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CLINTON, S. C.. THCRSDAY, OCTOBER IS, 1955
“The Dawning
Renaissance”
Presbyterian ColleRe this week-end will
stajre a celebration of its 75 years of sendee
to the Church and Christian education—this
is its Diamond Jubilee year. And the people
of Clinton, reirardless of denomination, will
join hands and hearts with it And enter into
the spirit of this happy occasion.
Clinton and IVesbyterian College have
come a long way together and it is fitting
that they celebrate together at this momen
tous period in the College’s life.
A comprehensive program has been plan
ned for the occasion; and with it. Saturday
has been designated as homecoming day.
Notable speakers have been secured to ap
pear before the great company of friends of
Presbyterian who will be here for the event.
Leaders in educational, political and church
spheres will occupy the local platform to
teach and inspire those who hear them.
Never in the history of Clinton and Pres
byterian College have so many nationally
known leaders appeared on the local scene. It
is Clinton’s happy privilege today to l»e what
it is and where it is—the home of Presby
terian College.
The theme of the celebration is "The
Dawning Renaissance,” indicating, of course,
that Presbyterian College stands at the
threshold of a new era in its existence.
Just as the invention of the alphabet, the
wheel, movable type, gunpowder, the steam
engine, the process for making steel, all pre
saged new eras in world history, so does the
world today stand at the precipice of the
atomic and hydn>gen era.
No one knows all that this new age por
tends or will bring. It can be terrifying or ,
enlightening. And it is just such men that
will l>e in Hinton this week—and just such
institutions as Presbyterian—that will lead
the world on its way into a vast new expe
rience in human relations and culture as will
make all past ages of world history seem
like dark ages.
So, it is indeed a pleasurable interlude in
Clinton’s life that it is privileged to join with
Presbyterian College in its Diamond Jubilee
celebration and march with it into whatever
the second seventy-five years may bring.
Tractors For Turkey
Early this year an operator pushed the
starter button on a farm tractor in a factory
in Ankara. Turkey, and the machine rolled
off the assembly line.
What makes this newsworthy is that the
tractor in question was the first to be pro
duced in that country. The factory making
it was established by an American farm
equipment manufacturer, in partnership with
Turkish hanks, private investors, and Turk
ish government agencies. Prior to thus time,
all modem farm equipment used in the coun
try w&s imported. About 1.000 tractors will
be made the first year, and schedules call for
increases up to 5,000 annually, along with
many other implements.
This is a real step forward for Turkey. It
gives the nation a new manufacturing indus
try—and, incidentally, all the workmen are
to be Turks. And it gives her a domestic
source of something that is 100 per cent es
sential if any country is to properly feed its
people and conserve its irreplacable land re-
socru* — modern farm equipment, of the
kind our American companies produce in
abundance.
We have come to take mechanized fafm-
inff for granted. In that we are fortunate in
stories have toW <rf Soviet
Russia's food problem. She simply can’t pro
duce enough to keep her population going
save on a subsistence basis, and apparently
the spectre of famine is always present. One
reason is her lack of sufficient tractors and
other farm machinery.
Still A Lifeline
In this atomic age, our national defense is
based, in large part, on the concept of mas
sive retaliation. The fear of that retaliation,
it is hoped, will deter potential w-ar-makers.
And, if a major war comes, massive retalia
tion with all the resources at our command
will be employed to bring about victory.
This, unfortunately, has led many people
to believe that all, or practically all, \Ve need
for security is a big supply of nuclear weap
ons and sufficient long-range aircraft to car
ry them to their targets. Rut no responsible
military man shares that belief.
Major General John M. Franklin, president
of the United States Lines Company, who
was Assistant Chief of Transportation dur
ing World War II. recently wrote; "The H-
l*omb. the A-bomb, guided missiles, atomic
cannon, jet i>owvr and a host of other imple
ments of war that have become reality, have
led a good portion of public opinion to be
lieve that our dependence upon the ‘staple
commodities’ of warfare, such as transporta
tion. has been reduced. The hard, cold facts
are that improved railroad facilities, super
highways, airport and airplane development,
and more modern ships are all needed right
now in the interests of national security.
