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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, December I, I960
This Is Not 1932
Throughout this country, th’erfc wiH he one
sure-fire subject to conversation for a c‘on-
sidenUile }x*ricHi of- time to come. It can be
summed up in a question: "What.kind of a
I’residehT will John K. Kenntsiy.be. and in
what direc tion will he lead, or attempt to lead,
tjie I’nited Stajes?"
There are groups which argue — either
fearfully or hopefully, depending on their
own views—that the Kennedy administra
tion will go far to the left, will be ultra-lib
eral in practically everything, and that, com*-
next January, we will see what will amount
to a re-enactment, onajapvetr'givater scale, pi
of the famous ‘Thirst HundrtHl Days” oi
F. 1). RiHiseveh’s administration. That was
the peritHl when the President sent one
sweeping and unprecedented legislative pro-
jHisal after another to Congress, and Con
gress, virtually alxlicUting its powers of de
bate and dissent, rubber-stamjxsl them in
short forder.
Rut cooler heads foreciist- a verv diiterent
sort of situation now—and for a variety of
impressive reasons.
To,begin with. 1932 is not the present.
Then the country was in a great depression,
unemployment was at enormous levels, and
despair was widespread. Men and women
who faced destitution felt that they could
not possibly be worse off. and that any ex
periment. no matter how radical, was worth
trying. Today, despite a falling off in some
lines of business, spending, income, employ
ment and savings are at. or near, the all-
time high. ;
For another thing. Miv Roosevelt had been
elected by an enormous popular as well as
electoral vote. He had every reason to claim
a mandate. Mr. Kennedy, on the other hand,
won by about as small a popular vote margin
as one can imagine—less than 250,000 out of
dose to 70 million ballots cast. Putting it an
other way. his advantage over Mr. Nixon
was less than two tenths of one j>er cent.
For a third reason, one cannot concei\e
of the next Congress following the Execu
tive lead almost without question. Nor can
one conceive of it as being anything resemb-
k.ng left-wing liberal. Republicans actually
made some small gains in both House and
Senate. The long-established coalition of Re
publicans and conservative Southern Demo
crats will be as jx>tent as ever, perhaps more
so.
Finally, ffiere is the thinking of the Pres
ident-elect himself.
William S. W hite—one of the most ex-
perienced and dispassionate of the leading
Washington columnists, and a man who com
monly take.- a dim view of extremists at
either end of the political spectrum, has
assayed Mr. Kennedy’s position. Mr. W hite
writes: "President-elect John F. Kennedy is
no doctrinaire professional 'liberal' and nev
er was. He has not the smallest intention of
going oft on any vast spending spree. . . .
I he nature of Kennedy’s victory forecasts
what he will. do. He will proceed with full
resj>ect for tiie views—particularly the eco
nomic view.—of those who voted against
him. He P fully aware that substantially
halt of the people preferred Richad M. Nix
on.”
be no deal. It is impossible to make an agree
ment with Communists. Their only alle
giance is to Communism which has no honor,
no pride, no morals, no God.
We have been reminded time and again
for more than 40 years. Rut we seem to for- j
get. Our blin*
day.
News of Hurricane
Community
Wildlife Assn.
Names Officers
A new slate of officers for the .J
Thornwell Team
Recives Redskin
Football As Trophy
C. tanning, general manag-
Brown, manager of Station
WSPA-TV. - „
After the broadcast Mr. Len
ding took the group out to a
steak dinner in Spartanburg be
fore returning to Clinton.
Mr and Mrs. Ben Summers; Laurens County W'ildlifeAssocia-
er of Amoco gas products in this
area, presented a football used
luck could be running out some anf ^ J ^* lce K> nar( ls. Mr and tj on t 00 k office Tuesday night.
JJ rs ;V ,rn u S ii* 'Tv™' f * 1e neu president is E. Mason in a recent Redskin-Brown game
Mr and Mrs. Dan Wells of New- s
berry, were guests of Mr
David l.awivnce writes, in C. S. News & Mrs..Carroll Young and family
World Report: "Certainly there can be no ° n Thanksgiving Day
negotiations leading to disarmament or the
relief of .tcnsjouHtfdess,There is mutual faith.
