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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CUNTON, S.'C.
THURSDAY. MAY 30. 1929
COLLEGE GRADUATE MUST
KEEP ALIVE, BUILD ANEW
Jud&;e Glenn, Sneaking To P. C. Seniors, Sees State and Nation As
Scroll, To Be Read and Kept, With Added Responsibility of
Bringing To Bear “Your Knowledge and Wisdom Upon the
Needs of the Future.” ^
lowing:
‘‘Continuation of educational oppor>
tunities; both as a matter of'quantity
In what might be termed his first!of our Lord discover a palimpsest in
major effort since becoming federal! the unrolled map of Europe. Graved
judge, J. Ly' - '
and quality.
“More active participation en the
part of all citizens in, every phase of
governmental activity! (He paused to
discuss fully the administration of
justice.)
“Sufficient knowledge of actual
conditions to think correctly.
“This thinking,” he said, “must also
be applied to legislative and executive
branches of the government.” (Here
the speaker referred to the recurrence
of sugestions that cabinet officers
^yles Glenn of Chester ad-1 and scored with characters through j jjg ^
dressed the gradua^ng class of Pres-, all recorded time, it is being graved floor of the national congress.)
byterian college Tuesday mornirjg,} and scored once more, by a pen of iron
taking as his subject “The Palimp- ■ and with ink of blood, in characters
sest.” He looked upon this state and ^ that seem today indelible. History, af-
the nation as a scroll on which each , ter all. has its rhythm and its recur-
generation must write its record. He rence, where the graving ran deepest
cited things that must be read and in the days of old the profoundest jjg gj advantage to the oncoming gen-
kept alive; but reminded that there is ^core may be seen today. The valleys ^g ^j.g getting far
also the responsibility “of bringing to,and the water-ways where our fore-ig^oug^ f^om the war to see these
bear your knowledge and wisdom up-'fathers joined battle witness now, m j^g^^gj.g g^j^g dgrity
on the needs of the future.” i their e^rnal sightlessness, the locked
World, War
“As one who saw a great deal of
many phases of the World war,” he
said, “let me suggest that it has
taught us some lessons which would
“I am prone to reflect,” he said, strug^ of the children. There are
“That the physical triumph of the
“that I was graduated from a South some channels cut by nature through* great victory
Carolina college, very similar to your j whcih the fretting tide of human ac- governments,
college here, just 17 years ago, andUion seems destined to run for dver-l**'^ ® blow to some dangerous
must admit that 1 am almost a gener-imore. From the beginning of time -n-' fJ®** advantage ob-
ation further along than the gradu- vaders have crossed the desert would be
ates whom we honor today. This will! Sinai to batter at the gates of Egypt.
remind us all that in the swift pass- i As a Scroll j actuating motive of the
be told of French, British and Ameri
can soldiers, and their casual re-
marks.) ”
“A sympathetic understanding of
what I have sometimes called the
Spirit of 1917 makes two strong ap
peals to the intelligent citizens of to
day and tomorrow. In the first place,
it assumes, the aspect of duty to the
participants in the war, particularly
to tke dead. In the second place, it
comes clearly before us as a God-giv
en opportunity to take advantage of
a situation conducive to better inter
national relations, and therefore to
the establishment of world peace.
“The prophets of old spoke of the
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age of time the history of our state' “So, we are inclined today to think millions who fought was more clearly
and national life is being written very of mir fair stntp and nation as a understood bv' them, and mora ami-
rapid ly.
‘In the middle Ages, when parch-
of our fair state and nation as a understood by them, and more accu-
scroll on which each generation must j rately expressed in the high terms
write its record. You as a class of voiced by Wilson than the busy world'
day when ‘The mountain of Jehovah’s
house shall be established on the top
of the mountains and it shall be ex
alted above the hills—and nation shall
not lift up against nation neither shall
■they learn war any more.’
“If we, the privileged citizens of a
privileged country and time, by rea
son of a lack of idealism or intelli
gent understanding of the opportunity
before us do not work to this end,
have we not failed to take advantage
of the God-given opportunity ? Rec
ords of heroism and loyalty and de
votion to duty have been written on
the unfolded parchment of the world.
