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r SUBBCBffTION All Sabaeriptifliis Paytble la Adnaee On* Year $3.50 Six Month* 2.00 a C, nter Ml of 1 in* All articles knitted tor peblicatim kv the aefhffr FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1950 Why Was He There? Ashton H. Williams, one of the leaders of the Truman party in South Carolina was the lone representative from South Carolina at the Truman pow wow held in Raleifh, N. C., last week-end. He stated that he had been asked to attend by Sen ator Burnet R. Maybank. When queried about the matter in Washington, Senator Maybank told The Associatedf Press that he had not been invited to the Conference as United States Senator but that he had been invited as the national Pemocratic executive com mitteeman and that he had asked Mr. Williams to represent him as national com mitteeman. • Seems to us that this is a distinction without a diference. When Senator Maybank was elected national committeeman he announced that he wouT8 accept only on the condition that Miss Kittie McCravey of Easley, the na tional committeewoman from South Caro lina was also seated. Miss McCravey had been a supporter of the States Rights presi dential ticket The national committee refused to seat Miss McCravey because she had gone along with an overwhelming majority of South Carolinians in supporting the States Rights ticket. Senator Maybank there upon refused to qualify as committeeman. So we had looked upon the position as being vacant But even if Mr. Maybank bad qualified as committeeman, why should he have ishton Williams at the conference as a representative he knows full well that Mr. Williams' po sition is repugnant to ap overwhelming majority of the real Democrats of. South CMrofina as was attested at the last presi dential election.;. , x It seems, to us that it is up to the Sen ator to further clarify his position. We believe the people of the State will want and expect a further statement from him. Who Control* It? The Federal Council of Churches for Christ in America has been coming in for a great deal of criticism lately because of its action in interceding in a case now pending in Texas brought by Reman Marion Sweatt in his attempt to have the United States Supreme Court declare sep aration of the races unconstitutional in it self. Notwithstanding the Southern Presby terian church declared that it did not ap prove of the move there have been com munications in numerous newspapers over the South from leading members of that denomination protesting the church re maining fn the council because of this ac tion. # Sunday a Methodist men’s Bible class in Charleston adopted resolutions protest ing against the action of the council as “injecting the church into what would otherwise be exclusively a matter of state.” All Of which brings up the question of who controls the Federal Council of Churches? Who constitute the governing bedy of Che council? This is information that a good many church members would like to Have. ' John lu Lewis and the soft coal oper ators were scheduled to resume contract talks on Wednesday. Meanwhile of the miners have refused Lewis’ order to go back to work on a three-day week schedule. Happenings of recent days have forced Lewis to enter into negotiations again with the operators. First of all there was the likelihood that President Truman would at last be forced by the serious ness of the situation to intervene and then there was the expected court action on unfair labor charges filed against Lewis’ organization by Robert Denhamy, general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board. The coal industry has gone a long time now without a contract with the coal dig* gers. The contract expired last June and ordinarily the miners won’t work without one. “No contract, no work,” has been their slogan. Mr. Lewis’ strategy in ordering the min ers to work three days a week is said to have had three purposes behind it: • 1. To cushion the miners against shrink ing postwar coal markets by spreading the work among all the union members on a part time basis. ~ 2. Gradually strangle the operators into submission by substituting a “creep ing strike” for an all-out one that might invite another $1,000,000 court fine. 3. Count on the three-day work week to pinch where it would hurt ' most— against the Big Steel and commercial operators, who were producing full time even while smaller mines were slowing down to two days’ production or less per week for lack of customers. The coal industry has spent the better part of a year writhing out of this python grip. After months of harassment, pro longed by the .mild winter, the situation has finally reached the brink of the crisii stage. And now Mr. Lewis at last finds him self caught up in the TafbJIartiey Act’s ceils where pressure