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CLINTON. S. C . THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1957
Just One Headstone
Why is it so difficult to cut the federal
budget? One reason is described by editor
Tom Anderson' of Farm and Ranch maga
zine in tlu.se words: “Most congressmen
favor a budget-cut graveyard in which .there
•is only one headstone? epitaphed: ‘Spending
outside my state'.” They are all for economy
—so long as it’s confined to another mem
ber's state or constituency.
Where Discipline
Is Needed
Puppies invariably make a mess of homes
—until they are sternly disciplined and
taught to lie dean and decent members of the
fafnily. _
One wishes that a similar discipline could
be imposed on the “litterbugs” who strew
discarded paper, beer cans, empty bottles and
all manner of other rubbish and dirt along
the highways, in recreation arreas, and in
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beauty spots throughout the nation.
“Probability” Not Proof
Back in 19J7 and 1918 the, DuPont Com
pany bought some 849 million worth of stock
in General Motors. Now the U. S. Supreme
—Court f irt reversing a lower court decision,
holds that such stock ownership^Iolates'Seiy
tion 7 of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act be
cause of a “reasonable probability'’ of trade
restraints. Never before has Section 7 of the
act been invoked against a “vertical” stock
acquisition (in which a company buys into a
non-competing firm) and on stock purchased
40 years before.,Thus does "probability” take
the place of proof based on evidence.
By contrast, labor unions have .been ex
empted from all laws relating to combina
tions in restraint of trade. They are free to
tie the country up from coast to coast in
countless ways even though they may en
danger the life and health of the nation. It
is an actual fact that organized labor com
binations have done this, not just a “reason
able probability”'that they might do it, and
there is no law to curb them.
The most recent example of a labor combi
nation tie-up affecting the peqple is the ex
press strike preventing shipments to a large
area of the country. The fact that there are
no laws governing combinations in restraint
of trade by labor unions leaves the public to
monopolies. Such combinations are as dan
gerous as combinations of capital and indus
try.
The ability to.call a strike of unlimited
scope certainly indicates “reasonable prob
ability” i>f trade restraint, especially when
the-rights4o work can be denied other men.
Anti-trust laws should include such combi
nations.
Apathy And Polio
^'e Americans were generous - when we
contributed, million.* of dollars to fight para
lytic polio.
We were triumphant when, after years of
research, our scientists developed a vaccine
against it and the number of cases dropped
47 per cent last year. #
Now we are shocked to hear that, accord
ing to a recent estimate,. 58 million Ameri
cans under 40 who should get this simple, ef
fective protection have neglected to do so.
What is the word for this neglect? Polio
authorities, like the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis, call it apathy. The dic-
tionary defines apathy as “lack of interest”
or “indifference.”
But can anybody afford to be indifferent
about polio? When it strikes it leaves ruin in
its wake—crippled bodies, disrupted homes,
wage-earners' unable to go on with their cho
sen work.
Indifference in the face of this kind of risk
is folly. Better roll up your sleeve and vacci
nate before it’s too late!
, "The hen is the only thing we know of that
can lay around and make money.” . . . The
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, Journal.
Stockton, Kan., Record: “Ever since J.
Edgar Hoover announced a few months ago
that he was of the opinion that the names of
juvenile offenders should be publicized, there
has been considerable argument pro and con
in the press of this country. . . . More and
more the pendulum seems to be swinging to
Mr. Hoover’s idea.”
Seven Out Of Ten
Occasionally an institution or an enter
prise grows so swiftly that statistics con
cerning it become out-of-date in a short time.
That has long been the case with voluntary
health insurance—and it still is. A set of
figures that covers the situation today is ob
solete tomorrow.
A recent estimate, by the Healtlv Insur
ance Council, says that seven Americans out
V)f io cafry the irisurance, 1 and will TSFpaid
$3 billion in claims this year. Here Ts the
breakdown: 118 million people have hospital
expense coverage; 103 million surgical ex-
pense, and 67 million fcave what is known as
"regular” medical expense. There is also a
very new form of insurance which protects
against high cost, long duration illnesses of
a catastrophic nature. And 10 million people
now have this.
Health insurance’s progress has not been
limited to tremendous increases in the num
ber of people covered. The benefits - provided
have also been steadily and materially in
creased. The policyholder has been given
more for his dollar. One reason for that is
that the business is highly competiitve, with
many insurance companies plus Blue Cross,
Blue Shield and similar organizations all.
writing coverage.
