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Page Four -t- THE CLINTON CHRONICLE A OJIjp (Clintmi (U^rnnirlr Jab 4. 1889 EaUbliahed 1900 WILUAM WILSON HARRIS — Jane IS. 1955 PUBLISHED EVfiRY THURSDAY 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 Oflice 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 ndt 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 A. R. P. Church Thursday, March 28, 1957 TodcL and CLINTON. S. C.^ THURSDAY. MARCH 28. 1957 Just Not Needed If all the estimates of needed school fa cilities in the 4S' states arp as unreliable as that submitted by South Carolina officials, the furore created in Washington for the Federal government to get into the business of education can be ^taken with a grain of .salt. And the propaganda that the states are financially unable to do the job can be knock ed into a cocked hat. J The tremendous building program in. South Carolina during the past five years places this state right at the top in physical facili ties for its educational plant when compared with any or'all of the other 47 states. Rut look what thev sav South Carolina needs in new school rooms: The Office of Education in Washington lists this state as needing I.‘.)5o new rooms for excess enroll ment and 4,500 rooms to replace existing un satisfactory rooms. A total of 6.453 rooms! Allowing spucc fur offices, libraries, and laboratories, etc., that would give South Car- swer we can give is, “The man who doesn’t have it.” Dr. J B Kennedy, clerk; C. A Dicye, W. Blakely Tribble, George Watts Copeland, Gjeorge •lie pays for it wjth income from land that Bryson, and James P. Sloan, could Ih: made td bring him from five to ton times'as nvuch. D. Adair, J. Sloan Marion Nabors. Friends in the community are (continued from page 1) 'cordially' invited to attend the worship erected on the site now| s;crvi ce on Sunday morning, occupied by the Bank of Clinton, ^.u ... • * This second building, which was Q||| WOUlu GfCdfC the Providence congregation's] house of worship for nearly a half century. On Oct. 16, 1!>52, it was moved across town to. the comer of Calvert Avenue" and South Holland street where it __ _ _ became the All Saints Episcopal* , , ~ , Church. > | A bill which won final approv Separate Board Tor Whitten Village The congregation has ninety-• al “j n the Senate on Wednesday, [.with Whitten Village and I think five members and at present is March 20, went to the House of made up of families who' have 1 Representatives, and was refer- Jived in and noar Clinton forced to the Military, Municipal generations, some'of these Tamil- and Public Affairs Committee for ics having settled in this area ^t-sideration, would create a over 200 years ago. | to govern Whit-j boards and bureaus" and' we’ll be Names of the present elders are lpn yUage, a state institution lo- in the same category as Washine- r 1 R mo-u. O A rated here. Passage of the bill ton in a few years. * in the House and signing of the measure by the governor would remove the institution from the jurisdiction of the Mental Health Commission. Passage of the bill in the House was oposed by Senator Henry B. Richardson, of Sumter, who said "We're going into this too hast- ily," Richardson wanted to set up a committee to study the matter and report its recommen- ctations next year. Richardson said, "As far as I know, the Mental Health Com mission is doing an excellent job it would be dangerous to split up the commission without giving this matter special study.” j He added, ‘‘The trend* nowa- tjays is to establish to many Sen. Charles C. Moore, of Spar tanburg asked Richardson if he knew the attitude of the Mental Health Commision to the propos ed legislation and Richardson re plied that the commission had gone on record as oposing it “for various reasons.” j Sen. J .D. Parler, of Dorchester, who served as chairman of a sub committee of the Senate Medical Affairs Committee, then took the floor to urge passage of the bill ^‘‘W looked into the matter very thoroughly. We are thoroughly convinced this institution which has done so much good for un fortunate children should never have been placed under the Men tal Health Commission in the first place,” he said. Parler added that h|e had “no brief” with the commission, but that they were the only ones who had raised opositkm and that the children and parents are the- ones to ,be considered.' The measure was then passed on voice vote. Dr. Felder Smith OPTOMETRIST Phone 794 Laurens, S. C. Dublin, Ga. r Courier-Herald: “The Ameri can way of life is faith in God. Upon this foundation was placed the United States Constitution. Its chief purpose was to create a structure of government to protect the in dividual freedom of citizens, to give the citi- .zenryall power over the government. Many Americans carelessly accept tfur government as a ‘democracy.’ Actually it is a constitution- al republic. . . Our Const it uTroh protects rights of minorities which sheer democracy would permit to be taken away by majority vote. This is an extremely -Important feature of our constitutional republic.” Deacons at the present time are Lowry M. Wilson, chairman; J. Hubert Todd. R. L. Plaxico, A. B. Blakely, Bennie B. Blakely, W. olina 323 completely new 20-rbom school buildings! Every om? of the state’s 46 eoun- j ties would get seven brand new buildings! And that is in addition to the facilities we ajready have, which are among the best in the nation. •'The Office of Education contends that 159,00u new school rooms are needed in the country'. If the estimates of needs in other | states arc no more realistic than those for ! South Carolina, we can conduce that there j is no need at all for the Federal government to come to the aid of states in providing edu cational facilities. I *\ South Carolina simply does not need any thing like the additional school facilities list- 1 ed by the Office of Education. We don’t know the needs in other states, : but whatever they are! if South Carolina can { ny it provide adequate and modern facilities—and Harmony, Minn.. News: “Hear about the careless hunter who climbed.through a fence with 'his gun cocked? The Lena (111.) Star yeports he js survived by-his wife, three chil dren and a pheasant." SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING Executive Vice President Southern States Industrial Council t #♦#*♦*•*#• * * * tWeeWeeWee*#*WeeeeWeeWee THE FOOLISHNESS OF FOREIGN AID It probably constitutes a certain amount of brashness to deny that foreign aid should be con tinued, when'the Administration says it must be continued and when all the " official" committee reports to the White House and to Congress in ef fect, say the same thing. Nevertheless, we do de- ind, we sincerely believe that if its con tinuance were put to a vote of the people, it would lose overwhelmingly. Sometimes the concensus of it has done and is doing so—other states can opinion of aH'the people contains more wisdom do likewise without calling upon the Federal than-the combined opinion of a comparatively . • small number of their so-called leaders—regard- government.4or assistances . 