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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, May 14, 1953
ultjr (Eltnton (SljnmuU
Established 1900
WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher
HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant
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Little League
Opens Season, 1
Small Fry to Start
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\ 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. . !
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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
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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
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HAUPFEAR
Mr. and Mrs. 1 Gelie Austin Haup-
fear announce the birth of a son,
Johnny Eugene, at Hays hospital
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formerly Miss Hetta Reba Chalk.
CANTRELL
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SMITH
Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Smith of
South Boston, Va., announce the
birth of a son, Robert LeRoy, on
May 7 at Brann Medical Center,
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