The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, May 08, 1958, Image 11
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By SPECTATOR..
COMMENTS
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MEN AND THING
A somewhat vitriolic attack on
me has been published by some ot
my REA frieode because of a few
remarks by me in Spectator coo-
ceming a bill In the Legislature
under which brethren of the Co-Ops
wish to serve areas which have
been taken Into town and even to
sell power to industrial establish
ments.
I somewhat mildly and modestly
suggested that this service was in
tended for farmers -living on farms
and not farmers (like myself) who
live in towns.
I have not seen the paper, though
I think it usually comes to me as
an exchange. However, many of
my farmer brethren have expres
sed some indignation over this at
tack on me though I hope I may
recover from it and be able to
shake hands with these young men
again.
It would be just as easy for me
to write a lot of abuse and make
foolish accusations of bad motives
as it is for my friends, who must
have forgotten that among gentle
men a certain chivalry in public
discussion is much more becoming
than a btsat of invective.
Public questions should be dis
cussed on the merits of the ques
tions. For example, the question of
right or wrong cannot be decided
on the basis of one man being bald-
headed and the other having snag
gle teeth. So the issue between the
REA and the municipalities can't
be decided by slaps at me; I am a
very small fry and growing smaller
all the time.
When a man descends to attacks
on a person he not only exaggerates
that person’s importance but he
proves that he cannot argue the
question on its merits.
Throwing mud on the other man
is an old trick.
An old lawyer once told me: "If
you have any law, talk to the
Judge; if you have any facts pre
sent them quietly to the jury; but
if you have neither law nor facts
rave and rant, bellow and snort;
kick up a terrific dust." Are my es
teemed friends so lacking in facts
that they shoot at me? Who am I
and what have I to do with the
question? I merely discussed a pub
lic question.
1 hold in respect and esteem all
my friends of the REA. Differences
in opinion don't turn me personal
ly against them; nor do these mat-
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iWe srv wholly
of the day. Why
should 1 besmirch my follow farm
ers and accuse them of trying to
aggrandise themselves, or all such
flubdub*
InadmtaUy 1 recently spent most
of a morning and pert of an after
noon in connection with the Soil
Bank; I have repeatedly aaid that
I have given rights-of-way to a
Co-Op. (both telephone and elec
tric )
Shakespeare said—as I recall—
"The gentleman doth protest too
much.” Why do they protest?
I renew the asurances of my re
gard for the gentlemen whose wri
ter descends to the level of billings
gate instead of his maintaining a
calm and dignified attitude of meri
torious discussion.
Hie South Carolina Electric and
Gas Co. is not under the same man
agement that incurred my friends’
displeasure; Mr. S. C. McMeekin,
president of the South Carolina
Electric and Gas Co. is a native
son .born and reared in old Edge-
field County, on the farm; he is a
Clemson man and fully identified
with the farmers of our state.
I say again: it does not mrtter if
the manager of the REA is a Meth
odist, or Lutheran, and I happen to
be a Baptist; the issue is something
which all of us American citizens
and South Carolinians should be
able to discuss but not cuss. Dis
cuss the problem but don’t “cuss” |
one another, unless we are making
an uproar instead of submitting
facts.
• # •
Does religion play any part in our
national policy? What U our reli
gion, by the way* If we read the
UriMft OiMt
Russian worker 19 nunutss to earn
the price of a cake of map. as
against 1 ratnutes for the A mar
lean. It takas the Russian I hours
and 23 minutes to make enough to
buy a pound of butter, in our fac
tories the figure is 21 minutes So it
goes, down the roster of practically
everything in ordinary use
In terms of human values and
betterment. Communism has been
not only a failure but a ruthless
despoiler.”
We Americans talk against Com
munism and yet we are friendly
with Russia. Moreover, we are be
ing somewhat like Russia, swal
lowing Socialism on all sides and
being governed by a crass bureau
cracy of commissions.
I suppose we should avoid all as
sociation with nations which flaunt
God and carry on organized cam
paigns against the Lord and His
teachings.
We haverft the courage to take
that step because we haven’t the
faith that must underlie drastic ac
tion. We read and have read all
our days the accounts of the men
of faith. Is it not inspiring to think
of Caleb and Joshua? Instead of the
faith of Daniel, Caleb, Joshua,
Elijah, and Elisha, and the^great
characters of The Book, we have
substtiuted a worldly wisdom, a so-
called practical course of expe
diency. Boiled down to esentials we
lack faith in God.
You remember the old hymn,
"Faith of Our Fathers ”
"Faith of Our Fathers’ Faith and
prayer shall win all nations unto
Seven More Students
REPORT ON THE NATIONAL
•COUNCIL
TV Second Proibytorlao
Church of Charloolon. hat votod to
•ever ito connection with tho No
tional Council of Churrhot Reoolu-
tiono
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“Whereas, this committee la in
formed. and from the reading of
much literature on tho subject, be
lieves that: The National Council
of Churches has, during the past
several years, persisted in a course
of activity which has been highly
objectionable to many of the indi
vidual churches consitituting the
I Council, among which is continued
political activity. Also, it has work
ed tirelessly in recent years on the
integration of the church congrega
tions; and at its general assembly
which has just been held, invited
Rev. Martin Luther King, the Ne
gro minister who fostered the bus
boycott in Montgomery, to address'
them on the subject of racial inte
gration and thereafter issued a de-
i baa been said, highly di»
to many of the constituent
churches of TV Proobyteriaa
Church in the l/tuted States, often
referred to as TV Southern Pres
byterlan Church, such churches
h a v o, through their respective
presbyteries at each meeting of the
General Assembly of the said The
Presbyterian Church in the United
States during the past several,
years, presented numerous over
turf* requesting the General As
sembly to take such action as will 1
to tV withdrawal of tV
ehnrrh from tV rsiml. and I
overturn* have net with a
ently unfavorable recaption by the
•aid general assembly which ha*
taken no action in tV direr’we
sought and
'Wiereas. this committee behoves
that it is the opinion of the Session
of the Second Presbyterian Church
of Charleston that in view of the
attitude of the aid General Asaem
My as reflected by its conduct as
above set out. it u futile for
churches to continue to present
such overtures to,the General As
sembly, seeking the withdrawal of
TV Presbyterian Church in the
Utoted All
CsMTit snd that tV said
* unwqiuut any longer to
a« mw tat mm with aa organization,
the course of conduct of which to
vtolauve uf the pnneiploa of beha
vior which should govern church
bodies "
Does anyone think Air ( oiorod
people would like to give up their
churches and schools* I cannot
conceive that at all Colored minis
ters and teachers have been very
quiet during all this discission and^
turmoil but I can t believe that
they are either indifferent or ac
quiescent they wish to maintain
their schools and churches
D illard Bolanlj
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then God was the Author of a strict ’
and urrelented segregation Why*
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pie and wanted them free from con- uhooi seniors have been awarded
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