Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Thurnday. May 1, lt&8 THE CLINTON CHRONIC! Paf« Talrtaaa Roger W. B ARSON SAYS Babson Park, Mai,*.—I very sel dom refer to politics! matter* in this column, but 1 do wish there was some way I could interest readers in writing Dr. Arthur F. Bum*,, c|o the White House in Washington, how serious the situa tion is for many worthy business es. Small Basiaessmen Need More Capital When money is tight, as it has been during the past year, the small businessmen are the greatest suf ferers. Bankers are human and loan money first to their largest de positors. These, natu rally, are “big businesses." Furthermore the majority of fail ures are among s m a 1-1 business men, rather than la r g e concerns. Xager W. Babem Hence, your lo cal banker prefers to loan to the big companies and you cannot blame him. I am not much for more govern ment aid. 1 believe that the country would be better off in the end to cut it all out,—to farmers, contractors, home owners, and veterans. For a good many years our country pros pered on a laissez-faire system. I fear that the present aid to pressure groups will continue until there is one grand collapse, when we must all start over without government aid. However, that time has not come yet. The contractor and small home owner, because of increased costs, are aided by government gua rantee of a portion of their loan when they build a new house In the same way. the government would be justified in guaranteeing reasonable loans to small businessmen to cover needed taveotonea. improvements to stores or far tones Washington is responsible for inflation and should protect worthy business against its evil results Prices mark Ysu Pay In sddftMo la urging year to and wa, oursehret, do what we can to keep both groups prosper ous Trying to run a country without small business is ike trying to ran a church without a Sunday school. Let me further say that if big busi ness becomes too big, it will lead to socialism, while, without big busi ness, the small businessman will go to sleep Finally, all Trustees should be required to put 10% of their funds in “risk' 'investments, both for insurance to the beneficiaries and for the good of the nation. comparatively low coat. The Army's plan for the reor- gaiazaUon of the Army Reserve and Army National Guard, recent ly announced, calls for the elim mation of six National Guard Di visions and four Reserve Divisions. I have expressed myself strongly to the Secretary of the Army, urg ing that there be no reduction in the personnel strength of the Guard ‘and the Reserve, I have particularly urged the retention of and one of the best trained hat with the mnM modern weapons the 51st Division, of South Carolina I do favor the reorsamsation and obtainable I hope the Army will and Florida, which is the second restraining of National Guard and accomplish Una goal as quickly as largest National Guard Division | Reserve unit* to fit them for com possible Sen. Thurmond Reports TEXTILE PROBLEMS Problems of the textile industry will take a prominent place in the deliberations o f Congress within the next few weeks. Congress has the responsibility of considering an extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, which is the basis for our foreign, trade policy. Competition from cheaply pro duced foreign textile manufactures has dealt a series of devastating blows to the American textile in dustry. Recently, one of our larg est cotton manufacturers in South Carolina reported that the number of spindles active on cotton in its mills has decreased to the smallest number at any time since before the turn of the century. Since the end of World War II, the American textile industry has lost 717 mills, and 345,000 jobs. This represents the elimination of roughly a quar ter of the total jobs in the textile industry. The most damaging foreign com petition comes from Japan, even though the Japanese have limited their exports to this country by es tablishing voluntary quotas. Being voluntary, these quotas can be abrogated or modified whenever the Japanese wish to do so Being without force of law, they can be evaded without fear of punishment, b y such devices as reshipping through Hoag Kong sad other ports The plywood industry has learn ed about voluntary quotas the hard way. The quotas that were de pended upon to protect the ply wood industry have been abandon ed Now the plywood Industry has lost 52 per real sf Ms domestic market Csagri m caa save these striekef If rotting big business Bath Mg has l^^i mom and small businons hsvw thmr ttu| ^ ^ ^ Qur uitatama Bnrh arm* ko*a •■Urn should be m encourage warM ^ 'radt wtueb tensAu .vory—.JlnM Ysnr Non Wost? ran .Word in pay a sre to Oart than caa a college and hires three young men at t40S a muoSh with toe idea ef keeping one and letting the other taro go Small business cannot af ford to to> this College graduates should be very careful not to be misled in this respect Young peo ple who lack the ambiUoa to ever become independent businessmen will be happier working for big busmen* But the young man with initiative, courage, and mdepen dence is far better off working for the small businessman and ultimate ly becoming owner of a business. I believe there is a place for both big business and small busines. 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