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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Clinton, S. C., Thursday, March 9, 1967
Greatness Of America
turned his back on the greatest money
making, empire-building career in pros-
This Lenten season seems an appro- p ect v
priate time for printing here a quote We . have had to . p j c k bugs off the
from that eloquent historian of the last p j ants> and thought, at first, maybe a
century, the Frenchman Alexis de Toe-, word had been dropped from the press
THUNDERHEADS ON THE HORIZON
quevrlle. Time #as when his classic,
‘‘Democracy in America,” was required
reading in high school. We hope it
still is.
“I sought” wrote de Tocqueville, “for
the greatness and genius of America in
her fertile fields and boundless forests;
it was not there. I sought for it in her
ft’ee schools and her institutions of
learning: it was not there. I sought
for it in her matchless constitution and
democratic congress; it was not there.
Not until I went to the churches of
America and found them aflame for
righteousness did I understand the
greatness of America. America is great
because America is good. When Ameri
ca ceases to be good, America will
cease to be great.”
reports. But we saw the same wording
twice, and so we assume that it was in
deed potatoes and not bugs that the
Governor picked. And that’s the kind
of potatoes we want to grow this year
for sure—the picking kind.
Bab»on*» Point of View On;
Big Labor Demands De
spite Business Slowdown
(Mr. Babson, business analyst and
statistician, died Sunday night at his
winter home n Lake Wales, Fla. He was
91 years of age. Hs column has appeared
in The Chronicle for a number of years).
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Highlights
From Clinton High
By KAYRAN COX
CREDITORS' NOTICE
All persons having claims
against the estate of Cornelia
H. Blakely, deceased, are
hereby notified to file the
same, duly verified, with the
undersigned, and those in
debted to said estate will
please make payment like
wise.
ORA B. YOUNG*
Executrix,
Route 3, Box 6,
Clinton, S. C.
F23-3C-M9
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass., March 9—President
It has been more than a century- Johnson has called for restraint in upcoming
and-a-quarter since thbse observations 1967 labor negotiations. But union plans are
nation not heading in that direction. Workers want
were reported to the French nation. . ^ bigger slice of the profits pie, and
One would like to read what de labor leaders are going to do their best to
Tocqueville? wbuld after seeing ^ get it for^hem.
the Americans today who chant the
‘‘God is dead” theme.
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Historian de Tocqueville had some
thing more to say about Americans.
“They have all a lively faith in the
perfectability of man, they judge that
the diffusion of knowledge must neces
sarily be advantageous, and the conse
quence of ignorance fatal; they all
consider society as a body in a state of
improvement, humanity as a changing
Scene, in which nothing is, or ought to
be, permanent; and they admit that
what appears to them today to be good
may be superceded by something better
tomorrow ... It is strange to see with
what feverish ardor the Americans pur
sue their own welfare, and to watch,
the vague dread that constantly tor
ments them lest they should not have
chosen the shortest path which may
lead to it.”
If the flame of America’s greatness
was in its churches a century-and-a-
quarter ago, perhaps it is still there to
day.
The Easter season of rededication
would be a good time to go and find
out.
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Potato Picker
Preceded by advance men to per
fect arrangements, and accompanied
by about 40 newsmen, Michigan’s Gov
ernor Romney has -done, a whirlwind,
tour of the northwest, Alaska, Wash
ington, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and
“a sentimental visit to Rexburg, Idaho,
where, as a boy, he helped support his
family picking potatoes.”
Right there, it seems to us, is where
the good Governor made a monumental
mistake many years ago. If, in his
youth, he developed or discovered a
strain of potato plant which permitted
picking potatoes rather than digging
for them in the hard ground* then he
ALL GUIDELINES
ARE OUT THE WINDOW
The 3% productivity guideline that has
been ignored since it was proposed during
the Kennedy Administration was finally giv
en the official heave-ho. It was felt that each
individual bargaining situation should be
worked out in line with existing conditions.
This is more or less of an idealistic approach,
and it is not holding back union strategists
from hard drives to get all the imarket will
bear . . . and more, if possible.
Also, the Uresidcnt’s Council of Economic
Advisers said that it would not be excessively
inflationary if wage increases were kept to
around 5%. That’s the non-official stand at
present. But even the most naive observer
knows it would take a tremendous amount of
resistance from management and more pres
sure than the government now appears able
to wield to hold the line at or close to the 5%-
raise level.
LABOR OS AFTER GAINS OF 8%-10%
Employers should prepare for demands ot
at least 8%-10% in a great many activities.
