The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, September 21, 1922, Image 3
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WASHINGTON COMMENT. j
"A General Strike-i"
Do you remember, grown-up-man.
f who-reads-this, when you climbed up
the long, long stairs to the dark and
mysterious attic? And the other,
older children, told you to watch out
for the "bogey man?" And you
jumped and shivered and shook with
terrified delight?
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really. It was just a dear figment
of childish imagination.
Nor is there any real grown up
"bogy man," not even when he masquerades
by the name of "General
Strike." There are those hot-headed
and under-educated members of society
who would like to frighten the
rest of us with his name. But they
forget, these agitators, that this is
America, where all have some, and
many have much, opportunity to
learn; where standards of living are
high; where men are safe and secure
in their homes; where each man's
house is his castle, and each man's
wife and childitn his to protect and
love and keep, a d never a man or
a government to say to him nay.
The American, the true, red blood ?>.l
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hoine-loving American, can no more
be led into making himself a part
of a Uolshe.ist Logey man than he
can be led into mass murder for the
tsr.'.b'i; jur.en- of a soviet, a la Russia.
The indignation, the revolt, the emphatic
negatives to ttilk of a general
strike, came first of all from American
workmen, who are 'Americans
first, and members of a union, sect,
order, or organization o?ly after they
have expressed their Americanism and
their belief in, and adherance to,
American principles and the American
government.
. Our childish tormentors could nev- <
er produce their "bogey njan." As
long as Americans are Americans
first, no agitator can produce the
General Strike bogey man!1
It is always much easier to say of
anything "this is wrong" than to say
of the same thing "this is the way it
should be done."
Destructive criticism is easy. Coni,|iinnniiniiinnnnii
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structive criticism is difficult. It is
simple enough to ask "what is the
matter with the church?" or "what
is the trouble with religion?" and
as simple to answer, "it is old fashioned"
or "it isn't modern enough"
or "it lacks courage" or some other
complaint which makes no suggestion.
Oi course, there is nothing the
"multer" with religion. The belief
in a Supreme Dicty, and worship of
that Diety is an ingrained human
fundamental. The "matter" is not
with the religion, but with the means
taken to spread, to teach, to use that
religion.
And the "matter," to many people
who try to think constructively is
that those in authority in the churches
place too much emphasis upon the
mechanics of religion ana noi enougn
on ihe spiritual things of that religion.
Church fathers, elders, deacons, and
dignitaries meet and spend precious
tune discussing what words to leave
in and what to take from, the ritual;
they waste time and effort trying to
decide whether this ban shall be removed
and that one put on, while
people hunger to be taught of God.
Let the churches forget internal
fights over nonessentials, and devise
new and better ways of teaching men
and women the spirit of true religion,
and it will be the Sunday movingpicture
house manager who wails that
the church takes all his audience, not
the clergyman who sorrows that his
flock would rather see a picture than
listen to himWhat
sort of immigrants would
you like to see come to the United
States? Do you want people of good
character, thrifty, young, able, vigorous;
men and women anxious to
"make good," to become good Americans,
to be workers, savers, economic
factors?
Or do you think America would be
better off with drones, idlers, anarchists,
Bolshevists, and criminals?
If you had the right to say what
Americans should emigrate to other
lands, would you send the prosperous
and the healthy minded, or the criminal
and the loafer?
Of course you Delitve America
should receive only the best immi-:
grants. And, of course, if you should
export emigrants, you would pick the
least desirable to go away.
Other countries feel the same v.ay. i
They, also, want good and not poor
immigrants. They, also, would get
rid of their ineffectives.
Ami we let them get away with it.
Our selective immigration law says
nothing of quality; let a man have
enough money, or be able to show he
won't be a public burden, and he can
come in, up to a certain number. If
England, Fiance, Germany, Sweden,
Norway do not want amy of their
citizens to come here, they can refuse
them a passport. If such a citizen
can get a passport, he can come
in if a few formalities are observed.
Our law checks numbers, not qualities!
Secretary of Labor Davis says it
is all wrong; that the law should be
revised; that what we need is to stop
the undesirable at its source, not aione
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at our shores.
The American people, which means
you, and you, and you?and only the
American people, can take the immigration
laws out of politics, and see
that constructive ones are enacted.
The venerable and learned president
of the American Federation of
Labor, the Hon, Samuel Gompers, has
recently congratulated organized labor
upon the fact that since the armistice
the average pay cut of union
workers is less than five per cent.
Few men have had longer, more
honorable, or more constructive careers
than Mr. Gompers. Through
his common sense, administrative
ability, and vision, organized labor
has grown and prospered. He has
made few mistakes, and always recovered
from those.
But Mr. Gompers is not perfect; no
human being is. And when he exults
officiary at the fact that orgainzed
labor has succeeded in holding off the
day of complete return to normalcy,
and has managed to keep its average
wage at a point only five per cent,
below war-time levels, he is flying in
the face of the whole American people,
of which his organization is a
part.
Chairman Martin B. Madden,1 of
the House Appropriations Committee,
has just returned from abroad, and
stated that he was most impressed
with the willingness of the foreign
workman to take the cut in wages
made necessary by readjustment.
Will some one versed in the relative
brain power of the foreign and the
American workman explain why the
Englishman, the Frenchman, the
German, the Belgian can see through
the immutable economic laws which
govern all industry and commerce,
and the American workman can not?
The price of anything is dictated
by its cost. Its cost is the labor cost;
the raw material cost is but labor
cost under another name. Prices are
high because labor is scarce or high
priced. Labor is not scarce here; we
have more men than there are jobs.
Prices will come down when labor
comes down, and not before. Normalcy
will return when labor prices,
as well as all other prices, are permitted
to observe the law of supply
and demand. Unions, organizations,
laws, special privilege, may hold
them up for a while, and permit Mr.
Gompers to exult. Eventually thcv
must, like water, find their natural
level. The fuither that time is off
the more the bulk of American people
suffer, while the few are congratulated
upon successfully resisting the
will, the desire, and the right of the
hundred and ten millions of men.
women, and children who are the
American people.
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The coldest spot in the world is
in Washington, D. C., where 515 degrees
below zero was registered in
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the laboratory 01 tne nureau 01 mines
where scientists are trying to liquify
helium gas.
666 quickly relieves a cold..
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The unusual and unprecedented 1
collness of Alaska's big volcanoes is
puzzling dentists, who fear the quiet
may be the forerunner of a tremendous
eruption such as blew off the
entire peak of Mount Katmai eight
years ago.
REGISTRATION NOTICE !
The office of the Supervisor o:
Registration will be open on thel?<
Monday in each month for the pur
pose of registering any persoD who
is qualified as follows:
Who shall have been a resident
of the State for two years, and c.f <
the county one year, and of tho
poll: j precinct in which the electoi
offers to vote four months before,
the day of elction, and shal' ha?t J
paid, six months before, any pel:
tax then due and payable, and who
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tration, or who clh show that h
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