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r i f 4 5 . I • -r- Pace Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, April 19,195$ uJIjf (Elintan (Chrnnirlr Established 1MM 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 Poat Office at Clinton, S. C., under Act of Congress March 3, 1879 The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of it* *ubscribers 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. I Member South Carolina Press Association, National Editorial Association National Advertising Representative: AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York, Cnicago, Detroit. Philadelphia CLINTON. S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 26. 1956 Clinton Is Fortunately Situated While reading recently of tornadoes and floods that hit several Southern and Mid- Western .communities, the thought came to us that Clinton is apparently well-situated in an area that seldom, if ever, has been in the path of serious destruction by forces of Nature. Most of us can recall several pretty' good winds that uprooted a few’trees, or blew off flimsy roofs, or knocked over dilapidated houses. But we have never heard of a tor nado that really bore down and brought death and destruction in its wake. The two hurricanes that devastated cer tain areas in the state in recent years, trav- eled a course well to the east. It is physically impossible for Clinton and other towns in this area to l>e damaged by flood waters, for there are no streams any where-near or of sufficient capacity to be of any danger. The .nearest river on one side is 16 miles away, and eight miles on the other. laist we get too complacent, we can remind ourselves that it is entirely possible for one of the hurricanes that originate in the area south of the West Indies to head directly at us one of these days. determine what kind of country this is to be. That is a sobering thought, in the light of this poll. Dr. Sherman To Give Public Lecture Tonighl In Laurens Dr. Lyle W. Sherman, who last August .was named “Chiropractor of the Year” by the chiropractors of the United States and Canada, will speak in the Friendship ion*/' for use in statistical report ing. Similar areas were estab lished in the state of Washington Highland, 111., News Leader: “Economic freedom is the freedom to risk everything on an idea and get into the thick of competi tion, in the hope of building a profitable en terprise. By contrast, socialism discourages risktaking, stops competition, *and profits hardly anyone.” Santa Paula. Calif.. Daily Chronicle: “We l>eHeve firmly that our evenly balanced gov ernment system must be preserved or we shall drift into dictatorial government in the end.” Lebanon, Ky., Falcon: “If there is a spe cial providence that protects boys, drunks, and fools, as many believe, it doesn’t operate in the case of fools driving cars.” Brownsville, Pa., Telegraph: "Now that he’s gone, Joe Stalin has been convicted of the worst crime in the communist book—dy ing before he could be purged.” ton prior to the 1950 census, and since 1950 have been put into ef fect in five other states, Oregon, Idaho, Georgia, Colorado, and Tennessee. Miss Emma J. Waggener, a member of the census staff, is here from Washington to consult with county officials and solicit their advice in regard to the pro posed areas for Laurens county. The prpposed census county di visions should be particularly use ful for local. administrative pur poses. TUtey axe generally larger in area and population than the townships; they have clear cut boundaries which can be easily identified, and they are intended to remain as permanent areas. For the most part, they are based on the'cdmmunities which serve as the focal point of each area. The statistical data for these di visions will serve as a yardstick with which to measure the sphere of influence exercised by such comhuinities. It is believed that the census county divisions will be a handy tool for the use of lounty officials, local newspa pers, and business aa^ civic or ganizations. Miss Waggener assures that the county divisions set up by the Bureau of the Census will not in terfere in any way with the use of townships by the state or coun ties. -For census purposes Laurens county has been divided into nine census counyt divisions compris ing population and farms approxi mately as follows: County Div. Fop. 1950 Census Approx. Clinton Rural 5800 Clinton T168* Cross HUJ - Gray Court ——— Joanna TrL Laurens — Laurens Rural ....... Princeton ——— Watts Mills •Official 1950 figures. 3509 7000 3600 8656* 3700 3000 3000 COTTON CORD SUITS $16.50 L. B. DILLARD toll from your car V DR. SHERMAN Facilities Being Enlarged One cannot jielp but he impressed, when he stops to think about it, by the enlarged ■.facilities being, provided for educational and religious purposes’ in Clinton. The city s schools and churches are undergoing tre-' mendous expansion. A brand new high school for the area'is all but completed and will open in September t’o house white pupils. It is large and ade quate in every respect. A similar high school for Negroes is under construction. The present high school for Negroes, new and commodious, will be used as an elementary school. Two more elementary schools -for whites are contemplated, one to replace the present Academy Street school, and the other on th<* .south side.of Juiyn. Brownsville, Pa., Telegraph: “What built the electric industry, and gave the nation light and power? The answer is free enter prise. And Edison was the ultimate expo nent of that free enterprise.” ♦«««♦«•«' #«• «V «*• «*• V* «W« «'• •*« SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING Executive Vic* President Southern State* Industrial Council The Associate Reformed Presbyterians led the way, when they built their new struc ture two or three years ago. The Baptists have made two additions to their plant, the latest less than a year ago. The First Pres byterian church is just getting underway with an addition. The Broad Street. Metho dists are in the process of making expan sions. The Calvary Baptists have recently built an addition to their church and have a , new parsonage. Several of the smaller church es have enlarged to supply their needs. And so it goes. Clinton’s — any city’s — first line of de-’ tense, or attack, for building better citizens is its homes, and the training given there. Tied together closely with its homes, how ever, are its churches and schools. The community is meeting the obligations it owes to its future citizens. WHY NOT CUT TAXES? It is now estimated that the budget for the cur rent fiscal year, ending next June 30th, will be in delicate balance’’ by the amount of $200 million. It could be a great deal more than that provided income exceeds expectations as it now seems it may