The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-09-18

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"My strength is made perfect in weakness
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You know that the promise IS sure;
Then 90 on thy way with assurance
And lean just little bit more
From Cheering Words Calendar
A PLATFORM OF SOUND PRINCIPLES
The Southern States Industrial Council
is an organization composed OF a large
number of southern manufacturers and
business men. 1t is a representative south
ern industrial organization. The directors
of this organization, meeting some days
ago in Atlanta, adopted platform OF prln-
ciples and policies on which all Industrial
lists, business men, farmers and workers OF
the South can stand. 1t is a platform on
which all ought to stand, because 1t is made
of sound principles and proposes only what
is reasonable and fair in human relations
for all classes of citizens.
The Southern States Industrial Council
announces that southern manufacturers
recognize their obligations, but believes
that industrialists, as we'll as other citizens,
have rights which must be respected. It
points out that industry in the South for
the past several years has been operated
almost exclusively for the benefit of en-
pIoyees and tax gatherers. There have
been in a majority of cases no profits fot
the owners.
Southern industrialistS propose to assert
their rights, and as these rights are fur
damentally of the some character as the
rights of other citizens, all good citizens OF
the South can take their stand on the plat
form promulgated by the Industrial Coun-
Gil. 1t is stated in eight paragraphs, as
follows:
81. The Federal Government must cOnfne IFS
activities strictly within the boundaries fixed by
the Constitution of the United States.
'2 The organic law of the nation must be
modified, if at all. only in the orderly method
provided for therein and not by either legisa-
tive abdication or administrative usurpatiOn.
"3 The tax burden should be shared by the
public as whole, distributed on equitable
basis to raise only that essential for
the proper functions of government. The taxing
power must not be used as a method to make
effective the social views of politicians Public
expenditures must be curtaed and the federal
budget must be balanced.
"a Business is the legitimate field for the in
dYidual. The federal government should not
compete either directly or through holding COM
panies, such the Inland Waterways Corpora
ton and the Tennessee Valley Authority with
its taxpaying citizens.
"5. n. R. A, or it's function under some other
name, is destructive of the proper interests of
Southern industry, clearly inconsistent with our
organic law, and must not be re-established.
IS. Labor-whether organized or not-shorId
be treated fairly; but, it must not be permitted
to interfere with the proper rights of others. 1t
must be made responsible, as are all others, for
what it does or authorizes, and must stand or
fall, in public opinion, on its merits
81. Public officials must be chosen by reason
of their character, ability, and experiencc-
party servility is not enough. Civil service must
be extended, not diminished
IS. The Judiciary must be kept free of poll
ties"
Any honest, fair-minded, patriotic south
erner can stand on the foregoing platform
in fact ought to stand on it-regardles>
of his classification in the business world
or as a farmer or laborer The things fol-
which the Industrial Council is contendins
are the fundamental rights of American
citizens, guaranteed under the constitution
of the several States and of the United
States. They are the natural rights, basicaf
ly, of mankind; and that means that theS
are morally correct and sound as well a:
legally sound according to the foundation
law of the States and the nation.
This newspaper believes this platform
OF the Southern States Industrial Council
Is a clear and convincing statement of fun