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Do We Want
Responsible Government?
A national committeeman of one of the
jrreat jiolitica] jKirtie? is quoted as saying,
"The voter doesn't care whether govern
ment is responsible. The voter wants to
know what it is doing for,him.” The judg
ment is a cynical one' But that does not
mean that it is wrong, or can easily be dis-
proven. Indeed, some of the most successful
political figures of the last generation have
followed the dictum almost exactly. And the
present burden of debt and taxation, along
with the steady decay of individual free
dom, individual responsibility and basic in
dividual morality is, in part, their n1on|i-
ment.
What remains to be seen is whether the
majority of voters have just drifted with a
tide, or have not recognized it for what it is,
or honestly “don’t care whether government
is responsible." If the last is the case, this
country is done for, and the only thing to
speculate about is when the final curtain
will come down on w hat used to be called the
American Dream. The one hope is that the
voter will recognize that what welfare state
government is doing to him is a great deal
more important than what welfare state gov
ernment is doing for him — and will revolt
before the last battle is lost.
Bill To Promote Strikes »
labor’s "friends” in Congress are about
to operate on the still-new Landrum-Griffin
Act—to cut out its very heart, if they can.
.Under the terms of this hard-won reform
legislation, it is an unfair labor practice to
picket, or strike, to force one employer to
stop doing business with another employer.
Such action, more commonly known as the
sec on dan* boycott, had long been the chief
organizing routine of the million-and-a-half-
member Teamsters union and the 18 Build
ing Trades unions with a membership of
three million.
The classic method was to threaten one
employer, such as a general contractor, with
a strike unless he stopped doing business
with another — in most cases a non-union
subcontractor or supplier.
But the relief provided by the Landrum-
Griffin Act against this unconscionable and
disastrous abouse of the right to organize
will l>e short-lived if Congress can be blud
geoned into passing the Thompson Bill (H. R.
9070). This sly, 18-line measure amends the
section outlawing the secondary boycott by
excluding its application to any "common
situs" where the employes of more than one
employer are engaged in the alteration,
painting, repair, or- other work at the place
where the work, alteration, painting or're^
pair is being performed.
Passage of this bill and its counterpart in
the Senate would license the construction
unions and the teamsters to renew the “black
mail picketing" that proponents of the Lan-
drum-Griffin measure fought to curb. No
non-union plumber, carpenter, electrician,
painter, or other building craftsman or main
tenance man could be hired to build, alter,
repair, paint or install equipment in a build
ing without the neutral employer being sub
ject to picketing—and the closing down of
the entire operation if the employes “re-
speeded” the picket line. No company could
safely employ a non-union sub-contractor.
The language of this amendment is so
sweeping it would permit strikes or picket
ing relating to wages, hours and w-orking
conditions of employes at any job site and
stop every truck carrying ready-mix cement
to the job. If houses were being constructed
or repairs being made by non-union workers
at an air base, for instance, all of the gates
could be picketed and every- union man in
every other job on the base stopped from do
ing his w-ork.
Passage of the Thompson bill would make
a mockery of the McClellan hearings and the
public demands growing out of them, wreck
the I>amlrum-Griffin Act and Taft-Hartley..
alike. It would inflate union power as never
before. It would make Jimmy Hoffa a giant.
It would promote a ra^h of strikes such as
we have never seen before.
Farm Electrification
NineyC-seven per cent of the farms of
America are electrified today. ‘
Investor-owned electric companies serve
. 45 per cent ®f the farms with power, and the
REA cooperatives and municipal lines sup
ply the remainder of the farmers. Two-thirds
of the cooperatives purchase some or all of
their electricity from the utilities.
On May 11, the REA celebrates its silver
anniversary. Along with the utilities, it can
look with pride on a job that is near com
pletion. Much of the drudgery- of farm la-
l)or is now a memory.
To make its accomplishments possible, the
REA has loaned more than $4 billion to 984
cooperatives and 101 other borrowers. The
bulk of the money went to the cooperatives
to build lines to^butlying farms and make
}x>ssible a broader distribution system.
—AVhile the REA l>orrowers were expanding
into remote areas, the utilities were abo
speeding the work of bringing electricity to
the farm.
. In addition, the utilities have continually
struggled to find new means to aid the farm
er in agricultural development. The com
panies’ programs have included research on
production, nutritive values of fertilization,
water requirements of grass, spinach dis
eases, sprinkler irrigation, hybrid com de
velopment, soil and conservation practices,
and in helping the farmer solve his labor
problems electrically.
