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Pag* Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, September 1,1955 oJtjr (Eiintun (E^rottirlr Established It## PITBLJ^HED 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 o! Congress March 3, 1879 The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of it* 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 RepresenUtive: AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York, Cnicago, Detroit Philadelphia CLINTON. S. C., THCRSDAY. SEPTEMBER 1. 1955 School Days Are Here Again! Thdse words are being heard from one end of the country to the other. They are exciting words to some. They are indifferent words to others. They are down-right doleful words to still others. But no matter how they sound to the va rious ears that hear them, they have their effect upon all of us. And to none do they carry a more terrific impact than to those mothers with six-year- olds—unless it be to the six-year-olds them selves. Who knows the thoughts that race through a mother’s mind, the emotions that shake her very soul, when she takes her first child to school—as many mothers in Clinton are do ing today. None but a mother who has done that very thing herself. Who knows, but she, the great plans she has for that child, the high hopes, the ambi tions. The children themselves—wide-eyed and wondering, timid, frightened, others indif ferent, interested, giggling, joyful, noisy—all entering a brand new world. Whet will they, the parents, the teachers, the community make of it—this brand new world that these children are entering? The community has no greater responsi bility than making good citizens of these youngsters. We would go so far as to say that it is the only responsibility of the com munity—for it involves making the commu nity everything it should be in order to pro vide the proper environment in which these youngsters can grow up to be the kind of citizens we want them to be. Yes, Clinton, Joanna, Vtobitten Village, Thorn-well, Mountville, Cross Hill, Long Branch—all face a new era. That of forging a new life. ferent from the present situation where it has to fire him if he doesn’t join? Here is a good example of might being right. A powerful private labor organization can legally extort money (dues) from a nfan on the penalty of having him fired. Apparently the only solution is for the bal ance of the individual states to pass right-to- work laws as 17 have alreadv done. Two Systems U. S. News & World Report has printed a number of photographs of Russian scenes, taken by two Americans who recently spent a month traveling about the Soviet Union. One shows a middle-aged worker and his wife window-shopping in Stalingrad. They are peering at a motly display of odds-and- ends, including a teakettle. That teakettle, the caption says, would cost the man 11 hours’ wages. Another shows a young labor er. A tailored suit, this caption says, would cost him three weeks’ wages. These statements are in line with many authoritative surveys showing what a Rus sian must pay for clothes and food and other goods as compared with what an American must pay. In every case, measured by the authoritative barometer of working time needed to earn the money, cost to the aver age Russian is many times the cost to the average American. In Russia all the means of production and distribution—which means agriculture, man ufacturing and retailing—are either owned rK'* the state or rigidly controlled by the state. The state fixes the prices—and, save for a few subsistence items, fixes them at very high levels in order to siphon off consumer purchasing power. In the United States the means of produc tion and distribution are privately owned. Under the system we know as free enter- 1 prise, competition is wide open and intense— as even-one who patronizes retailers can tes- School Buses Begin Operating Tomorrow (continued from page 1) Franklin, Edward Thomas, Tom my Blackmon, Bill Dobbins, Mar garet Fulmer, Bud Tumblin, Neil Dailey, Jerry Pitts, Carroll Poole and Jesse Johnston. Substitute drivers are Shirley Davis, Robert Watts. Eddy Fulmer, Linda Jo Poore, Shirley Dove, Melvyn Brannon, Jimmy Morse, Glenn Walker, Don Copeland, and Ted Davenport. Regular drivers from Bell St. high school are: J. B. Adams, Jake Carwile, Pierce Crank, Paul Cromer, Earl Dendy, Eugene Hunter, David Murphy, Robert