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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, October 11, 1966
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Established 1900
July 4. 1889 — WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS
June IS, 1955
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Fair Questions
A letter writer to th? Wall Street Journal,
Robert K. Bowyer. . had something worth
while to say. about the hitter opposition of
the major labor unions to the state right-to-
work laws: "Uo thev (the unions) have so
little sales appeal or so little to sell that they
fear giving a worker the freedom of choice? .
("an it be true that the only way to keep old j
members and attract new ones is to use gOori
squalls, special privilege laws and economic
blackballing? Is thfMr type of economic
monopoly somehow different from that for
bidden other enterprises? Are unions above
all moral and civil law?”
It would l>e interesting if some union lead
er attempted to answer clearly and frankly
those questions. None has yet.
End Of The Big Top?
Many a heart was saddened by the an
nouncement that the tour of the last of the
great circuses had been abruptly ended in
mid-season, and that the spectacle would not
be seen again, at least fh traditional form.
Soaring costs apparently had made operation
impossible. *
The circus parade — finally destroyed by
modem traffic—was as American as apple
pie. And the circus itself brought color and
wonder to all the Main Streets of the nation.
A thought expressed by the New York
Herald Tribune will be echoed by millions of
us: ‘'But if the tent itself and its ranked
wooden benches, its tanbark, its color and its
whole atmosphere of impermament fantasy,
were to vanish forever into folklore and fad
ing memories, it would be a tragedy of large
proportions. Americans are ingenious. They
pride themselves on it. Let’s summon up that
quality to save the big top.”
A Voting Yardstick
Before one gets carried away with enthu
siasm by all the things political candidates
promise to have the government do for us, it
might be well to consider what has made this
country what it is as a yardstick in making
a choice between candidates.
Most of the speial and economic gain in
this country have come from the efforts and
initiative of the individuaTand not from gov
ernment planning: F'ulton invented the
steamboat: Bell developed the telephone;
Ford built the first low-cost* car; Franklin
discovered electricity: Wright created the air
plane; Whitney designed the cotton gin; and
so on, ad infinitum. Without the work of the
individual, we would still be living under a
feudal system that allowed* us only a bare
subsistence. It is the accomplishments of the
individual that have lifted u» to present lev
els—not the accomplishments of government.
Yes, America* progress footed in individ
ual freedom. That points to a yardstick that
can well be used in judging those candidates
who would bring about a society where ‘‘do-
all" government would reduce the individual
to the status of a statistic.
The Tea Party’s Ghost!
Not so many years ago. the American peo
ple started a revolution over the tax on tea,
which was insignificant compared with to
day’s taxes on homes and earnings. In the
ease of the tea party the people had no voice
in saying what the tax would be. At present
people in the United States vote for their rep-
. resent at ives. who in turn pass most of the
laws that levy taxes and on which the people
seldom get a chance to vote directly.
For a good many years it has been good
politics for a candidate for office to promise
t he people some form of a handout from the
government. He never tells the people that
government will first have to take the money
from .them-before it can give back some pro-
portion of the gravy it took. People do not
yet seen) to be awake to the fact that run-
away public spending and 1 staggering public
debt cause inflation and the depreciated dol
lar which are responsible for the increasing
cost of living.
So far there seems to be little resentment
against taxation and debt as long as the
handouts continue. Unless the process is re
versed eventually, inflation will continue to
its disastrous end. Only the people can re
verse the current trend. Will it take a tax
party instead of a tea party to save personal
earnings and our private enterprise system
as contrasted with big government which
eventually leads to socialism and degradation
of the individual?
Laurens County
Women At Annual
Council Meeting
Revival To Begin
Sunday Morning
At Joanna Baptist
Twenty-one members and two i Revival services begin at the
home demonstration agents of the Joanna Baptist church on Sunday
Laurens Countv Council of Farm w dh the morning worship.
Women attended the annual
meeting of the Piedmont District
council of Winthrop college on
Saturday.
Host chapter for the dbcasion
was the Kershaw County Council
of Farm Women The theme for
the meeting w,a s "G r o w t h
Through leadership '' The direc>
tor... Mrs Clarkson—Stevenson:
presided and Mrs Hoyt Clark ?
sreved as secretary Miss Ger-y
trude Lanham is the Piedmont
district agent.
