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FI 13. 1958 — ■ # H \ Three Choices There are three ways to meef~pending in- ireases in defense spending — increases which are likely to Kin into the billions. One way ts to increase taxes. Then every- nne will have less money to buy the goods and services that keep America’s enterprises run ning and American workers busy at good T jobs. The second way is to take the lid off the national debt limit, and let the government operate on a deficit basis—that is. by spend ing more than it takes in and making up the gap by borrowing. Then we will see a new and major wave of inflation that could end in economic disaster. The third way is for the government to rigorously pare non-defense spending'in every possible way. Top authorities say that $5 bil lion or more a year could be saved in this fash- inn. ' • The third way is the only tolerable choice even though it means curtailment of federal spending in "untouchable” areas of benefits and projects dear to a lot of people. Cotton In A Bad Way I'nless cotton growers are permitted an im mediate increase in their 1958 acreage allot ments to relieve a critical shortage of the bet ter grades of lint, t he cotton industry faces a severe loss in its markkets. The need for quick action to head off what could well become a disaster is being pointed out by the National Cotton Council and other groups concerned with the future of cotton. In recent testimony before Agriculture Committees of both Houses of Congress and in a statement to the-Secretary of Agricul ture, \\ m. Rhea Blake, Council executive vice president, explained that bad weather over most of the Cotton Belt in 1957 brought a shortage of good quality cotton. "The size of the crop,” he noted, “was re duced two million bales, which together with a serious deterioration in quality resulted in a three-and-one-half-million-bale loss in the production of good quality cotton (grades'of strict low middling^w-feetter). n "If this critical shortage is not relieved. United States cotton faces a situation poten tially more serious than that precipitated by the Korean crisis of 1950-51, which resulted in our greatest loss of markets in history. The only answer is immediate action to substan tially increase cotton au'eage in 1958.” Demand for higher quality cottons has been rising steadily during recent-years, both at home'and abroad, Mr. Blake said. A scarcity of these qualities, he declared, would, mean severe losses in U. S. cotton exports and give domestic mills a great incentive for turning to cheaper synthetic substitutes. “Hot Cargo” Clause Is Outlawed Last December the Interstate Commerce Uommission Jtiaaded down a decision of very great importance. It. outlaws the “hot cargo” clause as it had been applied by common car riers. In the past, because of this clause, unions have been able to prevent the transpor tation of goods to concerns wuth which they had a dispute, and have used the clause to toerce employers into recognizing a union when the employes did not want it. The Commission said: “We think it beyond doubt that the Interstate Commerce Act im- poses upon common carriers by motor vehicle , subject to our jurisdiction the clear and un- mistakable <luty to provide adequate service, equipment, and facilities-fer-the-ixansporta- tion of property ... . and that they are obli gated to accept and transport all freight of fered to them in accordance with the provi sions of their published tariffs. This duty is almost an absolute one; and, if the public is to be adequately protected, common carriers must be held strictly accountable for its per- fornjance,” The Commissipn also, said: “We find no basis for the suggestion that the pro visions of the act and the duties and obliga ti'»iLuDf common carrier^ thereunder are su- bordinate to requirements of labor unions.” The effect of this decision will be far reaching indeed. To take one example, it means that a common earner may not refuse to pick up or deliver merchandise to a retail store, even it there is a picket line in front of the store and the ur^ion asks the deliveringg carrier not to render service. ,The “hot cargo” clause helped 'build the unioi&' monopoly power and it made possible ruthless and dictatorial policies. None who l>elieve in simple justice will mourn its pass ing. Mr. Benson _ Sticks To His Guns No top government official has cdtne in for more criticism than Secretary of Agriculture Benson—and,. on occasion, criticisms have been carried to the point of downright abuse. But the Secretary has stuck to his guns. In a recent talk before farm magazine edi tors. Mr. Benson said something he has said, in essence, many times before , we cannot whip the farm problem by controlling