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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1956 SM ■ FiSt 1 - iU» 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner 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: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. THERE’S THAT MAN AGAIN! COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS \ By SPECTATOR Mr. B. M. Edwards presided at a luncheon recently to enlist our leaders in an endorsement and sponsorship of the Hoover reports that might bring about economies in Na tional Government amounting to six billion dollars. If we could eliminate that childish, improvident outpour ing in the name of foreign aid we might save ten billions! Let’s put our shoulders to the wheel and let our Senators and Representatives know that we advocate retrenchment. Honorable James F. Byrnes recently delivered a masterly address in Vermont, citing the decisions of the Supreme Court over many years on the subject of integration and kindred topics. The address of our esteemed first citizen is so lucid and comprehensive that it richly deserves nation-wide circula tion in convenient form. The old city of Darlington is greatly stirred. Darlington is one of our fine old towns, steady, sturdy and moderately progressive. By that I mean it is a town which grows without a lot of hip, hip, hoorah. Darlington is now in a sea of trouble; her principal in dustry is a cotton mill, now, or formerly, under the man agement of a fine friend of mine, W. S. Nicholson. What has happened ? Well the mill workers decided to un ionize, making a union their representative in negotiating for wages, conditions of work, and all the fringe benefits, etc. The management has decided to close the mill and leave Darlington in the lurch. Four hundred people will be left without jobs; that seriously affects the business life of Darlington. So, what shall we do? I recall Another case, some years ago that came near resulting disastrously. Some of our newspapers have editorialized about Darling ton case, so let’s see what they say. Says Donald Comer, as quoted by Editor Mims in The Edgefield Advertiser: “In America the textile industry operates under the Fair Labor Standards Act. There is a minimum fixed to our wages and a maximum number of hours to a day’s work. The price of our raw products—cotton—is also fixed by the government, and our needs in this respect are supplied by our home products. There are more than a thousand of us in the manufacturing business, all sharply competitive. There are no antitrust suits pending against any of our members. There are more than a million people employed in the industry—from Maine to Texas. In addition, there are more than another million in the garment business, manufacturing our cloth into shirts, dresses, etc. Both these groups are vitally threatened by an unlimited invasion from Japan, operating modefti machines under Asian standards of wages. As regards financial results, all figures prove that this industry is, profitwise, at the bottom of the list of Ainerican industries.” That will serve as an introduction. Then, specifically as to the Darlington case, I quote The Sumter Item: “More than 400 textile mill workers in Darlington face unemployment because a majority recently voted in favor of unionization. The stockholders have been called to meet to consider liquidating the assets of the mill. The mill workers were told by union organizers that a suggestion by management that the mill might be forced to close if the union won the election was nothing but pro paganda. Now, it turns out, management was not bluffing. The mill has apparently been operating on a close margin of profit. Management feels that it cannot continue to oper ate profitably under the added burden of unionization. This is not the first time that slick-talking union leaders have misled workers. Two fairly recent instances in the newspaper field are brought to mind. The Philadelphia Record warned its unions that if they persisted in their un reasonable demands the newspaper would be closed. The union leaders told the workers this was nothing but pro paganda. The Record closed its doors and never reopened, throwing several hundred men and women out of work. The same thing happened more recently at the Brooklyn Eagle, an old and highly-respected metropolitan daily.” A vigorous editor, our old friend Davies of Barnwell, Williston and Camden, has this to say: ! “Newspaper dispatches from Darlington last week reveal ed that a meeting of the stockholders of the Darlington Manufacturing Co. will be held October 17th for the pur pose of deciding whether or not to dissolve the company. Should the dissolution take place it will mean that some 600 jobs' will be lost by residents of Darlington. We do not know what the average weekly pay checks run, but we sug gest that an average of $60.00 per person be used. This would mean a loss of $36,000 per week to residents of Dar lington County. This loss in weekly payroll will be further reflected in reduction of personnel in the businesses that serve these people and thus a further loss to the economy of that AVER. AC'I jl\\\ middle -a‘T INCOME. —Fffr y F AMI IX, county. The possible dissolution has been brought abofct by the efforts of labor unions to organize the workers in the Dar lington plant. Management of the plant warned the work ers that if they voted to unionize they would close down the mill. A vote was taken last week and the pro-union forces won out by 256 to 248. The plant directors immediately held a meeting and called for the stockholders meeting on Octo ber 17th. We do not know all the facts concerning the operation of the mill, but we were told by good authority that the pay scale was equal or better than the scale demanded by the union. However, the management stated that continued operation, under union organization, would result in certain additional costs and strife and thus would make the con tinuation of the operation unfeasible. We urge any worker to carefully weigh the pros and cons of union membership before voting to convert a plant from a non-union operation to a union operation. Union demands are increasihg