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T rnmmmmmmmmmm ■4 Page Six THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, September 22, IMS Sljr (Elintnn (H^ronirlr Established It* 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 Boat Office at Clinton, S. C^ under Act ot 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 lor 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 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1955 The Hunters Are Coming! Beginning next Monday and continuing for four days, through Thursday, Clinton will be host to a group of men who represent one of the age-old sports of world history — the South Carolina Fox Hunters association. Clinton has never before been the site for a meeting of this association, and the city is keenly anticipating the visit of some two or three hundred fox hunters and as many or more of their dogs. Committees have been at work for several weeks making arrangements for the meeting, and everything seems to be shaping up well. Accommodations have had to be found not only for the hunters themselves, but also for their dogs and a number of horses. Sites for the bench show and the field trials have been secured, and a barbecue will be served to the guests. Trophies for the winning dogs have been supplied by Clinton firms, clubs and in dividuals. So Clinton will be ready for its guests Mon day. The city appreciates the honor of being host to this fine company of South Carolina sportsmen, and will do everything in its pow er to entertain them and make them feel welcome. This convention will be somewhat differ ent from most gatherings, in that the empha sis will not be on human beings, but on ani mals—the dog and the fox. They are natural adversaries, and what smart cookies they are! One could look the world over for two animals possessed of more cunning and he would come back empty handed. A wily fox being chased by a pack of well-trained hounds can produce more thrills and excitement (and noise) to a dyed-in-the-wool follower of the sport than a non-fox hunter ever dreamed of. Our science reference book says a fox is a carnivorous (flesh-eating) animal of which there are several species, belonging to the same family as the dog. It is characterized by its cunning, which has passed into a proverb. The pupil of the eye is elongated (not circular as in the dog) and the ears are triangular and pointed, it has a sharp muzzle and bushy tail. A very powerful scent is emitted from glands near the root of the tail; this odor is so fetid that even other animals avoid its lo cality. The common fox is an inhabitant of most parts <>f Europe and America and ex tends into Northern Asia. Even when taken at an early age, it is nev er properly domesticated. Though slightly made, the fox has great muscular vigor. It has great powers of endurance and speed. The red fox found throughout North Amer ica. is variable in color and marking, and va rieties of it are known by different names. This is the fox that will make the chase next week in the forest lands and fields on Enoree river near here. The dogs, of course, will be the stars of the show. The beagle, a rather small animal, is one of the most popular dogs in America. A well-trained beagle is every bit as cunning as a fox, just as vigorous, speedy and has as much endurance (their owners will probably say more so in every respect!) Their value is high, some of them reaching to hundreds, and even thousands of dollars. So, next week, don’t kick any hounds around—they will be royal guests! WeVe In Luck How many Americans, in their day-by-day shopping in lavishly-stocked retail stores, ever seriously think about the system that makes all this abundance possible? That system is called by various names— private enterprise, capitalism, a competitive economy, and so on. Regardless of semantics, it is based on just one thing—freedom. Pro ducers are free to make what they like, re tailers are free to stock what they like, and the consumer is free to buy what he likes and where he likes. We take all this for granted. We know that some conveniently-located store will have on sale whatever we happen to want at the moment, and at a reasonable price which is held down by competition. But vee wouldn’t take it for granted if we could see, at first hand, w hat the situation is in countries where these freedoms don’t exist, and the govern ment owms, operates, or in some way controls everything. Columnist Martin S. Hayden recently wrote about what communism has done to living standards in Czechoslovakia — a country which, before it was communized, was among the most prosperous and advanced in Europe. The average Czech worker has a montiily take-home pay of about 900 crowns. This will buy the bare necessities, but little else. For, in Prague, a seven-inch screen TV set costs 2,000 crowns, a pound of coffee 109 crowns, a small car 27,000 crowns (30 months pay!) and a two-burner hot-plate 560 crowns. Mr. Hayden adds that housewives queue up at five in the morning in the hope of getting a piece of meat. A sure-fire reflection