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' 7 • •• / — A / Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, February 7, 1957 olljp (Cltntfltt (EljnmirU Established 1900 ^ ^ July 4. 1889 — WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS — June 13. 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subsmptioli Rate (Payable in Advance) —- - One Y?ar $3.00, Six Months $2.00 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Off ice at Clinton, S. C., under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879 ~ The Chromcle 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 papjer 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, Cnicago, Detroit Philadelphia CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7. 1957 Boy Scouts Have Birthday I luring February, America observes the birthdays of. several of its illustrious sons— Washington. Lincoln, and Thomas Edison. Another birthday celebration of national proportions in which all America can prop erly jj>in is that of the Boy Scouts of Amer ica. Scouting in \he United States reaches its 47th anniversary during Boy Scout Week, February 6 to 12. It is difficult to recall when our nation did not have this character- building. leisure time program for its boys and young men. Since February 8. 1910. more than 26.- 000.000 American boys and men have been influenced by the.Scout Oath and Law. They have had the benefits of Scouting training, fellowship, handicraft skills, and high ad venture. America is all the richer for it. Many men in high places in American affairs today proudly credit Scouting’s influence in their lives. I Today over 4.500.000 boys jand men are actively enrolled in 540 local councils with a membership of 111.000 units. Fortunate in deed are communities where Scouting flour ishes. American adults of good character give generously of their time in giving leader ship. Others help by raising funds, or in serving as members of local Boy Scout coun cils which in turn provide: training for leaders, camp facilities, worthwhile year- round activities, personal advancement, and opportunities for Scouts to render commun ity service. This summer there will be a “mountain peak” experience for more than 50.000 Boy Scouts. Explorers, and their leaders when they gather at historic Valley Forge in Pennsylvania for their Fourth National Jamboree. We earnestly hope our commu nity will be well represented when Scouts from all over the nation camp together. Lt will be a gathering of youth who wiil be among the nation’s top leaders a few vears hence. National Edison Birthday Celebration Next Monday will mark the llOth anni versary of Thomas Alva Edison’s birth. A large group of leading citizens, from govern ment. industry and other fields, have formed an organization called the National Edison Birthdav Celebration to properly memorial-! . ‘ / ize the .event. 1 .4 It is fitting that this be done. Few men in history have contributed a^s much as did Edison to the well-being of humanity. His in ventions and discoveries were legion. Fore most among them were those making possi ble the universal use of electrical energy. From Fdison’s work came o^e of the. great est and most progressive of allimr industries —the power and light industry. It has utterly revolutionized the living and working habits of the nation—and its contributions to hu man comfort and happiness are literally in estimable. The National Edison Birthday Celebration i' conceived as an* annual event, and it has a special,.three-faceted purpose—to encourage young people in greater numbers to take ad vantage of the growing opportunities for ca reers in science and engineering; to focus national attention on the critical shortage of scientist.' and engineers; and to stimulate greater interest in scientific education, and the new world of technology emerging from the nation's 4.000 research laboratories. On February llth-'we will be commemorating the birth of a great man—and, while doing that, we will be looking ahead to a future of almost unlimited possibilities. • Don’t Imitate Failure Writing from London, labor * columpist Victor Riesel says: “Socialism has failed here) They nationalized the steel industry, co&l mines, railroads and the helath service. All these lost money. Wages didn’t go up. Profits went down. There were strikes. And » , the Socialist managers were as tough as any old-fashioned capitalist manufacturers’ group —more so, l>elieve me.” There is a moral in this for all Americans —and especially for American labor, union ized or non-unionized. Everyone gets hurt by socialism—and the masses of working peo ple get hurt most of all. We should Have the intelligence not to imitate failure! v* Ultimate Question '.There are great differences of opinion as to the wisdom of the many welfare activities that