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./ /7 r : ! i. / Pasrc Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, August 23, 1956 ollfr Clinton Established 1900 July 4. 1889 — WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS — June 13. 1955- rnntrlp - J PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Ratje (Payable in Advance) One Year $3 00, Six Month? $2.00 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post OiTice at Clinton, S. C., under Act ol Congress 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 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 i CLINTON. S. ( THURSDAY. AUGUST 23. 1956 South Carolinians Not Too Happy South Carolinians generally tannot work up any great enthusiasm over the results of the national Democratic convention in Chi cago. They can take SteVenson better than ,the\ can his running mate Kefauver. Some ° of the state’s delegates supported Stevenson for President, but not a man among them \oted for Kefauver for Vice President. To W* honest about it. we think both nomi nee.' would have to be Southerners for the South Carolina delegation to give the ticket its unanimous support, or even majority sup- Ihirt. That, of course, could not arid will not be. Three courses are open to voters of the state in the November election: they can sup- jxirt Stevenson and Kefauver, they can sup* jKirt an independent ticket, or they can vote the Republican ticket. A fourth course can even be followed* they can refuse to vote at alh . ' 1 / We.cjon’i know what they can gain by vot ing Republican. An independent ticket will be still less productive of results, for they will be joined only by Mississippi, and the effort will be uh> puny to accomplish-anything.' I . r '1 ■' For all practical purposes, it appears that South Carolinians can accomplish the most for themselves by ‘‘gating the pill” and swallowing it and continue to work within the framework of the party through their and other Southerners’ commit|tee chairman- vhips and other positions of leadership in Congress. If they break with the Democratic party they will sever whatever ties they have that give them effectivenes—and it is con- [ sideraWe - SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING Execuliv* Vice President Southern States Industrial Council ' THAT NATION IS GOVERNED BEST . . ." It was the philosophy of Thomas Jefferson that. That nation is governed best which is governed countrv. For three davs they have been call- least." Ralph Waldo Emerson said. "The less gov- .. ., . \ , v , • «, . ernment we have, the better—the fewer laws, and ing on Hollywood movie stars and New York lhe less con f lded power.” Stage and opera performers in an effort to wise rpen down through the ages have recog- keep going. They’ll probably get around to f nized that there must be government, but that it the business at hand today and Fridav and Invisible Taxation 1 In the Soviet Union, the maximum income tax is eight per cent. However, before you suddenly decide that in this particular phase of modern life the communists have it all over us. some more information is in order. Direct and visible taxation'is of compara tively small importance in the USSR. Princi pal reliance is on indirect and invisible sourc es of revenue. As Dorothy Thompson put it, the Soviet citizen pays the “difference be tween what the state, as sole producer and distributor, pays the factories and their workers, and the collective farms and ,their laborers for what they produce, and what these same workers pay as consumers. Tax ation is reflected in the prices charged by the Soviet monopoly.” In other words, under communism the goy- ernment either owns or totally controls the manufacture and sale of all goods and ser vices. There is no competition. Retail prices are set to “siphon off” the earnings of the l>eople and return them to the coffers of the state. Profits are enormous and qualities |H»or. That is why the take-home pay of the average Soviet worker buys him only a sub sistence living—whereas the take-home pay of the average American worker buys many a luxury in addition to the necessities. When the American housewife goes to shop, she pays prices that are kept to the lowest pos sible level by the inexorable force of free competition. That same force keeps qualities high. This free system has no equal. Colonel Thackston . Is Student Dean At Presbyterian College A retiring army officer and former dean of ClemSon college is the new dean of students at Pres- byferian college. President Marshal! W. Brown today announced the appointment of Col Albert J Thackston, Jr., of Orangeburg, to replace tbe Rev. George A. Anderson in this posi tion. Anderson is npw vice presi- Hent and professor of Bible a Montreat college. Col. Thackston, who was dean of men and commandant of cadets Entertainment From San Francisco The Republican convention in San Fran cisco has pulled out practically all the stops this week in providing entertainment for the come up with the nomination of Eisenhower and Nixon as expected. Rut.for three days it has been tough go ing for the delegates to find something to do. They might as well have stayed at home and showed up for work only on Thursday and Friday. They had everything from some fellow picking a banjo to the brassy Ethel Mer man. who doesn’t need radio for most of the people in the country to hear her. She could just stick her head out of the window and cut loose. Wonder how they happened to miss out on Elvis Presslev. / What Makes America There’s no doubt that in the" last genera- tion or so more a"hd more persons have de- veloped the habit of looking to government to do things for them and to solve their problems. So this statement by Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey is highly timely: “The success of our economy depends not upon government, but upon the efforts of all the people all trying to do a little more for them selves. trying to better themselves and their loved ones. It is the cumulative effect of all this individual effort . . . that makes our .