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Thursday, December IS, 1955 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE 1- ■ - ■J i * Pafe Thtrtwn By SPECTATOR.. COMMENTS on MEN AND THINGS Lile is a never-ending struggle; if you rest on your oars your boat wall drift, perhaps on a mud bank or bump against the rocks. The farmer and the gardener must be always alert to chop out the weeds. In business, in government, in our life as free citizens, we must prac- 4 v tice vigilance,* eternal vigilance, ' you recall. Our industrialists must be watchful of the trends of pro duction and marketing or their great factories will operate at a loss and thousands of men and women may lose their jobs. * I have talked about the prob lems of our farmers and now let us see what affects our textile en terprise. equal to all the net growth in spindleage that took place in the South over those years. “Now why was the South, and South Carolina in particular, able to not only retain but increase its apindleage? As one who has op erated mills both in the North and South it is possible to draw’some specific conclusions. First as to the auctiommg quality of labor; our experience has shown that there are«no abler men and women than those in South Carolina. ‘ 1 But even an able working force needs leadership. Thus South Car olina and the South are at £n ad vantage over New England be cause year after year the ablest work for a full day’s pay. This he has done and is doing. “While South Carolina mill own ers have poured money into new machinery, the owners of New England mills have hesitated to put money into new machinery when they cannot get the full bene fit from such investments. Apd because their unit costs are thus higher they do not find it possible profitable to run their mills nor That very alert, resourceful and 1 young men have gone from the col- enterprising genius Waiter Reg- nery of the big Joanna Mills caught my eye in a note to Joanna em ployees in The Joanna Way, the attractive and readable monthly magazine of The Joanna Cotton Mills Co. Mr.' Regnery urged the whole Joanna family to read an address by Roger Milkken. I found the ad dress informative and inspiring and quote extensively from it. “In the' banner economic year IdM the textile industry nude less than 1 per cent of profit after tax es out of every sales dollar. Let’s couple this with the fact that if one were to add up all the profits and all the losses of the textile in dustry since 1927, he would come up. with a red figure. “In 1921 there were a total of 36 million spindles; 16 million in the North and 16 million in the South. Some 33 years and many losses later there are only 2 million spin dles in the North as against 19 million spindles in the South. Thus New England suffered a loss of 16 million spindles while the South had a slight gain of 1 million. “It is significant that South Car olina not only kept the 5,400,000 spindles it had in 1927 but has added almost a million spindles be tween then and now — a figure leges and universities of South Carolina into training in the tex tile industry. This is not the case in New England where employ ment in the textile industry is not as highly regarded as it is here in the South, and the result is that the caliber of managerial person nel in South Carolina is superior to that of other states who have lost their industry to us. “Working together as a team, these well-trained managers and skillful employees in South Caro lina have tackled the problem of getting high productivities and low unit costs. In this most competitive of all industries it is imperative to achieve the lowest possible cost of production. Recognizing this, South Carolina management on its part has plowed back its earnings in creasingly into new machinery and improved working conditions with the result that the comparison be tween the South Carolina mill of today and of 20 years ago is as different as day is from night. Bpt expenditures of what sums for new equipment and facilities aret of no avail unless they are put to maximum use. The South Carolina textile worker has recognized this and that his mill cannot stay in business and furnish hill employ ment unless he offers a full day’s CHEERY... WARM-AS-TOAST WINTERS CAN BE YOURS If You Insulate and Weatherstrip Your Home Enjoy freedom from cold drafts and save on fuel bills. Home insulation pays for itself in fuel savings, in in creased comfort—more than you can measure in dol lars and cents. NO DOWN PAYMENT—36 MONTHS TO PAY —Roofing —Siding —Sheet Metal Work —Gutters —Downspouts —Metal Vents —Cy-Craft Fences —Aluminum Awnings —Bonded Bu/lt Up and Tar and Gravel Roofs For Free Estimates—Call or