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X I / V. Pace Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, August 16, 1956 dtir (Ulmton (Hhrmitrlr Established 19(M> July 4, 1889 — WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS — June 13. 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance) One Year $3.00. Six Months $2.00 Entered as SeVbnd Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C, March 3, 1879 under Act of Congress The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of 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: South Carolina Press Association, National Editorial Association National Advertising Representative: - AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION — New York, Chicago, Detroit. Philadelphia Annual Report Shows $914,834 Spent In County During Year CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 16. 1956 Whose Democratic Party Is It? South Must Fight For Its Own By DAY 11) LAWRENCE (Reprinted from I . S. News and World Report) There was a tihie when the Democratic Party was the great defender of the rights of the .States and of the rights of the people as against a centralized government. There was a time when the principles of Thomas Jefferson and of Andrew Jackson and of Woodrow Wilson were the guiding concepts of the Democratic Party’s national platform. There was a time when individual liberty was protected against any encroachment by federal or state governments. There was a time when the Democratic Party proudly boasted that it was the party of individual freedom and the foe of govern mental despotism. But the Democratic Party under the New- Deal and the Fair Deal deserted its ideals of the past and went over to the concept of fed eral absolutism sponsored by Madison and Hamilton—the fundamental doctrine of the Republican Party throughout its history. The only legitimate descendant of the Dem ocratic Party of Jefferson, Jackson and Wil son today is the Democratic Party in the Southern States. >, All lingering doubts as to the continuance of these fundamental differences in party concepts were removed by the avowed sup port given lately to the usurping Supreme Court by Democratic Party leaders of the North. When the highest court ruled that States now have lost their power to legislate jn many questions long reserved to the States, the Constitution was flagrantly violated. Many Democrats at the last session of Con gress protested against this usurpation, but a Northern majority ignored th^mX ** The South, which has long been the citadel of brave devotion to principle, now stands at the crossroads. It has perennially supported the Democratic Party’s nomination for the Presidency and Vice Presidency, even though in recent years the selection of candidates has been vested largely in the party bosses of the big cities of thg North and in the labor bosses. Under our Electoral College system, each State may choose its own electors. The peo ple may, in the first instance, write in the names of new electors if they choose to ignore the "organization" electors. We writ- nessed in the last election for United States Senator in South Carolina the effectiveness of a "write-in" campaign as.against a regular party nominee. The South cannot stand by and let a Northern taction write a platform which ne- gatest every principle the Democratic Party has stood for ih decades past. The South is in the midst of a life-and- death struggle—ito preserve the right to con trol its own systems of education. This is more important than the political ..ambitions of individual Democrats anywhere who feel they must play ball with the North ern organizations'of so-called Democrats and accept the "compromise" planks on civil rights that are good only for the duration of the campaign. The South can challenge the right of these so-called Democrats of the Northern States to use the party name. It can challenge this morally and legally. There is nb need for a third party. There is every need for a strong^ independent stand within the Democratic Party, even if it means abstention from voting for the candidates of the Chicago convention when the Electoral College 'meets. This is an important veto pow er—long neglected but t^oro‘ughly constitu- A Simple Proposition The bosses of communist, Russia used to forecast that the economy of the United Stajes—call it capitalism, call it free enter prise. or call it anything else—was due for a collapse. Then communism, having proven its superiority, would inherit the earth. Now. according to Edwin A. Lahey of the Chicago Daily News Service, an abrupt re versal has taken place in the Kremlin. He reports that t.he present head man, Khrush chev. in a recent private talk with Harold Stassen. admitted that Soviet economists’ analyses of the U. S. were wrong. In making this admission, Mr. Khrushchev simply acknowledged -facts, Economic pro gress in this country—especially as it has affected families of modest means—has been unprecedented in history. Between 1940*and 1953, according to the Industrial Conference Board, the proportion of families in the $5,- 000-$7,500 bracket increased from 4 per cent to 25 per cent—more than four times. After making adjustment for price changes and taxes, the factory worker with a w r ife and two children took home 2*4 times as much pay in 1955 as he Aid in 1916. The board also points out that most American families have automobiles, while at the beginning of this year 97 per cent owned radios, 90 per cent electric refrigerators, ,80 per cent electric washers, and 72 per cent TV sets. All of these appliances are regarded as luxuries, which only the^ few possess, in other Coun tries—most notably the communist countries. Free people produce more than oppressed and driven people. It’s as simple as that. under the understanding that the delegation would* ms[ke an appro priation to cover it. According to Legislative records. Sen. Wilson inserted an amendment to the House bill to provide the funds but the House delegation cut it out. , Other surpluses shown for de partments which did not come under the supply bill were as fol lows: tax collector’s office, $789.