The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, May 28, 1953, Image 9
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Clinton, S. C, Thursday, May 28, F953
Number 22
BARSON DISCUSSES YOUR
FINANCES
Babson Park, Mass., May 28.—
How heavily, without 'danger, can
you as an individual go into debt?
How large a mortgage can you han
dle and, at the same time make in
stallment payments on a new car,
TV, and a home freezer? These are
good times; the best ever, we are
told. Yet, in some sections six
times as many persons are failing
to meet their installment payments
on time as failed in normal times.
How ar e you fixed?
At* You Rolling In Money
The U. S. Department of Com
merce reported personal earnings of
$268 3 billions for
1952—a 5 1-2 per
cent jump over
1951. The pay
rolls of private in-
du s t r y accounted
for much of the
increase. Gov e r n-
ment payrolls,
which included
the miliatry were
up 13 per cent.
The report implies
that almost everybody but the
farmer should be rolling in money.
* The all-time income high for
fartners came in 1947 with a net of
$16.7 billions. 1950 dropped about
25 per cent from 1947. But Korea
boosted output and prices and the
net for the farmer moved up again
to a little better than $14 billions
for 1951. 1952 dropped back
slightly from 1951' and a further 5
per cent drop in net income is ex
pected for 1953. Perhaps the farm
er is not rolling in money.
Wageworkers Are t'rospenous
Are you one of those whose in
come has increased? Are you bet
ter off toay than ever before?
You’re not*
A short time ago I saw an analysis
of figures on national income.
Here’s what I found.. In 1950, the
top 20 per cent of our wage earn
ers held 93 per cent of our savings,
leaving 80 per cent of the pecula
tion with only 79 per cent of the
Roger W. Babies
national savings.
We are gleeful about our pros-
penty- and the wageworkers should
be very thankful. The average
earnings of the industrial worker
in this multi-billion income year
of 1953 are $T2 per week, which
is about $10 per capita higher than
in 1951. This sounds like almost
everybody is well off- Yet to hear
labor union officials talk you would
think wageworkers are not enjoy
ing their share of the prosperity.
Statistics show that these labor
leaders are not telling the truth.
Are You Spending Too Much?
If you cannot meet all of your
monthly bills on-» time, including
your installment payments, you
should make out a careful budget
and follow it. You ought to now
get yourself back on a pay-as-you-
go basis in addition to building up
your liquid assets—that is, savings
accounts and Government bonds.
We must avoid a too large national
consumer debt now $25.7 billions
Our installment credit accounts
alone are now reaching $19.3 bil
lions of this debt.
Our national economic problem
is that our consumer debt has been
rising faster than has the amount
of money that people have avail
able to spend. People cannot con
tinue to go further into debt each
year without either increasing
their production and
sooner or later experiencing real
financial difficuties.
Are You Saving Enough?
In these good times it’s also
shocking to discover that the me
dian liquid Musset holdings of all U.
S. families (money readily avail
able, savings accounts, stocks and
was spending that year $200 more
than it was taking in. This does
not give the complete story; but
the situation is serious and should
be corrected either by spending less
or by producing more.
Let Ui All Produce More
Surely our standard of living has
increased remarkably in the last
decade; people have more refrig
erators, appliances, automobiles,
and homes. We have, however, as
a nation, lacked the moral stamina
to work harder and longer to de
serve these blessings and have re
serves for an emergency. Now is
the time to save more. Also, try'
to pay more down on anything
which you buy on installment or
other forms of credit.
bonds) have decreased 50 per cent,
Let me tell you why. from $470 in 1947 to $230 in 1952.
Many economists received cjuite
a jolt a short time ago when the
Bureau of Labor Statistics an
nounced thg results of the financial
condition of some 12,000 families it
studied in 1950. Its preliminary
report read as if the average family
No Cancer or Dental
Decay Among
Natives of Africa
“In spite of the witch doctors and
their almost inhuman practices and
in the absence of modern sanitation,
there is no cancer, dental decay nor
appendicitis among the primitive
peoples of Africa,” said Dr. R. N
Thompson, Chiropractic Christian
Missionary to Ethiopia, before the
S. C. Chicopractic Association at its
annual meeting at Myrtle Beach last
week, as reported by Dr. C. J. Hart
of Laurens. .
