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I Pape Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, November 20, 1952 oil?? (Elmtcn (E^ronirU Established 1900 WFLSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $2.50 Six Months $1.50 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C., under Act of Congress March 3, 1879. The Chronicle seeks the 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 views or opinions, of its correspondents. MEMBER: SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION National Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia ministration will be to review and re-examine every course action open to us with one goal in view: to bring the Ko rean w’ar to an early and hon orable end. Where will a new Adminis tration begin? It will begin with the President taking a simple, firm resolution. That resolution will be: To forego the diversions of politics and to concentrate on the job of ending the Korean war until that job is honorably done. I shall make that trip. Only in that way could I learn how best to serve the American people in the cause of peace. I shall go to Korea. That is what Eisenhower said' and he will follow through his Washington. — Christmas pledge in the hope of finding an New Ye ar leaves for more up to the shore line. By Thursday ^ possible to \ suspend any basic; weeks of training will get up to afternoon they were beginning to be training schedules this year. Train- j 14 days between December 20 and J washed ashore. • , mg was suspended for ten days last j anuar y 4 > put men taking leave , A staff member of the South Caro- year. J lina Water Pollution Control Author- Soldiers who have completed at that time will have a propor tionate period subtracted from the ity made tests of the material, and their 16-weeks bisic training pro- . normally granted after corn- said it was a petroleum product, ap- gram will be eligible for leaves be-j pletion of 5^ training. parently a light grade motor oiL ; ginning December 20 and ending J. C. Harris, who operates Harris January 5. Grill at the Boyds orldge over the a Navy spokesman said these Saluda river on the old Laurens high- j way, said that this occurs each year, are its plans: Men who reported to boot camp usually in the summer, but he has on or after November 7 will be never seen it so bad. One-Day Christmas Leaves Ordered For Army Servicemen ineligible for holiday leaves, but may be granted one-day passes. Granting of holiday leaves for men who have completed their boot camp basic training will be left up to commanders. Recruits who have completed 6 and than CLINTON, S. C., THI RSDAY. NOVEMBER 20. 1952 Facts, Not Theories A thorough and intelligent analy- the national government is be- 01 m . ie, and properly so in the o:'cutting the budget. It is al- . . s hard to cut because the spend- raise a howl and fortify their “ edition. The big task ahead of 'ireSToOn 1 -e rest e. 1 serin 1 rwr and honorable means ' of ending the Army recruits will be lim-i war, though some of his political to one-day pases under a opponents accused him of plpving holiday vacation achedule’ an- 1 politics which is false as Ms bounced Monday. Other Army plans prove. The prayers of the personnel will be eligible for long- American people will follow the er leaves. General as he goes on this hazard- The Army said the “critical re- ous trip in the hope solely of help- i quirement’’ for an uninterrupted ing bring an end to hostilities and ^ ow °f trained replacements to the wounding and killing of our lhe forces overseas makes it im« ; ; young men on the battlefields. j It is well known that Truman' Eisenhower are working to-i be no' .1 gain of 298 r 'r. dangerous vacuum during the' First in the nation in farm in- present 10-week period. Any (Sttr-!’ come increase in 1951, with a gaihjer course would impair the. gov-j comment, antagonize the great ma-j ttnrratidii ~Trr'motor vei'^onty-pf-the people, ana certainly SUBSCRIBE TO THE. CHRONICLE "Tha Paper Everybody Reads" Dr. Felder Smith OPTOMETRIST Laurens, S. C. Phone 794 Could you put up $11,000 if you had and auto accident! That's what's raaafrad by tha aaw 1 1, IWJ, ia Dm sasiast, Jaw-cast way ta with this law. aod protact yoar right to drira, is ta iasara yoar car wMh Stats Farm Mataal—tha ootomohHo insuranca company that darotf ta ha diffaraat ia ways that sava yoa aiaaayt Call or coma ia. M. Q. HIGGINBOTHAM Hotel Clinton Bldg. Telephone 960 State Farm Mataal Automobile Insuraoco Compaay expansion from 1948 to 1951. First h; the nation in per capita income increase in "1951, with a gain and of 20^, and from 1929 to 1951, with; getfver so that there will -rr oL60SSv t -Ftryf-TTr :.w administration is to get the real hide registration gain in 1951, with not enhance Truman’s private orj trtith, to find out where reduction an increase of 12%. public future The steps being; can be made and to effect substantial And first in the nation in business' a en s 1 ere wi.l be betteri i-.v.mgs for the American taxpayers, “success” in 1950, with a percentage Getting down to yourself as an in- of business failures of only 4.7% per ividual, do you know what hap- 10,000, as compared with a national f tned to $1,648 of your money last percentage of 34.3%. .vtar? If your