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A > 1— Page Two THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thoriday, November 19, 1988 decline of something less than 5 per if we, all, get scared, we shall make cent in rubber consumption next real difficulties, year from the high 1953 level. ; Our American hatbit of speech- Collyer, - whose viewpoint was making and giving interviews all said to be typical of that of the 90- the time has its drawbacks. Life odd businessmen here, held that h as always been full of ups' and such a modest decline w’ould be downs; we are accustomed to that; normal and not alannin.p Indus- the incessant predicting may, try he advised, should follow a pol- make the talker seem like a wise j ning of games and dancing Mrs. Perry M. Moore and Mrs. D. Scout Troops Planning Party Boy Scout Troop 111 and Troop 174 will have a party on Saturday evening at 7:03 at the armory. Each scout will invite a guest for an eve- —v Can we talk ourselves into a pe riod of business dullness? We speak of it as a recession, sometimes de flation, then re-flation, £9 ; compar- od with inflation. But the words are of secondary importance. When a businessman hears or reads predictions of bad times, poor business—and all that—how does it affect him? Apply it to yourself, each ppe. If a man has ten thous and dollars for investment, will he invest it when men predict unfa vorable prospects? Now the $10,- 000 man is just a small business man, but think of ten thousand men with $10,000 each and you have quite a sum of money. W r e have more than ten thousand men in our little state who have $10,000 each for investment. That is a hundred million dollars—quite a tidy capi tal If they invest that money it provides work for men and women; wages, sales for stores, money for savings which will be lent again and so continue the good work. But if we freeze it—and if it remains frtven, we become like a man on a vrrv strict slimming diet, one so tat&:ng in essentials that the man becomes a shadow, but isn’t able to carry even his ghostly shadow. 1’e just r P a d the following: “The country’s biggest businessmen ex- i plored some economic ‘soft spots’, and decided that prosperity will; la.~.t mto next spring at least. Mem- j bers of the Business Advisory Council of the Commerce Depart-! mem. reported their judgment to Set rotary of Commerce Weeks, S«t rotary of the Treasury Hum- phroy and a dozen other high of ficials at a closed meeting. Twelve corporation heads, repre- senting as many key industries, re ported their own business outlook 1 jn a round robin discussion intend ed to guide the administration on policies which would prevent the post mobilization Teadjustment'! from turning into a recession. Some rise in employment, as light dip in retail activity, hotter price compe tition and a moderate further deline of industrial production from its prt >ent near-record rate, were fore seen. according to what information could be obtained from the confi dential session. Robert E Wood, chairman of Stars, Roebuck and Co., was known to * xpect a drop in retail sales of 2 to Li per cent, varying from city to city, in the next three months. He bay d this forecast mainly on fall ing farm income and tightening credit. C arence B Randall, president of Inland Steel Co, was quoted as forecasting a further moderate de- cbm of steel production in 1954. Stet 1 output has fallen in the past year from virtually 100 per cent of capacity to about 90, then recovered some ground. Industry leaders here have em- phn -ized, however, that production rau*s close to 100 per cent are ab normal for the industry—especial ly in view of its 20 per cent expan-’l sion since 1930 They contend that a drop of 5 per cent or thereabouts j would make for different operation without adverse effect on industry 1 in general. Before the BAC session ®p< ’ ed. John F. Collyer, president; B F. Goodrich Co., forecast a O. Rhame are assisting the group with plans for the party. Troop 111 is sponsored by the Kiwanis club /t and Milford Smith is scout master. Broad Street Methodist church sponsors Troop 174 of which M. Q. Higginbotham is scoutmaster. BLACK LACE Black lace may be washed and still look like new Lf washed in a I solution of one tablespoon of am- icy of caution but not pessimism, man .but it may do more than Virtually all the members, it was tickle his vanity; it may create real reported, believed that the eonomy difficulties, upsetting • confidence will remain at a high level for six and promoting stringencies and months or more. business repressions. Continued high government ^ spending, a big reservoir of con- _ _ sumer savings, high income rates Clergyman jQyS certaft? 