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CLINTON. S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1956
A Run-Down
Of Candidates
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Here is one political forecast that looks
safe: There will be plenty of oratory at the
Republican nominating convention, but no
surprises or fireworks. President Eisenhow
er. of course, will be unopposed and will be
renominated by acclamation. The "stop
Nixon" movement within the (JOP, of which
much was heard some months ago. appears
to be dead. Mr. Eisenhower killed it when
he expressed not only approval of Nixon,
but admiration. Mr. Nixon has also attracted
impressive numbers of write-in votes in the
primaries. ,
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The Democratic convention will be a very
different affair. It will, within limits, be wid^
open. The chance of comparatively dark
horse gaining,the nomination is not at all re
mote.
The two active candidates, of course, are
Governor Stevenson and Senator Kefauver.
Each has shown strength in some primaries,
weaknesses in others. Neither has been a
consistent vote-getter. Both have political
liabilities—big ones. There is a widespread
opinion in professional circles that neither
will win.
As Stewart Alsop points odt. the indefa
tigable Senator Kefauver "has not a single
supporter among his colleagues in the Sen
ate. and . . . Democratic party leaders are al
most unanimously bitterly opposed to him."
Politically speaking, he is particularly un
popular among the Southern Democratic
.leaders who wi 11 |fc powers at the convention.
This unpopularity has deepened because of
his pro-integration stand—he was the only
Deep South Senator not to sign the resolu
tion opposing the Supreme Court’s decision!
in the school eases.
Governor Stevenson carries thi burden of 1
the fact that he was once beaten, and by an |
electoral landslide. Also, his views on va- !
rious matters are not shared by many of the 1
party leaders^.
An interesting complication is represented ;
by Governor Lausche of Ohio. He has said
that he is not a candidate. But he has also
said that he will allow his name to go before
the convention, and almost all of Ohio’s elec- ’
toral votes will be his. The governor has :
been an astonishingly successful vote-getter, |
and he has a strong appeal to the more con-;
servative wing of his party—a wing which ^
includes some of the Southern leaders.
Governor Harriman has a real chance. And !
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there is more and more talk of Senator Sy
mington, who has been strongly critical of
this administration’s defense program, and
who would make a major issue out of that.
In all this, there is a possibility that Dem-
I ocratic strategy may be a rather curious one
—a possibility that is finding more and more
discussion , among responsible political writ
ers. It is based on the idea that President
Eisenhower cannot be beaten, and that n6
/natter whom the Democrats put up, he will
• be reelected. Therefore, the argument runs,
the part of wisdom would be to make only a
token campaign for the Presidency and to"
concentrate the real effort and money on
Senators, Congressmen, and Governors. Then
•the big drive for control of the executive
branch as well as the legislative branch of
the government would take place in 1960—
when the Republicans will have to find them
selves a new candidate too.
A Train Of Cars
On Tracks
To the uninitiated eye, a railroad freight
train of today looks just about the same as
one of a quarter-century or so ago. Similar
cars are rolling over similar road-beds.
But there’s a world of difference in the
quality and efficiency of present-day equip
ment as compared with that of the past—
and a world of difference in the amount of
work it gets done. ?
From the standpoint of traffic, the pre
war peak was 1929 and the postwar peak
year was 1955. In the latter year, the rail
roads had a smaller plant than in the form
er. Yet far more railroad service was pro
duced.
This was the result, in the words of a rail
road spokesman, of “almost innumerable
technical innovations and improvements.”
Those innovations and improvements have
touched everything involved in railroading—
rails, cross-ties, signaling, communications,
yards and terminals, motive power and roll
ing stock.
Since 1929. this spokesman said, the aver
age speed of freight trains has increased 41
per cent, the average freight train load has
risen 71 per cent, and the combined effect of
heavier loads moved at higher speeds has
raised by 139 per cent the hourly output of
transportation by the average freight train.
What of the future? We will have still bet
ter trains, performing still more service. But j
one thing won’t change.-To quote the spokes
man once more: "The essential principle of
the train of cars on tracks will r°mnin piV the,
foundation of our continental commerce.”
SENSING THE NEWS
By THURMAN SENSING
ExccuRt* Vice President
Southern States Industrial Council
Massey At Institute
Commerce Leaders
At N. C.
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George Massey, , manager of
the Clinton Chamber of Com
merce, returned Sunday from
Chapel Hill, N. C. where he par
ticipated last week in the grad
uate certificate program of the
Southeastern Institute for Cham
ber Executives at the Univresity
of North Carolina.
The graduate certificate pro
gram of the school, sponsored
jointly by the Chamber of Com
merce of the U. S.f ten southern
state Chambers of Commerce,
state chamber executive associa
tions and the University of North
Carloina, is a three-year course
of study designed to raise the
standards of the chamber profes
sional executives in the south
east.
Professors of the University of
North Carolina taught the courg
es in the graduate certificate pro
gram which included studies of:
(1) Decision Making, (2) Com
munication, (3) Community De
velopment, (4) Primary and Sec
ondary Research, including the
application of statistics, (5) Social
Psychology.
Preparation for the course
which had enrolled 20 students in
the first year program included
six months study and research on
the various subjects suggested by
the various professors conducting
the classes.
Ed Cherry, manager of the
southeastern offices of the Cham
ber of Commerce of the U* S.,
with offices in Atlanta, is manag
er of the institute which was de
scribed this year as the biggest of
the il4 annual institutes since
1943 with 233 students enrolled
and 100 family guests attending.
Shields To Join Faculty
Of Indiana Photography
School For July Course
♦
William M. Shields, Clinton
portrait photographer, has been
invited by the board of trustees,
Winona Lake School of Photog
raphy. Winona Lake, Ind., to join
the faculty as camera room in
structor for the July advance^ 1
course in portrait photography.'