The outstanding success of voluntary
Jiealth insurance, in all its branches, proves
3 School Districts
Show Increases
In Tax Levy For 1957
'Laurens, July 26—Miss Jennie
V. Culbertson, county auditor, is
making up her \ax rolls prepara
tory to turning them over to the
county treasurer which he will
use in making up his 1957 tax
notices. ••
According to a form she has
made out, there will be an in
crease of three mills in the total
levy for Laurens School Districts
55 and 56 and Ware Shoals No.
51. The total levy for Greenville
No. 51 and Mauldin-Simpsonville-
Fountain Inn Water District will
be the same, 60 mills for the for
mer and 13 mills for the latter.
Breaking down the totals, the
general county levy will be 18
mills, the same as last year. It
includes nine mills for ordinary
county operations, .eight mills for
bonds and one mill for hospital.
This is collected from all the
school districts.
The special school levy for Dis
trict 55 is 34 mills and deficit one
mill, which taken with the 18
mill.s rpakes a total of 53 mills.
Broodus B. Starnes
Dies On Fishing Trip
Near Ware Shoals
Broad us B. Starnes, 51, died
suddenly Monday afternoon while
fishing near Ware Shoals. He had
been in declining health for sev
eral years.
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Thursday, August 1, 1957
ildren.
•al services were conduct
ed Wednesday at 5:00 p. m. at
Calvary Baptist Church by the
Rev. J. W. Spillers and the Rev.
Kenneth Word. Burial was in
Rosemont cemetery, Clinton.
Pallbearers were Carl Lynch,
L. R. Campbell, B. H. Allen, Sam
uel Hairston, Glenn Hairston and
Robert Butler.
Mr. Starnes was the son of the The honorary escort was corn-
late Lee and Nannie Cooper posed of the Men’s Bible class at
Starnes. He was a veteran of| Calvary Baptist church, and W.
World War 11 and a member of c. Baldwin. Howard Roland, Wil
liam Orr, Hallie Griffin, Horace
Calvary Baptist Church of Clan
ton.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Lydia Glynn Starnes, of Clinton;
one son, B. Ray Starnes, of Clin
ton; four sisters, Mrs. Elvin Holtz-
claw, of Clinton; Mrs. Warren
Barnett, of Laurens; Mrs. Carrie
Ruff, of Clinton; and Mrs. Birdie
Holcom|be,;of Charleston; two
brothers, Claude Starnes, of Lau
rens; William Starnes, of the, U.
S. Army in Aiken; Lawrence
Starnes, of Augusta, G«.; Ernest
Starnes of the U. S. Army iff Ger
many; and C. H. Starnes, of the
U. S. Army on Okinawa: and two
Horton and Fred Kennedy.
John Thomas Lakey
Passes At Hospital
John Thomas Lokey, 89, died
Monday at 4:00 p. m. in a Clinton
hospital after several years of
declining health.
Mr. Lokey was a native of Au
gusta, Ga., but had lived here for
a number of years. He was con
nected with Clinton Cotton Mills
in the card room for a number
of years. He was a son of the
late J. T. and Mary Ann Guy Lo
key. He was a member of the
First Baptist church.
Mr. Lokey was married three
times. His first marriage was to
Mrs. Velda Bullard Lokey, who
died many years ago. By this
marriage one son, A. T. Lokey,
of Gaffney, and two daughters,
Mrs. P. E. Dean, of Spartanburg,
and Mrs. M. M. Davis, of Clinton,
survive. His second marriage was
Funeral services were conduct
ed Wednesday at 3:00 p. m- at the
First Baptist church by the Rev.
J. H. Darr and the Rev J. W.
Spillers. Burial was in Rose-
mont cemetery.
Pallbearers were L. H. Bag-
well, iR. E. Martin, J. A. Orr, L.
Cason, Woodrow Wilson, and
Jim Bass.
Honorary escort consisted of
Karl Johnson, Whiter Moiris, J. J.
survive, nis second marriage CharlM! Barbery, Joe Ter-
to Josephine Tolheon. who died ^ . .. AW
several yea res ago. His third mar
riage was to (Mrs. Alice Corder.
who survives with three step
children, Mrs. T. L. Newberry, of
Raleigh, N. C.; A. C. Corder, of
Rockingham, N. C; and J. L.
Corder, of Norfolk, Va.; seven
grandchildren and nine great-
grandchildren also survive.
ry end the
class.
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pulsory government insurance — or a state
dominated medical system.
SENSING THE NEWS
By THURMAN SENSING
Executive Vice President
Southern States Industrial Council
THE CASE OF WILLIAM GIRARD
A retired army colonel said to us the other day,
commenting on the Supreme Court decision in the
Girard case, “If this Government of ours doesn’t
watch out, they are going to have a bolshevik army
overseas."
