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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Slop Downgrading Our Schools Supporters of federal intervention in pub lic school education are downgrading the achievements of American teachers, school boards, and communities in building the fin est education systm the world has ever known. That is the view of the Chamber of Com merce of the United States. It supports it by pointing out that there are more classrooms, more teachers, a lower pupil-teacher ratio, lower pupil-classroom ratio, and a higher level of education in this country than ever before in history. Statistically, the story goes like this: In the last 10 years the number of public school pupils increased 48 per cent, while the num ber of classrooms jumped 60 per cent and the number of teachers 61 per cent. Teach er’s salaries rose 72 per cent, to an average of $6,389 a year. Money spent per pupil boomed from $224 a year to $300. On top of that, American communities ap proved the highest volume of school bond is sues in history during 1960. Ail this has been done without federal in-,; ten ention, federal dictation—or the federal control that would inevitably follow federal subsidy of local schools. Shoe On The Other Foot It is no secret that pirivate automobiles and trucks have been the major cause of lost freight and passenger revenue by the railroads. It therefore seems ill advised for the powerful Teamsters Union to seek public simport for curbs on rail rate cuts and penal ties on trucks using piggyback on the grounds that transporting truck trailers on rail cars is costing drivers jobs- That plea won’t get much sympathy from some 460,000 rail workers who have lost their jobs largely due to truck competition or to tens of thousands of investors in rail roads who have spent billions of dollars to meet truck inroads. Piggyback is a logical evolution in trans portation which the Teamsters Union can not block any more than the railroads could prevent the use of trucks. Thursday. April 6, 1961 Clinton Davidson Hus Week m Washington CENSORSHIP BY TAXATION Clarissa. Minn., Independent: “We believe the education of our children should remain in our hands and not be placed in some far- off bureau in Washington, where standardi zation is the watch-word and dictation of what, and how to teach would be the inevit able result.” The Vital Difference The mechanics of explosives is a technical subject for advanced students; but to Ad miral Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Opera tions, it was the means of learning what he now considers the basic lesson of life: “The difference between being fairly good and very good requires a great amount of work, but also pays great dividends.” The importance of this difference, the Ad miral says, was driven home to him at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, in Assistant Professor Warren L. McCabe’s class in explosives. The two men had little, if any, personal contact outside the class room. and have met just once in the inter- / vening 30 years. Yet the Admiral never for got McCabe, and this year, chose him as his partner to share the 1961 Golden Key Award, given annually to a prominent American and the teacher who contributed most to his suc cess. McCabe now is Dean of Polytechnic In stitute, in Brooklyn, New York. “He was the strictest man I ever had,” Burke recalled recently. “His insistence on high performance taught me that if anything is to be done at all, it is important that it be done just as well as it possibly can be done.” Perhaps if this lesson had not been taught so well, America might not have a Polaris missile-firing submarine. The Reader’s Di gest recently pointed out that it was Admiral Burke who ordered Rear Admiral William F. Rabom to go full speed ahead on the under water missile program. The result is history. The Golden Key Awards are presented in pairs each year, by seven educational or ganizations. Both recipients are given cita tions and keys; the teacher also receives $1,000. The presentation is sponsored by bus iness organizations, such as Western Elec tric, lYoctor A Gamble, Nestle, IBM, Lock heed Aircraft, Fuller Brush, Westinghouse Broadcasting, Union Carbide, F. W. Wool- worth and the Motion Picture Association. Every- teacher shapes thousands of lives; only a few ever receive the recognition due them. Babson Discusses Chemistry As A Gold Mine Kofer W Fly Kites Safely! This is the kite-flying season. So some “flight instructions” to “kid kite pilots” who will race across fields towing their “paper aircraft” into “the wild blue yonder” are very much in point now. Here they are: L Don’t fly a kite with metal in the frame or tail! 2. Don’t use tinsel-string wire, or any twine with metal in it! 3. Don’t fly a kite in the rain! 4. Don’t pull on the string or climb a pow er pole to loosen a snagged kite! 6. Don’t fly a kite over TV or radio aerials! 