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THE CLTNTOff CHRONICLE
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THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1949
Babson r s Letter
BY ROGER \V. BABSON
Chicago, 111., May 13. —During tW
war, because many of our best Am
erican workers were called into ac-,
tive duty, the least efficient work
ers among us were able to find and
hold jobs. Many companies suffered
actual losses, running as high as 50
per cent, on the “output per man
hour” during the years between 1940
and 1944. The first ranks of the pre
sent unemployed are largely made
up of those oindividuais. The second
group of unemployed begin to reflect
the leveling off ot production, sche
dules; supply has now caught up
with demand in many businesses.
Also, high prices and the election
results in Movember have retarded
purchasing. Losses caused by the
storms this winter along with ship
ment difficulties have also resulted
ia more unemployment.
We see this for instance in tex
tiles, rubber products, radios and
phonographs, motor vehicles, shoes,
hardware and furniture. I expect
to see unemployment increase sev
eral million more as we move into
1950.
I^abor-Management
This, therefore, is a vital time for
both employers and employees to
take inventory of their relationship
to each other. As business becomes
more difficult and competition more
challenging it is very important that
all friction be avoided. How can an|
employee best keep his job? Where
should he look for another job
should he fail to keep his present
one!’ How can the employer meet
the challenge of dropping prices and
still heighten the quality and the ap
peal of his product? These questions
can be answered only by increased
employee-employer co-operation.
Suppose a union contract says that
a company may take a month \o de- i
cide about keeping a new employee.
After the end of that trial period a
drop comes in that man’s efficiency.
Repeat this on a large scale bnd
business is injured. The men who-de
mand the union contract must keep
not only the letter, but also the spir
it of the contract. It is such integrity
and moral honesty which inspires a
company to keep every employee it
possibly can.
Improve Employee Efficiency
Reports of layoffs and curtail
ments in some industries already
have resulted in improved work in
other industries. A fear qf the future,
however, forms an unhealthy incen
tive for the worker, in the sense that
worry and anxiety tear down morale.
Some of the ideal ways which have
been found to improve efficiency are
mentioned below;
(1) Better equipment and tools.
(2) Worker training programs with
a definite aim in mind. (3) Compa
ny-paid ^accident and sickness bene
fits. (4) Careful selection of new’
employees. Wise employers, with an
eye of reliability, will be extra care
ful during 1949 in hiring new work
ers. (5) Adoption of “incentive sy
stems”, bonuses, etc. (6) Showing
employees how their future is di-
icctly success.
Opportunities
Real Americans have too much
pride to live very long on the money
earned and paid in taxes by their
hard working neighbors. The cons
cientious unemployed will be looking
for new businesses. There are too
many people in law and other over-
crow'ded professions, but more nur
ses are needed, more dentists and
more veterinarians. With a greatly
increased U. S. birthrate, plus the
fact that Americans are living long
er, businesses which cater to the
very young and the elderly should
grow’. Anything to do with layettes,
diapers, kindergartens, baby-sitting
should be profitable! The older pop
ulation is very susceptible to trav
el agencies, beauty parlors, adult ed
ucation courses. Good salesmen, ac
countants, bookkeepers and typists
continue in demand. And of course,
we all know’ the need for good teach
ers.
I have mentioned here possibilities
for jobs in fields which are uncrow’d-
ed., Almost all of them you may no
tice,from the veterarian field td the
teaching offers the worker a chance
not only to seeve himself, but to
greatly serve others. In a survey
made years ago our people were ask-;
ed, “What, in your life, has given
you ^he greatest happiness? By far
the majority of answers came back
“My work”. Would most Americans
give the same answer today?
WADE HAMPTON
Leader In Peace and War
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By David Koonce, in The
Charleston News and Courier
Wade Hampton was from a long |
line of Southern aristocrats. He w’as'
the son of one of the wealthiest plant
ers in all the South, and the grandson >
of Wade Hampton, who was a cap
tain in the Revolutionary war and a
brigadier general in the War of 1812,
in the Lake Champlain campaign.
