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CLINTON. S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 1$, 1955
Bonds Are Obligations
It was reported in news stories in the
county papers recently that at least one mem
ber of the county delegation in the general
assembly suggested the use of funds set
aside by statute for interest and retirement
of outstanding bond issues in paying cur
rent indebtedness of the county.
The issue came up in deliberations of the
delegation on whether or not to borrow $150,-
000 with which to pay these current expen
ditures.
When bonds are issued the unit of govern
ment concerned, city, county, or state, pledges
its taxing power and at the same time levies
a specified amount of taxes upon all proper
ty to raise revenue with which to pay inter
est and principal annually on the bonds.
The procedure is governed by law, and the
revenue derived from taxation for that spe
cific purpose lawfully cannot be used for any
other purpose.
If such funds are diverted to any other
use, members of the governing body direct
ing the diversion can be prosecuted for their
acts. That is the law of the state.
More towns and cities have gotten into
more financial trouble for that one thing
than probably any other cause. Bond issues
that required the building up of a sinking
fund to pay off indebtedness at the end of a
long period of years, while paying interest
each year, were the chief trouble-makers.
When the time came to pay the principal in
debtedness the money was not on hand. The
necessary annual credits to the sinking fund
had not been made.
Fortunately, few, if any, such bonds can
be sold today. Their place has been taken by
serial bonds, which require payments on in
terest and principal each year.
Law-making bodies have a moral as well
as a financial obligation to pay off bond is
sues according to contractual terms. And
when they seek to use the funds raised by
taxation for payment of interest and princi
pal on bonds for any other purpose, they are
defaulting on their financial obligations and
violating their oaths of office.
A Surprising Order
A federal appellate court in Richmond re
cently handed down a ruling that a North
Carolina firm was not guilty of unfair labor
bargaining practices when it refused to per
mit a union to audit its books.
The U. S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
denied a petition of the National Labor Rela
tions Board to enforce a board order which
found Truitt Manufacturing Company guilty
of the unfair labor practices charge.
The charge had been leveled at the firm
by a structural and iron workers union of the
AFL. The court set aside the NLRB order di
recting the firm to open its books to the
union’s accountants.
It took the view that if unions were per
mitted to audit the books of firms it could
result in unions using a refusal of wage in
creases to demand disclosure of highly con
fidential information by management.
The Greensboro firm contended it was not
required to disclose to the union confidential
financial matters such as manufacturing
costs which would be harmful to its business
if made public.
Unions all over the country have been de
manding for years that they be given access
to books of companies for which their mem
bers work, and it is high time that some
court told them that they have been seeking
something that is none of their business.
The surprising thing to us is that a gov
ernment board so warped in its thinking
could be assembled. Men who would make
such a decision and issue such an order can
not be trusted to carry on the business of the
National Labor Relations Board and reach
conclusions that are fair and equitable. They
have forfeited their obligation to serve both
labor and management and it would be to
the interest of the country if they would sub
mit their resignations.
Devotion To Duty
On the day following former President
Hoover’s retirement to private life, the Port
land Oregonian said: “Herbert C^irk Hoover,,
who will be 81 years old in August, can look
back on a public career that has had few, if
any, parallels in the history of the republic...
“When Mr. Hoover left the presidency in
1933, he had even then reached an age when
most men look toward retirement and the
tranquil satisfaction of a sequestered life.
But Mr. Hoover never laid aside his vital con
cern with the nation’s fortunes at home and
abroad. . . .
“Herbert Hoover should have the warm
gratitude of all Americans for his extra
ordinary and unselfish devotion to public
duty. . . .”
Mr. Hoover has always stressed the philos
ophy of government upon which this nation
was founded and which has been the true
source of its strength and well-being. Not
long ago he expressed that philosophy in a
sentence when he said: ‘The remedy is to re
store the checks and balances of power, to re
invigorate state and local governments and
to deflate the bureaucratic empires.”
Just recently, on August 10, Mr. Hoover
went back to Newberg, Oregon, the small
town where he lived as a boy 70 years ago,
to see his former home dedicated as a nation
al shrine.
Hoover, who has known many honors in
many lands, obviously was pleased with the
simple ceremonies.
So, too, was he pleased with the number
of Newberg residents on hand to greet him
on this occasion, his 81st birthday. Some of
them knew him in his childhood.
