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im cuntqh capwncLi OtmUm, & C, Thunday, August 12, ISM Dictate* of Conscience There are times, so we’ve been told, when a Congressman or Senator may feel compelled, in good conscience, to take a stand on some particular issue which he knows full well is contrary to the wishes of a majority of his constituents. By so doing, he unquestionably would risk being voted out of office at the next election. And we would respect such a man for his conscientiousness, even if jwe disagreed with, his position. But, we don’t take it for granted, in such cases, that someone is really follow ing the dictates of conscience just because he claims so. We expect, for example, that this might be the claim of many among the 221 members of the present Congress who voted recently to repeal Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act despite the fact freely admitted by many of them that their constituents were overwhelmingly in favor of keeping that provision in the law. We don’t doubt one bit that some of them were voting according to some dictates; but not, we are equally certain, of con science. Theirs was, in our opinion, an entirely unconscienable act. It demonstrated a wil lingness on their part to violate several of the basic and inherent rights of all Ameri can working men and women, those who are union members as well as those who 9 are not, in order to ingratiate themselves with power-lusting elements in government and in the hierarchies of labor unions. We might hope that, when the time comes, these Congressional servants of somebody else Will be busted from office by the con stituents whom they have betrayed. But of more immediate concern is still to pre serve, if we can, Section 14(b), that part of the Taft-Hartley Act which stands as a safeguard to a workingman’s freedom of choice to join or not to join a labor union. Fortunately there is still some hope for,' that. The drive by the union bosses, with the help of their political debtors in gov ernment, to abolish the last vestiges of free dom for their membership has still to be voted on by the U. S. Senate. If we, the working and tax-paying people of the United States, make our sentiments dear to that august body, perhaps conscience and common sense, instead of demagogy, will dictate the outcome after all. Congrtef 1* Compelled Congress, with a minimum of debate, has raised the national debt limit to the staggering figure of $328 billion. It did this because there was no choice. Why was that so? Senator Dirksen explained in these words; “First, we raise expenditures and then we discover that we have run out of money. Then we have to lift the debt ceiling. After a while we spent more of what we do not have and then we raise the ceiling again . . . Having unburdened my soul, I ask: What shall we do when the paymaster of this country says, “You must raise the debt ceiling so that I shall not have to send back or hold any checks or repudiate the legitimate bills of this republic . . .” “I find myself compelled into a position in which I shall have to vote for it.” Only if Congress shows a far greater restraint in its appropriations than has i>een the case can further increases in the debt, along with more inflation-breeding annual deficits be prevented. THM A MEXICAN WAT J /\.TWY9«rnifc / PEOPLE OF (WOtt- I KVCLOKO COUNTRIES \ PROFIT FROM FORtlM MO. . . ...YETTWWR POLITICIANS ARETUfe DCAI RECIPIENTS ErtWC PEOPLE, r .. .AND SINCE OUR X ✓7..WIV' TM0SE*FAT GOVERNMENT KNOWS V ( CATS' WHO WEREN’T ™«,WUY ) i tvEN LC6AI lv ' CONTINUE TO ... * /I ELECTED ft TUE Babson’s Point of View on Consumer Goods and War By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass., August 12—Since Presi- dent Johnson gave his talk on the attitude of our government regarding Vietnam, there has been a general feeling that the public might get^ excit ed over a possible shortage of consumer goods and rush to the stores and stock up. This is what happened after the Korean War really got *hot.” CONDITIONS DIFFERENT NOW When people talk today about possible short ages of consumer goods as a result of war-scare buying, they should remember that the situation is quite different from what it was fifteen years ago. At that time, the country had not made up the big Worid War II defteiences in cars and household goods owned by our citiiens. So when the Korean war grew in size, men and women who had thought they had plenty of time to re place worn-out refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, radios, etc., panicked and cleaned out merchan disers’ shelves. - - Now, when we look into our neighbors’ homes, we find that the so-called invisible consumer in ventories of nearly all kinds of hard and soft goods