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Thursday, March I, 1956
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CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1956
“It May Mean
Murder And Bloodshed”
That is a direct quotation from a Textile
Workers Union organizer 'in telling of the
forthcoming attempt of the union to organ
ize the Southern textile induatry. —
A recent issue of America’s Textile Re
porter had an editorial telling of an inter
view with a TWU organizer ami what he had
to say is of interest to every man, woman
and child in South Carolina.
If the contemplated organizing move ma
terializes, South Carolina faces troublesome
times. Law enforcement agencies have been
warned and should begin now to prepare.
South Carolina ranks as one of the leading
textile producing states, and may well ex-
t pect to bear the brunt of any drive to union
ize workers.
The organizing, as told in the Textile Re
porter, is going td be a “rough and tough,
no-holds barred fight” on the part of the
unions. The editorial continues: ‘‘What
Southern textile management can expect
along these lines is wrapped up in the fol
lowing quotation by one of the TWU’s top
organizers as he spoke to us personally. ‘We
are going to organize the Southern textile
industry this year. We’ve got the AFL-CIO
solidly l>ehind us. They are going to back us
up with money and everything they have
got. We know we must first organize tex
tiles before we make any impression on South
ern lalx>r. We are going to start with the
trucking companies. That’s where we have
been making our mistake. We’ll organize
the truckers first. We’ll stop supplies from
reaching the mills and we’ll stop anything
from getting out. We boys are moving South.
It may mean murder and bloodshed (exact
quotation). Can you imagine what those tex
tile hillbillies will do with a gun in their
hands once we get. a few of them paying
dues? We mean to do it. We are going to or
ganize every textile company in the South.”
Strengthening
the Foundations
The Hoover Commission found that the
federal government operates about 3’,000
business type enterprises, many in direct
competition with private enterprise. It rec
ommends that the government get out of 1,-
000 of these enterprises, and states that
many of the goods and services produced
can be obtained cheaper from taxpaying pri
vate business.
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The list of government businesses runs an
astonishingly wide gamut—from ice cream
freezing plants to electric systems; from
garden nurseries to railroads; from a mail
bag factory to banks; from a fertilizer plant
to steamship lines. In each case the taxpay
ers are the losers in three ways; first, the
tax-exemptions of government businesses in
crease everyone else’s share of government
costs; second, capital investment for these
enterprises adds directly or indirectly to the
national debt and increase the interest pay
ments which are part of the tax burden; and,
third, hidden costs and losses help swell the
total and also add to the debt and the interest.
A point made by Herbert Hoover himself
should guide the thinking of the administra
tion, the Congress, and the general public
toward the commission’s reports. He said:
“Our job is to show a safe road to a balanced
budget . . . Hut over and above even that,
many of these reports spell out ways to
strengthen the foundations of the Repub
lic.”
The Shopper Abroad
Americans who haven’t lived abroad would
be puzzled and annoyed at, the way people
must go about shopprng Tor fckxf Th^btHer
countries. In most of those countries, stores
are usually forbidden,, by law to offer such
items as fresh meat under the same roof with
canned vegetables and soups. In France, for
instance, the housewife must go to as many
as 14 stores to complete a shopping list—a
fruit shop, a smoked meat store, a fresh meat
butcher, a bakery, a dairy, and so on.
Here in the United States, whether we
patronize a family-owned store or a big chain
supermarket, we take it for granted that
everything we want has been assembled for
us—and that the.highest standards of sani
tation and convenience prevail. v
In addition, we have come to expect and
demand foods in a form which requires a min
imum of preparation—and we are also ac
customed to buying foods which once were
available only seasonally at all times of the
year. For example, the American housewife
spent $8.2 billion in chain grocery-supermar
kets last year for perishable items requiring
refrigeration. The typical chain outlet has up
to $75,000 invested in refrigerating equip
ment alone—four or five times as much as
the investment in the entire store of 1025 !j ^sfanefthe”Colie'ge Pa’rk^hur^h,
These and the many other costs brought on
by the demand for frozen and otherwise-
processed foods help to explain why the
“spread” between the price received by the
farmer and the price paid by the consumer
has widened
The superiority of American retailing is
not confined to foods. It is found in all the
many branches of retailing—as Americans
who have traveled abroad will tell you.
