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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
(filinton (Ebrmttrlp
July 4. 1880
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CLINTON. S. C.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27. 1958
Series Ends
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With the photo of the staff in the offices of
County A vent and .Home Demonstration
A pent in Laurens County appearinv on the
front page today. The Chronicle brings to a
close the series of pictures presented during
the past two months of personnel in the va
rious offices in the county.'
Included in issues during recent weeks
were members of the staffs in the offices of
Clerk of Court, Supemsor, Treasurer, Audi
tor. Superintendent of Education, Probate
Judge, Sheriff, and ending today, the Coun
ty Agent.
We hope our readers have enjoyed seeing
the feature from week to week'as much as
we have been delighted to bring them to the
attention of the public.
As we recall it, the week before the series
began The Chronicle happened to show a pic
ture of the members of the county legislative
delegation in their annual public meeting. So,
included in the series have been all persons
charged with carrying on the business of the
county in the various administrative offices.
They are a dedicated lot — these public
servants of ours. They transact the business
of the county—your business—in a diligent
manner. And our dealings with them from
time to time have been entirely satisfactory
and pleasant.
The Garden Clubs
Seek To Beautify City
Despite the recent frigid temperatures, the
decided improvement in the weather during
the past few days and the activity of Clinton
Garden Club members give definite indica
tions that spring is on the way.
And we are delighted. We know when
we’ve had enough.
Garden Club officials of the city today an
nounce a sale of pink and white dogwood and
crepe myrtle trees. Further, they include a
spring clean-up campaign and a poster con
test among school pupils to show up the “lit-
terbug” for just what he is—a pain in the
neck.
The duh members have taken upon them-
selves a task that is eminently worthwhile
and timely—and they should get the support
of every citizen.
One of the most beautiful sights in the
city every spring until it had to be removed
a couple of years ago was the large, lovely
pink dogwood.tree in the yard of-the Lynn
Coopers on South Broad Street. Another, still
a delight to passers-by, is the double pink and
white dogwood <>n the Robert Vances’ lawn,
also on South Broad, and soon to be seen
again.
Wouldn’t Clinton he sorrrething'Tb com
mand the attention of the state if duplicates
of those trees could be seen in bloom around
every home in the city each spring! The same
could he said of crepe myrtle.
A concerted effort to clean up the city—
and keep it clean—is in order at any time.
And the move to call the attention of the
public to the bad manners of the “litterbug”
is long overdue.
We hope the task undertaken by members
6f Clinton’s garden clubs is successful.
Teachers Of Tomorrow
The Chicago Daily News says that “ we
get high school graduates who don’t know
democratic capitalism from communist dic
tatorship.” That sad observation was prompt
ed by an astonishing report from a professor
of economics at A well-known university
which specializes in teacher training. He ask
ed 80 freshmen who aire preparing to become
teachers to define “capitalism.”’ Almost all of
them, he found, “not only called capitalism a
form of government, hut they also thought it
an evil and dangerous form of government.”
One student, for instance, said: “Capital
ism is more on tho dictator type of govern
ment.” Another said: “Capitalism is the ex
treme measures that are taken by a group,
country, or even a single person. ... It can be
dangerous if aUowetLto spread into the wrong
hands.” Another said: “I am sure there are
: many places where capitalism is going on at
the present time, and if this practice should
ever become nat ion-w ide, the country is in for
a lot of trouble.” Still another said: “Capi
talism ... is on the order of communism.. ..”
It would be hard to find more horrible ex
amples of sheer ignorance combined with
semi-literacy. And they came, don’t forget,
from college students who want to become
teachers and guide the minds of this coun
try’s most important asset — its* children.
Something is indeed wrong with American
education—and it’s something that can’t be
cured by multi-million dollar school plants,
50,000-seat football stadia, and curriculums
that stress social adjustment, home econom
ics, and other such furbelows.
What Happened To
Schoolroom Crisis?
