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I • THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Cleon Newspaper, Complete Newsy and Reliable (Slip (Eltnfrm If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume III Clinton, S. C, Thursday, March 15,1951 Number 11 COMMENT ON MEN AND THINGS By The Spectator War is an excuse for every scheme that active minds can “conqure up.” It seems that everybody has a plan: one man’s plan would tax us out of existence; another man knows that without this or that we shall surely be beaten and find ourselves “one with Nineveh and Tyre”, as I re call Kiphng. “Education,” as we commonly speak of a certain bit of school training, is not a cure-all for our trouble. Sound, true “educaton” would probably be worth a great deal, but what is “Ed ucation”? Ilf one acquires certain basic training in mathematics and the mathematical sciences is he “ed ucated”? He may be, or he may not be. He may be profoundly learned in geology and foe so narrow in every thing else, including routine life around him, that he could qualify as a learned man, but not as an edu cated man. Specialists may be, and frequently are, thoroughly “ground ed” in narrow ranges of restricted areas of knowledge. As to life and living in general they may not be as alive and alert as many a lad whose scholarship reaches only the dizzy heights of the comics. Many men of eminence in the profounder reaches of abstract reasoning are in clined to futile or fantastic specula tions on all the everyday interests and problems. Just in a general way 1 wonder if our best educated people are those who have a broad range of sympathy but no absorbing con centration on one subject. I cannot say that our country is afflicted with educated people or over-educated people. How can one be over-educated? If education en ables one to use his powers and pre pares. him to function usefully in his surroundings how can he be over educated? What leads me into this is the thought that we have thousands of men of adtive minds who use a lot of language and confuse a lot of people. They even deceive themselves by their fluency of speech and facil ity of pen—or typewriter. Sound men, men wth both feet on the ground, are often amazed and then disgusted by remarks, statements, theories and half-baked ideas flowing out of Washington all the time. We are inclined to take a word or an expression and run wild. What is “inflation”? Mr. Truman thinks one thing and the Federal Reserve Board thinks something else. Well, what is it? Any deflniton will be tire some but we have inflation when prices go up, generally. Why do they go up? (Perhaps those who have something to sell realize that money is plentiful. Even in a small area we Don't wonder..., DO SOMETHING! 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When our government sells a bil lion dollars of bonds that calls for a billion dollars from somewhere. If repeated it may make necessary new money, new deposits, new spending— and all that. When money is plenti-" ful the man with a house wants more; then everybody wants more. The next phase of the problem is to deflate, or reduce inflation. We hear discussion on the subject of more bonds or fewer bonds. Every group has a specialist who can talk till the end of time. If we quit buying, prices will come down. If I have a development with a hundred build ing lots, priced at $1,000 each, and those lots drag along I’ll have to re duce the price, unless my banker friends would be so indulgent as to say: “Don't worry; take all the time you want; we don’t want the money.” If the lots don’t move reasonably well the banker will not risk his de positors’ money forever just because he likes you; he has to keep in touch with values and demand. In our country we have developed such a harrow political partianship that men of distinction as economists, as well as men in high office, will agree with whatever the President says, just like the case of an emi nent Admiral who wished to do his native port a favor and asked to be heard first. He knew that his sub ordinates would hesitate to contra dict him, or even to take issue, mild ly. We, too, are regimented; we think in harmony with our group. You will recall that, some weeks ago, 2 argued from the Constitution that the President had no authority to make commitments, or to send troops without the sanction of Con gress. The distinguished pastor of President Wilson has recently sited the same provisions of the Consti tution in his timely letter opposing all this ridiculous argument about the prerogative of the President. Even so good a man as Congressman Richards has declared that the Pres ident’s authority to send troops abroad is clearly established. Mr. Richards, by the way, is a level headed, clear-thinking and able Rep resentative, but he must have ab sorbed too much of the fog on the Potomac in this matter. What is most astonishing in our country today is that we are thinking along most lines as political parti sans; “let's stand by the President,” seems to be the rule, instead of “let's stand by the country.” To show to what absurd and dangerous lengths this partisan loyalty can go, it is told reliably that a certain jurist once argued to support a Governor for ar resting again for the same offense a man who had been pardoned. The argument was made that “we should stand by the Governor." Fortunately for that State other judges didn’t play politics. Because of the Constitutional