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ASSOCIATION National Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia Thirty-Seven Complete Study Course At Joanna Baptist CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1953 Guot Editorial Standing Between Two Worlds By GRATTAN O'LEARY that we (should) deny to our young men and women the training which would enable them to increase their own personal dignity and toj make a livelihood. But that is not, I in fact, education. If every citi- Yice-President, Otta/wa Journal, zen in this mighty land were train- Ottawa, Ontario ed that way, I would still say to Delivered at International/Kiwan-1 you, God help the land where ev-l convention. New York) erybody is trained and nobody is 1 educated. In the city from which I come,; Education, my friends, has noth- V vhk h happens to be the capital! ing whatever to do with vocation: of mv countrv, there is an old canal? al skills. Education is something which 1 winds through our town, of the heart, something of the soul Weeping willows grow out of it and arch over it, and not one Canadian in ten knows or remembers why or Education is' something w hie hi teaches a young man or a young j woman to love' truth and beauty i when it was built. Well, it was for its own sake. EducaMon has; built more than one hundred years nothing whatever to do with pro-j ago to defend mv country against. viding a man with a standard of| vours. The fact that today it has! llv *ng. Its task is to provide him' •ecome a museum piece, its origin v -'ith a standard of right. Educa- unknown, tells the blessed thing tion is tolerance. It is understand- that has come between our two peoples and which today is strong er than before. _ God grant that these things grow’ James, said, "Without sportsman- still more. You in this mighty land, i shl P- there could be no derflocracy standing at the cock-crow’ and a t all. ) Education is love. It is ing. It is love of one’s neighbor . . . Education is sportsmanship. (Your great philosopher, Henry It is compassion. It is morning star, have reached to a j niercy. primacy of power, whth an awe-, Pdy. ^ome accountability to history.! And if men or women do not You, in that decisive role, will find have these things, then they are Canadians stanch allies and good I not truly educated, friends. \Your position will call i Gne of the tragedies of our time from you wisdom and patient i * s that it is all know-how and no courage. But when you are with know-what. All specialization and vour loyal allies who have taken I no wisdom. All facts and no knowledge. All signposts and no destination. We have forgotten that there is no sense in pasting wings Dr. A. V. Washburn, director of teacher-training of the Southern Baptist convention, Nashville, Tenn., brought the baccalaureate message to graduates of the Joanna Study club and the graduates receiving the Sunday school worker's diploma recently. Ten courses for Sunday school work, ers were taught the past year in the church, those receiving the Sunday school diploma being required to study a book from Section I, The Bible; a book from Section II, Administration; a book from Section III, Teaching: a book from Section IV, Doctrines and Evangelism. Thirty-seven people completed the work. Reading from left to right, first row’: Rev. James B. Mitchell, pastor; Mrs. James B. Mitchell, kindergarten worker; Miss Mary Elizabeth Fowler, church music director; Miss Ruth Hair; Mrs. Freeman Evans, church secretary; Mrs. Carson Nabors, church organist; Mrs. Alex Crawford, Joanna Study club instructor; Mrs. Walter Byars, kindegarten worker. Second row: Mrs. Nathan Brazel, Mrs. W'reford Nabors, Mrs. Walter Waits, Mrs. Charles Murphy, Mrs. Mabel Barfield, Mrs. Louis Murphy, Mrs^ Carl Stroud, Mrs. Alvin WTielchel. Third row: Mrs. Ben Jester, Mrs. H. L. Gardner. Mrs. L. H. Poag, Mrs. Chris Davenport, Lester Hair, Miss Helen Phillips, Miss Myrtle Murphy. Fourth row: Mrs. Harold Murphy, Mrs. DDL. Bundrick, Mrs. Claude Farmer Mrsl Roy Fennell, Mrs. Bertha Stroud, Chris Davenport, Walter Waits. Fifth row: Horace Hamm. Sr., Louis Murphy, Miss Mary Fuller, Mrs. Walter Gresham, Millard Murphy, Nathan Brazel. Sixth row: Harold Murphy, O. F. Murphy, Carl Stroud, Charles Murphy. J. B. Johnson, Lee Thomas. , on man unless you can give him a cr their share of beating down evil, 1 think you will find my country will again be by your side in set- ting up good, knowing that our day. I is tomorrow .... J wingeef nature to make men free in While we speak of the proverbs! or der to make them good. The real of democracy, while we utter these, task is to make them good in order maxims of freedom, do we truly J to fit them to be free, in our daily lives practice what we i There is no peace in our world, preach? Do we trulv in our indi-1 n ° security, no help whatsoever, ! vidual lives do these "things? Or do unless men get back to the eternal, we merely proclaim them? Are we truths of religion. No one can look merely content to feel the thing we ou t over Europe's welter of hate ought to be beneath the thing we ; and injustice and infidelity with- are? | °ut coming to the profound con- It isn't enough for a man to say, viction that the true source of Eu- "I am not a Communist.” It isn’t rope s rot is in Europe’s forgetful- enough for him to say, "I’m a Dem ocrat.” He must be able to say, “I am a practitioner of democracy.” And if you aske. me "How does a citizen practice democracy?” I can ness of God. And when we go back through the last two hundred years on that continent, you under stand what has taken place. For two centuries, all the great so- give you but one amwer. Gur^oun-| ca lfod intellectuals of Europe told | tries . . . are parliamentary coun-, their people that religion didn’t | trief You may hear in this greati Matter. They said that faith in' convention, you may pass resolu- God was outmoded. They asked tions, you may discuss, you may those people to desert and betray' hold the highest ideals and aspira-[ a ^ that their forefathers had taught 1 tion.