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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Tharaday, April IS, 1961
FuU Cycle
Massive federal programs of taxation,
“benefits” and controls to protect all of the
people against all the rigors of living have
little respect for minority or individual
rights.
Our forefathers fled from Europe seek
ing freedom from oppression. They asked
nothing but life, liberty and pursuit 9f hap
piness.
It is alarming to read that some people are
no* leaving the United States because they
feel they can no longer pursue these goals
here. According to an Associated Press re
port seven Amish ; families near Canton,
Ohio, have purchased farms and are prepar
ing to move to Canada. In the words of AP
the Amish are “a quaint xeligious people
who live the simple life without many of the
conveniences modern Americans rely on ...”
They are leaving this country because they
are opposed to compulsory strictures of our
modern welfare state society.
At the risk of being anti-social one can
not help wondering what the Pilgrims would
think of the present state of the Union.
All b Not Well
Start Proclaiming
Private Enterprise
Whatever impression the leaders of Wes
tern nations carry away from their meetings
with the heads of the Communist empire,
one usually stands out above all the rest.
And that is simply this: that every Commu
nist leader has total uncompromising faith
in the power, essential rightness, and ulti
mate triumph of the system which he rep
resents. This belief and determination now
threaten free institutions in every corner of
the earth. In our own country, this facet of
Communism has been remarked upon re
peatedly by citizens in all walks of life who
have come in contact with it. That this deter
mination should be so disturbing is, in fact,
merely a reflection of a far more menacing
danger, and that is an uncertainty on our
part and a lack of faith and belief in the
strength and essential rightness of our own
capitalistic institutions.
Much of the teaching in our schools and
colleges leaves a student with a feeling of
doubt as to the rightness of private enter
prise in a free nation. Our federal govern
ment is furthering the socialistic philosophy
in many ways by putting government into
business in competition with private citizens,
thus adding to the confusion of students.
Tl^ effect is to glorify big government rath
er than to build pride in and support of in
dividualistic opportunity that built this na
tion. Why should our people tolerate policies
that destroy representative government and
private enterprise?
Commenting on our fence-straddling in
difference, Robert R. Gros, of San Francisco,
said, “The American business world . . . now
faces its gravest hour, both at home and
abroad. Khrushchev says American children
will grow up under Communism and he isn’t
joking.
“American free enterprise is in a critical
position today, placed there by its own re
luctance, to talk about itself. If we don’t do
something about this situation of public
opinion now, the American incentive system
as we know it won’t survive many more gen
erations.”
Kansas City, Mo., Press-Dispatch: “An
other bugaboo which should be tossed out
on the mound of hearsay and nonsense is
the old saw about workers ‘over 40.’
“How many articles in newspapers and
magazines, how many comments over tele
vision and radio, have already noted the
‘young’ President and his equally ‘young*
cabinet? -
“Why are men ‘young’ when they are
elected or named to office and ‘old’ when
they ask to do a fair day’s work for a fair
day’s salary?”
Myrtle Creek, Ore., Mail: “The extension
of the ‘helping hand’ of state funds to those
in difficulty not of their own choosing is cer
tainly most, praiseworthy. And we should not
wish it otherwise for those who have suffer
ed ill fortune. But it should be made neither
so comfortable nor so continuous that the
recipients should wish to wallow in it. As
sistance in time of need is one thing. Con
tinuous support of the lazy and the indigent'
is another. And those who deliberately prey
upon the public coffers, one way or another,
need to be discouraged.”
It would seem that not all is well within
the vast Communist empire, despite the
claims of enormous progress that come pe
riodically from Moscow and Peiping. One of
the greatest problems, it has become obvious,
lies in the food supply.
The other day the premier of the Ukraine,
the great grain-producing area known as the
Soviet’s bread basket, was given the sack
for failure to produce. Two other top offi
cials were gi\en one more chance — on an
“or else” basis.
Both the Soviet Union and Red China, col
umnist Robert S. Allen reports, have been
frenziedly buying food from other countries.
To obtain foreign exchange, Russia has sold
big blocks of her precious gold supply on the
London free market. In China, the food short
age is apparently still graver, with famine
and starvation rampant in some areas. The
crisis is due in part to the vagaries of yreatlfe
er—but in addition, says Mr. Allen, there has
been “widespread mismanagement and bung
ling, and extensive pilfering and sabotage."
