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* * * > ‘ ♦ * : # e t K Pit* F««t alir (Hinton (EhronirU 1»M WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and PubUahtr HARRY C. LAYTON. Aacutant THE Published Every Thursday By CKRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscnption Rate (Payable In Advance): ' One Year $2.00 Si* Months $1.23 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C, under Act of Congress March 3. 1879. The Chronicle seeks Ue 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 Joanna To Have State Colored toxing Tourney THE CLINTON CHRONICLE —■ i i n. Thursday, September 6, 1951 CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 1951 Two City-Country Men Meet Driving in the country the other! Something for Nothing Leads To Poor House the Preparations are now underway | at Joanna, to stage South Carolina’s first all-Negro boxing tournament in the Joanna baseball park on i Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, September 20-21-22. j These outdoor bouts between all amateur colored boysc are being ; sponsored by the Junior Chamber i of Commerce, who eventually hope this event will be the forerunner to a colored Golden Gloves tourna ment here in South Carolina. Any colored boy between the ages of 17 and 30 is eligible to enter this tour- ! nament regardless as to whether he’s had previous amateur exper- f ience or not; i | All equipment, advertising and j expenses are being handled by the Joanna Jaycees. Any colored boy ! wishing to enter this tournament : can do so by writing the Joanna l Junior Chamber of Commerce for J official entry blank anr copy of i tournament rules. This tournament wull be run along the lines of a regular AAU tournament insofar as possible. Winners in the finals on Saturday 1 night, September 22, will be de- FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 18th day of September, 1951, 1 will render a final account of my acts and doings as Executrix of the estate of Fran cis Marion Stutts in the office of the Judge of Probate of Laurens County, at 10 o’clock a. m., and on the same day wil apply for a final discharge from my trust as Exe cutrix. Any persop indebted to said es tate is notified and required to make payment on or before that date; and all persons having claims against said estate will present them on or before said date, duly proven, or be forever barred. ALBERTA RIDDELL STUTTS, Executrix. August 16, 1951. 13-4c. When you want to be certain your cupcakes will not stick to muffin pans, cut plenty of waxed paper rounds just big enough to fit the bottoms of the pans. Put one of these in before pouring the bat ter. . Every bit of biscuit dough can be cut into biscuits without rolling, again if yoo,roU-4he whole piece of dough into a rectangle, then cut into squares. 4 r if it’s Nerves, See Your 1 | Chiropractor I DR. C. J. HART 254 West Main Street I I | LAURENS, S. C. j L. dared the South Carolina state champion in the weight classifica tion in which he won.. Beautiful tfophies will be award ed the winners and each fighter will receive $6 per day expense Speaking in the Congress day the driver saw an old country, other day. Representative A. fellow sitting on a fence rail, Miller of Nebraska, said: watching the stream of automo-1 “j sometimes doubt if people biles go by. Stopping to talk, the lWan j t 0 hear about how much traveler on vacation said, “I never j money we are spending. They ccuid <tand living out here. You seem not to be concerned. The _. ^ , . don’t see anything You don’t [idea that you can get something!™” 1 ^ wh,le t?*mg P ar * in the travel like I dor—I-m going all the f or nothing has grafted itself onto ** ut!> time " To •dra ghtened up his shoulders, gross and the people up to the fact locked down t the stranger slowly that the power to tax is the power Army In KOrCO n drawled “I can't see to destroy. With these appropna- ♦ Jference in what Fm doing lions you raid every savings ac-j Lt. Henry T. Cronic is now serv- • t you’re doing I set on count w’here the people have tried mg as battery commander in Korea e and watch the cars go to put away a little money for a w j t h Battery B. 90th field artillery; you -ct in your car and *»*ny day You make it impos- battalion, a part of the 25th infantry society so firmly that it may take old man on the fence* an economic collapse ot w’ake Con- Lt. Cronic With COMING! SATURDAY SEPTEMBER THE ORIGINAL HAGAN - WALLACE . BIG 3-RING and mui I and thr 1 f. ■es go by It *t 1 sible to save money today i* f a My vti >u l<*»k at things, little are > putting a m tortgage ( on the c tty «*n ba< k» of the chi! Idren yet unborn. P" e * MVt •ler wen! >*n hi* w ay 1 warn yoi u th tat we srt » facing Ht r t ♦ t hl» m itvh and failed to an * *norruc t *a y! IJI pse to wal ke Con- old man’s Viewpoint. ??, •* nt of Commerc e told me yester- ■ — da; i that our ar today t c o • dm O M o h- Discrimination 44 Wh cents a* < pen it was ^ared witt th $!. An i 1939, d 1 ■mi n of ktyrtle Beach ia mi »t who ha< i m ode an in Ye* tift* * i«- r. • cfe ring .t b md issue to buy it* f Im n of the rr latte v t Id me that if • Mr *4 .Mi Oil iaIi inutioft •y«trm frufti Wr $30 (VS) '.at 11>n> AmtwiX •» . • *- flat*' 1. Santee 4,00809. Tl %*y OUi r dollar wt 11 b r worth a bout It nwhiit a mtt take letting 'hat pol III* m Ifa 2shu % Ik in twe wh ere you c h 4 A ott CAifltl'OK iff tlMNHr • going k m | •►ng are yo >u going froftt 'ft IMP la CttfltlftiMF ft ith thi.' The re must in October, 1930, and arrived in Ko rea on JaJnuary 10. 