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Pace Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, June 14, 1956 dihr (Elintnn (Stfromrlr Established 1900 July 4, 1889 — WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS Jane IS. 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance) — ...Onef? nn, ^tiv ftg no Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. March 3, 1879 under Act ol Congress The Chronicle seeks the cooperation o£ its subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle 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: Sotith Carolina Press Association, National Editorial Association National Advertising .Representative: AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York, Chicago, Detroit. Philadelphia CLINTON. S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1956 Thanks... The Chronicle wishes to express its thanks to the men who assisted in receiv ing, tabulating and announcing the elec tion returns Tuesday night. They did a good job. It required & great amount of hard work and by 10:30 the crowd assem bled to hear the results knew the verdict. We don’t know what we would have done without the help of Tom Plaxico, Harry McSween, Collie Anderson, and Hugh Eichelberger, who received and tab ulated the figures as they came in, and James P. Sloan, who announced the results over the microphone. W ,C. Baldwin was generous in allowing us to use his loud speaker outfit. . / A number of box managers were kind in bringing or phoning the figures from their precincts. ' W T e are grateful indeed for the help of our friends. A Problem of Diagnosis Dr. Salvadore B. Cutolo has written a fascinating book, which first appeared se rially in the Saturday Evening Post, con cerning the famous hospital he serves— New York’s Bellevue. One of the incidents described is of interest not only in itself, but because of its implications. A man walked into the hospital and said. “I feel sick.” But doctors of broad ex perience were puzzled as to what the ill ness was. The symptoms were strange to them. Finally the correct diagnosis was made—smallpox. i Why should the doctors r have encoun tered any difficulty in diagnosing this once-common disease? The reason is that smallpox is virtually unknown. At the time of the Bellevue incident, Dr. Cutolo writes, there had been only three reported cases in New York during the previous 25 years and the last death from smallpox had oc curred in 1912. Here, by inference, is a great testimon ial to medical progress. Smallpox is but one of the diseases which has been con quered. The list is long. And long, too, is the chronicle of progress in treating and minimizing the effects of diseases which still strike us. collect. Mr.'Andrews has high praise for Internal Revenue Service personnel. But even the 50,000-plus people in the Service cannot assure adequate enforcement. It also costs the taxpayers too much. Huge suitfis of money go to lawyers and account ants to fill out and to defend tax returns. It is unstable. As Mr. Andrews puts it: "Being based upon income, it’s a low producer in slack times and a. high produc er in good times. Thus, theoretically, rates must be raised when people are least able to pay, and they may be lowered when everybody is most able to pay.” It is destroying the middle class. This is among Mr. Andrews’ most serious indict ments: “. . . the middle class is being taxed out of existence and the nation, thereby, is being robbed of its surest guarantee of con tinued sound economic development and growth and its staunchest bulwark against the ascendancy of socialism.” Mr. Andrews proposes the appoint ment of a Hoover Commission-ty|>e group to completely study the income tax and the whole tax system. Then a program can be adopted, he believes, for starting afresh. Market Quotation*.Commerce Leaders To Attend Air Meet In Columbia ~ Of Local Interest (Courtesy of Wolfe and Addi son, Investment Dealers.) American Merita 54 §6— Colonial Stores 30*4 3314 Gulf Life 29*4 31*4 Gen. Amer. Oil ..... 60*4 63 Haloid 60 63 Maude Indus. 4 4H United Amer. Inv. .. 4T). 5 Winn - Dixie 23 United Acc. Fund . 11.07 12.03 Unit. Conti. Fund . 7.85 8.58 Unit. Inc. Fund 9.96 10.83 Unit. Sci. Fund . 10.56 11.54 Unit. Fund Can. 15.39 16.73 Texas Nat. Gas 46*4 48*i (Supplied by Merrill, Lynch, Fenner and Beane at 10:00 a. m.. Clinton Chamber of Commerce President James Wolfe and Man ager George Massey will go to Columbia Friday to attend a 4*6 -j statewide meeting concerning air line service in South Carolina. Planned in cooperation with the South Carolina Aeronautics commission, the meeting will be one to consider formation of a surrounding states to push work body such as those that exist in toward improved and increased air service. Mr. Massey said the cost, vol uminous data, technical and legal informsrton needed for individual efforts toward obtaining improv ed air service often prohibit en tires obtaining such services. With a state orgneization, such a, group / would be in an enhanced position to' furnish needed data for each of the areas to enable them to secure the best possible air service. S. C. McMeekin, chairman. June 12,) County Chairman Asks Voters Return To Polls On June 26 Tax System Due for Revision? "Let’s get rid of the income tax!” That has been said by many a beleaguered citi zen, after