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~ i r Pa^e Twelve thbLcunton CHRONICLE Thursday, March 8, 195ft s (Eltntnn (EtyroitirU EstobUshed 1H« PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance) - One Year $3.00, Six Months $2.00 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the PWt Office at Clinton, S. C., under Act of 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 Chnonicle 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 '' I National Advertising Representative: AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION - New York, Chicago, Detroit Philadelphia CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY. MARCH 8. 1956 • • • Just In Passing Presbyterian college’s Blue Stockings de feated Furman 117-115 in a basketball game Monday night, Feb. 27, at Greenville’s Tex tile Hall. In reading the box score of the game, we noted that Darrell Floyd, Furman’s All- America forward, made a total score of 44 for the night. Bruce Thompson, PC’s center, flung in a total of 50 points. We are no “Monday morning quarter back”; therefore we don’t know what that means—if anything. Other than the fact that Clinton’s Pres byterians have a rather sharp* basketball team. A Laurens County Boy Named Senator Laurens county friends and relatives were delighted this week when Thomas A. Wof ford. of Greenville, was appointed by Gover nor Timmerman to serve as United States Senator upon the resignation of Strom Thur mond. Thurmond resigned effective April 4 and will enter the forthcoming primary as a can didate fqr reelection (as he promised to do last year) to the five years remaining in a six-year term to which he was elected. Thur mond’s statement on the circumstances in volved will be found on page 12 in today’s is sue of The Chronicle. Suffice it to say that Thurmond’s courage in making the promise is to be admired; and carrying it out was no more (nor less) than his friends expected him to do. ^ But back to the new' Senator. We said he is a Laurens county boy. Well, he is. Any body with the name of Wofford, born at Madden Station on the C&WC railroad, just can’t get out of being a Laurens county boy. True, he lives at Greenville. But he’s just stopping there while he practices law. • We are sure that Tom Wofford will add lustre to that distinguished company of Laurens county men and women who have taken their places in state and nation. Laurens county salutes its new Senator! Bedford, \ a., Bulletin: “We believe in price 'sU^ports becajuse it is the only system yet de- '^**«<Lw'hich/gives agriculture something at least akin to an *ven break, but we do not like the way the system has been adminis tered and abused.” is Cheaper By The Mile! In the back of everyone’s mind there the desire to visit some special place of in terest. And while the place varies with the individual, there is one thing all travelers have in common today—the modern automo bile, with the freedom of movement it pro vides. Still another factor makes traveling by car enticing. A study of American Automo bile Association figures on the cost of car op eration shows that the more an auto is driv en the cheaper it gets by the mile! The rea son for this is that certain costs of auto operation, such as depreciation, insurance and license fees, remain virtually the same if a car is driven one mile or thousands of miles. These fees account for nearly fifty per cent of the price of operating a car. AAA figures reveal that the cost per mile of operation of an auto for each person in a family of three is 5.2 cents if . the car-is driven 5,000 miles a year. But if the car mileage is increased to 15,000 miles a year, the cost per mile for each member of the family is more than cut in half—to 2.5 cents a rtiile. So here is another good reason for taking that trip to that special place of interest. Any Economy Must Have Investment Government investment and government ownership may replace private investment unless people are educated td the significance o^ stock ownership. That statement was made the other day by the president of the New York Stock Ex change. He is on sound ground. Any kind of economy and society must and will have capital investment. In a free nation that in vestment is made voluntarily, by individuals and institutions. In a totalitarian nation, it is made by the government—regardless of what the people want. The exchange is now engaged in a cam paign to interest many more millions of fam ilies—especially those in the medium income bracket—in share ownership. The theme is ‘$Own Your Share of American Business.” And four important points are emphasized: first, recognize the risk involved in owning common stocks; second, before buying them build up an emergency reserve; third, get good advice; fourth, get the facts before in vesting. All of these points should be scrup ulously observed by the potential investor. A stock, like land or any form of property, may go down as well as up in value. And the investor who buys blind, on hunches and tips, is asking for trouble. The list of common stock owners now probably totals something ilke 8,000,000 peo ple. Many times that number ultimately