of any nation’s living standards is found in its retail stores—in the range of goods offered and the prices charg ed. We Americans, with our free system, are the luckiest people on earth. The Bridge At Wayland More than 300 years ago, in 1641, a stone bridge w’as built at Wayland, Massachusetts. For all that time it took and survived every thing the Sudberry river had to offer. Then came the terrible floods of last August and the historic bridge was destroyed. Nothing is so durable as to be automatic ally safe from ravages of one kind or another. And that principle also applies to human cre ations w r hich are not material. Many of us, seemingly, believe that be cause our constitutional system was designed to give maximum freedom to all, we are safe from tyranny and oppression so long as we can defend our borders from foreign ene mies. Nothing could be more blind than this attitude. For freedom must be actively and eternally defended if it is to survive. A little socialism here, a little more socialism there— and the structure starts to crumble. The greatest enemy of freedom is ever-growing, ever-more-powerful government. The old stone bridge at Wayland, now gone, was more than 100 years the senior of this government. A vast destructive force swept the bridge away. The forces within our own borders which would, little by little, whittle away our individual freedoms in favor of more governmental authority could do exactly the same thing to our constitutional system. SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING Ex^culir* Vic* President Southern States Industrial Council INFLATION RUNNING WILD Inflation running wild can be a terrible thing, as many nations have witnessed in the history of the world—and as one nation, Chile, is witnessing right now. According to U. S. News & World Report, July 22, 1955, “The cost of living (in Chile) has multi plied about 60 times since 1928.” Just because we are having only creeping in flation in this country, and our cost of living has only tripled during this period, is no reason why we should not be concerned. A tree can be killed by dry rot just as surely as by forest fire. In Chile, says U. S. News, “People who are try ing to live on small pensions, insurance, or savings, find themselves caught in a hopeless squeeze." Whether we realize it or not, the same people have been suffering in this country for the past twenty-five years. And we should care, too, be cause, while they are only a comparatively small minority group, it is morally wrong to rob any group of what they have earned and what is leg ally theirs. “The peso, which 10 years ago was worth 4 U. S. cents, today is quoted at less than one-twen tieth of a U. S. cent in the free market. People with money usually put it into real estate or other Ungible property, or convert their pesos into dol lars for deposit in U. S. banks. A big cause of the inflation is the fact that the Government keeps running in the red. The Government deficit gen erally is financed by borrowing from the Central Bank and issuing paper money. With a bigger money supply, prices rise. Tnen wages rise. Then prices go up some more.” As in the case of all nations whose economics have been destroyed by inflation, there is a lesson here for any nation that might be similarly tempt ed. Our own government has incurred deficit fi nancing for 23 of the last 26 years. We have now reached a point where there is no excuse for fur ther deficit financing under conditions such as now prevail. It it is incurred during the next year, therefore, we can only conclude that we have also set sail upon the sea of inflation which always swallows those who continue the journey. It may not be politically expedient to balance the budget, but it would certainly be patriotic to do so. Whatever leadership will balance the budget deserves the sincere support of all citizens inter ested in the nation’s welfare. Of course, if neither political party will do so, then we are in bad shape. TEXTILE INDUSTRY HARI-KARI It has always been our general policy in this country to protect our industries. Certainly, one of the major features of our present agricultural policy has been, and is, to “protect” our cotton crop. Yet now, without too many of us knowing it, perhaps, we seem to be on the verge of committing hari-kari so far as the cotton textile industry is concerned. At the cot of billions of dollars and thousands of lives, we defated Japan in the Second World War Then, at the cost of more billions and cer tainly with the disruption of many lives, we have rebuilt Japan. We literally cast aside all our tra ditional friends in the Pacific, and now can hardly wait until Japan is again militarily strong enough to defend herself and act as our ally in that area. In the process of bringing this about, what have we done? We have rebuilt the industry of Japan—necessarily an industrial nation — with American taxpayers money, furnishing them the most modem machinery for their textile mills. We have slashed the tariff on imported cotton cloth from Japan, where the textile