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/ - / t ■< ">v.. ■ Pace Four ""HE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, May 3, 1956 GIt?r (Eltnton (Ettrom^U Established 19«« PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance) ....One Year $3.00, Six Months $2.00 Ion oi 1 _ T—'t Congress Entered as Second Class Mail Matter af the Poat Office at Clinton, S. C., under Act , —• 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. , 1 - I — Mia- - , . ft.. Member: South .Carolina Press Association, National Editorial Association National Advertising Representative: I AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York, Chicago, Detroit. Philadelphia 1 CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1956 If You Are Not A Registered Voter... We wish everybody, in the United States could read the back page of the April isvsue of The Joanna Way (a month- y journal published by the Joanna Cot ton Mills Company at Joanna; six miles south of Clinton). An illustration shows a registration book, and the accompanying text says: 'if you’re not in the book you’re a man without ... a country ... a state ... a county ... a town ... a party ... a street ... a school ... a vote.” ' “Look at all the things you can lose f yop’re not a registered voter,” the page goes on to state. “If you do not have a registration certificate, you loci* yourself out of the elections. The polls are . closed to you. You can’t vote on schools, your legislative representatives, sheriff, county commis sioners, coroner, magistrates, mayor and councilmen in your home town (not to mention for President of the United States in November). You don’t even have the right to complain about your government and the way things are run! “You lose the right to look that boy of yours in the eye when he wants to know if you’re doing your part. “And you lose the self-respect that comes from knowing you can walk into the polls on election day—the one place in the world where all free men are real ly equal. Isn’t it too much to risk for the little time that registering takes? ‘Tf you don’t have a registration cer tificate or have lost your certificate, you may obtain one from the Laurens County Registration Board at the Courthouse on May 7, 8 or 9.” Capitalistic Exploitation —U. S. Style The classic complaint against capi talism, from the age of Marx on down, is that it exploits the masses unmercifully to benefit the few. One Wonders how- that old dogma c a n be sq u a red with wha t Is going on in — — — . a. this capitalist country, v U. S. News & World Report recency jnt- ran an article on how the American wor er is making out. The subhead obsenies that he “spends more, owns more, lives better than ever.” The average family income is at a record peak of $5,560 a* year. The family’s assets-total $11,828. And the prospects are for steady, and con tinued improvement. The magazine sums up with, these words: “Right now, the average working man holds a bigger stake in this nation’s economic well-being than ever before. He’s living in a better house, driving a bet ter car, enjoying more of the costly com forts than at any previous time.” That’s what capitalist exploitation has accom plished ! The Unforgivable bosses everything, and the philosophy is a simple one: Take what we offer you, at the price we fix, <tr go without! Yes, that poor East German isphool tgacher did the unforgivable. There is no better example of free enterprise than a good retail store—and the Lord only knows whajt went on in the minds of the communist youngsters when they were permitted to” see one. Montpelier, Vermont, Evening Ar gus: “Now that Khrushchev & Co., in Moscow, have foreclosed on Stalin’s repu- » * tation and are ' desperately working to make a bum out of him—so the grumbling multitudes will have someone to blame for their misery . . . the clouds may be lifting. We may yet see a Red sunset.” Indio. Calif., News: “The House Ag riculture Committee has approved legis lation that would authorize the Depart ment of Agriculture to’ go into the busi ness of building big dams. If this bill be comes law, the nation will have three big dam building agencies . . . But we wonder il there is Rny taxpayer in the country outside the bureaucracy, who wouldn’t agree that w r e have dam-building agencies aplenty right now?” Cuero, Texas, Record: ‘‘The contro versy oyer whether or not Shakespeare wrote his plays has raged for years. The time may come, if television continues to make inroads into people’s reading habits, when it will be argued that they were really written by Sir Laurence Olivier.” In mid-April the Associated Press car ried this