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O'—- Paur* Four (Elinton (Elprontrlp , Established 1M« , . - ' - Jub 4. 1889 — WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS — June IS. 1955 -X—- 1 * ♦ ‘ ■ . PUBLISHED JTVTERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance) ...One Year $3.00, Six Months $2.00 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at , March 3, 1879 The Chronicle seek* 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 This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondenta. Member: South Carolina Press Association, National Editorial Association ■ - . National Advertising Representative: , w » AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York, Chicago, Detroit. Philadelphia. Clinton, S. C., under Act of Congress CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1957 Get On With The Job Clinton is ajrain faced with the problem of-lack of a sufficient water supply.and plant, and ‘city officials are forced;to request care in the use of water by customers of the city’s system. Once before, such a* request was made, to be followed by a restriction in the use of water for what was regarded as un necessary purposes. It* is hoped that such a program will not be necessary this year,.. The city water department is doing every thing in its po\yer to keep water coming to its mains from Duncan Creek, where the sup ply has not been sufficient to keep the pumps operating. Lake Austin, which has been used for two of the three years since it was built is again being turned into the creek. The lake has meant the difference in having water and not having it. city.officials state. • The'lake has a good supply of water, but the problem is pumping.and filtering enough to supply the demand. The pumps can de liver only <>ne million gallons daily and the filters can handle only that Amount. When usage exceeds one million gallons daily, it lowers the reserve supply in the tanks and replacement is done only with superhuman efforts by men in the water department in o per ati nyTbe" rn: * chi n ery. , • ;—”*• The request to l>e conservative in tfie use * of water is made by city officials with the knowledge that it will meet with the full co operation of citizens* They hope that the in stitution of a restrictive program will not be necessary. Once again the need for a new ami ade quate water plant is thrust upon the city. And only an unfavorable bond market has made city officials and their attornevs “make haste slowly” in their determination to pro vide such a plant. But it seems to us that the time and the situation have arrived at a confluence that make it imperative for city officials to act, ^ andfyret on the job, regardless of the obstacles that might be met. No one or no thing should place a city in a position where it might be deprived at any time of a life-giving element. In our opinion, that is where Clinton finds itself today. And, again in our opinion, the people of the city look tn their officials for relief. We think they demand that the city administration get on with the job. Standing Room Only “American products—from live piglets and i'hick> I-* hi-fi—set-m- frozen-fyods. cars and clothes—are playing to standing room only in Poznan. Poland.” Thus states the New York Times Maga zine. The occasion was the International Trade Fair-at Poznan. The American exhibit —which was set up by the Department of. Commerce, with the cooperation of 300 pri vate companies — was the hit of the show from ojxming day on. “ ' The Times Magazine carries a number of * phonographs showing Polish people staring at the exhibits. There is a look of wonder on their faces—as.if they couldn’t quite believe J.h/o -oirh splondid.Qjftjk and crunmoditips can be obtained by ordinary mortals. One can understand that feeling on. the part of the Poles. For they live in a rigidly- controlled, communist-type society in which living standards are woefully low. And the significant part of all this is that the Ameri can wares shown at the fair can, for the most part, be bought at retail stores in every farthest reach of this country. And the pric es. save for a few top-luxury items, are with in the means of the average American fam ily. The competitive free enterprise system makes possible American ,mass production and its full partner, American mass distribu tion. It thus makes possible the million and one aids to good living we take for granted— from, a package of frozen food to the latest in labor-saving home appliances. The Poles had a brief look at what we enjoy every day of the year. According to Congressman Brownson of Indiana, the federal government operates 19,- 711 government-owned, or partly govern