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CLINTON. S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1955
First Step
"Taxes should be reduced, but the first
step is a balanced budget, and every effort
must be bent to balance the budget.” That
eminently logical statement comes from Con
gressman Rees of Kansas. Then he says:
“Government employment can and should
l>e reduced at least 10 per cent without any
impairment of essential government services.
In fact, greater efficiency should result.”
Here is a goal that Congress and the Ex
ecutive branch should go all out to reach—
and, in doing that, they will earn the heart
felt thanks of the hardpressed American tax
payer.
Making The Mare To Trot
"It is money that makes the mare to trot,”
wrote fhe jMjet John Wolcot some two cen
turies ago. That has become a classic aphor
ism. in a slightly different form: “Money
makes the mare go.”
American industry provides a wonderful
example of this truth. At the end of last
year, our manufacturing companies alone
represented $175,000,000,000 of capital —
which works out to an investment of $12,000
for each of their workers.
We will need many more tens of billions to
provide good jobs for our growing population.
And that meaps that we need to maintain
the kind of economic climate which induces
people to invest their savings in job-mak
ing enterprise.
Lifetimes Of Study
One thing is sure alout the practice of
medicine—it is a field where education nev
er ends — where the educational process
must go on throughout the physician’s en
tire active life.
That thought comes to mind on reading
the agenda for the American Medical Asso
ciation’s forthcoming clinical meeting in Bos
ton.
This postgraduate education meeting is
expected to be the largest ever held, with an
attendance of 4,000. About 200 scientific
papers and exhibits have been scheduled for
presentation. Papers will be given in three
lecture halls, offering the physician a wide
variety of choice in subjects. Leading sur
geons and obstetricians will lx* available for
individual problem discussions. Closed cir
cuit television programs, originating in a
New England hospital, will bring live opera
tions in color to the gathering place. More
than 50 motion pictures will be shown. And
there will be a technical exhibit with more
than 150 displays.
This is a major event. But in its purpose
and method it is certainly not unusual. All
over the country physicians meet—on the
regional, state, and local level—to discuss and
to learn. And their educational pursuits are
not limited to formal gatherings. The doctor,
as a matter of routine, must spend many
hours each week, above and beyond the de
mands of his practice, keeping up with medi
cal literature. For new horizons of knowledge
are always being explored, and light cast in
to dark places.
Under our free system, doctors do this vol
untarily—not because anyone forces them
to. And the fruits are found in the fact that
we have the highest standards of medical
care of any major nation on earth.
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The U. S. Economy
Continues To Expand
If, a comparatively short time ago, any
one had predicted that we were on the verge
of a $400,000,000,000 economy (which means
that we would turn out goods and services of
that value in a year) many would have re
garded this as almost unbridled optimism.
Yet the other day Dr. Arthur F. Burns,
chairman of the President’s Council of Eco
nomic Advisors, expressed confidence that
we will not only reach that mark but go well"
beyond it. And Dr. Bums is a highly regari
ed expert, with a reputation for caution
w hen it comes to making forecasts. Current
experience backs him up—in the third quar
ter of this year our production was at the
annual rate of $390,000,000,000, far above
the same period in 1954.
In one of his recent syndicated columns
Robert S. Allen described an “inside re
port ’ on lousiness thinking made by another
top official—Dr. Gabriel Hauge, Administra
tive Assistant to the President on Economic
Affairs. Dr. Hauge also stressed the magic
$400,000,000,000 figure, and said that it will
be reached this quarter and exceeded next
year. Actual production has been outrunning
past government estimates by a spectacular
margin. According to Mr. Allen, Dr. Hauge's
summary was strongly confident about
everything in the economic picture with the
exception of agriculture. And this problem.
Dr. Hauge is reported to have said, is par
ticularly bothersome for political reasons. He
added that there is no administration plan
for abandoning Secretary Benson’s flexible
price support program — that, instead, the
effort will be made to safeguard and
strengthen it.
Nothing is more dangerous than long-
range forecasting, of course. It would be a
foolish man indeed who would state cate
gorically that the U. S. economy can go up
and up ad infinitum. But it is a fact that we
made the transition from active war to peace
without the big downturn that many thought
inevitable. The comparatively mild post-
Korean decline was brief, and since then,
with few exceptions, the indicators have l>een
rising.
