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Donocracy Must Be Preserved
By CECU. WHITE
Valedictory Address Ddivered At Graduating Exercises
of Clinton High Sdiool Monday Night.
Today Uie basic rudiments of free
dom as guaranteed all American citi-
zens by the Constitution of the Unit
ed States are, after more than a
century of world-wide advancement,
declining and, we fear, sinking Into
a sea of oblivion.
The United States holds the unique
'distinction of being the most demo
cratic nation of the world. But,
' unfortunately for modem civiliza-1
Every means must Im employed by
botlt the American government and
the American people to bring about:
our ideal—peace at home and peace >
abroad. “Nevertheless, we must stand
ready, not only to spend millions, but
io give our services, and even oixr
lives for the maintenance of ouri
American liberties.” j
The nation has embarked on a
CUNTON, S. C.. THirRSDAY, MAY 30, 1940
I (ion, much of the luster is gone from | program of national defense which'
I this badge of honor. Most members' will cost well over a billion dollars. •
j of the family of nations have dropped > As has been their custom when it was!
— fall pretense of having a government!necessary for large sums of money to!
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN, IF? ' tion. A widespread campaign of ‘ the people, by the people and for. be appropriated to meet the internal i
A,s a book the Holy Bible still false ideas and lying promises, delib- the people. threats of uhemplyoment and fam-
viands at the top in sales and distri- ei;alely intended to induce our people I Civil liberties which are universal 1 ine certain conservative factions in
but ion. No book can take its place. to sell their birthright for a mess ofljn a true democracy can be embod-j this nation have howled over an un-
Last year we are told
Bibles were distributed in
tries alW 200 languages.
muddy l3l^d]ng^^men*^^in^landere^ recent conference of educators in j speech, freedom of the press, free-
Thcv are smashed in the ruins of the New York state the charge made | dom of religion and the
of Vorwav and Beleium Thev many teachers are actually m-j right to vote, and many more,
flv with the raiders off the Englishfeulcating the belief that the dictator! Since the onrush of liberalism in
and parnpit pved Chinese bovs'powers of Europe have evolved a|
^ Behind system of government than only true democracy, has proved that,national pretense and an unbalanced
our own. every conceivable internal test can | fuehrer. A mere budget must
7,370,908 pottage spooned out by the dictators, iod in simple terms familiar to every balanced budget and demanded the \ \
40 coun- is being carried on all over America, i American, man or child: life, liberty I destruction of the weapons which are ^
Even school-children are being fed'and the pursuit of happiness. They j necessary to defeat democracy’s ene-
rwith such un-American ideas At a'include the rights of freedom oflmies, both internal and external.
The
question before the people of
the United States is obvious. We
must make up our minds Whether
We would rather have national de-
have evolved a: 1^33, the United States,.the world’s;fense and an unbalanced budget or
not!
ciirry them into the dugouts.
SS'^and^Lo'ndon°Ynd°the1I«^^ methods like that that | be met through democratic process^ j stand in the way of the sui^val of
present administration
^i‘lV.PPt‘Tif“KPnTand"Voura^‘ne"and'Germany was enabled to take pos-jwith success. However, the people!freedom.
th >*RH( k Forest eves strain at the-of several other nations with-1 have shown themselves willing and The
imHP, thp parpfniiv Pi.arried o^t Important resistance. The way ready to forego tradition and circum-{steering the right course: moral and
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had been prepared by the dissemi-1 stances whenever they thought it necj material aid for those powers with
•vv, a » if px prv oation of 4he belief that the German i essary to offset a danger to our form i which the American conscience is in
nat \\(Ulu nappe y po IJ ' of ffnvemmpnt QVTTiTxathv TKora mnct Ko. nr\ intBr-
wc'uld turn at the
some evening and
pi I iphecy: — '
And he shall judge
nations, and shall
saptie'
read
instant
Isaiah’s
sfir of such a book in all the w^ld system would work to the greater ad-; of government.
vantage of the people of Czecho- Today, with a war raging in Eu-
Slovakia, Poland, Norway, Denmark, rope which may bring one man into
and Holland. But for the insidious t dominance of the world, democracy
undercover work of traitors and ad- is facing an even greater test. In
vance agents of the enemy, the peo-) general the American people must
follow
among the
rebuke many
people; and they shall beat their
-words into plowshares, and
’heir spears into pruning hooks:
nation shall not lift up sword
against nation, neither shall they
learn war any more.”
sympathy. There must be no inter
ruption or termination of this policy.