sweating his way through the tax forms and dredging deep to-find the money to pay the bill. But now that has been said, in all se riousness, by a top authority—T. Coleman Andrews, the former Commissioner of In ternal Revenue. It is the title to a strong article which Mr. Andrews recently con tributed to The American Weekly. Mr. Andrews denounces the income tax, as it is now constituted, on just about every’ conceivable ground. Here; in sum mary, are some of the things he has to say. The tax amounts to legalized confisca tion. It begins at 20 per cent and goes up to 91 per cent. A man with a $40,000 in come pays 47 times more tax than the man with a $10,000 income. And people re ceiving income from dividends get even a worse deal—the corporation tax takes about half of corporation profits before they are divided among the shareholders, where they are taxed again. Mr. Andrews says: “We have failed to realize, it seems to me, that through our tax system we have been playing right into the hands of the Marxists, who gleefully hail the income tax as one sure instrument that will bring capitalism to its knees.” The tax is too complicated. Compara tively few pepole can accurately figure their tax without help. In this connection, it is significant that members of Congress* commonly call on Revenue Service experts to prepar^ their returns. Few^people, if any, really understand the tax. As dto example, 20 months after the Income Tax Code of 1954 became law, the official Treasury Department interpre tations had not been issued. The diffi culty lies in trying to figure out what Con gress meant in wording the law, and then trying to plainly express Congress’ inten tions. V-• : 11 * >'Bj-Si 1 It costs the government too much to, SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING ExccuHt* Vic* President Southern States Industrial Council WATCH OUT FOR MORE INFLATION! One of the paradoxical facts of human experi- erice Is that no government will ever admit it is responsible for, or is even undergoing, inflation. This is true even though intelligent people can prove with facts and figures that the reverse is the case. o There is good reason, of course, for such a stand- by government. It is well known that in flation has. caused more human misery than any other causes outside of war, famine, and pesti lence. Inflation wipes out the savings of the thrifty, earned by the sweat of their brows. In- lation brings hardships and suffering to those who are least able to bear it—to the widows and the children and th^ old people. Any government, therefore, that deliberately and admittedly sets out on a program of inflation knows it would not have long to stand. The tragic thing about inflation, however, is that it has generally done its deadly work before it is recognized or admitted. Jl^slowly eats into the vitals of a nation and, usually, by the time' the nation realizes it is inflicted it is too late to effect a cure. Inflation is all the more insidious because in its early stages it is pleasant and stimulating. It makes money more plentiful—and the average per sons feels prosperous in proportion to the number of dollars he has in his pocket; he gives very lit tle thought to what the dollars will buy. That comes later. Inflation is caused by increasing the money supply without a correspondng increase in the assets back of the money. Inflation is caused by increasing wages without a corresponding increase in production. Inflation is caused by deficit fi nancing—by living on borrowed money. Inflation is caused by providing ‘benefits” to the people which they do not earn and for which they do not pay. Let us take a look at our own country for a moment. When the government went off the gold ■standard in 1933, it robbed the thrifty of 42'/ c of the value of their savings by increasing the money supply without a corresponding increase in as sets. For 23 of the last 36 years—mahy of them peace-time years—the government has lived be yond its income, has increased the national debt from $19 billon to $278 billion. Moreover, industry and organized labor are equally guilty with government for the grip that inflation has seized upon the nation. Time after time in recent years we have seen organized la bor, through industry-wide bargaining, demand and get round after round of wage increases with out a Corresponding increase in productivity. In turn, \Jje have seen these industries pass their in creased costs on the pubic, thereby making the people bear the burden of .increased inflation. This practice still persists, as illustrated by many actions recently taken and many others now pend ing. ■ We have seen this inflation contributed to by legislation enforcing a minimum wage of $1.00 per hour upon a large segment' of our economy, with no regard to ty^pfeher the worker’s services were worth this much or not. This brought about in creases to higher paid workers to maintain the dif ferential between wages. All this without "any increase in production. The result of these practices has been thaj. thrift has been penalized and extravagance has been encouraged. The life insurance and govern ment bonds bought or the savings laid aside 25 years ago to take care of widows and children or to take care of those who would retire are now worth less than half of what they were expected to be worth at the time. The