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4 V-v Thursday, July 29,1954 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE IX. COMMENTS on MEN AND THINGS Are the Colored people very hub- enthusiastic over all the bub lor non-segregation? What do you think ok this let ter which Davis Lee, a Colored man and publisher, published in his paper, The Newark Tele gram. I find the letter in The Southern Presbyterian Journal of July 7. "The efforts being made by certain paid agitators and pres sure groups against segregated schools in the South may cause Southern Negroes to lose a lot' more than they will gain. The trouble with this group, as with similar ones, is that the in itiators dont count the overall cost to the race. Tho presenf effort is designed to destroy the whole pattern of segregation and to establish an integrated social order in which there will be no distinction mode in this country on the bass of race, reliigon, col or or nationality. This is a laudable objective, but human nature just has not changed that much, and the achievement of such an objective could cause repercussions that might set the Negro back fifty years. Integration in the schools in ing success. A Negro can attend the North and East is not a howl- most of the schools up here and get an education, but few of the states that educate him will hire him as a teacher. The State of Connecticut doesn’t have twenty- Negro teachers. Nowhere in these integrated states do Negroes get anywhere near proportionate representa tion. Every device is employed to keep qualified Negroes from being assigned. Recently a rep utable New York labor union tnade a report on the employ ment of Negro teachers in New York City and charged that a systematic scheme has been adopted to exclude Negroes as teachers. That is not true in the South. The State of Georgia employs 7,313 Negro teachers, and paid them close to $15,000,000 in sal aries last year. North Carolina paid its Negro teachers over $22,000,000 last year. Florida is another state that ranks at top on teacher pay- (Mississippi paid $7,414,278 in salaries to 8,753 Negro teachers in the state last year.) If these states, that are now pouring millions of dollars anu nually into Negro pockets which provides our people with money that enables them to enjoy the dignity of man, to enjoy the pres tige of respectability, to buy homes and the necessities of life, are forced to abandon the segre. gated school, 75 per cent of the Negro teachers in the South will lose their jobs. Not only that, but approximately 20,000 Negro principals will lose their jobs as well This present movement to end segregation in the schools is merely the beginning of a welM laid plan to completely end seg regation in the South. If this happens, the Negro will be thrown into direct competition niaing the Negro as a man and acqprdlng him the respect that he merits, but the Southern Ne gro himself can do more about improving conditions than can courts, legislation or pressure groups. Despite all' the hullabaloo about the liberal North and East, no'Negro has been made head of a State college or university. Down South the woods are full of Negro college and university presidents. In Texas a Negro college president of s state school gets $10,000 a year. Negroes need to refresh their memories on the fact that just a few years ago we were raising cane because colored kids in the South were being taught by white teachers. We wanted them taught by Negroes until now Negro teachers have com pletely taken over. A group goes back into the courts declaring that the Negro is not satisfied with equal fa cilities, that the separate is unconstitutional, that nothing less than integra tion will do. That doesn't seem fair to me.” • • • with the white race and our busi ness institutions will crumble. No place in the world do Ne groes own and control as much as do those in the South. Atlan ta is without question the Negro capital of the world. It is the center of Negro culture, educa tion, business and finance. And both Negroes and Whites live, work and operate business with out either being conscious of the other’s race. This movement to integrate the schools of the South is load ed with more racial dynamite than appears on. the surface and the Negro will be the one who is blown away During the past two years I have spent more time in the South than I have in my office, and I have interviewed thous ands of Negroes in all walks of life and I have found very few who favor mixed schools. They want their own schools, but equal facilities. This being the situation, one questions the fair ness of forcing these colored citi zens to accept what they don’t want. If a little group of paid agitators succeed in forcing their will upon these people, it appears to me that they should at least be given an opportunity to be heard. Right now the Southern Negro is in a better spot educationally, politically and economically than the Negroes of any place else in the world. Race relations are continually improving. Every day more Southerners are recog- gamut of new functions, for pa rishioners young and old. So there is a great need, and a growing awareness of it among clergy and laymen alike. And the symptoms are contagious, for one face-lifting or major addi tion, in a day of increased com petition among the churches of one community, often prompts another down the street Take, for example, Stamford, Conn., a survey there this spring by the fast-tgrowing city of 80,000. A local newspaper revealed that out of 57 known religious groups of all denominations, 23 recent ly had built, are buildup, or plan to build, new structures. 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Do nations to the churches, for their annual budgets and for special needs, are at an all-time high— $1.3 billion a year for Protest ant sects alone. Important to the nation’s spiri tual health, this revived lay in terest in religion is also signifi cant economically, since it has pushed new construction and re habilitation of out-moded facili ties to record levels. Already the 252 religious sects in the U. S. boast more than 285,000 hous es of worship, whose worth is high in the billions. And in com munities from coast to coast more are going up, for every ma jor denomination. In Yonkers this September Cardinal Spell man will dedicate the brand new Catholic church of SL Anthony. In Philadelphia, Frank Lloyd Wright has drawn up plans for a synagogue for the Conservative Jews, the first he has ever de signed. In Oakland, California, towers the new Monticlair Meth odist church, notably for its unique architecture. And sym bolically, in Washington, D. C., half a dozen new religious edi fices, representing everyone from the Mohammedans to the Greek Orthodox church, are going up along Massachusetts avenue, the famed ‘street of churches.’ What this all adds up to is half a billion dollars worth of relig ious construction in 1954 and a 10-year total by the year-end of $3 billion. Compared with total U. S. construction ($35 billion) or eVen with the outlays for houses, schools, roads and indus trial plants, that is not a large amount But it is in many ways an astonishing phenomenon. It outdoes anything in the past—as witness the $1.3 billion spent for churches in the previous peak decade, the ’twenties. It outruns every recent forecast. As late as 1947, in a sweeping study of the whole economy, the Twentieth Century Fund soberly concluded that ‘expenditures for church construction may range between $55 million (annually) in ^SO SO,. How sharpl ythe outlook has changed is revealed by a more recent estimate made by the National Association of Man ufacturers- Warren J. Taussig, director of church-industry re lations, for its Eastern Division, sees a need for the U. S. public to spend $7.5 billion before 1975 to build and equip 105,000 more churches. Clearly, then, the boom is just getting underway. Just last week, as it happens, both the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A and the Congregational Christian churches wound up nationwide drives, for $12 million and $4.5 million, respectively, to finance future building. The Episcopal ians recently raised more than $4 million, and the American Baptist Convention is seeking $8.5 million in a similar effort. What’s more, a mounting vol ume of inquiries about building costs and architectural plans is pouring into the headquarters of the various sects. To cope with this flood of mail, the Orthodox Jews, among others, recently brought out a new architecture manual. The Southern Baptists, who alone expect to spend $130 million on new churches this year, have published their own pamphlet on fund-raising. An impetus behind today’s rec ord construction comes from the growing concept of the church as a community center, to be used virtually around the clock, and all week long. No longer do the massive church doors swing forbiddingly shut on Sun day afternoon. Instead, most churches, have taken on a whole The current fad of low sodium diets is dangerous to life and largely futile, the Illinois State Medical Soicety’s committee on nutrition warned. The diets in volve a calculated risk, which should be taken only on the re sponsibility of a physician, the committee said. The warning involved the so- called “salt-free, salt poor or low sodium diet,” which physicians occasionally use for some heart and kidney patients. “No individual should attempt to maintain such a diet except under close, constant supervision by a physician," said the com- imttee. "This danger is especially menacing in hot weather. The increased loss of salt through ex cessive sweating in summer heat can cause a severe reaction which might even be fatal in a person whose salt or sodium re serve is-already depleted by an unsupervised low salt diet “Any person who succumbs to losing weight or reducing blood the popular fad in the hope of pressure may be disappointed, since the effect of sodium re striction is largely the loss of water, not tissue, from the body The water is quickly replaced Salt is sodium chloride, to because of the resultant thirst.’’ FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 9th day of Atvuat, 1954, I will render a final account of my acta and do ings as Executrix of the estate of R. J. McCrary in the office of the Judge of Probate of Laurens County, at 10 o’clock a. m. and on the same day will apply for « final discharge from my trust _ as Executrix. Any person indebted to said estate is notified and required to make payment on before that date; and all persons having claims against said estate will present them on .or before said date, duly proven, or be forever barred. FANNIE L. McCRARY, Executrix, Clinton, S. C. July 9, 1954 4p-Aug 5 which iodine is usually added in as a result may deprive himself the Great Lakes area. The dieter of three elements esential to life, the report said. Physicians use the diet only to relieve a condition that is more immediately dangerous. They watch the patient closely sad are ptapared to increase the sodium intake immediately in emerges*; des. Hymn 3s Born, cuntAbonner All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name A baby girl is born to a Yankee carpenter ITCH NO MORE IN 15 MINUTES IF NOT PLEASED, YOUR 40c BACK at any drug store. Usa •asy-lo-apply ITCH-ME-NOT to allay the itch of acsama. athlata's foot, ringworm, poison ivy. In tact bitst. Faal tha raliaf in 15 minutas or your monay back at Young's Pharmacy. 29-2c Subscribe to The Chronicle! Oliver Hf>!den put down his saw, beat out a few bars of a melody and picked up his hammer. The 21-year-old carpenter-musician had come to Charlestown from nearby Shirley, Massachu setts, to help rebuild the town after the British had burned it during the Revolution. Though he never had a lesson in music, Holden became famous for composing a welcoming song for George Washington when the general visited Boston in 1789. rwi» Hpy the singing '•arpvnter show up for work friends called to learn the reason. They found him at his organ. He tud just become the father of a. baby girl and he had a song in his heart ... a song he was sounding out and putting on paper. Came 1793. Charlestown had been rebuilt Oliver Holden, at twenty-eight was dealing in real estate, was a member of the legislature, owned a music store, built a Biptist Church at his own expense and was up to his neck edit- All hail the power of Jesus' namel Let angels prostrate fall; Bring forth the royal diadem. And crown Him Lord of all. Ye chosen seed of Israel's race. Ye ransomed from the fall, Hail Him who saves you by His grocs. And crowns Him Lord of all. ing material for his hymnal, “American Har mony.” He had found some verses in the Eng lish periodical. The Gospel Magazine,” but the author had omitted his name. England’s Rev. Edward Perronet had preach ed and written hymns for the Wesley brother* while they were establishing the Methodist Church. But the fiery temper* of John Wesley and Perronet clashed over laws of the church t3anne ^ Perronet'* hymna from Method 1st song "Books. But Perronet kept on writing . . ..under pen names and under no name at all. Oliver H >iden didn't know ail that. He ,_itut knew the anonymous words fit the tune he had written after his little daughter was born Jirui the phrase ‘Crown Him Lord of All” sug gested the title "Coronation." But, perhaps John Wesley wouldn’t object because for a cen tury and a half one of the favorite hymna of the Methodist Church, as weTT as of many atv- other denomination, has been Edward Ferronet’s Let every kindred, every tribe On fhii terrestrial ball. To Him all majesty ascribe. And crown Him Lord of all. O that with yonder sacred throng We at His feet may fall! W i'll join the everlasting song. And crown Him Lord of all. I • OTTlfO UNOEt AUTHOtITV O' T M t COCA C O l * COMPANY * V Greenwood Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Greenwood, S. C. Cv* is»re,iwere#trade mm*.