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C, under act of Congreaa March S. 1§7» All articles snbmltted for publication most ho ■Igned by the author FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1950 Workers On Guard According to an editorial in the Ander son Independent whidh is reproduced in full elsewhere on this page, union labor organizers, who are now flocking to the South because of the influx of industrial plants into this section, haven’t been find ing the pickings very good in Aenderson. “Unioneers,” says the Anderson paper, “trying to sell their bill of goods to South ern (workers must talk fast to fool even a few workers in this region. Southern workers see no benefits in unionization. They are unwilling to pay tribute to the kind of unsound leadership that has closed down factories in the East, leaving people jobless and hungry.” The Anderson paper very correctly points out that wage scales in industry in the South compare more than favorably with jobs in similar industries in other parts of the country, and adds: “Strict unionization, intermitten strikes, slow-downs, exorbitant demands—all of these sponsored by unioneers in the East and North have served to help drive out industry. Results? ‘Ghost’ plants, unem ployment and a bleak future.’’ The organizers coming down South from the national unions are not coming down here because of their love for the Southern working man. They are com ing down here because, as the Anderson paper says, they are drawing hig salaries and have big expense accounts to draw on. Their treasuries are probably feeling the “pinch’’ because so many plants in the TSTsTTiavSlK^ down here and get the workers down here organized so that they can continue to draw their big salaries. And another thing! These national unions probably wouldn’t object to seeing the industries forced to leave the South and return to the New England states where their job would be easier. It would not pain them to see every plant leave South Carolina and the South. But it would be a death blow to the working people of South Carolina along iwith every one else in this section. So it will be well for the workers of the South to be on guard. mam 'TV ' Putting On the Squeeze The Municipal Association South Carolina has been complaining for several years that the state government is usurp ing the tax potentialities of the municipal governments of the state. The state gov ernments can complain that tfte Federal government is doipg the same thing for them. Thomas S. golden, president of the F. W. Didge Corporation, New York, said recently that state and local governments are being starved of money needed for schools and other essential services through the Federal government’s “tax squeeze.” . . As a consequence, he ad4ed, local gov ernments are becoming subservient because of dependence on Federal grants-in-aid, a situation he regarded as menacing. Speaking before the New York State Federation of Women’s Clubs, Mr. Holden said that prior to World War 1, the three levels of government—Federal, state and local—were practically self-sufficient. In 19T5 local governments took 52 per cent of the nation’s total tax collections, the states took 18 per cent arid the Fed eral government 30 per cent. Since that time, he said, the situation has changed very greatly and today there is a radi cally different slicing on the national tax pie. By 1948, according to Mr. Holden, the local government’s share of total tax reve nues (had dropped from 52 to 12.1 per cent, the share of the states had dropped from 18 to 14.3 per cent and the Federal government's share had increased from 30 to 73.6 per cent. “The tax squeeze,” he added “has re duced local governments to the status of poor relations. Yet demand for com munity facilities and services has increas ed. Pressure of increased public demand for enlarged local expenditures is strong- eot on the municipalties.” Cities have tried to get money by levy ing new taxes and raising old rates, Mr. Holden observed, but their “expedients” have failed “to bridge the gap between local revenue needs and collections.” Revenues of local governments aggregated $11,000,000,000 in 1948, he said, but only 60 per cent of this came from local tax collections^^ came from the Federal and state governments and miscellaneous receipts and charges. Reliance on grants-in-aid, he continued, “tends to make the local governments, sub servient politically as well as financially to the government from which the grants are received, received.” With The Pre** are Curious Juror y A Grand Jury was called primarily to investigate the recent murder of Goldie Jenks, a woman of ill repute. The death ot the woman was of such notoriety and general interest, that the County Attorney was being assisted in the presentation to the Grand Jury by the State Attorney General. For three days the State had been lab oriously presenting testimony pertaining to the supposed murder. A total of thirty- seven witnesses had appeared before the Grand Jury when one juror arose and re quested permission of the Attorney Gen eral to ask a question. “Mr. Attorney General,” quizzed the juror, “when are we gonna take up the case of the killing of Goldie Jenks.”