What he meant, of course, was that if our Gov
ernment exhibits no more concern for the rights of
the individual soldier as guaranteed him under the
Constitution than was shown in the tase of Wil
liam Girard, then the soldiers generally will feel
that their government has betrayed them and will
be in a revolutionary mood.
There is no authority whatever under the Con
stitution or the law to surrender a soldier on duty
to the courts of a foreign nation. Since there is
general agreement by all that Girard was on duty,
why was he surrendered to the Japanese courts?
The argument is that it was done under au-
>r executive agreement entered
into witn foreign hTtib , h l ? mr * is - that
is was done to make our Government’s conduct of
foreign affairs more agreeable to those with whom
we are negotiating.
In other words, the Constitution in this case is
nothing mbre than a scrap of paper and the tra
ditional rights guaranteed the American citizen
under the Constitution are surrendered as a pawn
by our Government in its conduct of foreign af
fairs. —
Before the Supreme Court handed down its de
cision, it was piously pointed out in the quarters of
the internationalists that if the court failed to hand
Girard over to the Japanese it would have a very
bad effect on our relations abroad. No concern
was given to what effect it might have on the peo
ple at home!
This is just another instance in the general pat
tern of arguments that we have been hearing along
many lines since we took it upon ourseves to save
the world following the end of the Second World
War, since we started buying the friendship of
other nations with the taxpayers’ dollars, since we
started placing the welfare of America last and
what we thought might be the good opinion of
foreign nations first.
We have seen this same argument used in the
case of the Supreme Coqrt decision on integration.
It had to be done to appease India and the nations
of Africa and the nations of the Middle East—all
of whose people would trade places with the Ne
groes of the United States at the slightest oppor
tunity..
We have rfo minds of our own any more? Must
all our actions be determined by what other na
tions and other people might think of us? What
ha^become of our independence, our self-reliance,
the spirit that caused this nation to be founded in
the first place without regard to what the wet of
the world might think? Must our own concept of
what is right or wrong 'be determined by what oth
er people think rather than by what we ourselves
think—or are we no longer able to decide things
for ourselves?
Back in the early days of this nation there was
a Congressman from Tennessee by the name of
Davy Crockett. The statement for which he should
be best—and is perhaps least—noted is ‘He mnp
you are right, and then go ahead.” That was the
spirit of our forefathers, that was the spirit that
built this nation, that is the spirit that must guide
any man or nation in his or her relationship with
others. If we must always wait to find out what
others think of us before we act, then we are spine
less idiots who do not deserve freedom.
Many of us have been contending for some
years that the Constitution of the United States
should be amended so as to make it impossible that
the rights of the individual citizen and the heritage
of the American people may be trampled upon by
treaty or executive agreement with some foreign
nation. Quf government m no case should have
the power to dispose of one of its citizen’s rights as
an instrument of our foreign policy, as has been
done in the case of William Girard.
All these things aw true, no matter how the
trial ends in the Japanese courts—where, it might
be noted, Girard’s fate will be decided by alien
judges and not by a jury of his peers. All of which
is quite remindful of the Civil Rights bill which is
now before us right hew in our own country!
The school levy for No! 56 is
30 mills, plus four mills for bonds
and one mill for deficit, maknig
a total of 53 mills.
The school levy for Ware Shoals
51, in addition to the 18 mills,'is
38 1-2 mills for the County Board
of Education, making a total of
56 1-2 mills.
The school levy for Greenville
No. 520. in addition to the 18
mills, is 42 mills, making a total
of 60 mills.
The levy for the Mauldin-Simp-
sonville-Fountain Inn Water Dis
trict, which is located in Dials
3-B. reamins at 13 mills.
Union Revival Services
At Mountville Church,
Rev. Wallace To Preach
The annual summer union re
vival services for the Mountville
Baptist and Presbyterian churches
will begin on Sunday, August 4.
and run through Friday evening,
August 9, with services each eve
ning at 8 o'clock, at the Baptist
Church. t
Rev. A. G. Wallace,, pastor of
Friendship Baptist Church, Hick
ory Tavern, will be the guest
minister. A native of Georgia,
the Rev. Mr. Wallace was reared
in Florida. He ii a graduate of
Summerlin Institute, Lees-McRae
Junior College, Presbyterian Col
lege and Columbia Theological
Seminary. He served three years
in the navy during World War II.
Prior to coming to the Hickory
Tavern church in 1956, he was
pastor of Smyrna Presbyterian
Church in Conyers, Ga. Mr. Wal
lace is married and has two sons.
An invitation is extended to the
public to attend services by the
pastor of the host church, Rev.
Benjamin McTeer, and Rev. C. R.
Thayer, acting pastor of the
Presbyterian Church.
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