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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, July 25, 1957
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CLINTON. S.iC.. THURSDAY. JULY 25. 1957
To Demand More
From High School Students
The Association of South Carolina' Col-
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lepes ami the South Carolina School Admin
istrators Association joined last week in an-
nouncinp # move that is of more than pass-,
inp interest to citizens of the state in gener
al. but more especially to parents of pupils
in our high schools./ •
More stringent requirements in mathe
matics for South Carolina high^sehools were
announced as result of a study recently com
pleted by a joint committee ^composed of rep
resentatives from the two organizations.
The high school mathematics program will
be de^ignYd to prepare adequately pupils
planning to attend college, and obviate the
need for remedial college math classes.
The program which will result from the
study and the recommendations represents
a forward step in education in South Caro
lina. said Dr. Boyce Grier, of Lander College,
president of the Association of South Caro
lina Colleges. "I believe that we can count
on the full cooperation of-every high school
and college within the state.’’
Still more stringent mathematics require
ments will be instituted for high school stu
dents who expect to enter college science and
engineering programs.
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From the tone of the announcement we
get the impression that a tightening up both
„ in courses offered and quality of work to be
demanded of students is anticipated.
Too, the joint committee has also appoint-
ed a sub-committee to study language arts,
and a report on that phase is expected in the
near future.
No more important subjects are offered in
our schools than studies in mathematics and
the English language. Those who have been
in touch 'with students, especially college
1 students, have long recognized the deficien
cies in t hose who, after years of study, should
have l*een more proficient. A woeful lack of
preparation in these subjects is apparent in
thousands of students in colleges all over
South Carolina.
Well-trained minds result from careful,
• conscientious, adequate study in these sub
jects. There will be weeping and wailing from
those who take the required subjects, espe
cially math pupils, for many of us do not
have "mathematical minds.” And the study
of the English language is paramount, if for
no other reason than to learn to express our
selves in an intelligent manner. Too much-
stress cannot be given to th§ mechanics of
I n l, i (FrpH-
cent years has not been given the impor
tance in our schools that it deserves.
We recall a Presbyterian College professor
who told one of his students (editor of thk
college newspaper): ‘‘Mr. So-and-So, you
can’t write two sentences without having a
mistake in both of them!” And we suspect
the math professors have often Expressed
the same exasperation.
Who Should Pay?
Throughout the country, efforts are pe
riodically made to increase the legal load
limits of the huge commercial trucks.»That
happened this year in Texas. It caused the
Austin Statesman to point out that accord
ing to jhithorities, ”... a highway can be
huilt’for about $40,IKK) a mile for normal pas
senger traffic, while the same highway costs
around 6,60,000 a mile for the present load
limits; and would cost somew’here around
$75,QpU a mile to. be built heavy enough for
the proposed increase in the weight load. A
legitimate question for citizens, taxpayers
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and legislators is: “If that sort of highways
are to he built, who should pay the added
cost?”
1 hat question gets more potent all the tune
in the light of the multi-million dollar new
federal highway program, and the eyer-in-
creasing appropriations the states are called
upon to provide for l>oth building and main
taining roads.
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By THURMAN SENSING
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COMMUNISM ON THE MAYFLOWER
The coming of the Pilgrims to the New England
coast in 1620 forms a glamorous chapter in Ameri
can history. Now, 337 years later, we have been
hearing and reading much about a rather thrilling
and adventuresome duplication of the trip in a
replica of the original. Mayflower in which the
first trip was made. It would therefore seem to
be an appropriate time to review, a little known
fact about the system of government or control
the people on the original Mayflower set up for
themselves.
The fac: that is generally ignored, overlooked
and unknown about this landing at Massachusetts
Bay 337 years ago is that it marked the first com
munist settlement in America. The main lessor
about this settlement that is generally ignored,
overlooked and unknown is that this experiment
in communism failed within three years’ time, and
—for their very survival—the Pilgrims had to turn
to what we know as the free enterprise system.