Atlanta Region
Pledges $65,720
In College Drive
The Atlanta region increased
its contributions to Presbyterian’s
College’s Diamond Jubilee De
velopment program to $65,720 in
the second report meeting held on
Tuesday night.
A total of $31,781 by 1»4 don
ors was reported at this time to be
added to the $34,429 tured in last
week. Thus far 338 persons have
contributed or pledged to the pro
gram in that area.
Peachtree Road Presbyterian
church topped all others in the sec
ond report meeting with a gift
of $7,337. Trinity Presbyterian
church followed close behind with
$7,000; Atlanta’s First church add
ed $2,545; the Marietta First
church, $3,660; the Decatur church,
$2,150; Gord Street church. $1.-
Rreeze, 111., Journal: “Pravda, the chief
Russian newspaper, gives familiar advice to
those who would attain advanced years. They
should avoid worry, sleep regularly, avoid ex
cessive smoking or drinking. This leaves out
the most important requirement: Don’t criti
cize the government.”
Bishop, Calif., Register: ”, . . Rather than
ask for price support at the expense of the
consumer, cattlemen have launched a self-
help effort* U> stabilize the present difficult
cattle situation. They’ve gotten together with
other people in the beef business—the feed
ers, packers and retailers . . , All the cattle
men ask is that the public help itself to beef,
particularly to the less demanded cdts which
are in such great supply right now. They
point out that these cuts can be as tasty,
when properly cooked, as thoste cuts we pay
more for. And they’re every bit as nutri
tious.”
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SENSING THE NEWS
By THURMAN SENSING
' * Executive Vic* President
I Southern States Industrial Council
•'OH. WHAT A TANGLED WEB . .
Quite often one hears a comment along the fol
lowing line, “The United States has billions of dol
lars worth of food products—butter and cheese and
milk and corn and wheat—in storage and does not
know what to do with it. Storage is costing a mil
lion dollars a day and some of it is spoiling. At
the same time there are millions of hungry people
;n other parts of the world, some of them even
starving. Why not give the food to these people
and at the same time get rid of en embarrassing ag
ricultural surplus problem?”
On the surface, this does sound like a humani-
tarain suggestion. But let’s look under the surface
a moment. What would actually happen if this
were done? X'
If we gave the food away, that might be an im
mediate charitable act—though there would be
plenty of argument on this point—but the fact We
must face is that it would not get rid of the sur
plus?
Under our system of agriculutral price supports
—and we shall never get rid of this ptoblem until
we gat rid-of the supports—Uncle Sam would con
tinue to have a surplus of farm products What
we are prone to overlook is the fact that these
products are now raised for the supports prices,
not for the market. In other words, it makes no
difference whether there is a demand on the part
to the public, the particular commodities in ques
tion wlil continue to be produced anyway in order
to get the prices guaranteed by the government.
Tim would simply mean, therefore, that we
would continue—supposedly forever—to have a
surplus of food supplies. If we continue to solve
the problem in the same way suggested above, we
would continue to feed—supposedly forever—the
liungry people of the world. If we continue to
feed the hungry peoples of the world, these people
would lose all incentive to produce any food for
themselves. Or, in those countries whe,re they do
prouffe it, they would find no export market be-
cLuafe we are givirig it away. In fact, if we are
going to give it to whoever is hungry, why should
any people produce food for themselves; why not
pet it from us?
All of which simply proves how a government
can get entangled in its own web when it starts
> eddling with natural laws, when it starts a sys
tem of subsidies and doles that it finds trouble in
scop^ing. The best way to get out of a mess like
ibis is to clean it up altogether, not provide for its
continuance. Given serious reflection, it becomes
very clear that any suggestion to give away our
$1,415.
