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I ' ——V- \ n What Is The Moral Just as a matter of good business, govern ment—national, state and local—should do everything within reason to encourage in dustry to produce and sell more goods and services. * V Government's customers are the taxpay ers. Consider typical 1959 annual reports of just three companies out of thousands. One manufacturing concern paid its owners some $174 million in dividends. It paid state and federal governments over $300^ million ( in taxes. An oil company paid’cash dividends of some $153 million to its stockholders and $114 million in taxes to governments, in ad dition t<* collecting and paying over .to gov ernments some $485 million in. gas taxes. Another oil company paid cash dividends of less than $100 million to its owners, but tax es of over $190 million, not to mention over $450 million it collected in consumer gas taxes for governments. In compan? after comj>any, governments get a greater share of net earnings than do the owners. The moral would seem to be that govern- ments should foster, rather than discourage ambition and incentive, thereby benefiting all concerned. Too often, unfortunately, poli tics is substituted for reason in dealing with governments’ best customers (taxpayers). Industrv could not survive if it used the same *■ *•. tactics. Medical Care For The Needy Everybody's Problem Criipe costs^ ffil^Tiation same $22 billion a year—and “In the last 10 years something has happened to the AmericarrpljClic that is worse than communism. A new kind of crime is sweeping the nation. People claim it’s all right to be a little bit of a thief, to do a little wrong.” That indictment comes from a real author ity—Juvenile Judge Gilliam of Denver. Nat urally enough, he is particularly concerned about juvenile delinquency w r hich, it is. fore cast. will double in the next 10'years. He say*: “The belief seems to be ‘Never get sore about anything. Don’t fight the racke teer: you’d just get hurt.’ “1 ask boys why they stole,, and they an swered ‘I didn’t want to be a square.’ “Can you imagine a great American who would say ‘I didn’t want to be chicken?’ “Thomas Jefferson and George Washing ton were angry Americans.” What , we are confronted with is a great and gnawing moral problem. To quote Judge Gilliam once more, “We’ll have delinquency as long as we have people who don’t care, „sloppy homes, people who excuse wrong doing, poorly-trained teachers, filthy maga zines and violent television programs.” And this problem is everybody’s problem. Babson Discusses Our Educational Costs 1 No person, regardless of age, needs to fore go a physician’s service because of inability to pay. That statement has been made by Dr. Louis M. Orr, president of the American Medical Association, in opposing a bill w hich proposes federal purchase of certain health care services for social security beneficiaries. The backers of this bill would have us be lieve that many Americans, and especially those in later life, are denied medical care because they cannot afford to pay for it. But, as Dr. Orr points out, the evidence is to the contrary. Since time immemorial, phy sicians have given their services to the in digent without compensation, and the value of these donated services runs to millions of dollars a year. Many county medical socie ties have even run paid advertisements in newspapers guaranteeing the sendees of a physician to all who need him. “I am cer tain,” Dr. Orr added, “that even*’ other coun ty medical society also will answer the need for a physician.” How% then, can the interests, medically speaking, of the aged be best sensed? Dr. Orr listed a number of areas: By encourag ing further development of voluntary health insurance; by replacing compulsory retire ment and age discrimination in employment with more realistic and flexible systems; by curbing inflation; by encouraging construc tion of nursing homes and other facilities designed to care for the long-term patients efficiently and economically, and by increas ing reimbursement of hospitals by local and state governments for care of the needy of any age. We can, in sum, solve whatever health problems still exist without embarking on a program of gradual socialization of medical care. How To Save On Taxes You’ve just paid your income taxes. May be you had the cash on hand, maybe you had to borrow as legions of people must each April. In either case, it’s been a bitter ex perience. And April will come again next year. So some advice on two w’ays you can save on in come taxes, provided by a southern electric company, should be remembered. The first way is the obvious one—get a reliable income tax guide, study it, and list even legal deduction you can find. Ignorance of allowable deductions can needlessly cost you large amounts of money. The second way is very different. It lies in keeping the government out of business. Socialized business commonly pays no taxes. Additionally, they commonly account for deficits which all the taxpayers must make up. And then, to make a bad matter worse, they deprive the government of the tax reve nues that would be paid by private business if socialized business hadn’t taken its place. So let’s save on our future taxes—in both these divergent w’ays! SSEfStJ THE CLINTON CHRONICLE MIXED-UP MEDICINE JIAN ANOTHER. BOTTLE WILL FIX YOU RI6MT UP/ 7, UNIOfi ‘s CUPE ALL' remepy. * massive pose IN NOVEMBER. FARMS... AND FOLKS N QUACK ! QUACK? **!