is being exerted head and tail by the national crisis and the un fair labor practice provisions. Furthermore the miners themselves seem about ready to rebel against their chief •who has ruled them with an iron hand for so long. ■i'J'W Car Parking Situation And then there was the who saM ho had had hard lock with his wives The first one ran off and loft him and the second ^ nr,"! |— f ^ '■ ^ wondered if Bokv what the car parking situation will be in a few more years when there are more and more automobiles. They say that if it is as bad as it is now with 33,000,000 cars it will probably be terrible along about 1060 when it is estimated there will be around 50,000,000 cars. Changing Times, the Kiplinger maga zine, thinks that oddly enough the situa tion will be greatly improved by 1960, be cause ifTsays the thinking on the subject is clearing. Experts ye quoted by it as saying that easing of the problem will result from a three-way cooperation be tween municipalities, businessmen and motorists—all equally concerned. . Fundamental in the thinking, the maga zine says, is this: Municipalities are un justified in chasing motorists from curbs unless off-street parking areas are ade quate. It is also probably useless, the magazine thinks, to take the drastic step of prohibiting any downtown parking. That would scatter downtown business and wreck established locations and areas. The tax structure of cities would be hit Each town and city, the magazine thinks, must act according to its own needs. There is a strong leaning toward several park ing aids such as San Francisco’s under ground system and the idea favored by the American Automobile Association of “area” parking places close to stores, fi nanced jointly by municipalities and down town businessmen. Turning The Comer The pederfirisn at the corner of Broad and DeKalb streets doesn’t have much chance. If be crbasM with the protection of the light'hfe is liable to be knocked down by some*car turning the 1 corner at full speed. The average motorist doesn't seem to realize that the pedestrian has the right of way if h*.!* ^kilting across the street facing the green light. Motorists which are seeking/to'make turns have to give the pedestrian the right of way if the pedestrian is walking with the green light in front of him. ■% Employees ^ on governmental payrolls now receive abont $1 of every $6 paid ip wages and salaries in the United States, according to a press association survey. One ot every eight worken is now on the public payroll. A Negroes Were Slighted The Truman faction of the Democratic party held a conference in Raleigh last Saturday. It was advertised as a Southern Spates conference although reports from Raleigh indicate that the conference was largely made up of officeholders from Washington and North Carolina. At any rate, invitations were sent to Democrats all over the South. But so far as can be learned not a negro was invited to the conference and not a negro at tended. It is somewhat surprising that Vice President Barkley, National Chairman William M. Boyle and others high in the ranks of the national party should have agreed to attend a meeting at which, the negroes wore apparently intentionally alighted. The negms who are enpporting Mr. Traman to loyally ought to ask for an •▼nianatirm of the Rsleich conference. It that >! Thinfonq Out Load litas. It a better way of life Mnas.” ob more contort* and for more people. Eapedallr la dri* tn» la Ha kitch- tato the Qoaaiast apot la'the ft BBom to be any ot optakm among people who hare Hved to a ripe oM age aa to the principal caoees of their loagerity. One will attribute It te one thing and another win name •omething entirely different And along tkla line wc are reminded ot the story of a temperance com mittee whfch, haring beard of an old man who bad attained the age ot a hundred years and had strong drink, rnah- ed to hie home to get a aworn statement to that effect. They found the old man propped ap in bed and they guided hia trembling old band along the dotted line. They were dfmorbed and startled, however, by a violent disturbance in the next room scuffling, falling of heavy fnmiture end breaking of crockery. “Good Heavens, what's that?” gasped a committeeman. “Oh.