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THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Cleon Newspaper, Complete Newsy and Reliable flUittton (Ehrmttrlf = Volume LII Clinton, S. C., Thursday, September 13, 1951 If You Don't Read 4H§.CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Number 38 Babson Says Socialism Today Is A Cruel Hoax By ROGER BABSON New York, Sept. 10.—Of the three top leaders of British Socialism in recent years, only one is in office today. Mr. Attlee still heads the Labour Government of Great Brit ain, but is plagued with a duodenal ulcer which has already hospital ized him. This ul cer could conceiv ably force him to follow h i s former right hand man, Sir Stafford Cripps, into retirement. Sir Stafford was in M»ger w. Babtoi several ways the brightest luminary in the British Labour movement; an eminent law- year, and an intellectual of the first magnitude. A few months back he had to retire as Chancellor of the Exchequer for reasons of health. He suffers from colitis. Early this year the third man in the Labour Government, Emset Bevin, suffered an illness that forced him to retire as Foreign Secretary. Shortly there after he died at the age of 70. I am not exulting over casualties among top-ranking British Social ists. I consider Attlee. Cripps and Bevin men of the highest integrity and the noblest intentions. Were they rogues paying lip service to Socialism, in ostler to further per sonal ambition, all three might now be in good health, riding high on the road to more power! At least, this is what I learn here in New York. A Cruel Hoax To my way of thinking Socialism! as set up today constitutes a cruel boas. Socialists discover that many evils can be traced beck to individ ual private greed This is true. But the Socialists conclude, all too quickly, that private greed or pri vate enterprise, should bo outlawed. They then nationalise the big pri vate enterprises and turn them over to the government They "sink the ship to lid it of rata But the hoax M that the coming of Socialism to d finally the | Only individual for "•uo- incentive provides the spark and fuel of hu man endeavor. When honest Socialists, like the big three of England’s Labour movement, gain control of the gov ernment, they discover that the no ble doctrines to which they have dedicated their lives do not work out as expected. Socialism, unfor tunately, distributes poverty, not riches. Tragedy of Honest Socialists An honest Socialist in power soon finds himself experiencing an in tense inner struggle — the struggle between loyalty to socialism and the realization that individual in centive must be liberated if the people are to enjoy maximum pros perity. There are two possible out comes of such an inner struggle within the heart of the honest So cialist, either a nervous breakdown or a desertion of Socialism. Attlee and Cripps are honest Socialists and so was Bevin; but Bevin has died and Attlee and Cripps have ended up with poor health ap proaching a nervous breakdown. They will not, however, surrender their Socialism, although they see only collapse or a dictatorship ahead. Mussolini was an aggressive So cialist in early life; but as he rose to power he became an undisguised autocrat He did not permit the fal lacies of Socialism to rum his health! He switched to personal autocracy and then went back to antiquity to find an ethical sound ing name for It, calling it “Fas cism." Hitler paid Up service to Socialism by calling his autocracy “National Socialism “ Who Will Be “Big Bn*her~? Britain's fourth Socialist leader. Aneunn Sevan, not to be confused with the lata Ernest Bevyi. has the demagogue ■ appeal, the opportun- ma and the violent demeanor This fits him to become the English counterpart of Mussolini or liidM. Aneunn Sevan recently deserted Attlee for motives which some ob- to increase hts Figures Show Textiles Still Manufacturing King —♦— Textiles are still the “king” of the manufacturing field in the Southeast. department of commerce shows that in 1949 the textile industry produced 26 per cent of the value of all goods manufactured in Ala bama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee. The figures, compiled by the Bu reau pf the census and just releas ed from its 1949 census of manu facturers placed the value of tex tiles manufactured in the six-state area less the cost of materials, sup plies and so forth at $1,078,880,000, and the total value of all goods at $4,125,642,000. Incidentally, only four of the six states, Alabama, Georgia South Carolina and Tennessee produced enough textile goods to be repre sented in the tabulation as a sepa rate entity. The output in Ala bama was valued at $173,208,000, Georgia $314,589,000, South Caro lina $488,294,00, and Tennessee $102,789,000. Next in order in value of gooda Payroll Of U. S. Workers To Reach $10 Billion Mark Washington, Sept. 8—Sen. Byrd (D-Va) predicted today that the civilian payroll in the executive $nformation released by the At- ^ ^ : lanta office of the United States} branch of the government will approach—if not exceed, 10 bil lion” during the current fiscal year. Noting that total employment passed the 2.5 million mark in July LAURENS MAN INJURES BACK Early in 1950 a resident of this community had one of those com mon-place accidents that can raise so much havoc with our everyday While attempting to lift a heavy can of oil, he strained his back to the extent that the pain which fol lowed rendered him practically helpless. He was instructed to stay in bed, but even ten days complete rest failed to correct or improve his condition. . He was then advised that he would not be able to work again for the first time since 1946, Byrd said the payroll totaled $7,719,076,- 000 in the past fiscal year ended last June 30. This was an increase of $1,114,106,000 or 17 per cent over fiscal 1950. Employment increased 17,198 during July, bringing the total to 2,500,889, Byrd added in the monthly review of the Senate- House committee on reduction of non-essential federal spending. The Virginian is chairman of this group. Civilian employment in the ex ecutive branch of the government reached a peak of 3.7 million dur ing World War II. DRINK (t if tops for quality tops for quality $ :: f I s Straw polls and local election* tail of the Attlee whether Art- MIDWAY Drive-In Theatre NEWEST AND FINEST CLINTON — JOANNA ■ it jnMpar; unless he submitted to a spinal op- produced iii thq region were food f r * tlon - ’P' e * arne ' day he decided and kindred products, which re- consult another doctor rather corded a total of $470,596,000. Oth th * n have the operation, ers were chemicals and allied' H * w « n * directly to the office of products, $393,000,000, lumber and ^ C - J Hart, local Chiropractor, related product*, $346,637,000, pa- wh f found the cause of his trouble per and allied products $277 30m - corrected It in a very short 000 primary metals. f2l5.374 0ob, P* r «°d tune His response was so printing and publishing. $135.371.-J that he returned to his job 000. apparel and related products, <***• af tcr Dr. Hart gave the $132,160,000. stone clay and glass. ^ treatment, and yet another $120,065,000. fabricated metals, ^tor was said to have made the $66,064,000, leather and leather *tatement that an operation was products, $47,636,000, petroleum necessary. and coal, $44,845,600. electrical ma- Millions of Americans are turn cbinery. $24 ‘ur oou. mactunery *nf to Chiropractic treatments for other than electrkaL $83,54.*> two their backaches and obtaining re and miscellaneous manufactures. Htf and complete recovery with $3 866.000 this modern science. If you are suf- The value of the goods is rlaasi- feeing with backaches, strains, fled by the Census bureau as the rheumatism, arthritis, sciatica or “value added by manufacture.”. neuritis, you are invited to have a which la the value leas the coat of. consultation with Dr Han You materials, supplies, fuel, electric can be free of those nagging bark energy and contract work. aches, let Dr. Hart advise you how " ; to get nd of them lee’s successor will be able to pro-, reed with the present government al machinery. Or will revolution! and dictatorship be the outcome of. Britain's experiment with Social-L ana* As for me. give me a country amm with a democratic capitalistic gov-! L a■ r sT" mem like our own. that seeks «« workable compromwe between col tm m— mu y< lective needs and individual tnren- aar graggim If aat plea—6 IN ONE tive. i HOI’S. 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