Greetings were brought to the
group by Dean S. J. McCoy, of
Winthrop. and Miss Juanita
Neely, state home demonstration
agent. An address, “Conserva-
tino Is My Business,” was given
by Dr Boyce M Grier, president
of Lander college. The sympos
ium program p(an of work was
led by Mrs. J. A. Kagtrs, of Ches
ter. county. Mrs. J. ^W. Tinsley,
County Council ’president, from
Laurens county, took part in this
portion of the program, giving
the goals for the county for the
coining year.
Mrs Guy Mahon, second vice-
president, from Laurens county,
was chairman of the “time and
place” committee. She invited
the Piedmont District council to
meet with Laurens cuonty next
year. Mrrf. R. C. Wasson, also
from Laurens county, was chair
man’of the nominating commit
tee.. She 'gave a report of the
committee for the nomination for
district director for the coming
year. Mrs. Clarkson Stevenson
was again elected as director.
Bobby Fuller, Clinton
High Football Back,
Honored In Greenville
Services will be held daily at
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REV. DAVID ANDERSON
The Family Farm
The charge that the family farnr is dying
and is destined to be almost entirely replaced
by gigantic corporate farms has no basis in
fact. Every objective study shows that the
family farm is the^solid foundation on which
our agricultural’ economy rests —'and that j
there is every indication that this will con
tinue to be true. .
.However, the character of the family farm
has changed.
The change was made inevitable by agri-
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Executive Vice President
Southern States Industrial Council
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FREEDOM AND THE WELFARE STATE
It may be, as some claim, that the welfare state
is not exactly the same thing as the socialist state
but at the same time, we can be quite sure that the
one almost inevitably leads to the other.
The characteristics of the welfare state have
been defined as involving two principles:
ft) That it is the responsbiility of the State to
provide for every citizen as o f right security
against unemployment, sickness, and old age. —
(2) That it is'the function of the State to plan
the use of pur national resources so as to maintain
work for all and insure "fair shares” of t^e nation
al income between,different sections of the com
munity. '
Quite apparently such a definition leaves
many questions unanswered. What, for example,
is meant by 'fair share", and even more import
ant. who is to interpret that meaning in practice?
But the definition will do for our purposes, and
there is no doubt that we are rapidly approaching
such a form of economy right here in IhF United
States.
How far does such a system affect the liberties
which have been so fundamental a part of our way
of life?
It is clear right off that there is no immediate
menace to those traditional liberties which are
mentioned so prominently in our Constitution and
Bill of Rights. We still have freedom of speech:
there is no censorship of the press: we can worship
as we wish; the right of public meeting is unchal
lenged; we can vote without Hear of the conse
quence; the law of habaes corpus prevents our ar
bitrary arrest and imprisonment. Yet, although
these traditional liberties seem safe enough—and
the 1 fact that they do seem safe is no doubt the
very thing that is deluding most of the people—it
would be idle to pretend that liberty in general
stands where it did a generation ago.
John Stuart Mill once observed, "The liberty
of the individual must be thus far limited: he
must not make himself a nuisance to other peo
ple.” This has been more or less the guiding phil
osophy that underlies the freedom we established
for oursblves when this nation was founded: that
a man is free to choose his own course, carve his
own destiny and go his own way so long as he
no one else in the process.
But it is liberty in this sense—freedo® to lead
one’s own life as he wants provided hd does not
trouble other people—which seems to be in danger
today. The essence of liberty is freedom of choice
in one’s way of life, in his pleasures, his pursuits,
how he spends or saves his money, above all how
he uses his property. Both the climate of the wel-
Bobby Fuller, 166-ipound left
halfback of the Clinton Red Devils,
was named the Upstate high
school player of the w<eek for his
punt return in a 20-0 victory over
Union last Friday night. Fuller
was honored at the Greenville
Touchdown club meeting Monday.
Fuller was selected by The
Greenville News for running Un
ion’s first purit bade 85 yards for
the first -touendown. He ran an
other 40 yards, and a third back
55 yards to set up the other two
Clinton touchdowns.
T:30 p. m. and Tuesday through
Thursday at 10:00 a. m.
Rev. David Anderson, pastor
of Cooper River Baptist church,
Charleston, will be the visiting
minister.
Rev. James Mitchell, pastor,
extends an invitation to the pub
lic to attend.