—Case and Comment. And that reminds us of an incident which occurred in a South Caiolina politi cal campaign a number of years ago. A great crowd had gathered at the court house in ft large city in theVate to hear a certain candidate. This candidate was a little late in arriving so a candidate for another office who was present took ad vantage of the opportunity, got up and started speaking himself. He had spoken for about ten minutes without a sound coming from the bored audience. Finally one fellow out in the audience interrupted. “Say mister,” he called out. “What is it?” the candidate answered. “How long before the speak ing commences?” asked the bored listener. Rebellion When a great host of men, be they coal, miners or wftiat not, defy the orders of the Federal courts what do you have? Our Webster’s dictionary defines a ‘Re bellion” as: ‘^Open resistance to lawful or constituted authority.” And now they are even jroing to take our penny post card away from us. ‘ •a f- Rallying Around Taft All over the nation the people are rally ing to the support of Senator Robert A. Taft, of Ohio, in his campaign for re- election. This applies equally to the East, the West and to the South. It is certainly an unusual thing to see Southern people so worked up over a Republican candidate for the United States Senate in Ohio th$t they are starting several months ahead of the election to give their dollars to be used in his campaign. This indicates that the people have sensed the importance of the Ohio cam paign to the future of this country and it also indicates that Senator Taft may become the man around whom the peo ple, who are bitterly opposed to the wel fare state, may rally. Senator Taft ia looked upon as one of the cleanest, finest figures in the political life of the nation today. Even his bitter est political opponents have to admit that he is clean and honest. And it might be added that he is a patriot who has the best interests of his country deeply at heart. The Senator is regarded by many as ;the ablest man in Washington today, irre spective of party. He is at same time, one of the most courageous men in our public life. _ One often hears the assertion that the country does not produce statesmen today like unto those in the earlier days of the Republic. That is not true. Robert A. Taft is such a statesman. The Battle of America may be fought this year. The re-election of Senator Taft could prove the salvation of this country. Here’s what life in the Soviet republic is like. Writers of Soviet children’s litera ture have been given a rap on the knuckles by Konstantine Simonov, the noted Soviet author. Mr. Simonov criticized them for failing to instill in Soviet children a desire to become workers in factories and mills and to enter the ranks Of the glorious “Soviet working class and collective farm peasantry.” it will be unfortunate if we don’t have some cold weather but if we axe it have it, tot os hope that it will cmm before the speech trees begin to bad. ■j t > IhinkbiQ Out Loud la the erent of a nation-wide telephone strike, people who lire on party linee will bare to depend on the newspapers for the news. • Theneareet we have come as yet to perpetual motion is perpetual commotion. . 1 According to a newspaper filler, the left foot of Abraham'Lincoln was IS inches long while his right measured a little over 12 inches. Perhaps that is the reason he never did go down in defeat. Science is wonderful A medi cine has been Invented which will take the cough out of whooping cough, leaving, we presume, only the whooping. There la more room at the top than will ever be occupied. The fact that we have two eyes and two ears but only one tongue is proof that we shouldn’t tell aU that we hear and see. We heard a fellow telUng the other day about an island in the South Pacific where there are no taxes, no unemployment, no crime, no beggars, no Jazz bands, no radi os and ho inhabitants. Mattie L Love of Savannah, got a divorce because her husband, Natural Love, deserted her. Would you say that she was divorced for Natural reasons? Sunday was Abraham Lincoln’s birthday and we couldn’t help but think of the actor who played the role of Abraham Lincoln