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4 iPife F< THE CLINTON CHRONICLE ’ ■ * ^ * ■ -* % & * 4 - f Thursday, May 5,1955 r (Eltntan (Etfranirlr 19M WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor «nd PutoUber HARRY C. LAYTON, AaricUot PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance) One Year $2.50, Six Months $1.50 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Peat Office at Clinton, S. C., under Act of Congress March 3, 1879 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 vie%s 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, MAY 5, 1955 Makes High Rating Again The Blue Stocking, weekly publication of Presbyterian college student body, has scored again with its second consecutive All-Ameri can Honor Rating for the first semester of the 1954-55 year. All-American is the ACP’s highest rating of approval for a college pa per. The selection is based on general excel lence, rating on all departments, its mechan ical make-up and lay-out, and general news coverage rated as thorough by the judges. The honor for the high distinction was won under the editorship of Ray Lord with his associated staff. Ray is an outstanding student, active and a leader in the varied activities and organizations on the campus. We salute him and extend our hearty con gratulations. In making the All-American rating the Blue Stocking was chosen from colleges in the entire nation with an enrollment of 500 students or less. A student publication on a college campus is dose to the student body and touches practically all student activities. It is read with interest by all, freshmen through seniors. And so we say that Editor Lord and his associates deserve commenda tion and congratulations for their outstand ing service and the valuable publicity and recognition they have again brought to the institution. What Mothers' Day Means A look at the calendar reminds us all that * Sunday is Mother’s Day at which time mil lions of sons, daughters and loved ones will celebrate the 41st official anniversary’ of the event filled with sentiment that cannot die. The founder was Mary Towles Sassen, a school teacher in Henderson, Ky. She plan ned and conducted the original Mother’s Day celebration in 1887. However, it has gener ally been believed that the honor belonged to Anna M. Jarvis of Philadelphia, her recogni tion as the founder being based on the fact that in 1914 she did persuade Congress to make Mather’s Day a national holiday. It is needless for us, or any one else to say— that both of these women deserve the na tion’s gratitude. For thanks to their tireless efforts mothers everywhere will be given special recognition and evidence of love and appreciation on their marked day next Sun day. It is also needless to remind appreciative sons and daughters that Sunday is Her day —the one generally observed about which there is no flippant criticism or satire. It should be Her big day, anyway it goes. You may forget mother but she never forgets you regardless of the heartaches and disappoint ments you may bring her. The wearing of either a red or white flower designates a liv ing mother with red and a deceased mother with the white flower, reminding all of the beauty and the glory of motherhood. This personal question is appiicable to all of us. Am I living up to the ideals, aims and admonitions of my mother, whether still with us or departed? Are my habits, deeds, dislikes, affections, conduct, prejudices such as meet her approval, or would meet the ap proval of that departed mother long gone from us? Mother spells out all those fine things of life—courage, comfort, sacrifice, patience, forgiveness, intuition, faith—these are the perfect parts of her love. Next to the love of Christ, Mother’s love is most sublime. And so on “her day” if she is still with us let her know she is loved and appreciated. If she has gone from us and left only a precious heritage, let us bow our heads in reverence and profound grateful for the inspiration she has left us, to spur us on and upward. Jt Not Now / When? Senator Harry Byrd, of Virginia, recent!’ made this significant comment on the fed eral budget: “We are enjoying the greatest prosperity in our history. We are not en gaged in war. If we cannot balance the bud get now, I ask when can we balance it?” The basic trouble lies in the Big Govern ment philosophy. Economy in government will remain a will-o’-the wisp so long as we must support a government which provides all sorts of service and projects that the peo ple can and should provide for themselves. The people must learn that as taxpayers they, and they alone, must foot the bills. What is true in Washington is true in Co lumbia where we are now confronted with a $129,000,000 state appropriation bill and 13- million dollar new taxes saddled upon tax payers. The total proposed appropriations are 10^4 million more than current spend ing. The proposed new taxes are for 9^ million of this increased, unchecked spend ing with the balance to go toward covering a current operating deficit of about six mil lion. This is the same philosophy of Big Gov ernment, keep on spending with the sky the limit. This is the plight the state finds itself in —due to extravagance and the legislature yielding to political pressure. There is only one way to make ends meet, reduce spend ing, make outgo balance with