Nakita Khrushchev now has destroyed all
vestiges of that faith ... the American peo
ple would never have confidence in any nego-
’iations with Nikita Khrushchev. He is look
ed upon by tlie American people as a man
who has not only insulted them but has com
pletely misjudged them and who violates the Lawrence visited the Harold
fine traditions of decency and doiirtesy of ( opelands itcently
the Russian people by taking off a shoe and
flaunting it defiantly at a meeting of the
General Assembly 1 of,the lTilted Nations.”
Miss Gloria Stoddard of Gray
Court, James Young, Mr and
Mrs Allen Young went ice skat
ing in Greenville recently.
\Y D Bishop celebrated a
birthday November 25
Mr and Mrs
and sons, Mi and Mrs Houston
Ellis and Andy, Mr and Mrs
Dennis Fallow and Mrs B J.
Mrs ChaMes Young and chil-
You cannot insist on your rights while
driving a high-horsejtower car at high-
speeds. reminds the Portland. Oregon. Traf
fic Safety Commission, because a hurtling
out-of-control machine knows no justice or
fair-play.
visitors of Mr. and Mrs*
Dickson in Cowpens.
Mr and .Mrs Bobby Neighbors
and children visited Mrs Neigh
bors’ parents. Mr and Mrs. Obie
Willingham, in Brevard. N. C .
Sunday m
Friends of Carroll Young will
be interested to know he is im- i
PCPving after being ill.
Mrs Ralph Lawson and chil
dren spent several days last week
with her parents. Mr and Mrs.
George King Sr . in Cross Hill
On Sunday. Nov. 27. a birth-
Babson Park. Mass. Dec 1-The Cuban situ- da >' d >nner was given in honor
ation has reached a point where it is affecting ^ ^ ^ . ^ IS ^ 0 P his home in
certain investments Therefore. I feel that my ross Thiryt-four members
readers are due an impartial Summary of the dls immediate family were
situation I have always watched Cuba critically, f )resen, during the day. Those ot
ss it is, close tb Florida, where I have spent over d ' s * ani dy li’om the Clinton area
thirtv w inters attending were: Mr. and Mrs. I
Lamar Bundrick and children,
Mrs. Bundrick was formerly
satisfactorily due to the influence of the Catholic ^ a,t ha Biship. Mrs. Harvey
Church Tlie Cuban people, with their Spanish Shealy and daughters, Mrs.
and Young, Jr., with George Reed as to Gordon Timmons, Captain of
vice president and Shirley A. i season's Thornwell football
rimmons as secretarv-treasur-!, j
er for the coming year. Stewart i team ’ ruesday m « ht on Jim
Brown w iB serve as program K* n Sman s sports program at
chairman All are from Clinton. ! 6:25 over Station WSPA-TV,
Speaker for the evening was j Spartanburg.
Garvin Odell, county game war-! ThornweH is happy that the,
den. whose subject was the, .
Stomp Springs area de^r hunting Amot ‘° Company selet ted their |
Forrest Adair scheduled for Dec. 1-3 ^ school to receive this sou-!
The Stomp Springs area in ven * r R w tb be placed in their
Laurens and Newberry counties trophy case along with the many
will he opened to deer hunting other trophies won by the boys 1
for the first time with a rifle or and girls at Thornwell.
shotgun This announcement Johnny Cookson, alternate
came from Supervisor Paul H. captain; John Dowdle, assistant
dten weie Ihank.sgtving D a y! Russell of the U. S. Forest Ser- coach, and D S. Templeton,
Ben vice and Director James M. coach, accompanied Mr. Len-
Wehb of the S t Wildlife Re- ning and Gordon to Spartanburg
sources Department This is one to receive the Redskin football
ol |the upstate areas that was The group was shown around the
stocked several years ago with TV station and watched several
deer and turkey by the W ildlife ' programs while waiting to go on
Department
the air. They also met Walter
Babson Discusses Cuba
INFLUENCE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
1 feel that the Cuban situation will come out
blood, arsp emotional and enjoy political and phy
sical fights They, however, are
deeplv Roman Catholic in faith
Hence, there is a church safe
guard which does not exist in
Russia or in many of her satel
lites
The Communist Government
in Russia has been brutal to the
Christian church, due largely to
its inheritance of the former
Czarist domination which con-
K„t»T w Rai>»«* trolled and worked through the home,
orthodox church The situation in Cuba, there- School
Shealy was formerly Eula Bish
op. Mr. and Mrs W D Bishop
and children. Mrs. Bundrick, 1
Mrs Shealv and W. D Bishop
are daughters and sons of the
honoree
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Young of
Newberry, visited Mr and Mrs
Clyde Young Sunday.
