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If Yon Don’t Road The Chronicle Yon Don’t Got the New* ®hf ©linton (Ehrnnirlf The Chronicle Strives To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Volume LVI Clinton, S. C, Thursday, September 22,1955 Number 38 Laurens County Hoy Tells of Life In Israel Wallace (Editor** Note: This is the *ec- ong article by Curtis E. Wallace of Gray Court tellinc of his ex periences in Israel as an Interna tional Farm Youth Exchange del egate. In his (first article Curtis described Matsuva, a collective settlement in western Galilee. Now he tells how the children are brough tup in this settlement. Curtis will be in Israel until No vember. Things have been swell here in Israel. Tomor row I leave Mat suva for a differ ent kind of life altogether. Life in this col lective settlement has been interest ing and the work has not been too hard. At first, one of the strangest things to me was the fact that the children did not live with their parents. But now that • I have been here for six weeks, I can see the reason for the par ents and children living as they do. In the first place, individual families could not make a living in a land like this. For this rea son they formed^ collective set tlement called a kibbutz. Here the men, women and the larger children share the work in the fields, dining hall, laundry and other places. TO solve the prob lem of each family’s getting someone to keep the children while the parents worked, it was decided to have a children’s home with a nurse mother to watch over them. The parents put their children in the babies’ house at the age of one week. The mother visits the children very often during the first months and takes it home in the afternoons. The child comes to recognize its mother and father and its love grows as the child gets older. The parents go for the chil dren who are under two or three years old, but the older children know the way to their parents’ house and go by themselves. The children visit their parents from 5 to 6:15. Then they return to ^ the children’s house for supper. After supper they go back to the parents’ house and stay until 8. Parents with small children put them to bed at 7. The parents finish their work on the settlement at S:15 and have a chance to rest before the children come for their visit. They devote their entire time to the children during their visit. It is a common sight to see the father playing with the child. And the older children seem to enjoy playing with their smaller brothers and sisters. Each year there is a camp for chlidren from 6 to 10. The kib butz has a home down near the sea where the children and some of the parents go for a week of swimming and playing. Food from the kibbutz is taken to them every day. It is a sight to see when the children, happy and singing, return in a truck. Then the meeting between parents and children remind me of home. Fo rthe children older than 13, there is a youth organization similar to the Boy and Girl Scouts back home. They go to camp for a week with boys and girls from all over Israel. Each has a badge which has on it Peace, Work, and Army. Many adults have the badge they had when they wertJ in the youth movement. Here, boys or girls reaching 13 are considered adults. They have to work full days in what ever job is assigned them. They go into town with the person who is buying food, machinery, or whatever else there is to buy. They also have to write an essay on any subject they choose. Then at a special ceremony they are presented a watch and a Bible. The education of the children is taken seriously. Goodbuild- ings and equipment have been built. The children learn one or two languages other than He brew. One little boy asked his father why a big boy like me couldn't speak Hebrew. Along with the regular studies the chil dren also learn handicrafts. We IFYE delegates attended the breaking-up party or gradu ation exercises for the children. The way the children said their verses and did their skits with out being afraid amazed me. The children really seemed to enjoy putting on the program. In the summer the children have two months free. During this time they are expected to work only four half days a week. While in school they work two half days. During the holidays they visit friends and relatives When the children become 18, they serve two years in the army. Both boys and girls serve. There is a regular army ai)d an agri cultural army. In the regular army the whole time is devoted to military training. But in the agricultural army, only about four to six months are devoted to military tactics. Then they are placed on kibbutz to learn the agriculture and the makings of a kibbutz. They have inspec tions but not too much military training here at Matsuva. .They stay about a year or the rest of* their time in the army. When discharged, they go to establish new settlements or to ones that have few members. During the war these agricul tural army boys and girls living along the borders and in danger ous places were placed in kib butzim for defense purposes. Tomorrow we IFYEs go to a moshav called Nahalal. But more about that next time. Blatt Not To Seek State Judgeship Columbia. — Speaker of the State House of Representatives Sol Blatt has announced that he will not seek an expected open ing on the State Supreme Court of which he appeared assured. “I can best serve the people of my county and state by re maining in my present position as speaker,” Blatt said in a pre pared news statement. "I will not be a candidate for the next vacancy on the court.” Chief Justice D. Gordon Baker has announced he will retire when he reaches the court re tirement age of 72 next year. One of the associate justices, Tayldr H. Stukes, is expected to succeed Baker, leaving an asso ciate justiceship open. The general assembly fills the court’s 10-year terms. Blatt’s accession to the post had been such a foregone con clusion among House members during the 1955 session that poli ticking already had begun among interested candidates for the speakership. “I feel I should make a public statement as to whether or not I will be-a candidate for the va cancy on the Supreme Court in 1956,” the Barnwell representa tive said in his prepared state ment. No Groalor Honor “I know of no greater honor that could come to a lawyer,” the man who had been speaker for eight terms continued, “than serving on the highest court in the state. “Many people have suggested that I become a candidate and I am grateful to my many friends throughout South Carolina who have offered to help me in the event I should offer for this high office. “I am particularly pleased by pledges of support that volun tarily came from my colleagues in the House of Representatives and the Senate. I am told by many that I would have no oppo sition should I become a candi date. “I have given the thought of becoming a candidate serious consideration. I have discussed it with my family and many of my friends. Many people con tacted me by telephone, letters and in person and requested me not to run. ‘These people have been kind enough to say I have done a good job as speaker of the House and they want me to continue to serve in that capacity. Many of my colleagues in the House have stated it was their wish I remain as a member of the House. Not Bo Candidal* “After careful coijsideration, I have decided that I can best serve the people of my county and state by remaining in my present position and I will not be a candidate for the next vacancy on the court. “I want to take this oppor tunity of expressing my deep ap preciation to the people of Barn well county and to my colleagues in the House for so long keeping me in my present position of honor and I hope I shall continue to merit their confidence.” J. R. Crawford SURVEYING CLINTON, 8. C. Phono 3493 Joanna IT PAYS "»•" 2-Door Sodon • * why not MAKE IT AN OL.DS I Chances are you’ve always considered CMdsmobile a high-priced car. And it's true, it looks like a high-priced car . . . performs like a high-priced car ... has all the prestige of can costing many, many dollars more. Blit actually, you can own a big, beautiful "Rocket” Engine OUsmobile for lets than some models in the lowest priced field. 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