The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, July 21, 1960, Image 4
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More Gibbet Than Platform Pro Bonum Publico
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
THE UC QUESTION
In commenting on the 1960 Democratic
platform—consisting of a rocky, forbidding
Civil Rights island surrounded Jby platitudes
in a sea of pork gravy—Admiral Ren Moroell.
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Amer
icans for Constitutional Action, ha* given his
fellow Americans a wise and timely analysis:
"If the unlimited promises of more for all
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from the Federal Treasury at no cost or ske-
rificc to anyone, contained in the platform
adopted by the majority of the delegates at
tending the Democratic Convention, become
law. then, indeed, we will be in the final
stages of a. Collective. State Tiere in America.
"Approval of this platform suggests the
shtvking fact that the delegates have been
deceived into l>elieving that big. centralized,
paternalistic, unlimited ^government can dis
pense prosperity, health, happiness,'security
and even moral strength to all by some mir
acle of political magic.
"Such a program, if enacted,” (declared the
Admiral, "would be the most costly in Amer
ican history. . . . Rut most ’importantly, it
wi ,1 rob Americans of the rights of m^n
endowed by Coni, from which.flows all hu
man freedom.
Admiral Moreel sees a "glimmer of hope.”
however, in thc-iiacd that "4his ^ellofut has
been' discovered, though late, within the par
ty itself.” and quotes from the Minority Re
port :
". . . the big evil of our confused day, not
only here in the US but in countries the
world over, is unlimited government. For no
body is qualified to wield fairly unlimited
power." The report goes on to excoriate “the
liberals and Salvationists in our party” who
seek “ever-enlarging big-government control,
which always corrupts and always dehuman
izes.”
The success of these "liberals and Salva
tionists" to date, says Admiral Moreell.
should have taught us some lessons:
First, that "freedom is indivisible." The
South, he points out, having accepted federal
subsidy and control in some areas “now finds
itself all but helpless to assert freedom for
the individual, property rights and States*
sovereignty" in the area of the “so-called"
civil rights.
Second, that gradualism, as practiced by
the Socialist League for Industrial Democ
racy and the ADA. can overthrow-a free so
ciety by legal means.
Third, that “the existing parties can l>e
the I>est instruments" for such overthrow—
"as predicted by the Socialists themselves."
Fourth, that a zealous few with a plan can
dominate and control "millions of Americans
who innocently Indieve *it can’t happen
here."
"Whether the Republican I'arty (similar
ly infiltrated I w ill present a clear choice be
tween materialistic Socialistic principles and
th< 'e of liod-given freedom and progress."
says Admiral Moreel, “remains to be seen.”
We concur in his conclusion that: "The
need for effective political action to preserve
our 1 liberty is great—and the hour is late."
“Like A Latent Cancer”
A very real fear that the forces of infla
tion may again be unleashed exists in the
highest places. Witness a letter written by
President Eisenhower’s Cabinet Secretary.
Roliert Gray, to a U. S. businessman:
The threat of inflation has not been elim
inated from the American Scene, even though
it has subsided in recent months. This is the
insidious nature of the inflationary danger:
It is like a latent cancer which, if detectetl
soon enough, can be checked, but which can
never thereafter be neglected except at mor
tal risk.
"The coming years will test the capacity
of the American free-enterprise economy to
prove that Mr. Khrushchev is wrong in his
estimate of our ability to hold our lead over
the Soviet economy. We must grow and ex-
parni in the 1960’s. For Mr. Khrushchev to
l>e proved right. h<* would have to have our
help in weakening the strength and stability
of the American dollar in the world.”
Mr. Gray then added that efforts to bal
ance the federal budget and reduce the na-’
tional debt "must be matched by equal dis
cipline and decisiveness throughout our eco
nomic system if we are to achieve orderly
and sustainable growth.”
The Democratic and Republican parties
have been drawing up campaign platforms
every four years for a hundred years or bet
ter. Every one of those platforms has been
"in the l>est interest of the people”—but
just what th3t phrase means has changed a
good deal over the years. v
When many of today’s political thinkers
refer to "the people,” what they have in mind
is the whole of society. They think of people
as a group—a concept indistinguishable from
the Marxist idea of “the masses."
In contrast, the American political tradi
tion has always conceived of "the people” as
individuals, each endowed with supreme and
equal worth by God, This revolutionary idea
that each person has certain rights derived
from an Authority higher than any govern
ment was proclaimed in the Declaration of
Independence and written into the Constitu
tion. On it Americans founded a nation in
which government was to be the servant of
the people rather than their master.