This is no timd for isolation. Isola
tion today may mean desolation to
morrow.
The class which graduates here to
night is typical of thousands through
out the nation. We, the rising gene-
pies of those countries would not! follow a course similar to the one
have been fooled into letting the | taken in internal affairs. They must
Germans set foot inside their boun-j sidestep tradition and precedent j ration, have been steeped in the
daries. whenever and wherever circum- ideals and principles of democracy
I stance may demand. This nation
A NON-PRODUCER [and this government must be pre-
Government is essentially a non- j served regardless of the cost to tra-
by^the two great agents of democ
racy: public education and academic
freedom. We have been endowed
That tact supplies the key [ ditions and precedents which were j with an unbi^eakable trust. Our job
■ "why hasn’t pump-1 laid down by ancient statesmen un- and our duty is to carry on in demo-
(ONORATIILATIONS LA-WBlf L’^rrlddle of ....... .
congraiu I government worked?”; able to foresee these modern threats. | cratic methods in the face of disaster,
to our neighbor and county hasn’t w'orked because it has in-! Every means available and imagin-iTo accomplish this, we must exer-
liitions
seal town of Laurens—on the growth
and progress made in the past dec
ade as revealed ov the new census.
Ten years ago Lauren.s had a popu
lation of 5,443. Today it is a thriv-
little city of 6,833, an increase of 1,-
395. This is a gain of 25.6 per cent.
evitably drawn more and more fi
nancial life-blood from industries
and individuals, at the expense of
piitate productive spending. It
hasn't worked because it has so ex
able must be employed to bring!else every right and every privilege
about their pr^rvation. j which democracy offers. We must
Our policy is clear cut. We must {vote at every opportunity in order
be a good neighbor to those nations j to block the rise to power of an ir-
which will be our good neighbors.
tended political power over Indus- j There must be no infringement upon
try that private capital has been dis-iour own territorial integrity, or upon
.So far in the 1940 enumeration Laur-j eouraged and driven into hiding. It j our sphere of dominance, the West-
ens has shown the greatest percent-
of population gain in this dis-
trict comprising the counties, of Laur
ens. Greenville. Spartanburg and Un
ion. the census director has stated.
The fine showing made' by our
neighbor indicates that the town has
taken on new life and isi forging
ahead as one of the leading cities of
the Piedmont section, and we would
hasn’t worked because it has ap- [
plied so much of our resources to
political, rather than economic ends.
Truth is, take political power, pat- •
ronage and spending from the so- j
called New Deal and it woul^ melt
and be forgotten in less than ninety;
days. j
In the past ten years, we have {
ern Hemisphere.
responsible minority. The heritage
must Jbte kept intact and handed down
to posterity.^
The continuity of the legacy must
never be broken.
Nobodjr’s Business
By Gee McGee
j ner hyde polished her setting room
I floor and washed her curlings in
I front of the house, the drug stoar
washed his front shoW windows and
now you can tell what he has in
them from the outside. .
I
arid, iheie are few towns anywhere which we have not yet earned-in t hell at the flat rock high scholl last' strip-down that is owned jointly by
which there reside a fifter_l»0P^« addition lo those othe^'HWtMons ac- fridar nlchr-and s irnn/t was'lhim and the “tsasy-way-to-nar*
in
and more progressive leadership than
in Laurens. Congratulations from
neighbor- to neighbor.
spent some thirty
which we have not
billion dollars
yet earned—in
Commencement Exercises
our commencement exrcises were!