Rice, Sqmmy Richardson, Uly sses Scott, William Taylor and Silas Cromer. Substitute drivers are: James Adams, J. D. Brown, Daisy Burnside, Foster Calhoun, Sara Chappelle, Anthony Jones, Tommy Leake and Curtis Rice. W. J. Bailey Agency Purchases Wysor Insurance Office erlv. tify from personal experience. And prices for Heaven help us if it’s not tempered prop- practically everything sold at retail are well within the means of the average family. “Government Shall Not Support The People” In 1887, Congress passed a bill appropriat ing $10,000 to buy seed and distribute it to drought-hit farmers. President Grover Cleve land acknowledged that the motives behind this were benevolent. Yet he vetoed the meas ure. in a message which contained this state ment: “Though the people support the gov ernment the government should not support the people." The country sorely needs ad herence to that principle today. Time To Get Going The Chairman of the Citizens' Committee for Reorganization of the Executive Branch of the Government says: "Th'e Hoover Com mission. its great work well done, has passed into history. Now it is up to good citizens everywhere to make history by seeing to it that the commission’s recommendations get a full and fair hearing, looking to maximum action in 1955-56.” About -15 per cent of these recommenda tions can l** accomplished by administrative orders, without new laws or changes in laws, so action there should begin immediately. W hen Congress meets again, there should be no avoidable delay in getting legislation start ed to effect other reforms which, in the words of the commission’s final report, would “strengthen the economic, social, and gov ernmental structure which has brought us, now for 166 years, constant blessings and progress.” Legal Extortion General Motors has been required to no tify some 18,000 workers that they will have to join a certain union by a specified date or lose their jobs, except in the 17 states which have passed the right-to-work law's. This is in accordance with the Taft-Hartley act. Un der it. when a company signs up for a union shop a non-union man can be hired, but he must join the union in 90 days and pay dues or be fired. The law does not even limit as sessments that can be charged him. The issue here is neither pro-union nor anti-union—it involves the basic principle of the right of choice and the right to work without coercion. What becomes of a free country’ when a man is forced to join and pay in order to earn his bread and butter? Would anyone advocate a law forcing or allowing General Motors to fire a man if he did not resign from a union within 90 days after it hired him? How would that be dif- SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING Ex*cutir» Vic* President Southern States Industrial Council huh mnnncxKtacg ’’CONFLICT OF INTEREST’ We have heard a great deal the last year or so to the effect that high officials of the Government should have no "conflict of interest" that might tend to affect their judgment and their decisions. When Secretary of Defense Wilson took office, he had to sell his General Motors stock—stock that would cost him $2.5 million more if he bought it back now Secretary of the Army Stevens had to sell the stock in his company. When he re signed recently, he could buy it back for less than when he sold it. Secretary of Air Talbott resign ed recently because he was drawing salary from a company for which he had apparently helped obtain business. Maybe Mr. Wilson and Mr. Stevens should have been required to sell their stocks. Maybe they shouldn’t. Maybe Mr. Talbott, as a Cabinet member, should not have solicited business by which he would profit. Maybe it was all right. But it seems to me that we have missed the whole point. If Mr Wilson and Mr. Stevens were not honest men before they sold their stocks, sim ply selling the stocks did not make them honest. If Mr Talbott was not an honest man before he resigned office, resigning-did not make him hon est. In other words, legislation on ‘conflict of in terest" is not going to make men honest. Hon esty is just not legislated. Honesty is derived from a moral code that causes a man to do right whether it is required of him or not. He will not only do what is legally right, he will do what is legally right, he will do what is morally right. As a matter of plain fact, there is probably no