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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1956
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THERE’S THAT MAN AGAIN!
COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
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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
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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
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/ 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,
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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.
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piece of oil-soaked burlap to the hay rope—and the pulleys of the
carriage and hoist were oiled automatically as the rig is used.
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1 Kind of naQ
5 Billiard shot
10 Brother of
Cain
14 Egyptian dog
headed ape
15 Articles
16 Tennis score
17 Begin
19 Golf score
20 The linden
21 A direction
22 Hearing
organ
24 Geometric
term
28 Gang
30 Part In play
(pi.)
31 Sacred Hindu
word
33 Range of
Rocky Moun
tains
35 Large tub
38 A volume
38 Military
assistants
40 Climbing
plants
42 Rocky
pinnacle
43 Skidded
44 Spanish title
45 Persian elf
46 Color
47 French
impressionist
painter
48 Taut
49 Symbol for
’ tin
50 Bulgarian
coin
51 Finch
S3 North Syrian
deity
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54 Casts baUot
56 Wrote “Two
Years Before
The Mast"
57 Dissents
60 Swordsman’s
dummy stake
61 Symbol for
tantalum
63 File
64 Guido’s high
note
66 Warning
signal
68 Solar disk
70 Mother-in-
law of Ruth
72 32 degrees
below freez
ing, Faren-
heit
73 Citizen of
ancient
Media
74 Of a Euro
pean moun
tain chain
75 Feminine
name
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2 Estimate
3 Collection
of facts
4 Conducted
5 Syllable of
scale
6 Siamese coin
7 Percolate
8 Smirch
9 Plural
ending
10 Mulberry
11 Philippine
knives
12 Wicked
13 River of Asia
18 BibUcal
weeds
23 Soak
25 Wanderer
26 Word of
sorrow
27 Wager
29 Interlaced
as to form
cloth
31 Kilns
32 City of Italy
34 Baseball
teams
38 Inventor of
telegraph
37 Bay window
39 Noise
41 Celebrated
42 Number
44 Conserves
45 To punish
47 Allot
48 Prong of
fork (pL)
50 Parcel of
land
52 To knock
54 Promised
55 Purloin
57 British
baby carriage
58 Repetition
59 Spill over
61 Gull-like
bird
62 Ox of the
Celebes
65 Care for
fashioning
hollow metal
objects
67 Radical
69 A direction
70 Symbol for
sodium
71 Preposition
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workers, and 12 percent and 14 percent respectively of the
wage and salary workers in electrical machinery and in
struments and related products. This region accounted for
an estimated 14 percent of the 1955 factory sales of the
electronics industry^ or $800 million.” '
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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. „
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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.
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. 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
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