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\ Page Four THE £ llNTON. CHRONICLE Thursday, August 29, 1957 otyr (EUntnn QUfrnttirlp EsUblWied 19M / JalT 4. 1889 — WILUAM WILSON HARRIS — Jane IS. 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY - - - . . , Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance! - A One Year $3.00, Si*..Months $2.00 "" Entered' as Secor.d CTass Mail Mattel at the Post Office at Clinton; S.^r . undw^ Act of Co^rtcsj ‘ M§rch 3. 1879 v 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 This paper is not ’•esponsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents Member South Carolina Press Association, National Editorial Association ■ 1 — '—■— National Advertising Representative: AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION , New York. Chicago, Detroit. Philadelphia CLINTON, S. (\. THURSDAY, AUGUST 29. 1957 A Big Industry The magnitude hf the'textile industry in South Carolina is graphically portrayed in an article appearing in the second section of The Chronicle today. Citizens of the state need to read such a story from time to time in order to become more .familiar with South Carolina’s largest industry and to come to know of the impetus given to the region’s economy by its textile empire — the largest employer of its people and the largest producer in dollar value of manufactured goods. Figures in the article are supplied by the l\ S. Department of Commerce, which, of course, is an unbiased agency. And the fig ures show that South Carolina, with margin to spare, is the nation’s leading textile state. We art* happy to note that, for the first time. the Department of Commerce gives fig ures on fabric production and looms in place. Heretofore, the figures have been confined to spindles and spindle activity. We have felt all along that such restricted figures did not pre sent a full picture of the situation and that jjooms and loom activity were more indicative than spindles and spindle activity. f South Deceased)Veterans’ Children Entitled To Education Aid Children of veterans who were kilted in service or Of Vetefsns Who died of service-connected disability afe eligible for war orphans benet fits in the amount of $110.00 per month for 36 months of college-, states Howard H. Watkins, county service officer. The provision applies to children of veterans who served in World Wars 1 and 2 and the Korean War, Watkins said. Those desiring further information should contact Mr. W'atkins at his office in the Court House in Laur ens. South Carolina exceeds North Carolina and Cebrgia combined in woven fabric production, and also in number of looms in place. And the tw i Carolinas and Georgia overwhelmingly dominate the textile field. The figures, which arc for 1955. show that South Carolina produced^nore than four bil lion yards of fabrics compared to a produc tion of three and a half billion for North Car olina and Georgia combined. South Carolina had 158,335 looms compared to - 151.983 for North Carolina and Georgia combined. And the figures show that South Carolina leads its sister states by wide margins in any other textile comparison one wishes to make: These figures refer only to cotton textiles and do not include the sharp growth of the woolen and worsted industry in this state during the past, two.years. ; • So. it is good to know just what we really do have here in this comparatively, small state. And it is good to know that right here at our doorstep we have in Clinton and Joanna textile mills that are regarded as among the leaders in the industrv. most ;?2 billion. This means that the people of the whole country have put up that amount of money to provide certain services—of which the most important is the purely commercial one of selling electric power—to the people bf| |(J)(gC |0 Cc)US6 .the TV A area. The Senator then provided a tabulation based on allocation of the federal 9 ... tax burden among the states. According to this. New York taxpayers subsidized TV A to the tune of 8294.1 million. Pennsylvania tax payers by $147.3 million. California taxpay ers by $172.8 million. Florida taxpayers by $27.9 million. Oregon taxpayers by $19.6 mil lion and so on. - - Senator Martin’s proposed legislative re form is a comprehensive one. The most sig nificant part of it hits to do with taxes and in terest. He says, "... customers of TV A should contribute, through their bills for elec tric-service. their fair share of taxes, not only at the state and local level but at the Federal lc\^Tas well. To .the extent that . . . TV A escapes contributing its fair share, its custo mers are being subsidized and the taxpayers of the country are making up the deficiency . . He also says that TVA should pay in terest on appropriated funds.at the same rate as that provided for the public in the purchase of revenue bonds. TVA noV pays no interest :i\ :111 _iii.) federal .taxji^jit. all' and -unly-conb. Unpaid