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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
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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
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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.
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1962 TAXES DUE AND PAYABLE
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/ 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.
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please make payment likewise.
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