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A \ Thursdiy, May 19, 1990 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE By SraCTi COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS The great Saluda Dam is a high way and thousands of people and ve hicles use it as a public highway. I wonder why the Santee Dam in Clarendon Is not a highway. When it was first built it was generally understood that the dam would be used as a highway. It would facili tate travel from Sumter, Manning and Summerton to Charleston, I’m told. 4 As I recall, Senator James Hugh McFaddin (now Judge) introduced a permssiive resolution to author ize the highway department to de velop the crossing at the dam. Since the state owns the Santee- Cooper there would be no resistance by that authority. 1 have never discussed this with General Manager Jefferies, but Chairman James H. Hammond seems to approve the suggestion. The use of the dam for vehicular traffic from Charleston and to Char leston would serve the state and our commerce much more helpfully than the very dubious idea oKpro- moting freight traffic by water • • • Score one for Senator Johnston for his stern attitude of opposition to the ridiculous, prodigal, scandalous throwing away of billions of dollars in “for^gn aid.” What we need in these United States is a heavy dose of home aid, local aid, domestic aid. I do not mean any give-away, but this country is heavily over-taxed and our sound growth calls for re lief. Just let your mind play on this: thaflome men decline higher pay; some fail to earn more in their busi ness because more business and more income will classify them into higher brackets and increase their taxes disproportionately. It may be possible that only a real depression will cause us to think sensibly, but must we be so obtuse, just plain dumb, that we can learn only from disasters? * • • Let us hope that this country may never again be so bereft of wisdom and political courage that we vir tually give a blank check to one man. That man had unlimited confi dence in himself and was receptive to any scheme and all schemes, even contradictory schemes, just to grasp and hold power. A number of plans were entirely unsound, but the Congress was like so many lambs being led to the slaughter, certainly duryig that pe riod of six months when all the brains seemed asleep. Among many schemes which were 11 River Road Recipes" <Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Inc. Containing Many Delicious Recipes of the Low South CHRONKLE PUB CO. GARY STREET PHONE 74 foisted on the nation was that so**' called unemployment compensation wholly -at the employer’s expense. It would have been bad enough if the plan had been 50-50, as with the Old Age and Survivors’ Insurance. Even that, along with the unemploy ment has allowed some heavy un just drain. I sometimes think that no man really understands 4he burden of business unless he has had to “make a payroll.” A man on salary never fully grasps the burden of the man ager who has to make the business earn all the overhead charges. It is elementary that every man on a payrhll must earn his own pay and a profit for his employer. Oth erwise he is just a “dead-head,” a burden. It is also true that a man ager does not wish to discharge or lay off any worker when operations are profitable. So, when business is so unprofitable that workers must be laid off is the concern itself bet ter able to pay men to be idle than to pay them for productive work? Too often the impression is that employers are scheming against their operatives. If that is true sometime did you ever know of operatives scheming against em ployers? But those may be excep tional cases on both sides. It is also true that a concern at times ope rates at a loss and retains all work ers, hoping for a revival of business and desirous of maintaining the or ganization intact. Going back to the one-man day, you may recall that Mr. Roosevelt’s course gave Russia enormous ad vantages and that our burdensome national budget and our national nervousness grew out of Mr. Roose velt’s vanity as well as his feeble ness. Consider this, from The Satur day Evening Post: ■. ” Those who have forgotten his tory,’ wrote the philosopher San- tayazma. “are destined to repeat it.’ Since we are about to embark on a new round of summit conference, it would be foolhardy to forget earlier ones, particularly those spectacular meetings of some years ago when Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin were the performers oo the world stage. President Eisenhower no doubt is well briefed on what happened when the war-time president took the road that led him finally, in Febru ary, to the soil of Russia The next occupant of the White House—who ever he may be—will also have the record to refere to. He should not forget Stalin when he talks to Krus- chev. The research for my recent book, “Roosevelt’s Road to Russia,” re vealed some things about one Com munist dictator and one American president and about summit confer ences, which we can overlook only at our peril. Stalin had a dour personality, but he could smile and flatter and ca jole when he wanted to. And the American president of that day lap ped it up. T like this man,’ Roose velt told Frances Perkins, his sec retary of Labor, referring to Stal in, and I want to remain on good terms with him.’ - Stalin ended up with the keys to China in his pocket for his Chinese Communist cronies and with a gi gantic East European empire, which has been ably to threaten Western civilization ever since. At a banquet at Yalta on Febru ary 8, IMS, Stalin rose and propos ed a toast: T want to drink to our alliance ... In the history of di plomacy I know of no such close alliance ... In an alliance the al lies should not deceive each other. Perhaps this is naive? Experienced diplomatists may say, ’Why should I not deceive my ally? But I as a naive man think R is best not to de ceive my ally even if he is a fool.’ President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill raised their glass- es'and drank with the dictator But what followed Yalta? The British military historian, Chester Wilmet, summarizes the bitter fruits of that conference in - these true words, ’Before the end of March the Yalta Agreement had been broken or disregarded by the Russians in every important case which had so far been put to the test of action’. In September, 1M4, R was time for Roosevelt and Churchill to de cide what their policy would be for post-war Germany, so they held a ‘Big Two’ Conference in Quebec. In the few days before Roosevelt left for Quebec, Secretary of War Stim- son and Secretary of State Hull— who were not invited to the confer ence—went to the Whihe House to talk with him. Stimson, fresh from these intimate chats^ wrote, in his diary that the president’s physical condition troubled him and that be feared that Roosevelt was going to the conference ‘without any real preparation for the solution of . . . the problem of how to treat Ger many.’ Tbe Secretary added that, so far as he had evidence on the sub ject Roosevek ‘has had absolutely no study or training in the very dif ficult problem which we have to decide,. At Quebec Mr. RooseveR took his pen in hand and wrote, * 0. K.—F. D. R., at the bottom of a barbaric plan, drawn up by Harry Dexter White, to pastorialize Germany and wreck her mines. Then he returned to Washington. Secretary Hull, hor rified, rushed to the White House to tell him this would ‘punish not only Germany but plso moat at Europe’. Secretary Stimson also hastened to protest turning the center at Europe ‘into a dust heap’. He lunched with the President, who said ‘he had no idea how he could have initialed this; that he had evidently done it without much thought’! Five months later FDR was at Yalta, where new surprises for Eu rope and Asia were hatched, some remaining long secret. With the same casualness he had shown at Quebec, he agreed that Germany was to be disarmed and that Berlin was to be a ’joint zone’ inside of and entirely surrounded by the Soviet zone of occupation. That worked out nicely for the Russians For years afterward they were able to pull the West into a crisis over Berlin whenever they chose. They are doing that right now, hoping to win con cessions from the West in their march toward world Communist domination.’’ Our ConstRution prescribes the making of a treaty, approved by the Senate, but Executive Agreements have no place in our government, though freely made Every such agreement should be expressly re pudiated by the Senate. • • • What is the amount of the average family income in the United States; and what is the average farm family what is the average farm family Income? I don’t know how the men of figures differentiate the average tify me. Reaently 1 quoted a stupen dous figure about the overhead in- vestment in each farm worker. How can we talk about the “poor farmer’, if these figures are nght’ as Executrix Any person indebted to said estate is notified and required to make pay men on or before that date; and all persons having claims < against said estate will present them OFFICE StimiES / CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. PHONE 74 Of course it must be that those on or before said date, duly proven, farmers “making” beyond fifty per or be forever barred. cent more than the others live far GRACE W. WATTS. Executrix 1960 family from the average farm fam- away from us. ily, buj listen to the esteemed Farm You may recall that ' Cotton fyl . Journal, in a full page advertise- ^ la* 6 Senator E. D. Smith, us*-d ment in The Wall Street Journal: sa y that an expert is a man -In 1959 Average V. S. Family a ">"* **» trom h »"" " 1 >» May 2. 4c M 28 Fam'Ily l^ome A tt OT8 6 U ' ^ America, when I playfully ^ceased, are hereby noufied to file I s $8,750,000.00 | ' J ***** that, according to Senator ,, CRFI>irons- NOTICE All persons having claims against the estate of Robert L. McPherson. WE PAY 5% Gross income of all farm famil ies exceeded $46 billions in 19591 That's more than all U. S. business spent on new plants and equipment. That’s about the amount the U. S. Government spent on national de fense. ’» Smith. I must be an expert, for 1 was a long way from home FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 3rd day of June, 1960, I will render a final ac count of my acts and doings as Ex- “Every year, the farmer-^Ameri-' ^tarix of the estate of Blaise P. ca’s biggest customer—spends more vVatts in the office of the Judge of and more for the products of busi- Probate of Laurens County at 2:30 p. ness and industry.” m and on the same day will apply Men who prepare statistics mys- for a final discharge from my trust undersigned, and those indebted to said estate will please make pay ment likewise louella l McPherson, Executrix May 4. 1960 3c M 26 IP YOU DON'T READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DONT GET THE NEWS PHONE 74 tocA 1 JB *0 S I CC by 0 dulv 'Cf'-V-I -• f».*rO*ce Co toe' - »■>' ,-uf y- rec-.or 5 XC XX X 0* V 0*3 30 t Soaj • S.-V't'-'M 3* Sflu'* C30*'«3 *l,-i S5'X X Winchesfer Graham BOYS, GIRLS! 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