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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Clinton, 8. C, Thursday, March 25. 196$ CoDwon Course la launching an all-out drive for shorter work week legislation, organized labor ob viously has no regard for the serious con sequences to economic well-being that could ensue. Here are some of the damaging ef* facts: —The insistence on 40 hour pay for 35 hours of work would bring a 14 per cent rise in production costs. —An additional 26 per cent increase would result if the 5 hour overtime has to be paid at double the regular rate. —The< increase in hourly labor costs, would intensify the unemployment problem. To raise the cost of goods is to reduce the market for them, and hence to curtail the number of jobs. —Increased costs squeeze profits, cur tails business expansion and reduces em ployment opportunities. —Higher prices would enable foreign competition to capture many domestic mar kets. j —Without a comparable rise in produc tivity there will be less goods and services available. Congress should promptly reject the at tempt by labor unions to have it enact leg islation that is obviously not in the best in terests of all Americans. peered in the Richmond, Virginia, News Leader helps answer that question: *Tn Mount Rainer Park, Wash., a ranger 'cau tions visitors against feeding the animals. The ranger explains that deer grow ac customed to visitors’ handouts and lose the ability to fend for themselves. Bears, he says, come to believe that free food is their due—and become grouchy and violent ' if they don’t get it. Chipmunks and spuirrels congregate where handouts are supplied, and thus upset the balance of nature. ‘There is a lesson here for people— and for their governments.” There certainly is—and it’s about the most important lesson we can learn. The welfare state is the enemy of individual pride, individual responsibility, individual initiative and indivdual freedom. It makes for a faceless mass of human statistics, waiting supinely for handouts from their masters. NO THOUGHT FOR THE CONSEQUENCE Better Give It Some More Thought The South Carolina legislature is being asked to institute a system of compulsory inspection for motor vehicles to promote safety on the highways. While we have no objection to some sort of inspection, with accompanying stick ers denoting that vehicles are in safe ope rating condition as to lights, brakes, horn, steering wheel and connections, etc., we - I if have doubts as to the efficacy of such in spections in contributing greatly to decreas ing highway accidents. > j Lights and < brakes m good operating condition can add much to highway traffic safety. The great killers on the highways are excessive speed, drunk driving and careless driving. Seldom does the mechanical condition of the vehicle enter into the picture. It does happen, though, such as in the case of faulty steering mechanism. Regular spot checking by patrolmen out on the highways could handle the job well, we think. And if motorists know they were to be stopped at any given time, "it would serve to persuade owners to keep their vehicles in better condition. . At any rate, we do not think well of the provision to turn the inspection of ve hicles over to garage owners and employ- It would open the way for development of a situation in this state that occurred in Arizona. A law was passed in that state for ve hicle inspections to be made by garages, and the issuance of driving permits for ve hicles that were found to be in good condi tion. That was good up to a certain point. But many garage? owners began to refuse permits unless vehicle owners had a great amount of repairs done that added up to large sums of money, and did not actually contribute anything to the operational safety of the vehicles. It opened up avenues for gouging and unfair treatment on the part of unscrupu lous and greedy garage owners. Complaints from people of the state have since forced repeal of the law. While most of our garage operators are honest and dependable and will try to do the right thing, many of them are hot. H we are to have a system of inspec tion, we would prefer that it be done by those whb do not have an axe to grind. Wailing For Handouts What is the ultimate effect of a welfare state on the individual? A striking and unusual little editorial which recently B&bson’s Point of View On: Double Pay For Overtime Work Babson Park, Mass., March 25—Double-time pay for overtime could have quite an effect on many people, both employers and employees. Furthermore, it looks at this point as though both President Johnson and his Labor Secre tary, W. Willard Wirtz. are going to prod