reviled and funds for teachers’ salaries. : a ttempted to kill was their only de- 1 The people of the state have just > f ense a g a inst the big union commis-! had imposed upon them by the recent s ars w ho were 'enslaving them. They legislation a bond issue expected to' exceed $75,000,000, and a three per cent general sales tax to improve the hope to fool them like the farmers. Socialism doesn’t work, never has w'orked, and never will. It has been schools and carrying a twenty P er tried a hundred times and has de cent increase in salaries for teachers. I s troyed as many empires as has war. We were told then that the enormous j are toppling around us even at additional tax should result in a re-; thi s hour. The British empire is fall- duction in real property levies in , ^ a p ar t; France is on the skids, and many school districts. | jt wouldn’t take much of a shove to Taxpayers are asking, and proper- j p US h Italy over. These three nations .Jy so, why is it necessary to increase are trying out socialism, and so is, the district levy with the sales tax OUJ|; . na ti 0 n, in a lesser degree.. All now going into effect which will pro- w ho embrace it will fail, ducc thirty and maybe forty million Americans must wake up and in- dollars, the greater part of which we f orm their government that they 1 were told by. the legislature, , wan t to earn their own living in their j go for education. , own wa y and spend it in their own j way, that they don’t want the gov-! Whot Hie Fourth Means ernment to nurse them through life,' Again with the approach of Inde- I that they prefer to pay for their own | pendence Day we are reminded of false teeth and wigs—and even their the Declaration of July 4, 1776, which declares “that all men are cre- own doctor’s bills. It is probably too late to persuade lied equal, that they are endowed by | Harry 1 Truman and those cronies their Creator with certain inalien able rights, that among these a>e Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Hap piness.” Those who came before us won their independence through th h courageous determination and faith. 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