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L 4 / Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Clinton Ct^ronirlr July 4. 1889 Established 19M WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS June IS, 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance) under Act of Congress Entered as Second Claa* Mail Matter at the Poat Office at Clinton, S. C March 3, 1879 The Chronicle “SkT the cooperation of its subecribers 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 This paper, is not responsible for the views or ^pinions of its correspondents. , , Member: South Carolina Press Association, National Editorial Association National Advertising Representative: AMERICAN PRE^S ASSOCIATION New York, Chicago, Detroit. Philadelphia Farm Women Hold Spring Meeting At Gray Court-Owings CLINTON, S. C„ THt'RSDAY, APRIL 25. 1957 A Remarkable Record A news story in today’s paper tells of the •r annual meeting Saturday evening of the Jo anna Old Timers Club. The club is composed of employees of Joanna Cotton Mills who have served 25 years or longer with the com pany. Besides the 24 persons who will be induct ed as new members Saturday (they reached or passed their 25th year of service by De cember 31, 1956), there are a couple of other features of this year’s celebration that are of more than passing interest to the general public. Including the 24 new members, the club roll now shows 205 names. Think on that for just a minute, and we know you will be amazed (as we were) that a company with approximately 1,800 employees can say that 205 of them have been with the corporation for 25 years or more. That means several things. Among others: that Joanna is a good place at which to work, and that the Employees are a steady, satis fied. dependable lot. The combined years of service of those 205 men and women total 5,862 years—a]> proximately three times the number of years since the time of Christ 1,957 years ago.- Congratulations are well-in order fdrlMtth the JoannJ Cotton Jdills Company and the 295" Old Timers. ...One Year $3.00, Six Months $2.00 The Laurens County Council of Farm Women held its spring meet ing at Gray Court-Owings school last Thursday and elected Mrs James Wasson of Hickory Tavern as the new president The Farm Women re-elected Mrs. Guy Mahon of Green Porid second vice president and chose Mrs. M. A. Wilson of Shiloh as a new director. These were the only now officers named. Five Council members were awarded 20-year gold seals, four received 16-year seals, two. 12 year awards, and 10 were award ed eight-year gold seals. Presented 20-(year awards were Stella Jones Cook, Jewell Curry Gray, Essie Pearl Chapman Reeves. Ruth Cooper Cook and Dora Prior Hunt. Sixteen-year seals went to Car rie Armstrong Gray, Eunice Bragg Cook, Mattie Anderson Goodwin and Erin Addison Harris. Recipients of 12-year seals were Geneva Watkins Armstrong and Myrtle Wilkie Gossett. Those get ting eight-year seals were Ruth Wallace Traynham, Lillie Branon Patton, Bessie Vaughn Curry, Alice Curry Willis, Lillian Willis Mahon, Lois Mahaffey Marlar, Cora League Stewart, Jeanette Jenkins Cain. Virginia McDtaiel George and Lillie Brown Wilkie. The Farm Women, after" an ad- , , , ... , ,, . dress on "The Home” by Probate now, there wont he sufficient capital avail- Judge Hewlette Wasson, received able to pay for the industrial expansion need-'the president's report, then in a ed to create jobs for all these new workers.' business session elected new offi cers and named delegates to the ’ nity Chest. All that we had to do this month was to direct the secretary-treasurer to write two checks. We hope our people remember this next fall when they pledge again to the Commu nity Chest. * 111 ■ — - # Long Shadow There is ope phase of the tax problem which deserves more attention than it has been getting. That is what excessive taxation will do to future employment and opportun ity in this countr\ r . Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey has pointed out that our labor force is growing by almost 1.5 million people a year. But, he says, if the government keeps on taking as much money out of the economy as it does state meeting. -Committee report* were also heard; , The other officers of the Laur ens Council are Mrs. George Cleckler of Hickory Tavern, first vice president; ‘Mrs. Charles V. Kellett of Green Pond, treasurer; Mrs. W. A. iRobertson of Warrior Creek and Mrs. J. yH. Power bf Barksdale-Narnie, directors. Thursday, April 25, 1957 Th tax problem isn’t just limited to hows much we must pay this year or next. It is N ame< j On County casting a long shadow on our children’s tu- D . a 1 sting ture. Board Of Assessors , P. Lewis Pitts and James Dial The following is, from National Reviewx^C&hb^D;.have been namedby-the - "The, New 4er«»-Ceumy ddegafen m the \ ^ General Assembly as members of NewJeDiey--wa7lTsnO help from the federal, the County Board of Assessors "government for school construction. Testify- from Jacks Township, it was stat ing before the House Education and Labor bv dele * atlon members ^‘s week. Throwing Away A Bonanza We suppose it is now finally settled that the taditional .Carolina-Clemson football game at Columbia during State Fair week * will he done away with..I960,.we think, (s the year chosen to wind up the Big Thurs day battle between the two teams. The football season will never be the same v for thousands of South Carolinians who have* come to look upon the game as the highlight of the season. And for the life of us. we can never under- | stand the reasoning be-hurd such a move. : j Mavhe we've never heard the. whole story; j therefore we eould he *vrong in our thinking; I But. on the surface, it looks to us as if ! .