The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, March 04, 1965, Image 2
THE CUHTOS CHBONICLE
CMbUm, 8. Cn Thandmy, March 4, 1965
Raw Power In Action
The serious damage that organized la
bor** monopoly power can inflict on the na-
tioa'a economy was never more graphi
cal demonstrated than in the strike or the
latarwktfcffial Longshoremens Association.
This afteppac* which parjpyzed shipping
m nil Atiantac and Golf Coast ports would
hat* ham tad ewcttfh onder ordinary cir-
ctnMMKws tat the mawnar in which it was
<ve>4np3Wi y^N'iJonged showed complete
•kgt ihe amon. tor fair play and
of anybody anywhere, and the voice-with-
the-smile at the Post Office will give it to
you instantly. (No doubt.)
If an addres is no longer an address to
the P. 0. unless it bears a zip number, it
begins to look as if we might , better have
stayed in the trees and never learned to
write. But, dependent as we are on the
written word at this late date, perhaps Con-
gres had better decide just what the re
sponsibility of the Post Office Department
is in moving the mails.
THE AMEEiCAN WAY
''Bum ttaagfe the rank and file union
mimtem hi ww** «f the porta from Maine
te Ttasas mtiftcd a contract that was hailed
hy taatar eara mtaarz as one of the finest
ever offeeta a lahor organization, the strike
in al parts was continued as a means of
ioraag maangmaeat to capitulate to the de-
m|pds of kxwL in two of the porta.
•••'■ ThiKk *^ i rr**f companies, who had
agreed to the harsh terms weeks before,
were still unable to resume operations, the
shutdown of which was coating an estimat
ed 25 mittoa dollars a day.
Has the standard union dictum of “No
contract, no work"’ now been changed to.
“No wort, even with a contract?”
To put the world in order, we must first
put the nation in order; to put the nation in
order, we must first put our family in or
der; to put the family in order, we must
cultivate our personal life, and to cultivate
our personal life, we must first set our
hearts right—Confucious.
The Pharmaceutical Manufacturers As
sociation reports that 70 per emit of the
prescriptions filled today could not have
been written 10 ! yean ago because the
drugs they call for were unknown. It al
so says that in the past decade, the social
ist Soviet system of Russia did not produce
a single important drug discovery.
Any Pork In A Storm
President Johnson’s message of Feb
ruary 18 on our urgent need to cut off the
flow of dollars into foreign hands, has fin-
aly reached the State Department passport
office where something is to be done to
implement the President's plea that Ameri
cans “see the USA this year to improve our
balance of payments. Accordingly, posters
and displays suggesting foreign travel are
being removed and never is heard an en
couraging word about seeing the world.
And it is reported that State Department
employees have even cancelled one of sev
eral charter flights to Europe for 1966!
Considering that a Presidential slash
in foreign aid and spending on our over
seas military. forces could reverse the un
favorable balance ahnost overnight, the plea
to vacationing Americans that they stay
home this year is reminiscent of the noble
gesture of turning out lights in the White
House.
Similarly, the President has urged
American industrialists not to spend dol
lars on foreign plants, but return overseas
earnings promptly to the US. If, instead,
he would demand protection against loss of
their home markets to low-wage foreign
producers, the problem would be solved—for
years to come.
Pushing Us Around
What is an address?
This is a question that Congress may
soon have to decide if Postmaster ^ohn A.
Gronouski continues his hell-for-leather
campaign to make zip code numbers manda
tory on the mail he is willing to handle for
us.
The Postmaster announced to business
mail users in a recent speech that they
would have to zip code and pre-sort bulk
mail by January 1, 1967, and would be re
quired to mark sacked mail for zip code sec
tional centers as of July 1, this year.
Next, of course, come the first-class
mailers who will be discovering (if the De
partment’s plans go through) that a five-
cent stamp will no longer be good enough
without the addition of a zip number.
How do you find these zip numbers? The
P. 0. has magnanimously offered to supply
them free for multi-zoned city addresses
during 1965—if mailers will submit their
lists typed individually on 3x5 cards. After
that, fills service win cost $L£0 per thou
sand. And if you “want zip numbers out
side of these big cities, go find ’em your
self!
