The La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 10, 1959 Page: 2 of 8
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EDITORIALS
flB LA ORANOI JOURNAL THURSDAY, SEPT. It, 1059
Are ffigh Wages Killing Our Markets?
By Dr. George 8. Reason, President, Harding
College, Searcy, Arkansas
I approve of labor unions. They have rendered much service.
1 »**" approve of our American privately owned industries. When
the power of these industries became too great we created anti-
trust laws and prevented the growth of combinations that became
top powerful. In the labor field we now have some extremely pow-
effu combinations. For instance, one man is able to speak for the
labor of the entire automobile industry; one man is able to speak
for the labor of the entire steel industry; one man is able to speak
for the entire coal mining industry, and one man speaks for much
of the transportation Industry,
In these four fields, in particular, wages have been pushed up
considerably faster than productivity and accordingly, our entire
economy has been injured. It would appear that this was no small
part of the cause for the 1058 recession.
Let me give a couple of illustrations. Barbed wire is an Ame-
rican invention and our country perhaps uses more of it than the
rest of the world combined. Yet, during the past two years this na-
tion has imported more than half of all the barbed wire that has
been used. Automobiles likewise, have been chiefly an American
industry and we have exported them to all nations of the world.
But during the past year we imported four automobiles for every
one we exported.
In other words, America is now an importing nation with re-
gard to barbed wire and automobiles and a number of other pro-
ducts. This helps explain why Detroit and certain other cities hav-
en't enough Jobs. We are losing our markets abroad and at home.
There is a similar story to be told about a great many other indus-
tries. For instance, the Singer sewing machine is reported to be the
only sewing machine company still producing its sewing machines
in America.
We are pricing ourselves out of the market in these certain
areas, lessening the number of American jobs, losing world mar-
kets, and injuring our total American economy. Remedial legisla-
tion offers our only hope. i
Frustration and Desparation
A brief article in the July 20 issue of Time magazine gives an
insight into public feeling about the tax problem.
The president of the board of trustees of a mid-western sunur-
ban town says: “There’s a feeling of frustration and desparation a-
mong the taxpayers I meet. . . ”
The president of the Massachusetts state senate said:...all I hear
is 'cut the budget’)"
A member of the Illinois legislature says: “Even parents of
school children come to me and say, ‘No more tax increases, please,
not even for schools'."
The mayor of San Francisco says: “It used to be a simple mat-
ter for a petitioner to get people to sign a petition for a new park.
Today, I don’t get these petitions any more."
The Los Angeles, Calif., Times urges its readers to write their
Congressmen and protest against inflationary federal spending.
More than 30,000 did just that.
The people are sick of the ever-increasing tax load, and of the
.governmental waste and non-essential spending—national^! state,
and local—which is its cause. —The Gidding* Star.
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7C'~Tn9<; SSY ABOUT:
^||edical Mirror
Polycystic
Disease Often
Inherited
Cigarettes sad Veins
O Cancer
Q. WiU you pirate ditcmtt poly*
cytlle dUrate of the kidney f
A. This is a congenital condition,
meaning that it is present at
birth. Both kidneys are usually
affected. They are enlarged and
contain many (poly-) sac-like
structures (cysts) which crowd
out normal kidney tissue. The
disease often occurs in two or
more members of the fame fam-
ily and is frequently handed
down from generation to genera-
tion. The condition is seldom
helped by medical treatment. In
some cases, progressive
tion of the kidney ma;
layed and
luring or
cysts. Whether to operate is an
individual problem.
action of nicotine is complicated
mid unpredictable so that the
effects on any given person will
vary. For example, smoking may
cause constriction of blood arter-
ies in some people, dilate these
vessels in others, or cause neither
dilatation nor constriction in still
others. Because of this varied
action, a direct yes or no answer
can not be given to the question.
It would seem logical for people
with any sort of blood vessel dis-
ease to avoid the possible HI ef-
fects of nicotine. The attending
physician would, however, be the
final judge.
Q. Can U bo proved that early
detection of bremtt eoneer give*
better chancef
**»» vivgiMssra uvaiiuv
be kidney may be de-
I pain relieved by nip-
draining all accessible
Q. Doo*cigi
tmy of art om
eel Ion of breatt eoneer ,
the victim a
-A nurte.
A. Yes. University of Pennsyl-
vania doctors recently conducted
a study to determine what effect
early detection of breast cancer
__... has on survival. Records of 740
destruc-v breast cancer patients were gone
be de- -over bt a very thorough fashion.
The records showed quite well
that early detection (symptoms
present lest than one month) in-
creased the chance of survival.
Until more is known shout can-
cer in general and breast cancer
fat particular, our strongest de-
fense is early detection.
taking have
velntf
—O.M.
I MAIN • LA <
Cedar Creek Philosopher
Claims He Knows Why Chinese Farmers
lucfion Goals
Fall To Meet Production
Editor’s note: The Cedar
Creek Philosopher on his
Johnson grass farm on Ce-
dar Creek writes about Chi-
nese farming this week. At
least, we think that’s what
he’s writing about.
it. Cities keep on getting bigger
anyway.