will be neeeded if our expanding industries are to be soundly and adequately financed—and our economy -is to rest on the broadest base of ownership that will make the ideal of cor porate democracy a reality. “Government Hasn’t A Dime” “Education has always been a matter for the localities in the states,” writes James W. Douthat in the Idaho Voter. “The Federal Government hasn’t got a dime that it doesn’t take away from the people. So it can’t give anything to a sejiool system without first having taken it away from the very people who should be supporting the state system.” This is true of all other federal “grants” to local government. Government, like an individual, can’t get anything for nothing. The taxpayers must put up the money—plus the large additional sums absorbed by the bureaucrats and adminb(trators. SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING ExacutiT* Vic* Pr**id*nl Southern State* Industrial Council INTEGRATION PLAYED INTO THE HANDS OF THE COMMUNINSTsi-PART I Regardless fo one’s opinion with reference to segregation of the races, it has now become quite clear that by the issuance of its integration decree tne Supreme Court played directly into the hands of the communists. It is the avowed purpose of communism to overthrow the existing order, to bring about strife and turmoil—through racial conflict or in any oth er way. Thoughtful people, not only in the South but throughout the nation, feared this would be one result of the decree when it was handed down Their fears are now being realized. If it continues to result in bitterness and ani mosity, in strife and bloodshed, in greater rents in the social fabric of the nation—and who can now doubt that it will not do so—who will benefit? Not the Negroes, not the whites—only the communists, who would like nothing better than to see our form of government overthrown. And it was all so unnecessary! The Negro race was getting along fine under the “separate but equal” doctrine promulgated by the Supreme Court more than 60 years ago and reconfirmed within this decade. The Negroes had made more progress since the War Between the States than perhaps any race anywhere at any time in his tory in the same length of time. In the states where segregation is practiced, rapid strides had been made—in fact, in most places the goal had been accomplished—in provid ing equal facilities of all sorts. Negro teachers taught their own chlidren and were paid the same salaiy scale as white teachers. The rank and file of the Negroes know these things and were satis fied. Strife between the races was practically a memory. The people of the South know—whether people elsewhere do or not—that segregation is not dis crimination. It is based on pride of race—and there is something wrong with a person of any rac$ who is not proud of his own race. It is not lack of respect—all decent people respect equally de cent people of all races. It is not a question of equal rights—everybody should have equal rights, tl is not a question of equal justice under the law. Justice is always equal and law should never be a respecter of persons. Segregation is not even a question of Christian principles. That is where many well-meaning peo ple are led astray. Many churchmen and church people base their advocacy of integration on the statement that segregation is ineompatable with the Christian faith. Any such statement is un thinking and unreal. All people of all races are the same in the eyes of the Lord—but that does not mean they must be integrated. They are the same without being integrated. Segregation is a natural law—even the birds and the'animals know that— and we have never yet known of a natural law in conflict with a Christian principle, for the laws of nature and the laws of God are one and the same. But the progress that had been made by the Negroes during the past 90 years and the good re lationship existing between the races in the South did not suit the agitators. It did not suit the NAA- CP. And it finally came about that it did not suit the Supreme Court. The Court, therefore, at tempted to amend the Constitution by judicial de cree and upset iii one fell swoop the customs and 1 raditions of a great region of our country that had been maintained for generations. You just cannot ram undesirable social customs down the throats of a free people. To do so is to invite dissention and strife and hatred—and these are the elements on which communism thrives. And thus the Supreme Court stirred up strife where it did not exist and thus they played right into the hands of the Communists. Nor is this mere speculation—it is a fact. The Com munists work in every way possible with the NA- ACP and with the Integrationists of all sorts, be- acuse they know, whether the civic and religious and educational integrationists do or not, what will be the results. Public Invited To Retreat Parade On * « «* Johnson Field Friday The social activities of this week-end at Presbyterian college will be highlighted by the annual military ball Friday night. The week-end will begin with a re treat parade on Johnson field at 4:30 Friday afternoon in honor of the dates