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Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thafcidfty.Atirilll, >1155 (Btj? (CitatOM CCtp*nntrlf WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and PdbUher HARRY C. LAYTON, AwtaUat PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBU COMPANY Subocriptioo Rite (Payable In Achrance) .One Year $2.50, Six Montbi $1.50 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at fee Post Office at Clinton, S. C., under Act ot Concreaa * March 3, 1879 * — 1 — v — 1 " — fi 1 ——— — The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—the publisher .will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. Member: South Carolina Press Association, National Editorial Association National Advertising Representative: AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York, Chicago, Detroit Philadelphia CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1955 Point System Again The law which sets up a point system has been signed by the governor and is now in effect. It is a protection to careful drivers who take to the highways, it is a warning to those who drive recklessly, or while drink ing, with no regard for the public. The driver who obeys the law has no apprehension about the point system law. It is the fellow who doesn’t heed traffic regulations, who does as he pleases who fears apprehension by offi cers in his disregard of others. He is the fel low a point system law is intended to catch and make him realize that officers must be diligent in decreasing the traffic toll of hu man lives claimed annually on our highways. The law’ calls for, and properly so—the man datory suspension of the license of a drunken driver. The revised demerits system is being put into operation immediately by the high way department. The public should cooperate and do its part in improving our alarming accident rate, one of the highest in the coun try. The purpose of the point system w’as well summed up by Governor Timmerman as he signed the bill setting up the plan. He said: “The enactment of the legislation provid ing a point system to be used against traffic violators in our state is a step in the right di rection toward achieving those safeguards which the motoring public has every right to expect. All of us should continue to devote our efforts to the decrease of the tragic toll of human lives which is claimed annually on our highways. All of us should be more con cerned with the innocent victims of highway tragedy than with the selfish whining of the guilty who are caught.” Mon's Greatest Enemy The greatest problem before us today is the alarming sale and use of intoxicants by men and women, and yet the public, nor the churches seem alarmed over the road to de struction by intoxicants millions of persons are traveling. At a convention held recently of the AFL Air Line Stewards and Stewardesses Asso ciation they instructed their president to “discourage the serving of liquor on com mercial air transports in the interest of the safety of the flying public.’’ A timely warn ing indicating that the men and women em ployed in this transportation see and under stand the danger and the possibility of tragic results. Many of the big trucking companies do not allow their drivers to stop for food or coffee at stations or places of business that serve beer. They consider that good insur ance, they know that a beer soaked driver is a menace on the highways and creates added liabilities for their companies. Going back to the commercial air transports, w’hich we do not travel, their personnel know from expe rience how drinking passengers can affect the safeguarding of passengers in planes in the air. A drunk-crazed passenger might jeop ardize the operation of the plan itself. Delegates speaking at this convention are interested first in safety of their passengers and for themselves. A drunk in a hotel or public place can be removed by the law, but to be imprisoned miles above the earth is a dif ferent, dangerous situation. Drinking people should stay off the highways and planes as a protection to others. There is nothing good that can be said for the whiskey business. The story it tells in enticing advertisements in magazines and newspapers is deceptive and false. The Salk Test Is Great News The most wonderful news the American people have received was the announcement last week that Salk vaccine for polio preven tion is safe and effective for small children, the glad tidings coming after tests of last year’s results. Hardly had the announcement come before the whole nation was organized by medical and school authorities to begin an intensive program of inoculations for first and second graders. The clinics began op eration Monday in this county and through out the state to carry through the program, with parents consent required without which no child can be vaccinated. Dr. Jonas Salk, of Pittsburgh, after scien tific research two years ago announced that he had found the magic formula which would produce poho-preventing vaccine. The medi cal profession, and a great part of the public was dubious. The serum was tested last year and tried on an experimental scale. It was tested on hundreds of thousands of small school children under carefully controlled conditions and the announcement last week affirmed the wonderful results of this test. 1 Vaccine to the extent of 80 to 90 per cent was effective in preventing paralytic polio with the belief expressed that the new vaccine is potentially almost 100 per cent effective and can bring complete triumph over polio and its lieutenants of terror and tragedy. With the discovery confirmed the county health department was ready to move with the experiment, and with the prompt receipt of a shipment of the vaccine the program