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J* A- ^ ‘ •I 1; ; t.l - Vi. ■ 5- » 1 They Are Fighting ■ j *' \ ’ . > , > _ ' 4- The people of Anderson dp not propose to have the peaceful relations wfaich have existed there between employers and em ployees, broken ub if they can help it The "Anderson Citizens Committee” has been formed for the purpose of fighting Che unionization of Anderson industries and this committee, headed by J. Leland Sadler, prominent Andersoninn, .took a half page advertisement in the Anderson Independent to appeal to workers in in dustries in ttie county not to «ign up with 1 any union. Some excerpts from the advertisement ; follow: “Labor unions bring strife. They divide a community into factions. They drive a wedge between people who work’together. Tney create the illusion of class distinc- > tions. They split families, churches, schools, fraternal orders and communities. “They stop industrial expansion. In dustries are moving from, not to, areas where there are unions. There are new mills and new jobs in Anderson county, Hart county, Abbeville county, Greenwood county, and the others where there are no ui.ions. There are no new mills in Spar tanburg, Cherokee or Richland counties, where there are unions in a few mills. . “They do not bring prosperity. The de pression was worst where unions were strongest. There were more breadlines where there were more unions. Today the . closed mills, the unemployvdttfthe 'ghost •"- • 11 1 mi« m, 1' ^ * " . towns are w ‘strongest* unions. Look it t$ew England textile plants. Look at Huntsville, Ala- ' bama, where a five-story mill building is how a cotton warehouse. * i .* rtT “Labor unions bring strikes. Look at ' the record. Where there are onions, there are strikes with loss of time, loss of earn ings, loss of loyalty and confidence, loss of peace and security and often loss of blood and life.* “They take money away from us. They are not in productive work. They don’t produce a yard of cloth. They take the dues and fines and assessments and use them to pay union leaders’ salaries and expense accounts to maintain elaborate headquarters’ offices and staffs, to meddle in national politics. The money wouldn’t be seen again in Anderson. “Their leadership is not worthy. Most of It is socialistic an-American and un democratic. Much of it is communistic. * The leaders and organizers are ‘from far away places with strange sounding names.’ Except for the money they collect from you in dues, they have no interest in your welfare. You must strike when they say strike; stay, out when they say stay out; pay them what they say to pay them; work when they say work; or lose your right to work.” It is very evident from the above ad vortisement that the people of .Anderson county are prepared to go to the bat against any invasion of their county by the unions. They have seen the woe that has come tq other counties through such invasions and they want to protect their countv from any such disaster. ’• Anderson is thickly dotted with cotton mills and they are all running full time. The people of Anderson county do not want to see these mills become empty buildings or storage warehouses as hap pened to the five-story mill ah Huntsville, Ala., after a series of strikes.' ■ f !!> • -Hj. V V .i A Growing Event The invitational basketball tournament for Class AA and A girls high school basketball teams was very successful again this year awl gives promise of growing into one of the oatstanding sports effepte of the year in South (Carolina. The Camden Kiwanis Club, Coach H. A. Small and all wfho have any ; part in pro moting the event deserve the thanks of the communilir* / We expect the tournament to grow big ger each jeir. > One cannot hot wonder who starts all of the wfld, og^glded rumors that cir- Trials of A Newspaper Two county newspapers that come to our desk carried articles this week by their editors telling of some of the trials and tribulations of county newspaper editors. .. Editor Alison Lee of the Laurens Ad vertiser; wants to know what one is'to do when there are more demands for front page space, much of it for articles which are really not spot news, than, the paper can accomodate and what the editor must do in the circumstances—give all of the space to this matter and run the real news on the inside—or what? The editor of the Cheraw Chronicle writes along a somewhat similar line. He tells of the last minute rush of news on publication day. “Stories that possibly could have been turned in earlier, come flowing in and we’re in a dither. Where in the heck are we doing to put ’em? What must got What can we leave until next week and so on endlessly.” And so it is with every county news paper, we presume. There is always a demand for “front page” space and there is always a last minute rush of news. That happens in every newspaper' office, we guess. The number of pages a newspaper gets out is regulated by the volume of adver tising just as the number of coaches a train carries is regulated by the number of passengers, j Sometimes a train gets overcrowded with passengers too late to add on extra cars and sometimes a news paper