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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday. April 7, I960 By SPECTATOR . . . COMMENTS I — . ON MEN AND THINGS Where do we jio from here ' as someone once oratornjally asked. There is something vvTong'with <Kir people, tha! !< it*sfH>n'sible for th< half-bakod men so often found in public life But it isn't confined to men in public life: erratic men are found in private life, loo. What is being taughtAfter wrestling with Economics and Inter national Finance in a great North, ern university I am almost disposed to recommend that the fundamen tals of our way of living, individ ualism. private business be deeply, carefully, vigorously indoctrinated in one or t wo lessons. There are many theone> that a student is lost in the maze of theo retical abstractions. What is meant by sound money? What ^ the inevitable results of Socialism’ What V the deference between a Federal Republic atid a Federal democracy"’ What have we in the United States" America needs teachers;. I mean men and women who khow their sbujects arxf are themseHes thor oughly imbued with the American spirit—or what was once the Ameri can spirit. At the ri'k of ha\ing somone throw a rock at me I venture to be lieve that not every man of post graduate degrees is a competent teacher Many very able teachers have not explored the moon or the illimiiable distances of the deserts, but are highly proficient in their limited sphere That is also true . . . THE FIRST STEP All ‘'first steps” (including: baby's) are important. Especially important is your first step toward making the future secure and happy for your family (including baby). This, of course, is to open a savings account here and set up a purposeful program of systematic saving! Our Other Banking Services • ( becking Accounts • Small Business I>oans • Low-Cost Personal Loans • Safe Deposit Boxes • Automobile Loans • Letters of Credit • Home Improvement Loans • Travelers* Checks BANK OF CLINTON Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 3c*f Interest Paid On Savings Accounts Semi-Annually ; of teachers in the common .schools. 1 have sat in classes of men hav ing doctorates and also have known intimately •men without the doctor ate. The text to be applied should be the ability to teach his subject rather than to stand appalled at the excursions he has made into the i vast arid vague reaches of recondite scholarship. It is possible that we should de cide exactly what should be taught and how it ^is to be laughtv j Something else: should we pre pare a man to do something or to be something. Not every man w ill be a lawyer or physician or dentist, but every man must make or earn his bread and meat. I do not suggest that a training ! should neglect the .cultural phases Every man should know something of History, Literature, and the ele ments of Chemistry and Physics, along with Geology and. obviously something of Mathematics. But some have an astonishing predelec-.i tion for Chemistry or Geology. Let them concentrate on the subjects of serious concern. It is passible that a small private school of real teachers would pro duce the best results. ’ Who knows today the so-called rights of our citizens" 1 Rights? What rights? Do our peo-1 pie know anything of our History? Have they thought of England’s Magna Carta and what it means even to us" Have they read thought- j fully the Constitution of the United States and the first ten Amend- 1 ments? Of course it seems now of, only historical value since the man handling it has reieved from the Supreme Court But do the Senators ami Representatives in Congress know the Supreme law " * * * By the way. a Men’s Sunday School Cl Ass i,s considering a plan that is-’unique. The basic idea is that within that class of seventy men there in a composite wisdom ami practical knowledge that might be brought to. bear on the problems and needs, of their community. For example, let us assume that in the class are: one lawyer, one teacher, thiryt farmers, several merchants, one or two insurance men, a phy sician; a veterinary surgeon, a lum berman, a man of broad experience with cattle, twenty ex-service men —all branches—several retired men of practical road-building experi ence, one or two automobile sales men. one or two experts on car bod ies, etc.—you sec what a wealth of knowledge and experience may be found in that group. The idea is to make available to anyone needing advice or informa tion all the resources of that varied and broad experience. The underlying idea is that the class should function practically and helpfully in its own community and be a sort of power house of ser vice, instead of merely spending a half hour over a lesson once a week No one can measure the resource of knowledge and experience in a group. To make available, as need ed, the individual or composite knowledge and experience of all those men would be to throw a light on almost any problem or need. Why Take Less? NEW ANTICIPATED RATE 4T< Place Your Funds At Laurens Federal Today! BY MAIL OR IN PERSON! Laurens Federal Savings AND LOAN A SSOCIATION “The Home of PLUS VALUE Services!” . “Where People Are More Important Than Money” LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA It seems likely that the Demo crats of South Carolina will not fol low blindly any Tom, Dick ( and Har ry who may be chosen to lead the Democracy in the presidential elec tion On the other side, Mr Nixon 1 does not arouse or inspire our confi dence, for he "is a second Enscn- how-er, but without Ike's charm or war record. 