The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, January 28, 1932, Image 8
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IN DEFENSE
OF TEACHERS
Require
longer ‘‘suggest*’
in this. "
It is that phrase “may be requind”
that is ifttting under, my skin. The
ji^omptrollef- general must im&i^inip
■. ''ip I |hat a war is on and that he, or who-
By l>r. 'E. C. McCants [ever is*, to do the.requiring, is a sec-
/T .tn. * 14 r\ \M -1 ' ond lieutenant. I do not thins that
'fin The Anderson Daily Mail. ..
' school teachers*, are mere sejj.i&r .than
I am getting tired of apologizing.! jf j ^ere askir,%*coi5tri-
for being a'sehool teacher. My infer-, butions for'a good cause, I think I
variou5„(;ommisRioqii, ordinaT:^ and ex-
'Hraordinafy ? is a teacher a irftire dis
embodied sr^iirit than any of thesi^?
Must a teacher not tat and >leep ahd
pay his oill^? Does a teacher not need
sustenance ? Why then the assump
tion that the teachers conslttute a
class .ipart ?
No,'it is no general grievance that
I am fuming about. The Anderson
school district for 3d, years has h^id
Si^iator Smith’s
Is Plisst^
Fift.v MillkwiDollare Appropri
ated To Aid Farmers With
This Year’s Crop. •
The Chjronicle on Saturday morning
iority complex is being ,overworked (could depend on the school teachers | salary, and that of everv teacher i received the following wire from Sen-
and I am ready to rebel. I think school surely as I could depend on employed, promptly land on the dot ator E. D. Smith:
teachers are no better nor any worse
any other class. If sacrifices jn the
public interest are to be made, I know
than the general run yf mankind. I gf people wbo will make
I heard th^latesr Calvin CooUdge'school teachers are no better them more cheefully than will the
COOLIDGE
nor any worse \than othe. Jaaghter.s
teachers. In many counties they have
of Solomon, but I don’t think many I making them, having re-ifj.0^ the local authorities, has got it- and has gone to the president for his
others ate of the elect from Jerusalem ceived no pay for miany^ months savejggjf embarrassing meff. It is signature. The amendment is so word
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anecdpfte^the other night from a gen
tleman who had ^recently visited the
ex-pTbsident at Northampton.
“Everywhere I go I find an over
whelming desire to have you back in
the WHiite House, Mr. Coolidge,” my — ^ .... , .... „ ,
informant said to him. “You really, sh..uld acc^t humbly and-self-effat-^ faithfully under
Anderson county has an enviable rec- i “My amendment to' the finance re-
ord for paying its teachers. Both the | construction bill providing fifty mil-
district and the county are now con-tijgn dollars to aid‘farmers for crop
cerned only because the state, having I production purposed in 1932 was fin-
removed the control of the schools i ally passed by congress this afternoon
t
either.-1 decline to* believe that a
school teacher’s wages are a form of
such as they could get from hawking
pay-claims at a discount. I wonder if
ought to run for president again. (.ngly. 1 don’t feel humble, I am “riled
Mr. Coolidge shook his head, with a . nd belligerant. I am ail “het up
masked, charity *vhich the recipient
w^iike circumstare.^s.
To request a man to
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a thing and
faint smile. ' .tud I am going to speak right out in
“No,’’ he said, "It won’t do. The .«* meeting. , '
basis of that idea is all wrong. They The incident that makes me Tsee
my belief that the state is in this
mess because the affairs of the state
have been administered by incompe
tent men. Tnese things might have
been ordered better. I believe that the
trustees of the Anderson school dis-
ed that in addition to fifty ^million
'ollars the amount may be increa.sed
up to two hundred million dollars if
thelemergency requires.
“The money will be loaned direct to
'farmers in the same manner as seed
trtet. or even such humble as the administered for
derson .:punty school teachers, could I three -ars and has no'con-
to require him to do it art two entire
ly different propositions. The comp-
troller seneral IS either a-rrogant or ! have or*red them better. . j tfon whate*"Wh the agricultur-
all want to get rich aga.n. red ’ is a paragraph in the news of jhe is unskilled in the use of .anpage. | Thunk you! I feel considerably re-ij^] credit corporations, livestock credit
Which confirms my long held belief .he la.st day or two which quotes the : In my opinion a school tether is just; jj^ved. corporalfch* or intermediate credit
that Calvin Coolidge ha^ about as comptroller general of this state as. about as important an individual as isi . bank *
sound common sense and as keen an saying; fu ”'1"' °^i Cl l\TO\ (iIRL STANDS "I'am proud of the fact that this
understanding of popular psychology “South Carolina school teachers the legislature, or even a ^i^r^way 1Y-®
may be reejuired to jierve tomporarily I patrolman. I think that , a school | HU-H AJ MLfcliNS uka
without pay, or on part salaries, be- teacher comes jufct about
"as any living .American.