It would seem from what lies ahead for
those who would like to use file mail*, that
our telephone systems are going to have to
add another “service number.” It just won’t
be enough to be able to dial “Operator” and
long distance, and information and weather
and time. We gotta have another—such
aa P04-6836 (POINTEM, P. O. Informa
tion-Needed-to-Expedite-Mail). Just dial
the number, ask for the zip code number
Babaon’s Point of View On:
Importance of Owning Land
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass., 1 March 4—Everyone
should be interested in-building personal safe
guards against the future—for one’s self and
for one’s children and grandchildren. Diversifi
cation is one of the most important keynotes in
hedging against inflation, deflation, and what,
ever unforseeable economic developments may
lie ahead. A well-rounded program will, of
course, include a bank account, insurance, a
comfortable home, carefully selected stocks and
bonds, and probably a business interest
LAND GIVES EXCELLENT PROTECTION
Do not forget, in addition, the extraordinary
value of land holdings as a longer-term invest
ment Many who long ago bought or inherited
acreage that seemed to be situated too for away
from a community center to be good for much of
anything but farming have profited handsomely
from the population explosion and widespread
decentralization. Both residences and business
plants in recent years have spread out into su
burban rural areas that were almost entirely un
occupied within fairly recent memory. Land
values have climbed without interruption.
While many people may hesitate to buy land
when prices are so high, there are certain basic
factors that make" the buying of good, well-lo
cated land advisable at almost any time. First,
there is only so much land in the country, in each
state, and in each community. There will never
be any more, except for minor instances where
fill-ins form small- areas out of watery shallows.
There can be more stock issued, more bonds
floated, more businesses established—and even
more money printed—but the land now existing
is the only land we will ever have.
HEDGE AGAINST ALMOST ANYTHING
This is no doubt one reason why land prices
often tend to withstand the stroftjT downward
pressure that recessions bring to bear on other
holdings. During the 1958 recession, for ex
ample, investment prices took a sudden and se
vere pummeling and general business slipped
badly. Land values, however, held up amazingly
well, with no real losses in desirable properties.
A severe depression would probably cut into
land values to some degree, but even then pros
pect would favor a more rapid recovery than
might be expected in other forms of investment.
The basic reason for this is not only the “abso
lute" amounts but also the unparalleled growth.
With more babies being born and people living
longer than ever, population should continue to
expand for the foreseeable future. Not even a
sharp recession would fundamentally alter this
long-term uptrend.
BUYERS SHOULD CHOOSE CAREFULLY
While it is reasonable to be bullish on land
as a protective holding, buyers should use dis
crimination in selecting acreage for purchase.
No plots should be bought without being seen by
the buyer himself, or at the very least by an
experienced family member, friend, or trusted
associate. Economic trends in the vicinity are
a helpful guide in making final decisions; look
for localities close to urban and suburban cen
ters showing swift population and manufacturing
growth.
One land-buying rule that has stood the test
of time is this: Select a growing city; determine
the main road out of that city along which ex
pansion is the most marked; go out to that point
on the main artery where land is quoted by the
acre as opposed to by the foot; there make your
long-range investment . . . and then be patient
Once you have made such a commitment, exer
cise of extreme patience will pay the largest div-
dends.
A final bit of advice: Keep a sharp eye open
for available sites on the waterfront, whether
»umg oceans, rivers, or lakes. There should
never be any serious question of making a later
profit on such property since available waterfront
will become steadily, and rarer, thus more de
sirable.
Stories
Behind
Words
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Saturnine
The -ancients believed that the planets exerted a
powerful influence on the life and destiny of a per
son. A person born when a certain planet was as
cendant was said to have characteristics like the be
ing from whom the planet was named.
For instance, a person born when Mercury was as
cendant was supposedly lively and quick, like the
Roman god for whom the planet was named. A person
born when Saturn was ascendant was supposedly dull
or stolid.
Therefore, we describe a dull or gloomy person as
“saturnine,” meaning that he is under the influence of
Saturn.
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In the February issue which Is
before me is a particularly
gestlve aid for mental
which is tremendously
for anyone who wishes to koop
his thinking aright with God and
his fellow man. “A Seven-Day
Mental Diet” is offered.
“A fast is doing without. In
a physical fast we
certain types or certain
titles of food and drink. la a
mental fast we do without some
thought pattern which we con
sider indulgent or harmful. The
fast which we are suggesting
here involves abstinence from
negative thoughts.
“The basic idea is this: For a
p re-determined period of time,
you are not going to allow your
self to dwell for a single moment
on the negatives in your list.”
For preparation of the fast it
is recommended that you make
an inventory of your thought-
pattern, and how negative
mind habits you are carrying
around with you, such as resent
ments, disappointments, fears,
criticism, a-nge r r jealousy,
thoughts of sickness, fatigue,
sleeplessness, concern for your
own limitations.