\vstem superior to anything ever known in this world l>efore. That’s what makes Ameri ca.” Arlington, Tex.,-Citizen: “If Arlington can meet its obligations in the matters of educa tion without neglecting its responsibilities, we think there are few other communities in the nation w-ho cannot meet their obligations without the-benefit of government doles.”- Elsinore. Calif., Leadef-Press: “A very long time ago, England’s deorge III was hav ing a terrible time^of it with us Americans over taxes. He laid a tax-on tea. We not only wouldn’t pay it but we dumped the tea over- lioani in Boston harbor. We even rebelled— treason it was! . . . But hold!—we don’t want to get into the position of seeming to advo cate armed insurrection all over again.. It can’t be treason, however', to think that George III, if he could come back and see the tax picture of today, would have his reason scrambled worse than it ever was!" should be a minimum of government. Love of freedom is based on the philosophy that govern- ryent. should always be the servant, not the master of the- people. This philosophy reached its zenith here in the United States of America, where individual initia tive and ingenuity, spurred on by the incentive of the free enterprise system, made us the most productive nation on the face of the earth and brought more benefits to more people than any other system, the world has ever known. If we would face the facts, though, we must realize that in recent years there has been a de cided tendency to give government more and more control over the lives of the people, that the trend has been to pass a multiplicity of laws. Thus we are departing from the philosophy of Jefferson and Emerson: thus we allow government to become our master. If we should have one Congress that did not pass any laws at all during its entire session, that might be the best thing that could happen to us. In fact, some Congress might well devote its time and attention to repealing laws instead of passing them.—;————— ; ———— ■■ The Congress just ended—the 48th Congress— would probably be considered by moM people a good Congress, at least no better and no worse than the average Congress. It passed a number of bills during its two sessions, that would be consid ered major legislation. But. aside from appropri ating the necessary operating expenses of the gov ernment, one could very confidently take the posi tion that the nation would have been just as well off had none of this so-called major legislation been passed. Let’s cpnsider some of the major measures: < . /' A revised farm bill was. passed, but one would have trouble proving that the farm situation is any better than it was; in fact, no bill was con sidered that went, to the heart of the trouble. A soil bank plan was set up—to pay farmers for not working. Commodities will still be raised to get the government guaranteed prices. Intensive cultivation Will produce just as much as ever. The farm problem has not been solved A bill was passed "liberalizing” social security, taking care of young people longer and old people sooner. Those permanently disabled become jeli- gible .for social security benefits at age 50; thereby adding a new socialized aspect to the whole plan. It is an unsound system, based on a false premise and deceitful in operation. Federal housing was continued, with approval of 35,000 units of public housing for tw-o years, liberalizing mortgage terms for^, elderly persons and for urban renewal projects. Both individuals and cities think they are getting “something for nothing” because they are getting money from Uncle Sam. Who do they think gave Uncle Sam the money in the first place? What right has the federal government got in the housing business anyway? In the first session, Congress appropriated $2 7 billion for foreign aid in fiscal 1956, and in the second session appropriated $3.8 billion for fiscal 1957, There was no need to appropriate any mon ey at all. In the first place, it would be difficult to prove that our foreign aid has ever done us any good; in'the second place, more than the total of these two amounts was already availoble. In the first session. Congress raised the mini mum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour. This’ whole philosophy of legislating minimum wages is fallacious. If a man is not worth $1 an hour, no law will make him worth it; and if he must be paid that or nothing, he will be paid nothings—and go on relief at the taxpayers’ expense. YOUNG REUNION A family reunion of the des cendants of the late C. C. and Connie Lee Young was held at Hurricane church on Thursday evening with a number of rela tives and friends attending. A bountiful picnic supper was served and an informal get-to gether enjoyed. First Baptist Church ToUonor Students Going To College Tht .First Baptist church will sponsdr a "Cross Roads banquet” Friday evening at 8:00 o’clock in honor of young people of the church who are college students for the coming year. Rev. J. H. Darr, pastor, will bring an inspiraitonal message, and the students will enjoy va rious