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rT ,esmzm * • vvi —— I— Pafrc Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thvnianhtiy il, 1W5 (Etp (Eltntnn (C^rnnirlr Established ItM PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance) One Year $2.50, Six Months $1.50 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C., March 3, 1879 under Act of Congress The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. Member: South Carolina Press Association, National Editorial Association National Advertising Representative: AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York, Chicago, Detroit. Philadelphia CLINTON. S. C., THU RS^AY, JULY 21, 1955 FFA-And Ted We know of nothing that is of more po tential value to our boys and girls than be ing members of FFA and JHA chapters in pur high schools. Composed of young people who live on farms or who are interested in agricultural pursuits and farm homelife, and in the case of girls—even those who do not have the farm viewpoint and who simply want to train themselves to be better home-makers, these organizations are valuable adjuncts to our high schools. These thoughts come to mind when think ing about young Ted Davenport, one of our Clinton high school boys, who last week was elested president of the South Carolina Fu ture Farmers Association at the annual con vention at Clemson College. The training in leadership and up to date farm practices that this young man has re ceived under a trained teacher will stay with him all his life and he will be a better citizen and a better farm (if he chooses to be one) because of it. Ted is to be congratulated for his achieve ments in his work through the local FFA chapter and for being the kind of boy his fel low members over the state would select as their president. The Time Will Come Cotton Fanners Hurt Too A number of top people in the raw cotton producing business are beginning to express concern about what will happen to American farmers when two different government oolicies collide. « ; For many years, as a result of established Jaw, United States cotton fanners have been Jielped by government price supports. J Along with the price supports, the law also jars foreign-grown cotton from being brought Jnto the country, except for a very small mount of specialty growths. This means the armers have a protected market and a pro- ected price in the United States for their otton. Under this program, more than 98 per cent < >f all cotton goods manufactured and used n the United States is made from American otton. What bothers the farm leaders is that an ther big government program is moving in No movement is more worthy of support in every part of our nation than that now being waged principally by Southerners to preserve constitutional government in the United States. And we are not referring principally to the fight against the recent decision of the U. S. Supreme Court on outlawing segrega tion in schools. Encroachments on rights of states began long before that. It has been going on year by year, little by little—this cniseling away at the rock that is the Constitution—until today it is at such an alarming stage that all thinking citizens should be concerned about it. When the Constitution was being written, two opposing forces were arrayed against each other. One, for a strong federal govern ment, led by Alexander Hamilton, and the other, which championed for rights of the states, led by Thomas Jefferson. The faction led by Jefferson, who wrote into the Constitution a system of checks and balances to keep the federal government from becoming too strong that won the admira tion of the world, was victorious. Still not satisfied, and continuing to fear a strong central government, advocates pro duced the 10th amendment — the Bill of Bights, enumerating them one by one, with i this declaration: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited to it by the states, are reserved to the states respectively or to the people.” Nothing could be more plain than that. The nation will, we believe, in time to come, swing back again to the Southern viewpoint, championed by the descendants of those who, recently come from Europe, knew what op pression by ruling castes meant, and who sought to give to the world a really free so ciety. It is this European school of thought that has been exerting tremendous influence in national councils during the past twenty- five years. But there are those who agree with South erners—in all parts of the nation—who in time to come will realize that there are rights reserved to the states and who will join in the fight to do battle with those who would sell their birthright for a mess of pottage. an opposite direction and threatens to wreck the price support system. They refer to the State Department’s trade program, particularly the severe tariff cuts made recently at Geneva on cotton textile goods, for the special benefit of Japan. The slashes, due to go into effect in Sep tember, are so drastic that in cents per yard of goods they run considerably more, on the average, than mill profits now being earned in the manufacture of the goods. In effect, these tariff cuts amount to an import subsidy on foreign cotton. In the case of common, unbleached print cloth, for ex ample, the tariff cut is said to be comparable to an import subsidy of three and three- tenths cents a pound of cotton. Farm leaders argue that it doesn’t matter whether foreign cotton is allowed to enter this country in raw state or manufactured form—the result will be the same; to nullify or offset much of what they have gained through the cotton agricultural act. Increasing fears are being expressed that when these two policies run head on after Sep tember 10, many textile mills and countless farmers will be hurt. ' It is obvious to the farmers that just as foreign manufactured goods are the product of foreign labor, so likewise are foreign fab rics mostly the products of foreign cotton. Taking foreign textile manufacturers as a whole, 75 per cent of its raw fiber material is foreign cotton and only 25 per cent is Ameri can-grown cotton. Farmers therefore fear the eventual loss of their biggest market—the consumption of American cotton by American mills—either because it will be taken over by Japan or be cause U. S. mills may be forced to shift to rayon and other synthetics, which were not touched by the Geneva tariff cuts. Right now, it has been learned, there is a lot of high-level discussion going on in cot ton trade circles and state farm organizations of the Cotton Belt as to how to remedy the situation before the policy conflict causes heavy damage. One idea which is gathering momentum, and is reported being favorably considered in Congress, is a plan for establishing a system of cotton goods import quotas. Such a sys tem, as one official described it, would set “sensible, reasonable and specific limitations on the amounts of foreign-made cotton tex tiles permitted to enter the United States.” World trade thinking in cotton farm re gions up to now has centered mostly on the problem of exporting and selling more raw cotton overseas. But farmers see there’s dan ger in pushing all their efforts in that direc tion if some State