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THE CLINTON CRROMCLE, CLINTON. S. C.
THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1939
‘TOUTH AND INDIVIDUALISM”
Address Delivered Here Monday Before Presbyterian Collefre
Graduating Class By Dr. Julian S. Miller. Editor
Ttie Charlotte Observer.
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a (rrrtit po*«m, it wiM never drew the
ekeiches d a freat cathedral, it wiH
ne\’er have an >d<^> Only the individ* i
jdal is dynamic. Only the individual
'can think. Only the individual can^
Itherefore, create.
RoignsA. COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM AT
Davidson President
Davidson, N. C., June 2. — After
We need, I think, to be rearra^ng [»?vv”>c for ten years aa president of
COLLEGE COMES TO CLOSE
A distinguiahed American educator
1m this opinion of modem ymAh: We
haW -never had finer young people
than those who are in college, the
moat high minded, the most studious,
the most mature and the finest think
ers that we have knoiwn in many gen-
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. . „ Tv_ living power, but a person
some of our own current notions in Davidson college, Dr. Walter L. Lingle directing. Some wen driv-
Aanerica along thie line. We are be- presented his resignation to the board
savii^ device, the surrender of inde-trustees today. The resignation
.nd l«u. o< mwpity from”Jrtv.t« vir.:'' ***» '"«« "««
- jtue, of the sovereignty of the sUtel The board elected a nominating
Of them*«lveg these may not appw j^^ opposed to the inalienable nghtaj committee to dwoae his succesaor.
to be alarming or to be dreaded. citizen, of the genJua of gov^ The members are: Dr. R. A. Dunn of
en to destruction. Some to the end of
the trail. There are energies of heart
and head that are compelling you
forward. But, who is diierting?
‘To many of us the word idealism
is a vague term. Yet we all under-
*7 ” ? . L i®* citizen, « uie gemua oi gov^. ine memoers are: x/r. k. a. inmn os gtand when we sav that God had an
the contrary, they may n^ seern to opposed to the weakness Charlotte, Dr. H. Smith Richardson • ua make
enemiee at all. Ind*}ed they uiay *P‘iof the governed, of the totality of the'of New York, Dr. A. A. McLean of
•orations. Th^ are head and i^ouldem ^pear to us instead of being formidable instead of the personality of the Lenoir, J. A. Cannon of Concord, I
above the older generations in Mh(d-
arahip, character and development
foes to be friendly companiorrs for our
careers
These young people have growm up.j pjj^^e is a quicker and, perhaps,
They are betteT;^hey know Tnore; definitive name to give all of
citizens.
|P. Graham of Greenville, S. C., and
man.** But the curtain falls on that
ideal and it is not lifted again untH
lit rises on the life, the ministry, the
Even here in America w’e sense the i the Rev. W. H. Ckiodman of Kannap- triumph of Jesus Christ.
pull and pressure of “the collective'* ^li**
47 incre«mriyl !iied iKrf«tly in Rim. And th, m.n
tti,7 wi^w. ar. mor. in «lv«r«n«i .*ain,t which of «or came to D.vi<toon from Ridhmond,|„ ^ who does
God’s undinuned idealism was real
ly cynical. They have more faith in
educa-ted youth today needs to be sum- existence to society. I mayiVa., where he served as president ofjn^pt ^he Man of Gali’lee on the
4Vw> .wwwl Tlhpv havp niftrp irood sense j j .v . • lu- f inoiviouai exisienee w swicvjr. i in«jf I .... w...., —, nox nave me Sian 01 uaiiiee on tne
ThevT^ more I “charge* even on thi, occa.ion the^ Prertij^nan general ij^ly a; i„ th,
than their ancestors. They are more individuality The most malignant . Y
inaivwuamy. me mosx majignam | auspices that much of our
growth that has come upon the body:contribiuted to the
That is a rich rapsody This «^u«- of Amorican life of today is that of of the idea that individual man
r’s opinion inspires. Many the surrender of the concept of soveieign-, • . *nd niir-
tOT
anxi«ities
training school. He had l»eld a niOT- hoJdinjr the reins, is headed
ber of pa.storates and was at one time, destruction and has already faced
editor of the Union Seminary R®*'defeat.