report from its Berlin Bureau: “A schoolteacher in Communist Ea,st Ger many has been sentenced to eight years in jail for taking his^ pupils to Allied West Berlin and showing them the well-filled stores.” This is more than just another ex ample of communist tyranny,, oppression a and savagery. The action taken was not only natural but inevitable—when'view ed in the light of communist policies and necessities. The schoolteacher in ques tion exposed 29 young people to the con tamination of the West Berlin stores. And he thus created 29 prospective doubters of the communist ideology and comrrtunist claims of achievement on behalf of the masses of the people. * The stores in West Berlin follow the American pattern. They are free, ^com petitive businesses—part of the free en terprise system which West Germany adopted after the war, and which has led to an almost incredible degree of econo mic recovery in a very few years. As in this country, those stores must seek to of fer every possible inducement to get and keep their trade—inducement in the form of lower price, better service, more at tractive stocks, and so on. In the com munist countries, on the other hand, there is no real competition, the state owns and £ K3CT8M6KKWWmH>MWIHmHH|MmiWH»HHIIKKKXm SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING Executive Vice President Southern States Industrial Council THE DANGERS OF SOCIAL SECURITY In dealing with the question of social security, let it first be understood that anyone who, believes financial security of the individual is the responsi bility of the government rather than of the indi vidual is condoning socialism. It is’thie privilege of anyone to believe in social ism, of course, but if he does believe in it, he should realize it is his responsibility to show that socialism Ts the best system^ He will find no in- stahee in history to help him prove his point—and it has been tried time and time again. That is the broad aspect of social* security Now, let us "get down to the. practical aspects of so cial security as it was established in the United States in 1935. It started off with rate^of 1 per each on employer and employee contributions on the first $3,000 of annual earnings., It is now 2 per cent on the first $4,200. But a bill was passed in the House during the last session of Congress that liberalizes and broad-^ ens social security benefits—and would at th same time boost social security taxes. A simila: measure is now in the hands of the Senate Fi nance Committee in this session of Congress. Un der this revision, the present rate of 2 per cent on the first $4,200 of the worker’s income would go up to 2^ per cent. On self-employed workers, the present rate of 3 per cent would go up to 3^4 per cent. There would be a steady increase in this rqte until by 1975 the worker and employer would each be paying a 4^2 'per cent tax while th& self- employed worker would be paying 6% per cent. Considering the heavy federal income tax and all the other taxes the individual must pay, this social security tax is quite an additional burden. In fact, the impact on., low-income individuals would be startling. Take, for example, a self-employed person with income of $4,200 in 1975. Assuming he takes the standard 10 per cent deduction and has a wife and two children, his federal income tax bill, under present rates, will be $276. On the other hand, his social security tax—which is computed tyefore ex emptions, and deductions—will under the pro posed bill be $283.50. * Even more startling is the tax that would be imposed, under these assumptions, on a family of four with income of only $2,000 a year—an income level that political leaders treat as the "poverty line.” Such a family is exempt from inc&rie tax but would have $135 a year of social security taxes to pay under this new bill. All this is assuming, too, that the benefits to be paid out under social security during these coming years will not be more than now estimat ed—and they easily could be more under the un certainty of the liberalizations proposed and with a steadily increasing longevity. All of'which is simply another illustration of how taxes start out small and then grow out of all proportion to what was expected. The same thing has happened in the case of the federal income tax. whjch started out as a very, smaR tax and that on only the higher incomes. The idea that the tax would ever grow burdensome or be applied on small incomes was ridiculed at the time. Yet now look at it—when the bulk of the tax comes from the small wage earners and the tax on the highest incomes is almost confiscatory. In addition to this aspect of