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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, June 6, 1957
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CLINTON. S. THURSDAY. JUNE 8. 1087
A Free World
Depends On U. S.
Early in April, news dispatches from Lon
don told of serious political problems faced
In Prime Minister Macmillan—and of what
was termed a “new wave of Anti-American
ism.”
These two developments are closely relat
ed. They stem from a British fear, which
finds many influential voices in the coun
try's principal newspapers and magazines as?
well as government, that England is becom
ing the tail to the U.'S. kite. For example,
our agreement,* made at Bermuda, to supply
England with guided missiles, drew this com
ment from the Sunday Express: "The Ber
muda deal gives rise to fears that the rocket
defense of (ireat Britain is virtually handed
over to American GIs.”
The root of all this lies in the profound
change that is taking place in Britain’s role
in the world. The‘British are a proud people
and for good reason. Behind them is a mag
nificent history. What is shocking to tra
ditionally-minded England is that the days of
vast empire and power are also behind them.
l\ S. News & World Report puts it this
way: "Great Britain, in all except economic
relations with Commonwealth nations, is
drawing back to the status of an. island conn-
Rebuttal , ''
From An Authority
The distinguished physicist, Edward Tell
er, issued a warning that this nation must
take steps to prepare itself for survival in the
event of a nuclear war. In the course of his re
marks he said that principal reliance should
be placed on highway transportation, on the
grounds that "our systepi of railroads is
likely % tp be completely knocked out. at least
for “the moment.” /
Dr. Teller’s view was reported in Time
magazine. It brought a letter of rebuttal from
one of America’s most distinguished soldiers,
and at man who has had unsurpassed expe
rience with transportation under^war condi
tions—General James A: VanFleet,. U. ,S. A.
(ret.). General Van Fleet stated: "From ex
perience as a combat commander in Europe
during World War II and more recently in
Korea, it is my firm conviction that our sys
tem of railroads is not likely to be completely
knocked out by a nuclear attack, even for a
moment. It is a matter of record that at Hiro
shima and Nagasaki railroad-type structures
stood up among the best, while at Hiroshima
regular railroad service was resumed within
18 hours after the first atomic bomb was
dropped.”
try—still with great strength and great re
sources in capital and in people, but ho long-
*^er a power that leads.” It adds that the is
lands are militarily vulnerable in this age of
hydrogen weapons, and, on top of that, are
self-sufficient in verv few of today’s basic
national needs.
The magazine traces.what has happened to
the old Empire—that Empire on which the
sun never set. It came to its zenith in the
great age of Victoria, who was the ruler of a
quarter of the globe. Then the colonies, be
ginning with Australia, began to gain their
independence. One new and independent na-
. tion after another has been created. Today
the population of remaining .British colonies
is but 80 million—where as recently as 11*39
is was 563 million.
SENSING THE NEWS
By THURMAN SENSING
Executive Vice President
Southern Statee Industrial Council
Planning Board
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quested the delegation to close or
abandon the road, stating that it
was no more than a path, and
served no good purpose.
County Attorney Phil D. Huff,
when called upon at a meeting of
the delegation some weeks ago
when thp same matter was under
discussion, stated that it was his
opinion that the Supervisor had
authority to close or abandon the
road. However, when pressed, he
did not state that the Supervisor
has sole authority. ,
ft is thought by some interest
ed in the case that the County
Delegation can enact legislation
of their physical and spiritual be
ing; therefore they had responsi
bilities of a social and spiritual
nature. (Let life give unto you a
sense of reverence; a sense of sig
nificance, recognizing obligations
and responsibilities to enable you
to fit into your place in life; a.dis
criminating sense of values, put
ting fii-st things first. But, he ad
vised the students, seek ye first
the kingdom of God, and all things
shall,be added, Seek a sense of
salvation—a sense of spiritual se
curity in Jesus Christ.
College Awards
that would abandon and close Jhe
road. - and industrial, its cities are new
The delegation on Monday re- and striking in appearance.”
quested that the Board of County i In the baccaluareate sermon
Commissioners investigate the ' last Sunday Vnoming, the Rev. Al-
matter (including seeking an opin
ion from the State Attorney Gen
eral) and recommend a course of
action.
Thornwell Closes
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the fifth grade; and Whit Mayes of
the tenth grade.