income. That’s common sense, just as the individual must do. There is no reason why, or justification in—running in the red to the tune of well over six million dollars in a time of relative prosperity. A year ago the state had a nine- million dollar surplus. That is gone, with politicians seeking new ways of spending money with no thought for building up re serves for the future. In the meanwhile the load piled upon the backs of taxpayers grows larger and heavier and there is nothing they can do about it. A revolution of the people is the only remedy. City Fire Chief Urges Citizens To Check Fire Hazards Clinton can make a better rec ord than that attained by all oth er Souh Carolina towns in a fire inspection, in the opinion of Fire Chief Wyman Shealy. Chief Shealy, who is support ing enthusiastically the May 12 fire inspection sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce, urged the citizens of Clinton to check for the three hazards most frequently found in town fire in spections and to eliminate them before the inseoctors arrive. The three principal hazards have been: (1) worn or improp erly insulated electrical wiring and appliances; (2) accumulation of trash and useless fragments of furniture and fixtures; (3) flam mable materials placed too near heating units. _ , , Chief Shealy said' that the South Carolina Fieldmen’s As- soiation, composed of field rep resentatives of the capital stock fire insurance companies, are coming here as our friends, to help us locate conditions that could a use fire, and that they would be pleased if their inspec tion did not reveal any danger ous condition. There are two other sugges tions offered by Chief Shealy. He said, “While we want to eliminate fire hazards, we want >e people of Clinton to be pre pared in the event of fire.” He urged that adequate aisles be left Rev. J. M. Dick Highly Praised In Raleigh Paper Friends here of the Rev. James McDowell Dick, Mrs. Dick (before marriage Miss Elizabeth Young of this city) and their two daughters, Misses Lana Copeland Dick and Margaret McDowell Dick, will learn with interest of the high honor paid Mr. Dick in a lengthy feature article in the April 2+ Sun day issue of the Raleitfi News and Observer. Mr. Dick, who graduated from Presbyterian college in 1922, is rounding out his 20th year as rec tor of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Raleigh, and in point of continuous service, he is the old est pastor in that city. In the summer of 1M23, he was admitted as a candidate for Holy Orders by Bishop Guerry of the Diocese of South Carolina. That fall he entered the School of The ology of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., and re in every building and these aisles never be blocked, and that first aid fire extinguishers be avail able—sand buckets, garden hose or water buckets or chemical ex tinguishers. "Let us have our properties in fire-safe condition when the in spection starts,” urged the chief. He concluded, “There is no glam or to fkres that do not start, but here are no deaths nor proper ty losses either,—and that should be our goal” Sunday is Her day, and she deserves it. Advice is like most medicine—easy to give but hard to take. A writer says, “Happiness is just a habit.” A fine one to acquire, we would say. ***** If you are in no hurry about crossing the bar, you had better be careful how you cross the street. ++++++++■++++ +"++++++■++ ^'-rrrs rrrrrrr rr * * s j j • BABSON . . . Says Competition May . Be A Public Enemy r< By r ROGER wVBABSON crTTrrttt J ' Babson Park, Mass., May 5—We have an ene my in this country eating away at us from within in a way that may be very destructive to our na tional well-being. That enemy is COMPETI TION, which forces us to put an employee’s loyal ty to the business ahead at his loyalty to his fam- | ily. When praising the “American Way” of free enterprise, let us not forget that it has serious dangers. Business Can Help Wreck The Home Big business is surely contributing to juvenile delinquency by the high priority to claims on a man’s evenings and week-ends. When father should be spending time with his wife and chil dren he is entertaining customers or whittling down the paper work on his desk. He ik'a strang er in his own home. This almost hysterical pur suit of company business at any cost to family life is evidence of the decline in moral values that has hit too many business executives. There are millions of sad homes across the land, homes where fathers have awakened with a jolt to find sons already grown up. Sons have gotten into serious difficulties because they never received the kind of guidance and discipline they needed from father. I recall a plaintive cry from a “corpora tion w^e" which appeared in Fortune magazine a couple of years ago. She particularly con demned the type and amount of entertainment that she, as a corporation wife, was expected to offer her husband’s business associates. In this case, the cor poration left little time for either parent to spend with the children. Consant Chang* Is Dangerous It is a mistake for companies not to al low sales managers to stay in any one place long enough to become part of their community. They must move every two or three years. Of course, the wives become irritable; children have a hard time in school; end husbands develop ulcers. Mar riage and the famrlv don’t