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A THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Hire* TkwnUj, April tt, IMS By SPECTATOR.. COMMENTS on MEN AND THINGS I like to read accounts of good aery of Chicago. The present heed of the operations -Mr. Wal- ration. We live pn and by through busiwei operations. Not all are industrialists and certain ly most of m operate on a mod est scale. Some are newspaper, men and with that operate a business that is a trial to one's ingenuity; others are engaged in a multiplicity of oocupatlone; acme of my friends end aamd- ates operate radio and televiatan stations, with lots of headaches, probably. But “Business," whether we practice law or med icine, or farming, or run dm haz ards of the mercantile career— we live by business. Even is too modest to tell me what is happening, but I find the nows in The Joanna Way, along with a picture of ray friend, John Roes, who it looking young and handsome. t Mr. Whiter Regnery, in a let. ter to all Joanna employee* says something I wish to quote : “It gives me great pleasure to announce that Joanna will pay bankers sometimes have worries. When I run across a story of exceptional management I enjoy it Here is one that I am taking from The Joanna Way, the very readable and attractive magazine of the Joanna Mills. You may recall that the Joanna Mills breathe the spirit of my great friend, the late WiHJam H. Reg. HONEST ’ AND Ql COST YO another wage dividend this year. “The nine-months period up on which profits the wage divi dend is figured was one of the most difficult since the T 930’s, the Prices for ell textiles were such Before we become cited about foreign nations would do well to have considera tion for our own people. If America wiriies to help menktaig America must be strong; if we dissipate our energies aad means we Shall impoverish ourselves and be unable to help others. • • » What do you think of this? A camera, housed in s rocket, pho tographed 900,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast area from an latitude of 155 miles. It takes skilled craftsmen from eight to twelve months to make one of these cameras and they cost from $2500 to $10,000. No comment is necessary: from an altitude of 155 miles! What an age is this!! • • e „ President Roosevelt probably didn't fully appreciate all gut he conceded to Russia; at the mo ment he undoubtedly thought only of winning the war, that war. The immensity of Russia’s gain was probably known to that only the very efficient sndj not ^ most modem could sell their pro duction and still have a small margin to pay something to those who provide the plant and ma chinery. Joanna again comes in this classification. Again, your stockholders, or those who have put up the capital to make our plant possible wish to share their profit wigi you. They went in this way to show their apprecia tion for the pert you played in the success we enjoyed this year. The price we receive for our- finished product is by and large beyond our control This is set by over-all factors in the large textile goods market. Therefore, when we are in a depressed pe riod, as we have just finished, with prices goii^ down, we must somehow become more efficient to be able even to meet our ev ery-day expenses, such as cotton, wages, supplies, etc. Due to mar. ket conditions, one field of tex tiles might not be as depressed as others. Here by shifting over to these new products we can re ceive more for our joint efforts. In the year just finished, we at Joanna followed these two ideas, became more efficient and shift ed to new products. These ef forts, plus continued high qual ity of workmanship, made our bonus possible. It proves again the wonderful spirit of coopera tion that exists at Joanna. It re quired each and everyone's full est effort to make all this pos sible.” Doesn’t it warm your heart to find such happy and efficient co operation? On the back of a popular trade magazine I find this statement: “Foreign textiles sold in our United States in 1954 set a 30- year record? Congress is now considering a plan to cut our protective tariff even further . . inviting more foreign imports.’ We can’t compete with textile workers who are paid 13c an hour. U. S. tariffs help to equal ize the 10.to-l wage cost odds against us . . . lowering tariffs will raise these odds.” The great leson for us is the dan ger at one-man government. However honest and patriotic a man may be he should be held down by every legal restriction that can be devised. Our courts and Congress should not degen erate into mere puppets of any man’s dream. As to the vast area gained by Russia, I am repiinded of a re mark by the late Miles Poindex. ter. Mr. Poindexter was very popular as United States Ambas sador to Peru. He decided on an expedition through the area in dispute between Peru and other nations. Said Mr. Poindexter, upon his return: “Perhaps there is such a vast domain uninhabit ed, even unexplored, it doesn’t seem worth quarreling over." • • • Does it pay to have industries in your county? I recall a letter from that great industrial genius, Mr. Self, telling of the transfor mation of the economic life of Greenwod county through indus trial payrolls. I have before me the excellent Clinton Chronicle and find a double column head line on the first page: “’54 County Textile Payroll $13,629,438.” MM “The 44 manufacturing estab lishments in Laurens county paid total wages ot $16,917,536 during the fiscal year ending. June 