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Thursday, December 4, 1952 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Sere* *4 COMMENT ON MEN AND THINGS By The Spectator The towns and cities need money; •they are constantly called on lor new services or more service along es tablished lines. Nearly every town needs more policemen. Policemen have many new duties—they not on ly make arrests and maintain pub lic order, but they are traffic guides, school guides, special officers at football games—and other sports. Every town needs more street lighting; every town needs more street cleaning. Every town must provide facilities and services for thousands of people who pay no taxes to the town, visitors and tour ists, for example. Now that we have paved sireets the cost of garbage removal is grow ing greater; and the streets must be swept and maintained in passable condition. Every town needs more equipment lor the fire department and prob ably more fire-fighters; and every town needs more service from its department of health. How can the towns provide all the service we ask and expect? hower, or not strongly against him. Where was the Steven soh strength? Anderson, Spartanburg, Abbeville, Barnwell, Cherokee, Chesterfield, Darlington, Lancaster, Union, York; those counties are pre ponderantly “White except possibly Barnwell. So what lesson can we draw from all these figures? Statistics are fre quently misleading; every man may interpret them as suits his purpose. Frustrated Bandit Gets Trouble Only Did the bald-headed men, or the Colored vote decide the election? I am referring to South Carolina. I think it would be just as true to say that the red-heads held the balance of power, or the voters who are bald-headed won the day. Perhaps we might say that the balance of power was with the men who wear no hats, or the men who don’t at tend church. One fact is impressive to me: the Colored vote did not “carry” the counties for Stevenson even in the counties most preponderantly Col ored. Look over the counties: Ander son, Abbeville, Cherokee, Laurens— and others, are not notably “Color ed” Counties: they are preponder antly White Counties. Florence, Marlboro, Dillon, have many Color ed people but those Counties were not strongly for Stevenson. The only “Colored” County voting massively for Stevenson was Barnwell; and even Barnwell has so many white workers that one cannot speak con clusively. Which of the counties are . notably Colored? . Ch ar.UsJpfl, Georgetown, Beaufort, Colleton, Berkeley, Clarendon, Sumter, Lee, Williamsburg, Dorchester, Orange burg, Jasper, Calhoun, Hampton, Allendale. How did they vote—these counties with a large Colored pop ulation? Allendale, for Eisenhower; Beaufort, about equal, though Beau fort has many times more Colored than White people; Berkeley heav ily for Eisenhower; Calhoun strong ly for Eisenhower*; Charleston over whelmingly for Eisenhower; Cal houn twice as many for Eisenhower as for Stevenson; Colleton fifty per cent more for Eisenhower; Dorches ter, nearly three to one, for Eisen hower; Georgetown, forty per cent more for Eisenhower; Hampton, fif ty per cent more for Eisenhower; Jasper for Eisenhower; Lee very re- markedly for Eisenhower; Orange burg, very notably for Eisenhower; Sumter, sixty five per cent of the vote was for Eisenhower; Williams burg, for Eisenhower. The Colored vote in the Colored counties was either in part for Eisen- The people won’t stay “put”, will they? I recall that expression by the late Norwood H^tie: he said that many people advocated this, that and the other, but they “don’t stay put”. In other words, the average man wavers, hesitates, doubts, changes his previous, unchangeable attitude, squirms, wriggles and sneaks out. Greater wisdom has shed light upon his cloudy thinking. Of course, I do not even suggest that the ladies are inclined to shifts; the ladies are al ways open to conviction from newly discovered evidence—and they fre quently make new discoveries. Our ladies are progressive intellectuals. All those profound observations lead me to a fresh consideration of the recent election in South Carolina. Let’s see: how did Jasper County vote? And thereby hangs a tale, as Shakespeare says. A few years ago I attended a great mass meeting in Ridgeland, the County seat of Jas per County. It was a widely adver tised meeting, the purpose of which was to denounce and renounce the National Democratic Party and to quit the same, lock, stock and bar rel. Under the leadership of Klugh Purdy, a real patriot and man of res olution, Jasper County that night severed all ties with the National Democracy. Then and there, unequi- vocably, immutably, old Jasper took leave of Trumanism and seceded. So now it bleeds my heart tp note so many votes for Stevenson in old Jas per. “How come”? As they say. Well, well! Remembering the high stand of 1948, the noble gesture of renun ciation, I should have thought that any man of Jasper wishing to vote for Stevenson would have slipped over into Georgia. But there you are. Laurens — A 34-year-old Gray Court man took his place in Laurens county criminal files today as one of the most frustrated highway bandits in the county’s history. Here’s the sheriff’s office account of what happened when thb man tried to hokb-up a daughter, her mother, and her grandmother: Miss Lily May Hughes, the daugh ter, Mrs. Eugene Hughes, the mother, and Mrs. Nerbina Owens, the grand mother, all of Gray Court, were driving peacefully along on Highway 92 just outside of Gray Court when a motorist appeared alongside mo tioning them to one side. They ignored the motorist, where upon he sideswiped their car, forc ing them into a ditch. No sooner had the motorist ap peared to announce “This is a stick- up” than he heard a