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t Thursday, August 20, 1953 Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and PubUsher 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 thev 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. . , -- '■ . ' 1 111 i MEMBER* SOUTH CAROLINA*PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION National Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia CLINTON. S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1953 r\ Rr/inrli l°f business because of frequent Olir Executive bro C break-ins and robberies. Mayor President Eisenhower has ap- ; v j c c as i an fold the gentlemen, "We pointed another commission c raip vvill have trouble as long as circuit cd with recommending judges say you can break in a ments in the executive branch 0 H man ’ s place, steal his truck, take government which it is appaient ^ sa j e an( j j t 0 p en> and •to all is badly needed. Foormer ^ then get six m0 nths.” The mayor President Hoover has a c cep t e c ^ Qn one ^ con t r ibuting reas- membership on the commission to ons ^ Qr stea ij n g—light court sen- make a sweeping study of t,ie |tences. Judges should see that branch over which he once pre- . w ^ en convictions are made that ^ided. • ;sure and sufficient punishment is 1 It is recalled that Ex-President given, and should not flinch in in-! Truman appointed Mr. Hoover to : Dieting such a sentence, the original commission several i • Southern Bell Exponds not appoint him to have a hand in i The Southern Bell Telephone and this study. Let him give his time Telegraph company which serves this to writing his memoirs. Had_the j city and area has announced an irn- recommendations of the previous i portant reorganization of its top commission been adopted by the i New Dealers efficiency and econo my would have resulted in gov ernment and billions of dollars .-aved for taxpayers. There is no doubt that a reor ganization of the executive branch is needed to help lighten our stag gering economic burdens, and to managerial staff in this state. The company has recently created | a new exchange group with head-1 quarters here, it was announced by 1 John C. Freeman, district manager! at Spartanburg. The group is estab- | lished in order to serve this section more effectively and will be com- ucr.i.K prised of Clinton, Union, Jonesville, Joanna and surrou„din g | wars The overall picture is thatlf^a An experienced and capab ej during that period the federal gov-, telephon man Charles W Under-4 erriment has expanded from about of the Greenulle office, ha^ -100 different agencies to more than,been sent to Clinton as manager of 1 500 and from about 600,000 em- the new group. The community wel-j Diovees to more than 2,iX)0.000. Ex-1comes him and his family, and con- penditurw have crown from about !.-t 1 the company on providngi $4,000,000,000 annually to over $70,-1 attractive new business offices on 000.000,000 annually over the same, the ground floor of the building it; , occupies which will prove a conven-; Smith, 72,266: BleaSe 56,913; Jen nings, 2,258; Pollock, 1,361. It is true that Manning' was elect ed governor of South Carolina in 1914, but the chiqf contender and his opponent in the second xprimary was not Blease, but John G. Rich ards. Richards was later elected governor of South Carolina (in 1926, I belive) being the first gov ernor to be elected to a full four- year term and ineligible .to succeed himself. In the minds of most peo ple, John G. Richards was a good governor, taking a strong stand for laws encouraging Sabbath obser vance and prohibition. While on the subject of Cole L. Bleake, it is an interesting quirk of history that he resigned five days before the expiration of his sec ond term. Thus South Carolina had the rather odd situation of having tc swear in Lt. Gov. Charles A. Smith as governor and hear an in augural address from him, although he was to serve only five days. Blease assigned no reason for this sudden and unprecedented action. His message to the General As sembly contained only eight words, ‘T hereby resign as governor of South Carolina.” He died 4lL J542 without revealing why he resigned. Possibly some of your readers, who followed Blease’s campaigns through the years might be inter ested in a summary of his various campaigns for public office. It