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CLINTON. & C, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1955
modern equipment does more than just
handle the crops. It makes it possible for
the farmer to conserve the land for future
generations.
We have over 30,000,000 more mouths
to feed than in 1940. We eat better than
ever. Yet, in thoSe 15 years, some 2,500,-
000 farm workers have left the farms and
entered industry. The machine, by bring
ing mass-production to agriculture, made
that possible.
Moreover, American farm equipment
doesn’t all stay home. Since 1946 we have
exported $2,000,000 worth of it. Those
machines are helping to solve the grave
food problem that has plagued much of
the world since history began.
Robert EL Wysor III
Clinton can ill afford to lose any of its
outstanding citizens, and this applies es
pecially to its young, potential leaders.
The community was struck a grievous
blow recently when the life of Robert E.
Wysor III was snuffed out by an automo
bile accident
Here was a man in the flower of young
manhood, just 35 years old, who gave ev
ery indication of a lifetime of outstanding
service to the community.
He was active in the business, civic,
social, and religious life of Clinton. Ex
tremely intelligent, he had exhibited the
desire and the ability to render public ser
vice of a high order.
Owning and managing his insurance
and real estate agency, he was a leader in
and former president of the Chamber of
Commerce, was one of the organizers and
a director of the Clinton Community Hotel
Corporation, a member and former presi
dent of the Lions club, an elder in the First
Presbyterian church.
He served his country in two wars, be
ing a lieutenant in World War II and a
captain in the Korean War.
Whatever this young was was called
upon to do, he responded with a perform
ance that was altogether pleasing to those
who knew what to expect of him.
We simply do not have enough of this
tvpe of citizen, and the loss of Bob Wvsor ; « reat men of that d V were Gutenberg^John Rog-
•j i.v * u * .^,1 ers (my ancestor), and Columbus. The second
creates a void that has hit Clinton with 1,7
terrific impact in many ways.
Many Pay
Tribute
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type of service in the county
where he was bora.
When strciken at the age of 65
Editor Harris was writing an
editorial on one of his favorite
topics—the support of private
enterprise as opposed to “having
the government do everything
for people.” His unfinished ef
fort was characteristic of his de
votion to the basic principles of
national and individual prog
ress.
In his death journalism has
lost a valued devotee of sound
ness in all phases of the public
business and Clinton and South
Carolina have lost a progressive
and constructive citizen. A host
of friends and admirers will miss
him greatly. — The Greenville
News.
BABSON . . .
Discusses The Future
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass., June 23—Since President
Eisenhower’s great address at Pennsylvania State
University last week, I have been much more
hopeful of the years ahead. This world may be
entering a new Industrial Revolution commen
surate with the two previous great Industrial
Revolutions of a century and more ago.
Great Industrial Revolutions
. The first was based upon the invention of
printing by movable type, upon the development
of education combined with Bible reading, and
upon the discovery of America. Thus, the three
Biggest!
This Administration has made a
praiseworthy start in getting government
out of commercial business. But it has a
mighty long way to go.
A leaflet issued by the Chamber of
Commerce of the USA states: “The gov
ernment is still the nation’s biggest electric
potver producer, the biggest power con
sumer, the biggest banker, biggest em
ployer, biggest insurance company, big
gest landlord, biggest tenant and biggest
publisher. In fact, Uncle Sam owns more
wheat than the w’heat farmers, more grass
land than the cattlemen and more trucks
than General Motors.”
The same leaflet says: “No one—not
even the government—has a complete list
in any one place of all its businesses and
industries.”
No one knows either how much gov
ernment in business has cost, is costing,
and will cost the taxpayers, but it’s a sure
bet the figure would make any mind reel.
Let the “get-government-of-of-business”
campaign move into top gear!
Plenty of Room
Leaders in retailing point out that this
enterprise offers great opportunities to
young people choosing careersr There’s
every reason why that is true. A retailer
operates on the certain premise that things
just don’t stand still. The business is in a
constant state of evolution—due both to
new products and to new ideas. Being
intensely competitive, management must
be ever on its toes trying to do a better job,
for the consumer is always looking for a
lower price, more attractive displays, bet
ter service, and other inducements—and
he takes his trade where he can get them.
