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CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1955
A Big Week
Clinton did iLself proud last week when
the city was host for four days to the South
Carolina Fox Hunters Association for its
annual meeting. J
The occasion brought fr^mtwb~t<5 three
hundred hunters and (as many hounds
to the city, and from the comments we
heard, the visitors were well pleased with
their stay here.
All segments of community activity en
tered into the spirit of the occasion and did
all they were asked to do in an effort to
give the fox hunters a royal welcome and
make their coming an event well w r orth re
membering.
Included on the program was the as
sociation’s bench show, which was well at
tended by local people and visitors; a busi
ness meeting; a barbecue arranged by the
Clinton Wildlife chapter; and several
early morning chases in the Enoree river
area.
All in all, we think it was an enjoyable
occasion for all concerned, and Clinton
will look forward to a return visit of the
association at some future date.
Without Hope
Appearing in at least two papers in re
cent days was a letter from a fellow in
New York who had this to say:
“In my opinion, some day in the fu
ture a thankful people, in spite of lies
spread about socialism, will recognize
the correct position of the Socialist La
bor Party (one of the oldest in the coun
try) and the crazy mess that the world
is in. and rally around the Socialist La
bor Party solution of building a new de
cent socialist world.
“Then man will be able to really live
and enjoy life, instead of having to wor
ry about jobs, being broke, prices, and
facing the threat of a horrible war of an
nihilation.”
The man brands himself immediately
as one without hope, without faith in him
self or anything else; and without gump- ;
tion enough even to make anv effort to iwi-
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prove his own status.
He is ready to sell his soul for what he
thinks is the security of government hand- i
outs and regulation.
He fails to see that people in those
countries that have tried or gone over to
socialism still have the worry—they do not
have the jobs, and they are still broke.
The grandiose plans and promises of
Socialists and Communists continue to re
act upon some people in this country as an
opiate, building up in their hazy minds the
expectation of a utopia, where everything ,
will be hotsy-tosy if and when the country '
is turned over to the pinks.
South Carolina and other Southern |
states are an area where little is heard of
the Socialist and Communist doctrines, j
Such preachment is simply foreign to our
make-up; it falls on deaf ears. Our people
know that they can’t get something for '
nothing.
But there are still areas in this country,
especially where the European element is
strong, where people will listen to and fol- j
low anybody or any movement that prom
ises what they think is a little security.
They don’t realize they are selling them
selves into slavery.
A New Look?
It is undoubtedly true that hope is
higher now than in it has been in years
that the threat of World War III can be
lessened, and the existing uneasy peace
made more secure. That hope is based on
another hope—that there has been a sig
nificant change in attitude in the Kremlin.
Doughty old Winston Churchill suggested
this, rather cryptically, when he said; “We
l ave a new scene. New men are masters
in the Kremlin. It is by no means certain
that there Ls not another ‘new look’ on the
faces with more powerful forces behind
them which may still be most beneficial to
the overwhelming masses of people all
over the world who wish to dwell in peace
with one another.”
This view is not universally held by any
means. Authoritative and respected voices
here and abroad w^am that the Russian
leopard will not change his spots, and that
to think otherwise is the most dangerous
oY illusions. However, the top men in the
West, for the most part, are now taking a
cautiously optimistic stand. President
Eisenhower, for one, sees signs of light
ahead. ' ' »
In part, the President’s present posi-
.t#>n may be due to the pressure exerted by
the British and French in behalf of any ac
tion that offers the slightest chance of im
proving the world situation. But the Rus
sians, under their new .leadership, have
taken some tangible and important steps.
The signing of the long-delayed Austrian
peace treaty, which makes that country a
neutral tied neither to East or West, is the
outstanding example.
Dorothy Thompson, long a student of
Russia and international communism, re
cently disputed the idea that nothing can
or will change Lenin’s theory that a long
period of co-existence between capitalism
and communism is impossible, and that one
or another will have to be destroyed. This
concept, Miss Thompson argued, was radi
cally changed by Stalin, “who made the
building of the USSR primary, and pushed
world revolution into the background and
sought safety in a ‘position of strength’
and a balance of power.” She belives that
the situation holds the possibility “of a
long period of armed but peaceable co-ex-
istence.”
