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I / 1 7 Pasre Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, August 9, 1956 (Hlfp GllUtifin QUjrmtirlp F.sUbfshrd 1900 ! July 4. 1889 — WILjUAM WILSON HARRIS — June 13. 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSpAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance) One Year $3.00, Six Months $2 00 "’Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post 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 views or opinions of its correspondents Member: South Carolina Press Association, National Editorial Association National Advertising Representative: AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION ° , New York, Cnicago, Detroit. Philadelphia CLINTON, S. C.. Tlll RSDAY, AUGUST 9. 1956 Thornwell Jacobs ThormveH Jacobs came back to the scene vi his birth—7b years later—and on Thurs- dav afternoon was buried in ground hallowed * o _ ' - by the memory of his own father—the rever ed Dr. William Plumber Jacobs—who lies only a few feet away. He died Saturday in Atlanta, ending a dis tinguished career as edm*itor, author, and public speaker. He was bne of the most bril liant men in the South. • - Ordained as a Presbyterian minister, he went to Atlanta as a young preacher. A year or> .-o later he initiated and carried through the founding of Oglethorpe Univer sity. taking the name from a famous school that dosed during the Civil. War. The build ings on the campus^ are among the most beautiful in the nation! Dr. Jacobs was born in Clinton, the young est and last survivor of five children of his parents. He loved Clinton and came back through the years as often as h£ could. He was a sentimental man and kept in his heart thousands of little memories of the com munity he first knew. It is fitting that he is bkek among his people for his final rest. | Last Link Gone With the death last Thursday of Albert Woolson at Duluth, Minnesota, at the age of !P9. the last link that connected the 2,-- 65(i,(X)0-man Union army of 1861-65 with t he present snapped. Woolson was the last survivor of that army. Not a man now remains of the blue- clad host that bested the army of the.South ern Confederacy in a four-year struggle that has been fought and re-fought by their des cendants ever since. The end of an era came last Thursday. And as that era merges with the new, it finds a mighty country that Albert Woolson. as a lad of 18. of any of his comrades, or his ad versaries, never dreamed of when that con flict closed in 1865. Clinton has long since lost'its last soldier who served in the Confederate army. Three surviving soldiers of the Confed eracy still live, one in' Virginia, one in Flor ida. and one in Texas, all well over 100 years old—108. 110. 114. When 110-year-old John Sailing, of Vir ginia. heard of Woolson's death, he said "Cod bless you, Yankee.” All Southerners join our Virginia comrade in his sentiment. pressed in hours of work, fell from 51.3 hours in the third quarter of *1952 to 40.9 hours in t he first quarter of 1956. The basket contain ed butter, bread.- meat, baby foods, flour, vegetables, fruits and other standard items. It . would be interesting to see a similar study of other, non-food items. Not all of them would have declined in price, of course. But some Jiavc—and even in the cases where prices have risen, the rise has beeTr held to the minimum by economy in distribution. The best barometer of purchasing power is how lonjr we must work to buy something. In that, wt* Americans are more fortunate than any of her people. Chisholm. Minn.. Tribune: "Walter T. Car- roll. a 44-year-old farmer . . . was sent to jail on a contempt of court charge because he didn’t think it was any of the federal gov- ei'nment’s business to tell him how many ayres of crops he could plant on his own farm . . . Maybe he was wrong alniut being so stub born in this regard. Maybe he is just a pucker for refusing to go along with the common "herd. But maybe, also Walter‘Carroll remem bers that protecting individual rights and freedoms wasn’t an insignificant issue to the men who founded this nation. .. Dundee, N. Y., Observer: "Let private in dustry handle the Niagara (hydroelectric) project and pay its taxes. Otherwise, if a tax- exempt government agency takes over, the 'piornweli Jacobs [ (continued from page one) he / first time his ideas for the Jew Deal which was to come about during his administration. Three years .before his retire ment, Dr. Jacobs dedicated his fa mous Crypt of Civilization, A small sealed stone chamber on the campus of Oglethorpe, it contains objects to show Americans of the future_ho,w Americans of the 20th Century looked and lived. He set the date lor opening of the crypt as 8113, which based on the ear liest Egyptian calendar, is said to be as far in the*future as the be ginning of civilization is in the past. A high spot in Dr. Jacobs’ ca reer as president of Oglethorpe university came when he per suaded English authorities to per mit him to excavate beneath Gran- ham church in Essex, near Lon don, seeking the body of General [James Oglethorpe, founder of the colony of Georgia. Dr. Jacobs hoped to bring the body back to America, to be re- iiiterred on the Oglethorpe cam pus. About the same time, how ever, the city of Savannah made a similar request and he withdrew his project rather than be in com petition. After leaving’ the field oX edu cation, Dr. Jacobs devoted him self more completely to writing books and novels, editing -his Westminster Magazine and to travel. His other books include. 