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4 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, April 23, 1959 » Mental Malady An Oregon Conprrewman recently sent an extensive questionnaire to his constituents asking for their views on current and pend ing 1 federal legislative matters. Among other things he listed,- for pro or con answers, all manner of federal spending projects. One of the voters returned the question naire with a “yes” vote in favor ol each and every spending proposal. Hut he added a comment: “If so much money wasn’t given to federal aid. taxes could easily be lowered. Let’s all urge more saving and less spend ing." Here is a perfect example of a mental mal ady that seems to affect millions of citizens. They just don’t seem,to connect ever-grow ing government with ever-growing costs and taxes. They seem to think that the govern ment can do the impossible and give us much fojr nothing. So long as that blindness is prevalent, the pressure on the government to spend, and spend, and spend, and tax, and tax, and tax. will be virtually irresistible. Home Away From Home Burns, Kansas, has a population of only 310. But the Institute of International Edu cation ha< presented the people of Burns with its coveted award for distinguished service. The award was given for the achieve ment of the Burns people in creating a home away from home for foreign students from all parts of the world. Since 1%4, young men and women of every race and creed have Keen welcomed into the homes of the Bums farmer,' the cabinet-maker, the minister, the businessman, the teacher. A foreign student characterized the distinctive character of the little town in these words: “Bums is on the way to and from even, - where.” The first visitors were 10 foreign students from the University of Kansas. Not only did they return, but they brought with them friends from campuses across the country. In five years. 77 students from 37 coun- , tries—Hindus. Christians and Buddhists— have come to Bums not once but many times. | The magnitude of thin can be seen in a sim- | pie statistic—if the city of Waahington, with j its HOO.OOO pojHilaTion. had opened its hemes on a cumparalde scale, it would have had , l**2,ooo guests from abroad during that time! i It has been said that “Bums la the small- rst L\ S community with the biggest foreign diplomatic service in the world.** Bums de- ! *ervew a salute that can be hoard around the *s,rld. 19&2. The Complete Welfare State “If lary* infusions of democracy and l* S a.d were the ««*>. ajtianaUr antidotes to '<*> kwardaase and poverty that they are often SAsumad to he mineral-rich Bolivia (pop t.3im.oooi should be a paradise ....** says T ft:r K<dr>w.ng the resolution of manner of *Jlege«t reforms were u m the country/1nrludtaf the world’s moat comprehensive «•> unty system. ’Our Bolivian government took over the country** tin mines, its major resource The L*. S provided 1129 million .n aid ovur a six-year period— 'more Yankee aid dollar* per Bolivian than for any other people on earth.” In the Bolivian welfare state, the worker* word hardly at aM Benefits to quote Time again, include “a 13th month’* pay as a holi day bimua. a 14th month’s pay aa profit-shar ing. full pay while striking, fixed weekly over time whether worked or not. a law pro hibiting firing* and layoffs.** Private em ployers must pay a sum equal to 60 per cent of payroll to social security. One manufac turer has offered, without success, to give his plant to the union. < What has happened under all this to the Bolivian economy ? Income ha* plummeted downward. Inflation has gone wild—where the boliviano w-a* valued at 200 to the dollar in 1962. last January ’* quotation was 11,900. Apparently all that is keeping the Bolivian economic wreck afloat is continuing U. S. aid. Those Americans who think that their own country can use more and more welfare- statism might take a look Southward. Dun & Bradstreet observes: “96 per cent of all failures in business are from the ranks of non-advertisers. Only 5 per cent of those who fail are advertisers.” How To Lose J The cold war is being fought on economic fronts throughout the world, and the bat tle’s becoming increasingly bitter. Trade is one of the most powerful of weapons. We are, as yet, the world’s greatest trad ing nation. That means, to many people, that our position in the economic cold war is im pregnable. However, as President McDonnell of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States points out: "We cannot win that war if we permit our products to be priced out of world markets by inflation.” He cites the in creasing sale of foreign products, including automobiles and steel, in this country and abroad. In some circles, there is a belief that infla tion has been temporarily checked, and that prices will be stable or virtually so this year. But that optimism could prove to be based on quicksand. If. for instance, we are on the verge of another big federal deficit—which is certainly possible if not probable — it is difficult to see how further degradation of the dollar can be avoided. 