mr. slim chance, jr., washed the
friday night" and a‘good tlffl* was-him and the ‘Isasy-way-to-pay^ J ^
tually collected in taxes—in combat-1 had by all ^except holsum moore whojereddick company, he is a-feared to
ing depression. Ar^ ^about all we [went to sleep and fell out of a win-'make it look too nice; they mought
have,..to show^'for it is the highest |dow enduring the performance, his | re-possess it from him. the mayer
'I national debt in our history, forty-1 collar bone was thought to have benn had his off is sw^t out and the 2
NAVY NEEDS SIRONG M.VN ; live billions of dollars. Has busi-j broke, but it was only bent, the I mattresses in the cally-boose were
Secretary of the Navy, Charles ness been stimulated and depression i small flask he had in his hip pocket! sunned 2 days each, they are verry
Edi.son, has been nominated for gov- conquered? No.—look at any of the | was totally destroyed, this com-
t rnor of New Jersey, and will resign standard indexes* and you will find! mencement is an annual affair and is
shortly. This means that a cabinet that it, is not far'above the worst
;x)st upon which grave responsibili- depression lows. Have the unem-
ties rest just now, is soon to be va- ployed been put to work? No—ac-
cated. * cording to the last surveys, unem- i
good nuittresses, having benn bought
enduring 1929.
The Washington Merry-Go-Round ployment today is about as great
column writes jthat President Roose-, a problem as at any time in the past
velt wants to replace Edison with, seven years. This is the fruit of a
Col. Frank
put on by our afficient schoU prin
ciple, miss jennie veeve smith. mrs. holsum moore has re-papered
♦ i her dining-room and holsum is plah-
after all was said and done, rev.jning to kivver her fremt proch some
will waite, our local minnister, had' time when the weather is not too hot
to preech the backy-laurate sermont.
the man they thought was coming
over from georgy to do so could not
Knox, prominent Re- ; policy which has discouraged private,
(Vdmed the-^ter twice b«ausj oil which has peiwlia^ and stifled bi^i- ^as no time on his 1^ for
strong opposition from GOP leaders.. ness, and which m many cases has
The authors of the widely-read col-' actually put the . government into
umn further state that the president busincsss as a competitor, using the
wants to replace War Secretary j unbeatable weapons of tax-subr'dies
and taxTfreedom. - Never w{A there-
Woodring, probably ^ with Louis
Johnson, and Ladibr S^retary Fran
ces Perkins with Mayor Fiorella La-
Guardia. It is to be hoped the latter
rumor is true. Sister Perkins should
have been "sent to the showers” long
\Vith the announcement that Edi
.son is quitting his post. President
no tune on
outside intrusts, he believed in the
purge verry stroi^ when it was be
ing put on and is sorry that it did off
not succeed, he says his state is
verry poorly reppersented all the
way from kurriner’s offis to the
u.s. sennate. he rote that he would
to work, he can’t stand heat verry
well since he got on rrtiel. mrs. icy
waiters re-trimmed her hat and
changed her hoses from tan to
chrom, and she allso has painted
her lips 2 shades redder, the pond
b^ind the city hall was dreened
and sevveral muskeeters were
drowned.
the papiers and trash on main street
were picked up betwixt the drug
so grave a lack of confidence in the
future as there is today. Confidence
a ™^ot‘'wo‘3'if"'™u'“;;- ™!?-'ihi-Tut''ev;c-Shrt;r.';:. a''nd-i.Xr‘1tamh. "u S
’ got in. he did not say “where.” j like a fail avenue now. mr. tom head
had his over-halls washed and his
will make investments now in a busi
ness enterprise. They are all afraid
and will tell you so in quick order,
it’s time we adopted a policy of
the chief atraction on the com- nake shaved, miss tiny moore had
mencement program was a short in- her hair finger-waved and the wart
terlude danced by misses jennie, remoced from her nose, mr .eddi-
veeve and sallie veeve smith betwixt tor, it pays to have a clean-up week
Ruosevell is facing one of the most' aiding and encouraging business, to
important appointments he has been' the end that the real productive in-
calleri on ^ make since assuming' fluences of this country be utilized.
Granting that from his ser- It’s
oflice. Granting that from his ser- Its time we made it possible for
Mce as a former assistant secretary i capital to go confidently to work
oi the Navy, the President possess- ■ to build arid rebuild. It’s' time to
e.' an intimate Knowledge of naval*stop spending and wasting, and play-
affairs, he has not the time, nor is itMng politics at the expense of taxpay-
h IS job—to operate the navy and ers. More than 400,000. new offices
1 have been created by the Roosevelt
war departments.
