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The Race Is On! -
With the announcement yesterday by
Senator Olin D. Johnston that he will run
for reelection to the U. S. Senate, South
Carolina will witness this year a political
campaign such as it has not seen in many a
year.
He will be opposed by the young and
vigorous Governor Rollings, who came out
fighting with his announcement for the post
several days ago.
Johnston, the old pro, who has held of
fice for years on end—from legislator to
governor to senator—has never been noted
for pulling his punches, and he is not ex
pected to begin now.
Rollings, you can bet, knows he has a
fight on his hands, and will enter the race
with no holds barred.
The race for the U. S. Senate in South
Carolina this year will be interesting, to
say the least.
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Rural Areas To
Lose Grip On Politics
The Supreme Court of the United States
on Monday dealt what is expected to be a
lethal blow to the long entrenched domina
tion of state politics by rural areas all over
the nation.
By a vote of 6-2, the court ruled lower
federal courts may determine whether city
voters are unconstitutionally discriminated
against irr the apportionment of legislative
seats.
The litigation was originated by a group
of voters living in larger cities in Tennessee,
where the state’s reapportionment act has
not been revised since 1901.
Many other states have been trying for
years to reapportion their representatives
in legislatures (which would give cities more
seats), but the moves have been halted by
votes of rural representatives.
The first state to be heard from was
Georgia, through Senator Herman Tal-
madge, which operates a unique county unit
system, which some claim, gives the rural
voter a voice in government equal to 300 vot
ers in Atlanta.
Justices Harlan and Frankfurter, in dis
senting, contended that the action demon
strates an abrupt departure from judicial
history by putting federal courts in the
area of state concern.
South Carolina’s concern about the prob
lem stems not from reapportionment, but
from the many small counties with equal
representation in the Senate to the larger
and more populous counties. That is where
the rural counties wield their power in this
state.
Straight Talk”
Following are a few bull’s-eye shots by
Tom Anderson, publisher of Farm and
Ranch:
“The good old days: Back when the only
thing your wife owed was a cup of sugar,
to the next door neighbor.
“Parity: A government program to make
every farmer as poor as his neighbor; re
turn to serfdom with the government as the
master.
“Capital punishment: The government
taxes you to get capital to go into competi
tion with you and then taxes the profits on
your business in order to pay the losses on
. . . government business.
“Dictionary: The only place where suc
cess comes ahead of work.
Perpetual: Duration of any government
handout program, once begun.
“Mother hen: A symbol of the federal
government—formerly known as the eagle.”
Babson Discusses
Labor Outlook
Poor Record To Copy
Before anyone embarks on an important
venture, it’s only the part of wisdom to try
to learn the experience of others who have
followed similar trails.
That little truism goes for government,
as well as an individual. It can be applied
to proposals for government domination of
medicine.
England’s socialized National Health
Service provides our precedent here. And
we can go to English authorities to see what
the results have been.
A documentary film prepared by the
British Broadcasting Corporation said that
some patients “have been waiting as long as
six years for surgery.” A well known Brit
ish journalist reported that ’‘the number of
people medically insured for private treat
ment has risen by more than 1,000 per cent
. . . “because” . . . Socialist medicine is just
not good enough. A distinguished Oxford
professor found that the system had been
“. . . progressively creating despondency and
frustration among the doctors ...” An
AP release told of the complaints of patients
at over-crowded waiting rooms, and of phy
sicians’ complaints of excessive work-loads
and underpayment. A British doctor now
in this country wrote, “The poor British tax
payer has been milked dry. The Health Ser
vice now costs more than five times the
original estimate.” The Chicago Tribune’s
London Bureau Chief said that British “hos
pitals have 500,000 on their waiting lists.”
So it goes—and such a list could be con
tinued almost indefinitely. The question
for us is: Shall we emulate, in any way, such
a costly and disastrous failure?
Babson Park, Mass., March 29—Most manu
facturers, many merchants and even some invest
ors with whom I talk are disturbed about the
labor unions. They fear labor will ruin our ex
port trade which we need to stabilize our dollar—
and reduce the profits of our businessmen upon
whom our Federal Government depends for tax
money.
STRIKES NOW BEING THREATENED
Union leaders are facing into the spring bar
gaining season with every intention of bettering
the gains made for their members during the re
cent recession. The AFL-CIO is keenly aware of:
The restraining influence of job
lessness in some areas; the fact
that the consumer price index
has remained practically un
changed over the past four
months; and the growing reluc
tance on the part of employers
to permit gains in labor costs.
Labor also recognizes the prob
lems emerging from the spread
of automation and its reshuffling
of manpower needs.
Heavily stressed will be productivity and the
upturn in corporate profits. Both these factors
will be exaggerated considerably beyond their
true significance. Laborites have already given
their members the impression that productivity
from early 1961 and on into 1962 has increased
at a record-smashing rate in many non-manufac
turing lines. Actually, even the most optimistic
estimates do not place the current rise per year
at more than 2%%.
LABOR LEADERS RESENT
GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE
Labor’s distaste for intervention by the Admin
istration was once again quickly revealed when
Labor Secretary Goldberg stated that the gov
ernment should define the national interest in
volved In labor-industry disputes and help settle
any differences accordingly.
Union leaders indicate they are going to push
for wage gains and fringes that the White House
may consider inflationary, and they do not intend
to be curbed. Many union negotiators will be
seeking raises this year of as much as 5% on the
basis of productivity gains. Where employers
clearly recognize that this is a mis-representation
of the actual rise in productivity, firm resistance
may mean strikes. The Federal Government ap
pears sympathetic to 2t4 wage increases instead of
the 5% demanded with costly “fringe” benefits.