industry has a wage rate of 13 cents per hour. We are not only destroying profits, we are de stroying jobs in the textile industry 4n this coun try. And now, of all things, it is proposed that we sell a million bales of our surplus cotton abroad at less than we must pay tor it in this country. How contradictory can we get? S. C. Fox Hunters To Gother Here (continued from page 1) and Thursday mornings. Among the more coveted trophies the hounds will be battling to win are: Efird Memorial Cup—awarded annually to the hound having the highest general average in all- age group, a challenge cup to be held tor one year. W. S. League Cup—awarded annually to the hound having the highest score for trailing in all age group, a challenge cup to be held for one year. Aiken W. Rhett Cup—awarded annually to the hound having the highest score for hunting in all age group, a challenge cup to be held one year. Dreher Memorial T r b p h y— l awarded annually to the hound having the highest general aver age in the derby field, a trophy to be held one year. With this foxhunting event Clinton thus adds another sport to its full calendar of athletics which already includes college and high school competition, a broad youth program and wide spread emphasis upon industrial recreation. Local Lions Club To Entertain District Governor Friday District Governor T. J. (Jack) Reames, of Abbeville, will pay his official visit to the Clinton Lions club Friday evening at a meeting ait Hotel Mary Musgrow at 7:30, J Several other officers and cabi net members are expected to ac company Lion Reames. Grover B. Eaker, Internationa! counsellor, and Jib Adams, deputy district governor, both from Spartanburg, and Rembert Truhick, zone chair man, are all expected to be on hand for this special meeting. This is the only official visit Lion District Governor Reames will fnake to this chib during the year and Lion President R. P. Hamer urges 100 per cent atten dance for this meeting. DelanyToLead Panel Discussion At Textile Meeting Clemson — The South Carolina Division of the Southern Textile association will hold its annual fall meeting at the CJemaon House here Saturday, October 1. The meeting, open to both member and non-member textile mill operating executives, Is sched uled to begin at 10 a. m. with an address by Donald 'Marshall, di visional manager of the Draper 'onp. of Hopedafe, Maes., entit led, “What to Look Forward to In the Way of Loom Develop ments.” A representative of Cocker Ma chine & Foundry Co., Geetouia, N. C., will discuss “Can Slashing,’’ and a representative of West Point Foundry & Machine Co., West Point, Ga., will discuss ‘Hot Air Slashing.” Ira L. Griffin & Son, Charlotte, N. C., will have a representative on hand to discuss “Shoe Boxes,” and a panel discussion will be held on new developments that have PC Junior Vorsity To Meet Gordon Military Thursday The Presbyterian college jun ior varsity football squad will play the Gordon Military Acad emy team from Barnesville, Ga., on Thursday, night. Sept. 29. The game will be here on John son field at 8 o’clock, college ath letic officials state. New Ford Cor, Truck And Mercury Be Shown Here Showing of the new 1956 model Ford cars and trucks will be held tomorrow at Baldwin Motor Company show rooms on North Broad street. jThis is the first ’56 model car to be shown locally. The new Mercury, for which Baldwin has recently been given the agency, is scheduled for showing on Thursday, Sept. 29. taken place in the textile indus try in recent months."*^ Two pact chairmen of the South Carolina Division will conduct the panel discussion. They are Joe L Delany, general superintendent of Joenna Cotton Mills Co., Joanna, and W. M. Pittendreigh, superin tendent of the cotton mill, Stiggel Textile Carp., Were Shoals, S. C. Some 300 textile mill operating executives ere expected to attend the meeting. The Southern Textile association, with headquarters in Charlotte, IN. C., is nompetd of miH operating executives of the Canoltoas and Virginia. Joe W. Jenkins, euperintendeot of the Up per plant, Kendril MlUa, Petoer, S. C., is current chairman of the South Carolina division. MR. BUSINESS MAN!... WHAT DO YOU THINK OF CLINTON? Enough to Join the Chamber of Commerce and Invest In This Program Of Work? 1. Agricultural Expansion T* jrawtt the market far beef cattle and the eeaaty’s dairy herds. T* prelate existing craps and to have a con tin nous program t* enoeorage crop dtraratflea- tlsn. 2. Civic Affairs Ts —ppart the projects ot the City Gevernment—the impravnmant ot streets and the eenatrnettan ot new streets as needed. The surrey far a narth-senth hy-paas. Te proamte the Interest ot the people ot Clinton in legislative affairs ot omr coun ty, state and national gevernment 3. Education Te support our Institutions through planned and expanded programs In the field of edneatlea and welfare tor youth and adults. - 4. Industrial Development Te promote the established industries ot Clinton and their products . . . and to seek desirable new Industry. 5. 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