The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, April 07, 1960, Image 4
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday. April 7, I960
By SPECTATOR . . .
COMMENTS I
— . ON
MEN AND THINGS
Where do we jio from here ' as
someone once oratornjally asked.
There is something vvTong'with
<Kir people, tha! !< it*sfH>n'sible for
th< half-bakod men so often found
in public life But it isn't confined
to men in public life: erratic men
are found in private life, loo.
What is being taughtAfter
wrestling with Economics and Inter
national Finance in a great North,
ern university I am almost disposed
to recommend that the fundamen
tals of our way of living, individ
ualism. private business be deeply,
carefully, vigorously indoctrinated
in one or t wo lessons.
There are many theone> that a
student is lost in the maze of theo
retical abstractions.
What is meant by sound money?
What ^ the inevitable results of
Socialism’ What V the deference
between a Federal Republic atid a
Federal democracy"’
What have we in the United
States"
America needs teachers;. I mean
men and women who khow their
sbujects arxf are themseHes thor
oughly imbued with the American
spirit—or what was once the Ameri
can spirit.
At the ri'k of ha\ing somone
throw a rock at me I venture to be
lieve that not every man of post
graduate degrees is a competent
teacher Many very able teachers
have not explored the moon or the
illimiiable distances of the deserts,
but are highly proficient in their
limited sphere That is also true
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; of teachers in the common .schools.
1 have sat in classes of men hav
ing doctorates and also have known
intimately •men without the doctor
ate. The text to be applied should
be the ability to teach his subject
rather than to stand appalled at the
excursions he has made into the
i vast arid vague reaches of recondite
scholarship.
It is possible that we should de
cide exactly what should be taught
and how it ^is to be laughtv
j Something else: should we pre
pare a man to do something or to
be something.
Not every man w ill be a lawyer or
physician or dentist, but every man
must make or earn his bread and
meat.
I do not suggest that a training !
should neglect the .cultural phases
Every man should know something
of History, Literature, and the ele
ments of Chemistry and Physics,
along with Geology and. obviously
something of Mathematics. But
some have an astonishing predelec-.i
tion for Chemistry or Geology. Let
them concentrate on the subjects of
serious concern.
It is passible that a small private
school of real teachers would pro
duce the best results. ’
Who knows today the so-called
rights of our citizens" 1
Rights? What rights? Do our peo-1
pie know anything of our History?
Have they thought of England’s
Magna Carta and what it means
even to us" Have they read thought- j
fully the Constitution of the United
States and the first ten Amend- 1
ments? Of course it seems now of,
only historical value since the man
handling it has reieved from the
Supreme Court But do the Senators
ami Representatives in Congress
know the Supreme law "
* * *
By the way. a Men’s Sunday
School Cl Ass i,s considering a plan
that is-’unique. The basic idea is
that within that class of seventy
men there in a composite wisdom
ami practical knowledge that might
be brought to. bear on the problems
and needs, of their community. For
example, let us assume that in the
class are: one lawyer, one teacher,
thiryt farmers, several merchants,
one or two insurance men, a phy
sician; a veterinary surgeon, a lum
berman, a man of broad experience
with cattle, twenty ex-service men
—all branches—several retired men
of practical road-building experi
ence, one or two automobile sales
men. one or two experts on car bod
ies, etc.—you sec what a wealth
of knowledge and experience may
be found in that group.
The idea is to make available to
anyone needing advice or informa
tion all the resources of that varied
and broad experience.
The underlying idea is that the
class should function practically
and helpfully in its own community
and be a sort of power house of ser
vice, instead of merely spending a
half hour over a lesson once a week
No one can measure the resource
of knowledge and experience in a
group. To make available, as need
ed, the individual or composite
knowledge and experience of all
those men would be to throw a light
on almost any problem or need.
