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Paee Four y THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, October 25, 1956 all;? (Clinfom GUjnmirlr Established IMS July 4, 1889 — WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS — June 13. 1955 PUBLI EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscripticjn-R'lle (Payable in,Advance) One Year $3 00. Six Months $2.00 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C., under Act of Congress March 3, 1879 I — ' — Th^ 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 Thjs 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 CLINTON. S. C.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25. 1956 o " A Costly Lesson South Carolinians in two cities—and thou sands of others, too. if they read the papers —have learned a lesson in recent weeks. But what they have learned was at tremendous cost. We refer to the recent strike at the tex- tile plant of the Rock Hill Printing and Fin ishing Company in which striking employ ees lost an average of $110 each during the 15-week work stoppage, and the closing of the textile mill of the Darlington Manufac turing Company which put 500 people out of work. Both came as a result of moves by the Textile Workers Union of America. Economic conditions in Rock Hill received a tremendous jolt by the strike which cut.off the earning power of hundreds of workers for almost three months — and nothing was gained for the time lost when the workers returned to their jobs. In the Darlington case, the workers lost all — period. And the city lost a manufac turing plant that paid its workers well. It has been stated that the plant vyas respon sible for a third of the purchasing power in the city through wages paid employees. It will be closed anil the premises soki. We are not concerned here with the rea sons for the strike and closing of the mill ifut what we are concerned about is that in lx>th. instances it wasf the work of out-of- state-agitators that brought on. all the mis ery that resulted — and left the workers- holding the bag. They are members of the same bunch that months ago warned all who would listen they were coming into South Carolina to organize unions and that blood would flow in the pro cess. They are-gone now, and care nothing about the wreckage strewn in their wake. Their only interest was in the fat monthly fees inroive -the question of the physical fitness of the 70 million persons who are currently under social security, and this number will increase as the years go by.” Moreover, he thinks that the amendment providing for payments to the totally disabled at the age of 50 is only the entering wedge, and that once the principle is established, broadening is inevitable. To quote him again, “During my 24 years in the Senate I have seen many an aid program start at the size of a mouse and rapidly grow to the proportions of an elephant.” Everyone is sympathetic with the plight of the disabled. But this new legislative ap- every count—and could conceivably lead to a collapse of the social security system. they hoped to collect from the wage earners. The 15 weeks financial loss of hundreds of workers was bad enough, but the economic plight of a whole textile community of 500 workers and their families without jobs is sad indeed. * ‘ The textile industry is a hazardous one. It probably has more ups and downs—good times and bad — than any in the country. Most Southern mills, try to keep operations going as many hours a week as they can in order to give their employees steady employ ment. And they pay going wages. Many often keep going from week to week even while piling up finished goods in warehouses, unable to move them because of depressed markets. They build up tremendous inven tories at a cost of millions of dollars in order to keep employment on an even keel. Most mills in this area have a high regard for the welfare of their employees and their families, going more than half way in as suming their responsibilities for those de- ent upon them. d owners of the mills know they are dependent up a happy and satisfied labor force for the successfuL operation of their plants. It is a give ami take proposition, and it is well for each to know who his friends are. Jobs And Capital Investment No subject is more frequently discussed than the federal income tax. Yet, apparent ly, a good many ;>eople still don’t realize just how deeply this tax cuts into our incomes. The tax begins at 20 per cent, on the first $2,000 of taxable income. Then it progresses upward, reaching a top figure of 91 per cent. A short time ago the National Association of Manufacturers offered a documented plan for tAx reform. Over a five-year period the tax rates in all brackets would be gradually reduced. At the end of that period the maxi- .pium rate would be 35 i>er cent. A poll was taken to find out what people thought of the plan. Approval was given by the majority. And many of those polled ex