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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE /
Thursday, June 5, 1952
GJtfP (Elintnn QUirunirlr
EjUb|iah
ed 1900
WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher
HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant
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Smith To Head
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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
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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
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