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\ 6 ./ THE CLIN I ON CHRONICLE Input And Output Formor Conjrressman Samuel H. IVtten- irill observe^: “In recent years society has Rone ‘nuts’ on the cuU of security guaran teed by government. Tn short, a nation of parasites. The illusion of the ape is that peo- j>h‘ can vote thcmselves rich. ... It is a fable ami a fraud that the output of society can be creater-than the input of individuals." Th s' dependence on pavernntent, ipore- over, has been a primary cause-of* th* infla tion that has cut the purchasing power of the dollar in half in a shert span of years. And. while that has been going on, the govern ment has been taking more and more of those degraded dollars in taxes. On the average, each of us works twi> hours and sixteen min utes out of an eight-hour day tojneet the tax bills. F<hh1 costs, by contrast, take only an hour and liS minutes of \\x>rk. There’s a wklesprejitl belief that detense and related neevls make any substantial re duction in government spending out of this question. That belief is not founded in fact. Senator Byrd of Virginia points out that re cent great increases in federal spending have not been for defense, atomic projects, or for eign aid. Since 1954. expenditures outside these categories have increased from $19.1 billion to about $34 billion—a jumpofjTS per cent. And much of that cam be laid dargelv at the door of the let-the-govemment-do- everything trend. a !' The Worse For Wear The tail-feathers of that dove of peace that appears to have replaced the eagle as our national emblem are in embarrassing disarray. The latest in Khrushchev’s shako advises the world that we won’t, after all. fly the Ber lin corridor above the 10,000 foot ceiHng that the Kremlin has imposed. Secretary of State Herter explains that the President has stud ied the matter and ruled out higher flying because there was no ‘‘operational necessity” for it. This seemed quite necessary for turbo prop planes a little while ago, but perhaps we’ll use World War f biplanes now. And Castro’s kepi is beginning to look like Closing The Vote Gap It has been fashionable for some years now to wring our hands and ask: “Why don’t jjebple vote?” Also, a little later in the year, it has been the dutiful thing to join, in a desultory sort of way. the annual “Get Out the Vote” chorus. Neither of these activities has produced spectacular results. And no propaganda the enemies of our system can hurl at us hurts .much as th^ plain truth that, in the 1956 I'lvsitlential election, 40 per cent of our qual ified voters failed to cast a ballot to protect the most envied freedoms known to man and :j> advance the prestige of their amntry as the leader of the free world. But; in this crucial- year of 1960, The American Legion is spearheading a broadly- conceived drive of ever-widening participa tion by private industry, patriotic and civic orgapizations with the determinal goal of bringing out the largest vote in the nation’s history. The Legion is to be congratulated for see ing the need and enlisting the active aid of business in this colossal, nation-wide, non partisan "Let’s All Register! Let’s All Vote!” campaign. Nothing in its perennial and con tinuing Americanization program could be more needed or more practical. „It should have the fullest cooperation of all Americans, in and out of business, who realize that an alert electorate is essential to freedom—and Clinton Davidson that the historically unique experiment of American representative government under a Constitution ratified 173 years ago is at the cross-roads. BUT PM TOO YOUNG TO DIE!” — ■■■■"«■— — FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. Eleazer Clemson College Information Specialist • '4- /’/ This Week in Washington Babson Discusses Railroad Stocks New Form Program Congress at the halfway marie for ders, stabilization pools into which Babson Park. Mass . March 24—The railroad stocks have not been acting well recently The Dow Jones • rails.” which sold at an average high of 155 at the beginning of the year, now sell at 145. The main point of this week's column is to emphasize that it is a msitake to think of the railroads as a whole There are four distinct groups and these should be recognized by every investor. COMMITER" AND SHORT-HAUL RAILROADS Practically all railroads are losing money on pas- venger business: but the so-called commuter roads— ^ an Faster bonnet after pushing Americans which haul passengers from the suburbs to the big ^ enacted, would place pri- cities in the morning and take them home again at mar> . responsibility upon farmer- night. with their employees and pipped representatives for initiating equipment idle a good part of ** and developing new programs, corn- day—are Very unfortunate A cam-' this session is pretty well agreed this week that it will not pass a gen eral farm bill this year, despite rec ommendations by President Eisen hower that it do so. Legislators from farming areas however, are making a start toward the kind of farm legislation they hope the next Congress will con- I skier, begnmtng in January of next 'year Some twenty - odd congressmen have introduced identical bills around at will, seizing their property, accus ing us of complicity in the Havana munitions ship explosion and flinging back in his teesth Secretary Herter’s protest of this next-to- last insult. In Panama, the plumage won by defiling the American flag and destroying US Canal Zone property may yet be augmented by the “right" (over which the President seems highly uncertain) to fly the Panamanian flag over the Canal Zone. And at laStfeport the Secretary of State