are close to record levels. And most yards and garages have not just one, but two or more, shiny automobile?. Certainly, even a much trigger war in Vietnam than President Johnson now talks about could hardly bring on a wave of consumer buying like that touched off Stories Behind Words by William a P«fMd Broker The word “broker” sprang from the wine trade during the Middle Ages and retains much of its orig inal meaning of a “middle man” in business or com merce. An early wine retailer bought in volume, usually a number of casks or kegs at one time. He would tap a keg and draw off the amount requested by a customer. Becuase he tapped the kegs,' a wine retailer was called in Old North French a “brokeor,” meaning one who pierced (the kegs), from the Old Fmech “bro- chier,” to-broach or pierce. “ “Brokeor” resulted in the English word “broker,” which was used to denote any retailer. Now it refers to a middle man, one w r ho negotiates—at a fee—be tween buyer and seller.' lug. The buyer* then move pro gressively up the state to John* sum, Laurens, Woodruff, Greer, and Landrum—ending the son with the ripening of the ular Elberta at Landrum. Smith and Bob hope to extend their canning aaason tf and when news crops can bo had to pro cess. At present green beans appear to be the moat likely prospect. They’re giving some thought to encouraging a limited local production of beans. If sufficient beans could be ob tained, the brothers say the can nery would be able to start a month before the peach season and work a month and one-half later. “Putting in a ‘bean line’ would be rather costly,” Bob said. “We’d also need retorts and oth er machinery. Money is one thing holding us back.” 6ut county Extension Workers J. R. Wood and Frank Fleming —already delighted with the ag ribusiness facilty—hope plans can be made to extend the can ning season. In addition to in creasing employment in the can nery the addition of beans would likely encourage local bean pro duction on farms, increasing farm employment and income. Peaches presently processed by the plant are being handled by Broker James Howard of Greenville. MountviUe News MRS. MAUDE BRYSON lng. They also visited interest ing places to South Carolina while away. M. C. Crisp of Charlotte, N. C., spent Friday with his jnoth- ef, Mrs. M. L. Crisp. Mrs. Hugh Jones is borne af ter surgery aft Bailey Memorial hsopital to Clinton. Mrs. Rhett Bryson, accom panied by her daughter, Mrs. E. A Blake of Greenwood, was • visiter to Anderson rooently. v aseswa#* nun • REVIVAL SERVICES Revival services at the Pres byterian Church wUl begin Sunday, August 15, with the Rev. Mr. Mitchell of the Cross Hill Presbyterian Church as the guest speaker. w Col. and Mrs. J. L. Culp, with their son, Charles, of At lanta, Ga., visited Mrs. Culp’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Bryson, last week. Clarence W. Stokes of Che raw, is vsiiting his aunt, Dr. Ruth Stokes, this* week. Misses Elaine and Kathy Stewart are in Marietta, Ga., this week visiting their uncle and aunt, Dr. and Mrs. Riley. Mr. and Mrs. Baber of Co lumbia, spent Sunday with Mrs. Baber’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Benjamin. Mr. and Mrs. James Bums, Jr., and family of'New Jersey, are visiting his aunt, Mrs. Roy Miller, and Mr. Miller, and other relatives here this week. Misses Ruth and Willie Trot ter of Ward, spent Sunday with Miss Zelle Crisp and Mr. and Mrs. Adams. Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Finley and family spent several days in Georgia last week vacation- Starts Monday, August 16 ACADEMY AWARD ft JULIE ANDREWS [ BEST ACTRESS Bleak Outlook Washington Report, a public^ion of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, points out that a 10 per cent com bined social security tax rate, half paid by the drafitng boards for most store chains when the employee and half by the employer, long has been regarded as a ceiling. This belief is based on the assumption “. . . that the part of the workers paying it, with a higher tax would generate resistance on eventual jeopardy to the whole security system.” Under present law, the rate is ached id to reach a minimum of 9.25 per cen in 1968—just under that 10 per cent ceil- FARMS and FOLKS By L. C. HAMILTON Clemaon College Extension Information Specialist by the Korean scare MERCHANDISERS SHOULD AVOID PANIC STOCKING Merchandising methods too have changed markedly since 1980. Huge shopping centers vastly centrally located warehouses, computer- operated inventory-control systems were just on , . th, dra/ltn, boar*ifor met »tor« oh<an, wb«. ^ ^ HendriclM lotj of workers ^ Headrick. TOrXSS^ toS^Jr. commonplace! 