government has undertaken in com paratively recent times. But there can be no difference as to one matter—the cost is tre mendous. and it becomes even heavier. According to Insurance Economics Sur veys, the national income increased by 79 per cent between 1945 and 1955. But in that same period social welfare expenditures by all lev els of government rose 400 per cent—from 84 1-2 billion to some 821 i-2 billion. So it would seem that the ultimate ques tion we must answer will be this-: How much of-such paternalism can we afford—entirely aside from the merits or demerits of any particular welfare activity? Dillon, S. C.. Herald: "The television give away programs get bigger and bigger. Suc cessful contestants get richer and richer. Perhaps one of these days we’ll be able to get the Secretary of the Treasury on such a pro gram and pay off the national debt.” Bellingham, Wash., Herald: “Americans can never be accused of lacking in charity. The American Association of Fund Raising Counsel estimates that their giving, in 1956' totaled at least 86.UK),IKK).000, an increase of! 10 jH-r cent over 1955. That’s the kind of people-we have in this ‘capitalistic,’ ‘im|H‘r- ialistic.’ ‘money-grubbing’ nation.” Ctib Scouts Observe 25th Anniversary With Banquet Friday Commemorating the twenty- fifth anniversray of the Cub Scouts, the local dens entertain ed their fathers with a banquet on , Friday evening in the ball room of the Mary Musgrove Ho tel. About one hundred and six guests were present for the event. In keeping with the scout col ors of blue and gold the ballroom was beautifully decorated. The head table held a cake made in tiers designed to represent the va rious stages in scouting. Minia ture scouts climbing the scale depicted the advance through scouting. Flanking the cake were brass candelabra holding blue and yellow tapers w-ith blu£ rib bons. Arranged on the other ta bles were dried arrangements,' tapers and ribbons in the chosen color motrf The American flag and the pack flag were displayed behind the head table. Programs in blue and gold were adorned with scout silhouettes. Following the singing oa • America,” Dr. Fred E. Hol combe, cubmaster, greeted the guests. L. N. Warren gave the in vocation. After dinner L. S: Red- deck, asssitant cubmaster, pre sented awards, and group singing was led by W. P. Jacobs, w-ith Mrs. James Von Hollen at the pi ano. Color slides were shown by Leon Patterson, of Laurens. “Good Night Cub Scouts” con cluded the evening’s program, i Favors were presented the Cubs. In addition to the cubs and their fathers the twleve den mothers 'were present and were presented corsages. Honor guests included Dr. and Mrs* Holcombe. Fred Holcombe, Jr., who receiv ed a special aw-ard, Mr. Reddeck, M^ss Becky Speake, Jim Teeter, fieki scout representative from Laurens and New'berry counties. Mrs. Teeter, Mr. and Mrs. Von Hollen and Mr. Patterson. most tripled the $41,900 contrib uted to the Foundation during its first full year of operation in 1955.. Presbyterian epllege re ceived $3,339.70 as its share of this first report. President Brown, in announc ing the 1956 total for PC, said that he is greatly encqurageif by the grow-ing response on the pari ol business and industry to pri vate non-tax supported institu-- lions of higher education. The Foundation hopes eventually to build its,, fynd-raising efforst to $500,000 annually. Each college’s share is deter- rriined by the .number of stu dents and by the amouht of des ignated gifts given for specific in stitutions. , The 1956 shares of other col leges besides PC were: ^Coker—$18,158.44; Columbia — $10,099.92; Converse—$19,971.69; Erskine — $9,018.12; Furman — $20,026.82; Limestone—$10,249.68; New-berry—$10,883 62; ,and Wof ford—$15,638.15. Attend Conference Evangelistic Rally ~ ^ r \ The Rev. George H. Hodges, pastor of Broad Street Methodist church, and the following mem bers, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Hollings worth, Mrs. Hubert Pifls, and Mrs. W. Roy Pitts, were in Co lumbia on Thursday of the past week to attend the South Caro- fina Gonference-wide Evangelis tic rally at Shandon 'Methodist. Speakers included Bishop B. J. Hodges, of Birmingham, Ala., Dr W. R. Cannon, dean of Candler School, of Emory-, Dr. Leslie J Ross, director ,6>f the General Board of Evangelism. Nashville?, Term., and Bishop Nofan B. Har mon. . At -noon the group attended a barbecue dinner at the Epworth Children’s Home. IF YOU DON'T READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DON'T GET THE NEWS Phone 74 SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING » Executive Vice President Southern States Industrial Council LABOR LEADER ADMITS UNION TACTICS DISHONORABLE Labor leaders, if they have any sense of fair play*, must oft err secretly feel that- many of the tactics employed