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C»MME^rI^ ON MEN AND THINGS
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iliatter up! Regular old baaeball
weather. Tte Fretidi people used to
te^: ‘^Whipnever two Ajnericazu meet,
one puUs out a baa^>elL'*
Isn’t this the season for a little
•pot of calomel? We low-countrymen
know it welL
Have you seen the wistaria in the
streets ami yards of lower South Car
olina? Some of the towns 'tfhe so
beautiful that you almost feel dis
posed to pay the chief of t>olice for
permission to admire the spring ra-
' diance.
The Santee-Cooper investigation
wasn’t up to expectations. I don’t
know whether Captain Irby was teli-
ing the whole stoiy or holding back
a little; at any rate what he charges
is too vague and indefinite to be
worth much.
We have known that the project
is politically-minded; that it is even
full of politics—ai^, perchance, full
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of politicians, too. Nothing alleg<
-Captain Irby really goes far beyond
thrt, excappt "flw Captain’s broad and;
general charge of incompetence.
The Captain does not prove the
charge of incompetence, though I do
not see how either competence or in
competence can be proved. We who
are not among’ the high officials • of
the Santae-Sooper don’t knoW who is
who, 4M- what is what—or why—or
wherefore. Just off-hand, it has al
ways se«xwd to me that the Authori
ty needed only a few people—^five or
six—because with the P.WA. ai^ the
engineering groups, and contractors
—where do th^ put all the peopter’
The Santee-Cooper is being (gyr
ated on the traditional American
plSn. That is to say, it appears to be
top-heavy.
As to the ability of the members
off the Authority — I don’t know. I
know th«n as private citiaens; know
them pleasantly; but engineers do
the teachnical work; contractors do
the building; apmaiaers and land-
buyers buy the lalhd; the PWA super
vises everything—so I can’t see what
the Authority does, except to travel
to Washington for rntmey. Captain
Irby’s suggestion that the Au^ority
be re-constituted by appointing three
men does not impress me. We have
good citizens on ^ the board now;
would three be any better?
Several matters struck me with
force: one was the readiness of the
Authority to let Land Bank apprais
ers set a price on the land of the
president of the Land Bank. That
looks too much like politics to be
good business, or to be even defen
sible administration of a public trust.
Tliat Mr. Scarborough did not accept
the offer is to his credit. Ppihape
Captain Irby’s chaige of incompe
tency was founded in this. It surely
sand dollars. That looks bad. But B,
M. Edwards, a dlstinguirt>ed banlsbr
of Scotch traits, defend the purduue
price paid by the Authority. Mr. Ed-
wanls himself was one of the ap
praisers of the timber. Mr. Edward
is regarded as a safe, sound and able
banker, but what are his qualifica-
tkms as a timber cruiser? Would Mr.
Edwards invite an expert timber
cruiser to appraise his bank, or a
bank he ,wiMied to buy? And it may
be that a great banker is not neces
sarily a great Judge .of standing tim
ber, in an area of a thousand square
miles of rivw swamp. At any rate,
there was the admitted loss of $459>-
000, nearly fifty per cent.
Is the Santee-Cooper a political or
ganization? Well, is there anybody in
it vdio .is not, or has not been, or
hopes to be, in politics? Yes, I know
two or three; but one cannot say
that commanding executive ability,
surpassing experience in successful
business enterprises, or impressive
knowledge of the general problems
involved, was the only qualification
considered in many appointments.
Nothing political is caeri^ j8i bz. any
such rule, so why expect it of the
Santee-Cooper? •
Political appointments are not us-
' ually based exclusively on merit. The
man who makes the appointments
hopes to accomplish a double pur
pose: (a) get some one who can do
the work; and (b) please a man who
is in position to show his appreci
ation; or, else, to raise sand if he is
turned down. The Santee-Cooper is
chock-full of the friends of friends,
or the friends of friends or other
idends—and all that, Rut let the
truth be told: it would be so if some
one else were in charge of it. To
those on the inside, the plan is good;
but to those on the outside, it is all
wrong. ,
Captain Irby threw his case away
when he admitted that there was no
graft. If there is no graft, then sure
ly we have only a temped in a tea
pot. To have twice as many onploy-
ees as should be necessary, ev«i at
a total cost of a quarter of a million
dollars; to over-estimate the value
of what you buy by nearly a half
million dollars—^thoee are mistakes,
but not acts of moral turpitude. Are
they, by any chance, acts of incom-
FRANCES E. WILLARD
Pmmder ef the Wesaaa’s ChrMian
TeMVMTUoe Union
The subject of this sketch was
bbm Septmber 28, 1839, and died
February 17, 1898. These dates en
compass a life that was unique in its
service to mankind. As educator,
writer, and as religious crusader, she
was eminent in an age in which
wmnen were not usually so.
Miss Willard was educated in
Northwestern University, of Evans
ville, Illinois, where later she became
Dean ot Women and Professor 'of
Rhetoric, in a faculty otherwise com
posed entirely of yien. It was due
to her influence that this university
began to grant diplomas' to women,
the first in the United States tb do
so.
petency? Is that what the Captain
means?
To be fair to the Authority, we
must know whether the Santee-
Coopeer is a great project of employ
ment, or a great engineering job. 'To
blend the two may be the very mo
tive Captain Irby has not- fully
grasped. —
would
Some years ago the state created
a department of agriculture, com
merce, industries and natural resour
ces. Years before, the general assem
bly created Clemson college as an
prove that me course here
was the one usually followed. Yet,
why not? Why should I not appoint
the appraisers fw my land, too?