The very battlefields on which the
World war was fought wpre already
scarred by former contests in which
equal bravery and devotion had been
ing and anguishjwhich will lead to,no
better results?
Will the world go‘on
writing these records ot destruction
none shall make them afraid: for the
mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spok
en it.»
and death, and eternally prove truant
to the idealism and sacrifice of the
men who fight? *
“If the intelligent citizen of tomor
row does not remedy this, we have
but another message written on the
palimpsest, and are still just as far tured, liberal college where Christian
maybe further, from the day when . , u* j • • •
“The defeat of the League of Na
tions was but a temporary backset.
The time is still ripe for definite
achievenients along this line. The
le^ership towards this achievement
will come from graduates of a cul-
or
‘They shall beat their swords into
ploughshares and spears into pruning
hooks. But they shall sit, every man
under his vine and his fig tree, and
ideals are taught, and inspiration is
drawn from the Bible itself — from
such a college as produced Woodrow
Wilson!”
It Costs No More To
by a seeing eye through the new pen- responsibility is thrust
man.ship, and the old words still shine,
however dimly, through the cloud of
younger shcailders by thinking that,
one dav last winter I walked into a
new words bv waich they have been of the South Carolina gener-
obscured. To .such a manuscript schol- i^^ assembly, and saw 12 members
ars have giver the name of palimp- I. had under me as students--
and 1 still count myself a young man!
! ■ . , , u- u J 4. “I make bold to suggest to you that
R'lmina.iii^ thought, which detect palimpsest of the
sermons m stones, may in this some of the finer writ-;
,irgs and truths we.e contained in the
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w5iniin l n I^hscurcd by the multiplicity of words
Optometrists
superimposed, so, in 'vriting the new' jj
message we find that in doing so wei
should preserve the best of the past. | jj
It 4s authentically related that one
of Euripides’ plays v.qs almost com-
ipletelv abscured bv a wine-merchant,
SPECIALISTS j who used the parchment on which a
Eyes Examined Glasses Prescribed Juonk had copied the play by keeping
^ |of his accounts.
I§ West Mam Street Fticne 101 j jg Chivalry Passing? •
Laboratory for Prompt Repair Service “To bring this point directly home j
to us, let us ask ourselves the ques-'
ition, whether or not the fine chivalry
1 of ante-bellum rays has not been i
[greatly obliterated by somewhat
changed manners of today. So, let me
suggest to the class of 1929 that in
sho'W’n. Is the World ■war simply an-
wucM waivii- - ' # J • • busy world'Other record of the same heroism and
ment was a rare and precious thing. ®®ll®i?®. graduates cannot escape re- of today seems willing to admit. (Here j valor, but at the same time of suffer-
and men, eager to set down their sponsibility for the record which wRl — ‘
thoughts in writing or to copy out • ^®. the next 40 years. \\e
once more the thoughts of admired < might Quote _statistic3^^^^^^^^ byi
niaster
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matevial, they were wont to take ant““’- -i|_
old manuscript and to prepare a clean Ifny other group of people the genera |
shie‘ bv e-’ -'^g ‘''e old characters— trennd of their times. Indeed, you will LJ
not so drasticallvVhowever, but that b® writing this record from this vepri
the ol i script mav still be discerned day. I am forcibly reminded of the
Send Your Family Wash To Us
Where it will be cleaned in a scientific manner in a germ
proof plant—ask our driver abouf it.
BUCHANAN’S LAUNDRY
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Clinton, S. C.
FOR GRADUATES
and
FOR BRIDES
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taking your part in writing the his
tory of the next few decades that you
Our store is overflowing with ^®®^ decide for yourselves that the!
hoanfifnl preservation of that which is best out'
Glr lo IrlAl LAoi duties. That this will be done on the
Better make your selection now.; practical side of life gives us little
Everything priced very reason- ®om:em; for the American people have
ably.
Frontis Jewelry Store
Clinton, S. C.