production. . . .” : Every neiL law affecting agriculture just seems to make the surplus problem worse, and more expensive to the taxpayers at large. In many instances, the price supports and subsidies have proven profitable primarily to the huge corporation-type farms—not to the family farms which are the keystone of U. S. -agriculture. lOn top of that, there are big areas of agri culture which do not have the supports and controls, which operate in the honored tradi tions of free enterprise—and which have been notably successful. Livestock is a prime exam ple here. Meat animals move in the free mar ket. and supply and demand determines the price. Prices rise and fall from time to time— but they do that for sound and natural rea sons. not because some fallible human mind ■ a decides what they should be on this day or that. And, over the years, the prices average out at levels vyhich are fair to producer and consumer alike. SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING Ex*cutiT« Vic* Pr*tid*nt Southern States Industrial Council IS BIG INDUSTRY FINALLY WAKING UP? „ In a speech to the annual meeting of the chamber of commerce of Nashville, Tenn , the other evening, Mr. Ernest R Breech, board chairman of the Ford Motor Company, made this statement: “Industry cannot submit to further excessive de mands or sit back and passively watch the unbridled growth of union power. Free industry begins to see its very existence threatened by that power, and it will have no choice but to fight as effective a defense as it can." How true that is—but how late he was saying it! Much of this “unbridled growth of union power” is due to the acquiesence of big industry since the end of the Second World War to the demands of organized .labor. This has been especially true of the automobile, the steel and the alumnium industries. They have ignored the principles involved in connection with their con tracts with the unions that have to do with the welfare of the general public, until, now they find they have created a Frankenstein that could very well destroy them During those years these industries seem to have acted on the assumption that they could always get by with granting wage increases as demanded by the un ions by passing these increases on to Consumers. In taking this position, they committed at least three grievous errors. 1 They ignored the fact that wage increases can only be justly supported by proportionate in creases in productivity 2 They disregarded their responsibility to all oth er industry, in that while big industry itself might get by with thus practice for the time be ing. it was a definite hardship for other business and industry to meet any such demands. 3. They did hot measure up to their responsibility to the general public and the welfare of the na tion, in that their actions added measurably to the cast of living. -It is true, perhaps, that the prices of automobiles, as an illustration have not advanced out of proportion to the cost of pro ducing them, but increased wages was the main factor in advancing costs and there was no ex cuse fpr the excessive wage increases granted the automobile unions. iAbove and beyond all this, however, the greatest failing of big industry in this connection was not to recognize that what it was doing would inevitably lead it to the position whieh Mr. Breech now describes. Big industry should have known that each demand grahted would lead to further demands and that eventually it would certainly be true tl\at "industry cannot submit to further excessive demands.’* It is worth noting that Mr Breech admits that the demands thus far granted have been “excessive.” TTie natural question, then, is„ why were they granted? The underlying factor in this "unbridled growth of union power" which Mr. Breech warns us about is the union shop. And yet big industry, especially the auto mobile industry, has-failed miserably to take any stand against this fundamental violation of the right to w’ork The “right to work” is fundamental to our American free enterprise system—and if one is to be preserved, the other must be preserved. Compulsory unionism, which the big automobile companies have accepted, gives labor leaders unlimited power, unlim ited power extorts wage increases beyond the basis of reason, and these w age increases produce an inflation that rapidly permeates the general economy. Elim inate compulsory unionism from the American labor picture and you eliminate one of the great underlying evils affecting our economy at the present time. It is to be hoped that big industry is now awakening to its responsibility for the preservation of the system which makes it possible, and will join the rest of us who have been fighting to uphold the principle