-.omebody is throwing a lot of money out of ! the window. There may be other considera- i tions more important, hut. at the moment we ' can't think of any. It costs a lot qf money, too. to supjxn't an athletic program, and that i Carolina-Clemson game went a long way in paying for the programs at both the Univer sity of South Carolina and Cl^mson. Here is a game at Columbia that has a ca pacity crowd already made. needs no pro motion. Not a-nickel has to be spent for ad vertising. There are expenses to be metCof course, hut plenty of good red'gravy is there just ready to he ladled out to the two schools —year after year. And now somebody .wants to bust the bowl, -The Carol ina-ClewSoil ^SRitroh“any other da\. anywhere else, won’t have the color, the interest. And both of those things contribute to a healthy exchequer. Besides, they sup ply a lot of fun for about two million South Carolinians. \\Vre neutral—we don’t care who beats Carolina, or Clemson, either. But we enjoy seeing the games, either in' Columbia or on TV. And South Carolinians generally, we think, like them too. Clinton Is Fortunate The more we see the results of It, the more we like the move that was made in Clinton several .tfears ago to consolidate all the cam paigns for raising money to support the ac tivities of institutions and agencies that serve the community into one big effort. And other towns, too, would like the move ' if it were made. The latest, we note, to consider combining all drives for charitable agencies into one is Abbeville. At present some ten or twelve in dividual drives and campaigns are being con ducted in the county during the year. A move is now on foot to organize a Community Chest or United Fund.- Instead of raising $35,- 000 ,or $40,000 in many campaigns, the citi zens of Abbeville County now hope to make one drive, and to seek an average of $10 each from their estimated 4,000 families. We think they will like it if their plans are successful. . , Right now, two fund raising campaigns are going on in Laurens County: And we are happy to state that Cfinton is spared the time and expertse involved in the two efforts. We did our work last fall when funds were pledged to 11 agencies through our Commu- Committoe, the group pointed out that New Jersey would have to pay out $2.33 for every dollar received under one proposed bill and $1.41 under a second.” SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING Executive Vice President Southern State* Industrial Council THE FORGOTTEN FACTOR 1 ’ The depreciating value of the dollar (inflatiop), extravagant and wasteful government spending^ enormous and growing public debt are matters of j serious concern to many people in this country, j I They should be matter? of serious concern .to ev erybody, especially to those among us whom we have elected to public office. Right now there seems to be widespread clamor that government .-pending "be drastically reduced. : Senator Byrd, of Virginia, says there is more de-; . marlti for economy in government than at any time he can remember during his twenty-four years in the Senate. In response, to this popular demand, | the House Appropriations Committee is taking slashes at the national budget here and there. ’ But there are some dstute observers of how i government operates sitting on„the side who are ready to bet you right now that this clamor for' economy will soon die down/that the Senate •will restore most of the cuts made by the House, that the pressure for spending in special instances will outweigh whatever cuts are made, that whereas the national budget should be cut ten billion dol- 1 lars. we shall be Juoky if. we get it reduced by; one or two bdlion dollars. . " o Why is it. that this, public outcry for economy in government can be ignored? Is it'because bu reaucracy is stronger than the popular will of the people? Are the people’themselves too generally j -apathetic to pursue their cause to a succssful con clusion? Are the people’s representatives in (jon- gress, indifferent to the demands of their constit uents or are they incapable of doing anythuys about them? . To some extent all trf th_ese questions could be: '-4-answered rrr the affirmative. Blit theSFafe hqt' the real reasons why for many years we have been subjeted, are being subjected, and for the foresee- ' ; able future,wil continue to be subjected to extrav-1 -agance and_ waste, to big spending and