has gone home feeling ill. We don’t feel so good, ourselves. farmers would put their product for collective bargaining with buy ers, such m the big chain stores, and compensatory payments such as those now in effect on wool and sugar. STEP BY STEP PROCEDURE The first step toward develop ment of a new program would be a request by an organization of producers for conference with the Secretary of Agriculture. If the Secretary agreed that a new pro gram was needed he would call an election in which producers of the commodity would elect a nine-man committee of producers to develop a program When approved by that commk- n*r»r w. B*b*oa Infectious Hermit Crabs Few living men have seen so much • his tory, l*oth as participant and observer, as Herbert Hoover. The other .day he spoke before a religious group. He pointed out that Marxist thinking was plaguing the country, and that “more leaders of the Christian faiths need to realize the ultimate end of this infection among us." Then he made a memorable observation: ‘The real meaning and purpose of socialism is the governmental operation of all com merce and industry* and the reduction of life to pure materialism. "This infection creeps through our nation by deluded and misled men and by disguised organizations, fronts and cults. These agents of infection are like hermit crabs which crawl into such terms as ‘liberal,’ ’progressive,’ ‘public electric power,’ ‘managed economy,’ ‘the welfare state,’ and a half-dozen others.” Hartford, Ky., Nev ■ . ’’Roman tax collec tors, we learn from Newsweek magazine, nicked Vice Chairman Giovanni Agnelli of Italy’s big Fiat auto works a mere $92,000 in income tax on his 1958 salary of $638,000. If Fiat and Signor Agnelli were in Detroit, the magazine points out, his take-home pay would have l>een $462,000 less—or about 13 cents |>er carnal dollar.” Phillips, Wise., Bee: “Instead of individ uals in the states contributing extra money to the federal government in order that the federal government.may dole out educational han<k>uts, wouldn’t it be far better if the states themselves would collect that same money and ham! rt back to the individual dis tricts in the state?” . modity by commodity. paign is now on to eliminate thus House Agriculture Commit-1 tee the program would be submitted business and switch it to buses, pv- tee pi arys ^ hold hearings through to the Secretary of Agriculture. If ing the buses preferred terminal fa- ^ ^ spring on bibs, but not to push ^ it involved expenditure of more than cilines and certain traffic prefer. j or a vote ^ t j iem jjy Congress $20,000,000 in any one year, the Sec- ences in order to increase their ^ feature j s that ret ary would refer it to the Senate speed “7 they would permit farmers to vote and House Agriculture Committees. The second group consists of j n c loosing the kind of legislation If not disapproved within 90 days roads which operate lesss than two wan t, subject to approval by by either of those committees the hundred miles of track. These are Congress. program would be offered growers losing both passenger and freight FAMILY FARM INCOME ACT in a referendum. If approved by business The shipper can load his goods on trucks at ;yi of the bilk carry- the title two-thirds of those voting it would his factory door and theiks trucks will deliver at the -panuiy Farm Income Act of 1960.” become effective. If not, then the dealer s or customer s door For this reason the se -p^y have two primary objectives, program already in effect before curkies of these short-haul roads are not attractive to First, to strengthen the income and the referendum would contmue. investors, with certain exceptions such as the coal security of family farms and, sec- The bills include two specific roads of West Xirgiiua These 1 call the gravity to place principal responsibil- prohibitions. No payment in excess roads because the loads from the mines go down jty for program development and of $10,000 shall be made to any one hill' to the seacoast with great saving in tiw^jise of financing on farmers rather than farmer in a year, and no provision power, and in fact some of them generate ^electric on the government. could be included that would require power, enroute which helps the return of the empty Under this proposal _ Congress the government to buy, lend on, cai> would make available a number of store any agricultural com TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROADS alternative program methods, or Arguments for the bilk are that Th'ese are roads operating from Chicago to the Pa- combination of methods, which crfic Coast and. as yet. they are not affected by com- farmers would be permitted to use. petion from trucks Recently, on the Sanie Fe Super Among those would be establish- Chief. 1 was a passenger on a beautiful train having rnent of marketing quotas or goals eleven cars and two diesel engines and a total of only among the states, counties and pro seventy-six passengers. The piggy-back" expen- ducers. merits are successful in certain localities, while the: Others would include broader use automatic switching yards are hripmg such roads as of marketing agreements and or tho St. Louis- San Francisco. The transcontinental * rails appear to be about the best holdings. My favonte groups of railuroads, in fact, are those transcontinentaLs which also own large acreages con taining forests and minerals This especially is true of the Union Pacific, the Northern Pacific, the Ca nadian Pacific, and the Alcluson, Topeka and Santa ^ m<>st irresponsible tactic em- counters. There is a great opportun- Fe. I have been told by the president of one of these ployed against the South in recent ity ^^re for those with intiative and roads that all passenger business and a proportion of years is the lunch counter sit-down. ar ^ ltlon , v j i the freight could be eliminated and the road could i. ; s of course a chean oubUcitv- , . Wn ?. ***, 10 1,6 <kk P* ored * continue to pav its present dividends from oil. mining. ’ V. , ’ * or bring disorder and unrest to and forest royalties -‘seeking move designed to unake a communities that have enjoyed Li-n-nr nt-rur R4iimAr>s ruckus at the time of thh “civil many years of peace and good rela- HTURE OF THE K o _ , rights” debate. But the si* downs tkms between the races. Negro dem- I have '»•**'■**<' cym^ouon from ar( . ^ s 01Ktratore .