The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, August 26, 1965, Image 2
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By Their Fruit*
. . Know Them
Seeds planted by professional agitators
ami nurtured by opportunist politicians and
some misguided idealists in the so-called
“civii rights” movement over the past sev
eral years are beginning now to bear full
measure of their natural and bitter fruits.
A child died of smoke inhalation in
Dallas, Texas, while hoodlums attacked po
licemen who were trying to dear a path
for rescue equipment through the crowd
gathered at the scene. Then came the
riots in Loe Angeles, with widespread, wan
ton destrucution, looting, many injured and
dead.
Early reports quoted the Los Angeles
police chief as saying that was not a race
riot, except in the sense that the rioters
were mostly of one race. But a Negro who
was there said otherwise; he reported that
some of his race whom he observed par
ticipating in the riot were looking espec
ially for whites to beat or kill. Even so,
w*- are convinced that the root cause of
these tragedies is, always has been, po
litical rather than racial They are the
natural extension of mob actions previously
inspired and encouraged by political figures
for their own purposes. And if some may
have encouraged this sort of lawlessness
out of ignorance of its ultimate consequen
ces, it's a sure bet that the prime instiga
tors of it have in mind all along that this
could result in breakdown or inadequacy of
local law enforcement, as a means of juati-
fying federal intervention and control.
While pretending to seek an end to race
and class antagonisms in our society, the
leading advocates and condoners of “civil
disobedience” have deliberately set race
against race and encouraged all against lo
cal law enforcement authorities. There is
no logical reason for intelligent men to do
this, except that they hope eventually to
take bot^h the law and its enforcement into
their own hands, all in the name of
“peace.” “By their fruits .. . know them!”
Saved By The Glow
Barry Goldwatar writes: “Income in the
business world is distributed on the basis
of how hard and how well you work or
build or plan. But when a politician pass
es out money the basis may be for any rear
son at all, including partisan advantage.
No matter what the reason, however, the
giving of money is a poor substitute for
the earning of money. Money earned in a
productive job is true business expansion.
Money given away is nothing but a drain
on available resources.” '
While drilling for oil on the Sahara
Desert, oilmen discovered a huge under
ground lake of fresh water. More than 200
water wells have now bean drilled in the
area, each capable of irrigating up to 600
acres. With this water supply the desert
can produce three crops of fruit and vege
tables a year.'
Babson’s Pont of View
On Water Pollution
And .Drought
week with tMr
Uy, the lev. and MM. Pete
Richardson, in Lowell, N. C.
Michael WHMama la at f ‘imp
Mr. and Mrs. C. R.
ham. Miss Frances wo
Johnny
relatives in Greenville.
little Min Knee
dm returnee from m trip to
places of interests in Ftardla,
going as far as Key West She
Mr. and Mrs. John Ad-
snd family of Greenwood.
Mrs. Jim Hugh Austin and
Min Madde Austin attended
commencement exercises at
CSemaon University Saturday.
Jim Hugh Austin received his
degree at this time.
Mrs. C. B. Guest of Sumter,
has been visiting Mr. and Mrs.
J. B. Hill
News of
Bonds Crott Roads
MRS. W. A. SMOUBK
Mr. and Mrs. Max Duckett Church,
aad family who reefed in the Nrvivii* m Me wM|, Mrs.
Shady Grove manse have mov- cilia Boyd Owens, and sao ste
ed to Clinton. Mr. and Mrs. ter, Mrs. H. C. Brannon of
Jerald Btedna of Clinton, re- Dolxelf.
candy moved into the manse. Funeral services were con
ducted Friday at 5 p. m. at
U 12 /\ Warrior Crook Baptist Church
n. VX. UWSIIS by Rev. William Franklin and
Laurens — Homer Graydon R e v. Claire Baker. Burial
Oerens, H. Barksdale communi- j n the church cemetery,
ty farmer, died early Thursday —
SST 1 ? OFFICE SUPPLOCS
end monSoiaMM. CHRdMICtE FUR. 00.1
Native of Laurens County, son
If 26 states think “safety” license
{dates are valuable enough as accident pre
venters to issue them to all motorists, the
other 25 should at least consider them.
