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\ Thursday, September 16, ISM THE CLINTON CHKONICLH Page Serve* ASHING’ ON A N 0 "SMALL BUSINESS” K v c WILSON HARDER There are indication* many are puzzled by tome campaign oratory being released in Nov ember election warm up. * * * Meal confusing appears to be commonly ased assertion to Jus tify anything and everything that “we must no* forge* wo are now THE' world ^wer Yet many people arc an alyzing this oft - repeated claim. Since days of the Caesars there have been] many world powers. Yet in C. W. Harder each era, the world power rep resented a bastion which was accorded world wide respect. But never in history has any nation become the world power, or maintained that position by playing Sarta Claus every day of the year, year after year. see From the Napoleonic Wars un til 1914, England was the world power. And with the exception of a little brawl with the Boers, England maintained that posi tion without fighting anybody. In addition, she maintained it with out charity, for the sun has yet to set on day England gives away as much as a shilling. * o * So today’s peculiar happen ings provoke many questions. ooo As example there Is recent transaction of Foreign Opera tions Administration, chief dis penser of American billions to practically every country. Com munist Yugoslavia included. In this particular transaction, It was decided U. S. taxpayers would give fie railroad s> otcm of India 1M locomotives. 0*0 Two things meet the eye im- C Snip—I r«dfmlon Of lndrp,iMi«tit Hu.ln-x mediately. One is that. India’s boss man, Nehru, is on record as not being too annoyed by Communists; in fact many feel he is quite friendly. The second point is that the Indian railroad system is a government operated socialistic venture. * o o Also in line with New Look In shovelling American taxpayers billions to world Ip form of goods, everybody was Invited to bid on building the locomotives. * * * Successful bidder was Japan Bolling Stock Exporter Associa tion, part of Japanese cartel system that reappear'd after General Douglas MacA ,ur was recalled. This cartel bU $81,470 each, less than half the lowest American bid of $178,200 each. * '0 0 Japanese cartel gets the busi ness. American business and la bor which pays tho taxes, re ceive nothing. Thus American free enterprise system Is taxed to pay cartel to produce goods for use of socialistic operation with communist sympathies. * * * Other fantastic manipulations are being revealed in Washing ton. For example, Paul Ker- mick, chief investigator for Senate Appropriations Commit tee headed by Sen. Styles Bridg es, has filed report to effect U. S. taxpayers are paying heavily to build up a British aircraft monopoly under guise of defense necessity. ooo Meanwhile there appearr. ten dency to yawn whenever a cam paign speaker defends extortion of U. 8. taxpayers as necesary because U. S. is now THE world power. Many feel situation Is similar to that which would ex ist if a bank embarked on a campal'-n to hero-tie commun ity's Iradiir; bank by giving away money to any and all comers trlfh Ir^e hanu. the faculty and the seniors feel that among other opportunities the students will derive from this campaign are experience in practical salesmanship, learning cooperation and # developing stu dent Icadervh.p. * It helps to place in the homes of the community more and bet ter reading material. The seniors are appealing to residents to hold for them all magazine subscriptions, whether new or renewal. Farm Income In S. C. Below 1953Level^ Washington, Sept. 11 — South Carolina farmers are earning less mone ythis year than they did last year, according to figures e- leased today by the U. S. Agri culture Department on farm in come comparisons between 19M and 1954 farm marketing re ceipts. In the six-month period from January through June, 1953, the state’s farmers’ cash receipts from all marketings totalled $90,- 039,000,, compared to $80,730,- 000 during the same period in 1954. Most of the declines were re corded in crop marketings which were down from $46,415,000. Re ceipts from livestock products dropped only slightly from $43,- 624,000 to $43,518,000. The nation’s fanners as a whole received approximately $17.4 billion from marketings in the first eight months of 1954. This is four per cent less than the revised total for the corres ponding period last year. Fig ures for South Carolina receipts were available jnly through June. 1954. (Charleston Nerws and Courier) | tee-Cooper is excused from paying , If Santee-Cooper were a free en- some >1,000,000 a year in taxes and that pneas of farm producUw- terprise power company, it would is excused from paying any interest * have to pay taxes amounting to' on some $32,000,000 given to it by $1,100,000 a year. Instead, Santee-'the federal government. Somebody Cooper pays taxes of only $50,000 has to pay the taxes that Santee- How To Write-In Vote Explained Who Pays For Santee-Cooper? You Do! a year (In recent years, Santee-Cooper Cooper is excused from paying Who pays those taxes? We do and also has paid an annual “dividend” , y ou ^ 0 - Somebody has to pay the of about $200,000 to the state treas ury, but this is not a guaranteed payment.) Furthermore, if Santee-Cooper were a free enterprise power com pany, it would