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I’a^e Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, September II, 103- She (SHintan (ElirnnirU Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS. Editor and Publisher ^ - HARRY C. LAYTON. Assistant Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY' O: Entered Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): Year $2.50 Six Months $1.50 , — ; : ; ' Second Class Mail Matter at the Post OfTice at Clinton, S. C., under Act of Congress March 3, 1879. The C the pub) ad Nice, they arc not be TV ot )! i.ronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers— isher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when mI of a defamatory nature. An'onymous commumeations will-, iticed. This paper is“Tiot responsible for the views or opinions' respondents. , . MEMBER: SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION ’ National Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia CLINTON. S. C.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 11. 1952 Plnn for Peace rin a matter of a fevv hours - Thcy IKe S nan ror reace Will undoubtedly do so. if they While the Democratic medicine , (ave , ht . oppoi : tunitv> so that a'l rnn continue to ‘assure the eoun- thc posltlon . now held b y Demo-! try that everything is .11 fine and „ a be laccd by Republi- danayr~Cgnr't)WTghf ■ -D. hA*™* 1 V- ’ ^ ( wer has come forth v/ith a posi- . . , , , tmMam fm. a •*,, /«r. ? threat, a bold V aiid permanent ptace.” ' ■ m.. nd m the rnout.i, p uf W.l-li.1 tv LluJ IP - 'L of multiplied T+T thousands ieiknal job- t! holding 1, -f+re—mfluenee congressmen > .r nation, .second 1>. to and appointment of throughout the workh It was a and sl , nat o rs . , sitive answer to fke iruman-i T u * Vr-,- Stevcnton Democrats whose only.| Senator Olin Johnston of th s. , (fort to date has l.een to parrot plate, chairman ot the senate post t e phi Me. 'you never had it so offue and ctvtl servKe.comm.ttee. - known as the "fair weather \oter. What the foreign policy of this i i-' for the Truman-Steven-, ( Os.ntiv is the American people do I son-Sparknian ticket. He nd * . ot know It has been one of indi- pressman Bryson of tins ; »=>inctj vision, bungling, shaped by advis- have expressed tneu desire to join ers many of whom are Commun- ! are jvnd salaries to keep the tax- free property rented, to collect the , rents and provide for repairs. What I will happen when renters fail to pay their rent, as it is reported is hap pening in. many places? And if these units are unoccupied and on the hands of the sponsoring city, what will happen? -The public is not in formed. These projects, in our judgment, arc multiplied cases of Washington spenders determined to take over pri vate industry and create unfair com petition against home providing or ganizations which are meeting local needs to responsible people and earn ing dividends to their investors. It gives government an unfair advan tage. A business man in a good town in this area told us recently that such projects there are hurting property owners, and providing a surplus of living quarters. Government has no business in the real estate business. It is not the re sponsibility of a municipality to fur nish people houses in which to live any more than it is their responsi bility to furnish them, food, clothing or an automobile. This socialistic trend has taken over the national gpvernment and is spreading all over South Carolina as in other states. It is high time that government contine itself to its responsibilities as set forth under the Constitution and stop entering every Held of business and" industry in competition with the heavy burdened tax-paying public. That s otyg of the many reasons ..why we need a change in Washington, not m name onlv. but all the wav. ENTRIES IN COUNTY MAID OF COTTON SHOW HELD HERE ;sts and Leftists This briefly, is the 10-point peace program Gen. Eisenhower has proposed in his presidential race. 1. An Administration^ in Wash- • : ton which Americans can trust. 2. An Administration which I ..ts its trust in the people. 3. A foreign policy with clear ; :.d permanent goals. 4. Assurance of aid by peaceful means to our allies in Europe. South America, the Middle East, Asia and Africa, who must be in a speaking tour for the ticket. Senator Johnston was scheduled; to speak yesterday in Detroit to a convention of federal employees ^ r.nd said he would urge them to! vote the so-called Democratic tick- j et. He said, he would warn them, as did the Kansas money-raisers,! that they are likely to lose their jobs if the Democrats are defeat-^ ed. Johnston, speaking in advance! of his address, said he would go down t!je line fo his party (North ern controlled) and tell the em ployees they had better vote Dem ocratic. This is an effort to fright-1 L und to us in friendship and in; en mei? and women to the polls mtpal terms of enlightened self- They are threatened with the] interest : Democratic theme song and cam o.. To md by peaceful means the right of everyone, to live in free dom. 6. Unwavering American su^- , , . pert of the United Nations, using have used the past twenty veaia -.tatesmanship to secure dividends j through wasteful spending, aided paign slogan'—“Don't Let 'Em Take It Away.” That is the new dress ing for the old Harry Hopkins for mula which Roosevelt and Truman r I in the cause of peace. 7. An America economically strong, with a creative capacity for thc development of its vast reser voir of energy. 8. An America strong militarily but striving for permanent peace and general disarmament, once there is assurance of good faith on thc part of every nation. 