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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, April 30, 1953
JEFFERSON GROWING IN ESTEEM
AS IDEAS TAKE FULLER MEANING
(Feature Article By H. D. Crawford)
Washington. — Thoma* Jefferson
was born on' April 13, 1943. Every
year hundreds of thousands of people
who visit Wajshington’s famous cher-.
ry blossoms felong the Tidal Basin in
early April see in the midst of these
magnificent blossoms the white mar
ble, Pamheon-like Jefferson Mem
orial commemorating the man who
wrote the Declaration of Independ
ence, who was our first secretary of
state, and who, as third President,
was the first to be inaugurated at
Washington.
Every year the impact of Jeffer
son's ideas becomes more evident as
we recognize them as pillars of our
American system. This year the birth
anniversary of the great statesman
has special significance. He was born
210 years ago.
Just 150 years ago this April,
President Jefferson’s representatives
in Paris purchased the Louisiana
Territory. On Jefferson’s 20Qth birth
day, 10 years ago, President Frank
lin D. Roosevelt turned from th?
arduous affairs of World War II
Jong enough to go to the Tidal Basin
and dedicate the Jefferson Memorial.
- \Vords Still Applicable
When President Roosevelt spoke of
Jetferson a decade ago, America and
its allies were fighting the tyranny
of the dermany-Italian-Japanese
Axis; today the free world is con
fronted by the tyranny of a Russian-
s-ponsored Communist plot of world
conquest. Roosevelt’s words regard
ing Jefferson are as applicable today:
•‘Thomas Jefferson believed, as we
believe, in man. He believed, as we
believe, that men are capable of their
own government, and thaLnb king,
no tyrant, no dictator can govern for
them as wisely as they can govern
L
tor themselves.'
President Roosevelt ended his ded
icatory address by quoting words
from Jefferson which he said “speak
Jefferson’s noblest and most urgent
meaning,’’ and he said he was proud
to understand and share them; “I
have sworn upon the altar ‘of God
eternal hostility against every form
of tyranny over the mind of man.*"
Liked Design
The Jefferson Memorial is fash
ioned architecturally after the Pan
theon in Rome. Jefferson admired
this design. He worked it, into the
dome he-designed for the University
of Virginia. He also used it in the de
sign of his own home, Monticello,
outside Charlottesville, Va:
Whenever you climb the marble
steps and enter the big, circular-
domed memorial, you see people
standing and silently reading the
marble wall-panel inscriptions that
preserve highlights of Jefferson’s
philosophy.
There you see the inspiring ex
tracts from the Declaration of Inde
pendence, words f&m Jefferson's
Virginia Statute for Religious Free-
aom, his views on public education,
and his ideas on progress in the hu
man mind and in government.
In these days of renewed attempts
to curb the human mind—whether
by congressional investigations of
education and religion or by outright
t-uppression by government officials
of information that should rightfully
be made public—we might well look
anew at some of Jefferson’s ideas
Carved into the marble panels of the
Memorial you find these words:
"No man shall be compelled to fre
quent or support any religious wor
ship or ministry or shall otherwise
.suffer on account of his religious
opinions or belief. But all men- shall
be free to profess, and by argument
to maintain, their opinions in mat
ters of religion.
“I aim not an advocate for frequent
changes in laws and constitutions.
But laws and institutions must go
hand in hand with the prqgl-ess of
the human mind. As that becomes
more developed, more enlightened,
new discoveries are made, new
truths discovered and manners and
opinions change, with the change of
circumstances, institutions must ad
vance also to keep pace with the
times. We nugbt as
man to wear still the coat which fit
ted him when a boy as civilized so
ciety to remain ever under the reg^
ime of their barbarous ancestors.
19-Foot Statue
'The heroic 19-foot bronze statue
of Jefferson stands peacefully on its
pedestal in the center of the memor
ial, facing across the Tidal. Basin
toward the White House. From the
memorial’s front entrance you can
see the Lincoln National Capitol.
The white marble memorial, with
its great fluted columns, nestles
along the Tidal Basin flanked with
flowering cherry trees. It is one of
the most elegant and inspiring struc
tures in Washington.
Every year it grows In popularity
and respect—just as the man it com
memorates continues to grow in es
teem as the American people learn
more about the author of these
meaningful words: “We hold these
truths to be self-evident: that all
men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with cer
tain inalienable rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty, and the Pur
suit of Happiness.”
Boys City Will
Build New
Fireproof Dormitory
♦—-
Laurens, April 20.—Wednesday,
April 22, was a big day for Boys
City, a Negro educational and rehab
ilitation institution in the upper part
of Laurens County.
On that day, according ‘to Dr. W.
M. Ratliff, head of the institution,
ground will be broken for the foun
dation of the first fireproof build-
ing.
—Dr. R. F Poole president'of Clem-
Wilson of Laurens, Sen. P. Bradley
Morroh of Spartanburg, Mr. and Mrs.
H. D. Gray of Laurens, Maj. Arthur
Lee of G.reenwood,.$L£v and Mrs. Ty
ler Macdonald of Laurens, Mrs. J. E.
Wilson of Lancaster, Mr. and Mrs.
Waller Montgomery of Spartanburg
and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. F. Simpson
of Greenville.
The school now has 65 boys under
its care, Dr. Ratliff said, with 26 of
them boarding students. Thirty-four
of its former students are serving in
the armed forces, some of them are
in college and four of them have
graduated.
son college, is to make the address.
Federal Judge Geo. Bell Timmerman
has Wen invited to turn the first
spade of earth. Many leading citizens
from many sections-o^-the-state who
have renderd financial and moral
support have accepted invitations to
be present.
‘Hte new building will be a, 16-
room concrete block and brick dor
mitory 60-feet wide by 75-feet long
to- -cost —approximately $25,000 of
which about one-half is already on
hand. Thfe money, Dr. Ratliff said,
was contributed , by public spirited
benefactors throughout the state.
It is to be erected on the institu
tion’s &40 acre farm in the Pine Hill
section on the border of Laurens and
Greenville counties. All the land, he
said, was donated by private individ
uals and firms, including Mrs. Ben
Montgomery of Spartanburg, Brown
Lumber Co. of Walhalla and Mc
Neill Bros, of Greenville. ,
The institution has another farm
of 244 acres in the Shiloh commun
ity, where it has conducted a farm
and school for Negro boys since 1946.
A picnic dinner will be served on
the grounds of the school, beginning
at noon for whites and 2 p. m. for
Negroes.
In addition to Dr. Poole, Judge
Timmerman and Mrs. 'Ben Mont
gomery, other leading citizens with
their wives invited for the occasion
include Mayor Kenneth Cass of
Greenville, Mayor William C, John
ston of Anderson, Mayor Brooks
Usher of Bennettsville, Sen. R. T.
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