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» \ I J . i / PAGE EIGHT THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CUNTON. 8. C / THURSDAY, august 4. 1938 COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By Spectator j. ‘Alphabet’ Is Hit a broad and charitable attitude to ward the BO-called underprivileged,’ even if it tears down the social order, Governor Johnston has done well in vekoingr the act to submit a proposed ■aaendment to the state Constitution gvoviding that our judge* may retire on a pension. If our judges are men of sound tmsiness thinking they will devote ten oer cent of their pay for insurance., . K with the hiKh »»larie. now rweived i >"<'• «on»ntic foundatwiw. they cannot live comfortably in our little towns and save money, too, they need guardians. In South Carolina, Charleston, Co lumbia, Greenville, Spartanburg, An- derabn, * Greenwood and Aiken are probably our most expensive towns, on account of rents. Groceries and •ome other items, however, may' off set that. But in the towns mentioned date wages by law. Business thrives on flexibility, just as the best busi ness man is the one most ready toj make quick adjustments to new con- jditions. The,Apostle Paul said some- ^ ^ proved experience he sidesteps by re-(thing about “buying up the opportu-, Economist pf Business Scfhool garding himself as a sociologist. Thatl nities.” That is the essence of busi- Urges Early Revision of Fed- seems to cover everything. Present-[ ness. But if statutes are to control day sociology in the 'hands of poli- ■ hH the factors of cost we shall stifle jpOHrer. It seems fairly apparent that 1 confused, incomplete and non- ill Harvard Study homogeneous accounts published by ticians is anything that will savor of the initiative which made this a great eral '‘Patchwork.* nation Much is being .‘<aid about the South as ♦ national economic problem. The i^ea seems to be that our wages are too low. What wages? Farm‘wages. How can we increase farm wages? By producing more per man. That means a greater use of machinery and a larger and more scientific use of fertilizers, as well as better field management. But this will put people out of work. If you increase produc- many of these bodies do not portray Uieir real financial condition or the trend of their operations.” Cambridge, Mass., July 80.—Speedy _ reorganization .of the vaat “alphabeti- Why do we have senators? I* it a!«»i; bureauc^ which has grown up test of senatoriaT fitness that he shall ^«der the RGosevelt ^ministration promise to follow rTherever he mayj'^a* urged today in a Harvard busi- be lcd ? Is the senate a body of hum-|"^^* .school study. yr ble followers; or is it an important j Calling the federal agencies “an| and responsible part of our govern-, amazing patchwork,” Dr. Charles Cor- ment ? 1Abbott, assistant professor of In all this talk about 100 per cent' business economics at the Harvard this and that, I am wondering wheth-(graduate school of business adminis- er a state senator should be on good < tration, .said there was danger in con- terms with the governor. Just as the president feels that he is the savior tinuing their set-up. He added: “No governmental development of the nation, so does a governor feel since the World war contains conse- that in him lies the hope of the state, quences more far-reaching and more tihoroughly desirable and convenient qucutco muic houses can be had for $50.00 to $75.00 you run afou o ^ ^ imporU'nt for the people of the Unit- per month. The cost of food and fuel “ Fdan, an i „Jhofroi<J'b‘tious and idealistic president has a e<l States than does the multiplication further embarrass . , . . _ _r need not exceed $00.00 more , clothing at $50.00 more we cover the!the nation; yet a higher wage is con essentials, and liberally at that. What!^bose two things, may be required for other things, the! The low wages here mean that aocial imponderables, is more or less prices of our products are low a loyalty and support from n matter of choice. Clearly even inidition favorable to the masses; and Charleston a judge may live fortably on half the salary, then, a pension? If our judges need a pension com- they mean a wider spread of work Why, among the people. 