The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, August 01, 1957, Image 7
Thursday, August 1,1957
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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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
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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
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tell a little remote Baptist church
what it must do. The pastor has
no authority and the Deacons
have no power. Ihe Baptists have
set up a complete democracy, un
afraid and unassailable.
Now don't you see that no con
vention can change that?
But I would warn my brethren
to be alive, alert and jealous of
their rights, for just as surely as
the big or little Baptist church is
a Sovereign, so are the States (in
theory), sovereign, being the pil
lars on which the Nation was
built. Among Baptists Graham-
ville and Gillisonville are just as
independent as the First Baptist
Church of Greenville.
• • •
Here is how inflation affects us:
we may receive or handle more
money but what counts is what
you have left. 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 !
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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.
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