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\ « THE CUM UN CHKOMCLE “We Believe.. ” (>n the occasion of- its .'VSth anniversary, the American Farm Bureau F^eration adopted resolutions explaining its credo. These included the following: "We heheve: ... in the American competitive enter prise system. ... that a man’s search for prepress should l>c encouraged by maintenance of opportun ity. not hindered by illusions of security. . . . that a person should be rewarded in accordance with his productive contribution to society. • \\ . . . that every man is entitled to own property, earn money honestly, save, invest and spend as he chooses. . . that government’s regulatory func tions should be based on law. ^ . . . that government should provide only minimum controls and aids. An Embarrassing Comparison “The recent debate in the U. S. over ‘right- to-work’ laws, which would prohibit union- shop contracts between employers and em ployees. loaves Europeans a hit mystified and somewhat supercilious.’ says Revival Services To Begin Sunday At Lydia Methodist Week's Schedule Of Services Given For Presbyterians Thursday, March 19,1959 \ Pre-Easter revival services will A schedule of services for Holy Fortune beKin at ^ Lydia Methodist Church Week at the First-Presbyterian magazine in its February issue. “The reason ^ith^ho M Rev h Frank Manrans as (hurch has boin ann(>uncod by ^ countries leader The services will continue P aslor * ^ r - Re<kl Turner. through Friday evening. March 27. Evimts are slated every day du- Rev James Williams, minister of ring the pre-Easter week, beginning the church, states that everyone is Sunday, and closing Sumlay the 29th. . . . that government should stimulate, iiseourage individual initiative.” not Britain Learns zed for dor “Britain’s 13-year-old experiment in so cialism, it now appears, is being written off as a failure. Private enterprise emerges stronger than ever.” Thus speaks U. S. News & World Report in a detailed feature article. These and other such findings come from highly authorita tive sources, including a parliamentary com mittee. indii'Strial and management organi- -ations and other experts. Matters have even reached the point where the Labor Party, which carried the banner of full socialism for s<> long, is changing its stand. In general terms, the magazine sums up certain facts that have emerged. One is that efficiency in the nationalized industries has tended to be lower than in comparable pri vate industries Another is that nation enterprises have higher running cost the reason that their managers aren’t the same pressure to keep in the black private i-nterpnse managers; the gmer pak* up the tab for luase* A third ii pr ues m national .zed industriea are k« tdiciailjr low b-r political reasons, be rriatioasfctp to costa, aad t he reeult ut I (atas. Aad. s iir|Mree it «<me. labor rvlstsaos have ha ~istioaah«s«l tatergnae t han *i rpnsa. and la ceataia fields they have been much w«r«a As a apart!ir exaatpie. U. S. News drarnbaa m Sat has happened la coal, oae at the basic ■pcialtaed hy the Labor Parte he* and I9AI More than a btltan dal* a poured into the m.ne* to m*-l- ntain '.hem and the caaJ labor by 11 000 Yet the real la 1997 than «a 1991 nwre have <««« coaataaC deflrtta. aamwat- ng to 179 anliaa over a Id-year parted And uuwblea have barn rampart, nsusing • m the Hher hand t which wm rafuraad to pet earn Map anar a tmef povwd elate ohat t It News terms PrediwtJuA ha* greadtjr e%paadsd. a pcwftt ha* twee earaad and pnewe have been to. w Wages are t *gh by llntlah ataadards is simply while most European ■have thriving and powerful trade-union movements, they have largely avoided the type of labor contract that forces a worker to join a union before he gets a job (closed shop) or after he obtains one (union shop).; In every country, strong pressure to join a union is, of course, applied by fellow work ers,out this is something different from the kind of legal coercion that exists in the U. S.” England is»a g<xnl example. There a larger percentage of the total labor force is organ ized than in the United States. But, with a very few exceptions, all workers can join or; not join a union, as they please. They have complete freedom of choice. And this, believe it or not. suits labor leaders. The ex-presi dent of Britain’s powerful Trade Union Con gress has said: “. . . There is a fundamental issue here of the right of the individual to say whether or not he would become associat ed with other people . . To quote Fortune again, “The over-all ex- \ REV. FRANK MANNING invited to attend the services. Pas tors of other Lydia churches will assist in the nightly services. Mr. Manning is pastor of Central perience of Germany, Italy, France, and Eng land clearly indicates that open-shop condi-; Methodist Church in Laurens. He tions are compatible with a strong labor * s a n ab Ve Abbeville, and is a movement. This is an extremely uncomfort able fact for U. S. argue vociferously labor-union leaders, who 1954 graduate of Wofford College, and Candler School of Theology, Emory University, in 1956. Mr. that state right-to-work Manning served a pastorate at Following is the schedule: Sunday, March 22, 11:00 a. m.-. Sermon: “The Triumphal Entry.” 'Monday, 12:00 noon to 6:00 p. m. —Prayer and meditation in the sanctuary. Tuesday, 10:00-11:00 a.m .—Bible study by Mrs. E. J. Reynolds of Greewood. Wednesday. 10:00 a. m.—Bible study; 7:30 p. m.