Properly Loss Of License Automobile owners who intention ally or unintentionally signed false statements this year that they had paid property taxes on the cars when they obtained their driving li censes are liable to lose them unless they' pay up, according to Miss Viv ian Blakely, county tax collector. She said yesterday that she has begun sending to the highway de partment the names of auto own ers who are delinquent on their 1955 and 1956 auto taxes. Under the law. she said, the department is empow ered to caned the licenses and not reissue them until proof of payment is shown. Auto owners who*-? names have not yet been sent in may avoid em barrassment by coming to her of fice and paying off the charges, she said ~ " V Bush Joins PC Faculty Fulbright s c h ol a r Oakleigh R. Bush has joined tjie Presbyterian College faculty as associate profes sor of English, President Marshall W. Brown announced today He succeeds Dr. John W. Steven son. who is leaving after seven years of service here to teach at Millsaps College-in Jackson, Miss. Bush spent the 1955-56 session as a Fulbright teacher in Rotterdam- The Netherlands, and he has served for the past year as an assistant professor of English in the Univer sity of Maryland overseas program. The new PC professor also taught English for two years at Howard College, in Birmingham, Ala. (1953- 55), for two years at Indiana Univer- negie Institute of Technology and at Edinboro State College. A native of Pennsylvania, he earned both his AB (1947) and Mas ters. 1948) degrees at the Univer sity of Pittsburgh^ and he has com pleted most of the requirements for his doctorate. He has done addi tional study at New York Univer- , Indiana, and at the Shafcee- p e a r e Institute, Stratford-upon- OFFICE SUPPLIES CHRONICLE PUB. CO. Dr. Felder Smith OPTOMETRIST Phone 794 Laurens, S. C. Avon, Egfland. He contributes ar ticles to publications in his field and expects to haVe a book publish^ shortly. Bush, thus, comes to Presbyterian College with a broad background and with main teaching interests centering on Shakespeare, World Literature and Contemporary American Literature. • He is single and a member of the Presbyterian church. paratively small sums to local government in lieu of taxes. The back-bowed taxpayers of this country wilt'certainly agree that Senator Martin is on the right track, and wish him all success with his program, which should be extended to in- . hide all tax-exempt federal power projects. Season For Shooting Doves Opens Sept. 14 :: Bringing Forth A Mouse As everyone who reads the newspapers knows, the demand for government economy has been unusually intense this year. l>oth among members of the general public, who have been flooding Cohgress with letters, and among many leading government officials. "Yet.” says the Wall Street Journal, “the re sult promises to be insignificant. The great economy effort is bringing forth a mouse.” Why should the outlook be so bleak now** The Journal provides a number of answers— the fact that the Administration budget was •-Thr'tTrpr^Tn*^^ in some quarters that public demand for econ omy is abating: high-powered pressure by various groups for all manner of pet projects. But the really dominant reason is found in these words: "... Congress has failed to grasp the plainest of facts—that it is impos sible to cut the cost of government signifi cantly unless one is prepared to reduce the size »of government. The lawmakers have been . . . content to nibble at Federal pro grams. when what was urgently required was a reduction or elimination of certain pro grams. . . . Congress has chosen the easy wav. And that, as is often the case, is the eas iest way to failure.” * In sum, what Congress has done, knowing ly or otherwise, is to accept the premise that we must have ever-expanding super-govern ment—and then to consider a few compara tively minor cuts here and there. That being Congress’ attitude, it was inevitable that the results would be non-existent or nearly so. Not until the size of government is reduced and kept reduced, will we have a materially reduced budget and tax burden. Success To Senator Martin Speaking on the floor of the Senate, Sen ator Martin of Pennsylvania told a number of truths about the Tennessee Valley Auth ority—and proposed certain legislative steps designed to put TVA on a business basis of operation. As of June 30, 1956, Senator Martin said, funds appropriated^by Congress for TVAr along with tranrfm of property, came to al- SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING Extculiv* Vic* President Southern State*, Industrial Council "GONE \RK THE DAYS” Have uu, as the youngsters say, "gone off our rocker in this country? Have we lost our equilib rium' What has become of our light-hearted banter, our practice of give and take, our tolerance, our tra ditional American sense of humor? Something has happened—we know that We are