The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, May 28, 1959, Image 4
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thurnda.v. May 2*, It5*
(iucat Editoria]
And Not To Yield
The American Way
(Address of Sally Glenn. Valedictorian, at Clinton
High School Graduation Exercises Monday nijrfit).
As we, the jrraduatinjr class of 1959. come
to this memorable occasion, we find a new
world opening before us—the world called
life. Heretofore, we have lived only the pre
face or introduction to life; now wp are
plunging into its very- depth. Whatever the all the people who wish to go to other lands,
preface was is in the past. It is up to us now Then he dealt with the biggest thing of all
New Force In The Sky
The first Jet Clipper, now in international
service, was christened by Mrs. Dwight
Eisenhower. And the significance of the oc
casion was eloquently described by President
Juan T. Trippe of Pan American World Air
ways.
The jets, he said, will move people, mail
and cargo more swiftly, safely and econom
ically than planes yet built. Their purpose is
pot to serve “an elite of the fortunate” but
to strive for a better life in the future.
To have this better life, we have learned
to seek knowledge in order to find happiness.
There is. however, one more thing that we
must do. That is to hold fast to the American
way of life. In one way perhaps this is the
most important, for we should not even have
the opportunity either to seek knowledge or
to find happiness if we lost the American
way.
We might well ask, ‘‘What is the American
way of life?” The American .way is many
things; it is democracy; it is freedom. It is
those numerous rights and privileges given
us by our government ;v and it is the respon
sibilities that are ours.
What have we Americans done with these
privileges and rights? The right to vote is
ours, but on election day a large number of
eligible voters are not at the polls. Ameri
cans have the right to worship as they please;
yet too many have never been inside a church.
Trial by jury is another of our privileges.
Some people, however, avoid serving on a
jury because it might inconvenience them,
and thereby they abuse another of our prec
ious rights. Of course we cannot exercise
some of these rights until we are older, but
we can begin now to study them. If we do
this, we shall have made the first step in keep
ing our time-honored freedoms and privileg
es.
These rights are not the only phases of
government to which we should turn our at
tention. All of its functions should be studied
and regarded. An ignorant American is no
better than a disloyal one. Indifference can
help to destroy our country as easily as can
weapons. Therefore we must be diligent if we
expect to hold fast to the American way.
One more thing remains for us to heed.
That is a country founded on Christian prin
ciples should continue to uphold those prin
ciples. We, who constitute the most richly
blessed nation in the world, so often forget
who has bestowed these blessings upon us.
In doing this, we have torn down another of
America's defenses against undemocratic
forces.
“You are the citizens of tomorrow.'* How
familiar these words are to us. IVrhaps they
have become so familiar that they no longer
mean anything. Yet no matter how trite they
might be. these words still contain a great
deal of truth. We are the citizens of tomor
row In our hands is the future of this
democracy as well as our chances for a bet
ter life. A country can be no better than its
citizens are. for a country is its dtisens. Thus
what we as cituena do will not only deter
mine what we are to be but also what our
country la to be. What we do with the golden
opportunities and "privileges given us by our
democracy will determine how happy and
successful our lives will be.
God has given us this nation, and He holds
us responsible for it. If our democracy fails,
it will be because of our carelessness and neg
lect If. however, we heed the principles of
right, do our duty, end refuse to yield the
American way, we shall indeed find for our-
•ehes a better life.
Norwalk. Connecticut. Hour: “During
these days oT inflation and cheap money,
when a person says he feels like a million
dollars he is, in fact, about half sick.”
Abilene, Kansas. Daily Reflector-Chron-
jcle: ”A New York grand jury looking into
uollapse of discipline in the schools made this
stinging report:
“ Our classrooms are turning out far too
many delinquent** and it can be expected that
matters will be worse until teachers again
are placed in command. Respect for teachers
has been tossed out the window by starry-
eyed educational leaders who encourage free
dom while de-emphasizing responsibility for
one’s actions’.”
in these words: “How can such a movement
1
of the people fail to inspire .greater under
standing of the world in which we live? How
can it fail to help the nations and peoples of
the world reaching out toward one another—
reaching out to know, to appreciate, to un
derstand one another? How can it fail to
smash and shatter the petty provincialism
and narrow nationalism, which for so many
centuries has fragmented the world .. . mak
ing of this world a tragic mosaic of hostility
and hate? In short, how can this fabulous
new force in the sky fail to serve the hope of
the world—and the peace of the world?”
Peoples who know, understand, and sym
pathize with the problems of one another
are peoples of jieace—and if there only are
enough of them, their governments will ulti
mately become instruments of peace. That is
the hope of the future.
Babson Discusses Land
Companies And Babies
Babson Park. Mass., May 28—The best hedge
against inflation should be good “land stocks," that
is stocks of companies with large land holdings. The
Federal Government can print all the Government
Bonds and all the money it wishes. Any corporation
can print more stock certificates when it so desires.
But (and I say this reverently) only God can make
more land (This may be increased a total of perhaps
l-1000 r r by realtors who do so by pumping sand from
the adjoining water, but that is not real land.)
