Editorial
»'H \RLOTTE LABOR JOURN *L & DIXIE FARM NEWS
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Holiday Greetings ^
Time has turned the clock around again to another Christ
mas, and The Journal does not have to herald it loudly, for
wen the tiniest tot has kept close account of the passing
days and knows the time is nigh when his heart will be
gladdened not only by the material gifts that may be sup
plied him, but by the Spirit of the Christ which is as much
in the world toda> as it was almost 2,000 years ago.
This is a time when all selfishness should lie cast aside
and the fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters should
join ip celebrating the birth of the King of Kings in one
grand brotherly love akin to that which He told us “the
Father hath for the Son.” Not only should this Spirit pre
vail at Christmas time but may we live as the Christ would
have us live throughout the New Year. Yea! even unto the
end! The world is hungry spiritually and our deeds may
serve to help others.
In this Christ Spirit The Jouranl and its staff enters into
the Yuletide, wishing for each and everyone nothing but
Christmas joy and happiness throughout the holidays.
We feel deeply grateful to our advertisers and our sub
scribers for the part they have played in making this edi
tion of The Labor Journal possible.
NLRB SWAMPEI) BY UNION ELECTIONS
The Taft-Hartley law serves to set labor and management
apart and prevents teamwork and co-operation in the field
of collective bargaining.
This was the view expressed by Joseph M. Jacobs, attor
ney for various AFL unions, in an address before a district
meeting of the Rotary International Business Relations
Conference in Aurora, Illinois, recently.
“Under the legislation enacted several months ago,” said
Mr. Jacobs, “union members were locked in a different room
from management representatives and the difficulties of
getting together are almost insuperable. For example, un
der the Taft-Hartley law. there are no less than 30 separate
procedural items imposed before the union is even entitled
to ask for an employer to grant a union shop. Moreover,
many of these proceduarl items are virtual obstacles to co
operative collective bargaining. If we keep in mind that at
the preesnt time there are no less than 12 million American
employes working under various kinds of union security con
tracts, it is then obvious what a widespread handicap some
of our new legislation is.
“Then, also, if the new law is construed to require elec
tions every year, as seems to be the case, the National La
bor Relations board would require not less than 20 million
man hours each year to conduct the elections with respect to
union shop authorization. Under the Wagner Act. with
only 7,000 elections a year, even the simplest kind of repre
sentation elections were delayed for periods of six and seven
months. If, under1 the. new law, employes are required to
wait even longer, we will have fertile grounds for the wide
spread growth of labor-management distrust.
“What is required is repeal of laws which are so unrealis
tically conceived, unworkable in practice and productive of
nothing but labor-management disharmony.”
Merry Christmas
' BRYAN WENTZ COMPANY
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LOOK PLEASANT
••Now look pleasant, please.” The photog
rapher is the only person I know who can
afford to tell his customers to look pleasant.
How hurt and insulted we might be on en
tering a store if the proprietor said to us.
“Look pleasant, please.” But the photog
rapher knows the value of those words.
He knows that the customers want a good
picture. He knows that a Cheerful counte
nance in his pictures will mean more busi
ness for him, and that countenance will be
satisfactory to those who had their pictures
taken.
Have you ever had a talk with a photog
rapher? Do not be surprised to have him
tell you that everybody who comes into his
studio is a professional poser. Everyone
wants a good picture—that is their objec
tive. He will tell you that everyone who
comes in is primped up and poised; they are
going through an ordeal. Boys and girls, men
and women, go through the same ritual. All
the mirrors are in demand, the ladigs will
finger hairdos, the men do the same if
they have any hair. Each ene seems to
realize if anything is not right it will show’
in the picture. Some want their dimples to
lie ih evidence, and they all want a smiling
countenance, even though a perpetual frown
has furrowed itself across their forehead?
The camera clicks, the ordeal is over: In
a few days the proofs are gent out; the peo
ple come in with, them and say, “I do not
like it, my.friends say I look like a fright,
and I want to git again. Please do me jus
tice this time.” Finally the finished photos
are made. What do we do with the pictures?
Some go on the piano, some on the mantel.
But they do not stay there very long. Soon
they are taken off; a few get into the family
album hut eventaully they are taken up to
the attic with the other relics of the past.
No one is judged very long by the photo
graph taken when he is all dolled up.
I like to think of the boy in the high
school graduating class who had hid picture
taken. The proofs came; he looked at them
and was flattered. He showed them to his
little six-year-old sister, and she asked,
“Brother, who sat for you?" He was deeply
insulted. “What do you mean?’’ He de
manded, losing his temper and becoming very
mad. His sister looked at him and said,
“If the photographer took your picture now
I would know you.”
We are all judged by the snapshots taken
of us without preparation, on the spur of the
moment, as we are. Somewhere behind your
forehead there is a clicking mental camera
and it ig always taking pictures of someone
else. • We see and hear so much, and those
mental cameras are always sizing people up.