‘(X'ean transportation becomes increasing
ly vital as Communist pressure on the free
world countries and our treaties with free
dom-loving countries expand the ‘defense
perimeter' within which we are pledged to
counteract aggression.”
Ships always have been a lifeline between
the fighting front and the production line.
Nothing has happened to change that historic
fact.
Celebration
Tomorrow
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194$, I960, H»4 and J$65.
Election of'new officers will be
among the items of business to be
handled at the genera* meeting of
the PC Alumni association on Sat
urday afternoon. Immediately
thereafter is a scheduled meeting
of the Walter Johnson chib, alum
ni athletic organization.
The convocation will begin Fri
day afternoon with the annual fall
meeting of the alumni board of
directors. A dinner for church and
alumni chapter delegates and va
rious committee members is set
for that evening immediately prior
to the address by Dr. Humbert.
Dr. Hill’s address the next morn
ing is the first iteria on the Satur
day program, to be followed by a
student parade which will include
bands, the ROTC unit and fratern
ity princesses from which a jiome-
coming queen will be selected.
19 Legion Team
Boys Awarded
Jackets For Play
Jackets were presented to 19
boys who were members of the
American Legion baseball team
last Thursday night in a cere
mony at the Legion Memorial
building.
The jackets are powder blue
with navy trim and have the
Junior Legion baseball patch on
the shoulder.
Boys who were awarded jack
ets were: Billy Cranford, Bill
Dobbins. Billy Smith, Billy
Sease. Wallace Patterson,
Dusty” Reaves. ’‘Peanut” Smith.
Jerald Jenkins, June Raines,
Freddie Samples. Bill Reed. Ben-
ji Timmons, Mack Sweet, Millard
Daniel, Geary Hancock, Mike
Cooley, Elvin Floyd, “Duck”
Pearson.
They were donated by the fol
lowing local firms: Broadway
Theatre, Cooper Motor Co., Clin
ton Service Station, McCrary
Service Station, T. E. Jones and
Sons, McGee’s Drug Store, T. C.
Johnson and Sons, Young’s Phar
macy, Pitts Service Station. H. D.
Payne & Co., City Tire and Re
capping Co. (Laurens), Furr’s,
Joanna Stores, Carolina Service
Station, Baldwin Motor Co., J. A.
Addison, Gulf distributor, Clin
ton and Lydia Mills, League’s
Dairy, Yarboruogh Oil Co.
Coach Choc Burnett announc
ed that the following boys were
chosen on Rev. E* P. Bell’s up
per state all-star Legion
Bill Dobbins, pitcher; Billy Cran
ford, catcher; and Joe Raines
(Whitmire), shortstop; Bill Sease,
outfielder, honorable mention.
The following were named on
the all-state team: Cranford,
catcher; Raines, utility catches*
Bill Dobbins, honorable mention.
Mr. Bell made the statement
that “Peanut” Smith made the
pivot play at second base better
any other second
in Legion ball. Jerald Jenkins,
in his judgment, displayed the
best sportsmanship.
The local team made quite a
record, winning the local dis
trict championship, going on to
defeat winners in two other dis
tricts. They were finally defeat
ed by Greer in the semi-finals.
SENSING THE NEWS
By THURMAN SENSING
Executive Vice President
Southern States Industrial Council
Industry Supports
Education
(VlU'gvs and universities are depending
more and more on private industries for their
support and industry in the United States is
responding. Industrial leaders recognize not
only the importance of technical education
but also the importance of all-around liberal
arts education which will give young men
and young women a better understanding of
the relationship of the individual, industry ,
and government in a free society.
One of the mast recent examples of finan
cial aid to higher education in the United !
State's and Canada is the contribution of
$324,470 by the Socony Vacuum Oil Com
pany for this year for some 200 scholarships,
fellowships and grants. Other gifts of money
totaling many millions of dollars are being
made annually by American corporations in
order to help proride a progressive and in- ’
dependent educational system.