each year—the leaders feel that they must do something to earn their very comfortable salaries—and as a result many businesses are nearing the end of the road.” And this from Bennettsville: “The Darlington Manufacturing company had an election week before last. The Union won, by eight votes. Four votes would have changed the results as the Union must have a majority. Now this company, that for many years has given gainful work to five hundred employees, has de cided to go out of business. Five hundred employees will lose their jobs because of four votes. As we have often said, the union cannot give any one except its own agita tors, a job. But it can cause many to lose their jobs. It has done this in Darlington, only thirty miles from us. * They are now trying to get a union at Boro Wood Prod ucts Company, Inc., plant here. We don’t want to see Bennettsville in the same condition as Darlington. Every vote counts. Darlington Manufacturing Company workers proved this to be true. Why would any employee sign up with the union after the union has caused five hundred people to lose their jobs so near to us?” So there we are. We need more men and women in chemistry and phy sics. This is an age of science. “From science comes an increasing flow of new products to provide expanding employment opportunities and rising living standards. To science must come steadily larger numbers of trained recruits to carry on both the basic and practical research activities which will help us to maintain our place in world affairs. The result of this process of research is dramatized for the individual firm in namerous company statements. The president of Radio Corporation of America recently stated that 80 percent of iU rr,re than $1 billion in sales in 1955 was in products and svices which did not exist, or were not commercially deve’ ped, ten years ago. Likewise, the president of Genera Electric Company reported that one out of three worker is' engaged on new products the com pany did not make in 1939; and a recent statement frohi Proctor & Gamble C v.npany calls attention to its use of 105 chemicals in 195 r v/hich were not used ten years before. Such challenging do - elopnfents from the laboratory have been duly highlighted as a powerful force in the success and growth of many companies and industries, but their effect as a factor cf growth for a region or area of the country has receive ! less detailed attention. No where is the rapid transfern.s.tion of the industrial may by science more in evidence th n in New England. Here may be found 11 percent of the nation’s industrial research laboratories, compared with slightly more than 9 percent of total manufacturing employment, New England, with 7 percent of the nation’s non-farm em ployment, accounts for 9 percent of the manufacturing 1. Appanage refers to (a) rights and privileges; (b) habits; (c) traditions. 2. An apiarist is (a) a scientist; (b) bee keeper; (e) zoologist. 3. Antipodes means (a) the opposite; (b) the highest place; (c) a diagnosis. answers *»y|s*Mo *s / T'HE strategy in both political parties this year will be aimed at the so-called “close” states measured by the 1952 vote for the presidency, Looking at the popular vote for president in 1952, it shows that President Eisenhower polled 33.9 million votes as compared to 27.3 million for Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic standard bearer. On the face it looks like this six-mil lion-plus lead would be unsur- mountable, but a glance at the division of the votes and the elec toral votes represented, gives a different picture to the 1956 out look. For instance in such east ern states as Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware, Pennsyl vania and Maryland, represent ing a total of 52 electoral votes, the difference in popular votes was measured in thousands and could easily be overturned by a switch in trend, as indicated in the re cent Maine election, wherein the Democrats elected a governor and two out of three congressmen. There is every indication that the eleven southern states will be back in the Democratic column as a unit next November, whereas Virginia with 11 votes, Tennessee with 12, Texas with 23 and Florida with 8 were in the Eisenhower column in 1952. These eleven states represent 127 electoral votes. There is every indication also that Oklahoma with 10 votes and Maryland with 8, together with the other border states of Kentucky and West Virginia, with 11 and 8 votes respectively, may be in the Democratic column this year, a total of 37 votes. Both Oklahoma and Maryland went for Eisenhower four years ago. The mid-western states of Missouri, II i Dfl 1 Illinois and Minnesota were very close in 1952 and could go either way in November. In Connecti cut, North and South Dakota, Mon tana, Washington and Oregon representing 34 more electoral votes observers declare the vote could go either way, but the treftd particularly in the Dakotas and Oregon is Democratic. In New York, Michigan, Califor nia, Wisconsin and Ohio with 118 electoral votes the Democrats have probably an even chance in New York and California with 72 votes. The seven western states of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming and Idaho, total up to 32 electoral votes with the Democrats having the edge in at least New Mexico and Wyoming with a total of 7 votes. So at this writing, the Demo cratic ticket likely can count on 127 votes from the Southern states, plus 37 from border states, a total of 164. They must aim at picking up at least 52 votes from eastern states and at least 54 from the mid west and far-western states to win. It takes 268 votes out of the total of 531 electoral votes to win. They could still win, and lose such states as Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Wis consin, Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, New York, California, Maine, Ver mont, New Hampshire and even Illinois, which totals up 209 elec toral votes. V There is no wonder then, that President Eisenhower at his recent meeting with Republican party chieftains at his Gettysburg farm warned against complacency in the GOP ranks and urged the lead ers to make an all-out effort to get voters to register and then get them in the polls. IT I. miXAl r •mmtw.rn MI : n* n mm rmw ati law 'W 'it ■■■ mmvmm* '*? k *®mw w mmi s ^ ! mm • m «« ■« cwwM«riim:mii'»MM« mm mmmw. wmmrnmwi® ^ carriage a difficult Job. 