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Pafre Four ' r ' THE GUYTON CHRONICLE / ' v- i ( (Eltnton (Cljrjrntrlp Established 1999 «■ 'i J- v/ > Job 4. 1889 — WILLIAM WILSON HARRI^ - *— June IS, 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription^Raie (Payable in Advance) ... One Year $3 00, Six Months 92.00 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Poet Office at Clinton, S. C., under Act of Congress ’• March 3, a 1879 The Chronicle seeks the c-ooperation of ita subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all tjfhes appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they art not of a defamatory nature Anonymous communications will not be noticed This paper is not'responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents ' ' ' -Ml— -..I ■■■ i 11 —*- .Member South Carolina Press .Association. National Editorial •Association' . „ National Advertising Representative: AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION — New York, Chicago, Detroit Philadelphia CLINTON, S. * C„ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1957 Your $2,400 Tax BUI Are you interested in, startling facts? ^Here's one produced by a recent study: Last year taxes—levied by the federal, state and local governments—took an average of $2,- 400 from each, of America’s 42 million fam ilies. Pat;t of this was paid directly and part of it indirectly. Either way,! it came oift of our pockets and left us poorer. A Healthy Shodt Americans have lived like children in Para dise for a long time. They have been sur rounded by the "good life.” Still not satisfied they have besieged government in massive pressure groups for special benefits and priv ileges. Inflation has been destroying the only common measure for material value we have r-the dollar. Our people, by their abuses and lack of restraint, are threatening this repub lic. They needed a healthy shock, and they have it in the Russian "Moon” which circled the earth at 1-8.000 miles an hour. Senator Bridges, in yommenting on the. „ Russian rocket achievement, aptly calls for “an immediate revision of National psychol ogy. ... i "The time has clearly come to be less con cerned with the depth of the-pile on the new broadloom rug or the height of the tail fin on the new car to be more prepared to shed blood, sweat and tears if this country and the free world are to survive.” i, What If Your Home Burned Down? • What would you do if your house burned down? There's a superfically easy answer, to that question—you'd rebuild it with the in surance money. ^ However, unless you're one of a compara tively small minority of people, you’d be shocked to learn just how inadequate your fire insurance coverage is. The main reason that is true is explained by one little word—inflation. Sylvia Porter tells the story in one of her recent syndicated columns. A house that cost $8,000 in 1937 would cost $21,600 to replace today. A house that cost $12,000 as late as 1946 carries an $18,300 price tag now. So it goes. Miss Porter quotes an authority on the subject as saying: “There's no doubt that the overwhelming per centage of America's tens of miljiftns of home- owners are underinsured.” And that isn’t rite-whole story. The same thing is true, and in many-cases to an even greater degree, of the contents of our homes. We buy all manner of things over the years, and we just don’t realize how much the total wort h comes to. Then, on top of that, infla tion has driven up the replacement cost of all commodities, just as it has driven up con struction and repair costs. Parkinson’s Law A distinguished British historian, C. North cote Parkinson, has published a book of essays entitled “Parkinson’s -Law." It is a , gently humorous and ironic work, dealing largely with human foibles. And, it tells cer tain truths in a highly unusual way. For instance, according to Parkinson’s Law. bureaucracy grows in mathematical propor tion to the reduction of the duties it per forms. In other words, the less work there is to do, the more people it takes to do it. That, you may say, is absurd. But you’d be wrong. The Wall Street Journal; in a little - editorial on Parkinson’s Law, observe?: “It is hard to imaginejia better application of this aBokrft principle than the case of the Inter nationalCooperation Administration, the bu reau whij-h dispenses foreign aid. Its spending has been cut almost fifty per cent since 1953, during which time the number of its em ployes has almost doubled.” _ Tie IGA; of course, is not the only offen- tier. Washington abounds in bureaus whose usefulness has largely come to an end—but which keep right on doing business at the same old stand with the same number or a larger number of happy, tax-supported bu reaucrats. The same thing is true of state capitals. And here is one important reason why government costs us all so much, and needlessly so. Deadbeats In Cadillacs A man who has long been a leading advo cate of socialized federal power projects has made a proposal to Congress. He asks that it provide for a number of government-owned C7T "yardstick" atomic energy power plants. The ‘•yardstick,” of course, would be usetf to measure the propriety of the rates establish ed by public regulatory bodies for privately built and operated plants. •* Commentihg on this, the publication Eco nomic Intelligence observes; “He 'did not specify the length of said yardstick.” And that is an oversight of no small importance. For,, it will be remembered, the idea used to be that the Tennessee Valley Authority would provide a yardstick for