May 11 is a good time to pause and add up
the score. Nearly 97 per cent of the nation’s
farms are now electrified ... 43 per cent of
them are served by the electric utilities, the
remainder by the REA borrowers. The task
of the REA is almost finished.
Babson Is Optimistic,
Whatever Happens
Babson Park, Mass , April 21—1 am a statistician—
not a politician. Most satiticians promise the impar
tial truth; while most politicians appear to promise
what will get them the most votes. As a result of the
latter, the following facts are entirely forgotten. Peo
ple allow themselves to get scared and vote foolish
sums of money, thinking that they will thereby have
security, freedom from accident,
and employment.
NOTE THESE FIGURES
Although the daily newspapers
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been planted. I hope you didn't plant
too much. And I also hope that urge
does not wear off, as the warm days
come.
Most gardens are far too big. A
small area made highly fertile,
mulched, watered as needed, and
successively planted can really roll
in the vegetables. If you are rusty
on mapy of the details of gardening,
your county and home agents have
many helpful hints and publications
from Clemson that are free for the
asking.
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CHANGE IN 4-H
I speak often of change. It affects
just about everything, even 4-H
clubs. They are growing in numbers.
But their organization is changing
some. They used to be conducted in
the schools almost entirely, and
that s where they are still mainly
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Any business man caught in the ordered on the grounds that the 50 k 001 . 8 ’. som * communities are also
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By J. M. Eleazer
» Clemson College /
Information Specialist
HELP BEAT COST OF LIVING BOYS ARE THAT WAY
Does food look high to you? Well, As kids ’ we SUI ^ liked sweets
most of us can help beat that cost of ^ ^ monev was scarce ^ ^
living by having a real, producing lar> , ely made our sheets. We grew
garden. • the flour, made the syrup, and pro-
Back a few weeks ago, as spring duced the eggs and butter. So there
dawned, most of us got the urge to: vvc bad the ingredients,
garden. And most of the things have I Cookies and ginger snaps
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This Week in Washington
agency cannot help but be remind
ed of the infamous proceedings of
the so-called kangaroo courts of the
past.
He may not be told who his ac
cusers are, or even what he is ac-
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cused of. He proDably will not even months a member of the business | ”\7ken has quite a poultry industry,
know that he has been accused, or asked how much longer the investi-; ArmrHinP tn rmmtv Aeent Mellette
suspected ot wrongdoing, until a gators ,mended to take. Them tog«t gmver VwSd“w
crew of investigators descend upon “We don't know,” the investiga-; w i, 0 Dro H UCes hatching eees
him , tor replied, -maybe three months ^ »o^tons a 7d 5 oT^sters.
The department head of the reg- and maybe six months.” Dotted through the sand hills down
ulatory agency—one of dozens of SILENCE DEMANDED there are many successful poultry
government boards and commis- if the business being investigated growers of long standing. Their well-
sions with life or death power over does get up courage enough to go to drained sandy lands aid in sanita
formation.
In one case, the staff told the
commission, while asking for per
mission to investigate, that the in
vestigation would require only a
week. After it had run for several
County Agent Bull tells me they now
have six of this sort in Abbeville.
The latest one has 20 members that
meets monthly in the local com
munity.
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SOME CHICKENS!
were
among our favorites .Cut out as ani
mals, people, moons, stars, etc-,
we'd play with them as we ate them.
They were stored in a large jar to
keep ’em fresh. But we took that lid
off so often, none of them ever had
a chance to get stale.
Cakes, too, were cooked just about
every Saturday ,for company was
usually expected the next day. I like
layer cake best, mainly for the fill
ing. Cake without plenty of good fill
ing didn’t rank much with me, and
doesn’t yet.
And our candy, too, we made that,
mainly from molasses grown in the
sorghum patch. We’d put peanuts in
some, making peanut brittile. Then
some of it we’d puli between our
hands until it got a light amber col
or. “Molasses candy” we called
that. We’d often have parties called
“candy pullin’s.” Boy and girl would
pull together and get a thrill just
from the touching of hands a bit.
Our standard sweet was to finish
off meals with .We seldom had 'des
serts as we know them now. But
just about every meal w’as topped
off with molasses. Mixed in fresh
butter and sopped with hot biscuits,
that’s still tops in eating for me.
