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’ Pape Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, February 20, 1958 5Ihp (Ulintnn (Uhruntrlp Estahlishrd 1990 x July 4. 1989 -i- WILUAM WILSON HARRIS — June 13. 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance) One Year $3.00, Six Months $2.00 4 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton. S C., under Act of Congress MarchS, 1879. Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all ppreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general The times appreciat 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 correspondents ' ^ Member South Carolina Press Association, National Editorial Association x \ National Advertising Representative: AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION — New York. Cmcago. Detroit Philadelphia (LINTON. S. C.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1958 Two Jobs Cost SI,000,000 The oil industry has become a symbol of “bip money” to many people. We read of preat strikes, we know that incredibly large quantities of oil products are sold each day, and we tend to reason that the oil people are lucky indeed—that all they have to do is to sit back and watch the profits roll in. It isn’t, however, nearly so simple as all that. Oil companies, naturally and necessar ily. handle a lot of money. But they also are faced \vith towering expenses. A vivid little example of this is found in an item appearing in a publication of the Stan dard Oil Company of Indiana. This company is modernizing a refinery, and one of the new tools needed is a pipe bender. The bender that is to be replaced cost about $19,000 back in 1927 ami small salvage value. The new one will cost about $72,000. To earn $72,000,of net profit after taxes, the company has to receive some $975,000 in income. So to replace a $19,000 pipe bender, the company will have to do almost a million dollars worth of business in the' market place. And the new bender, incidentally; will provide jobs for' not quite two men. The company publication observes, “Next time you hear somebody rave about high cor porate profits, remember that pipe bender, and how much of its earnings Standard will have to plow back into the business—.to pro vide two jobs.” That’s sound advice. And re member also, that what is true of this com pany is true of all the others. have guns or butter. It is a question of wheth er vast gobs of political butter will be slath ered onto the guns. Economic undermining of this country would serve the Soviets as sure ly as military undermining. Never did a Con gress, an administration or the people face plainer facts. Will they recognize them and act accordingly or will they continue on the road to bankruptcy via inflation? The Failures Of Communism — What has communism accomplished? A terse and compelling answer to that question is provided by the distinguished historian and teacher Russell Kirk, in his new book, ‘‘The American Cause,” which the Chicago firm of Regnery has published. Mr. Kirk states: ‘‘Although,.the Commu nists have preached brotherhood,Jn practice they have murdered many millions of inno cent people. Although tile Communists have praised absolute equality they have estab lished absolute despotism. Although . the Communists have aped Christian charity in words, they halve resorted to theft and con fiscation in actuality. Although the Com munists have promised Utopia, they have de livered whole nations to mortal torment. Al though they have talked unendingly of peace, they have thriven by war.” Communism is a philosophy of pure mate- rialism. Vet Communism in practice has mis- erably failed to better the material living standards of the people. An article in U. S. News & World Report tells this story. It takes a Russian factory worker 306 hours and -lo minutes to earn enough money to buy himself a suit—the American factory work er can earn the suit in 22 hours and 9 min utes. It takes that Russian worker 19 min utes to earn th£ price of a cake of soap, as against 3 minutes for the American. It takes the Russian 3 hours and 23 minutes to make enough to buy a f^und of butter; in our fac tories the figure is 21 minutes. So it goes, down jhe roster of practically everything in ordinary use. In terms of human values and betterment, Communism has been not only a failure but a ruthless despoiler. “No Pilfering, But-” “ ‘We don’t want to pilfer the U. S. Treas ury’!” said the mayor of Independence, Mis souri. “ ‘But’—” ‘This classic comment,” observes the Wall Street Journal, ‘fairly well sums up the feel ing of city officials meeting at the convention of the American Municipal Association. . . . The mayors want more, not less, federal help for . . . airports, housing, sewage plant con struction and countless other projects. ‘‘Perhaps one of the most . . . revealing in dications of municipal thinking is the dead- Upstate Class AA Basketball Tourney In Chester Next Week Five New Directors To Be Named For Chamber Of Commerce The annual upper state Class AA high school basketball tournament is scheduled to be held next week in the Chester High " School gymna sium. Clinton High School boys’ and Girls’ teams will participate. Play in the preliminaries will get underway Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock, and the finals will come on Friday night when the winners will be decided The final girls’ game wil start at 7:30 and the final boys’ game at 8:30. The