**£%&■ By J. M. Eleaxer Clemson College information Specialist Clinton Dovidson Pt * a*f*f w. Babson Park. Mass.. April 28—Probably no event this past year in higher education has stirred up more of a furore than the late Beardsley Ruml’s plan for curing the fiscal ailments of our colleges. A TAXPAYER’S FINANCIAL PROBLEM Most readers know that inflation has made such an impact upon our colleges that fees have been constant ly increased year after year. Today we are failing tp develop some of our best brains because many bril liant high school graduates just cannpt afford college. To slow down this ever-accelerating spiral of edu cational costs, and to attract and hold better faculty, it has been proposed that the colleges mass-produce students as an autoomobile factory I mass-produces cars. Theoretically, if a professor teaches 50 in a class instead of 25 students, he has dou bled his production. Greater pro ductivity should cut operating costs | and in turn lead to higher salaries. Another suggestion is to chop out of the curriculum the many courses of study for which demand is slight and classes small. I personally do not believe in large classes: but 1 do believe that both high schools and colleges could omit many courses which are now clut tering up education efficiency. REACTIONS TO ECONOMICS Reactions to these plans have been violent. Edu cators everywhere have been vociferous in their oppo sition They argue that students are not to be shaped on a production line as chunks of metal are milled and bored for engine blocks. The large lecture hall, educators rightly contend, would then become little more than a means for transferring the professor’s notes to the students' notebooks. A college education is not just cramming the mind with facts about his tory or science or business. There must be reaction by students; where there is no reaction, there is no learn ing Ideas must be chewed, digested, assimilated into the student's own philosophy. To effect this reaction an instructor must challenge his students, listen to their questions, criticize or encourage them. Educa tion is the sum total of one's development of char acter. one's attitude and reactions to life. With such educational goals I fully agree. Yet if the average high school or college would be honest about how effectively it is accomplishing these goals, all it has to do is to seek the opinion of its most mature students. When k does this I wager many an administrator will be shocked to learn how many in structors are complete bores. The question of cutting out courses is entirely different: when only a few stu dents want a certain course, let them go to a nearby college and get it. Such courses should be taught’by only one college within a radius of 15 miles. REAL PROBLEM IS ONE OF VALUES A look at our national appetite for a good time, our national pastime of belittling things intellectual, our accelerating divorce rate, our shrinking from unpleas ant responsibilities, our shocking juvenile delinquency, and our measurement of “success" in terms of mate rial possessions, makes one wonder just how effective is the present educational method which our educators so stoutly defend. What kind of citizens have we after they have gradauted from college? Have they developed habits of straight thinking? Are they intellectually honest? Have they made their neighborhoods any better? Have they produced better children? Are they any freer of prejudice? Do they cherish and work for spiritual values for their community, the nation, ant^the world? These are what will make us or break us in our struggle for leadership. While there may not be any easy academic short cut, I believe there must be a less costly way to sound education. Taxpayers who foot the bills have the ritht to expect methods that will produce much better, education at much lower cost. *Ruml was both an outstanding educator and an astute businessman. He and the late Donald Morrison, former provost of Dartmouth College, were com missioned to study the financial problems of our col leges The results of this study are reported in “Memo To A College Trustee,” published by McGraw-Hill, 1950 A new wheat program rates now as the most urgent, and possibly the only major farm legislation likely to be passed at this session of Congress. Three months ago President Eisenhower told Congress that adoption of new wheat legislation this year was ‘'imperative.” He warned that the longer it delayed the more difficult it would become to pass constructive legislation. That warning is proving to be re markably accurate. At least four widely different wheat programs have been offered. Congress is hav ing difficulty in choosing between them. The Senate Agriculture Commit- te resumed hearings on wheat bills last week after a dealy of almost two months during which the Sen ate was tied lip with debate on civil rights legislation. Wheat program hearings by the House Agriculture Committee have been completed, but it hasn’t agreed yet on the kind of a bill it will rec ommend to the House for approval. THOUSAND DOLLARS A MINUTE President Eisenhower reminded Congress that the present wheat program is costing the government $1,000 a minute, $1,500,000 a day. The only future of the present pro gram, he said, is ever higher costs. Although this country is export ing wheat at the rate of almost a million and a half bushels a day, we still have 1,200 million bushels piled up in storage. That represents an investment of $3,500,000,000 and is enough wheat to meet our domes tic needs for two years. On top of that farmers are grow ing a wheat crop from which they will begin harvest of an estimated SOME FISH At