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V-" 1 -tH- t«E CLINTON CHRONICLE A- -4 ,r Thursday, April 21, 1960 Do We Want Responsible Government? A national committeeman of one of the jrreat jiolitica] jKirtie? is quoted as saying, "The voter doesn't care whether govern ment is responsible. The voter wants to know what it is doing for,him.” The judg ment is a cynical one' But that does not mean that it is wrong, or can easily be dis- proven. Indeed, some of the most successful political figures of the last generation have followed the dictum almost exactly. And the present burden of debt and taxation, along with the steady decay of individual free dom, individual responsibility and basic in dividual morality is, in part, their n1on|i- ment. What remains to be seen is whether the majority of voters have just drifted with a tide, or have not recognized it for what it is, or honestly “don’t care whether government is responsible." If the last is the case, this country is done for, and the only thing to speculate about is when the final curtain will come down on w hat used to be called the American Dream. The one hope is that the voter will recognize that what welfare state government is doing to him is a great deal more important than what welfare state gov ernment is doing for him — and will revolt before the last battle is lost. Bill To Promote Strikes » labor’s "friends” in Congress are about to operate on the still-new Landrum-Griffin Act—to cut out its very heart, if they can. .Under the terms of this hard-won reform legislation, it is an unfair labor practice to picket, or strike, to force one employer to stop doing business with another employer. Such action, more commonly known as the sec on dan* boycott, had long been the chief organizing routine of the million-and-a-half- member Teamsters union and the 18 Build ing Trades unions with a membership of three million. The classic method was to threaten one employer, such as a general contractor, with a strike unless he stopped doing business with another — in most cases a non-union subcontractor or supplier. But the relief provided by the Landrum- Griffin Act against this unconscionable and disastrous abouse of the right to organize will l>e short-lived if Congress can be blud geoned into passing the Thompson Bill (H. R. 9070). This sly, 18-line measure amends the section outlawing the secondary boycott by excluding its application to any "common situs" where the employes of more than one employer are engaged in the alteration, painting, repair, or- other work at the place where the work, alteration, painting or're^ pair is being performed. Passage of this bill and its counterpart in the Senate would license the construction unions and the teamsters to renew the “black mail picketing" that proponents of the Lan- drum-Griffin measure fought to curb. No non-union plumber, carpenter, electrician, painter, or other building craftsman or main tenance man could be hired to build, alter, repair, paint or install equipment in a build ing without the neutral employer being sub ject to picketing—and the closing down of the entire operation if the employes “re- speeded” the picket line. No company could safely employ a non-union sub-contractor. The language of this amendment is so sweeping it would permit strikes or picket ing relating to wages, hours and w-orking conditions of employes at any job site and stop every truck carrying ready-mix cement to the job. If houses were being constructed or repairs being made by non-union workers at an air base, for instance, all of the gates could be picketed and every- union man in every other job on the base stopped from do ing his w-ork. Passage of the Thompson bill would make a mockery of the McClellan hearings and the public demands growing out of them, wreck the I>amlrum-Griffin Act and Taft-Hartley.. alike. It would inflate union power as never before. It would make Jimmy Hoffa a giant. It would promote a ra^h of strikes such as we have never seen before. Farm Electrification NineyC-seven per cent of the farms of America are electrified today. ‘ Investor-owned electric companies serve . 45 per cent ®f the farms with power, and the REA cooperatives and municipal lines sup ply the remainder of the farmers. Two-thirds of the cooperatives purchase some or all of their electricity from the utilities. On May 11, the REA celebrates its silver anniversary. Along with the utilities, it can look with pride on a job that is near com pletion. Much of the drudgery- of farm la- l)or is now a memory. To make its accomplishments possible, the REA has loaned more than $4 billion to 984 cooperatives and 101 other borrowers. The bulk of the money went to the cooperatives to build lines to^butlying farms and make }x>ssible a broader distribution system. —AVhile the REA l>orrowers were expanding into remote areas, the utilities were abo speeding the work of bringing electricity to the farm. . In addition, the utilities have continually struggled to find new means to aid the farm er in agricultural development. The com panies’ programs have included research on production, nutritive values of fertilization, water requirements of grass, spinach dis eases, sprinkler irrigation, hybrid com de velopment, soil and conservation practices, and in helping the farmer solve his labor problems electrically. May 11 is a good time to pause and add up the score. Nearly 97 per cent of the nation’s farms are now electrified ... 