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Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE -Xl^r Clinton Xhrnmrlr Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant \f. EVERY THURSDAY BY TH". CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance) • . ^ One Year $2.50, Six Months $1.50 Mrif-Matter at -the Post ( HIice at Clinton-. S. C., under Act of Congress March 3,'1879 • » ^EhTc red - as Second Class The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all time , appreciate wXc* suggestions and kindly advice: The Chronicle will publish letters of general thev are not of a defamatory nature Anonymous communications will not be noticed, "responsible for the views # or opinions of its correspondents. Assojta'.on, National Editorial Association interest when This paper is not * Member: South Carolina Press AMERICAN PRESS National ASSOCIATION Advertising Representative: ^ New-Yofk, Chicago^ Detroit. Philadelphia J ClnilppcrRoom C tm ugpi» koom NASHvn.it rtNwtsstt THE WORLD'S MOST WIDELY USED DEVOTIONAL CUIDE Love one another. (John 15:12.) Read I John 2:7-20. Tennis Schedule Lists Ivy Leaguers Athletic Director Walter A. Johnson has announced a 16- matfch tennis schedule, including an invasion of the Ivy League, for the 1954 Hosemen. The schedule: • - —; March 16—Rollins at Winter Park, Fla. March 18—University of Mi ami, Fla. March 19—University Mi ami. here. at March 25—Wofford here. April 6—South Carolina April 8—Erskine here. April 9—Furman here. April 10—Davidson here. April 13—North Carolina Chapel Hill, N. C. April 14—Duke at Durham, N. C. April 15—Georgetown Univer sity at Washington, D. C. April 19—Princeton at Prince ton, N. April 20—Yale at New Haven, Conn. Aprl 22 — Virginia at Char- Thursday, March 4, 1954 " «■— lottesville, Va. April 24—Aatamacoo here, v April 29—State Intercollegiate Dr. Fred E. Holcombe OPTOMETRIST Offices at 200 South Broad St. Phone 658 Office Hours 9:04 to 5:S4 ^~7 County Mokes Fine Record Laurens county residents contributed more than $7,000 in the "recent March of Dimes campaign sponsored annually by the Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The amout exceeded by a thousand dollars last • year’s figure which'ah the. in- tgrpgt ami generosity of many who want to have a part in what is hopei ning battle against the great crippler of little children, as well as adults. The residents of the Laurens and Clinton- Joanna areas made a generous response and are to be congratulated for opening their heart and purse to this worthwhile cause. Contributions are still coming in, the area chairmen report. All of us who have helped in this nation wide battle against polio should take pride in having a share by our gifts in the pro gress being made against this dread disease. Truman's Man To Run ^ Adlai E. Stevenspn, the Chicago politician who won the Democratic presidential nomi nation two years ago with President Tru man's blessing, has jprdw disclosed publicly, what was expected, that he will accept the nomination again in 1956 if the party offers): it to him. He is willing to oppose President. ! fo'lte the Win- Emenhowof and will light the political firon | with a major speech at a Democratic pow wow this week in Florida. Senator Edgar Brown of this state, it is noted, is hoping to bring him to Columbia for an address. He will speak on the omissions and commissions of the Eisenhower administration. In heav en’s name, what about the Truman regime and its shameful record. Millions of Americans want no part in sup porting a candidate with Truman’s blessing, and we are included in this group. „ It happened back in that pleasant place we call yesterday on ! beautiful wintry morning in Miss Emma’s little school. There were , eight little girls and six little boys. .1 — We were -standing there that cold morning beside the old box Aiir hands. I have forgotten now what Mildred and Margaret said to each other^ and I have forgotten who said it first. Anyway, one little girl took her ruler and threw it at the other, and the other one turned around and kicked her. —- About that time Miss Emma arrived on the scene. She taught reading and \yriting and arithmetia She also taught us about living in harmony with one another, as Jesus would have us do. Miss Em ma made Mildred and Margaret go to the blackboard and write on it | one hundred times, “Love one another.” Today, almost fifty years later, the two grown-up little girls are still the best of friends and they love each other. PRAYER D»ar God, we thank Thee for the lessons of life learned in days gone by. Help us this day to show , forift Wy ldve lo olEers. Bliss us wiIK ’ Laurens To Get By-Pass Our city should be keenly interested in the announcement that traffic conditions are elp 'BUsT us Help us to believe in Thee and to live in the spirit of Christ who would have us pray, "Our Father who art in heaven . . . Amen." THOUGHT FOR THE DAY To love one another is to live the Golden Rule. Margaret Moore Jacobs (Arkansas) A fine rule for 1954 is to shop in The Chronicle first—then in the Clinton stores. Dr. Herbert Spaugh Everyday Counselor Yes, along about this time of the year we usually have some weather like this which announcemeni inui uumc cvuuiuvm.o , to be greatly relieved in our neighbor city makes us a11 feel ?