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i ■ V fape Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE / Thursday, June 5, 1952 GJtfP (Elintnn QUirunirlr EjUb|iah ed 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.25 Entered Ls Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C„ under Act of Congress March 3, 1879. The Chronicle seeks t re 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 vieo. s or opinions of its correspondents. MEMBER: SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION National Advertising Representative \ AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia Smith To Head New Broadcasting Co. In Michigan New Deal began to get rolling. This country has lived from crisis to crisis. When no crisis was available the party in power invented one. If the basic law of the Republic is to shift with crises, there is no longer' (Says The Laurens Advertiser) need for a Constitution. The country) ' Bob Ross Smith, recently resign- will be operated by the people n ed manager of WLBG in Laurens, ; charge without regard for any book will head the newly formed com- of rules but their own notions. j pany, the Okabena . Broadcasting | President Truman has said he Company to be located in Grand ivould abide by the decision of the “ av en ’ Michigan, court. Not yet will armed guards! Associated with Mr. Smith in the lock up the cdurt and the Congress ncw radio operation will be Daniel for refusing to bow to the will of the F. “Dangerous Dan” McHugh of executive. Congress too often has WLBG; Paul R. Smith, partner of been a voluntary prisoner of the Calkins & Holden, Carlock, Mc- White House these last 19 years. The Clinton & Smith, Advertising court itself has not been above yield- Agency, and Lynne Smeby, engin ing to the commands pf political ee rv _ T popularity. ! M Mr Smith came to Laurens from But yesterday the majority of the Ne ^ Yor \ C ^ y ^’ , ? ere n he , W ® s .h 1 ] 6 court did not yield. It decided in John Conte ‘‘Little ( favor of the Constitution, in favor Show on CBS television; the Jack of the right to own property, in fav-! ■ or of the America that stood solid as ! a rock till the wreckers began to | chip it down. The Fair Dealers have not finished. I Berch Show on NBC radio; and the Eddie Condon ‘‘Floor Show” on CBS television. Pending approval of his broad cast application by the Federal Cammunications Commission, Mr. Smith has assumed the duties of Commercial manager of WLBG and will remain here until the construction permit is obtained. Richard Todd, secretary-treas urer of WLBG, Inc., has taken over the general managership ?ind all details of production and program ing on WLBG. Birth Announcements SANDERS Mr. and Mrs. John W. Sanders of Danville, Va., announce the birth of a daughter, Patricia Louise, on June 2. Mrs. Sanders is the for mer Miss Louise Singley, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Singley. PITTS Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Pitts an nounce the birth of a daughter, Margaret Louise, June 1 at the Blalock clinic. Mrs. Pitts was be fore marriage Miss Martha Wood, daughter of Mrs. Paul Wood and the late Rev. Mr. Wood. CREDITORS’ NOTICE All persons having claims against the estate of D. E. Tribble, deceased, are hereby notified to file the same duly verified, with the undersigned, and those indebted to said estate will please make payment likewise. W. B. TRIBBLE, Et Al., Executors. May 27, 1952. 19-3cw SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRON1CLB “The Paper Everybody Reads” i Their labor union allies, perhaps we | shouldtheir masters, have called 1 a strike. The furnaces again willcool. 1 Again the flow of weapons to\ the j front will begin to slow. Steel is the chief sinew of war. If, CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1952 A Grand Old Man Retires The Potato Mess James T. Crews of Laurens, known The government has made a "mess’ .5 "Chief;’, and affectionately by, out of about everything it has •. at-; this nation is in peril from foreign many "Uncle JimlV counted last tempted to regulate and control. A i foes, why do the Fair-Dealers weak- S..t-urday as his birthday and official j glaring example is the potato crop. 1 en its military strength? day of retirement. A news article in' The country is now suffering from 1 The danger from foreign foes is regard to him as taken from The a shortage when only two years ago not so great as the danger from the Advertiseiy nypears m to-. ; there—\ya.s -L.emendous.