,,nu,n inspires surrenoeroa^ne co^epxoaiKfvtf.jig tA>o .‘vmall and impotent and nig-, vi^^ ^ “Our first three wagons have come
s and l^ntations commonly ty of the individual ,and the depreci-)^^^,^ resources andj He was a moderator of the Presby-j^^
1 iT&rdly
herd fnrni^e ™cc of older pcoHv,.ted v»luc th« i. being pl.ccd upon capwritie, W be re-'termn dburcb in tbe United State, in' ui^ir ’Seir
are rileiwed by th., magnifment tnb- human peiaonality. |,peeled. I-byrne, and ebomirtry ace 1820. (own weight. Tbe eanvaa. covering
ute, but uphappily, I have not finished | philosophy has sprung i^uTypiwed to give us the mere mechan-l i>octor Dunn, chairman of the board thread-bare and torn. The mate
the quotation. Hear him give the present day tyranies of thelj^tic concent of the universe suggest- <*f trustees,
er side of the picture. I quote:
lanew tne present day tyranies of tneij^tje c<,ncept of the universe suggest
I old world, and let me suggest to youjjp^ that the -World is a huge jugger-
“But there is something tihat these who are historically expert that thenelp^^^ machine ojM'rated by laws
people do not have. They have no pas- new forms of liberty and of govern-cause and effect and that man is
Sion, they have no cause to which they merit and of society are nothing more t,han a fly in this gigantic
aie oonse-crated. They have nothing to | nor less than a recrudescence of the
Which they would give their lives with I old paganism and despotism in those
glad abandon—they have nothing for j countries a thousand years agri.
which they are willing to die. They' day dicUtomhips have
lack a crusade. They are all dressed i buij^ up ^he
up and no place to go. They are 'undomocratic and irreligious notion
statement.
issued the following substance of which they were
: formed has been or soon will be, blot-
rious commencement. Tliat hndaunted
courage, if it be youra, will lead you
to an ever expanding achievement;
and that undimmed idealism of a life
made pore and holy through the for-
giveneae of sins in Jesua Onrist, if it
be your possession, -will present you
faultless before the presence of His
glory with exceeding joy."
Sigma Kappa Alpha Members
The following students wer^ elect
ed by the college faerdty to the hon
orary scholastic society. Sigma Kap
pa Alpha for the year 1938-1939:
Laura Aylett Fleming, Laurens.
Carl Wilson McCully, Jr., Sharon.
Bonnell Charles Jarrard, Soperton,
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Dugaki Walker Hudson, Greenville.
James Robert Thomason, Fountain
Inn.
Mary Jane Sturgeon, Clinton.
Thelma Taylor, Clinton.
Rebecca Adelaide Roberts, Clinton.
Laetitia Hay Jones, Clinton.
Because her husband allegedly
tripped her, kicked her, blacked her
eye, and chased her ^th a hammer,
•A year ago Doctor Lingle address-j passing years of time.!* ^
«i a letter to ^ tru.st^ calling their i
to the fact t^hat he was *P- ^hat time cannot erase and which the
machine. Biology is telling much of prtMxohing the age when men pegging years will only serve to make^
the .same story that man is an organ- j »nd requested the trustees t**® more glorious. For faith, courage,
ifim whoM? d<*wtiDy in p<r<Hi^t4;rmin^ Bl<?ps lookinir ^ Mfcurinif w his idij^Jisun 6t6mAliti68«
Oh, come now, aren’t you being a
bit haety?
by heredity or by the force of cireura-
stance or change.
ablest youth we have ever had hut
that the individual is nothing more
successor.