A wage hike of 2%% equals from 4c to 7c per
hour according to the industry involved.
EFFECTS OF SECRETAARY GOLDBERG
Over the months ahead, large-scale bargaining
is slated in aircraft, airlines, aluminum, com
munications, petroleum, textiles, paper, and rail
roads. Of particuler importance are the current
steel negotiations, since an agreement long in ad
vance of contract expiration would ecourage
similar goverment pressure in other fields.
If Secretary Goldberg is successful in achiev
ing an early settlement in steel, it will be met by
union leaders as a kind of intrusion into free col
lective bargaining. It would not be surprising,
in fact, if some of the more radical unionists re
fused to co-operate in future proposed premature
bargaining sessions to avoid last-minute disputes.
WHAT A U. S. AGENCY HAS JUST DONE!
While the above negotiations have been going
on, a U. S. Government Agency has, for the first
time, granted exclusive bargaining rights to a
labor union to negotiate on grievances, safety,
vacations, etc.; but not on wages or the total
hours in a work week: The government is also
“asking” for a no-strike pledge and no restric
tions on “race, color, or creed.”
This important precedent was established in
connection with a Department of Agriculture de
cision on March 8 that its 2,472 meat inspectors
would be represented by a unit of the American
Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO.
The Department’s action is in accordance with an
executive order issued by President Kennedy on
January 17, providing for government recogni
tion of unions representing federal employees.
__when we consider that—-in addition to those in the
military—there are several million U. S. workers
in ordinary clerical and industrial jobs, we see
what this ruling could mean. But whether it will
result in a federal dictatorship or in plain social
ism, I cannot now forecast.
several clubs spoke to the group.
Saturday morning tests were giv
en to determine the members’
standings.
New* Of
Bonds Cross Roads
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Boland
were called to Andrews due to the
illness of Mrs. Boland’s nephew.
Miss Maxine Spivey has return
ed home after being a patient in
the Joanna hospital.
Mrs. Goerge Cobb, George, III,
and Catherine of Rock Hill, are
visiting Mrs. Cobb’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. David Pitts.
Mrs. Ruth Hill, Mrs. J. C. Na
bors and Lynn Nabors were in
Greenwood Saturday.
John William Callahan, Jr., of
Liberty, was the guest of Mr. and
Mrs. N. A. Shouse for Saturday
night supper. Mr. Callahan was
enroute to Columbia to visit his
father, John W. Callahan, who is
a patient in the Veterans hospital.
CHICKEN STEW
Friday evening at 5:90 at the
Shady Grove Community House,
chicken stew will be on sale. The
project is being sponsored by the
Shady Grove Home Demonstra
tion Club. James Evans is prepar
ing the stew.
nimday, March 29, 1992
The April meeting of the Shady
Grove Home Demonstration dub
will be held Tuesday, the Jrd, at
9:90. All members are ashed to
attend. The Spring council meet
ing will be held in April, time
and place to be announced at the
April meeting. •
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The girts ’4-H Club is busy
completing their projects for the
year as their record books should
be completed by the meeting mon-
day, April 9. Any girl who needs
help with her project or record
book may contact Mrs. Bernice
Shouse before the Home Demon
stration club meets April 3. A
member of the club will be glad
to assist.
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AT COLLEGE CONVOCATION
Some 4M Presbyterians from throughout South Carolina
came to the Presbyterian College campus last Friday for a Sy
nod Convocation spotlighting PC’s current $1,800,000 develop
ment program. They attended morning and afternoon sessions
in Belk Auditorium and were guests of the college for luncheon
in the dining hall. These two pictures, above, show some of the
leadres taking part in the program.
Top picture, left to right: Dr. Marc Weersing, pastor of the
Spartanburg First Presbyterian Church and state ministerial
chairman of the campaign; Robert M. Vance, Clinton banker-
industrialist, South Carolina lay chairman; and Dr. Fred Poag,
paster of New Orleans’ St. Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church,
whj ga\e .ut principal address of the afternoon session.
Button picture, left to right: Dr. I. M. Bagnal, pastor of the
Bennettsvilk F.rit Presbyterian Chnrch and chairman of the
symd s cacni.a.£a executive committee; Mrs. W. Rex Josey,
women’s leader ot Manning; and Dr. C. Darby Fulton, PC alum
nus and rrec ii!v retired executive-secretary of the board of
world who was the main speaker of the M8 _
sion.
Around Clinton High
By JEAN ARNOLD
Slow movement, numerous
limps, and tired, sight-weary
eyes have been quite common this
week in the high school halls.
The distribution of pictures has
been a favorite homeroom pas
time. Washington souvenirs have
been displayed quite prominently
as the seniors reminisce the won
derful times enjoyed in Washing
ton.
The National Honor Society is
sponsoring Religious Emphasis
Week, starting April 2 and con
tinuing through April 6. The pro
grams will be held in the audi
torium each day beginning at
8:30. Visiting ministers will dis
cuss the different phases of the
theme, “Being a Christian Ev
erywhere and All the Time.” On
Monday, Rev. Hugh D. Pollard
will speak on “Being a Christian
in the Home.” Rev. I. H. Webb
will use “Being a Christian in the
School” as his topic on Tuesday.
“Being a Christian in the
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