43 per cent of them are served by the electric utilities, the remainder by the REA borrowers. The task of the REA is almost finished. Babson Is Optimistic, Whatever Happens Babson Park, Mass , April 21—1 am a statistician— not a politician. Most satiticians promise the impar tial truth; while most politicians appear to promise what will get them the most votes. As a result of the latter, the following facts are entirely forgotten. Peo ple allow themselves to get scared and vote foolish sums of money, thinking that they will thereby have security, freedom from accident, and employment. NOTE THESE FIGURES Although the daily newspapers DON’T THEY KNOW? RK** WHERE'S THAT CAT? we* Stye r/ VI © .v H, c' FARMS:.. AND FOLKS i > been planted. I hope you didn't plant too much. And I also hope that urge does not wear off, as the warm days come. Most gardens are far too big. A small area made highly fertile, mulched, watered as needed, and successively planted can really roll in the vegetables. If you are rusty on mapy of the details of gardening, your county and home agents have many helpful hints and publications from Clemson that are free for the asking. * * * CHANGE IN 4-H I speak often of change. It affects just about everything, even 4-H clubs. They are growing in numbers. But their organization is changing some. They used to be conducted in the schools almost entirely, and that s where they are still mainly 1/ A ki/~ A Dr\/’X rr\\ IDTC centered. But with school consolida- KANGAKOO Lv/uKlb tions and required bus service to Any business man caught in the ordered on the grounds that the 50 k 001 . 8 ’. som * communities are also meshes of a government regulatory , agency staff has developed new in- i or 6 anizin 8 ou sc oo c u . By J. M. Eleazer » Clemson College / Information Specialist HELP BEAT COST OF LIVING BOYS ARE THAT WAY Does food look high to you? Well, As kids ’ we SUI ^ liked sweets most of us can help beat that cost of ^ ^ monev was scarce ^ ^ living by having a real, producing lar> , ely made our sheets. We grew garden. • the flour, made the syrup, and pro- Back a few weeks ago, as spring duced the eggs and butter. So there dawned, most of us got the urge to: vvc bad the ingredients, garden. And most of the things have I Cookies and ginger snaps ij tijjiim reggi > “Gat a Httla «M ftv* am la dowatawa Dallas—kaw ■■eh wiD yo« pay m aat ta raise can?** Clinton Davidson This Week in Washington agency cannot help but be remind ed of the infamous proceedings of the so-called kangaroo courts of the past. He may not be told who his ac cusers are, or even what he is ac- ■ ev< cused of. He proDably will not even months a member of the business | ”\7ken has quite a poultry industry, know that he has been accused, or asked how much longer the investi-; ArmrHinP tn rmmtv Aeent Mellette suspected ot wrongdoing, until a gators ,mended to take. Them tog«t gmver VwSd“w crew of investigators descend upon “We don't know,” the investiga-; w i, 0 Dro H UCes hatching eees him , tor replied, -maybe three months ^ »o^tons a 7d 5 oT^sters. The department head of the reg- and maybe six months.” Dotted through the sand hills down ulatory agency—one of dozens of SILENCE DEMANDED there are many successful poultry government boards and commis- if the business being investigated growers of long standing. Their well- sions with life or death power over does get up courage enough to go to drained sandy lands aid in sanita formation. In one case, the staff told the commission, while asking for per mission to investigate, that the in vestigation would require only a week. After it had run for several County Agent Bull tells me they now have six of this sort in Abbeville. The latest one has 20 members that meets monthly in the local com munity. • • • SOME CHICKENS! were among our favorites .Cut out as ani mals, people, moons, stars, etc-, we'd play with them as we ate them. They were stored in a large jar to keep ’em fresh. But we took that lid off so often, none of them ever had a chance to get stale. Cakes, too, were cooked just about every Saturday ,for company was usually expected the next day. I like layer cake best, mainly for the fill ing. Cake without plenty of good fill ing didn’t rank much with me, and doesn’t yet. And our candy, too, we made that, mainly from molasses grown in the sorghum patch. We’d put peanuts in some, making peanut brittile. Then some of it we’d puli between our hands until it got a light amber col or. “Molasses candy” we called that. We’d often have parties called “candy pullin’s.” Boy and girl would pull together and get a thrill just from the touching of hands a bit. Our standard sweet was to finish off meals with .We seldom had 'des serts as we know them now. But just about every meal w’as topped off with molasses. Mixed in fresh butter and sopped with hot biscuits, that’s still tops in eating for me. Along in mid-morning and mid-af ternoon we’d come in simply fam ished. The remedy was usually a the agency, or commission, and say tion, and the manure makes their “We have no intention of dsicuss- planted acres bloom with promise, ing the case with you, but we wish to complain about the manner in CHEMICAL WEED CONTROL good size cold biscuit. Wis’d punch a hole in the side of it with the fore finger and then pour it full of mo lasses, pumping it a bit to distribute^ the molasses good through it. Then out we would go rejoicing to some far place in the Stone Hills or down on the creek where seasonal things beckoned. That molasses would sometimes soak through and run down the arm a bit. But that didn’t bother us. We’d just lick it off, pay no attention to the remaining sticki ness, and go on our way. OFFICE