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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1949
1218 College Street
NEWBERRY, S. C.
0. F. Armfield
Editor and Publisher
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937,
at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., $1.50 per year
in advance outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance.
COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
BY SPECTATOR
Take stock sometimes. A
merchant takes stock once a
year, according to the old plan,
and in some stores you see the
young ladies making a note of
each article being sold. That
is a sort of up-to-the minute
inventory by adding what
comes to that department and
subtracting what is sold. Some
times the young clerks ar e so
busy with the records that they
haven’t much time for the
would-be customers. In fact,
the customers appear almost as
nuisances, disturbing the leis
urely keeping of records.
Some men take stock of
themselves. But let’s pass that
for the moment. Let’s take
stock of our privilege as citi
zens of the great Republic, Am
erica, the hope of the world.
You know, of course, that we
claim too much; this nation of
forty eight States is not “Am
erica.” “America includes all
the land of the Western world
from the North Pole to the
South Pole. So when we think
of ourselves as “Americans” we
are really just strutting, for
Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Chile,
Peru, Argentina—and the others
are peopled by “Americans.”
Nor is this “the United States,’’
for Mexico is the United State;
of Mexico—Los Estados Uni-
dos de Mejico. As I recall,
Brazil is the United States ol
Brazil. Wte call ourselves Am
ericans for lack of something
else. True enough, we are
Carolinians, New Yorkers.
Georgians, Virginians, but out
of the United States the world
does not know of Carobnians
or Georgians, though it may
know of Bostonians and Charles
tonians. Nor can Bostonians
and Charlestonians live it
down; rather, they have to
live up to it. Like printer’s
ink, it won’t wash off. I still
have a smudge of it—printer’s
ink—on my fingers, as one
might say. Of course I might
get classical and say, like Lady
Macbeth’s “rooted sorrow.” But
you recall Macbeth’s question
to the phisician when Lady
Macbeth coudn’t sleep?
“Canst thou not minister to a
mind diseased.
Pluck from the memory a rooted
sorrow.
Raze out the written troubles
of the brain.
And with some sweet oblivious
antidote
Cleanse the stuffed bosom of
that perilous grief,
Which weighs upon the heart?”
But don’t get the wrong im
pression from that bit of
Shakespeare: my little touch
of printer’s ink I would not
remove for badge or medal.
My association with the Press
and the Radio, throughout the
years, I esteem above all price.
And, it follows naturally, rc
Charlestonian would willingly
lose that distinction.
What was I talking about?
I meandered around like the
Santee River, before it joins
the Santee-Cooper, to form the
Atlantic Ocean, as someone
said in a bad spirit. Oh, yes,
I was taking stock of some of
our blessings, and I quote from
a distinguished citizen, a man
of affairs, on the glorious priv
ileges of Americans, or Yan
kees, as most of the other Am
ericans call us.
“There are enough automo
biles in the United States to
give a ride at one time to aU
of our 140 million people. This
shows how widespread are the
comforts of our great country
over and beyond the possession
and enjoyment of ordinary con
veniences. However, we need
not rely upon the tremendous
production and individual own
ership of automobiles to reflect
the welfare of our people.
The tangible and material
accomplishments of free men
under our constitutional form
of a republic are highly im
pressive. Look at this partial
record:
We have——
35 million homes or farms
with more creature comforts
than all the rest of the world;
More than half of the world’s
telephones and radios;
One-third of the world’s rail
road tracks;
Transportation service in
quality and extent unequalled
in the world.
Unsurpassed systems of com
munications by wire and wire
less and swift mail.
Wages are higher than any
where else;
Working hours are shorter
and working conditions better;
More money in the banks;
Millions hold life insurance
policies and investments in
bonds and stocks;
Wealth is more widely dis
tributed than anywhere else in
the world—45% of our families,
or 50 million individuals, own
83% of the real values of the
country.
With one-sixteenth of the
more youngsters to school and
world’s population, we send
college than all the rest of the
world combined.
We can give free expression
to our thoughts;
We may worship as we
please;
We have a government of
laws of our own choosing and
are thereby protected from the
arbitrary power of autocratic
men;
We have no fear of approach
ing footsteps outside our doors.
Nowhere in the world is op
portunity so available to seek
and to reach high .accomplish
ment.