big debt on the part of government. The real reason is because the.people—and that means the Congress—have lost control of the pub-! lie purse strings. That control was lost in 1933 when this country went off the gold standard, when our government broke its solemn promise and violated sanctity of contract, when it robbed the people of forty per cent of their savings, when it substituted a dishonest dollar for an honest dol- -lar. Since that date, we have operated under a sys tem) of irredeemable currency that always opens the Igates to an orgy of spending by the Federal government, a system that is always the invariable companion of the socialist wel-fiare state. - Socialism and an irredeemable currency are natural compan ions just as redeemable currency and socialism are natural enemies. That is the factor that is now all but forgotten in all this talk we hear tibout inflation and extrav agance in government and mounting public debt. The blunt truth is that it'is probably entirely use less to expect an end to any of these things until we rettim once more to a redeemable currency. The sooner the people generally and their public officials in particular face up to this fact and do- something about it, the better are our chances for avoiding ultimate disaster. Under a redeemable currency, if the people are not satisfied with the spending policies of their government, with the increasing size of the nation al debt, with the very Honesty of the government itself, they can present their paper dollars and de mand gold, something of intrinsic value, in ex change. This very quickly brings a stop to any governmental spree of which the people do not ap prove. Under an irredeemable currency, the people no longer have this control. All they can get when they present their paper dollars,is more pa per dollars—and there is nothing to'stop the print ing presses from rolling merrily on. The Republicans, in their 1962 plaftorm, seem ed to recognize this ‘forgotten factor* and promis ed to restore a redeemable currency under a gold standard as soon as it became “feasible.” The Democrats made no mention of a gold standard in their platform; they had apparently fully accepted the doctrine of a managed currency. In their 1956 plaftorms, neither party mentioned the gold stand- They succeed the late Mace Young and the late J. M. Copeland. ATTEND BARBECUE SUPPER BAZAAR Sponsored By Kiwanis Club Friday Evening April 26 «* Thornwell . Gymnasium BUY A TICKET FROM. ANY CU B MEMBER Wm. J. Bailey Ins. Agency M. S. Bailey & Son Bankers Bldg Phone 1246 MIDWAY DRIVE-IN THEATRE Clinton — Joanna Now Open 7 Days A Week aid. If we ever want to return to a sound economy we must firej return to an honest dollar. + THURSDAY APRIL 25 Cinemascope—Color BATTLE CRY VAN JOHNSON, ALDO RAY TAB HUNTER Short—“Scrappy’s Birthday” FRI. & SAT. APRIL 26-27 Double Feature Cinemascope—Color HELL ON FRISCO BAY ALAN LADD —And— EDWARD G. ROBINSON ^ First Run YAQUI DRUMS ROD CAMERON 4 Short—“Wet Blanket Policy” SUN.-MON.-TU ES.-WED. APRIL 28-29-30—MAY 1 First Run FRIENDLY PERSUASION GARY COOPER DOROTHY McGUIRE Short—“Playful Pelican” Show Starts 8:30 Sharp Sunday Nites OFFICE SUPPLIES CHRONICLE PUB. CO. College Alumni Give Support To Campaign Presbyterian College alumni have thrown strong support be hind the Diamond Jubilee Devel opment program of the past’ 18 months, the latest issue of The Presbyterian College Magazine reports. More than $127,500 has been' subscribed to date by PC men and women, for an average gift of $193.30 per donor. These contributions have been concentrated mostly upon the Memorial Student Center, a long time alumni dream to erect a memorial to the 65 PC men killed in World War II and the 5 killed in the Korean war. Construction is scheduled to begin shortly af ter the architects complete de tailed plans necessary for con tract bidding. This support from among PC’s 3,200 active alumni has come as part of the broad capital gifts campaign which thus far has pro duced more than $857,000 from former students and from friends throughout controlling Synods of Georgia and South Carolina. (Additional gifts from founda tions increase this total to more than $940,000) J IVI DE«IGMED FOR SOUTHERN L I V I ISJ C OLDS OWNER} ”M*ry and I decided we ought to get a little more out of life than ju*t the ordinary things. That’s when we started thinking about an Old*.” NEIGHBOR} "But what made you choose Old*?” OLDS OWNER} Well, we talked to our dealer. Frankly, it was quite a surprise to find that a Golden Rocket 88 cost lot* less than we’d guessed.” NEIGHBOR} "That was a mighty good reason.” OLDS OWNER} Of course, what really told Mary wa* look* and style. It has a look that grow* on you . . . won’t be out of style overnight. Me, I liked the Rocket Engine. What a sweetheart! 277 horsepower!”* • NEIGHBOR} "How does it ride?” OLDS OWNER: ^ e think it s the smoothest ride we’ve ever had. I don’t know what Old* did, but you can drive all day and arrive relaxed. No sideeway ... no leaning ... no jolt*. 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