9. Imaginative and practical! use of every other means for prevent ing war. including able diplomacy j by congressmen and senators. Laurens Enters New Field We note from The Laurens Adver tiser, which we see has labeled itself as “South Carolina’s Fastest Grow ing Weekly Newspaper,” that a large federal housing project for white and colored has passed final inspection and was declared ready for occupan cy by the (Housing Authority of Lau rens. There are 40 apartments in the project for whites., and 80 for col and thc power of truth 'ored, with few of the latter yet ap- 10 A fight against discritnina- d for The Author j ty i s advertis- in^Qllltv. DOVCrtV, i tion. economic inequity, poverty, insecurity and every social ill by rooting out of Government those ing for renters and is hardly likely the project will be filled, or if so, to remain occupied. That is the experi- who would betray our system or | ence 0 f many 0 f these expensive pro- i-buse our confidence. 'jects in other towns and cities, with ~ . ! a couple in the state reported as, in Demanding Contributions (the process of being closed because The presidential campaign is of inadequate renters. It is our information that senti ment for securing the federal project there was divided, with many tax payers opposed to the speculative venture in competition with private property owners. We haven’t seen a comment pro or con on the project by The Advertiser since it was ap proved some time ago. The idea was advanced here more than two years ago. It made no pro gress because there was little if any enthusiasm here for the venture. The Chronicle opposed it as government socialism in direct competition with property owners, banks and home loan agencies available to help peo ple become home-owners through their own initiative and with a will ingness to put up a small payment at least in the cost of homes. Property growing in interest each day a., over tie nation and as the weeks pass will continue to gain momen tum. This is probably the most important election the voters have t ver faced for a change in the pres ent administration is the only guarantee of a return to Constitu tional government, a guarantee of individual freedom and a cleaning up of corruption in government. Millions of dollars will be spent in this campaign by both parties. Candidate Stevenson has come out cpenly for the repeal of the Taft- Hartlev law which his sponsor. President Truman, hates with a vengeance. Ever eager to gain fa vor and support JOT labor union tosses Truman has refused to use this law in the settlement of labor- l . 1 i b 1 Cl W U * HIV- •Jv-w ^ " management disputes. Think or owners should be given the right to the amount of money those w’ho ! express their approval or disapproval t ppose the law w r ill spend in an ef- 1 - - * J lort to elect a president who will repeal the statute which Truman lias worked to accomplish since its enactment. Both parties will raise an eno- rnous amount of money to carry on ihe fight. Already the Democratic party in Kansas has called upon postal employees in that state for campaign gifts of at least $100 The call went out to federal em ployees as a threat that an Eisen- bower victory in November would mean loss of their jobs. The let ters demanded a “contribution of SI 00 or more" from postal employ ees and were distributed by the rational committeeman from that rtate. The pressure appeal may be expected to spread into all the states. The letter declared in a referendum. These projects are government hand-outs and would not be financed by private banking institutions as sound investments. Banks and simi lar custodians of 'fuftds make their first objective the security of de positors’ money invested in their care. That creates public confidence. Advocates of these housing pro jects say it will not cost anything. That is all bunk and to a large extent fools the people. The money ad vanced for these expensive construc tions must come from somewhere, it cannot be plucked out of the clouds. And it must be paid back by the American taxpayers. The losses are added to the multiplied billions of public debt still climbing, for which the Roosevelt and Truman adminis trations have been responsible. j These government projects are fi- "As a Federal employee you i nanced by the sale of bonds to ,pri- should not be misled into thinking!vate investors unless the plan of that you will retain your present financing has been changed. Upon position should the voters choose a Republican president and a Repub lican Congress following the elec tion of 1952. A Republican Con gress can change the present law completion they become the property of the city housing authorities. And then what happens, a secretary or manager or a person of some other title is put in charge for which they Sectionalism Wears Thin When General Eisenhower told i an enthusiastic audience in Tamp;, that “I am down here ... to make I certain that there are two parties in the South,” he was doing some thing unprecedented in modern i American politics. As the Repub-i lican Presidential nominee he wasj in the middle of a campaign tour ( that took him squarely into tne! heart of the only section of the' country (aside from Maine and Vermont that is considered by the professionals to be permanently and irremovably the possession of one po'itical party. The sectionalism of the South is! a deep-seated political fact and is based on historic, social and eco nomic considerations that -have) held this area as a whole under, cne-party control for three quar ters of a century. There was. of course, the deviation of ,1928. when reveral of the rock-ribbed Derr o- cratic states went Re'publtccih; but two highly emotional factors—re-1 ligion and prohibition—were then involved, and fortunately neither is at issue today. Twenty years •ater there was'the Dixiecrat re bellion, but that was hardly a con tribution to the two-party system, j Most impartial observers would,' we think, conclude that domina-j tion of the South by a single party J