None of th e foregoing is to
claim that all is perfect with
in our country, its government,
or under existing conditions.
SAVE AND YOU’LL GO PLACES
The individual or family with a savings reserve
can CHOOSE the path of its future — be it
travel, security, a home or a business. Go places
with an insured savings account here. .
NEWBERRY J
Federal Savings
AND LOAN ASSOCIATION
OF NEWBERRY
J. K. Willingham, Sec’y Newberry, S. C.
But, to repeat Ex-President
Hoover: “There is no place on
the whole earth except in Am
erica where all the sons of man
could have this chance in life.”
We take much for granted
but I’ve learned to appreciate
our country, after living many
years in Europe and South Am
erica. That is why I speak
so often about the dangerous
tendencies and trends in our
National Government.
Some years ago I was on a
train going to New Orleans.
A man was near me, with his
wife and children. They had
been in Italy to a convention
of veterans. The lady was as
jittery as a nervous, frighten
ed woman can be. it be
came clear to me when the hus
band said frequently “you need
not worry because a man stops
near us and seems to have a
lot of curiosity; this is Ameri
ca; there are no secret police
hanging about us.” You see
what impression the Europe of
1937 made on that lady. We
must try to curb the increase
of the police sway of the Fed
eral Government; and we must
not multiply Federal activities,
even when they seem benefi
cial. W^ are already top-heavy
with bureaucrats, inspectors,
agents, and others. They try
to continue in office and seek
means to retain their jobs and
maintain themselves on the
payroll. That leads to all sorts
of programs—all of which mean
that they hold the bottle, while
we drink the milk. Whenever
they grow careless or indiffer
ent, or fail to hold the bottle—
then what shall we feed on?
We would be in better condi
tion to meet the world if we
had been accustomed to do for
ourselves.
One day last week the daily
papers splashed certain happen
ings all over the front page—
two Admirals contradicted the
Under-Secretary of the Navy;
a tariff battle was looming in
the Senate; Senator Connally
says that Chiang absconded
with $138,000,000 million dol
lars; violence was noted in an
aircraft strike in Buffalo, New
York, five hundred men walk
ing about with clubs, six per
sons being hurt; and then the
trustees resigned in an Illinois
school district because a mob
stormed the Board and demand
ed the re-instatement of a
teacher who had been removed
for lack of capability. It
seems that the teacher had Or
ganized Labor support, she be
ing a member of the Union. I
quote the news dispatch in
part:
“The board, at a stormy
meeting last night, voted not
to rehire Mrs. Helen Mecum, a
teacher in the area for 29
years. But after a crowd surg
ed into the board meeting and
demanded she be rhired, the
board hastily reversed itself.
The four who resigned claimed
Mrs. Mecum’s teaching ability
was not up to the city’s stan
dards. Several hundred per
sons milled around the grounds
during the two hour board
meeting. Mrs. Mecum is a
member of the AFL Tri-Cities
Teachers’ Federation, Members
of the federation and the Ogles
by trades and labor council
picketed Oglesby’s two elemen
tary schools yesterday, prevent
ing their reopening. Supt.
Wayne N. Butler led 9 teach
ers to on school building Tues
day but the pickets halted
them. The schools reopened
today, after the board rehired
Mrs. Mecum. Announcing his
resignation today, effective
with the naming of a succes
sor, Butler told newsmen: “The
whole settlement resulted from
force used by gangsters. Mob
violence has upset representa
tive government in these schools
of Oglesby. The elected rep
resentatives of the people have
been forced by threats to their
physical beings and their very
lives to make this decision
against their wills.”
As to the little affair in New
York State, I quote:
“An organized group be
came a mob, obstructed the
free use of a highway and of
passage for those trying to use
it lawfully.” The governor
said he had directed Niagra
County Sheriff Henry E. Beck
er to “exhaust the powers and
forces available to him to dep
utize police reinforcements from
neighboring communities.’’ It
was Dewey’s second admoni
tion to the sheriff. On August
20 he told the sheriff he would
hold him “strictly accountable
for any failure” to discharge
his responsibilities. This fol
lowed an appeal for a state
guard or police at the plant
from Becker and Lawrence D.