was all set and the “shots” begun for the little tots. All who have made contributions in recent years to support the March of Dimes drive in the fight should gain great satisfac tion in having a part in aiding the research w T ork. The vaccine now being given free to small school children is provided by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The contributions you have made to the wor thy cause have helped in the fight which now has reached a promising stage against the great crippler. The best news fathers and mothers have received is the pronouncement that the Salk vaccine for immunizing children against polio has been found 80 to 90 per cent effective. Parents in our opinion should have no hesi tation in having the vaccine given their chil dren, allowing only known publiq health of ficials and nurses, a family doctor or some other reputable physician to administer the shots. We should guard against black mar kets, racketeers and quacks. This means pa rents should be extremely cautious. W’e should all thank science and God for the fact that polio is on the way out. Truly, this is good news—the most dramatic and important medical development of the cen tury. H« that lovath not knotrolh not Ood; for God Is loro. (I John 4:8.) Hoad I John 4:7-12. In the National Gallery of England is a wonderful picture in which Christ hangs on the cross in fee midst of darkness. As one keeps looking at the painting, gradually he discovers another form in the background—God’s form; ofeer hands supporting Christ— God’s hands; and another face—God’s face, more full of agony even than fee artist pictured the face of Christ Himself. In His infinite love, God stands by the well-beloved Son in the midst of unthink able tragedy. Today God stands by us, caring for us, loving us, suffering wife us and for us. We ought never to think of Him as far from qs leav ing ue to stagger on alone in fee dark. He is always near, nearest when we need Him most Whatever else are may doubt, never let us doubt the love of God; for God is love, and we are the Subjects of His love. All the resources of infinite wisdom and power are at His command for our redemption and blessing. God is wife us, His love enfolds us. Our victory through Him is sure, if only we be lieve. PRAYER O Thou whoa* nan** is lore, whoa* hsart is avar longing to lift us into loving fellowship with Thao, forgive our careless, sinful indifferences to The*. Put within us the true spirit of penitence. Teach us how to know Thee that we may love and eerve Thao as wa ought. In His name. Amen. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY The eternal God is our Father. Alfred E. Cooke (British Columbia) No Fruit Is More Versatile Than Banana There’s no fruit more versatile than the banana. It is a treat, morning, noon or night. At breakfast, served with cream and sugar, or sliced atop a bowl of cereal, bananas make a delicious and nutritious start for a busy day. At lunch, in sal ads or as desserts, they are equal- j ly satisfying. They are surpris ingly good in main courses, too. A banana wrapped in a slice of boiled ham, topped with a tangy I POINT SYSTEM (continued from page 1) EVERYBODY'S HEADING FOR BABSON . . . Discusses Cutting Taxes For Schools By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass., April 21—One of the criti cal problems facing every voter today is how to pay for the mounting cost of education without taxing propery holders into the poor house. More Economical Schools Needed The sharp rise in the birth rate is one source ef our problem. To help house the increasing popula tion, about 9,500,000 housing units have been built since 1945—1,215,000 in 1954 alone! This building boom has given unpetus to our national prosperity, but it has created problems galore at the school level. Most of these new homes have been pur chased by good young couples who want decent places in which to raise their familiea. • i These families have become so large in propor tion to existing educational fa cilities that many cities and towns are now losing money on each new house built. Where there is more than one child per family, the loss often amounts, on the educational bill alone, to several hundred dollars. We know there will be a marked demand for more and more educational facilities during the next ten years. Since by law we must provide both facilities and teachers, we may well ask for some economies to be made which can help keep costs down. School Construction Costs Too High You cannot afford a custom-built automobile. Can you any more afford a custom-built school? It is high tune the U. S. Office of Education, as well as the various State Departments of Educa tion, moved in with some standard basic plans for basic schools, which can readily be expanded with the school population. Unit sections should also be made readily movable to some other section of the community should the need arise. There are literally a hundred ways to cut con struction costs: Standard plans should be used for a given number of children, with the extras that don’t really add up to better educaion for your child being cleared out. Don’t build a monument of mortar that will be outmoded long before it .s outworn. Let us consider the children and tax payers—rather than glorify some mayor or archi tect. Improvs Teacher Efficiency The suggestion has been made that we could cut teaching costs by doubling classroom size. Then we could hire the brightest teachers in the land to make recordings for radio and TV educa tional hookups. The children could be tested on what they had seen and heard by being given true-false, multiple-choice questions, and by hav ing them mark their answers on IBM answer sheets that would be corrected by machine. However, teacher efficiency cannot be meas ured