H(K)VER I
1 think there ha.s been a noticeable
change in the public attitude toward
Mr. Hoover in the past month. At
leasit, I hear less abuse of the presi
.cause 6f the inability .of the state to
float a $1,750,000 loan fo»- sjhool pur
poses.’’ .Some time ago this official
was
my
comes jufct about as near
earning his or her wages as any ofi Friends ot Miss Fredna : .i.y.K.€y of
the.se more exalted persons. j this city, senior at Queenfl-Chiebra
(kmt and more exnressions of sym-; since a ‘ suggestion proved unpro
pathy. People are realizing that he j
has been unfairly blamed for condi
tions for which he wa.s not responsi
ble, and mw that, he ha.s presemted a
sound and complete rehabilitation pro
gram to congress, and congress hasj
started off by accepting it, I hear
less talk about his 1 supposed inaction
in the face of a serious crisis.
I have not s^en the president for
several months, but friends who have’
talked with him lately say that he
ac-ts and talks like a man who had
found the answers to- problems ^that
had lieen baffling him.
Washington’^ favorite indoor sporj^
is lying about the president, whoever
the president may happen to be.'Mr.
HfKiver has suffered from more than
his share of misrepresentation, but he
has acquired the philosophical atti
tude of most of nis. predecessors, who
learned not to let pin pricks worry
them.
Why is sauce for the goose not
“suggesting”' that the counties i sauce for the gander? If school
the state’s deficit. Apparently, teachers are to_the “required” to wait
for their pay, why not state officials,
patrolmen and the members of the
ductive in that instance he will
no
college, Charlotte, N. C., will be inter
ested to learn that she has been ex
empted from her semester examina
tions at the institution because of her
higb schola.stic standing.
makes tbe fourth year that I have
been’instrumental in aiding distress
ed farmers.
^ '^‘E. D. SMITH.”
BUY THE BESX'
' Order *^partan Grains” mash
es and feeds from us OR FROM
YOUR GROCER. We sel! Imth
wholesale and retail: „ ^ ‘
“Spartan” Starting Mash
Growing Mash.^
Growing Grains r ,
Laying Mash
Scratch Feed .
Dairy Feed
Hog Feed
Rabbit Feed
Bran, Shorts '
Fish Meal c |
Rice Meal " I
Beet Pulp
Meal and Hulls
Agricultural Lime
%
Sulphate of Ammonia
Fertilizer—all kinds .
Coal. -
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GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
2 Years lor $3.50
JAMES W. CALDWELL
The Magazine .Man
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GLINT(iN
COTTON OIL CO.
UNEMPLOYMENT
The town of Peekskill, New York,
as a part of its [dan to raise funds
f( r the relief of the unemployed, put 1
tin boxes at /every eating place in'
t(;\vn and asked everybody to drop one
' ee nt in the box before each meal. The
surprising result is. a fund, which
runs t{r $1,500 a week. / . j
^More important than raising money
for the unemployed, it seems to me, is
making sure tlial thismoney does not
go to jH'ople who could get jo4)8, but
w ho A\ i 1 f n ot ta ke-tbenef- -Thfe=r
night in a hotel elevator I head’d two
men talking.
There were fgrty-two jobs at $0 a
day,’’ said one of them. “The unem
ployment bureau' sent us fifty/men^
and thirly-six of them - reius^* to ,
work Unause they wo-uld get tKeir
hands dirty.” They .said they could
ge* mone.Nk from the unemploymen’
fund to live on and they would rather
do that than do “dirty” work.
There is no diiubt in my mind that,
in the cities at lea.st, a large part of
the money which kind-hearted people
have contributed to help the unem-j
j)loyed is lieing spent to keep in idle-
ne.sy. men who cuiild ea.sily ^nd work
if tney were not what Down-Fasters j
call “choosy.”
D<)n;()Ks
l)(Ktors, like*" tn-erybody elii^, are
not fin.iing it easy to i>ieet their ob
ligations or collect their bills these
days. Too many people think thaJ the
doctor can wait until every^wly else
lias been paid. ' .
The .\meritan Medical assbeiation
has been’making a survey ot doctors’
incomes and reports that it takes al
together alnml ten years in college |
arts hospital work and getting a prac-1
tile established before the average j
diK tor bigins to, l arn enough to livej
on. The next years, or a large part of.
it, his surplus has to go -th pay for]
the cost of his medical training. Veryj
few doctors to the point of inde
pendence in less than twenty year.s
after starting their medical studies, j
Every doctor has to do, and doe.s
do, a certain amount of charity work.]
'rhose who can afford to pay have le8«
excuse for postpoping their diK-tors’
bills than for” deferring payment of
almost any other debts.*
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HOLMES j
Thi retirement of Justice Oliver]
Wendell Holme* from the berwh ofj
the United State* Supreme court at!
the age of ninety-one removes from]
public life not only, one of the ablest
and most distinguiahed of jurists, but]
the only surviving veteran of the Civ-j
il war to’hold high public office. j
Justice Holmes served as a, capUini
in the Union army from 1861 Co 1’86B,!
and was seriously wounded in battle |
three times. His father, the fanftous,
- Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes; was thej
author of sueli poems as “Old Iron-1
sides,” “The One-Hbss Shay,” and
“The Ust Sheaf,” as well as many,
books and essays. Justice Holmes in-[
herited his father’s literary skill, and
-',his opiniohs from the bench were!
/^roasterpiecea of simple, plain English.!
Very few men in America have had
atirh a long and distinguished record!
ff pi^ic service.
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