The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, June 29, 1967, Image 2
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Clinton, S. C., Thursday, June 29, 1967
Fourth of July
On Independence Day, 1M7, it
might be well for us to remind oup*
selves that the freedom which we com
memorate is not self-perpetuating. It
is something we must work for, consci
entiously and continuously, even as did
our forefathers. They were ready to
die for freedom; can we do less than
strive to nurture and protect it?
Of the fifty-six who signed the Dec
laration of Independence, five were
captured by the British and executed
as traitors; nine others died from
wounds or the hardships of the Revb-
lutionary War. Still others saw their
homes and plantations destroyed. For
those who.lived the reward was pov
erty— their possessions commandeer
ed, their lands laid waste.
These were the men who gave us
an independent America one hundred
and ninety-one years ago. They are
the men who pledged: “For the sup-
pqrt of this declaration, with a firm
reliance on the protection of the Divine
Providence, we mutually pledge to
each other, our lives, our fortunes, and
our sacred honor.”
Through their sacrifice we do have
freedom. We do have our unalienable
rights of life, liberty and pursuit of
happiness.
Let us not take these sacred rights
and our Clod-given freedom for grant
ed. There are those who would chip
away, little by little, these thnigs we
cherish most. It’s up to us to prove
that we will not be deprived of our
heritage.
licity, including,the compulsive Martin
Luther King and Dr. Benjamin Spock.
So long as these people have mi
crophones shoved in front of them to
scoop up their pronouncements, they’ll
command a following. Without the
microphones they’ll soon be deflated
to their actual size.
LET FREEDOM RING
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Senator John McClellan has opened
a Senate probe into the impact of re
cent Supreme Court decisions which,
he says, have contributed to the na
tion’s soaring crime rate. “Self-con
fessed criminals should be punished,
not liberated on the basis of technicali
ties.”
Power of Publicity
“I’m tired of having my leaders se
lected for me by NBC or CBS tele
vision networks.”
This complaint, voiced by Clifford
L. Alexander, a prominent Negro law
yer, sums up a situation that deserves
the attention of the reading and view
ing public. Alexander was talking
specifically about the rabble-rouser
Stokely Carmichael, who has a highly-
developed gfhiiiis Tor creating dissen-
tidp. “We tot: fake care -of Stoke
ly,” said Alexan9er7 “because he’s not
rsponsible to us—and he is described
as our leader. Well, I’d like to pick
my own leaders so 1 can kick them out
They £et‘out of line.”
This raises a significant point. Car
michael is no “Negro leader’’ because
of the democratic process. No one
elected him to anything. He's active
in an outfit called the Student Nonvib-
lent Coordinating Committee, but it
would libel the Negroes of this country
to say that SNICK speaks for them.
This is what the Communists call an
“agitprop” operation, designed to agi
tate and propagandist, and that is pre
cisely how Carmichael has played it.
With, we hasten to add, the generous
cooperation of TV and certain seg
ments of the press. Thanks to the free
publicity they have given the ineffable
Stokely, he has been lifted to national
eminence as “a‘ Negro leader.”
It will be said that Carmichael is
“news” and that neither he nor his
threats against “Whitey” can be ignor
ed. But Carmichael is news only be
cause of the build-up he has received.
This is what causes crowds to gather
when he shows up, and this is what
provides the tinder that constantly
erupts into riots wherever he mean
ders. We venture to predict that if
this fellow were ignored by TV and
the press for six months his capacity
for trouble-making would dissipate to
the point of no return. People would
ask, “Stokely Carmichael? Who’s he?”
Aqd the same treatment might prop
erly be accorded other creatures of pub-
Babson’s Point of View On:
Farm Land Values
Babson Park, Mass., June —Prices for
farm land are still trending up. The ques
tion is: Will they continue to rise—and, if so,
how fast? At this writing, the odds favor
higher quotes on average, but no sharp boosts
from current levels.
BULLISH FACTORS
For the nation as a whole, demand for
farm land continues fairly strong, buttressed
by rising food needs here and abroad as well
as by the trend toward larger, highly mech
anized farms. Although the national birth
rate has declined considerably in very recent
years, the number of people reaching mar
riageable age is rising rapidly. Hence, al
though the current tendency is toward small
er families, there will be a greater number of
families and our population will continue to
grow.