ques tion involved—and it is of funda mental importance—I argued—and still contend—that the man tried by the State and acquitted in Dorchester cannot be lawfully tried again for that crime. He was under the juris diction of the State; he was prose cuted by the State; he was acquitted by the State. There may have been politics in the case, as people say, but that can’t change the Constitu tion. If there was anything wrong, why not proceed against those who did the wrong? I do not know any of the people in the case; I am not speaking for or against anyone; I should like to know whether the Constitution still is the Supreme Law of the Land. As to curbing the President, I find myself out of sympathy with his plans to put on the backs of the American taxpayer the ills, failures, backwardness of Europe, or the un- progressiveness of Asia. The Cholos, ordinary Indians, of Peru don’t want to adopt the cus toms of lima or Cajamarca, Chiclayo, Trujillo, Chachapoyas or Arequips, nor, indeed of Cuzco. When the time comes for certain fiestas the Cholos come on their little burros from the Sierras and camp on the outskirts. Perhaps the burro carries a bundle of alfalfa strapped under his throat and the Indian man may be astride him, letting the wife and children follow on foot, the woman carrying a baby on her back. Asiatics, the rank and file, have their own life; they want to continue it, nor can they be helpfully bequiled from it by tons of American provisions. They are eager for American gold, of course, but not to buy American goods or to adopt American habits. There is a great leisure in the liv ing of Cholos and Asiatics—our American Indians, also. They are basically of the same original strain many centuries ago. They like to sit and muse or dream, though I think most of them “just sit.” If they de voted all their sitting time to thought or thinking they would make Soc rates, Pbrto and Aristotle seem Uke amelMfins psstendsrA far they here of ttzae, all the tfcn* Two Bills On County Wildlife Being Considered Legislation concerning wildlife in the county is being considered by the delegation, according to Senator R. T. Wilson. Sen. Wilson said he plans to intro duce a bill providing a $2 bounty for foxes killed in the county. He ex plained that he plans to follow along the general lines of a similar bill in Greenville county. He said the large numibers of fox- there is, as a matter of fact. The Cholos may bring some simple something for sale. A man asked a Cholo how many straw hats he had for sale. The Indian replied “siete”— 7. “How much do you want for one?” “Fifty centavos”—about 20 cents in our money. “How much do you want for all seven?” “Five hundred cen tavos.” "But I want to buy all you have and that would be 350 cen tavos. You should sell the seven for less.” I don’t want to sell seven; I want to sell one.” “Why”? "Well, if I sell all seven what will I do?” So he had to sell something each day in order to feel justified in remain ing In town. We Americans bumbling, bounc ing, purse-proud, presumptuously want to convert all the world to our standards. The world will do better to change its life gradually and from within. They are happy even in their squalor and poverty. What they want is just enough rice and plenty of time to do as they please. es have (become a menace to chicken and turkey raisers. Sen. Wilson pointed out that 12 foxes were scared up in two days during a recent Beagle trial in the county. The bill would call for signing of an affidavit plus producing both ears of the fox to collect the bounty. He said probably any seller of licenses may be authorized to pay the bounty which will come out of the county funds in the office of the State Game Warden. He reported that the coun ty has about $6,000 in their game fund alloted by the state. The other wildlife legislation be ing considered by the delegation is the building of quail hatcheries in the county to restock the supply. Sen. Wilson said County Game Warden Garvin B. O’Dell has sug gested that some of the county’s game funds be used for this purpose instead of buying the stock as in the past. Sen. Wilson said he had inspected the quail hatcheries in Newberry county and termed the program “a definite success.” He added that the State Game department had advised him that it was too late to plan on a) large scale, but that if some equip ment can be bought, it is not too late to inaugurate the practice. He said the delegation is seriously con sidering the possibilities of using hatcheries to replenish the supply of quail in the county. Hamilton Again Named On Diamond Council J. W. Hamilton (rirht), of Colombia, president of Hamilton's, far., which operates a jewelry store in Clinton of which B. C. Preslar is mana ger. is shown above conferring with Professor Paul J. Storm, head of the Earth Sciences department of the I’niversity of Pennsylvania (left). Mr. Hamilton, who has been re-elected a director of the Diamond Council of America, has also been appointed a member of the Council’s Educational Advisory committee, which will work closely with Professor Storm. The Diamond Council of America, which consists of leading jewelers throughout the United States who have a total of 450 stores, was organ ized four years ago to stimulate the study of gemology, particularly dia monds. Only jewelers of the highest integrity are admitted to member ship. the board of directors states. 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