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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Clnion, S. C, Thursdaj, December 12, IMS Johnny Starnes Laurens — Johnny Cleveland Starnes, month-old son of Mr. and Mi3 A _Ro&? David Starnes rf 108 Rosemary Lane, died Lite last Wednesday night at a local hospital. Surviving in addition to his parents are a sister, Peggy Elaine Starnes of the home; the maternalgrandmother, Mrs. Jessie Bdle Parris of Clinton; and the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Startles of Laurens. Graveside services were con ducted Friday at 11:00 a. m. at the Laurens County Memorial Gardens by Rev. Grange S. Cothran. HWY. 72 BY-PASS Greenwood, S. C. PANEUNG PRt-FINISHED Ready to Put on the WaD LAUAN Mahogany 432 Pa* At. x 8 ft. Sheet Colonial Birch 6 .48 Per 4 ft. x 8 ft. Sheet Oak Flowing Selected M $202.00 u No. 1 Com. Red $185.00 Interior Doors 1% Flush Laaan Mahogany l/4x6/8 ^ $3.60 l/fttt/S $3.60 1/8X8/8 $3.*> 276x6/8 ^ $4.08 2/4x878 $4.88 Fire Department Dinner Personnel of Clinton’s volunteer fire department enjoyed their annual Christmas dinner party last Thursday when their wives and friends were guests. Part of the group is shown here in the recreation hall of Broad Street Methodist Church, where the dinner was held.—-Photo by Paul Quinton. By SPECTATOR . . . COMMENTS ON men and things 278x8/8 278x6/8 84.66 $4J6 Door Frames ft” PINE—INTERIOR I’ve been thinking about fig ures. You will understand that my thought is about arithmetic. Ordinarily we say that figures don’t lie, but that liars figure. Boiled down to the basic truth figures are sometimes padded, even figures in arithmetic. So now: Let’s see what’s what, boil ed down to fundamentals. The teachers want more pay; Mr. An derson calls for astronomical flights up into the millions. And why not? It is just aa easy to suggest thirty millions as it is to dream of one million. The Tax Commission dreams of more pay« everybody wants more money. That is natural. Today we must ride all the time. Someone has said that there are so many gadgets to simplify the arduous and monotonous labors of house keepers that the women are rush ing to clinics and hospitals, or enriching the pharmacists, with ailments sometimes due to lack of the vigorous efforts of our grandmothers; and the men must ride even a few blocks and eat even more than their grand fathers, so now the grandfathers, lose with the sun to eat the abundant breakfast prepared by grandmother before sun-up. So today we substitute pills and wwders and liniments and shots or the ailments due to easy liv- ng. Whereas grandfather wielded an axe and grandson turns a Sutton and reoices in electric heat and power, or gas or oil. But the figures; if everybody on the public payroll draws more money, where will the money come from? Can we in South Carolina do as they do, in Texas and Oklahoma, bore a well in the yard and find a gusher of oil? If noL. Jill the pay and the in creases thereof must come from somewhere or somone. If the budgets of the public services are increased there is only one source for all the money hopd for: where is that source; or who is that source? The tax payer is the source of all our public revenue. He is the one who must “foot the bills.” Now is it a fair question? Is everyone to enjoy more? Well, shall we pay more to all except the poor taxpayer? If he bears him a bonus? Alas and alack; all the burden who will grant the taxpayer pays to all but he must grin and bear it. The only boon for the taxpay er would be to reduce his taxes. Surely he deserves consideration. But if the taxpayer must pay more how can his taxes be re duced? Will no one say a word for the taxpayer? 4%” 5ft Jamb Jamb 278x8/8 $1.85 $2.85 S/0x6/8 $2.66-- $2.16 478x6/8 $2.15 $2.36 5/6x6/8 $2.S5 $2.45 678x6/8 $2.58 $2.85 LOCK SETS Yale Sargent Passage $1.35 $1.58 Bedroom $1.88 $L88 Bath $1.78 $1J6 Exterior $3.25 $3.58 CLINTON STORE HOURS Friday, Dec. 13 until 7:00 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14 until 6:30 p.m. December 16 Through 24 until 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 25 Closed Thursday, Dec. 26 until 5:30 p.m. ■ Friday, Dec. 27 until 6:00 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 28 /. until 6:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 30 —.