Through the years, it would have been—and it
still would be—a valuable lesson to the pupils in
the classrooms studying^American history if this
lesson in the failure of communim—some people
call it socialism; there is no real difference—-were
emphasized. *
Before landing, the Pilgrims entered into what
is known as the Mayflower compact. Under this
Compact, Plymouth was set up as a share-the-
wealth community. Nobody owned anything.
Whatever was produced belonged to the commun
ity as a whole. They called this system "the corn-
one course and condition.” They lived under this
system from the desperate, disease-ridden first
winter of 1620-21 until the hungry spring of 1623.
Then they changed to private enterprise. W^iy?
We find the answer in a book written by Wil
liam Bradford, one of the leading original Pilgrims
ctw-ynri governor nf Pl^mmith. Pnlnn.w., nntiitlaii
Guernsey Cattle
Club Members To '
Meet At Smith Farm
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A S o u t h Carolina Guernsey
Cattle Club twilight meeting will
be" held at the farm of Mr. and
Mrs. I. M. Smith, Kinards, Rt. 1,
on Tuesday at 5:00 p. m.
Dariymeh and their wives from
over the state will attend the
meeting.
The program; beginning at 5:00,
will include a demonstration of
desirable characteristics of a good
dairy c o w, by C. G. Cushman,
Clem son College Extension Dairy
Specialist; a dairy cow judging
contest; and observation of cow
families and daughters of bulls
being used in the Smith herd.
A dutch barbecue supper will
be served at 6:30. *
After supper. Mr. Cushman will
speak - on “Efficiency * in Dairy
Production,” and C. J. . Jacobs,
field representative of the Ameri
can Guernsey Cattle Club, will
talk on "Breeding Guernsey Cat
tle Today.” A film, “Golden
Heritage,” will be shown.
C. B. Cannon, Laurens County
Agent, will be master of ceremon
ies. ' .
Mr .and Mrs. Smith have a reg
istered Guernsey dairy herd and
are recognized as one exf the out
standing farm families of the
state. Mr. Smith was named as
South Carolina’s “Master Farmer"
several years ago.
PC Tennis Players
Take Eastern Honors
Two Presbyterian College ten
nis players captured most of the
honors in the fast Eastern States
clay court tournament last Sun
day.
Jimmy Shakespeare, a rising
junior from Hollywood, Fla., is
the new Eastern States clay court
singles champion after whipping
XeiTBeck, of DutteT r-TK^ e-S,
in the finals of the meet held in
Philadelphia.
And Harry Hoffman, Jr., a ris
ing sophomore from Philadelphia,
teamed with his father to win the
doubles title. 'TOie father-son com
bination defeated Bob Betsoh and
John Benn, 6-2, 7-5, for the cham
pionship.
Shakespeare played number
four man and Hoffman held down
the number five spot on the,out
standing PC squad which won 13
matches against four losses during
the regular intercollegiate season
last spring.
Clinton Baptists To
Have Workers
Conference Monday
The July Sunday School and
Training Union Workers Confer
ence of the First Baptist Church
will be held on Monday evening,
church officials state.
Departments 1 and £ of the
Sunday School will be hosts for
the evening. -——
Elizabeth Glover
At Conference
Elizabeth S. Gtover, daughter;
of Mr. and Mrs. John Glover, of
Clinton, is attending Junior Con-1
ference at Camp Gravatt, the
camp and conference center of the
Telephone Employees
Win Safety Award
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Employees of the Bell Tele
phone Companies have earned the
Nationa IS a f e t y Council’s 1956
Award of Honor for the fifth time
in six years.
This award is based upon im
provement in both frequency and
severity of Occidents. Telephone
employees have made their, work
eight times safer than the avearge
industry reporting to the Council.
Fatalities in the communications
industry in 1956 were the fewest
for any year on record.
“Employees here in Clinton,”
said I. A. Edwards, manager for
Southern Bell, ’have played an
important part in the company’s
over-all safety record. During
1956, very little time was lost as
a result of accidents, either on or
off the job."
Brothers Awarded
Military Service Cross
Jerome Finley, of Mountville
and his brother, Georage Finley,
of Charlotte, N. C., were awarded
the UDC Cross of Military Ser
vice by the Beulah Meredith
Chapter of Rock Hill, at the an
nual picnic of all the chapters
which met in Rock Hill on July
10. . - . ’ —
Instrument Of Monopoly
It is said that "The function of.the union
shop is to furnish. the element of con.troj
w hich is essential to complete .monopoly.” "
This is undeniable. The worker’s wages
and conditions are determined by the union.