ment-owned plants and commercial-type fa cilities in which it has invested $11,863,990,- 569 of the taxpayers’ money. St. John. Kan., News: “Not only is con servation of soil mandatory today—but so is re-building of the We have dissipated this priceless heritage to the point that there ' isn’t enough left to permit us the luxury of our past wasteful ways.” Stop Government Competition Senator McClellan of Arkansas has intro duced 'an “Anti-Government Competition” bill. ^ ' o ^ ■ This bill is designed to hasten the termina tion of government owned or sponsored bus iness-type operations. Its passage would put Congress on record as directing Federal agen cies to get out and stay out of activities that compete with privately owned, taxpaying en terprise. While the measure is said to face stiff op position from government employe unions, it has the backing of economy minded members of Congress and they hope to push it through this session. They need all the active public support possible. lioscoe Pound, the famous former Dean of the Harvard Law School, finds that legal privileges formerly accorded certain classes— such as the nobility and landowners—have long been disappearing, but that a new favor ed class has arisen made up of labor unions and. their officials and members. These, he writes, now have - the‘liberty 1 'to commit' wrongs to person and property, to interfere with the ule of highways, to break contracts, to deprive individuals of the means of earn ing a livelihood, to control the activities of ihe individual workers and their local organi zations by national organizations centrally and arbitrarily administered beyond . the reach of state laws, and to misuse trust funds —things which no one else can do with im punity.” ♦*♦*•»•♦♦*#***♦•♦*•*# • * •»***_• •_» •• • # % SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING ExvcuiiT* Vic* President Southern State* .Industrial Council »***>**'*•#* *e#«a*#V#« »**«*«*««« •♦*♦*♦#•♦♦**♦**♦♦♦•••*#•#**♦••♦*•••••»•*•* SOCIALISM. UNLIMITED .The Tennessee Valley Authority, by its very na ture, is socialism. It is Government ownership and operation of a very important industry in a great region of our land. We are not speaking, of course, of flood contml, navigation and conserva tion; we are speaking of the electric 5 power indus try. When the TVA was first inaugurated, it was thought that the electric power part of it would be a very small tail attached to a very large dog. Now, after twenty-five years we find it is an enormous tail attached to a very small dog. In fact, the dog .now more or less goes along with the-laiLsicvplv as an -excuse for the talTTJeing there at all. All of which is just another illustration that while socialism might start out with a very small beginning—and therefore seem not, worth noting by many people—it inevitably grows larger and larger unless brought to a complete stop. Now there is being made a very strenuous ef fort by the advocates of public power to remove whatever shackles have rest-rained the TVA thus far and give it much greater freedom for expan sion. Two bills—S 1869 and HR 4266—have been introduced in the Congress to this effect, the one in the House being even more liberal than the one in the Senate. > Actually, of course, there is no excuse for a so cialistic enterprise in a free nation at all. If it is right that the Government should own and operate the electric power industry, then it is also right that the Government should own and operate the coal mines, the oil wells, the railroads, the newspa pers, the grocery stores and all other phases of our economic, activity. Lot’s take a look at these bills and see what -they provide In the first place, they give the TVA economic power and freedom fat beyond that ever enjoyed by any Government agency. Tradi tionally and constitutionally, federal agencies must get their funds from Congressional appropriations. With the exception of power revenues, this has been true of the TVA. This ball, however, would give the TVA power to issue revenue bonds for the construction of power facilities with no limit im posed. The issuance of bonds would be complete ly exempt from all control by the Secretary of the Treasury. Moreover, they would be outside the national debt limit, even though it is generally recognized they would be a moral obligation of the federal government. Without control from either the legislative or executive branches of the fed eral government, it can very easly be seen how the TVA could run “hog wild” in its financial ope rations. It would be a law unto itself. More than that, the bills allow for geographical expansion of the TVA, not only to the entire Ten nessee Valley drainage basin