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Clinton, a C, Thuraday, October 24, IMS
Too Many Sidelines
Did you know that Uncle Sam has a
lot of sidelines?
Well, he has. He runs coffee-roasting
plants, rum distilleries, printing and power
plants. He manufactures scores of differ
ent products including surgical, medical
and dental equipment, rope, chain, watches,
clocks, paints and fertilizers.
There’s more. Uncle Sam is also in the
plastic-laminating business and in cement,
railroad and wood-preservation enterpris
es. He even operates movie theaters and
ice cream plants.
All in all, according to Senator J. Glenn
Beall (R-Md.), Unde Sam as the front for
the federal government, runs some 19,000
commercial and industrial businesses which
are in direct competition with private con
cerns.
The unfairness of this deplorable situ
ation is further compounded, Sen. Beall
points out, by the fact that businessmen
and industrialists, who operate the same
kinds of establishments as the government,
must pay taxes to their competitor and that
these taxes are poured back into the go-
emment-operated business which are dam
aging to the interests of the privately op
erated enterprises.
This tops all the “heads-I-win-tails-you-
lose” propositions we ever heard about.
Unde Sam has no busniess in business and
the Congress should make it its business to
see that he retires.
It would void contracts, notably those be
tween employers and unions and destroy
the union seniority system. It would tell
parents what schools their children must
attend.
Farmers, who may have considered the
Act does not mean them, will find the Civil
Rights G-men directing who shall be their
tenants, drive their tractors, dust their
cotton, strip their tobacco, harvest their
grain, milk then* cows—and to whom they
may lease or sell their farms.
If Congress passes the Act, it will be
destroying rights — even including that of
trial by jury. It will not be granting rights
to any dtizens, since it will place the racial
and religious minorities to whom it is os
tensibly dedicated under the same des
potism that all must endure. There is no
millennium here. There is only madness
and lust for power.
U.S. HAS NO BUSINESS IN BUSINESS
This Appeal
Should Be Heeded
There is no worthier cause, in our view,
than the annual appeal to employers to
give every consideration to the hiring of
physically handicapped workers.
But, far too often the purport of the
drive is not clearly understood. Some em
ployers mistakenly feel that they are being
asked to show favoritism in behalf of the
handicapped.
Nothing could be farther from the fact.
Handicapped workers voluntarily compete
with able-bodied workers for jobs and seek
no special favors. All that they ask is that
they not be ruled out before 'being given
a chance to prove that their handicaps
are no bar to their ability to handle a par
ticular job.
All through the nation, in all manner of
jobs, handicapped workers have written a
record of great accomplishments which
more than justifes the confidence manage
ment has placed in them. This ringing
proof of the competence of handicapped
workers should open up countless new jobs
to them since this source of skills has only
been lightly tapped up to now.
It goes without saying, of course, that
it is in the best interests of the nation,
business and industry and the parsons con
cerned to give handicapped individuals
equal opportunity to compete with the able-
bodied for jobs they are qualified to fill.
According to the American Red Cross,
farming is the third most dangerous occu
pation in the country, exceeded only by
mining and quarrying, and the building in
dustry. In one recent year, there was a
total of 8,700 deaths and 800,000 injuries
from accidents to farm residents.
Babson Discusses A
Possible U. S. Dictator
“Rights” No One
WiU Enjoy
It will be a sad day for all Americans,
of all colors and creeds, if and when Con
gress yields to a contrived hysteria and
ruthless political pressure to vote into law
the misbegotten delusion known as the Civil
Rights Act of 1963.
Our ablest Constitutional lawyers, in
cluding such luminaries as Loyd Wright of
Los Angeles and John C Satterfield of Ya
zoo City, Miss., both past presidents of the
American Bar Association, and Senator
Sam Ervin, Jr., acknowledged Constitutonal
authority in the U. S. Senate, are agreed
that the content of the Act is ten per cent
civil rights and 90 per cent extension of
federal power. In the view of Mr. Satter
field, it contains “a greater extension of
Federal power than all of the Acts of Con
gress and all of the Supreme Court decis
ions from 1787 to date.”
The Act presumes to distinguish be
tween civil rights and human rights—
which is patently impossible since they are
one and the same. It would control from
Washington, through new regiment* of
Federal inspectors, investigators and the
Federal courts, and even at the whim of
the President, the conduct of virtually ev
ery business establishment as to whom it
must serve, whom it must hire and fire.
Babson Park, Mass., October 24—My very
good friend, Fred Conn of Tampa, has sent me
an interesting little book entitled “The Cat Can
Yield But Its Skin.” This was written by Currie
B. Witt and Lavinia Lee Witt. Its purpose ap
pears to be to change the present tendency in
Washington to help more people in this country
“get something for nothing.” The book Is based
on the life and days of Benjamin Franklin. Its
authors seem to feel that the nation could turn
back to the time of Franklin; but the history of
all nations shows that this is impossible, or at
least improbable. History and governments have
always changed in cycles, not “turned turtle”
and reversed.
EDISON E. SHRUM OF SCOTT CITY, MO.
Today I would like to tell readers about an
other important work in which
I am interested. For many
years Mr. Shrum has been
studying ancient history, going
back to the Persians, covering
in detail the history of the Eu
ropean countries. His book is
only mimeographed, bid it rep
resents very careful and impar
tial studies.
It shows that the trend with
people in every nation has been
to get something for nothing; but they have never
long succeeded. In fact, no man, not Aristotle,
or Alexander, or Caesar, has succeeded even in
making permanent reforms.