Communism, according to its leaders, of
fers the only way to produce the abundant
life for the masses of people, and capitalism
is doomed to fall before it. But it doesn’t
seem able to do much of a job of feeding
hungry stomachs.
B&bson Discusses
The New Peace Corps
Babson Park, Mass., April 13—Our defense
against World War III may not be nuclear mis
siles or atomic submarines but rather something
far more revolutionary. I refer to the Peace Corps
PEACE CORPS DESCRIBED
President Kennedy has sent a message to Con-
grees on his proposed Peace Corps suggesting that
1,000 young and middle-age people be ready to
leave by the coming Christmas. Among projects
in the exploratory stage are work for surveyors,
engineers, and geologists. Expert farmers and
those acquainted with the use of insecticides and
fertilizers are needed. Also in demand are carpen
ters who will get neighbors together, as in the old
days, to erect houses and barns for one another.
The headquarters at Washington
tell me it has 25,000 applicants, al
though a majority of these cannot
hojje to meet the requirements.
CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS
MUST BE MET
The plan will not be successful
with non-paid volunteers. Wheth
er or not these men and women
are obtained by volunteering or.
by drafting they must be under
army discipline and subject to
the same length of service as
those entering the fighting ranks. They must be
carefully “screened” as to loyalty, personality,
and education. They naturally should fluently
speak the language of the country to which they
will be sent and be well trained for the character
of work in which they will be engaged. Surely,
the Peace Corps personnel are entitled to the pay
of a second lieutenant.
To make this new Peace Army successful.
Congress must be prepared to spend as lavishly
thereon as it would spend on the development of
missiles or any nuclear weapons. This new army
should be taken very seriously and be placed
under our U. S. Defense Department with Presi
dent Kennedy as Commander in Chief. Every na
tion should be entitled to the aid of the Peace
corps, although its personnel should be sent into
a nation only at the nation’s request. Whether or
not the Peace Corps should or should not be tied
up with foreign aid is to be decided later.
PEACE CORPS AND DEFENSE DEPARTMENT
It is a great mistake to compare the proposed
Peace Corps with the Civilian Conservation Corps
organized by Franklin Roosevelt to give work to
unemployed young men during the depression of
the 1930s. In order to be successful the Peace Corps
must be carefully selected, organized, trained, and
disciplined. It must be treated and financed as if
some entirely new revolutionary weapon had been
discovered which we must either adopt or we will
be sunk!
Certainly all nations including Russia will be
free to organize similar Peace Corps. I under
stand that Charles deGaulle is much interested,
to send Peace Corps to a foreign country, surely
the members of each will be able to talk with each
other since they can speak the language of the
This development creates an entirely new and ap
parently overlooked situation. Would it be good or
bad for the movement to have different Peace
Corps of other nations working within a single
nation such as one of the Latin nations of Central
America, including Cuba? Frankly, no one knows.
The whole idea is so new with such far reaching
possibilities and dangers. If several nations plan
country to which they are sent. If both men, and
women are accepted this makes a further compli
cation.
WOULD CHINA SEND OUT PEACE CORPS?
Studying this whole idea with its ramiflca
lions, it may result in doing more to bring nations
together than has even the United Nations. There
are about one hundred separate nations now in
tile United Nations Organization. Imagine only a
small proportion of these one hundred nations
sending out'Peace Corps. Furthermore, although
Communist China is now being kept out of the
United Nations, yet China would be free to send
Peace Corps into the leading nations.
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This Week in Washington
THE 4TC DOLLAR
The United States Department
of Labor reports that a dollar bill
today is worth only 47 cents, in
terms of what it would buy just
prior to World War II.
The Department’s index of
prices of goods and services used
iby a typical American family
shows a steady trend toward
more and more inflation. Or, to
put it another way, the value of
the dollar is becoming lees and
less all the time.
President Kennedy announced
that government spending in the
1962 fiscal year, starting next
July 1, will exceed income by
more than a billion dollars. This,
coupled with a compulsory in
crease in minimum wages, is like
fighting fire with gasoline.
For more than 20 years we have
been living by a false set of stand
ards; we’ve had more and more
dollars, higher income and larg
er profits, and have called that
prosperity.
WAGES GAIN MOST
We should not measure pros
perity in terms of dollars alone,
but in terms of what those dollars
will buy. Some have increased
their dollar income faster than
prices have gone up. They have
prospered, temporarily. Others
have not increased their income
as rapidly as prices have increas
ed. They have been hurt by infla
tion.
