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Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE L Thursday, January 31, 1957 ulfyr (Bltntan (EtirnnirU Established 1W0 a July 4. 1889 — WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS — June IS. 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance) - ‘.'-' One Year $3.00, Six Months $2.00 Entered as Second Class Mad Matter at the Poet Office at Clinton, £ 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. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature Anonymous communications will not be noticed f 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 ..L New York, Chicago, Detroit. Philadelphia £ i : ;-J. CLINTON. S. C.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 31 1957 Mothers March Tonight Tonight one of your neighbors'will visit, your home to explain h^w you can join the It),")?. March of Dunes and help finish the I*>lio job. This neighbor of yours is called a marching mother and she is one of the un sung Heroines in the fight against polio. Chances are that she—or another person like her—has been coming to your door for some years. And over the years you have welcomed her with a lighted porchlight and a generous contribution. In past years you gave because you knew that the March of Dimes had pledged that no jxdio Victim would have to go without need ed* care for lack of funds. And because you knew that something was being done about a polio vaccine. The "funds backing this vital research work were gathered by marching mothers in towns and cities all over the coun try. Then, sometime in 1954, your children came home from school carrying information about a polio vaccine that was being tested for effectiveness. And in April. 1955, the word came that, there was scientific proof that the Salk polio vaccine was effective against this crippling disease. During the whole time that the news of the vaccine held the headlines, the marching mother kept at her work. After the announce ment of April, 1955, she added a new job to her duties. She volunteered to help out in the clinics where children lined up to get their polio shots. This marching mother’s quiet, determined work has affected every home in mur coun try. Only a few days ago the U. S. Public Health Service released statistics showing that polio incidence in 1956 was half of that in 1955. „ • And tonight she’ll be at your door again. She’ll tie at your door to ask you to help fin ish the polio job, for much remains to be done. You can help in two ways. Give gener ously to the March of Dimes—to remember the thousands of children and young people now disabled by polio who still need care. bility that the individual is capable of rash action. Where the dividing line comes we are not prepared to say.' Exhibit Case Shows Products Display Of Clinton-Lydia Mills An end products display exhib it is helping to produce better cloth at Clinton-Lvdia Cotton Mills. It also serves the cause of edu cating the’ general public on the important part these mill!; play in the roader industrial picture of this country. The exhibit—which" is*shown at schools, fairs, banks, libraries and at almost any occasion where large groups of people may gath-, er—aim's primarily at illustrating how the end products made from the cloth of Clinton-Lydia Mills fit into home and industry.' Of the exhibit, industrial rela tion director Claude Crocker has this to say: “Our mills produce unfinished grey goods, used in the making of a number of fine products. By Wadena. Minn., Pioneer Journal: “As long as we taxpayers keep our hands out for j showing our employees how their government aids, the story will never change •We’ll never be our own boss.” Covington.- Tenm,-LeadtW: “If people who womler what is becoming of meir money •'i would watch themselves closely for 30 days or so, they would probably find out they'are spending it.” Port Huron, Mich, Times Herald: “Every government of oppression that has existed on this earth has been drowned in the blood of its victims. There is no reason to expect that Russia will not meet the same fate.” Lennox, S. D., Independent: "It is ap parent.' that while the Soil Bank program provides a certain type of ‘insurance’ to the farmers of America, participation jn the va rious plans thus far make it equally evident that the farmer still is an individualist, ad venturer and experimenter. . . . At any rate, the present farm program as we see it . . . is in theory and final results a far better plan than over-production, expensive storage sur plus and government payment for crops for which there is no adequate disposal plan.” SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING Exteutiv* Vic* President Southern Suite* Industrial Council / cloth i§ processed and what it is eventually developed into, it im presses upon them-the importance of the quality of their work. They gain a greater # appreciation of their work as" something 'really creative" Crocker pointed out the exhib it also serves another phase of the program designed to tell peo ple generally the Clinton-Lydia story. As such; it has stimulated widespread interest wherever it has been shown. The exhibit—portable, and set up for changes—may contain such end products as tapes, book bindings, pillow cases, various types of linings or certain lami nated products. It also may con tain murals which duplicate the interior of Clinton-.Lydia mills as closely as' possible. % The exhibit case actually is made of a laminated end prod uct. Maple flooring within the case, leading up to the murals or products displayed, and floures- cent lighting both duplicate the mill interior. Here is another feature which is paying off'in better cloth and better understanding for Clinton- Lyia Cotton