family is an average From ^939 t0 jgso, bank deposits < :'e, with four members, that mu*h-j n s ou th Carolina increased 310% <>: its income went for taxes. Fed- compared with a national increase eral, state and local, according to 158%. in the same period, South Commerce Department figures. And Carolina business telephones in- — s have been getting worse all creased 200% compared with 90% the time instead of better, under the r or ' t be nation. Trcman spenders. collaboration than prevailed dur ing five long bitter months of the Roosevelt-Hoover interregnum of 1932. The transition is moving smoothly, anything less would be perilous. And to the surprise of no one General Eisenhower is showing that his feet are solidly on the ground and that he is as- The total tax take government in 1951 was $63,600,- sembling a skilled and trustwor thy team of workers to help ad- c » .u ,, visfc and inform him during the f • Another of acuv.ty is the v«st da interim. . • ■ increase in South Carolina seaport; i'iO.Ooo. This year the combined total activity. Exports at Charleston in-: ~~ ^ ••! be around $80,000,000,000. creased 1,765% from 1941 to 1951, New PlymOllths Taxes now account for at least 30 and imports increased 836%. p-, QUAwn Tnrlnv cent of the total national in- In the decade from 1940 to 1951, I OGGy .no. with the figure to climb fur- South Carolina retail sales increased!" 7„ , ^^■uniess a check is made. Thisi'314%, wholesale trade 240%, serv- e l9o3 Pl\mouth will be present- 1 cd to the public throughout the United ice trades 271 1 internal revenue States today (Thursday) by Cooper : nn.ess .1 hat one-third of. our work _ ::n.e is spent to support • govern- collections 1,183%, e leetric energy. . . . nent, not ourselves and our fam- produced 173%, and construction ‘ otor Co ! Tl b an }.* and Plaxico Motors, .... A very large part of the cost contracts 17.4%. All these gains were,‘ 1 ‘ c ’’ cal distributors. "i everything we fJS'yL-from so small ne! r the top in the nation. . “Advanced engineering and styling as 1 .loaf of brea.i In the same decade, 11,800 new ' make the new Plymouth more than j is repre- business firms were established in ever before the outstanding ear of the: . ; 'ey •%:.! It s literally true ‘South Carolina. ' %w-pri:ed field,” local distributors) \\*a. ».an’t walk a,’block without In the postwar period, the State’s • hi.-king in to the tax collector—at inhustridf ' growth " has brought in The 1953 Plymouth the most |- c '.-.lv-. jmn’ll cause sflirHo wear on n-urT Ilian 9QQ hO-.y maustnes, and completely new Plymouth to be pre- •cs and when you have to re- over 1,000 industries have expanded, sented to the public in the quarter- ^em taxes will enter in to The new capital thus invested total- century since the original model rolled ed $758,000,000, a figure which does 1 off the assembly line, not include the giant atomic fuels | Plymouth Motor Corporation execu- worry most of us, for the reason that; plant near Aiken. This plant alone: tives predict motorists will be de- the bill can be paid by the rich—j will cost approximately $1,250,000,-| lighted with the new, streamlined ex- long ago was blown sky-high. That J 000. ; terior, the luxuriously tailored har- is a false theory of the bureaucrats.! monizing interiors, the increased The rich are heavily taxed now, Transition Period i horsepower and the scores of engi- and properly so, but if -we took a w , , thorou£ , hne » eerin g innovations in the 1953 line -I* 1 ‘"T «“ Tr^ln and Pref,dent- ^ ««V» <«?'•?„ it wouldn t carry — 1. ".n-in a few • ar : lace what you must pay tor the new pair. The theory tha*+—taxes needn’t government for, , . , weeks out ^the Elsen L hower are cooperating | .war. The >nes.-apable Jrulh is that ’he people of small and moderate mi an.-' must do the great bulk of -.he paying. These are not theories. They are t-j • arv'ive ho must be interested in t...w.-ste ahd corruption out of govumm it—and in cutting taxes. Tiie ,0::. afion point is not in the far di.-lant unless a drastic hdlt is /nade. showrooms November 20. “This year Plymouth is introducing a new concept of automobile design in the low’ priced field,” President John P. Mansfield declared in describ- to bring about an orderly transi tion to the new government. The action is commendable and reas- s,.nng t» the country. ling the 1953 models. -Superb styling What ,s now happening isthe is ro ^ rdinate(iwith radic ^ engineer- o n ° if in - developments to produce the truly KhoseveTf and President Heroert ba i anced car for eMl satcr an J Hoover when their transition in more com f or t ab ie driving “ office was made. Roosevelt would Height of the new P i ymouth has hold no conferences or cooperate ^ reduced for improved ap p ear _ m any way, the attitude being one! ance . Y et engineers have designed of antagonism rather than coopera- ] even more room int0 the Car , s int ^ r _ tion. Yesterday President and ior and luggage compartment. The j President-elect met in conference ^53 mo del ' has more headroom, tin Washington to consider brief-J greater legroom and more hip and jly some of the grave problem's [ shoulder space than ever before, to obtain a administration soon passes t The lively and dependable Ply- Federal Reserve System branch succeeded by a new leader- (mou tii engine has been. given even bank for South Carolina, with Di-l^'P ir * "bich the country has ex-1 greater power. For 1953 the horse- rector L. W. Bishop of the State P ressed an unprecedented confi- power has been increased to 100 and Research, Planning and Develop- n( ‘° as shown at the bal.ot box. J the compression ratio stepped up to IZ /. ti h ier»T-'.nr»Ti»fvr* \imII rrofnSia lall I *7 1 1 Branch Reserve Bank Needed A move ih now on ment Board, and the executive man- ( ’ f ri Eisenhower will gather a ^ 7-1 to 1. ger of the South Carolina Bankers i n f orr b at i ori possib.e as a good 1 I . 