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, TFT Thursday, January 31, 1952 THE CUNTON CHRONirt E ; ; ; r «> A.-r- i *Vv xr 1 Page Seveg ^ 1 ..... ’.j COMMENT ON^MEN AKD THINGS By The Spectator Shall the Social Security tax of 2 ¥4 per cent be applied to farmers •who operate their own farms? The question is a live one, for the plan of the bureaucrats Is to bring in the farmers who are self-employed, or operating for themselves. A well known citizen of the State writes about it and I am consulting my friends of the Farm Bureau to ascertain what they think of the program. A letter to me shows that an out standing citizen is astonished that the fifteen or sixteen billion dollar aeserve is invested in Government bonds. Several years ago I consulted a very able man about this and he j.eemed to think the practice was sound. Here’s how it works: the money paid for what is called the Old Age and Survivors’ Insurance— the three per cent at present—IVfe per cent by the employer—that tax swells into billions every year. In 1ne fifteen years of the operation of this Old Age Insurance the Govern- <*» Headaches, Gassy Stomach Relieved, Thanks To Sea If s MRS. MATTIE MOSIER Mrs. Mattie Mosier, Route 2, Walker Road, East Chattanooga, Tenn., writes For ten years I suffered from terrible spells of headache and backache due to gassy stomach. It seemed that I suffered from indi gestion after most every meal and at times my stomach seemed so up set that these terrible headaches and back misery came on. The first bottle of Scalf’s Indian River Med icine did wonders for me and I have nothing but praise for this grand medicinc. I eat what T please with no fear of stomach gas “pains and the pains in my back and head are relieved.” Try Scalfs Indian River Medicine today on a rockbound guarantee of satisfaction from the very first bot tle. On sale at air^bod drug stores. ment has accumulated fifteen or six teen billions more than all the money paid out in benefits. Where^js^ that money? There is no such money: the Government spends the money and puts bonds in the Treasury. If there should ever be a heavy withdrawal; or if within a year the outgo exceed ed the income, the Government would have to borrow money to make up the difference, or impose taxes for the outlay. Does that look like good business? Should such a trust fimd be used by the Govern ment? Or shouldn’t it be set aside and guarded jealously for the bene-i fit of the millions of people who have paid in >he money and have a right to expect payment in their old age? - My correspondent makes the point j that the program to include millions of additional workers is really a sub tie effort to get more money to spend, while putting J.O.U.’s in the box. ; *v It is not a sound plan for a trustee to spend the trust funds. * * * Carolina Rice! A man in Peru said tr me “El arroz de Carolina, Senor; el Estado de Ud”. What he said was “Rice from Carolina, Sir; your State”. But it was not rice from Carolina, but “the Carolina” is the grade of rice. My South -American triends often said that the finest quality of rice is labelled “Carolina”. Carolina was once a great rice producer. Today Louisiana and Tex as are the rice producers. But per haps South Carolina may “come back.” When I was addressing the South Carolina Agricultural Society some weeks ago I heard of an in quiry from Texas for 20,000 acres in or near Charleston County for rice. So I read with special interest the story in the press that 5000 acres in the lower Santee Delta will be planted in rice. As I understand, the planting of rice will be an undertaking of The South Carolina Rice Growers’ As sociation, I quote The News & Courier: ‘Mr. Major said the entire opera tion will be mechanized form plant ing to harvest Plans of the associa tion^ xall for building a drying ware- TT Democratic Convention meet and ad- f-T RrirnK journ one ddy in May, as usual? Or. I I'UVrlll&J shall the Convention transact the DnilKlp usual business and recede, have ai* * < ****' LyiililJIC recess, subject to recall ^ the a-W Chairman or Executive'~C6mmittee? vUlCoolIIIldlC To Relieve Misery of HMtrin—iw house and ^ mill to handle the crop. The association has its own outlets for handling sale of the product. While the South’Carolina rice indus try was dealt a death blow by a hur ricane in 1911, scattered plantations held out until after 1920. Perhaps the last sizable rice acreage was planted by the late L., A. Beckman, superintendent of the Santee Gun Club, for many years, who main tained acreages between 100 and 2fia^acres until 1936. In 1938. R. O. Mercer, present^ superintendent, pianted 50 acres, the