Mills. Arul you can help by getting vaccinated ! A rut yc agimlst agawist polio. She will leave you a card on 1 which you can jot the dates of your three ] Salk shots. Use it, so that you won’t wind up a polio statistic on next summer’s health department records. Free-Wheeling Talkers In Cabinet i* Two members of President Eisenhower’s cabinet have a habit of making the front pages of the newspapers at frequent inter vals because of controversial and injudicious statements made bv them from time to time. Either of them can be counted on to come* up with a statement from time to time that will bring down ujxin them the wrath of peo ple in this country or in foreign countries. This time, however, each of them “put his foot in his mouth’’ within the last few days. The latest in the series occurred Monday when Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wil son made the statement that the National Guard was a refuge ft>r draft dodgers dur ing the Korean War. Of course the reaction was immediate and vehement. Less than a week ago Secretary of State Dulles angered the British and the French when he said he wouldn’t want ,to be a sol dier in the Near East area with a Briton on one v idc of him anil a Frenchman on the other. An analysis of the point he was try ing to make shows that the statement was not intended to have the meaning one would get upon a cursory reading of his remarks. The British and the French also tame back with answers in their papers that,, to say the least, are not calculated to promo.te friendly relations between this country and ouY allies across the Atlantic. Incidents involving pronouncements such as these have featured the history of gov ernment service of both of these men. They may or may not mar the effectiveness of such service as they may render to the coun try. but if repeated often enough will lessen Jhe confidence reposed in them by.„people here and abroad. We are already hearing demands from highly placed government officials for the resignation of Secretary Dulles. But they INTEREST ON THE PUBLIC DEBT If the American -people would only take more interest in public debt,- they would undoubtedly have to pay less interest on the public debt. As it is. it is exceedingly doubtful that the av erage American knows what his debt burden is and what sort of burden he is passing on to his children and his children’s children. Neither does he realize the vulnerable position in which our economy is placed by virtue of a public debt which requires an enormous fixed interest payment each year ' . . .L : S The national debt no\v stands at about $280 bil lion. and state and local debt at about $50 billion. This makes a total of $330 billion in public debt that the people owe. Just to pay the interest charge on this debt requires $8.1 billion a year. This accounts for ahouf $1 out of ee’ery $13 that taxpayers pay to governments at the various lev els. As ai matter of comparison, this interest charge on public debt is greater than any total peacetime budget in our history prior to 1936 with which to operate the entire national government. The federal government balanced its budget last year, so the national debt did not go up—but the interest charge did’, due to increasing money rates. It is estimated that for the fiscal year ending next June 30. the Federal Government will pay out $7.2 billion in interest charges alone. It is to be hoped that the national budget will continue to be bal anced. though the way projected spending is being spread out before us right now, the people may be considered lucky to hold the national debt -at a more or less stationery level, to say nothing of making any payments on it But while the Federal Government is more or less holding the line, the state and local govern ments are on a spending and borrowing spree. Ten years ago, the total debt of state and local govern ments amounted to less than $16 billion, now it is close to S50 billion and the total is rising at a rate of nearly S5 billion a year. This great increase in public spending on the part of local and state governments is hardly avoidable, due to the rapjid growth in population which is spreading over the face of the land and demanding and requiring increased facilities of all sorts. Nor can these governments get the money needed from increased taxation altogether, though they have been increasing taxes in many ways since the end of the World War II. ^ The reason state and local governments cannot go farther .than they have toward increasing taxes and providing the facilities needed with current income is due to the continuous and heavy load of taxes levied by the federal government. It would not be so bad for these local governments to add $5 billion a year to their debt if the Federal Gov ernment would at the same'time decrease its debt by a like amount. In that way the total public debt carried by the taxpayers would at least not increase: as it is, no one knows where it is going to stop. The Federal Government could save this amount in its annual budget and apply it to the national debt if it only had the will to do so—but apparently it does not have the will to do so, and it will only be when the taxpayers demand of their representatives in government that th.e savings be jnade that anything will be done about it . The way things are going now, the total public debt will keep on increasing and the total interest charge will keep on rising The interest charge will rise because the debt is large, and it will also rise because the rate of interest will be higher. When more people want to borrow more money and continually add to the amount of their debt, whether this debt be public oi* private, then’ the law of supply and demancLtakes effect h§re just like it does in any other