Bookmobile Schedule
Monday: Mason home. Martin
Seeks home. C a m a k
Rhett Martin home
Tuesday: Providence School.
Burdette home. Episcopal Kin
dergarten. Mississippi Young
home. Bishop home, Sanders
lore, is entirely different from the situation in
Russia and its satellites.
IMPORTANCE OF MARKETABILITY
Cuba is rich in soil, rainfall, sunshine, and
warm temperature* It could be the garden spot home. Sanders home. Goldsmith
of the Americas; but it has been cursed by home. Brown home. Simmons
wretched and unjust government Castro thinks home
it necessarly only to nationalize the farms, busi Wdenesday Mountville School,
nesses, banks, and the few manufacturing es Crisp home. Miss Lizzie Carter
tablishments. he seems to give no thought to home. B L Mitchell store. Cross
marketing Cuba's wonderful productive con Hill School. Davis home. Smith
ditions are of no use if her products cannot be home
marketed Cuba's natural market is the United Thursday: Gray Court-Owings
States (which 1 Castro is abusing and doing his School, Owings Post Office. Gray
best to alienate ) This same trading principle is Curry home. - Thompson home,
true for the countries of Central America., and Hughes home. Armstrong home,
even South America: they have the land but lack Shook home. Wilson home. Maul-
the marketing facilities for their fruits, coffee, din home
and even minerals, including oil Librarians are Mrs. Carl
Thi* is another reason whv 1 (eel investors Teague and Miss Claude Gray
You Can t Deal
With The Communists
Re|>6r's from Moscow have it that Nikita
Khrushchev i.* pretty upset over the visit <>f
Red China's bulk boy Mao to the Kremlin.
He is said to see a real threat to his own
jK>sition ol global tough guy in the emer
gence of Communist China as an atomic
power. According to.report, the Chinese Reds
now have four nu/iear reactors, and have
bragged that they will soon have the bomb.
Thus, the story goes. Mr. K is more an
xious than ever to make disarmament deals
with the West, and may now be expected to
offer concessions he would not have consid
ered earlier.
Just w hy Khrushchev would hasten to dii-
ami in the face of increasing military
strength on the China mainland, is not clear.
Rut whatever his protestations may be, we
should try to remember that Nikita is the
same enemy barbarian who kept New York
and the I N in an uproar for nearly a month
this fall, downing to get center stage and
then threatening us with extermination.
Even more important, we should remem
ber that whether we talk with Khrushchev
»r his successor or his successor’s successor
(who could come in rapid order), there can
-hould have the larger proportion of their com
mon stocks in marketing—rathef than in farm
ing. mining, or manufacturing — propositions
Whatever the future may bring as to the owner
-hip of land or the production of crops or the ex
traction of minerals and oil. there should always
he a field for companies engaged in the market
ing of these products This applies to the big
concerns such as Sears. Roebuck. Montgomery.
Ward, etc.; but especially to the large variety
chains, with their stores in all fifty states of the
l nion Even in case of World War III. these
_reat marketing organizations might come
through the best of all concerned
LENGTH OF THE CASTRO REGIME
W hen Castro, at thirty-two years of age, con
quered Batista and his gang. I thought he was a
wonderful fellow As long as he stuck to military
warfare, he fared well; but since he has tackled
economic problems, he is ruining the country.
How long can he hold out. even with Russia's
blessing, no one knows It seems he is destined
to be assassinated by someone whose family he
har* ruined
On the other hand, investors should realize
that the whole world is passing through a level
ing process wherein those who have not are grad
ually taking away from those who have In Rus
sia and her satellite countries, this has been done
hv ruthless stealing of property. In China. gotxL
will is expropriated, but Mao has sometimes'
made payment, on his own terms, for actual prop-
**rt> taken Great Britain has experimented with
nationalization, and payment has been made for
the coal mines, steel companies, railroads, and
public utilities that were taken over
In the United States, the labor leaders have the
same goals, but they work through strikes and
unfair demands In all countries, investors are
being attacked either bv heavy taxation or by
•guerrilla warfare such as is taking place in Af-•
nca Hence, we investors in the U S should be
especially on tfi^Gvpteh With only 6 per cent of
the people ofkhis world, we have dearly half of
the world's wealth Can this condition always
continue* The leveling trend has been going on
tor centuries. Though 1 am still hopeful as to
Cuba, yet let us keep in mind this world trend
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