The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, December 20, 1951, Image 18
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THE CLINTON /CHRONICLE
Thursday December 20, 1951
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A General Staff for Peace is- the
suggestion of Bernard Baruch. It
5s an idea that should be studied.
At bottom the thought should
be studied. At bottom the thought
shouid commend itself to all peo
ple, for war is a colossal waste in
natural resources, in money, and,
above all. in human life. One must
conclude that there must be a
method of bringing men “Into agree-
hneht without maiming and mang
ling human bodies and killing the
youth of the world.
What does war decide? The Civil
War here paved the way for the
freedom of slaves, but under Harry
Truman the whole South is embit
tered today. We may yet find that
the Civil War was the first major
step toward the worst upheaval we
have ever known. Obviously the
South should repudiate Mr. Tru
man and it should be an oppor
tunity for the other States to work
hand in hand with the South. We
should have statesmanship capable
of bringing about practical, effect
ive cooperation to save the Nation
from the political termites who are
eating the heart out of it. The Civil
War also gave impulse to a stronger
^nationalism, sometimes reducing
the States to the rank of a Europ
ean province.
What has Mr. Truman’s .little
^Police Action” accomplished in
Korea? What has the world gained
by the heavy cost in treasure and
the far heavier loss in fine young
manhood? Will humanity be bene
fited by all the sacrifice? The bil
lions we pay at home for Mr. Tru
man’s Inflation, have never been
estimated because we can’t see the
widow’s mite when it becomes a
half-mite in the store, but the total
of the cost in dollars at home is
high in the billions. That is the
Truman Inflation. We do know that
even in the expenditures for the
little “POUCE ACTION” the Na
tion is sending many billions be
cause of the Truman Inflation.
Then comes the supreme price in
blood in anxiety, in sorrow, in
broken homes, in wasted life, :n
unfulfilled possibilities.
Why shouldn’t it be possible to
explore all the avenues of peaceful
living as well as all the devious
alleys that lead to war?
If men in ordinary routine trans-
J ctions compose th^ir differences in
ju$et;. if we no longer carry guns
to support our arguments as the
frontiersmen had to do, why must
nations live on a plane of selfish
ness, greed or spoliation that
breeds war?
Shall the natipn show a prefer
ence among its citizens in giving
employment? I have no reference
to Mr. Truman’s campaign f° r
votes; I am not thinking of color
or race.
Some weeks ago I mentioned that
a citizen who has been a Union
man several times, as his jobs have
required, told me that he would
have to be a Union man in order
to get a job with the A.E.C. near
Aiken. I suggested that all citizens
should be treated equally in Na
tional defense "jobs, or any other
Government work, or work for the
Government. I suggested that the
only excetpion should be a man
who had served the nation in war,
in actual military service. This in
cludes, naturally, any and all
branches of the fighting services.
An official of the Federal Career
Employees Association wrote me
about that. He did not object to
a preference, I think, in a case of
two applicants at the same time,
To oil our friends — for and near,
we extend compliments of the Season.
We treasure our many pleasant associations and
trust it will be our privilege to enjoy them for
many more years to come.
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Eastside Greenhouse
Phome Saw
one being an ex-combat man, but
he raises the question whether a
man already in service, sometimes
for years, should be removed in
order to employ a veteran. Let us
take a case: suppose John Doe was
employed in 1940 and was a compe
tent worker, should he be dis
charged in order to provide a job
for a veteran? As a businessmah
would you discharge a man of
pfoved ability and loyalty in order
to employ even his brother-in-law? I
Hasn’t the man on the job, a tried j
and true man, some rights? Don’t
we in business think the efficiency
of the organization worth consider
ing?
Though my sympathy is very
strong for men who have been dis
located by war; who find them
selves out of work because of com
bat duty, or any other duty to
their country, I think the man who
has been on a job for 'some years
should have a good claim to that;
job. Of course that does not lessen
our obligation to the veteran; the 1
Nation owes him a great debt and
the Nation should not-forget him;
nor should #ve forget him. The
question submitted to me really
boils down to this: shall we work
a hardship on men who have
served long and faithfully on the
job, in order to pay our debt to
the veteran? Or should we try to
do justice scrupulously to all cit-
izens?
There have been new jobs aplen
ty since 1945 to offer the veterans
suitable employment, without turn
ing out men of long service on the
job, whose citizenship and whose
family are also entitled to respect.
One of the dangers of more or
less general academic opportunity
is that it turns out on the world so
many people who try to refashion
or transform the world though they
have very little actual knowledge
of the world. Such academic op
portunity is often mistakenly called
“education.” Much of our turmoil
in America is traceable to bright
minds which are wandering all
about and camping in the clouds.
With all respect to my brethren of
the teaching services it is often
true that men teach or propound
theories to uninformed intellects
and the effect is often a tremen
dous barage of half-baked ideas
and a confusion of purpose.
Some of the bright men of small
practical ability, but distinguished
for Utopian dreams and great
fluency of speech, seem to have en
snared this Nation into the United
Nations and in such a manner that
stirs the ire of Tom Linder and
moves him to say:
"The Internationalists are in the
saddle, and have been, through
long and bloody years. The answer
is in the hearts, minds and hands
of the people of this country who
believe in God and whose labors
and toil produce our bounteous
crops and industrial' 1 supplies as
well as those who perform in pro
fessional fields at white collar
tasks and in the field of finance and
business.”
I agree with Mr. Linder; we are
in a compact that ties our hands
just as we see in Korea. You
might not think so, but that little
Police action of Mr. Truman’s is
carried on in the name of the
United NatiortS and by its author
ity. All we do is to provide nearly
all the money, munitions and
blood. It is a noble dream but
ruined by dreamers of fantasies.
McMillan Pleads
Highway Safety
During Christmas
Sixty-five persons were killed
and 483 were injured in 1,389 traf
fic accidents during October, Chief
Commisioner Claude R. McMillan
of the state highway department,
said today.
Mr. McMillan made a special ap
peal for caution by South Carolina
motorists in the coming weeks.
Winter months are always danger
ous, he said, and this year safety
officials have predicted that the
millionth person in the nation will
die in a traffic accident. “Mr. Mil
lion” will die during the third week
of December. ' Mr. McMillan said
that already 10,00(J people have
been injured in South Carolina
since the department began
keeping records in 1925. “We cer
tainly hope that this millionth vic-
ti mwill not be*a South Carolinian,”
the highway official said.
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January 29—Bush River here.
February 1—Silverstreet there.
February 5—Open.
February 8—Bush River there.
February 11—Prosperity here.
February 15—Prosperity there.
February 18-22—District Class C
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during the year just drawing to u close. We^
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