The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, April 23, 1953, Image 15

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if- Thursday, April 23, 1953 Dr. Felder Smith OPTOMETRIST Laurens, S. C. Phone 794 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE J 4 Page Seren HOME FROM TERMITE DAMAGE Coll ui today... we'll inspect your property & furnish report & estimate. tFIRD'S EXTERMINATING CO. Dial 8341 Spartanburg, S. C. Your Dollar BUYS MORE ATABIRBSEY STORE MORE QUAUTT IN FLOUR BIRDSEY'S $9 29 BEST 25 Lb. 4 $ 2 09 BROTHERS 25 Lb. MORE PROFIT IN FEEDS STARTER. *6.05 * BROILER 100 Lb. BIRDSEY'S . LAYING $5 # 40* MASH 100 Lb. BIRDSEY'S i6% HO ° $ 5 05 * feed 100 Lb. BIRDSEY'S 20 ° /o $ 4.70 * DAIRY FEED ^ 100 Lb. *ln Drew Print 6ags BIRDSEY now Md Food Mis Start Musgrove St. THERE'S 0r£ Suite. Wag 10 aBjoy today's best Imy in travel MURDER IN THE BACK YARD BABSON DISCUSSES YOUR BUSINESS AND YOUR SCHOOLS By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Fla., April 23— The dean of a city university re cently said that he could teach a class of 600 as well as 16. He taught them, but I doubt how well! The students were exposed to a public address systepn with movies and lectures, but never did they get a chance, like Mark Hopkins’ students, to “sit on the other end of a log and know their teacher.” The dean “short-changed” those students. Emphasis On What? Maybe I’m old fashioned, but I think the purpose of education, in paid for! When they get the school built, they can all point with pride* to the building. But then, there is ! little money left to pay a decent I salary to attVact god teachers to that school. I wonder if we haven’t lost our perspective. If America is to stay strong and if American business is to grow 1 and prosper, it needs intelligent and praying teachers. Lotf salaries —you know, too well—don’t buy j competent workers for you; they! don’t buy competent teachers eith-; er. You are paying, through tax-* ation or rent, part of the education 1 bill. What are you doing to see addition to giving I that y° ur community is putting the a man the tools of emphasis where it belongs’ language and a r- i t h m e t i c, is to Elections Coming Up Hundreds of cities and Roger W. B«booa *1 GoG/ieykowL • for COMFORT • for CONVENIENCE • for SAVINGS • for DEPENDABILITY GREENVILLE $1.19 ASHEVILLE, N. C. 2.79 SAVANNAH. GA 4.90 COLUMBIA 1.60 CHARLESTON. 4.50 KNOXVILLE, TENN 5.00 FAYETTEVILLE, N. C 5.50 SUMTER 2.75 CHATTANOOGA, TENN 7.25 CINCINNATI, OHIO 10.20 DETROIT. MICH 15.15 MEMPHIS. TENN 11.65 Pins U. S. Tax Blf Savings on Round-Trips CLINTON BUS STATION E. Carolina Ave. Phone 128 r i. Say— “I SAW IT IN THE CHRONICLE” Thank Yon PIMPLES’? “ j)erM*fetn (0 „ pimples blackheads ETC aT-al l good DRUG STORES McGEE’S DRUG STORE FINE FURNITURE Down Through the Years Jones The Best for Over Fifty Years CLINTON, S.C. Plus Thirteen Other Stores in South Carolina towns: teach him to think 1 have . during the last few years, 1 and pray. Q u i t e! stra PP ed themselves financially frequently I have wit ^ luxury school buildings which the chance to talk' the y cannot afford. This ends, for with young p e o- ! a ^ood long time, the possibility pie who are apply-! 0 * Paying ing for jobs. Often ^ ee P them ° n the job or to get I ask them what ot ^ er really good instructors to kind of work they i take their P^ces. City elections want, what they think they can w dl come this fall. In many cases do on a job, and why they think there will be special referenda they can do it better than the next i on education. When voting, re fellow. 1 member bricks and mortar don’t Such simple questions usually ' make a school. stump the average high school and college job hunters. They know little about the world of work. They have never appraised them selves to know their job strengths and weaknesses. So I turn to something I think they know. I ask a simple arithmetical ques tion. I find they can’t even figure compound interest! College Graduates Often Ignorant I try to discuss a little current events and I find they have no ade quate historical knowledge to hang events upon. I turn to economics, as my Professor Stephens did with a college senior the other day. He asked the student if he could give some reasons why business had a bad reputation in the minds of some people. What do you suppose was the answer? “People think the average busi ness is out to gyp them. Prices are too high. Business needs to learn how to mass-produce more and waste less on advertising so that prices will become lower.” He hadn’t heard about the problem of over-production, nor could he ex- j plain the great advantages of ad vertising. If this is the end-prod uct of modern education, then let’s i do something about it in a hurry. What'll Wrong In Education There is something frightening about the ineffectiveness of current educational procedures. Too much emphasis is placed on the “degree” aspects of education. Too little thought is given to the needs the inner man. Look about your own city or town and note what you see. Communities call in specialists to survey their educational needs. A grand new stee^and concrete school building is recommended functional in every respect. They want “the best for their children," they say. Never mind whether the people can pay for it or not. A modern, one-story structure doesn’t need to be built like a bomb-proof bank vault. Teachers Should Be Paid More They forget that (educational the ory and practice change, and that their expensive rookpile will be outmode long before it is out worn and probably before it is SPECIAL FOR THIS WEEK STERLING SILVER TIE SET AND BELT BUCKLE Regular Price $12.95 pi IDEAL GIFT FOR THE rax GRADUATE me. HAMILTON’S BLUE NILE DIAMONDS We Do All Kinds ( r • • • I • • • PRINTING Bad’ Office Supplies A COMPLETE LINE OF HANDY EVERY-DAY NEEDS IN THE OFFICE. o — Advertising ' V* * What Your Customers Read and See Makes the Most Lasting Im pression Always. There is no hit-or-miss when mer chants and business firms use THE CHRONICLE to reach their potential customers in Clinton’s trade area which this newspaper completely covers. m The life of the weekly home paper is longer than that of any other adver tising medium. 0 — t ^ =r= romc “The Paper Everybody Reads” AAA National Evaluation Rating for Adver tising . *■ .