Con gress for such a law. And the proposed over time wage provision would be compulsory for all those covered by the Fair Labor Stnadards Act. REASON FOR THE DECISION The President wants all factions to like him. and he obviously has the feeling right now that labor is not so well disposed toward him as it might be. He has, for instance, made no move as yet to repeal the Taft-Hartley right-to- work provision, although he earlier stated his intention of doing so. Insiders in Washington seem to think that President Johnson would like to repeal that controversial measure, but that he is afraid he would make enemies among businessmen if he put the pressure bn. So he prefers to let that matter ride and try to please labor in less objectional ways. Both the Chief Executive and Secretary Wirtz apparently have decided that an attrac tive addition to fair labor standards would solve the problem. Double pay for overtime could be initiated in Congress by simply changing the maximum-hours ruling in the Fair Labor Stand ards Act to grant premium pay of double time instead of the present time and a half. Secre tary Wirtz has endorsed this idea already in his annual report to Congress. WOULD UNEMPLOYMENT BE HELPED? Best guess in that Congress could be swung over to such a position, even though employers in general would be opposed to it. Congres sional concensus is that employers would not be so badly antagonized by extension of this phase of labor standards as they would be by a fighting drive to make right-to-work legisla tion in the states illegal. There will be attempts to convince management—and the public—that double pay for overtime would serve to reduce unemployment substantially. Secretary Wirtz has already expressed Ins opinion that double pay for overtime would force employers to take on more people to do the work that is now being done by those on longer shifts. He claims that this was proved when the original Wage-Hour Law raised over time pay to time and a half and discouraged heavy overtime operations by making them too costly. His view now is that wages have climb ed high enough so that double pay for overtime is essential if long shifts art to be replaced by bigger personnels, thus increasing employment and cutting back joblessness. WHAT WOULD BE THE RESULTS? In his State of the Union Message President Johnson called for extending wage-hour cover age to more than 2,000,000 workers, probably affecting agriculture, hotels, motels, dry clean ing establishments, and restaurants. So, if the double-pay-for-overtime proposal should be pass ed, it would undoubtedly involve widening circles of employees In the package; with Con gressional approval, overtime would be reduced considerably. Employers, of course, would try to increase efficiency and productivity without taking on great numbers of new hands—but this could work to only a limited degree. Men and women currently making generous take-home pay because of overtime would suf fer a cut in their total'weekly earnings if they were to be put back on a 40-hour schedule. That happened at the time of the original Wage-Hour Law hike to time and a half, and it could cer tainly be expected to happen again. Then there is another prospect that will concern both em ployers and their help. If double pay for over time should force firms to enlarge their staffs because the economics of Hie situation would restrict the use of overtime, what would hap pen in a recession or a depression? With no sharp cutbacks in overtime possible to help ride heavy layoffs could seriously Highlights —* From Clinton High Hr CAROL SANDERS The two big topics In the halls will place their bids, ranging of CHS this week have been from 15 to 100 dollars, on these “Science Fair” and “elections!” luscious cakes. The proceeds Yes, the big school elections from the cake* sale will be used Are customarily held on the first Monday in April; therefore fresh men, sophomores, and juniors have been busy signing Student Council petitions and nominating people run for class offices. Since the main election la to choose the qpw Student Council Mrs. J. f. Word Mrs. LUUe Dale Ward. It. widow of J. P. Ward, diad Fri day at the home of a Mrs. Willie Mae Musgrove Street, after a long illness. A native of Georgia, she was a Baptist. Surviving are five sous, Otis Odell and James Wesley Ward of Red Bank; D. If. Ward ef Greenville; Paul Ward of Qhb ton; and Charlie Ifard of Oa- lumbia; five daughters, Mrs. Willie Mat Maddea of Ointoa; to make this year’s Junior - Senior poariMe. SeveraPois students are at tending the National Honor Bo day through Saturday. Those at tending are Betty Mae Baldwin, Phyllis Watts, Dianne