Write p. O. Box 144 J. A. SMITH, JR. CLINTON. S. C. Phnoe H7-J —Representing— AUGUSTA ROOFING A METAL WORKS, Inc. AUGUSTA, GA. 6 days during the week, and thus they deprive the workers of an opportunity to earn the sixth-day pay at time and a halt. “That these facts are true I know from bitter experience for 3 weeks ago I went to Waterville, Maine, and was present at the of all of the equipment, which included 50,000 spindles, in the Lockwood mill which has been affiliated with Deering Milliken for many years. One does not lightly make a deci sion to liquidate a plant that has been in operation for 86 years and is an employer of 800 people. In fact, we had spent over half a mil lion dollars in the Lockwood mill within the last 12 months hoping that it would be possible for us to get our costs to a point where we could compete with Southern effi ciency and unit costs. This we found we could not do, and the decision to liquidate was made. “There are, of course, other fac tors that have entered into the picture. One of these is taxes which are higher in New England. South Carolina is particularly for tunate that it has a law which calls for the assessment by the state government in Columbia of all industrial plants on an equit able basis state-wtde. “Because of the fine perform ance that the South Carolina em ployer and employee have turned in in the past, this state is today top dog as far as the textile indus try is concerned, but a champion’s role is not always an easy one. A survey we made at the time of the regent wage increase showed that South Carolina mills were paying the top rates and that mi Us in neighboring states were paying less and in some cases substantial ly less for similar work. TTiat makes our fight for survival more difficult and it is going to be necessary for all of us working to gether to strive continually for lower costs, utilizing to the full new machinery and new tech niques so that we may continue to increase our business and thus raise the economic level of our communities. “I could be optimistic about the textile future of South Carolina except for one very serious thing. The state’s textile future has been placed in jeopardy’by the cavalier action of our State Department in first giving Japan the money to build from the ground up an en tirely new and modem textile in dustry of 7 million spindles and then lowering the tariff so that the Japanese, using these spindles and paying a wage rate of 13 1-2 cents an hour, can flood our mar kets with high quality merchan dise. To make the matter worse the Japanese are now buying cot ton in Mexico and Brazil for 5 cents a pound less than we are paying for ours. “The State Department does not seem to be worried about this. They say that the textile industry is expendable. We ARE WOR RIED! We do not believe that our industry is expendable, nor do we regard lightly the loss of jobs for 19,000 persons." to a Federal Judge? The reason for invoking a Fed eral Statute instead of the usual procedure of communicating with the governor of New York I do not know; nor do I challenge it or make any special point about it; Our governor must have known that his plan would be ’equally (or shall 1 say politically) ineffectual in either case, whether dealing with the Democratic Governor Harriman, or the Republican At torney General Brownell. The point I make with emphas is is this: We have local Magis trates, Judges and Juries for the State offenses; and we have local Magistrates( U. S. Commissioners) textile Courts, Judges and Juries (Feder- al) for Federal offenses commit ted in this state. How does it hap pen that the Department of Jus tice in Washington directs that no warrant be issued? Why didn’t we apply to Judge Ashton Williams for a bench warrant? CREDITOR’S NOTICE All persons having claims against the estate of Mary Young Milam, deceased, are hereby notified to file the same duly verified, with the undersigned, and those indebt ed to said eslate will please make payments likewise. . . . KATE MILAM and HELEN MILAM BALLARD, Executrices. Dec. 8, 1955. 