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t Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, September 30, 1954 itp (Eltntnn (Ehrnntrlr Established 1»M WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher 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 they 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. Member: South Carolina Press Association, National Editorial Association National Advertising Representative: AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York, Chicago, Detroit. Philadelphia CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. 1954 Down With Ring Rule There is indignation over the high handed manner in which the state executive committee, Edgar Brown controlled, hand ed him a six-year term as United States senator succeeding Maybauk. The com mittee refused flat-footed to rescind its ac tion and give the people a chance to vote which would have been fair and right. The people have a way to protect them selves from this seizure of power by the State Ring—the way is through a write-in vote for former Governor Strom Thur mond, As some one has said there have been many candidates who have ridden into office on the coat-tails of a winner but this must be the first case of a man getting a free six-year ride to the United States Senate on a shroud. We stand for principal about party loyalty, hallahoo. over-worked by certain candidates in the hope o| riding into office. fight for its battles. To Hear Segregation Again The Supreme Court has fixed Dec. 6 for the start of arguments on how to end public school segregation. The timing raised a possibility that final decrees may not come until about the time for the wind up of classes next spring in spite of insistantly rabid leaders that school segregation get underway at once. Last May in a momentous decision the high court ruled that segregated schools w r ere “inherently unequal”. The final argu ment this fall ought to bring the question to a final decision, it has been argued and side tracked long enough. There are already ample signs that desegregation has caused trouble, not in the South but in Deleware and other places. Many people have shown they are in a rebellious mind with disorder, threats of violence and a feeling of tension. The decision of the Supreme Court to be finally clarified goes straight to the root of the Southern pattern of life. The Chronicle as it has often said believes in the segrega tion of races for the good of both races. In the South the white and Negro working together, have made marvelous strides, they have worked in harmony and with mutual ; respect, except by small groups of extre mists. The great majority of Negroes know their best friends are the white people. We stand for fairness to both races, seperation in schools and churches which the great majority of the colored people prefer. The Court will say it is expected w r hat we must and cannot do. Let’s face the issue and have a final ruling. Mixing of races in schools would retard the education of both white and Negro pupils because it is inevitable that it would raise a social problem. Negro teachers w’ould lose far more than the white. It is time for patience and clear-thinking until the high tribunal issues its final ulti matum. But some of the impetuous mem bers of both races defy all and are unwil ling to wait. Schools will and should, re main as they are until the court issues its decree. The mixmg of races in schools is a deep-rooted problem that cannot be solv ed overnight. History shows us that freedom is lost whenever a free press is lost. Would-be dictators, abroad, in other states or in our owm, cannot stand the full harsh glare of publicity—they cannot tolerate truth. The press is always attacked first and once that is captured and brought under control other freedoms quickly fall and vanish. An in formed people is one that has access to the necessary information in order to be able to form its own opinion and manage its own af fairs. An informed people is a free press, which continually strives too give its readers the truth—all the facts possible about is sues which may affect the present and future lives of the people. Let’s face facts. The American people will remain an informed people as long as they have a free press. And they will have a free press only as long as they w'ant it, cherish it and fight for it against encroach ments. Once they fail, they have lost the keystone of all their liberties which then will disappear like snowflakes under a w r arm sun. Unfortunately freedom of the press is not widespread in the wwld. Beyond the iron curtain the press has been stifled to where’it is now but a mouthpiece of the Communist party. We must stand for that freedom of the press which is primarily the freedom of all the people to know all the facts—the truth. Your Newspaper—Free dom’s Forum—is our hope and protection in the New World that lies ahead. BABSON SAYS . . . We Can Have Both Peace and Prosperity Your Newspaper—Freedom's Forum Throughout the United States October 1-8 will be celebrated as National Newspa per Week, with The Chronicle joining in the observance. This year’s slogain is “Your Newspaper, Freedom’s Forum.” Whether one reads a country weekly or a metropolitan daily newspaper, it is still apparent that at no time in man’s history is a free exchange of information more urgent ly needed than right at this moment of the mid-point of the Twentieth Century as we embark into Atomic Age. The small country weekly has as vital a mission in the life of American citizens as the newspaper that has a circulation and reading public in the millions. What the people are interested in is the truth. The newspapers are doing our best to give their best by telling the truth. Un fortunately, many of our readers are in a state of apathy or general indifference in many respects. Why? The answer is remote. But one thing is clearly apparent. Freedom is something easily lost and not easily, re won. We must continue to fight for our liberty which requires eternal vigilance against encroachment of all kinds. A truly free press always is almost in the forefront of those battles, but the press alone cannot cause freedom to survive. H calls for an in terested, informed public