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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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COMMENTS ON
MEN AND THINGS
By Spectator
i land little information, and departing
performed by men beyond fifty years empty handed insofar as plotting tne
of age; the army is full of desk jobs course of their business is concerned,
held by able-bodied, vigorous young t ^s a matter of fact, te national
men who are the cream of the serv- production authority, which handles
Our Methodist torethern would not
move Wofford college from Spartan
burg, would they? We who are not
Methodists think of Wofford as a ices
South Carolina shrine, forever con- j How does anyone
in the far east has risen considerably' need 46 seats to win the house. Aoltricts are in these 12 states,
as a result of this meeting and the tually they need 48, since Demo- No one here is willing to predict
brilliant military victories in Korea, crat! schecIuled ta lake the ^ what will happen in New York now
. u.c ....... proaucuon auinomy. wnjcn nano.es t''^^handlinl o! Vit0 Marcan, « ni<J . AmericanH 1 ' H h ich U joe Hanley lieutenant rov-
ice and ot the nation physically Men : most allocaUops and priorities l!! “^e^rean s tuaton as a camt Laboi- party member in New York sena!or , a i no n,inee. °dis-
who can manage enterprises at fifty ; merely issuing tentative and prelim-; . . .^ 'and the lone Republican seat in Tex- u; J __,’_.i.u
and sixty are more capable than a'inary orders, since they do not yet palgn lssue ‘
imagine
^ e ? U ^' Ca v scai ! closed hi- poltical-financial deal with
as. Battleground for house control
Dewey They say it certainly cannot
lot of boys; they would provide bet-lj^ow the full extent of the military Even Republican - political dope- will be in the middle west where h ' he ticket g nd ma
ter alministration in the armed serv- and stock-piling needs. It is expected “— u — 54 '•“' ,4 - " i " v ' 4
sters here admit privately that it j Democrats won 35 seats in eight
will take at least an international' states in 1948. and the North Atlan-
prove extremely hurtful to the GOP
secrated by the fine men who were, Universal Military Training will im- 1 only then will full defense spending
trained there; and the great souls;prove the physical stamina of the get under way.
of that faculty contributed immea- young men? If “boot-training" will) Thus far miiitary has spent
Burably to the enrichment of our rebuild our manhood, why not foot-, onl a small of man ey avail-
life. If only Dr. James H. Carlisle ball? As for the purely military ab]e which has had little impact
were remwnbered it would be training: men learn to fight in the Qn the nation . s productive economy,
enough, but there was the eloquent areas of war and usually have to be d a is this argU ment administra-
Dr. Henry Nelson Snyder, the sound retrained when they arrive in the tion ]€aders are us i n g against those
Doctor DuPre, the unforgetable Dr.! theatres of combat. The ordinary pa-j who want imme diate inauguration
Clmckscales—and many others. I rade drill is of small importance to- of ice( wage and ration CO ntrols,
would not forget the scholarly his- day. - -
torian, Dr. D. D. Wallace. We Americans run off at a tang-
Now would our brethren move ent most of the time. What sort of
that these requirements will not be will take at least an international > states in 1948 and the North Atlan- - throughout New York state
that known before another 60 days, and or domestic crisis before November tic states of New York. New Jersey. r ,
7 to prevent the Democrats from Pennsylvania and Connecticut, where
retaining control of both house and they picked up 24 seats. In November
senate. Statistically Republicans'29 of the doubtful Democratic dis-l
STTISCRIBF TO TWr. CHRONICUI
“The Paper Kverrbody
along with tightening of the priority
on raw materials.
on us? Certainly it has. What is the
argument for consolidating Wofford
and Columbia? Expense? Efficiency?
South Carolina Methodists are not
poor, so it is not a matter of means.
But is it the modem idea of effi
ciency? Are women so like men that
they should all be taught together?
I challenge it. A woman may be su
perbly trained in Philosophy and
6ome branch of science, yet be badly
untrained if not full of the special
graces tnd arts of womanhood. After
Columbia College to Spartanburg? training is this to be and what pur- D In w ^ meantim€ ’ Alan \ alentine,
Well, it wouldn’t be Columbia Col- pose is to be achieved? The real lack Ro , ch ^ s ^ university president and
lege. Hasn’t Columbia College claims among us is usually the disastrous i ndustnal director, has set up shop
lack of competent officers. All those temporarily borrowing about 25 peo-
mistakes arf paid for on the field' ? le ^mother government agencies'
to get the new economic stabiliza
tion administration under way. It is
' expected this agency will be housed
c 1 in one of the many temporary build-
less tobacco
of battle.
to buy residence telephone service today
than it did 10 years ago ...