-. But before those ideals and, them to believe. They sowed the aspirations can be translated into sec ds which came to a flowering i reality, somebody must pass a law.; in the paganism of Nazi Germany That law will be passed by the an d which have come to a more Congress, by a state or provincial, sinister end in communism legislature or by a municipal coun cil. And the law will be no better ..nd no wiser than the men who write it. Hence, if democracy is to A few years ago one of our great, living statesmen, looking'out uponj our world with all its anxieties, all | _ of its sorrows, all of its hopes and nean something more than a high-: its plans, said that any plan sounding word, if democracy is to which placed no trust in God was be effective at all, then we must see 1 doomed to disappointment. My | to it that we summon to the Con- friends, the challenge which comes gre?s and to our legislatures the t0 us today is to bring God back best ■ brains, the best hearts, the 1° international affairs, to bring’! God back to national affairs and to bring men back to a life under God. best conscience, that our countries can afford. There L no other prac tical way of making democracy work, and I say that as one who hac spent the last forty years of his life watching communism and! EDITORIAL COMMENT democracy. It is not enough for a democracy to vote. Our Russian friends vote. Our ballot in a democracy hasj A Hard Place To Fill It has already been established meaning only when after it is reg- that there will be no attempt to year as an immensely important catalyzing agent in his own party. Where he had once been regarded as belonging to only one side in the division of his party, it became increasingly clear that he was ac tually the bridge between opposing groups, the strong man in the cen ter who could deal with both. In this way he was-in the fullest fact as well as in name the leader of his party in the Senate. Such leadership was doubly im portant because of the narrowness of the Republican majority. But it was more than partisan leader ship, as is shown by the repeated support of a large group of Demo crats for measures that Senator Taft brought forward. This was service to the nation as well as to the parfy. On some issues coal ition was imperative and Senator Taft made it possible. Similarly, it was this ability to| reach differing groups within his party and in the Senate that made; Senator Taft’s ; services invaluable to President * Eisenhow’er. The President has often referred to Mr. Taft as his pleasant mentor in the ways of the Congress. But the Senator was also the able repre- j sentative of the President to the Congress on many occasions. There are other men of proved integrity and ability in the Repub-! lican ranks. Senator Knowland, who stepped in to fill the breach 1 caused by Mr. Taft’s illness, is one of them. Any such person, never theless, must necesssarily find it more than usually difficult to take 1 the place of a man w’ho had not^ only become identified as the* very enmbodiment of the party but who has also been able to bring its dif fering elements into harmony on many questions. Senator Taft was! known for his lifelong devotion to his country and his distinguished service to his party. It is our belief that in the last year of his life his service to both reached their high est point and this-will make it even more difficult to replace him—The New York Times. istered, the (voter) sees to itu. that the people to whom he gave his mandate proceed to carry it out. reorganize the Senate in the near future as the result of the death of Senator Robert A. Taft. Even the (That is the) real task of a repre- appointment of a Democrat from sentative democracy. . . . [Ohio would leave the balance at That class of citizen—alert, vigi- i 48-47 for the Democrats and the lant, vigorous and effective—pre- one Independent, Senator Morse, supposes a higher scale of public education than we enjoy at the nresent time. We North Americans tell ourselves that we have the greatest educational system in the world. That, my friends, is not exactly true. It is true that we spend more billions on education than any other country on earth. It is true that we have a record in iiumber of university buildihgs and colleges and schools. We are doing more in the material way for edu- vation than ever before. And yet all over this continent today, thoughtful men and women looking at education are asking, “Is it any good?” I think it is good if we approach education with a' right understand ing of what education is abdut . . . First we have to realize that there is a deep gulf between true educa tion and vocational training. I would be the last person to suggest has stated that in the case of reor ganization he would vote with the Republicans. The resulting tie would presumably be broken by the Republican vice-President. This, howeer, is not the only problem presented to the Senate, to the Republican psirty and to the nation by Senator Taft’s passing. He had made for himself a place that will be hard, if not impossible to fill at any time soon. It is doubt ful if there is in the Senate his equal as a parliamentarian. Cer tainly no Senator would suggest as much on his own behalf. He had few equals, likewise, among legislators as a student of law itself. His loss will be felt most keenly perhaps, in legs technical fields in spite of the fact of his supremacy as a technician. Partly as a result of his now famous sportsmanship (which was not always recognized earlier) ,he had emerged in the past Big Ball Game At Joanna Saturday Night A baseball game, the Upper South Carolina All-Stars vs the Lower South Carolina All-Stars, sponsored by the Joanna Black Hornets, will be played Saturday night at 8 o’clock at Clark Field, Joanna. Players for the two teams are picked from a number of teams representing the lower and upper parts of the state. It is announced that $50 will be given away at the game, with jit terbug dance contest as an added attraction. Reserved seats will be provided for white fans. • Open Meeting By AA Saturday The Clinton group of Alcoholics Anonymous will hold an open meeting Saturday night at the Health Center on Woodrow street. The public is invited to attend the meeting which, it is stated, will last one hour. An ex-alcoholic will speak. YOU DON’T GET THE NEWS WE DO ALL KINDS OF PRINTING —EXCEPT BAD • beautifully washable! • newly styled . with buttons, bows and grown-up belts Rich in color and design, here are the ging hams to set the standards in any classroom! Priced to provoke every mom’s gratitude and styled with the big girl look every little girl, loves! See Penney’s collection now! I I