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I 1 I 1 ' V va , v • \. **v'—i & C, TkvaJay, March 7, IKS THE CLINTON CHRONICLE By SPECTATOR... COMMENTS AND THINGS SWiM Is my study time after time i have been Jarred by a roar and rumble and the shak ing of the house ai giant Goliath were throwing heavy tranks about upstatirs. I live in a house more than a hun dred years oM, built of heart BACON - - 3 us. 99< T / , FRESH PORK HAMS ib 39< IRBY’S ALL-MEAT WEINERS u, 39c HOME-MADE Liver Pudding Lb. 19c IRBY’S 8-LB PAIL LARD - --99c ‘T 207 FERGUSON'S MEAT MARKET (FORMERLY IRBY’S MARKET) Street Telephone 833-1886 lumber, you know; a sort of old- time fortress, you know, no card board house. So when the whole place seems about to fall apart I know that a Jet plane is some where in the neighborhood, ter rifying us and making us fear that Castro is trying the Russian missiles on us, those be has not, you know, according to the alert men of Washington. I know, of course that Goliath perished at the hands, or by the sling, of the lad David, as record ed in the Sriptures. * 1 wish the jets would operate over the Santee River, Lake Ma- subject. The average pupa, of whatever age^ has infinite capacity for re sisting knowledge. That was the observation of a President of Yale University some years ago. We may vt—— die correctness of the statement as applicable to this bright day of new hopes celestial aims of Mr. Ken nedy. The old Romans boiled down their experience into this apt bit of wisdom: “De gustibus non disputanduns." which, you will readily remember from your happy days vAth Latin, means rion—and all that area and giyUtel^Concerniiig^tastes there is no the fish up so that the townfish- ermen could carry home a fish to show for long days and nights on the water hoping to beguile a bite. * As you know, the best remem bered fish story is told in the Bible. When the Master told the disciples to throw out their lines, Peter answered ‘'Master, we have toiled all night nd caught nothing.” Yea, verily, the truth told one time. A distinguished gentleman of mellow years and long public service writes me, as follows: “I see the Spectator-Education. What are we going to do about sociai ^promotion? Teachers tell rnsr'lhaf they are compelled by the powers that be to promote students regardless of their ig norance and failure to pass ex aminations. Social promotion disputing.” Even so; but it isn’t taste that we are discussing; it is the old wisdom of Grover Cleveland, who said “It isn’t a theory, but a condition that we are discussing. Now that hit of wisdom from President Cleve land is respectfully recommend ed to President Kennedy who has not, learned to distinguish be tween a theory and a condition. Or so it seems. I am not digressing, but build ing up my argument by asking if you ever saw the Citadel ca dets on dress parade. Now I’m not singling out the Citadel be cause I once taught there, but because that brave show on dress parade springs not from the handsomeness of the. cadets, however handsome, engaging and manly they may be, but from drill, drill, drill, more drill the “rats" first year mean, you know, think the corporals and As will be observed, my cor respondent discusses what he calls “social promotions,” mean ing advances from grade to grade only because of pressure by fbnd mothers and fathers who wish to avoid the stigma of fail ure. But they don’t provide at home an atmosphere conductive to study or serious work: they yield to all the claims of the neighbors’ children. Now there’s a serious problem: What your neighbor has or does. Once in a while some strong-minded mo ther will rise above the insidious encroachment of the neighbors and their style of living. 1 learned a .great lesson in the Andes mountains. I think my liv ing quarters would not satisfy •any man working for a hundred dollars a month: I was satisfied; now why? 1 had about as much as the average home afforded— and more than most. So, I had no complaint. It taught me a les son: we are always trying to live up to the standard of the neigh bors. If the neighbors were all poor we would not complain. But imagine a community of twelve homes, with incomes ranging from six thousand to twenty thou sand. Don’t they all try to have the same standard? In America —yes; in France, no’ FARAAS AND FOLKS By L. C. HAMILTON Clem son College Extension Information Specialist Spring will officially begin March 21 at 3:20 a. m. in South CaroMna this year, according to the World Almanac. \ ? has led too many boys going out sergeants possessed of demoniac from