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V / V iHE CLINTON CHRONICLE Tharaday, July 7,1960 m Jap Goods Are No Bargain Cancellation bv the Japanese Government A five-to-four Supreme Court decision of its invitation* to President Eisenhower- ^Jch was handed down a short time ago , _ , • . has causeil a great deal of national atten- after our Chief Executive was on h,s way to tion and alarm In effeot the d€ci8ion ^ the “Flowery Kingdom”—could be the best that under the provisions of existing law, a thing that has happened to us in the years company which wished to terminate jobs in of growing leftist domination since World order to modernize and improve its opera- War II. But we shall have to understand this tions wxwld have to bargain over the matter incident, and find the moral courage to act in the best interests of 180 million Amer- with the unions concerned. The union, in sum, has what amounts to a veto power. The particular case concerned a railroad. But the principle has a general application, This is the opinion of Chicago industrial- an< j thus becomes of overriding public im- ist Ross D. Siragusa who points out that it portance. leans. is high time to check the economic inroads of Japan w hen the screaming of Communist- incited mobs drowns out the voice of repre sentative government and established au thority. Otherwise, we are helping the Com mies to “bun'” us. Mr. Siragusa, who is president of the Ad miral Corporation, has called upon all Amer icans to boycott Japanese-made products “as a counter-demonstration” and points out that the Japanese have already damaged consid erably more than our pride. Last year alone, Ja;nnese sales of more than five million transistor radios in this country took half of the portable radio market away from US manufacturers and “cost the jobs of 60,000 American workers in the electronics indus try.” he noted. “Include cameras, articles of clothing, toys, automobiles and the many other Jap anese products imported by the US and you will find that more than 500,000 jobs have been loat in this country. “While it is true that the dollar volume of Japanese purchases from the US is great, these purchases are primarily of raw mate- nale which do not involve much labor.” We might add that Japanese purchases.of raw- cotton at prices below what our own mills had to pay—plus a wage differential of more than ten times—account in large part for the many idle cotton mills in this country. In urging his boycott of all Japanese goods, Mr. Siragdsa contended that the affront to the President and the threat of spreading anarchy are sufficient reasons, but he made it plain that he hoped such action will also awaken our lawmakers—while there is yet time—to the increasing peril of our "wide- >«pen door” policy on foreign imports. What Do Wc Do Now? In another of his endless (SVt hour) Hit ler-type speeches. Fidel Castro told thous ands of his screaming subjects that 9200 million worth of US-owned sugar mills would be confiscated one by one as well as other “Yankee property down to the nails of their shoes” if the US reduces the Cuban sugar quota. (A bill just passed by the House would give the President this authority.) At about two a. m. Castro stopped talk ing. Within 12 hours he had seized the Texas Company’s 20.000-barrel-per-day petroleum refinery’ at Santiago-de-Cuba. He subsequent ly moved on to take the Standard Oil and the British Shell refineries in Havana, since all three are guilty of refusing a month ago to refine Soviet oil which the Reds are trading for cut-rate sugar. This latest Castro invective and the seiz ure, threatened a month ago, were doubtless triggered by the first strong words we have officially uttered on the subject of the beard ed hoodlum. This was the US note to the Inter-Amer ican Peace Committee, a unit of the Organ ization of American States. In it the State Department charged Castro with lies and slander against the US and devoted 11 pages of the document to a recital of specific of fenses, such as the implication of US re sponsibility for the explosion of the muni tions ship La Coubre in Havana, the Cuban Coast Guard attack on the US submarine Sea Poacher on the high seas and sundry others contributing to “rising tensions in the Caribbean.” This memorandum promises an increas ingly tough US policy, and further provoca tion has followed on its heels. It was com piled at the request of the committee which w gathering information for submission to a meeting at Quito, Ecuador, next February. Thus, we may well wonder, as we antici pate increasing irresponsibility on Castro’s part, what our situation will be by that time, and whether we will still be sitting and tak ing it. * The remedy