covers a period from 1888 through 1938, in which he offered for of fice twenty-four times, sixteen times on a state-wide basis. I be lieve history will bear me out that he was in every second race in which he participated from 1908 through 1934. In 1938, his last state-wide race, he was an also ran, with Manning and Maybank the top contenders for the governor ship. Blease has the distinction of be ing the only man to beat James F. Byrnes in a state-wide race, when he defeated him for the U. S. Sen ate in 1924. Byrnes defeated him in 1930. , Here is the record of the political campaigns of Cole L. Blease: Ran for the house in Newberry county, 1888, defeated. Ran for the house in Newberry county, 1890, elected. Ran for the house in Newbief county, 1892, elected. Ran for the house in Newberry county, 1894, defeated. Ran for the house in Newberry county, 1896, defeated. Ran for the house in Newberry county, 1898, elected. vears Taxpavers hope that the com- ience to the public, mission now appointed composed of 'The American Telephone and Tel- ( men of ability and effective lead- egraph company, of which Southern | ership, will make a complete study Bell is a part; is the largest corpor-j of the alarming situation, and that^tio^ in the .Country in the numbei ' their recommendations will not 6f‘stockholders—having more than a 1 be thrown in the waste basket as million scattered in every state in was done by the Truman adminis-.the nation. Most of them, are small tration. ! stockholders earning good dividends Ion their investments. , ~ . rN 1 T he h ew state set-up as announced Crime Vjn Inceose from Columbia is "another step inj Law violation and crime are on the company’s continuing efforts to^ the increase all over the country, provide this state with the best tele-1 reports show. In this county Sher- ph one service possible at the time of iff Lowery reports a heavy | n 'jits greatest growth and develop-; crease in arrests of violators, with >• s t a te’s steady growth andi drunkenness and drunken drivers ^ com j n g 0 j new b us j ness enterprises | heading the list of charges. This ^ as bj-^ght t 0 ^be company a heavy means that law enforcement ofL-. c j ernanc j t bat has broken all records, cers have a heavy responsibili > and j s response to the requirement is; in upholding law enforcemen an , re jj ectec j in itg own r e CO rd-breaking! seeing that violators are PP service improvement and expansion; hended. program. The criminal army At the end of 1940, the report, our land never sleeps More ^ shows, there were 68,139 telephones in somebody^murdered, raped, rob- !^theJe'arfi ^ ^ ^t ? ^ bed, assaulted or pilfered another T „ d J th e are a PPr° xim ately 23d,- citizen in the United States. And 83 ^ ratlon -. that it i- getting worse. The FBI re- telephone growth in the state in seven ports that last year’s 2,000,000 smce the war has amounted t6, crimes are 8.2 per cent above the ‘ 8 P^ cen t compared with 79.9 per i figures of 1951. c<?nt 8 rowth in the nation as a whole.! Edgar Hoover, who heads the During the same seven years the | Federal Bureau of Investigation, jcompany’s expansion has required: reports that conditions are getting ( $66,374,000 in new facilities. Heavy worse, with too many people look- construction is continung now with ing to his office for a solution of expansion requirements still running these problems and protection for heavy and to meet these needs the society. Actually, he says, most of 1 company is now spending millions to i these crimes must be dealt with enlarge and improve their service, right in the home town by the po- Automobiles used to be considered iiceman on the beat. That’s the a luxury. Today they are necessities. Jaw of the United States, there is The same is true of telephones, they no particular magic in G-Men. Not are daily necessities to millions of only is there a wave of nation- homes and businesses of every kind, wide law defiance, but we all re- — member what President Eisenhow er called the "dirty business in ’Washington”—the headlines in re cent years in the press telling of tax case fixes, job selling and brib ery and the stories of mink coats and deep freezes and plush vaca tions. The relentless fight against law lessness must be made back in the local communities—we cannot sit | back and expect the state or na tional