school to take jobs when traits but three years later those they couldn’t hardly write their first year men become the su- names. ■ perb body of men who move like Out of 7,000 students 800 dis- machines, missed and 1700 on probation. Drill, drill, drill: that’s the Why? My answer is social pro- reason. motion.” i A teacher has to drill, drill, Although rejoicing in the bloom drill: otherwise he labors in of youth and the illusions and vain. That is hard work; it is hallucinations of unripe days, I hard on the teacher and hard on have had coniderable experience the pupil. both as a teacher and even more , Have you noticed that the as an administrator so I venture, 1 Great Jehovah has to slap us a somewhat rashly, to discuss the HEAR THE REGENTS' WITH GOOD GOSPEL SINGING EACH SUNDAY AT 1:30 P. M. SPONSORED BT Holman Motor Co. TOUR RAMBLER DEALER IN LAllRENS WPCC Radio — Dial 1410 hard blow sometimes to teach us a lesson? Even then we do not always learn O. —— Isaiah, the great Prophet, laid down the rale and it still applies. “Line upon line, line upon line, here a little there a little, line upon line.” Anyone who knows evep a smattering of Psychology has ob served marked differences in pu pils. That continues among adults. Some learn readily some things: while apparently unre- ceptive to other things. Fre quently the student with extra ordinary aptitude for mathema tics does not like languages and literature; and the other way around also. There are pupils who excell in class and do noth ing out of school -. They seem to be unable to relate their school work to the requirements of life the school. There are fitUe from books, but develop into phenomenal accesses out in the world. . j Most success, perhaps, comes from drill, whether the drill of the teacher, of the harsh squpwks of the corporal, or, more fre quently. the slaps and kicks and knock-downs of experience. Not all succeed alike, of course. Time and circumstance play a big part. A man said to me in France: “Black Jack (General Pershing) has a great advan tage: he looks the part.” And be did General Pershmg was a *»«ndsome, martial figure, but he was much more: his career was built on drill service as an In dian fighter: service in Mexico; in the Philippines, where his qualities and achievement promotion from a captaincy to that of brigadier general — a very unusual recognition — all part of his drill in life. Now what is the matter? When boys and ghis cant add or spell, or read or write—what’s the mat- tor? Lack of drill, primarily. We in our work too stuff, ath letics. and ‘one thing or another. The lack of thoroughness is foiMNl sadly in after life: now adays. the pride in one’s work may be secondary, if felt at all; when they grow up their chief so To take sick-leave ing really sick is the Job. I would not leave the general topic of so-called education without remarking that school work or books can’t be evalu ated as the only means of edu cation. Work educates many a matt- he may not shine in the nicetiet of speech but he has de veloped the faculty of thinking and relating his thoughs to his work. ' Then again we have the man who surpassse in common-sense is by no means common; it is most unusual. The Spanish proverb always appeals to me: “Sentido common es el mas raro de todos los sentidos” (common sense is the rarest of all the senses). No school can teach that; but the acquirements of school- llig may become the basis for what becomes known as mon-sense.” Some men never learn in practice that two and two make four; if asked as a matter of arithmetic, they would answer 4 of course. But in life, in poli tics, in home-financing, in pub lic office and other spheres of life, it seems popular to observe that 2 and 2 may mean 5 6 or 7. Even the distinguished alum nus of Harvard, President Ken nedy, seems to suffer from arithmetical hallucinations and counts 2 and 2 as 6. com- or But most of us have bur own ideas though about the actual fact of spring: the time when seeds germinate and twigs begin to grow. It’s a rather important period, but one which is hard to fix to a specific day. \ Seed germination is triggered by warm soil temperatures and moisture. Favorable germination temperatures above 60 degrees usually lag several weeks behind (he date of the last killing frost. But the last spring freeze date is a significant one for all people who plant seed and grow plants. We have some facts from a study made by Nathan Kronberg and John C. Purvis of the Columbia Weather Bureau, and Dr. Gilbert H. Collings, former head of the Clemson Agronomy