activities during the eve ning. The following is a partial list of the students and the in stitutions they will attend: Winthrop college: Jean Nelson. Toni Nelson. Margaret Tankers- ly. Joan Johnson. Mars Hill college: Nannctte Loftis. Southern Baptist Theological seminary, Louisville, Ky.: Rem- bert Truluck, Jr. Southeastern Baptist Theo logical seminary, Wake Forest. N. C.: John Compton. South Carolina Medical .col lege, Charleston: Charles John son. Draughon’s Business College: Greenville: Willette Asbill. Clemson college: Glenn Mc Gee. Nursing School. General hos pital, Greenville: Peggy Ann Edwins. Presbyterian college: June Adair. Monte Bishop, Monty Cook. Mrs Monty- Cook, Richard Calvery, C. W Briggs, Mrs. Andy B Young,- Jjx,_- Barbara Jean Smjith^* Charles Malpass, Buzzy Neighbors, Guy Smith. Furman university: Shirley As- bill. Tommy Cooper. University of South Carolina: Helen Anderson, Ann Johnson, Patricia Norman. \ i SAY— I Saw It In THE CHRONICLE* Pace Is Promoted, Transferred To Aiken J. C. Pace, former patrolman in the Clinton area has been pro moted to the rank if corporal with the South Carolma highway patrol and transferred to Aiken. He has already begun his duties there. .7 Mr. Pace has been stationed here since completing his train ing in 1940. Patrolman James Edens, who has been here since May, will ‘"continue to serve this area. IF YOU DON'T READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DON'T GET THE NEWS “It’s a BULOVA! And on tho easiest terns in tom! mm-. GODDESS OF TIME 17 At Hon>>W° n COL. THACKSTON at Clemson, 1945-48: has-complet ed 30 years of outstanding service and will retire at the age of 52 on September 6. He wdll join the Presbyterian staff shortly there after. I He is the son of thei late A J. Thackston, Sr., prominent Orange burg educator and a former mem ber of the Presbyterian college board of trustees. Col. Thackston has served the past four years as secretary of the Joint Strategic Survey committee, Joint Chiefs of Staiff organization. His other principal staff assign ments were. War Department Gen eral Staff, Washington, 1944-45; Army Pacific and Commander in Chief Pacific Staff, 1949-51. He commanded the 47th Infantry, 1951-52. The new~PC dean accepted his commission immediately after graduating from Clemson with a degree in electrical engineering in 1926 Since that time he has grad uated from these military schools: Tank School, 1929; Infantry School 1930; Signal School, 1931; Com mand and General Staff School, 1944; and the Navy War College, 1949. Col. Thackston served overseas in Panama; 1931-34; Philippines, 1938-40; Iceland, 1941-43; Austra lia and New Guinea, 1944: Hawaii, 1949-51. He has been awarded the Legion of Merit for outstanding service in shipping troops to Ice land; Oak Leaf Cluster to the Le gion of Merit for outstanding ser vice in organizing the tactical de fense and administrative proce dures for his unit in Iceland; and the Army Commendation Ribbon for outstanding procedures while a member of the War Department General Staff. He is married to the former Miss Julia Dukes, of Orangeburg, and they have four daughters. County Chairman (continued from page 1) pendent candidate as they did in 1948, or support Eisenhower’s Re publican ticket. The reconvening of the state conventibn is mandatory, a reso lution directing that such a ses sion* be held being passed at the first meeting of the convention. The actual date was hot set, the resolution stating that it be held by August 27. Laurens county has 16 dele gates to the state convention, each with a half vote. They are: J. C. Rice of Poplar Springs; Robert C. Wasson. Hickory Tav ern; Archie Cook, of Owings; John M. Ross and W. W. Niver, Jr., Joanna; James P. Sloan and H. L. Eichelberger, of Clinton; T. David Sloan, Jr., A B. Culbert son, Justin Bridges, Paul Culbert son, Joe B. Medlock, C. W. Wier, Marshall W. Abercrombie, James Brownlee, and Thomas A Babb, of Laurens. A number of delegates named their own alternates to the first session of -the convention and it is expected that those who at tended the first sesion will re turn for the meeting Monday. ———- Swimming Pools Close Saturday The swimming pools at Clinton and Lydia Mills will close Sat urday, August 25, at the conclus ion of the evening swimming pe riod, 10:00 p. m., according to an announcement by a company official. WHEN YOU'RE ON TNE SPOT If you should ever find yourself "on the spot” following an automobile accident, you’ll be glad you bought "the policy with the P.S.”, meaning the Personal Service of this office and thousands of other iEtna Agents, coast to coast. S. W. SUMEREL AETNA-IZER 101 S. Broad St. Phone M AMERICAN CLIPPER 17 jswslt, Mlf-wisding certified wtttrprocf,* ihcck resistant •nhrtektble mainspring anti-magnatic radium hands l dial twaap secend hand BULOVA... America’s Greatest Watch Value! Watches enlarged ic show detail cawm Ut Tt... I I mm mm ca BLUE NILE DIAMONDS HILLCRFST WATCHES Coming This Week! Be Sure To Attend Laurens Electric Co op AND ANNUAL MEETING Monday and Tuesday —- August 27 and 28 Laurens County Fairgrounds FREE EXHIBITS ENTERTAINMENT provided for you FREE by famous stage and television stars each evening BEAUTY CONTEST TALENT CONTEST Preliminaries in both contests Monday niftht. Finals on Tuesday night. Free Prizes For Co-Operative Members TELEVISION SET • IRONS • FANS TOASTERS • CLOCKS • HEATERS OTHER ELECTRICAL ITEMS » EXHIBIT TENTS OPEN EACH AFTERNOON - • ANNUAL MEETING OF MEMBERS TUESDAY, AUG. 28, 2 P. M. • PROGRAM EACH NIGHT BEGINNING AT 7:30 P. M. THE PUBUC IS CORDIALLY INVITED!