Older people who live on a fixed
dollar income from investments
in insurance, who live on pen
sions, or on retirement pay, have
been robbed of more than half
their real income by inflation.
The chief beneficiaries of infla
tion have been the industrial wage
earners. The Labor Department
records show the average hourly
factory workers’ income increas
ed by 77.9% since 1MB. But the
amount of goods produced per
worker has increased by only
38%.
Farmers are hurt
When the wages of one group
rise faster than their productivity,
other groups must make up the
difference by paying higher
prices. As pointed out recently by
Herschel Newsom, head of the Na
tional Grange, “one man’s wage
becomes another man’s costs.”
In contrast with factory work
ers whose pay has gone up faster
than their productivity, farmers
have received only 3% more in
come per worker while Increasing
their productivity by more than
30% in the last 11 years. Contrast
this with labor’s. 77.5% income
increase on a production increase
y>f only 35%.
When it is taken into account
that the dollar will buy 20% less
today than it did in 1940, we see
that the average farmer can buy
far less with the dollars he gets
now than he could 11 years ago.
In short, farmers can buy less
but factory workers can buy
more.
Gross farm income, that in dol
lars received before payment of
production expenses, has increas
ed by $3 5 billion since 1040. But
farm production expenses have
gone up by $0.2 billion. So farm
ers have $5.7 billion fewer dollars,
each worth 20% less, net income
for family living costs. Fewer
farm workers account for the
per capita increase in individual
incomes. '
That, in a nut shell, is the farm
problem. And it is why business
failures in rural towns are now at
the highest rate sincd the early
1930’s, according to the Com
merce Department.
Rains Flood Creek Area
Cattle were driven to high ground in the Duncan Creek
after the flooding of bottomland from heavy rains that fell on
February 23. Six flood retarding structures »a for this
area and the cooperation by farmers will keep this sight from
being seen after the proposed project is frnt into operation.—
Photo by Soil Conservation Service.
Conservation
Notes
By J. B. O'DELL, Ceneerva
Rufus Langston has some ex
cellent grazing for his herd of
cows. He has both fescue and
small grain mixtures for winter
grazing and bermuda grass, dal-
las grass, white clover and les-
pedeza for summer grazing. Last
week he planted ten acres of
coastal bermuda to supplement
his summer grazing and also to
be used as a hay crop. Grass
means soil and water conserva
tion.
R. L. Guinn is planning on im
proving his farm wodolands. He
has received ASC cost-sharing
approval on the treatment of
forty-five acres, by killing unde
sirable hardwoods that interfere
with the growth of young pines.
The Laurens Soil Conservation
District will help him with this
job of woodland weeding. A tree
girdler machine, tree injectors
with 2-4-9T chemicals will be
used in killing the weed trees.
Technicians of the Soil Conser
vation Service have assisted W.
P. Dickson in surveying terrace
lines qp approximately fifty
acres of cropland. The district’s
motor grader will do the job'of
terrace construction as soon as
the land is dry enough for this
work.
Milton Thomason has disked In
a good growth of crimson clover
on land that he is to plant in coi
tion. In addition to soil improve-
metn and erosion control benefits
yields will also be increased.
SUPERVISORS
Laurens District Supervisors,
Ryan Lawson, W. p. Dickson,
Sam B. Fleming, and J. W. Tins
ley, attended a meeting of
visors from Area I, eight
ties, at Anderson last Monday
night for a discussioif and dinner.
Lawson, area vice-president, pre
sided over the meeting.
George Davis ci Greenwood,
discussed methods of getting soil
conservation information to
fanners and the public. BUI Bo
len of Greenville, discussed work
ing with the schools in the educa
tional program canted on by the
Soil Conservation Service.
Plans for the nhewrniuw of
Soil Stewardship Week, May 7-14,
were discussed by A. B. Carwile
of Abbeville.
The other districts rperesented
were Anderson, Oconee, Pickens,
and McCormick.
Dr. Tom Buie, State Conserva
tionist, was a special gnest at
the meeting, along with Lewis
Hendricks, executive secretary of
the State Soil Conservation Com
mittee.
WATERSHED TERRACING
The Laurens District Supervis
ors have agreed to terrace land in
the Duncan Creek Watershed
area for the ASC cost
payment of 90c per hundred feet
of terrace. This means that the
fanners in this area can get their
land properly terraced with the
district’s motor grader without
any out of pocket money. The
regular charge for this work is
$1.20 per hundred feet of terrace
constructed. The supervisors
agreed to do this as an incentive
to speed up the application of
conservation practices in this
area prior to the building of flood
retarding structures — provided
the project is approved by the
People.