** whispered the old man as he sat back exhausted after his effort at writing, "that’s Dad—he’s drank Nobody has yet been able to suggeet a palatable name for taxes. r- We wonder If the “pinks,’’ of which there are so many in this country, .realise that behind the Iron Curtain it is the weak Reds that are the first to fade out of life’s picture. After a while the politicians will ran oat of something for the gov ernment to promise—if we keep on long at the present rate. Could the tact that the U. S. S. Missouri struck bottom be sym bolic? The “Democrats” who met in Raleigh last week had a dinner at the Country Club. Probablv a gesture towards the farm vote. " St ■ ' , K ■ " * Most speeches you bear now are longer than they are deep. It seems that the new homes have every advantage except cheap rest Turnip sal let, it seems to ns. has never tasted quite as good since they changed its name to turnip the the kitchen table whan you boyt Checkers or BUI down the street; that delicious bread; In with wood; little brother toast ing wot foot from a chair draws ap at the kitchen stove. There was love, good huiMr and happiness la suck kitchens. For tunate are the homes which still have them.—Grit Magariae. Cheap Rainfall Excessive dry weather, which has plagued agriculture, should he a thing of the past If Dr. Irving Langmuir, of the General Electric company, is correct in his state- meat that the nation’s rainfall can be doubled at a cost of only about $100 for silver iodide. His theory la that the smoke generated on the ground will cause clouds to precipitate. The scient ist says that two small clouds in New Mexico last summer dumped more than $20,000,000,000 gallons of water as the rainstorm traveled 150 miles. The rain-making technique, how ever, involves some uncertainties. The smoke most hit the particular key spot in the cloud, which means It must be at the right place at the right time. Admittedly, cal culating these essentials is a dif ficult problem. There is some argument among the weather experts as to whether the new system produced the rain, or not. Some experts say that the rain would have falleo anyway. Dr. Langmuir, however, believes otherwise. About all the average person can, do is to do what he does on election night—await fur ther returns.—Orangeburg Times and Democrat. We’ve often mon would have had such a great rsputadsn fler wisdom if ho-had' lived in times like these “Palmist can answer anything that has been paxsling you,’’ reads an advertisement Well, we wish she Would tell us what makes peo ple drive automobiles like they do An Oklahoma sum can play eight different musical Instruments at one time. How’d you like to be his next d|sor neighbor? Who can rehnSmber the good old days when gifts were sort of fussy shout whom they would huve dates with? "Americans don’t know what they can do until they try," eeys a writer. Tea; and likewise we don’t know what we can’t do antil we try- A writer says that lawyers ought to use terms the general public can understand. And that reminds as of the time an attorney told the judge: “May It plea Your Honor,! brought the prisoner from Jail on • habeas corpus.” A fellow In thu court room said la an undertone to a friend standing by him: Well, these lawyers will tell anything. I saw the prisoner get out of a cab at the front door. Another pleasant way to go to sleep at night is trying to figure out how muck the mild winter has saved you in fnel bills. The average Boy becomes a girl scout. Scout later A farm magamine urges Its rural subscribers to ho sure that the water they drink is healthy. Well— isn’t it well water? Some men trying to be great are very grating. “A star 27 times hotter than the sun has been discovered,” says a news dispatch, fra Hollywood? It is said that color photo# taken from a rocket ala miles op, the earth gives off a strange purple hue. Good gruolous, do you sup pose we are spoiling? American tourists returning from Europe report that they had to do without many of the conveniences to which we are accustomed ha this country. Tee—-we "saw the other day where some Americana checking into an English hotel found that It had no telephones. No telephone!" gasped one ot the Americans, “how do you apeak to people?" “We just go up to them," explained the bellboy, “open our mouths and my something. It works jolly welL” “Spring win he here before yoa know it," says a writer. It was. vn of Okie, itatfvu F. Si should spend mure t* the night not in this category. It Involves more than racial issues. It strikes at' (he constitutional right of a person to conduct his own bosi- to hire and to manage Ms to hia way of thinking. It’s his money and he has a rjght to eg end it as ho plmam, eo leng as htobnskMss Is one of legal pur salt. Any law that denies *ocb • right is socialistic and contradle- tfre to the freedom which Mr. loudly proclaims every per of race or creed la entitled to enjoy. FEPC Hi neither fair to employ er nor employe. Some advocates overlook the latter as they m* deeper the surface of the scheme. Many a competent per son. who has trained and studied, will find himself put on the same level as the May and the careless if FEPC Is adopted; In tact, may find that he moat yield to Joet apeh a person simply because the other person applied first. If a business is to be managed efficiently, the workers cannot be selected kit and miss to they would he under FEPC. We shall count on the Southern DemocratoO.OJP. coalition to do its best to halt the passage of Mr. Truman’s Unfair Employment Practices bill.