A close look at the platforms coming from
the political conventions this month will show-
how the party leaders interpret the word
“people.” If they make large promises of
more federal duties, , powers and programs,
watch out. Collectivization of power in a big
central government is in the Marxist man
ner. Political leaders who want to protect the
American heritage of personal rights and
freedoms will advocate keeping as much
government as possible at the local levels , u ,
u . . created by passing a law is a long
where each individual can keep an eye on it tim e characteristic of the liberal dxff ‘ cul,>
and make his voice heard.
Babson Discusses
Competition
What Makes Prosperity Work
By THURMAN SENSING. Executive Vice-President
Southern States Industrial Council
Thinking that prosperity can be, textile industry already has great
competing against Japa-
left This characteristic is evident text,les because* of the low
in the current move in Congress to wage-; prevailing in the Orient and
hike the federal minimum wage t br fixed high wages in this count
from $100 to $1 25 an hour , try If the government decrees that
Unthinking persons may say. must be increased even
"Surely that isn't much money, and more, the result could be a massive
big business can afford to foot the blow at the textile and all other
Babson Park. Mass . July 21—1 am not now fore- bill ' But that kind of talk ignores U s industries that must compete
ca>ting World War III, but neither the Lnited States the way—the only way—prosperitv
nor Russia can continue to spend such vast amounts is created It falsely assumes that
of money on missiles, rockets, submarines, etc Eith- only a handful of corporarioas will
cr there must be a reduction in armaments (Krus- be called upon to raise wages
c:ie\ i> as anxious for this as we are), or World War Certainly, no one is against a
111 is inevitable. However, my message this week is wage increase when a company can
on tic subject of COMPETITION, which will be the afford to give one And the over-
ammunition Russia will probably use to fight the whelming majority of private busi-
cold war nesses in the United States make
FOR UK; V ( , OM PETITION a real effort to pay their employees
During my last tnp to Germany. I was astounded a good wage To say otherwxse is
at the competition which is developing there Not to swallow radical propaganda
only are wages very low. but the ef Many of today s busmens leaders
| ficiency of the workers is very high have risen from the shop or pra
(German industrialists are contmu- duction line, and thev want to be
mg to make new machines which fair to the people who work fur
can even replace their own workers them
This allies to plastics, textiles. But a wage hike decreed by Coo-
and many other products It seems gre>s is another thing In the firs*
as though this competition from Eu- place no statistics, no set of fact%.
rope will cause unemployment in exists-to prove that Americans are
our country sooner or later now being underpaid Indted if ever
Addi-d to the competition from there were a country in which pros-
Euro'c we .also have much from perity i< widespread it is the Unit
Japan lYcwM give illustrations ed States
which would >eem to you unbebevable These involve If the government orders a new
a great variety of articles raVtmg from table doilies, and higher minimum wage, the ef-
which .'ell for 2c apiece. !<%Tfjdu*s. cameras, and feet will fall not on a handful «<
even television sets It all seems fantastic and detri- giants with almost unlimited
against foreign manufacturers
What the liberal left would would
achieve would be a reduction, not
an increase in employment.
Congress could in effect increase
wages for all Americans, without
touching t h e federal minimum
wage, by lowering taxes and there
by freeing capital for expansion.
It could achieve the same end by
ending the practices of big unionism
which force industry to accept out
moded work practices. The rail
roads of America, fdr instance,
are losing money every day be
cause of union restrictions on the
use of manpower If the railroad
fines had a freer hand in operating
their business, if featherbedding
were ban.ied, then money would be
invested in new rail afeilities. That
would mean more jobs with higher
wage scales. But the liberals think
they don't have to do any of these
things, only "pass a law” and new
prosperity will result. Such notions
are the result of letting free enter
prise economics become overruled
by dealer politics.
Thurnday. July 21, I960
The meeting will be held at the had i celebrated birthdays during
Mountville school at,S:30 p. m. Mts. ‘he weeks the group had met were
Newman Shousc is director for the recognised, took us and drinks
district, and Mrs Belle Sumerel were furnished by interested moth-
will serve as secretary. All club ers.
members are urged to attend. Each CHICKEN STEW AT SHADY*
club will give a report on the year's
work an an interesting program is
planned
The meeting will be followed by
a picnic supper. Drinks will be fur
nished by the host clubs.
Shady Grove Recreation group
met Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs.
Pug Farmer, Mrs. Earle Johnson
and Ralph Edwards, assisted by
teenagers. Games were enjoyed by
about fifty young people. All that
GROVE CHURCH
Saturday night beginning at 6:30
the women of Shady Grove Church
will serve supper.