have to pay inter est, on money invested in it, ^ amounting to at least $2,000,000 a year. Instead, Santee-Cooper pays interest of only $735,000 a year. In other words, taking into ac count only taxes and interest, San tee-Cooper is sifbsidized every year to a large extent by taxpayers. The figures used above were compiled by Mr. O. E. Wfesser, of St. Petersburg, Fla. Applying the figures in Santte-Cooper’s earn ing report, Mr. Wasser concluded that the tax-supported project is subsidized to the tune of $1,240,- 308—EVERY SENGUE YEAR. Mr. Wasser also says that if Santee-Cooper had bean financed in accordance with the require ments of the & C. Public Service Commission—in other words, if Santee-Cooper had to operate as do tax-paying utilities — Santee- Cooper’* annual deficit would be $2,7*M7U.' State Sen. R. M. Jefferies, head of . Santee-Cooper, says he does not agree at all with Mr. Whaler's “conclusions.’* Mr. Jefferies has said that Santee-Cooper actually makes a profit for the taxpayers and is managed in business-like Just the same, we do not think Mr. Jefferies will deny that San- Morine Recruiter To Visit Clinton Stiff S«t. Thomas G. Shropshier of the Greenville Marine Recruit ing office, has announced that he will be at the Clinton post office from 12:00 noon until IKK) p. m. on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. Anyone interested in joining the regular Marines or Marine Re serve may contact Sgt. Shropshier for information. interest on the national debt, which Santee-Cooper is excused from paying. Who pays the interest? We do and you do. The foregoing comment becomes even more timely in the light of recent reports of financial troubles in Santee-Cooper. We have heard that its board of directors is tak ing a closer look at operations. Due to heavy spending, Santee-Cooper is said to have difficulty making ends meet in spite of the tax breaks it receives. The subject, however, Is cover ed with a veil of official secrecy. The public Is not permitted to know much about the details of this public property. Our reporters diligently seek information and pass on what they can verily. Meanwhile, the taxpayers continue to be responsible for whatever bills are incurred in their name. Annuol Magazine Sales Compoign Under Way Again the students of Clinton high school will undertake i part of their student activities, the subscription sale of more than $0 magazines which are in cluded in this year’s Curtis Plan. Featured in the plan are the Sat urday Evening Post, Ladies’ Home Journal, Better Fanning, Holiday, and Jack and JilL The campaign starts September 20 end ends October 4. You can help Hie seniors of CHS to this student proj ect a success by subscribing to new magazines, renewing old subscriptions, or by purchasing gift subscriptions from a student representative. The entire senior class is con fident, with the cooperation of the citizens of the community, that their subscription will be successful and thereby they can obtain sufficient funds to fi nance their class trip and other activities. Aside from the monetary gains last year, with the total volume of marketings nearly the same. Farmers’ realized net income the first half of 1954 was at an annual rate of approximately $12.5 billion. This was slightly higher than the rate during the second half of 1953, but down from the total of $12.8 billion for the full year of 1953. The report showed South Car olina’s biggest money crop again in 1953 was cotton lint, followed by tobacco and then livestock products. Votton lint receipts amounted to $121,563,000 in 1953 in the state, while tobacco receipts to taled $97,363,000, followed by $92,390,000 from livestock prod ucts. Cot too s e e d receipts amounted to $12400,000, follow ed by oats, wheat, watermelons, corn and soybeans, in that order in field cropa. Hogs, dairy products, eggs, broilers, cattle, and turkeys ac counted for most of the livestock products receipts in South Caro lina in 1053 in that order. Total marketings for 1953 were $385,174,000, compared to $380,- 138,000 for 1952. Columbia, Sept. 11 — How do you vote in a general election? Right, of course; but after as suring all questioners of that as you head for the polling place, how do you actually handle the ballot or voting machine? That’s normally a rhetorical question in solidly Democrtaic South Carolina. But this year the Nov. 2 elec tion finds Republican opposition for five of the six incumbent Democratic U. S. representatives and a write-in candidate cam paigning against the Democratic U. S- Senate nominee. The ballot will have three col umns.