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Thursday, April 12, 1962 THE ('UNTON CHKOMri.E Let The Constitution PrevaU Certain legislative proposals should be opposed on broad questions of principle. Two such proposals are now current. One would give the President the authority to raise or lower the individual income tax, in crder to deal with possible inflationary or deflationary developments. The other would give him carte blanche to launch public works projects costing as much as two billion if he thinks it necessary to help pre vent a recession or depression. There is no sound argument, under our system of government, for giving one man an authority which the Constitution, in full wisdom, vested m Congress. It is no re flection on Mr. Kennedy or any other Presi dent to say that one man’s judgment is much more likely to falter than the col lective judgments of hundreds of members of Congress. It is argued that giving such vast and unprecedented powers to the President would make possible instantaneous action. But Congress can act in such matters., if ac tion is needed, with only brief delay. And if Congress surrenders the power of the purse to the Executive Branch, the systems of checks and balances established by the Constitution will be weakened to the point of impotence. vidual or company whatever might be left to them after the tax-gatherers had done their work. Sounds crazy, but that would make it easier to deal with a nation of crooks. • ' From the Russell Kansas, News: “In America, whne three or more people are to gether they are apt to form an organization; in England a protest committee, and in Af rica, another mountry.” Henry Hazlitt writes, in Newsweek: “It is no accident that some of our most serious unemployment is in the cial and steel indus tries in which hourly wages have been $3.10 and $3.26 an hour respectively, compared with an average of $2.34 an hour in all manu facturing. And these job-destroying wage rates are are the result, in turn, of the spec ial powers and immunities that government has conferred on the unions.” Babson Discusses New Ways To Make A Million The Other Side Washington correspondents tell us that this Administration will use all of its for midable resources in attempting to persuade Congress to pass the bill which would pro vide medical services to everyone drawing social security benefits. The Administration is entitled to this welfare state idea, but the arguments against it are many and compelling. For instance: It is based on the principle of compul sion. All concerned would have to pay whether they wanted to or not—and the already high social security tax would rise sharply. It pays small attention to the vital ele ment of need. While people of wealth-can, and do, draw social security payments it would leave out in the cold the millions of elderly people who are not within the social security system, and many of whom are genuinely needy. Other, and more sound tools, have been provided to deal with the problem of medi cal aid to the elderly. The Kerr-Mills bill —which establishes a state-federal system of help for the needy, with strong emphasis on local administration where administra tion belongs—is one. And now, a jointly sponsored plan by the American Medical Association and the Blue Shield organiza tions, soon to come into effect, will provide the low-income elderly with a wide range of medical services at extremely moderate cost. Finally—and perhaps most important— if the government is to provide, on a com pulsory tax basis medical services for one age group, why shouldn’t it do the same for other groups? The end of this road is clear as crystal—socialized medicine. This has cost Britain and other countries heavily, and has inevitably reduced standards of medical care. ' Worthy of Shylock The latest on revision of the crazy quilt federal income tax system is a plan now before Congress to enable the government to get more of its taxes from a citizen’s earnings before he receives them. It woulld withhold 20 cents of every dollar of divi dends, interest earned on savings adbonnts in banks, savings and loan associations, etc. If more taxes are withheld than owed, the taxpayer could apply to the treasury for a refund. There are already withholding tax es on wages and salaries. A depressing aspect of the bill is the lack of confidence shown by the government in the honesty of its citizens—it treats them all as dishonest in order to catch the few who are. Tax revision can go one step farther— require that all salaries, wages, and earn ings be paid to the government, and then have the government return to each indi- Babson Park, Mass., April 12—When a young person has a really useful idea and takes it to a large concern to make and promote, he is often discouraged when it is turned down. This is be cause the head of the company asks only two questions: (1) Is it a new idea? (2) Will it sell? Unless it passes both tests, the big company will not bother with it. However, there is always an opportunity for a young person with selling abil ity and persistence to start his own business. THE GERBER PRODUCTS COMPANY When I was a young man, my wife cooked cer tain foods which she gave to our baby daughter during the wean ing period. Only within the last forty years has anyone manu factured “baby foods" to save the housewife work. A young man named Gerber, when grad uating from Babson Institute, told me that his family was in terested in this idea. Soon he went to Fremont, Michigan, and developed the sales of the busi ness. The big food companies began to compete with him. He, however, with persistence and enthusi asm, kept ahead of them. Today “Gerber Baby Foods" are known all over the U. S. and in many European countries. The big food concerns had had generations to manufacture baby food, but it took Daniel F. Gerber to make a million from this idea. A FISH CHOWDER IDEA Being a Gloucester boy, I always like a chow der every Friday made from haddock. Today, this