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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, August 16, 1951
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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.
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D. W. JOHNSON.
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noon in celebration of Barbara's |
8th birthday. Refreshments were |
served. Each guest remembered'
her with a gift. Sylvene Rice as- 1
sisted in serving refreshments.
With The Sick
Goldie Simmons has returned
home from the Blalock clinic
where he underwent surgery re
cently.
Mrs. William Cannon is ill at her
home on Jackson street.
Mrs. B. B. Neal continues ill at
her home.
Mrs. Bobbie Braswell is a patient
at Hays hospital.
Mrs. Gladys Kellett has recently
returned home from Hays hospital
after a week's illness.
Did you ever hear of John
j Mampc.en? Do you recall the Bos-
' ton Tea Party? Have you ever
! read of the foolish people who de-
; fied the Roman Emperors and died
j in the arena, torn and mauled by
j lions? Can you imagine a more
i helpless condition than that which
followed the crucifixion? A mere
handful of men and women talking
about evangelizing the world!
How pitifully weak and desperate
must have seemed the Man of Gali
lee in the age of glamorous empe
rors. in a day of pomp and cruel
power! Where are those emper
ors? Where are those empires?
From the blood and dying gasps
of the Christian martyrs grew the
religion of the Nazarene. who him
self was nailed to the cross. You
might ask your self: What is suc
cess? Well, which was successful:
The power of Casear. which hang
ed Jesus; or the power of Jesus
which transforms millions of be
lievers? “Not by might nor by
really believe that, we people who
power, but by my Spirit." Do we
rejoice in our practicality? Does
history teach us nothing?
I like to think of the sturdy John
Hampden who refused to pay am
CARD OF THANKS
I want to thank all my friends
and neighbors for their many acts
of kindness shown me since my ill
ness. I also want to thank my
Sunday school class for the love of
fering ai d the mission society for
the wonderful pounding I received.
Words can t express my apprecia
tion. May God bless each one of
you. • •
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