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T \ I- i Pape Four / ^ME CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, January 10, 1957 i, olljr (Eltnlmt (Eljrnntrlr July 4, 1889 Established 1900 WILLIAM, WILSON HARRIS — June 1^. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY ^▼1/ » w 195$ THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY mS Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance) - , One Year $3.00, Six Months $2.00 )fli< Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C., under Act of 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. 1 The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature Anonymous communications will not be rjoticed This paper is not responsible for the vievys or opinions of its correspondents 4 Member: South Carolina Press Association, National Editorial Association National Advertising Representative: x -'s -T77T AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION — New York, Cnicago, Detroit Philadelphia T. Southern Bell Expands Service In Clinton, State William M. Shields Makes Portrait For Ansco Advertising CLINTON. S. C..-THI RSDAY,. JANUARY 10. 1957 Hungary Has Shown The World The people of Hungary have suffered the misery of a bloody rebellion. lj)ut thi^sacri* five has not been in vain. Hungary has shown the world the heart- of Russian communism, and iossness oi uu^sian communism, ana ^vill perhaps go down in history as the nation that struck the death blow at government by terror and oppression. The Why Of “Tight Money” You’ve undoubtedly heard of the “tight money” policy now being followed by the Federal Reserve Board — a policy which makes money more difficult to borrow and which tends to increase interest rates. But voir may have wondered why the Board should find such a policy necessary. V. S. News & World Report explains in these words: “There is at present a strong infla- fionary demand for credit. Industry is seek ing record amounts to finance huge expan- >ion programs. State and local governments have vast programs of public works. Build ers are pressing for funds to finance more homes. Consumers are spending record sums, and want to liorrow to' keep on spending. Meanwhile, most of the lal>or Torce is al ready fully occupied and unions are-demand ing and getting wage increases. Many pro-, duct ion lines are operating at capacity. With costs increasing and prices rising, the pos* sibility of greater inflation threatens. "The men on the Federal Reserve Board who shape money policy for the government. ;m* determined to keep this situation under 1 -control. effectively pointed out, are of primary ben efit to big commercial-type farms rather than to the'small family farms. There may well be still another reason that is more compelling than any of these. Many farmers must realize that no nation is rich enough to continue indefinitely toj build up government-bought surpluses—and $145,000 many must realize, on the. grounds of both experience and theory, that when govern ment does the paying, government also does the bossing. Some leading farm groups, in fact, have long recognized this. The live stock producers, for instance, have stead fastly opposed government supports and con trols. even .in times of severe economic strain. Farmers value freedom too. Working For Government The totaj cost of government in this coun try i.^ far "higher than most of us realize, one reason being that many direct, or “hidden” nature. - l T . S. News & World Report states, “Gov- ernments in this country—federal, state and local—are spending $110 billion a year. That is the equivalent of about one-tjhird of all the money earned by all people and businesses in the United States.” In effect, you spend one-third of your working time working for government. Southern Bell Telephone com pany, which serves Clinton and 72 other exchanges in Soutn Carolina, gained 237,50 tele phones in 1956. said I. A. Ed wards, local area manager, yes terday. Of those, 180 were added in Clinton. The company has 310,000 telephones in the state °and 2.596 in Clinton. During the past ten years telephones in use I m Clinton have more than trip led. "People are using their ser vice more, too,” Mr. Edwards said< "Southern Bell subscrib ers in Clinton placed 278,000 long distance calls last year and 4,- 126,000 local calls made. We have 18 switchboard positions in Clin ton to handle these calls.” Mr. Edwards said that the com pany has-54 employees in,Clinton, I with an annual payroll of about Throughout the state. Southern Bell emplpys over 4,- 000 people, with an iannual pay roll of more than $15,000,000 Southern Bell s tax bill during 1956 totalled $2,950,000: This went to the state of South Caro lina and the counties and munici palities where the company ope rates. This figure does not ini elude federal taxes, excise taxes and old age benefit taxes. Mr. Ed wards said* that the company paid $5,056.20 in taxes during the year to the city of Clinton and $11,- 280.46 in taxes to Laurens county.. A record $16,o6o.ob6 u’as spent in. South Carolina in 1956 to ex pand-and further, improve' tele phone service, according to taxes