<x> f of Laurens by the building soon of a loop road around the city to afford through traf fic an. easy by-pass of the city’s congested business streets. The state highway clepart- ment has the project down apd approved for construction-tnis year at an estimated cost of $240,000. Announcement also comes from Greenville of the beginning of work on the extension of the by-pass around that city. These reports we are sure are gratifying to those two cities and emphasize that we are “asleep at the switch” in pushing for action to relieve an equally bad situation here. A by-pass long needed here will route the heavy truck traffic off the main business streets to relieve congestion, noise and an element of danger. Broad street now is a truck thoroughfare, day and night, an an- something much deeper. The early bird used to get ^he worm, and now he has to hustle tio find a spot on which to park his car. BABSON . . . DISCUSSES BUSINESS AND HEALTH Babson Park, Fla., March 4—Some weeks ago I wrote a column on'the relation of Business to Mental Health. I now wish to write on Physical Health. Of course, people must have employ ment and Wages in order to buy, but they must also be free from worry in order to do good work and get promoted. This is so self-evident that it needs no discussion; but I want to write now of noyance and nuisance to residents of the city and especially those residing on this ipain highway. r It is noted that the Chamber of Com merce is soon to install a new president and directors. If that group wants to render a badly needed service to the business area of the city, it will adopt a hy-pass as its No. I objective. Other progressive towns have remedied this nuisance? while we lag behind and do nothing. To relieve traffic on our city streets is a needed and ambitious goal for every organization in the city. Weakening the Election Law Uniform regulations recently in our elec tion laws have beeP a strong safeguard for cleaner elections as we all know. One of the big benefits in the changes made was the re quirement that all voters present registra tion certificates as proof of their right to vote. Every citizen interested in good govern ment, competent officers and" clean elections should gladly take the time to qualify to cast his ballot. And what has happened. The lower house of the general assembly has seen fit to elim inate this provision and safeguard. As now proposed in the House the law would permit box managers to decide whether or not would-be-voters are qualified to vote, a heavy responsibility to place upon them. Take for instance two highly honorable gen tlemen who usually act as managers here, J. J. Clark and Henry M. Young. These gentlemen and others usually serving with them, would not tolerate for one minute an irregularity or any thing questionable per taining to an election. How would they, or any other box manager appointed, know every one applying to vote without proper credentials. He just says he knows “Mr. Smith”, and "Mr. Smith” would be permitted to vote. He could truthfully say we didn’t know “Mr. Smith" and “Mr. Smith" would not be allowed to vote. This certainly offers golden opportunities to bring about fraud in elections. The chief argument by those who sought to eliminate the production of a registration as a proof of qualification to vote is that many “good citizens” had been prevented from voting “just because they lost or mis placed their certificate”. And therefore they say, we are going to relax regulations and let down the bars to possible wholesale frauds because a few “good citizens" hap pened to misplace their certificates and did not care to take the trouble to get duplicates. This is bad legislation. All voters should ac cept casting their ballots as a serious respon sibility and privilege. There should be no loop-holes for excuses or question marks. My Personal Illnesses I have not been feeling well for three weeks. Although I was not confined to my bed, yet some thing caused severe pains in my back and legs. I just could not do any constructive work and I began to worry, which I never do when feelm*; well. I, therefore, am now in Florida for a few weeks. This column, however, is not an adver tisement for Florida, although I am very fond of its climate! f My purpose rather is to say that being inde pendent financially and free to come and go, I am not dependent upon any job or salary. If, however, I were, and obliged to go to an office each day, I would not have given my company “value received” for my salary. Worse than that, I probably would have made mistakes in judg ment which would have caused the company fi nancial loss. How's The Health of Your Associates? Yet, there must be hundreds of important ex- ecutives -and -thousands of foremen and tens of thousands of workmen, salesmen, and clerks who are dragging themselves to work when they ought to be home in bed. They do this partly not to lose | their pay; or—if they are'-executives—not to have the word go around that they are not well. As the prosperity of every business depends largely on the decisions made by executives, foremen, and others, such “half-sick” men or women can cause their companies much loss. When you consider that thousands of compan ies are suffering losses "for this reason, it shows how poor health and worry must affect the en tire business of the country. If you are unem ployed it may be due to your health or to your boss’ health. In other words, if he were “up to snuff”, the company might not have needed to lay you and others off. So much for that. Now some statistics on the direct cash cost of illness and accidents. * Illnesses and Accidents The Health Information Foundation reports that during the