by unions in the conduct of their strikes arc not all they should be. but it is not of ten you will find one of them openly admitting these'tactics are actually dishonorable. But that has now happened. And it is news— liecause it is very much equivalent to a man bit ing a dog! , . / The Wall Street Journal of January 21, 1957, carried an item to the effect that the United Rub ber Workers. APL-CIO, had called for a boycott of products made by OiSullivan Rubber Compa'ny, charging the c-btfipany-with failure to bargain in good faith with the union at Winchester, Va. Lo cal 511, URW\ had been on strike since May 13, 1956. (. . k ’ The president of the union. L. S. Buckmaster, said the boycott was the first in the union’s 21- year’ history, and the article then quoted Mr. Buckmaster as saying; * “Such action was taken after every possible union attempt to settle the strike honorably had failed." : ■ ^ Read that statement again! Thus labor leader was saying that the union had exhausted ‘ every possible" honorable method, noi just some of the honorable methods, and that now- nothing was left except dishonorable methods of gaining its ends. '] He was saying that the union was unwilling to accept the best terms possible to be .gained by honorable means, as would be expected of any group of citizens in a free nation such as ours, and was therefore, setting out upon an effort to gain its end* by any means pqssible. He was saying that since the union had failed to settle the strike honorably, it would now at- * tempt to do so dishonorabl.'P^-and that the means to be used would be a boycott. And the admission that a boycott is dishonor able is certainly a-true admission. When a union institutes a boycott of a Company’s products, it is , thereby setting out upon a course calculated to * wreck the company's sales and therefore its profits and therefore the company itself. When this is done, it means th^t the union leaders, have no regard for the stockholders who have invested their savings in the company and no regard for the welfare of the workers who would like to keep on working. It is a complete departure from whatever may have been the orig inal aim of the strike, and is an attempt to wreck the company economically. - Such tactics have no place in the philosophy of in this country—it is part of our way of life—and a free people. Above all things, we like fair play those who would play otherwise had best look around them before they start anything. . Union leaders who institute boycotts should partciularly look at the Kohler Company, of Koh ler, Wisconsin—an outstanding example of a boy cott backfiring. A strike was called, against this company by the United Auto Workers in April, 1954 It failed because the management refused to give in to demands for compulsory unionism in any form, even though the union resorted to all forms of violence and spent $11 million in support ing the strike. Of the original 2,600 strikers, 1,- 700 have now taken jobs elsewhere, about 500 have returned to work for Kohler, and about 400 are still drawing strike aid. But the UAW did not quit. About a year ago the. union organized a nationwide boycott of Koh- ier products, which it is still promoting. The boy cott got some support from other unions and*from some city and state politicians under labor boss domination. But the reaction-of the general pub lic has been quick and emphatic. The politicians in many cases were forced by their own constit uents to rescind their support. The Kohler Com pany is operating in the black and expanding. Says an official of the company, “The' boycott has had no effect on our over-all business. We have leceived more orders because people resented the boycott than we have lost because of it.” The lesson is self-evident. PC Gets 9,279.83 Through Independent College Foundation Presbyterian college has receiv- | ed $9,279.83 as its share of the’ 1956 funds recently distributed | by the South Carolina Foundation of Independent Colleges, Inc., i president Marshall W Brown an- i nounced - today. Corporation gifts totaling $123.-1 500 were taken in during the past j year by the Foundation; which is a cooperative association of the state's nine independent colleges’ for the purpose of making a unit- ! ed appeal to industry for finan- ! cial support. This total by 69 corporations dl- | Sweetest way to say *i love you” Show her how- much you Ipve her with a beautiful corsage or bouquet from our complete stock-of her favorite flowers . . . all fresh, all lovely. Choose now-! We Deliver Anywhere On Valentine’s ’ Day. Modest Prices. Call Us . . . 520-J. Eastside Greenhouses JOANNA HIGHWAY For Dollar Days Tremendous Values on * Brand New Merchandise at \fi mtotw February! BARGAIN FAIR FINAL CLEAN-UP SALE! ON ALL PALI. 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