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/ Pag:e Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE /- dltjp UUinton (lUjrumrlp July 4, 188 Hr L Established 19®0 WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS — June 13. 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY ' Subscription Rate I Payable - itt 4 Adv»nct) ——.^2^—t ....One Year $3.00, Six 1 Mofiths $2.00 Entered! as Second Class Mail Matter 'at the' Post Otf.ice at Clinton, S C..'uhder Act of Congress " ' March 3, 1879 * ' * f - The Chronicle seeks, the .'cooperation of its subscribers' and readers—the puhlisher will at all times appreciate .wise suggestions and kindlf advice, Thg~ ChrcrflTete wtir pobtistr letters of 'general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature Anonymous carnmunicaupns will not be noticed Thrs paper is .not responsible for the views or opinions^of its correspondenu - • Member: South Carolina Press Association, National Editorial Association —i — r—»—^ 1 * ^ T National Advertising Representative: AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION i — New'Vorh, Cnicago, Detroit Philadelphia CLINTON S. C. TltURSDAY, DECEMBER 19. 1957 Faster And Faster Tho United .States government can print dollar hills on recently installed rtew presses nearly four times as fast as on the old ma chines. One wonders, in this- age ot inflation, how iOng it may he before even these remark- alile machines become obsolete. ^ ® , ’ * Laurens Mayor Can Take It’ In last week’s issjuje of The Laurens Adver- Ajser, a/Tews story told of., the recent trip of ^h^y/r Joe Medlock to the meeting of the Na tional.Municipaf"A ss ^'iation in Ixis Angeles, Calf., and of the major’s report to city coun cil on 11 speeches at the-convention. “IJieard every dne of t.hem.” the mayor was., reported as spying. ' • Well, aliout all we. can say is that if even half of the speeches were anything like some we’ve heard lately, the honorable mayor has demonstrated a-remarkable capacity to “take *• ■ - V it.’’ We doff our hat and stand in awe and ad miration—and in our own aldermanic capac- —ity make a motion . that the LnirreTTS eit-y- .council'grve hin> a medal.,-^ r We are not'prepared to say whether or not the city got its money's worth for the report ed $770 it took to send the mayor and a coun cilman to tlV meeting, but we think the may or has earned whatever, tjh^y pay him. Hie von .speeches—whew! if he put aside every cent of his earnings for that purpose. And the fixed price is way be low the jfoing black market-price. This is what total government cloes to the masses of workers—the people it is* supposed to serve and revere. It fofees them down to a subsistence basis‘ of living—and keeps them Ibere. - - Instrument OfTyranny The^ w’orld has changetT immeasurably since Calvin Coolidjre was president. But ( something he said—and restated in different] words on occasion after occasion—has a far greater significance .now than it had then. Mr. Coolidge said: “A government which lays taxes on the people not required by’ur- gent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instru ment of tyranny. . . . One of the first signs of the breaking down of free government is a disregard by the taxing power of the right of the people to their own property.” ’ The taxes which "urgent public necessity” Need Homemakers For Many Families In Laurens County Mrs. Harold Goller, chairman of the Homnbakers Service commit- to tec of the Laurens County Council of Social Agencies, made a report the county council's monthly meeting recently , in which, she list ed 13 typical cases whore home maker services are needed. “ Accompanying the IfsT was a let ter from Mrs. Mabel B. Little, di rector of the Laurens County De partment of Public Welfare in which Mrsf. Little asked/ that the list be presented to the county dele gation so that the delegation may be informed as to stich needs in the county. Mrs. Goller later explained that a homemaker service involves the employment of one or more persons to give temprorary relief to dis> tressed famihes. Similar services are provided in many counties and states throught the nation, she said. The Council of Social Agencies is going to ask the delegation to pro vide two for Laurens county, she said. The list.of cases she gave was as follows: ; A. Family—.Mother in Stale Hos pital—Homemaker neede to take care of children. Children had to be placed in Foster Home and $40 a month board paid for each child. B. Family—(N) Father on chain gang. Grandmother needed help in buying, planning and caring for children. C. Family—Mother and father separated. Mother ill and not able to keep house. Institutional place ment is being considered. D. Family—Grandmother caring for 8 children under 12 years of age. TB father and motherin sanatorium. Grandmother needs