PUBLIC POWER is SOCIALISM
Arguments over private power versus public
pawer will fly fast and furious during the election
campaign next year Many of them will go into in
tricate eta.l and ge: involved in a complexity of
facts and figures Many of them will wander far
afieki and completely camuflage the issue
The real issue however, is very simple, Do the
people of this country wan: their electric power
industry operated under socialism or under private
enterprise?
When the debaters of the subject stray away
from this issue. the> should be brought right back
to A Neither they, nor the people generally, should
ever be allowed to forget that this is the question
that must be decided
Then, if the proponents of public power want to
advocate socialism, that is their privilege — but
they will at least be openly admitting what it is
they are advocating .And if they advocate govern
ment ownership and operation of the electric power
industry, they must also advocate government own
ership and operation of roalroads, telephone and
radio, coal mines, newspapers, grocery stores — and
right on down the line.
If the proponents of socialism finally win the
debate it. any part, then we can know that to that
extent at least we are no longer a free enterprise
nation.
SAME PROBLEM EVERYWHERE!
Sound finanoad procedures know no national
boundaries. That fact was impressed upon me again
when a correspondent in London, England, speak
ing of his own British Government, wrote as fol
lows:
The Government should, in fact, allow at to
be known immediately that under no ciraxqpUnces
whatsoever will there be any further Government
borrowing and that aU Government expenditure
must be met out of current revenue. If current rev
enue is insufficient, then expenditure must be cut
aoeordingty.
"The cry will go up that the curtailment of
Government expenditure will mean unemployment
The answer to that s that the nation cannot afford
to waste money in employing people in doing things
that are unprofitable And if that view is not ac
cepted. then the people must recognize that they
are choosing a path 'which will lead to their own
destruction.
"The choice is between a limited amount of
h»gh-quality money with good purchasing power
and a constantly increasing volume of paper money
with a vanishing power to buy anything in the
rfiops.
*Thost of us who were in Germany in 1962
know what that means. It means that prices get
so high that when one goes to the Aops to buy the
day’s good one has to go home for more money to
meat the cost, which has probably doubled by the
time what was the end of the queue reaches the
counter.”
The same underlying principles referred to in
this quote apply to all nataonal finances They surely
apply to ours. That has been recognized for some
txnr by the soundest men k> our Government.
Some time since Danaton Bridges and Byrd have
introduced Joint Reaototaon 2 in the Senate and
Representative Coudett has Introduced Joint Reao-
hatton 12 in the House to am
to control deficit pending by
Spartanburg Fair
Has Many Features;
Event Began Monday
The Piedmont Interstate fair
of which Laurens county is a
member, opened its 8th season at
Spartanburg Monday with an
outstanding year indicated for
the six counties and two states
exposition.
The fair will continue through
out this week until midpight Sat
urday.
Events still on schedule in
clude:
Thursday — South Carolina
Hereford Breeders Association
annual show opening at 10:00 a.
m.
Friday — Piedmont Parade of
Marching Bands at 2:00 p. m.; S.
C. Hereford Breeders annual sale
at 1:00 p. m.
Saturday—Stock car races at
2:30 p. m.
Grandstand attractions each
night include Hal Sands’ Man-1
hattan Rocket Review, present
ed by George A. Hamid.
Cetlin and Wilson's giant rail
road shows are back on the mid
way.
The fair is composed of six
counties in North and South
Carolina.
Formal
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
\
OCTOBER 14th and 15th
IN OUR NEW LOCATION
. 200 West Main Street
REGISTER NOW for VALUABLE PRIZES
$1500.00 in Merchandise
To be ‘Given Away
Platform Rocker
21 in. Sylvania T. V.
Studio Bed ,
Large Mahogany 5 Drawer Chest Numerous other prizes also
of Drawers
awarded.
*
Drawing for Prizes Will
Be Held Saturday October 15th 5:30 P. M.
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS REGISTER AND
DEPOSIT TICKET IN BOX
You Do Not Have To Be Present To Win
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