Methodist Workers
School To Begin
Sunday At Laurens
The Methodist churches of the
Clinton-Laurens area will begin
their annual Christian Workers
school at the First Methodist
church, Laurens, Sunday from 3
o’clock until 5. Classes will be
in session each evening Monday
through Thursday, from 7:30 to
9|20
The dean of the school will be
the Rev. C. Frank DuBose, Jr.,
First church, Laurens, and the
following instructors will- give
courses in Christian Education:
"Music in Christian Education”
—The Rev. James R. McLarty,
Kings Mountain, N. C. (This
course is for those interested in
hymns and music of the Metho
dist church.)
"Guiding Junior Children in
Christian Growth"—Miss Bruce
McDonald, of Columbia. (This
Belks
culture’.- technological revolution. The true- fare state and many of the policies which seem in
tor. .-ymliolically speaking, utterly trans
formed farming. It put it on a business basis.
A substantial investment is now necessary,
as is a high degree of operating efficiency.
Numberless family farms have adapted
themselves to the new conditions—to their
enormous l>enefiL These farms have grown
larger, too—primarily because modern equip
ment gives each man a far greater produc
tive [x>wer than he had before.
In modern agriculture, there is less and
less room for marginal farmers, with poor
land, or the inability or lack of desire to deal
with the conditions of today as against those
of the*past. Many of these farmers have left
agriculture to enter industry—and they are
better for it. The good farmer, on the other
hand, has stayed with his land, and enlarged,
improved and conserved it. Like everyone
else, he’s had his ups and downs. But over
the years he’s done very well indeed.
separable from it are definitely inimical to this
sort of liberty.
The change is not sudden or sensational. If it
were, the danger would undoubtedly be less, since
everyone would see it immediately. It is rather
like a gradual process of erosion, like the action
of the sea upon a crumbling coast—and this is
what we have seen all during this generation.
We need take only one example. We hear much
talk from our pilitical leadrs in both parties and
from so-called leaders in other walks, of life about
human rights and human welfare being so much
more important than property rights and proper-
-ty safety It has become so that one is automati-
claly branded by “liberal” people as an incorrig
ible reactionary if he suggests, however, tenta
tively, that there is a connection between the
rights of property and the preservation of liberty.
Such branding is exceedingly dangerous to the
cause of freedom. Actually, the connection is very
close indeed, because there is no more important
human right than the right to the ownership of
property, and protecting the rights of property
for those who possess a good deal of it it in a wider
sense protecting the freedom of the far larger
number who possess relatively little.
Proponents of the welfare state are blind to
this fundamental fact, but it cannot be ignored if
freedom is to be preserved.
— Mrs. Russell B. Knox
Presbyterian College
Was the Winner of the Automatic Electric Blanket
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Given Away Saturday, October 6th
Saturday, October 13 th
. . ' <r .
Someone will win a Suit (or Coat). Hat and Shoes. The
drawing will be at 3:30 p. m.
NOTHING TO*BUY! BE SURE TO REGISTER!
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You Do Not Have To Be Present To Win!
Who me . . . pay a bill TWICE? Well it HAS
happened, lady in the best of regulated fami
lies! Seldonu if ever, though when bills are
paid by CHECK. Your checkbook stubs give
you an accurate, up-to-date record of what you
have paid and when you paid it. Each cancell
ed check is a gilt-edged receipt that wins all
arguments. You save time and steps too . . .
because the mailma ndoes the footwork when
you,pay by check!
Take a few minutes now to save hours
every month. Open a checking account!
NIGHT DEPOSIT — SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES
Bank of C '
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
2% Interest Paid On Savings Aeobnnta Semi-Annually
course will interest workers with
and parents of junior children.)
“Guiding Primary Children in
Christian Growth!’—Mrs. Arva C.
Floyd, Atlanta. (This course will
interest workers and parents of
primary children.)
‘‘Finding Your Life Work”—
The Rev. Joe Giles, Greenwood.
frhi
iis course will interest young
people searching to know what
their life work is.)
Workers will come to the
school from the following Metho
dist churches: Broad Street (Clin
ton); Lydia (Clinton); Hopewell
(Kinards); Epworth (Joanna);
Central (Laurens); St. James
(Laurens); Firdt church (Lau
rens); Sandy Springs (Laurens);
and Waterloo.
The Rev. George H. Hodges,
new pastor of Broad Street, Clin
ton, is chairman of the board of
managers. Mrs. Doris H. Mc
Dowell, Laurens, is secretary-
treasurer of the school.
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