relief from home*dutie.. sfop health sake. E. -FamHy—Father employed — wagies low—mother poor manager —Needs homemaker to counsel on diet planning (low cosOT'care' of clothes—Give break in care of four children. . . F. Man—One Old Age Assistance recipient—deaf, completely bedrid- ridden, needs someone with him all the time—Man comes in to bathe and catherize—Family's financial resources fast depleting. - G. Family — Father* disabled — ADC mother had cancer operation— 7 ch^dren to care for. 4 * 'H. family—Mother had operation —Two teen-age girls need care. I. Family — Mother working — father deserted; four children; enr- rnous debt -for medical expenses— homemaker coud care for children temporarily and salary for help could liquidate debt that is worry ing mother into illness ADC here would be saved. J. Family — Father' disabled — Mother TB active—five children— mother, left sanatorium as felt fath er could not care for children. K. < Family—OAA couple need homemaker—Man totally bedridden —w oman extremely nervous at times—Homemaker could provide services when wife becomes too ill to^ care for husband and self’s meals. L. Woman—TPD woman received hospital care—on release board had have gone to brother’s borne if homemaker available. Brother and sister-in-law could not provide home care for client as barely physically able to do for sejf. • M. Family—The mother of six children ages ranging from five months to -nine years deserted the children. The father was a textile worker. A homemaker was need ed to keep the family together. The board for the five older children in a Foster Home was $1.50 a day for each. The baby had to be hospital ized at a cost of $3 a day. i Extension Dept. Of Joanna Baptist Church Has Party Members and guests at the Ex tension Department of the Joanna Baptist Church were entertained at a Christmas party in the recrea- Thursday, December 19, 1991 tion room on Monday, December Christmas carols were sung by members of the Junior Girls’ Aux iliary. A film strip, “And On Eerth Peace," wos shown by Betty Thom as. 2 was served by liable Moorhead A salad plate members of the circle. Decorations were planned by the Mitchell circle and entertainment by the Watson circle.. Turkey Shoot x —(Behind the Grange Hall) Mountville S. C. 1 • ■ ^ ' r - * 9 A.M.-4 P.M » A * Friday Dec. 20 SHELLS FURNISHED f goes further than a Penney gift certificate! •>'' is states . . all Penney stores! And no gift costs less to mall! plainly "require and will continue to require are enormous. That can't be helped. What can be helped is the imposition of.taxes for purposes which are not urgent, are not neces sary, or which can he aceorrjplished by ageri- Ties other than the federal government. Combat Useless Government | Spending Now In the view of Vice President Nixon, mili-' tary preparedness "must always take prior ity oYer the understandable desire to reduce our taxes.” ’ Practically everyone in the country w^ll agree with* that—especially in the light of Soviet rocket achievements. However, this certainly does n;o mean that there no longer any point in talking alx>ut government economy. It should, instead, mean that .every possible frill and non-essen- 'tia! in government is now to be cropped down ■ * to the root. And an excellent place to start, would-W in government activities in the field of commercial business. Most of these run at big losses. If they, were returned to private enterprise, where they belong, all the financ ing would come oufof private capital and pri vate savings—and. to frost the cake, govern ment vvould.get big new tax revenues that could prevent tax increases or be the basis of tax reductions. The Best “Gift” Of All Is Safety On The Road: : Sjnte Christmas is the season for giving, saf,-n .onsultiintsj^ve prepared a list; of. led mth many need, .mhwpl.ee in SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING Executive Vic* President . Southern States Industrial Council » STRANGE thinking There are many-practice* going on in the country ; right now having to do with spending the taxpayers’ -dollars that, when analyzed carefully, seem to be bas ed on some hay wire thinking. They just do not make sense—but we continue them anyway. Why? • The basis for these’ activities seems to be the rath er universally strange thinking on the part of the’peo ple generally that the federal government has its own private source of funds, that whenever the federal government spends moiiey it does not affect our own pocketbooks, that when the'federal government gives us money, individually or locally, it does, not cost us a thing j This, of course, is the old "something for nothing” fallacy, which, if persisted in, will destroy a nation’s economy and a people’s freedom. Yet, we are now so imbued with the idea that it is believed in by most of the pepole, and is acquiesced jn by most of those w ho do not believe in it We have recently witnessed a good illustration of this in the reported proceedings of the American nicipal Association meeting held in San FraWsico, an associaUon comprised of the mayors of the principal •» cities of the United States. . At tins meeting the mayors were complaining—and validly so—that the states and the federal government had preempted almost all the tax sources and*that the ‘gifts” that motorists can give themselves and other drivers. Here are their suggestions for the best “gift” of all—a Safe and Happy Holiday Sea son. . ' * . • 0 1. Give the other fellow' on the highway the right of way when there’s doubt'at an in tersection. 