Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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F, ^ ^ ■- / JOHN W.* HOLMES H. P. DAVIS* Editor rad Proprietor. BI^P- M;\ at tbr poct offlcr st Barnwell, j. 0^ •• «>cond-claa« matter. Subscription hates: ,Om Taar —...... 9IA0 i.r 1 . —..... AO (Strictly is Adraras.) THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER IS. IfS4 The SeeoMl Primary. The second primary, in which Olin D. Johnston was elected governor and J. E. Harley lieutenant-governor, ! - ^emonatrated two things: First, that M Bleaaeiam' , is a thing of the past, living during the saose time 8 pe' cent." THa People-Sentinel agrees with the National Association of Manufac turers that the cotton union demands of an hourly wage increaaT'ST per cent, era unwarranted and ih direct opposition to the coneluriens of a recent study of the industry by NBA. This government report said: “Under existing conditions, there is no factual or statistical basis for any general increase in Cotton Textile Code wage ratei. 7 T except ft cost of lessened demand and fewer oppor tunities for employment.” We further agree with the follow ing statementa: “If codes esn be amended by force instead of reason, the whole theory of industrial self-government and industry-labor partnership for re covery, under government direction, will collapse. * ",Tf the government diftards eco- nomic merit _an4^co»nete code levis- i u»4 / —r . *7 * »*?,* * • V., ^r. mm Zr.. wgz P;-- era be elected over an “upcountry Factional lines were disregarded in the governor's race, former anti- Bleaaeites supporting Mr. Blease and former Bleaseites rallying to John ston’s standard. The People-Sentinel’s choice for governor was defeated in the first primary, but it is believed that he will be a strong contender for the pises four years hence. We con gratulate Mr. Johnston on his re markable victory and express the hope thkt he will be as fine a governor as his friends expect and an infinite ly better chief executive than his political opponents predicted. To this end we pledge our cooperation in every sincere effort for the betterment aod advancement of South Carolina. Aa to Colonel Harley, we know that he will measure up fully to the dutie* and responsibilities of his office and that he will vindicate the confidence placed in him by his friends through out the State. No Fight-on Roosevelt. Ihiring the closing days of the politics! campaign that ended Tues day, The News and Courier made a foolish attempt to link opposition to Jfahnaton with what it was pleased to term “a flank attack on the Roosevelt administration a camouflaged aasaolt on Roosevelt ap d bis policies.” This charge, it is presumed, grew out of the fact that many voters opposed Johnston because of his strong lab st union sympathies. President Roosevelt, as is generally known, is friendly towards labor—all labor, both union and non-union. He dees not champion the cause of one against the other. The News and Courier has not hesitated to launch attacks against many policies of the Roosevelt admin- estration—why, then, should it be concerned beesuae of “camouflaged as- aanlts” by others? The People-Sentinel fears that one or more of the four or five editors of Uta News and Courier has been in dulging in too much fried “swimp” and has been having nightmares. The Textile Strike. 4< AI1 combinations and associations wader whatever plausible character, mith the real lesign to direct, control, •ouataract, or awe the regular de- liberation and action of the constitut ed authorities, are of fatal tendency.” Charge Washington could not pos- aihly have had a general textile strike mind when—he expressed fhaf thought, but its application to the labor unrest and the methods employed is too apt to be ig- . And it is a significant coinci- that the labor forces in today’s il war are being ->led and ion under union intimidation, it is possible that present codes will be abandoned, and that new codes will not be voluntarily proposed by i try—that government will hav impose control over all industry or abandon efforts at voluntary indus trial self-government.” Labor gained more under NRA in a short time that it coidd have hoped to attain under its paid leaders and it appears to many thinking and well- informed people that the present strike, which has already taken its death toll in South Carolina and Geor gia, is an abortive attempt on the part of those paid leaders to justify their jobs in the eyes of the union ehembers, thousands of whom voted against the strike call. Public senti ment is not in sympathy with the strikers and it is freely predicted that the strike is foredoomed to failure. It is also probable that organized labor will receive a set-back from which it will take a long time to re cover. In the