of the “right to work” over the years, even back when it was not at all popularIto do sOTThe cause of free en terprise needs all the help it can get. dates for the Ministry—the Rev. C, F. McCutchen, Laurens: Chairmao of the Committee on Children’s Work—Mr. Seabrook: Committee on Nominations—R. M. Erwin, Lau rens. and D. E. Cowan, Ninety-Six; Sessional Records Committee—Mr. Coker, Abbeville, chairman, and the Rev. W E. Morttw and H. S. Ja cobs, both of ClintorTSCommission Minister and His Presbytery Meets Tuesday At Abbeville ♦:—i Abbeville, Feb 1 — Twenty-one ministers and 35 elders were present for today’s winter stated session of the South Carolina Presbytery in the on Upper Long Cane Presbyterian ©’Shields, chairman, and Church here. They represented churrhes in Abbeville. Greenwood, Laurens, Newberry and McCormick counties. The Rev David B Seabrook of Ninety-Six, pastor of the Presbyte rian Churches at Ninety-Six * n d . Hodges, w as elected moderator at I For S. C. Legislators the opening business session and 3 presided throughout the. 4^y-l° n g Work-Mr. 1 the Rev, p F. T. McGill, Donalds; and for mod erator of the spring session—R. M Erwin, Laurens < Wosson Opposes Expense Accpunt meeting <U The Rev. John N. Ashenfelder of Ware Shoals, retiring moderator, preached the sermon for the morn ing worship service, using as his topic. “Won to Win One.” In his report to the session the Itev. Roy W. Coker, of Abbeville, stated clerk of the presbytery, an nounced that the membership in the 45 churches of the presbytery iS now 6,582. Total contribution for the past year, said Mr. Coker, were $649,- 150, of which $119,870 went to be nevolences—causes outside the local churches. , M. W. Brown, chairman of the nominations commitee, reported the following appointments: Committee on World Missions— the Rev. C. A. Dodson, Abbeville; Committee on Home Missions—the Rev. R L. Alexander, Greenwood, the Rev. B. H. Dillard and the Rev. F. B. O'Shields, both of Abbeville; Chairmen of Radio—S G. Bishop, Jr., Laurens: Committee on Candi- Senator Robert C. Wasson of Lau rens County was among those vot ing to kill a recent measure in the senate that would have grafted members of the General Assembly $7.50 per diem during sessions of the legislature. The vote was 21 to '14 to table (kill) the bill. Olin C. Johnson "Yard Of The Month" The yard of Mr. and Mrs. OHn C. Johnson on Cedar street has been -chosen by the Gardenettes as “Yard of the Month.” Members of the ^committee state that it was chosen on a basis of neatness and attrac tiveness. Dr. Felder Smith OPTOMETRIST Phone 794 Laurens, S. C. without filling SIX->OTUI CARTON (PlwDaportl I’fePSI-COLA BOTTLING CO. Greenville. S. C. Talk by IKE EDWARDS . Your Telephone Manager LOVE and XXXXX: I see by the heart-shaped candy boxes and the like around here that St. Valentine’s is not far off. Remember when we were kids how much fun it was to make our valentines and run all over town deliver- ingthem? But the older we get the more our families and riends get scattered and the harder it is to keep in touch. ^That’s when it’s nice to visit by Long Distance. On special :asions, or just anytime you want to say hello to some one you miss, a Long Distance call is the qujck, easy way, and real fun, too! And remember, whenever, you call, it costs less to call station-to-station. (Rates are even lower after 6 P.M. and on Sundays.) “YOU WILL CALL US AS SOON AS YOU GET BIG CHOUGH TO REACH A 8HONE, WONT YOU?" WATCH FOR IT! It’s fun . . . it’s fascinating. The Bell System’s newest science film, “The Unchained Goddess.” It’s all about the weather—a subject we all discuss a lot but do little about. The fourth in the Bell science series, it will be shown on NBC-TV, Wednesday, February 12. The date and time on your local station may vary from the date of the network showing. Please consult your news paper for the local schedule. In case you missed the first three films—“Hemo, the Magnificent,” “Our Mr. Sun,” and “The Strange Case of the (^osmic Rays”—they’re available for showing to schools and civic groups. All are 16 mm. full color, and really thrilling stories about sub jects that interesi every one of us. Just call our Business Office to make arrangements. Thornwell Girl . Mokes Good Record At Montreat College v Among the 28 Montreal College students making the dean’s tist for the first semester was Miss Ann Sharp, graduate of Thornwell High School. She is editor of the college news- aper r publicity manager of the ath letic association, and member of Future Teachers of America. A se-|iii®r, she is an English major. “The Fire “'T- BABY’S SHOES BRONZED^, By exclusiv* DUCTYL* process REDUCED 25% nirln’t Didn’t Happen!" 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