He spoke, too, in the ceremonies, remi disc
ing about his early days and emphasizing the
heritage left by the men who built Newberg
and the small towns across the country.
In particular, he' spoke of the virtues of his
aunt and uncle, Dr. and Mrs. Henry John
Minthorn, who took him into their home in a
Quaker community there, and reared him aft
er he was orphaned.
He spoke also of shortcomings of this coun-
try, but said the spirit of the Minthorns lives
on in the nation.
‘Here alone are the open windows through
which pours the sunlight of the human spirit.
Here alone, even with all its defects, is hu
man dignity, not a dream, but an accomplish
ment.
"These ideals of freedom and religious
faith guarantee there will be no decline and
fall of American civilization,” he said.
SENSING THE NEWS
By THURMAN SENSING
Executive Vice President
Southern States Industrial Council
There Is No Substitute For Free Enterprise
Socialism means government ownership and
operation. Those who believe i n government
ownership and operation, therefore, believe in so
cialism. Let’s make that clear at the beginning.
It is the privilege of anyone to believe in so
cialism who wants to believe in it. But it is
strange that anyone would who know-s any his
tory at all—because in all recorded history there
is no instance of socialism succeeding.
Socialism still sounds good, though, if we pay
no attention to history and the facts are not ex
amined. So some people have to leam the hard
way.
This is what happened in Great Britain fol
lowing the end of the Second World War. So
cialism sounded good to the British. And why not?
It promised to take care of everybody.
Instead of that, it brought the nation to the
very brink of ruin— perhaps we’ll never know
how close. The realistic British were sensible
enough to see what socialism was doing to them.
And this included the realists in the Labor Party.
So there was a split among the socialists in Brit
ain and that country returned to a Conservative
Government.
It is a hopeful sign when socialists fall out. It
means that you cannot fool most of the people all
of the time. It means that free enterprise sur
vives.
We are seeing an illustration of this fact in
connection with what is happening to a social
istic experiment in this country—the Tennessee
Valley Authority. When the government took
over the electric power industry in the Tennessee
Valley, it established socialism in the Valley so
far as that particular industry was concerned.
This looked good for a number of years—es
pecially to the people in the Valley — but there
came a time when the people came to their senses.
The great publicity given the electric power in
dustry in the Valley during the past two or three
years made the people outside the Valley realize
more than ever before that they were paying part
of the electric bill for all the people in the Valley.
It also made them realize that if all the electric
power industry in the country were handled on
the same basis, the Government would not only
be losing millions and millions of dollars per year
in taxes but that we would also have a completely
nationalized electric power industry and would
have taken one of the major moves toward be
coming a socialist nat : on.
So the Tennessee Valley Authority is finding
itself re-examined. And it is also a notable hap
pening that the adherents of the TVA are now
quarreling among themselves. Some want to con
tinue Congressional appropriations; some want
to build their own steam plants—some are vio
lently opposed to this solution. Some of them
may even be beginning to realize >that the only
real solution to the whole problem is a return to
free enterprise.
What TVA adherents really do not understand,
self-financing; some want the local communities
of course—or if they do, they refuse to face the
fact—is that the best way to assure an ample sup
ply of anything is by means of the American free
enterprise system. If they really want to do
what is best for the future growth and welfare of
the Tennessee Valley, they would urge a return
of the electric power industry to private owner
ship—because there is just no substitute for free
enterprise.
This principle applies to Government in all
fields of business—electric power or otherwise.
Broad Street Choir
Present NiglrtOt Music
The Chancel Choir of Broad
Street Methodist church will
close the church year with a ser
vice of sacred music Sunday
night at 8 o’clock. The service
which will be directed by Thom
as Jones, will be held in the
church sanctuary.
The choir will offer selections
by Bortnyansky, Wennerbery,
Palestrina, Mozart, Brodszky and
other noted composers in the
field of sacred music. Soloists
for the service will be Miss The-
I da Sublett, soprano, James Tin
man, bass, Robert Tinman, ten
or, and Thomas Jones, baritone.
Mrs. Isabel Pitts, minister of
music at Broad Street, will serve
as organist and accompanist.
Immediately following the ser
vice a reception will be held in
honor of Rev. Thomas Jones in
the social hall. Sunday will mark
the end of Mr. Jones’ duties as
assistant pastor. He has spent
the last ten weeks in Clinton
working in the various phases of
church Ifie, and will leave Sun
day night for Sumter before re
turning to the seminary at Duke
university.