6. Don’t fly a kite near electric or power lines! 7. Don’t run across streets or highways while flying kites! 8. Don’t touch fallen electric wires! Babson Park, Mass., April 6—My appeal to every woman is to have her children study chem istry in high school. When they get married they should make their kitchen a laboratory. If I were a young man I would train as a chemical engineer in connection with business administra tion. A woman could also do this, but there are not many Jobs to get as chemical engineers. The knowledge of chemistry for the woman is pri marily for her to do research in her own kitchen. The opportunities along this line are very great and can be very profitable. THE IMPORTANCE OF CREATIVE WORK Less than 1% of the graduates from our schools go into creative work. Most of them manufacture or sell or ad vertise what has already been cre ated. Manufacturers are pri marily interested in making divi dends—not food, clothing, or shel ter. Merchants are interested in selling, at a profit, what has al ready been produced. Bankers are reluctant to loan money for research. Yet research has given us all that we have today and it is the only cure for, or preven- tion of, more inflation and a higher cost of living. Our whole economic life is topsy-turvy. All life starts with a baby who is 100% chemis try. Its conception and its growth within the mother, for the first nine months, are wholly a chemical matter. Yet when the baby becomes a little child the mother teaches it to eat things that it should not eat. If mothers knew more about the chemistry of foods, there need be very little sickness in the family. Fish live wholly in water and consume the minute plankton therein. Water, sugar, salt, and the grains are only only cbemi cals. Sunday Schools should teach chemistry as a powerful manifestation of God and the Holy Spirit. STUDY YOUR ANIMALS AND SHRUBS Every housewife can learn something from a canary in a bird cage or a cow in the barn. A - most wonderful animal is the lobster. A lobster can digest anything from a tack to sewage and produce an absolutely pure food therefrom. The lobster's shedding of its shell is a marvelous work and suggests how furniture, and perhaps bouses, will some day be built by chemistry. When the lobster sheds his hard shell which opens like a double door, a new body comes out with its very soft shell and the lobster then throws the old shell away. This is something which we may some day copy. During the first two or three years the lobster “builds a new house" several times a year. A one-and-a-half-pound lobster, such as you eat In a restaurant, is four or five years old and sheds once a year. The cloth in the dress or coat which you wear starts with the wool on a sheep or the cotton on a stem. This is twisted into threads and woven into cloth. The textile industry, however, is rapidly turning into a plastics industry. The “cloth" of the future will be made like cellophane or newsprint. The manufacture of synthetic furs, leather, etc., is now well underway. INVESTING IN CHEMICAL COMPANIES Although the stock market seems to me too high for most issues, yet the chemical companies are still among the best. Dow Chemical is my favorite; and I must add DuPont, Eastman Ko dak, and Union Carbide. Fertilizer stocks i |tr » American Agricultural Chemical also look attrac tive. Because chemical stocks have doubled and tripled in price during the past two decades is no reason to assume that they have reached their high for all time. The chemical stocks will de cline with the rest of the market; but tome of them will ultimately sell for many times their present price, counting new “splits.” The big decline will be in the stocks of manufacturing and merchandising companies which are spend ing little money on research. The pharmaceutical companies also should do well, but many of their products are already being carried in the super markets and they wUl be subject to even greater rompetitipn. We are on dangeorus ground when the government uses a tax law to restrict the right of citizens to advise Congress on legislative porposals of vital interest to them. Yet that is being done under a 1964 Internal' Revenue Code (Sec. 162) which holds that “expenses lawfully incurred in supporting, oposing or otherwise influencing legislation . . . shall not be allow ed as a proper deduction from gross income.” The law applies not only to "lobbying” before Congress, but also to similar representatives to state and local legislative or rule- making bodies of the various gov ernments by citizens or non-gov ernment groups. Administrative officials and agencies of the various govern ment bodies are, however, left completely free to maintain ex pensive and powerful lobbies, at public expense, to