'For Heretics Only,” the latest, published in 1954; "Step Down, Dr. Jacobs,” an autobiography; "New Science and Old Religion"; •‘The Life ol William Plurner Jacobs", and "Islands of the Blest," poems. In addition to his academic de grees, he held an honorary LL.D. degree from Ohio Northern uni versity and the Lilt. D. from Pres byterian college. Among his immediate surviv ors are; two daughters, Mrs. Ol sen Field and Mrs. Herman Koes- ter, both of Weston, Mass.; and three sons, Thornwell Jacobs, Jr., and Dr. John Lesh Jacobs, both of Atlanta, and Frederick Lesh; of Whittier, Calif. He was a frequent visitor to Clinton, in the home of his n t ep- hew, J. Ferdinand Jacobs, Sr. taxes it escaiR's will lievvolleyted from the rest of us.” “Nothing More Dangerous” Dr. Robert Wilson, chairman of the Board of Standard Oil of Indiana, was the com mencement si>eaker at Hast ings'college cere monies. His young listeners heard some wise and important words. He made it clear that he does not share the belief, "too common among businessmen to day. that our -colleges amf-universities-are hotbeds of communism or socialism.” But he did express concern that "our students are too much inclined to take for granted the wonderful advantages they enjoy,” and that "so few even seem to emerge with real en- thusiam for the American way of life and its amazing achievements.” This is. "especially disturbing at a time when the Communists seym to have found a way to distort the truth and propagandize whole generations of their youth into apparently enthusiastic support for dictatorships which enslave the individ ual. glorify brute force, decry individualism an deny existence of a Supreme Being.” Then he came to the heart of the matter: "We must do more at all levels of education to l>etter understand what we have, how we got it and what we must do to preserve it. And we must make sure that our schools build ideals as they built knowledge. There is nothing more dangerous in the world to- day than high intelligence coupled with low ideals.” This coupling has brought On a series’of the most destructive wars in history. It has led to the enslavement of entire peoples. It has made, in .much of the world, a grim jest of the “dignity of man” concept on which Christain civilization and" invidividual free dom alike rest. Dr. Wilson’s warning could' not be more tirpely. A Basket of Food The “real cost” of food has dropped 20 per cent since 1952, because of falling r^ail prices and rising wages. That is the high spot of a recent study based upon Department of Agri culture and Department of Labor data. The “real cost” of a typical basket of food, ex- »•#•«•••• »• * # * • »• •• »•« SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING Executive Vice President Southern States Industrial Council FOREIGN AID FIASCO The collapse of the plans for the United States, Britain and the World Bank—mostly the U. S.—to have a major part ;n building the| Aswan Dam on the Nile River and the nationalization of the Suez Canal by the Egyptian Government serve to high light the fiasco of the foreign aid program wr> have carried on ever since the end of the Second World War. Actually, this Aswan Dam is. probably one of the most worthwhile of'all the projects which has been proposed for our foreign aid program all dur ing these years. It would undoubtedly mean much to the economy of Egypt and would aid greatly in raising the living standard of the peo ple of that country. It is rather strange, therefore, thaUpur Govern ment. which—under both party administrations— has been pouring foreign aid money down rat holes all over the face of the globq for the past decade or more to the tune of $55 billion, should have balk ed at continuing the practice in this particlar in stance. Generally speaking. Congress will debate at great length over appropriating comparatively sma.ll amounts foF Wery evident and apparent worthwhile purposes here at home, and at the same time vote a billion dollars for foreign aid with hardly a comment. This point was brought out in a debate in the Senate recently on the Social Security bill, when Senator Long, of Louisiana, proposed an amend ment providing for additional payments to the needy aged and to the disabled, pointing out that the cost of his amendment to benefit approximate ly three million persons involved would be about the same as the annual cost of the aid to Tito's Communist government of Yugoslavia. It r should be pointed out, of course, that just because we have been simple enough to give this much of the taxpayers’ money to a communist nation is no reason in itself fofc approving the Long amendment—but it does serve to highlight the fact that we argue much about helping our own people and very little about helping those in other nations'. We seem to have