in terms of the number of youngsters turned out of our schools each year. From what I have seen of some of the educational products of re cent years, I think nowhere near enough stress has been placed in the quality of education which our children are receiving. Tsachan Nsed More Money What business would “earn its salt” today if its employees worked only from 8:30 to 2:30, va cationed from June 25 to September 5, and its fac tory or store lay idle as much as the average school does? It i*; true that teachers have papers to correct, lessons to prepare, and extra-curricular activities to supervise! But, ways should be de vised so that teachers can earn the extra money they need. One idea would be to extend the school day and fee school year so that the first eight years are done in seven, and the last four yean in three. Thereby we save two yean for fee chil- dm, as well as money for increased salaries. We can make our plant more efficient Mid give teachers a much-needed raise. We might even heflp solve the problem of delinquency by keep- ing our kids busier. This sort of thing is not a pipe dream. At the college level, the students of Babson Institute, a fully accredited College of Busineas Administration, do four years of cottage ment all convictions (including bond forfeitures) for traffic law violations for which points are issued. Heretofore these officials were required only to report drunken and reckless driving convictions. All other reports were on a voluntary basis. Like the original plan, the new one provides for counting out-of- state traffic law convictions just curred and convictions by mili tary court martal are also count ed. The new law does not allow 1 points for warning tickets. This ti a change from the old system. work in three—and after gradu ation make an outstanding mark for themselves. This might be tried for fee lower grades as well. From such all will benefit —children, teachers, and tax payers. Founder’s days SEE SPECIAL SECTION FOR MORE NEWS ABOUT BELK’S cheeae aauee and baked until golden makes a wonderful bridge lunch dirih. A fresh fruit.cup et dinner needs bananas, for texture and flavon. A roast loin of pock takes on new glamour when ringed wife broiled bananas. Roast chicken is sparked by fee addi tion of bananas feat have bean delicately sauteed in butter. Junior will tell you a banana split Is the dish in which bananas really feine, but he looks for ward to them in his lunch box, too. It is fortunate that the fla- vor and texture of so universally popular because fee fruit is so nutritious. Many natives of fee Pacific Islands and of Africa look on them as a sta ple part of their diet. Bananas contain fruit sugars which are readily assimilated, as well as vi tamins, minerals, and bulk. It is poasible to sustain life for long periods on a diet which consists solely of bananas. Bananas are excellent for those flatting the battle of fee bulge because they are low in fat but are satisfying and filling. For those who am recovering from illnesses they are ideal be cause of their soft texture and their mildly sweet flavor. They are also valuable for aged peo ple who have trouble eating tougher or harder foods. PEAR SALADS A delicious, delightful new fashion in pear salads goes like this: Sprinkle lemon juice over halves of canned or fresh pears, spread rounded side with may onnaise then sdd a generous sprinkling of toasted shredded coconut. makes com shoot up STRONG! e of Soda Thta quick-acting nltroggn «ldg drishig feeds hungry corn fast! Spread all-soluble ARCADIAN American Nitrate of Soda when corn is knee-high and watch your crop get up and grow! Use 200 to 500 pounds per acre of thia free-flowing, easy-spreading ARCADIAN Amer ican Nitrate of Soda—the best Soda made. 1$ dissolves quickly in soil moisture, feeds your crop well to build vigorous, dark green leaves and big, early-maturing ears with fewer nub bin*. ARCADIAN Nitrate of Soda supplies 16% 1 or more all-nitrate nitrogen, with the added benefit of 26% sodium content Use it for com, use it for cotton, vegetables and other nitrogen hungry crops. ORDfit YOUR SODA NOW I Get genuine ARCADIAN American Nitrate of Soda, made by your home folk* right here in the South. Ask for early delivery, so you can aide-dreas your com when it needs nitrogen for top yields. tMant to fee! like a pilot feels? v. ~ • HOTT1ST BUICK M HISTORY do wonder you too to many *35 luicks on tfea highways thay re Tolling ug higgoc solos Ihon ovor bofofo hr history — topping fho popularity that has already mode Buick ona of fho "Big Throo" of Amorka's bast sailors. IMe action you want, and split-second quick. Today 9 * the day to “Join The Teat Pilot Club 99 and dam what a thrill you got whon you try Variablo Pitch Dynaflow* w. ’re not kidding. When you try a ’55 Buick with Variable Pitch Dynaflow, you’ll feel like a pilot does when he heads his plane down a runway for take-off. For you, in the driver’s seat, are doing what that pilot does—you’re changing the pitch of your propellers — one way for instant response on getaway —another way for better gas mileage in cruising. Your propellers are whirling in oil, deep inside the Dynaflow unit. When you press the pedal in the normal way, you hold those propellers in theireconomy angle—and you enjoy plenty more miles from your gasoline. But when you want instant acceleration—-for quick getaway, or for a sudden safety-surge of emergency Power—you just press the pedal way dawn, bud—with absolute smoothness—you get It’s the thrill that’s thfc talk of the industry — performance unlike anything you have ever known before on the ground. And so many folks have been asking to try it that we Buick dealers across America have set up April as <4 Test Pilot Qub” Month. 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