The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, March 25, 1965, Image 2
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.
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