The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, March 24, 1960, Image 3
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Thursday, March 21,1960
THE CLINTOIf CHRONICLE
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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.
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Let us see: General Joseph E.
Johnston, Confederate general high
ly regarded as a strategist and a
commander in the early days of the
war.
General Johnston is lost in the
haze of time and is not regarded to
day by the average man as a great
general.
We cone next to General Sheri
dan, wel known cavalry leader of
the Union Army: Toward the dose
of the Civil War -the three most
prominent Union generals were
Grant, Sherman and Sheridan.
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 |
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Southeast show even more startling
gains for the region than its envi
able record of growth pubBfiied a
year ago.
Yes, this is the era of opportunity
for the young, fast-growing South
the confident, vigorous growing
up years (
A recent U S. Department of
Commerce report shows the follow
ing expansion in major fields of
business activity from World War
II (1946, 1947 or 1948) to 1959:
Per Cent Increase
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Manufacturing Employment
New Pldnt and Equipment Expenditures
Dollar Value Added By Manufacturer
Electric Energy Produced
Number at Manufacturing Establishments
Dollar Value of Manufactring Payrolls
Contract Construction Employment
Dollar Value at Bank Deposits
Dollar Value of Life Insurance In Force
Motor Vehicle Registrations
Dollar Value of Retail Sales
Retail Trade Employment
Dollar Value of*World Trade (Import*
and Exports) Through Customs Districts
Dollar Value of Retail Trade Payrolls
Gross Personal Income
Per Capita Personal Income
Cash Farm Income
Number of Industrial and Commercial Firms
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