been operating all these years under some sort of vague assumption that if we spent enough of our money over the face of the earth we could protect ourselves from commun ism, we could stop communism. What we have very likely done is prolong both communism and socialism—which is only a halfway step to com munism—in the world. There is no question but that our foreign aid has subsidized both commun ism and socialism in many lands, and that without this prop from us. the passion for liberty that is inherent in the lives of people would very likely have overthrown such governments before now. If we could only stop and think one minute we would know that the philosophies of communism and socialism rm&Cbe overthrown with ideas, not dollars. We hive demonstrated right here in the Cnited States of America that 3 free people under a free enterprise system can attain a higher stand ard of living than under any other system yet de vised by man We should point out to any nation that thinks either communism or socialism will solve its problem that both systems have been tried time and again throughout history and have always failed We should answer any nation that threatens to go communist if we don’t pour our dollars into their coffers with one word, “Go.” There is some glimmer of hope noW ‘that we are coming tp our senses on this whole question of foreign aid The Administration asked for $4 billion, $900 million for the ensuing year. The Congress only approved $3 billion, $700 millions This is some improvement, not enough—but the great hope lies in the fact that Congress has now approved a complete review of our whole foreign aid policy, exhaustive studies to be made by the Foreign Relations Committees of both branches of the extent to which foreign assistance by the Unit ed States government serves or does not serve the national interest.” These studies are to be com pleted early in 1957—and if they are made factual and not political, then we should see a great change in our position on foreign aid in the com ing year. Conway Wins Title (continued from page one) home but that was all as Floyd and Johnson went down. No Commissioner Appointment Yet; Jones Leaves Office No action had been taken Tues day afternoon by the governor to appoint a successor to Clyde G. Jones as a County Commissioner of Laurens county. Mr. Jones left the office July 31 in order to begin service as su- erintendent of the County Home on August 1. He had been named to the position early in June by Supervisor Bennie Blakely and the other commissioner, Mrs John H. Wharton. Jones resigned on June 12, in a letter to Governor Timmerman thinking that his successor woulc be appointed by June 30, the date he i desired the resignation to be Patterson, p 10 0 0 Totals 37 5 11 Conway 400 010 401.—10 Clinton 000 020 306— Friday's Game The upperstate champions wen down with their best as June Raines started and failed to las the first three innings. Conway went on to win, 9 to 2. Raines was soaked for nine hits in two and a third frames anc suffered the defeat. Wallace Pat terson pitched the last six and two- thirds innings and did a creditable job, permitting only two runs. Wayrte Taylor | led the 12-hi Conway attack with three singles Jennings Owens was the winning pitcher, stopping Clinton on bu five safeties. Clinton didn’t score until the seventh when Bill Sease doubled Mike Cooley walked and William Archie tripled to deep left field to drive them in. Conway Taylor, ss E. Smith, lb Gore, If Owens, p effective. However, he continued in office until July 30, when he again wrote the governor, stating he was ending his; service on that date. It is customary for the govern or to name a successor upon the recommendation of the county delegation in the general assem- bly. SeriatoFR. T. Wilson has recom mended Albert M. Stribling, retir ing sqperintendent of the county home, -to the governor for ap pointment as Commissioner. No action has been taken by other members of the delegation. However, it is reported that Sen- ator-Nominate Robert C. Wasson, present member of the delegation, said he ‘‘has no objection” to the appointment of Stribling. The county appropriation bill slates that claims aganist the county, to be valid, must be sign ed by “the Supervisor and two Commissioners.” County attorney Phil D. Huff said Monday that, in his opin ion, the signatures of the Super visor and the one remaining Com missioner would make documents legal, and Supervisor Blakely said the office is being operated on that basis. * [ 1 Jones’ term as Oommissionei/ runs until December 31. -L Dr. Fred E. Holcombe OPTOMETRIST Offices at 2UU South Broad St Phone 658 Office Hours 9:M to 5:81 Conway Taylor, p-ss . D. Smith, lb Gore, ss-lf Owens, 3b Daniels, 2b Barnhill, rf R Floyd, If Bdgeworth, p Sawyer, cf Edge, e Totals .... t Clinton Pearson, ss P. Smith, 2b Samples, If Raines, c. Sease, cf Cooley, lb P. Floyd, 3b Johnson, rf Archie, p ab 3 5 . 5 .. 4 5 .. 4 .. 4 1 4 h 1 1 2 1 3 1 1 1 0 1 40 10 12 Ikf ab 5 3 4 3 5 4 .. 5 5 $ 3 h 1 1 2 0 1 2 3 0 1 Daniels, 2b Barnhill, rf KJoyd, 3b Sawyer, cf Edge, c Totals Clinton Pearson, ss P. 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