A retail store must have its rules and
regulations and routines, like any other or
ganized activity. But the big thing is found
in the human factor—in people with ideals
and imagination and vitality and the urge
to outdo the other fellow.
Today’s executives in the big chain and
other leading retail outlets came up from
the ranks. They started as salespeople,
warehousemen, and so on. In retailing
there’s plenty of room at the top.
Farmers - Mass Producers
When we speak of maas-production,
we automatically think of industry. Few
of us connect it wdth agriculture as well.
Yet recent developments in farm machin
ery have been so rapid that the farmer has
outstripped other segments of our econo
my in mass-production methods.
The farmer now has available com
bines capable of harvesting 30 acres of
grain a day! mechanical corn pickers that
can harvest two acres in a single hour; cot-
Industrial Revolution was due to the harnessing
of stoam and steel, the development of democracy,
and the building of railroads
and steamships. Thus, the three
great men of that time were
Watt, Washington, and Steph
enson.
My purpose this week is to
impress upon readers that fu
ture history may show we are
now entering a third great In
dustrial Revolution. This could
come from the harnessing of
uranium, the development of
labor unions accompanied by
the redistribuiton of property, and the possibilities
of aviation. The three men responsible for these
developments were Einstein, Roosevelt, and the
Wright Brothers. The first two Industrial Revo
lutions, with the exception of the discoveries of
Columbus, were largely confined to nations and
bounded by national lines.
Airplane* Making Great Changes
Let me now state that any third revolution will
know no national boundaries, but must be a world
revolution. For instance, uranium is found ev
erywhere and can be used anywhere; the masses
all over the world are demanding property, edu
cation, and opportunity; while airplanes, tele
phones, and television know no boundaries. They
are reducing the size of the world to the size of an
average country a generation ago. Today I call
London by telephone as freely as I called New
York a few years ago. Members of my organiza
tion are lunching with me today, and they are
having breakfast in London tomorrow morning.
Furthermore, the difficulties of communicating
with the people of other nations, which handi
capped the two previous industrial revolutions,
have been eliminated by radio and television.
The stock market, of course, will have bad
breaks. Then will be the time to buy more of
the stocks wheih will profit from this new Indus
trial Revolution. The main purpose of this week’s
column is to get you to become world conscious
and to recognize the great possibilities ahead.
Some look upon advances in electricity as bring
ing on a new era; but no, electricity is simply a
new method of distributing power already manu
factured by coal, oil or gravity. This same ap
plies to electronics and many other inventions
which people are going crazy about. Acutually,
these are incidental. Great new eras are based oo
the use of a new power; material, spiritual, politi
cal, or a combination of all, as ‘‘Billy’’ Graham is
preaching.
How To Loao Money
All kinds of speculative promotions followed
the inventions of Watt, Stephenson, and especially
Columbus. Hundreds of new companies were
formed and floated to get gold from Mexico or
Peru, to enjoy the Fountain of Youth in Florida,
to import sugar, spices and slaves from the West
Indies, to get timber and ore from Virginia or
New England. The settlement of Gluocester—
my home city—was undertaken by an English
company to make money by gathering the cod,
halibut, and mackerel which were said to fill
Gloucester harbor. A few of these companies
made money, but most of them including the
Gloucester company, went broke.
Too many investors of those days thought only
* of themselves and tried to get rich by speculating
however, who did not attempt to speculate in
in individual companies; but they lost out. Those,
these new companies but who got the vision that
a new industrial revolution was fanning out be
fore them, applied this vision to their own busi
ness, whether banking, insurance, manufactur
ing, merchandising, or foreign trade. They be
came wealthy. I forecast that those who now
get and so usefully apply this vision will be like
wise rewarded.
Lat Us Now Ba Optimistic
WILL MISS HIS INFLUENCE
Clinton
I would like to take this op
portunity of speaking for the
members of the Town Council in
expressing our regrets in the loss
to this community in the untime
ly death of Mr. Wilson W. Har
ris. Please express our deep
est sympathy to Mr. Harris’
family and to the many loyal
employees of his fine* paper.