are of an in-i Bel1 T T ; e ! ep ^ nd J Com ' pany Manager, I. A. Edwards. '“That was. the largest amount of money eveWspent in this state by’Southern Bell on construction projects,” he added, “but 1957 will be an even bigger year. We plan to spend nearly $19,000,000 this; year on additional facilities,, Thai is considerably more- than our total investment in South Carolina when, started”, World War 1 U SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING Executive Vice President Southern States Industrial Council Mta-Tk«-S9li Dollars For The ^ Soviet War Chest Victor Riesel, the distinguished labor col umnist who was blinded |on the order of goons who didn’t like his dedicated efforts \ „ * to free lalx>r unions oU crooks—and racket eers. points out that American dollars LOOKING AHEAD INTO 1957 " TT l L fiHi'h tn pr f 'p htJ 'iy, Men cannot foretell the.futdre, and his prophesies usmially risiTup tu haunt him. One can make observations, however, an what may he ahead—and the beginning of a It’s Liquid - 39j Bot 11 e William M.*~' Shields, portrait photographer of Clinton, was re cently commissioned by the Ans co Corporation of Binghampton, N. Y., to make a portrait which will be used in national adver tising. "— The advertising department has seleyted a negative by Mr. Shields of Mrs. Guy Haddix, -©1 Clendenin, W. Va., a student at Presbyterian college, for its “Ans co Gallery of Outstanding" P o r- traits”. a series of w-orks by the nation’s most famous photogra phers. Ansco is a division of General Aniline and .Film Corporation, manufacturer of photographic fjlm, paper, chemicals and cam eras.’ John A. Taylor Dies At Lauras ai Laurens Chief Shoots Resisting Negro Saturday Laurens—John Arthur Taylor, 72, died Thursday in the Laurens county hpsp.tfd. He had been in declining health for several years and seriously ill for six months. .A native of the Princeton com munity, he was the son of the late John Wesley and Margaret Kay Taylor. For many years he had operated a Gulf Oil service station on South Harper street He was a member of the First Baptist church. . Sufviving are his wife,'’ Mrs. Madge Medlock Taylor; three sons, John F. Taylor and Wes ley ^aylor, both of Lautens; and Fred*E.’ Taylor, of Woodruff; four daughters, Mrs. R. A. Martin, of Laurens; Mrs. Harry Bergh, of Evanston, 111.; Mrs. George C. Philpot, of Bassett, Va.; and Mrs. Charles R. Williams, of Colum bia; two brothers, A. Jeff Taylor, of SedaliaFand G. Evert TayJor, of Princeton; three sisters, Mrs. S Eugene. Harrell, of Columbia; Miss Ludie Taylor and Mrs/Geo. Scruggs, both of Newberry; 11 grandchildren. Funeral services were held at the First Baptist church at 2:00 p. m. Saturday, conducted by the Rev. J. E. Rouse and the Rev. Frank DuBose, Jr. Intrement w; in the Laurens cemetery. • ANNOUNCING 3% INTEREST PAID ON SAVINGS ♦ Laurens, Jan. 6—Sheriff C. W. Wier said today that an attending physician told him that Elijah Smith, about 25, Negro, who was shot by Laurens Chief of Police J W. Pow f er Saturday after noon appeared to have a chance to survive/. Hospital authorities reporttd no change in the condition of Smith who had been listed as critical after he was admitted to the hospital with two bullet wounds in his chest. Sheriff C* W- Wier said Smith was shot by Chief Power when the officer attempted to place him under arrest. Chief Power was investigating a call of dis turbance in a Negro housing proj ect in Laurens. Local Store Sponsor Free Foot Tests EFFECTIVE ;/ - : t Moore’s Shoe Store of this city, is sponsoring a free foot relief demonstration by Dr. Scholl’s representatvie from Chicago, om Monday, January 14. Three specialists with the ser-' vice’mobile unit will take pedo graph prints and give free foot tests to anyone of the area desir ing the service. Further’ infof- mation is given in. an ad else where in today’s p&per. JANUARY f. 1957 j.: :.t :j :: 5 B it it it » I a Dr. Felder Smith OPTOMETRIST Phone 794 Laurens, S. C. are "pouring into the Soviet war chest.” Some of these dollars come from the sale of Christ mas- ornaments produced in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and other satellites. But com merce of this Soviet-enriching kind is not limited to seasonal items. Between' January, 11*55. through June. 1956, Mr. Riesel states . we imported $34,000,000 worth of food from Russia. East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland. Albania*. Bulgaria and Ro- •» mania. And this at the. very moment when there is widespread severe starvation behind the iron curtain. Almost $32,000,000 of that went for canned hams from Poland.” To make a had matter worse, the commu nist countries mentioned aren’t good custo mers of American agriculture and .industry-. Poland, for instance, doesn’t use any mate rial part of the millions.she gets from us for canned hams to buy U. S. farm products. She doesn’t follow the two-way street principle of trade. *» - 0 . Friendly nations, such • as Holland, the Scandinavian countries, sell meat and other products to us. But they also buy many things from us, including things of agricultural origin. We need that kind of trade—but we