influence the actions of legislative branches. THE BOGGS BILL Rep. Hale Boggs of Louisiana, in a House speech, called the law “censorship by taxation” and a serious threat “to the main free.” He introduced H. R. 640 to repeal that section of the tax laws. The best way to build up a die tatorship is to rule that no one ex cept the administration in power shall have the right to lobby. Con gress, far from discouraging ad vice on pending legislation, seeks it constantly. “Today,” Rep. Boggs said, “the scope and peace of our activity in Congress and other legislative bodies is such that infinte care must be exercised to prevent our being insulated from public opin ion. “Silenced by restrictions, no facet of our economy can carry on a trade or a business on basis of equality with those work ing on the other side of the street,” Rep. Boggs said. IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST The imposition of punitive taxes is one of the most effective deter rents to the exercise of the con stitutional right of every citizen to freely express his views, Rep. Boggs said. A 1968 ruUng by the U. S. Su preme Court held that “speech can be effectviely limited by the exercise of the taxing power” and that “the denial of a tax exemp tion for engaging in certain speech necessarily will have the effect of coercing the claimants to refrain from the prescribed speech.” Rep. Boggs pointed out that the section of law in question is not for the purpose of raising reve nue, but that “it is punitive tax ation . . . which limits the right of free and continuous access of all of the people to their elected representatives.” We do not believe that Congress ever intended the law to be used to restrict the right of the people, as guaranteed in the Constitution, to petition the Congress. It should, therefore, repeal the law. News Of Bonds Cross Roads CLINTON, 8. C., THURSDAY, APRIL «, 1961 QIIjp (Eliitton (Cljrmtirlr 4, IMS — WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS - U. 195! PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Rate (Payable in Advance) Out-of-County One Year *3 00, Six Months *2.00 , One Year *4.00 Second Class Postage Paid at CUntoe, S. C. The the toy are not of a defamatory for the views or of Re subscribers and readers - the pubHaber will at all times kindly advice. The Chronicle wM publish letters of general Intereot whan Anonymous communications will not be noticed. Tide paper is net of its AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York. Chicago. Detroit. Philadelphia Hampton Avenue Pre-School Clinic Be Held April 10-11 The annual Hampton Avenue pre-school clinic will be held on Monday and Tuesday, April 10- 11. The clinic will be held from 1 to 3 p. m. on each of these days at the Health Center. Parents are urged to take their children to the clinic on either of these days for their various checkups and vaccinations. A new procedure for registra tion will be begun for first grade pupils this year. Instead of these pupils registering the day prior to the opening of school, they will register on Monday, May 29. Parents should bring those pupils entering the first grade to the Hampton Avenue School au ditorium at 9 o’clock on that date. Registration forms will be completed at that time. The pur pose of this registration is to give the school as accurately as pos sible the number of pupils who will enter the first grade in the fall. Room assignments will not be made on that date. This announcement applies on ly to those pupils who will enter the Hampton Avenue School. Exchonge Club To Give Benefit Donee Saturday Nigbt The Exchange Club will stage a dance Saturday night at the Ar mory, the proceeds of which will be used to pay expenses of the American Legion Junior Baseball program for the comnig season. Continuing from 8 to 12, music will be by The Collegians. Door prises will be given, it was stated. Admission will be *1.00 per person. Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Duanf Cause will regret to know Duane Cause is a paUent at Self Mem. orial Hospital, Greenwood. Thursday. March 30, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Oswalt visited Duane Cause at Self Memorial Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Earle Price, of Melbourne, Fla., were recent vis itors of Mrs. Jim Price. Mr. and Mrs. James Evans were visitors in Greenville on Friday, March 31. Sunday Mr. and -Mrs. Curtis Oswalt, Mrs. Shelby Carlisle and young daughter, and Cur- Us Oswalt, Jr., visited Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Oswalt In Columbia. Friends of Lynn Keller Nabors, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Nabors, will be glad to know she is able to return to school after being home sick for sev eral days. Monday Mr. and Mrs. James Evans, Mr. and tors. Freeman Evans and sons visited Duane Cause in Self