The referendum on the crestion
of the Duncan Creek Watershed
District is to be held on April 18
at the Long Branch Community
House.
JOMM
Have Revival Series
Beginaing Sunday
Revival services will be held at
the First Baptist Church, Joanna,
the week of April IMS.
Evening services will begin at
7:30. Tuseday and Wedn
morning services will begin it 10
o’clock.
Rev. Woodrow Harris, pastor
of the Dunean Baptist Church,
Greneville, will be the visiting
minister. Mr. Harris is a former
pastor of the Rutledge Avenue
Baptist Church, Charleston. He
is a graduate of Southwestern
Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth.
Texas.
Music will be led by O. F. Mur
phy, and the church choir. Ac
companists
md Mary
Rev. James B. Mitchell is
tor of the church.
Hurricane News
Of The Week
Doug and Eddie Lawson spent
the week-end in Cross Hill with
their, grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
George King.
Mr$. W. T. Scogin spent a few
days this week in Greenwood
with her grandson while her dau
ghter Mrs. Fennell, is a surgical
patient at Self Memorial hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. John Will Davis
and son, Hayne, of Newberry,
were Sunday visitors of Mr. and
Mrs. J. O. Haupfear.
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Bishop
and family were Saturday sup-
par guests 'of Mr. and Mrs. Har
vey Shealy. On Sunday the Bish
ops visited H. F. Bishop in Cross
Hill.
Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Young
and daughters visited Mr. and
Mrs. Archie Summer and family
in Joanna on Sunday.
Miss Dot Bannister, Mrs. Bar
bara Luquire and children, Ran
dy and Don, of Greenwood,
spent Saturday with Mr. and
Mrs. J. R. Bartley.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Roper of
Piedmont, visited Mr. and Mrs.
William Gastley Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. William Gastley,
Mrs. Edward Craven and David
motored to Newberry Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Copeland
will celebrate a wedding anniver
sary April 17.
Steve Bishop, son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. D. Bishop, will have a
birthday April 14.
Misses Sallie and Mary Fran
ces Nabors visited Bfra. Guy
Smith Satusday evening.
Mrs. Ben Dickson has returned
to her home after a visit with
her daughter, Mrs. Charles
Young. -
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Simmons
and children motored to Green
ville Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. R. C. Stewart was a Sun
day dinner guest of Mrs. Mace
Young.
Mrs. Harold Simmons and
Steve spent last week here with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ma
son Simpson. Mr. Simmons join
ed them over the week-end and
they returned home to Aiken Sun
day.
RA GROUP HAS GAME
The Royal Ambassadors of the
Hurricane Baptist Church played
their first baseball game Satur
day. The game was played with
the First Baptist Church in Jo
anna. The latter team won.
brotherhood to meet
The Brotherhood will meet
Thursday, April 13, at 7:30 at
the church. All men of the church
are invited to attend.
Bethany Services
Sunday Evenings At
American Legion Home
“Bethany Presbyterian Church
will begin Sunday night worship
services at the American Legion
Home. First of the services will
be held on Sunday evening, April
16, at 7:30. Previously services
have been held on Sunday eve
ning at Bethany Church.
Church officials state this
move is being made on the basis
of providing a convenience to its
congregation and a need accord
ing to a survey made in the
Northeast Clinton area.
Rev. Hugh Pollard, pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church
of Joanna, will continue to lead
the worship services.
The public is cordially invited
to x attend.
AUXILIARY TO MEET
The American Legion Auxili
ary will meet Tuesday evening,
April 18, at the home of Mrs.
Julian Coleman at 7:30. Program
leader will be Mrs. J. H. Pitts,
Jr.
T. B. Directors
Meeting In Laurens
friendship Room
G. N. Foy, of Joanna, presi
dent of the Laurens County TB
Association, anounces that a di
rectors meeting will be held Tues
day. April 18, in 7:80 at the
Friendship Room of the Laurens
Federal Building and Loan Asso
ciation.
H. W. McCUntock, chairman
of the budget committee, Lau
rens, Jimmie Von Hollen, of this
city, and Mrs. J. C. Bolt of Lau
rens, cfmmlttee members, will
present the year's program for
the group’s approval.
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