The public is cordially invited
to attend this service of worship
through some of the great music
of the church.
W. L. Lynn Dies
At Home Monday
William Lee Will) Lynn, 79,
died Monday afternoon at his
home, 204 N. Owens St., following
several years declining health.
A native of Lancaster county,
Mr. Lynn had spent most of his
life in Laurens county. He was a
son of the late John R. and Sarah
Fleming Lynn and was a member
of Broad Street Methodist church.
(He was married three times,
first to the late Julia Briggs Lynn.
Surviving this union are two sons,
John Robert Lynn, of Detroit,
Mich., and William Lynn, of
Orange, Calif.; and four daugh
ters, Mrs. Lorentz Svedelius, of
Melbourne, Fla.; Mrs. Roy Crisp,
of Nashville, Tenn.; Mrs. Leo
Thomas, of Macon, Ga., and Mrs.
James Slice, of Oak Ridge, Tenn.
His second marriage was to the
late Mrs. Nannie Tucker Lynn..
Surviving this union are one step
son, Howard Tucker, of Fountain
Inn, and two daughters, Mrs.
Reese Cunningham, of Cross Hill.
His third marriage was to Mrs.
Ellis Todd Lynn who survives with
two step-daughters, Mrs. Joe
Poole, of near Clinton, and Mrs.
Oscar Moseley, of McCormick. Al
so surviving are one sister, Mrs.
Lula Wier, of Joanna, and 12
grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday at 3:30 p. m. at Gray
funeral home by the Rev. J. E.
Merchant and Dr. D. J. Woods. In
terment will be in the Presbyte
rian church cemetery.
Pallbearers were Hubert J.
Pitts, Herschel Thomason, Joe
Poole, Sterling Pitts, Lewis Pitts,
Ratchford Boland, Hubert Boyd,
James Copeland, Sr., Henry Suber
and David Pitts.
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Avison To Assist
Witr 1 .
Program At College
Lawrence B. Avison, Sr., arriv
ed at Presbyterian college Mon
day to assist the institution with
its forthcoming diamond jubilee
development program.
Avison is a representative and
director of Marts and Lundy,
Inc., of New York. He began im
mediately with preliminary plans
for the program.
Avison will be connected with
Presbyterian college for the next
II months. His wife is with him
during his stay here in Clinton.
Mrs. J. P. Leonard
Claimed By DeaHi
Mrs. Mary Jane Leonard, 60,
wife of J. P. Leonard, died early
Monday morning at her home
near CUnton following several
months of declining health.
A native of Plains, Mont., Mrs.
Leonard had made her home in
Laurens county since 1947.
Surviving besides her husband
is one step-daughter, Mrs. Iris
Black of Ware Shoals.
Funeral services were con
ducted Tuesday at 3:30 p. m., at
Gray Funeral Home by the Rev.
R. E McCaskill. Burial was in
Rosemont cemetery.
Pallbearers were W. E. De-
Loach, W. M. R. Anderson, Jr.,
David S. Templeton, D. B. Smith,
Burl E. Allen, R. P. Wilder, G. N.'
Foy and Wilmot Shealy.
Hill II II
Sgt. Haselden
Receives Discharge
Sgt. Bill Haselden, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. Kenneth Haselden,
has received his discharge from
the army and returned to his
home here. He has accepted a
position with Dixie-Home Stores
and will begin his new work the
coming week.
Sgt Haselden has served the
past three years with an infan
try unit, part of the time in Ko
rea. Since November, when he
returned from Korea, he has
been stationed at Fort Lewis, Se
attle, Washington.
"College Night"
For Baptist Students
“Off To College” will be held
at the Enoree Baptist church on
Tuesday evening, August 23, at
7:30 o’clock.
This is a recognition service
for all college, business and nurs
ing students in all the churches
of Reedy River Association^
The service has been planned
by Miss Sylvia Smith, associa-
tional president. A panel discus-
sioif on college life with students
participating will be directed by
Miss Smith. Following this a film
will be shown.
A fellowship hour will be held
at the close of the service. All
attending are asked to bring a
picnic lunch. _ ^
Intermediate, young people,
counselors, directors and pastors
are urged to attend.