Newsweek recently listed a few of the
good signs. In September construction total
ed a record $4,000,000,000. Employment hit a
peak for that month of 64,700,000. As of a
late date, manufacturers’ backlogs of orders
were 10 per cent al>ove a year ago. And in
dustries of all kinds are undertaking and
planning huge expansion programs.
* Finally, in a recent speech. Vice President
Nixon listed “elements of strength which
assure further progress.” He emphasized
that our recent expansion has come pri
marily through activities of private rather
than government enterprise; that it is based
on the normal foundations of peace rather
Season Tickets For
Eight Presbyterian
Home Games On Sale
Season tickets for the eight
home games to be played by the
Presbyterian college basketball
team are now on sale.
The home schedule beg ins
Tuesday, December 6, against
Belmont Abbey.
Tickets for the eight games are
now being offered for $10. and
may be purchased at the follow
ing places: McGee’s Drug Store,
Howard’s Pharmacy, Young’s
Pharmcay, Sadler-Owens Phar
macy, Adair’s Men’s Shop, and
L. B. Dillard’s. Regular admis
sion for each game is $1.50. Wal
ter A. Johnson, athletic director,
said. v
A section will be reserved for
season ticket holders, Johnson
said, on the left of the court on
entering the gym.
Home games are:
Tuesday, Dec. 6—Belmont Ab
bey.
Friday, Dec. 9—Pheiffer Col
lege.
Thursday, Jan. 5 — College of
Charleston.
Saturday, Jan. 7—Erskine.
Friday, Jan. 20—Mercer.
Saturday, Feb. 11—Wofford.
Wednesday, Feb. 15—Newber
ry.
Saturday, Feb. 25—The,Cita
del:
Game time is 8:00 p. m.
The Blue Stockings play 13
games away from home.
John Wesley Film
To Be Shown At
Hopewell Church Dec. 4
The new motion picture “John
Wesley” is coming to Hopewell
community to be shown at the
Hopewell Methodist church on
on Sunday, December 4, at 7:00
p. m , according to the pastor. Rev.
J Leland Rinehart.
The feature-length film is in
the new Eastman color and was
produced by the Radio and Film
Commission of the Methodist
Church in cooperation with J.
Arthur Rank.
only to Methodist churches dur
ing the initial period, the public
is invited to see the picture at
the Hqpewell church.
Work Begins On
New Gulf Stotion
The Gulf Refining Co. began
work last week on its new service
station at the corner of N. Broad
and Florida streets.
Grading of the site has been
completed and construction of the
station is now underway.
W. G. King and Sons, local
builders, have the contract for the
work.
Brown Appoints
Faculty Committees
Dr. Marshall W. Brown, presi
dent, announced this week the
faculty committees for the cur
rent academic year. The men
named to the various commit
tees of college activity are as fol
lows:
Absence — Adams, chairman;
Cruickshanks, and MacLeod.
Academic Advisory — Belling-
rath, chairman; Carter, Glover,
Jones, Fraser, Lindsay, Martin,
Patte, Stevenson, and Campbell.
Athletic — Harris, chairman;
Baker, Hammet, Johnson, Martin,
and Smith.
Discipline — Whitelaw, chair
man; Anderson, Porter, Smith,
and Stump.
Graduate Study — Stevenson,
chairman; McIntyre, and White-
law.
Guidance — Thayer, chairman;
Ballentine, Jones, and Martin.
Fraternities — Baker, chair
man; Erwin and Hay.
Library — Glover, chairman;
Carter, Craig, Jones, and Toole.
Placement—Bellingrath, chair
man; Adams, Fraser, Gray, and
Hay.
Student Activities — Hammet,
chairman; Campbell, Cruick
shanks and Patte.
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At Indiana City
For Tournament
Presbyterian College’s basket
ball sharpshooters will open
their 1955-56 season in high gear
with the City of Richmond (Ind)
Thanksgiving Basketball TpUr-,
nament this week-end.