1 Trophy To Bo Awarded Relay Team At State Meet Stevenson To Continue Studies Of Housmon Poetry BABSON DISCUSSES UNEMPLOYMENT Babson Park. Mass., April 23—Readers must be disturbed by hte contrary reports from Washington about the employment situation. One report claims there are more employed today than were a year ago. —or perhaps ever—while another report says there arc more unemployed than a year ago. Probably both of these claims are correct. It is easily possible, ow ing to the natural growth in population and to other factors which I will now enumerate FOUR REASONS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT (1) Manufacturers, retailers, and labor are pricing themselves out of business Most investors put all the blame on labor; but each group wants more and tnes Dr. John W. Stevenson, chairman of the Presbyterian College English department, has received a grant A 40-inch trophy will be awarded Trom the Southern Fellowship'Fund in memory of the late Walter A to complete his study of the poetry Johnson at the state intercollegiate °f A. E. Housman this summer, track and field meet in Columbia on i He already has done a consider- May 9. able amount of research on Hous- A plaque bearing a likeness of man and has had two previous ar- Johnson and the trophy will be tides on the poet published in the awarded awarded the winning relay South Atlantic Quarterly, team. Dr. Stevenson has been a member The relay event of the state meet of Presbyterian College faculty wifl be designated the Walter John- slnce ^- except for one year dur- son Relays and members of the win- ! ng taught at Millsaps Coi ning team will have their names en- 1 e ^d®^ the English de- graved on the big trophy each year., P artment f o r the past year. Dr. D. S. Pope, chairman, and David G. Ellison of Columbia, have U >mmunity WSpel been named on a committee to se- Singers To AppCOf cure contributions for the trophy, j ^ c ommwity g^, singers Dr. Pope s address us 1116 Mender- wil , appear , n a big two hour Gos . son ^ ou a. p^j Concert at the Joanna Pentecos- Johnsort, who died last July, was tal Church Saturday evening, April for 43 years head of the athletic de- 25. All singers and musicians are partmem at Presbyterian College, j invited to attend. Rev. C. J. Sex- and was founder of the state track ton, pastor, states that other talent will also be there. The program will begin at 7:30. meet, which, until last year, was! held at Presbyterian. Junior Legion Baseball Plans Getting Underway Plans for the Junior American Legion baseball began to take shape this week with final arrangements; being made to secure and get into shape the Clinton Mill baseball park 1 as the home field of the Clinton Juniors. Through the generosity of Joanna Cotton Mill officials, the Joanna park has been used in recent years as the home base for the Clinton team. This year, however, activities will be transferred to the Clinton field to raise prices or wages to secure Legion officials expressed appre- additional money Finally, the pub- ciation to the Joanna officials for lie buys fewer goods, which re- allowing use of their baseball plant, suits m retailers laying off clerks CUnton ^ ^ ^ manufacturers lay mg off worker, ^ ^ their k ^ It is a merry-go round, wnth all fity officul# Monday nijfh( groups to blame to make power available for light- (2) Government imposes taxes for ||)g defense, social security, old age, , „ ^ „ pension, farm and foreign m*. A *° ° I ut shor, '> ,or aU road building etc The* taxes make h^r^trdJ U mor LegM* player* to meet with their coach. Dan Kirby U*f»r W everywnr mj»j ana wr unronsriuuk ly take it out on labor by reducing the number of ° °* nna our employee* P »* expected that this year's team i» F«m,n import, *** • , _ the tram that went almost all the Low wages m Germany Italy. Ja«*n. and other „ y , Mt )PJir out a p, a ,. countries enable these nauou* to expart to ns all uif orth Greenwood, the team that sf manufactured products at low prices which went to the national finals em manufacturer' caanot meet THu it even | the foreign manufacturer* pay the import du taw Yet we dare not raise these duties for fear these nalio— w id rea*e to be mtr tllire and turn to Rus- <aa E»er> store in your city is rarrymg ed gaod* When yon boy them you ore putting imenrafi wage workers out of a yob Yet oe buy these good* or K •e will |wte a » <«l Man* Fofher Of Resident Posses In Soludo *eaiU Padget rnly April 7 Henry ied *ixk IM •- at Sail tide ore Funeral Thursday, Spring* B, krttiees were held on April f. at the Richland ptist Church by the Rex to hire at very >>ailai and Rev H L low ■ ages or are These change i and throw wage i'r*' or markets of emi IMPLOYMEVT n - age wueksr He J L Pi Hoexrr Mr Padgett waa a retired farmer and rattleman and was active in remmural) and rburch affair* He ta surxivsd by k*a wife. Mat tie Padgett, and three Chd Mr* Joe Mr Darnel at this at QS • nfyi Ernest W. t of Batesburg and for