last to be planted there. r About 10 years ago Malcolm Lee McLeod, Lowcountry * lumberman, began experimenting with rice on the Edisto. He produced successful crops in 1950 and 1951 on some 250 acres. Last year Mr. Major’s wife super vised the planting, care and harvest cf a rice crop on the Edisto River and its success was a big factor in the formation of the association.” d"'*'' * • * Shall |he South Carolina State I quote from a letter to me by the well-known Carolinian who has been in the forefront of the fight for a fresh and vigorous assertion of States’ Rights or local self-govern ment—James H. Hammond of Co lumbia: Hon. J. K. Breedin Manning, S. C. Dear Mr. Breedin: Following Conversation with you I thought I had best write you a few things I think of irt connectioji with the oncoming elections. South Carolina will vote for any Democratic candidate who is truly at heart a Democrat. Truman is not and never was a Democrat and this state is not go ing to vote for him under any condi tions, in my opinion. Of course, if Byrnes, Russell, or Byrd run, or somebody like that, this state is going to vote Demo cratic. Should Truman be nominated and have to run against Taft or Eisen hower, the state will be confronted with a terrible situation having no Democratic candidate to vote for. The people don’t like Taft, but if it were between Truman and Eisen hower, my opinion is they would go for Eisenhower because even on the Republican ticket he is more a Dem ocrat than Truman is or ever has been. 1 . The County and State conventions should not adjourn' after their meet ing BUT SHOULD RECEDE FROM BUSINESS. -. We don’t know where we are go ing and if these conventions are ad journed and things take an unfor- seen turn, we would have no way of having popular ideas brought before cur people for concerted action. Certainly these conventions Washington.—The nation’s vast plant for the projected hydrogen bomb will cost more than twice as much as originally estimated, the Atomic Energy commission report ed today. • < Chairman Gordon ’ Dean of the ABC declared at a news conference the probable cost has been upped considerably” from a 600 million dollar “guesstimate” of a year and a half ago to 1 Vi billion dollars at present. Dean said the estimates were re vised because it is apparent now that “reactors” will cost more than had been expected. Reactors are devices for making atomic explosives. The ABC had annoJnced that the reactors at the South Carolina H- bomb plant were to be of “ad vanced” design. Dean said today “the design is still not completed on some of them.” * The new estimate was containecf ’in the AEC’s semi-annual,report to congress today. The commission described “in tense activity” in the past six months throughout the entire atomic enterprise — including an expanding atomic weapons pro- l.. gram.’’ It told of: L Full blast operation of all its existing" plans including those for making atomic explosives. 2. Progress on new construction entailing 3 pen cent of the nation’s total building expenditures and employing nearly 2 per cent of the country’s total construction force. 3. “Continued” increase in the output of fissionable materials—at a lower cost than ever. 4. “Substantial” and “significant advances” in weapons research and SHOULD RECEDE FROM BUS-1 < ^ e ' re ^P rnent - rM»cc * V 1 v 5 - Increased domestic production until after they know who L, uranium ores thank3 £ expand _ loth National parties put in as their, ln g exploration, opening of new candidates. L In my opinion, this is of greatest importance, particularly at thisj AlCOhOllCS AnOnymOUS time .. t . Meets Each Week Very truly, James H. Hammond”. * I think Mr. Hammond is right, that the State Convention should not ad journ sine die, * but should be sub ject to recall, following the National Conventions. producing areas, and incentive bo nuses for uranium producers who collected more than $250,000 in such “prizes” last j^ear. 6. Research findflgs with radio active isotopes that may lead to im proved methods of • farming “and lowered costs of food and fibre pro duction.” 7. Further agricultural research indicating that atomic “rays,” while ^providing no stirpfllus to plants, may aid in breeding new varieties of crops, ; and also aid in, the fight against certain crop dis eases. ( tops tor quality tops for quality SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE “The Paper Everybody Reads” Alcoholics Anonymous will hold a meeting Saturday evening at 8:30 in the Clinton health center build ing. Meetings are now being held each week at this place and hour. 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