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/ ^ ’ -,i ? ■ 7. / Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. Thursdoy, June 12,1941 (Elir Clinton Clpronirlf Ertablbhed 190# WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $1.50; Six Months 75 cents; Three Months 50 cents Entered as Second Class Mall Matter at the*Post Office at Clinton, S. g. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers— the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle ^vill publish letters of general intdrest when tney 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. . I good at all of these battles, slim is a chip off of the old stump, when he gets to germanny hitler will fly to england and jine herr hess. Flat Rock Is, Having Some Very Disturbmg Happenings flat rock is all astir this morning, our poleesman reported that a big ,1. proteption with the “right to strike.” j emergency, with some arrangement Mr. Pettingill argues: “If you -give i whereby extra profits, if there gre the right to work equal protection any, art divided on a percentage ba before the law with the right to strike, you have solved the problem of all strikes for which there is no good excuse. Let thpse strike who want to. Let those work, who want to. “Men who want to work should! sis between labor and stockholders when the emergency ends. But all plans of this kind, vduch put curbs on jthe freedom of enter prise so essaitial to the democratic way of life, should be avoided it poe- 'natzi stuka bumber flew over flat!be given a plain legal remedy forisible. rock 4 times last night and dubbledjloss of their wages against those who I The easiest way out of any 'brol>'* back 6 times, he did not stuke anny- use violence to keep them from,iejj^ “There ought to be a I thing, but it seems that he was try-1 working. Workers have this ri^t at ing to locate Ithe town hall to blow it i common law, for it is illegal to con-j up. this stuka' measured 155 feet spire to prevent ahyone from pursu-| wide and 250 long and carried 7 men I ing a lawful calling. But we must; ' and 2 wimmen, according to a certi- j make the remedy plain and simple; j I fled statement by the poleesman. he [let all such workers consolidate their i stood where he cquld see it just as! actions in one suit so they can afford j people to say, “We can do this job without the help of a policeman.** W. J. BENJAMIN SBRYICB STAnON Standard Prododi Cars Washed aa^ Taw law!” But* the best way is for the SUBSCRIBE TO T1UI CHftOMlCIJI CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1941 Not A Rosy Outlook The commencement season, always an event of interest to thousands of young men and women, has come and gone, but it did not carry the us ual optimistic ring this year. Gradu ation speakers could not paint pic tures of a rosy future. They didn’t know — neither does anyone else — what the future is going to be. High school students are not saying that •‘beyond the Alps lies Italy.” Politi cally. culturally, spiritually, the world looks pretty dark to intelli gent and .sensitive studentss- Ceitainly, the world in which to day's students find themselves is less than a perfect world. In many ways; it is a malevolent, a savage world, j Our young people face unsettled ! and disturbed conditions. And yetj for action is hq^e. It’s time to un cover an ddestroy all alien sympathy or activity in this country. A Day For Dad The nation over next Sunday has been designated as “Father’s Day” when a small homage, at least, wotild be paid to dad who foots the bills and struggles along from year to year to keep the wolf from the door. “Salute Dad the American Way” is the slogan adopted to call attention to the date. Twenty-four years ago the observ- plain enduring its entire flight, it left without doing anny dammage about midnight and headed back to wards germanny. to litigate.” Mr. Pettingill believes that those j who are unwillingly prevented from; working can sue the strike leaders,! the treasurer of the union and alsoj police officials, mayors or governors r mr. slim chance, jr., says he saw john 1. lewis in flat rock last week. I who fail to protect fliem. he had a long talk with him. he had! There are both legal and politically 2. other labor racket-teers with him. j stumbling blocks which would make ' they were trying to cJ.o. the farm' Mr. Pettingill’s plan mdre difficult to labor in this conununity, but they j carry out than it sounds on paper— charged 5$ membership fee to get [but there is little doubt that his into same, so they did not have much 1 right to work” idea will appeal to luck. mr. lewis tried to get a check j the majority of freedom-loving peo- j cashed at the peeples cash stoar, but pie in this country. JOHN DEERE TRACTORS ond IMPLEMENTS THAT WORK THERE’S A JOHN DEERE QUALITY IMPLEMENT FOR EVERY FARMING PURPOSE J. R. CRAWFORD CLINTON, 8. C. they turned him down cold, this fel- iy diddent look like mr. lewises pic ture that slim had saw in the movies. MINORITIES—Righto One of the most popular aims of the Constitution of the United States' * { his eye-brows were not as heavy and I is to protect the rights of minorities- ! his face seemed smoother, it mought; But in a labor union the minority ance of the day started. While it has' of been a guy burlesqui-ing on john i group has about as much chance to grown in sentiment and interest, in '< lewises reppertation comparison to Mother’s Day it hasl ^ hardly started. For there is no name or influence that stirs, the emotion like that of mother. assert itself as a Republican in Ala bama. someboddy tried to sabber-targe! Labor unions, during the last 10 the cannon ball train which runs be-1 years, have performed a tremendous twixt the county-seat and flat rock, service to their members. They have Seriously speaking, father has had liistcrv reveals that every generation j lots of days in his time. The days his mu.