Memorial Hospital in Greenwood. Miss Martha Pitta, a teacher in Rock Hill City Schools, spent the Easter holidays with Mr. and Mrs. David Pitts and fam ily. HOME DEMONSTRATION CLUB MEETS Shady Grove Home Demonstra tion Club met Tuesday afternoon at the club house. Mrs. B. W. Cooper, president, presided over the meeting. Devotional was con ducted by Mrs. J. O. Hueble. Mrs. Hueble in her devotional emphasized the value of a Chris tian home and the place of the mother in the home. Mrs. James Evans, chairman of Health Com mittee, gave a report on need for security of health, value of reg ular health check-ups and en couraged all members to have their blood typed and get birth certificates. Mrs. J. O. Hueble, chairman of Safety Committee, gave a report on safety for children in the home. She emphasized the value of labels on medicine, safety latches on doors and removal of hazards that may cause children to have accidents. Following the reports, Mrs. James Evans and Mrs. N. A. Shouse gave a demonstration on "Arrange Furniture For Con venience and Beauty.” During the social hour refresh ments wet* served by Mrs. Cur tis Oswalt, assistsd by Mrs. James Evans in absence of Mrs. Mildred Cause. Mrs. David Pitts will serve as hostess at the May meeting. *-H CLUBS WILL MEET Monday, April 10 at 3:30 the Boys and Girls 4-H Club will meet at the club house. Miss Jayne Workman, daugh- STOP— LOOK— and think. Do you have adequate insurance? over the plans we have to offer and se lect the one that takes care of your needs and fits your budget to the saving which can be yours dur- USTEN—ing this our Anniversary Year on our 26 Payment Life Policy. GLEN A. SHIFFERLY, Agent 4 Phene 883-0415, Route 8, Milton Road R. T. DENDY, Manager - Phene 883-0468, Ptnewood, CUaton, & C. Or Write P. O. Box 101, Clinton, 8. C. local Winner In Notional Piano GuHd Miss Linda Corley a senior at Clinton High School was winner in the National Piano Guild au ditions here on March 18. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe D. Corley of 307 Caldwell St. She is a pupil of Mrs. Joe Land. John L. Pond of the Pond Music School of Norfolk, Va., conducted the auditions here. Her program consisted of 20 compositions, including m u s 1 - clanship phases and she received a superior rating of 97^. Her high school diploma in music is aceptable in any college without a music entrance examination. Rether M. Harrison Succumbs to Attack Monday Evening Rether M. Harrison, 66, appar ently the victim of a heart at tack, was found dead in bed at his residence here Wednesday morning. A native of Bessemer City, N. C., he had made his home here for two years with H. M. Kil p-atrick whom he assisted in the management of the Midway Drive-In Theatre. The body is be ing returned there lot funeral services and burial. Survivors inclule his mother of Bessemer City, N. C., and sever al children of Lenoir, N. C. ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Work man of Greenwood, spent some time with Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Shouse. Jayne is a Junior at Lan der College. Miss Claudia Johnson spent Easter with her mother, Mrs. Texie Johnson. Mrs. Ola Wages, of Whitmire, spent Tuesday in the community and to attend the Home Demon stration Club meeting. Mrs. Shelby Carlisle was a visitor at Shady Grove 4-H Club Tuesday. The Shady Grove Presbyterian members observed Easter with sunrise service. Following the service breakfast was served in the new recreational building by ladies of the church. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Boland spent Friday in Summerville. Local LuHioran Pastor, Laymen To Columbia Meat Representing C1 i n t o n ’• St. John's Lutheran Church at the forthcoming session of the Luth eran Synod of South Carolina will be the pastor, the Rev. J. Gordon Perry, Meesrs. R. W. Boland and T. M. Youngblood, Jr. The annual convention of Synod will be held April 10-H the Church of the Incaratkat, lumbia IF YOU DON’T READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DON’T GET THE NEWS DIAL SS3-9641 Happy Easter A doy when Christian* everywhere re capture the thrilling secret of life ever lasting ... a time that brings a lift to our spirit and joy to our heart as we cele brate the coming of this Holy Day and . the miracle of spring. « • CITIZENS © FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION 220 W. MAIN ST. CLINTON, S. C. Member Federal Home Loan Bonn System J^T Vegetable Market PHONE 833-1875 E. CAROLINA AVE. WHOLE GRADE A FRYERS Each 69 c IRBY BACON 3 u». *1.00 TENDER GREEN BEAN S u, 10c GOLDEN RIPE BANANAS Lb. 10c VINE RIPE TOMATOES lb. fOc GREEN CABBAGE Lb. 5c JUICY PINK GRAPEFRUIT 4 f° r 25c SOUTH CAROUNA MEDIUM EGGS 2 Do* 89c SMOKED SAUSAGE 3 u» *1.00 CORLEY’S JUST RIGHT SAUSAGE 4 u* *1.00 Beginning Sunday We Will Close Each At 11 P.M.—Open Each Day At 7 AM. J ~)