headquarters to do the job. Ran for lieutenant governor 1900, defeated. Ran for lieutenant governor in 1902, defeated. Ran for the senate in Newberry county, 1904, elected. Ran for governor 1906, defeated. Ran for governor 1908, defeated. Ran for # mayor of Newberry, 1909, elected. . Ran for governor 1910, elected. Ran for governor 1912, elected. Ran for U. S. Senate 1914, defeat ed. Ran for governor 1916, defeated. Ran for U. S. Senate 1918, defeat ed. Ran for congress (general ses sion) 1919, withdrew. Candidate for governor 1922, de feated. Candidate for U. S. Senate, 1924, elected. Candidate for U. S. Senate 1930, j defeated. • Candidate for U. S. Senate 1932,; defeated. Candidate for governor 1934, de- j feated. Candidate for governor 1928, de feated. Incidentally, Blease was serving | as a member of the Unemployment! Compensation Commission at the time of his death, to which post he had been elected by the South | Carolina Legislature . With kindest regards, I am Yours very truly, JAMES P. SLOAN. This community is proud.to be a part of the big Southern Bell organi. zation with its fine personnel. It means we enjoy better phone ser vice, local and long distance. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SLOAN WRITES OF BLEASE RACES Editor The Clinton Chronicle, Officers need to be upheld by the Clinton, S. C. courts when they get evidence that produces convictions. The courts are issuing light sentences, with many put on probation with their sentences reduced, or are released by paying light fines. We need more jail sentences, especially for drivers charged with driving under the influence of intoxicants, white or black, without political influ ence when convicted of such ot- ferises A drunken driver on the highways is a far greated potential menace to life and limb of an inno cent public than is a madman at large with a shot gun. We noted a few days ago that a committee from the Greenwood Automobile Dealers association ap peared before city council request ing more protection for their places Dear Sir: In reading your fine tribute to the late Judge Robert A. Cooper, a distinguished native son of Lau rens county, I noted a slight error as to the facts in the 1914 elections. Among other things you stated, “In 1914 Richard I. Manning was elect ed governor in a vigorous campaign against former Governor Cole L. Blease”. I believe you will find tljpt Cole L. Blease did not oppose Richard I. Manning in the gubernatorial cam paign of 1914. Blease did not run that year, but it was at the time that he was completing his sec ond consecutive term as governor, and in this instance he was seeking “Cotton Ed” Smith's seat in the U. S. Senate. There were two others Joanna News... (Continued from page eight) man Evans and Mrs. Harold Mur phy. On Friday afternoon, August 14, 21 people met at the Joanna Baptist church to go to Biltmore, N. C., to see the pageant, “Thun- derland.” The foundation bus, driven by Johnny Moore, carried the group, arriving back in JOanna about 3:00 o’clock Saturday morn ing. A good time was reported by all. Those going on this trip were Mrs. Louis Murphy, Mrs. Ben Jes ter, Veda Jester, Marlene Thomas, Carl Stroud, Mrs. Carl Stroud, Jim mie Riser, Mrs. G. N. Foy, Jean ette Evans, Mr. and Mrs. Millard Murphy, Bruce Murphy, Gail Mur phy, J. B. Putnam, Larry Murphy, Linda Buchanan, Ethel Mae Rowe, Judy Dunlap, Rev. and Mrs. James Mitchell. On Sunday evening* August 15, after the evening service, about 40 Intermediates and young people of the Joanna Baptist church gathered at the home of Mrs Frank Phillips on the Whitmire highway for Youth Fellowship. A treasure hunt and other outdoor games were' en joyed by the group. Refreshments of sandwiches, potato chips, cup cakes and cold drinks were served. After the refreshments group sing ing was enjoyed. BABY'S POWDER One of the best things to use for applying talcum powder to the baby’s body is a soft camel’s hair brush. Penne • 1 ill" - - Jl it M RrNy-, 111, # i -»»• •• • everyboi for schoi [y wears ’em >1 and play! : J§*» I m M Mm Penney’s l|ig Mac DEN » I l f t I BOYS’ SIZES 6-16 They’re so practical for school —and for outdoor play, afterwards! Sturdily made of 8-ounce Sanforized t blue denim, fully cut to fit in the right proportion, and com fortably! 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