If conditions bre as serious as j administratibn.' This is jusUone ex-
Pre&irient Roosevelt has painted the; ample, of.what we are talking about,
picture, the navy, right now, needs! It’s time to stop taxing and bor-
a full time, rigorous and hard-work-!'rowing. ' It's time for .01$ to listen to
ing secretary chosen for his ability {wise counsel of business men (not
e nd knowledge regardless of j?oU- [ Washingten ppl}tician3.) who point
tics. The same is true of thb War-to the vital necessity of cooperation
department.* This Is an impierative With and for business—instead of to
need of naltonar defense.. The trou- the theorists apd extremists with
ble too often is that important ap-jt^ir hgrsh pltmos^hies of <lestruc-
poiniments .are made for political tion. lt!s time for the exercise of
reasons rather than upon the basi^ irttelligence and common sense on the
the first and secont acts of the play
entitled—“who broke the loc^c wi
the hen-house door.” they done a
little bit of himba and hula' and
charleston and black-bottont and
then the curting went up. a.large
concourse of love^ones and friends
was pressent to see the charade and
altoo enjoy their children in the
manny plays and speeches indulged
in.
every year or
take a look.
so; come down and
yores trulie,
mike lark, rfd,
corry spondent.
some excitement took place when
one of the hifi^ school girls dropped'
a lit cigarette on some of the mossi
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Stajidari Products
Cars Washed aad Greased
Your Biiaineae Apipredated
of training and quaUfkatiofts.
iPart of (fur aroused'public marching
: tu. the bad lot box to >declaij|e them-
I selves for an end in spending, bor
rowing, taxing and wasting! The
country has had an overdose of “dope
ON GUARD. AMERICA
It is especially important, in the
light of .the government’s concern at
this time about national defense, for shots” from the United States* treas-
all citizens to be watchful lest secret lury,
agents of possible enemy nations find* • ■ ' ■ ■
ways to hamper America’s prepara-! TWO PRHpE WIHATERS
tions against war. \ Van Jones and .Ned Haff have been
We are not thinkintf so much about | announced as winners of the prizM
physical “sabotage,” the destruction; given this year by J. B. Frontis, local
or injury of industrial plants m
which munitions are beind manufac
tured. Doubtless thefe will be mani
festations of that ,sort of activity,
as there were in the period preceding
the first World War. So, long as
American industry is making planes
the hi^
jeweler, to members of
school graduating class.
Mr. Frontis each year arranges u
cl(x;k with as many numbers as there
are members of the class surround
ing the face, each number corre
sponding with a student’s name. The
scenery and set it on fire, but the
poleesman rushed in with a bucket
of watter and put it out befoar it
had done much dammage except
burnt up the theme song which was
rote on a card board, he always
totes sevveral buckets of watter fo^
places where things is going on and;
this is not the first time he hasj
stoi^ied a big ftre just befoar it got:
started, it was all a big suckcess |
ahd is another laurel in miss jennie I
veeve smith’s crown of progress an-j
spfprthf
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and weapon.s for the Allies it is cer-j student on whose number the hand
tain that German spies will seek}of the clock stops is awarded a prize
means to prevent or impede those
operations. But we are thinking more
of the sort of subtle attack which
endeavors to undermine our natkm-
al strength by sowing the seeds of
dissension among our people.
That is going on, there is no ques-
Last week the clock stopped mid
way between tiyo numbers and both
graduates were allowed to make
their choice from a number of gifts.
The New York city fire depart
ment perscmnel number* 10322.
CHeaa-Up Wtek In Flat .Reek
by order of the town council of
fiaf rock, we. Irad a clean-up week
pre^am last week and now ever-
thing looks spi^ and span. mr. art
square moved his pig pen iron the
east side of his bam to the west side
of it and whitewashed it outside, he
allso had his ihoes shined and got a
nice hair cut and shave at the all-
nite bobber shop, he l<X}ks like a
stranger now.
j
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miss jennie veeve smith cut the
weeds on the tennis coart back be
hind her bwdiag house and painted
the two ,rodiifif drairs that ahmy*
sets in the front pi-azza. mrs. sUn-
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