social security, the great cloud that hangs over the whole system is the fact that all social security taxes are consider ed as part of the general income of the govern ment and are spent just as fast as they are re ceived. Any so-called reserve is nothing more nor less than a bookeeping entry—and the big fact' that we should never overlook is that all social se curity benefits must be paid out of taxes collected during the year in which they are paid. It could very easily happen that a younger and wiser generation will cortie along that will decide the whole system is too burdensome and abolish this socialistic venture altogether. If that hap pens, it will then become quite clear to everybody that the social security taxes paid in up until that tune are nothing more than exactly what they are —spent money. Organize County Mental Health Association Here Dr. Seab'E- A. Reeves of Lau rens was elected president of the Laurens County Mental Health Association at the official organi zation meeting last Tuesday night at Whitten Village. He will hold office until the end of the calen dar year. f Others elected were Mrs. Dan Yarborough of Clinton, vice-pres ident; Mrs. Alma Wham, secre tary, and Mrs. Janelle Causby, treasurer, both of Laurens. Guest speaker of the evening was Harry R. Bryan, executive director of the S. C. Mental Health Association with main of fices in Sumter. He presented na tional and state statistics on men tal illness and emphasized the need for lay organizations to be come educated to the problem IJe said one of every two bespit?! beds in the United States isr oc cupied by a patient suffering from k some form of mental ill ness. Mr. Bryan pointed out that the S. C. State Hospital has 6,100 pa tients, for whom an average of $2.28 pef day per patient is: ap propriated for their care, pe said there is a shortage of staff per sonnel and that the hospital needs 1,500 more beds even after the new improvements and addi tions made recently. Music was provided by the Whitten Village girls and boys' string orchestra. Miss Norma Hal- lett, director of the gjrls, served as official hostess at the meeting Dr. Reeves said the date of the next meeting will be announced later. ed Tuesday afterboon at Friend ship Baptist church by the Rev. Harold Hanley and the Rev. Edd Com. B&rial was in Rosement er>4lk remote Charlie L. Sipes, 71, Dies at Home Here Charlie L. Sipes, Sr., 71," died Sunday at his home, 623 Eliza beth street, after several months illness. He was a native of Ire dell county, N. C.‘, but had made his home in Clinton for 31 years. Hp was a son of -the late Hosea and Mary Sipes and was a mem ber of Friendship Baptist church on North Broad street, where he served as a trustee.' He is Survived by his wife, Fannie Smoak Sipes of Clinton; three daughters, Mrs. Mary Ful ler, Mrs. Frankie Taylor and Miss Jean Sipes, all of Clinton; two sons, Charles L. Sipes, Jr., of Clinton; and the Rev. J. R Sipes of Salisbury. N. C.,' three broth ers, Martin and Ross Sipes, both of Statesville,* N. C.; and Willaim Sipes of Catawba, N. C.; one sis ter, Mrj. Ida Pope, of Statesville, N. C.; and eight grandtfiildren. Funeral services were conduct- Chronicle Advertising Series Wins Second National Award ‘ For the second time, the Keist er “Support tb|e Church” series, which is currently running in this newspaper, has won a na tional award from the Freedoms Foundation, Valley Forge, Penn sylvania. In April, 1954, the “Support the Church” series was honored by receiving the George Wash ington Medal for “an outstanding ■achievement in helping to bring about a better understanding of the America^ way of life. r Now again, in 1956, the “Sup port the Church’ 1 series has re ceived the certificate of merit from the Freedoms Foundation, and this newspaper is among the over 950 newspapers throughout the USA, Canada and Alaska which presents this outstanding series to its readers. The Keister “Support the Church” weekly series was first produced in 1944, and has be come America’s outstanding re ligious newspaper feature. Mrs. Silas Benjamin Dies Near Mountville Junior Class Plans Gala Senior Banquet Tfre annual junior-senior ban quet at Clinton high school will be held Thursday night, May 11. With the assistance of Mrs. No- lon Carter and Mrs. Roily Ban nister the juniors are hoping to Mrs. Ina Coleman Benjamin, wife of Silas Jrving Benjaijnin, of Mountville, Rt. 1, died Monday afternoon at her home following several months’ declinnig health. Mrs. Benjamin was a native of Laurens county, the daughter of fhe late Tom and Olive Benjamin leman. She was a member of averdam Baptist church. In addition to her