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t Pa(« Four- THE CLINTON CHRONICLE r 3t?r Cltntxra (E^ronirlr 1999 WILSON W HARRIS, Editor and Publisher HARRY C. LAYTON, Asaatant PUBLISHED E\ r ERY 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 Poet Office at Clinton, S. C., March 3, 1878 under Act of Congreaa 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 polish letters of general interest when |hey are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. Tliis 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 by youths mistaken for college boys. A businessman who had visited his son at college picked up a young hitchhiker only a block from his ion's fraternity house. This was the motorist's kindly custom—as a “thank you" for lilts given his own son. The next day his naked, beaten and mutilated body was found in a bloody snowbank on a back road. institutions, a large proportion of all hitchhikers are escapees. Some of these areas are marked for motorists' protection, but most are not; out of state driv ers cannot know they are enter ing a critical region. Even the non-criminal hitch hiker can cause financial trou ble. In $1 states a driver may be held liable for injury to a hitch- ppcrRoom In areas near penal or mental' hiker. One collected $38,000 from his host in a recent case, the ar ticle reports. Twenty-five states, the Dsitrict of Columbia and innumerable towns and counties have laws against hitchhiking. It your state has such a law, insist on its en forcement, Wharton ufges. If it has no law, start working for one. In any event, help reduce hitchhiking crime by resolving not to pick up any hitchhiker. OOM NASMVHU TINNfSSIt CLINTON. S. C., THURSDAY, 26, 1955 A Right To Work Poll ' This state last year, long after due, passed a right-to-work law as many states had pre viously. There are still many states, because of union political influence, that have no such laws on their books. The American Press magazine, published for weekly newspapers in the United States, has recently conducted a nation-wide poll to get the views of publishers on a number of current legislative controversies. One of these, and properly so, concerned the right- to-work laws, forbidding compulsory union membership, which have been enacted in seventeen states. There were replies in the poll from 1,050 editors, with 86.1 per cent favoring the laws and only 10.6 per cent opposing, with the small remainder offering no opinion pro or con. The great majority of editors, like the great majority of other citizens and business establishments, recognize a place of unions if fairly operated, and support the legitimate activities of organized labor to better itself. We say legitimate, but certainly the two months old telephone strike just closed and championed by the CIO, must be classified as everything except legitimate or justified. The conduct by minority groups of company strikers in many sections of the South was a disgraceful and destructive performance. To force a man to join any organization be fore he can earn a living for his family is plain tyranny. God has given every man the inalienable right to work without being led around with a ring in his nose so to speak by rabid labor bosses who live in luxury at the expense of union membership. Labor unions should work for the advancement and betterment of their members on the basis of fairness and merit, and not force. The Dissension Should End About this time last year there w’as a storm of criticism and charges, many of which were untrue—being leveled against Winthrop college. The criticism, largely personal, came from an Alumnae group apparently wanting to dominate the policies of the institution. To do so, this small group was willing to hurt the college if necessary in order to win in their agitation, though it stirred up unrest and reflected on the school. It is well and de sirable for graduates of a school to be in terested in its progress and future, but not to the extent of meddling. In the final decisions the responsibility of operating a college and its policies is that of the board of trustees and administration instead of graduates and former students. It is good for the college that continuous agitation by a small Alumnae group has died down and there is evidence of calm again. The unrest and criticism has not come from Win- throp’s fine and happy student body but from outsiders. Some of the critics THE WORLDS MOST WIDELY USED DEVOTIONAL GUIDE "Tak* heart. It Is I; have no faar.** (Matthew 14:27. RSV.) Read Matthew 14:22-33. When I was a child, I became very curious ol my shadow. This was because whenever I went to play, it tagged along with me. Sometimes it got Isot, but most of the time it reapperaed very soon. One moonlight night I tired of playing with it and decided to do away with it. I placed a rock upon it. Then I ran rapidly away —hoping my shadow might be left behind forever. What remain ed when I came back was only the stone—my shadow had gone with me and returned with me. This experience of childhood reminds me that we cannot escape from Christ. He constantly walks near us in our everyday lives. Sometimes we fail Him, sometimes try to escape from Him. Some of us deliberately sin to show our independence of Him. But our sins cannot eclipse His love. He is faithful and tireless in His won derful love for us. If we admit Him into our lives, He becomes in us a light that will shine “more and more unto the perfect day.’’ Our loving Father, we feel Thy presence with us at this moment. We know that Thou doet ever walk with us—in times of sorrow and In times of joy. We rejoice in Thy fatherly goodness to us end thank Thee in the name of our loving Friend end Saviour. Jesus Christ. Amen. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY I will put my trust in the eternal Rock. Nsrciso E. Abano jar. Merchant (Philippines) farm for city employment. Fanners Must Diversify I hope that the activities of this scientfiic farm research will have the wholehearted support of science, industry, and govern ment. It takes time to expand any research facilities; it espec ially takes time to coordinate re search activity in so large a field make as agriculture. This wider ap- Eosy Poy Without Work Recent comment was made on the action of our General Assembly in raising the mem bers salaries from $1,000 to $1,800 annually in spite of this year’s big deficit in the money bill and with an increase of thirteen million dollars in additional taxes saddled upon tax payers. The people back home cannot look with pride and satisfaction upon the recent ses sion of the General Assembly. The record it made is not one over to which to boast. An attempt was made in the House to make spending balance with income. Governor Timmerman also took a brave stand against some things that were done and used the veto power on several items that had the ap pearance of an unjustified raid. The gover nor and a few House members opposed the creating of a deficiency bill, leaving the state in the red for the year, but the big power of the Senate said no, to let the expected deficit stand with the promise that there would be an increase of state revenue. The unfortunate feature of this situation is that no visible ef fort to reduce the debt or to stop the ex travagant spending was made by the legis lature. We are glad that the new governor has displayed backbone and stood up for principles he believes in and has shown that he is not controlled by any clique. Getting back to the legislature, there is found an item in the state budget for 1955-56 that probably few taxpayers caught in the much of the decrease in the student body. t0 the P roblem 15 not h* -p, • . . . x J ing undertaken any too soon, for I his is a natural expectation with co-educa- th e re is now a great need for tion becoming more popular every day in American farmers to diversify state and church colleges. Boys and girls nat- production and look more urallj want to associate and attend college to- consumption. Such diversifica- gether for the many social contacts. Look at tion should lead to more stable the large university and now Clemson has' 60000111 * 0 conditions, gone co-ed. As this tendency grows the church I of farm products is so apparent and private schools are finding it harder to that the Council chose “New fill their enrollment with only women. They i Crops” as the theme of its March are more active than ever before in the solid- j tation for students. trating on new crops when we As a former satisfied patron of Winthrop have hea ^ surplu u s< r ! of o1 ^ , far. , , , . , , K crops, but such research has paid we know of its fine work, the big demand for 0 ff handosmely before, as in the its graduates each year in teaching and busi- case of soybeans. There is every ness positions, the records they make. And it reason t0 b«heve it win again is oui opinion that the spirit and ideals of the studied include timber bamboo, campus, the religious influence and oppor- a good source of paper pulp tunities offered its young women is comnar- wb *ch has been grown success- . i ♦ v, a • *u . , , fully in the Southeast: dioscorea, e ith that found in other schools, state ; a plant source of cortisone-like or church. drugs; new varieties of castor The old uutbreak of 15 years a*o was fo-, ' td cu^ed on administrative policies and Alumnae acerola from Porto Rico or phy- affa ; *-s when two faculty members were fired lanthu s cnblica from the Hawai- three yo«rs before the present president took ia ? Isl f nds > of wh,ch have Ollice. It a board of trustees, like a business Marin* Research Is Also Needed establishment, cannot terminate the services | In addition to their work in of employees when so desired, then there is th , e a K™ ultural c ° u ”' . ... .. . , cil could encourage further stud- trou jle and disunity ahead. ; j es 0 f the mineral and other The whole "firing story’’ is not known to wea,th cradled in the two great t l.ts, „ , oceans. These flow up to the the public. The rumor that the college is not verv doorstep of our land along accredited is false. It is a member of the! more than 4,800 miles of coast line. These oceans are a store house of organic and inorganic matter of great actual and poten tial importance to industry. As Hitchhikers Cause Of Many Bizarre Murder Crimes Hitchhiking crimes have be come so common that only the most bizarre get nation-wide at tention, states Don Wharton in the June Reader’s Digest. Before the summer is over you are sure to see many hitchhikers. Most will be innocent enough— soldiers on leave, youngsters without bus fare. But how can you tell the honest youth from the vicious thug who is waiting to steal your car and money and perhaps even to kill you? “There’s one sure way to find out,” Wharton observes. “Pick iip the hitchhiker and give him a chance to rob, knife, blackjack, shoot or kill. If he does none | of these things, he is all right. The article cites case after case of robbings, assaults and killings on the nation’s highways. Some of these crimes have been com mitted by men in uniform, others SPICES CONTAIN NO CALORIES At a time when every food and beverage eaten in America is getting the calorie test, it should be interesting to know that spices do not contain any calories. y Five Men Make V V * 1 Five Mistakes One man struck a match to see if the gaso line tank was empty. IT WASNT! One man patted a strange bulldog on the head to see if it was affectionate. IT WASNT! One man speeded up to see if he could beat the train to the crossing. HE COULDNT! One man touched an electric wire to see it it was charged. IT WAS! One man cut out his advertising to see if he could save money. HE COULDNT! The Chronicle “A Family Paper Everybody Reads” Subscribe XO THE CHRONICLE MMMMOMMMSXC8W»MaOMMMMm»»aMC»KKIt«KMMCTX«8K«ae:«»»»a«g«W36IHH»«KKlCK«»«XXKin<mMWMtl»ll Southern Association of Colleges and Secon dary Schools, the same in which Presbyterian college and other institutions hold member ship. This is the only academic accrediting organization for schools ^nd colleges in the Southern states. All of the dissention should end with a our soil is getting poorer with ev ery hard rain, our oceans, into which the rivers empty are get ting richer. For example, a large number of chemical elements are found in crab meal and fisch meal. F^sh united support instead for the school, which _ it full) deserves. Colleges must be directed products contain aluminum, ba by faculty and administration rather than rium ’_ Cal . cium .’ chromium, cop- Alumni groups. * BABSON . . Discusses Agricultural Research By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass., May 26—Industrial and Chemical research—not Federal Aid—is the farm er’s best bet. Though American farmers appear to be doing pretty well, I am keenly aware of the closing, rushing hours to get the bill passed i “ * arm h 100 ™ which has occurred duimg i the past two years. Despite the best-intentioned as finally written by the free conference committee. The item we refer to was one in cluded in the budget with which to pay seven members of the 1954 House $1,000 each for the 1953 term even though none of the seven served for one minute in the session. The 1953 session ended on May 2 and none of the seven representatives in question was elect ed until later in the year and none was quali fied to serve in the 1953 session. They were all named in special elections to fill vacan cies caused by death, resignation, or other wise. Ail served through the 1954 session for which they drew their regular compensation. Now they draw pay for the 1953 session as well, even though they did not hit a lick of work or incur any expense. The act says the gentlemen shall be paid the $7,000 for ser vices as representatives during the year 1953. Just what “services” is referred to? Why was the item inserted for work not done, and who were the promoters of the grab? It strikes us as one of the most high-handled handouts and fast ones pulled we have ever seen. Taxpayers back home if they keep their eyes opened and informed on what is going on well understand that the representatives know how to take care of each other. It’s a case of you tickle me, and I'll tickle you. government price-support program — or perhaps because of it—we still have a farm problem in this country which could easily erupt into a se rious social cancer. I remember well what happened to the farm er in the thirties and what happened to the rest of the economy as a result of the decline in the farmer’s economic position. In those days, the farm problem was seemingly a more arresting public issue than it is today. At least, it evoked more discussion in business and political circles. How the Chemurgic Movement Began In an effort to improve the demand of that era, the National Farm Chemurgic Council was organized at an historic con ference held in 1935 at Dear born, Michigan, under the aus pices of Henry Ford and Fran cis P. Garvin, President of the Chemical Foundation. Another leader in the movement was Wheeler McMillen of 'Die Farm Journal. The idea was to en courage research which would lead to an expansion of markets for American farm products to be used as industrial raw mate rials. From the beginning, I supported the aims of this council. Since then, the whole movement of allying chemistry with agriculture has grown tremen dously. In March of this year, the old National Farm Chemurgic Council was superseded by a new and larger organization called the Council for Agricultural and Chemurgic Research. The new organization will continue to encourage individ ual research projects looking toward th' discov ery of new crops and new characteristics of old crops. In addition, it will set up the machinery to coordinate the various agricultural-chemical projects trhich are being undertaken. Fanners' sons should learn of this work before leaving the per, flourine, lead, lithium, mag nesium, manganese, phosphor ous, potassium, silicon, silver, so dium, strontium, and zinc! Truly the resuorces of the sea provide plenty of opportunity for the new College of Fisheries at Glou cester, Massachusetts. Honored At University Of Go. Miss Mary Catherine Anderson, daughter o{ Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Anderson of this city, has been elected house president of the Pi Beta Phi sorority at the Univer sity of Georgia, where she is a member of the sophomore class. Miss Anderson has also been se lected as a board member of the student union council. Vocation Bible School At Brood Street The Vacation church school will 'be held at Broad Street Methodist church May 30 through June 4. Classes for children 4 through 12 years of age will be each morn ing from 9 to 11 o’clock. Parents are urged to have their children there promptly at 9 o’clock each day, those in charge state. Workers in the school this year are: Director of opening exercises, Mrs. Lewis Pitts; Supt. kindergar ten Dept., Mrs. J. M. Hatton, Jr.; teachers, Mrs. L. S. Reddeck, Mrs. Herachel Thomason; Supt. pri mary Dept., Mrs. T. J. McCarty; teachers, Mrs. George Reid, Mrs. A. G. Sublett. Supit. junior Dept., Mrs. Roy Gasque; teachers, Mrs. Henry Simmons, Mrs. D. T. Rooney and Mrs. W. R. Pitts, Jr. Students helpers in each class will be Barbara Simmons, Joyce Simmons. Mrs. P. B. Caldwell is superintendent of the children’s division. HOT DOGS AGAIN THIS WEEK BECAUSE OF DEMAND Thurs. 1 P. M.-Fri.-Sat. Thurs. 1 P. M.-Fri.-Sat. DUKE’S MAYONNAKE » 19c CASH JACKPOT EVERY TUESDAY Get Details at Store No Obligation to Register JEWEL OIL - - Quart 49c 01E0MARCARINE tt.15c 1 ROLL FREE—SAVE ON DELSEY TOUT TISSUE 3 for 39c Borden’s £££, BISCUITS 5c«i*48c SUGAR 10 IS. Bag 89c s King Edward CIGARS each 5c COFFEE ’ x Maxwell House i tb. Bag 89c ARMIX 3 Lb. 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