one in the world who does not have a “conflict of interest." If it is wrong for Cabinet officers, it is wrong for Congressmen. How can a Congress man whose wealth is in farmland vote on price supports: how can a Congressman whose fortune is invested in utility stocks vote on public versus private power; and so all down the line? How, in fact, can a preacher preach—or how, even, can a columnist write a column? How can a man live? The answer in all cases, of course, is that he can do so by never allowing his “conflict of in terest" to override his moral code. And this is not done by legislation! r FREE ENTERPRISE FOR FARMERS, TOO One who believes in the American Free enter prise system certainly would not be consistent if he did not believe in it for all segments of our economy—and that includes agriculture. One fact that should stand out above all others in this connection'is that the planned eeenomy of socialism does not work in a free nation—not if the people want to remain free. We have had a major portion of our agriculture under a plan ned economy for a number of years. We are only fooling ourselves if we think it has worked. It has actually never worked and never will work. No better example could be given of that fact than the case of cotton. We have tried tr “control” the cotton crop by cutting back acreage allotted to cotton. From a 1951 high of 2$ million acres, the cotton yield has been cut to 17 million acres this year. Yet a recent 1965 crop estimate was placed at 12.7 million bales—just about the same as the 12.9 million bale average for the 1944-53 decade that piled up the better than II million bale surplus now in the hands of the gov ernment. This year’s crop will apparently add another half million bales to our surplus on hand. This same principle and this same experience Expansion of the William J. Bailey Insurance Agency of Clinton through the acquisition of the Robert E. Wysor Insur ance Agency, also of Clinton, was announced today by John Mim- naugh, manager. The merger brings together two old firms which have been in continuous operation since the late 1890’s. Mhnnaugh said his company assumes responsibility for the Wysor accounts on September 1. He pointed out that the new ar rangement now makes the Bailey Insurance Agency probably the largest general insurance organi zation in this area. The purchase was made from Mrs. Gloria Wysor, whose hus band. Robert E. Wysor III, owned the agency at the time of his death in June. M. S. Bailey & Son. Bankers, is the owner of the William J. Bailey Agency, which was found ed in the late 1880’s by William J. Bailey, who was also a co founder of the bank. William Bailey Owens succeeded Mr. Bailey as manager, and then Robert S. Owens held the posi tion until his retirement in 1954. Mimnaugh replaced him at that time. The Wysor Agency was estab lished by Homer D. Henry as the Henry Agency in 1898. W. H. Simpson and. later. Frank Boland were associated with Mr. Henry as partners, until the entire agency was sold to Wysor in 1948. Robert M. Vance serves as president of M. S. Bailey & Son, Bankers, which now owns the combined agency. Whitten Village Announces Staff For School Year Whitten Village will open the the new school year on Monday, Sept. 5, it has been announced by Miss Norma E. Hallett, director of training and assistant psychol ogist. The campus school, with I. C. Lown as principal, will have the following staff: Academic—Mrs. Milford Lindley, Laurens; Mrs. Ayliffe Jacobs, Clinton; Mrs. Margaret Sease, Clinton; Mrs. Eugene Wingo, Laurens; Mrs. Marian Ramage, Clinton; Miss Louise Cox, Clinton; Mrs. Sarah Lester, Cross Hill; Mrs. Ruby Milam, Mountville; Mrs. J. H. Hunter, Clinton. Pre-school ac tivities — Mrs. Allie Hamilton, Clinton. Shop—J. Rudolph Mat thews. Dr. W. Frank Caston is staff psychloogist and therapist; Phil Rogers heads the recreation and physical education departments, assisted by Kenneth McCord and Mrs. lone Wallace, the latter joining the staff this year. The Circle school will be staff ed by: Mrs. Lonnie McMillian, Mrs. Floyd Coats, Mrs. Felton Roper, Mrs. Ben Milling, assisted by Mrs. S. A. Lindsey, nurses and other workers. Joe Shay will again assist with general singing, choir, string band, and piano. Religious Training Services are conducted in ev ery area with special reference to Sunday school, by ten students from Bob Jones