don’t need or want the kind that helps our cold war enemies. * 1 The Revolt That Didn’t Happen Prior to the election, many people felt that disaffection on the part of fai^ners might prove very costly, in terms ofVdtev to President Eisenhower. Much political fire was centered on the Administration, and particularly Secretary of Agriculture B'en- son, for favoring flexible supports as against high and rigid supports. This “farm revolt” simply did not happen. The President ran with great strength in the principal farming regions. Why it did not happen is susceptible to several answers. For one thing, as Farm Journal said in its November issue, “Out side drouth areas, most farmers, though not all, have been doing pretty well .... con siderably better than a year ago.” For an other, recent years hav£ witnessed a strengthening, not a weakening, of the in stitution of the family farm, which is cer tainly all to the good. For a third, the gov ernment supports apply to only six so-called basic crops and, as Secretary Benson has new year seenbr the popular time to do so. On a world-wide basis, it is the question oi peace, or. to put it in reverse, the fear of third world war, that will continue to claim the atten tion of peoples everywhere. Whatever may assure a stable peace, therefore, or at least make less pos.- sible another world war, should have top priority in the thoughts of all of us. The greatest danger to peace, as we all know;, iv the Communist regirqe in Russia. If a thiro | 'w orld war comes, it will undoubtedly be they who will start if! What the free peoples of the world need to realize now more than ever, and this-prob ably applies especially to the people of the United States—is that no deals can be made with the Communists. There has been over the -years, and apparently continues to be, belief on the part of some of our political and diplomatic leaders that they can come to some sort of agreement with the Communists that would assure peace. Actually any such be lief and any effort to put it into practice would be the 'greatest disservice that could be rendered the cause of peace. The whole philosophy of the Com munists makes it impossible to deal with them. Any agreement.^ reached would not be worth the paper they were written on. They, have no con science, no principles and no scruples. As long as they are in power, there whll be no chance of as suring peace to a frobirled w-orld. The free peo ples will have, to remain strong and they will have to work together for their own self-preservation. If their leaders will only recognize these facts and act accordingly, that will be the best assurance ot peace we could have. , Applying this viewpoint specifically to the Unit ed States of America, we should relaize, if we do not, that a strong America is itself the greatest safeguard for world peace. The Communists are afraid of only one thing—and that is strength# They are not afraid of the United Nations; they are a part of it and they have kept it from being a strong force in the cause of peace. The United No tions may be effective in aiding the cause of peace by mobilizing common action among the free na tions of the world and perhaps by moulding, to some extent, the opinion of other nations. Major ity action on the part of the United Nations can even send a token force into such troubled places as the Middle East. But the United Nations can only stop the Communists if backed by strength of the United States; without the United States it would amount to nothing and the Communists would soon take over. It is their plan to eventual ly take over anyway, and no deals or agreements —nothing but being opposed by a force stronger than their own—will stop them. On the domestic scene, the question that con cerns most people is whether we shall continue to have prosperity on through 1957. The one measure bv which this should be gaug ed is whether we see continued inflation. The dol lar declined almost three cents in value during the past year. If this decline continues, year after year, it takes no great economic wizard to foretell the resiilt. .During the first two or three years of the pres ent administration, inflation was almost brought to to a standstill. During the past year, however, even this administration seems to have become in fected with that dangerous disease, the Potomac fever,’ which had infected previous administra tions for twenty years and whose main symptom seems to be a mania for taxing and spending. We hear very little talk any more about cutting taxes or paying off the national debt. If the pres ent mood continues toward more foreign aid. to ward supplying more things to more people from the federal treasury in the form of .welfare state benefits, toward more doles and more subsidies of all sort, then the great danger "i^sthat we shall once again reach the point where it will seem not so terribly imp>ortant to even balance tfi>, nation al budget. This would eventually sap our econom ic strength completely—and the Communist^ can ^hen take over by default John L. Mimnaueh “Our Inventory, is complet ed. 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