- 73; health center 1 * construction. $2,098.5; birth certificate fees, $1,308.54; county service officer, tional The South must make iDs protest felt. Too long have the Northern ^Democrats tak,en the South for granted. Indeed, this is one rea son why the leadership of the Party in the last .25 years has been free to woo the votes of former Republicans in the big city areas by telling them that the alleged rights of a federal bureaucracy supersede the basic rights of the States. As long as the Democratic bosses in the North can feel sure that the Southern elec toral vote will be theirs anyhow, the process of letting the Federal Government usurp State powers will go on. The National Convention of the Demo cratic Party in Uhicago next week gives the South its chance. Will the South make a stand on principle or surrender to the jargon of expediency , which the professional politic ians constantly: preach ? This is the hour for decision. When will the Democratic Party rise again to defend the freedom of the individual as against un constitutional acts committed in the name of the Federal Government? Will the Chicago convention denounce the several decisions of the Supreme Court which have ignored the words of the Tenth Article of the Bill of Xkights? For that Article plainly says that all rights not specifically delegated to the Fed- 1 eral Government are reserved to the people. Who delegated the control of education to the Federal Government ? Whose Democratic Party will speak in the platform to be adopted in Chicago next week . —the Party of the usurpers of the Party of individual freedom and States’ rights? SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING Executive Vice President " Southern States Industrial Council » « • • e *♦••*#* e • # • e • ♦ • e • # » « •’•eWeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeee^eeeeeee*««««• •«#«»*«• «»#••«•• > • SOCIAL SECURITY SATURATION The Social Security Act, which was fallacious in conception and is entirely faulty in execution; is gradually approaching a point of saturation. If the trend which has been followed since the law became effective is continued down through the I years, there will come a time when the people of this country are all being "kept" by the govern ment—and we. all know what kind of government we shall have when that time arrives. We suggested some years ago, as we were dis- i cussing-4he "government’ll take care of you" phil osophy and "cradle to the grave” security, a meth od by which all our individual economic needs could be solved; that upon the birth of each child the government issue him §100.000 in government bonds (which would cost thejgovernment nothing; it would be only paper) and that thereby the child cou}.d live comfortbaly the rest of his life. / Such a proposal, of course, is reducing the phil osophy of social security to absurdity — but isn’t that where it belongs? Which brings Us back to our first statement. The whole idea of government-provided social security is fallacious because in a free nation there is no room for the concept of compulsion in seeing that, the individual provides for his future*— and social security is compulsory. And the execuiton of the social securiyt law is deceitful because the people who participate are misled into believing that the taxes they pay into the government treasury for this purpose and those paid by their employers are set aside to build up a reserve for their old age.' ^ Nothing cduld be farther from the truth. The money is spent by the government for general operating expenses as fast as it is received. When it comes time to pay this employee his old-age benefits, additional taxes must be collected by .the government to pay for them. Of course, proponents of the present system will say that the reserve in the social security fund is invested in government bonds and that these bonds constitute a sound reserve fund. In order to explode any impression that this is true, is is only necessary to point out the fact that piling up of great, quantities of its own deb^secur- ities as a "reserve’’ does not add anything at all to the ability of the government to meet social se curity obligations. Cash funds needed to pay re tirement benefits can still only be obtained by means of taxes at the time the benefits are paid. But we are continuing to delude ourselves. Both the House and the Senate have now sent to conference bills "liberalizing” the present social security provisions. Women would become eli- gibje for social security benefits at age 62 instead of 65. This, of course, is “discrimination”—of which we have heard a lot lately—but the Con gress being composed mainly of men, they are undoubtedly too gallant to bring out that point. Why not lower the age of eligibility for men to 60 and the women'to 55? Give them time—that will come. i Another provision is to continue social security children's benefits beyond the cutoff age of 18 if total disability was sustained before the age of 18 And an entirely new concept is added to social se curity by making those disabled eligible for its benefits at age 50 instead of waiting yntil retire ment age of 65. An additional tax of one-quarter of one per cent will belaid by both employee and employer to take care of this provision—which money will also be spent as fast as it is received, regardless of any provisions made for a so-called ‘reserve fund.” As the young people are taken care of longer and as the old people are taken care of sooner, there is less and Iqss time in between for a person to earn his’ living by the “sweat of his brow.” How long before the two ages meet and we reach that point of absurdity mentioned above? How long before additional “liberalizations” make social se curity taxes, added to all other taxes, so heavy that the government must, by necessity, take care of the people and we have a complete welfare Departrr/ents showing deficits were; county’s part of Travelers Insurance, $283.52; boartlihg home under department of wel fare, $1,197.66; and contingent ^und, $?5,050.28. Mrs. Mabel Little, county wel fare dircetor, said that she ran Laurens. August 10 — Laurens over her appropriation for board- county spent $914,834 10 the past for indigent children year in tax monies provided in the County Supply Bill," from market road money, from» bond highway department farm - to - money and other sources of reve nue. according to the 1955-56 re port made by County Supervisor Bennie B Blakely to the. County Delegation. The report was handed to the delegation Wednesday and cover ed al known bills through June 30, 1956, the supervisor said. Included in the total was $513,- 468.60 spent on the road program from farm-to-market funds, apd bonds. A total of $245,086.52 was spent for maintenance of roads and bridges. The report showed tha't all the departments and sub - depart ments of the county government except three either balanced their accounts or showed sur pluses for the yea.r. Departments showing surpluses and the amount of each were as follows; Court house upkeep. $0.10; insurance on buildings. $880.46; road and bridge mainte nance, $18.24; road program, $1,- 245.68; L. S. C. industrial com- mision, $1,090.90; clerk of Court, office expenses, $238.66; court ex penses, $3,689.20; additional help for auditor, $152.62; board of as sessors and equalization, $206.30; second assistant to the treasurer, $81.20; office supplies for super intendent of education, $10.33; four miscellaneous items in shre- ifTs office. $6.73; jail expense, $605.43; extra help for judge of probate, $308.50; office supplies for judge of probate, $1.39; health department, $298.94; inquests, $745.00; magistrate’s court, $216 assistant county agent. No. 1 $42.17, No. 2, $200.00 home dem onstration agent, materials, $11 25; agricultural building, $1.03 FFA, $15.00; Negro county agent steno work, $4.64; emergency re lief in welfare department, $2.44 county audit, $26.10; and lunacy examinations, 408.90. The surplus in the court ex pense item came about partly through the caucelation of TfiF June term of general sessions court, the supervisor said. $2.33; hospital building fund, $4.70; hospital, $10,010.95; archi tect for juvenile jail, nothing ex pended, total remaining, $2,000.- 00; NYA office rent, $297.46; re fund on bond, $255.92. Accompanying the report was an itemized statement of the va- riaus departments. Expenditures out of the con tingent fund were itemized as fol lows, in dollars: Carillon expense, 435; legal work, $719; travel for Gray Court magistrate, $160; trustee referendum, $853.40; in dexing pensions, $25; pauper fun erals, $470; coroner’s office, $9; probate judge, office expense and lights, $675; air conditioning un its, $545; City of Clinton, new wa ter line, $12,000; salary increase, library. $300; stenographer, do mestic court, $600; premiums on bonds, $565;; county part of social security, $3,37T; repairs to court house, $601; travel for mill dep uty, $300; ads for bounty fair, $91; court house janitor, $330; blinds and tile for magistrate’s- office, $129; board of registration, $227; Clinton high school athletic field, $5,150; funeral wreath for coun ty commissioner, $15; right of way on by-pass, $100; American Legion Junior baseball team, $0.10. ^ Delegation (continued from page 1) in the appropriation from secon dary highway funds $1^100 for pipe for improving South Holland street, a state highway. A side walk then be laid on the west side oif Holland Street. It was also agreed to furnish pipe to improve drainage over oth er nearby areas from F arle y ave nue In Laurens. .The delegation also passed a move to air-condition the ladies lounge in the courthouse in Laur ens. Using money from a special Wildlife Association fund, it was directed that $500 be spent for fa cilities for loading and unloading boats on Lake Greenwood for use of game wardens. IF YOU DONT READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DON'T GET THE NEWS Phone 74 IN CLINTON IS HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE The Appointment Of LAWRENCE F. CAMPBELL As Their Home Service Representative / For any of your needs in Home Appliances, Furni ture, Plumbing. Floor Covering, or the many other item^ in Sears Catalog; Contact Mr. Campbell at Phone No. 1094. He will come to your home or place of business and tell you about the Pre- Opening Specials he is offering. lllJOY CAREFREE VACATIONS by SAVING for them. Plan your vacation well in advance . . . figure the cost of travel, lodging, food and recreation. Then plan to set aside a certain amount of your paycheck here in an insured savings account for that special purpose. You’ll be surprised to see how fast your savings have accumulated when vacation time rolls around. Savings here earn a worthwhile return./too. and are insured to $10,000 by an agency of the U.S. Government. >AVINGS JAND LOAN ASSOCIATION A Clinton Institution Serving Clinton People Since 1909 Telephone No. • Support Your Local Chamber of Commerce state. Announcement ^ ^ - ~— : ——— . ■ _ f New Oldsmobile Dealer for Laurens County PALMETTO OLDSMOBILE COMPANY LYNN W. COOPER, Jr., Owner We are now open to serve new and old custo- mers in the building formerly occupied by Tim merman Motor Co. -;•* .. < •S * ./ .. i l *. '■ ■ . ' 1 • ! Expert Sody Work and Hydramatic Work on i ' - ■ — - __ ,1 Oldsmobile, any G. M. 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