Perhaps the most important bullish fac
tor in the farm land picture is the limited
availability of such land. During the past
20 years, there has been a tremendous out
pouring of our people from urban areas to
the outer suburbs. Industry, too, has moved
from the inner cities and their immediate
environs to establish itself in what were once
rural areas devoted chiefly to farming. Farm
land has also been encroached upon by ex
panding highways, and the end of this is not
yet in sight. As farm acreage becomes fur
ther compressed—other things being equal—
the line of least price resistance ought to be
up.
BEARISH FACTORS
However, in business as in life, “other
things” are not always equal and so it is
necessary to examine the other side of the
coin. Most observers agree that farm land
values—though seemingly well supported at
present—would give ground in time of gen
eral economic recession. We also believe
that, in the next year or two, the uptrend
in prices of and demand for agricultural real
estate will be slowed appreciably because of
rising taxes and other costs, the likelihood of
smaller capital gains, and the probability
that crop yields may not continue to increase
at recent rates.
Of course, you can expect sporadic weak
ening of farm land values in selected areas,
either because of local economic conditions
or because the land itself is of poor quality.
And from time to time there will still be dis
tress sales of farm property, occasioned by
the effect of sharp competition or by uncon
trollable circumstances.
GENTLE PRICE UPSWING
Time was when prices of farm land mov
ed up or down pretty much in sympathy with
changing trends in farm income—land price
movements usually lagging a bit behind
changes in income. But the steady whittling
away of farm acreage and the move toward
larger, more efficient production units has
changed all that so that today farm land
prices are not tied so closely to farm income.
No matter what happens to farmers’ in
come in the next couple of years, agricultqral
land prices should be at least well maintained
And the probability ,is that we shall see a
gentle upswing, reflecting the steadily dwind
ling supply of such land and the continuing
trend toward larger farms.
WHAT TO DO
This does not mean that all who are now
farming will profit if they hold their land. It
does mean, however, that in the long run you
should sit tight ... if you now have a going
farm operation, sufficiently large to permit
you to make profitable use of modern mech
anized equipment, and if you are in good
health and happy on the land.
Those who no longer feel equal to the still
harsh demands of farm management and
large-scale soil tilling might consider leasing
the bulk of their land. Demand for long
term farm leases on a cash basis is expand
ing rapidly. Such cash leases can provide
the landlord a steady income that will not
vary with the management ability of the
renter or with the vagaries of the weather.
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Irene DRIord EHiott Writes...
No. is
77ie Romance of the Name
Adair
Stories
Behind
Words
By
William S. Penfield
Post Office
The idea of a system to send letters or mes
sages is an ancient one. The Romans and Per
sians had a system somewhat like the Pony Ex
press of the American Wild West.
Men and horses were stationed at relay
points. A rider brought messages to a station,
and a rider there took the messages to the next
station. The process was repeated until the mes-
sagea reached their destination.
In Late Latin, a station was called “posta,”
which became “post” in English. From the use
of the stations in delivering messages came “post
office,” a place where mail is distributed.
Thanks to Mrs. Wm. Pou
Patrick, Jr., 49 N. Vincent,
Mt. Pleasant, S. C., 29464, I
have the following, some of
which I have doubled checked
for accuracy. I have to abbre
viate slightly, and I add an
Item or two from my own ac
quaintance:
WHO ARE YOl/? AN ADAIR?
THE ROMANCE OF YOUR
NAME
By Ruby Haskins Ellis
(From the Norfolk, Va.,
LANDMARK, Aug., 1934)
The name Adair had its
origin in the County of Lim
erick, Ireland. According to
ancient records of the family,
a great oak for many gene
rations shaded the ford which
crossed the IMaigue River. In
various Irish records this ford
is referred to as Athdara . . .
Thus the local surname be
came the Anglicized Adare,
meaning literally, “dwellers
at the Ford ~ of the Oaks.”
(There is still a town Adare
on the Maigue).
In the Fourteenth Century
Robert Fitzgerald Adare
fought a duel with the White
Knight, a kinsman, at the
Ford of the Oaks. After slay
ing his antagonist in combat,
he removed to Galloway,
Scotland, where he wrote
himself simply Robert Adair.