nation of France is a splendid illustration of the result of all these practices when they are continued year after year without diminution. This is especially true when we consider the various government ‘benefits’ which the people demand but for which they do not pay—and which, of course, must be paid for with printed money Forty years ago the French franc was worth 20c; today the same franc is worth one-tnird of one cent. The warning to our own nation should be clear, because the threat of further inflation hangs over our economy like a dark cloud. Patriotism de mands that government, industry and labor re frain from -taking any further actions whose ef fects would be inflationary and thereby further undermine the value of the dollar, eat away at the savings of the people, and weaken the economy of the nation. County Democratic Chairman R. L. Plaxico, following the first primary Tuesday, reminded the voters that their job is only half done, and called upon them to re turn to the polls for the second primary on Tuesday, June 26. Following is Mr. Plaxico’s statement: “Although the vote in Tues day’s primary was not as large as we had hoped, we are indeed gratified that the vote was an 1 incerase of approximately 15 per cent over the vote in the first i primary two years ago. . . “We would like to congratulate | the box managers on a job well done. By 10:30 the night of the election complete returns were made to the secretary’s office in Laurens. In view of the num ber of votes cast this must be something of a record. “Let me remand the voters that your job is only half done. On a county-wide basis you had the privilege and responsibility of naming eight men to important officers in the administration of the affairs of Laurens county. According to the unofficial tabu lation, only three were named, second primary which will be five are yet to be named in the held on Tuesday, June 26. So far as these five are concerned you have participated in an elimina tion contest only. Make your plans now to go back to the polls on June 26 and complete the job.” Presbyterian Wdmen Be Here Next Week For T School An estimated 200 Presbyterian women leaders from throughout the state are expected to attend the ninth annual Synodical Training School ot the Synod at South Carolina to be held at Presbyterian college next week. The program is scheduled to begin with a banquet in the col lege dining hall at 7:00 p. m„ Monday. Registration is set for Srio 6 p. m. that day. Mrs. Leighton M. McCutchen, the new executive secretary of the Board of Women’s Work of the Presbyterian Church US, will deliver the main address at the banquet. Among the other outstanding speakers for the occasion will be: Mrs. A. R, Craig of Rutherford- ton, N. C., chairman of the Board of Women’s Work; and Miss Mary B Crawford, missinoary to the Belgian Congo Miss Craw ford will speak at the Tuesday evening session and Mrs Craig on Thursday evening The daily class schedule will begin on next Tuesday morning and will continue until the close of the training school on Satur day morning, June 23. Mrs. G. A. Burton, of Clinton, registrar-treasurer of the school, said she expects the total at tendance will reach 200 persons, counting a large group of day students. This would be about the same number that attended last year. Mrs. R. Grier Robinson, of Charleston, president of the Women of the Church for the state, serves as dean of the train ing school which is meeting at Presbyterian college for the third time since the college became its permanent location. Mrs.’ Robinson has obtained Dr. Samuel McPheeters Glasgow, minister and author from Char lotte, to conduct the morning platforin hour on the subject, "Christian Witnessing.” She also has lined up an outstanding fac ulty to conduct classes on these subjects: "Missions in the Local Church” —Mss Claire Randall, of the Board of World Missions, Nash ville, Tenn.;'“How to Study the Bible”—Dr. Qecil Thompson, pro fessor at Columbia Theological Seminary; “Organization and Program of the Women of the Church"—Mrs. Rex ‘ Josey, of Manning, former Synodcial presi dent and chairman; ‘The Home and Church Working Together” —the Rev. George A. Anderson, professor of Bible at Presbyterian college; and “Living a Life of Christian Love”—Mrs. H. 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Crawford SURVEYING . CLINTON, 8. O. Phene 3498 To the Voters of Laurens County : WITH A SINCERE FEELING OF GRATITUDE and HUMILITY I Say THANK YOU For the Support and Vote that placed my name in the Second Primary for the House of Repre sentatives. I Respectfully Solicit your con tinued Support and / Vote on Tuesday, June 26. f Dr. C J. HART Candidate For House of Representatives #> Why just hope you're getting the best jt truck buy? \ Your best buy Is DODGE tnd ws can pro vs It I FCTOAf F*!CK‘Ur*a VJkLUM When you go to buy a new truck, you owe it to yourself to stop . . . look . . i and think—to think about this, among other things: How can you possibly know you’re getting the best value if you sign up for a new truck without first tfllriw* time to stop and look at today’s big, husky-muscled DODGE? The answer, obviously, is you can’t be sure; you’re just hoping you’re getting the best buy! Wouldn't you bo wisor to get at least a few facta about DODGE? 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