0 safeeuard^against I'Te' ^sia Full of DfUnks rious recession in that period, they . „ i. London, Nov. 15. t- A British The administration view, it was, clergyman back from Russia said reported, is that some easing of the today ‘T saw more drunks during : . f ff ’rubber band stretch’ in the econo- my fortnight in Moscow than I have p my would be healthy, rather than *en during my 17-year ministry in alarming because it would stimu- t* working lass parish in Bristol.” late competition and improve tech/| “ we nt to a smart night club and nique in sales and production. Some at least 20 people were revoltingly officials said they could not be con- j inapable,” Canon Mervyn Stokwood cerned as long as the business ad-j of Bristol said in a letter to the justments continue in the ’serial’ Daily Herald. "At a rather smart or ‘rolling’ pattern of the past 10 hotel I was eventually ompelled to months. eat privately in my own room.” While textiles were going down But he said that in Moscow pros- they explained, autos r and other titution seems unknown and that durable goods were on the rise; “family life is far more strictly now textiles have recovered sub- guarded than in Britain.” j- stantially and some slippage in the durables is reported. Unless a con certed downward movement in volving a number of major sections of the eonomy develops, they said, no very serious 'slump may occur.”, • Did you ever think of the inh-, ponderables? Recently I read that Americans think they can plan ev-i ery detail and put up the money and all will work out according to Hoyle, as we say. The writer oT* that says that the British move along, more or less, with the cur rent, and take advantage of any and all favorable “breaks”. I can’t ans wer for the British, nor did I think we Americans were so hide-bound, but certainly all life presents, at times, the imponderables, the fac tors not foreseen, not provided for. but powerful and sometimes con clusive. Dr. W. W. Adam* VETERINARIAN 614 Musgjove Street Clinton. S. C. Phones: Office 958 Residence 991-W V.‘. SPARKLING WINDOWS A small atnount of furniture pol ish added to water when washing windows will make the windows shine. GOOD DUSTER A piece of chamois that has been dampened make an excellent ddst- er: It makes furniture look like new. VaW NOTICB-TO ALL AUTOMOBILE AND VEHICLE OWNERS OF THE CITY The City Co[incil passed an ordinance November 2nd requiring all •tesidents of the city of Clinton to register their automobiles or motor vehicles with the police de partment by the first day of December, 1953, and to get a decal with a number which will be put on the wind shield of the car or vehicle, and to all new residents to register their’s within 90 days after becoming resi dents of the city. There is no charge for this registration and the po lice department will appreciate the cooperatioh of the public in this matter. B. B. BALLARD, Chief of Police Clinton, S. C. ft Here are two points to remember when you buy a car!.. • VALUE The Germans might have crossed to England, we are told. They seemed ready and fully prepared, but something happened. What was it” Did Hitler have a pernhoni- tion? Was it an urge or an inspi ration? At any rate certain de struction was averted. And when the Kaiser’s troops were within reach of Paris, in the First World War, the great army turned at the Marne, near Paris—why 0 When I went to the Marne river and looked around I wondered why that remarkable army turned around It was one of the classic questions of military men. When Pizarro and his intrepid, though brutal, men marched into the heart of the Andean heights in Peru, the natives under the Inc * Atahualpa may have crushed them to death, even by more weight of numbers, but they did not. They surrendered. What an imponder able! Who could have foreseen it? In our business life men have been predicting recessions every* year since 1945, eight years ago! Why recessions? We have fif teen million more people to feed and clothe since 1945. Fifteen mil lion more workers probably; fifteen million more spenders. All the basic factors seem favorable, in an economic sense. The difficulties are man-made. I am not exactly a Micawber .al ways expecting some golden dream to come true, even without work. But our nation can stand readjust ments without so much being said. When big men talk they are re garded as knowing, but no one can truly know, so it would be well to keep on an even keel, operating prudently, instead of rocking the boat all the time. After all, that little squall we think we see might turn out to be harmless. However, PRICES of any line in its field! See if, drive H, and you’ll know that it alone brings you all these features of highest- priced cars at the lowest prices and with such outstanding gasoline economy! More value throughout, when you buy, while you drive, when you trade! i Ctovrolat's thrilling “Two-Tnn" 4-door i With 3 great new terlet, Chevrolet often the wMeet choice of mo Self hi ftt AotS. Yes, you get more car for less money in Chevrolet! More beauty, inside and out, with the widest choice of body-types and colors in its field. 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