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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.
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; 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
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