2. Give other drivers the courtesy of lower ed headlight beams when you meet them aft er dark, . . . 3. Give pedestrians the same break you ■ would expect if you were on foot. * 'A. Give your car a break, too. Cheek brakes, lights, tires, defrosters, and Wind shield wipers. ' .. . 5. Give yourself, gs a driver, additional .time,for traveling when road and weather conditiomv are hazardous. . 6. Give yourself more space between yo.ur car and the one ahead on slippery pavement, and adjust your speed tp give yourself bet ter control of your vehicle on snow-packed or „ icy highways. * v 7. Give your “passengers the comfortable feeling that they are riding with a safe driv er. Where There Are No Parking Problems Adjacent to American automobile factor ies there are always big parking lots. And these lots are loaded with cars belonging to the workers. y < But, as William Henry Chamberlin pofnte- out in a Wall Street Journal article, there are no parking problems around the auto factories of communist countries. The reason Is found in the wage-price relationship. As an exam ple, he cites the principal car produced in Communist Poland, the Warzsawa. At its state-fixed price, it would take the average porker five years to earn enough t© buy one. ® * get the money. But not so valid was the complaint that due to the renewed emphasis on defense costs due to Sputnik and guided missiles and a few oilier things, resulting in increased, need for mone^ by the federal government, it seemed that it would be necessary to use money for defense rather than for urban renewal, new airports, public housing, public libraries, sewage plant construction and a host of other programs that lie vvflhin the province ot city administration. Here again, of course, we must ask the mayors the age old question. Where do you think the money comes from? If the nation most have more money for defense-*-and that seems to* be the general opinion of those in authority—then the budget must be <;ut in other direcflbns, resulting ip the states and the cities having less transferred to them by the federal govern ment for welfare purposes. Or, if the federal govern- ment ^spends more for defense and at the same time goes right ahead with all its welfare programs, then jl must collect more taxes or go deeper in debt. In eith er case, the money comes from the people who live in the cities and the states. When an individual has his budget stretched to the limit—and owes all or more than he should owe—and suddenly has an emergency requiring more money in one-direction, then the only thing he can do is cut his budget in other directions, regardless of how much he may dislike doing so. This is simply facing the facts. This same principle applies to nations and states and cities, because nations and states and cities are made up of individual persons and are governed by the same rules of practicality and common sense and eco nomics that govern individuals. Of course, to get to the evil of, the mayors’ com plaint, it should be pointed out that there was never any reason for the federal government participating in these local welfare programs in the first place. Wtiat has happened is that we have sold qur birthright of local self-government for a mess of federal aid. Once started apd once accepted, the self reliance and independence of local governments and agencies has been so enervated in recent years that they have for gotten how to take care of themselves. It is really disillusioning to one’s belief in the common sense of otherwise practicable people "to see a city chamber of commerce and city administration and the local newspapers in a city make a big thing of, and brag about, receiving a grant of federal aid. If they know that the money providing this aid was first sent to Washington by the very people who are so happy about getting some of it back, they give no evidence Ot that knowledge. ’ ^ What the cities and the states need to do is to pre vail upon the federal government to stop all welfare programs of any sort that are exercised in tt$ir be- haflf— and cut federal taxea proportionately. - ./r