1 Just to stand, off and talk at ran- I! dom about low wages and low stan- right to expect 100 per cent support and proliferation in the last six years from a senator of the United States, of those bodies known to the lay mind so must an ambitious and idealistic as ‘alphabetical* or ‘government cor- governor feel entitled to lOOvper cent porations,' and commonly designated all state the statutes dealing with them as agencies* or ‘instrumentalities’ of the 1 senators. Yet I am leii to believe that ! some of our state senators di<i not ftnieral government.” give 100 per cent support to Cover.; ^ Harvard Bu.'^iness should favor compulsory annuity in surance for them, chargeable entirely to their salaries. I say this with warm regard for our judges, all of whom I respect. Our Judges are well paid, considering the prevailing scale of pay. Those judges Jiving in smaller towns are almost plutocrats, being beyond a doubt among the most richly .emolumented oitizens of the bailiwick. ^ 'V 'Hie suggestion that we increase our pension jiayments in order to get more federal aid is the same as say ing that we tax our taxpayers more in order to get more federal aid.*'! cannot endorse that. The idea of in creasing our spending in order to get more money is unsound; we ought to char our thinking and stick to well- conceivt*d plans of public finance. It goes without saying that the seme ' rea.soning argues against the suggestion of a -special session. No special se.ssion is nee<ied. We are threatened with a heavy ^ieficit as matters now .stand. How, then, shall we do anything in a spwial session? Spt-cial sessions cost as much as ngular sessions. The Constitution so provides. While the Constitution may not amount to three whoops in re- Ktraining the avidity of the boys for extra and special pay, we may be sure that the iMiys who collwltnl all the'> extra the very clear prt»hibition of th*' ('on stitution—will show great respwt f«)r the s«*ction whieh aihws the same |vay for extra s«*ssions as for regular ses sions. The danger is that they might invent some more extra pay even for the extra session. (lards is easy; but what is the remedy that will embrace not only those in dividuals who will be favored, but the whoUe mass of the people? ♦ High wtkgei UQually are associated with high price*. Products of the soil or manufactured prixlucts command high wages if the products seJl at high prices or yield large profits. High wages can only ‘be paid for low- price products and commodities if by use of machinery the power of the man is greatly multipli^ so that in stead of a score of men at low wages one man may be employed at a rela tively high wage. If our farmers should introduce nor Johnston and that one, At tmasts of that. ' .So how can we understand cusant state senator who balks at a !contumacious United States senator? If a state senator points with pride to his thwarting’ the governor, Iiow (an he upbraid iTUnited State* sena tor for a mild show of independence? Cotton Ed didn’t organize a fight on I Review, Dr. Abbott analyzed the gi gantic federal corporate structure and ® ^e.scribed it as “confused, unwieldy, snarled, conglomerate and toriuous.” “Even a superficial examination of the superstructure indicates the press ing need for its reorganization,” he said. “'It is hardly possiMe to think that . ^ these conglomerate ^Mxhes eomnionly th€ premdent, yet rumor tath It thut. Wdin* of 'foderal acerUln.Ute»enmU>rpndedhim.elfl^l^^^^.^_ initrumentditiee,’ on being KUler. a sort of prided Jack, the Giant and instrumentalities,’ of mixed origin and still more miscel laneous history, linked to one another by uncertain and rapidly changing re lationships, operate — as a whole — with any high degree of efficiency. 1 av eu * u i I * II “It •* only too easy to believe that days fbr those wthout children to pull \ u,. oL..;. d. dk.. k-;- dk..:^ the great latitude given to the man- Discoveries In Heredity Since time began men have desired heirs and it was the custom in ancient out by their roots the hairs of their, • • ..l • machinery on a large .scale we shoidd (heads and beards. .Many persons are agencies in their oper- l>e able to raise farm wages. That i inclined to the lielief thatUheir illB, ®»n*y ^'‘‘ntually lead to the ex- would n'HuIt in rtduction of men om-|(.haractersti(^s and peculiar habits andj*^*^*^'** ^ irrtsponsi e an a i rary ployed. Any such reduction would deforinities are due to he- further aggravate the serious condi tion of unemployment. It is well r»‘dity—that all the.se are a sort of|a(ra»nst the esublished laws of so- family legacy. Undoubtedly, the most fifty, but the physician studying these known that the more machinery used intricate and difficult problem is that’fa^fs believes that a greater portion the cheaper will in* the