- The first • will list the Demo cratic nominees for governor, other state officers, U. S. Senate and the district’s U. S. House seat. The second will list Republican candidates, in this case offering oniy for five of the House The third will be blank for write-in votes. Both Republican and Demo cratic columns will have a cir cle at the top. An “X" in either circle votes the straight party ticket for all candidates in that party’s column. If a voter wishes to split his vote among parties, or add a write-in vote, he should ignore the circles. Instead he should look for the square boxes by the name of ev ery candidate on the ballot. He then should mark an “X” in the box by the name of each of the candidates for whom ho wishes to vote. If the candidate or candidates for any one of the offices dis pleases him, he then should leave blank the square box by those names. If he has some on in mind for whom he does wish to vote tor that office, he then may write that person’s name in the third column line provided tor that office. No name should be scratched; that constitutes mutilation of the ballot and throws it out. Voting machines work similar ly. There is a series of lids over a roll of paper. The lid in the column of candidates for any one office may be lifted, locking the keys, but allowing the voter to write in the name on the roll of paper under the lid. Other presented candidates’ names then may be voted by pulling down the .. individual Keys by their names'" f, n Coffee Price Ago in Sloshed By A Cr P Stores Charlckte.—Price reductions up to 10 cents a pound in its own brands of coffee were announced today by the nation’s leading coffee merchant, AAP Food Stores. The slashes, second within three weeks, brought 8 o’clock coffee, AArP’s biggest seller, tumb ling down to 96 cents a pound. The company said this was the first time in recent months that the green coffee market permitted the sale of a top quality coffee at less than $1 per pound. At the same time. AAcP estab lished different prices for each of its three blends. This customary practice bad been abandoned three months ago when the traditional cost difference between green Brazilian and Colombian coffees vanished. Southern Retailers Sell $42 Billion In Goods In'53 CHARLESTON, Sept. 2—Forty- two and a half billion dollars worth of goods were sold by southern retailers last year, ac cording to C. W. Martin, manager of the Charleston field office, of the United States Department of Commence. The great bulk of the sales were made by smaller' operating units, since stores of organizations op erating eleven or more establish ments accounted for only $7,606,- 000,000 of the total dollar volume for the year. Consumers in the region bought billions of dollars worth of gener al merchandise, automotive sup plies, and foods, and other bil lions were piled up in purchases UGHT FOR LIVING By J. L ELAND RINEHART PASTOR Hopewell and Sharon Methodist Churches Question; Are we the kind of parents we ought to be? As a Christian lady was being conducted through an orphanage a very heart-touching thing hap pened. A little boy about the age of four came up to her and began talking. She found that he was very much interested in her and in her conduct. He ask ed if she had any little boya. She answered, “Yes, I have one.” The little boy then asked this ques tion, “Are you good to him " On being assured that she was good to him, he asked her these heart-searching questions: "Are you the kind of Mama that you ought to be? Do you take your little boy to Sunday school and church, and teach him about Jes us, and about God?” These ques tions she also answered in the affirmative. After finding out these important things the little boy asked, “Do you want to be my M««ra?” He wanted a mother, but he wanted to be sure that he was getting the right kind. He was acknitting that he wanted a mother, but he was also indicat ing that he would rather be an orphan and live in an orphanage than to be the child of the wrong kind of parents. As parents, let us ask ourselves this important question; "Are we the kind of parents that we ought to be? Are we the kind of parents that that our children deserve Do we car ry our children to Sunday school and church? Do we teach them about Jesus, and about God? If we are the kind of parents that we should be, then our children will grow up to be what they should. “Train a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Pro verbs 22:6. of apparel, general merrhandaie, furniture and appliances, and drugs, and in eating and drinking places. The figures were compiled by the Bureau of the Census m a new report just instituted on annual retail sales throughout the coun try. In the sales in the south, food stores accounted for $10,066,000,- 000 including $9,256,000,000 in gro cery stores. General merchandise dealers re ported transactions valued at $6,- 126,000,000, with department stores, including mail-order houses issuing catalogs, coming in for $2,- 637,000,000, variety stores, $847,- 000,000, and other general mer chandise dealers, $1,642,000,000 Automobile retailers hit the $8,- 866,000,000 mark in sales, of which those engaged in sales of new and used cars reported a $7,400,000,000 volume. Next in line in volume of sales were sellers of lumber, building materials and hardware, who re corded sales approximately $3,254,- 000,006 Patrons of eating and drinking places gpent another $2,449,000 r 000, of which $1^36,000,000 went to restaurant owners, and, finally, proprietors of drug and proprie tary stores estimated their sales at $1427,000,000 The south stood second regional ly in the nation in sale* of general merchandise, and m dollar volume of transactions in gasoline service stations and drug and proprietary stores. IF YOU DONT READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DONT GET THE NEWS Gray Funeral Home Clinton, S. C. H NFRU. DIREf rOR< and .. KMBAf MF.RS Phonr>i II ind 3')9 I \mu i.\m y p,\ in; I Rl >>1 I.l. 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