measuring the propriety of rates charged by private utility companies. But the TVA yardstick is a long way from being 36 inches long. TVA pays nothing in federal taxes and comparatively small “contributions” in lieu of local taxes— the private utilities pay an average of more than 23 cents out of each dollar of revenue in taxes. ITivate utilities must pay the going rate for capital—TVA doesn’t; the general taxpayers do the paying for them. TVA gets all manner of other special privileges and government favors which are denied private enterprise and properly so, and which should be denied TVA. Economic Intelligence covers the ground well in these words: “ ... to argue that the publicly-owned enterprisers a suitable ‘yard stick’ to measure the fairness or equity of the charges of a private enterprise is like expect ing a turtle to compete effectively in a horse race. Or like the deadbeat who owes every body around town but" boasts offensively about his shiny new Cadillac!” >• - - ■ * , SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING Ex«cuiiT» Vic* PrMid*ni Southern States Industrial Council intKKiniwiCNKWMimKWicxMKKKiHeMii ARE WE BEING SCARED TO DEATH? What difference does it make how your enemy dies —just so he dies? If you can scare him to death, that might be the very b%st way to do it. No one can pin the blame exactly on you, arxj at.the same time you subject yourself to no particular danger. So go to it, and as the old expression goes, “Scare the daylights out "of him." That must J>e the attitude the Soviets are taking right now toward the greatest enemy to communism i left in the world—the United States of America. They are coristantly showering us with threats and boasts, with statements as to their accomplishments in the scientific and deadly weapon field. If they "are not brainwashing us, they are certainly making every ef fort to fearwash us! The sad part of it is that the Russians are getting help from certain quarters in our own country, wit tingly or unwittingly. There are many individuals and agencies who fall right in line with their effort to scare us into frantic steps to protect ourselves from various known and unknown dangers. The press is full of headlines calculated to scare the readers into frozen 'immobility or frenzied mo bility—or to sell papers. One cannot help but wonder. An American newspaper preporter’s story datelined vloscow the other day was headlined under big black letters. “RUSSIA CAN WIPE OUT U. S. CITIES: KRUSHCHEV.” Another even bigger headline in the same newspaper read. “RUSSIANS LEAD: MISSILE EXPERT. ’ All other newspapers over the face of the country are filled with similar headlines. Multiply the effect such stories have on one person who reads them by the 170 million people in this nation who might read them, and you arrive at a considerable sum total of fear complex. Tdevesion and radio are filled with similar state ments and stories, either by news commentators or by pictures or by the official program of the govern ment. The Civil Air Defense program with which we have been belabored by our government for years without anybody ever yet understanding what it is” all about, continues to insert broadcasts between reg ular programs calling attention to the desperate plight of the nation insofar as protecting itself- from attack by the Soviets is concerned./ One of their favorite appeals goes something like this: “Civihan help is desperately needed to secure this country from surprise air attacks. The Soviets have a thousand long-range bombers poised and ready to deliver mortal blows to any point in the Unit- ' I'd States. Enlist as an airplane watcher now and help protect your nation." Such appeals always leave us cold. We would not feel the least bit more comfort able, assuming we beheved the danger were real, if we knew t^at thousands of untrained civilians, many of whom would not know an airplane from a buzzard, were one hGour main protective agencies. Is such a continuation on the part of this agency sound and sensible, or is it an effort on the part of a govern ment bureau to perpetuate itself? Of coursbf the current situation so far as impress ing the people with fear in- connection with their na tional security is nothing exactly new to us. This scare emergency business was adopted as a part of the official government program about twenty-five years ago. Since then we have had periodic emer gencies arise and periodic scares imposed to cause the people to surrender more and more power to the government, consolidate "and pepetuate a continually growing bureaucracy, to ignore a balanced budget, to spend wastefully and inordinately for defense," to commit themselves to a world-wide give-away pro gram that has cost the American taxpayers by now around $70 billion. Such an attitude as this is not traditional of the American people. It was not under any such complex as thi?, either on the pari of the people of their lead ers, that this nation was built. Let us sit down and think sensibly for once about these problems. As some sound philosopher once rather ungrammatically observed, "It ain’t ignorance that causes all the trou ble in this world. It’s the things folks now that ain’t so that causes the troubles." Early Mailing Is Again Requested By Postmaster Adair Postmaster W. D. Adair said to day, "We hope to keep up our good record on the Chritmas mails by getting everything processed and delivered well before Christmas Eve.” He said further that much depends on cooperation of the public in mailing Christmas cards and <1.1 f t .- . .