Departmental awards were made
to Joanne Winburn, monitor's
medal; Johnny Cookson, wood-
shop; Wayne Lewis, dairy; Maxie
Gray, electrical shop; J. L. Doc-
kins, gymnasium care; Whit
Mayes, printing department; Ralph
Watts, campus care; Charles Foun
tain, poultry; Michael Parks,
school care; Della Parsons, in
firmary; Sandra Sherer, office,
j B. S. Pinson, principal of the
Thornwell schools, was presented
a silver pitcher in appreciation of
his 30 years service to the insti
tution. Miss Janie Stewart was
also presented a silver pitcher in
recognition of her 26 years ser
vice as a matron.
The baccalaureate service was
held Sunday morning - when the
sermon was delivered by Dr. Har
ry K. Holland,, pastor of the First
Presbyterian dhurch of Marietta,
Ga. Hhe told fhe young graduates
that they have the capacity to ask
of life "what you will. You can
compel life to give what you will. ’
He reminded the boys and girls
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are responding to change. The
— becomingJirban rk>us service in extra-curricular
of trustees, presented the bacca
laureate and honorary degrees.
Sixteen commissions in th4 Offi
cers’ Reserve Corps and two reg
ular army commissions were giv
en senior ROTC cadets by Lt. Col.
Francis V. Smith, professor of
military science and tactics. Pres*
ident Marshall W. Brown presid
ed over the occasion.
Dr. George C. Bellingrath, aca
demic dean of PC, made the pre
sentation of medals and prizes to
outstanding students. He award
ed the following:
Outstanding Senior A w a r d-r-
James H. Hancock, Jr., of Rock
Hill; general scholarship medal
for highest four-year average—
Harvey Eugene Butler, of Con
way; Gold P award for merito-
THE DICTATORSHIP OF LABOR UNIONS
Dave Beck has been getting all the headlines,
publicity and- attention lately. Walter Reuther’s
'tactics have had very little notice. Actually, what
W’alter Reuther has been doing is ten times worse
than what Dave Beck has been doing, as reprehen
sible as have been the actions of the latter.
Dave ^eck has simply been misappropriating
the dues collected from the members of his own
union. Astually, this 'is an internal matter on the
part of the union. Walter Reuther has been vio
lating all the rules of decency, fair play and indi
vidual freedom which are the very basis of our
form of government and our way of life. This is
a matter which affects the nation as a whole.
. Possibly the reason Beck's actions have seemed
so noteworthy is because, while it may have been
Britain’s economic and military power have ! suspected, it- has never been brought out so glar
ingly before that labor union bosses have been ap-
declined accordingly. Once the British Navy
ruled the waves. At the peak of her sea pow
er, in 1914. she had 195 capital ships. In
1939 she had 122. Now she has 48, and but
20 are currently in operation.
What this means is that much of the au
thority Britain used to exert in the world
has passed to ojther hands. She remains-an
ally of the United States, and to most stu
dents she is the most important and reliable
ally. But her capacity to pursure major policy,,
with her own judgment is gone—as the Mid
dle-Eastern crisis, and the resignation of
Prime Minister Eden, dramatically demon
strated. -»
What importance has this fateful evolu
tion to t*ie United States? The answer is:
Every importance, whether we like it or not.
When vacuums exist in the world^ they must
lie. filled. Only .two powers are capable of fill
ing great vacuums—the United States and
the Soviet Unioit: The.*e are the sole powers
with the wealth, the weapons, the populations,
the strengths of all kinds. Americans cer
tainly want no empires. But basic responsi-
bilities of empire have fallen upon us.-
“Last Day
Of Bondage” '
It was pointed out ;that on May 10, the
average American served a theoretical “last
day of bondage,” so far as 1957 taxes are
concerned. Whht he earned up to that time
just about covered his tax bill for the year.
What this means is that taxes in the Unit-
ed States currently take about 36 per cent of
all our earned income. Putting it another
way. all that we earned during the first 130
calendar days is needed to support our own
governments of one kind and another.
So much for 1957. What of the years ahead?
Will the "lafjt day of bondage” come earlier
in the year—or will it come later?