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LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA
It seems likely that the Demo
crats of South Carolina will not fol
low blindly any Tom, Dick ( and Har
ry who may be chosen to lead the
Democracy in the presidential elec
tion On the other side, Mr Nixon
1 does not arouse or inspire our confi
dence, for he "is a second Enscn-
how-er, but without Ike's charm or
war record. 1 •
Ike may not be a great general of
the school of Alexander the Great or
Napoleon, but he was commander
of our greatest army and victory
was won by that army—so we heed
not quibble; but victory or no vic-
1 tory, Mr .Eisenhower sold the South
down the river. - ^
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Our Senators Johnston and Thur
mond have upheld the great South
ern tradition valiantly. -
Senator Richard Russell of Geor
gia is leading the fight against the
so-called Fights Bill and most
Southern Senators are loyally and
capably supporting him.
There is hardly any doubt that
the proposed Rights Bill is repug
nant to the Constitution, but it is
equally beyond doubt that the pres
ent Supreme Court will declare
such a law constitutional-. The Con
gress should have curtailed the % as-
sumed powers of the Court; it is
now a great agency of oppression.,
Our only hope is that time, fhc
great healer and corrector, mky
prove the fallacy and the folly of
the present trend.
As I’ve said before, as one man
turned our course into other chan
nels we may some day rear another
man with the same blandishments
who.will have respect for the foun
dation principles of our nation and
lead us back into the right way.
One man started all this trouble;
let us hope that one may appear on
he scene resolved to revive and re
store the traditions of that noble
band that founded this republic.
« • *
This country was bom in a revolt
against the act of King George. The
thirteen colonies resolved to assert
and maintain their rights as their
ancestors had won and cherished
those rights.
In those days of the/ sample life,
without daily newspapers and a
thousand magazines and such other
distractions as the score or more
of diverting interests that so en
gage us that we have no time to
think. Our nearest approach to
thinking is to read or listen to some
one’s remarks and then express
agreement or disagreement—all on
the spur of the moment, with little
information to guide us.
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William B. Gillespie
Laurens — William Bergin Gilles
pie. 73. of 517 E. Main St., died ear
ly Thursday morning at his home
fallowing a short illness.
A native of Henderson County,
N. C., he was the son of the late
William and Mary Shipman Gilles
pie. He was a retired farmer and
a member of Freewill Baptist
Church of Gray Court.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Alphar Crowe Gillespie; four sons,
Elbert, Addie and Clate Gillespie,
all of Laurens, and Claude Gilles-
! pie. of Gray Court; five daughters,
Mrs. Mary Pennington, Mrs. Allie
Templeton and Mrs. Margaret Tem
pleton. all of Gray Court, and Miss
es Maggie and Pet Louise Gillespie,
both pf the home; three brothers,
: Jule and Carl Gillespie, both of
1 Woodruff, and John Gillespie, of
Augusta, Ga.; four sisters, Mrs.
Grace Parm, of Enonee; Mrs.
Gladys Chumley, of Woodruff: Mrs.
Maude Rogers, of Newry, and Mrs.
Mary Wilson, of Greenville; 22
grandchildren; and 15 great-grand
children. -
Funeral services were conducted
Friday at 2 p. m. at Friendship
Baptist Church near Gray Court by
the Rev. J. B. Abercrombie and
the Rev. Tom Turner. Burial was
in the church cemetery.
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Our men of 1776 and earlier days
remembered and cherished the de
mands their forefathers made of old
King John at Runnymede, Englan
in the year 1215, as I recall
governing people.
W’e mitft intake our will known and
. also make it effective at the polls,
n ’Uor we -Sare being dominated and
{ victimized by all sorts of manipula-
King John was bent on governing^ tions, demands and exactions,
according to his own ideas or
whims, but those sturdy meh assert
ed aggressively certain ancient
rights of Englishmen and the bull
headed King bowed to the demands
and granted a charter of rights arid
liberties which is known up to this
time as The Great Charter (The-
Magna Carta).
In the course of time those valiant
subjects of the English Sovereign
won other ‘ concessions such as the
Writ of Habeas Corpus, by which a
man held under arrest may demand
a hearing to determine whether he
is lawfully detained or not.
I mention just these concessions
wrung from a usurping monarch to
show that there was a time when
men did not meekly submit either
to domineering kings or misguided
parliaments.
And in this country of ours a
band of men dared to defy the king
over a tax on tea. A great war fol
lowed and we are a free and self-
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