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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
CMntoa, S. C n TharwUy, January 8» 19SS
When Society’s In Trouble
Life. Jriagazine (jiiotes a man who, after
a varied career, is p»-esident of a major
commercial airline at the surprisingly
young age of 3G, as being resentful of a too
protective society. In-his words, “Free en
terprise . . . lets the ^'eam top out. Sup
press this, make everybody a common man,
and society’s in trouble.”
The paternalistic state, the welfare
state, the all-powerful state, no u matter
what name we give to it, it is designed to
treat everybody as a common man. By
implication, if not by admission, the sup
porters of this kind of a state are arguing
that) people are too ^stupid, too foolish, or
too incompetent to Like care of themselves,
and that only a central government can
be trusted to do that for them.
And that is certainly a reason why our
society is in trobule—and why there are
signs of possible deetper troubles ahead.
We can’t adopt socialism, as we are doing,
and remain a free nation. i "
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Both At Fault
According to an AP report, Dr. John
Wernette, profetssor of business adminis
tration at the University of Michigan,
blames the ‘“typical college textbook on eco-
mics’ for helping to create an unfavorable
image of the American businessman.”
This man. Dr. Wernette says, is portrayed
as a “kind of greedy computing machine
w’ho is trying to maximize profits.”
Dr. Wernette does not let the business
man get off free either. He cites a study
which appeared in the Harvard Business
Review some time ago which shows that
many businessmen take a dim vietw of the
ethical practices of their competitors.
So the fault seems to l>e divided be
tween the pedants who write the textbooks
and the business people who do much to
create the image of business in the public
mind. The tendency is to exaggerate the
failures and to minimize the achievements.
Thus, wittingly or otherwise, one of the
major goals of our totalitarian enemies is
served—the goal of creating, within this
country, and most particularly in young
people, a dislike and distrust of the Ameri
can economic system.
It’s time—long paat time—for a drastic
change, both in the accuracy and quality
of our teaching, and in the ability and wil
lingness of business leaders to state the
American case with strength and dedica
tion. We need not and should not gloss
over defects. But we should and must em
phasize the vritues.
Make Them
Use The? Front Door
One of the most rewarding New Year ;
resolutions that the Administration and i
Congress could jointly make would be the 1
elimination of “back-door spending.”
Back-door spending is the expenditure
of funds outside the regular appropriation
process. It is a violation—at least in spirit,
—of the Constitution wdiieh holds that fed
eral money can only be spent whetn the
Congress duly appropriates it.
This practice cannot be dismissed as in
consequential. In 1961 it amounted to just
under $20 Billion — divided among federal
programs for agriculture, airport, area re
development. foreign aids, highways, hous
ing, school milk, and loans for veterans.
As large as that sum was the money orig
inally requested was even greater—$29 bil
lion.
In 1962, happily, encouraging progress
was made ih curbing back-door spending.
Through, the combined and commendable
efforts of the Administration and the Con
gress the rearflow was reduced to $437 mil
lion., First the budget requests were slash-;
ed from the^^ billion sought in 1961 to
$2bo billinn dof 1962. Then the Congrees
performed more surgery on that amount,
reducing it to $4157 million. ,,
‘It is not enough merely to cut down on
total spent'in this evasive manner. The
t jack-door should be securely locked and; accordmg to Miss Martha F.
permanently sealed. Pressly. district manager in the
Greenwood social security of-
fice.
This is one of the regular tax
increases, provided in the law,
to cover the payment of retire
ment. survivors, and disability
benefits, and all administrative
costs of the program.
For people working for wag-
costs on otfF manufacturing and services. Work-1 *
ers naturally think in terms of how much they iyear , y ear7lings The em p loyer
are getting in today ’s pay envelope and how j will contribute a like amount,
much they wiU get in tomorrow s. They do not For the se lf-employed, the new
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Behind
Words
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, William S. Pen field
Fifth Column
» The expression “fifth column” originated in the
Spanish Civil War. which began in 1936 and ended in
1939. . ^
Early in the war Gen. Quiepo de Llano of the rebel
forces began propaganda broadcasts from his head
quarters in Seville.
^ Late in 1936 four rebel columns, or anfiies, were
advancing on Marid, the capital. De Llano called on
Madrid to surrender. He said that in addition to the
four columns marching on Madrid, there was a “fifth
colurhn” at work inside the city.
The term came 1 to mean any secret group which
works from within for the downfall of a government or
other organization. _
(Copyright 1962, William S. Penfieldj '
Cross Hill News
MRS, HAROLD AUSTIN,
Correspondent
Social Security
Babson
Labor Costs
Babson Park, Mass., January 3, 1963 No
analysis of present conditions or prospects for
the future should leave out the impact of labor
that an employed person earn
ing $4,800 or more m a year
will pay $174 in {social security
tax instead of the $150 he paid
on the same amount of earnings
in 1962, an, increase of aboqt
46 cents per weekly pay period.