-tuch art- a betor in Uk declme u, loag-haal p^sen- ^ N ^ u«t the, camot bludgeon their we, ^ business It will he a tons t,™,. however, brfwe ln the ^ hBrt j, ced ! inUl aoeeptatxe b^white person, freight-canymg aeptanes wdl ^ severe comped agitators (inspired b, the TTte colored person who forces hi, t<>rs irLjtl TVk'm..:.; thai comnsvaiivel 'Ommiurv.isi who want to push the way into a social situation where taend of ^railroads Tins means that comparative!, ^ objective ofthese he is not wanted displays a peculiar , 'roads wed be gvmn op. *™«of the fac troublc . mak e rei „ Senator Riclntrd-lack of ondorsiandii ofthedvait, , arc able to operate, wink- anplanc travel. R|Bse|| (D Ga ) ^ inf<)rm(!d common to de^nTpeopie. H» wL nation, is to provoke racial riots, vanccment of the colored people can By creating grave racial incidents, only be set back as they rely on they hope to stir the country to de-, force and abuse to gain greater ac- manding ugly Reconstruction-type ceptanee. measures against the Southern peo- The race agitation movement in pie ' the South, unpleasant and unreason such a program would (1)' greatly reduce farm program costs, (2) halt the build-up of surpluses in government hands, and (3) make available to farmers many of the bargaining advantages given organ ized labor in the Wagner Act 25 years ago. MARKETING AT PAGELAND Pageland has grown into quite a | watermelon growing center. This; has been greatly aided by the mar keting arrangements they have de veloped there. County Agent Willis tells me the Pageland Marketing Authority and cootpenative State Ag- riclutural Marketing Commissions are moving their marketing facility there out of town to a 13-acre tract of land on which six 100-foot sheds, a gate office, restaurant, and two packing sheds will be erected. Although originally started as a melon market, they have grown into handling a lot of cantaloupes, and considerable fruits and vegetables, too. Having outgrown their facility in town, they now move out where there’s ample room to operate and expand. * * * . IT’S STILL MANALUOE When it comes to a good disease- resistant tomato for long bearing in the home garden, it’s still hard to beat the Manalucie variety. Our Dr. Epps, who has bred some mighty good tomatoes concurs in this. He points out that we harve better com mercial sorts, where you want a lot of tomatoes quick. But for the borne garden, where expert dbeaefe con trol measures will not likely be practiced, and where you wont some good tomatoes ever a long growing season, the Manalucie gets the nod. In our garden they have consist ently lived and produced kmger than Rutgers and Big Boy without spray ing A dozen hills, two plants to the hill, staked, pruned, mukhed, and watered as needed have consistently given us all we could use, plus quite a few given away. And those we picked green before frost have giv en us tomatoes until mid-November. * * * HONEYDEWS IN BARNWELL Ctemson’s Bkackville station has been working on the growing of the famed honeydew melon for years. Dr. Fred Cohoon is in charge of that work apd he has about worked ou the practical Ionics in growing it. Is is a specialty crop, he points out, and should not be planaed indis criminately. County Agent Griffith tells me they plan to grow about 200 acres of these melons on select demonstration fields down there, un der the close supervision of Dr. Co hoon. The firm from Texas that handled the crop last year is inter ested in doing so again. Dr. Cohoon points out that last year proved to be a very unfavorable one weather- wise, and if they could grow some good honey dews despite this, they feel they can do a lot better when the weather break is better. ♦ * * County Agent Willis of Chester field reports: “A doubling of farm through better use of ferti lizer and lime, based on soil tests, was offered as a possibility at soil fertility meetings over the county the past fall.’’ And, of course, all of the other good practices go along with that, too. But unless the soil reaction is right neither they nor fertilizer used can pay off best. And it takes lime, if that soil reaction is not right already. Only a soil test can show how a soil stacks up on its linu* requirement .All don’t need it. But many do Clemson will test them for you. «Ask your county agent about this service! * * * BOYS ARE THAT WAY Where I was raised it was never called the Civil War. It was called the War Between the States. And that was so ingrained in me that I still feel funny when'I hear some one call it the Civil War. My granddad was all through that bitter struggle and he talked of it at length, as long as anyone would list en He spoke only of its glories and their successes. From hearing him talk, I thought we won that war, was sure of it, and gloried with him as he pictured beating the yankees on many a field, although greatly outnumbered. It was at about the age of 12 or 13, in the old country school, that I came