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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, December 27, 1956
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July 4, 1889 — WnXIAM WILSON HARRIS — June IS. 1955 ^
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C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27. 1956
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Answer the Cry of the Helpless
The Value . ,
Of Newspapers
The ulea is widely held that television has
gained an unshakable hold on the young
people of the country, to the detriment of
other and older media of communication.
Rut apparently that idea needs some over
hauling, as this item from Editor & Publish
er demonstrates: "The study of the ‘teen
age market' -just released by the Bureau of
Advertising completely destroys the tele
vision-created myth that the youth of Amer
ica is a new race of TV viewers to the ex-
I elusion of printed media. TV ranked high
‘with this group for its entertainment value,
but research revealed the medium of ‘most
practical value' to teen-agers is the news
paper and 80 per cent of them are news
papers readers. This study should be a valu
able new advertising sales tool for news
papers.”
themselves, to whonu their representatives
are always answerable.” •- »
• Senator Borah was a famous and able man,
but in this case he could hardly have been
more wrong. An income tax of 50 per cent
now applies at levels which are far from
great'wealth. And in the top bracket the
tax is 91 per cent—only nine per cent short
.of the total expropriation that Joseph.Choate
feared. ' ' ■
Moreover, even in relatively modest brack
ets, the tax collector hits very hard. Taxes,
direct and indirect, account for about one-
third of a $7,500 annual income. And a man
earning $85 a week works more hours to pay
his taxes than to pay for l|lis food and cloth-
.'ipg combined.
Pattern For
Community Growth
Povt'er"companies, railroads, large indus
tries and Qther agencies interested in indus
trial development have been working on
plans to provide more practical and con
venient areas for factory locations, home
building sites, shopping centers, and school
facilities outside congested city centers.
This progressive planning is going on all
over the country.
According to these companies there is a
growing need for this type pf high-class,
close-in development suitable for industries
whose investments and payrolls have a tre
mendous effect on the economic health of
the community.
Thus, does a large industry make possible
the development of a hundred smaller indus-
Dover, Del., State News: “. . . there are a
lot of people who have no faith in the U. N.
They are honestly fearful—and advocate the
I’nitdTl States drop out. Ostrich-like, they
think that by not facing the facts of this
changing world that this nation could exist
al»ne.”
and other relatives in York.
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Young, Jr.,
and daughter, Carol, spent Tues
day with the latter’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Harmon, in Char
lotte, N. C.
Guests Sunday of Mrs. Dudley
Ray were Mr. and Mrs. Carroll
Eargle, Jr., of Columbia, Mr. and
Mrs. Grey Carlisle and family of
Lyman. Mr. and Mrs.. Berlex Mil
ler and family of Whitmire.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stutts of
High Shoals, N. C., are guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Baker.
M/. and Mrs. Dick Loveland
and daughter Darrcy, of Bridge-
ton, N. J., Mr. and Mrs. William
Smith and daughter, Gwen, of
Charleston. Mr. and Mrs. James
Hahn of St. Petersburg, Fla., are
visiting their parents, Rev. and
Mrs. J. H. Darr.
Mr. and Mrs. John William
King, Jr., and daughters of Sum-
mervifle, Ga., are guests of the
latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
F. Jacobs.
Mrs. H. E. Sturgeon and Miss
Jane Sturgeon of Durham, N. C.,
are visiting their son and brother,
Elwyn and family in Florence.
Davis Young, of Pulaski, Tenn.,
is visiting his parents, Mr. and
Mrs., H. M. Young.
I. A. Edwards spent the holi
days in Florence with his mother.
Mrs. Tom Charleton. „
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. King, Jr.,
and daughters, Jan and Christy,
spent Christmas in Florence with
Mrs. King’s mother, Mrs. Agnes
Brodie.