Mr. Harris contributed over
forty years of unselfish service
to the Spiritual, Educational, So
cial and Economic betterment of
this community. Mr. Harris ex
emplified the true spirit of a
noble Clintonian. He was asso
ciated with everything for the
good ol his community, his
county and his state.
We shall miss the fine influ
ence of Mr. Harris and the suc
cess of Clinton down through
the years will prove to be the
length and shadow of this pub
lic-spirited citizen.
We wish you and your ex
cellent newspaper continued suc
cess down through the years.
H. L. EICHELBERGER,
Mayor
WILSON W. HARRIS
It is with a feeling of deep re
gret and serious loss that this
newspaper notes that “30” has
been written for Wilson W. Har
ris, 65, editor and publisher of
the Clinton Chronicle for the
past 43 years, who suffered a
paralytic stroke last Friday night
while in his office writing for
his paper and passed away early
Monday morning.
Mr. Harris was well known
among the newspapermen of this
state and the South for his fear
less conduct of his newspaper
editorially. He was a member of
the Mental Health Commission
of South Carolina and a former
member of the South Carolina
Legislature.
He was influential in the
South Carolina Press Association
and his leadership and knowl
edge of conduct of the newspaper
business was of invaluable aid in
not only making his own paper
known and respected as one of
the best weeklies in this state,
but his advice aided immeasur
ably the editors of other papers
in improving their papers.
He was a leader in his home
city of Clinton in all phases of
religious and civic life. He la
bored long and diligently for the
progress of the city he loved and
he outspokenly condemned edi
torially things which were not
for the betterment of the people
of the community.
Tlie loss to Clinton of Mr. Har
ris is a blow which will be diffi
cult to recover from and a loss
which will affect all, not only in
his native city, but the State and
the South as well.
The Aiken Standard and Re
view joins the bereaved family in
their grief and realizes the ir
reparable loss but at the same
time bows to the will of the cre
ator of Man Who in His wisdom
has seen fit to call home a ser
vant of long fruitful labor.—
Aiken Standard and Review.
WILSON W. HARRIS
Somewhere along about 1910
Wilson W. Harris, then about 20
years old, was doing what might
be classified as unskilled labor in
the composing room of The Ad
vertiser. He had spent a year or
more at Presbyterian College but
his finances had perevented him
from finishing his course. Pre
viously he had acquired the rudi
ments of ‘printing in the Thorn-
well Orphanage where he had
spent a part of his youth.
An ambitious and capable
young man, his minor job evi
dently irked him. He saw no
future where he was. He had
visions of larger things. Besides,
he wanted to get back to Clin
ton, a place he loved above all.
He learned that The Clinton
Chronicle could be purchased.
He persuaded the owners of Hie
Advertiser to join with him and
another friend in its purchase.
Not much money was involved
with and the high recognition he
received at the hands of his fel
low citizens of Clinton, of Lau
rens County, and the State of
South Carolina, in all of which
he held poets of honor and re-
sponsbiility.
He was interested in politics
but never held but one striclty
political office, that of county
representative in the legislature
But it wasn’t politics that got
him such recognition as, for illus
tration, membership on the
South Carolina Mental Health
Commission. His interest was
ever with the unfortunate and
under-privileged. As a member
of the House of Representatives
during the administration of
; Governor Richard I. Manning,
he was one of Gov. Manning's
most active supporters in the
governor’s program for reorgan
izing the South Carolina Hospital
for the Insane, giving that insti
tution a reputation for service
and efficiency which it still en
joys. „ The same sort of interest,
connected with his judgment and
ability, made him a trustee of
Thornwell Orphanage. His nat
ural ability and integrity were
called on in other fields.
As a newspaper man Mr. Har
ris was among the best in South
Carolina.* He was a successful
manager and publisher. An an
editor he was honest and cour
ageous, speaking his mind as he
thought, iven though he knust
have known at times that he cut
across the views of his best
friends. Probably he was not
right all the time, but he was
right as he saw it.