The Blue ; Hose tip-off tourna
ment action this Thursday night
when they engage Centre Col
lege of Kentucky in ^ the first
game of the three-day meet,
cage outfits from six states have
Altogether, seven fast-moving
been lined up for this annual
small college- tournament. Be
sides PC and Centre, the com
petition includes: host Earlham
College and Manchester, both of
Indiana; Hope College of Michi
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homa.
The Blue Hose, under new
coach Russ Murphy, will be
shooting this year to keep pace
with last season’s best record in
history. That mark stood at 20
victories and only six defeats.
A veteran team is back, with
five lettermen in the starting
lineup, including Guard Bill
Toole, the captain of last year
who has been reelected to lead
the team again. Here’s the start
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Forwards Dave 'Thompson and
Arnold Stone. Gbntpr Bruce
Thompson, and guards Toole and
Charles Sloan.
ful 18th century evangelist and
educator.
Mr. Rhinehart explained that
while the film is being released
. . It brings to the screen for the
than the crisis demands of war; and that our fir^t time the dynamic and color-]
prosperity has a broad base, with 76 per
cent of the total income going to labor. These
and other factors led him to say: "With this
solid foundation, we need not fear for Amer
ica’s future. As long as we are not panicked
into doing things wrong, as long as we avoid
the panaceas—the economic pep pills with
the awful letdown—and as long as we remain
true to the economic principles which have
made America great, we can face the future)
with courage and confidence.”
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SENSING THE NEWS
By THURMAN SENSING
Executive Vice President
Southern States Industrial Council
AGRICULTURE SANITY
In his annual message to the 34th Annual Con
vention of the Tennessee Farm Bureau, on Nov
15, 1955, at Nashville, Tcnn., President Tom J
Hitch made a sound profession of belief that not
only agriculture but all segments of our economy
would do well to heed. He said this:
"I believe we must maintain our freedom and
the opportunity to make our own choice if we
ever get out of the fix we are in. Whatever is
done for agriculture must be done within the
framework of our Constitution and what we call
the American way of life.”
Mr. Hitch cited individual freedom as the
“magic ingredient” that releases the energies of
the American people and enables us to produce
more goods than any country in the world. He
continued:
“America still is the Mecca to which millions
who live in poverty and slavery would like to
come. There is no reason why we should sacrifice
any of our freedom for temporary security.”
It is too bad that more of our agricultural lead
ers do not have the courage to make this public
profession of their belief in our traditional way of
living. It is especially unfortunate that our po
litical leaders will not do so.
Mr. Hitch recognizes that American agricul
ture is in a “fix.” In fact, most everybody recog
nizes that. But very few of them, including our
Congress, are willing to recommend getting out of
that fix by returning to American free enterprise.
The trouble, of course, is that we have gotten
sc far into the “fix” that the solution is bound to
be both painful and difficult. But under our pres
ent system of handling the problem it is getting
worse—and will continue to do so. Just like a
neglected cancer, the patient continues to get in
worse shape and eventually cure is impossible.
As Mr. Hitch points out, the temporary secur
ity is not worth the loss of our freedom. Until ev
erybody concerned recognizes this fundamental
truth, the fix we are in will grow progressively
worse.
GOVERNMENT MONEY”
One of the strangest notions that can pervade
a people is that the State has money of its own—
and nowhere, perhaps, is that notion more firmly
fixed than in the United States.
This is in face of the fact that is £s very clearly
evident to anyone who will just stop a moment
and think that there is no such thing as “Gov
ernment money.”
But we continue to get excited—as individ
uals, as communities and as state govemmnets—
oVei^receipt of federal aid in any of its forms.
We persist in considering such aid as “something
for nothing”, as largess, as manna from Heaven.
This attitude is particularly noticeable in con
nection with the various “social security” meas
ures which have been foisted upon the American
people. In these various schemes—pensioning, in
surance against sickness, accident, unemployment,
etc.—everyone is told that the government pays
so much into the fund, the employer so much and
the worker so much.
What is the actual truth? The worker—that
is. the individual—pays it all. He pays his own
share outright; he pays the employer’s share in
the increased price of the things he buys; and he
pays the government’s share in taxation. He pays
the whole bill. That’s the only way it can be
done.
And when one thinks of the bureaucratic brok
erage that is included in this arrangement, he
readily realizes that this is just about the most
expensive form of “security” he could possibly
buy.
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