So is the amount and quality of work he
may do. He must strike if the union tells him
to. He must abide by any number of rigid
rules, even though he may not agree with
them.
• If a worker fails to obey the union, he loses
his 1 membership—and with it his job.
leaders of several unions in recent months
have exhibited a woeful lack of common de
cency and morality so necessary in com
manding respect of their memberships and
of the nation.
£ 5as>
Here, in very brief summary, is why sen
timent is growing for right to work laws,
which guarantee everyone the right to join
or not to join a union, as they voluntarily
choose, without dictation from either the em
ployer or the union. If that isn’t basic to our
boasted free nation, nothing is.
Greenville, S. C., Observer: “It is rather
interesting to note that John C. Calhoun, the
great South Carolina statesman, has been se
lected as one of the five greatest United
States Senators of all time.
“Mr. Calhoun was selected because of the
valianTfight which he put up Tn the Senate
for the rights of the states. The noted South
Carolinian must be oongtaiitly turning over
in his grave as he sees the rights of states
being usurped now.”
“Of‘•Plymouth Plantation.’’ This book had an in
teresting history itself. It was written by Brad
ford in 1647, was available to historians until 1767,
and then it completely disappeared from this coun
try for almost a hundred years. It was located
in the library of the Bishop of London in 1855.
After long negotiations and finally upon formal re
quest from “The President and Citizens of the
United States,” Queen Victoria had it sent back
and it now' reposes in the State House at Boston,
Massachusetts. Printed copies are available in
most major libraries. ,.
The Pilgrims weren’t long under this “comone
course and condition,” writes Bradford, until_ it
"was found to breed-much confusion & discontent,
& ritard imployment that would have been to their
benefite and comforte. For the young men that
were most able and fitte for labor and service did
repine that they should spend their time &
.strength to-worke for other mens wives and chil
dren, without any recompense. The strong . . .
had no more in-devission of. victuals & deaths
than he that was weake ...
“Upon the poynte all being to have alike, and
all to doe alike, they thought themselves in the
like condition, and one as good as another. And
so, if it did not cut off those* relations that God
hath set amongst men, yet it did at least much di
mmish and take of the mutuall respects that should
be preserved amongst them.”
Instead of a Thanksgiving feast in the fall of
1622. there was literal starvation and hopelessly
low morale. “So .they began to think how they
might raise as much come as they coulde 1 . . that
they mgiht • not still thus languish^ in misere. At
last, after much debate of things^ the governor
(Bradford himself) “gave way that they should set
come every man for his own perticuler .... And
so assigned to every family a parcell of land . . .
This had very good success for it made all h$nds
very industrious, so as much more come was plant
ed then other waise would have bene.”
The Pilgrims offered thanks for deliverance
from communism with a great Thanksgiving feast
in the fall of 1623.
Then Bradford philosophizes somewhat, “The
experience that was had in this comone course and
condition, tried sundrie years, and that amongst
Godly and sober men, may well evince the Vanitie
of that conceite of Platos and other ancients, ap
plauded by some of later times;—and the taking
away of propertie, and bringing in communitae into
comone wealth would make them happy and flo-
rishing; as if they were wiser than God!”
This is the story about the Pilgrims that should
be taught in our schools—because “that “conceite
of Platos and other ancients” is still “applauded by
some of later times.” Men still have the idea “that
the taking away of propertie, and bringing in com-
munitie into a comone wealth would make them
happy and flourishing.” Socialism and communism
were tried many times before Plymouth Colony;
they have been tried many times since. “As if
they were wiser than God!" They have always
failed. ^ «
Why doesn’t mankind learn the lesson? Is it
because the lesson is left out of, 6r unemphasized
in, our history books?
Protestant Episcopal Ghureh
the Diocese of Upper South Caro
lina, hear Batesburg.
The Rev. Clyde L. Ireland, dio
cesan Christian education and
youth consultant, is camp manag
er.