<t'make its own world. youngsters were born were happy ^ —7^— 1 ones for him. Their first day in but whoever done this mischief did dent know that the cannon ball train been able to improve the standard of living of their members in leaps and Worse Than War Our nation has engaged major wars since its birth i school was father’s day,, the day I their graduation from high school ' and from college was father’s day. ® stump, when th The day that Johnny demonstrate ran only every other day and that it i bounds—have succeeded in getting had alreddy passed down the road 181 wages and hours that were undream- of 40 years ago. his soul with hope for her future. And the day when his first grand child came “back home” for a visit was of all days — the most memor- lable. In fact, dad has had a lot of m six since Its Dirtn in 1776. The number of American soldiers killed in action 6r died of wounds during these fifteen years of war was 244,357. Now look at our 15-year peace time record (1926-1940) of deaths on public highways. In 1926 we killed 23,264; last year the toll'figure reach ed the all-high of 35,000 fatalities. Fifteen years of war, 244,357 cas- 1 jjjg jays, ualties; 15 years of peace, 482,145; But now June 15th has been set traffic deaths. aside especially for him, and rightly In war our soldiers fought and diedjgQ^ without the usual joking. Dad is for a purpose. But what purpose can. probably getting along in years — there be in the killing of nearly a that’s a habit dads have even if he half million persons on the high- insists he is not. He has seefi some pretty tough, uncertain times, along Truly this mounting traffic slaugh-: y^,ith the good ones. He has exp>eri- ter day and night, 365 days to the! ^ |Qt of heartaches and most of year is worse th^ war. j them have been about his family, but * I somehow he has weathered them Long May It Wave I through. Millions "of these dads are train engine struck the cow-chain, it would of pulled the stump over pn the track and then the train would he could take care of himself when the neighborhood bully picked on him was dad’s day. The day Mary married brought regret but thrilled soul with hope for her know our schedules. June 8-14 has been designated concerned, as well as mothers, “Flag Week,” during which period induction of their sons into the American i>eople are asked to commemorate the 162nd anniversary of the adoption of the Stars and Stripes as the Emblem of the Union, “now and forever, one and insepar able.” The 48 stars axd 13 stripes in our American flag today stand as indis- army service with a feeling of un certainty and anxiety about what the future holds. The truth is, unless he is a very mediocre sort of father, he has fought for mother and the children through thick and t!hin. His disappointments and reverses he has interpreted al- it looks like somebody tried to put pizen in the town’s well on main street, mr. art square went there early thursday morning to get hisself a drink of cool water, and he saw calcium arsenate scattered all about the place, he roped off the well and investig?ited. dr. hubbert green took a sample of the calcium'arsenate tmd annie-lized it and found that it was some flour that mrs. tom head wast ed on the way home from the cash and carry store. I have the“^atest respeendf the service that honest, straight-forward | unions have performed for their members. But at the same time I be- { lieve Jt is contrary to the American way of life for the minprity or an in dividual to be forced to comply with the dictates of a union to which he does not want to belong. TODAY.*. TOMORROW ^ Don Robinson putable evidence that a united con-! n^ost wholly in their effect upon his tinent is possible — that groups joys and his victories people with different philosophies, ofi^®'’.® interpreted in kind. Many different races and with varying in-1 ® oight he has gone to bed discour- terests can become one peaceful, oged and unable to sleep but he united nation. | awakened smiling in the morning and Flag day was first proclaimed by: started back at his job like a man. President Woodrow Wilson in May, I The inspirations of mothers and 1916, when we were on the brink of the children are father’s inspirations; war, as we are today. In proclaiming their ambitions are his ambitions; the Day President Wilson said that it their ideals are his ideals, and if oc- would be observed as a day on which casionally he is given outward evi- we Americans might “rededicate dence of the fact that all this is ourselves to the nation, one and in separable.” With that same feeling. President Roosevelt has this year asked the American people to observe this June ; 14 by suitable ceremonies in public, y|||l||||Y \ |c||\|yt\\ gatherings, places of worship and in nVlJwl/I J our homes to “reaffirm our faith in the ideals for which pur flag stands, and our loyalty to the nation over which it has waved for more than a century and a half.” The red, white and blue is our guarantee as a