lies in Congress. So Senator Dirksen has introduced a bill which would amend the pertinent laws and prevent a union from lawfully striking over demands involv ing “the creation or discontinuance of posi tions.” The Senator then added that his bill would make it abundantly clear that the “in tent of Congress is that progress is our way of life. I want to emphasize, however, that this progress requires due regard for the welfare of those whose lives are dislocated by such progress, and that the bill is not in tended to change the law on bargaining as to rates of pay, rules, working conditions, severance pay and other matters.” If jobs are frozen, the state of industrial development will be frozen. Progress will slow and, in many instances, stop. That is one thing the country can’t afford—both be cause of the national domestic welfare, and our military strength. Babson Discusses Selling Babsoa Park. Mass , July 7—Now that graduates from high schools and colleges are looking for jobs, may I devote this weeks column to a discussion there of? Let me start by saying that the first step is to analyse oneself and ascertain the line of work for which one is best fitted FIVE DIFFERENT PATHWAYS Most of today's graduates have come to a “part ing of the roads" and are faced with five different paths which they may follow (1) IV prsfesstM* If you feel you are best suited to be a doctor, dentist.! siM that I am not opposed to rsgu- lawyer, teacher, or minister, you must go back to Ur and normal athletic activities a college which specialises in one of these profrs for young men; playing baseball, 'ions I sometimes think there are enough lawyers in football, basketball and ao on are the country, but certainly the other gronups are retv all part of the normal American denng a needed service and are being amply reward- boy's growing up But now I sus ed. pect the professionalism, the over Editor. The Chronicle: What I have to say in this letter I say as a member of the com munity in which I have a great deal of interest and a great deal at stake, nor is what I say, I believe, the eccentric or “queer’’ conclu sions of one who has elected to take up teaching as a career. Certainly the public is well aware by now that the motives for anyone’s taking up such a job are not in any stretch of the imagination based on the prospect of making money. Parents are quick to point to poor teaching as the cause of their chil dren’s lack of interest or poor per formance in school. And the record is clear that R grows increasingly difficult to attract normal, bright, and personable young people into the teaching profession. For exam pie, how many of Clinton’s young men have elected to go into teach ing in the past twenty years? Hie answers to this question are, I think, obvious: economics, social status, and a natural unwillingness to put up with an almost exclusive feminine association Moreover, I think it unnecessary to repeat here the alarming statis tics and the growing concern with America's educational program ai compared with European systems All of this may be very interest ing but is certainly a poor motive for acceleration and anxious pro grams of concentrated study. My point is that if the public school system has failed to enlist the inter est of younge men in, not only the teaching profession, but in the real istic bases for educational stand ards and for a normal curiosity about the world of ideas and the world around them, isn't it amazing that the community can help under write the cost of $30,000.00 for two football fields. And isn’t it amazing that this money can be so readily solicited when the physical plants of at least one school building need immediate attention'’ At this point, I am obliged to in- afternoon, July t, at 4 o’clock at the Shady Grove Chib Home. La dies in charge were Mrs. B. W. Cooper, Mrs. Newman Shouse and Mrs. E. T. Shouse. Men In charge were Pug Farmer and Ralph Ed wards. Young people assisting vyere Glennie Tinsley, Christie Crapps, Sally Pitts and Kenneth Johnson. The next recreation period will be Wednesday, July 13. FELLOWSHIP HOUR AT FAIR VIEW Members of Fairview Baptist Church met Wednesday, July 6, at 7 o’clock at the church fbr a cover ed dish supper and an hour of fel lowship followed by the regular Wednesday night prayer service. Mrs. Bessie Chase has returned to Clinton to the home of Mrs. C. B Johnson after spending some time at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Shouse. ' Claudia Johnson is visiting her mother. Mrs. Texie Johnson. With the Sick Friends of Watts Davis, Jr., will be interested to know he is im proving at Hays hospR&l following surgery. Pstients discharged from Blalock Clinic earlier in the week