29-*3tc-W PUBIIC RECORDS Patricia U. Williams and Char les S. Williams, Jr., lot on Oakland Ave., Laurens, $2,048.41 and as sumption at mortgage. J. H. Wasson to George E. Was son and Vivian B. Wasson, 56 1-2 acres in Sullivan Township, $10. Eileene P. Bolt to David Blake ly, lot on new Ebi-Pass, Laurens, $1,500. w Emma D. Gray to Claude Stod dard, Jr., 54.4 acres, 3 miles south of Gray Court, $816. J. D. Nicholson to Rufus H. Minor, lots on Lake Greenwood, $720. Stella Hughes Wasson to George E. Wasson and Vivian B. Wasson, 50 acres and 19 3-4 acres in Sul livans township, $10.00. Rex Linford to* West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company, tract of land in Waterloo township, $10.00 and other valuable considerations. Canal Wood Corporation to Mil dred Scarborough, lot in Laurens township, $200. Hugh Saxon and Birdie B. Sax on to John B. Cook, 29 acres in Dials township, $645.14 and as sumption of mortgage. Lucinda Williams and Elnora Williams Summer to Willie Lee Williams, lot on South Bell street, Clinton, $1.00. J. P. Brown, Jr., and R. T. Wil son, Jr., to Frank N. Couch and Barbara C. Couch, lot in Forest Hills subdivision, Laurens, $10.00 and other considerations. Mrs. Mlyrtle G. Brown to Ghes- ley L. Richards and Barbara B Richards, lot on Jackson street, Laurens, $3,500. William G. Shaver and Lucille R. Shaver to Henry D. Dyal and Jo Ann C. Dyal, 1.01 acres bound ed by lands of Howard Crawford, $3,209.54 and assumption of mort gage Marriage licenses issued in Laur ens county: Alonzo Richardson, Fountain Inn, and Katie Lee Boyd, Laur ens. Willie Garrett, Lanford, and Martha Johnson, Laurens. Mack Farmer, Laurens, and Minnie Lee Simpson, Laurens. Herbert Lee Nelson, Woodruff, and Iva Lois DeYoung, Simpson- ville. Subscribe To THE CHROHICLE PHOHE 74 Subscribe To THE CHRONICLE Phone 74 Gray Funeral Home Clinton, S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS ...and... EM BA INTERS Phones tl and .tOO-F AMBULANCE SFRWCP L. RUSSELL GRAY and V. PARKS ADAIR, Gen. M*rs Pepsi-Cola Refreshes without filling No Finer at Any Price ...TAKE HOME A CARTON TODAT! PEPSI-COLA BOTTLING CO. OrMaYffle, S. (X Is America becoming Russian ized? I am not discussing at the moment whether the Colored min ister. DefLaine, should be extradit ed; I am just wondering at the procedure. Accbrding to our Con stitution, which is in full force and effect one day and not the next; and which really is only a piece of paper until the August Supreme Court reads some more socialigicai stuff and incorporates it into the Constitution—but according to the immortal document of our fore fathers “A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or oth er crime, who shall flee from jus tice, and be found in another state, *all on demand of the executfvo authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be re moved to the state having Juris diction of the crime.’’ Governor Timmerman seems to have relied on s Federal Statute rather than on the Constitution. At any rate, what interests me as a student of government is this: so far as I have read, the United States Commission, A Federal Magistrate—seem to have been disregarded. How does the Department of Justice in Washington come into this? The United States Attorney says that he was directed fra Waafaingteo. Well, if the Depart ment of Justice in Washington di rected the issuance of a warrant or the non-issuance of a warrant, we are losing our local self-gov ernment as citizens of the United States, aren’t we? And why should the Federal Prosecutor, the Unit ed States Attorney, issue a war rant, or direct*it? Shall the De partment of Justice issue orders Hanes Un< Long and Short i Cottons and wAol LB. DILLARD Work Shoes By Cedar Crest 55.00 to $11.95 L B. DILLARD OA-A-A/ lA/h&f- 'Sty/tog/ iat a NEAREST OLDSMOBILE DEALER LAURENS COUNTY TAX BOOKS OPEN Wide School Laurens No. 55 19 25 Laurens No. 56 19 22 Ware Shoals No. 51 . 19 35 Greenville No. 520 . 19 42 County Special School Board Bonds Ednca. Total 44 3 44 1 DO 61 (County-wide includes: Ordinary County, 10 mills; Bonds, 8 mills; Hospital, 1 mill. Total, 19 mills.) i r (Mauldin-Simpsonville-Fountain Inn Water Dist.) le\fy 17 mills. Every male between the ages of 21 and 60 years, who is not physically disabled is required to pay $1.00 poll tax. Tax books opened September 16, 1955, and will re main open without penalty through December 31, 1955. Taxes will be collected through April 15, 1956 with pehalty added and will go into execution April 15, 1956. The following penalties will he collected; January, 1 per cent; February, 2 per cent; March, 3 per cent; and from April 1 to April 15th, 7 per cent. SAM M. LEAMAN County Treasurer Uhfagfttoneb <Cf)t fettM#! SPECIAL PRICE! FOR RAKING OR FRYING-CREAMWH1TE 3-LB TIN l.adiet' Mr Ion HOSIERY PAIR 59c 3 Pair* $1.69 Idea! Lmdie*' Stretch HOSIERY PAIR 69c 3 Pair. $1.99 Shortening SPECIAL price: FOR holiday salads WESSON on PECIAI PRICE! HER 1 KEY'S CHOCOLATE SYRUP SPECIAL PRICE! PILLSBI HY WHITE, YELLOW. 'SCABS MIX 2 NEW LOW PRICE! 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PKG. 3 to 4 ft 89c 5 to 6 ft $1.39 7 to 8 ft $1.79 9 to 10 ft. ... $2.49 WE ALSO HAVE GREEN WHITE OR SILVER CHEMICAL TREES on Foods Save with ColoniaTs FREE SAV-A-STAMP EACH REDEEMABLE FREE y^mst W. PITTS STREET - CLINTON, S. C.