Through Your
Red Cross
Fund Appeal
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SOIL BANK RATES FOR FIVE
BASIC CROPS TO BE HIGHER
Marshfield, Md., Mail: "Hundreds of thou
sands of working people find that they MUST
join and pay dues to a union if they are to
work at the jobs they want. In no other
area of American life today is a basic free
dom so obviously and cynically violated. In
almost every other instance, freedom of
Choice is not only permitted but it is zealous
ly guarded. Why is it, not for working
people?”
SENSING THE NEWS
By THURMAN SENSING
Executive Vice President
^Southern States Industrial Council
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tries—one can’t exist without the other. This THE MORAL RESPONSIBILITY
is the private enterprise way of building the
nation.
One of the latest moves of this kind was
the acquisition by the Piedmont and North- i
ern railroad of several hundred acres bn the’
outskirts of Greenville. . *' .
Let The Users Pay
Some progress has been, made in yither
reducing or elimmating government com
petition 'with private business—a 'form of
competition which adds up to a’tremendous
drain on the taxpayers in general. But we
still have a long way to go.
This competition exists in many fields, and
in some cases, it is possible, the people at
large don’t yet have a good picture of what
is going on. v •
The government’s jwrcel post system is an
example. During most if not all of its his
tory it has operated at'a taxpayer-borne de
ficit—even though the original act author
izing its creation provided that it should pay
its own way. Since 1926, one reliable esti
mate says, the deficits have totaled $1.2 bil
lion. And indirect costs not included in
post office accounts are estimated to Ik* in
excess of $43 million a year.
This led the Hoover Commission, in its re
port on Business Enterprises, to note that
the failure of parcej post rates to cover
the full cost of service constitutes a subsidy
to the users of parcel post.” It then recom
mended that if current rates do not cover
all costs of the service, including indirect
costs, these rates should be raised. . ■
There Should be-no opposition to this. All
that is proposed is that-the people who use
and benefit from the service pay for what
they get.
OF THE UNITED STATES
Is the moral responsibility of the United States
to the world any less than its economic responsi
bility? Certainly not; we, all know that “man
shall not live by bread alone." 'and that minister
ing to Ihe economic needs of the world is not. en
ough.
- Whether rightly or wrongly, we have accepted
economic rfesponsibility for the free world since
the end of the Second World War We have pour
ed out/$61 billion of the American,taxpayers’ mon
ey since then, we expect to increase our rate of
giving next year, and to all effects and purposes
iwe have • accepted foreign aid on a permanent
plan V—■ v-
Senator Borah
Was Wrong
In an earlier era, ft seems clear, the ad
vocates of the federal income tax had no
conception of the extent to which it would
grow—and the tremendous portion it would
take from the earnings of the people.
In defending this tax, the late Senator
Borah once said: “The great and honored
lawyer, Joseph Choate, denounced sqch a tax
as socialistic. He said that if you can levy
a tax of two per cent, you may lay a tax of
fifty per cent or a hundred per cent.
"Who will lay the tax of fifty per cent or
a hundred per cent?
“Whose equity, sense of fairness, of jus
tice, or patriotism, does he question?
“Why, the representatives of the Amer
ican people. Not only that, but the intelli
gence, the fairness, the justice of the people
Even if this financial aid wer& right and prbper
—which is readily open to doubt—it would not of
itself save the world for peace or for democracy
or anything else. In fact, by itself the tendency
would be* for it to destroy the independence and
self-reliance of other peoples' of the world, to kill
their initiative, dull their incentive and destroy
their ambition. Why should they do anything for
themselves if we are going to do everything for
them? ’
It will take more than economic leadership
to save the world. The United States, as the
strongest nation in the world and as a nation
whose government has always been based on the
principles of freedom, also sets the moral example
for the free nations of the world. That is a tre
mendous responsibility." As Davy Crockett ad
monished us back in our early «days, therefore,
we should be very sure we are right before we
40 ahead—but once having decided we are right,
we should let nothing stop us. We would do well
to examine the status quo of our present activi
ties along many lines.