too sensitive, we are tob easy to take offense, we are timid and afraid of what other people might think, both at home and abroad. This attitude and this state of mind is perhaps ex-| pressed as well as anywhere else in the overworked hsc we have made in recent years of the phrase, "race, color, creed or national origin._ for fear that v.pTH-ono might take offenM,^_diLsignatjpn_by_a_n_y__of 'these classifications is^just about taboo. What is wrong with "race, color, creed or nation al origin"" Actually, there is something wrong with anyone who is not proud of his race and his color and his creed and his national origin. There is something wrong with the state of mind of a nation that will not face the reality of these characteristics on the part of its individual citizens The Lord made different sorts of people, they hap pened to be born in different countries, and it is their privilege to adopt different creeds. Any attempt to ignore these facts is to adopt the communist philoso phy of ignoring God in the affairs of man and reduce everybody to a common denominator, make every body a mass without individuals, and act as if we were wiser than God. Tne result of such procedure is Jo eventually pro duce a sort of thought control by an impersonal state, throwing those who live thereunder into a "dark age" of their o$n,. <- , u t. u So far. in our country, we haven t seen much bpoK burning a's vet. but we have seen a lot of wood burn ing. and if we keep on the way we are going book burning will inevitably follow. No longer may the fine old songs of Stephen. Foster, written with complete affection and beloved for years by millions, be carried over the national networks in their original state. Words must be changed; no more race and color: In fact, "Old Black Joe” just cannot be used at all. because it would be rather awkward to say "Old ‘Of An Undetermined Color’ Joe." So in deed.' as the song says, “Gone are the days when our hearts were young and gay.” Old Black Joe was a patient, lovable old character, but we’ll just have to forget him. "Massa" is no longer in the “cold, cold ground it’s "That -Man Who Used to Direct Our Activities” who is in the cold, cold ground, if he is to be mention ed at all! The "darkies” are no longer “gay” in “My Old Kentucky Home"—they just aren’t there. Neither do the “darkies” bemoan the fact they are “far, far frorr) home” in “Swanee River”—they are not there to'be"moan anything. Joel Chandler Harris was one of the most lovable, kindly writers in American literature. His “Uncle Re mus Stories”, have given untold pleasure to countless thousands of children and grown-ups alike. So far as we know, the book has not been burned—but perhaps it just as well have been, because we never hear of it any more. Tell the story of “Br’er Rabbit and the Tar Baby”—heavens forbid! What the children of this day and time are missing! Some jaf the finest, most humorous stories ever written were by a Jewish boy born in Charleston, S. C., with the scenes laid in Birmingham, Ala., and centered around Negro characters in that city. They were carried for years by a national magazine. Can anyone imagine such stories being used now! The author is still living, but he has gone into a different kind of writing. . These are just a few of m a n y illustrations that could be cited as to what is happening in this coun try in the name of “race, color, creed or national orig in.” Thus, as freedom is often crucified in the name of democracy—witneM the Iron Curtain countries who claim they live under democratic governments—so, in the_name of tolerance are we seeing intolerance in tensified in our own country . Are we going to keep on swallowing this communist line? What has hap pened to us? Have we lost our balance wheel? A split season for shooting dpves opens Sept. 14, according to the S - C. Wildlife Resources Department. The first half of the season lasts for three weeks, closing on October 5. The second division of the season begins on December 4 and closes January 10 Shooting hours on all days are from noon to sunset Daily limit is 10 doves. Other open seasons in Zone Two, which includes Laurens County, are: Quail, Thanksgiving Day to March 1. Limit 10 Squirrels, October 1 to February 15. Limit 10 Opossum and raccoons. September 1 to March 1. ^ Rabbits, Thanksgiving Day to February 1. but rabbits may be hunted without guns, and with dogs only, from September 1 to Thanks giving Day . There is no closed season on foxes. MIDWAY DRIVE-IN THEA*TRE Clinton — Joanna ..Now .Open 7- Days-A Week Pulling Your Best Looks Forward x -A M <S ?» . 'Ajw V; Whether you’re bound for campus, career or social conquest, our cleaning serv. ice will help you to look your well-groomed best! SUNSHINE CLEANERS Our tcorki alwayt better. Our price* t never higher. WELCOME TEACHERS AND STUDENTS SHOE REPAIR—SHIRT LAUNDRY 102 W. 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