Dr. Thompson attributed the ab
sence of these diseases among primi
tive pepoles to the eating of foods
grown in their natural state rather
than with the use of artificial fertil
izer, to the use of fresh foods with
out poisonous preservatives, to prop
er exercise and to natural sleep. Due
to consumption of fresh foods instead
of tinned foods and also to scarcity
of foods, there is no overeating and
overworking of vital organs of the
body he said.
Dr. Thompson a native of Canada,
is a graduate of the Palmer School
of Chiropractic. He has spent nine
area have not renewed their drivers years in Ethiopia where he has been
license. This is to remind the driving) expounding the Christian faith and
public that the present drivers li- practicing his profession. He and
Renew Your
Driver's License,
Patrol Urges
According to Lt. J. G. Huff, Com
manding Officer of the South Caro
lina highway patrol in this district,
a large percentage of drivers in this
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HOLIDAY WEEK-END
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cense expires June 30, 1953.
You may secure your new driver’s
license over the counter in this sec
tion at highway patrol offices located
at Greenwood, Greenville, Columbia,
Anderson, and Spartanurg or you
earnings or may send your" full name, address,
or description. Mail same tb S. C.
Highway Dept., Columbia along with
a money order for 60 cents if a metal
license is desired, or money order
for 50 cents if a paper license is
wanted. Information pertaining to
drivers license may be sent to Co
lumbia on any type of paper just so
it is legible. However, if desired a
supply of drivers license renewal
forrps have been printed for your
convenience and placed at Giles
Chevrolet Co., Clinton, Milam-Poole
Chevrolet Co., Laurens. Also at the
Clinton and Laurens Police depart
ments, Laurens County Sheriff’s of
fice, or any highway patrolman will
furnish forms it is announced.
Motorists are informed not to de
lay securing their drivers license be-
force July 1, 1953, as anyone failing
to renew license before deadline will
have to take the complete driver’s li
cense examinations over. It is ad-
viseable to place your application
immediately so as to avoid last min.
ute rush.
Mrs. Thompson will return to Ethio
pia this month and he is expected to
take charge of a large leper colony.
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More Bounce To the Ounce
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Greenwood, S. C. Phone 9-6210
Dr. W. W. Adams
VETERINARIAN
614 Musgrove Street
Clinton, S. C.
Phones:
Office 958
Residence 991-W
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County Draft Board
Calls 24 For
Army Service
The Laurens county draft board
sent 24 young men to Fort Jackson
! Tuesday for induction into the armed 1
forces Chairman J. B. Lewis an-
houncecn
Those included in the released
list are:
James Austin Chandler, Hershtl
Lee Lawson, Billy Ray Heaton, and
Jimmy Ray Suttle, Clinton; Richard
Carl Harris, Greenville; Jones Wil
liam Goodwin, David Gwinn Coker
and Jack Edward Willis of Fountain
Inn;
Also, Franklin Milton Chapman,
Mitthell Ediston Henley, Roy Clark
Simpson, Tommy Lamar O’Dell,
Ware Shoals; Charles Earl Pulley,
Larry Benjamin Boyd, Walter Rob
ertson, Ernest Roosevelt Butler and
John Henry Carter of Laurensr
James Harold Davis, Joe Stewart
Thomason, Richard Bobo Edwards
and Herman Alvis Thompson of
Gray Court; Clayton Kirby Woods of
Honea Path; Ollie Dotson, Due West.
(Lewis also announced that two
volunteers wall also report for duty
from Laurens. They are Willie James
Bailey and James Wesley Dendy.
A total of 70 registrants reported
for their physical examinations on
May 19.
Dr. Fred E. Holcombe
OPTOMETRIST
Offices at
200 South Broad St.
Phone 658
Office Honrs 9:00 to 5:30
Gray
Funeral Home
Clinton S. C.
FI NERAL DIRECTORS
...and...
EM BALMERS
Phones 41 and 399-.1
LANCE SERVICE
L RCSSELL GRAY and
W PARKS \DAIR, Gen. Msrv
GRAND OPENING!
VARSITY DAIRY BAR
TODAY ~
THURSDAY, MAY 28th.
A cordial invitation is extended the public to
~ visit us on our opening day
FREE ICE CREAM CONES FROM
3 to 5 P. M.
Quality Ice Cream Sold by the Cone, and in
Bulk, Sundaes, Malts, Milk Shakes.
WE INVITE YOU TO VISIT US
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Varsity Dairy Bar
Norman L. Sloan, Prop.
South Broad St, Opposite Johnson’s Super-Market