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7 W.*'* V V • / • l ’ :/*-• ^ Thursdoy, August 14, 1947 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Three i < 4 » l SUMMONS FOR RELIEF The State of South Carolina, County of Laurens. Court of Common Pleas T. D. Copeland, in his own right, and Mrs. Pearl Hays Stone, injier own right and as Executrix of the last Will and Testament of C. W.. Stone, deceased, Plaintiffs, against Nancy Davis, and the heirs at law, legatees, devisees and personal rep resentatives of Amanda Reeder, de ceased, whose names and places of residence are unknown to the Plain tiffs and who for the purposes of this action are named John Doe and Rich ard Roe, Defendants. TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Com plaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the subscriber at his office, Farmers National Bank Building, at Laurens, S. C., within twenty days after the service .hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Com plaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiffs in this'action will apply to the Court for relief demanded in the Complaint. ' BABB Sc BABB, Plaintiffs’ Attorneys. Dated August 15th, 1946. TO THE UNKNOWN DEFEND ANTS, who are minors, persons non compos mentis, or under other disa bilities, and the persons with whom they reside, their custodians, guard ians, committees, or other fiduciaries and who for the purpose of the above stated action are named John Doe and Richard Roe: * • t You and each of you will please take notice that the Summons and Complaint in the above stated action was filled in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Lau rens County, S. C 7 on the 15th day of August, 1946, and are now on file/ therein. That J. Hewlette Wasson, of Laurens, S. C., has been appointed as your guardian ad litem to repre sent you in this action, by the said Clerk of Court and the Order of Ap- f pointment is on file in his office, the* Order having been rendered on the 15th day of August, 1946, and same will become absolute on the 20th . day after the service of this Notice upon you, unless in the meantime you se cure the appointment of some other guardian ad litem. BABB & BABB, Plaintiffs’ Attorneys. Dated August 15th, 1946. 21-3c AMERICANISM PREFERRED By ALLSTON D. CALHOUN Stotioned In Germony SIX-INCH SERMON • t&Ht r THE COAL CONTRACT Large questions have been raised; for the future of the national econo- j my by the contract between John L. * Lewis and the operators of the soft coal mines giving the miners and the union the largest wa'ge increases and the most sweeping< Concessions, per haps, in the history of organized la bor. Of primary importance to the public is the puzzling question as to why the operators signed the con tract, not only without much opposi tion, but with apparent readiness on the part of most of them, particularly in the North. The only opposition came from the operators of mines in the South, and from members of the Southern Coal Producers Association. Lewis solved this matter by first gaining the signatures of the northern ope rators, who seemed willing to sign, and then inviting in the Southerners, who could do nothing else but sign. Why was it that these northern operators were so willing to meet the new and unprecedented demands by Lewis, which cannot help from digging into the pockets of every person in the country? One astute political writer stated that it was be- CORPORAL HARVEY Neal M.•«Harvey has been promot ed to corporal, it is announced by Col. Wendell McCoy, commanding officer, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, air depot. Corporal Harvey now serves as clerk typist at the statistical control office with the Base Service organizations cause Lewis made a deal to support / Goodyear Tires and Tubes BATTERIES AND ACCESSORIES • McMillan Service Station Sinclair Products Phone No. 2 the candidacy of a certain well known aspirant for the presidency of the United States in the 1948 elections, and /that this coal contract was the price he had demanded for | "" same. The said presidential as J Motor LlttCS Seek piraiit packs great weight with t r* . -i r northern coal operators. ! I 0 V^UITOll derVICC Negotiated by Lewis after the en-j ~ actment o( the Taft-Hartley Labor l Columbia Aug 12^-(Spec,al t. Law, which could have been used. The Chromclei -J. N. Land, secre. by the operators in resisting the de-1 J’-T. Carolina Public mauds of the mine chief, this coal Servipe Commission, announced this week that a hearing had been set on the application of E. L. Long Mo tor Lines to discontinue service to DO YOU HAVE PROPER FIRE PROTECTION? ‘A Is your coverage adequate? Should you suffer a disastrous fire would your insurance cover your lq*? ^ Think this over. See as for all kinds of Insurance, Surety Bonds and Real Estate. We Invite your business. CLINTON REALTY & INSURANCE CO. B. Hubert Boyd Phone • V i "J 5 2 contract actually goes so far as to specifically circumnavigate several of the terms of the new law. Repre sentative Hatley, one of the authors of the labor law, changed that the coal contract violated both the spirit and the intent of the law and he asked the Department of Justice to look into the matter of bringing! prosecution. (But Senator Taft, the other author of the law, stated that he did not see how the contract violated any provis ions of the law. “The whole purpose of the law is to promote free colllec- tive bargaining,” said