Winona school, sponsored by
the Photographers Association of
America, is dedicated to improve-
ment of knowledge and tech
niques relatives to professional
photography. Through lectures,
demonstrations and camera room
work subjects covered will be
photography of children, posing
of groups, (as well as lighting and
photographing the individual),
portraits of men, their needs and
preferences for business and per
sonal photographs, and techniq
ues for attaining elegance and
beauty in portraits of women.
The all important use of props,
drapes and other accessories and
the new fielc| of direct color por
trait photography will be high-
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lighted in the course.
‘ During the month of July Wil
liam M. Shields’ Studio will be
closed to appointments. The stu
dio will reopen on the first day
of August
Attend Eastern
Star Meeting . ' ,
A number of local Eastern Star
members attended the annual
Grand Chapter In Clemaon j twvt
19-2f; and JL
Among them were Mr. and Mrs.
GrovT MclnvaiUe, Mrs. Cly<j #
Tramrmll, Mrs. Cornelia Burdette
Miss Peggy. Mcfnvaiile, Mm. Mary
Taylot, Mrs. Eva Land, Mrs. Joe
Tharp and George Grant
Mrs. Taylor was installed to
serve as Grand Adah for the com
ing year and Mr. Grant will serve
as a Grand Guard.
To All Laurens County
Citizens
I sincerely thank each and every one of you for
the courtesy extended me during the campaign
for County Commissioner and for the wonderful
vote given me in the run-off Tuesday allowing me
to head the ticket in the Commissioners’ race. I
shall alway^bie grateful to you, and I shall always
be true to th^rust placed in me, I shall b* af yofir
service at all times.
Furman E. Thomason
Double Standard
It has long been illegal for corporations to
make contributions to tandidates for political
office. This legal restriction, obviously, is
based on the theory that corporations other
wise would use their economic power to elect
men who would serve special interests.
Whether or not such laws are vrise is de
batable. What is not debatable, however, is
that similar restrictions do not apply to or
ganizations which also have economic power
—the unions.
The head of a major union, the Internation
al Ladies’ Garment Workers, has said that
his union will have more than $500 thousand
available for contributions to candidates in
this year’s national election campaigns. He
said also that the combined AFL-CIO politi
cal fund may reach $3 million.
W’hat conceivable justification can there
be in forbidding corporations from financing
political candidates—and at the same time
permitting powerful unions to spend money
on a huge scale for political purposes and
political ends
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WHAT ARE PLATFORM
PROMISES WORTH?
We have always pointed out that one of the
great moral tragedies of this generation was com
mitted by our government when it violated sanc
tity of contract and broke its pledged promise to
the people by going off the gold standard in 1933
As much as any other one thing, this act led to
big government’—and Big Government, as we all
well know, is bleeding the people dry. Our fore
fathers feared government of any size, at least
any more government than was absolutely neces
sary, and they particularly feared big government.
That accounts for all the steps they took to safe
guard the people from ever having big govern
ment. Most of these steps have been violated one
by one in recent years.
When our government went off the gold stand
ard it took the first major step that is alw’ays tak
en when attempting to establish a strong, central
ized, socialistic government. It took control of
the money supply out of the hands of the people
—where it belongs and where it must stay if they
are to remain free people. Going off the gold
standard enabled the politicians to make all sorts
of promises, anything in order to get elected, and
to carry out these promises—if they decided to do
so—with ‘printing press’ money.
On November 4, 1932, the nominee for presi
dent of the Democratic party made a speech in
Brooklyn in which he said that “no responsible
government would have sold to the—country se
curities’payable ih gold if it* knew the promise,
yes’ the covenant embodied in these securities,
was as dubious as the President of the United
States (Hoover) claims it was (in the spring of
t932rr '
On March 12, 1933, a week after Roosevelt be
came president, the United States Treasury issued
$800 million of obligations payable “in United
States gold coin of the present standard of value"
—the same covenant above referred to by him on
November 4 just before he was elected. Addi
tional issuanoes of Securities followed shortly af
ter, bearing the same covenant.
On May 7, 1933, the new president announced
his intention to repudiate this covenant. On June
5, 1933, the covenant was abrogated by Act of Con
gress.
Commenting on this in his book, “Still Hell
Bent,”t (1936). Mr. James P. Warburg said, “Even
Mr. Roosevelt’s supporters recognize his lack of
steadfastness to principles, and I do not see how
they edn deny his repudiation of promises.” Mr.
Warburg said further, “If this Administration has
played havoc with our currency, dishonored our
national promises, and spent the people’s moqey
heedlessly and wastefully in pursuit of a strange
mixture of Utopian dreams and cynically practical
partisan purposes . . . they are true largely because
Mr. Roosevelt repudiated his pre-election prom
ises andtgave us something different than what we
voted for.”
The above quotes are taken from a statement
printed by Dr. Walter E. Spahr, Executive Vice-
President of the Economists’ Committee on Mone
tary Policy, in his bulletin ojf June 1, 1956, and in
commenting on them Mr. Spahr has this to say,
“The Administration in office since January 20,
1953, has endorsed all this and has pursued the
same general course in the monetary field.”
This comment is well made, because it is true
that the Republican platform in 1952 promised), to
restore our currency to “a dollar on a fully con
vertible gold basis.” Nothing has been done about
it. Another platform promise has been ignored—
and we are still operating with a dishonest dollar
with all its immoral accompaniments and disas
trous consequences.
All of which makes one wonder just what cam
paign promises and plaftorm planks are worth!
Are the politicians so faithless that promises
are only meaningless phrases? And are the people
so apathetic that they have ceased to care?
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