-111i-i 1 «-» « 4 L A flai - - - gixttutraring rnf: ir^Xt trTT uays. “Most people realize that the early arrival of a Christmas card or gift is always welcomed," Mr. Adair said, “although there are still some who have the mistaken idea that a gift or card arriving on Christmas Eve has a special signifi- cance. Actually, It’s the thought be hind the gift or card, and not the time of arrival that is the important consideration." The postmaster asks for your special cooperation to be sure that your return address and the recip ient’s address are,plainly typed or written on all labels and Christmas cards. Use zone numbers, and it’s always a good idea to include an ex tra label inside your packages. First class postage on Christmas cards enables you to include hand written messages. Cards sent by first class mail will be delivered promptly, and forwarded or return ed ,if necessary, providing you in clude your name and address on your Christmas card envelope, a custom, ^by the \tay, which is en tirely correct. Response to his “Mail Early” ap peals to date have been excellent, Mr. Adair said. Now it’s a case of keeping up the good work to avoid last minute Christmas .mail pile- ups. You can do both yourself and the Post Office a real favor by securing free labels at the Post Office which read, “All For Out of Town Deliv* ery” and “All For Local Delivery.” Place these labels on bundles of cards for local addreses, and on those for out of town destinations, and mail your out of town Christ inas cards several days in advance of those intended for local delivery. Plan your Christmas mailings so that all Christmas cards and gifts for most distant points are mailed first. Try to get all of your out of town cards and gifts into the post office before December 10, and those for nearby* points should be mailed by December 15. MIDWAY DRIVE-IN THEATRE Clinton — Joanna FRI-SAT. DEC 6 & 7 SIERRA STRANGER Howard Duff—Dick Foran Short: “The Jury Goes Round and Round” “Frojjhorn Leghorn” 39 Uurens County Students At Carolina Columbia, Nov. 25 —'nuriy-mne students from Laurens county are registered at the University of South Carolina. They are^ listed as follows: The thirty-nine students at the University from Laurens county are: Phil Hu£f Abrams, Herbert F Adair, Wttie Hart Adams, Helen P Anderson, Joseph William Bry- son, Robert Alvin "Brvson, JJnda Ruth Buchanan, Raymond R. Burns, Jr., Frank F. Childress, Fred C. Cbgdill, Carl Edward Co- Ker, Joseph P. Cooper, Samuel T. Crisp, Richard Culbertson, Lewis T. Culbertson, Albert K. Dixon, II, Lee Robert Dominick, Rebecca Kay Finley, Robert IT. Finley, Eliz abeth Fleischman, Barbour D. Hitchcock, Earl O. Jennings, Fran cis T. Miller, William H. Mills, Jr., Anne B. Morrison, Robert C. Neely, Joel Louie Padgett, Edward H. Pitts, LeGrande Shealy, Marshall L. Smity, Melvin Bond TYiomas, Charles N. Tinman, and George A. Zupp. Christmas Movie In Colof Available To Schools And Clubs A color motion picture featuring “The Night Before Christmas” and "The Nativity" is available to schools, clubs, and church groups through Southern Bell Telephone Company: The 30-minute, 16mm film fea tures the Mabel Beaton Marionettes and is accompanied by specially arranged Christmas musci. Clement Clark Moore’s “The Night Before‘‘Christmas’ brinugs to life the thrill of Santa Claus’ visit and has a universal appeal. "The Nativity’’ re-creates the inspired story of the first Christmas as told Kiwanions Plan Ladies Night Dec. 12 It Annual Ladies Night activities of the Clinton Kiwams Club $pe sce- duled for next-Thursday night, De cember 12. Plans are being completed this week to make the occasion another gala affair. Dinner, a program of entertainment and then dancing are on tap for Kiwanians and their Blasts this. year. The program will be staged in the Annerican Legion Homerbegin- Timg at $:oo fl.'m: nexrThursday ' WINS IN DOG SHOW A daschund owned by Mr. and Mrs. James Neal, of 811 N. Adair St./ was shown at the Columbia Kennel Club show recently and was Warded first place in the American bred female class.. The dog, since she was a puppy, has been shown ip a number of cit ies and received several oHMt- hon- ors - r Thi Neals are new residents of Thursday, December 5, 1957 Clinton. Mr. Neal is connected with ;he West, Virginia pulp *nd Paper Company"^ ‘ i in the Bible “This film can bd 1 - booked by schools, clubs and other organi zations by calling our business of fice,"said I. A. Edwards, Southern Bel manager here. “We also plan to show it on television shortly be fore Christmas." * . John L. Mimnaugh My bidding containing sev eral retail stores, was gut ted by fire recently. The fire insurance covers the loss, and the cQ?t of rebuild ing the interior. Could I have had insurance to pay rtie the $2,000 in lost rent als and overhead during the 6 months it will be unoccu pied? Wm. J. Bailey Ins. Agency PWn« 1246 M. S. Bailey A Son Bankers Bide. 75* Christmas pr9S9nt with tha happi9st fufcr* is a savings account in this bank. It con got a young porson stortod to* ward wart^whlh goals, can loach Invahabla Jmmm ia IMS and sym tematic You can start a gift savings account with • „ practically any amount you wish. It is one gift that is worth MORE, each year, as accumulated interest piles up. Bank of Clinton ttsaemtitxxiesacsasscfmimaaaatssittassesassacxxmmmsaaasxxsasxse. SUNDAY ONLY DEC. 8 THE GIRL HE LEFT BEHIND Tab Hunter—Natalie Woods Short: “Slip Us Some Red Skin” NOW Just say HOLD IT" DURING I. C. THOMAS' Com* In and choose that Butova now! 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