1 r\n tnP' Association heading the movement. ' bstener - to be studied during the The need for a federal reserve before his inauguration onj January 20. The public • should understand that the General is now a private citizen and that the | branch in this state Director Bishop said, has been “keenly felt” for sev eral years, “not only in financial circles but in every phase of indus try, commerce and agriculture”. As Fish Are Dying in Greenwood Lake Greenwmod, Nov. 15—An oil slick responsibility of leadership an u ( covering portions of Lake Greenwood making grave decisions cannot be bas resulted in the death of thousands result since our state must now do 1 placed upon his shoulders until he. 0 f small fish will Jusiness w’ith the Federal Reserve i assumes office. The change banks in Richmond, Va., large, be welcomed by the great major- amounts of our own capital is being ity of the American people. Every type of fish except carp is represented in the bodies of fish strewn along the lake shore. The first sent to other states. Apparently, this ; When the landslide victory of notice of the incident was Thursday ’ L is capital that should be kept at home ^ en - ’ was evident President among our own people. Bankers who Truman greeted him with a crack possess a proper knowledge say that i n which he offered the White the establishment of a branch is House plane “if you still desire to -ound and would render a needed 80 to Korea.” Eisenhower polite- -ervice. It would seem to us there- ly declined with the statement fore, as a newspaper, that a con- that^ he would use one of the army vincing brief should be prepared and planes not in use. There has been .submitted in support of a petitioh much criticism and untrue state- that this state be given its own Fed-! jnents regarding Eisenhow’er’s vis- eral Reserve facilities and not be it to Korea. Many of his oppon- put to the expense and delay of hav- ents have been charging that the ing to clear through the Charlotte General said he was going to Ko- branch of the Richmond bank. rea and would put an end to the South Carolina is’growing from war. He made no such statement, an industrial and agricultural view- Here is what he did say in his De point and because of this steady! troit speech on October 24: growth and expansion, this now Any answer that dishonestly sought home clearing house seems * pledged an end to war in Ko to fit in perfectly with the progress rea by any imminent, exact we are now makang. Those of us who date, would brand its speaker live in the state are not fully aware; of the tremendous industrial gains morning when the fish began coming Wi that have been made in recent years and may be expected to contine. Di rector Bishop uses these pertinent fads to emphasize the necessity of a Federal Reserve branch bank for SSuTh Carolina. Read them, you will be more intelligently informed. This state, Director Bishop says, is: First in the nation in industrial as a deceiver. The second and equally false answer declares that nothing can be done to speed a secure peace. It dares to tell us that we, the strongest nation in the history of freedom can only wait and wait and wait. Such a statement brands the speak er as a defeatist. 1 The first task of a new ad- IV* • You are always a winner when you safe guard your health. Take good care of this most precious of all 3 _ possessions. See your l>octor at the first sign of illness. And, of course, bring his pre scriptions to this fine pharmacy where you are assured careful service and fair prices. 1 Howard's Pharmacy Phone 101 1 A part of the precision X-ray equipment of the new C. J. Hart Chiropractic Clinic is shown in the above photo. This enables Dr. Hart to Xray the entire spine; or any section of the spine, thus eliminating any and all guesswork in locating the cause of ill health. If your health is not what it should be, consult Dr. Hart. Telephone Laurens 22501 for an appointment. —AdV. V Meet your Allstate flute Insurance Men * John L. Mimnough, Apt. 40B - King Apts. Clinton, South Carolina, Phone 809 Allstate Agent for Laurens County He’s a good man to know—especially with the new South Carolina Financial Responsibility Law becoming effective January 1. Get the facts about the law and how Allstate, founded by Sears, Roebuck and Co., provides the utmost protection for your auto insurance dollar. • New easier-to-understand policy • 14 addod features at no extra cost • Special Low Rates for Farmers • Over 1,250,000 Policyholders • Fast, fair claim settlements Let your own comparison prove the greater value of Allstate protection and service. 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