The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, December 15, 1955, Image 13
Thursday, December IS, 1955
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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By SPECTATOR..
COMMENTS
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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
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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.
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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
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Laurens No. 56
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Ware Shoals No. 51
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Greenville No. 520
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County Special School Board
Bonds Ednca. Total
44
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(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
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