-surplu.s..chipperthe- chiseters, the termites r,y “ paper. . Ur. Crews, now 88. has been work- ■,c in a 'print shop as a good printer the date Col. Thos. B. Crews, editor ir-f publisher of The Laurensville Herald for many years. He served Laurens as chief of the city fire de .iitment for many years, and The present result can only be at- at home. If this Republic goes down tributed to stupid government prac- it will fall from weakness within, tices. The present shortage is caused The steel crisis comes at an oppor- e a lad. He worked-for his father, pay .prige ceilings made-in Washing.^- f une-timo. This summer may tell the ton by the socialistic administration story. The outcome of the political 1 now in power. |-campaign will spell out the future What is the result? Shortage of | coursd for Republic or police state, housewives with being | ' potatoes as i greeted with empty bins in grocery CUB PACK PICNIC FRIDAY h:ef of i>olioe, retiring in 1940. He stores. In the lower part of our state ! ... , , . i - The cub pack will have a picnic I .. . .- a splendid, fearless officer, and . w here digging of the crop has been Friday afternoon. All members of 1 U. od four-square for law enforce- delayed, there are veiled charges of the group and their families are J black marketing, potatoes by OPS invited to meet at the Associate Re-! officials. The -charges came short- formed Presbyterian church at 4:30 ly alter digging began on practically and motor to Camp Fellowship on every potato farm in - Charleston 1 Lake Greenwood. Each family is county. Truck drivers in the lower asked to bring a picnic basket and section of the state have been wait ing for two weeks with the expecta tion of loading their trucks with scarce potatoes and heading fori State of South Carolina, Northern markets to help relieve the County of Laurens, scarcity. That condition exists in all) 1° Court of Common Pleas., heavy potato producing states of the, ^a Chandler and Reatha Cooper countrv. ! Chandler, Petitioners, n.cnt with no favoritism to any class jr group. . Ur. Crews first love was the print .-hv p. For long years he was asso- dated with The Herald, and in re cent years with The Advertiser where he was highly regarded aj- ways and his services fully appre- . led by the ownership. As a. young- wr taking our tirst job with The Advertiser, we found Mr. Crews as- - c:ated with the paper. Seeing how ..tile we knew about the printing and newspaper business, he was always rcadv to assist us and give helpful a d rirt r ~ro one who needed it. His kindness we never forgot and through the years we have known vm we have considered him one of the “fine old gentlemen” of our ac quaintance. As "Uncle Jim'* retires and lays down his type stick and line gauge. drinks will be furnished. SUMMONS This buying^and giving away of vs. «.anu giwng away oi, , T , . . ,, . ^ potatoes was started bv the Lester Rushton Margaret Kay modify Credit Corporation to force « ushton - and Eddie-dumtt-Rtishton,- the price above the free market level.; “ es P° ndents - The result, farmers raised so many TO THE RESPONDENTS ABOVE potatoes to get the guaranteed price NAMED: that the country was flooded. Grow-j YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED ers in the big potato states made and required to answer the petition millions of dollars at the expense of in this action, of which a copy is housewives and taxpayers. The Cor- herewith served upon you, and to .vc w’sh for him many more happy i poration was also pouring oil on po-; serve a copy of your Answer to the returns. * s a gentleman—every; tatoes and burning them, "asking said petition on the subscriber at his inch of him- and we prize being in- farmers to plow them under as fer- office, 2-3 National Bank Bldg., Clin- c.::ded in his wide circle of friends, tilizer, giving thousands of bushels! ton, S. C., within twenty (20) days * ~ away tb institutions and school after the service hereof, exclusive of. Personal Liberty Gone . lunch counters. The idea was to get ‘he day of such service, and if you It is difficult to understand why rid of potatoes, and when this was fail to answer the petition within the | several million grown-up men who, im P° ssible the agency poured 'dye time aforesaid, the petitioners in this h. ve lived ip a free country can al- ovcr thom in order that they would action will apply to the Court for the low p few politically-minded, rabid. 