Captain Irby char^ that the Au
thority overpaid the Brooklyn Coop
erage company for its standing tim
ber in the swamps. The Authority
admitted that it re-sold the timber
at a loss of nearly five hundred thou-
agricultural extensiop service, which
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As writer, Frances E.- Willard has
to her credit scores of books, all of
which have to do with the social and
moral uplift of her fellows. Her
auto-biography, written at the re
quest of the National Women’s Tem
perance Union, sold more than 50,
copies. '
Perhaps her outstanding achieve
ment was organization of the above
mentioned society, which grew out
of the iCitiSade Movement. JDecltn-
ing many attractive and remunera
tive positions hn the educational
field. Miss Willard devoted the re-
ma^der of a long life to the cause of
temperance, and other Christian
work. She crystallized the Golden
Rule of Christ in one of the most
powerful and far-reaching organiza
tions the world has ever known. For
nineteen years Miss Willard served
as National President of- the Wom
en’s Christian union. In 1883, she
visited every state and territory in
the United States, speaking in every
city witii a population of over 10,-
000. On repeated visits to England
she was received with public ova
tion, and formed lasting friendships
with noted philanthropists of that
country and that period. It was the
same year that she founded the
World’s W. C. T. U., of which she be
came the first president, and which
has made the white ribbon society
known in every English speaking
country of the globe.
In 1894 the honorary degree of
LL.D. was cemferred upon Miss Will
ard by the CHiio Wesleyan university.
The last World’s W. C. T. U. con
vention over which Frances E. Will
ard presided Was held in Toronto,
in October, 1897. On FebruaiY 17,
1896 ihe received her summons
“home.” Those who witnessed her
“home going” saw the glorious tri
umph of Christian faith. “How beau-
ful to be with God!” she whispered
as her soul took its flight.
The universal sorrow at the death
of America’s uncrowned’ queen was
shown in the many tributes to her
memory; the latest of these has re
cently been paid by the United
States government, in the issuance of
a special Frances E. Willard stamp.
^ Among many memorials to Fran
ces E. Willard are school houses,
fountains, halls and a noted temper
ance hospital bears her name. Many
churches have memorial windows,
while her portrait, her picture and
her books have been placed in
schools and colleges throughout the
United States and in other lands.
There is Willard Hall on the campus
of Northwestern university and her
, beautiful marble statue in Statuary
Hall of the nation’s capitol is the
'only one of a woman in the hall.
Local memorials are Frances E.
' Willard street and the Frances Will-
lard section in Presbyterian college
^library.
Eternity alone will reveal all that
has been wrought for humanity’s
Christ by this noble patriot, right
eous reformer, and Christian philan
thropist.
NOTICE
Notice i.s bertby g^iven tbst I wii,
on the 30th day of AprH, 1940„ at ten
o’clock A. M., make a fkial aooount-
ing of my acts and dotngs as admin-
iatrator of the estate of WR]iimin_ Po
sey Blalock, deceased, to Hon. J. Hew-
lette Waseon, Judge of Probate, Lau
rens County, Sonidh Carolina, and will
at the same time agk the Court to
gnsTk me firnd cKedharge from my
ties ae adnmristrator of aaki nnfmlr
AH persons having claims agahMt
said estate edH' fHe the eame, duly
itemized and verified, on or before
said date, or be forever barred.
GFX)RiGE R. BLALOCK,
24-5cw ^ Administrator.
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render final accounting of my acts
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originally was organqwd to teadi the
farmers how to make two blades
grow' where onto had been growing.
Todigr we seem to be face-to-face,
with a clash between Ctemarai’s out
side activities and the state depart
ment of agriculture. J. Roy Jdnes,
commissioner of agriculture, submit
ted a monorandum to the house
committee on agriculture in which
he recommended that his office be
authorized to conduct an information
service by udiich farmers miipit list
their surpluses with his crffic^for the
general information of all who might
wish to buy such produce. The plan
suggestjed by Mr. Jrnies seems a good
one to me and I have so indicated. It
appears now that Clemson objects to
Mr. Jones’ plan because Clemson
thinks it should take over all such
activities. Without discussing the de
tails of Mr. Jones’ proposal, which I
have endorsed and still endorse, is
this not a clear case of over-lapping?
Two services of the state are clash
ing, both claiming the right to pro-
ce^. At once the question suggests
itself: if Mr. Jones' originated this
plan why should he not carry it out?
But Clemson counters by saying that
Ctemson already has a marketing
service. And to that Mr. Jones replies
that the farmers don’t know about
it and are not served by it. Well,
that’s a pretty kettle of fish, isn’t it?
Two state services so eager to serve
us farmers that they fight over us.
Let us h(^ that they won’t puU us
j apart in the struggle. Certainly the
issue to me here is the need to' de
fine clearly the activities of these
two services. And whkt will be the
result?' A compromise. So in a De
mocracy we pull and tug and squab
ble instead of putting things in order.
But the freedom of spirit we enjoy is
worth all the confusion And cross
purpose which afflict us. A dictator
could settle all these things in a mo
ment; but the privilege of debate, the
freedom to choose, the opportunity
;to express loyalty and devotion to
institutions arid policies—those things
are the essence of real living. But
they are alsd the obstacles to real
economy.
Suppose every farm or business
were managed by a committee and
had to dc^te every step. When
’ would you plant, cultivate, harvest or
make a creq}, or buy a bill of goods?
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