“At that time the trustees appointed
a committee to take the matter im-
“Young people, ere long you too
will come to the end of the trail. Ere
Astronomy is teaching of an ever * su jong in the dimming of life’s abort
.. J • • TM. I- — enlarging universe, of wheels within*"^ advisement, mwi^ of ^ years, you will kneel beside
wrtihout . dv*in.tH.n, Tl.^ »rv alivv p„p. ^ .tupvndou, iirfinHyl'*' •~*»r ihv brokvn. «.u«ri>I vnnain. <rf your
thvy haw tudhmr U. hw foT.^p,,, i, „„ythin». ,, , „„ importanc».jP"'«'* ?! -•r»l to kindle your kat'
They have tMr book on but they i„ Rp..j. evolotio. aw doin*''''"" “f the "ext wh^aatk’ year and ,,„,p,i„. But will it end there?
aie d««d in their tracks. value save that which '■! their best to run us ancentorily up *‘®»P*‘eMed the hopethat a n^inating. T^,^re are elements
to be measured in terms of his eco- Kndocrynology is teaching would be appoi ak- journey that will not end with
nomic production. Thus it is that in tj,*t the glands determine personality. ^ prcpared ^ . jthe ending day, nor go down wHh
Italy the indivklual has no value ex-j ,py,. natural in-1 j*"** *^^ * *'^*^, * the setting sun, nor be dimmed by the
coi.t that which is U» Im* mea.suml ml^jncu to Name our weakness upon'*'^*^ ** approach of night.
These statements are illuminating.
That is one reason I have brought
them to you. They are proph«*tic of
the futun- -s'hirh will de|N-rMl s<» large
ly ujKin the young |M*o|>le thus de- u-rms of his wrvice and worth to the In-yotMl our control and to dele
^< r i*e«<l. Th«* mendH-rs of this gradual- guite. Thus it w that in (rt-rmany the'^^j^j,. gucrese of pngress and hap--*^*T
irg class this moniing are jtart arwl imiividual has no valu<*'vave that
their next annual me«<ing in Feb-
t<i romiitions outsiik* our rea-
, “That unfailing faith in God, if
you have it, will be but at its gIo-1
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ja'ce! of these young |K-s»ple. It is which is measund in terms of his , victan:
tbk r future that is roncermii. It is r,nj hbwHi. Th«- tyranU who have for- ^jitlwr than a master of hi« fate, our,
thi r world that will I»e rnwled. No niulateii this monstrou* phiheu.phy <»f.*H-ing nurtursd and fesi not only by
matter what our age, all of us have mdivalual man’s utter worthle-enessiile,4..eie». hut eveni
a stack
Hc«d«cKy, Losy?
3e»^ae3eg«aae«aiMMiw«tat9ew«v.Mai«MMMMMmsmsiiitwitMiimeMMiiMisMiiwiifp
in
current (wijitical »<le<4t*gies, but even'
that future and in that v«rept his value to s«iciety or to the ^strurtioo of »4»me of ihw:
Vk**rid theirs. A- Mr. Kettering state or the race sfieak -wahkiut •l*"l<** arwl more a«lvance«l science* i
<H>rieral M«»t«»rs once saMi, **<»f c«mrse « this view that man was made f«w ... .. ,
I am tkwply interesteil in the future.-the Mate ami not the Mate f«»r man. * ' ** cause rr o pec mr rea j
•I. ,son that our y'>ung pe-qor of this era
Mr are hearing dramatic alugan. adi™.nished against stw*'‘
these times as to what is the larger „ ,^5^ to rM. himian Irfr
From n<r« «>n I am gmng to «lo
my iivmg there “
1 have ntM brought these statements
purpose of eduraCion in term. «f,^, ,nd,v.dual ntegnty and
from this renowned edurater to y®« woMem nerds and la Urms of the .i| •ch-^v-nrat a
th« morning heraiwe I em-ent Oiat world’s diaos. our own inrlud- afridrsii are! al! A^swt a
•b*y are in all rewperts valid asid ir- ^ ^ faewnie of these ^
tixsirra educated youth hut I rhal- another m that eduratioa is for ^ si^le aed fraeftd
lenge hi- cntwwma. It la aol true that . - a ^ eriliral ^ frarTM
•hey have im sMgs «d rwiary ta sing. ^ y^, Amsm i -
H w wat true Ihaa tWy have aa era- peeseat impeeative w an”^ 4 .^^ ana »r
la la doBKwrary, ^ whirh I
« an eduralam that bnnga as fare
I agree wtih thsw wha thmk t^ •derstandiag as ,.f a -pse - * sf a-• a
*• what Aaaorracy is m Its eaar^a|^j|^ ^ »h.*-h -is qMck
^ of arhat ama m ‘This isar.H of
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llea«Urhe>, t liousncr.^, bad brr ath
(•ften warn cf faulty elimination.