gets overcrowded with ads and news when it is too late to add on extra pages. One of the great problems confronting a newspaper is trying to please every one with the assortment of ntfws it carries. There are some people who would have a newspaper devoted largely to sports articles. They care nothing for society nows or farm news or political news. There are others who want a paper largely with social news. They care nothing for sports news. There are some who want more farm news and who care nothing for either sports news or social news. Some are more interested in political news, court house news, etc., than any other sort of news. And so a newspaper has to try to hit a happy medium and carry a cross-section ^ carry so? '<x*6eL aOutLoud What mo thinks when he Ic rreetliaf with the flo bar cannot he prtaleS hi a good fhniDy journal m . 5SS&& ill - -• mm News Iran High Schools Of (only . " ■ 1 m+m Bethune ESTHER SQUIRES. Reporter The Janior class rings hare ar rived, bat to our disappointment. wsTdo aoC get them nntil the Jun ior-Senior banquet, which la to be May 11. At the banquet the sen- lore will present the rings to the juniors. The Junfors arc looking forward to the banquet hut the sen iors don't seem to be too eager. Club day was held Tuesday, Feb. *8. The Junior Homemakers met hi the Home Economics Department. Znlene Sullivan, the preeident, pre sided. Mrs. J. M. Clyburn, the ad visor, was absent doe to Ulnees, bnt Mrs. C. B. Mitchell met with them. Those taking part on the program were Eunice SnlUrsn, Esther Squires. Grace Sullivan and Audrey Baker. Several pfcpnlar songs wore sung. The meeting was then adjourned. more. French play, Edith WWt- more. Joleae Ballard. Ina Belk. Undy Byrd and Howard Vincent. Song. “Brother John,” ip French or “Frere Jacques,'* by the French class. French Anecdote. Tommy Byrd. Song, M Noir Yeux Susan." by the French class. At it was the week of Abraham Lincoln and Geerge Washington’s birthdays, two of the girls. Mary Ruth Mango and Marcia Bradley gave a speech for this occasion (Editorial In Cleveland (Ohio) m a | n >2 The Senior class of Mt. Piagah High school is completing work on the annual. We think it is going to be very successful. Robbie Rob erts, editor, is doing a very fine job. ' of all the news. It tries to social news, some •] me f 1 mmuni news of thfe various which It servos* There are many pople of many tastearj and a newspaper has to t*yjto have at 1 something for each ope of them. Na. ally a smaller newspapeK&nnot carry much as it would like to be able to carry if the advertising volume would justify printing more pages. In the circumstances it just has to do like the Hindo—the very best it can do. <• Dillon 18 s Awake The four civic organizations at Dillon do not plan to sit idly by and see / this country travel on down the road to social ism without trying to do something about it. The Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis and JayCee organizations there have formed a civic committee and this committee plans to keep South Carolina congress members in formed as to their views on legislative topics. A mimeographed letter listing lively legislative matters and a column for the signer ^to check himself for or against is to be circulated monthly for dispatch to. Senators Maybank and Johnston and Representative McMillan. The announcement of the organization of the committee says in part: J * “Many of the thinking citizens of these pprtslhave come to the conclusion that the irresponsible leadership provided these United States by H. S. Truman and Com pany is attempting to lead this country down the road to socialistic domination by ignorant bureaucratic self-styled demigods. “We are therefore depending upon our congressmen to refrain from participating in partisan politics and to stand squarely for those principles of governmental func tions which will preserve man’s individual dignity and his inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” ' It is good to see these civic organiza tions speaking out boldly and plainly in defense of America. One trouble with this country is that there are too mony orzani- zations in it that always parade with an American flag in front and always sing “America” lustily but are doing nothing in this fight to save it. It will be too late to lock the barn door after the horse is stolen. It will be too late to do something after we become en meshed in socialism or have become a communistic welfare state. That will be a mistake we won’t make but once. It is * very commendable campaign the JayCees are putting on to break up jay walking and to educate the pedestrians to croes the streets when the g*een light is - : 1 • ■ • The 4-H Club met in the li brary. Joe Ann Wayne, the preei dent; prUaMed. A very interesting program was presented on Saint Patrick's Day. Those taking pert on the program were Joe Ann Weyne, Barbers McDonald, Loretta Newman and Jimmy Stevens. Mias Fewell then met with the girls, and Mr. Mimtfomery met with the boys. The girls discussed fashions, gar dening, canning and lawn decorat ing. .Both the boys and tbo girls discussed contest that they could enter. Mt. Pisgoh