1 • Ike may not be a great general of the school of Alexander the Great or Napoleon, but he was commander of our greatest army and victory was won by that army—so we heed not quibble; but victory or no vic- 1 tory, Mr .Eisenhower sold the South down the river. - ^ * * * Our Senators Johnston and Thur mond have upheld the great South ern tradition valiantly. - Senator Richard Russell of Geor gia is leading the fight against the so-called Fights Bill and most Southern Senators are loyally and capably supporting him. There is hardly any doubt that the proposed Rights Bill is repug nant to the Constitution, but it is equally beyond doubt that the pres ent Supreme Court will declare such a law constitutional-. The Con gress should have curtailed the % as- sumed powers of the Court; it is now a great agency of oppression., Our only hope is that time, fhc great healer and corrector, mky prove the fallacy and the folly of the present trend. As I’ve said before, as one man turned our course into other chan nels we may some day rear another man with the same blandishments who.will have respect for the foun dation principles of our nation and lead us back into the right way. One man started all this trouble; let us hope that one may appear on he scene resolved to revive and re store the traditions of that noble band that founded this republic. « • * This country was bom in a revolt against the act of King George. The thirteen colonies resolved to assert and maintain their rights as their ancestors had won and cherished those rights. In those days of the/ sample life, without daily newspapers and a thousand magazines and such other distractions as the score or more of diverting interests that so en gage us that we have no time to think. Our nearest approach to thinking is to read or listen to some one’s remarks and then express agreement or disagreement—all on the spur of the moment, with little information to guide us. BOYS, GIRLS! You Can Earn Free Bike Boys' or Girls’ Models 26 In Size You can earn one of these wonder ful bikes by selling only 15 NEW One Year Subscriptions to The Chronicle. Price In County $3.00 Year Out County $4.00 Year HejeU All You Do! William B. Gillespie Laurens — William Bergin Gilles pie. 73. of 517 E. Main St., died ear ly Thursday morning at his home fallowing a short illness. A native of Henderson County, N. C., he was the son of the late William and Mary Shipman Gilles pie. He was a retired farmer and a member of Freewill Baptist Church of Gray Court. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Alphar Crowe Gillespie; four sons, Elbert, Addie and Clate Gillespie, all of Laurens, and Claude Gilles- ! pie. of Gray Court; five daughters, Mrs. Mary Pennington, Mrs. Allie Templeton and Mrs. Margaret Tem pleton. all of Gray Court, and Miss es Maggie and Pet Louise Gillespie, both pf the home; three brothers, : Jule and Carl Gillespie, both of 1 Woodruff, and John Gillespie, of Augusta, Ga.; four sisters, Mrs. Grace Parm, of Enonee; Mrs. Gladys Chumley, of Woodruff: Mrs. Maude Rogers, of Newry, and Mrs. Mary Wilson, of Greenville; 22 grandchildren; and 15 great-grand children. - Funeral services were conducted Friday at 2 p. m. at Friendship Baptist Church near Gray Court by the Rev. J. B. Abercrombie and the Rev. Tom Turner. Burial was in the church cemetery. YOU CAN GET Sell 15 NEW Subscriptions to The Chronicle. No renewals will be allowed. Turn in all money and subscriptions each Saturday at ojffice. All who have bought subscriptions start receiving papers at once. Any One Not Selling 15 Subscriptions Will Be Paid $1.00 Each New Subscription A NEW BIKE WATTING FOR YOU AT CHRONICLE i Chronicle Publishing Go. j (Incorporated) ;.C. • ' r - ' * Our men of 1776 and earlier days remembered and cherished the de mands their forefathers made of old King John at Runnymede, Englan in the year 1215, as I recall governing people. W’e mitft intake our will known and . also make it effective at the polls, n ’Uor we -Sare being dominated and { victimized by all sorts of manipula- King John was bent on governing^ tions, demands and exactions, according to his own ideas or whims, but those sturdy meh assert ed aggressively certain ancient rights of Englishmen and the bull headed King bowed to the demands and granted a charter of rights arid liberties which is known up to this time as The Great Charter (The- Magna Carta). In the course of time those valiant subjects of the English Sovereign won other ‘ concessions such as the Writ of Habeas Corpus, by which a man held under arrest may demand a hearing to determine whether he is lawfully detained or not. I mention just these concessions wrung from a usurping monarch to show that there was a time when men did not meekly submit either to domineering kings or misguided parliaments. And in this country of ours a band of men dared to defy the king over a tax on tea. 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