kii * Henry of Mobile Ala. and five grandcbsktrefi. two sisters. Mrs Fred Nettles, of Orangeburg and Mr* Lambert Matthew* of Bate* to logtsiate <21 FOt B WAY* TO 1MRLW 111 I bebrxe in the Amenran wi fair and mtriltgrul Unfor.unately on M-odrr know* that la bold hi* ooo SO per year, bo must get wage member* Tku be does by in bis threats to i mgil yen by the *oie* TV moot hetpdul dung C that all strike vote* shall be by me ret The U S Justice by When do to either to raise price* or to mg coots As a mult certain » _ thrown out of work Might it not be fair to period of time—agreed upon in prices are raised or any employees discharged’ 411 rely the -stockholder* should be willing to ..me temporary sacrifice when they vote for consolidatloas. (31 Both aging employer* and wage worker* should take advantage of Social Security and gladly retire from active work when reaching sixty-fi\e roprssrntalirr has been announced years of age The simplest method of decreasing un paui L ^ Greenville. I employment would be to reduce the legal work week carolna state chairman of to 35 hour*; but this would result m more foreign imports and ‘the cure would be worse than the dis- ^SO is a federation of voluntary ease ” Ptease note that I include the older officer* agenci ^ through which the Amer of corporations as well as the wake workers To re- people as . sls t in serving the duce unemployment among the younger K™ 1 !*. : social, welfare and rec more of them should be sent to college. reational needs of men and women (4) Let me close by saying that the basic diffi- uniform. USO secures its finan- culty is that both employers and wage workers are c j a i support primarily through in "cold wars" with other nations. These economic united Funds and is a participating wars will be settled fairly only when all groups are agency of the State Budget Plan of willing to "give and take.” Employers, wage work- (; arf »|inas United. Laurens County Mr sad Mr* Charlie McDunsrl Mr and Mr* Hamp Me Darnel. Mr* R C. Stewart. Mr* Mack Poole. Mr* Leroy and Mr* G B Goldsmith R. C. Adoir Homed USO Representative The appointment of R. C. Adair, executive viee-pce*xient of M S. Bailey and Son, Bankers, of Clinton. as the United Service Organizations MIDWAY DRIVE-IN THEATRE The Largest & Finest” Clinton, S. C. Last Times Tonight Tony Curtis—Janet Leigh —in— “The Perfect Furlough” In Cinemascope & Color FRIDAY-SATURDAY Double Feature Program Hit No. 1 Could He Kill 5 Murderers In A Hurry? Also Hit No. 2 Miss Hallett Will Study Special Education Program Dr B. 0. Whitten of Whitten Vil lage announces that Miss Norma E. Hallett left recently for New York City to be in consultation with di rectors who work in special educa tion. Her trip to New York is for the purpose of making preparation to supervise a work shop for teach During the past ten years, enrollment in Smith schools has grown at the average rate of 10,600 pupils per year. KEEP UP YOUR HOMEf-UARD! With you out of the pictuvo ... would your widow be able to keep your home? Or would the mortgage be too much to handle? There’s an insurance plan that costs very little, yet, pays your mortgage in full if something happens to you. It’s Life of Virginia’s mortgage redemption plan. Call me for facts and figure*. T. C. RAY Phone 395-W or R. F. LONG Phone 1317 (’all Us For Facts and Figures THE LIFE INSUMAfUCE COMPANY OF VIRGINIA ers of special education in the pub College will sponsor the program be lie schools of odr state. Winthrop' ginning June 8 and ending June 26. 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News. • • Sports It’s 1419 ON YOUR DIAL WPCC R A f I AI>WAY# ( I IM TUMI I armt tom «l I O ABC NETWORK FOR LAURENS COUNTY ers. and consumers must all be willing to abide by the Golden Rule rather than use force; strikes are only legalized wars. Also, all of us must be willing to fight the liquor evil, which is one of the causes of un employment. CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 23. 1854 Ull?? (Clinton (C!?rnntrlp EaUbfaked 1M6 Jaty 4, 1881 — WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS — June 13, 1865 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY ~ —I . I. II I .. ■■I— „ ■ I..I- I.. ....l Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance) ... One Year $3.00, Six Months $2.00 Out-of-County One Year $4.00 Second Class Postage Paid at CUnton, S. C. The Chraude 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 •r ophaonr of its correspondents. Carotins Prera Association National Editorial supports USO through the Commu nity Chest of Greater Clinton. CUnton accepts its fair share quo ta as a home town responsibility in recognition of the 711 men who are now serving in the Armed Forces from Laurens County. Mr. Adair said on his appoint ment, Though USO is not in opera tion in our community, we still have an obligation to meet wherever our men and women go. These 267 clubs must be kept open.” Austin Promoted Wirti Insurance Co., Replaced By Rhodes J. 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