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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C.
Thursdoy, June 12,1941
(Elir Clinton Clpronirlf
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WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher
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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
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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
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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
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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. The hour
7,500 yards away, slim’s first shot
knocked hitler’s mustash off and then
he shot each button off of his uni
form just as he come to them, first
starting with his collar butt<m, and
newer missed a single one of them,
to show his good aim, he next shot«
mole off of hitler’a^Jiose and newer
fetched anny bloo<L he is tops in
shooting.
slim chance comes from a long line
of fighters. hU great-grandfathw
at valUv
i a long
grandni
helped Washington to win
forge, his great uncle was with eera.
wallis at yorkville. his ovm gruir
father was with lee at
aimtie-etam, bunked hiB,
charlestmi, and bull run «bd ba
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