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M THE CLINTON CHRONICLE LlmlDIV s. w inursuajf, ma/ jury to justify his existence. This ex istence should be surHtnaHly and pain lessly terminated if he fails to justify it —and if it develops that he is a posi tive nuisance and more trouble than he A Conatituttotial convcmon: One recent surprise to federal offi cials was news that over thirty states have requested Congress to call a con- :Js worth. Nothihg less will really make stitutionaf convention. By the time ybii people responsible citizens.” * lead this the number might have reach ed thirty-fodr, the number which will fdfce Congress to act. When two-thirds of the states ask Congress to call such a convention, Congress must act under the require ments* of the Constitution. And SuCh. a convention hasn’t been convened since 1787. The idea behind the current wave of resolutions in state capitals is to modify the Supreme Court’s one-man, oneiVote ruling, which, in effect, had said most of the state’s senates and some lower houses are improperly elected. Constitutional conventions provide the people a check on the highest judi ciary body. One of the great puzzles since the one-man, one-Vote ruling is why state senates, with membership tltE AMERICAN WAY When parents try to control the lives of their grown-up children, it is a sign that the parents haven’t grown up. * * • * The best advice for modern young people, facing all sorts of propaganda, is the single, simple word: think. Babsan’s Point ef View On: Whtt Price Foreign Aid? Bjtftson Park, Mass., May 18-—The Ameri can people; through their federal govern ment, have spent $123.4 billion for foreign aid during the last 20 years, Or 37% Of our present public debt. There is no doubt what ever regarding the quantity and wide dis persal of this aid, but there is at least room for doiibt as to its effectiveness. based on criteria similar to those ap- uncLear objectives plying to the U. S. Senate, are suddenly ’ Not reading how very mdhy of his dol- * /-md ^ j? ii. l i Wrs go abCdad, the American taxpayer is unconstitutional. (Many of the states no j over iy concerned. And if he were inclin- Youth Wants to Know By BANDY GRIFFITH When a person works on a able to get along with the peo- job, he brings his whole self pie arouikHitm. ~ ' to it—his skills and training in today World no one per- as well as his personality and son works entirely by him- character. self. He performs part of a Employers have discovered larger job. And it takes that most people who* do many, many people working poorly on a job do so not be- together to turn out a prod- eause they lack the skiHs de- uct. Each employee must fit rhanded bbt because of unde- smoothly into the working sirable personality traits. An team, must be able to take di employee mdst be more than rections, otherwise he may a bundle of technical skills or confuse the entire operation only takes certain technical skills to be a success on a job, it dish takes preparation With in your self to make a good empldyee. a pair of hands. He mu$t be IN iwr. MOM TUAN 00% Of AIL lAfllAiTO* oauRR«> in name amirs wifRE m SOME Deftiua viodtnoH. — /hm 7Sf»l f9SQ Boo* ef Stout L /iitfumy AtoJvJ Drb, TFMMi liiurs*** senates afe elected dnder apportiori- ment guidelines patterned on those in the Constitution which govern mem bership in the U. S. Senate.) The prospective constitutional con vention is the peoples’ answer to a high, court ruling which many believe goes beyond a legal interpretation and into the field of legislating. It is a healthy sign that the machinery of government as provided in the Constitution works. Detached Management One sometimes wonders who runs the railroads? Apparently, not the owners—they just pay the bills and tax es. Reading the news reports, one is impressed by the fact that Congress, the various state legislatures, the fed eral and state regulatory-agencies and the labor unions run tfie-Saifreads with out assuming any responsibility for their financial success. When a railroad seeks to merge its operations with those of another line in order to cut expenses, improve service and hold down rates, the most illogical and irrelevant objections are often giv en serious consideration in Interstate Commerce Commission hearings. In a recent case, benefits jroin improved service were weighed ^gah^Wjthe theo retical detriment to the ^hipping pub lic because of reduced; but generally wasteful and ineffective competition. Apparently, little weight was given to the fact that the public is already pro tected by government regulation