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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.
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