the Auburn, Ala., Fisheries Ex periment Station they caught 1.292 pounds of channel catfish per acre in a 12.4 acre pond in one year. The lake wks stocked with 2,000 three- inch fingerlings per acre in Febru ary, 1958, and fishing was started in September. The fish caught then averaged 0.7 of a pound, and, of course, increased in size during the ensuing year, during which this re- .markable record was made. These fish were fed from 5 to 25 pounds of pelleted food per acre per day. The daily fishing fee charged was $1.00 and the average price for the fish caught turned out to be 46c per pound to the angler. During that first year of fishing they caught 62'T of the catfish stocked. Deducting costs of fertilizer, feed, fingerlings. and labor, this experiment netted $112 per acre that year. We have thousands of ponds over South Carolina. And more are being constantly built. They have varied uses—stock water, recreation, irri gation, and fishing. To get best fish ing from them requires proper man agement Stocking, fertilizing, weed control, etc., are matters of im portance in pond management. Through your local county agent, Clenvson's Sam Williams can help billion and a quarter, bushels in a y® 0 with ^ese problems. And your couple of months. That is expected technician can help you with to add another 150 million bushels them. ,0 ®- to the already large surplus. This Week in Washington NO. 1 FARM PROGRAM will be very little reduction in hog production since most farmers find feeding hogs the best market for home-grown corn.”.. And in Dorchester they are hold ing their own, too. County Agent Epps reports that 164 of their farm ers marketed 1.346 hogs the pre vious month through their local association for $36,323.50. It took good hogs to do that at present prices A farmer can't be jumping from . . one thing to U* *hgr «ith t]*| 0 ^" 1 l ^ h ^ whims of price. When he finds a crop or a farming system that suits hi glands, labor, and layout, he masters it and it pays to stay with it. Then the ups and downs will be sort of evened out along through the years, as his knowledge and ef ficiency grow. • • • BOYS ARE THAT WAY Did I ever tell you about that devilish old mule knocking the bee hive over? H is one of my most in delible memories. It w as about the seventh inning of our ball game on Saturday afternoon there back of Mx. Ed Sbealy’s place at White Rode .Bill Metxe had just knocked a needed home run for our side that got lost deep in left field under Mr. Ed’s potato vines. There was a wild scene of joy as he trot ted across the plate. Thnraday, April 28, 1H0 we thought theye were celebrating Bill’s home run, too. But, alas, they weren’t.’ A mule had been hitched to a Umb of an oak tree there near Mr. John’s house. Bending the limb, he had reached across the picket fence and tilted a bee hive over' Right then pandemonium broke loose up there. Some of the critters had been unhitched from carts, wag ons. and buggies. Others hadn’t. But it made little difference. Such a neighing, whinnying, kicking, and cavorting you never heard! And mixed in with it s all was the occa sional crashing of a pair of shafts or vehicle wrapped around a tree, as the tormented animals fled in all directions. One mule was tied se curely with a "grass rope” that he could not break. He almost hung himself before his owner got there to cut him loose. They forgot all about the lost ball then, could not find it later, and the game was over, for that was the CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1960 a!!?? (Eltntnn (Etfrnnirlr Establlriied 1900 July 4, 1889 — WILLIAM WIISON HARRIS - June 13. 1955 / PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance) Out-of-County ........ One Year $3 00, Six Months $2.00 One Year $4.00 Second Class Postage Paid at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers — the publisher will it all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle wfll publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. Member: South Carolina Press Association. ^National Editorial Association National Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York. Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia The law limits wheat plantings to 55 million acres, compared with 80 million only a few years ago, but favorable weather and improved practices, have kept production al most in excess of combined markets at home and abroad. * THE FOUR PROPOSALS The four wheat program pro posals from which Congress is expected to choose to become effec tive before planting of the 1961 crop are: Agriculture Secretary- Benson's: Remove acreage controls and sup port all wheat at between 75% and 90% of the average market price of the previous three years. For 1961 that would be between $1.10 and $1.35 a bushei. The wheat certificate plan: Al locate to each grower his propor tionate share of the domestic market for food at a price of about $2.25 a bushel and permit him to grow all additional wheat he wishes for sale as livestock feed. TTiih is sup ported by the National Association of Wheat Growers, the Grange, and the Farmers Union. Farm Bureau Plan: Similar to the Benson proposal. No controls, but with supports on wheat based on feed value when compared with corn. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Ellender: Continue acre age allotments but support prices starting at 80% of parity the first year .then lowering supports by five percentage points in each of the next three years thereafter, to farmers who reduce their wheat acreage by at least 20%. Just as the crowd was quieting GRAPE MECHANIZATION down, we beard a great commotion WRh grapes coming as a new among the mules and horses hitched money crop in many counties in in Mr. John Richardson’s grove IVORY TOWER THINKING By THURMAN SENSING, Executive Vice-President Southern States Industrial Council One reason that the United States isn’t making any significant gains in the Cold War is that- “liberal” eggheads in the universities are say ing that victory isn’t necessary. In deed a self-destructive pilitical phi losophy is being advocated for the United States. Typical of the “liberal” folly was the statement of a prominent U. S. economist in Chicago during early April. Instead of urging the suprem acy of capitalism over communism and its weaker sister, socialism. Prof. Everett E. Hagen, who teach es at the Center for International Education of the Massachusetts In stitute of Technology, said the U. S. should work for foreign national ism and neutralism. This sounds incredible, with the example of Fidel Castro’s Cuba fresh in mind. But it’s true. Ad dressing the Conference on World Tensions, Prof. Hagen said the “fierce desire” to be free of ‘for eign influence” existirig among many new nations makes any gov ernment that fashions close mili tary or poliaical ties with the Unit ed States suspect among its own people. This, he asserted, “increases con siderably the prospect that there will be internal tensions . . . and that a government will come into power w’hich is hostile to the United states and willing to accept the in ternational viewpoint of communism and to ally itself with the Soviet Union.” Prof Hagen cautioned American leaders against exerting any pres sure for private enterprise in the emerging nations of Africa and Asia because such pressures al legedly are considered anti-national ist. “We should support programs, 4 not governments,” Prof. Hagen de clared. Perhaps he would have V e United States finance the Castro col lectivist land program and ignore the character of the Castro govern ment. TTus sort of thinking is fan tastic because it involves the give away of the people’s tax dollars without regard to the nature of the distant political regimes that will Vend them. Surely even an aca demic “liberal” should know that the American people ham bettor things to do wkh their money than to turn it over to anybody—just any body—4o spend on projects over which they would have no control. Unfortunately, such elementary un derstanding of the realities seems to have escaped certain egghead elements in this country. If Prof. Hagen had his way, yet another international agency would be formed to administer economic aid funds. Participation of many na tions in such an organization, he South Carolina, their mechanization is being studied. County Agent Miller of York arranged "a mechanical hoe demonstration” on grapes there. One was manually operated and the other hydraulically. Several growers there plan to purchase such equip- j ment. he says. Clemson has used! one for several years in keeping the balks between the vines clean. | They work fine .if you don’t let the ’ grass get too big, they tell me. * • * HOGS HOLD Low prices don’t seem to have affected the growing of hogs in our counties where they have grown into an established money crop. County Agent McCord of George town says: “Indications are there about 300 yards from there. At first ‘OFFICE SUPPLIES CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. PHONE 74 said, would tend to minimize “sus picion” among beneficiary coun tries that aid is rendered for ulterior motives. Now isn’t that something? Many nations would have a say as to how the aid funds would be spent. But who would provide the funds? Why. Uncle Sam. of course. No other nation is so gullible as to give away money without strings attached. If Prof. Hagen's views are repre sentative only of one man’s think- ihg«it would not be such a serious matter. Unfortunately, this kind of nationally self - destructive outlook prevails in much of the academic world. Isolated and protected in their ivory towers, doing work on large grants from foundations which enjoy a tax-exempt status, such men are devoting their time to searching for ways and means by which the economic strength of the United States may be dissipated. The idea that the political and eco nomic system of the United States, which made possible their education and personal comfort, is superior to whatever exists in the retarded and strife-ridden lands of Asia and Africa seems not to have entered their heads. If there is a single group of Americans who need to go back to school—to the right kind of school where they can get instruc tion in Americanism—it is the aca demie “liberal” eggheads who would have tfce United States place Its interests last—and always. 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I hid behind a tree to watch the show, while the older boys woded into the melee to try to rescue their posses sions. Soon a mad buzzing zoomed around my head and popped me on the ear. That was all for me. I lit out, describing a wide circle down through Rev. BaUentine’s cane patch. A few of the other small boys followed me. But they couldn’t keep up. They didn’t have the urge I hod. and the few mad bees that followed us were back there with them. Down the path I beard one yell, "Ouch, he got me!” And that boy soon caught up with me. We ran about a mile to Cousin Paul's Spring. There we sat down and cooled off. My ear felt numb, hot to the hand, and was twice its usual size. I don’t think that ball game ever counted in the records.