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Awarded Ribbons
At 4-H Roundup
Twenty 4-H club county win
ners from Laurens County at
tended Piedmont District Round-
Up at Camp Loi^g, Aiken, July
16-17. Those receiving blue rib
bons wer e Leathea Simmons, fruit
Pie and Electric; Judy Bryant,
garden; Harriett Montgomery,
health; Mary Martha Bryson,
leadership; Don Willis, achieve
ment; Gene Marlar, boys agri
cultural program; Gene Marlar
and Sarah Estes, cooperative
demonstration; Jerry Bryant and
Jimmy Simmons, miscellaneous
demonstration; Milton Burns,
tractor; Earl Robertson, tractor
operator.
Those receiving red ribbons
were: Mary Mungo, clothing;
Martha Tinsley, dress revue; Sa
rah Estes, food preparation; Caro
lyn Revis, individual bread dem
onstration; Mary Ann Robbs and
Helen Reichle, dairy foods team
demonstration; William Brown,
dairy; Jerry Bryant, field crojis;
Ben Vrouch, meat animals. Sarah
Taylor received a white ribbon on
her frozen foods.
FOR ATHLETES FOOT
Use T-4-L for 3 to 5 days. Watch
the old tainted skin slough off
leaving healthy, hardy akin. If not
pleated with powerful. Instant
drying T-4-L, your 40c back at
any drug store. Today at McGee’s
Drag Store. 18-3c
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1. Harriett Montgomery and Per
ry Simpson took part on the tal
ent program Tuesday night. Har
riett sang a solo and Perry pre
sented a ventriloquist act. They
will be notified later if they are
to take part in the state talent
show held during Farm and Home
Week at Cle
Mimnaugh
ABOUT THIS QUESTION:
“Our power lawn mower threw a stone that struck
the neighbor’s boy in the mouth, knocking put his
front teeth. We feel awful about this and want his
medical and dental bills paid. Will our Comprehen
sive Personal Liability policy voluntarily pay the
boy’s expenses?”
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PHONE 1246
Teen-Age Dreams Come
True In This Book ...
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Really “hep” is this teen-ager! Her savings
account book is her passport to the land of
dreams-come-true. She’s learned early that
while money doesn’t grow on trees, it DOES
grow in this bank. So . . . she saves here con
sistently, persistently!
BEST TIME TO OPEN YOUR
SAVINGS ACCOUNT IS NOW!
Bank of Clintoti
3% Interest Paid On Savings Accounts Semi-Annually
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MR* AND MRS* FARMERS
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come in and see our new '
PURINA FEED SERVICE
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We plan to give the best farm tupply
service in town. That's why welve
joined forces with Purina to offer you
the world's best-known feeds, farm
supplies and health aids.
But we want to supply you with far more than
feed. We hope to bring you feeding knowledge
from the Purina Research Farms and the Pur-
in* feeding experts. We’ll have back of us the
disease control know-how of the Purina dis
ease control laboratories. And we’re attending
Purina schools to be able to give 1 you the
friendly, helpful information we think you’ll
like to have.
Come in soon and look over our place. Let us
show you opr many services to help you keep
feeding costs down and results good. If you
haven't time to atop in, call us and ask for
what you need. Whether you’re Mr., Mrs. or
Miss, you are welcome any time.
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We handle the full Imesjbf Purina
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Also poultry warmers, dismfZctants
and many other Health Aids. Wecan
supply you with Purina Broiler Chows
or Turkey Chows, with Purino's com
plete feeding directions.
LIVESTOCK:
Whether you have hogs, beef, cattle,
sheep or dairy cows, we hove a
Purina Chow mode to fit conditions
in this community. Alto many Purina
Health Aids and full information on
how you can use them in warding off
disease attacks.
OTHER SERVICES;
Seme of other services for farmers in ,
this community indude:
Fern* service cells •»
Pet Supplies, Gardes aad
Lawn Supplies
Of Plants In
Regular farm delivery
Fencing, seeds, fortMser
•oby chicks and pewits
GILES FEED & SUPPLY
203 N. Broad St * " • ~ Clinton, S. C Phone 1005
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