£55 l until 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 31 until 5:30 p.m. Why do we waste time and suf fer indignities and insults from the Russians? Time passes rap idly, so many citizens and voters of today do not remember that our nation shunned the Russians until Mr. Roosevelt took them to his bosom. There are so many afflictions of today that grew out of Mr. Roosevelt’s blundering that I am reluctant to enumerate them. All our trouble with Russia grows out of the incredibly stu pid blunder of dividing Berlin and givng the territory ninety miles west of Berlin to Russia. Just imagine. Berlin sits within an area surrounded by territory ceded to Russia. In order for us to reach our side of Berlin we must pass over ninety miles of land between Berlin and our side. Can you conceive a more colos sal blunder than that? Today, because we still meddle in Europe, Asia and Africa Rus sia slips into Cuba—at our very doors. And we negotiate and ear nestly plead, whereas all this might have hem adjusted sen sibly in the beginning.. Just as the one-sided unem ployment tax, resting entirely on the employer, hitting him hard- That is a piece of incredible folly, unsound, unfair and In iquitous. If a tax of 2D per cent is fair all should pay 20 per cent. If a man has an income of $100,- 000 isn’t $20,000 enough in all conscience? If he has an income of a million isn’t $200,000 enough? Why the graduated tax? It was frankly a scheme to dis courage wealth. It is one of the Communistic ideas which Mr. Roosevelt adopted and which the Congress accepted and endorsed in a day of weakness beyond ail understanding. Lets’ boil it down in reverse. Suppose you say that a home- owner whose house is worth $3500 shall pay 20 mills to his town and county, but the levy would be graduated so that a man with an estate worth a million might pay 90 mills. That would he on a par with our graduated income tax. Just why the Congress sits su pinely while all the Roosevelt Communism flourishes I can’t understand. What we need in America is a serious consideration of and for Americans and let the foreigners manage their own affairs. I value more our South Caro lina standard of ethics than I do Government contracts. But, just for your information ponder these figures: “The United States govern ment in the first half of this year bought goods and services in all states valued at some $13,- 778,509,000 of which firms in the South received nearly a fifth of the total value of all contracts awarded, the Charleston field office of the U. S. Department o' Commerce reported. Passing along the data com piled by the Department of De fense in Washington, the Com merce Department said business men in Alabama, Florida, Geor gia, Mississippi, Tennessee, the. Carolinas and Virginia, Arkan sas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tex as, Kentucky, Maryland, Dela ware and the District of Colum bia participated in then atkm’s buying program for military purposes from January through June of 1962 to the extent of ap proximately $2,476,186,000, a 15.3 per cent increase over the same period last year.. Contracts awarded this year in Arkansas totalled $24,010,000 Louisiana, $57,441,000; Okla homa, $50,927,000; Texas, $575, 390,000, sixth largest amount of all states;Delaware, $33,367,000 Maryland, $336,589,000; Virginia $213,996,000; West Virginia, $102, 036,000; Kentucky, $30,355,000 District of Columbia, $111,324, 000; Alabama, $112,916,000; Florida, $223,522,000; Georgia, $217,898,000; Mississippi, $122,- 615, 000; North Carolina, $156,- Pennsylvania turned out 13,061,- 000 yards; New Jersey, 2,530,- 000; and New York, 210,000.” m m mm CLIP & MAIL est when failure of business com- 614,000; South Carolina, $30,472,’- pels him to lay off help. In his 000; and Tennessee, $76,714 000 misfortune the employer is tax ed. Then we have the indivdual in come tax, which ranges from about 20 per cent to 91 per cent!! 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You must he your money EASILY ▲ $10.00 VALUE I I I I I POSTPAID ! COMPLETE * SEND CHECK OB MONEY * ORDER TO ■ But, due to the genius of our! industrialists we have great cot ton textile plants—our greatest industry.. . . . The South’s production of cotton broad wovens, concen trated primarily in the state* cf | North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Texas, with smaller quan tities coming from some of the! other states in the region, was 84.7 per cent of the national out put of 4,492,573,000 yards of that | product, Paul Quattlebaum, Jr., director of the Commerce De partment field office, said. South Carolina continued to I lead all states wfth 1,937,066,0001 yards, foUowed by 854,396,000 in North Carolina, second largest! producer, Georgia’s 750,,944,000, 1 third in the nation, Alabama’s ] 1387,833,000, fourth; Tennessee’s 82,842,000 fifth; and Texas’ 61,-1 1410,000 yards, fifth down thel ist. 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