SUPPLIES CHRONICLE PUBLISHING OO. (/suv/tt' 103 E. Pitts St EXPERT WATCH REPAIRING Prankoma Pottery Silver - Watches Kimberly Diamonds Phone 1699 business—may start the investiga tion by sending a crew of men with authority to seize and inspect all of the files and books of a company feature crime, yet only one in 10,- or corporation. which the investigation is being The control of weeds by spraying 000.000 w ill tomorrow suffer or wit- The agency staff then studies this . conducted." the answer is likely to before and after planting crops is a j material, following which it starts be: growing practice, according to what questioning under oath officers, di- “We have the utmost confidence the c <> unt y agents tell me. High la- i rectors and even customers of the in our staff. They have learned ^° r 00515 ^ or ^a 1 ^ weeding are out of every 5.000.000 will be killed business. Company officials may be through experience the best method stimulating this. And, then, too, the by lightning in the next very bad ques , ioned for days without being of handling these situations and we scientists are bringing out. more and , storm. Business tailures are increasing, but they are lo i d why they are being questioned, think it would be a mistake \o in- more effective chemicals for this decreasing on a percentage basis. The stock market FISHING EXPEDITIONS terfere. We suggest you just be pa- iob - has to go down before it can turn up. If trees grew I The business man being investi-1 tient and after the staff has com-! The agents report last year 203 ’ any higher they would blow down Everything which gated may be warned that it would pleted the investigations the matter 184 acres oi • sma11 grain were spray- happens is for the best. be improper for him to continue will come up for decision.” ^ for con * TO *> wlt ^ generally W. B«bMa , good results. Also 68.172 acres of During the past ten years the population of the certain business operations which Obviously, the business could pass * « V S. has increased 18 per cent; the gross national he thought were normal, during the out of existence while being pa- iP® stures ’ 16 ’ 313 a *“ res of C0 , tt ° 1 n ' ’ product has increased almost 70 per cent; consumer investigation, The effect can be to tient. In one case where the inves- aCreS ° f • soybeans, and 13,85 ' income, even after taxes, has increased 60 per cent. c i ose d( > wn a business, with heavy No figures on crime, accidents, or juvenile delin- losses or even failure, while the in- quency can equal these increases. vestigation is underway. COST OF LIVING DOWNWARD There have been investigations in The politicians and labor leaders present figures which the business investigated was to show that the "cost of living” is constantly going not told the purpose of the investi- Ua\> you ever wondered about advertis ing that made you want to buy something you thought you couldn’t afford? Well . . . jiause and be thankful for it. It’s the very ability of advertising to prod us into want ing something better that keeps our econom ic rmichine whirling away at top speed. . .. up. This is because new products, greater conven iences. and other items have been added to the list which makes up the index. If it covered the things I had when I was a boy in Gloucester—and my father was a well-to-do merchant—the U. S. "cost of living” index would be only one half the figure now published. From every point of view I am an optimist. Even the accidents and deaths by automobiles are much less than those from the “horse and buggy,” when figured on a mile basis. The cost of light, heat, and power has continually decreased. Even food has dropped in price—for the same menu which we had in my boyhood days—and we were then as healthy and strong as are the young people today. We made our own candy, picked our own apples, and made our own cider; soft drinks were not then for sale. UNEMPLOYMENT IS OPTIMISTIC When unemployment statistics increase they are, featured as dangqfous and the stock market goes down! Yet J the social workers tell us that the chief cause of juvenile delinquency is the fact that mothers are engaged in industry and away from home all day. When I was a boy, no mothers worked in factories. We kids were trained to help about the house and to help take care of the large families which most of our .mothers had. I grew up as a “baby sitter,” but never received or expected any pay therefor! WHAT EIGHTY YEARS HAVE TAUGHT ME Every Sunday I read a chapter from Bertha Conde’s "A Way to Peace, Health and Power” (pub lished by Score & Script, 76 Chestnut St., Boston, for $3.00). At the end of the book are several blank pages on which I write a line each month about something I had worried about that never happened. Then, when some new problem comes, I read those notes. They are better than any tranquilizer pills!' The same optimism is needed in business. Things run on about the same from generation to genera tion. H^man nature is not changed. We continue to spend one third of our life in sleep; and the less we eat. the better we feel; the more we exercise, the longer we live. The world is very slowly but surely getting better. We all should be optimists. 