Half the states have adopted light^re-
flective “safety” plates that glow so bright
ly at night they can be seen for 2,000 feet.
Eight states replaced their ordinary paint
ed plates with the reflective kind by enact
ing new laws during 1965 legislative ses
sions. They are Illinois, North Carolina,
Vermont, Arkansas, Nevada, * Nebraska,
Montana and Oklahoma.
Before voting for reflective plates, ev
ery one of these eight state legislatures
considered impartial study results such as
these:
In Maine, the annual number of night
time collisions with parked cars /dropped 58
per cent from 1950 (when the state first
issued reflective tags) to 1963, compared
with the five years before 1960, according
to Maine State Police.
Nighttime property damage collisions
involving parked and disabled cars dropped
74 per cent in Minnesota during the second
year after reflective plates were issued, the
National Safety Council reported.
Prof. Edward G. Brown of the Univers
ity of Washington studied the experience
of all reflective-plate states in a compre
hensive study for the Washington state
legislature. As a result, he recommended
that the 1966 legislature adopt reflective
plates.
Next year, the legislatures of 14 states
will have a chance to adopt reflective li
cense plates, thus rectifying what ws think
baa been an oversight. The states are
Alaska, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Mary
land, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi,
Naw Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania,
Bhode Island, South Carolina and Virginia.
Perhaps some day every car on the
Mffcways of every state will be marked
with the warning glow of “safety” plate
at night
»y
Babson Park, Man., August IS—Everybody
in our “neck of the woods” is
ter ... or, more property, lack of it.
who are not bemoaMng the drought are pn«i»*e»g
a finger at industrialists and politicians who
have permitted billions of gallons of water to be
come filthy and unfit for human consumption.
Great rivers course by our huge eastern craters
of population: but they might as well be millions
of miles away for all the good they do our citi-
sens who are restricted even in the
they may use to wash their teeth.
GRAVER DANGER THAN THE BOMB
In discussing the parched Northeast the other
day. an eminent professor of chemistry pointed
out to us that man's own “peaceful" works could
bring about Ms destruction as surely—if more
slowly—than enemy attack by the H-bomb. He
pictured the massive population complex that
stretches from Richmond, Va., to Portland, Me.
—the “megalopolis” of the Northeast—as even
tually shriveled and diseased from drought
from air and water pollution.
Examination of the width of rings la great
elms that have been cut down in the Northeast in
recent years reveals that this area has indeed
suffered alternating periods of light and heavy
rainfall. Wide rings in the trunks indicate co
pious rains and rapid annual growth; narrow
rings signify drought. But why did former
years when the land was parched cause so little
stir in our land?
ALWAYS DROUGHTS, NOT ALWAYS PEOPLE
Historians tell us that the total aboriginal
population of the whole area of the United States
approximated only a million at its peak. In re
lation to available water supplies the number of
Indians never presented a problem even in
times of severest drought. But today, this small
drought-stricken patch of land In the Northeast
is croweded by more than fifty mtmnw people.
Even these fifty million would not be too se
rious a problem if we still lived as our grand
fathers did. Roads were gravel 75 years ago,
absorbing water into the subsoil; now we cover
not only highways but also driveways and play
yards with tons of impervious materials that
shunt the rainfall into sewers and send it crash
ing in floods to the sea . . . useless and wasted.
Mother’s dishwater in a day uses more water
than the whole family once needed for its Sat
urday night baths at the turn of the century.
And there were no air conditioners to consume
water by the ton.
BIGGEST WATE OF ALL
The problem is not wholly
sumption. Actually, there is
available throughput the Northeast. But it is
being wasted before it ever has a chance to get
into a water main.
The biggest water problem of all is threefold.
First, spring floods are allowed to rush into the
sea; second, pollution goes unchecked, making
use of such water subject to costly conversion
processes; third, as our great rivers recede with
the summer’s heat, the brine of the ocean is per
mitted to ceep upstream and create more havoc.
THE ANSWER
As the problem Is threefold, so must the
attack on it be: (1) New reservoirs must be con
structed to conserve the freshets of spring for
late-season use. This is perhaps the quicket
measure. (2) Harder and slower will be the cut
ting down and final elimination of pollution.