That depends on whether the people really
want cheaper government, with the reduction
in government activity that will involve, or
just want to talk about ijt. Every billion dol
lars cut from the over-all cost of government-
would permit it to come one day sooner—and,
conversely, every billion dollars added to that
cost would delay it one day longer.
That brings up a slogan which'is 100 per
cent relevant. Here it >s: "I’ll take less from
government — if government will take less
from me.” 0
propriating unto themselves labor union funds on
such a grandiose scale. It was generally known
that labqr union leaders lived in magnificent style,
with large salaries and' large expense accounts,
and that the labor unions have in recent years
built some of the finest buildings in Washington
for their union headquarters—but it was not
known that in addition to these' things,’the labor
leaders were in some outstanding instances using
union dues for their own personal benefit.
Perhaps the reason Reuther's actions have been
given only passing attention, at least by the “lib
eral” press, is because the public has become ac r
customed to the tactics of brutality and violence,
of politicappressure and economic boycott his un
ion and other unions have used so many times in
the past and are countmuing to use.
This barefaced disregard by Walter Reuther
and his union of all the rules of decency, fair play
and individual freedom has been more brazenly
brought to the surface in the case of the Kphler
strike than any other one instance. - ■
Upon calling the strike in April, 1354, the
UAW, in complete disregard of state and federal
law, massed 2,500 pickets in front of Kohler’s plant
gates. All those who attempted to pass were beat
en — kicked in the grom — manhandled — and
thrown back. The small police force of the village
of Kohler (population 1,800) was unable to cope
with the situation and the sheriff did not even try
When an injunction against mass picketing was
finally obtained after 54 days, there followed a
reign of terror away from the plant—sneak at:
tacks—under cover of darkness. Non-strikers’ cars
were dynamited; shotgun blasts were fired into
their homes; individual workers were attacked
and beaten. The homes of workers were picketed,
their wives and children were terrorized and in
timidated. The UAW used the tactics of goons
and gangsters, not those of decent, law-abiding
citizens.
^ When Kohler was back in operation and the
strike had failed, the UAW, in September, 1954,
turned to the boycott of Kohler products in an ef
fort to wreck the company. Referring to the na
tion boycott called by the UAW, Don Rand, Inter
national Representative, openly stated, “That’s
‘what we’re doing, wrecking the company.” But
the boycott, in nearly all instances, has backfired.
All these activities on the part of the UAW have
been recognized by the people generally for what
they are—an effort to rule or ruin on the part of
the union.
But the UAW is continoihg its efforts. The
CIO has admitted in print, in fact has boasted, that
it has spent over $11 million on the strike so far.
Emil Mazey, its secretary-treasurer, has stated, “If
the more than 2,000 Kohler strikers paid dues to
UAW for 250 years it would not make up for the
amount the union has spent .at Kohler.” These fig
ures indicate as well as anything else what the
UAW has at stake, the extreme importance it at
taches to its efforts to win out in the end.
Why have the union leaders been able to spend
this much of the union funds on such a strike, a
strike that many of the union members did not
believe in in the first place? The answer is—be
cause over 80 per cent of union members are cap
tives of the union shop or some form of compul
sory unionism, because they must pay dues wheth
er they want to or not, because union bosses can
spend union dues as they please, because union
members operate under a' labor dictatorship.
If the people of this nation, through their rep
resentatives in government, do not bring an end
to compulsory unionism in all its forms, then they
will only bring upon themselves just what they
deserve—a labor dictatorship over all the people.
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flail Safe
f a u dM
by
lison F. Williams urged the PC
seniors to consider seriously their
‘moments of decision.”'
He pointed out ‘it is the mo
ment of choice, the moment of de
cision, which can set us apart.”
He added:
‘When we are confronted with
a choice between Christ and Cae
sar, in effect, we choose Caesar.
There is a mixture of self-grati
fication running through almost
all of our decisions."
He said people consider three
questions in time of decisions: 1—
Is this thing smart? 2—Is it
popular and ‘how does it measure
up to the social pulse^at of our
time? 3—‘Does this thing bring
me power?—how can I use my
education to make money and to
be a success?”
“In Christ,” Williams said, “We
find the authority of what is
right in our hour of crisis.” And
he added:
“This approach (through
Christ) has a way of shattering
every vestage of intellectual pride
. . . For those who would look to
popular choice, Jesus’ spirit
shows us the fresh approach of
never surrendering to convention
. . . For those who would rest
judgment on the standards of
power, Paul said God has chosen
these things that are weak to con
found the strong.”
