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y i Pige Six THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, August 16, 1951 .4 Homecoming Speaker At Church of God brass bands. Alas and alack! Not so. Instead 1 of the cotton farmer receiving a guaranteed price of ninety per cent of the price of cotton it >vas in the winter, it all turns out that the bu reaucrats have guaranteed a price of about ten cents less per pound, say 30 cents, instead of 40 cents, in round, figures. The farmer having planted cot ton everywhere, has been helped by the days and days of unbrok en heat, so that it appears that the crop may be a big one. But could the farmer be blamed for that? i I met a young man on o bus this week, a lad from Bamberg county. 1 He told me that the farmers of ali that region would have difficulty in getting cotton pickers. Cotton 1 farmers can't possibly pay the wages of war plants. So cotton as a war crop is sacrificed, as Com missioner Jones says. REV. J. D. BRIGHT The Church of God on Elizabeth street will have their annual home coming Sunday, August 19. The, guest speaker will be Rev. J. D. Bright, editor of Church of Godj Publications, CievelandT Tenn. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon the new' church will be dedicated. The; Childers quartet of Anderson, the MacManus trio of New Orleans, La., the Hanvey family of Laurens, and other special singers will be present. The public is cordially in-' vited to attend bv the pastor, Rev. ! Cole. COMMENT ON MEN AND THINGS By The Spectator Has the Government sold the cotton farmer down the river?. That seems to be the idea of South Carolina's Commissioner of Agri culture. J. Roy Jones. Mr. Jones may be right. As you ha^’e heard, this great nation is being managed, or mismanaged, from Washington. A very distinguished leader of our state said to me a few months ago: ‘ You might as well recognize the fact that everything heads up in Washington: that's where the game is; and that's where you have to go. whether you like it or not.*’ And he is right. Here is the cotton story, well known to me since I also am some what of a cotton and tobacco farm er In the winter of 1950-1951 the bureaucracy in Washington warned us that we were “short of cotton" and getting shorter every day. Of course this had nothing to do with the program of wearing-shnrts getting shorter; I don't blame that on the Government. Being short of cotton and wearing shorts of c< tton are not necessarily related. We were admonished and warned and urged and persuaded that the great war effort required at least sixteen million bales in 1951. All the clamor in Washington bureauc racy cried and pleaded for at least 16.000.000 bales. The farmers were begged most solemnly to plant cot ton, more cotton and then more. Naturally this cry from Washing ton was repeated in every cotton growing state by everybody. More cc tton was to be a glorious war effort, a noble contribution to vic- t: ry. You might have thought the farmers would be awarded medals of honor and other decorations, with tumult and shouting and Every time I pick up a paper I read a warning, a solemn amoni-i tion, or other hullabaloo, from Washington. From the President' down to some little fly-by-night minor official we are warned of perils and dangers and looming ca-j tastrophies, all calling for billions and billions of dollars. Most of the menace grows out of the stupid i diplomacy of those very people.’ What could be more blunderfully; ridiculous than the constant out pouring of speeches predicting war with Russia, while assuring the Russians of our friendship? We tell the world we are preparing for war; spending scores of bil-, lions of dollars to prepare to re sist Russia. If the Russians don't! take note of all that they must,' indeed, be the most thick-headed numbskulls that ever breathed. We are filling our people with alarm;' we are destroying our faith in the future; we are forgetting the in finite wisdom and mercy of Je hovah and preaching the doctrine of inevitable war. If the stupid leadership of this nation had reas on to believe in the Russian men ace in 1945 why didn’t we go about our business, preparing as we should, but without screeches and screaming day and night, tell ing the enemy of our weakness and teling the world that we shall be ready in two or three years? And day by day come new pro grams of world help, all at our ex pense’? Even Senator Tom Connal- ly of Texas seems disgusted! And When Senator Connally can’t stand for some of the Truman stuff it must be a rancid thing, for Senator Connally tan wave the Truman flag without fatigue, day and night, unless a ground swell of opposi- ' tion tells him that Texas is about to move from under his leet. illegal tax to King Charles. In that spirit Matthew Barkley and B. F. Anderson brought suit against the State of South Carolina. And in that spirit our people engaged in the Revolutionary War, though many South Carolinians remained loyal to King George. They were prospering, so why take sides with the ‘terazy’’ people who revolted against the King?? But were they “crazy”? If they had not fought,! we would today belong to England. The so-called practical man has been the greatest failure, according to history. The man of principle, the man of esteeming, spiritual values, the man building his life on useful service to humanity, stands like an immovable rock in a day of shifting ambitions and personal programs. The Legislature had five months in which to act; it dawdled along until the last minute and rushed through the bond issue and Sales Tax. Even now it could not spend the bond money in a year. , Why couldn't the Legislature respect the Constitution? It could not trust the people. Well, if the people can’t be trusted, what kind of democracy have we? The Legislature was not saving segregation;' it w r as trifling _jwdth the Constitutionrr Some day we may be sorry. When the Consti tution is thrown overboard by good men, mad men may do it, too. Re member that. greatest array of political influence this country could muster. Sev enty thousand people sent one- dollar bills to the Taft campaign as an evidence of interest. 1 We can well imagine that seventy thousand, dollars didn’t cover all the cost of advertising, printing, postage and, travel in a thickly settled state ofi big cities; it probably wouldn’t be 1 sufficient even in South Carolina; but it shows that men and women felt a deep interest in the cam- 1 paign. proven, or be forever barred. D. W. JOHNSON. LAFAYETTE J. PAYNE. August 3, 1951. 30-4c * b ’A.B.C. oiiiyettc "2) Finance Co. FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice tnat on the 4th day' oL September, 1951, we will render I a final account of our acts and do ings as Administrators with Codicil Annexed of the estate of Ella Bul lock Johnson in the office of the Judge of Probate of Laurens Coun-i ty, at 10 o’clock a.m., and on the same day will apply for a final dis charge from our trust as Adminis trators with Codicil Annexed. 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