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This region accounted for an estimated 14 percent of the 1955 factory sales of the electronics industry^ or $800 million.” ' CROSS A ideas from other editors From The Barnesboro Star, Barnesboro, Pennsylvania: It looks as though we are in lor an other round of higher prices as the result of higher wages granted in the recent negotiation of a pact between the steel industry and the United Steel Workers. This means that another round of wage increases will be forthcom ing to the coal miners, the auto workers and industrial laborers. And, in turn, further price in creases will be passed on to the consumer with a diminishing in the purchasing power of the Ameri can dollar. All of these conditions bring up the question: When and where will it all end. The steel, auto and coal Indus tries are vital to our basic econo my and in recent years the auto and steel industries have proven to be the bellwethers of econom ic prosperity in the U. S. The inflation spiral will come to an end and level off when supply catches up with the demand. When ever the output of steel equals or exceeds ^ the demand of its cus tomers, whenever the nation's tre mendous appetite for new cars is satisfied, then the transition peri od will begin. The steelworkers, won a wage in crease of 28.7 cents an hour over a three-year period. They will get 10.5 cents the first year and 9.1 cents in the next two years. Al most immediately, the steel in dustry said this means an increasa of from $10 to $12 a ton in the price of steel which at the present time is selling for an average of $130 a ton. The increased steel prices will bring corresponding increases in the products of other basic indus tries using steeL It is sometimes forgotten that expansion of output is itself infla tionary while it goes on. It creates new Jobs, puts more money into consumer’s hands before the goods they can make reach the market. Meanwhile consumers bid for tha goods already there. It is only when output overtakes demand that the process halts. Higher taxes, restriction of in stallment buying, in addition ta raising the price of credit gener ally, serve as brakes. But the fact that they do not quite stop what we call inflationary trends is un derstandable. And if they did this they might reverse the trend un desirably. ' The goal is stability, but at a high level of output and business and job activity. How to get there and stay there is an art rather than a science, an art of eco nomics that includes a “feel’ intangibles, an alert social science, several other ponents of the millennium. „ nlv ., - , m&BMt I n g t o n A Q—What agency of Government administers the largest area of lands. A—As of a recent date the Forest Service of the Department of Agri culture administered national forests comprising 178,261,805 acres. The Bureau of Land Management of the Department of Interior administers the Taylor Grazing Act which covers approximately 142,140,308 acres of grazing land in ten western states. Q—What is the main function of the Department of Agriculture? A—The main general purpose, under the Act setting up the Depart ment, is to help farmers raise abundant crops and market them profitably. It must also administer agricultural Acts passed by the Congress. Q—How does the Civil Aeronautics Administration differ from the Civil Aeronautics Board. A—The Civil Aeronautics Board is composed of five members named by the President with Senate approval and is devoted chiefly to the economics cf commercial aviations, granting of licenses and routes, and with safety precautions, investigations of air crashes, . etc., the Civil Aeronautics Administration is a unit of the Depart ment of Commerce and is concerned with the promotion and de velopment of civil aeronautics and commercial aviation. Q—What agency ef government is responsible for controlling the conn- try’s monetary system? A—The constitution vests this power in the congress, expressly grant ing to Congress the power to coin money, regulate the value there of, etc. However, since today most “money” is represented by bank deposits against which checks are drawn, the Congress has by law delegated its fcower to regulate the cost of credit and its power over money to the Federal Reserve Bank System, consisting of a series of regional banks, comprising our central banking sys tem and acts as a part of the Federal Government. So the Federal Reserve Bank Board has the power to regulate and control the day-to-day operation of the monetary system and supply of money. BREAD LINE . . ! Parisians queue up at bakery cloned by striking bakers after French government set price ceiling op bread. HURLER’S NO LEMON . . . Cleveland Indian’s Bob Lemon Joins ranks of great pitchers who won 206 games. He's won 26 games this year, for seventh time in 9-year career, starting in 1948 with 29, then 22„ 23, 17, 22, 21, 23, and 18 hi 1855. V- . This an' That The Detroit Lions football team solved a nickname problem when they separated two “Hopalongs” by tagging Howard Cassady, form er Ohio State All-American as “Hopalong” or “Hop," while re ferring to end Dave Middleton as “Hoppy" . . . Prospects looked good for the New York Yankees shortly after they clinched the American League pennant; only Bob Cerv, suffering from an in jured knee, was listed on the “ail ing" list—and this was not con sidered serious enough to keep him from being used in. a pinch- hitting role if needed ... A citi zen’s group has agreed to take over management of the Class A Western League Sioux City (Iowa) baseball team. About 69 local res idents pledged to boy shares ef stock and hold a community-wide campaign next year to keep the Soos alive . . . The Los Angeles Rams have signed Dean Smith, former Texas University football er scheduled to be released from the Army in 1957. Dean, a track star, won 4th place In the 499- meter event at the 1952 (Mymplos in Helsinki, has been clocked at 9.1 for the 199-yard dash V’\