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1—^ ft J Page Two THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, February 26, 1953 COMMENT ON MEN AND THINGS Bx The Spectator jscih to take courses under Agassiz The young fellow reported to the he did; he blasted our minds. I know that this will "shock the ! great teacher, with a message from! fond mothers whose little boys obey strictly and never forget. The little boys of today are, then, bet- his fond father. Agassiz shook hands and handed a fish to the lad and said "Look over [ter than they used to be. Some this and see what there is to see.” I years ago nice, obedient, >ndus- j The lad looked over the fish cas- j trious, clean, clean, little boys were ually and went back to the teacher.! so rare that indulgent parents were That old fogey was gone. The lad afraid they ~wduld die young. : felt disgusted, but began idly to J Well, what’s all this about? As _ . . „ a , . n . . oKrt,.* draw the fish, just to kill time. Hei a friend of mine asks, ‘‘What’s all There has-been a lot of talk about; saw things and Ws interest was this got t0 do wit h the high cost r.t ^ taxes, *r hi 0 her taxes n r aroused when, after some hours, the 0 f Jiving”? Fortunately electric- Wl^iihmddtoere be higher taxes” ' j old P rofessor “sha^ed-up” he asked. it y is still cheap and electric power ^e one for excise lor the lad what he had Seen ’ during al1 i s abundant; and our banks have The one reason ror, or excuse lor, time boy showed his nlentv of money. t e sales lax was l at is money orawing and recited all that he had ' . , 1B „j (fl L . nA „ r h w hp n needed for se o° a. The °Pera- observed, the learned old man talk- . tion ot buses is a Khool expense and (t t0 hijI1 several hol b. s tellin repeat nB something the second or should be changed against the re- bout that fish. He taught men to lthlrd t . me ' w ,™‘ d '° 0 h k at 5 ? U m L" ccpts from the sales tax. Isce and , 0 Ai „ k i 0 r themselves. ( cye nd h Now what I mean to The first obligation of the State is t Th at seems to ex-plain Major Coker. say 15 Vus ’ tc offer educational advantages Whet I mean to repeat is this: tnrough the primary grades because! Are we centralizing our school ad-j “Sharing the feeling of most of the majority of our people do not go frimistration too much? It seems so. i my fellow citizens that with the beyond the sixth grade. Thousands The essence of American government' election of General Eisenhower, go on through high school and stop j s j^a] government. We learned that : honor and dignity will be restored there. They have the second claim, j f rom t h e struggles 1 of our English i to their rightful place in the Fed-1 i ic Colleges come third. I am not people. Large schools are not the so- eral government, I have lately been lution of any problem. A standard 1 reading about the enormity of the school should be maintained in any 1 tasks before him. neighborhood which can support it. \ In this connection probably the It is better to have a five-year \ staggering national debt presents school in its own neighborhood, if his greatest problem. Of all the possible, than to send the children | suggested remedies, none has seem- ten or fifteen miles to a central ed to me to have the merits of that school. Again, the authority for de- suggested by Mr. Charles E. Wilson, millions' of Americans leaving for Europe every year? Oh, yes, but they are tourists, traveling with ample money and able to come back. Yet, strangely enough, mil lions of people of Europe want to come , here. And we try to make Europe’s plans a part of our life. Let’s be American and stay so. I didn’t see anything in Europe that I would rather have, did you? Blue Hose Eye Third Straight Little 4 Crown Spartanburg, Feb. 22.—Presbyte rian college will be seeking its 3ri straight Little Four basketball tournament title here next week end. » The fourth annual Little Four tourney will be held at Wofford Friday and Saturday nights. The Presbyterians will meet Ers- kine in the opening game of the tourney for South Carolina’s four ismall colleges. The second Friday night game pits Wofford against the Newberry-/Indians. The two winners play for the championship in the second half of a double-header Saturday night. Friday’s two losers tangle in the prelim fer consolation honors. Presbyterian defeated Wofford, 84-76, in last years finals. It was a rematch of the 1950-51 tourney finalists, PC having won that one, 102-100. Erskine won the inaugural tour- namehf, edging out Wofford, 72-70, in 1950. Coach Joe Robertson’s Terriers have found themselves in the fi nals of every tournament, but they have never walked off with the title. Wofford hopes hinge on their all-state center, Ellerbe “Daddy” Neal, 6-foot-ll giant from Silyer- street, who holds almost every in dividual cage record in the state. / The giant is now within 25 points of shattering the 2,000-point mark. Only 14 cagers had bettered that figure in the nation at the start of this season. Presbyterian is also led by an all-state player, Capt. Paul Nye, a senior from Akron, Ind. WE DO ALL KINDS OF PRINTING —EXCEPT