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/ I Pape Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, July 19, 1951 01 hr (Elintmt (Hhrontrlr Established 19M WILSON W, HARRIS, Editor and Publisher HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY ' Subscnption 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 l.ie 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 not stop at, advertising. Why couldn’t they go into the merchan dising business? They could prob ably find another smart guy who would give them a cut for putting up, say, a shoe counter in front of the city hall. But it could be fraught with good. Maybe it will wake up the sufferers to whats’ afoot, like so cialized medicine woke up the doc tors. Anyhow, barring complica tions, come some early date, when we drop our nickel in the slot for the pleasure of parking one hour, we will get an additional kick (take it the way you want it) out of an advertisement staring us in the face.—The Laurens Advertiser. Service Windows At Post Office Close At Noon Saturdays The service windows at the local post office are now closing on Sat urdays at 12 o’clock noon, states Postmaster W. D. Adair. The following hours are observed by the office: Monday through Fri day—stamp, parcel post and general delivery—8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; money order and postal savings—0 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays: stamp, parcel post and general delivery—8 a.ml to 12 noon; money order and postal savings—9 a.m. to 12 noon. The post office department asks the public’s cooperation in supply ing your proper address—street and number, or box number—to all your correspondents. Clinton is too big a community for addresses such as “John Doe, Clinton, S. C.” to be de livered, says Mr. Adair. Delays and possibly non-delivery and return to 1 CARD OF THANKS The relatives and friends of the late William May Poole wish to ex press their thanks to the people in this vicinity for their many acta of kindness and sympathy shown during his fecent illness and death. CARD OF r friends THANKS CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our wonder ful friends for the many kindness es, beautiful floral offerings, and other courtesies shown us at the death of our dear wife and moth er. May God bless each of you. —REV. C. R. ANDERSON AND CHILDREN. sender will be the result of improper | If {f » Nerves See Your I addressing of mail. Proper addresses " 11 S INer ' es ’ &ee 10ur ■ | Chiropractor addressing of mail. Proper autu cases, riers and clerks in distributing and, routing the mail for delivery each J day, he states. SAY ‘1 SAW IT IN THE CHRONICLE” \ L DA C. I. HART 254 West Main Street LAURENS. S. C. To my friends may I say thank you for your kindness during my illness. I appreciate so very much the visits, cards, flowers and calls. —MISS SALLY LYNN BIBLE SCHOOL IN SESSION Daily vacation Bible school which continues this week at the Church of God on Elizabeth street, has reached a membership of 190. Children desiring to attend Bible school are invited to attend. Dr. William W. Adams VETERINARIAN 614 Musgrove Street Office Phone 958 Clinton, S. C. tf CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1951 Sets Timely Example The Laurens Kiwanis club recent ly passed resolutions condemnhtg government extravagance and regu lations, and deploring encroachment of government over the lives of in dividuals which will lead eventually to the destruction of the American way of life. Copies of the resolutions were ordered sent to the South Car- lina enators and congressmen. The timely action of the Laurens club should be commended and fol lowed by every civic and commercial organization in the United States. Only when the people back home wake up from their apathy and un- oncern and apply pressure on Washington through a united front •r.ay we hope for relief for what wc .*re now witnessing and being subjected to at the hands of our .ci..k and unsound national admin istration. through the defiance of law and de cency. If we are to sanction gambling by law on a nation-wide basis, what may we expect. Do we have no re spect for the youth of our land by legalizing such practices and giving them the impression that gambling! is all right if it bears the approval ^ of the national government. The House provision should be killed and we hope Senator Kefau- ver and his colleague, Senator Wiley! of Wisconsin, will be successful in I their fight when the tax measure is acted upon by the senate finance committee. Every man and woman | who is disturbed over the let-down! and low moral standards of the country ought to be concerned over such a proposal. Public opinion should be aroused against this plan for'more revenue with the scandal ous results and crime it will bring. EXTRA SAVINGS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT! EARANCI BOYS’ SUMMER SHORTS 2 for 1.00 i FINAL REDUCTION ON ALL SUMMER GOODS c l e aWan c ■ rfoii HM Southern Politics Federal Sales Tax I J. M. Hinton, president of the 1 Proposed The recent sales tax put upon the people of South Carolina without consulting them, is pulling in the money, reports state. When the tax was proposed the people were told from Columbia that it would raise Hinton, according to an Associated I an estimate of $31,000,000. Figures Press dispatch on his talk, said that in othpr states with a similar tax, I the "Negroes’ power at the polls was and. Testimates now made indicate ' South Carolina conference of the National Association (or the Ad- .imement of Colored People, was one of the prominent speakers at a meeting of that organization held recently in Atlanta. demonstrated by the defeat last year of former Governor J. Strom Thur- mtrnd of this