He was born March 28, 1818, at
Columbia. He graduted from South
Carolina college in 1836 and was)
trained for a career in law. He de
voted most of his time, however, not
to the practice of law, but to state
politics and the operation of his im
mense plantations.
Hampton w’as not entirely sympa
thetic to the rather extreme philoso
phy of state sovereignty as were
many of his political friends. Never
theless, 'he directed all his efforts
in behalf of the South when war
came. He organized *Hampton , 's Le
gion,” a group of volunteers, and led
them to victory in the first battle of
Bull Run.
He served under J. E. B. Stuart un
til the latter’s death, then directed
his troops against Sheridan in the
Shenandoah valley. Jn this campaign
he distinguished Himself and was
given the command of Lee’s entire
cavalry corps. In 1865 he joined Gen
eral Johnston in the Carolinas.
After the war, Hampton urged the
South to accept defeat and direct all
her efforts toward repairing the
damage done by four years of war.
He was a man of coal and calculated
action, even in the face of violent
opposition. He was a practical man
during times noted for unthinking
appeals to passion. He nobly defend
ed the South's post-war position by
offering the most effective answer to
the Carl Schurz report which charg
ed the South with continueti disloy
alty and bad faith.
He was chosen governor of South
Carolina in 1876 after a heated elec
tion in which two sets of returns
were m^de, one claiming a Repub
lican-carpetbagger victory, the other
announcing Hampton and the Demo
crats as victorious. Shortly alter
Hampton took office, tHe carpetbag
government in the state collapsed
completely, and the white man took
over complete control of the state
government for the first time in al
most 12 years.
Hampton served in the U. S. senate
from 1879 to 1891, and was United
States commissioner of Pacific Rail
ways from 1893 until 1897.
He died on April 11, 1902.
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Clemson First,
P. C. Second In
State Track Meet
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IRBY FERGUSON, Prop.
Clemson’s Tigers won the 22nd an
nual state college track meet here
Saturday with 584 points, which
didn’t surprise anyone.
But the favored Clemson team felt
, the hot breath of a hard-driving
Presbyterian college squad on their
1 heels all the way.
The Blue Stockings emerged
with six first places to Clemson’s 34
| and a total of 454 points.
Other learn scores were South Car
olina 214, Furman 16, Wofford 12,
and The Citadel 124.
Presbyterian also boasted the
brightest individual star of the meet
in Ken McCutcheon. He copped first
in the 100-yard dash with the com
paratively slow time of 10.3 seconds,
first in the 220-yard dash at 22.7
seconds, and earned another IV*
points as leadoff man in the one-
mile relay.
McCutcheon gave the Blue Stock-
(ing relay team a lead of several
yards that held until the final quar
ter lap. Then Furman’s Ben Thoma
son pulled up uhcomfortably close
to George Fleming, of Presbyterian,
and gave the Hornets a well-earned
second place.
No records fell in the finals. In four 1
events Friday’s qualifying rounds
produced better times or distances.
Clemson’s Jim Whitmire turned in
a 10.1 seconds 100-yard dash in the
trial rtfund, but dropped back to a
tie for third with Walter Gooch, of
Presbyterian, in the finals.
McCutcheon bettered his 22.7 sec
ond finals time in the 220-yard dash
Friday by one-tenth of a second.
Jack Doffert, of Clemson, skimmed
over the 220-yard low hurdles Fri
day in 25.7, fell in the finals and
saw Wofford’s Woodham take hon
ors with a 26.4 seconds mark.
South Carolina’s Charles McGill
had a 22 feet 64 inch mark in the
brfiad jump to reach the finals, and
won with a leap of only 21 feet 104
inches.
, Cliff Brown, of Presbyterian, ha$
r the needed kick in the last few yards
of the two-mile run, coming in well
ahead of Robert Rayle, of Clemson,
with a winning time of 10 minutes
27.7 seconds. • •
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