Department, Clemson. The last average spring freeze for a narrow strip of coast from Hilton Head Island, through Ed- isto Island, through Sullivans Is land is February 20. The fact of spring then moves in a north westerly direction until it hits the mountain zone north of Pickens and Walhalla about April 10. The receding frost lines run generally east to west as they move up the state. For instance, by March 20 the line starts at McCormick and runs through Conway. But this line does take a peculiar southward loop at Wedgefield. An arm goes all the way to Walterboro, but turns northward again to Kingstree and thence to Conway. / According to the averages, you could expect the last spring frost at Saluda, Camden, Bishopville, Florence, and Marion About Ap ril 1, Gardeners north of these points would be taking some risk in transplanting tender crops to the field before April 1. But tomatoes could be planted south of this line with better than a 50-50 chance of escaping a killing frost. Very tender crops like beans and cotton may be damaged by cold temperatures—say below 40 degrees. Farmers know from ex perience when to plant, but fre quently get fooled when the wea ther doesn’t follow the averages. Many county agents give soil temperature readings in newspa per stories and radio reports. For planting seed, your best guide may: be waiting foif a soil tem perature reading of about 65 de grees—provided this temperature occurs after the last average killing frost date. Disregard the Indian Summers and the decep tive warm spell (in the Pied mont) just before Easter. There are a few cold hardy crops like turnips, lettuce, cab- bag?, spinach, garden peas, beets, carrots, onions, and Irish potatoes which a light frost will not damage. Coastal farmers and gardeners are planting t n • m now. Many people iz mont will be planting the same crops to the field during March. But it’s better to Itold up plant ing of tender plants until you ‘halve fairly cohcree evidence that spring is here—in fact! But if your seed and labor in vestment is small you may weight the advantages of early planting against the hazard of a kill. Your degree of caution will probably be in proportion to the size of your investment. V 1962 TAXES DUE AND PAYABLE Lanrens County Cfcfcii. tehrs. LaaMSi ■sflpi wSLS (SSl bST of Yawacn S. * ■£* U 1 aJtsf Bnfih— 1 aK H; Wa. LRaat R laatf. 4 aa« IS; Nawm^ltanail; Mai* * ^ Na. IS. / ALLEN D. COLEMAN, County Treasmcr The act of 1836 setting up the Rural Electrification Adminis nation authorized the agency to make loans for furnishing elec tricity to ‘persons in rural areas’. How is it, then, that the last few years five out of six new REA co-op customers haven’t been truly rural at all, but commercial, industrial and non-rural residential? : The REA’s co-ops have be come increasingly aggressive in going after commercial-indus trial business. So much so that whereas it once used only 2.5% of its loans to build new gene rating plants and transmission line sit now uses over 16%. The REA system’s rapid growth as a power-producer has further alarmed already skittish invest- or-owned p o w ? r companies which see in REA an ever-ex panding power grid with which they cannot forever compete. The private utilities pay from 4% to 5°^ for money they need to bom ; the co-ops have the use of Federal funds at 2% (which the Government borrows at 4%). Utilities pay out about 24 cents in taxes of each dol lar received, including 13 cents in Federal income tax; co-ops pay no direct Federal taxes at all and ,as co-ops, enjoy prefer red state and local tax treat ment. And whereas companies are tightly regulated by state and federal agencies, most co ops can set their own rates. So the coops’ competitive advan tage is immense. But as it is, the REA stands as an archtype of a Government agency that no only refuses to die when no longer needed but also uses ev ery unfair means available to kill off its investor-owned com petition. "^AlJPS ! C® 666 Water’s Too Cold? Not for him. But if you’re short of hot water every now tad then, you need an electric hot water heater. , Modem quick recovery water beaters supply all the hot water you want, when you want it, for dishes, laundry and bathing. An electric water heater does the job quietly, quickly, effi ciently and economically. It can be installed almost any place because there are no flues, vents, flames or odor. End your hot-water worries today. Visit your electric appliance dealer and make sure you have plenty of hot water—all the time. 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