EDITH WHITMORE, Reporter The 11th and 12th grades of Mt. Pissah High school, gave the chapel, program last Friday morn ing. Mrs. Grace Holley was In chart* and directed the program of French. The program raa as follow*: < • Dorothy Roberts. The Mt. Pisgah High school i* enjoying seeing some very good educational films at the school. Boron DeKolb JUNE PLYLER and MARY BRAN HAM, Reporters The F.F.A. chapter of Baron De- Kalb is sponsoring a “Chapter Sweetheart” contest. The con testants were voted in and they are as follows: Ernestine Fiulken- berry, Irma Cauthen, Betty Ruth Young, Bobby Jean Young, Margie Ann Owens and Daisy Mosely. There will be two girls eliminated each week until the final week. The winner will be announced on March 17, at the F.F.A. play, “A Poor Married Man.” The winner will receive a corsage on thic date and #ill be invited to the Father- Son banquet. . And the king snmmoMd his goremkrs, his capt**, u cilors from all the provinces, from the remote tscritshm? dom and from the Islands of the son. * And he beds them bring pnoontn in the form of his predecessors, end when they had besfowsg thm entered a huge banquet hall and sat down before a *tmti pared for them. And when they had eaten, and druak fL among them and said: Behold, I have vanquished mL 1 have ground thorn in the dust, they flea before msi ' For 17 years they have wandered in the wikui patronage and power. For 17 y«r* they have cried a i was sear, but t|py have won ao victorisa. My peopi* ^ tor Mateo to their words. Their trumpetings have not the Mod. ‘ . r, They who woraMp the false god .ef economy g|£ . Their goods shall be takbn from thorn and divided save nothing. And l will spend and spend, for only i • people peed, and 1 wB give It to them. Throe days sfcap my people work in their own the fourth dgy my tax electors shall take the fruits^ Their taros ) win not rednea, nay, I shall increase then, i oetter than they how their money should ^be spent. Let ary people lift ap their eyes, and I wilt gfr, __ i will free these from the tesk of making decisions; i tram the knrdens of thrift; 1 wlU release them from tU to the peer, the agsrf on* the crippled. t^wiil tell them what to plant and what to sell. I vtO| on their labor and the products they buy, yea, I wiU’teil _ ouy and 1 how an;ch. To each l will aaelgn a task, according ^ If they are sick, my doctors will heal them. 1 If they my teachers will instruct them. If they need dams, my < build them. If they need dwellings my craftsmen will if they want money,, my treasury will lend it to them. Be not deceived by false rumors that these things tn[ because I have told, you they are not socialism. Vjrily, I shall free my people from all respoasihRi, | worry, from all thought of the future. Whatever they mkii them, and they wllli vote Democratic forever. «/ • a e e a 'There was only one thing lacking at the Belahasnife which the Democrats partook at tkair flOO-a-piate Day dinner in Washington Thursday night, and/that was I mg on the wail. But the handwriting could be plainly rbsn by thoss * trouble to look across the sea to BhUfland where, the handout stale has been kept alive duly by gifts sad loan j land of free enterprise: • We are sorry that the square dance had to be postponed, but we hope to have a teen age canteen at a later date. The 'Beata Club is sponsoring ,a “Fun School Party” Friday night, March 10, at the Baron PeKajb gym at 7:20 p. m. All teqn agers urged to come! There, will be MARY RAY end GRETCHEN WEST, Reporters The “F. W. A.” Clbb held its usual meeting FHdhy, Feb. 24. Peggy Hall, the prosidbnt, called the meeting to ordei^hnd then the Club Motto was given by the mem bers. After the roll' call and the dues were taken up,, each commit tee gave a report. A program was given about "Teen* Age Problems,” which was enjqyed. by sH. At the end of the program the members heard from their “iirttlc,” Mrs. Dolan. By telling Mm effioers their faults, she has helped’ them to 1m- 5 prove their prognm Also, Betty Mss ^ treasurer, gave her Hall sad Margorie elected to help Bs^v ] gat up the program Davis and Annette chosen to keep tksi The Midway girl*' | team entered the Carolina toumasMat S j ville. The first garni with Jefferson TstakgJ 28. The score was <" of Midway. The team is lookig I playing Zion Satnrferi r 1 1 il. ■i 'A i *1 c© 1 N t Dixie! ■ Disoel locomotive*... like doUars... don’t grow on ttstt. Those 603 powerful Diesel units the Southern Railway System now has in service and &x order coat about $80 mill ion 1 That’s a lot of money. But it bought a lot of modern horsepower.. .to give a modem fast-growing Dixieland the beat in transportation service. These “Diesels for Dixie” are just one indication of our determination to keep pace with the <nf transportation needs of the South. To do that takes a lot of money. And it FAITH. Faith in the bright future of Dixie. Faith that some day soon our country will insist, in tht public interest, that all forms of commercial inter city transportation must stand independently on their own financial feet.. .without support from the tax payer. .. as only the'railroads now da Pmsktont :‘.45 .. ■im ■i*. ig! ^51