but also “to serve rural electric cooperatives serving counties con- tigious to the Tennessee Valley drainage basin or said service area.” This means that the monpolis- tie control which the TVA has always exercised over the area which it has served and which has forced out of business all the private power indus try in that area would be greatly extended. Using the word “contagious” in the bill is remindful of the farmer whose only ambition was to own all the land contigious to his own! Certainly this pro vision does not place much limit upon the expan sion of the socialistic„electric power industry in the Tennessee Valley area, and to say the very least would be of great harm to the private enter prise industry in the adjoining areas. If the TVA is to be maintained as a government agency—for which no one but a socialist can give any good reason—then it should be governed by the same rules that govern all other government agencies. Moreover, it should be confined strictly to its original intent and purpose and to its origin al area, with its electric power industry operating under th<? same regulations and competing on an equal basis with the rest of the nation’s electric power industry. • , „ Once socialism is allowed to (burst its bounds,) then we are in for socialism unlimited! THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, August 15,1957 e Seoul Conference Scheduled Here This Week-End The Explorer Conference of the Blue Ridge Council: Boy Scouts of America, will be held on the Pres byterian College campus this week-end. An estimated 80 scouts are ex pected to attend the conference this Saturday and Sunday and to participate in the program devel oped around the "Citizens Now” theme. Registration is set for 9:10 a. m Saturday. The conference will be opened at 10:10 a. m. by L L. Stanley, scout executive of the Blue Ridge Council, .followed by a campus welcome by PC Aca demic Dean George C. Belling- rath. Three mam speeches will de velop the conference theme: Dr. C. Newman Faulooner, pastor of the Greenville First Presbyterian Church, will speak on ‘^Citizens in the Home” on Saturday morn ing; M. G. Boswell, of Atlanta, deputy regional executive of Re gion Six, will speak on “Citizens in the Community” on Saturday afternoon; and Judge Earle M. Rice, of Anderson, will speak on “Citizens in the Nation” on Sun day afternoon. A final challenge will be given by Dr. Marshal] W. Brown, president of Presbyterian College, at the closing session Sunday .. Air Force Team Will Be Here Friday To Organize Reserve First steps toward formation of an Air Force Reserve -unit in the Laurens-Clinton area will be ta ken Friday when teams 'of Air Force personnel visit the two.cities to-interview prospective members. LL.L’.uJ—Ben S. Irvin.' comman- CLINTON-LYDIA MILLS Honor employees * (continued from page 1) us all. evidenced by the large number here representing our 10- 25 year employees. “Our country is great because of its people, our belief in God, our belief in free enterprise and our love for freedom. May we never surrendr any of these come what may. . “I feel sometimes that ,we over look the importance of our indus try, one of the three largest in dustries in the United States and the largest in South Carolina. South Carolina mills are the sec ond largest customer of the American cotton farmer. “Last year we consumed two and one-half million bales of cot ton, or one out of every four con sumed in the United States and five times more than we will pro duce in outh Carolina this year. “We have more active spindles than any other state in the nation. Sixty-seven per cent of all goods manufactured in South Carolina are textile products. There is a textile plant in 37 out of 46 coun ties. We produced more than one blilion yards of print cloth. More than one billion yards of sheeting. There are )32,000 people working in textile plants in South Caro lina, of which 27,500 are spinners and 36,500 are weavers. Sixty- nine cents out of every dollar paid in manufacturing wages in South Carolina goes to textile employ ees. The highest percentage of our residents are employed by the textile industry in South Caro lina, the highest percentage of any state xn the nation. There is a total of more than 300 textile plants located within our borders. It costs $16,500,00 to create one job in our textile plants. The val ue of our production is over two billion dollars. • “bast year South Carolina tex- tilep lants operated 'an average of 270 days and paid out 440 million dollars in wages. Our plants av eraged HOP i days, or 33 1-3 days more than the average. 