Bell, president of the company,
after a group of about 500 dem
onstrators paraded through the
plant August 19. Sheriff Beck
er said in a statement that his
deputies “did not arrest the
persons assaulting the non
striking employees of Bell Air
craft Corp. because to have
made arrests at the time would
have led to bloodshed and riot
ing.” Comparatively few work
ers were able to pass the aug
mented picket lines when the
plant opened this morning. A
few were clubbed and forced
to flee to safety. When sheriffs
deputies escorted three bus
loads of workers to a little-
used gate to the plant grounds,
several hundred strike sympa-
THOS. O. (OSSIE)
STEWART
CANDIDATE FOR
CITY COUNCIL From
WARD 6
A life-long citizen of Newberry. Own my home
and other property.
Served as Town Clerk and Treasurer under May
ors John W. Earhardt and Dr. George B. Cromer,
resigned to engage in sale of Fire Department
equipment.
While I was your Town Clerk and Treasurer
quarterly reports were published accounting for all
funds received and paid out. I will insist that, at
least semi-annual financial statements bo published
of all revenues received and all disbursements...
Was, probably, the first citizen to advocate a City
Mlanager for our city. I. believe in the City Mana
ger form of government. However, no form of
government is any 'better than the men administer
ing it.
I believe that the City Council should transact all
business at OPEN MEETINGS and that all citizens
be urged and invited to attend Council meetings, the
press should be invited to have a representative
present and publish all Council proceedings. Then
the citizens will know who of their servants are
attending to their best interests.
I believe that our garbage should be collected in
sanitary, closed body trucks. A clean city is a
healthy city.
I am a Veteran, having served my country as a
volunteer in its armed forces in time of war. I am
a member of several organizations that are in no
way connected with politics.
If you don’t know me please ask someone who
does know me. Young enough to be progressive—
old enough to be safe.
Your support is solicited and will be appreciated.
THOS. O. STEWART
(This advertisement paid for by Thos. O. Stewart)
thizers rushed to head them
off. The buses left the scene
without discharging their pas-
sengers 4 ”
Isn’t it quiet and peaceable
in South Carolina? The school
row mentioned was in Illinois;
the men with clubs were in
New York State.
ROBERT C. FULMON
Robert Clifton Fulmon, eight
month old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charlie L. Fulmon, died Fri
day afternoon at the residence
in Little River Dominick com
munity. Funeral services were
held Saturday morning at 11
o’clock at the graveside in the
Little River Dominick Presby
terian Church Cemetery with
the Rev. Neil E. Truesdaye con
ducting the service.
He is survived by his parents,
Charlie and Mrs. Gertrude Mer
chant Fulmon of Kinards; one
brother, R. C. Fulmon of Kin
ards; one brother, R. C. FuL
mon of Kinards; paternal
grandmother, Mrs. Susan L.
Fulmon of Red Bank, and ma
ternal grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. C. T. Merchant of Kinards
SUBER & CO., INC.,
AWARDED PROJECT
The South Carolina State
Highway Commission, at its
monthly meting held in Colum
bia on September 15, awarded
a bridge, culvert and approach
work project to a Newberry
county construction firm.
Suber and Company, Inc., of
■Whitmire, was the lowest of
six bidders for the project, and
was awarded the work for a
bid of $20,402. The project
consists of the reconstruction
of two reinforced concrete and
structural steel bridges total
ling 72 feet over Hen Coop
Creek on Road 66 in Anderson
county and a 40 foot reinforced
concrete and structural steel
bridge over Blue Barker Creek,
also on Road 66 in Anderson
county, and the construction of
a reinforced concrete culvert
and 0.2 mile of graded and bi
tuminous surfaced approaches
at Barker Creek between An
derson and Honea Path.
1000 ACRES TO GO BACK
TO PINES IN NEWBERRY
One thousand acres, requir
ing one million pine seedlings
is the goal set to be planted
this year in Newberiy County,
according to E. L. Middleswart,
District Forester for the S. C.
Commission of Forestry.
Orders are now being taken
for seedlings to be planted this
season. Each landowner is giv
en 3000 seedlings free, and he
can order as many more as he
needs at a charge of $2.50 per
thousand. In both cases he
must pay 50c per thousand for
delivery charges. Plans have
been completed to deliver the
seedlings by truck to insure
more satisfactory delivery of
the seedlings.