Along in mid-morning and mid-af
ternoon we’d come in simply fam
ished. The remedy was usually a
the agency, or commission, and say tion, and the manure makes their
“We have no intention of dsicuss- planted acres bloom with promise,
ing the case with you, but we wish
to complain about the manner in CHEMICAL WEED CONTROL
good size cold biscuit. Wis’d punch
a hole in the side of it with the fore
finger and then pour it full of mo
lasses, pumping it a bit to distribute^
the molasses good through it. Then
out we would go rejoicing to some
far place in the Stone Hills or down
on the creek where seasonal things
beckoned. That molasses would
sometimes soak through and run
down the arm a bit. But that didn’t
bother us. We’d just lick it off, pay
no attention to the remaining sticki
ness, and go on our way.
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feature crime, yet only one in 10,- or corporation. which the investigation is being The control of weeds by spraying
000.000 w ill tomorrow suffer or wit- The agency staff then studies this . conducted." the answer is likely to before and after planting crops is a j
material, following which it starts be: growing practice, according to what
questioning under oath officers, di- “We have the utmost confidence the c <> unt y agents tell me. High la- i
rectors and even customers of the in our staff. They have learned ^° r 00515 ^ or ^a 1 ^ weeding are
out of every 5.000.000 will be killed business. Company officials may be through experience the best method stimulating this. And, then, too, the
by lightning in the next very bad ques , ioned for days without being of handling these situations and we scientists are bringing out. more and ,
storm. Business tailures are increasing, but they are lo i d why they are being questioned, think it would be a mistake \o in- more effective chemicals for this
decreasing on a percentage basis. The stock market FISHING EXPEDITIONS terfere. We suggest you just be pa- iob -
has to go down before it can turn up. If trees grew I The business man being investi-1 tient and after the staff has com-! The agents report last year 203 ’
any higher they would blow down Everything which gated may be warned that it would pleted the investigations the matter 184 acres oi • sma11 grain were spray-
happens is for the best. be improper for him to continue will come up for decision.” ^ for con * TO *> wlt ^ generally
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results. Also 68.172 acres of
During the past ten years the population of the certain business operations which Obviously, the business could pass * «
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product has increased almost 70 per cent; consumer investigation, The effect can be to tient. In one case where the inves- aCreS ° f • soybeans, and 13,85 '
income, even after taxes, has increased 60 per cent. c i ose d( > wn a business, with heavy
No figures on crime, accidents, or juvenile delin- losses or even failure, while the in-
quency can equal these increases. vestigation is underway.
COST OF LIVING DOWNWARD There have been investigations in
The politicians and labor leaders present figures which the business investigated was
to show that the "cost of living” is constantly going not told the purpose of the investi-
Ua\> you ever wondered about advertis
ing that made you want to buy something
you thought you couldn’t afford? Well . . .
jiause and be thankful for it. It’s the very
ability of advertising to prod us into want
ing something better that keeps our econom
ic rmichine whirling away at top speed. . ..
up. This is because new products, greater conven
iences. and other items have been added to the list
which makes up the index. If it covered the things I
had when I was a boy in Gloucester—and my father
was a well-to-do merchant—the U. S. "cost of living”
index would be only one half the figure now published.
From every point of view I am an optimist. Even
the accidents and deaths by automobiles are much
less than those from the “horse and buggy,” when
figured on a mile basis. The cost of light, heat, and
power has continually decreased. Even food has
dropped in price—for the same menu which we had in
my boyhood days—and we were then as healthy and
strong as are the young people today. We made our
own candy, picked our own apples, and made our
own cider; soft drinks were not then for sale.
UNEMPLOYMENT IS OPTIMISTIC
When unemployment statistics increase they are,
featured as dangqfous and the stock market goes
down! Yet J the social workers tell us that the chief
cause of juvenile delinquency is the fact that mothers
are engaged in industry and away from home all day.
When I was a boy, no mothers worked in factories.
We kids were trained to help about the house and to
help take care of the large families which most of
our .mothers had. I grew up as a “baby sitter,” but
never received or expected any pay therefor!
WHAT EIGHTY YEARS HAVE TAUGHT ME
Every Sunday I read a chapter from Bertha
Conde’s "A Way to Peace, Health and Power” (pub
lished by Score & Script, 76 Chestnut St., Boston, for
$3.00). At the end of the book are several blank pages
on which I write a line each month about something
I had worried about that never happened. Then, when
some new problem comes, I read those notes. They
are better than any tranquilizer pills!'
The same optimism is needed in business. Things
run on about the same from generation to genera
tion. H^man nature is not changed. We continue to
spend one third of our life in sleep; and the less we
eat. the better we feel; the more we exercise, the
longer we live. The world is very slowly but surely
getting better. We all should be optimists.