meantime, what of those candidates for State office who bought ‘campaign literature” hearing the UNION LABEL? Did they not, by their (willing or unwilling) boycott of non-union printing plants, endorse organized labor? Are they in sympa thy with the demands that are* now being made by the union forces or was their action merely a “gesture” to hoodwink union members? There may be an entirely different tale to tell four years hence when these same as pirants for “political preferment” .again place their orders for printing. SA mm \\ Thg mow hlgh-prlcwd look at-thg mart FORD V-S FEATURES yau taa. Her* are tome of them: V-8 Cyltadcr Eavfea Single Pane Clear-VUion Ventila tion # Torqne Take Drive H Fleering Rear Axle 8)4 Callow Cooling System Dual Down Draft Carbaretiaa Honda Ole 2-way Shock Absorbers Free Action for aU four Wheels Completely Water Jacketed Cylin der and Upper Crankcase Walls Tungsten Exhaust Valve Seat In serts and Mushroom Ended Valves Welded Steel Spoke Wheels Welded All-Steel Body fORm«?«L Drive the and you’ll^share his enthusiasm thru Vmivnal Credit Talk to a Ford owner and you’ll think he is bragging. Drive the Ford V-B and you 11 share his enthusiasm. Outstanding performance has made it the most talked of car in the Strath. Yon can’t blame owners for bubbling over with enthusiasm about Ford V-8 performance. You can’t blame own ers for being jubilant when they find the Ford V-8 is the most economical ever built. Ford owners will tell you they never get tired of driving the Ford V-8— Free Action all four wheels makes the going easy on any kind of road. Talk to a Ford owner and yon will want the Ford V-8 for the Ford owner is the greatest automobile salesman in the world. Before yon buy any ear, drive the Ford V-8. B. & B. MOTORS, Barnwell, S. C. directed by s man who was born un- today. It was sent in response to an long been harping on that string. A ture. All imperiled under Hie Briish flag—Francis Gorman, strike has been branded sa “an -to use- fores to compel the government to revise a code, regard- of the economic merit of the made”, aim ‘t is held that collective bargaining is unfair to both employer and employeee when woricara who are fully satisfied with jobs esn be ordered by union leaders to quit work,” and furthermore that legally responsible for sets, should not be expected to ■ribs contracts with unions which shun catrporate existence and have no legal responsibility for observance of con it being charged that “in mills having union contracts, have been called out despite clauses in the contracts.” is interesting to nots that the indutry was the very first to ; a code under NRA, under which has been an increase in the . hourly wage of 70 per cent., aa com- fared with an average for all manu- la. the United States of 29 “Weekly earnings of cot- increased 28 per the in- The tost o^| - - In Other Sanctums Poltroonery. Three months ago candidates for State offices were afraid to have their cards printed in newspaper of fices which could not place the union label on them. The discussion at the meeting of the State press association is recalled. All these candidates by the use of this label committed them selves to sympathy with the American Federation of Labor with which the textile union is affiliated. Now the fight ia on, severe, between the union and employers. Where is the candidate who takes side with the union or against it?—News and Cour ier. seif about him. Practically it has made it possible for him to quit hia job at least without fear of wanting most lost the right to hold body and soul together at all. Want stalked the land. Business was paralyzed. Bank- the necessaries cf life for himself and ing was moribund. Agriculture stag- Still Not Explicit. Mr. Nels Anderson, assistant to the chief engineer in the federal-emer gency relief administration, has sept to us a statment from Mr. Harry L. Hopkins, federal emergency relief rghninistrator, about his policy to ward relief for strikers. his family. There is no halfway ground. If the government shall be willing in any circumstances to feel, clothe and shelter persons who give up their jobs, for one reason or another, because they don’t like them, it becomes at the taxpayera’ expenae the ally yd atrikera. It compels the employer to assist by taxation in supporting the people who are making war againat him. There is no escape from thia con clusion. Government can have no conceiva ble obligation to support able-bodied people who are out of jobs because they won’t have them. The federal relief administration h.s not beeS^plain about this matter. Its utterance! have been confused if they have not misled.—News and Courier / * * • Life Befcre Liberty. Liberty—our lost liberty, at that-r ia the theme song of the administra- We print it j tion’s critics. Alice Longworth has editorial in The News aim Courier of recent article Th the Ladles’ Home end of the August 26.