BOND FLOWER
SHOP
FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIO-NS
I.®*? W. Main St. Phone .^96
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THE BEST
A Trial Will Win You
To That Better
Flavor
ClallS$el^s
Bread
Since 1841—South *$ Farorite
shown a remarkable genius in apply
ing the knowledge of the world to the
satisfaction of human need and thej
betterment of the physical conditions'
of the race. Our achievements in the;
world of science are undoubted proof
of this faculty. The principles of ge
ometry and physcis, while known to
the human race for generations, seem
to have been almost gone until they
were applied as if by magic under the
.American genius for organization and
construction. Historians tell us that
the Chinese knew almost as much
about these subjects 4,000 years ago
as the world at large iid at the begin
ning of the 19th century. We have,
however, to inquire whether or not we
have not, in our rapid strides in a
material way, failed to preserve and
apply principles equailly as old and
equally as well understood Jo our mor- j
al and spiritual life. In some strange!
way it seems that each generation, in*
the conduct of its moral, intellectual'
and spiritual life, must learn through j
the hard school of experinece the j
practical wisdem set forth in the Pro- j
verbs of Solomon. How often do we i
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that he wished that he could live his
i life with the wisdom that he had gain-
jed from the hard school of experience!
i Or again, it happens every day that
j full-grown men are .suddenly exclaim-
jing, “My father used to tell me that, | jl
and I now^ see that the old man was i i;
; right!”
I “Why is it that a young mind will
take a principle of physics or chemis
try, and with the courage of youth
apply it in such a way as to give us
some great discovery which will
change the physical aspect of the
world, and at the same time the same
j mind will refuse to grasp and put in-
;to practice one of the general prin-
jciples of wisdom for the conduct of
[human life which have been written
I in the plainest of language and illlus-
'trated by thousands of examples.”
Here Judge Glenn suggested the
reading cf the Old Testament and Plu
tarch’s Lives. He praised the practi
cal mind of the British teachers who
insist up&n the stuly of biography,
and the wisdom of the Greeks in writ-
|ing and reading of Aesop’s Fables,
j What Are Records?
j “Y’ou may inquire then,” he con-
I timied, “what are the records which
1 must be read and kept alive by the
i on-coming generation represented by
I this class? We outline these briefly:
j “Traditions for chivalry and patri-
I otism.
“Strong adherence to the fundamen-
als of religion.
“Better understanding and appreci
ation of the history of our nation.
“But in the writing of your record
there is not only the writing of your
problem of keeping alive the best that
is behind us, but of bringing to bear
jyour knowledge and wisdom upon the
needs of the future. We can claim no
great wisdom or dirine insight in
prophesying the nature of these prob
lems, but from the signs of the times,
from the opinions of our wisest men,
and from cominpHsenae-study of the
present, it seems to us that among
many other phases of life which will
command your attention are the fol-
DOORS OPEN
FRIDAY
PROMPTLY AT
8:30 O’clock A. M.
BRING YOUR
FRIENDS
TELL YOUR
NEIGHBORS
ANNUAL nmm SALE
Starts FrL, May 31--Eiids Sat., June 8
ABSOLUTELY NEW MERCHANDISE
Here is news of our Annual 10-Day Discount Sale—that all Clin
ton and its community eagerly awaits twice yearly. Right in time
for the vacation season.
Our New York buyer has bought us 100 New Dresses—styles of
newest creations. See the values we are offering in our Big 10-
Day Annual Sale.
All Ladies Ready-to-Wear,
Including Dresses, Coats, etc.
CUT TO
Price
1 -4 OFF
ON ALL PIECE GOODS, SHOES,
NOTIONS, ETC.
There must be no cai'ry-overs^verything goes. All
goods marked in plain figures. We are offering only
new seasonable merchandise. A call will prove it.
CADET HOSIERY
Newest Shades
% OFF
CANNON HUCK
TOWELS
Plain & Asst. Color Borders
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Just Arrived—Shipment of
BED ROOM SHOES
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SMART
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Millinery
JUST ARRIVED FROM NEW
YORK—new shipment of smart
Summer Hats—Specially pric
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Redfern Corsets,
Brassieres, Undies
14 Off
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WHAT KING’S
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CASH.
NOTHING ON
SALES MEAN
“The Ladies’ Shop”
CLINTON, S. C.
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