Union statisticians have been busy lining up
their artillery, and they are going to use it.
The bombardment will, seem reasonable and
worth sertous consideration to many of the
nation’s employees, and union officials hope
the drive for big wage and fringe-benefit ad
vances wfll gain widespread popular support.
They point out that the new or reopened
contracts should provide 3.2% pay gains just
to cover the general productivity trend. Then
they argue that raises should be given to
cover the 3.3% living-cost climb of the past
year. And, for the final basic above, they
promise that another 3% or so should be in-
writ
Yes, the year is rushing on! fever isn’t coming a bit too
We are in our fifth six weeks soon to many of us CHS’ers.
period. To us seniors that The underclassmen are in a
sounds almost unbelievable state of excitment, too, with February 3, 1967
and too fantastic to compre- the task of registering for CREDITOR’S^ NOTICE
hend. Course, after these last next year’s classes. The jun- AU persons having claims
report cards, some of you par- iors suddenly realize that in a g a j ns t the estate of J. J.
ents may wonder if graduation just two months they will be Cornwell, deceased, are here-
— the hew seniors. The sopho- by notified to file the same
Cheraw’s last average freezes mores are content in the duly verified with the under-
•nn Mirch si Kershaw’* and thought that at last they’re Signed, and those indebted to
Little Mtntai^ a h r: W M.“h ^ through with their high
28, and Winnsboro’s falls on education. And e P y
March 29 The last date for freshmen, well, they’re just as Lmei Copeland Cornwell
Calhoun Falls and Saluda is ^ ixe f U P ever! But before Executrix,
March m Anderson's is ihe V know the y 11 be the Brave 500 E. Carolina Ave.
March 30 Ole .Seniors just as we are Clinton, South Carolina
Laurens has an average last y ear - _ „ „ 3c-M9
freeze on April 1, Winthrop Th ® cast of . M r - Crane —— , " . .
College and Newberry on April has tx ' cn , P ractlc ‘“*. for s r ev - a ‘K hts ar e Thursday and Fri-
2. and Landrum on April 3. eral weeks for their P ertor ' day - Plcase come '
Stantuck, in Union county,
has its average last spring
mances tonight and tomorrow Did all of you listen to
night at 8:00 in the Clinton WPCC last Saturday after-
High School Auditorium of this noon? CHS’s newly-organized
Stories
Behind
Words
By
William S. Penfield
Barbarous
A foreigner’s speech sounded like so much
babbling to ancient Greeks. It sounded to them
as if the foreigners were saying, ‘‘Bar bar bar.”
The Greeks, using an imitative word, called
any foreigner “barbaros.”
The Greeks were proud of their culture and
looked upon foreigners as uncouth. “Barbaros”
also acquired this meaning.
From Greek, ‘‘barbaros” passed into Latin as
“barbarus,” which entered English as “barbar
ous,” Meaning uncivilized or crude.
lieezc on April 4, and ( cm- i wendedl cen t ur y comedy. All Radio Club moderated the
s0 ” on Apnl 7 ‘ of*you are cordially invited to weekly program, “CHS on the
Ihe latest average freeze a ^ en( j tbe pi a y; tickets are Air,’’ each Saturday from one
fw*!* ,', n _° S * I ! rm , S ?! fifty cents for students and o’clock until two o’clock. Tune
seventy-five cents for adults, in. won’t you, and hear “CHS
Remember — the performance on the Air.”
Youth Wants to Know
By RANDY GRIFFITH
FARMS and FOLKS
By L. C. HAMILTON
Clemson University Extension Information Specialist
The average date of the last mervill^pml Conway also
spring freeze is a significant have an early last freezedale
eluded to cover the ancitipated 1967 jump in one because it marks the day which, according to the aver-
when the probability of a ages, ranges between Man h
freeze begins to diminish. 16-19.
New averages, mostly from The freeze line moves norlli-
1940 to date, have been com- westward from the S. C. coast
piled for various points in S. and on March 21 the last
C. by meteorologist Alex J. freeze normally occurs at
of profits, healthy working conditions, and,
the “extras” that have become part of our
business way of life. The danger is, of
course, that if labor costs are driven too
high, unrealistically high, the results* can be
damaging to all concerned. The President
and his advisers know this. That is why they
have asked for restraint, especially at this
critical time.
Heavy inventories in many lines indicate that
output in many other fields may be facing a
A little advertising can sell a few
goods and a lot of it can sell a lot of
goods.