The proposal that the federal government
underwrite scientific education is running
into strong opposition—and some of it comes
from top educators. They see federal aid as
an open sesame to ultimate federal control of
education.
The situation caused the Wall Street Jour
nal to make an apt observation: "This year
we are Jold that unless Washington spends
$1 billion more on science education we will
never catchup to the Russian Sputniks and
education is doomed.
“Last vear we were told that unless the
federal government came across with billions
>of dollars to build schoolrooms across the
country education was doomed. But hardly
anybody mentions that these days.
“Is it fair to ask the federal aiders what
happened to the schoolroom crisis?”
Those, who want the federal government to
become a dictator of education wdll use any
excuse to get their foot in the door./That is
happening now. It amounts to arguing that
we must ape the Russians in order to keep
pace with the Russians. If that is true, free
and representative government is dead. One
of the great paradoxes of this age is that we
could destroy ourselves from wdthin even as
we gird mightily to guard against attack
from without.
Visiting Chemist
At College For Two
Days Next Week
A prominent analytical chemist
will visit Presbyterian College on
Monday and Tuesday for two days
of lecture and consultation.
Tlie PC chemistry department
brinns Dr “Clarke E. ftricker of
Princeton University,- to the cam
pus at that time under the visiting
scientist program of the American
Chemical Society, sponsored by the
National Science Foundation.
Dr Bricker, former consultant in
the Los Alamos seientfiic labora
tories and co-author of a popular
textbook in the field, will address
class groups and deliver a general
lecture on thy “Everyday Aspects
of Analytical^Chemistry.”
The general lecture will be given
at a dinner in the Presbyterian Col
lege dining hall on Tuesday night.
A number of high school chemistry
teachers and interested students
have been invited to join PC chemis
try students to hear Dr. Bricker at
this time.
The Presbyterian College profes
sors of chemistry, Dr. Nolon Carter
and Dr. R. B. Purdum, are associ
ated with the Tau Phi Pi Science
Club in sponsoring this dinner.
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Thursday, February 27, 1958
Three Sons Of Former
Clinton Couple Serve
In U. S. Armed Forces
4-H Boys Learn
Tractor Upkeep
Four classes are being conducted
for teaching 4-H club boys the care
and operation of a tractor under the
supervision of R. J. Bennett, assist
ant County Agent, and tractor deal
ers of the county.
Last Monday night, February 24,
the meeting was held aDthe Clinton
Implement Company, Howard Wat
kins. owner. The subjects taken up
were: tractor safety, whati makes an
engine run, engine ignition system,
saving fuel. Also nuts, bolts, screw's,
rivets and nails, and transmitting
power. -
On March 3 the club boys meet
with Pitts-Dillafid Implement Co.,
Ferguson dealer, Billy Pitts, man
ager, Clinton. The subjects will be
clean air for engine, mixing fuel
and air. power transmission, care of
tires, hitching tractor to plows, and
servicing seed planters.
Other scheduled meetings will be
announced later. All meetings be
gin promptly at 7:00 p. pi. Parents
are welcome to attend with their
sons.
At each meeting the instructors
have the club boys gather around
a tractor where demonstrations are
given during the discussion.
The purpose of these classes is to
teach boys the proper care of trac
tors and how to operate a tractor
for greater efficiency. It is not the
idea to teach club boys to become
mechanics, as major repair work
should be done by a qualified me
chanic in a shop.
Spray Demonstration
Arranged For Power
Farm On March 13 .
A field meeting has been arranged
on J. Herman Power’s farm in the
Barksdale-Namie community March
13 at 2:1)0 p. m. to demonstrate
spraying of pasture land to control
noxious plants.
M. C. McKenzie, extension agri
cultural engineer, and E. C. Tur
ner, extension agronomist of Clem-
son College, will assist with the
demonstration. Also manufacturing
representatives of spray equipment
SENSING THE NEWS
By THURMAN SENSING
Executive Vice President
Southern States Industrial Council
SOONER OK LATER—
There seems to be a' desperate scramble nght now
on the part of most everybody you can think of—Re
publicans, Democrats, economists, industrialists, the
man on the street—to find some way for the nation to
get out of the current recession without anybody being
hurt.
