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V It ^ ^ r 1 - » r * u - The Chronicle Strives To Be A Clean News paper, Complete,, Newsy and Reliable If You Don’t* Read The Chronicle You Don’t Get the News — Volume LIV * Clinton, S. C, Thursday, April 23, 1953 * Number 17 Maid of Cotton To Visit Spartanburg WKK&W Mias Alice Corr, of Selnw, Abu, the 1953 Maid of Cotton, will visit Spartanburg April 24-25 on her «nly visit to South Carolina this year. Mias Corr will be feted at a series of civic affairs and also will be a special guest at Spartanburg’s million dollar Better Living Show at Me morial auditorium. The Maid of Cotton will appear at the show Friday and Saturday, April 24-25, at 3 p.m. and from 8 to 10 p.m. The Better Living show, free to the public, will be open from 2 to 10 pm. daily, starting Wednesday, April 22, and running through Saturday, April 25. BUSINESS TO CONTINUE GOOD THROUGH 1953, HANES SAYS Editor’s Note—^Business will con-iual return' to more normal condit- tinue good in 1953 during the grad- | ions, Greenwood Kiwanians were told this week by Robert M. Hanes, president of the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, of Winston- Salem, N. C., and one of the South’s leading bankers. Th following account of Mr. Hanes’ address is taken from The Greenwood Index-Journal: * • • There is a strong possibility, in Mr. Hanes’ opinion, that the total volume of business in 1953 may equal if not exceed the record of 1952, all estimates being made on the basis of no further increase in international tensions. He sees keener competition, the easing of prices at many points and the return of buyers’ markets in all lines and the general operation of the law of supply and demand. He pointed out that the great problem now is shifting from pro duction to distribution. “This means more selling,” he said, “better merchandising and in creased attention to the moving of goods into the hands of consumers. We shall have to put American salesmanship back in its rightful place, along with mass production, as the dominant factors in Ameri can free enterprise.” Mr. Hanes, making his second ap pearance before the Kiwanis club, termed the change in Washington the most significant as well as the most encouraging feature of 1953. A change in basic philosophy and in attitude toward business and the whole private enterprise system has accompanied the change in ad ministration, Mr. Hanes declared. The year started off with a con siderable momentum carried over from the closing months of 1952, he said, in giving the factors favor able to good business. Business vol ume was excellent during the first quarter of 1953, and industrial pro duction was at record peacetime levels. Employment was - up, un employment down in Mardv conr- UTne a rapid pared to the!previous year. Per sonal income was at a new high, and steel, automobile production and construction, which he called the bellwethers of business, were all moving at high levels with in creases over the previous year. ‘This continuation of favorable business indicators throughout the first quarter with little signs of slowing down has given encourag ing outlook on the year as a whole.” he said. Defense and security spending of $50 to $55 billion was a tremendous shot in the arm for any economy, he declared. The tremendous back log of public works that has ac cumulated over a period of years, as well as* increasing population and increased' confidence generated by the new adrqinistration all jare favorable factorsfhe said Greenwood To Hove Television Station Authorization has been granted WCRS at Greenwood for construc tion of a television station. The Federal Communications Commission granted WCRS-TV channel 21 on the television band. Visual power of 93,000 watts will give strong reception to residents of the area in a 40-mile radius of Greenwood. No announcement of an opening date for the TV station 6an be made until details of connection with network and air and ground relay Systems can be completed. A link tying Greenwood into ereignty of God.