N'gVct of thesa s.gns may causa
a host of ronstipation’a other
discomforts: sotir stomach, belch
ing, aa apprtita ar energy. Don’t
delay. Taka spky aA vegeubla
hi ACK DRAUGHT. Tbia intesti-
aaJ Uadr-laaaliva Imparta tana ta
lasy bowel aiasclaa: by aiapla 41*
riaanaaa gently, thar-
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being, cnpalde of thmre. caywhle sd :
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man a- - ml . Mua: .»*ece g* |1 ,4 -. 3 0 4^ VO
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hr.hst It •'aiHis vhery man an his ansa
feet It says ta everysme af thsm. xSrj
”\au are the captain af your smsi. the vi ^ ,
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edwrure and unknown Scotch weaver their brow. Who urant the top of the
, who. every night as he retired, re-1 hill without the foo!s«*re climb. Wh*' •
I prated this petotion, “liord, always want the rose witht>u: the th«>m. Who p
help me to keep a high opinion of i want to get without giving. In a m
myself." iword, these are they who do not want
1 wx>uld not dare |»redict, of course, I to pay the price <d sucress and 9
jthat the democracy <d America in its > •chievoment and resfHtnsibility and
social, poiitkai and economic forms; |u>rsonal character.
jis in danger of being annihilated by; I 5a)d a while ago that the gener- ^
the tidal waves of totalitarianisms j ation <»f our young pe<»ple <d America *
which have swept many democracies | today have the okleM and the noblest H
of F'urope out U> sea, but I am con-j of all battles to wmgt and causes to
tending in this forum this morning j which to deihcate themselves. This is
jtihat there is already an alarming losslthat battle and this is that cause,— ^
I from the current mimis of our people I to return our society to the age old ®
lof the jirimary apiritual significance' and deathless truth of the indepen- p
I of this concept of life which our de-jdence and personal responsibility of
'mocracy formerly held al<ift, namely the indiridual, that man is made to be
*the concept of the sovereignty and re-1 the master, not the victim, of chance
Isponsibilities of evi^ individual.'or circumstance, that every one of us,I
1’There is urgent call for a recapture' made after the manner of God, has!
of that philosophy even in America.! resident within us the capacity to
There can be no progress, there can grow- and develop and to achieve upon
be no advancing civilization, there can.the basis of our own resources,
be no security, there can be no safety' This is all, I suppose, exceedit^y §
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jin government, there can be no peace,trite and commonplace and oW fash-
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I in the world except that 'they are con-honed. Indeed, it is rather ui^popular jL
creted out of the effort and ideas and (today to take issue with the school)?
lenterprises of individuals. No nation'of thought w'hich insists that social'P
ever worked itself up toward higher: regeneration and economic security jP
levels of life, the nation has no ca- are only possible through the vast m
Ipacky to improve itself. There can be maneuvers and concentrations of mass g
no naturail development except on the nioveiments. *
basi.s of individual improvement. Left But I am asking young people of to-
;to itself the mass of men a.nd women,ilay to stand at k*ast by this old tern- p
ha.s always .sagged downward. The pie of faith t*f their fathers who be- ^
mass is always inert, it originates lieved in themselves and humbly set ®
I nothing, k creates nothing. ’The mass themselves to the obacurv but viuL
is ne^ progPeasive. It can destroy, | task of helpit^ build for thenwelvws'
but it never can build. It can pull-a better world shnply by building
dowm but newer put together. The i thewaelves into bettor men and wo-
atatc which has become Xht greataat j men. etrowger and more durable in
aothonty in Europe arfll Mver have a | their individual limneUra. *
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