past full year 22,000,000 families of these United States as individuals paid out over $10,000,000,000 for medical and dental costs. Fur thermore, this was in addition to what the Feder al Government and the States expended. Of the above'$10 billion, $2 billion went to hospitals, nearly $5 1-2 billion to doctors and dentists, $1 1-2 billion for medicines, and over $1 billion for other practitioners, nurses, etc. . , . Most of die people treated got well, although they lost both time and money. But a good part of this expense was absolutely thrown away— for there were nearly 100,000 deaths, largely from automobile accidents. In addition, millions of others were injured by accidents, such as traffic accidents—L350,000; drownings — 6,800; home You can command thoughts while they are in your conscious mind, but not when they reach the subconscious. Psychologists tell us that about one-eighth of the mind is composed of the conscious, while seven-eighths is the subconscious. In other words, the mind is i much like an iceberg where the majority is under water. Ip visiting a patient in the hospital she gave me the same thought in another way, “There is not enough water in the seven seas to sink a ship, unless the water gets in side.” It is the thinking that gets down into the sub conscious mind which determines our emotional state. The subconscious responds to suggestion, but not to command. So it is highly important that we control the kind of thoughts which we harbor in the conscious mind. To use another illustration, we can say that the mind is much like an open church tower. Birds can and do fly through. We can build roosts for them to lodge there. Then after they have taken up residence it is difficult to remove them. There is an'oid saying: ’"Toil can’t' keep the sparrows from flying overhead, but you can .keep them from making nests in your hair.” A spar row-like bad or negative thought can be fed until it grows up to be come a vulture which destroys our peace of mind. Go back to the best book on psychology, the Bible, where Jesus said, ‘ Agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou are in^ the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast in prison. Verily I say by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.” Learn to examine quickly the thoughts which come into your mind. Tpthey are negative, turn your mind quickly away from them to positive thinking. St. Paul wrote, “Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things we honest, whatsoever things are just, ! whatsover things at£ pure, -Whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever I things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” We need to be very careful about the thoughts we allow to lodge in the conscious mind. If we continue to dwell on them they become larger and larger, sinking down into the subconscious. Jesus Christ is telling us how important it is to deal with neg ative thoughts (“the adversary”) when they first come into the mind. Hurt feelings, if cultivated, grow into resentments and grudges, and we come on down to the prison house. Bad habits grow the same way Positive thoughts of love develop in the same manner as the negative thoughts of resentments. # By the same process we learn to love as we learn to hate or resent falls—20,000; industrial accidents—15,000; bums —6,400: firearms—2,500; etc., etc. These figures are supplied the National Safety Council I wonder how many readers of this column will be included in the 1954 figures! Let U* Look To The Future The politicians and welfare experts are con stantly raising the legal age at which young peo ple can go to work. Now they say that all should have a college education. At the same time, in dustry is retiring more people between 60 and 65 years of age. Today the number of people over 65 years is one in twelve; in 25 years it will be one in nine. But where is the money coining from to give the young people 22 yean for education and play, and the old people pensions? The truth is that somehow (through more tax es or hgiher prices), these millions of young and old must bfe supported by those between 22 and 60-65 yean of age. The latter must also supply the $10 billion mentioned above. This makes the cost of sickness, youth, and old age ter more fcn- portant than the cost of coffee. Smaller Counties Still In Saddle ' —^ a , Columbia. — The stranglehold I on state government held by the smaller counties of South Caro lina was again demonstrated this week in the General Assembly, this time in the House of Repre sentatives. A hardy band of 44 House members, representing less than 35 per cent of the state’s popula tion, gave a vote of “no cpnfi- dence” in the people’s ability to revise their own constitution of 1895. And they did so in the face of a guarantee that the proposed constitutional convention would not consolidate counties or lessen the degree of county representa tion on the State Senate. The fear that county lines or ^county representation would be altered by a constitutional con vention has been shrewdly ex ploited by opponents of such a convention and ^heir strategy paid off this week. Heretofore, the roadblock to constitutional revision (by convention) has been in the Senate. Now, Hhe small county members of the House have rallied to the cause of preserving the status quo and have dealt a staggering blow to hopes of any thorough-'going re vision of the state’s Constitution. 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