—From the Episco- These make up a strong case for ] pal Address, General Conference, realization that the history of busi-' San Francisco, April 23, 1952. ness booms is that they do even-1 tually end. This one, continuing since 1941, with only a slight inter ruption in 1949, has been stimulated by what he called a succession of crises which have acted as a shot in the arm. World War 11 and the pot-war buying and the Korean war. Defense spending, however could taper off. Production has been doubled since 1940, but this has taken place during a period of ab normal demand for goods, As the nation moves from a seller’s to a buyer’s market, surpluses will be built up in different lines, with the develpoment of soft spots. This happened in textiles *a year ago, and in other lines. A retarding factor in the decline in farm prices, now down about 11 per cent from a year ago, A con tinuing decline in farm prices and high cost of farm production would reduce the purchasing power of farmers. A reduction in the export vol- Southern circuits will have to be built, as the city is not at present on the trunks across the Soutn The TV facilities will be added at a cost exceeding $200,000. Th^ will include equipment to present network, film and local "live” pro grams over WCRS-TV. Channel 21 is the lowest UKF channel so far granted in South Carolina and engineers report that low UHFs are as powerful and high as VHFs and are free trom many interferences such as neon signs, auto ignition, diathermy equipment and lightning. Appliance dealers say that con version of standard model TV set; may be maide at moderate cost in most cases to receive UHF. Some- newer sets are built so that adjust ments may be made in a matter of j a few seconds. r i i 1 "jy-A:. 2 ■ V - - ■PP ■dPit m [ dtthtft.... Ttmtm't Hommkef! Popular modern design » finished in beautiful *1 timing AS ADVERTISED IN LIFE An especially attractive modern » f AOC design in the popultr new white * fawn mahogany finish. Self- v rising tray. Streamlined modern cheat finished ia e 4 fi.h American walnut, and equipped with self biting tray. oo DOWN DELIVERS Offi GARMENT S1YH> PAYS (01 A UNI I Very popular l #th Century con- sole-tspe chess in mahogany. Actual drawer in baae. top draw. «rs simulated. Simitar chest avail able in pine finish. 7905 T. E. J ones & Sons FURNITURE increase in private debt—both of corporations and in dividuals are also factors on the darker side of the picture. Mr. Hanes called the recent elec tion the greatest free election ever held in the history of the world, and he called for support for the new administration as it seeks to get back to “sound principles and orthdox precodures.” “For twenty years business, lead ers have clamored and labored for a change in basic philosophy,” he declared. “Business leadership is now being called upon to prove that the principles it has always proclaimed can and will work, that in the new atmosphere free enter prise will flourish and bring in creased benefits to all citizens in every walk of life. It is, there fore, the responsibility of manage ment and indeed every citizen re gardless of party, to cooperate in every possible way with govern ment to make the new adminis tration a success. If it should fail, it will probably mean the end of our free enterprise system and the beginning of a socialistic economy such as the one which liquidated the British Empire. Christianity And Communism The philosophy of atheistic com munism must be frankly and ag gressively faced by the Christian forces of the world. In the hun dred years since Marx and Engels published the “Communist Mani festo” their narrow dogmas have moved with such speed and effec tiveness over vast segments of the human race that they constitute today a major challenge in the ‘ whole Christian conception of life. The communist threat must he met. It openly derides and opposes Christianity. To surrendeL.to_it or be overcome by it is to forfeit the supreme values underlying our, highest culture and our Christian gospel. We shall not serve the cause by impasioned attacks which substitute emotion for intelligence and denunciation for thorough ac-' quaintance with facts. Thinking men know there are some very thriving existence in today’s world, | and those reasons are not always unrelated to the church’s failure to be dynamically effective in preaching the gospel and demon strating Christian principles in the| human society, Emil Brunner, speaking at Amsterdam, bluntly declared: “The present social dis order is a judgment of God upon j the Church.” Bullets cannot kill communism. For example, you i could destroy every communist in the world but your basic problem would still con front you. We believe we have the| truth, we believe the Christian solution, but if the earth-bound philosophy of communism is not | to be accepted by the multitude of earth, we shal} need to eut-think, to out-love, and to out-service the leaders who offer it. We reject i their doctrine of dialectic material-1 ism because it is based upon the denial of the existence and sov- i Mm r Women’s Value-Buy! Gay Print HANKIES 6c NYLON BRIEFS Women’s Sizes, S, II. 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