Ledford, president an£ vice-president, Jane Johnson, and Becky Hugu these candidates will given their lcy . Mrs Kelth Fleischman is campaign speeches in chapel sponsor tor this group Friday so that students will get johnny Fulmer performed with to know the candidates* plans for the South Carolina All-State running the CouncU, before go- chorus in Columbia last week. in * ^ P 011 * «“ Monday. This group presented a concert CHS science students will be to the assembly of most of the N. C., Mrs. Minnie Thomas of Social Circ.e, Ga., and ^Mn. Edna Williams of Columbia. Funeral* services were con ducted Sunday at 3:00 p. m. at the Clinton Church of God by Rev. J. R. Kitchens and Rev. Olin L. Martin. Burial was in Rosemont cemetery. Pallbearers were Maurice Stories Behind Words wimua & PeafteU Pass The Buck The expression ‘‘to pass the buck” originated at the poker table. *■ ' It used to be customary for some sinall object to be placed in front of the man who was to deal the cards. One object used for this purpose was a buck-horn han dled knife, called a buck-horn knife, or buck. From the use of this knife, any such object used to designate the dealer came to be called a buck. Since dealing involved some responsibility, a player sometimes wbuld forego his right to deal. In that case, he passed the buck to the man on his left. This action led to the figurative expression to pass the buck, mean ing responsibility to someone else. Cross Hill News MRS. HAROLD AUSTIN, FRASER TO SPEAK Col. Powell Frazer, devel opment director of Presbyte rian College, will be guest speaker for the morning wor ship services at the Mountville . and Liberty Springs Presbyte rian Churches Sunday. A re tired military officer, Col. Fraser will preach at 10:00 a. m. at the Mountville church and will deliver the sermon at Liberty Springs at IT: 00 a. m. • • • Ernie Austin, member of the 6th grade at the Cross Hill- Mountville school, was winner in a recent spelling contest at the school and will represent the school in the county spelling bee at Laurens April 10. Miss Frances ..Cunningham, student at University Hospital, Augusta, Ga., was with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Cunningham, for the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Simpson, Sue and Bruce Simpson spent the past week-end with rela tives in Savanah, Ga. BAPTIST REVIVAL Revival services will be con ducted March 28 throughout the week at the Cross Hill Baptist Church by the pastor, Rev. John Turner. Services will be held at 7:80 each evening. Rob ert Cloninger of Woodruff will be guest music director. school, Presbyterian Kindergar ten, Baptist Kindergarten, Whit ten Village school, Whitten Vil lage circle, Whitten Village No. 9, Hospital. Thursday: Hickory Tavern school, Ervin home, Johnny Da vis bqme, Ballentine home. busy all afternoon Friday setting up their projects for the annual Science Fair. That night the judges will come to select the three best projects frpm each of the four categories — biology, chemistry, physics and math. They will also choose the three best over-all projects to be en tered in the state science fair at Furman University. Friday seems to be a pretty busy day all-around, since this is also the day of the nmmai Junior Class Cake Sale. During fifth period and last homeroom students will report to the audi torium where each homeroom Mental Healtfi Meet Slated For Greenwood The South Carolina observance of National Mental Health Week for thp Stallth ILf «***♦«*] v/ttrutiiia mental Health Association, a United Fund Agency, will Include a series of regional Mental Health meetings to be held in Charles ton, Orangeburg, Greenwood, and Spartanburg in late March and early April. Mr. Shulman pointed out that the one-day meetings would in clude morning Workshops on Mental Health Week projects and working with Community Chests and United Funds, and a luncheon address, in each city. Reservations for the Green wood meeting (nearest to Clin ton) should be made with Mrs. Kenneth Young, Forest Hills, Greenwood, (Telephone Orchard &-G259) by March 31. Following the luncheon in Greenwood, a special tour will be made of the new Area Five Mental Health Center. South CaroUu'uocher, '.ftholr Billy R.y and Glenn annual convenUon. Madden, Jack Thomas, Billy and Alford Keaton. Yoar //A7/ALm\ Program Today-Saturday, March 25-27 They Laughed, Loved and Fought Together An unusual motion picture experience! A Family You’ll Never Forget Shows 3:10, 5:30 and 8:00 Saturday 1:00, 5:40 and 8:00 Starts Monday, March 29 One of The Most Exciting Dramas of All Times “A lusty boldly provocative productios-ur RICHARD . 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