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Thursday, August 1,1957 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Sevea By SPECTATOR.. COMMENTS on MEN AND THINGS Quite a question has arisen over the accuracy of press reports of the Southern Baptist Convention in Chicago. One report, widely circulated in South Carolina, de clared that the Convention adopt ed resolutions endorsing integra tion and calling for prosecution of those who persist n maintainiiig segregation. Some ministers tell us that there were no such reso lutions. So great a slap at the South certainly deserved careful handling Iby the press, even though the noise and confusion of HOW! f Mafa* me gar—s vleyl reft hr he first time at seth tevief pritts • Stamku tt ilomltu Miar — • StrukWts! tort h„l • Alwayi look |uit wothok'l • V booutiful Atcorotor potltfnil • hm txlusivt Itouty Wtoi" (oorontoo! ONLY 2150 u.aki roue -'llCtlON TODAY Ah LAWSON Furniture Co. JOANNA ten thousand delegates made ac curate reporting difficult. The question is whether a reporter was misinformed by some Con vention Secretary, or delegate, or merely misunderstood what was being said and done. I reproduce a second newspaper report as follows: 1 «~ “A move to alter the Southern Baptist Convention’s constitution al provision for autonomy rights of member churches was defeated last week, Dr. Noel M. Taylor, the convention’s second vice - presi dent, said. The proposal, by the Rev. James M. Bulman, of Spencer, N. C., received only a scattering of votes from 8,600 delegates at the convention’s annual meeting when it was presented Wednesday for passage. There was no de bate. Introduced at the convention’s 1956 Kansas City meeting, the amendment had to wait one year for a vote under convention rules. Commenting on last week’s Chicago action,, Dr. Taylor said, There seemed to be no real issue raised; the autonomy clause was considered adequate, and the changes suggested were felt to be unnecessary’.” , A highly reputable minister says that this is inaccurate and misleading; that the convention really had no such proposal be fore it. There are so many Baptists in South Carolina that they are as the sands of the sea. Before any one throws a rock at me let me say that I, too, am one. However, I have the good fortune to know so many saints of other churches that I rejoice in our comradeship in religion. Really I ought to be broad and liberal, yet under standing, sympathetic and fully cooperative, for my brothers and sisters married Catht>Ua, lAlther- ans, Episcopalians, Presbyterians and Methodits. I am a Baptist, but spent ten years in close fel lowship with Catholic brethren in South America and was Presi dent of the Examining Board of a Catholic University. Now about my brethren of the Baptist churches. Churches, not just church. Do you know why I say that? Each Baptist chruch is a law to itself; each church is wholly, absolutely, irrevocably in dependent. Each Baptist church, whether it be The Citadel Square Church of Charleston; the First Baptist Church of Columbia, or a little church on Santee. Baptists cooperate to form Conventions and Associations; and they have Mission Boards and Commissions, but no Board, no Convention, can —u fore's the high fashion story... on Mon tag Stationery Now Montag creates the perfect fashion accessory for your thoughts. Dramatic continental letter papers in luscious colors with slender lined matching envelopes. Papers with clever, humorous designs deftly embossed. Dainty haftd painted effects in edible colors. Exquisitely restrained papers with distinguished deckle edges and gold bevel finishes. Heavy papers with the feel of rare old parchment. 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And if you misstep with the procession the onward push will knock you down and trample on you. “Once there was a farmer who raised com and a man who raised hens, but no com. The hens said no com, no eggs. . So the man agreed to work for the farmer one day a week for $5 a day. And the farmer agreed to sell com to the man for $1 a bushel. They paid each other off every time with the long green. The farmer paid the man $5 and the man paid the $5 back to the farm er for the five bushels of com which he wheeled home in the wheelbarrow. After a while, the man said to the farmer, "Every thing’s gone up, and I regret in tensely to inform you that I can’t work for less than $6 a day’. The farmer said, ‘I understand. But you must understand that ev erything’s going up with me, too, and I regret intensely to inform you that I can’t sell you my com for less than $1.20 a bushel'. The man said he understood, so the man got $6 a day and ait $1.20 a bushel paid the farmer the $6 for five bushels of com. Both of them said ’happy days are here again.’ And so things went until the man was getting $10 a day and the farmer got $10 for five bush els. And the hens kept right on laying even on 'nmrsdays, and the man told his wife, ‘Ain’t it wonderful ..-.$10 a day'.- And the farmer told his wife, ‘Ain’t it wonderful . . . $2.50 a bushel’. And the hens kept cluck ing away on five bushels of com. And the statisticians down Washington way said, ‘Isn’t it wonderful,’ and bragged that they had done it. And everybody felt so good and prosperous that the man and the farmer voted for the politicians, and that is how it was eggsactly’. The man got three times as much for the eggs, but paid three times as much for his shoes, and the music went round and round,,. After all, everything has ad vanced, has “gone up,” very con siderably except electric power, which has steadily declined, or “gone down,” or become cheaper, though better. Oil is up, gasoline is up; wages are up; food is up; even water is up; everything is up except electrical power. Wonder ful ! NOTICE Clarence Gillespie, who has just finish ed David Rankin School of Mechanics in St. Louis, Missouri^ is now connected wtih the Clinton Implement Co. Clarence said that if the auto, tractor or lawn mower con be repaired he can do it. Call us! » CLINTON IMPLEMENT CO. FORD TRACTOR AND * 1 I. • . " IMPLEMENT DtALER Where are the farmers? ' Once upon a time men in public life thought “first and foremost” about the farmers. “87 per cent U. S. poeple not farmers." A phrase recently used by Miss issippi's Congressman Jamie Whitten had a lot of meaning. It goes like this “—^..jaamhers of Congress represent all the Ameri can people, 8T per cnt of whom i; are not farmers.” Farm proposals, 1 ®* more and more, will be written to meet city specifications^ - Rural programs on which farm leaders themselves do not agree certainly won’t get very far. That was made dear in the recent House vote to end the Soil Bank acreage reserve. City Congressmen could see no reason for continuing a program that their colleagues from farm districts were con demning. Let’s hear from The Progressive Farmer: “Agriculture today faces its gravest crisis since the Great De pression. Its danger then was fi nancial bankruptcy. Serious as that was, it could not compare with the danger agriculture faces today! That danger is collapse through disunity. “Back in the thirties, 25 Ameri cans out of 100 lived on farms and there was great public sympathy for fanners in their fight for sur vival. Farmers stood together then. United, they were so pow erful that they could often thwart foreclosure and help poor families stay on land they were about to lose . . . banded together, farmers were so strong in the halls of Con gress they could win approval of measures that mapped out a route toward the long-sought goal of financial ‘Equality for Agricul ture' ... In many ways, the very severity of the Great Depresion forged bonds of unity that led to a triumph of farming. “What of our farmers today, in a period when Amrica as a whole is enjoying the greatest prosperity if has ever known? . . . Are farm ers working together for yet greater economic progress? ... Has their prestige in Congress gained or lessened? “First and foremost, the num ber of Americans living on farms today has dropped to only 13 out of ioo-t-31 per cent less in number of farm people than in 1935. Fanners are increasingly becom ing a minority group. But as their numbers have declined and their need- for united action has consequently increased, their wil lingness to work together seems to have faded. Here are some of th disturbing signs of disunity we see on the farm horizon: The thrre leading national farm organizations support different goals. Rather than presenting a united front, in many instances they openly oppose each other. Better With r . -I m m ' Modern rL-quipment Step up the efficiency of your office with the newest and best ideas in equipment. SEVERAL WALNUT DESKS TWO AND FOUR DRAWE R METAL FILES ONE TYPING TABLE OFFICE CHAIRS ONE MAHOGANY WITH LEATHERETTE CUSHION. SEVERAL FOAM RUBBER CUSH IONED TYPING CHAIRS. ML REASONABLY PRICED 1 ■ * . 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