—Columbia Stole. Industry Verhue Alcohol American business and industry is becoming seriously concerned about the “problem drinker ” A score or more of firms (whoso names read like a list of gilt- edged stocks) have found they have their share of the estimated 4,000,000 “problem” and 750.000 “compulsive” drinkers in the Unit ed States, and that this share is far too expensive in many ways. Furthermore, according to a New York Times survey, they are doing something about it. What these firms bavd discover ed from their own experience, and from independent studies makes sober reading: Three out of every 100 employees alcoholics; 28,000,- 000 man-days lost annually in all industry production reduced by 1.8 per cent a year; a total economic loss to the nation each year, di rectly chargeble to alcoholism, $1,- 000,000,000. What the several firms are do ing is, on the whole, enlightened and heartening. They are, first of all, using skilled methods to differentiate between the “play boy” and the truly “compulsive" drinker. The former they handle by disciplinary means, all the way to discharge. The latter they treat as ill, protect from stigma, and endeavor to rehabilitate. They even pay sickness benefits to some while under treatment, and retire others on disability pensions. Thors is always some danger that absolving of moral guilt may weaken moral responsibility. But the advantages of attack by re habilitation over attack by recrimi nation undoubtedly tip the scale# in most esses. These companies have found It so. What seems most significant te us Is the certainty that these great firms must soon realize (if they have not already) that the critical moral point comes earlier in each Unfair Employment Practices FEPC should he called UEPC, or Unfair Employment Practices commission. For unfair is the word, not fair. Of all the so-called Fair Deal legislation which Mr. Truman, sworn to be President of all the people, wishes to ram down the public’s throat, FEPC Is the most damnable. It strikes at the very heart of freedom, and mark our word, if passed will be hard also on those whom it is claimed will be helped. ■ _ FEPC- should- not rise .or fall a a a civil rights measurlr^Tor It Is forobrem dtlnlter^s history—ihai hlaj|-r drinking could never have become compulsive had he never started drinking at all. Also that drunken ness of every degree is made more Contaaimic EXPRESSCA TH Editor Ckroalde: We are glad le a $4th nicely asi f $tof this of thanking our their presence into fk tlon. both ot which a to make the services portnnlt^ for worst] other churches Ip ns whre blessed with th The Rev. I* C. preached for ns the sary sermon, was pi large number ot Me < hers and friends sal of the entire service. We most wvpi ees o appreciation to oar a the First Baptist, f< our anniversary oa and for the attmiin number of their mi thank the pastor, tl Montgomery, for a tog congratulations and regrets of not h« tend the services. Y< J. W. I DEERLESS TO There were no < Australia or New when they were h England, they multi Mly. until New See have at least ISjQOl NOTICE OF A meeting of Democratic Quh < Camden for the ; organising the Chi at the aty Be Room, next Frida: 1990, at 7:80 o’ek Executive lection noun tee, M. H. Heymai TOWLE—1 F. D. E. DeKalb do yon think were installed in Seuth Carolina in 1949? The year 1949 was such a big year in the growth of telephone facilities and service, we thought you would like to know some of the facts and figures. Here’s the story of the year in brief: New Telephones More than 40,000 new telephones were in stalled in South Carolina last year! That’s a lot of telephone*, requiring the addition of huge quantities of wire, cable, poles, central office equipment and new buildings or build ing additions. Rural Telephones Many construction crews were busy string ing lines in rural areas throughout the state last year. During the year more than 20,600 new rural telephones were installed. t Money Spent This vast expansion and improvement of telephone service in South Carolina in 1949 cost more than $12^00,000. Thu was over sad above other millions of doilan paid out in South Caioliaa for operating expenses. New Buildings Seven new bufldmgi or were completed in the wor k is under way on projects for 1950. PeoUt at Work At the close of 1949 th** 1 peepb employed by Southern 1 Csrohim. Wages for tom* man amounted to minions of doOma fel contribution to trad* sm throughout the state. South Carolina tad toe too ing as never before and we « °ur all-out effort to make tokf constantly mon more and mate people. *\ •• 1 SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH SO much value ... • • • 1 •V-i. - j