11)6 un . fit for families to eat. About, relief demanded in the petition, uv labor loaders to place their tbat time the American market wasj CECIL E. WHITE, ocrsonal liberty in jeopardy. j flooded with Canadian potatoes of- Attorney for the Petitioners. Let us say that 90 per cent of the f ere d at a lower price than the level; Clinton, S. C., steel workers are members of the | ^ uaran * eed American farmers. ‘ May 29, 1952. un.on and 10 per cent are not. protest ’ TO THE DEFENDANT’S ABOVE there :s any freedom left in this bu \ as a ma tter of fact all the com- MAv»t^n. country—a man has the right to de-| P et ‘ n £ Canadians were doing was tide whether he wants to join a se * bn ® Iheir potatoes on an open union or not join, whether he wants ,J y iar ket at the price they would^ring- to work for a living or loaf and look;® 6 ^ 1 ^ tbe stupidity Congress at last io gove. runent for support. If the; P r i ce support and farmers 10 per tent are compelled against bave gradually turned to raising ?he:r wills to become members of; else. The result is the Murray's oligarchy, it will to all in- Present shortage, tents and purposes strengthen that) The present situation shows what mao’s control over all the members government controls will do. And thei by about 100 per cent, In other shortage is due to controls and stu- werds, he will be their supreme mas- pidity. Black markets always ac- 'tr, and there will be a continuation company controls. We need to get cos affecting the entire gen-i back , to the fundamental,.-sound law- % of supply and demand. Such as we Don't these men like freedom*’ are now witnessing is always the re- Do.Vt they want to be able to^quit suit when bureaucrats attempt to a union if they wish and go into an-! control natural economic processes. (ther union, or tp work for a liveli- The New Deal and Fair Deal theor- NAMED: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: That the original Summons and Petition in the above entitled action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court of Com mon Pieas for the County of Lau rens, South Carolina, on the 5th day of June, 1952. CECIL E. WHITE, Attorney for the Petitioners. hood without joining any union. Why in the name of high heaven do they want a master, or dictator? Murray cidn’t "master” anyone in Scotland where he came from. The Scots are loo smart to let themselves in for bhat sort of servitude. Maybe he figured we -were dumb. It looks as .bhough he was right. President Truman’s outspoken op position to the Taft-Hartley law re portedly cost him a great number of labor votes in 1948, as it should have done. Those members of unions who! h^d read the fair law were quick to see that it returned to them much of the freedom of which the Wagner Act had deprived them. But the Fair De>&l didn’t catch the drift and now doesn’t seem to realize that there are millions of working men who are ^ is‘,s think they are smart, Jaut they have not yet, and never will—im-{ prove on the natural process of sup ply and demand. To sum it yp, gov-! ernment has a hot potato it wants to turn loose with the U.S. crop being! shipped into Canada where growers can get more for their crop than our OPS ceiling allows. We say — they are dumb in Washington. EDITORIAL COMMENT THE DECISION ON STEEL (Editorial in The News & Courier) In ruling 6 to 3 against President Truman’s power to seize the steel mills the Supreme Court of the united States has given a new lease on life to the Constitution. Had it capable of understanding that en- rujed otherwise the foundations, al- : or cement of the union shop provi-J ready blueprinted, would have been ‘-ion means tighter bands upon i laid for dictatorship to succeed the wrists without any compensation Republic. whatsoever. | Justice Black wrote in his decision It doesn t help them win a strike; j that the President’s pdwer to execute it doesn’t strengthen their hands in | the laws “refutes the idea that he is an arbitration meeting; it doesn't' to be a lawmaker.” In other words, give them any greater control of the] if the Constitution had intended for Fair Deal than their powerful mas-j the President to, run the country ters already seem to enjoy. ; single handed there would be no But it does do away with just that, need for Congress much potential opposition to the ar- j In that historic utterance Justice bitrary—and oft misused—power. Black by implication also has re- -over their lives which the arrogant asserted the right of the Supreme labor leaders now exercise. i Court to set the President back on The Taft-Hartley law was adopted his heels when he is wrong. when these leaders became alarm ingly presumptous. But they have not grasped the import of the hint— and refuse to, do so. They would keep their millions of followers in jeop- Chief Justice Vinson, one of the three dissenters, made the point that j extraordinary times call for extra ordinary actions. These indeed are extraordinary times. They have been HARRY C. LAYTON Vote For LAYTON ••• for ••• Alderman Word 3 Your Vote and Influence Will Be Appreciated — —- * r * —a nave UCCU ardy forever, if within their power, extraordinary since the Roosevelt PenneyS AIW AYS FIRST QUALITY! WHITE GOODS Value! Penney’s Rondo Percale 39c yd. Crisp, exeiiinjr prints! Spark ling solid colors! 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