haddock must be caught, iced, and brought into Gloucester. There it is filleted. These fillets contain only 40% of the food value; the head, skin, and bones make up the other 60%. These fillets are frozen or canned to sell for making fish chowder. Some day some young person will capitalize on the idea of grinding up the entire fish and making “condensed" fish, just as Mr. Borden made the first condensed milk. Instead of having only 40% of the nutrient it will have the entire 100%. When I speak to my Gloucester friends about this they reply: “We are too busy with frozen and canned fish; let some young per son make this into a million dollar business.” Every reader of this column should have a little stock in one of the drug companies which are working on two wonder chemicals—D. N. A. and R. N. A. Many chemists believe they will perhaps some time create life itself. The drug companies are also working on a pill which will lengthen the normal life span many years and improve the intellect, the judgment, or the mem ory of a person. I am certain that our present methods of education will be revolutionized by these new drugs. Here is another opportunity for a young person to make a million. SELLING WOOD FOR FOOD At present, only termites and a few other ani mals can digest the cellulose of the millions of square miles of trees now in our forests. The Her cules Powder Company is dissolving this cellu lose into a liquid that humans can digest. This will be the basis of a great new industry. Wise is the young person who becomes an expert on cellulose. I once asked Thomas A. Edison what he would like to do if he had all the time he needed. He replied: “Make a cold light. My incandescent light consumes too much electricty as heat. I hate to think of the firefly being able to do some thing that man cannot do!” He was also much interested in birds. He said: “Birds are the only natural resource (other than gravity) that has not been harnessed. The land, water, sun, forests ... all are the foundation of great industries. He believed that some day birds will be trained to forecast the weather and do other wonderful things. No large companies will bother with this, but it offers great opportunities for young people. AUTOMATION AND ELECTRONICS I have not discussed these two subjects be cause they are so publicized in magazines and on the stock exchange. I am interested only in new ideas which will develop into “big money’’ for those with courage and ability. I like to call them otlr "Sleeping giants;” ———— It would be unfair for me to close without re ferring to a book entitled “IDEAS,” by Clinton Woods of 2803 Goodwood Rd., Baltimore, Md. Cost: $5.75 postpaid. He describes over 200 ideas which some young person has had the initiative to develop into big busines. Several members of the 1962 PC tennis squad get together for a brief meeting with Coach Gordon Warden before practice. From left to right: Harold Hope, Coach Warden, BUI Tyson, Tony Wilson, Tom Elliott and Beansie Frampton. — Photo by Dan Yarborough. PC Tennis Team Has Successful Fla. Tour The 1962 Presbyterian College tennis team has just returned from a highly successful Florida tour and is now in the midst of an outstanding season. For over a quarter century PC has receiv ed national recognition for its ten nis program and for many years its teams have ranked near the top in the country. The 1962 squad is successfuUy carrying on this tradition. FoUowing a win over The Cita del in the first home match of the year on March 23, the team jour neyed to JacksonviUe, Fla. to meet the U. S. Naval Station on Saturday the 24th. PC won aU the singles matches and 2 of the 3 doubles to defeat Navy 8-1. Next on the schedule was Flori da State University at Tallahas see on Monday the 26th. PC won 6-3 as Ed Caviness, Bean sie Frampton and Bill Stone turn ed in decisive singles wins to go with Tony WUson’s and Frampton’s five doubles win. After spending a second night at FSU, the team moved down to Gainesville for a match with the U. of Florida on Tuesday the 27th. This match turned out to be the most exciting of the year thus far as the no. 1 doubles team of Tony Wilson and Beansie Frampton finally pulled out the last doubles match of the day after being down five match points. Immediately after the victory over Florida, PC left for Miami and Wednesday and Thursday dates with Princeton and the U. of Miami. The only loses on the CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1962 GJIjp CClinton (Eljrmttrlp Established 1900 July 4, 1889 — WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS — June 13, 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBUSHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance) Out-of-County One Year $3.00, Six Months $2.00 One Year $4.00 Second Class Postage Paid at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle 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. 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On April 5 and 6, just three days after returning to Clinton, PC picked right up where it had left off as it upset highly ranked Harvard University two days in a row, 5-4 and 6-3, before a typi cally overflow crowd of several hundred fans. This week on Friday and Satur day, April 13 and 14 at Clemson, PC will be out to regain the state championship which it lost last year for the first time in almost 20 years. The loss of one of its strongest players this past week has weakened the team for the re mainder of the season, but fol lowers of the squad nevertheless feel that PC will continue its win ning ways over many of the teams on the rest of its schedule. Matches yet to be played in clude Alabama, Tennessee, Mis sissippi State, Furman, several independent and club teams and return games at home with Geor gia, Florida State and Miami. Coach Gordon Warden and his entire squad of Tom Elliott, Bill Stone, Ed Caviness, Tony Wil son, Bill Tyson. 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