—Preparatory for Communion. TTiursday, 7:30 p. m.—Candlelight Communion service. Friday, 2:30 p. m—Communi cants class; 3:00 p. m.—Good Fri day service. Sunday, March 29 (Easter), 6:30 a. m.—Sunrise service (Johnson Field); 9:45 a. m.—Church school; 1:00 a. m.—Sermon: “Resurrection Faith.” laws are simply a form of ’union busting’.” Clearwater and Carolina Heights,! North Augusta .before coming to : Central Church in Laurens in Sep tember of 1956. Howard Byers, choir director, j will lead the congregational sing- j mg. Special music uill be provided! [ each evening. The Whitten Village : Babson Park. Mass. March 19-To read "*Ut I ^ t***™**™ <* Joseph i some of the very best columnists are writing today ^ Ea * ter music at ^ you would think that the United States is on the brink ci war with Russia Furthermore, these men *«ulf r0 ? ****. <*"* ^ hr botlrr informed than I am However. I do wish | Lr«ka p eoteco«ul Holiness Church to (dd my two rents worth" to what they sre writ World War HI Babson Discusses lit VVtON IN BERLIN Without doubt the Berlin situauoa is senous Un- r<« Kruschev backs doom on bis threat, we could be b World War III within a rouple of months: but 1 finite!) doubt »uch an event aad here is my reo on No aatMio will wart a world war with i- - T ntst or other ouasttes until B has ia wortaMr aati-muafk Hus la a very la^ortaa! ahr w wwhout any mmmtioa NaturaRy wort highly UtajfWW. otueh mnaan eery eeeret. hut « t estremady difficult to h*op eta •orret Bunua wil also sing during the services. The Lydia Methodist Church choir will render special music other nights Only Two Highway Cases Heard At Civil Court Term involving sppeuli from twooR Ur* h f«f«m in the 1947-97 nod British wo>s ( urpi r.’ion droppod |79 gmeminent owned iable and just mam ft t to break even. And the don’t include internment BMuatnnce for cap- tal-inveutment programa. Meanwhile, pri vate enterphaes have been proapering, have paid their own way, have financed expanaion and improvement out of earnings and by private investment, and, as a rule, give bet ter service at lower coat. This, in brief outline, ia why socialiam has produced a vast amount of expensive dis illusionment in England. The effects prom ise to be far-reaching indeed. The U. S. News article ends: “One result ia that politi cal lines are being redrawn. “In effect, more and better capitalism is the new campaign slogan of Britain’s Labor Party. Old-fashioned socialism is quietly be ing ditched.” 0« Now BoaCoa. N H i* the first to prim an “Aa^Gravtty referred to it in their lecture*, hut oever la; - _ Finally in answer to the offer of an award of j V.Qnip r ire VSIflS U.W0. two men in June 1*S. won oor of ihe Fou:. Cdebrofe BirHldov dal ion a essay contest* They were Guuaspi Coceonl R • r . c of the astronomical department of Harvard Univer DCQin Landy Sole thy and Ed* hi Sal peter of the Nuclear Laboratory The week of March 15-22 is being of Cornell University The technical subject of their observed throughout the United essay was the 1 Anisotropy of Inertia ” In simple lay man’s language this refers to "Anti-Gravity ” Up to the present time all “anti-missile” work has been done on the bask assumption that both the New t&man Mechanics and Einstein's General Relativity are unchangeable and that these especially apply to Gravitation and Inertia. If it can be shown that this basic assumption is not true, an entirely new aspect and approach must be made to anti-missile studies I believe that both Russia and Germany a^e making such anti-missile studies. I sincerely hope that the United States will cease ridiculing anti-gravity, es pecially in connection with anti-missile missiles. CLINTON, S. €.. THURSDAY, MARCH H, 1959 ®l?r (£ lint mi fflhrnntrlp "^nMfiTrrl 1999 ' ^ inly 4, 1889 — WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS — Jnae 13. 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance) One Year $3.00, Six Months $200 Out-of-County One Year $4 00 Second Class Postage Paid at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers — the publisher will at all times appreciate wise sugget ions 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 correspondents. Member: South Carolina Press Association. National Editorial Association States a* birthday week for the Camp Fire Girls Members are Mearing their uniform to school and church in observance of the occa sion. Camp Fire and Blue Bird girls in the Kadoka district have begun the sale of candy to help finance sum mer camp. F Camp will be held this year at Camp York near York and will be the week of June 6-12 for both Camp Fire and Blue Birds in the Kadoka district. Thornwefl Dunlap, Jr. To Manage Brandi Bank Thomwell Dunlap, Jr., will man age the South Main Street office of the County Bank in Greenwood, which will open early in June. Dunlap, the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Thomwell Dunlap of Clinton, has been a member of the staff of the County Bank since December. A 1953 graduate of Clemson College, and serving a three-year tour with the Army, he was employed for two and a half years by the Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. in Charlotte. Mr and Mrs Dunlap, the former Miss Martha Harviey of Greenwood, have two children IT TOO DOWT READ THE CMBOmCLC too dowt err the we 14 PROTECT POLISH on SILVER and other METALS' j Hashes off Easily | HARMLESS. 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