Robert M. Vance, Clinton bank
er and chairman of the PC board
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activities other than athletics—
Thomas Joseph Reeves, of Den
mark, and Hancock.
American Legion school award
—'Reeves; Pi Kappa Phi frater
nity award to highest freshman
scholastic average — Gene Gor
don Floyd, of Clinton; Fred Jay
Hay memorial Bible medal to the
highest average in two years of
required Bible courses—Raleigh
Hugh Bums, of Piedmont, Ala,;
Fraser memorial Bible medal to
highest freshman Bible average—
Floyd; Dudley Jones history
award—Robert C. Helm, of Eiber-
ton, Ga.
Ministerial Club award to top
senior ministerial candidate—
James Waldo Dodson, of Amelia,
Va.; Columbia Theological Semi
nary scholarship — William
Franklin Harrington, of New Zi
on, and Reeves; Tau Phi Pi sci
ence award for highest scholastic
average in science courses—John
Cooper Hill, of Atlanta; F. H.
Mendenhall, Sr., International
Relations Club award—Yong Ki
Lee, of Seoul, Horea; Kappa Al
pha fraternity athletic cup to the
outstanding senior athlete—Bruce
M. Thompson, of Michigan City,
Ind.
Lt. Col. Smith made these mili
tary awards: Department of the
Army superior cadet r i b b o n—
Thomas Joseph Reeves; Reserve
Officers’ Association of South
Carolina medal to outstanding
cadet—Reeves; Association of the
U. S. Army award for exemplary
leadership — James H. Hancock,
Jr.; Third Army certificate of
meritorious ■ leadership achieve-
ment—David Gaston Collins, of
Charlotte; Robert E. Wysor saber
to best company commander—
Collins; Dugald Hudson award to
the cadet with highest scholastic
average, senior military—Albert
Stanley Johnson, Jr., of York;
and the Hudson award to the ca
det with the highest average in
junior military class—James
Thompson Richards, of Heath
Springs^ *
Chamber Commerce
Committee To
Coordinate Plans
The Recreation Committee of
the Chamber of Commerce is un
der the chairmanship of Dr. Fred
E. Holcombe, it has been announc-
etT by James E. Wolfe, president
of the Clinton Chamher of 'Com
merce. >■ j .■ ,.>7?
The committee, made pp of
representatives of local civic clubs,
organizations and committees, will
meet and discuss ways to coordi
nate a city plan for recreation.
Chairman Holcombe is gather
ing information relative to coor
dinated city recreation programs
from a dozen South Carolina
towns, which he hopes will be of
some help in guiding the thinking
of the group. Also, Holcombe said
they would appreciate any ideas
6r suggestions from any one in
terested in the project.
The following will serve on the
committee: Calvin Cooper, W. A.
Johnson, Russell Cooper, A. D.
Lancaster, John Mimnaugh, Harry
McSween. D. S. Templeton from
the City Recreation Commission;
Claude Crocker, Dr. Holcomlbe,
and M. D. Milam, Jr., representing
the Lions Club; D. S. Templeton >
and A. C. Young from the Kdwan-
is Chib; Van Jones from the Ex
change Club; Mrs. Leila Johnson
and Mrs. D. A. Yarborough the
B&PW Club; Lewis Bagwell, Jr.,
Milford Smith, and James W. Wal
ker, from the Junior Chamber «f
Commerce; Mrs. Fired E. Hol
combe, the Junior Canteen; and
Mrs. F. V. Smith the Senior Can
teen. From the American Legion,
Charles Burnett, Winfred Norris
and Roy Smith; James E. Wolfe
from the Chamber of Commerce;
and from the Moose Club, MarceU
Barker and Herschel Thomason.
Don't risk loss or theft by carrying large
amounts of money about with you to pay
bills. Pay by check ... the safe, sure, con
venient way. Your cancelled checks are
bonafide receipts. Your checkbook stubs
give you a permanent record of every
transaction, 'and safeguard you against
duplicate payments.
Bank of Clinton
3% Interest Paid On Savings Accounts Semi-Annually
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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