That is a worthy objective, all right, but it is not
realistic. We owe certain debts in this country—many
of them in no way related to money—that must soon
er or later be paid. And paying debts always hurts.
But just take our national monetary debt itself—
now approximately $275 billion. We tried to spend our
selves out of a depression in the 1930s with borrowed
money, and the only result was to increase our na
tional debt from $19 to $48 billion. Then we fought
World War II to a large extent on credit, increasing
our debt to $265 billion, more or less Then, most
shamefully of all, we have continued to increase our
debt in the prosperous post war years when we should
rapidly have been paying it off.
It is submitted we could commit a no more das
tardly crime than to pass this debt on to our children
and our children's children as if we were in no way
responsible for it—and yet that is what we give every
indication of doing.
Right now Congress is considering the Administra
tion request, already approved by the House, that the
debt ceiling be raised by $5 billion, a request unwor
thy of a sound government. Instead, the budget should
be cut by at least $5 billion. A decrease in spending
might hurt—but is there any other way of being hon
est with future generations'' Then taxes should be cut
by a like amount, thus giving business and industry
and individuals funds to reinvest to provide more
plants and equipment to create more jobs. Cutting tax
es might “hurt’’ the government spenders—but it
would help the nation.
Instead of doing these things, however, all we hear
about now is plans for increased spending on the part
of the government. Members of the Congress, who
never seem to want to cut spending in an election
year, are making ready to introduce bills for a big
Public Works Program, for more government lending
agencies, more spending along all Lnes—anything ex
cept economizing and paying debts.
Govemment spending has never yet brought this
nation out of a depression—and it never will. Free en
terprise just does not work that- way.
Another debt this nation owes is to return this gen
eration and future generations to an honest dollar—
and this is just as much a moral question as an eco
nomic question.
WTien our govemment went off the gold standard in
1933, it violated sanctity of contract and broke its
pledged promise to the people. It took their gold,
which they had earned and which was theirs, and gave
them pieces of paper instead. Since then we have seen
an orgy of spending without any automatic control on
the part of the people—and there will never be any
control until an honest dollar is with us once again.
Since this entirely immoral act took place, we have
witnessed an inflation of the dollar that has reduced
its value more than half. Thus the govemment has
drastically lowered the living standard of those least
able to help themselves—upon those depending upon
life insurance, pensions, savings accounts, and fixed
incomes of all sorts.
Sooner or later we must bring an end to this infla
tion, we must repent of our sins, or we shall eventual
ly sink into the depths of degradation that have al
ways been the fate of nations that have followed this
course. Inflation feels good to most people, while it
lasts, and bringing it to an end—just like bringing the
dope habit to an end—hurts, but it must be done if we
are to survive as a free nation.
Three sons of Mr. and Mrs. Walk
er Crane of Utica, N. Y., former
Clinton residents, are serving in the
U. S. armed forces, according to
a recent article appearing in The
Utica Observer-Dispatch, which al-
sb carried photos of the young men.
The parents of the young service
men formerly resided in the Lydia
Mill community where they were
employed. Mr Crane came to Clin
ton from Greenville and in 1927
married the former Miss Lillian
Gertrude Cole, w'hose mother, Mrs.
Rosa Cole, still lives here, as well
as other relatives of both Mr. and
Mrs. Crane. Tliey have lived in
Utica for 19 years.
All three of the boys were bom in
Clinton.
Hugh Crane, 30, communications
technician chief with the Navy, now
in French Morocco, concludes two
years of service there in March.
He has been in the Navy for 13
years, including 18 months on
Guam. With him on his current as
signment are Mrs. Crane and their
four children
S.-Sgt. Kenneth Crane, 24, with
the Air Force since 1952, served 18
months in Tripoli, and has been in
Holland for six months. His assign
ment in that country has about two
years to run. He w ill marry ^ Dutch
girl in April.