pressed amazement that the tax rate went as high as 35 per cent. When told that it now goes far higher, to 91 per cent, they “could hardly believe it.” The peak tax rates are paid by a relatively small number of people with big incomes. But that doesn’t mean that the rest of us are in no war concerned. The NAM argues, and tellingly, that the main reason why tax re lief is needed is to make more money avail able for. industrial investment and expansion —^which is an absolute necessity if jobs are to be created for -the 1,000,000 additional workers who enter the labor force each vear. v * Tax rates which take as much as nine cents ou-t of each ten cents a man earns certainly don’t encourage this kind of investment. ItnCtll be the TOm^. not^just the few, who will gain ttie most' from tax relief—if and when we get it. Six PC Seniors e - . . To Appear in 1957 Edition 'Who's Who' Six Presbyterian college sen iors have been selected to appear ih the 1957 edition of Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities, it was announced today. Nominated by the faculty to receive this high honor were: Jimmy Hancock, of Rock Hill; ity life, including job relationship, church relationship, and intro duction to Alcoholics Anonymous which is an independent associa tion having no offeiial connection with Fairview. The director, Rev. Maxie C. Collins, estimated that “Friends of Fairview’’ during the two years since the association was set Up, have added more than $30,000 to the value of Fairview- property and have helped greatly in the adjustment of patients to their home communities after they are dismissed from Fairview. ^ U 11111J > iK-ndeii And An Impossible Situation It-is always difficult to criticize measures which, at least on the-surface, seem of a hu manitarian nature. That is true of the bill— hurriedly passed in thit-4jhal. hours of the last Congress-»-expanding the social security system. Among other things, the % bill pro vides for cash payments to workers at the age of 50 if they become permanently and totally disabled. That, in the words of Senator Byrd, es tablishes “ . . . an entirely new concept, never contemplated when the (social secur ity) program was inaugurated.” The irppli- cations inherent in the step can be judged from a statement made by Dr. Elmer Hess, past president of the American Medical As sociation: “This is an impossible social and medical situation.” The problems — financial and otherwise — that now arist are massive. Social security taxes are due to jump by $750 million next year and, if the disability provision* is re tained, ft is inevitable ^hat they will soar thereafter. Ultimate costs are incalculable now. '■ * f Senator Byrd — who was chairman of a Senate committee which held extensive hear ings on the new bill, and recommended against it by an 11 to 4 vote—also points out that the disability provision “ . . . may well SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING Extculiv* Vic* President Southern States Industrial Council *,*♦.**.*♦.♦♦ ♦*.*‘e.**>e.*a,*# eeee.eajea,'*# «• %« %•«•«** \ EVERYONE ELIGIBLE SHOULD VOTE Back in the early days of our nation, when the people were interested in their future and what the future held for their children and their chil dren's children, they crowded around Benjarhin Franklin one day as he came out of the Constitu tional Convention, and asked, "Mr. Franklin, what ’do we have?’’ Franklin replied, "You have a Republic, if you can keep it.’’ • , There was undoubtedly some question in the minds of those men who founded our government as to whether people were actually capable of gov erning themselves. They knew only too well that something that is everybody’s business may easily become nobody’s business. There is one thing for sure-—government in a free nation is everybody's business and the nation will remain free only so long as it is everybody’s business. , The only way people can prove they are capable of self-government is by retaining the re sponsibility for that government in their own hands. * “V Do you ever complain about the kind of gov ernment that you are getting or about the individ uals holding public office? You have no right to do so unless you take an active part in politics yourself, unless you register and vote at election time, unless you keep yourself informed on matters of government. We c?n be quite sure thaj in thu long run, free people in a free country get just the kind of government they deserve. We often hear it said, by entirely respectable people. “Why, I wouldn’t have anything to do with politics for anything in the world. It’s dirty busi ness and I just wouldn’t get mixed up in it.” That is the m6st dangerous attitude a person could take who expects to continue to live in a free nation-. It is the surest way to destroy free dom. That is not the attitude that Washington and Jefferson and Jackson and Lincoln and all the other great patriots took! They believed that tak ing a part