ever-aJert to threats of its freedom and ready—always to 1 By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass., Sept. 30—What we need more than anything in this country if we want both peace and prosperiy is a better recogniion ot the Law of Supply and Demand. A Lesson From 1953 Many people have indicated to me in recent months a kind of fatalism about our economic out look—They seem to feel that prosperity can oe mainained only in a war economy. Perhaps this is because it has been so many years since we have prospered without war. A lesson that we will learn from the recession which started in the summer of 1953 is that we can have both peace and prosperity if we will adjust ourselves to the Law of Supply and Demand. But a lot of research must be done on consum er attitudes, on finding out what makes people buy, on how to create wants and need^, and how to develop appreciably more attractice selling This especially applies to all merchants. These are the ones who determine employment and busi ness I wish I had a five-dollar bill for every per son I have recently heard say that he would buy a new car if only someone would really try to sell him one. Lesson From 1929 and World War II During the peace years from 1949 through 1940, we lost in national output of both goods and services better than $600 billions when measured by 1953 prices. This was about twice what World War II cost. Our real trouble during those un happy years was that the buying power of our people failed to keep pace with our productive know-how. For the Law of Supply and Demand to work freely in peacetime, the benefits of new inventions and new methods must be passed along to the worker in the form of higher wages and to the consumer in the form of lower prices, so that the public will be able to buy the poducts of our increased capacity. This surely requires spending more money on advertising. Out of experiences in two World Wars we have learned that the Law of Supply and Demand, al though suspended during war-time, must never be forgotten. We have learned that only by curtail ing civilian demand can we meet military needs effectively and save as many lives as possible. Tne trouble comes, however, when we try to return to a peacetime economy without simulating civilian demand. Your Part In Prosperity Everybody knows that when the demand for anything becomes great, prices go up until pro- ducton catches up. Remember what electric re frigerators, radios, and TV sets first cost. Look at the current asking price of color TV! When a smart businessman sees his colleagues making money by the fistful, he gets into the act too. Then as more goods are produced and more is spent on advertising, prices start to fall, people go out and buy, and more are employed. Instead of letting business take this course af ter World War II, government subsidy and regu lation tried to keep business good by holding prices high in the face of declining demand. Pret ty soon inflation ballooned our whole price struc ture. The subsequent recession was in part a pro cess of readjustment to this mistaken attempt to keep prices high. Work For The Consumer Whether or not we will have another crash de pends on the kind of producers and merchants who make up our economy. They way of econo mic salvation is to work harder, produce better products at lower cost, end then sell harder than eve before. New markets for new products must be devkped. When a market is lost, the sales or ganization had better find another market rather than appeal to the government. I forecast that research must be encouraged to keep a concern or a city in a competitively strong position—product research, selling research, and pjxrRom NASMVXU TtNNKUi THE WORLDS MOST WIDELY USED DEVOTIONAL CU'DE Now abidath faith, hop*, levs, these three; and the greeteet of these is love. (ICorinthians 13:13. ASV.) Read I Corinthians, Chapter 13. Several days ago I read an article by Mr. Kim Kisong in the Ko rean Survey. He tells about climbing a mountain and finding a sol dier of another country. The soldier had died of wounds received in combat. , •- — — — As Mr. Kisong looked at the body lying dead on foreign soil with no friend and no family to give it proper burial, he says he himself began to look upon the departed one as his friend. He spent the night removing the body and preparing a grave beside his own fath er’s grave. Although in life the soldier was unknown to Mr. Kisong, he buried the body with the same honor and respect he would pay to a close relative. Love, Christian love, is unselfish. Do we, for love’s sake, forget ourselves as Mr. Kisong did? Ht knew that he would be killed if he were caught burying the soldier. It is not always easy to be loving and to show forth that love, but we must make Christ’s way a part of our everyday life. PRAYER O Thou who are love, help us to love Thee. Help us to love our fellow men as Thou would*! have us to do. Teach ut to give ounelvee in unselfish service. In Jesus* name. Amen. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY God is love, and His love in us make* Christian fellowship pos sible. In Book Moon (Korea) who says I have Induced or even requested young ladies to work long hours in my behalf is a malicious lior. The people of South Carolina know Olin John ston and thank God, they know Satchel Brown.” That is the same Mr. Brown that Mr. Johnston now wants to serve with him in the U. S. Senate. At Abbeville, Aug, 18, in that same 1038 campaign, Mr. Johnston said: “I learned a long time ago not to waste shot on a dead bird. That’s my friend Highway Edgar —he’s a dead bird.” How right Mr. Johnston was in that statement was proved on the election of 1938. Mr. Brown at the 11th hour announced that he was withdrawing from the pri mary because he was the “third man in the race.” Sen. Smith was nominated, despite the pressures against him. Sixteen years later, this time without the formality of a pri mary, Mr. Brown comes before the people of South Carolina as the official nominee of the party. This time Mr. Johnston makes no reference to the nickname ‘Satch el.” It is ot a name that we attach to Mr. Brown. It is Mr. Johnston’s word that we have plucked from the files. 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