Many cries will go up, of'course, urging concen
tration on cheaper ways of purifying water ...
but, after all, pollution is a holdover from the
dark ages (historians tell us that In the 17th Cen
tury Londoners emptied their slop jars, in the
streets)! (S) The easiest approach may be keep
ing back the brine from the ocean. Reports men
tion a readily made and controllable fabric dam
that can be thrown across a river to save buttons
of gallons of fresh water from a salty doth,
As we ponder the problem, we are reminded
that an Act of God could make no forget our
troubles fra awhile. Hurricane days are
upon u; one great watery storm could AH
parched rivers end empty reservoirs. But this
would be e temporary solution.
—long range—to cure the evil,
stricken days of summer 1MB could be but 1 a
warning of direr things to come.
Let's Call a Spade a Spade!
David T. Pitts, Jr., has re
turned to Clemson University
after spending the
with Ms
Stories
Behind
Words
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8. FoefleM
Last-Ditch Effort
The old csatles were more than {daces to live. They
were built in such a manner that they provided maxi
mum protection from marauding bands or armies.
Castles built on the plains were enclosed by a watt.
The wall was entfrcled by a moat—a broad ditch filled
with water. Attackers had to get across the moat be
fore they could even attack the wall.
Some castles also had an inner moat and wall, fur
ther obstacles to attackers. The inner moat, or ditch,
was the last line of defense. If the attackers got past
it and the wall, they were in the courtyard of the
castle. Hence, the expression, “last-ditch effort”
means a final one.
Cross Hfl Hews
MRS. HAROLD AUSTIN.
FAREWELL PARTY GIVEN
Perry Simpson recently en
listed in the Navy and left Sun
day for the Great Lakes, 111.,
training center. He was honor
ed with a farewell party on
Saturday night by David Cole
man at the home of Ms pa
rents,* Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Coleman.
Mike Turner is at home from
Self Memorial hospital. Green
wood, where he underwent
one of over-con- treatment' from injuries sus-
plenty of water tained in an accident on Lake
Greenwood ten days ago.
Miss Frances Cunningham of
the University Hospital in Au
gusta, Ga., is spending her va
cation with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. C. R. Cunningham.
Miss Clarabelle Hill will be
gin her work next Monday as
physcial education teacher at
the Union High School, Union.
William Martin Boyce and
Johnny Livingston have begun
and resumed their studies at
Clemson University. Mr. and
Mrs. John Livingston and Mr.
and Mrs. A. A. Workman ac
companied Johnny there last
Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs, Walter Steven
son left recently for Birming
ham, Ala., where they will
visit relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Morris
of Savannah, Ga., visited rela
tives here Friday and Satur
day. W. H. Cole reutrned home
with them for a visit with them
and other rleatives.
Miss Mackie Austin leaves
Wednesday to enter the fresh
man class at Winthrop Collgee.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A Richard
son spent several days last
MRS. TINSLEY HONORED
Mrs. Robert Tinsley was hon
ored last Thursday with a mis
cellaneous shower at (he home
of Mrs. Tillman Crapps.
Misses Ann and Patsy Work
man of Laurens, spent some
with Mr. and Mrs. N. A.
Shouse this week.
Mr. ' and Mrs. Wilson Mc-
Mackin of New Rochelle, N.
Y., and their grandson from
San Diego, Cali., visited Mr.
and Mrs. N. A. Shouse last
week.
Miss Martha Pitts has re
turn to Rock Hill where she is
teaching.
Claudia Johnson spent the
week-end with her mother,
Mrs. Luther Johnson.
Mrs. James Evans attended
a planning committee meeting
of the Home Demonstration
Council in Laurens last Thurs
day.
GIVEN SHOWER
Miss Patsy Morgan, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mor
gan, was honored on last Fri
day evening at a bridal shower
by her aunt, Mrs. Alice Daven
port and Mrs. Myrtle Crowe at
the home of Mrs. Davenport.
Mrs. J. J. Crapps of Bates-
burg, has been visiting her
children in the community.
Little Mike Todd, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Earle Todd, of Eas-
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