The Chinese Communists have
another thing coming if they be-
lieve they can improve agricul-
ture by putting farmers In towns.
Dear editar:
Every bo ry is supposed to be
polite to Mr. Krushchev on his
visit to the United States, even
if he is a Russian Communist dic-
tator, but nobody has said we
bad to be polite to the Chinese
Communists, and I was reading
an article last night that made
me laugh at how dumb the Chi-
nese Communists are.
As I understand it, a few years
ago the Communist bosses over
there decided they were going to
show the Chinese farmers how to
farm, so they reorganized the
whole business. What they did
was throw all the farmers in
“communes,” this is, herd farm-
ers hi groups of around 5,000 in-
to one place, build barracks for
them, and run farming like It
was a military operation.
What the Chinese bureaucrats
failed to realize is that you can’t
throw people together In close
quarters with any success. Any
big city proves that.
Also, they must have been
working on the theory that a
farmer lives in the country be-
cause he can’t afford to live in
town. They’re wrong. Actually,
these days, very few people can
afford to live in either place,
town or country, but the way I
see it is, you can fail to make
I’ve seen lots of farmers move
to town, but It didn’t help their
farming ability. Most of them
wound up becoming barbers or
bankers, or grocery clerks, or
merchants or bookkeepers or
they ran for office. Of course I
know some city people own
farms, but generally speaking
they’re not causing the agricul-
tural surpluses.
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
FOOTBALL SCORES
DISTRICT *•- AA:
Hallettsville 20, La Grange 13
Rockdale 26, Giddings 16
Elgin 19. Smithville 6
Luling 20, Schulenburg 14
OTHER GAMES
Hearne 14, Caldwell 7
Goliad 21, Yoakum 6
Flatonia 55, Bastrop 6
Bellville 20. Sealy 0
GAME8 THIS AlDAY:
Ln Grange at Bastrop
Luling at Giddings
HallettsviUe at Smithville
Schulenburg at Industrial
Gonzales at Columbus
flow into normal market chan-
nels just that much quicker and
will bring closer that happy day
when we do away with controls
Bill and, at least, made a start. I
voted for It, but due to strenu-
ous opposition on the part of the
Administration, it failed to pass.
The President dealt a stunning
blow to the hopes of the Lower
Colorado River Counties, parti-
cularly Matagorda, by his veto of
the Public Works Appropriations
Bill. I thought it was unusually
cruel veto because it blasted the
hopes of so many people who had
struggled so long to secure the
i funds for this modest program.
The people tbe United States
would have realized a considera-
ble dollar profit from the under-
taking. The same thing can be
said of the Matagorda Channel
ends meet a lot more privately in
the country.
I don’t know about those Chi-
nese farmers, other than that the
news has leaked out they aren’t
happy about being herded up in
barracks and agricultural pro-
dution is far short of the goalcs
the bosses set up, but the reason
I live out here on this Johnson
grass farm instead of in a big
city is not because I couldn’t
swing city life if I tried. It’s not
because there’s not room enough
there for me. There’s not room
enough for the people already
there, but that has no bearing on
COMMENTS FROM
by
CONGRESSMAN
CLARK W. THOMPSON
9th TEXAS DISTRICT
Dear Neighbors:
Final action on the so-called
Labor Reform Bill brought a
sigh o frelief to the entire Con-
gress. Labor legislation is always
extremely difficult, and that just
concluded was certainly no ex-
ception. The compromise agreed
on by House and Senate was very
close to the bill for which I ori-
ginally voted, and it was recom-
mended by Mr. Robert Kennedy,
Counsel for the McClellan Com-
mittee. Thus, it comes close to
providing a vehicle which is neu-
tral—neither pro-labor nor pro-
management. Perhaps pro-public
is the best term to apply.
I promised long ago that I
would vote for labor-reform le-
gislation. It probably escaped
your attention, but a year ago a
similar measure was proosed. It
was known aa the Kennedy-Ives
On a record vote, we carried by
a 6 to 1 margin. It should have
come through by unanimous con-
sent.
This is one bill which will tru-
ly cut the surplus, and it won’t
hurt anyone. By reducing 50 per
cent of the Government-held
surplus, it will permit rice to
Chicken Barbecue
at Hill Top
TH URSDAY
La Grange, Texas
Starting • P. M.
$1.99 Plato
Rat It Here, or to Go
cneg eklekea by Taaoday
to Point Comfort. Money which
would have been spent on these
two projects was wanted by the
Administration for expenditures
oversees, not for military but for
civilian purposes. We now lick
our wounds and prepare to battle
it out again next year.
The rioe legislation, which
could provide for 50 per cent less
Government-held surplus passed
the House by a 6 to 1 margin
last week. It developed a stamge
bit of opposition. A group of so-
called “young liberals," resent-
ful against agriculture in gene-
ral and Southern agriculture in
particular, chose this bill—of all
things—on which to vent their
animosity. They said quite frank-
ly that they had nothing against
the Rice Industry nor this parti-
cular measure. It seems that they
just wanted to demonstrate, and
demonstrate they did. However,
some of our friends on bath sides
of the aisle got busy and offset
practically all of the opposition,
altogether.
Sincerely yours,
Clark W. Thompson
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