Clinton girls will meet the Lancaster girls at 7:30 p. m. on Tuesday, with the winner of that game to meet the winner of the Union-Laurens g a m e > Thursday night at 7.30. , x The Clinton boys will meet Lan caster or Gaffney at 7:30 p. m. on Wednesday, and the winner of that game will play the winner of the Chester-Union game at 8:30 on Thursday. . Trophies will be awarded to the winner and runner-up. Seven boys’ and girls' teams will participate in the tournament, in cluding Chester. Gaffney, Newber ry, Lancaster. Clinton, Union and Laurens. Ballots mailed this week for the election of five new directors for the Clinton Chamber o f Commerce. Nominated as candidates as listed on the ballot are: I. Mac Adair, Thomas E. Baldwin, I. A. Edwards, L. R. Gray, Charles H. Johnson, Da vis V. Pitts, L. Ray Pitts, J. C. Thonjas, W. J. Trowbridge, George itef ' Wolfe And Addison Are State Managers For Mutual Funds Wolfe and Addison, Clinton invest ment firm composed of Jim Wolfe and Tom Addison, has been ap pointed state managers for Waddell Reed, principal underwriters for United Income, Accumulative, Sci- pan demand of New York City’s Mayor for more federal aid to combat juvenile delin-'ence and Continental, and United , Fund of Canada quency. ... ‘‘Instead of assuming their own plain ob ligations. the civic-authorities prefer ... to dump all responsibility on Washington. That may not amount to an attempted pilfering of the U. S. Treasury. But—offhand it’s hard to think what else it amounts to.” Just why all the rural areas of the nation should dig up taxes to take care of big city lawlessness and inefficient management is beyond understanding and should bring a re sounding ‘‘NO’’ from the people’s representa tives in Washington. Territorial development is under way with appointment of district managers in Greenville, Spartan burg, Anderson, Greenwood; Colum bia, Charleston, and toher cities, ac cording to announcement from the local office, and it is expected that the state sales force will*exceed 200. Plans are underway for the re modeling of present office facilities to accommodate a state office at 200 N Broad Street, formerly the Bank of Clinton Building, now designated as the Insurance and Investment Building. Whitehead. The term of the five elected will begin April 1, 1958. They will serve with the following ten holdover directors: M. D. Mi lam, Jr, Harry McSween, D. B. Smith, Howard Smith, J. Leland Young, Jimmy Von Hollen, W. R. Anderson, Claude Crocker, H. L. Eichelberger, H C. Layton and Mrs. D. A. Yarborough Of the fifteen directors, five are elected each year to Serve for a three-year term. The five directors retiring this year are: J. Robert Cox, Van Jones, John Mimnaugh, R. E. Sadler, and C. T. Thomason. Chairman of the nominating com mittee, Leland Young, urges every one to vote and reminds you that your ballot must be in the Chamber of Commerce office by noon on Monday, February 24. Serving with Mr Young on this committee was W. R Anderson. M. D. Milam, Jr., Mrs. John T. Adair, and Francis Blalock. James E Wolfe, president of the Chamber of Commerce, states that the new directors will be announced at the Board of Directors meeting on March 5; also, officers for the new year will be named. CHS Loses To Laurens; Boys Win From Union By PAT CHISHOLM The Clinton High Red Devils fought a hard struggle against Laur ens there Tuesday night only to lose 58-57. After holding a big lead at the first of the game, Clinton slacked up for a short time, but it was long enough to allow Laurens to come from behind and get back in the game. The Devils battled with the Tigers fiercely the entire fourth quarter before being handed a one point loss. Heyward Nettles sparked with 19 points to s capture tugh-scorer hon ors in the season’s last game. Bobby Thomas shot 16 points; Cecil Daven port, 8; Billy Cauble, 7; and Joe Lark. 4. . The DeVilettes were also out- stored by \ Laurens 52-37. Dolly Crouch was Jiigh-scorer, shooting 16. Norma Elder dropped in 14 and Di anne Price 7. Jane Ann Davis play ed a stellar defense game. Boys Win From Union One of the most exciting games of the Clinton season was played last Friday night at Union when the Clinton boys defeated Union 53-52 The score was tied 40-40 at the end of the third quarter and was often tied during the fourth quarter, but CHS slipped by Union to a one point victory. Joe Larky, who was high-scorer with 17 points, was also outstand ing defensively. Billy Cauble put in 14 points for his team; Cecil Daven port, 4; Heyward Nettles, 10; and Bobby Thomas, 8. Clinton High’s girls were defeated 48-31 by Union. High scorer Norma Elder, shot 18 points. Dolly Crouch followed with 11, and Diane Price shot 2. Jackie Pitts, Sue Boyce, and Jane Ann Davis were oustanding de fensively. parole but without success. The last time-was. three years ago. Crisp. his brother, Eugene, and Henry Rasor, were convicted of slaying Rasor’s father, William Ra sor, wealthy Cross Hill banker and merchant. The younger Rasor and Eugene Crisp have since died in the state penitentiary. Rasor was knifed, clubbed and shot to death in his home one night in September of 1931. His blanket- wrapped body w r as later discovered stuffed in a pantry. At the trial officers testified that money troubles were a probable mo tive for the slaying. Thye said that Henry Rasor had heavy debts a.nd that his father refused to give him money tb pay them off. Col. Wyndham Manning, superin