'From these few statistics that I have given you, you can easily der of Che 9980th Air Reserve Squadron in Greenville, said the teams will be in.Clinton from 4 to 8 p. m. at ROTC headquarters in the Science Building of Presby terian College, and at the City Hall in Laurens during the same hours! Air Force Reserve personnel are being invited to visit with these Air Force teams to hear an ex planation of the proposed unit and how each reservist will bene fit by being a member. Former service personnel, re gardless of the branch in whicji they served, also are invited ’ to talk with team members.-In many eases, it is possible for former Army, Navy, • Marine or Coa£t Guard personnel to become mem bers of the Air Force Reserve; de pending-on previous military ex perience and civilian , occupational experience. Plans are to establish the unit on what the Air .Force calls a ‘general” training basis, and to add specialized training soon thereafter. Reservists in the spe- efalized training phase are paid a full day’s military pay for each two-hour session attended. Band Members To Spend Next V/eek At Lake Gredfiwood and - The Clinton High School Junior High School Jxands will spend tihe week of August 19-24 at Camp Fellowship on Lake Green wood. The camp will be under the supervision of W. A. Cothran, band director. The students will participate in marching and con cert work and have opportunities for recreation. On Friday parents of band members will prepare a picnic supper and all parents and friends are invited to the picnic and con cert which will follow. Cothran stated that those who have been at band camp in pre vious years have enjoyed the pe riods and it gives the band a head start on the new season. louses will leave the high school at 10:00 a. m., Monday, August 19, and return Saturday at noon, August 24. Members of the band who have not yet registered far the camp may do so at the principal’s office at the high school. First Baptists To Honor Members Who Will Attend College' Members of the First Baptist Church who will go to college this fall will be honored on the eve. hing of Tuesday, August 27. church officials have announced. The annual “off to college” ban quet staged by the church is be ing planned for that evening. All prospective college students in the church are invited, it was said. about Saving Regularly! Ye*, persistent, steady ttviog — < amounts — is the sure way to build up a good reserve. And our insured savings accounts ass ideally wited to this purpose. Stan with a com* venient amount - then save on schedule. EDERALMVINGS }AND LOAN ASSOCIATION ; 1—. : ■ . •' . .. • .... » . ■ • s ^ Clinton Institution Serving Clinton People Since 1909 Telephone No. 6 Anticipated Dividend Rate 3'/2% TO ENTER COLLEG Friends .of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Sublett will be interested to know their daughter. Miss Theda Sub lett, completed her requirements for high school at Mars Hill Jun ior College summer school and will be a member of the freshman class at Columbia college this fall. JMIDWAY DRIVE-IN THEATRE Clinton — Joanna ' Now Open 7 Days A. Week THURSDAY AUG. 15 Double Feature—1st Run HOT ROD GIRLS —and— GIRLS IN PRISON Short—“I Don’t Scare” FRI. & SAT. AUG. 16-17 Double Feature TOWARD THE UNKNOWN William Holden, Lloyd Nolan Also Walt Disney’s VANISHING PRAIRIE ‘Willie the Operatic Whale’ SUN.-MON.-TUES.-WED. AUG. 18-19-20-21 1st Run LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn It’s Spicy and Nice—Not Recommended for Children Short—“Pest Pupil” —Coming— “AFFAIR IN RENO” see your importance m the indus try of our state and nation. “Let me urge you to realize! your importance and to exercise I your rights in seeing that South j Carolina continues to.have good government on both state and local levels. This can be done by! exercising your rights at the polls j and by writing your congressmen, senators and representatives in matters pertaining to our industry as yjoii d*rt--(vFierIsyejlere con fronted with the Japanese prob lem of imports. This condition is better but not yet solved. .“Again let me express to you my personal thanks and the thanks of my family for the loy- 1 ally you have shown over ,the! years to the Clinton and Lydia j Cotton Mills.” IF YOU DON'T READ . THE CHRONICLE YOU DON'T GET THE NEWS Phone 74 Attention, All Motorists ' This is Oil and Lube (Grease Job) month at Joe’s es from August 15 to September 15: 1 Special Price Reg. SAVE UMFLOW PREMIUM OIL AND LUBE JOB $2.85 $4.09 $1.24 ESSO EXTRA MOTOR OIL AND LUBE JOB $2.56 $3.58 $1.13 ESSO MOTOR OIL AND LUBE JOB $1.80 $2.86 S1.06 Now Is the Time to Trade and Save On the World’s Finest Motor Oils—It Is a Known Fact That Esso Standard Oil Co. Leads In Petroleum Research. 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