husbapd, she is survived by thr^e daughters, Mrs. Randolph Moore of Mount ville; Mrs. A. D. Palmer, of Au gusta, Ga.; and Miss Rebecca Benjamin, of Mountville; two brothers,. Tom Coleman, Mount ville, and John W. Coleman, of Waterloo; two sisters, Mrs. Wal ter Mdore, Sr., of Laurens; and I Mrs. Floyd Corbitt, of Mount- • ville; and two grandchildren. Funeral services were conduct-- ed Tuesday afternoon at Beover- dam Baptist ohurch by the Rev. Rembert Truluck, the Rev. Floyd Hellams, and the Rev. Carl Bish op. Burial was in the church cemetery. STOP THAT ITCH! IN JUST 15 MINUTES If not ploasodL your 40c back at any drug store. Try instant-dry ing ITCH-ME-NOT for itch of ac- sema. ringworm, insect bites, foot itch or other surface itch... Easy to use day or night. Now at Young's . Pharmacy. 3c-17 Subscribe to THE CHRONICLE Phone 74 give the seniors the “biggest and best” banquet yet. Sara Pitts is chairman of the theme .committee; Edna Martin, the food corrimittee; Margaret Anne Bo lick, the flower commit- £ tee; Jackie Livingston, the invi tation committee; and 'Bessie Jean Roberts, the seating com mittee. George Blalock and Jen ny Addison will head the deco rating committee. ' Water will be cut off in Clinton Thursday night, May 3, from 10:30 P. M. to 5:00 A. M., for re pairs and other work on water lines. \ Chiropractic for Ruptured Disc T consulted six medical specialists and they all diag nosed my condition as a rup-. tured disc between the ver tebrae,” says Mr. J. F. Hen derson. ‘Their advice was an ope ration in which shin bone would be grafted onto the vertebrae and straightra the curvature, but of course, my back would be stiff. “Not wanting to be . a crippei I started chiroprac tic adjustments. I could not sit in a chair due to se vere pain in my left hip and leg... My appetite was poor and I had a great deal of constipation. I was given a. full physical examination, x-ray pictures were taken and the cause located. * DR. HART “After an adjustment I began to trav el the road back to health, and today I am a well man. ;■ “I am once more without pain, and my back is almost straight, as shown by an other x-ray picture. I have a good appe tite and no longer suffer with constipa tion.” If you are suffering from any type of backache, you are cordially' invited to discuss ; your case with Dr. Hart. There is NO CHARGE NO’OBLIGATION FOR THIS CON- ;/ SULTATION AND DISCUSSION. Telephone 22501 for an appointment or go to the j Hart Clinic located at 205 Church Street in Laurens, S. C. Office hours 9 till 12 noon i and 3 till 6 P. M. Dorit let “Si tltflll <il MIDWAY DRIVE-IN THEATRE Clinton — Joanna Now Open 7 Days A Week THURSDAY MAY 3 First Run—Color “FLAME OF THE ISLAND” Yvonne DeCarlo, Howard Duff, Zachary Scott. — Shorts — “Black Power” “Magoo’s Check-up” FRI.-SAT. MAY 4-5 Color—Double Feature First Feature APACHE Starring BURT LANCAS TER, and JEAN PETERS. Second Feature RETURN TO TREASURE ISLAND Starring TAB HUNTER, DAWN ADAMS. Short—“Aquerela De Bra zil.” * SUN.-MON. MAY 6ir7 First Run—Color TEN WANTED - MEN Starring RANDOLPH SCOTT Shorts—“Vista-Vision Vis its Mexico”; ^Square Shoot- in Square.” TUES.-WED. MAY 8-9 First Run—Color YELLOW N0CK Starring LIN MCCARTHY, BERRY KROEGER. Shorts—‘Gypped in a Pent house”—“Cofls Is Tops.” 4 ■ Get the gasoline that bums dean* PROOF: See how the left-hand plate is black ened by the “dirty-burning tail-end”of gaso line ... while NO-NOX leaves the plate on the right dean. That’s because Gulf refines out the “dirty-burning tail-end” of gasoline, in * making New NO-NOX. GtdfNb-NcK - 1 j r 4 aeaifourning...plus: Highest Octane you can buy r; yjj Coming Soon TARGET ?ERO / YOtR FRIENDLY GULF SERVICE STATIONS IN CLINTON AND JOANNA J. A. ADDISON, Distributor * I was examined by sev eral specialists. They put me in a steel brace and told me to come back in 30 days for a spinaO fusion (opera tion)”, writes Mrs. G. D. Morgan. “I returned home in such pain that I hardly knew what to do. My fath er had received wonderful results, from chiropractic adjutments and he insisted that I consult a chiroprac tor. »T went to a chiropractic clinic where I .was x-rayed and tested to locate the cause of my trouble. “After the first adjust- I could sleep for the first time in weeks. I took the steel brace off before the first adjustment and never put it back again. “After 30 days of chiropractic care I can truthfully say that I am.well again. I sincerely urge anyone suffering to con sult a chiropractor first, not last, as I did. By doing this you will save yourself much suffering.” These cases on file at the Hart Clinic, addresses and other information furnish ed on request. /