in politics was , the finest thing they could do for their country—and they were entire ly right. Politics in and of itself is not a “dirty busi ness." Politics is no dirtier than the people who engage in politics. Politics is the science of gov ernment and the kind of government-we have de pends upon the kind of people who take part in it. A man can possess no more vaqlable right than the right to vote. It is the one way in which every man can have a voice in his government. It is a responsibility and a duty that no free man can shirk if he wants to remain free. Tommy Reeves, of Denmark; Charles Dukes, of Atlanta; Mar shall Tobias, of Sumter; Jerry Finley,,of Seneca; and Ramon Veal, of Atlanta. Hancock is the president of the Presbyterian sTudent body, exec utive officer of the ROTO bat talion, vice-president of the Stu dent Christian Association, and a member of Blue Key national fra ternity, the Society of Scabbard and Blade, and the Block P club. Reeves serves" as cadet com mander of ROTC. is vice-presi dent of the student body, presi dent of his fraternity, secretary of the SCA, and a member of Blue Key, Scabbard and Blade, and the Block P club. Dukes edits the Blue Stocking, All-American student newspaper, is adjutant of the ROTC battal ion, and is a member of Blue Key, Scabbard and Blade, the robed choir and the Ministerial club. Tobias »—editing the 1957 yearbook, the PaC-SaC, holds membership in Blue Key, the Block P Club, and the Ministerial club, serves on the SCA cabinet, and is former president of the Baptist Student Union on the campus. Finley serves as president of the Student Christian Associa tion, is a member of Blue Key, the Ministerial club and West minster Fellowship. Veal holds the position of presi dent of the choir, serves as news editor of The Blue Stocking, and fraternity editor of the PaC-SaC. is a member of the Ministerial club and the Atlanta-PC club, and ranks as a dean’s list student. Clinton Downs Chapman 58 to 6 With Billy Cranford taking the lead, Clinton piled up its biggest score of the current season last Friday night when they defeated Chapman high, at Inman 58 to 6. Cranford, end, crossed the final stripe three times to help pile up the lopsided score. Bobby Fuller made two touchdowns, and Ray j Fuller, Sease, Horton, and Smith got one each. Smith added three ! extra points and Sease got one. The game was featured by long runs, Two of Cranford’s scores came on 19 and 20-yard jaunts, Bobby Fuller returned a punt for 50, and Ray Fuller broke through the middle on the third play from scrimmage for a 69-yard thriller. Bumgardner, for Chapman, took a Clinton kick and lugged it 77 yards for the longest run of the game, which was Chapman’s only stMTe. , • ■ On November 2 Clinton will meet Newberry at Newberry.- Community Chest (continued from page L) in Clinton. Among the other services rendered is the providing of two scout camps, one for white and one for Negro boys and lead ers. > The Crippled Children organi zation, in addition to its national research, is constantly rendering direct service to this community in the form of providing neces- sary equipment. For example, six wheel chairs, valued at $75 each, have been provided handicapped children at Clinton and Lydia Mills, and a little girl was given a hearing aid. • American Heart Association is primarily a research organization which strives5 constantly to com bat the greatest of American killers through the development of new medicines and techniques. A recent announcemnet indicated that some 80,000 from the as sociation had-been spent on 17- different heart research projects in North Carolina alone during the past -year. 'Friends of Fairview' Pay Indebtedness On Ridgeway Plant Ridgeway, Oct. 23—"Triends of Fairview” celebrated the wip ing out of all indebtedness at the quarterly meeting Sunday, Octo ber 21. The treasurer announced that all financial obligations on the Maxie C. Collins Memorial chapel, the tractor and farm equipment, and the central heat ing plant had been paid. The association, ctyhiposed of former patients, their relatives and others interested in rehabili tation of alcoholics through relig ious faith, immediately voted unanimously to assume the finan cial responsibility for a complete ly equipped modern laundry and a walk-in Heep freeze Teffigera- tion plant. Plans were made for a closer cooperation with the Fairview administration in helping patients who are dismissed from the cen ter adjust,to their home commun- OFFICE SUPPLIES CHRONICLE PUB. CO. 74 Here! NewTask*F6rce 57 Chevrolet Trucks! Performance-proved In a history-making test on the ALCAN Highway to Alaska 1 The Alcan Highway is the road where trucks grow old before their time. The road where gravel end lessly sledgehammers the life out of trucks. Where a fog of superfine dust chokes engines, and vicious ruts subject chassis to months of wear in a few hundred miles. 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