In another of her columns Miss Thomp
son made an unusual and thought-provok
ing point. She wrote: “There is an odd
contradiction in our o w n propaganda
about the Soviet Union. On the one hand
we say that the rigid monolithic structure
of communism is unable to produce for
basic human needs, and. on the other, that
it is capable of launching a third world
war—war being the greatest imaginable
consumer of goods and services. Both
views simply cannot be correct.”
In any event, the world outlook has
changed materially. No one expects mir
acles. But perhaps, at long last, some
groundwork for ultimate success in the re-
concilation of differences may be laid.
* SENSING THE NEWS
By THURMAN SENSING
Executive Vice President
Southern States Industrial Council
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FARM PROSPERITY
It is being generally noised around that the
question of farm prosperity will be one of the ma
jor questions involved in the political campaigns
of 1956.
There are those who are complaining that fh£
farmers of the country are having a depression
while the rest of the nation is enjoying prosperity.
It is true that farm prices have fallen—down
4 per cent for the first six months of 1955. Also,
further decline is expected for the third quarter
But there are several factors that discount this de
cline as being serious:
First, the decline in farm prices has not been
precipitate, but very slow.
Second, the per capita income to farmers is
very little, if any, below what it has been. This
is due to the fact that the United States is di-
minishingly agricultural. In 1929, one out of four
Americans lived on the farm; today, one out of
seven.
Third, farmers still have plenty of assets to back
up their position. They stack up something as
follows: real estate, $91 billion; household effects,
$50 billion; cash and investments, $22 billion;—
total, $163 billion. Against that total, farmers owe
only $18 billion.
One theory widely believed for a long time has
apparently been disproved in the last two or three
years: namely, that general prosperity depends
upon agricultural prosperity. We are certainly
having general prosperity, and it has not depend
ed upon farm prosperity. Or if it has, then we
have really been having farm prosperity regard
less of all the claims to the contrary.
Actually, the farmers themselves do not seem
to be too much worried; they are continuing to
buy farm machinery, automobiles, and general
merchandise in the rural areas in a big way.
It is to be suspected thait most of the hulla
baloo we are hearing about farm prices is being
raised by politicians who are trying to make the
farmers think their lot is an unhappy one and that
if they (the farmers) will just vote for them (the
politicians so talking), all their (the farmers and
the politicians) troubles will be ended.
TAX RELIEF IS COMING
Just as surely as we have a national election
next year, we shall have tax cuts next year. There
will be rumblings of dissent from financial con
servatives, and for sound reasons, but still taxes
will be cut—for it is election year, and nothing
appeals to voters more than to have their taxes
reduced.
Republicans may want to cut the taxes one
way, and Democrats may want to cut them anoth
er—but they will both want to cut them. It is
really hard to see which party is going to get any
Dear political gain over the other party by doing
so, because we shall have a Democratic Congress
and a Republican Administration and both sides
will probably claim the credit for whatever is
done.
It is not likely that sound financial and eco
nomic considerations will have anything to do
with the way the tax-cutting is handled. It is
generally recognized by most economists that cut
ting corporation taxes is the best way to give a
boost to a nation’s economy, because it not only
provides more money for distribution to millions
of stockholders but it also provides more money
for expansion and creation of new jobs. But it is
unlikely that in this forthcoming election year
corporation taxes will receive much, if any, con-
sider^tian—because corporations don’t have votes.
The main relief will probably be given to small
incomes, with perhaps thousands of them being
dropped from the tax rolls alotogether. Some dis
proportionate relief will be given large incomes,
and some excise taxes may be reduced or abol
ished that afe politically unpopular.
Before you start spending your Federal income
tax savings, however, it might be well to suggest
you bear in mind, generally speaking, local and
state taxes are going up. There just isn’t much es
cape from taxes in this day and time.
Forty-KM Stadenh
From Clinton
P. C. This Term
Forty-nine students of Clinton
are enrolled as students at Pres
byterian college for the fall se
mester of the 1955-56 school year.
They began classwork as the
college opened its diamond jubi
lee session with its largest en
rollment in history. A total of
505 students are registered, a
new record despite tightened aca
demic requirement which reject
ed scores of applicants.