do. It is also estimated that the budget for the fol lowing year will be in balance by the amount of at least $400 million. This is still “delicate,” per centagewise. In submitting his budget message early in this year, the President stated that he believ ed any surplus should be applied’toward payment on the national debt rather than used as justifica tion for a tax cut. With this recommendation, most sincere, pa triotic Americans would agree — provided they could see no larger surpluses than those mentioned and provided both payment on., the debt and tax cuts could be accomplished at the same time. What the Administration and political leaders in both major parties do not seem to realize — or care about, .for that matter — is that both these things could be done and that the doing of them would be the best thing that could happen to the American economy and to the welfare of the na tion. Room of the Laurens Federal Sav ings and Loan association tonight (Thursday) at 7:30 p. m. „ Dr. Sherman’s topic will be “The Nervous System and its Re lation ot Health.” A movie and slides will be shown to illustrate the lecture. This program has been arranged in the interest of public healtn through a better un derstanding of the liuman body, said Dr. C. J Hart, Laurens chiro practor. The lecture is free of charge, and the citizens of the Clinton I tend. j area are cordially invited to at- Dr. Sherman, a native of Illi nois, received his elementary edu- c-^tion in Minnesota and Illinois, attended Lombard college at Galesburg, 111., and spent four years at the Palmer School of Chiropractic, Davenport, Iowa, re ceiving a doctor of chiropractic degree in 1937. Following gradu ation and post-graduate studies, he was admitted to the faculty of the Palmer school where he re mained 17 years. The last ten of those years he also assumed the position of assistant director of the world famous B. J. Palmer Chiropractic clinic. This clinic is the “Mayo Clinic” of the Chiro practic profession, working out the solution to the problem cases of the field practitioner. Establishing Counly Census Divisions For Statistical Use In a joint program wifti the state of South Carolina and each of its counties, the Bureau of the Census is establishing areas, known as “census county divis- What’s Happened? Some time ago 1,500 high school students .in a typical industrial community were polled as to their views on certain economic ques tions. The result, according to Ralph T. Moore, writing in the Oregon Voter, was as follows: “A majority of those polled favored th,e to talitarian system of price controls over free enterprise. Most lielieved that owners of a business get too much compared with em ployees. A large majority subscribed to the Communist axiom that from each should be taken in accord-“with his ability apd and to each should be given in accord with his needs, the latter of course being only vaguely de fined. And the majority also subscribed to the Communist manifesto that no worker should produce all he can. The replies more resembled those to-be expected from a Rus sian youth organization than •from American high school youngsters.” About the best single word that can be applied to his symposium is “shocking.” It is evident that if such views are at all repre sentative of youthful thinking, something has gone terribly wrong with our education al system. ! That means education' in the schools, where the truth is supposed to be taught. It also means the education that children should absorb in the home. And it points to failures on the part of business and other groups which have the duty of speak ing for free enterprise. ' I- The young people of today will, tomorrow, The chances are that, with prosperity rolling along at its^present peak level, the budget surplus es at the present rate of spending would still per mit the use of anywhere, from $3 billion to $4 .bil lion for this purpose. Use of this amount more or less evenly between payment on the national debt and a tax cut would give a new feeling of assur- andee to the American taxpayers. But even if these surpluses are not realized, the desired goal could still be accomplished through savings in the present budget—if our political leadership only had the economic .welfare of the taxpayers sufficiently at heart to take some action about it. The Hoover Commsision came out with definite recommendations that would save about 55.5 billion in our present budget, but these rec ommendations are'lying dormant with Congres sional committees and are being more or less ig nored by Jh& Administration. Or, if they do not want to accept the Hoover Commission recommendations, they could at least accept Senator Harry F. Byrd’s analysis of the budget which clearly outlines the possibility of a $3.6 billion surplus. It is criminal negligence not to act on such wide open possible savings of the taxpayers’ money. It is also a crime to continue to waste the taxpayers’ money just because the money is available. What we need perhaps as much as anything else in this country right now is a good taxpayers’ it volt. ,J>uch revolts have occurred before in his tory, and we do not believe one has ever resulted in the overthrow of a government that was good. Not that our government needs overthrowing— but it certainly needs reforming, taxwise. As it is now, even the wage earner in the lower brackets works for Uncle Sam all during the months of January and February before he can be gin working for himself. Just the average taxpay er works for the first three or four-months of the year before he begins working for himself. And there are taxpayers Whb work all the year through October for Uncle Sam and have only two months to work for themselves. And there is no law that says the government cannot take all the taxpay ers’ money if it so desires! All this has resulted in enormous tax-dodging by all those who are in position to do so, both by individuals and corporations. The only reason it has not resulted in more is because the wage earn er and the salaried person are at the mercy of the government. The withholding tax has been entire ly deceitful in this respect. The average person considers his wages or his salary only the amount of his take-home pay. If the withholding tax were abolished and the taxpayer had to dig down in his own pocket each month or annually and pay all the taxes he is now paying, it is to be believed that this would be the most certain way possible of bringing about a reduction in the budget. There would be such an awakening on the part of the taxpayer as to the amount of taxes he is actually paying and it would be such a hardship to make the payment that there would be a universal de mand for government economy and reduction of the budget. 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