The tax for self-employed peo
ple with earnings of $4,800 or j
more a year will be $259.20 per
year instead of $225.60 paid in
or an increase of about
.80 per month for the 12
months of each year.
Miss Pressly noted that the
new social security tax rate ap
plies only to wages paid and
self-employment income earned
after December 31, 1962. The
present rate of 3ft % on wages
often give much attention to the fact that em- rate is 5.4ft of the first $4,800 is a PPbcable for wages paid in
ployers must think always of
how to hold employment up,
how to meet rising labor costs,
how to keep their businesses
in yearly net earnings. Wages
and self-employment earnings
of more than $4,800 a year are
not taxable for social security
healthy, how to ensure fair pro-’ P ur Pdses
fits, how to keep prices down, or In dollars and cents the social
how to put aside funds for mod- security tax increase means
ermzation and expansion Per-i '
1962 even though they are not
reported by employers until
early in 1963. The current rate
of 4 7% for the self-employed
is likewise applicable to seif-
employment income earned in
1962 but not reported until 1963,
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Civil Rights?
Recently in California, the machinists
at the Aerojet-General Corp. missile plant
called a strike which Secretary of Labor.
Willard Wirtz, termed an “intolerable
threat to the nation’s defense.” Comment
ing on this work stoppage the Fort Lauder
dale, Florida, News said, “As part of this
strike'thfc machinists threw up a picket line
around the plant and endeavored to keep
some 12,000 workers who are not members
of their organization from entering the
plant and continuing their work.”
Some of the non-union employees who
didn’T like the idea of being denied their
right to work attempted to pass the picket
lines with resulting injuries to both sides.
In summarizing, the News reasoned: “Isn’t
the fact that 12,000 people are . . . kept
from earning their paycheck by a massed
picket line . . . just as serious an infringe
ment upon constitutional rights as the act
of Mississippi in trying to keep James
Meredith out of its university? . . .
“Now, if other workers don’t want to
voluntarily crpss picket linas, that is their
business and their right. But if non-union
workers do want to cross ^picket lines and
are prevented from doing so by violence or
threat^ of violence then it certainly seems
to us that local, state and federal law en
forcement agencies have a clear and def
inite responsibility to provide them with
the same type of protection that has been
extended to James Meredith.”
What is the answer to questions raised
by the News if constitutional rights mean
anything? Is the right to earn your food
less important than the right to go to
school ?
haps only an employer can
really appreciate these prob
lems. I
Readers may ask: Just how
much of an inroad have labor costs made? A re
cent survey indicates that total pay for time
worked has soared 120% pygr the past 15 years
Far more spectacular is the fact that fringe bene
fits now cost management about 325% more than
they did at the end of the Korean War It is
easy to see what overwhelming pressure this
exerts on the price of American goods and ser
vices. Little wonder, that .cheap-labor foreign
goods are underselling us along steadily broader
fronts Economists are justified in crying for a
return to the law of supply and demand for labor
rather than having to operate under the pay price
inflation that is so economically unrealistic.
WORKERS LOST OUT
No sane observer wants to see die nation’s
workers deprived of their fair slice of the profits
pie But when wage and fringe costs become top-
heavy, the workers lose their gains through sky-j
rocketing living costs, a cutdown in working
hours, and unemployment. Too many union lead
ers, however, act as though profits should be
used only to swell payrolls. They give little or
no regard to the necessity of distributing reason
able segments of profits to owners, investors,
researchers distributors planners of future plant
expansion,,—and most important of all, to the
public in the form of lower prices all along the
line r
When employers balk against exaggerated
wage demands, unions frequently resort to
schemes of taking less in actual cash in return
for new or extended fringes. But workers should
realize that fringes are just as expensive for the
company as are dollars placed in pay envelopes
Fringes may be out of sight of the employes; but
they are very- much in view when company ex
penditures are totaled They are just as inflation
ary as outsized wage hikes, if somewhat more
subtle
GOVERNMENT GUIDELINE IGNORED
The President’s Council, in a mqve designed to
curb the pay-price upspiral, decided some time
ago that it would be all right for unions to
negotiate raises as long as they did not go be-;
yond the roughly 3% annual productivity guide
line Instead, consistently more than that has;
been aSkec^for in straight pay boosts, and in calls
for further additions to fringes.,^
looking ahead I foresee no fchange in labor’s;
decision to bypass the government’s productivity
guideline Labor leaders, in order to hold their
own jobs, try to get all possible concessions in 1
both straight raises and fringe benefits. It cer- J
tainly looks now as if any reduction in union de
mands over the period ahead would stem from
possible business weakness and the fear of lay-!
offs.