7- 'less of how difficult it may be for these "leaders” ' In the final analysis, it’s the people in. the states who must furnish the money for the Federal government to use. They! might as well do it in the first place without having huge sums deducted in Washington before-it is returned to th£ states. •• . • " .! Rut more important than finances, is the spectre of Federal control of the states’ schools — which nd One in hi.k right mind wants. Who Pays For Irrigation? In these days’of progressive farming prae- 1 tices the qquestion, “Does Irrigation Pay?” | is no longer heard. Of course it does. Every- bodv knows that by- now. Rut what about*the question at the top of this article, “Who Pays for Irrigation?" About the best answer we can .give comes from reading a piece by J. M. .Eleazer, South Carolina’s .farm information specialist who works with the Clemson College Extension . ion g run? • who can even ^ ^ ^ Service. He writes articles' that appear in about every paper in the state, including The Chronicle. ■ Mr. Eleazer told about a farmer in Georgia who raises pimiehto peppers, just as do many of our 'I^aurens County farmers. And the Georgia farmer sells his peppers to the same company that buys the Laurens County, pep pers. The Georgia man irrigated 12 acres of his. j peppers and got a production of 72 tons—six 1 tons to the acre. Which compares with one j ton or less per acre normal production for peppers on land that is Wot irrigated. t ' Rut here'js Mr. Eleazer’s story : "Edwin Kesler, across the river from An derson at Mart well.*Ga., made 72 tons of pi- miento peppers- last summer on 12 acres, ac cording to the pepper man. T. J. Harper of Pomona Products Company of Griffin, Ga., who buys them. At $80 a ton, this amounted to $5,760. or $480 gross per acre. “These were irrigated. This man also had ‘six acres he couldn’t reach with the water t,hat made three tons, or a half ton per acre, according to Mr. Harper, for a gross income of only $40 per acre there. “(;)n all of the peppers they-had contracted m Georgia, Mr. Harper told me the average yield secured .was just under a ton per acre, .97 to be exact. Others, seeing Mr.-Kesler’s success with irrigation there the past dry summer, are trying to get in shape to thus insure their yields too, if drought comes, as it so frequently,does.” “Who Pays for Irrigation?’’ After reading what Mr. Eleazer says, about the only an- to'swallow that fact. ‘There is only space here to mention a few of | the reasons why it is to be believed that continu- j ance of our foreign aid program 1* entirely foolish. In the first place, there' is the enormously j heavy burden it has placed on our economy pver 1 the years and the very heavy drain it continues to "constitute upon the .American taxpayer’s pock- etbook. This might fcx/ considered a selfish reason—but it is still quite true that the quickest way to de- J stroy freedom in this country is by undermining our economy. And our economy can very easily be destroyed by continuously spreading thin our resources, and “by taxation so heavy that it de stroys all incentive for growth and initiative. Since the beginning of World W r ar I. we have doled out in one form or another a n amount o f $115 billion in foreign aid. Of this amount, $60 billion has been handed out since the end of World War II—and it is this "amount which should re ceive the greatest attention, because it is this, amount for which there was the least need. Even so. it is now proposed/and the Co/igress will vote on it before long, to continue this ^id "at the rate of about $8 billion per year. Of course, you cannot hand out $60 billion without the people who receive it having been benefited for the timeTieing. But that is the sad part about it—it is only for the "time being." Who can say that if stopped now—or stopped at any the has not actually harmed these people more than it has helped them? . . Actually, there are some serious underlying fallacies to the whole philosophy of foreign aid that doom it to failure. In the first place you cannot buy friends. They may seem, friends so long as the gifts keep com ing, but just let the gifts stop and the donor will soon find out how many friends.he has! This ,is one way of saying, of course, that mon ey will not buy everything, even though we seem to have adopted that assumption in the depresssion of the I930’s and have labored under it ever sirice. We tried to buy prosperity in this country in those days with Government (taxpayers) money, but it failed miserably. Now we are trying to buy world security and prosperity with the same kind of money—and it simply cannot succeed. In the second place, doles and gifts weaken the recipient instead of making him strong. Such practice kept up long enough destroys his inde- pendence and self-reliance—and a weakness shielded long enough can very easily become a permanent weakness. One of the best illustrations of these facts can be found in the case of Great Britain, which, of .all nations, just about all of us would most like to see remain strong. Instead, Great Britain has been gradually crumbling. And who can say that <ve must .not share a considerable amount of the blame! 1 Sound-thinking Britishers have told me that our $4 billion loan in 1946 helped establish their Socialist Government in power, that our Marshall ■ Plan and following helped keep this Government in power much longer than w'ould otherwise have been the case. And anyone with any knowledge of what has happened during these years, knows that the Labor Government of Great Britain is largely responsible for the crumbling of the Em pire and for the extreme weakness of the British economy. » * In other words, after giving Great Britain more aid than we have given any other nation, it is now weaker by far than when the aid was started! Our foreign aid program cannot be supported by common sense—which leaves us at a loss to know what is the motivating force behind those who are proposing its continuance. 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