phase of a free economy the price of money goes up and interest rates 800 At Forestry ^ 4 fl ■ A 4 Greenwood Thursday ^ Greenwood — The Greenwood forestry demonstration held on the J. Perrin Anderson farm last Thursday attracted a record gath ering of more than 800 persons. The meeting was under the super vision of the Seabqard Air Line Railroad company’s general for estry agent, Robert N. Hoskins. The meeting featured all phas es wood utilization and brought together some of the outstanding leaders of the South in business, industry and government. Unusual interest was shown in the problem of collecting seed and in the mechanical tree. planting phase of this program. l..e Coun ty Bank arid the State Bank A Trust company, both .of Green wood-, announced that they had purchased this tree planter which would be loaned free of charge to farmers throughout Greenwood county under the eo-direction of P. M. Garvin, county agent, and W. F, Chapman, agriculutral teacher at Greenwood. Congress man Dorn, the principal speaker.' commended the representatives of these banks for this constructive move which unquestionably will mean the placing of idle lands to timber at a much faster rate. Other speakers on’the program were Warren T. White, assistant vice presideht, Seaboard Air Line Railroad company; W. E. Gore, state, supervisor of vocational ag riculture, and Charles H. Flory, state foriester of the South Caro lina Forestry commission. ing .statement of the Secretary last week. However, the making of rash statements by any man can be taken as an indication that it is nof not beyond the realm of possi- . must rise. Either that or printing press money— were tieing made prior to the eyebrow-raitk and a eontiunous and disastrous inflation which is certain to eventually destroy the nation’s econo my. . ' The only way tb avoid disaster in one direction or the other is by economy in government—and we should not let the taxers and spenders or the “new dealers” in economics tell us otherwise. MISS STINNETT NAMED HOMEMAKER Miss Patricia Stinnett, of Clin ton high school is the Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomor row. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence * L. Stinnett, 309 South Woodrow street. She received the highest scqre in a written examination homemaking knowledge and apti tudes, administered Dec. 4 to sen ior girls in the graduating class. Her examination paper ' will be entered in competition 1 to name this state’s candidate for the title of. All-American Homemaker of Tomorrow and will also be con sidered for the runner-up award in the state. For her! achieve ment she will receive an award pin designed by Trifari ;of New York. ; The national winner .will be named May 2 at the American Table BanqpeU in the Waldorf- Astoria Hotel New York City. General Mills is sponsqr o the program designed to assist sri.ools in education for home and family living and to emphasize through a sound scholarship award pro gram. Each state Betty C r o e k e r Homemaker of Tomorrow will receive a $1,500 scholarship anB an educational trip with her school advisor to p Washington, D. C, colonial Williamsburg, Va., and New York City. A $500 schol arship will be awarded the run ner-up girls in each state. The school of the state winner will receive a set of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Boy Scouts Annual Father-Son Banquet Here February 4th i ________ • i The Boy Scouts of Laurens county will have their annual Father-Son banquet at the Pres byterian college dining hall rf in Clinton on Monday, February 4. at 7:45 p. m. Their guest speak er will be Justin A. Bridges, Laurens attorney and former member of the State House of Representatives. Eston Page; District chairman, urges every father and son to at tend this scouitng funqjion. Tick ets may be purchased from the following scoutmasters: Leroy Sanders, Milfordd Smith, E. C. Huffstetler, and John Vassey. Tickets must be secured by Fri day, February 1. UNDERGOES OPERATION Friends of Mrs. L. V. Powell will be interested to know she underwent a spinal operation on January 18 at the Columbia hos pital. She is improving satisfac- torliy and will be a patient there for about another week before returning to her home here. Market Quotations Of Local Interest Quotations of local interest. (Courtesy of Wqlfe and Addison, Investment Dealers.) Amer. Marita I 42 V4 46*6 Gol. Stores 25*6 27, pen. Amer. Oil . 38 39*6 Lone Star Steel 26 27 Sonoco Prod. 27*2 Texas Nat. Gas 62 64 y< Uhit. Amer 4 Vs 4% Winn-Dixie 20 Vi 20 Vi Unit. Accum. L. 14:00 11:96 Unit. Inc !... 9:81 10:66 Continental 7:98 8:72 Science 10:51 11:55 Canada 16:20 17:61 McD. Aircraft 42% security number in order to re ceive social security credit. Miss Martha Pressly, district manager of the Greenwood social secur-* ity office, has said. She offered the following advice to farm, ope rators who have a net profit of $400 or more from self-employ ment from the farm and any oth er business: If you do not have a social se curity card apply for one at your nearest social security office. If you have lost your card, ask for a duplicate card with the same number. If it is not convenient for you to go to a social security office, you may obtain a blank applica tion at your post office. Fill it out and mail it to the social, se curity office serving your area. If you already have a social se curity number, do not apply for another. Use the same number to report any and all earnings. Your account number must be shown on schedule F of your in come tax return to insure proper credit to your social security ac count. Failure to furnish the correct number may result in loss of benefits OFFICE SUPPLIES CHRONICLE PUB. CO. 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