Crusode
To Begin Sunday
(Continued from page one)
have thrilled people across the
country.
Meetings will be held in the Pres
byterian College stadium nightly at
7:30 p. m. and on Sundays at 3 p. m
only. Delegations from nearby cities
or towns may obtain reservatiorfc by
contacting the Crusade office locat
ed in the Calvary Baptist Church.
Telephone number is 1201-W.
Paul Deck will be music director
and song leader. Harold De Cou,
composer and arranger, will be pi
anist.
BUCKNER FANNING
Newsweek magazine, in the Jan
uary 28 issue of last year, describ
ed Buckner Fanning as ‘.fair-haired,
blue-eyed and 30 ... a devout and
eloquent Baptist from Dallas.”- And
they went on to say that “only a
handful of evangelists today are real
pros-full time, nationwide workers
for the Lord such as Billy Graham.
Buckner Fanning is the newest
member of the exclusive full-time
ranks.”
Fanning does not claim to be a
“real pro” as Newsweek put it but
his city-wide meetings have caused
considerable attention and high
BILL JACKSON, Moist
praise from religious leaders in com
munities and cities he has visited.
His deep spiritual and intellectual
t . . . , , j i approach to the matter of Christian
But. why do I advise buying stock of a land com-1 experience has had an amazing ef-
pany instead of buying acreage in fee"* The answer is on people wherever he has spo-
very simple If you yourself buy the (ken thls year m AuKusta
acreage, you must pay the taxes . capacity crowds attending a
and watch the property P^rsoo^ly I Clty . wid e crusade sponsored by SO
If. however, you buy the stock of a| church# , ln tbe „„ MW i per.!
good company, the taxes are paid!*** detUre themselves for Christ
by the company and you have no 1,1, , two-week period Several
detailMo watch Furthermore, auch [ moolhf previous in Wichita Kan
listed land stock is easy to sell; I tas. 447 persons responded to a urn
with con-iderable red tape and look , d*r invitation in )uM one week
ing up of titles are necessary * the ^ m H(XJltofl Texas, in IKS.
property is in your own bmm. yx/viuns gnd tus family moved to
Hence. 1 prefer certain land stocks r,.n~ JT|f ] ^ rt ^
to acreage
RELATION TO FOrtTATION h» (odw-r was claims
Readers hear much about the business boom which. M rtMy ,
is supposed to come ta the 1M» s due to the increased ^raduaird from vtoodro* w
marriageable p^uiatMW Although the birth ralt » ^ ia IMS wiUl m
falling slightly (it is now MS per thousand I, and the
marriage rate dropped tart year te 13 per
sad deaths m 1M were only 1 f74 OR* yet mow
of the ParlAc C«
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normal vi
robot to
is that the land be m|
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t all states are
has tome advantage over the atherv What climate *
bant far me. may be potson to you
I BKEDOM FROM LABOR TROL BLEA
Of all the stocks holed on the New York exchanges
the land company stocks are freed from labor trou
bles Such companies employ very few people la fact.
1 have beard of one land company, listed on the Amer
wan Stock Exchange, which is sad to have only three .. „ ..
employees Even those railroads like the Canadian . *^ hii . ,
Pacific, the Union Pacific, and the Northern *»***• cJL~, r , raxH . ..
which have great tend holdings, ire pracUcilly free 1
«4..o»s*w* _ wkmaVm axmrn rJ tkm rmtl '
m Dallas won hts wife. Mar
tha Howell Fanning, whom he met
from strikes Even during a strike on one of the rail
roads its land holdings are increasing in value
Although much western land is now good only for
grazing, yet the income from such land should expand
with the national increase in babies This grazing
should pay taxes and other expenses But the great
gamble about any acreage is that at any time min
erals such as uranium may be found, or fuels such as
oils or gases, or other underground products. This es
pecially applies to timber land, which is constantly be
coming more valuable. Land companies which have
not yet discovered their underground resources are
not investments for income. But at any time discover
ies may be made which could double the market
prices of the stocks. The day a house is completed,
it usually begins to deteriorate and the house becomes
worth less, but the land should become worth more
each year. Therefore, put more money into land and
less into the house when buying a home.
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BIIX JACKSON. SOLOIST
For the past two years Bill Jack-j
son has been teamed with Buckner
Fanning in evangelistic crusades,
throughout the country. His inter
pretation of the old, familiar hymns
and spirituals sung with a deep,
mellow ban tone voice offers a re
warding musical and spiritual ex
perience.
Born in Burlington, Washington,
Jackson attended school in Mount
Vernon, in that state. It was in Se
attle, where he was one of the con
testants in a vocal competition, that
Mary Garden, the famed opera star,
heard him sing and picked him as
the best of the competitors. Later,
he studied with John Charles Thom
as and made appearance with the
Los Angeles Light Opera Company.
In 1953 Bill Jackson decided to
devote his life and his talent to
Christian service and he became fea
tured soloist at many of the large
summer Bible conferences
When Fanning began to receive in
vitations for city-wide evangelistic
meetings be needed a regelar so
loist and remembered Bill Jack-
son. a young man be bad beard
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