As the new semester started,
Presbterian college announced
plans for celebrating its 75th an
niversary with a giant Diamond
Jubilee Convocation on October
14-16. National leaders will be
brought to the campus at this
time to develop the theme, ‘The
Dawning Renaissance”, a pro
gram pointing to the era of
promise which the future holds.
The students attending Presby
terian from Clinton are:
Ransom McCarthy R a u t o n,
Paul A. Chandler, Mable June
Adair, Twila Verne Thayer, Mar
ion Walker Dowdle, Lawrence
Edmund Young, Donald Evans
Lawton, Homer E. Cobb, Sonny
Pierce Daniels, Jimmy Dean
Bass, Jess Hix Prince, Jr., Jim
mie Ray Suttles, Alvin West
Hampton, Olin DeWitt Briggs,
Davis R. Holland, Robert Maxie
Bay, James Avery Barnes, John
William Ledford. Roy Elbert
Benjamin, Nancy Jean Bell, Rob
ert Smith Dowdle, Guy Griffith
Smith, William Ellison Simson,
Jr., Clarence LeRoy Huntington,
Charles Martin Malpass, Hugh
Lee Eichelberger, Jr., John Philip
McGee, Chris Patte, Frank Cole
man Young, Jr., Dillard Dennis
Neighbors.
Also Richard Gaines Fennell,
George Wendell Dailey, Francis
Keith McGee, Robert Nelson
Reynolds, Walter Lionel Yates,
George Dewey Brazill, Charles
Edward Doering, Lee Roy Camp
bell, Katie Ruth Toole, Barbara
Jean Smith, Thomas Griffin
Pitts, James Conrad Tinman,
George Albertus Baker, Kenneth
Norton Baker, Marshall Banks
Nell, Robert L. Tinman, Paul
Hamilton Foshee, Charles Win
field Johnson, Jr., and Charles
Winfield Sloan.
Seaboard Gives
Dinner Friday For
0. H. Sheely, Retiring
Surrounded by a compnay of
50 friends, including officials of
the railroad, Olin H. Sheely of
ficially retired Friday as , agent
of the Seaboard railroad in Clin
ton.
The occasion was a dinner at
Holel Mary Musgrove given by
the Seaboard in honor of Mr.
Sheely, who was closing a period
of service covering slightly less
than 50 years. He became con
nected with the railroad in De
cember, 1906.
Present at the dinner, in ad
dition to railroad officials, were
Mr. Sheely’s family, Seaboard
agents from along the line, and
Clinton friends.
O. B. McRae, agent at Athens.
Ga., presided over the dinner
and introduced the guests. He
read letters of regret from many
Seaboard officials that they were
unable to attend, expressing their
best wishes to Mr. Sheely upon
his retirement.
Mr. Sheely was presented a
government bond by the rail
road.
Among officials present were
John White, superintendent of
the Georgia division, of Atlanta:
O. T. Hall, trainmaster, of Abbe
ville; and C. L. Peeler, supervis
ory agent, Atlanta.
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Winn-Dixie Voted
Name For Stores
After Consolidation
Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 27—
Stockholders of Winn & Lovett
Grocery Co., were told today that
a proposed merger with Dixie-
Home Stores will “firmly en
trench” the company in the Caro-
linas and Georgia.
Details of the proposed consoli
dation were outlined by A. D.
Davis, Winn & Lovett president,
at the annual meeting. Merger of
Wihn St Lovett with the 116-store
chain of Dixie Home Stores
should result in consolidated
sales exceeding 400 million dol
lars in the first full year of com
bined operations, Davis said.
Declaring that the merger will
open up an entire new marketing
area for the company, Davis add
ed that it will also result “in a
much more economcial distribu
tion operation than we have had
in the past, and these savings
will be passed along to our cus
tomers.
After the annual meeting, the
directors voted to change the
company’s name to “Winn-Dixie
Stores, Inc.,” after the merger
is effected, and to increase the
number of authorized common
shares from 6,000,000 to 7,500,-
000. Stockholders will be asked
to approve the merger at a spec
ial meeting October 25.
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Ten persons were killed and
140 injured in 445 accidents Sep
tember 18 through September 24,
the State Highway Department
said today.
This year’s death toll is now
486, which is 85 above last year's
of the same date, and only 78
fewer than the toll for the entire
year of 1054.
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