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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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Jab 4. 1889
EaUbliahed 1900
WILUAM WILSON HARRIS — Jane IS. 1955
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Thursday, March 28, 1957
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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
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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. It if it is eith
er fear or greed, then we ought to be ashamed of
ourselves.
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HIGHLIGHTS OF 1956
•
%**6I7,650,272
INSURANCE IN FORCE
•
$92,284,068
TOTAL RESOURCES
9
$10,563,445
SURPLUS PROTECTION FOR POLICYOWNERS
•
$5,921,386
BENEFIT PAYMENTS
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of figures:
It means that over 900,000 individuals and families,
now have greater security.
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It means that $5,921,386 in benefits were paid in the
past year. ..for last expenses, education, hospital and
• surgical expenses, medical care, retirement, home
and family protection.
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Our pledge is to continue to provide the finest in life
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FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL STATEMENT
asof December 31,1956
RESOURCES
Bonds i $37,539,715.65
Public Utility Bonds $14,946,300.56
U.S. Government Bonds.. 4,491,771.73
Railroad Bonds 1,979,579.69
All Other Bonds J6,122,063.67
Mortgage Loans 40,072,322.50
Policy Loam
Efitato • • • •
Cash
A *
Premiums in Course of Collection
All Other Assets.. /
TOTAL
LIABILITIES
Policy Reserves . $74*206,420.00
None
1,452,009.00
258,536.00
697,498.23
601,985.44
2,872,723.92
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v
4.151,796.00
4,891,772.21
\ 3,133,060.72
978,911.33
99(),537.61
523,952.43
$92,284,068.45
Death Claims Due and Unpaid
Installment Claim Reserve
Policy Claim Reserve
Premiums and Interest
Reserve for laxes
Reserve Under Annuity and Pension Plan.
Security Fluctuation Reserve 1 L225,000.00
All Other Liabilities (Except Capital)... 406,451.17
Capital and Surplus Funds
General Contingency
Reserve $1,000,000.00
Paid-in Capital 2,000,000.00
Surplus Funds 7,563,444.69
TOTAL
10^63,444.69
INSURANCE IN FORCE $817,650,272
PAYMENTS TO POLICYOWNERS $5,921,386
$92^84,068.45
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