of every facet of railroad operation in cluding the setting of rates. Labor complained about a reduction in the number of featherbedding jobs and communities objected, since there would be fewer employees in some lo cations. After such factors as these were given consideration, the rail lines’ petition to merge was disapproved. One wonders how many businesses could survive such, detached and finan cial irresponsible control over the man agement of their operations. ed to protest he would only be bewildered be cause there really is no foreign aid program as such ... but a vast array of programs of varying scope and objective, a number of which seem to be at cross-purposes with oth ers. Broadly speaking, most foreign aid pro grams are “worthy” at least in their intent, but it is almost impossible to tell which have been motivated by our desire to fufill moral obligations and which by our desire to gain trade, allies, or influence. Being unclear eveh to ourselves, our objectives are no less a mystery and cause for concern in many parts of the world where we are spending largess so bountifully. STRESS On defense and INDUSTRIALIZATION Fact is that much of our foreign aid has been a sheer waste of money, goods, and ef fort—sometimes because of poor planning and follow-through, often because of failure to assess local conditions and customs prop erly. Even that aid which has been well and prudently allocated has not always brought us closer to desired goals. It is appalling that nearly one-third of what we have spent to help (gher nations has gone to finance for eign amiies and military establishments. This in turn has hardened already hostile at titudes between neighboring countries and has encouraged them to spend their own lim ited resources is war or defense to the neg lect of cultural and economic betterment. We might well ask ourselves if we are spend ing taxpayers' money wisely—or supporting the cause of peace—by helping to pay for the armies of Greece and Turkey, of Saudi churches, Arabia and Egypt, of India and Pakistan. answer a Unfortunately also, we have placed too ^ rom much stress on industrialization of the de- Stories Behind Words By William S. Penfield I I Name- Addratt: CHy- Diamond The Greeks were familiar with a stone that was so hard it could not be cut by other stones. They found that a stone of this type could be cut only by another such stone. This particular quality of the stone caused the Greeks to name it “adamas,” meaning that which cannot be subdued. “Adamas” was de rived from “a” (not) and “damas” (to subdue). “Adamas” entered Latin unchanged, but was corrupted to “diamas” in Medieval Latin. “Di- amas,” in turn, became “diamant” in Old French and “diamond” in English. Irene Dillard Elliott Writes . .. - * . ' ■ No. 10 The Oldest Church In Laurens County good friend, Dr. Arthur Mar tin, had the answer at his finger tips: “According to the rT*' minutes of the Synod, Little d <* lr « ble River was established in 1763; Duncan’s Creek in 1764” he said. I thought that was final. When I took pen in hand, wishing to list first elders etc. for proud descendants, I found the historians differing! They agree on the year 1763, bttt one argues for Little Riv er, the other for Duncan’s Creek. No use debating here; I. have So few of my ”500 words or so” left, I am going to quote the otie paragraph which fascinated me most and ask my readers to allow me to continue this subject next yeek: “Andrew McCreary, Thomdj Ewihgi Robert Han- ria, orflained in Pennsylvan ia, James Pollock, ordained in ICelaitd, Thomas Logan. These Were the first elders ordained by the Rdv. Hezek- iah Balch before or during the Revolutionary War.” — Bean-and-Jones of Duncan’s Cheek. OH! My! 1 omitted Joseph Adair among those Pennsyl vanians! And, in my book, A is for Adair. In helping an Adair descendant from Flor ida with her D.A.R. papers, I discovered that this very Eld er Joseph Adair had both a son and a grandson in the Revolution: Three genera-, tions! Can any other family match that? More on the oldest church, or churches, next week. . Please send mail to 512 Con- goree Avenue, Columbia, S. C. 29206. 