30, 1954, a decrease of approximate ly one million dollars over the previous year. They had an an nual production valuation of $80,486,426, a decrease of a mil lion dollars over last year. Tney had an average of 6,113 employ ees, same as last year, with a capital investment of $25,005,371, an increase of two million dol lars over the previous year. These figures pertaining to the county are contained in the 19th annual report to the South Caro. Una Department of Labor, sub mitted a few days ago to the General Assembly. Textile investments in the county amounted to $16,029,153, valuation of products $68,364,581, average number of employees 4,- 921, about the same as last with total wagea of $13,629,429. Total mill village population 19,993. The plants used 99,743 bales of cotton.” These plants are in Laurens county; 1 wish we had them in old Clarendon, where I live. • • • Time, the weakly magazine, carried an advertisement of s great New York Bank and it tells something about cotton. A half of the page is given to a beautiful picture of an open cot ton boll Let me quota the adv, in part: “Cotton, America’s largest farm crop, provides almost 17 per cent of our clothing. Today, however, it has stepped out of i the blue denim and gingham of I yesteryear into the role of ‘won der fiber* and rage of Paris fash ion salons. This happened when science learned how to make cot ton fabric wrinkle and shrink resistant. But cotton is more than a fi ber. In the boll are seeds for which industry is continuously finding new uses. Cotton seed oil is used for margarine and other foods ... the pulp makes high-protein livestock feed . . . linters that ding to the seed are used in film, phonograph rec ords and dynamite . . . and the hulls become the basis for many plastic article*. Large sums of money are needed to finance the production, distribution, and marketing of this multi-purpose crop." • • • The appointment of Judge Discrimination MUunderstood By JAMES & EDVARD A group of college presidents attending a general convention ere directed to a special con ference room. They were asked to go there because the discuss ion had been planned for their particular benefit. If they had taken the view which unfortunately is promi nent in some thinking quarters, these men could well have sur mised that thty were being dis criminated against because they could not go to any session they desired. But this trought occur red to most of them because they knew that the program had been designed for them. A group of educators have been making surveys of southern col leges for negro youth. Natural ly enough, in the informal con versations the question of segre gation sometimes comes up One young negro student put it this way: “We do not consider that we are being discriminated against when we are provided the training we need in public school and college. Many of us prefer to attend our own schools. If the time ever comes when white and negro*- students are forced to attend the same schools both races will be suffering from discrimination for they will be compelled to a course that neither group may actually want.” This young man gives food for serious bought. He presents a side of the question that can ail too easily be overlooked. OFFICE SUPPLIES SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE WE DO ALL KINDS OF PRINTING—EXCEPT BAD CHRONICLE PUB. CO. Phone 74 ..and now in 1955 ROCKETS'ON THE ROAD! OO AHEAD I Try th« Most Provsd — Most Popular Hlgh-Compr*sslon Englns of Thom All I tt'* tbs record of OUamobile’. “Rocket” Engine! And it’* been that way ... right front the day tin* frunooo power plant Lunched the k! Every year the “Rocket” get* “hotter” . . . every year a ition for action! Now, it’* the “Rocket” 202—moat thrilling of them all —powering the moot brilliant and beautiful Oid*mobile# ever built! Go ahood, drive a 19S5 OMamobile yooraelf! Diacover why the going'* groat in a "Rock* B”! "ROCKET" I Sll YOUR NIARIST OLDSMOBILI DIALIR TIMMEHMAN MOTOR GO. Phosa Ilf, or visit our Showroom on East Carolina Ave. 0 • Tor vni but us is car •iAi...LooK for oiBSMomrt safity-tistid sial John M. Harlan to the U. S. Su preme Court raises soem ques tions. ‘The principal argument against confirmation was made by 'Senator Eastland and was based upon Judge Harlan's mem bership in the Atlantic Union and the American Committee for the United Nations and his re fusal to say whether he thought the U. S. Constitution could be over-ridden by a treaty. According to Senator Eastland, the division in the Supreme Court on this issue was 4 to 4 prior to the confirmation of Judge Harlan. If Senator Eastland is correct, the division in the Court is now 5-4 in favor of the supremacy of treaties over the Constitution. This would seem to make more urgent the passage of the Brick- er Amendment, or something similar to it However, it is re ported that the Bricker proposal lost ground in the last election. Furthermore, the sub-committea of the Senate Judiciary Com mittee which will consider all proposed amendments to the Constitution is headed by Sena tor Kefauver, who is a support er of the Atlantic Union.” The Bricker proposal is to clarify the pre-eminence of the Constitution. Our courts and some of our internationalists are about to sell this nation down the river— or perhaps, have already done so ^111 a niin1111*! dWtmake out another marketing &t till y«, compare tod M see how low 1 Jl e Pprices ate! 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