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Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, May 14, 1953 ultjr (Eltnton (SljnmuU Established 1900 WILSON 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 Little League Opens Season, 1 Small Fry to Start i ^ 1 ,, \ Clinton 1 Little League opened May 4 with Academy St. defeating 1 Lydia. Since the opening day Florida Street has defeated Thom- GRAOOMIOH CLINTON. S. C., THURSDAY. MAY 14, 1953 7 heir Big Day Throughout the land, at universi- ! cs, colleges and high schools, its ^ . out graduating time again, time ♦ o roll out the varpet for the caps and gowns. In his community the season is always one of peculiar! interest to parents, relatives and: friends, with interesting closing 1 exercises at the city schools, white and colored, college and orphanage. Comencement, the time when young graduates step forward and aceive their diplomas, is always an anticipated event with pride and ? easure. This mearts that gradu- c.t on. whether from high school or college, is a red-letter day. It means in reality the finishing of an er/>bition started four years ago, the stepping forth to face new re sponsibilities, competitions, read justments, disappointments as well as achievements. "We congratulate the graduates. They will always remember their (omencement and we hope they 1 be successful at whatever they! tempt, and that their lives will be ; .lied with happiness. We hope' ;eir dark-letter days, which are r vund to come in life’s race—will j be few. Closing exercises are arranged specially in honor of the gradu-! ; tes, and friends of the entire com munity are invited to attend com mencement. . ! the free and po- to the Thurmond's Poy Stand Governor Strom Thurmond made an enviable record during the four years he held office and rendered • a sound, fearless and honest ser vice for which we are indebted to him. Thurmond stood ‘‘four-square’’ on all issues, he openly opposed the Truman regime. He put to an end the pardon racket, he fought for a new constitution while the .senate has repeatedly refused to al low the people to vote on this im portant question. Another characteristic of Strom Thurmond was shown recently. Under a recently amended act on the retirement of judges, the for- rritr judge and governor might have been able to apply for $7,200 a year in retirement pay, an un justified raid on taxpayers by legis lative enactment. This is the same ex-governtfr who refused to accept an increase in. salary' during his it-im of office because of his re- vpcct for the constitution. Asked whether he intended to try to take advantage of the wording of the new amendment, Mr. Thur- T.ond replied: “It would not be proper for me to accept such retirement pay. Even if it were permitted under the act as drawn, I don’t think it was the intent of the legislature that the retirement apply to me as st resigned judge. I don’t think it would be right for me to consider 1 it ” * How maify other public officials ^ould take this stand if they con- vdered they were eligible for the “grab.” No wonder that a large army of lawyers in the general as- rembly seek and gain the judicial plums and at the age of 70 are re- tjuired to retire and make room for others while they draw the hand- -ofrie retirement for life* Strom Thurmond puts principle ibove politics or personal gain. “Gn any issue his stand rings true. His answer to the retirement pay question is exactly what might Lave been expected of him. i International Chamber of Com merce A large delegation from 1 the United States will be in the group which means it will be an | important and timely meeting. For today, this shift of emphasis to the economic foundations of military and political strength is the most ! significant outgrowth of that new reappraisal of policy in which the leading governments of world are now engaged. President Eisenhower litical leaders have come conclusion that ‘‘trade, not aid” is the healthy basis upon which na tions must agree and work. What we need is an end to the giving away policy of Roosevelt and Truman and in the transition,' to replace our long standing policy with a self-help program. That is the policy this and other na-, tions should demand. We need to foster a larger trading area in the free world to demonstrate the great merits of free enterprise as against Communism and of open compe tition as against statism. 1 As a matter of fact, tariffs about which we hear much—are a form of subsidies. Instead of being paid directly from the treasury as in the case of farm or other subsidies, the benefits come from consumers; who pay more for the tariff-pro-1 tected articles than they would: have to pay if they could buy with-1 -crut~ customs ~ drrtte—from—foreign j suppliers. The Chamber of Commerce reso- | luton is for freer trade in business. 1 It stresses an important trend Con gress and the American people can in no way ignore. and spoke English rather fluently, i and many of the farms have share Some were teachers, chemists, assist-j croppers. ant supervisors of agriculture some 1 'One of the men from Italy stated dairymen-etc. .< ^he owned 500 acres of land and had The delegate from Italy stated 22 farm families on it, and if he that the area fo' his country was would convert his farm operation to about the size of the state of Texas modern machinery as Americans are and had a population of fifty mil-'doing, he would need not over three lion people. He said it was not a! thereby displacing 19 fam- question of trying to make money inl illes - his county, but their prbolem was to The principal work stock in Italy find work for the large population in j and Yugoslavia is cattle—still in the well and Joanna, Thomwell has i order to make a living. The average ox day®. The quality of dairy and defeated Lydia, and Academy has f arm in Italy is from five to ten acres beef cattle is very poor. • defeated Thornwell. This leaves ~ : 1 Florida Street and Academy Street tied for top with two wins each. Starting next week The Chron-i icle will give the number of games won and lost, leading hitiers and leading pitchers in strikp-outs. The director, D. S. Templeton, says there is a great need for um pires at the games. Anyone who would like to help is asked to be at the park at 5 p. m., for Little League games and at 3:30 at the Pony League park starting Monday. Pony league starts Monday p. m. at 3:30 with a game between Lydia ! aid Academy. All Pony Leaguers ! must turn