for the dance. The parade will be a full dress parade, feautring the Presbyte rian'college ROTC band and the cadet battalion. At the parade twelve junior cadets will be tap ped for membership in the Na tional Society of Scabbard and Blade, an honorary military fra ternity. They are Cadets Luke Hinson, Bill Hart, Tommy Reeves, Don Rickett, Gene Butler, Charles Dukes, Noble Collins, Perry Hogue, Jim Hancock, and Bruce Thompson. The public is cordial ly invited to the parade. The Scabbard and Blade will honor its new members with a banquet to be held at Roddy’s that night. The dance will feature Ted Weems and his orchestra. The military ball committee, elected from the lower classes, has work ed with the Scabbard and Blade, official hosts of the dance, to dec orate the Clinton armory and at tend to the details of the dance. The highlight of the ball will be the sabre arch and the presenta tion of the dates of the cadet of ficers. An honorary cadet lieu tenant colonel will be chosen and she will be presented at this time also. Church Of God District Convention The Church of God of Prophecy district convention will convene here at the church on Sloan Street beginning Friday evening at 6:30. -Churches included in the dis trict are Greenwood, Ware Shoals, Calhoun Falls, Laurens, and Clin ton. The public is cordially invitdd to attend. Anderson Glee Club To Sing At Joanna On Sunday morning, March 25, at the 11 o’clock worship hour in the Joanna Baptist church the Anderson college glee club will present a program. The twenty-nine - voice glee club is under the direction of Miss Lavaughn Robinson, voice teacher at the college. Included in the outstanding vo cal group are girls from various sections of the state and from Georgia. Dixie-Home Employes Receive $418,877 As Share In Profits Eligible employees of Dixie- Home Stores (now operated by Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.) are cur rently receiving statements of their accounts in the Dixie-Home Stores’ profit - sharing plan through which full-time employ ees with more than three years continuous service sjjare in the company’s profits each year. A total of $418,877.33 was con tributed to the plan by the com pany during 1955, and is being distributed among participating employees in North and South Carolina and Georgia. It was announced from the company’s Greenville division headquarters that a total of $1,4 257,340.83 has been paid by the company to the trustees for fhis plan during the first four years of its operation, since it was es- tablsihed in 1952. Eligible employees of Edens and Ballentine Food Stores will participate in the Winn and Lov ett profit sharing retirement plan Anouncement.. Wolfe and Addison Investment Dealers Insurance and Investment Bldg. 200 North Broad St. Clinton, S. C. Phone 610 • MUTUAL FUNDS • SECURITIES • INSURANCE JIM WOLFE — TOM ADDISON I next June. Employee participants in this plan, established .in 1946, now have $4,513,207.89 to their credit, it was said. Edens and Ballentine Stores like; Dixie-Home Stores, were merged last year with Winn and Lovett Grocery company the pres ent organization being known as Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. NO Z-RAY £LHnc There will be no X-ray clinic at the Laurens County Health De partment on Friday, March 9, as the nurses of the department will be attending a TB institute in Columbia. ^ Subscribe to THE CHRONICLE SAFEST PLACE FOR ALL YOUR VALUABLES... In a safe deposit box. Costs to means so much in peoc* of mind. For Small Cost You can have the finest protection for your valuables in a Safe Deposit Box in a fire safe,. tamper-proof vault at The Bank of Clinton. 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As the company rounds out a half century of prbviding family security—and, also, vital capital for community and industrial expansion—we express sincere appreciation for the public confi dence that has boosted our gains in insurance in force and resources to all-time highs. We look forward to a second half cehtury of even broader, more useful service. . - " -J-ir&t ^AnnuaiStatement as of Dacembar 31,1955 RESOURCES Bond* .* $33,575,268.46 Public Utility Bonds.:. .114,300,918.86 U.S. Government Bond*. 4,098,326.96 Railroad Bond* 2,387,949.78 All Other Bond*........ 12,788,072.86 Mortgage Loans 36,856,686.18 Stocks 4,002,940.00 Policy Loans . f 4,320,834.40 Real Estate ’ 3,180,105.87 Cash 933,568.63 Premiums in Course of Collection 838,930.25 All Other Assets 464,075.71 Total $84,172,409.50 LIABILITIES Policy Reserves ..$68^22,736.00 Death Claims Due and Unpaid None Installment Claim Reserve 1,430,877.00 Policy Claim Reserve 251,499.00 Premiums and Interest' 618,078.42 Reserve for Taxes 349,795.41 Reserve Under Annuity and Pension Plan 2,507,44841 Security Fluctuation Reserve 1,165,000.00 All Other Liabilities (Except Capital) ... 386,814.29 Capital and Surplus Funds 9,240,160.97 General Contingency Reserve $1,000,000.00 Paid-in Capital 2,000,000.00 Surplus Funds 6440,160.97 — otal—$84,172,409.50 *4 INSURANCE IN FORCE $747,5833% PAYMENTS TO POUCYOWNERS $5,613,193 * y R. 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