Department monkey- wrench ruins the 9 million bales a year home market for American cotton. from raw material to final product could be done in months. About all you will see will be a row of machines looking like so many juke boxes and flashing lights, and one or two well-dressed young women pushing buttons. What Happens To The Workers? As the change-over to automatic production spreads, it is certain that a lot of workers will have to move to other jobs. But there are more people employed now than there were ten years ago, with very much more machinery. It has been said by experts that, without automation, we soon would not have enough workers to do our jobs, to introduce new products, and to achieve our present prosperity. Even in industries and offices where the work has been made the most automatic, a good deal of human effort is still necessary. Supposedly <i factory could be erected in which every process by a few people who would only push buttons. Actually, of course, human brains have to work out the whole scheme, and human hands have to build the machines, set them going, tend, repair, and maintain them, sometimes stop them! Hew To Use Extra Time I don’t believe we are moving too fast. We are materially and spiritually better off in this country than are the backward nations which have never had such machines. No workers any where ever had better working conditions or high er pay than Americans are getting today. The machine has brought them prosperity and is bringing them more time and opportunity to “do- it-themselves,” in their own homes, with their own families. Perhaps we can all use some of this time and opportunity to cultivate the spiritual values which we have been neglecting while we have been building up our material prosperity. Methodist School Of Missions In Columbia Aug. 8*12 A School of Missions of the Woman’s Society of Christian Service, South Carolina Confer ence of the Methodist church, will be held August 8-12 at Co lumbia college, Columbia, it has been announced. The theme of the conference will be ‘Crown TTiy Good With Brotherhood.’’ Classes will be held on “An Introduction to Five Spiritual Classics,” “The Christian Mission in a Revolutionray World,” “In dian Americans,” and “To Com bine Our Efforts for Lasting Pecae." Teachers will be nationally known ministers, church leaders, lecturers and teachers. Carrying out the theme, “Achieving Brotherhood.” will be stressed by leaderr and officers in the South Carolina Confer ence, Woman’s Society of Chris tian Service, with various divis ions of the topic: “Through Stew- ardship of Possession s,” “Through Better Community Living,” “Through Wider Ser vice for Women in the Church,” “Through Creative Study.” Clinics in every line of work will be held for district officers on three afternoons. Something of interest and help will be provided for all others during the clinic periods. Three inspiring platform hours will be held in the evenings. Textbooks and other materials will be sold in the book room at the college. Board will be $10.00, payable upon arrival at the college. Bring pillow, towels, linens, Ctc., and an electric fan if desired. Registration fee is $2.00 pay able in advance. Mail not later than August 4 to Miss Eula Winn, 5207 Fairfield Road, Columbia, S. C. Register for class and work shop with Mrs. L. A. Hartzog, Olar, S. C., as soon as possible, not later than August 4. Each person is expected to take one class and one workshop. Attend Furniture Market At High Point Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Thomason of T. E. Jones and Sons, and E. H. Wilkes of Maxwell Bros, and Wilkes, last week attended the showings at the High Point, N. C., furniutre market. Attending this week are Her- schel Thomason and Don Wins low of T. E. Jones and company. Rev. D. See Early Revival Speaker Revival services are now in progress at Bailey Memorial South ern Methodist church. Services which are held each evening at 7:30 will continue through Sun day evening, July 24. Speaker for the revival is the Rev. D. Bee Early, pastor of Wes ley Memorial Southern Methodist church of Greenville. Mr. Early is an interesting speaker, having served as both pastor and evange list and is well informed on the history of the Holy Land, having visited there. Rev. W. R. Quinn, the church pastor, extends a cordial welcome to the public to attend. Dr. Fred E. Holcombe OPTOMETRIST Oflcw at 200 Sooth Brood St BABSON . . . Discusses Automatic Factories By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass., July 21—Not very long ago I heard a man in the automobile business say: “In my lifetime there have been bigger changes in industry than took place in all of the years be fore that.” Here in America, especially, our way of life has changed more within the memory of many of us than in all the generations before us. Are We Going Too Fast? This fast change scares a lot of thinking peo ple. Some feel that they would have had fewer problems to face if they had been born a hundred years ago and they are probably right. Others say they would not want to be around a hundred years from now because “things are changing too fast.” Some of the union leaders— you might expect would move fast themselves—also apparent ly are frightened. They admit that the high wages are devel oping a new threat to labor which may throw huge num bers out of work. This threat is Automation, and they say it may not only throw men out of work, but there just may not be any jobs! Of course, I don’t believe this. Rather, history shows, “the more machinery, the more jobs”—but very different jobs. What Is Automation? Automation is a word that is being used a great deal nowadays. It means using electronic ma chines in place of men. Walter Reuther and oth ers see this as a real danger to full employment. They seem to think that some day a manufacturer will need onlv to put his finger on a few buttons and push! If this were true, or dose to it, then we all ought to be afraid because our way of life depends on most of us having jobs and working at them- If, however, the future is anything like the past, Automation could increase employment and raise the standard of living. There have been all kinds of developments in office machines in the last ten years ,yet the number of office workers has risen from 5,100,000 to 8,100,000 dur ing this same period. Even new telephone exchanges, oil refineries, and electric generating plants, for example, now look like a preview of the automatic world of to morrow. A visitor to a big generating plant sees some gigantic pipes, an array of dials, and only one man who seems to be in charge. There is even less to look at in a modem automatic tele phone exchange. If you have a chance, look at one of the new “electronic brains” which can do as much computation in, say, tour minutes as a large force of men with pencil and paper could do MIDWAY DRIVE-IN THEATRE CLINTON, a. a Thursday - July 21 Caught In a Double Cross! —EVELYN KEYES —JOHN PAYNE 99 RIVER STREET Comedy and Cartoon FREE CASH TONIGHT! PLAY HOLLYWOOD! FRI. - SAT, - SUN. - MON. JULY 22 - 23 - 24 - 25 IT’S HERE — AND FIRST RUN FOR CLINTON! The Craze of the Nation! 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