Stew may be bought. Come enjoy
a good stew with us. Proceeds will
help furnish the new recreational
building.
SUNBEAMS TO MEET
Sunbeams of Fairview Church
will meet Thursday afternoon at 3
o’clock at the church.
Bonds Cross Roads
Mrs B W. Cooper, Mrs. Ola
Wages, Mrs. E Hall and son have
returned home after visiting rela
tives in Georgia.
Mr. and Mrs James Johnson and
son. Jimmy, spent Sunday in Green
ville with Mr. and Mrs. Mack Blake
ly
Mr and Mrs. Felton Crapps en
joyed a trip to Florida recently.
They have returned home and their
granddaughter, Ann Shipes, of Co
lumbia. is spending some time with
them.
Misses Glennie and Mary B. Tins
ley are in Columbia visiting Mr. and
Mr; Arthur White.
The Southern District meeting of
Home Demonstration Clubs will be
held July 26. with the Mountville
and Cross Hill clubs entertaining.
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mental to manufacturers and wage-workers. The only sets but on thousands of small and
e or
concerns which can possibly pnrfit from it arf big medium businesses who have to
concerns 'uch as Sears Roebuck Montgomery Ward, manage their affairs very carefully
and the chain stores which can buy and sell in in order to survive in this era of
trtmendous quantities competition What may seem like a
COMPETITION WITH OURSELVES minor wage RTlfe may be jus en-
Before World War II, the leading manufacturers ough to upsec the financial balance
were content to make their own products, but they of many companies The fact is
have now added products of oL'urs which, in many that smaller companies would suf-
cases. have no relation to their basic pr-ducts This fer the most from any across-the-
not only causes over-production, but it reduces prof board increase tn wages Big m-
its I fear that the average United States businessman dustries have the resources to tide
may be caught in a squeeze, with increased costs but them over the rough spots It also
with declining prices for his products is true that consumer resistance to
Let me give a fe>w illustrations of this domestic a price increase, necessitated by a
internal competition General Tir.‘ now manufactures wage increase, can be more easily
ni'-s les! General Mills has wandered away from met by the big companies
its basic food products to make precision instm- The money for a wage hike can't
mepts’ Textron, basically a textile manufacturer, is come out of thin air It has to come
buying into various new businesses with which it has out of company profits. And tf the
had no experience level of business profits is reduced
EXPANSION VERSUS DIVERSIFIC ATION then the company won t have the
While there is no legitimate reason for much of funds necessary to expand and to
the at*ove diversification, there is justification for create new employment opportuni-
companles to expand in their own lines (Pittsburgh» ties TTie liberals who are calling
Consolidation Coal is becoming increasingly active for an increase in the minimum
in the field of organic chemicals; this is wise Amen w\age are the same ones who are
can Viscose, a major producer of rayon and nylon saying the rate of mdustnal growth
yarns and cellophane paper, has now legitimately in the United States isn t high en-
gone all-out into the plastic-chemical field. ough If the rate isn t high enough.
It is wise for a company to seek new markets for the reason is that too much of *
its available raw matenals. American Yiscise has business' profits are being siphoned
joined with Sun Oil Company to'produce polypropy- off by taxes and by fixed federal
lene, trfus competing in the petrochemical field with requirbrtient> such as the minimum
Dow , Monsonta, and Union Carbide These oempanies wage For example, the American
which are expanding within their own fields should
be safer investments: but some of those which have NQT1CE OF ELECTION
neglected their own business? to go into missiles and STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
rockets may suffer large losses COUNTY OF LAURENS.
LABOR VERSUS MANAGEMENT CITY OF CLINTON
During the cold war, it is too bad to see the com- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
petition between labor and management which results that pursuant to ordinance of the
in serious strikes. A labor strike against management Citv of Chqlon adopted and passed
is an industrial battle and may well be compared to a t the regular meeting of City Coun-
military warfare between two nations. This especially C1 j on t h t 13th day of June. 1960, a
is true now, while the cold war with Russia is in general election will be held in the
progress Some believe that a national dictator is Citv of Clinton. South Carolina, 00
necessary to make labor and management cooperate. Tuesdav, the 9th dav of August,
but this seems unnecesary in a nation which profess- jggQ f or the purpose of electing a
O' Christianity and the teachings of Jesus . Mayor and six Aldermen, one from
It will be difficult enough to hold our own agam>t ^ of the six wards in the c * ^
competition from abroad and domes.* competition clint t , ach of wbom ^ ^
between corporations, without the competit.on created eIected at j b a direct vote ^
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