As Washington Sees It.. . llngs erected during ,he war During
THE NATIONAL SCENE
this preliminary era of setting up
these and the other control agencies
in interior and agriculture, there is!
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Special to The Chronicle. imo.e personnel, probaoly at .east
Washington, Nov. 6—As the nation 18,000 within the next few weeks, J
all, the principal mission of a woman; moves nearer to complete economic! and the finding of some 1,600,000
is to be fully adequate, complete and and military mobilization. Washing-| stJuare fee * of additional office space..
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gracious woman. Many women are
in business and no one can deny that
they are capable. But the majority'
of women are not in business.
A great University is ont thing; a
small college is something else. Am-
ton is again taking on the appear-1 On the political front, newsmen
ance of waf capital, although we are whp attended the Wake Island meet-
still technically at peace with the 1 ing between President Truman and 1
world
Thousands of business representa
tlves are streaming into the city tax-
General. MacArthur, are unanimous
in their belief that the President’s
stock has soared politically, although
erica owes much to the small col- ing the capacity of hotels; conferring he had no political motive in mind
leges. I know many men in Columbia
and. throughout South Carolina be-
«ause we were at Carolina when it
was an institution of few students;
we knew the professors well, also;
so well, in fact, that many of them
were called by nicknames, such as
“Spooks’* and “Parson”—and the
like. At Washington and Lee the
boys spoke of the professors as “Sis
sy”, "Bc/je", “Daddy” etc. “Sissy"
was a man of eminence in Physics,
whereas “Babe” became nationally
known as the technical adviser in the
preparation of the Federal Reserve
Act.
At New York University, with its
forty thousand students, I knew no
body there but the janitor; though
I roomed in Gould Hall on the cam
pus; nor do 1 remember any pro
fessor except Dean Wellington Tay
lor, whom, I warmly cherisn; he
stood out in his broad grasp and
open-mindedness, as well as his
splendid manliness.
What value is a college? A man
wishing to be a chemsit will be
trained in the basic facts of chemis
try; but the man who is trying to
acquire a bit of culture, with a bit
of all-round adaptability, will for-1
get most of the facts; however, if;
he sits before a grand old teacher
like James H. Carlisle or Gordon B.
Moore he will want to be something,J
somebody, in a proper sense; he will
want to carry his part of the burden
of the day.
The great teacher is one who can
set you on fire, arouse you to a re
solve to do something, be somebody!
After all, everyone has more ability
than he uses, perhaps more than he
is conscious of the stuff is in us, if
we will use it!
What is wrong with our young
men? So far as National Military
Training is concerned I think the
vaunted military training is no cure
for anything. On the face of it our
physical requirements are either ab
surd or are ridiculously interpreted.
We are a nation of football and base
ball people. And men who can go
coon hunting are physically able to
serve as soldiers; and it must be
so in hundreds of thousands of cases
of men who are rejected. If the
American Revolution had been de
pendent on perfect specimens of
manhood we would today be bowing
to King George. Probably twenty
fiye per cent of our military work,
or related work, could be efficiently
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If you paid your telephone bill
with leaf tobacco, residence tele
phone service would cost you
less today than it did in 1940. In
spite of the moderate increase in
telephone rates, the average charge for a month’s
residence telephone service in South Carolina
would now amount to only 7Vi pounds of to
bacco as compared to 15 pounds in 1940.
Compare telephone service also with wages
and the cost of living. In the past ten years,
hourly wages in manufacturing plants have
more than doubled and the overall cost of liv
ing has gone up about 74% while, in the same
period, residence telephone rates in South Caro
lina have advanced on the average only 56%.
In other words the price >ou pay for tele
phone service has gone up far less than the
price of leaf tobacco, far less than wages and
family income and far less than most commodi
ties and services you buy every day.
Meanwhile, the amount of telephone service
available at your local service rate has increased
immensely. Today throughout most of South
Carolina you can call and he called from nearly
three times as many local telephones as you
could ten years ago.
Yes, telephone service is today a bigger bar
gain and a smaller item in the family budget
than it ten years ago.
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