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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
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• 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
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