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/ / $ Thursday, March 21,1960 THE CLINTOIf CHRONICLE / By SPECTATOR ... COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS It is too early to predict what re lief ,if any, the General Assembly will gnat to the taxpayers- Accord ing to new^wper reports it appears that new or additional taxes were imposed last year because of an ap parent deficit of ten million dollars. During the ensuing months the con dition appears to be changed so that we now have—or may have—a sur plus of ten million dollars. What do you think ought to be done? A frank discussion of this with your Senator and Representatives would be very interesting. • • • Statistics are not always con. elusive. If a hundred men together have a hundred million dollars the statistical average, would be a mil lion dollars for each'man. If John D. Rockefeller D were in the group it might well be that ba bas a hundred million end the other &htoty-nine are “on relief.'* • • ^ Statistics tedkafte that the ckisons of the couatey ace riding a high fide of rrwpstrtj; that money is fiowiag like a Spring tMs an the beach or like a maatoaia torrent in flood. But the merchants and farmers of this state (dent *>eak of easy, abundant and the State Legis- de wall to leek into ad of accept- • • • February? If February only two men it would But it i men i an average men. True it is that n great intellect or h great spirit may illumine the path for us average men, but the fact is indisputable that without the wheel* a magnificent, high-powered, plush automobile would be useless. But who ever thinks of the wheels? Great Generals and Admirals are necessary, but by their genius alone no victory would result; we must have the private soldier and the sail or boy to make genius effective. February is credited with Ground Hog Day; and if there is one day fresh in the minds of the farmers it is Ground Hog Day. Great birthdays and great battles; aniversariea of great occasions, successes, failures, calamities, or what not, may be lightly regarded or disregarded, ton not Ground Hog Day and the rfiad- ow of the Ground Hog. So February is imperishable be cause of the renowned Ground Hog. Among men of distinction throughout the Nation February gave us General Joieph E. Johns ton. General Phillip H. Sheridan, William Henry Harrison, Abraham Lincoln, St. Valentine and George Washington. If I should hatard the guess that the Ground Hog and St. Valentine are more highly esteemed, regarded and celebrated than those two world figures, Wediingtoo and Lincoln. It may not only surprise and astonish you, but it may even offend your Man of the proprieties, but I submit it to you respectfully: Do Watoing- ton and Lincoln mean as much to the average man in the street ee the Ground Hog and Saint Valen tine? Observe the widespread sale of stuff and nonemse occasioned tor St. Valentine!! Stuff and nonsense? Yea, verily; but the world cherishes stuff and nonsense, tomfoolery in the comics—and “such Uke,” much more than it fondly embraces the resplendent intellectual achieve, ments of the world’s greatest bene factors. If you dissent from this iconclasm look about you, even, perchance, in your own home. Well, so you and I may not_be vic tims of the image-breakersknown among the high-faluting as icono clasts, let us soberly and respect fully contemplate some of the men associated with February; may I say that I was not flippant though I may shock some sensibilities; the sad truth is that few people (com paratively) read solid, informative matter; still fewer think over it! The great achivements and thoughts of ancient glory are for moot peo ple, just a lot of dry stuff covered over with the dust of indifference. • • How to tell DRY CLEANING n- [}/] % Garment • No open seams .*-1 0 Dresses PlMtr m. 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Just how great Sheridan would have been in class with J. E. B. Stuart or Wade Hampton at the be ginning of the war one can only im agine; but Sheridan is highly re garded by our Northern friends. The third figure of February was Abraham Lincoln. Even writing as a Southerner, a native of Charles ton, a grandson of old Society BBQ, Darlington County, on my mother's side; and a grandson of the Valley of Virginia on nay mother’s side, I think the bitterness of the South springs from the Reconstruction abuses rather than from the war itself. None of the splendid spirit shown by us to the Germans, Ital tans and Japanese was shown to the South. Even today die South is not accorded a due consideration and respect. Toward the South, fol lowing Lincoln’s death, the savage ferocity, incredible vimBctiveness actuated by the Federal Govern, meat in all its dealings with the South. As a matter of fairness 1 must say that all that malevolence was not shared by Abraham Lincoln; he wished to restore the South to her rightful place. If we can deal kindly, gently and generously with Japan, after the disaster to our fleet in the Pa cific, we certainly can show mag nanimity to the man who planned to treat our people graciously. George Washington: the one name about which there will be no quib ble. First in war; First in peace; and First in the