THE TYPICAL GOVERNMENT CYCLE
Nearly all nations have started with a race
which was natural to the soil, like the Indians of
our country. Gradually they divided into tribes,
with born rulers. In a way, China and portions
of Africa are now emerging from this Tribal Era,
with natural-born leaders having exceptional
courage, energy, and intelligence.
Gradually these tribal leaders combine and
we have the beginnings of a nation. At this point,
some stronger power from abroad comes in to
take possession. In the case of the United States,
it was the English who took the eastern portion
as a British colony; Spain, the southeastern por
tion; and Mexico, the southwest and what is now
California. This was the Colonial Era.
THE BEGINNING OF OUR REPUBLIC
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and
the Adamses formed a republic in the United
States. This consisted originally of thirteen colo
nies which gradually got their independence from
England. This republic, organized under the
original Constitution, was far different from the
form of government we have today. Voters had
to be property owners; sex, and religion also en
tered Into qualifications for voters. Congress
consisted of two houses: (1) the House of Repre
sentatives, theoretically elected by the people;
and (2) the Senate, made up of members chosen
by the legislatures of the various states.
THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS
Ever since the Civil War, railroads, public
utilities, and all other corporations in which
people invest their money have been getting ex
clusive franchises or privileges. This applies to
doctors, lawyers, and “Indian Chiefs” as well.
There are nearly a thousand separate “offices”
in Washington which offer, directly or indirectly,
these special privileges. This is a long, long
way from the freedom of which Washington and
Jefferson dreamed. The point of my article is that
these laws granting special franchises or privi
leges—by the Federal Government or by the
separate States—will not be cancelled by legisla
tion. The clock cannot be turned in reverse.
Mr. Shrum shows, In his careful study, that
the only way other countries have gotten rid of
special franchises and privileges has been by the
appointment of a Dictator. I do not men that Mr.
Kennedy will become a dictator; but I do mean
that he can cancel what is already in operation
only by being a dictator. History shows that
dictators finally lose their powers and a Republic
is started again.—to be followed by a repetition
of what this,country has gone through via amend
ments to our Constitution and other legislation
which have brought us to our present condition.
Then we will start over again and experience an
other two hundred years of similar changes.
Stories
Behind
Words
by
Wilttam 8. PenflcM
Vandal
They moved southward into what is now Moravia,
into the present regions of France and Spain. After
conquering the Roman colonies in North Africa they
re-crossed the Mediterranean Sea and attacked Italy.
In conquering the city of Rome, the Vandals wan
tonly destroyed much property and many art treas
ures. In reference to this destruction we call a person
who maliciously destroys or damages property a “van
dal.”
Hurricane News
MRS. CECIL SCOGIN,
Correspondent
phone sss-esti
Mr. and Mrs. Cletus Oxner,
Janis and Leo from Leesville vis
ited Mr. and Mrs. Brunson Ash-
bill Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Bannister,
Miss Dot Bannister and Mrs. J.
W. Luquire of Greenwood visited
Mr and Mrs. J. R. Bartley re
cently.
Mrs. C. B. Nantz, Cathy and
Mrs. Nancy Clark, Jeffery and
Jeannie from Morganton, N. C.,
visited Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Cald
well and family and Mrs. Eva
Young and other relatives Fri
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harmon
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Jr., and children, visited Mrs.
Frank Harmon, Sr., la Blyth-
wood Sunday.
Elaine Lawson spent last week
with her grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. George King in Cross Hill.
Clyde Young will celebrate his
birthday Saturday Oct. 26th.
Dr. and Mrs. Mac Going of
Raleigh, N. C., visited Mrs. Go
ing’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
James Haupfear, Sunday.
Those attending the Reedy Riv
er Associational meeting from
Hurriacen were: Mrs. Carroll
Young, Mrs. Era Young, Rev. C.
E. Russell and Harold Copeland.
On Tuesday Jast week, at Hunt
Memorial Baptist Church. Those
attending Wednesday at Whit
mire First Baptist, were: Rev.
and Mrs. C. E. Russell, Mrs.
Russell Gilliam, Mrs. Carroll
Young, Mrs. Era Young ana Mr.
and Mrs. W. P. Gastley.
Mr. and Mrs. Rex Young and
daughter Mildred, of Rockledge,
Fla., spent last week with Mrs.
Mace Young. While here the Rex
Youngs and Mrs. Mace Young
visited Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Young and Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Reeder and family in Charlotte,
N. C.
Mrs. Edward Craven and chil
dren of Tallahassee, Florida are
visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. P. Gastley.
Court House Roof
Undergoes Repairs
Laurens—Rep. Marshall Aber
crombie said last week that the
County Legislative Delegation
had authorized the transfer of
$1,480 to the contingent fund to
pay for repairs to the roof of the
county courthouse.
Rep. Abercrombie, secretary,
said a directive was sent to Allen
Coleman, county treasurer, au
thorizing him to make available
$1,450 from an unappropriated
surplus of approximately $78,000,
“on the express condition that
this money be used specifically
to satisfy the claim to be filed in
the supervisor's office for repairs
to the courthouse.”
He said a deficiency supply bill
would be introduced by the dele
gation when tile S. C. General
Assembly convenes in January to
take care of the transfer.
Work on the courthouse roof
was completed last week. Rep.
Abercrombie said.
The contract called for scrap
ing and resurfacing with a roof
ing compound. The work was
done by Paul Brown, local con
tractor, who gave the delegation
his personal guarantee against
leaksge.
A Greenville contractor, who
examined the roof of the court
house 18 months ago, said his
company could repair toe roof
for $2,900 but would not guaran
tee the work, Abercrombie said.
This contractor estimated a new
room for the building would cost
about $80,000 and “the delegation
felt it unwise to spend such a
sum at this time,” Abercrombie
said.
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