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MEN ANIt THINGS
What should a teacher he paid?
What sum total can the state
(and school districts) afford?
If we now pay about all we can,
shall we impose new taxes or ad
ditional taxes so as to increase
the pay of the teachers?
I was a teacher for years in
common schools, junior colleges
and standard colleges and may
have a bias for the teachers. On
the other hand I was managing
director of the Farmers and Tax
payers League and know at first
hand the burden on the taxpay
ers, especially on our business
enterprises.
We must not impose unduly on
one group for the benefit of an
other group, for all groups are
important and essential and
must be duly considered.
We might approach the prob
lem in this manner: Are all the
teachers underpaid? Are there
grades based on efficiency in ac
tual teaching? Academic profi
ciency is not assured by academ
ic degrees, though they are to
be carefully considered. Some
teachers have majored or spe
cialized in one or two subjects,
but are not teaching those sub
jects. Some were “honor stu
dents,” but are rather ordinary
teachers.
I am just thinking aloud, based
on extensive experience since I
once appointed thousands of col
lege professors and grade teach
ers.
Now if all the technical aspects
of teaching are duly considered
the next question might be this:
How much can the state afford?
Since the state is not a bottom
less source of wealth the general
economic conditions must be con
sidered.
Frankly, I think the Taxpay
ers’ League should be revived
so that all aspects of the prob
lem should be studied.
If we conclude that the teach
ers’ pay should be increased
must we impose new or addition
al taxes? No, that isn’t neces
sary or desirable. Someone sug
gests that the sales tax be in
creased so as to pay the teach
ers more. Well, are the people
of the State a bottomless pit of
inexhaustible resources? Must
we always impose new or addi
tional taxes?
Is there no service which
■ might be reduced or even sus
pended? Is there any service so
sacrosanct that it may not be
reduced, even abolished?
We are collecting many mil
lions from the sales tax. May
more of that revenue be diverted
from buildings? Are we wise
and purdent in our building pro
gram when we are face to face
with some new fads of the Gov
ernment which may outonode all
our building?
What shall we do when a cri
sis confronts us? Shall we blind
ly follow a doubtful course of
building; or shall we conserve
funds for even remote possibili
ties?
A friend of mine, from Claren
don, a retired rural mail carrier,
wrote a letter to The State, which
I wish to endose and reproduce.
“We live in a strange, unpre
dictable world. Leaders in the
political, business and education
al world, confess they do not
know where they are going.
“Tragic it is that in such an
hour as this, when all Western
civilization is 4n jeopardy from
mighty forces now rhoiumging
its supremacy, many of its
leaders, who should be towers of
strength and virtue, are weak and
worthless, seeking only their own
personal gain.
“We can only wonder how peo
ple so lacking in basic virtues, so
devoid of moral worth and spir
itual discernment managed to get
in these places of authority.
“Certainly modern man needs
a renewed sense of moral respon
sibility. That which we gain at
little cost we seldom prize, there
fore we do not cherish our birth
right of freedom as we should,
because we seldom stop to think
what it cost our forefathers to
win. If our liberties disappear
(and with the present trend of
things it seems that the different
parts of the puzzle are rapidly
falling into place for our form of
government and our way of life
to make its exit), it will be the
result of complacency, careless
ness, and corruption, within
rather than attacks from with
out.
“The fathers of this country
were dominated by principles of
right. They might well be ideals
for national leaders today. This
instead of corruption which is
so widespread, involving so
many phases of modern life that
the greatest fears are being en
tertained for the future of this
great country of ours, and there
fore the welfare of future gen
erations. Never was there so
desperate a need for truly great
men, not men great in political
maneuvering and selfishness but
great in character and moral
worth. The words of Longfellow
are more applicable today than
when he wrote them.
“Were half the power that fills
the world with terror,
“Were half the wealth bestow
ed on camps and courts,
“Given to redeem that humhn
mind from error,
“There would be no need of
arsenals and forts.’’
Mr. Odom has written clearly
and well the thought of a sound
man in private life. He is not a
politician, but a citizen who
thinks and now tells us what he
thinks.
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veK “Brain Trust”? Franklin
Roosevelt, as Governor of New
York, attracted a group of schol
ars to his administration and the
first, as I recall, was Raymond
Moley, a university professor, a
man Of ripe scholarship and eco
nomic ideals.
Mr. Moley now writes tor
Newsweek every week and I
quote his recent contribution to
Newsweek, a study of Congress
Mr. Moley’s rich experience in
government policies:
“In the past months we have
witnessed a great deal of criti
cism of Congress as an institu
tion because of its failure to act
upon the multitude of presiden
tial recommendations and re
quests which have been made
(his year and also in 1961 and
1962. Newspaper editorials, col
umns, books by professors, and
a book by senators have echoed
the theme. Congress must be
reorganized, ‘streamlined’, so
that it will promptly act when
the President gives an order.