hearts of his coun trymen. Without Washington we should probably have lost our war for in dependence, for in the dark days his name, his character, his integrity, his unfailing dedication and re sourceful application — all those quahtiesjn one man may have won the war. After some feeble and faltering efforts to build a nation on the Ar ticles of Confederation it was George Washington who called the conference at Annapolis, which ad journed to Philadelphia, resulting in the preparation of the Constitu tion. It was probably Washington’s decision and wisdom which won the doubtful states to ratify it. It was Washington’s wisdom and patriot, ism which formed the new govern ment. Never before had so noble a figure stood in the forefront of a nation’s life. The one figure, standing alone as the supreme builder, under God, of a great nation. * • * How is the South progressing? Or is the South progressing? They say that figures don’t pre varicate, speaking now of mathe matical figures, only! other figures may be beguiling or misleading, but the plain old arithmetic of our school days never aroused false hopes, though sometimes they did leave you cast-down, utterly at sea. An enthusiastic Southerner uses 3>oth language and figures, and I confidently assert that if you chal lenge his language of euphemistic words you must accept the language as depicted in figures. Now then .hear him: ‘Make no mistake about it! The modern South’s phenomenal record of growth is no one-shot, flash in the pan proposition. Year after year it goes on, growing bigger and bigger, building up like a snowball rolling down hlil. As we said last year—don't take our word for k. Just look at the official U. S. Government figures shown in the panel below and you'll see that the South’s economic devel opment since World War II has out paced the national rate of growth in practically every category you can EVERYDAY COUNSELOR By BIsImi tike the cash register for the col lection plate could profitably spend some time in reading their Bibles and the pages of secular history Certain businesses necessary for the public welfare justify their ope ration on Sunday, such as hospitals, transportation, communication fa- ^uerulous clergymen. They are warnings of students of history. One day in seven for rest and spin tual restoration is a vital necessity in the divine order of things ' Those who are pulling down Sun day to the week-day level might well read Aesop’s fable of “The The growing secularization of the &unaay. sum as nospuais, | Christian Sabbath greatly disturbs those who are concerned with the j cilities, and the like. But we have I Dog and the Bone ' A dog was trot- welfare and safety of our republic. 4 K ont ‘ far beyond that. Now when the ting home wjth a nice bone He: had to cross a stream on a foot log Looking down, he saw his reflectioa in the water and thinking it to be another dog with a larger bone he opened his mouth to berk at it: He not only lost what he expected to get but also what he had It is another of those symptoms of inward moral deterioration and de cay which is a far greater danger than the feared attacks on oar se curity from without. We read much about national danger from atomic attack, but little about the inward decay which has brought about the fall jof other republics before ours. Study history for yourself and you will discover that the average life of these republics has been about 200 years. That anniversary for us is in sight We are doing a good job in under v mining Hie moral and spiritual foundations upon which this nation rests with the breakdown of the home and the complicated family problems which are resulting, mul tiple marriages, and the tragic damage to the children involved. Juvenile and youth delinquency is on the increase. Beverage alcohol has become not only respectable but also fashionable. The time giv en to spiritual rehabilitation is be coming less and less. Even the church which is'the custodian and dispenser of spiritual truth is be coming chiefly a religious club, with little sense of the need of per sonal evangelism and practical and working Christian faith. Now the church is slowly being squeezed out of the one remaining day—Sunday. It wouldn’t be too bad if people used their time away from church in personal cultiva tion of their spiritual life. Chores which could easily be done on an other day are now being undertak en on Sunday, such as grocery and other shopping. Commercial amusement has likewise invaded the day. Thoae who would substi. average working man has Saturday at his disposal, he puts over into Sunday a portion of his purchasing which he could do equally as well on Saturday, and not encourage the greedy purveyor of merchandise who not only violates the divine scheme of things, but also compels his employees to be an accessory by denying them the proper use j of Sunday. These are not the complaints of | USE CHRONICLE WANT ADS J. R. Crawford SURVEYING CLINTON. S. C Phone 3493 Joans* Gray Funeral Home CHotoo, S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS . . . aod . .. EMBALMERS Phase 41 ^ AMBULANCE SERVICE Best for Budgets WoiAtfmM, too! naipe. 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