Here he ma r r i e d Arabella
Campbell of the ^ illustrious
Scottish House of Argyle, one
of the most powerful in the
land.
Migrations of Adairs to
America began in the early
Eighteenth Century. Some
settled in Maryland, others in
New Jersey, but most of them
in Pennsylvania. They were
Scotch-irish, coming from the
Ulster counties of Ireland
and Galloway, Scotland.
The founder of the family in
America, Thomas Adair, son
of Alexander, and grandson of
Rev. Patrick Adair, of Coun
ty Antrim. He came with his
wife and three sons, James,
Joseph, and William, all born
in County Antrim. They set
tled in Chester County, Penn
sylvania, about 1730, where
they lived about 20 years. Be
tween 1750 and 1755 they re
moved to South Carolina,
where the oldest son, James,
had, by commercial influence
and patronage, obtained a
large tract of land on Dun
can’s Creek, now Laurens
County.
The Adairs were fired with
an intense patriotism for their
adopted country and when the
break came with England,
formed a small army in
themselves.
James (Adair) made a trip
to England and appealed to
the British Cabinet to concili
ate the American Colonies.
He built- an enormous trade
with the Indians and was in
fluential in training them in
peaceful pursuits. Most of the
descendants of James are
now found in Arkansas and
Oklahoma.
Joseph, the second son, was
a soldier in the Revolution at
the age of 70. (His son and a
grandson were also in the
Revolution.) His descendants
are the Adairs of South Caro
lina, Georgia, Alabama, and
Tennesee.
William, the youngest son
of Thomas, is perhaps the
best known of the three broth
ers. He was the father of Gen..
John Adair, a soldier and*
statesman who distinguished
himself at the Battle of New
Orleans, and later became
Governor of Kentucky, where
he found a vast number of his
descendants and where the
name Adair is synonymous
with deeds of valor and lives
of usefulness, (find! of sum
mary from LANDMARK)
Adding a few items of local
interest, James, Joseph, Sr.,
Joseph, Jr., and their famil
ies were buried in Duncan’s
Creek Churchyard, and half
the town of Clinton can claim
kinship if not direct descent
from these immigrant Adairs.
After all these encomiums,
we may get a smile out of this
from the Journal of Commons
for 1748: p. 62, “An account
of James Adair, Indian Trad
er, amounting to the Sum of
seven hundred and fifty-five
Pounds, being for Ammuni
tion and other Goods deliver
ed to the Choctaw Indians
gets its first reading. P. 102,
citing the claim, says “The
Committee are unanimously^
of Opinion that this account is
a very extraordinary one, and
ought not to be allowed, as it
may be an Inlett for other
Persons to make such ex
travagant Accounts.” On p.
123 the House agreed that the
Account of James Adair
(same details), “being read
a second Time, be now al
lowed.” No wonder the In
dians liked James Adair!
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Youth Wants to Know
By RANDY GRIFFITH
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GET SPECIAL
Do you ever baby-sit? If you
do, it might just happen that
you might need help in a
hurry. In such situations it’s
a comfortable feeling to know
that you can get help when
you want it.
One of the best sources of
help is the next-door neigh
bor. These neighbors are
probably familiar with the
family and can help you in an
emergency. So it’s a good
idea to get the name and
phone number of that neigh
bor. This information is no
good, of course, unless the
neighbor is at home: so find
this out from your employer,
too.
What if the baby gets sick
or hurts himself? The logical
thing to do is to call a doc
tor, preferably the family
doctor. For minor emergen
cies he will probably give you
first-aid instructions. And if
necessary he will make .a per
sonal cal. Responsibility will
then be in the right hands. Of
course, you will want to get in
touch with the parents, but
only after you have contacted
the physician.
In emergency - type situa
tions, don’t try to handle the
problem alone. Find out the
proper persons to contact and
when the situation demands,
you’ll be ready to manage it
and keep you cool.
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Keisler's Subject
“When God Comes Visit
ing” is the subject upon
which Dr. E. B. Keisler will
preach at St. John’s Lutheran
Church next Sunday morning.
The Holy Communion will be
administered as the chief fea
ture of the service.
Since July 2 falls this year
on Sunday, the festival of
“The Visitation,” referring to
the visit of Mary the mother
of Christ (Luke 1:39-47) to
the home of a relative named
Elizabeth, will be observed.
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