—— (journal by thia Wt direct attention to thia sentence of Theodore’s family on the deads of fathers named at the birth of our from Mr. Hopkins’ statement: “Each the fifth cousin in the White House caae applying for relief to the local goes under the gentle title, “Land of emergency relief agencies should be Lost Liberty.” Herbert Hoover, who treated on its merits as a relief case less than two years ago “went West,” wholly apart from any controvrsy in' politically as well as geographically, which the wage earner may be in- breaks the; silence of his California volved.” J tomb with “The Challenge of Liberty,” It seems to The News and Courier ( wherein he describes the Roosevelt that the first questions that the local policies as “wills-o’-the-wisp,” leading agency should ask are, “Are you vol-'a deluded people to ruin anl regimen- untarily or involuntarily unemployed ? tation. Again, there’s the American Are you out of a job because you can’t Liberty league, throwing the body of get one or because you quit on??” jits well-nourished conservatism across Were the writer, who is 4 wage the path of the NeV D«al. Its catch- earner, nothing more nor less, to walk' word ia “Liberty.” out of his job, whether at a matter of Our liberty is a principle or in a moment of petulance,' for ua by our fat! nated. Today’s “Challenger of Liberty,” then in the White House, did nothing to stop the march of depression that became a rush of want overriding not only the liberties of men (for where is lower serfdom than that of dire need ?) but threatening the life of our institutions and our people. How long, asked many in frightened whis pers, in those dark days; how long before revolution brings ruin? Then came the New Deal. When Franklin D. Roosevelt, holding a steady hand on the nation’s weak pulse, gave the first injection of courage to a shaVen people, there was no talk of lost liberty or our overridden constitu tion. There wjs only a heartfelt gaa of admiration and gratitude for the our stress. The New ^al from its very incep tion has had to concern itself with something even more fundamental than liberty. That was life. Life of the millions in want, life of trade, of banking, of industry and of agrkul- we cannot obligation Charleston to support Mr. H srs, the momeji see that/ft would be the' soil and before that of the taxpayers of British and European or of the United States j justly enough, is the and his family. As democracy; or at least •ays in regard to strik- ' as many think, money less boon, won on American our fathers on 1. Liberty, of our was until, her place . should have no Liberty under the Golden Calf ideal about hia dispute. He has'meant freedom for the ytrong to himself. J despoil the weak. Somehow this if the government comes to hia kind of liberty did not work. Even sad with the taxpayers’ money the freest of Americana mat hia bias, H it coaeaniiaf it- “right” to ho rich. Hie leas feat si- tion. Life—a living; security, health. work, all these go to make life for the individual and for the nation. With these insured, liberty; but not “liberty” that means privilege for the few and meagerness for the many. The New Deal, as laid down by itsL , greifilest exponent, stands ibr life, more abundant life, to all the people of American.—The State. Criariaology Research Cesare Lombroso, famous criminol ogist of the lata Nineteenth century, founded criminology aa an Independ ent subject of research. The study of crime it conditioned by the difficulty In gathering significant statistics, the changing concepts of crime and by the fact that each country decides for Itself of . what crime consists. Social, eorironmaafal and 'individual Influ ences are vary complex, and criminol ogists do not consider their results FARMS FOR SALE in Any one interested in purchasing a farm either Barnwell, Aiken or Allendale J^ounties, please . communicate with— W. P. WILUAMS WAGENER, S. C. BARNWELL Three Shows a Week MON.-TUES. WED.-THURS. FRI.-SAT. Matinees: Mondays and Thursdays at 4:00 p. m. Matinog:-Saturday at 4:00 and 5:30 p. m. Admi: Night, 10c and 25c Mat: 10c and 20c olore Colored Balcony: 10c and 15c SEPTEMBER lt-14 DONALD WOOD in SheWasaLady MONDAY -TUESDAY —IN- They remembered the life sh tried to ■* _ -Jr They forgot the love she _ ... wanted to remember! ADDED:—COMEDY. ADDED:—NEWS. FREE—$29 Thursday Night at 9:30. Handy Friday and Saturday SEPTEMBER 14-15 REX BELL ia Rainbow conclusive. ADVERTISE IN SEE HIM RIDE! SEE HIM FIGHT! ' SEE HIM SHOOT! ADDED:—SERIAL. He panics a Maptfi Gras! He Raises a Family Riotj/He Lends in Jail and Likes It! But When He Gives That Tarzan/Yefl-'Ydti’l! 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