RAISES VIA SHORTER HOURS
Some union leaders have ,on their agenda
, another move that will resullt In still higher labor
costs,—and this is the drive for the 35-hour i#bk.
They want this concession with no change in
take-home-pay, which would mean a 14% hike
in basic hourly wage rates Since they see little
chance of getting Congress to grant such a boon,
they hope to get it by fighting ahead company
by company, industry by industry. I fear you may
see more of this as 1963 works along.
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Rev. and Mrs. David Cromer
of Wake Forest, N. C., Dr. and
Mrs. McGoin of Virginia, visit
ed Mrs. H. P. Cromer, Sr., and
Miss Ruth Whiteford during the
holidays.
Mr. and, Mrs. Ligon King and
children of Greenville, spent
several days last week with
Mr. and Mrs. Freddie Setzer.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hill had
as guests during the holidays
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Barrow,
Jr., and son of Greenville; Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Hill of Clemson;
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Quick and
children of . Columbus, Ga., and
Miss Clartibelle Hill of Win-
throp College, Rock Hill
Rev. and Mrs. Pete Rich
son and family of Lowell, N.
C., and R. L. Richardson of
Simpsonville, were guests of
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Richardson
during the holidays. *
Mr. and Mnfe. J. T. Hollings
worth spent Sunday^ with Mr.
and Mrs. S. J. Vereau in Aik
en. ‘ *
Boyce Wideman and son, Pat
ton, of Columbia, and Miss
Clara Wideman of Troy, visited
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Denny re
cently. . ’
Mr. and Mrs. S. M. LSaman
"Spent Christmas with their
daughter and family, Dr. and
Mrs. W. L. DeBruhl in I^exing-
ton.
Mr .and Mrs. Weldon Ashe of
West Columbia, visited Mr. and
Mrs. John Livingston . during
the holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. M. Cl Pinson
have returned from a several
days visit with Mr. and Mrs.
W. O. Brodie and children in
Orangeburg.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Coker,
Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Coker of
Clinton, were Christmas guests
of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. White-
ford.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Cole of
Slater, and Mrs. Rosa Cole of
Clinton, visited Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Cole and Mrs. F. S. Cole
Thursday.
Miss Clarabelle Hill spent
several days last week in
Greenville with Miss Jean Bry
ant. • '
Miss Elaine Austin is spend
ing several days in. Charleston
with a college friend and will
return to Lander Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. White-
ford and daughter, Sylvia, of
Columbus, Ga., have been visit
ing Mi’s. R. D. Whitetord.
Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Cromer,
Jr., spent Christmas Day with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Outz,
in Ninety Six. • „
Miss Eleanor Watldns of
North Augusta, has been spend
ing the holidays with Mr. and
Mrs. J”: A. Lester.
Mr, and Mrs. W. H. Wigh^
man ^nd A. B. Hill spent Sun
day, with Mr. and Mrs. B. T.
pson in Brancbville.
Friends of Mrs. W. M Lea-
man are glad to. know she is
at home again after a ten-day
win-
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ard- Fri€
stay at Self Memorial Hospital,
Greenwood. _ . - ‘ q
Mr. and Mrs. qiaode Mills of
Gastonia, N. ( C., warp holiday
guests of Mrs. C. ». Jiilis.
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Wl
and daughters of Columbia, vis
ited Mrs ’R. F. Wade Sunday.
FINAlTSETTLEMENT 0^
Take notice that on the 25th
day of January, 1963, I will ren
der a final account of my acts
and doings as Administrator of
the estate of Maudie Mae Coth
ran Jessee in the office of the
Judge of Probate of Laurens
County, at 10 o’clock a. m. and -
on the same day will apply for
a final discharge from my trust
as Administrator.
Any person indebted to said es
tate is notified and required to
make payment on or before that
date; and all persons having
claims against said estate will
present them on or before said
date, duly proven, or be forever
barred..
L. RUSSELL GRAY,
Administrator,
Clinton, S. C.
Dec.’ 18, 1962 * 4c-J-17
FINAL SETTLEMENT
Take notice that on the 18th
day of January, 1963, I will ren
der a final account of my acts
and doings as Committee of the
estate of Mary M. Gambrell In
the office of the Judge of Probate
of Laurens County, at 2:30 p. m.,
and on the same day will apply
for a final discharge from my
trust as committee.
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• Any person indebted to said es
tate is notified and required to
make payment on or before that
date; and all persons having
claims against said estate will
present them on or before said
date, duly proven, or be forever
barred- '
THOMAS A. BABB,
Committee
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