It is interesting to note that
most of these people who would
relegate Congress to a merely
nominal role in our government
also loudly denounce military or
executive take-overs from repre
sentative governments abroad.
Hence, while they denounce au
thoritarian governments abroad,
they call for one here.
Much of the criticism of Con
gress centers upon the House,
because that body has been less
responsive to Presidents over the
past few decades.
In a scholarly and deeply pen
etrating book, “The Forge of
Democracy” (469 pages. David
McKay. $6.75), Neil MacNeil has
pointed out that with a minimum
of windy debate and a maximum
of laborious committee work the
House, at least in recent years,
has more truly reflected the col
lective wisdom of the nation than
has the Senate.
MacNeil says that the Senate
“has tended to be more sympa
thetic to the President ... the
House . . . has tended to be more
parsimonious than the Senate
with taxpayers’ money, more in
sistent on reducing the Presi
dent’s request for higher taxes
and larger spending . . . less
responsive to “bullet-vote” ac
tivist pressure groups . . . That
has made the House reflect, less
than the Senate, labor unions,
ethnic and urban minorities,
and the liberal causes these
groups have normally espoused.”
In the present Congress, how
ever, the Senate as well as the
House has been reluctant to
subordinate itself to the Presi
dent’s wishes. According to a
compilation by the Congression
al Quarterly covering the sev
en months prior to JUly 31, the
President had sent 403 requests
to Congress. Of these, only 19
went in that period to the White
House for the President’s signa
ture. Thirty-eight had passed
one house or the other. Five
had passed both houses but
awaited final Congressional ac
tion. Nothing at all had been
done about 154. Fifteen had
been rejected by committee ac
tion on the floor. Nineteen had
been erported or approved by
a committee but had not come even the enlargement of
up for a vote. One hundred and Oommitee, the gate was
fifty-throe had received
raittee attention but no approv
al. Thus the Presidential score
was 5 per cent
To consider and act upon the
1963 Kennedy requests would
take five years. But there are
other reasons for the Presi
dent’s Ipw score.
This is a Congress with over
whelming majorities of the
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and President Kennedy, based on president party. Republicans
plus Southern Democrats could
not alone have stopped this leg
islation. The failure to act has
been because of the reluctance
of members who expect to run
in 1964 on a ticket headed by
the President. They don’t want
to go on record^ against him..
Early in 1961 the President
<and Speaker Rayburn ‘packed’
the House Rules Committee af
ter some of the most rugged
and unscrupulous uses of pres
sure ever seen in Congress. But
Members realized that
___ the restraint of the
Rules Committee there would
be chaos. Why'have all
requests withered on tte^vine?
Because members reaDze that
there is no poupulat demand
for them. Not only are mem
bers closer to the American
people—except on television—
than the President, but a large
number of them are better
equipped to judge the wisdom
and need of such legislation
than is the Chief Executive.
Moreover, a large number
doubt the President’s sincerity
in most of his proposals. They
believe he is merely piling up
a record to satisfy minorities
upon which he must depend for
re-election in 1964.
The worth of Congress Can
not be judged only by what it
passes. Equally important is
what it rejects.
Cross Hi Haws
MRS. HAROLD AUSTIN,
Correspondent
SPECIAL SERVICE
A special Thanksgiving ser
vice will be held Wednesday,
November 27, at 7:30 p. m. at
the Liberty Springs Presbyte
rian Church. The Rev. Roy W.
Coker, pastor of the church,
will be in charge of the service.
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Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Pinson,
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Pinson
spent a recent Sunday in Honea
Path with Mrs. Mamie Lips
comb and Mrs. Emma Ses
sions.
The Rev. W. M. Ussery at
tended the State Baptist Con
vention at the Citadel Square
Baptist Church in Charleston
last week.
Mrs. B. L. Mitchell and Miss
Charlotte Mitchell, accompan.
ied by Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Mar
tin of Greenwood, were visi
tors in Greenville Saturday.
Mr. rand Mrs. Gene Shilling-
law and children of Rock Hill,
spent the past weekend with
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. i^amnn
Miss Gladys Griffin of Green
ville, spent the week-end with
her sister and brother-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Boyce.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Sheppard
and Miss Maude Sheppard were
guests of relatives in Augusta,
Ga., during the week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Foxworth
of Mullins, were recent guests
of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lester.
Mrs. John Livingston, John
ny and Karen Livingston, ac
companied by Mr. and Mrs.
Weldon Ashe of West ClumbU,
attended the Ckmson-Maryland
game at Qemson Saturday.
Mrs. Harold Austin and Miss
Elaine Austin attended the cor-
rssponrtsnts’ annual recognition
luncheon at the Jack Tar Poin
sett Hotel in Greenville Satur
day.
Mrs. Retha Fagan and Alvin
’agan of Joanna s,pent the
with relattvoe in
Mr. and Mrs. Dave
rare guests of relatives in
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