the senator. “It peems to me,” he continued, “that this coal contract was reached by free collective bargaining. Of course, i the economic wisdom of some of its terms is something else again. But,! if the'operators want to give away; their shirts, that’s their own busi ness.” But the point is that it was not | the shirts of the operators of the, mines that were given away in thisj coal contract. It is the shirts of the general public that must suffer. In cluded in this category is the shirt of the members of the, United Mine Workers, themselves. There are bound to be increases in the cost of coal and steel. Just how high the pfbinsions of this new coal contract can spiral into an Inflated economy for Our people, this writer is not prepared .to state. But, from an analysis of the past, it can be clearly shown that this new con tract will have an overall ill effect on the people who work the mines instead of benefitting them. With the steady increase in the wage of miners dating from the early 1930’s, there has been an equally steady, but more rapid, increase in the mechanization of the mines. This has resulted in a steady decrease in the number of jobs available at the mines. Back in 1933 the mine wage was 50 cents an hour, but a dollar was a dollar in those days. Ten. per cent of the mines were mechanized at that time. In\1945 the mine wage was $1.50 an hour and 56 per cent of the mines were mechanized. Thus, with a wage increase of three to one, mechanization went up five-and-one- half to one. Cost of coql'at the mines has gone up almost exacttly the same proportion as wages, namely, three to one. Mechanization of the mines is now expected to go to {One hundred per cent as' the result <jf the coal wage of $1.80 <an Hour. This will surely result in still further cuts ih jobs available. The extent, of these cuts ckn be judged to some degree, by the decrease in the number of men enagaged in the mining of biutminous coal from the late 1920”s till the pres ent time. This is a range downward from 700,000 men to about 330,000 at this time, or two to one. This is a cycle which, if carried to the ex treme, would have Mr. Lewis sitting up there in Washington and manniing all the coal In the country, himself, by push-button while all, the poor miners were wandering over the country looking for new jobs. With the steady increase in the cost of coal during the last few years, approximately three to one at the mines, coal has already reached its marginal limit as an economical fuel, in comparison with ‘the cost of other fuels, in many sections of the country. And as it does, the people are turning to other fuels with ever increasing rapidity. So, with Mr. Lewis’ wage demands being allowed to continue on without limit, it could be that it- would actually require the services* of only one man to mine all the coal used in this country as a fuel for heating, at least. What would By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER SOUND ADVICE AGAINST ' STRONG DRINK' (Temperance Lesson ) Lesson for August 17: Proverbs 20:1; 23:19-21? 29:35;~ Ecclesiastes 10:17. Memory Selection: Ephesians 5:18. , The whole of the lesson is a warn ing against the deceitfulness of strong drink and against “moderate drinking.” But few evfir succeed in drinking in moderation, for beverage alcoholl is habit-forming. In time it develops a depraved appetite that cries out to be satisfied. How can any man promise himself that he will never drink to excess? Christians should take an unequiv ocal stand against any use what soever of alcohol -as a beverage, and | set an example of abstinence that will give the ring of sincerity to thfsir voices when they speak against strong drink, as speak they should. Cooperative opposition to the t liquor traffic is needed at the present, when multiplied persons of both sexes, young and old, have acquired and are acquiring the drink habit. The deceitfulness of strong drink, its terrible effects, and the utter temporal and spiritual ruin it often Bririgs to those Who indulge are all set forth in the lesson text. If drink ing wine in Solomon’s day brought ruin to wine-bibers, v?hat would he think', if he were living today, of the distilled liquors of heavy alcoholic content? The lesson closes with a picture of the land in which the jprinces and nobles are free from gluttony and drunkenness. How often are our own public men addicted to strong drink! Public men should set an example of sobriety, and our people should be resolutely set against the growing sale and use of strong drink. County July Bond Soles $82,574.50 U. S. savings bond sales in Lau rens county ifor July were $82,574.50, according to D. F. Patterson, of Lau rens, bopd sales chairman ;for the county. 1 The total invested in U. S. savings bonds in South- Carolina in July was $3,596,124, evceeding sales for June long since have had to ask for jobs!by $929,547,75, as reported by W. elsewhere. 'Brooks Stuckey, state director. maintain aircraft policing the Aimer- ican zone in Germany from the air. The son of Mrs. Ella Harvey, of this city, he has served six months in the European theater. Double pleasure three towns in Newberry county, and to make Goldville an off-route point in its operation. The hearing on the application will be held at 11:00 a. m., August 19. be left of the 330,000 men now em ployed in the soft coal mines would PEPSI-COLA BOTTLING CO. GREENVILLE, S. 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