The Porterdale Presbyterian
church, a small congregation of
only 171 members, continued to
lead the field in proportionate giv
ing* After exceeding its quota of
$10 per communicant with $2,450
raised last week, Porterdale
brought in another $1,050 Tuesday
to make its total reported to date
$3,500. „
Joanna Mills Honors
Long-Time Employees
At Banquet Saturday
——
Ninety-two Joanna Cotton Mill
employees were presented with
awards in recognition of long
service at a banquet at the Joanna
club house Saturday night.
- Chief speaker for the banquet
was Dr. R. C. Grier, former pres-
dient of Erskine college and now
pastor of the Greenville ARP
church. John Holland Hunter was
master of ceremonies.
Nineteen mill employees re
ceived gold watches in recognition
of 20 years of service; 19 Others'
got gold rings for 15 years and
35 received pins for 10 years ser
vice. All were presented certifi
cates increasing their free life in
surance by $500.
Husbands and wives of the hon
ored guests also attneded the
banquet.
The awards were presented by
Walter Regnery, vice-presfdent
and general manager of Joanna
Cotton Mills, assisted by J. L.
Delany, general superintendent,
W. K. Waits, assistant superin
tendent and P. B. Mitchell, assist
ant to the vice-president.
Father Gerald Ernst of the Jo
anna Catholic church gave the in
vocation; J. B. Hart, assistant
treasurer of Joanna Mills, intro
duced the speaker; and. Rev.
James B. Mitchell, fo the Joanna
Baptist church, pronounced the
benediction.
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Clinton Club Adopts
Resolution Colling For
Joponese Textile Quotas
The Clinton city Democratic
club in a meeting Saturday after
noon adopted the following reso
lution:
“Whereas, the recent reduction
in tariffs upon the importation of
textile goods and garments from
Japan without ah effective quota
system is resulting in the sale in
American markets of a large and
growing volume of goods made
with cheap Japanese labor at
prices below the actual cost of
American mills producing at high
er wage costs the same classes ot
goods, and
“Whereas, the growing volume
of ‘ such importations of Japanese
goods threatens to pre-empt the
American market for many types
and classes of garments and goods
and inevitably will necessitate the
closing of many American,, textile
and garment jMants, loss of employ
ment, reduction of wages and dis-
'“Now, therefore, be it resolved,
ruption of the American economy,
by the qualified Democratic elec
tors of Clinton precinct in Laur
ens county, South Carolina, in
meeting duly assembled, that the
President of the United States and
the Congress of the United States
be, and they hereby are, mem
orialized to take cogniance of the
grave and critical situation with
which the textile industry of the
United States is now confronted
and that they act speedily and ef
fectively to remedy the situation
County WorkersJn
Cancer Crusade *
To Meet In Anderson
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Cancer Crusade leaders from
Laurens county will attend an
area meeting at Anderson on
March 7, it is announced.
The meeting will be held at An
derson Memorial hospital, North
dormitory meeting room, at 10:30
a. m. ’ '
Representatives will be present
from Anderson, Oconee, Pickens,
Greenwood, Saluda, Abbeville and
Laurens counties.
Eleven area meetings will be
held over the state, the first be
ing held for upstate areas yester
day in Greenville.
At each of the meetings Na
tional representative, Walter
James of the American Cancer
Society, will speak on “The Amer
ican Cancer Society’s Challenge to
Us.”
Crusade leaders will also hear
State Crusade Director William
N. Cork speak on “How We Shall
Raise Our Goal of $250,000.” Mrs.
Paul Leonard, executive director
of the South Carolina Division
of the American Cancer Society,
will speak on “Why Education
and Service In Every County.”
At each meeting a medical dis
cussion or address is scheduled to
be led by a member of the medi
cal profession.
Easley And 6reer
Take Upstate Titles
Here Saturday
Julie Poole’s basket in the last
three seconds spurted Easley
high’s grils to the Upstate Class
“A” championship here Saturday
night with a 38-37 victory over
Chester high, defending cham
pions.
Greer high’s Yellow Jacktes,
defending state champions, had
little trouble in trouncing Byrnes
high, 86-63, .in the finals of their
bracket., • ■ . - * -•••-
The largest crowd ever turned
out for the championship finals.
