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l i a Thursday, March 26, 1953 The CLINTON chronicle Pasre Three ===== i.' .■« KOREAN SITUATION WORSE THAN PUBLIC WAS TOLD Washington.—There are some im patient souls who complain that the which is considering various legis-! on prices and wages, alortg with lative proposals for some sort of priority and allocation powers, in standby controls law. 1 event o ‘ f a new war Present authority for wage-price-, ,. Not just wages or ices or of . rent controls and allocations of t by Mao Tsetung’s Communist forces. scarpp materials is due to exoire' lts are at stake in thls legislation, - expects, Chiang toj^taLir^ Apri^rand June 30.1 Baruch said. “What you do-or do While nobody new Eisenhower adminis^ation has "{JJJ *,here'1^00 reton ^ i P^tJeM Eisenhower has said that j not do-will speed or slow any moi * *• onv rulurc , tnere . ls no r 7? son ina V, , except for allocations power and bihzation that may be forced upon I 56 ® 0 ff atic ' . . .. . . ® jcreased activities on'his part either, rent ce iij n g S j n critical areas, he j us. mdicato of a solution of the war in ; lhrough raids in force ,on the coast win ask neither for their cont i nu . Korea. Neither is there yei any-tax or through harassing activities with- . .. .. 11 v ‘ 111 reduce relief in sight. These men and April, 1953, I will render a final ac count of my acts and doings as Ex ecutor of the estate of Minnie S. Wilson in the office of the Judge of Probte of Laurens County, at-10 o’clock a.m., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge ffom my trust as Executor. # Any person indebted to said estate is notified and required to make pay- y* o ment' on or before that date; and all persons having claims against said estate will present them bn or before said date, duly proven, or be for ever barred. E. GREER WILSON, • Executor. March 3, 1953. * 28-4<r men and women overlook the fact that President Eisenhower and his advisers have been in office only two months; that the situation | in Korea as revealed by the blunt! statements of Gen. James Van Fleet) . „ or increase our in China by guerrillas will detract anC u n ° r f P r sta | ldb y authority. Ei- casua i t y lists. It cpuld determine in emna oy guerrillas, win aeiraci sen ^ ower has a i re ady decontrolled' the verv , thi , nit ion from the military potential which thei waBfes and nrices , me very survival oi inis nation. ■ Chinese Reds have in Korea. nu t ] Chairman Capehart (R-Ind) of j the Senate Banking group has been is worse than the American .people have been led to believe in the past because of ammunition shortages and that balancing of the budget and reduction of taxes depends more on Comrade Malenkov and Co. than on the administration and Congress. The overall world j>itture is, if anything, worsetitarflast year. Plans are being discussed in the White House, SUte Department and Penta gon to^activate the Far Eastern fronts which extend from Korea to / Malaya. The new American policy makers are placing the Far East, insofar as our security is concerned, on an equal footing with Western Europe. Baruch Urges Need Stand-By Controls Power It is true that the Korean war U sUU I aJyi ' ser t0 p residentSi said: ) plugging for standby authority to i freeze prices, wages and rents for | 90 days after the start of a de- dared emergency. | Baruch said he nas no idea what I position the administration will I take on the controls issue, “whethe- ♦ I er they will confuse their peace- Washington.—Bernard M. Baruch time economic philosophy with the said today that if war comes and , needs of war. finds the government unprepared But he appealed to Congress to tb clamp on immediate economic j take matters into its own hands controls, “there will not be a person! and provide authority for a freeze alive who will not bitterly rue this tragic, needless neglect.” Urging that the administration and Congress get together on a | standby economic controls law, or j that Congress do it alone if neces sary, the New York financier and FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that,on the 9th day of Dr. W. W. Adams VETERINARIAN 614 Musgrove Street Clinton, S. C. Phones: Office 958 Residence 991-W described as “local”. But on our de termination to win it militarily de pends the future of America’s out post in the Pacific. Pacific At Stake It is not Korea itself which is of paramount importance. But on what happens to our forces there depends the futtire of Japan, the Philippines and possibly Australia. Unless our military prestige is reestablished in that populous portion of the world, it is not difficult to conceive that Japan and the Philipines, to say nothing of the whole of southeast continental Asia and the Indonesian republic, may fall prey to the Mus covites. The pro-American government of Prime Minister Yoshida was over thrown in Japan, not because he used insulting language toward one of his op^nents in the Diet, but because the timid members of the Japanese Parliament feared that he was work ing in too • close association with Washington. The fundamental reason for Yo- shida’s downfall is that he secretly favored a thorough Japanese rearm- ament and intended to ask for some) changes in the Constitution to allow him to take such* steps. Gen. Eisenhower’a statement that Asiatics should be entitled to fight the Red Asiatics had more sighlfi- cance in Japan than it has here where it was considered only one of those political wishful expressions to which we have grown accustomed. Japan can, with the assistance of the United States, organize a military force of not less than 1,000,000 men and thus oppose any attempt of the Reds to take over the country which is one of the most important bastions of our Pacific defense. They could do this without any American ground forces. It is possible that Yoshida will emerge as the winner of the next election to be held in a few weeks. In that case he will be able to put into effect policies which will have the blessings and assistance of the United States. That will cost us money. The creartion of a single front from Korea to Malaya is in the making c tiow. Militarily it is regarded as an important step to ease the Asian sit uation. Politically, it will be more difficult to accomplish because Con gress is likely to balk at spending on Indo-China an additional $1 bil lion when the control of these funds remains entirely in the hands of the French command. And the French are too sensitive to permit American controllers to supervise the manner in which these funds are to be spent and advise on military strategy. Our understanding of a “common front” is to have a strongly co-ordi nated action from Korea to Saigon in which the American high com mand would have a decisive voice. The French understanding, at pres ent, is that we should provide all the needed supplies and possibly some air and navel aces, but all these should be subordinated to the French commander in chief. Unless these differences can be irnoed out, the chances of creating the “front unique” are slim at this time. Attempts will be ipade in the near future to Tncfease the meager al lowances to Chiang Kai-shek’s Na tionalist forces in Formosa to per mit them to undertake diversionary actions on the Chinese mainland and possibQy to reconquer Hainan Island which was taken over two years ago Attention, Farmers! Don’t gamble with a poor stand of cotton this year. Have your cotton seed deiinted, recleaned and treated at the Mountville Gin & Seed Cleaners We clean any kind of seed. Germination test run on all. all work guaranteed — M. Simmons Mwotrllle, 8. & Pboac 876 “The next war—and all of us pray it will be avoided—is likely to explode in a big smash. Cities may be all but obliterated. Who knows where Congress will be? . . . “You face a simple issue,” Ba ruch said in a statement to the Sen ate Banking Committee. “Are we to take the elementary precaution of writing into law now what we know would have to be done in event of emergency? “Or shall we neglect this vital measure of defense and, in doing so, increase the risk of war, add to the toll of dead and wounded if war does come and make inflation certain—all needlessly?” Baruch had been invited to give his views to the Senate committee, BE UP AND AT’EM A NEW YOH WILL YELL ‘BRING ON THE FOOD’ When this stomachic pepper-upper makes you feel up-and-up enough to oat your way to new happiness. Ala. Business Man Thanks Scalfs Indian River Medi cine for Relief. Regains Lost Weight. “I couldn’t eat . . was all tired out all the time,” writes Mr. John B. Graham, Anniston, Ala. “After first bottle of Scalf’s Indian Riv er Medicine I feel fine and I’m regaining lost weight.” poorly, ting you hard. 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