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.... . . , , .acres of corn. County Agent Bull of
igation was prolonged for months, telLs me it reaUy saved
the staff member m charge shortly a , ot of cotton for ^ during that
thereafter became an official of a wel S p r j n g And Marrett says it sure
competing company. helped in Anderson, too, as in many
Strange to say. now that a ma-1 other counties where it was exten-
jority of the board and commission s j V ely tried,
gation, but learned later that it was members have been appointed by a your County Agent has the details
merely a fishing expedition in hopes Republican Administration, busi- 0 f when, what, and how to use these
that something would turn up to ness men find it harder to get along weed killers. They are not fool-proof
justify the arbitrary action of an with them than when the Demo- by any means. So, if you plan to use
agency staff member. crats were in control.
The agency staff realizes that the The reason given is that the Re-
longer the investigation lasts the publicans are accused everywhere
greater the damage to the business of being friendly to business. The
In some cases the investigation is commissioners and board members
lengthened unnecessarily by first lean over backward to show they
questioning all parties informally are neither controlled by, nor more
for several weeks, and then again friendly to business than are the
questioning them under oath for ad- Democrats. The result is business
U. S., but Southerners who dissent
from federal dictation are informed
that they will be shoved into linf by
troops.
These are strange and disturbing
times in which we live. Cleany, the j
ditional weeks. Also, after being gets kicked in the shins more often American Republic cannot survive!
questioned a second time, a third in- under the Republicans than under unless this America-last attitude is I
them, be sure to use the right one
and follow instructions.
terrogation, under oath, may be i the Democrats.
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AMERICA SHOULD BE FIRST
By THURMAN SENSING, Executive Vice-President
Southern States Industrial Council
Thoughtful Americans are begin
ning to demand an answer as to why
the alleged plight of foreign peoples
should be of much more concern to
the U. S. government than the se
rious condition of our great middle
class. The latter is menaced and
harmed increasingly by inflation
and by high taxes that are squan
dered on foreign aid and other
wasteful projects.
It seems that our government is
becoming almost pathologically ob
sessed with the wants and ambi-
tiong of peoples in distant lands. A
few weeks ago the State Depart
ment intervened in California in an
attempt to halt the execution of a
sex terrorist. The reason was that
communist agitators in Uruguay
were demanding that this vicious
criminal be given a gift of his life.
Within recent days, President Ei
senhower called for drastic revision
■of the immigration laws of the Unit
ed States. He called for doubling of
the quotas. He proposed removal of
many present limitations. He pro
posed, for instance, that large num
bers of Asiatics be permitted to. en
ter this country for the first time.
The reason for this is that political
leaders in that part of the world are
peeved at the United States because
it prefers to preserve the basic ra
cial and cultural character of the
land through strict immigration
laws. The administration now would
appease Asian neutralists by alter
ing the racial composition of the
country. As for the proposal that
immigration quotas be generally
increased, no one seems to think of
asking the American people wheth
er they favor a flood of newcomers.
Neither is the State Department
interested in the fate of the Ameri
can textile industry, to cite only one
example. Vast quantities of foreign,
made textiles are being imported
into this country by alien firms that
pay wages of only 20 cents an hour.
Frank Leslie, vice president of a
large textile organization in North
Carolina, said recently; ‘“nie
amount of domestic yardage replac
ed will depend entirely on how
much our foreign competition wants
to take and that, at the moment, is
the only limitation.” The U. S. gov
ernment’s policy is of giving pro
tection to Japanese and other Orien
tal textile producers, not to the em
ployers and employees of textile
companies in the United States.
This America-last policy has some
strange twists. In Cuba, where an
estimated $1 billion in U. S. assets
are gradually being taken over by
the communist front Castro regime,
the State Department’s policy is to
speak softly and take no action. As
Senator George Smethers (D-Fla)
said recently, the fruits of appease
ment of the property-seizers will be
bitter. ' -
Or consider the action of the Stale
Department in condemning the
white government of South Africa
for putting down a riot in which 20,-
000 near-savages stormed a police
station. Acting only on n press re
port of the incident, the State De
partment moved quickly to condemn
the South African government for
controlling the riot. No one sug
gested that the 101st Airborne Di
vision be rushed to the aid of the
South Africans. The bayonet tac
tic seems to be reserved, not for
Castro or his ilk, but residents of
Little Bock. Sooth Africans can’t
maintain law and order in their
country without a protest from the
brought to a complete end. The only
way that a healthy America-first
attitude can be made to prevail in
the State Department and other
agencies of government is for the
neglected ordinary citizen to rise up
and elect a conservative, aggres
sively pro-American Congress and
President in November.
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