A man of constant Christian
faith and high ideals, courag
eous, honest, indutsrious, friend
ly and wrapped up in his family
life—what more could be said of
a man? He was all of them.
There weren’t many like him. It
will be hard to fill his shoes.—
The Laurens Advertiser.
difficulty, willingly giving of his
time and means to alleviate suf
fering, he was never too busy
with hia own affairs to aid those
in need or distress.
Through his teaching and
counsel he directed many in
youth toward paths of successful
living and this has been a knonu-
mental achievement in his life.
His friends were legion and
the memory of his life is eternal
in their hearts. '
Serving on the Board of Trus
tees of Thornwell Orphanage
since 1982, he led a dedicated
life in relationship* to his Lord
and a helpful and a sacrificial
example to his fellow men. By
word, encouragement, and exam
ple, he has inspired and encour
aged hundreds of Thomwell’s
sons and daughters to live for
God and to serve their fellow
men. He was indeed an elder
brother who was always willing
to pick up the fallen, to compli
ment the victorious, and not once
in all his life did he criticize
the errant.
We, his brothers and sisters
RESOLUTIONS
Thornwell Alumni Association
Adopted at Meetiisg June 1$
Genesis 5-21: “Epoch walked
with God, and he was not, for
God took him.”
And so it was with our beloved
brother, Wilson W. Harris. In
life he related everything to God.
Calmly he walked with the Mas
ter and exemplified the attri
butes of Christian perfection. Al
ways ready to help a brother in
who were privileged to live in
this historic institution, express
our deep love and dedicate our
selves, however feeble we are,
to endeavor, by hia example, to
reach the heights our beloved
brother attained in his Christian
walk and conversation.
And, be it further resolved
that a copy of these resolutions
be spread upon the Record of
the Alumni Association of
Thornwell Orphanage and a copy
be sent to his loving family. 1
Committee on Resolutions
Alumni Association,
J. H. Clarke, Chairman,
L. Rom Lynn, v
Jamefc E. Graham.
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J. R. Crawford
SURVEYING
CLINTON, 8. C.
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First Cotton
Bloom Sunday
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The - first cotton bloom of the
season to be brought Into The
Chronicle office efts one on Mon
day from the farm of Jamas
Vance. The bloom was puBad
Sunday, June 19, from the cotton
of Vance, colored farmer on the
Reese H. Young place. Vance,
who has brought the first bloom
to The Chronicle for the post
two years, has been among the
early bloom producers for a
number of years.
Dr. Fred E. Holcombe
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So, I close with this appeal: Let us forget, for)*"** vP) 1 ,”!! 188 * . was . con,uin *
the present. World War n, Russian Communism,
threatened Stock Market Collapses, Juvenile De
linquency, and all the other pessimism featured
today. Instead, let us think of what Aviation,
Chemistry, Wonder Drugs, Television, Weather
Control, Cybernetics, Automatic Factories, and,
the greatest of all, uranium will do for us who get
this vision and are anxious to work. Even this
does not mean bothering your head to find some
uranium stock to buy. The fact is, future history
may look back upon the present stock markets
as you and I look back on horses and buggies!
Therefore, my we awaken to a new vision. May
ton pickers that do the work of 40 men, _
and all manner of other machines and ap- IlJS! 5 can “f* uranium and
,, • li. F especially advertising, to develop our own buii-
pliances that do the work of agriculture new and help our children and grandchildren,
swiftly, efficiently and economically, and Without doubt some stocks are good short sales at
with a minimum of human effort. And ^ bUt ^ now mU ^ world
mated. Details of the early
partnership are not essential to
this account except that the rela
tions of Mr. Harris and the own
ers of The Advertiser were
friendly and cordial and remain
ed so until is death the past Mon
day. As related in the news re
ports, Mr. Harris was the sole
owner of The Chronicle at his
death. ,
We mention this early history
of his life mostly to remark that
tile same ambition to accomplish
something for himself and his
community remained with him
throughout his life and explains
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