You size others up and they size you up.
That ig where we get our reputation, from
the pictures taken when, we are not aware
of it. Those pictures you take of others and
they take of you and me are the ones by
which we are judged.
We are judged by our attitude in school
room, in the shop, on the athletic Held.
Never a moment passes that someone is not.
taking a mental picture of us, making a pic
ture of our disposition, habits, behavior,
judgment, cheerful moments and moments
of depression, what we see and do, are all
recorded in someone’s mind. From those re
cordings a man’s reputation is made, not
from the studio portrait. We cannot stop
people from using their mental cameras on
us. Our pleadings cannot influence them.
Look well to your reputation. Remember
your reputation is always built by right
living, in the great world of the outdoors.
There you stand or fall by what you are.
The mental camera holds its print; let it be
a worthy impression.
Every man carries his own bulletin board
for every other man to read. On it are re
corded what" he 1 writes himself. No man
wants to be judged by the worst things he
has ever done, but if he records them on his
own bulletin board there is no one to blame
but himself. No man has anything to fear
if he lives up .fo the best that is in him.
—The Uplift.
OFF THE BEAM
l nat s imiereni—a ausiy, snrewu-iooKiag
man descended from his wagon outside the
farmer’s house. “Fine piece of land you
have here,” he said.
“You're right there," replied the farmer,
eagerly. “It’s the best to be found any
where."
“Bit too high a figure for a poor man, I
reckon?” asked the stranger.
“It’s worth every penny of $300 an acre,”
answered the farmer with an eye to business.
“Were you’ thinking of buying and settling
in these parts?”
“Hardly,” said the stranger as he made
notes in his book: “I’m the new tax as
sessor."
• • •
Manager, to stenographer: “Why are
you always looking into the mirror?"
Stenographer: “Because your wife told
me to watch myself when I was around you.”
• • •
“Good morning, Jimmy,” said the neighbor
to the small boy sweeping off the porch. “Is
your mother in?”
“Would I be doing this if she wasn’t?"
* * •
Mr. Green: Is it true that the wild
leasts in the jungle won’t hurt you if you
carry’ a torch ?
Pacific Veteran: It depends on how fast
you carry it.
Teacher: Now we will study the tenses.
If I say, “I am beautiful." what tense is
that ?
Jimmy: Pretense.
He: When I sat down to play the piano,
they laughed.
She: Why?
He: There was no piano stool there.
•hay, noxcu, l heard you were sick.
“Yes, I was. I had the new disease,
‘clothing, sickness.' ”
“What on earth is that?”
“Well, I had a coat on ray tongue, and
my breath came in pants.”
• • •
Judge: Jackson, do you realize that by
leaving your wife you are a deserter?
Jackson: Jedge, if you knew that woman
like I do, you wouldn’t call me a deserter,
I’m a refugee.”
• • •
North: How do you manage to order
from that menu? Can you read French?
West: No, but I can read prices!
• • e
Bachelor: Sometimes I yearn for the peace
and comfort of married life.
Married Friend (wistfully): So d6 I.
• * *
“You say there’s never been a women op
pointed to the Weather Bureau?”
"Nope. The weather is changeable enough
as it is.”
• • •
“Doctor,” he said, “tell me in plain words
what’s the matter with me.”
“In plain words,” said the doctor, “you’re
just plain lazy." «
“Oh. thank you, doctor,” and he sighed
with relief. “Now give me a scientific name
for it, so I can go home and tell my wife.”
• • •
“When I was a young man,” said a father
in his indolent son, “I worked twelve hours
a day.”
“I admire your youthful energy, Dad,”
said the boy. “but I admire still more the
mature wisdom that led you to stop it.”
Washington, D. C.—President
Truman appointed George Meany,
of New York, as a member of tha
board of directors of Federal
Prison Industries, Inc., the agency
that supervises prison-made goods
in federal# institutions. Mr.
Meany, who is secretary-treasurer
of the American Federation of
14ibor, succeeds the late Robert j
J.. W'att, AFL international rep
resentative.
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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
Leo Pouter Heater, Plaintiff, vs.
Maude Mattie Hester, Defend
ant.
Notice of Service By Publication
The above named defendant,
Maude Mattie Hester, will take
notice that an action entitled as
above has been commenced in the
Superior Court of Mecklenburg
Countv. North Caroina. bv the
plaintiff for an absolute divorce
upon statutory grounds; and the
defendant further take notice that
she is required to appear at tha
office of the Clerk of the Superior
Court at the Court House in
Charlotte, North Carolina within j
twcntv (20) days after the 2nd I
day of January, 1948, which date
is at least seven (7) days after
the last publication of this notice,
and answer or demur to the com
plaint in said action, or the plain
tiff will apply to the Court for
the relief demanded in said com-1
plaint.
This the 10th day of December,
1947.
J. LESTER WOLFE,
Clerk of the Superior Court,
(12-11, 18. 25; 1-1-c)
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