so long that he seemed to actually think that he was Lincoln. He walked, talked and dressed like Lincoln. One day he was walking down Broadway in New York, clothed in the cape and high hat of Lincoln’s period. Somebody pointed him out and remarked, “that fellow will never be satisfied until he’s as sassinated.” They say that worrying doesn’t get you anywhere but we read the other day where it got one man into the asylum. A Plainfield, N. J., man has had 40 operations in the past ten years. He must be the village cut-up. ‘The^ average woman doenFz marry a man for his looks,” says a writer. She probably figures that he’s at work all day long anyway. Somehow or *oUMr' it doesn’t seem appropriate for a mother to wear pajamas. Somehow or other we had hoped all along that everything would come out all right in the wash for the Chinese. There’s got to be unity in a successful community. We suppose the FBI men have to be on their P’s and Q’s all of the time. A California woman says she married her husband when her mind was p perfect blank. That’s the only way we can account for some other marriages. That Vermont man who killed himself during the war because he was worried about what the world would be like after the war, cer tainly must have had a wonderful intuition.. < A gnew-Fined *<>** A snow-filled road la rare in these days of automobiles and powerful mechanized plows. But there are some of us who remem ber—perhsps with a certain degree of nostalgic appreciation—those days when a country road lay knee- deep in snow most of the winter. To the farmers living on such a road It meant getting out the sleigh or pung for trips to the village and church. To the farm er’s wife it spelled a long period of isolation in- which she could settle down and finish her braided rug. To the boy the snow-filled road was a vast white wilderness which challenged his pioneering instinct. It was he. in his new hip boots, who broke the zigzag trail to the schoolhouse the morn ing after a heavy snow. When the snow reached a depth that made walking difficult for the horses, farmers hitched their big gest teams to the huge wooden roller which usually was “stored’ behind the church. The snow was rolled and re-rolled until it was as firm and as flat as a freshly ironed table runner. Viewed under the magic of a full winter moon, the snow-filled road was a satin-carpeted aisle stretch ing beyond the eye’s reach. Thd stark branches of a towering elm .traced dark fingers on the snow, forming Intricate, moving patterns ot light and shadow to the muted tune of the telephone wires plucked by some unseen hand. Sentinel like fence posts, their peaked white caps set at Jaunty angles, tossed off white night clothes and stretch ed themselves in grotesque shapes across the illuminated surface. The snow-filled road—especially in these days of automobiles—we must confess is best appreciated in retrospect.—The Christian Science Monitor. Nearly everybody are at the crossrc we had better ask which fork to take. r ses that we s, so maybe Emily Post “Discipline must begin at home,” says a psychologist, ‘‘and a child must be taught by its parents that it must obey orders or suffer pun ishment.” And that reminds us of the story of oie little boy who had evidently beet taught to obey orders. ‘Would you like to go to heaven?” his teacher asked him one day. “Yea’m," he replied, “but mother told me to come straight home from school.” . We seem to be threatened from without, from* within, from above and we might add, also, from be low. Clothes may make a man but they can also break him. According to a lexicographer there is no such word as “gotten.” That may be true but lota of folks have gotten in the habit of using it Wonder how many old timers in the audienoe today read the Yonth’s Companion when . they were youngsters? ^ One way to keep from having a quarrel with your wife is to let her go her way and you go her’s. It seems to us that It is high time somebody was doing some thing <for the protection of the ma jority in this country. It is exceedingly difficult for a child to Iparn good manners with out seeing some. “Coal Miners Defy Lewis and Government”—headline. They must have got hold ,of some of the same stuff that the rat did. which, com ing up on some liquor which had been spilled on the floor, imbibed same, then turned around on its hind legs and defiantly exclaimed “Now come on you cats!” *5* - l — '’One-way to keep happy Is to keep busy,” says a writer. How Catalogs and Common Sense Into Fairfield county homee one day this week came a sizeable shipment of mail order catalogs, displaying a wide variety of merch andise. Many of the items pic tured and described were attrac tive, no doubt, and