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/ 4 THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Clean Newspaper, Complete Newsy and Reliable ffllmtmi If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the Newt Volume III Clinton, S. C., Thursday, October 18, 1951 Number 43 SOME WORKMEN GYP YOU: OTHERS TAKE PRIDE IN WORK Babson Recites Some of the Pains In Remodeling Large House. Babson Park, Mass., Oct. 16.—A friend of mine has recently pur chased an old eighteen-room man sion which he is converting into apartments. Some very interesting observations can be made on that job concerning present-day work men. As he tells me his troubles, I wonder if this is the time to do remodeling jobs on old houses, es pecially as the best of houses al ways deteriorate even though the land increases in value. Use Contracts And Read Them My friend’s house is in an area .where skilled craftsmen should be vailable. Some of his jobs have been let under con tract ; some have been done at an hourly rate. All the workmen were highly r e c o m- mended. But. al though price was not the important factor, few really took pnde in the job they did. Cer tainly, don’t start w 1 vr W, a remodeling job today except by contracts; then read your contracts before signing or else employ an architect. , The card of the painter which my friend employed read: Neat rraftsmanlike workmanship Before the job had gone far, the owner had to remind the pointer that neither pottered floors or cadeaiooaty drawn sashes were acceptable While the plumber spent constrict- able time talking about hts fine workmanship, his joints and pipes leaked and he carelessly chipped porcelain fixtures. Therefore, you must be hardboiled and insist on awr OX/6MS • Health is yoor only rest wcslth. Do not squander it needlessly. See yoor Doctor at reg ular intervals. Accept his experienced counsel —and always bring his prescriptions here for careful compounding. DRUG STORE Phone No. 1 good work even after you have read and signed your contracts. Are Crafstmetf Gone? The paper hanger said: “Choose plain paper, particularly for the hall; it’s easier to match and more economical,” Plain paper, for that particular! paper hanger, meant he could slap it on as fast as possible— butt it or lap it, depending on the wall! This-may be good advice. One should always' consult the paper hanger before buying the paper; but be on the job when it is be ing hung. The selection of wall paper is almost as important as the selection of a wife. It may be unwise to take the lowest bidder for roof work. Better contract with a roofer who has been in business many years. Too many roofers think that the owner will never climb up on the roof to fails to oil the gutters and seal the fails to oil hte guters and seal the joints as per his contract. But the one who really took my friend for a ride was the electrician. He used more BX. BC. and Rom ex cable, connectors, plates, cutouts and dips than you’d suspect it takes to build a batletship As electricians get a big profit on the material they sup ply you, they are tempted to use the partitions only the electricians mort than they should. What's in and the mice will ever know I TnsUl On Good Reputations But my friend s carpenter was one in a hundred. He was careful and proud of his work He acted almost as If the house were his own. He was painstaking, whether he was laying a course of shingles or mitering a door-casing or put ting on hardware To him there was a right and a wrong way. and he could be trusted to do the job right even though he was working by contract. Not enough individuals or com panies today render good crafts manship Wars, government con tracts. sellers’ markets, and mater •a! »Portages tend to bring qua lit v standards doom When buying hard ware today ask for goods made be fore June I, 1*50 The quality state thenjiiuibemj : nir.g rmurwi Apartments are in demand. Old houses can still be bought cheap Many can be made over Into four or more apartments You can make a contract so as to know just what the remodeling will coat ..you can also learn from real estate agenU how much rent you can expect. Then figure what you will get on your investment Thu should be over ten per cent annually to cover taxes, insumace and repairs and to have six per cent left for yourself even with full occupancy To be on the safe side, you should allow for some vacancies. Remodeling of proporly located old houses may be a good investment; but investigate before you invest. As Washington Sees .. THE NATIONAL SCENE ~ For instance in the cane sugar states, farmers in Florida received $932,000 in sugar act subsidies or two per cent of their income and Louisiana cane growers received $6,160,000 or 14.7 per cent of in come. In the larger beet sugar pro ducing states, Colorado farmers re ceived $8,048,000 in subsidies or six per cent of their total farm in come; California farmers, $7,355,000 or two per cent; Montana, $2,411,- 000 or 2.6 per cent; Idaho, $1,927,- 000 or 4.8 per cent; Michigan, $1,- 964,000 or two per cent of income. Only dissent on the sujfar act came from industrial users and molasses importers. * *. • Continuation of the ouster hear ings on Senator McCarthy of Wis consin on the bill of particulars drawm up by Senator Benton of Connecticut continued. One of the most sensational pieces of news which obtained but few headlines was the announcement by the Canadian government that the Canadians w'ould build, on their own, the St. Lawrence river sea way. which since the early 1930’s has been before congress. President Truman has given his approval to the Canadians* move after state department consultation, if con gress still refutes to take action- Chief opponents of the proposal to provide a deep-sea waterway from the Atlantic to the Great Lakes are. of course, the railroads and the Atlantic seaboard port facilities, many of which are owned by the railroads. Huge utilities also have opposed this cheap freight avenue and also a new source «f bpdro-elertric en ergy. Govern* Dewey of New York has previously offered to build the hydro-electric plant, but has never received the green light, since because of the international aspect, it seems to be a federal in stead of a state job. • * * Although a conference committee had not met, a compromise was ex- ' pected to be worked out this week ] on the two postal rate increase measures passed by each house. ' Odd The senate agricultural commit tee held hearings on steel shortages for agricultural machinery. Indus- j try representatives, on the short end of steel allocations, of epurse, criticized those allocations as en- j dangering the nation’s food supply. Also shortages will be apparent in phosphates and superphosphate fertilizer, due largely to the sulphur shortages. Hearings were held on this shortage by national produc tion authority. ! Dr. Fred E. Holcombe t Office Houra 9:M to S:3t 200 South Broad St OPTOMETRIST Offices at Phone 658 DR. L. B. MARION NATUROPATH Re*. 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The lord Elgin ... hand some. sturdy end like its mote, mode with the DvroFower Mainspring — the heart guaranteed to never break. aTiniH % Special to The Chronicle. Washington, Oct. 16.—It begins to appear unlikely that this congress will see an early adjournment date, although the time has again been moved up to about November 1. However, if the members get away by Christmas many of them will consider themselves lucky. In the meantime the senate has passed the tax bill, considerably under the house-passed measure in total taxes and in income brackets for collec tion. Some declare the senate bill again is a “rich man’s” tax bill with the big majority of the taxes com ing from lower income brackets. And the sponsors say that most of the money is iji the smaller income brackets, although that is only be cause there are so many more mil lions of Americans in those brack ets. • • • Mention has been made in these columns before of the sugar sub sidy act and that it applies to only a few, possibly three, real big cane sugar growers in Florida and Louisiana. As a matter of fact, however, the subsidy applies to beet sugar farmers also, in 30 states, although these, too, are rel atively few as compared to all farmers. ?- Ordinarily farmers buck over the traces at the mention of the word “subsidies” or “controls,” either of prices or marketing quotas. And yet the cane and beet sugar farmers were a unit in demanding rigid governmental controls, and the bill sailed through congress with little or no opposition and without creating a ripple. The sugar controls act which re ceived united support included strict marketing quotas set by the agriculture department, subsidy payments to farmers, special excise taxes on sugar processing and im porting, import quotas, indirect price control and minimum labor standards on sugar cane or beet farms. fri<u . Other Clgmt priced t'9* $3 75 J. C. Thomas, Qewele “It's Time That Counts* A