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It has been finally proven, a few
million times, that it is harder to keep
one’s mouth closed than open.
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There’s an old saying that money
isn’t- everything, but there are few
troubles that a little money can’t light
en.
*****
People who put off their work from
day to day are always the ones who tell
you how very busy they are.
the cost of living. And that represents a 9.5%
boost in across-the-line wages, not taking
into consideration the inevitable demands for
ever-widening Iringe concesions.
FINKJCAR THE WORKERS, BUT . . .
All informed, thinking men of this day ^ ^ „ i
and age want employees to get their portion ^' sh '. C ''™ son ' and John C ' Orangeburg Ktngstree and
Purvis, Columbia. Florence. March 22 is the last
“This day is a kind of ‘get average freeze date for Aiken,
set’- point for both farmers March 25 is the last freeze
and gardeners,” Kish says, date for Sumter and, strange-
“It’s generally too early to ly enough, it is the date of
plant most crops except for Spartanburg’s last freeze,
some of the cold tolerant ones, Spartanburg, deep in the Pied-
but the date can be helpful as mont, is one day ahead of
a planting indicator if used Darlington in the upper Coast-
. t ... ., ,. ,i •,«• , with current weather forecasts al Plains.
Auto production, residential building, and an(| temperature mea- Greenville’s last spring
even retail buying have sounded a_ warning. surementt „ freeze, on the average, occurs
The earliest average last on March 26, considerably
... . , . spring freeze occurs at Beau- ahead of some Coastal Plains
cutback. Plans for capital expansion have be- , . . _ ,. . . .. . .. „
t , .. , . ... , j fort on March 8, according to locations and some further
come more tentative along a board tront. In- .... „ j t>. tv i .
e, ,. . , , . , .i.i k- lsb an d Purvis. Charleston, east in the Piedmont,
flationary costs of labor and materials tend o ^ . v. i - i
, ,, , Blackville, Yemassee, Sum- For instance, Camden s and
to hold down expansion. This can mean an ___
upturn in the unemployment barometer,
which in turn can put a check rein on retail
purchasing and the use of services.
HIGHER LABOR COSTS
MEAN PRICE JUMPS
If profits are squeezed dangerously, the
only ansfer is price advances, particularly
at a time when a six-year-old boom is feeling
its age, price hikes can intensify buyer re
sistance. Chances arc thaUexcessive demands
from labor during 1967 could bring about
such a situation. The government, and the
public, will be watching. Crucial wage-price
upspiraling could prod Congress into legal
restraints, ones that will work if voluntary
restraints do not. Hence, 1967 may well be
the year of decision for labor-management
relations.
You get 8 fenders
on every Chevrolet
You get those four polished ones on top and an extra steel fender under each.
The four you can’t see shield the four you can see from road salt, water, dirt,
stones—anything a tire can kick up to corrode or mar your car. It’s
one of the ways we make sure the /lew stays in a new Chevrolet. *
Your Chevrolet dealer will show you a dozen more.
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Walhalla on April 9 and at
Caesar’s Head on April 13.
K;sh and Purvis say that the
river valleys formed by the
Broad, Watcree, and Pee Dee
rivers facilitate the flow of
cooler air into S. C. and ac
count lor the late cool spring
temperatures in the north cen- The tireat American dream feel that the more education
tral and northeastern parts of is to move forward, to do bet- they have the better prepared
the state. ter than your parents, to make they arc to compete.
“The Savannah and Saluda more money. Many parents There are, of course, many
rivers have a more easterly feel that they are failing their other advantages. College of-
orlentaticn. This, and the in- children unbj|.s they give them fers the opportunity to pursue
fluence of the western moun- opportunities for getting a broad scope of cultural acti-
tains, account lor the earlier ahead. vities. Meeting people from
warming of some western Perhaps the greatest of all types of backgrounds is
Piedmont points,” ho said. these opportunities is college, another advantage of going to
He cautioned that the date Often parents make real sac- college,
of the la^t average freeze may rifices so that their sons and Altogether, college is a
be too early to plant because, daughtprs may go to college, broadening experience. The
on that day, there’s a 50 per It is not the education alone variety of influences and ideas
cent chance of a freeze after that is important, but also the you are exposed to will aid
the date. • paths this new knowledge you in forming ideas and at-
“But the probability for a opens, such as possible wealth titudes of your own.
freeze begins to diminish or a higher social position. Next week I’ll investigate
greatly alter the average last Because of the competitive- this question: Is college for
Iree/e dale.” he said. ness for the better jobs, many everyone?