in their birth certifi cates to their coaches before they play a scheduled game. All Pony i Leaguers are asked to meet at the Pony park this Saturday at 0 a. m 1 to help put field in good shape and | to bring hoes. Notice To Small Fry Players All Small Fry boys, ages 8-10, are reminded to get their slips from i their teachers’stating their age as to month, day and year born and turn this over to your coach the first day you practice which will be about May 21. All those not making either the Small Fry, Little League or Pony League teams are asked to meet at the park at 10 a. m., Monday, June 1, to form a new league so that ev ery boy between the ages 8-14, in terested in playinlg baseball will be given an opportunity to learn. It was difficult for the delegates to grasp the idea of so few people on the land in this country, and so much land not producing food and feed compared to their over-populated countries. On thing the delegates noticed and commented on was the development of grass land farming and the work Clemson college extension service was rendering to agriculture in soil conservation, livestock, forestry, pro duction of feed and food, and cash crops, etc. if/ "Trade, Not Aid American business showed a sig nificant attitude at the annual 'meeting last week of the Chamber ber of Commerce of the United states. The 3,000 delegates repre- 'senting an estimated 1,600,000 busi ness men approved a policy state ment which largely ‘‘turned its - back on tariff protectionism, advo cated repeal of the preferential ®oy America Act on government purchases, favored an increase of imports, and declared tariff rates should be based on broad national interests rather than those of one industry or section. This makes . good horse sense, it indicates a <> broadening of economic outlook. The further announcement is made that more than 1,000 business men executives will assemble in Vienna May IT to attend the 14th The Tide Is Changing President Harry Truman wanted price controls and many other types of controls — forever. He wouldn't allow any to die, neither did his associated political planners favor a change in our economy sys- j tern. President Eisenhower immedi-1 ately put an end to price controls, and wisely so. There immediate ly went up a loud howl from promi nent New Deal politicians that such drastic action would subject the country to wild inflation, scarcities and run-away prices. But exactly the opposite has happened—there isi no scarcity of anything, many prices have been lowered, and oth- j er reductions are bound to come—J including expensive automobiles aS| an example. The Agriculture de-i partment reported yesterday that retail food -costs have" dropped to the lovle$t ebb since December, i 1950. That is what the elimina-! tion of price controls has broughlj about. § This drop in food and other com modities is what the political plan ners during the years have fought against. Their aim has been per manent controls and the domina tion of the economic life of the country that w'ould be an inevitable part of it. The American people should be thankful we are no longer under control of “planners” who would welcome another wave of price in flation and who ignored the fact that many items in common use have been selling at below-ceiling prices for a long time when gov emment regulations were in ef feet—though meaningless. Current and temporary price trends, whether up or down—are the least important factor in the control argument. The real issue, the all-important one, is whether we have free competitive enter prise, in which prices find their natural trend—or whether we are to have enterprise which is subject to the whims'of a group of political appointees who are responsible only to the top political bosses. We are getting back to represen tative government in which the people are the masters and the of fice-holders the servants. For a free nation must be free in every particular. Our economic freedom is every bit as important as free dom of speech or any other free dom. At long last the fundamental sound principle of supply and de mand is being given an honest op portunity to work, replacing arti ficial control regulations and bu reaucracy run mad. This is good news to millions of housewives. Foreign Delegation Visits County Farms A delegation of 11 people from four foreign countries spent the af ternoon of May 7 with County Agent C. B. Cannon in studying agriculture. Countries represented were Den mark,^! ta ly, Ph i 1 ippine Islands and Yugoslavia. Dr. H. G. Albritten, di rector of the soil testing laboratory of Clemson college, was with the group. '"‘TamisvlsttefrwereT.P:andT).E: Brown, Laurens, Rt. 3, commercial dairymen, and Shay Hinton, Lau rens, Rt. 3, purebred Hereford beef cattle .breeder. The members of the party enjoyed their afternoon visit and some ex pressed the opinion that America is at least 40 years ahead of their coun try in the use of improved machin ery. The men were well educated COMPARE- fVBRSHARP GIVES YOU MORE FEATURES... FINER VALUE! • fOSniVI PUP-MU—PmlMt, »fwt, wfatf wmy to M yovr, pviv Jwm nip mrwr—powB Driw-rvu. *• W 1 * 1 *-* ^ ^ ^ J. C. THOMAS, ‘It’s Time That Counts” I :: 8 :: r ft ft 1 I Birth Announcements SIMPSON Mr. and Mks. Virgil B. Simpson announce the birth of a daughter, Janet Ramell, May 16 at Hope hos pital, Lockhart. Mrs. Simpson is the former Mfiss Bobbie Sue Patterson of Anderson. SIMMONS ^===7” Mr. and Mrs. James Edward Simmons announce the birth of a daughter on May 7 at Hays hos pital. Mrs. Simmons is the for mer Miss Rose Marie Brown. GAULT 'Mr. and Mrs. Marvin G. Gault, Jr., announce the birth of a son, Marvin Carter, on May 9 at Hays, hospital. Mks. Gault was before marriage Miss Betty Jane Carter of Greenville: ; - I I I >.: 8 8 8 8 ft :: ft ♦♦ TAKE JUST AS MUCH TIME AS YOU PLEASE ^ *. -C4 SELF- SERVICE GIVES YOU SHOPPING ,/ O idCAt TRADEMARKS, Irnt TO GET YOUR COMPLETE 23-PIECE ROY ROGERS HANOI SET Get Order Form from Johnson Bros. Super-Market 2 Box Tops FROM ANY POST CEREAL PLUS Fifty Cents in Coin ♦> ♦ a a# ♦ a a> ♦ a a> ♦ a a# a# ■ a# ♦a a# ♦ a s HAUPFEAR Mr. and Mrs. 1 Gelie Austin Haup- fear announce the birth of a son, Johnny Eugene, at Hays hospital on May 11. Mrs. Haupfear was formerly Miss Hetta Reba Chalk. CANTRELL Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Cantrell an- nuonce the birth of a son, Billy Eu gene, on Mhy 6 at the Blalock clin ic. 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