Banquet Climaxes
Youth Activities Week
The Youth Activities Week at
Broad Street Methodist church
enters its fifth night with a fel
lowship supper at 7:15 p. m. this
evening. The program tonight
will include discussion groups,,
recreation, and worship around
the general theme of “We Be
lieve." Leaders in tonight’s pro
gram will be Mrs. Lewis Pitts,
Rev. J. E. Merchant, Mrs. J. E.
Merchant, Rev. Thomas Jones,
James Tinman and Theda Sub
lett.
Friday night will be the last
night of this special week of
youth emphasis. A banquet has
been planned with Robert Tin
man acting as toastmaster. James
Tinman will be song leader. Rev.
J. E. Merchant, Tommy G. Pitts,
and Jimmy Chaney will also take
part on the program.
After the banquet the group
will retire to the sanctuary for
a closing worship srevice.
PC Alumnus Writes
Book Of Sermons
A book of sermons by a Pres
byterian College alumnus has
been published recently, accord
ing to the PC alumni office.
The book, “Jesus, Financial
Troubles, and Other Sermons",
presents the work of the Rev.
Cliff Ross Johnson of Alexan
dria, Va. It is described as “a
collection of homilies from the
pulpit of Westminster Presbyte
rian Church”, which he serves.
Dr. Johnson was graduated
from Presbterian with a B.A. de
gree in 1936, and received his
B.D., Th.M. and Th.D. degrees
from Union Theological Semi
nary in Richmond, Va. He was
pastor of the Leesburg, Va., Pres
byterian church for a year before
going to Alexandria in 1943.
Florida St. School
Gives Schedule For
Pupils To Report
Pupils are to report to Florida
Street school as follows: All first
grade pupils are to report at 8:30
a. m. Thursday, Sept. 1. Parents
should bring birth certificates with
them.
On Friday morning, Sept. 2,
other pupils should report as fol
lows:
Pupils formerly in Mrs. Adair’s
room report to Miss MoCrary.
Mrs. Ray’s room to Miss Webb,
Mias Yarborough’s room to Mrs.
Young, Mrs. McCrary's room to
Miss Gary, Mrs. Davis' room to
Mrs. Speake, Mrs. Young’s room
to Miss Owens, Mias Gary’s room
to Mrs. Lawson, Miss Owens’
room to Miss Davis, Mrs. McCas-
kill’s room to Mrs. Heirs, Miss
Davis’ room to Mr. Shealy, Mrs.
Hair’s room to Mrs. Wilder, Mrs.
Speake’s -room to Mrs. Crawford,
Mrs. Wilder’s room to Miss Jen
kins, Mrs. Lawson’s room to Mrs.
Timmons.
Pupils may be assigned in the
rooms to which they report or
they may be re-assigned after re
porting .
Mesons Will
Confer Degrees
Campbell lodge No. 44, A. 7. M.,
will confer the Fellow Craft de
gree (Mi a class of three candidates
Monday evening at 7:30 and on
Tuesday evening three more will
receive the fellow craft degree. AH
qualified brethren are cordially
invited to attend.
LEO HEATHERLY, W. M.
V. P. ADAIR, Sec.
NABORS UTUNION
The Nabors, Nstoers, Net^ihcrs
reunion will be held at Hurricane
Baptist church Sunday, August 21.
All families are invited to attend
and bring picnic baskets.
Mrs. Ginsburg
Goes Abroad
Mrs. E. B. Ginsberg left the city
last week for New York where she
was joined by friends and sailed
on Friday for a tour of Greece
and Turkey.
205 Church St.
Pains In Hip and Leg Relieved —
Indigestion, Nervousness, Diarrhea
and Headaches Disappear
“I shall never cease praising Dr. Hart and what he
has done for me,” says Mrs. Eunice Waddell, Enoree,
S. C.
“I suffered a severe pain in my hip and leg, so pain
ful at times that I would get nauseated. The second
treatment from Dr. Hart gave me relief and I began to
feel much better.
“Dr. Hart prescribed a series of treatments for my
several ailments which were: discomforts in the neck,
indigestion, nervousness and diarrhoe. After the second
treatment the diarrhea stopped and has not bothered
me since.
“Dr. Hart’s treatments also cleared up a condition
that was causing headaches. If you are suffering I ad
vise you to consult Dr. Hart about your health.”
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