Robert Crane, 21, enlisted in the
Navy in 1956 and expects to spend
about two years in Washington, D.
C., where he is now stationed.
Merit Certificate
Is Presented City
For Traffic Safety
The City of Clinton has been pre
sented a certificate of merit for
“outstanding accomplishments ft
traffic safety” by the South Carolina
State Motor Club.
The framed certificate was
awarded in recognition of Clinton’s
record of having no motor vehicle
fatalities within the city limits from
July 26, 1952, to January 30, 1958.
a period of almost six years.
At a ceremony held at city hall,
the certfiicate was presented to
Mayor Joe P. Terry and Chief of
Police B B. Ballard by Jack Conn
of Rock Hill, South Carolina State
Motor Club division mnaager, on
behalf of the motor club itself and
the National Automobile Associa
tion, with which it is affiliated.
Mr. Conn said, “it takes real
teamwork on the part of city of
ficials, law enforement officers and
the public in general to go that long
without a fatality.”
The
and spray material will assist
public is invited to attend.
The demonstration will be held in
a pasture across the railroad west
of the J. Herman Power Oliver
place. >
Noxious weeds such as dock, wild
onions, bitfer weed, plantain, and
many other weeds can be controlled
by proper spraying.
THIMET*
systemic insecticide
This teen-ager knows that there’s no substitute for
systematic saving to turn the rosiest dreams into
glorious realities. You can play it smart in the same
way at the same place . . .
3%
Interest Paid
On Savings
Accounts
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Bank of Clinton
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
3% Interest Paid On Savings Accounts Semi-Annually
Ltfl — cotton grown from teed treated with THllttST
Right — cotton grown from untreated eeed ie etunted
Seed treated with THIMET
grows insect-killing Cntton!
Your young cotton plants can kill and keep killing
aphids, mites and thrips ... if you plant sefed treated
with thimet. Protection lasts up to 6 weeks. Check
these advantages of thimet:
• Saves time, labor, money needed for early season
sprays or dusts.
• Protects all parts of treated plants during
critical early weeks. Insects are killed before
they do damage.
• Thimet does NOT harm beneficial insects.
• Continuous protection ... no matter when bugs
strike, your cotton stays protected up to six
weeks...even when adverse early season
weather prevents old-fashioned conventional
spraying or dusting.
• Proved out by years of field research, and actual
grower use.
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I How THIMET works i
S Thimet ia absorbed by roots from seed coat It travels j
| to all parts of plant. Entire plant becomes toxic to j
insects, thimet later breaks down, leaves no bamful .
j residues in lint or seed.
For more details and seed treated
with THIMET, call.
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Mountville Gin & Seed Cleaners
Mountvitle, S. C.
THIMET IS A PRODUCT OF AMERICAN CYANAMID COMPANY
FARM AND HOME DIVISION • NEW YORK 20, N. Y.
Boys Must Register
Upon Reaching 18
J. B. Lewis, chairman of Selective
Service,' Local Board No. 30, Lau
rens, states that there are yet some
young men age 18 and over who
have not registered with Selective
Service.
The Universal Military Training
and Service Act provides that every
male person shall register on attain
ing 18 years of age, or within 5 days
thereafter. A person failing to regis
ter at the proper time may be con
sidered a delinquent, and as a delin
quent is subject to penalties pro
vided by law.
^.Selective Service Local Board No.
30 is located at City Hall, Laurens,
and is open from 8:00 a. m. to 4:45
p. m., Monday through Friday of
each week.
The Local Board is trying to con
tact the following registrants: Wal
ter Williams, Jr., Rt. 1, Box 2, Lau
rens, South Carolina; Carlton Ed
ward Dornberg, 414 Mills St, Lau
rens, South Carolina. If anyone
knows their present address please
contact the bocal Board offeie.
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