to that part of our history and learned the bewildering fact for the yhursday, March 24, 1960 first time that wie tout that war! At first I couldn’t accept it and had to be assured by the teacher and my parents that we did sort of lose H, but after whipping the pants off of^ tVe enemy on most of the battle, fields, they assured me. Well, that w..s about the greatest mental set- bzrk I've ever bad It took me a long time to accept it. When I went to college I took his- under a teacher who was steep ed in Southern traditions. And to \ him it was the War Between the States, and nothing else. If anyone called it Civil War in his classroom, he would run ’em out. He said that made traitors out of every Southern soldier. He said it was not civil war, as up to that time it had never been determined that a state couldn’t se cede if it chose to. One of the New : England states had threatened to do i the same thing some years before. .And some historians claim our con- ^ stilution did not prohibit it then. But i the matter was settled by the sword in one of the bloodiest wars ever fought. And now we are a united country. - I noted some time ago the emi nent newspaper man, Bill Work man,, referred to it as “Hie North ern Aggression.” * But to me it is K sure not the Civil War. Guess it’s ' all in the way you are rained. OFFICE SUPPLIES At CHRONICLE PUB. CO. Phone 74 THE LUNCH COUNTER SIT-DOWN By THURMAN SENSING. Executive Vice-President Southern States Industrial Council few railroads will be gvien up. because of the fact;] Shat tiey ai is undependable However, much duplicate track and | some competing rail lines will be eliminated. All of the above means that a large percentage —the railroads will become government-owned under tfrie Department of Defense I believ r e that the railroad bonds will be indirectly assumed by the government and that the preferred stocks will be treated fairly As to the common stocks: The government will base prices for these on their average quotations during the preceding year. < • I close by calling readers' attention to my open mg paragraph . that railroads should not be con sidered as a whole, but that each railroad should be considered separately when deciding whether ks Make no mistake, the sit-downs aren’t spontaneous local move ments The NAACP has announced it is 100 hundred per cent behind the able as it has been since the Su preme Court’s May 17, 1954 decree, has taken the line of legal maneu ver If Negroes reject the legitimate disturbances. The Congress of substituting public processions, CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1960 ulljp (Clinton (Cfyronirl? , Estabttdied 1M0 July 4, 1889 - WILLIAM 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 Out-of-County _ f — One year $4.00 Second Class Postage Paid at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers — the piihliriif £in »t an titn^ 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 responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. Member: South Carolina Press Association. National Editorial Association ' National AdratMw Representative ! AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York. Chicago. Detroit, Philadelphia Racial Equality (CORE) has sent agents into the. Smith who are act- s^odLs or”merely he4d*% r *further <£ ! advisors. jThe agitators have ve’.opments, or. in a few cases, actually bought. been ha , v,ng 50016 5mal1 , dgere f v of 7 succes, for m one or two places they — have provoked clashes between members of both races. * On the whole, however, the tactic has been a failure. Southern law en forcement officers, public officials and the average white citizne have acted with wisdom and coolness. Demonstrations have been permit ted where they have not been violent in nature of tending to incite a riot. Calmness and orderliness is the best way to deal with the sit-down situation. If incidents do not result from the tactic, the steam will go out of the movement. Moreover, the country win come to view the sti- downs as si Knees. The stores, of course, could pro vide segregated lunch counter seat ing for the Negroes. That would be all right if it would aatirfy them— but they have shown in the case of schools that it would not Actually, if the Negroes were more interested in progress than in integration, they would provids their a w a lunch avenue of petition and legal action, picketing, boycotts and other unde sirable forms of behavior, they will create a great deal of ill will for themselves throughout the country. As virtually all employers in the Southern states are white citizens, the Negrb who wants to progress within the region cannot use force and also expect to be given new opportunities to earn a living. It is only natural that white employers wttl not be interested in employees who act in contempt of law and or der. Negro student “leaden,” who take the cue of outsiders and start demonstrations in their communities must realize there won’t be any place for them in this part of the country. Indeed, it is obvious that no sen sible employer anywhere in the United States wfll be Interested in hiring known trouble-makers. The truth is that the sit-down demonstra tions are bound to the NAACP, CORK, and groups who thrive on social The individual Nagro, however, is the (taps of thaa PAY YOURSELF FIRST Wfcat aza yon woddag lor—H not to have soma thiag laft lor yourasH out of that wweUy paycheck? The bast way: Coma in every payday and add to your Insured savings account—ha/ora you spend for anything- Savings bare are insured to $10^000 and aaza you • battar-than-avaraga return. 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