Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I Pape Four COMMEKT ON MEN AND THINGS By The Spectator most gracious womanhood I’ve ever known. \ * * • The American ideal of govern- j ment rests on the principle of equality. Our declaration of In dependence says: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal .... That to secure these rights, Governments j are instituted among men.” That ” " " ' does not mean that we were cre- What about our Sales Tax? Over a ^ ec j w jth equality of brains or in \\ alterboro, county seat of equality of opportunity; the con- Colleton. the weekly paper ol t r0 ]jj n g thought of the Continental Brother Smoak (The Press and (7 on g ress was that America pro- Standard) has something to say c i a j me d t o the world that all men about our Sales Tax. I quote Edi tor Smoak: ' • $40,000,000. This is the approxi mate income from the state--wide sales tax during 1951-52. $20,549,208. This is the differ- are equal before the law; that a government should treat all men alike. Strangely enough, the Tru man idea is to have laws enacted that require private business to treat all men alike, although the ence between the amount of sales Government has nothing to do tax revenue in 1951-52 and amount: with the employment and dismissal of increased expenditures for pub lic education in South Carolina in 1951-52. Many were led to believe the sales tax was put on to raise need ed money for school purposes only. of employees by private business; the Government violates the spirit of the Constitution when it ‘/fixes” minimum wages in private indus try. And although Mr. Truman and his satellites have virtually And not to raise money to be plac-! thrown the Constitution out of the ed in the general fund of the state; window, and have talked and legis- and to be spent for any purpose.” < lated about equality of color and This may be news to many, for race, in private employment, the most citizens don’t know what is Trumans created great power going on. , 1 plants with tax money and ordered South Carolina is working streh- that the power should be sold to a uously to promote an educational group of preferred customers! By program that may be basically sound, but arouses much reflec tion. Theoretically, a large school with modern equipment is prepar what strange reasoning can we de fend the sale of tax-payors’ power to preferred customers? Let me quote the retiring Secretary of In ed to do better work than a small; terior, according to the dispatches school. Whether we lose more than from Washington in The State of we gain is worth pondering; and' Januarj- 16th.: whether we are on the right road, I ‘’Secretary of the Interior Oscar but going too far is another ques-1 Chapman today disclosed why he tion. At any rate, the effort to has refused to sell to the Georgia Power Company 140,000 kilowatts of power to be produced by the Clarks Hill dam, which the Army Engineers have built on the Sa vannah River between South Caro- j lina and Georgia. Chapman said, in a letter to C. S. serve the state efficiently is a genu ine endeavor of thoughtful plan ners * * * Over in old Edgefield county Editor Walton Mims and Editor J. L. Aull have been foremost in the tight against Trumanism. Brother Aull, as I recall, was the first County Editor to declare unre servedly for Eisenhower. So many of our editors went into battle that it is difficult to recall the order in which they drew their swords. Edgefield has fighting blood. I recall my years there—very happy years: and I remember that it w'as -sard—That—tvjctt square—font—-of ground in front of the Court House had soaked up human blood. And so well known was Edgefield as the home of fighting blood that it was told me (some miles from Edgefield) that when a big bully strutted about with two pistols and insulted people a little dried-up man slapped his face. The bully started to daw both guns, where upon the little dried-up fellow looked him in the eye and said, My name is X; I’m from Edge- field.” The bully tamely walked away. Of all the mild and gentle friends of my days in Edgefield chief among them were my fnbnds, the Mims. But even the gracious spir its of Edgefield have all the invin cible spirit I’ve told of. I quote Editor Mims: "Byrnes lost the election and he got too much credit for the large vote Eis enhower received. The truth is that if Byrnes had stood on principle and come out fighting in the beginning. South Carolina would have repudiated the Truman crowd just as it did in 1948 under States Rights leader ship. - ’ I’ve never known a more hos pitable and delightful community than Edgefield. In those days the WCTU was the greatest influence in the county and it was a mighty force, and its merbership was the