For added assistance, Emmet
Fox’s “Ten Points,’’ from his
book, “Power Through Construc
tive Thinking,’’ are quoted:
“I am really on the right path
(1) If I always look for the best
in each person, situation, and
thing. (2) If I resolutely turn my
back on the past, good or bad,
and live only in the present and
future. (3) If I forgive everybody
without exception, no matter
what he may have done; and if
I then forgive myself whole
heartedly. (4) if I regard my job
as sacred and do my day’s work
the very best I can. (5) If I en
deavor to make my life of as by Rev. J. R. Kitchens aad Rev.
much service to others as pot- James W. Welch Jr. Burial was
sihle. (•) If I refrain from per- in Bethany Cemetery
and neither ton.
ixepnewE
speak nor Helen to gossip. (7) If
I devote s* least e quarter of an
hour a day t» prayer. (•) If I
read the Bible every day. (9) If
I train myself to give the first
thought on waking to God. (16)
If I read the Bible every day. (9)
If I train myself to give the first
thought on waking to Go. (19) If
I practice the Golden Rule of Je
sus instead of merely admiring
it”
I wish I could quote all of this
article. I urge you to subecribe
to Guideposts, asking that your
subscription commence with the
February 1966 issue which con
tains the first of a two-part spir
itual workshop for Lent.
Mn. W. f. Campbell
Mrs. W. E. Campbell 14 Pt. Obit
Mrs. Hattie Wilson Campbell,
89, widow of William Edward
Campbell, died Saturday night
at a local hospital after several
years of declining health and ill
ness of two weeks.
Native of Kershaw County,
daughter of the late William
and Rachel Wilson, she had liv
ed, in Laurens County most of
her life and was a member of
the Clinton Church of God.
Surviving are three daughters,
Mrs. C. B. Prince of Clinton,
Mrs. Hugh Brown of Atlanta,
Ga., and Mrs. L. G. Scott of
Laurens; five sons, William,
Woodrow, Clarence and Temple
Campbell of Clinton and Lewis
Campbell of Atlanta; a brother,
Warner Wilson at Columbia; a
sister, Mrs. Sarah Oakley of So
ciety Hill; 26 grandchfidrso and
six great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were con
ducted Monday at 2 p.m. at
Church of God on Elizabeth St.
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Highlights
From Clinton High
By CAROL SANDERS
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CLINTON, 8. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1M6
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This week and next week are of her scores on a written ex-
the really big ones of the year amination given to high school
for CHS seniors. Every since senior girls throughout the na-
tbey were measured for their tion. Rena now is in competition
class rings last fall, they have with other schools’ winners for
waited impatiently for these the title of State Homemaker of
rings to come. They finally came Tomorow and a $1500 scholar-
last Tuesday. When the announ- ship. Rena is literary editor of
cement came over the intercom this year’s Clintonian,
that seniors could pick up their Mrs. Alex Crawford and Mrs.
rings at the jewelry store, a loud Bernice Shouse took a group of
yell went up from the senior students to an engineering expo-
homerooms and a steady stream sition at the University of South
uptown began. There just seems Carolina. Those making the trip
to be something about these little included Roy Horton, Bobby
bands that makes a person feel Powel, Steve Wright, Bill Ja-
that he is a real part of Clinton cobs, Algle Abrams, Danny
High School. Jones, Johnny Lanford, Tom
Sunday night at 10:20, the CHS Baldwin, John Anderson, Dick
graduating class will board the Ferguson, Keith Owens, Ronnie
Silver Comet for the annual trip Traylor, Tommy Johnson and
to Washington and Colonial Vlr- Zack Barron.
ginia. They will visit NeWfeort
News and Norfolk on Monday,
and will end up in Williamsburg,
where they will spend Monday
night. On Tuesday they will tour
Williamsburg, Jamestown, and
one of the old James River plan
tations before arriving in Wash- The season of Lent is here. It
ington that night. Wednesday’s commenced on Ash Wednesday,
agenda includes tours of the Bu- March 3. It is a time of in-
reau of Printing and Engraving, creased devotion, prayer, Bible
Arlington National Cemetery, tile study, self-examination, self-de
tomb of the Unknown Soldiers, nial, and with some groups, fast-
the Marine Memorial, and Mt. tag.
Vernon. That afternoon they will Guideposts Magazine which we
see the foreign embassies and to- h*ve repeatedly recommended in
gations, the National Zoo, the this column offers particularly
Washington Cathedral, aad the helpful material for the proper
Federal Archives Building. observance of Lent. You may
Thursday morning the runfow ■tajscribe to it by sending $2.00
delegation will visit the memor
ials to Washington, Lincoln and
Jefferson and the White House.
That afternoon will be spent In
the Wax Museum, Smithsosdan
Institution, and the Muaeum of
Natural History. That night they
will enjoy dinner and
ment at the “Cellar Door.”
Friday morning the
will have their first fret
tog for shopping. That
noon they will visit Capitol HID,
including the United States Capi
tol, Supreme Court, and Library
of Coasraas. They will
this tour at Union Stalina,
they will board the Stiver
et for the return trip hems. The
weary delegation will arrive la
Ototon Saturday at 2:26 a. m.'
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