BAD CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. Phone 74 c. -paraging the colleges; I am show- g where the people claim the most . -.en’-jon. It i- perfectly obvious that Jong as we centralize our schools T. e must haye buses. The buses are . necessary service and safety of op eration is unquestionably a major .actor in any bus service. Therefore we can't escape the conclusion that a first claim on the revenues from the sales tax is the operation of the primary schools and a feature of that is safe tranaportation. The ambitio'n to be a builder, to leave great monuments to ourselves. is as old as history itself; the Pha- several schools, bus service, etc., rcahs and all others built menu ments, but the surest memorial of our uselui service is a trained, effi- < :em and useful citizenry, rather than constructions of bricks and mortar. The greatest -need is not ouildimgs; rather, it is for teachers who can set a pupil on fire with useful ambitions; teachers who can ....... .. , lift the mind beyond buildings and F,,sh the best resdlts ' thoueh eve ^ termining the location of a school former Director of Defense Mobili- should be within the County, not in! zation. He proposes the sale of Columbia. The County Superintend-j government power and water proj- ent of Education should be superin-; ects to private owners. He esti- tendent of schools, not a mere paper | mates that approximately $27 bil- worker; nor should the Superintend- lion could be realized from such ent of one school be the overlord of over a large territory Teachers know the value of repe tition. As we read in the Bible: For precept must be upon' precept, sales, which if applied in reduction of the debt would reduce it by some 10 per cent. Such reduction, he reasons, would reduce the annual interest payable by the Treasury about 1-2 billion dollars. Further, precept upon precept; line upon says he, these properties, if well line; here a little, and there a lit- managed in private hands should tie.” Mere repetition may not accom- other surrounddnigs and awaken the Divine spark that lies latent or un known in virtually every boy and every girl. We used to hear of great :eachers, most of whom had no reat buildings, or other equipment. a sing-song repeating, over and ever, will make an impression,! yield $1 billion in annual tax rev enues.” Our government should not be in the power business, or the banking business. And certainly the Gov- though tiresome. If the teacher. ernment should not have preferred will hold the pupil’s attention and, customers. The Courts should say to him, man. to man. X plus Y is Z; X plus Y is Z, looking him in 1 have heard so much aoout the t * ie eye * ^ w *^ probably re late Major James It. - Coker that member. Of course there are times . used to winder what was his in- ", en 'teacher must almost ex piration, for he had all the ele- P lode in the face of a wandering ments of greatness and his achieve- m i n d to make an impression, ments were-notable. What built thej I recall a professor in a class in fires of ambition and great useful- Criminal Law. Sounds bad doesn’t ness under James C. Self of South ! it—class in Criminal Law? Well, Carolina and William H. Regnery ot! then, let’s say “Criminology,” Iowa, the greatest men I have which sounds better, but is not the known? Here we have the son of a same thing. «aun-ja th*>sand h*lrs -of .\outh Cju- j That teacher was a retired law- ....ut ancL —from, the > ygp-who had-attained-great emi- cornhe ds of Iowa, now great in- nence j n Virginia, a State, or Com- .u‘.riahsts, jet greater men. Neither monwealth, of very able lawyers, buildings nor equipment will pro- H e had a young man standing dur ance such men. I wish I could hear ing the entire period-an hour. He .hcse gieat.men tell of their guiding s t a ted a case and asked whether a | man would be guilty of manslaugh- I think I have found out some-j ter or murder. The student’s mind thing bbout Major Coker: I’m told rambled around for a while in what .n^t he was a student under the great j the student regarded as thinking. Agassiz, one of those men born to He then answered “Manslaughter.” make leaders. It is said that all those The old lawyer stood near him and Aho studied under Agassiz were screamed one word: “Murder”! notably successful. i That blasted away all the fog and It is told of a man who told his 1 cobwebs in our minds. That’s.what knock all this in the head. We Americans have been adopt ing all sorts of measures from Eu rope. Well, did you ever hear of * V \\0fl • Oh, yes, we have the '’pound of cure” men tioned in the old prov erb. But ^e’d far rather sell you that “ounce of prevention.” So we suggest.you go see your Doctor promptly—accept his sound advice—and bring us his prescrip tions for competent and careful compounding. Howard's Pharmacy Phone 101 PRESCRIPTIONS Savings Accounts 3%—DIVIDEND—3% invite savings accounts from the people of Clinton and vicinity. You will like our friendly and efficient ser vice, and you will receive your dividend promptly each January 1st and July 1st. 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