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4 r t u I 1 4 Thursday, July 19, 1951 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Tkrtc Times have changed. Nothing the foolish old King George did to us was even a small fraction of what the nomination for Woodrow Wil son. Until Bryan’s speech Mr. Wil son had nq ^hance at all. Be hold the work of one man! July is a mpnth of patriotic ob servance; many of our Nations of North and South America cele brate in July; and so does France. The American patriots lighted a torch and oppressed men saw it and took up arms for their own deliverance. Sometimes I think the difference between the early patriots and our selves is about this: Patrisk Henry Harry Truman has done to us, but' said “ Iknow not what course oth- most Americans take it with sub-1 ers may take, but as for me, give mission, getting only such relief as me liberty or give me death.” Now a bit of strong language will give. Thomas Jefferson believed that oc casional revolts and uprisings are good for the State and Nation; they our course seems to be something like this: “We gotta make' a deal; its give and take. If .they favor us we play ball with them, but ergy Commission, before the Cham ber of Commerce of the State of New York. The problem, in brief, is to find adequate supplies of Uranium, then to take purified uranium and produce the fission able materials known sis U-235 and plutonium. Both, said Mr. Dean, are of the utmost importance to us, for both can be made to release the energy locked in the hearts of their atomic nuclei, either violent ly, as in a bomb, or slowly, as in a nuclear reactor.” I don’t know if Senator Edgar Brown knows the chemical formula and can make and operate our new $900,000,000 production plant to be located near Aiken, South Carolina. This plant is being so designed that it can be used to produce materials for fis sion weapons or hydrogen weap ons,, or for fueling reactors.” McDowell, officer in charge of ma rine recruiting in South Carolina. Anyone interested in the new regulations may visit the marine corps offices in Columbia, Green ville, Charleston, Florence, Spar tanburg, or Rock Hill, for mor» detailed information. Enlisted Period For Draftees Extended Temporary selective service reg ulations allowing men to enlist af ter they have received their pre- ......... „ induction physical examination the bomb, though atomic energy have ^ F ex ( ended from the ori- stir us out of our apathy or they i its gotta be on the barrel head.” ease the tumult of our spirits. A' With us life is too much of a ^spiritual bit of righteous indigna- game; with,them it was more se- ginal deadline of July 15 to Aug- i ust 1, announced Major Dean N. Athletes Foot Germ nous. We need a little more of the piety of the Scotch minister who rebuked his son, 4 b&seball up from a conviction that some- tion is a spiritual tonic and it wells thing is badly wrong. We have almost our capacity fori pitcher, for deceiving the batters such deep feeling as lifts us from an d for throwing underhand balls, the level of unprotesting com-iH we practice underhand stuff on placence to the rarefied heights the ball field, only, our nation will where the patriots lived. Thirteen colonies belonging to not suffer dry rot. What about South Carolina? the British crown were resentful told you of the men from Califor- of some mild taxes. Money and nia who came East full of the Cali- money value did not move them forhia spirit, the spirit of boosting to action. Like John Hampden who and boasting. He attended a fun- refused to pay an English tax be- [ eral in the neighborhood. When cause of the principle involved, our, the minister invited remarks about earlier Americans protested against. the deceased brother and a long some small taxes because they] silence followed, our Californian challenged the right to impose the rose and said “Brethren, if no one taxes. We today see and have seen the else has anything to say, I’d like to tell you a few things about Cali- Administration in Washington lead fornia.” So, I like to tell a few us into every extravagance, but we things about South Carolina, for- have no Samuel Adams and no | getting for a moment that we seem Patrick Henry. * to have been double-crossed about One mink-coat scandal in the the Sales Tax. Almost everybody early days would have blasted the Administration into bits; any one of a thousand other scandalous assumed that there would be sub stantial reductions in property tax es, school taxes and other heavy has been observed in old Barn well for some years. Still this great investment of '$900,000,000 in Barnwell and Aiken counties be came known to us through Barn well’s Senator. The figures $900,-i After one application of T-4-L if 000,000 are used by Mr. Dean in his not pleased your 40c back. This mo- address. Says Mr. Dean, “Our con- bile liquid PENETRATES faster, tractor is E. I. duPont de Nemours quicker, deeper to make the kill, and company ...... which we T-4-L at any dru* store. Today at have recently engaged to contsruct McGee’s Drug Store. DRINK tops for quality tops for quality Savings Accounts 3%—DIVIDEND—3% We invite savings accounts from the people of Clinton and vicinity. You will like our friendly and efficient ser vice, and you will receive your dividend promptly each January 1st and July 1st. Any amount — from $1 up r— opens an account. Each account is insured up to $10,000 by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. Two people may have up to $30,000 fully insured. Accounts by mail promptly acknowledged. proceedings would have wrecked 5 taxes, the so-called floor taxes in the Party; the colssal .waste of i eluded, of course. But that gen- public money; the utter, sheer de- eral idea of equitable taxation struction of billions of dollars of seems to have been knocked into war supplies: and misuse, misap- a cocked-hat; so what we have is propriation of public property— just so much more taxes, though it any of these things would have is said that the tax on beer has been so nausating as to upset the been reduced somewhat. But we Nation. (They don’t move us deep- may take heart and refresh our ly; we have become callous; our spirits since skimmed milk and sense of right and wrong has been clabber remain to cheer us up. transformed into admiration for: But South Carolina remains, al- the smartness of crooks who “get teit. with no Patrisk Henry. Things j away with it.” ar c moving, just the same. J’ve America did not want independ- read the address of Gordon ence from Britain, as late as 1774. [ Dean, chairman of the Atomic En- Even Washington refused to think! of it; he was loyal to the King and the Mother Country. We recall the thrill of the Battle of Bunker Hill, yet even then our people were not desirous of independence. In 1775 Pennsylvania instructed its dele gates to the Continental Congress “to dissent from and utterly reject any propositions, should such be made that^ may cause or lead to a separation from our mother coun try.” New Jersey did likewise. Maryland’s resolution says that its people “never did nor do entertain any views or desires of independ ency.” New York and Delaware were in general agreement with Pennsylvania and Maryland against independence; and then came New Hampshire and North Carolina declaring against propos als or suggestions of independence. I say this with a bow to our dis tinguished Mr. S. A. Salley, whose unfailing knowledge could throw! more light on all this. Washing ton’s letter was the sort of forth-^ right declaration we could expect from Virginia’s great son: “I am well satisfied,” he said, "that no such thing as independence is de-, sired by any thinking man in all North America.” Washington was right, only about 99% right, for Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren and James Otis were even then insist ing on independence. How did the Colonies and Wash ington change their minds so com pletely within a short time, just a couple of years? The King wouIdn\ receive their petition; his majesty declared that the Colonists, our American patriots, were in a state of rebellion. Rulers and leaders might well ponder this: The Americans were patient, loy al, submissive, though protesting, until the King closed the door. Even though we Southern people have much to offend us, only three states had the courage, the high principle, to carry their conviction to the ballot box in 1948, one being our own South Carolina. Still, there is hope. In 1928 many South ern states revolted against the Democratic party and its candidate. B.ishop James Cannon was a man of w^r, a sort of flaming prophet of old, a mind and energy that never tired, and a crusader of the first rank. I knew the Bishop well and had great admiration for him. That old Virginia turned against the Democratic candidate was largely the result of Bishop Can non’s work; and this incomparable campaigner had a large part in arousing most of the South against the Democratic candidate. So it can be done; and, perhaps, it may be done again—who knows? Smoetimes one man ''ban do much. When the Democratic nom ination was virtually ready for Champ Clark, William J. 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