tendent of the penitentiary, said Crisp has been a “good prisoner’’ and “I hope he gets his parole.,” i IF YOU DON'T READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DON'T GET THE NEWS • Phona 74 Announcement \ We are happy to announce our appointment as State Managers for Waddell and Reed, Inc., prin cipal Underwriters for— United Accumulative Fund United Income Fund \ United Science Fund United Continental Fund United Fund, Canada State Offices are located in The Insurance and Investment Building. Wolfe & Addison State Managers 200 North Broad Street Clinton, S. C. jnncilllllMimWWMIHCaWMMWHNmHUMUWMMRMNItKWWt Lathan Crisp Will Again Request Parole I Couldn't Believe My Eyes Columbia, Feb. 13—Lathan Rob ert Crisp, Laurens County man serving a life term for a sensational 1931 murder, will make another bid for freedom later this month. The State Probation, Pardon and Parole Board will hear Crisp's pe tition for parole at a hearing Feb ruary 27. ' . Crisp has applied repeatedly for r : j*n: : : -i mki % mmm sfe*- mm .V • re. • * V* V* «W» «> VW»W«•• SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING Executive Vice President Southern State* Industrial Council Dr. Felder Smith OPTOMETRIST Phone 794 Laurens, S. C. Guns Slathered With Butter The old saying about having our cake and * eating it too has taken on a new and deep significance. There is no doubt whatsoever that military spending is due fotf a big jump +— perhaps much (bigger than the President indicated in his budget message. And, along with this, there is considerable doubt whether non defense spending will be materially reduced in any direction. Those who want the government t'o ever lastingly take on more and more respon&i- btftties, at everlastingly increasing costs, are mobilizing now. A last J ditch fight will be made to get maximum appropriations for welfare, grants to states, socialized power projects, greater farm subsidies, pork-bar rels as usual, and all manner of handouts. If this fight is successful, the nation will face two choices. One is higher taxes on top of already staggering taxes. The other is deficit 'financing and a further cheapening f-picture of the dollar—that is, more inflation. This isn’t a question of whether we shall SPENDING—AND INFLATION—UNLIMITED! We are again operating under a “spend and In flate - ’ philosophy in this country—there is no doubt about that. The Administration has lost its enthusiasm for heading off inflation, the Congress is paying little at tention to the dangers of inflation, and many individ uals seem to think a little inflation would be a good thing for our economy at the present time. .All this in face of the fact that inflation has pro duced more human misery and suffering than any thing outside of war and pestilence. Already, during the last 30 years in this country, inflation has cut in half—or more—the living standard of all those depend ing upon life insurance or savings accounts or fixed income of any sort. The Administration is now very clearly holding the! inflation fortress in a very half-hearted manner. Inj his Oklahoma City speech last November, the Presi dent said we would not sacrifice our security in this country “worshipping a balanced budget.” Then, in resenting his budget for fiscal '59, he said it was “hoped" that a pickup in our economy would cause it to be a balanced budget. Since then, in interviews with I the press, he has said that he would prefer a deficit | in the budget to an increase in taxes and that what this country reeds now is ar^’needle and not a check rain.” Nor, apparently, can we depend on Congress in this instance to ward off this danger In fact, it would seem that we can depend less on Congress than on the Administration. Whether that is because it is an elec tion year and the Congress is attempting to buy the people's votes with the people's .money, or whether Congress is still permeated with the “sputnik hyste ria that seems to cause men to lose their reason can not be sa°id—but it is true In presenting a budget for fiscal 59 of $73.9 bil lion, an increase of $1.1 billiun over that for fiscal '58, the Administration did ask for budget cuts in one di rection of $3.7 billion at the same time it was asking for a budget increase in another direction of $4.8 bil lion. The budget provided for a token surplus of $500 ..million. But Congress is not going along—and the estimates now are that we shall have deficit spending in fiscal 59 of anywhere from $2.5 billion to $3 billion. That is inexcusable in time of peace—but that Ls the way it looks Congress has gone along with the Administration’s request for increased defense money—and more; that increases the dgfecit That might be all right if ad ditional cuti 1 were made in other directions, but Con- gres is not even going along wth the Adminsitraton’s requested cuts, even though they were only a gesture in the right direction For instance, Congress will aparently—this being an election year—give Government workers a larger increase in pay than the Administration requests, and at the same time increase postal rates; that increases the deficit. It,s becoming quite clear that the budget for the Ag riculture Department for next year is too low and that Congress will make no effort to hold it down; that in creases the deficit. Congress will not go along with the postponement -of new public works; that increases the vieficit. 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