include C. J. Chandler, Tommy Smith. Van Oxner, Jr., Billy McGee and Mrs. Don Copeland, Sr. Friends of Jasper P. Rowland will be interested to know he is a patient at Blalock Clinic. Miss Myra Snelgrove underwent surgery at Hays hospital during the week and is improving. Mrs. Bill Campbell returned home on Tuesday fallowing an operation illness at Blalock dink' Mrs. Sara Webb continues ill at Hays hospital. Receiving treatment and dismiss ed earlier in the week from Hays hospital were Mrs. Stella Holden. Miss Carolyn Kinard, Miss Bessie Byrd of Ora, Mkx M. L. Austell. Rudolph Barker, Roy DeGhields, Richard Turner, Jack Graham and Mrs. Althea Whitmire. Mrs. Charles Shepard is improv ing at home following surgery at Blalock Clink. Friends of lifts. J. H. Donnon will be interested to know she is a patient at Blalock Clinic. <31 Eagiawrtag aa* Baikttag There are many op organization, and the loi« hours of portumties in this line provided you work in a pro solemn training are seeptng down reuive and growing community into the high schools, and the mer 1(3) Maaufaetariag This is a line who do elect to enter the field af ef work which will probably cow- ! secondary education are primarily | fine you to spending wour life with :hose who have excelled on the ath to or more large companies. If,ietri field and only iactdentally in [you like people and are not am the classroom Sious to be your own boas. R tel I wish I were peufomd enough to [well to get connected with a large intereat this tread or to describe manufacturing company You. how ' its results The only result I can *vr. must willing to go where foresee is that what should be etv [you are sent and to obey orders tertainment. what should be the (4) Agriculture At one time this kind of healthy competitive exer meant working on a farm, but it is -tee and fun necessary for all not so any loiter The reason a tha; raising both young men. becomes a serious crops and livestock ha* become an intricate bust business, attended by all kinds of nes« Those loving such wort could take an additional pressures, pious appeals to charac course at an wricultural coUege Every state has building, and morduwte amounts such a college with low tMuin*. of money, a business which gives to (3) Selling sad Advertising If you want to sit in young men a rather distorted sense an office and dtcuate to a blonde, you should not take of values in education and perhaps up selling-not even selling advertising If. however. * distorted view of the realRiee of you are willing to wear out shoe leaUJer, ring door the world they all too soon have to bells, and fight for business, selling offers you a great bee opportunity. IMPORTANCE OF SALESMEN Salesmen have never needed a labor union in or der to get higher wages or com missions. A salesman can always get well paid, according as he proAices I know a salesman who earned more money than any- .n* who had gone into the first four of the above mentioned lines of work A salesman must be willing to start at an average wage; but ‘the sky is the lim it.’’ if he will produce This especially applies to those who secure a position with high-grade banking houses and are able to help float important under writings. / Another thing, all of those who choose one of the first four lines of work listed abve are dependent upon the sdlii* of their products or services. This is especially true of construction, manufacturing, and agriculture. The customer must be “sold” if he is to buy houses, merchandise, or even farm products. Truly, “the harvest is great, although the good sales men are few. The national problem of employment and in fact the prosperity of the nation are dependent, not on the Administration or the Congressman and Senators in Washington, but rather upon the salesmen of the nation; they control its economic destiny. Some will wonder why I did not make a special di vision for Banking, but the successful bonkers must be excellent salesmen IMPORTANCE OF PATIENCE When climbing a ladder, use the first rung, and climb slowly upward. Do not try to start where your parents leave off. Hie fun of life is in the striving, rather than in the arriving. Present starting wages in all of the above five groups are good at the present time; but sometime there will be a day of reckon ing. “Trees do not grow to the sky" and prosperity does not continue forever. I opened this week's message by referring to gradu ates who are meeting a “parting of the road.’’ It may not be long. I fear, before these five paths may con verge into a temporary period of readjustment and unemployment. Then the travelers of all these path ways will be competing with one another, and surely with the hard-working intelligent people of Europe. CLINTON, 8. C., THURSDAY. JULY 7, ISM (Ultntnn (Hhrnntrlp July 4, im - WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS - Jaw 13. IMS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable hi Advance) One Year $MI, Six Manlhe |M» Out-of-County One Year $4.00 Second Clan Postage Paid at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cenpernhon ef its subneribers and rendwe — the publteher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters ef general interest when they are not ef a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opWons of Its To return to my originial ques tion: where are the teachers to come from in the future? If salaries for public school teachers are- to remain at sub normal levels, we can come to one conclusion: if the community were asked to choose between money for raising the status and prestige of the teaching profession or football fields (and R’a hardly professional if press boxes are not included!), the answer ap pears to be obvious. Well, at least a few boys will be well coached and will perform on excellent fields; the others can cheer them on and hope that the inadequately trained teacher in the classroom will some how keep up the appearance of edu cating all those others who don't make the team. And all those ear nest people in the press box wiU be unable to beer the voice from the classroom. Sincerely, ,'OHN W. STEVENSON Clinton, S. C. July 2, 1940 News Of Bonds Cross Roads Richard Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earle Johnson, spent the week-end at home, {le returned' Sun day to National Guard cemp. Camp Stewart, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Tinsley and family, of Washington, D. C., are visiting Mrs. Tinsley’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Tinsley. Mr. and Mrs. Tillman Crapps, Henrietta Crapps and Wayne Crapps are spending this week visiting rel atives in Illinois. On Monday, July 4, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Johnson entertained relatives for a chicken barbecue. Among those enjoying the occasion were Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Webb. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Wefaunt and family. Mr. and Mrs. Moody and family, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Johnson and family, Mrs. J. P. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. James Johnson and son, Jimmy. Mr| and Mrs. Ralph CaBtns and family have returned home aft er visiting relatives in North Caro lina. Born on July 3, I960, to Mr. and Mrs. George P. Cobb. H, of Rock HID, a son, George P. Cobh, HI Mrs. Cobb was Jane Pitts, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. David T. Pitts. RECREATION ENJOYED BY YOUNG PEOPLE The weekly recreation posted of Shady Grave Tour family’* future ib secure when you insure In the company with tha strength of Gibraltar. 9m Lawrence E. Young Insurance Broker Life Innmmee • Sickness end Accident Protection INI PtUOMTlAl BtSURANCI COMPANY Of AMBKA # HivtteDl Ml# intvrofica compooy Surgical patients at Hays basplUl include Mrs. Coughman, Mrs. Hor ace CarroU, Mrs. Edmund BhsD well. Verde Edwards, and Mrs. Earl Abercrombie. Patients at Blalock Clinic in clude, Mrs. Joe Griffin, Charles Yarborough, Douglas Medlock, Friends of Mrs. Donald Haseklen will be interested to know she is a patient at Hays hospital. Mrs. W. B. Gaskin of Joanna and Mrs. Casper Gregory'are patients at Hays HoepRal. Friends of Mrs. Ralph Copeland will be interested to know she is a patient at Blalock Clinic. AUCTION EVERY THURSDAY —12 NOON Be Assured of the Best Possible Price For Your Cattle and Hogs Sell where there are always plenty of packers and out of state buyers. Your continued patronage^ has made this one of the outstanding sales in the South. # Saluda County Stock Yard SALUDA, S. C. SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF CITIZENS FEDERAL Savings and Loan Association 0 Clinton, South Carolina AT CLOSE OF BUSINESS JUNE 30, I960 ASSETS 1 First Mortgage Loans $4,215,018.60 - Loans on Savings Accounts .... 4,957.88 Investments and Securities 467,915.63 * Cash on Hand and in Banks 350,524.32 Office Building and Equipment Less Depreciation 33,129.09 LIABILITIES $5,071,545.52 M Savings Accounts. . $4,475,494.06 Borrowed Money . . NONE Loans in Process . . . . 65321.61 Other Liabilities . . . . 77.73 Specific Reserves 1,000.00 General Reserves . . . r* < , , 5468,480.18 ” f - - - Surplus 60,681.94 529,152.12 $5,07134532 $85,700,000 Paid In Dividends June 30,1960 Savings Deposited. By July 10, 1960, Earn From July 1, 1960 t v'--. % , a % • • _ J. . y . J ' * . ' Current Dividend Rate CITIZENS FEDERAL Savings A Loan Association 226 W. MAIN ST. CLomMcac.