One of these lines is our attempt to preserve
peace in the world. As a member of the world
family, w* participated in establishing the United
Nations, which had. the preservation of peace as
its main objective. In this chser however, to
change a metaphor, the chain' was no stronger
'than its strongest link—and certainly the United
States was its strongest link and United Nations
has had to depend upon the strength and the lead
ership of the United States to make it in any
wav effective. , .—
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But’are we measuring up to our moral respon
sibility in the case of the United Naitons? Are w_e
not in the case of Russia and its satellites, associ
ating with thugs and gangsters in the United Na
tions. associating with governments that use de
ceit and treachery £s their main weapons in deal
ing wih other nations? The answer is that we are,
apd if we are to measure up to our moral responsi
bility, we would immediately demand that the
United Nations expel from its membership all na-
tion,'. indulging in -uch acts as those committed 5y
the Russians and thereby brand them as unworthy
£f the respect of those nations of the world which
accept moraj principles a» their guide in interna*
tional dealing. - iS
As it is. we have only taken the lead,in having U|
a majority of the members of the United Nations • ft -
say to the Russians, ‘You are liars and murderers
—but we shall continue to associate with you and
treat you as equals.” Condemnation is in order,
but that is not enough. ' If we are to-s'et a fnoral
example to the rest of he world we should with
draw diplomatic representation from Russia and
we should demand that the United Nations set
forth to Russia certain rules' 'of conduct by which
she must abide if she.is to continue association
with the decent nations of the world.
Qf course, Russia does not have to pay any at
tention to us or to the United Nations—but by tak
ing these steps, we shall at least have accepted the
responsibility of moral leadership of the free
world as well as economic leadership, of the free
world.
By the very nature of circumstances as they
now exist, the leadership in taking such steps
must be provided by the United States. This is
a moral responsibility that is ours, and if we do
not measure up to it we shall have miserably
ed. y
Washington Secretary of Ag
riculture Benson has announced
the national average payment
rates per acre for five basic crops
will be sharply higher than this
year for participation in the 1957
soil bank acreage reserve pro
gram. ~ /
He reiterated there are no plans
to include peanuts or extra long
staple cotton in the soil bank
acreage reserve next year.
The national average payment
rate per acre for wheat land tak
en out of production and placed
in the acreage reserve in 1957
will be $20 (M, compared with $8
this year.
This is based on an estimated
national average yield of 16.7
bushels an" acre. The national
base unit rate is $1.20 a bushel.
For upland eotton, the approxi
mate national^ average payment
r^te per acre will be $54 15 for
1957 compared with $24 this year.
This is b^sed on an estimated na
tional average yield of 361 pounds
.an acre at a national base unit
rate of 15 cents a pound.
The approximate national acre
age rate per acre announced for
compared with this year’s $33.,
The national average yield for
corn in 1957 was estimated at 47 4
bushels an acre on the national
1 base unit rate of 90 cents per
bushel. . *
.The. approximate-national aver:
age payment rate per acre for rice
will be $63.18v:ompared with this
years’s $50 The national yield
figure was estimated at 28.08
hundred pounds an ajtre with the
national base unit rate $2 25 a
hundred pounds.
For tobacco, the following na-
, 1 tional average rates per acre will
apply in the 1957 program along
with unit rates on which the per
acre rates are based:
Flue-cured, $255.42 average
rate per acre compared with
$204 in 1956; .18 cents a pound.*- j
Burley. $295 74 compared wim
$210 in 1956; 18 cents.
Benson also announced the
general method for determining
the acreage payments for indi
vidual farmers and said there
w'ould be variations in the appli
cation of the method for spring
wheat and tobacco.
For com, cotton and rice an
average county dollars and cents
payment rate will be established
for each crop The department
said that while county rates will
vary considerably, they will aver
age out to approximately the na
tional rate.
For tobacco, no county rates
per acre will be established. Pay
ment rates will be determined
farm by farm.
Cbuhty payment' rate^ for corti,
cotton and rice' for 1957 will be
available "in the near future,’’
the department said.