attractively priced, too, but citizens, we sug gest, should think carefully before forming the habit of sending their money to distant markets. There are certain obvious disadvantages: 1) The time element involved: 2) the expense of the money order and postage; 3) the risk of getting the wrong item or a misfit; 4) the delay and inconvenience of ex changing. The main objection, however, lies in the fact that this money is re moved from local markets entirely and is not likely ever to be re turned to this section. A “cata log” that we should like to sub mit Jtor gtour.consideration is con tained each week in the adver tising columns of The News and Herald. From the consistent use of this “home-grown” shopping guide you and your neighbors may profit, at the present time and in the future as well. It pays in a variety of ways to buy where you live.—Winnsboro News and Herald. Would Exploit (Editorial l« Th. Aodofooo Mdo. pendent) Union labor organise™ reprd the industrially growing Souta as a happy hunting *> r0Wld - i They are as busy as bird dogs on a frosty morning in manv sec tions. To date the plckinga in Anderson and elsewhere in this area haven’t been good, for native- born Southerners do not take well to union dictators. . Unioneers trying to sell their bill erf goods to Southern workers must talk fast to fool even a few workers in this region. Southern workers can see no benefits in unionisation. They are unwilling to pay tribute to the kind of un sound leadership that has closed down factories in the East, leaving people jobless and hungry. Wage scales in industry in the South compare more than favor ably with Jobs in similar indus tries in other parts of the coun try. Our people know that National laws dealing with wages and hours apply in the South as well as the North. The one-time differential has all but disappeared. Southern workers know that one factor considered by industry-deav- ing the crowded East for Southern sites is the. availability of intelli gent, unregimented labor. Strict unionization, intermit- tent strikes, slow-downs, sit- downs, exhorbitant demands ■ all of these sponsored by un ioneers In the East and North have served to help drive out industry. Result? “Ghost” plants, unemployment and a bleak future. Another factor unioneers face in the South is the native American distrust of union leaders in numer ous industribs who have been shown to be dealing close to the Russian Communist Party line, if Southern pqopi« the Committee on ua-I, Unties died 21 Sto having “strongly eat SK* S. Since then some of ^ have attempted to cw! Some succeeded. OthemL 1 ed. Still others have mtf One listed, the h*. Union of Mine, Mm Workers, recently sta*? ' atrike in the potaahh 11 Potash, among other fertiliser ingredient iV production during the IM,000 tons. That wilt culture. , 11 Andersonlans heard abota that strike fir* C. E. Littlejohn, an offiehi, U. 8. Potash Co., spoke km 1 ly last week. * ri He was glad to report w that the atrike was brok^ the strikers who had a {«. before marched under bann? ing “We Are Red, But Nor finally backed down os demands. Be that as It may, the h of potash lost during the serious. It could be mon time of emergency. ' That ian’t to say that all i are Communlat-controllei p It But enough of then create distrust in the m loyal Southern Amerksaa A vast majority of the I gent workers in this area be fooled by glittering p™ organisers. After all, thni why organizers come want the dues. Remov and fat exifense accounts rfi ears, and there would be so 4 Our people know all thia Too Much Government- Thomas Jefferson, one of the greatest Americans of all times, said: “that government is best which governs least.” Of course It was mapy years ago that Jeffer son made this sage remark, but we think it still applies today. However, Instead of being gov erned less, we are continually be ing governed more froth the bot tom of the ladder all the way to the top. Too many laws, local, county, state and national, hamper our way of life and doing business. Government has taken over many of the functions formerly left to business and individuals and we are gradually being stiffled by ihore and more laws regulating our way of living and our way of doing business. Free enterprise built America Into the greatest nation on earth, yet our governing bodies are doing their best to stifle this free enter prise and turn us Into a people mechanically controlled. It is not always good to look back, but we might do well to look back to and follow some of the advice left by such Americans as Jefferson, Wash ington. Ben Franklin, Abe Lin- con and others of their caliber.— Greer Observer. 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