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Conclusions
No less a person than General Ei
senhower has said that “the army of
and interest on National Bible, the entire world. Our literature, High school graduates should know
Week. And the place to start is in mathematics, and science ought to that it was the investment of pri-
ga r c/ 1 ' their res pc' n s rtji 1 i ty ° and d pa ss ^ ^ these f te3c |;- vate. capital the intelligent manage- ^^".ho" urge'greater and'greater
same on to the church and other L* _ 3 d n ° w taughk as separate sub- merit of industry and the^sweat j er centr aii za tion of authority and
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agencies.
BABSON'S
jects
I am most concerned that so few a team that made American great
of our children (I won’t embarrass They should know that American
adults) can ,explain how their city, free enterprise with all of its weak
willing workers pu. ing toge.hei a> g rea j er dependence upon the Feder
al treasury are really more danger
ous to our forfn of government than
uerprise wiui an m its vv ^ a ''" any external threat that can possibly
state or even nation, is run. They nesses has made it possible for them be arraye d against us.” What are the
don’t know enough about the his- to have the highest standard o 1V “. schools in your community teaching
tory and development of our coun- ing in the world. about this?
cations are over. Youngsters are back t r y to understand what really made Our high school graduates should
at school. What will they learn this us great. They probably have read be given, in addition to a study of
year that will make about the vulcanizing of rubber in the various “isms”, an impartial re-
them happier, bet- 1839, the early sensitized photograph- port of the American businessman’s
ter integrated per- ic plates in 1851, and the first At- point of view that excessive taxes
Babson Park, Mass., Oct. 14. Va-
C LINTON. S. t ., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20. 1949
Welcome for Homecoming |spreading like a prairie fire—is to| ed for ' them in t he public school-
Clinton extends its hand Friday! high SDeed toward national insol . room the American workers stand-
sonalities? What hie plates in 1851, and the first At- discourage venture capital and the
will our schools lantic cable in 1866. They know, too, initiative that made us great. It;
teach them about at>out the invention of the telephone should be made crystal clear to stu- j
the greatness of and phonograph and of electric mo- dents that unless business, big and (
their country, and tors - the X-Ray, the automobile, air- small, can develop in the future as
what made it great?, P' ane > and motion picture. it has in the past, the economic ad-
Most of our, Education And Business vantages will not be as great for
youngsters will But no one seems ever to have told future workers and investors as they
learn that the Pil- them what has developed the inven- have been for past generations.
Rar»v.B»t>M* grims landed in tions into great American industries.
Plymouth. They will have heard of ’
the battle of Bunker Hill. They know
something about Paul Revere. But
they will never have set foot inside
any plant, large or small, to catch the
spirit and romance of American pro
duction. Few will ever have contrast-
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, , , . , high speed toward national insol-
to old fnends returning; v while Congress sleeps.
1949 homecoming.
in welcom
for PC
The occasion is a high spot each 1
year as townsmen renew acquain
tances with college alumni. For ajl_ a b or Union BoSSCS
The Democratic party has
We Have Boot-Licked
closer bond exists between the stu
dents who go through their four-vear
been
tours at Presbyterian and the citi-' r a S ';’' y , ac ' used ot hav ‘"* >><•<“-«<*-
sens of Clinton than is found in ^, la r ^ r f un “" s ev * r . a “** F n D ,
, I*. R- first ran for the presidency. But
most similar relationships. •* ,. .. F
F it wasn t the
Both the city and college
unions—it was the
are bosses. The party figured that the
small enough for personal contacts 1 bosses could lead them by the nose;
to take solid toot Clinton encour- an d to make sure, they passed laws
ages these contacts, and the stud- an d made rulings which gave those
ents leturn its interest with deep bosses almost life and death pow-
feeling. - er over the ordinary members.
Probably the best example of this ybe game worked perfectly un
mutual icgaid is the high esteem til a patriotic congress—the 80th,
residents hold for faculty members passed a i aw _ t he Taft-Hartley law
uho teach the students. It over- —which gave back the union mem-
..outd last Friday night when lo-; ber some of the freedom and digni-
eal merchants and Chamber of (ty which as an American citizen he
Commerce members teamed with' s ; e * tiUed to receive The b ig l a -
thosi of Gieenville in honoi mg bor dictators went wild, they threat-
Athlttie Dnector Walter A. John- en ed and cajoled, and scared the in-
son and head Coach Lonnie S. Me- cumbent weak administration into its
Millian. Clintonians are planning attitude against the Taft-Hartley
more of the same at halftime this 1 i aw
Friday night. i-,.., having
ard of living, working hours, and
! conditions with those of the work
ers of Britain, Russia, or even so
cialistic Sweden.
But our kids will know about Cae-;
sar and ancient Romfc and Socrates
and Aristotle. And they will make
abortive attempts to learn Latin and
French. I did! They will have their
minds disciplined and their brains |
sharpened by drawing meaningless
geometric figures on a blackboard
and by stating geometric propositions
and citing corollaries. Q. E. D.! But
they cannot spell; they will be unable
to write a business report, or speak 1
grammatically, or add a column of,
figures or make accurate change. Ev
en more important, will they have a
grasp of our social, economic, and
political problems sufficient to make 1
them intelligent voters?
Education For American Civilization
Present-day education ought to,
feature the history and romance of
American professions, industry, mer- j
chandising and commerce to which
the students owe their present high
standard of living—the very best in
Clinton and Presbyterian are
more than just a city and an insti
tution. separate and apart. They
are interwoven through long years
of service to each other. They have
grown up together since the wean
ing ytars after the founding of the
college in 1880. It was known as
Clinton College then.