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Is this the kind of expense pai^ by a Trip-Accident poUcy?” BAILEY AGENCY M. S. Bailey & Son, Bankers, Building Dial Day 833-0681 — Night and Sunday 833-0323 Before I- come to the spite all this, Arlington had let me attempt to somehow escaped partisan question that came b.tterness.c The first man to Drastic— But Effective George Bernard Shaw, Irish play wright and satirist once stated: “Every person who owes his life to civilized society and who has enjoyed since his childhood its costly protection and ad vantages, should appear at reasonable intervals before a properly qualified Laurens since mv last be buried there (in the now ' Laurens since my last established national ceme- vefopihg countries and not nearly enough on co * umn * This question asks tery) was a Confederate sol- food production. Our aid to India is a clas- What is meant by the words dier who had died in a Union sim example: After some 20 years of such CONFISCATED LAND writ- hospital, and in 1883 the Su- aid at tremendous cost to American taxpay- across the upper left cor- preme Court set aside Stan- ert, the Indian economy is worse off than *0r of a deed. One of the first ton’s confiscation. The federal before and has achieved no more than token laws passed by the states, government then bought the betterment in farm ouptut. probably unanimously and land outright from Lee’s QArnc* rn uniform in content had to do heirs for $150,000.” SACRED COW w jth confiscation of lands I didn’t know what I was Of course, in India we are dealing with a be i(j b y loyalists to the Brit- getting into when I tackled culture that ranks a human being lower than i sb government. As we know, the problem of finding ' tlhe a coW. In our own country, foreign aid has these laws appear occasional- oldest church in Laurens. It’s become a sort of sacred cow, too. Efforts to jy i n recent times; for exam- been fun though, since 1 be hold the line, much less cut back, on these pj e property held by alien long to the Presbyterians my- programs are loudly deplored and roundly Germans during WWI was self; maybe we can’t be good attacked as being ignoble and stupid. We sometimes confiscated by the Calvinists without getting into are continually being sold on the idea that Federal authority. Aliens arguments! At any rate, there we must increase our spending for foreign wbo we re sympathetic with can be no doubt that either aid, no matter what the cost. USA frequently became Little River or Duncan Yet all our vast commitments of taxpay- citizens and had to suffer con- Creek, both of which go back ers’ money abroad have not brought us the fiscation of any property, in- to the 1760’s was the first type of success and respect attained, with lit- eluding money, which they church to be organized in Lau- had kept in their native land, rens County. (There will be The most interesting, if not an interesting sequel when we the highest in money value, come to the Baptists.) was the confiscation, in 1864, There are two good histories by the Union Secretary of of the Presbyterian Church War, Stanton, of the beautiful in South Carolina, Howe’s estate of Gen. Robert E. Lee (he was Woodrow Wilson’s the Af- in northern Virginia. We brother-in-law), and the Bean- to help know it as Arlington, belong- Jones sequel. Howe ends with tie expense and fanfare—by the small Na tionalist Chinese Government on Formosa as a result of the work of its agricultural dem onstration teams in selected African and Latin American nations. FOOD OUTPUT AND SELF-HELP The Chinese teams concentrated proving food output and as stirring rican and Latin American people on im- themselves. suits were spectacular. Nationalist Then they withdrew. The re- ing* as Manchester says in the year 1850; Bean-and-Jones impressive, in some instances THE DEATH OF A PRESI- brings us up to 1925. There is DENT, “to history.” Stanton also the Headquarters of the Chinese foreign aid does not called it, crudely, “Lee’s Synod here in Columbia, to patronize, cripple, or paralyze; the recipi ents learn for themselves to rely on their own resources. There is a real lesson here for U. S. foreign aid planners . . . and for American taxpayers as well. Will we heed it—or will we go right on confusing quantity with quality? farm.” Quoting further, “De- which I first appealed. My CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1967 oltjp Clitttmt (Wirontrl* July 4, 1809 — WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS — June 13, IMS Established 1909 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance) Out-of-County One Year, $4.00; Six Months, $2.50 One Year, $5.00 Second Class Pottage Paid at Clinton, S. C. POSTMASTER: S0ud Farm 3579 to Clinton Chronicle, Clinton, S. C. 29325 The Chronicle seeks, the cooperation of Its subscribers and readers—the publisher drill at all timet appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anony- mout communlcaions will not be noticed. 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