scrapping noise and turned to see his car, apparently left out of gear, taking off an incline. The three ladies took advantage of his mad scramble to catch his car and drove off. The bahdit gave chase until they turned into the yard of a relative and histily ran inside to call the sheriff’s offcie. x ——— Deputies found Beck upside down in his wrecked auto about 200 yards down the road. He gave up without a struggle. Listed by Sheriff C. W. Wier as J. R. Beck ,the man was charged with attempted robbery and reckless driving. They tell us that the “textile vote” was all for Stevenson. Well, Green ville is a great textile center: Green ville voted for Eisenhower. Anderson was counted for Stevenson, but An derson is a great Agricultural coun ty; one of the best in America. Well, if it was the textile vote, how do we account for grand old Darlington, land of the sturdy Welch, home of greatness, county of outstanding farmers? If Litad looked for real in dependence in any County it would have been Darlington, native soil of more greatness than any other Coun ty of the State. But there you are! Chesterfield, what a nice name: rolls off the tongue with the melody of a song—Chesterfield! A big coun ty of farmers, but it was for Steven son! And over in Newberry, a textile center, the majority vote was for Eisenhower. Florence, Marlboro, Dillon, Horry —all farming centers—for Steven son, but sturdy Lee County—an ag ricultural community—was for Eis enhower. And if you think it was organized Labor, consider Charleston, Colum bia, Greenville—all for Eisenhower. You can’t tell with assurance; next time all may be different. “Ye’ll find mankind na uncommon squad”, as Robert Burns said. Sturdy old Marion, in a neighbor hood of Stevenson supporters, voted independently for Eisenhower. So, if you would analyze the vote, Britain Says East German Force Doubled you will find that South Carolina did not vote in blocs; you have ob served Colored Counties voting for Eisenhower; textile counties not all for the same man; and the farmers voted with their independence. Whether we agree or not, it is ob vious that South Carolina is a State of individualists, every man voting as he pleases; and that is real dem ocracy in action. SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE “The Paper Everybody Reads” London, Dec. 1.—Britain accused Russia tonight of nearly doubling the size and firpeower of a modern East German land, air and sea force with in the last six months. " A press statement issued by the Foreign Office said the East German “people’s police” now is developing into a well-organized force with modern weapons closely supervised by Soviet officers. The statement constituted a warn ing that rearmament of Western Germany was vital to the defense against the threat of Communist ag gression. The three arms of the force con stitute cade units with a high pro portion of officers, and as such can be swiftly expanded if present co ercive methods of recruitment are intensified, the statement said. Until recently the peoples police was estimated to be about 55,000 strong, the Foreign Office said, but according to evidence which has reached Britain from undisclosed sources in recent weeks, more than 100,000 East Germans now are under arms. It added that they are equip ped with Soviet tanks, self-propelled guns, howitzers and anti-aircraft ar tillery. Decisions Needed The Foreign Office commented: “There can be no doubt that final decisions by all countries concerned on the West Germans defense con tribution are a matter of growing urgency in view of increasing East German rearmament as an addition to the military strength of the Soviet bloc.’ This was a reference to the agree ment of the Atlantic Allies to set up a European Army with 500,000 West German troops in it. Neither France which sponsored the idea nor the West German Parliament so far have ratified the agreement. Thus far, the statement said, not a single West German has been turned into a tion of the Other countries whose troops would be merged in the Army are Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Lux embourg. Discloses Warning It disclosed as a sort of warning to the mutually suspicious French and West Germans: craft and more than 4,000 trained men. The Foreign Office made these other statements: A skeleton Defense Ministry ha* been set up with the heads of the air. 1. That the Communists have set ^ an< ^ an< * sea arms having the titles of deputy ministers of the interior. More than 350 tanks—mostly Rus sian-type T-34’s—and 200 guns of various calibers have been isitied to up a headquarters for the First (three-division) Corps of their force at Pasewalk, 75 miles north of Ber lin. * j 2. That air and ground training i t ^ ie c orps together with Soviet-pro- has been started for an East German; duced small arms and transportation Air Force equipped with Russian 1 vehicles. airplanes. Strength of the East German air 3. That an embryo East German | police force is nearly 5,000. Its head- Navy organized as “sea police” al-! quarters are believed to be in or ready comprises four flotillas of minesweepers and coastal j>atrol near Berlin, and its commander was identified as Lt. Gen. Heinz Kessler. Savings Accounts 3%—DIVIDEND—3% soldier pending final ratifica- [ f ♦ho European Army plan.* We Invite savings accounts from the people of Clinton and vicinity. You will like oar friendly and efficient ser vice, and yoa will receive your dividend promptly each January 1st and July 1st. Any amount — from $1 up — opens an account. Each account is insured up to $10,000 by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. Two people may have up to $30,000 fully insured. Accounts by mail promptly acknowledged. 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