PERSONAL
MENTION
Mr. and Mrs. Rutlecige Adair of
Rock Hill; Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Ed
munds of St. Louis, Mo.; Dr. and
Mrs. J. F. Bozard of Columbus,
Miss., are spending the holidays
with their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Homer D. (Henry.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Bell and
son, William, and Mrs. M. L.
K 1 e c kl e y spent Sundajy in
Charleston with (Mr. and' Mrs.
Arnold Westbury and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Martin and
children of Charleston, arrived
Tuesday for a few days’ visit with
the latter’s mother, Mrs. James
Pitts. v
Miss Patricia Norman, member
of the freshman class at the Uni
versity • of South Carolina, is at
home with her mother, Mrs. Mary
N. Norman, for the holidays.
Harry Bolick. Jr., student at
Clemson, is spending the holidays
with his aunt* Mrs. Charles R.
Workman. Mr. Workman, and
other relatives here.
Tom G. and Ed Pitts, students
at the University of South Caro
lina, Columbia, are spending the
holidays with their mother, Mrs.
P. M. Pitts.
Dr. Neil G. Whitelaiw is the
guest of Dr. and Mrs. Bernard H.
Boyd at Chapel Hill, N. C., for
the holidays.
Rev. .and Mrs. Janies S. Gray
and daughters, Missfcs Emma and
Julia left yesterday to visit Mrs.
Giray’s parents, Rev. and Mrs.
John B. Bittinger, in Nashville
Tenn.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Black and
daughters, Ame Lou and Betty,
spent Tuesday with the former’s
mother, Mrs. Norman F. Black,
French and Italian wines, have
demoralized those old nations and
now are trying to do the same in
this country.
"The desecration of the Sab
bath is as dangerous to our spiri
tual health as would be the con
tamination of a city water supply
to our physical health. It is time
but against all trends that are
that patriotic Americans s p o k e
placing our Republic on the to
boggan.”
He conclude sby.urging mem
bers of business or professional
associations to speak out against
the invasion of the Sabbath by
conventions and institutions
which include Editorial, Medical,
Dental, Business and many other
state or national meetings.
"Christ indicted the money
changers in the Temple and I feel
sure He would oppose the c*rass
secularization of Sunday with
modern business and professional
conventions on that day.” He
might have added many other
purely secular physically ex
hausting ways in which we spend
the day set apart by God for res
toration of soul and body.
^This warning is run up on the
eve of the Christmas holidays.
Remember, we are supposed to
be celebrating the birthday of
Jesus Christ, who came as Sa
viour, and as the Prince of Peace.
There are going to be many
more calls for your time and en
ergy these next few weeks lhan
you have to give. Choose wisely
what you do with your time and
your efforts and that for which
you spend y o u.r money. Jesus
Christ said, "Seek ye first the
Kingdom of God.”
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EVERYDAY
COUNSELOR
By Dr. Herbert Spangh ,
My friend and fellow-column
ist, Dr. G e o r g e Crane, in his
"Worry Clinic column recently
wrote a most excellent column on
“Erosion of the Soul.” He said
that soul erosion is a much great
er threat to the republic than soil
erosion, but it is far more subtle
and creeping. “The seculariza
tion of Sunday and commerciali
zation of Christmas and Blaster,
show the deft technique used by
the camel which soon ousted the
Arab from his tent,” he said. So
one of the nation’s most promi
nent psychiatrists and psycholo
gists comes out in a stern warn
ing againsi those things for which
the church has been struggling,
that men and women should take
heed.
“ lam opposed to Medical Con
ventions, Sales Meetings and all
such workday projects scheduled
on Sunday. And I don’t even like
the secularization of Sunday as is
done in Europe . . . Slowly we are
being forced into aping decadent
European practices. As a young,
virile Republic, America was sup
posed to set a new standard in
world history, and not meekly
kowtow to Europe,
modified socialism spread oyer
the U. S. A. And European drink
ing habits have begun to usurp
our American beverages. Ameri
ca is noted especially for milk
and fruit juices, plus soda pop
and cola beverages.
“Scotch and Irish whiskey,
British Ale, German beer, plus;
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