peqple that liberty shall not perish from the earth. known and appreciated—dad’s a lot happier. It Is Time To Act The unlimited national emergency proclamation of President Roosevelt] recently issued has precipitated both | approval and strong opposition, j The American i>eople must be con-; vinced (they are not now) that the, government means business, that an‘ end is to be put to political spending, j “fascism” and “socialism,” and 4hat the whip is to be cracked down hard once and for all on strikes in defense industries. They do not now have that Assurance. What we are witness ing all over the country breeds sus- Flat Rock Has An Outstanding Soldier mr, slim chance, the third, has rote back from the army camp that he ' enjoys war life verry much, he has a jnice uniform and the copperal told him that he is the best-looking man under arms at this riling, it will take a dark gable or a bob montgomery to beat him. his shoes fit fine, the first ones they gave him hurt his toe and he had to cut it, but he now sports a larger pair. UNIONS>-Job Control A friend of mine had to join a union recently to avoid losing his job. He has a good job as a salesman for a well-known concern. He is a better than average salesman and didn’t like the union idea whereby a man is advanced on a seniority basis instead of on his ability io do a bet ter job than his fellow workers. When the salesmen were organized in the state in which he was work ing, he persuaded his company to transfer him to another state. But it wasn’t long before that state was or ganized too. For a while he was giv en the title of-a special representa tive, in order to operate outside of the union to which the salesmen be longed, but that didn’t last long. The union soon caught up with him and it became a question of joining or quitting. So he joined. Now there is talk of a strike. If the union calls a strike he’ll have to go without pay until the strike is over— and even if his union wins it won’t mean more money to him. For the strike will be over a question of which union, the A. F. of L. or the C. I. O., will have control of the ejn- ployees in his company. Since he doesn’t want to belong to either he can’t win. But he will lose pay un til they get the question settled be cause he will not be permitted by his fellow workers to keep on the job. ARGUMENT—8«iiUion In practically every strike in a de fense industry, where the strike is called to get increased pay, this ar gument arises: Labor says that it is justifled in demanding more money because the company busy with de fense contracts is going to make' greater {>rofits. Eknployers argue that government orders are not profitable, that rapid expansion is going ^ mean heavy losses when the demand for' goods ceases and that all extra profits will be taken by the government in taxes. ' In most cases efforts are made tOj [analyze the situation to determine which side is right. But in many in-1 stances the answer isn’t available.—! for it will depend on what happens* in the future. ' t If the problem becomes too great,; one solution might be for the govern- i ment to freeze wages and profits inj key industries for the duration of the Own Ynur Home! loanee the Purchase, Construction, Repaoing or Remodding With A Loan From This Home-Owned and Home-Operated As specialists in loans for such purposes we offer many adTantages to every borrower. Ample funds, no waitinEt no rdd tlipe. . J.... slim is a broad-minded man and is reddy to go acrost if annyboddy will drop a hat and say so. he, has bluei blood in his vains. his mother’s gran- father’s uncle, bill henry, cuzzin to Patrick henry, came over in the may- flower with a rifle on his shoulder picion and unrest, and certainly is and slim inhaireted the spirit of not creating a spirit of unanimity • 1776. he worries some about the c.i.o. among the people. 'and the a.f.l. striking arid can’t un- Under either the unlimited or the'derstand such human beings, but he limited emergency, the president has says he can’t help it if some of our dictatorial p>owers over practically americans prefer to be furriners. everything hut the declaration of war. That power rests solely in the slim has took his rifle practice en- hands of congress. during the past few weeks.^^while at With this almost unlimited power home last week-end he told some of now guaranteed the president to meet his friends that they were shooting a national emergency, one of the first | at a image-of-hitler target placed PROTECTION—Salto Samuel B. Pettengill, former Dem ocratic representative frbm Indiana, and now head of the Committee for Constitutional Government, Inc., is busy raising a $100,000 sales fxmd to sell the public this idea: the “right to work” shoul( Id be given equal legal steps he should take is that of acting against aliens in this country who are taking instructions from the Axis nations. Ever since the fall of France and Norway, we have been warned time and again about the dangers of a fifth column within our ranks, while many American citizens have long favored rounding up all such suspects and giving them what they deserve. While few arrests have been made, all suspects, we presume, are imder constant watching by the Fedei^ Bareai. of Invastigation. And when the time is ripe to round up these subversive elements, the president has the power and ought to act with out red tape or hesitation. 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