Walter Johnsno of Presbyterian
college presented the team tro
phies.
The class A and B girls and
boys tournament for_the fipstate
area began here last Tuesday af
ternoon, with games each after
noon and night through Saturday.
The Easley girls and Greer
boys will meet lower state win
ners for the state class A title
in Columbia Friday night at the
university field house.
The B class title games will be
held tonight (Thursday) in which
the Mauldin girls team will laqe
Marion. The Whitmire boys team
will oppose St. George.
Mauldin and Whitmire won
their upstate titles at the Clin
ton tournament last week.
29 Senior Cadets
Advanced In Rank
By College ROTC
Promotion of 29 senior cadets
of Presbyterian college’s Reserve
Officer’s Training corffe has been
announced by Lt. Col, Francis V.
Smith, professor of military science
and tactics. .
Elevated to the rank ot cadet
lieutenant colonel in his capacity
as battalion commander was Chris
Patte, of Clinton. Edward L. Hay
of Wadmalaw Island mo^fes up to
cadet major.
Those cadets advanced to the
rank of captain include: Kenneth
N. Baker, Jr., Charles W. Sloan
and Frank Young, Jr., all of Clin
ton; James Ray (Lord, of Dublin,
Ga.; Thomas E. Turner HI, of Ma
con, Ga.; Ernest F . Wahl, of
ThomasviUe, Ga.. and Richard A.
Oliver, of College Park, Ga.
ThC^ new cadet firet lieutenants
are: Samuel G. McGregor, of
Greenville; John T. McNeely, of
"T—T
Mooresville, N. C.; Douglas Del
linger, Arthur Pue IV, Charles L.
Pee and Mack N. IBaUaitt, all of
Charlotte; Richard H. Macatee, of
Fort Royal, Va.; Eugene R. Alt
man, of MuHtna; Theodore V.
Howie, of Greenville; Edgar N.
Matheson, of Mooresville; Robert
C. leites, of Columbia; Victor S.
Vierra, of Mount Pleasant; Wil-
Mam P. Her long, Jr., of PaxviJle;
Powell H. Mendenhall, of Athens,
Ga.; John McLean, of Anderson;
and Samuel N. Workman, of Laur
ens. /
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i CLINTON
‘‘It’s Time That Counts”
JOANNA
food commodity surplus is not a humanitarian im- and to ‘ avoid ^ e harrowing eco-
pulse at all—it is simply a foolish attempt to per-l . . n - ,
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THE COMMUNISTS DO NOT LIKE THE SOUTH!
The following paragraph is from an editorial in
the January issue of the Daily Worker, the voice of
communism in this country:
“The real roadblock to legislation advancing the
interests of working men in general add Negroes
in particular, is represented by thq Congressional
alliance of GOP-reactionaries and the Dixiecrats.
It will require the efforts of the combined
groups pledged to support civil rights to overcome
this roadblock. There can be no victory against
reaction if one or another part of the pro-civil
rights alliance breaks ranks and concedes defeat
every time the Dixiecrat hyena howls.”
The South should be proud of its enemies. If
any proof were needed, this one statement would
confirm what is generally known to all thoughtful
people in this country—that it has been the al
liance of conservatives in the South with those of
like mind in other parts of the nation that has
saved us from communism, or to say the least so-
nomic and peribnal consequences
of the closure of factories lny im
posing reasonable (psport quotas.
“Further resolved, that these
resolutions be submitted to the
county convention of the Demo
cratic party for this county and
that copies thereof be transmitted
to the appropriate personages in
the executive and legislative
branches of the federal govern
ment.”
Attend S. C.
Cosmetologist Meet
A number of beauticians of the
city were in Columbia several days
last week to attend the South Car
olina Registered Costomolegiat
association convention.
Mrs. W. J. Crews was awarded
cialism, which is ogly a half-way step to commun- * trophy as third place winner in
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the state haircutting contest Oth
ers attending were Alias Carolyn
Thomas, Miss Loree WiHde.
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