cost of cachjnf collecting data regarding yourjof this abnormal tendency is due en- article pixxluctHl. Finally the constant i family ancestors. How many of usjtirely to criminal ,parents marrying cheapening enablea more people to’can positively and'beyond any ques-; and having issue, and this is especial- buy, etc., until in the long run more tion of doubt trace back our ancestral jly true of those committing, what people will be employed because theljip^ for^ gay, six generations—know;might be called major crimes, such cheaper the product the more we can ja.ll their peculiar idiosyncracies, murder, highway robbery and the buy; and the greater demand will re- L'hether they were tall or short, blond ilikf* Among the descendants of those i suit in a still greater production at'or brunett**, intelli'ctual or dumb, or ift>nvicted of less serious offenses and constantly lower cost per unit. That is the well-known view of the econo mist and it has always worked out 1 : 1 way. Hut the sociologist is grave- and spt>ciul pay—contrary to 1 •' ...... .-.r - ' I ly concerned about the condition m the thousands who will be displaced by machinery and must continue with out work until widened markets so of what diseases they died? It is true| who have returned to normal beha-l that some humao diseases such as the I vior,' marrying into socially worthy I bleeders disease, feeblemindedness,' families there has been practically and c(»loi blindness have been traced little or no heredity taint along crim- liack for many generations. Juvenile DeUnqoents inal- lines exhibited and their children show th(*mseJves fairly stable charac-j tors and aHe to adapt Uiemselves to! In a home for juvenile delinquents j the mo.st exacting scKial demands. Inj ' incri-a.se the demand for the gcMsis as the lives of more than 6(KI inmates other words, if a p«*rson of criminal j I to .stimulate prisluctive processes to have been studitsl, and the records of ancestry mates with a high type* of | I the |)oint of absorbing all the pisvple ten thousand relatives of these youths individual, th«* chances are that thej ! unempoytsl through the introduction ■ have been genealogically established, issue of such a marriage will be a Everybody is an economist, ami if,of machinery. .Ml this, it seems to me, In most instances the children of normal child, who can readily adapt his economics won't stand the test of, points to the fallacy of trying to reg-ithese anti-.siK’ial citizens hav«- re^n-lbsl himself to conventional living. POLITICAL ADVER'nSEMENT TO THE VOTERS OF LAURENS COUNTY: Again I would like to call to your at tention the fact that however much I would like to get out more than I do and meet -with the voters of the county, on account of the increase in business, it has been and is impossible for me to attend to the duties of the office and electioneer at the same time. One or the other would be neglected. Which shall it be? Promote my own inter est or stay in the oflBce and do my duty? Let’s make a practical application: I| you had a man employed to work on your farm, or in your store, mill, or oflSce, and instead of working as he agreed to and as you had a right to expect, he should drop everything and go out looking for another or better job, how long would you keep him? Just so it is with me. I feel it my con scientious duty to stay in the office and work. Again let me repeat My only wisTi is to fill this unexpired term and then only one term of my own. I am not asking for a life endowment nor even three or four terms. I have proven the ability and shown courtesy to the patrons of the office alike to all. 1 am not a professional politician. Merely an average human. 1 have nothing ugly to say against my opponents but am asking your endorsement on my merit alone, and I believe as you do, that the pat ronage of the county should be fairly dis tributed. Thanking you for your support, 1 am Yours very respectfully, JOHN D. DAVIS 4 P. S.—If you think my ambition rea sonable, please show this candid statement to your neighbor. Belk’s August We have made a special purchase of Chatham,^merica’s finest blankets. Unequalled in quality and durability. Each Blanket carries a guarantee. Prices good for this event only. BUY NOW! A Small Deposit Reserves Any Blanket Until Wanted \ CHATHAM’S SPECIFICATION AIR LOOM It is famous as “Warmer for com fort, lighter for health, and strong er for wear.” Size 70x80. Single. 80% pure wool. Choice of colors. 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