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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
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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
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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 . ..
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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. .
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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
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