state in his unsuccess- ful race for the United States senate. Thurmond lost in that importanl rave by some 25,000 votes against Olin Johnston. Hinton saic^, “52,000 Negroes voted in that election.” „ Hinton and some of the other big wigs rejoiced over what they said that it will raise probably forty mil lion dollars, and of course that will:I not all be spent for educationr As J revenues rise, the grab game will' gain in momentum. With the tax now in operation, as | we pointed out last week, on a 11c purchase you pay 9%, on a 35c pur chase 5 2-3%, on a 70c purchase 4%. On gasoline you pay a 25% tax, on was the apparent death o( the -ooca-colas 20%, on wages and earn- States' Rights movement, which they ings 20% to 95%. Get your pencil 1 , called the “Dixiecrat" movement, and you will discover you are pay- 1 ' Their rejoicing is well understood, ing more than half of your income Boys’ Summer Sport Shirts SI,00 Boys’ Blue Overall Pants $1.17 Boys’ Picture Polo Shirts $1.00 Boys’ Summer Rayon Pants $2.00 Boys’ Summer Straw Hats 25c Boys’ Summer Leather Sandals $1.77 Boys’ Entire Stock Swim Suits $1.88 Boys’ Knit Underwear r. 49c Boys’ Heavy Duty Tennis Shoes $2.29 ■ Complete Stock BOYS’ BOXER SETS KNIT SHIRT GABERDINE SHORTS Reduced to t Had there been more leaders like for taxes. Thurmond and others, the result of 1 A. nc i now f rom Washington there,, the national election could have ( i s a proposal to impose a national ■Plii! been different. Too many were vot ing for political expediency and party loyalty rather than for prin ciples for which our forefathers stood. Now political observers on Capitol Hill are becoming increasingly con vinced that Harry Truman will run again for president next year, and that he will be a hard man to beat. We have given our opinion all the while that he has been running since his surprise re-election in ’48. Had a sufficient number of states followed South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi with their 38 oppo sition electoral votes, the outcome would in all probability have been different. It is interesting to note that some of the political leaders four years ago who saddled the fence and were as dumb as sheep—are now becom ing aroused over the Truman dan ger. In fact, there are mutterings of Southern revolt since Senator Harry Byrd's rebellious speech in Atlanta recently. If the Southern states band sales tax, which Senator George at Georgia says the senate finance com mittee will probably reject. The pro posal is in the name of the defense program, as practically every spend ing plan s labeled. Senator George at the same time (the pity is we have so few senators like George and Byrd) said he doesn’t like a pro vision of the $7.2 billion House- passed tax increase bill which would boost already high individual in come taxes a flat 12 Vi per cent. Be sides boosting individual income taxes $2,847,000,000, the House bill would hike corporation income and excess profits taxes $1,252,000,000. Miscellaneous changes in the reve- | nue laws would raise an additional m $245 million. The idea of a national sales tax— which if enacted will be just anoth er tax — will further increase the cost of living of the American peo ple Certainly, it would increase fed eral government “prosperity,” and that is what the New Deal - Fair Dealers, bureaucrats and alphabeti- , SAVE! i 200 Only First Quality SLIPS ^Rayons or Cottons Full Size. White or Pink. Excellent Buy! ■ 9 I together and reassert their influence cal spending agencies want and if Truman is the nominee, he cannot i have been enjoying the past sixteen "TZ. 81 V i_ . . Purchase Piece Goods, yard 36c Women’s Rayon Panties 3 for $1.00 — ’ » Women’s Sandals reduced to $2.44 51-15 Nylon Hosiery 88c Entire $5.90 Dress Stock $3.99 Entire $8.90 Dress Stock ..’ $5.99 Entire Blouse Stocks, begin at $1.00 Entire Skirt Stocks, begin at $1.00 Entire Hand Bag Stocks, begin at $1.50 Entire Girls’ Dress Stock Reduced * ,* 4 be re-elected without their votes. For our part we say, anybody would be an improvement on Truman. Byrd is our first choice of the nation Would Legalize Gambling An unprecedented wave of crime and gambling is sweeping the na tion, and there is corruption and questionable practices on the part of many high in Government, recent investigations have shown. Judges giving light sentences, especially to the bootleggers, then suspending a large part of the sentences imposed for varied offenses and probation concessions, increases crime and flaunts the law. Now there is a proposal for a fed eral “occupational tax” on illegal gambling operations.’ The House bill proposes to collect some $400 million a year from gambling by imposing such' heavy taxes on bookmakers, numbers operators and other profes sional gamblers. Senator Kefauver’s i conomittee re- c'-’dly made a report on crime that s:vek d the American people and in thr.t i tport took a firm stand against legalized gambling. Instead of seek ing revenue a? the states are all do ing now, whether from liquor \or ©th( sources — the committee rec- om ded stronger measures to u out the profits of the big or ganized gambling business, and to make penalties heavier and surer for those who seek their own gain years. This additional tax law now pro posed should be killed. If passed it! means an invasion in the lush field, 1 and like the new 3 per cent tax in our state, would further increase the cost of living for all purchases in-! eluding food and the necessities of life. A national sales tax would be just another tax upon the burdened shoulders of taxpayers. Going Into Ad Business We see by the papers, as Will Rogers used to say, that the city council is going into the advertis ing business. 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