is harmful both to the region and to the nation. On the one hand it deprives the voter of full freedom of choice and puts the South in a “captive’* status thah robs it in party councils of the influence that is its due. On the other hand it gives disproportionate authority to individual Southern members of the Congress because of the tradi tion of seniority. Profound changes in the struc- j lure of Southern society, accele- since the war, may bring in equally profound the structure of South- polifics. General Eisenhower appears to believe so, for he says again and again that the South is no longer the “captive” of any body. If the Republican party can really be built up into a stable organization with a popular base in one or more Southern states as a result of the Eisenhower cam paign—provided it does not be come the mere “captive,” in turn, of disgruntled oid-school Demo crats—that in itself will be a valu- rble contribution to American po litical life. Sectionalism in American poli tics is neither new nor limited to the South, although it has been tra ditionally practiced there in its most extreme form. As far back as the earliest days of the Republic there have been clashes of section al interests which had their im mediate political reflections. .In ' the campaigns of Jefferson and 1 Jackson the “East” was almost as much of a political entity as the South is today. In the time of Bryan the “West" was a sectional ’ force to be reckoned with. A gen- | nine feeling of local or region H ! pride has repeatedly combined ! with common economic interests ' to create something of a section- i al vote. With the development of 1 instantaneous commun : oation and all-but - instantaneous transporta tion, however, the pattern is wear ing thin. So much the better for the country, and more power to General Eisenhower for doing what he can to encourage the growth of two parties where only cne has grown before. This need in no way detract from those elements of local pride and pleasure. The good life is a net work of loyalties, some on a small scale, some on a very large one. Southerners can be proud of the things for which their delightful region is renowned. The West can cherish its wide open • spaces, th? East can continue to enjoy and sing its magnificent seaboard, and of course, there will always be Tex as. But •there remains the desirable The county Maid, of Cotton contest held here Friday evening at Hotel Mary MusgfOV'e was an enjoyable soc.al event and was witnessed by a large audience. live talented young women participated in the event. Left to right, they are: Miss Catherine Eichelber- ger. Miss Betty Lee Swofford, Miss Toccoa Wise, Miss Frances Taylor and Miss Joyce Coleman. i — goal of keeping loyalties from par tisan compartmentation. The na tion belongs to us all, and we are looking for an inspiring leader not for one region or one group, but for ail Americans.—The New York Times. Ike Leads In Popcorn Sales Poll S. C. Grid Teams Hit Hard Grind The South Carolina college foot ball season gets underway Satur-. day nighty when Shaw Air Force base visits Newberry. It will be the first time the New-j berry Indians have taken the field, unden xjiew-Coach HaiAev Kirk- j land, formerly s at Summerville high school. The Indians, Ike the! other six state squads, headed into their second week of practice ses- ] sions this week. Four of the 52 games on the composite state schedule will be played the week of Sept. 19-20.! Newberry will be at Furman Sept. 19. On Sept. 20 The Citadel opens at Georgia Tech and Presbyterian will be at Clemson and Woford at] the University of South Carolina in night games. Wofford Coach Phil Dickens, whose team faces one of th\; loughest schedules ever drawn up for a small South Carolina college, was well pleased after a two-hour scrimmage Saturday. Every spot on The Citadel’s stating eleven is wide open. Coach Quinn Decker, reports. Clemson Coach Frank Howard j' says his offense is developing rath-1 er slowly but thinks “we’ll get it” i before the opener with Presbyte- i rian. ^ I At Furman, Coach Bill Young! called for a full week of “polishing up” after last week’s workouts dis closed ragged line play and poor backfield timing. Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 8.—The “popcorn poll” put Dwight D. Eis enhower ahead of Adlai Stevenson today by 54.9 per cent to 45.1 per cent Joe Blevins, Nashville popcorn man who is compiling “returns ’ based on sales <?f popcorn boxes bearing Eisenhower, Stevenson or ‘neutral” labels, sa^d 100,000 votes” have been reported. A total of 20,000,000 boxes of po litical popcorn have been distrib uted throughout the country to iheares, fairs and other entertain ment places. A Nashville certified public accountant is tabulating thc returns. Session Set By S. C. Presbyterian Synod Kingstree, Sept. 6—The 1952 meeting of the Synod of South Carolina will be held in Kingstree on Oct. 6 through Oct. 8. The Wil liamsburg Presbyterian church will be host to- over 300 ministers, elders, and visitors from all sec tions of the state, representing 50,000 Presbyterians in South Car olina. Tne Rev. Donald B. Bailey is pastor of the host, church. This will be the first time that -Synod has ever met in Williams burg county. 'The Williamsburg Presbyterian church was founded in 1736, giving its 216 years of his*- tory. Whwyo««M SL by all imom aaok to odvtc* of a pfompdr* Dm*! b» aiidad by to lab# •ad claim of unethical practitioner*. •a part In to practice ot medicine. ONLY fACIt Write Your Congressman “NO” on Socialized Medicine McGee’s Drug Store Phon« No. 1 DANCE STUDIO TO OPEN! | I ii % i i.i it 8 :: I is Carl Crosby, Instructor from Foster School of Dance in Columbia, will conduct classes in Tap, Ballet, Acrobatic and Ballroom Dancing. Registration Will Be In HOTEL CLINTON LOBBY Saturday Morning, Sept. 13 10:30