Pine seedlings can be ordered
through the District Forester’s
office in Newberry, the County
Agent’s „ office, any vocational |
agriculture teacher, the Soil!
Conservation Service, or the
County Ranger.
Also sponsoring the drive
and urging landowners to plant
more trees are the Newberry
Chamber of Commerce, cooper-
ating with the National Cham- !
ber of Commerce, and the Am
erican Forest Products Indus
tries.
The Fairfield Forest Products
Company, Newberry, will furn
ish free of charge, a mechanical
planter to any landowner hav
ing five or more acres to plant
if it is on land where the plant
er will operate satisfactorily.
The landowner must, however,
furnish a tractor to pull the
planter and three men to op
erate it. Some hand tools are
available for planting through
the County Agent’s and Dis
trict Forester’s offices.
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WHY THE
MISSOURI PACIFIC
RAILROAD STRIKE?
Over twenty years ago, the Congress of the
United States passed the Railway Labor Act.
it was hailed by union leaders as a model
for the settlement of labor disputes.
T he leaders of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen,
Order of Railway Conductors, and the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen on the
Missouri Pacific Railroad have refused to
avail themselves of the peaceful means
provided by this Act for settling their dis
putes. They insist that they be the sole
umpire of their own disputes over the
meaning of contracts.
1 There is no Need for Strikes
With all of the available methods for the
interpretation of contracts, there is no
need for a strike or even a threat of a
strike, but the leaders of these railroad
unions have ignored the ordinary pro
cedures established by law and insist upon
imposing their own interpretations of their
contracts by means of a strike.
The wheels have stopped rolling on the
Missouri Pacific. They may stop rolling
on other railroads at any time. Recently
the Wabash Railroad was forced to dis
continue operation for sev. ral days under
similar circumstances.
President Truman’s Board
Condemns Strike
There is an established legal method for
handling disputes involving existing writ
ten contracts—just as there is such a
method of settling any contract dispute
which you may have in your daily life.
The President of the United States ap
pointed a Fact Finding Board to investi
gate and adjust the Missouri Pacific dis
pute. This Board reported, in part, as
follows:
“... It is with a deep sense of regret that we
are obliged to report the failure of our mis
sion. It seems inconceivable to us that a
coercive strike should occur on one of the
nation’s major transportation systems, with
all of the losses and hardships that would
follow, in view of the fact that the Railway
Labor Act provides an orderly, efficient and
complete remedy for the fair and just set
tlement of the matters in dispute. Griev
ances of the character here under discussion
are so numerous and of such frequent occur
rence on all railroads that the general adop
tion of the policy pursued by the organiza
tions in this case would soon result In the
complete nullification of the Bailway Labor
Act. • •«
What are These Strikes About? Obviously the railroads cannot be run
These strikes and strike threats are not _ - ■
about wage rates or hours. They result
from disputes over the meaning of exist
ing contracts. They cover claims for a full
day’s pay for less than a day’s work, or for
payments for services performed by others
who were fully paid for the work done.
efficiently or economically if the leaders ol
the unions ignore agreements or laws.
Provisions of the Law which
are Disregarded
There are five ways under the Railway
Labor Act to settle disputes over the mean-
ing of contracts:
1— Decision by National Railroad Ad
justment Board.
2— Decision by System Adjustment
Board for the specific railroad.
3— Decision by arbitration.
4— Decision by neutral referee.
5— Decision by courts.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad has been
and is entirely willing to have these dis
putes settled in accordance with the re
quirements of the Railway Labor Act:
Regardless of this fact, the union leaders
have shut down that railroad.
Innocent Bystanders Suffer
Losses and Hardships
There are about 6,000 engineers, firemen;
conductors and trainmen on the Missouri
Pacific. They are known as "operating”
employes, and are the most highly paid of
all employes on the nation’s railroads, bat
their strike action has resulted in the loss
of work to 22,500 other employee of the
Missouri Pacific. In addition, they have
imposed great inconvenience and hard
ship upon the public and the communities
served by that railroad.
The Railway Labor Act was designed
to protect the public against just such in
terruptions of commerce.
If these men will not comply with the provMoni
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then all thinking Americans most lace the <
tion. “Whet is the next stepT"
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