1951. He has been awarded the Air Medal. United Nations Campaign ribbon, and the Korean Campaign ribbon with three uMI tar J**et ft ft ' * ^ ! ■ i. w ant to Santee ril Its h.gh t wa say* that Myrtle Beach < an im <e such bwid* only if they 4ie a* proved m a town referee stum « * requited by the state con j sbiutu n An elect mo is to be be Id an the itaue if it we In a-i of the high ! u. anr mg by SaMt.-Caapec, and its complete m <s« r.cUnre of the gmeral norm • bly. no mention of a referendum! • t-.er made Why u one pro eow* The answer is that her* More Santee •C«»'per was out to acquire and control something, •rd row the shoe is turned—Myr- t»« Beach wants to acquire some th, r g from Santee-Cocgjer which ha* rest the taxpayers some $6S ■siliicn. Refetendums should be be a stop to It " It would be amu*m( not so tragic—to watch the steady stream of requests for ' federal aid** pouring into Washington As Rep-, resen tat i ve Miller says the idea that you get ~something for noth ing'* has grafted itself onto toe lety As a matter of fart the taxpay ers would save money if there t any such thing as Federal i aid ’ The more hands through which money has to pass the leas money there is when it gets back to the taxpayer Taxpayers may get some idea of hon money dwindles away in bu reaucratic hands from a demon stration centuries ago The occasion was a great state be id ..ien the issue is the imposing* banquet, given by Frederick, the of a t nd lasue upon the taxpayers Wl,»t - bout the i«*cent $75 million brr.ri •«ue parsed by the legists- The people were not even gor Milted Senator Jefferies, man- gg*-- f Santee-Cooper, did not h s voice demanding that the per-pie be allowed to vote before the b( nds were sold. The word refeien *um was not mentioned. This is an example of the in creasing competition of govem- mr r.t, state and federal—with pri vate enterprise. Public power, con troller: by politicians drawing enor mous salaries is out to destroy pri vate tr.terpnse. The latter pays millions in taxes, while govern ment projects are tax-exempt and relieved of the heavy taxation bur den now loaded upon the shoulders of business—sets out to undersell Great and attended by couriers and noblemen of the realm ’Gentlemen." the sovereign com plained. "although we levy new taxes and cities our revenues con tinue to diminish Can you find a solution for this problem'** Expressions of various economic theories came thick and fast from, the various wise men present. ' un-' til an old general, one Biethen by name, stood up and motioned for silence. “If your Majesty desires,” he re marked dryly, "I will show you what happens to the money.” Removing a large chunk of ice from a wine pitcher and lifting it high for the inspection of all, he handed it to his neighbor and re quested that it be passed on from hand to hand, down the great long which is unfair and cannot be jus-, table to the King. By the time it tilled. ^ It’s the same principle as reached Frederick, it was about the two department stoics in a city. If one is ’exempt from all taxation, and the other is assessed heavy taxes—the tax-exempt firm has ev ery advantage over its competitor size of a pea “Now,” said the old hussar, “does your Majesty understand why the money is so pitifully small by the time it reaches your coffers?” and can sell merchandise cheaper' I n the strange silence which fol- because of a lower overhead ex-! lowed, a grim, unsmiling sovereign pense. ; replied -that he did. As another example. Vander-j The story is told of an old Negro bilt univeristy has. just purchased j who sold his year’s crop of cotton, a sporting goods manufacturing! The farmer for whom he worked firm in Tennessee and turned right; had made advances throughout the around and leased it for 25 years year to him. When he went to set- to the former owner. Earlier this same university bought a textile tie with him. he told him he was deducting so much for fertilizer, so mil) in Charlotte and leased it to much for food, so much for feed the fi rmer owner. The announced this arid so much for that with the purpose of both transactions was to result that the old Negro had no “acquire tax-free income for Van- cash coming to him. , i • . • When he got home the old Ne- Th., is unfair any fair person g ro ’s wife confronted him with the uiU aumit without hesitancy In demand for some money. He told b . 1S ‘if wha 4 l a^Vhe ‘ ,th u er tcx -!her he didn’t have a cent.' tile mills in that state which must, ‘ Whar - S the m0 ne y you got for compete with the college-operated your co tt 0 n?” she asked, plant in Charlotte? These other “The ducts got it all.’’ he replied. mills must pay taxes, and heavy tgxes—on their profits. This gives the iax-exempt plant a tremen dous advantage over its competi tors. The same is true of the sport ing goods manufacturing plant re ferred to. Regardless of what the promot- _ _ ,t. say. projects Itltc Sar.tee-Coop. geumg''-^methmg “'(o? iTothing™ “ Un ,"! r thc .‘^'Iwhile we travel on to the pooc js true of the Vanderbilt incidents. | house Ail should be treated alike in the! matter of taxation but this is now xnpossible because of government in business spending billions of dollar?. It is the Socialistic trend And that is about the way it is with what we get from the Fed eral government. For every $100 we get the taxpayers have probab ly put up an amount far in excess of it. Xet, we run to Washington for J ederal aid’’—thinking we are of the day for which the federal government is responsible RUBBER BANDS are scarce. Good supply on hand. Also Letter Box Files. Pencil Sharpeners and other little needs for the office. Chronicle Publishing Co. 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