McManus of Atlanta, that the Geor gia company’s proposal would di minish the rights guaranteed by Congress to rural electric coopera tives, cities and towns, and other ■preference customers’ to have first call on the power from the gov ernment-built dams. He wrote: ‘You propose to give the govern ment the right to designate cer- "tairv preference' 'enstomers to be re- cipients of blocks of power, to the extent of one-half of the capacity sold to you (that is, one-half of the 140.000 k.w) to be delivered to them by the company as its cus tomers. The rates you would charge these customers for such blocks of power would be the 1-2 cost of the power to you at the bus bar plus a percentage mark-up. Should the power requirements of these preference customers be in excess of the amounts designated to be delivered to them then they may ptHxhase additional blocks of power from your company at your estabhshett^rates.” Well, why not? Does anyone have preferred customers in sell ing automobiles, or shoes, or cloth ing, or salmon or sardines, or shav ing soap, or gasoline? Does a farmer’s wife enjoy a lower rate at the beauty parlor? Or is the farm er a preferred traveler on the bus es? I am a farmer; I am not entit led to a preference. Our Government has no right to meddle with wages; that is part of the Socialism we imported from Europe. Let’s get back to the Constitution and be Americans; let’s stop accept ing practices of Europe brought here by those who left Europe be cause they could not live in free dom there: so they want us to adopt the laws they fled from. S-T-E-A-D-Y Steady saving is what it takes for the average person to build a good reserve. To build a fund of $1,000, $2,500, $5,000 — or whatever goal you have in mind, many customers put a pan of each check into savings on payday and get along on the balance. And, remember, earnings start the first of the month on savings received by the tenth. ederal Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION A Clinton Institution Serving Clinton People Since 1909 Telephone No. 6 * THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, February 5, 1953 Mountain Brand i Grade ‘•Six# Palmetto Farm Grade A Largo Shipped H* ffl ffl rn Fresh To Your Dixie-Home Dox. Ctn. Palmetto Farm Brand is our Grade A- LARGE SIZE oggl 63 Your strictly fresh Dixie-Home eggs, only hours old, are rushed direct from the farms to Dixie-Home’s warehousel Then, they are inspected—because every egg is GUARAN TEED strictly fresh—and placed in DATED cartons—and rush ed to your Dixie-Home Super Marketl This week, you'll find your Dixie-Home strictly fresh eggs In a NEW DRESS—a new carton for a GOOD EGGI’-' Dixie-Home Coffee (Gold Cup Lb. Bag 81c) Mountain View Grade A Medium Shipped FililH Fresh To Your Dixie-Homo Ctn. Dox. o Silver Cup Lima Beans jgl Lb. £ G ^9 Tasty Dish For Winter Meals—Baby 2-Lb. ^ Cello Bag ctonumnui uuyi ; Flour 77t 27c $1.77 Economical Buy! Self Rising Harvest isib. Cream 809 Stock Your Shelves With Standard Pack Cut Green Beans 2 35c Del Mojito Brand Cream . ^ ,»K - \ '.y Golden Corn 1 [ No. 303 A Can' 19c Hershey’s Rich Baking Chocolate . Beverly Breakfast vaUaagv ■ Yosemite Yellow Cling Sliced Or Halves Playmates Sweet Mixed , 8 p^g.39c Peaches .*°.n 2 *27c Pickles . Dixie-Home Pure Cider (Qt. Bot. 17c) White House Economy Sixe 'cSMBc Vinegar . 2 ■ # v/ vv mi v uwra bwiiwi 10c Apple Jelly 28c I, b 30c Down Go Steak Prices! Quality-Tender U. S Choice BEEF! SIRLOIN STEAK, BONELESS TOP ROUND, T-BONE, CUBE, CLUB, AND DELM0NIC0! ~ , > • It Must Be U. S. Choice or Better To Be Quality Tender. Lb. For Salads & Cooking WESSON OIL 33c Pint Bot. Complexion Soap DIAL SOAP 2 27c Stay Fresh With DIAL SOAP 17c Bath Sixe For Lovelier Skin PALMOLIVE 3 23c Vegetable Shortening SNOWDRIFT 85c 3-Lb. Can Vacuum Pack Corn NIDLETS 2 c 2 ^ 35c Dixie-Home Salad DRESSING '£t5t Long Grain Rice MMMTIU 3 Cel lo*’Bag 49C Blended Shortening BNKE-RITE 8 £. 75c Pure Aluminum Foil Wrap REYNOLBS 27c Large Tender Peas GREEN RUNT 19c No. 303 Can Florida Seald-Sweet Zipper Skin Tangerines poz. 12 ( 43c Fancy Fresh Pole Deans Juice-Heavy Florida Oranges . . Fancy California Red Emperor Crisp Green Grapes . . .2 LI »33c bollards Exceptionally Fine Quality, Firm And White—Fancy Sno-Ball CAULIFLOWER ■ ^ D e Bch ib 23c LB " 19c Large Head 23 For Your Beauty Bath PALMOLIVE 2 ^ 23c For Family Wash SUPER SUDS X 27c Health Soap LIFEDOUY 3 ?£ 23c Cashmere Bouquet a Cashmere Bouquet TOILET SOAP . 3 "S 23c TOILET SOAP 2 ^ 23c Granulated Soap For Fine Washables OCTAGON Lo ** 9Qp Pkg. ‘ LUX FLAKES X 27c For Whiter Brighter Clothes Pure Mild RINSO X 27c SWAN SRAP 3 r 23c White Toilet Soap OCTAGON 3 c-k« jg c Deodorant Soap LIFEBUOY 2 s r 23c Toilet Soap SWAN SOAP 2 S. 27c 'iil’H 1 A"