University, Greenville. The Rev. J. Marion Rhoden, Jr., pastor of the Clinton Lutheran church, cohducte church every Sunday afternoon. In addition, he contributes other services to Whitten Village. The Rev. Gerald E. Ernst, St. Boni face church, Joanna, has charge of the Catholic services once each month. Mrs. Dicus Returns From Trip To Howoii Mrs. W. A. Dicus returned to her home here Sunday following a trip made by plane to Hawaii. Mrs. Dicus spent four weeks with her son, Capt. W. A. Dicus and family at the Marine Air Base, Kenehew, Oahu. Friends will be interested to know that her six year old grandduaghter. Martha, who was a patient at Tripler General hospital, Hono lulu, is now convalescing at home. This was the first time that Mrs. Die us had seen her four months old grandson, Billy, Jr. While away Mrs. Dicus also visited Sgt. Garrard Johnson, Clinton native, who is stationed at Wheeler Field. She placed a floral offering on the grave of Bob Jones, Jr., son of Mrs. R. E. Jones, in the Punch Bowl Na tional cemetery, Honolulu. Enroute home she spent a week with her nephew, Major Alfred Browning, and family of Travis Air Force Base, and Vacaville, California. Miss Catherine Dicus met her mother in Atlanta on Sunday and accompanied her home. as different from ordinary heaters ASTTIS FROM RADIO! •zSim* WT WITHOUT COSTLY, MIT C0UECTHW PIPES AND KEOSTEB 538,342,000 off hoofor experience THRfl-IN-OVII MIATMAnt MATS LIKI MAtIC CUTS OAS Slilf TRIMINOOUSIYI leek Aim Sb^vievMliMMadfiatorai 'PATINTIDMAUTOMATIC ^AS HEATER VkOo Shpfa HEATMAKER THREE IN ONE PC Football Practice Underway (cbntinued from page 1) for nine practice days. The schedule calls for workouts at 8:30 a. m. and 4:00 p. m. daily. Crutchfield points out that all speed is necessary in rounding the team into shape for the Clem- son opener which looms ahead on September 17. PCs number one football prob lem at the start is found at quar terback. Felder Cook is the only man returning to this position, and he is reported hsopitalized with a recurrence of an ailment which permitted him to see only limited action last year. He may have to be written off for the season, so this vital post probably will be turned over to the most ambitious newcomer. More adverse pre-season news came in the form of a doctor’s re port on Fullback Gene Carter. This veteran performer has been forced to give up football be cause of injuries received in last year’s game with The Citadel. He did not play the remainder of the season after that game, but it was hoped he would have recovered by the fall campaign. Many of the top performers of last year are gone via graduation, but some are back to form a nu- cl|us — notably, backs Eddie Brockenbrough and Ken Wegg. and Tackle Bob Harrington. IF YOU DON'T READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DONT GET THE NEWS Phone 74 >«9 th*< tba inMr haet tab— Mt ie the I oat <*wr jeer floon entkr finish • MtmACR oCow fjjttx MASS FRONT • MFRFwa Only Sitgier rttw yon tMa pmuM Tropical Floor itotournofar Yon f* wmrm, OOKJ ftoon...i«tnz in comfort in orary i no dorm to Mr • A*A room mm tTMiundo—ty on gaa faflh. Witt • Siopior you’ll > FOR COMFim SAIRTV ba warm and happy far ymra to < 'l< MONEY BACK GUARANTE El BURRISS - HARRISON 202 NORTH BROAD STREET CUNTON, S. C. Get on the Joanna Mills To Fete Employees (continued from page 1) money, management, and labor. Today we salute the largest group in the combination—the workers. "It is our hope that each mem ber of our large Joanna family with his or her own family will be present for the day, your day. We’ll be looking for you.” Arrangements have been made with school authorities for chil dren of employes who live in Laurens or Newberry counties to be excused from school on Labor day. It will not be necessary for any child other than those at tending Joan/ia schools to report j to school on that day. Joanna pu pils will report to school at the regular time, but will be dismissed before the athletic events begin at 9:30 a. m. , Joanna residents have been re quested to leave their cars at home for tte day in order to re duce problems in regard to park ing in the area. W. K. Waits is chairman of the #•' •’SfiS. \m ,*• *• *• *• *• *• *• *• *• *•' *• *• *• Save 3 Ways! * lus stune principle ana uus same experience j ~ applies to all “controlled” crops. 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