859 I .... . . , , .acres of corn. County Agent Bull of igation was prolonged for months, telLs me it reaUy saved the staff member m charge shortly a , ot of cotton for ^ during that thereafter became an official of a wel S p r j n g And Marrett says it sure competing company. helped in Anderson, too, as in many Strange to say. now that a ma-1 other counties where it was exten- jority of the board and commission s j V ely tried, gation, but learned later that it was members have been appointed by a your County Agent has the details merely a fishing expedition in hopes Republican Administration, busi- 0 f when, what, and how to use these that something would turn up to ness men find it harder to get along weed killers. They are not fool-proof justify the arbitrary action of an with them than when the Demo- by any means. So, if you plan to use agency staff member. crats were in control. The agency staff realizes that the The reason given is that the Re- longer the investigation lasts the publicans are accused everywhere greater the damage to the business of being friendly to business. The In some cases the investigation is commissioners and board members lengthened unnecessarily by first lean over backward to show they questioning all parties informally are neither controlled by, nor more for several weeks, and then again friendly to business than are the questioning them under oath for ad- Democrats. The result is business U. S., but Southerners who dissent from federal dictation are informed that they will be shoved into linf by troops. These are strange and disturbing times in which we live. Cleany, the j ditional weeks. Also, after being gets kicked in the shins more often American Republic cannot survive! questioned a second time, a third in- under the Republicans than under unless this America-last attitude is I them, be sure to use the right one and follow instructions. terrogation, under oath, may be i the Democrats. CLINTON, S. C„ THURSDAY. APRIL 21, I960 $1)? (Elintnn (Elprimtrb EctablUied 1900 inly 4, ISM - WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS — June 15, 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING 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 Oeeks 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. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not * responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. Member: South Carolina Press Association. National Editorial Association / — ^ National ftrtvwttotoi TlopfraartatiTS AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia AMERICA SHOULD BE FIRST By THURMAN SENSING, Executive Vice-President Southern States Industrial Council Thoughtful Americans are begin ning to demand an answer as to why the alleged plight of foreign peoples should be of much more concern to the U. S. government than the se rious condition of our great middle class. The latter is menaced and harmed increasingly by inflation and by high taxes that are squan dered on foreign aid and other wasteful projects. It seems that our government is becoming almost pathologically ob sessed with the wants and ambi- tiong of peoples in distant lands. A few weeks ago the State Depart ment intervened in California in an attempt to halt the execution of a sex terrorist. The reason was that communist agitators in Uruguay were demanding that this vicious criminal be given a gift of his life. Within recent days, President Ei senhower called for drastic revision ■of the immigration laws of the Unit ed States. He called for doubling of the quotas. He proposed removal of many present limitations. He pro posed, for instance, that large num bers of Asiatics be permitted to. en ter this country for the first time. The reason for this is that political leaders in that part of the world are peeved at the United States because it prefers to preserve the basic ra cial and cultural character of the land through strict immigration laws. The administration now would appease Asian neutralists by alter ing the racial composition of the country. As for the proposal that immigration quotas be generally increased, no one seems to think of asking the American people wheth er they favor a flood of newcomers. Neither is the State Department interested in the fate of the Ameri can textile industry, to cite only one example. Vast quantities of foreign, made textiles are being imported into this country by alien firms that pay wages of only 20 cents an hour. Frank Leslie, vice president of a large textile organization in North Carolina, said recently; ‘“nie amount of domestic yardage replac ed will depend entirely on how much our foreign competition wants to take and that, at the moment, is the only limitation.” The U. S. gov ernment’s policy is of giving pro tection to Japanese and other Orien tal textile producers, not to the em ployers and employees of textile companies in the United States. This America-last policy has some strange twists. In Cuba, where an estimated $1 billion in U. S. assets are gradually being taken over by the communist front Castro regime, the State Department’s policy is to speak softly and take no action. As Senator George Smethers (D-Fla) said recently, the fruits of appease ment of the property-seizers will be bitter. ' - Or consider the action of the Stale Department in condemning the white government of South Africa for putting down a riot in which 20,- 000 near-savages stormed a police station. Acting only on n press re port of the incident, the State De partment moved quickly to condemn the South African government for controlling the riot. No one sug gested that the 101st Airborne Di vision be rushed to the aid of the South Africans. The bayonet tac tic seems to be reserved, not for Castro or his ilk, but residents of Little Bock. Sooth Africans can’t maintain law and order in their country without a protest from the brought to a complete end. 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