have a chance. Graduates of Colleges of Business Administra tion have been criticized in recent years for be ing unwilling to be away from home five nights a week for their dear old employer; but these graduates may be justified. The present genera tion of fathers and mothers of teen-agers haven’t a very good record. Perhaps the new crop of prospective fathers and mothers will do a better job! Para nisi Guidance Lacking A father tells about the very good prep school to which he is sending his teen-agers. Says he, “Why I don’t have to be bothered with the kids at all. This winter the school taught my boy how to ski and to skate. Saved me a lot of time and trouble!” School and college guidance offices are filled with records of young people who are emotionally unstable because their parents never played with them enough, never gave them the understanding and guidance they needed. A friend recently stated that when he suggest ed a plan for fathers and sons to raise money to gether by planting and marketing certain garden crops, he was nearly booed out of the meeting. “Whoever heard of such a ridiculous idea? We're all too busy,” was the reply. Don’t blame the schools for all the shortcomings of the younger generation. Rssponsibiliiy of “Big Business'' How often have you heard a business execu tive say that he doesn’t want his children to work as hard as he has had to? So he hands them out fat allowances, automobiles, expensive education, and perhaps even subsidies tor marriage. This eases his conscience; he can say he has given his children everything—“everything,” the children will teH you, except what they really wanted most —companionship. . Such prolonged wet-nursing can develop a generation of young people who are egocentric, emotionally immature, and who believe the world owes them a living. Who is to blame? I have a hunch that the pace business sets has something to do with the situation, hi fact, when asked as to what will bring on the next depression, I fore cast: “Employers, executives, wageworkers, and even consumers win some day get tired and just quit the struggle. Many parents are now reaching this stage.” ‘ Brin# us your Doctor’s Prescriptions # This fine pharmacy is dedi cated to the prompt and precise compounding of prescriptions. Skilled Registered Pharmacists are continually at your service. Only ingredients of highest quality are used—and each com pounding step is checked to as sure accuracy. Yet, you will pay no more here than elsewhere. Be sure to bring us your Doc tor’s next prescription. HOWARD'S PHARMACY m ceived his B. D. degree there in 198$. He'was ordained by Bishops Guerry and Michael and ordained priest by Bishop Guerry in the Church of the Holy Comforter, Sumter, on Trinity Sunday, June 5, 1927. His first churches were St. Albans in Kkigstree and St. Luke’s in Andrews. In 1988 he went to the Pulaski, Vs., church as rector where he served for eight years. He then accepted a call to the Church of the Good Shepherd in Raleigh where he is now complet ing 20 years of service and holds the love and esteem of his con gregation of 800 communicants, and in addition to his pastoral du ties, has been active in civic work and other activities in that city. Sunday marked the 20th anni versary of the first sermon Mr. Dick preached in the Church of the Good Shepherd. And on Sunday he preached again that first ser mon. It closes with this: “It is the name of Christ I pur- poeq to hold ever before my mind and eyes. And, as I lift Him up, God grant that in His light you might see light, and follow Him as the Way, the Truth and the Life.” An edit«9^p*tn;ttMK;orfae Raleigh Times on Mr. Dick, ap pears in The Chronicle today. s«* ' ^ Presbyterian Men To Meet In Montreot The annual South Carolina Conference of Presbyterian Men will be held at Montreat, N. C., Saturday and Sunday, with a panel of speakers named to ad dress the large group expected. New officers will be elected and installed and attendance cups will be awarded. The following trom here will attend: Hugh Jacobs and Mrs. Jecobs, Edward Ferguson and Mrs. Ferguson, Ed Campbell and Mrs. Campbell, Reese Young and Mrs. Young, M. W. Brown and Mrs. Brown, William Johnson and Mrs. Johnson, W. P. Jacobs, III, Leaman Jones, Harry Nettles, Dr. J. W. Davis, W. C. Baldwin, and Waldo Dodson. Clintpn Residents Lose Father V Mrs. L. V. Powell, O. F. Beaty and 'Earl Beaty and their families were called to Walterboro Friday night, because of the daath af thahr father, Joseph A. Beaty. Mr. Betty, 75, WhoVwm* born in Ohio, was a retired employee of the Union Tank OartCo./iof Chi cago and since 1985 had lived in or near Charleston. He had been Hi for several months. He was a member of the First Baptist church, WaReihorO. i .<u Ttttev were conducted Sunday afternOdn from a funeral home with burial in Cemetery Hill, Graniteville. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Gertrude Loper Beat- tie; four sons, five daughters and a number of grandchildren and great grandchildren; also a broth er. CREDITORS* NOTICE All persons bavins claims against the estate of Carroll D. Nance, deceased, at*' faMeby no tified to file the seme duly veri fied, with the undendgned. and those indebted to said estate will pleese make payment likewise. , JOHN H. NANCE, 6317 Pinefield Rd , Columbia, S. C. 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