1 eSoo- Plcken. county brotoer. who Uve Brother, have combod thc nelgh- mjat* have said lately that the new methods of near Dacusville, are helping borhood to gather an efficient ^“k^oXvi ^ toward ward- -Pread thc .t.tc . dtort-Uvod work lore. 01120, emptoyed on ing off the old-fashioned'sequence of boom and two-and-one-half month peach ^wo shifts. - bit Improved warehous^Ue-lna-lnterconnect- marketing season into a year- Smith says the plant comes ed with all stores, and with a central control Ion « ^ "**1 by electronic date processing-have made it pos- A $60,000 cannery operated by tions because the peaches to be siblefOT^erchaJtTto^ivoid overstocking otto- the brothers has a production processed come from outside the ventortes "^By kestptog* their ° shelves relatively f** 0 *™'™ ^ ”*?''** I clear of pile-ups, the need for hasty liquidation of South Carolina grown peaches cannery is offering attractive uled to reach a minimum of 9.25 per cent stocks—bringing competition pressure on other thlsyear. season wages to students an merchandUera—he, been largely eliminated. J' 11 '* ho™** ve. to the community. However regardless of the marvelous new k** 11 having have slowed the, A unique feature of the loch- ing. However, things will turn out very syjlteim of n^rchandisng and Inventory control Picking and we may be short of tion was pointed out by the differently if a pending bill becomes a law. that have been developed, it is not the wires and H 1 * 8oal at the end of the season, brothers. Most canneries go to TV , _ .. ., , . T . . ... th»t rtrCTrata. Hi* v*«t rhuiiu and But even 50 • we should produce where the peaches are, but to Under it, the combined tax rate would nse computers that operate tne vast cnams ana „ ^ ^ ^ „ »».<- OattB Bugt CbI Dougl IHRD'S OCTMMlNATlfrM e& 8PABTANBVX6. A C. m i mm DAZZUN6 DEUSHTFUL MkJM^.DkkVmDyk, NA6JRRC0IT DmMTbmlbuonGlffnuJohtu UPROARIOUS INCOMPARABLE GUTTEHO FABULOUS MAGICAL GREAT ~~i‘ * MkBaiBIUHwwihwMnnaAgnsiw,nim ftdkafaefcr* ■ > l HiRWIHiiIm tote. CtoMM ADMISSION: Adulta—Afternoon :.... 1.00 • Night 1.25 T ALL STUDENTS 75c Children 60c Features: 3700, 5:30 and 8:00 MQkmm Onralb.o to 11 per cent by 1973 and to 11.60 per cent by 1987. On top of that, maximum earnings subject to this tax, now fixed at $4800 a year, would be increased to the $6600 level in 1966. How much resistance this will create on the part of workers is a matter of con jecture. But there can be no question that the much-publicised, much-applauded in come and excise tax cuts will be made meaningless to millions of people. The in crease in the social security tax made nec essary by increased benefits will cancel them put or more. Moreover, there is no guarantee that even the heavy increases in the pending bill would be all. It is common experience that forecasts of future spending are al most invariably too low, and that more and more revenues must be obtained. If current philosophies dominant*, in government are perpetuated, the outlook for the taxpayers is a bleak one. Your ( iMJADWFtt Program Today, Fit'and Sat. Night the beautiful shopping centers. It to the men be- ’”?» 10 “ “O B <»> the p e n o h . . nre hind the systems that still "call the shots." If T 11 * P'“‘. •>««> ‘»o Brought to the cannery from dto- they panic’and decide to overutock their wore- c ‘ n '£ d 78 ’ <> “«*'* ^ 1 * Q ^ Production potots. house* and shelves we could still have an old- The machin ery *tood Idle when The brothers say they begin totid^dlnv^tort' ’burt^ Pr* ch grower, were .truck out buying peaches at Trenton, fashioned inventory Dual. bJt lht WMtter in Edgefield County, when the EVENTS HOLD THE ANSWER Running a cannery requires Golden Jubilee variety Is ripen- At this moment, it sems pretty certain that the war to Vietnam will be greatly stepped up during the months ahead. That should mean a greater emphasis on the production of goods that will be used to advance the war effort. As con sumers see production being directed more and more toward the materials of war, they may crowd into the stores to add to their already bulg ing home inventories. Nevertheless, we do not believe that any wave of consumer scare buying would last long or be of great size—for Hie reasons given above. The real danger lies to any rush to the stores would be its effect on the attitude of the managers of the big chains. If they should “tell” their computers to load up on all kinds of goods, we could see a sharp run-up to prices and a buildup for later trouble. Nor do we believe that a sudden “peace scare” is impossible. The Communists may make moves toward negotia tions if they find their “summer monsoon” of fensive has not defeated the South Vietnamese or scared the Americans off. And sudden peace news would immediately halt any consumer rash to buy at climbing prices. 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