And there is intermingled the ev
en stronger bond of a graduate's af
fection for his Alma Mater. For
most college graduates in Clinton to suffer cold and
attended P C., and its Homecoming coal now) wh
So the Taft-Hartley law
been sidestepped, the labor big shots
are again on the throne and it is
going to require another patriotic
congress (not Truman kind) tc
bring these haughty dictators down
to our level.
At the moment the boot-licked
hens are coming home to roost, and
they’re roosting all over 12 million
folks. We all have to suffer cold
union laborers as well as on 125 mil
lion of us common folks. We all have
unger (there is no
hat czar John L
If You Don’t Read
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You Don't Get the News
is a day of tribute from them, too. ( Lewis waves hfs big expensive cigar
Welcome P C. alumni and vis- at the poor saps'who together with us
itors for Home-coming. ! are slaves. And don't stop with
Lewis, there are Murray and Brid-
Dodging Our Shore ges , a , nd s<;v f al f ° r «en im -
^ J . o , . portations. For this degrading sit-
The Senate voted Sa urday night, uation Democrats and Republicans!
by a close vote to shelve the Dis-! r nsible , those of the l2 m il-
piaod Persons Bill for this session Uon union members who are still
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of Congress by recommitting it to
committee after holding up action
on the measure for months. This
kills the last chance at this session
unaware that the Taft-Hartley law!
gives them back much of their!
freedom inspite of the repeal. But j
. i u ,• „u A r 01084 o4 a U * 4 48 4410 4au44 o4 44le
to liberalize the DP Act of 1948 to American farmers. They believed
pern.it 134.000 more need y Europ- w i ld p romise that was madei
ean refugees to come to the United them and they didn't even take the
Staus. Thus far only a small num- ; trouble to count the oonsequences
bei of these displaced persons have to themselves or t0 the publiC) if
here from Europe Reports on those ises were kept,
nher of such families located, In the me anwhile 380,000 mem-
in _ 18 8at m ica ^ ty a,e , bers of Lewis' union are on strike,
come
a num
ing good citizens and are eager to I
work for
their families. We
our humanity,
with cold weather fast approaching.
' ‘M’ 1 H i° d ‘ U ^ ) ? OIt This situation can’t go on much
W “ b ^ s ' oureelv “ longer. Every citizen in this com-1
, , , . , I ^ :>OUIt ' es an munity where there is a critical coaC
leadership in world affairs, and yet shorta ge_ 5h0 uld fire protests at the
we refuse to do our share when hu- district . s congressman and the two
man lives are at stake. Many o] senators demanding that they go
these people are victims of war and t0 work and help se tti e this dispute.,
totalitarianism, due to no fault of For politlcal favor or because J
theirs, and they need help, they are > fear> the Democratic party sold out
asking for a chance to start life un i on [ ab or bosses. And because!
o\ei again. And what does Con-: 0 f this fact, conditions get worse rath-]
gress do? Filibuster and evade this : er than improve. What is happening!
humanitarian measure intended to is disgraceful in what is supposed to j
salvage deserving people from deteri- be a free America. We need a gen-|
oration. ! eral house-cleaning in Washington)
all along the line, beginning with j
Two Billion Eggs the chief executive.
We read much about government j # ^
eggs now-a-days. Spoiling eggs—' Notional Bible Week
millions of them—are »a terrible! Annually the third week in the
thing The Department of Agricul- 1 mo nth of October is designated as
ture has 2,304,000,000 stored eggs, National Bible Week. The date is
which are threatening to spoil be- October 17-23 to focus the attention 1
cause the government went into the of men and women on . th basi |
egg business to hold up prices house- , principles of Christianity which
wives must pay. A glaring example of' ^ .u • i
government extravagance and med- 1 tn iij C u V1 12 h i W ^ r ^ IS f UP I
dling. and for this enormous bill | ^ w hile to much of
the American taxpayers must pay. 1 We call Ame a r - ca ° meaning
Our egg crop is hatching trouble Q . tr . . na *
u „„ 4lon - and y e4 we hav e little to pride
ourselves upon as Christians. We
and causing headaches. It is an ex
ample of stupidity.
Marching to Socialism
Senator Byrd of Virginia, who al
ways says something when he talks
—said in a speech the other day,
‘America is on the march to social-
ism .
have the highest crime rate and de
linquency in all history. There are
three times as many people in pen- i
al institutions as are attending un
iversities and colleges. There is
more intemperance, more legalized'
selling and dfinking of liquor than
ever before in the nation, more
Those who observe and use their stealing, more murder, more disre
brain, know that the Senator is gard and defiance of law. Racial!
right, that the pace of the march is and class hatreds are rampant, and
increasing to the tempo of expand- turning to the international scene
ing federalized programs and in- 1 what do we see—a failure on the
creasing national debt. This deficit part of multiplied millions of people
financing of federal programs in ( to live up to the basic ideajs of
time of peace is piling up a federal! Christianity. This has lead to mis-
debt to proportions in which thejery and despair for millions, to a
liberties’* of free enterprise cannot, cold war, unrest and uncertainty,
survive. Americe needs men ini and dangerous dictatorships. In
public life of the calibre of Byrd if
the present brand of socialism—
face of such facts it would seem 4
appropriate to focus our attention
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