The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, September 14, 1967, Image 2
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Clinton, S. C„ Thursday, Septepibor 14, 1967
TT.
Halt Rash Criticism .
The time has come to call a halt
to the rash criticism of th$ National
Guard, an organization that has served
Tsh^mbi; There hasn't been very much
civil rights legislation passed in the
Congo, really. And the Welfare State
hasn't dawned.
But the kook who shouts “Burn,
always in crises that faced our United B urn /» and incites 34 unneces-
States since the beginning of our nation. gar y an( j m jHions of dollars in
For the past several years there damage ^ et8 a fu ii. C olor profile on TV
have been those in high places who and a double-page spread in the Sun-
appear dedicated to the task of over- 'day supplements,
hauling or eliminating the Guard Why? Because politicians in Wash-
throughout our land. ington fear they may lose some fraction
At a recent session of the National 0 f one-tenth, of the vote in the United
Guard Association of South Carolina states. That's sick.
Maj. Gen. Francs S. Green!ief, deputy
chief of the National Guard Bureau in
Washington, D. C., said that critics are
attacking one of the positive forces in
America.
Most criticism of the Guard in
past years has proved unfounded and
unwise.
But as Greenlief says, “Against the
Bab»on'i Point of View On:
INVENTORIES AND
ECONOMIC CHANGE
Babson Park, Mass., Sept. 7—Total in
ventories dropped to lower levels in June
»for the first time in six years. Some econo
mists feel that this downturn has removed
background of charge and counter- one of the last obstacles to a strong busi-
charge," with recriminations of the af- ness upturn that could get underway dur-
termath of Detroit ringing in our ears, in « the final months of this y ear -
LONG UPTREND
The June dip in total inventories to $137.0
billion from a May level of $137.4 billion—
seasonally adjusted—brought an end to a
72-month climb. However, since the be-
ginning of 1867, the rate of rise had been
taking place a board of officers will be losing steam.
examining the competence of the At the end of January, total busmess
inventories amounted to $136.6 billion. When
we have been asked to accomplish a dif
ficult, complex and demanding task in
reorganizing."
And while this reorganization is
Irene Ditlord EMioft Writes..
« No. 25
Can Fourth Graders
Learn To Research?
TODAY-SATURDAY
The Gathering Storm
Guard’s leadership.
“ These are trying-times for the
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they made their peak four months later,
they had edged up only 0.6 per cent. So,
tt ilfeft, the inventory adjustment has been
. vAftd it is times Bite these, during five or six months of the
flf thi South Carolftttt Nation*!
— a. ii IN*SNXORY-SALES ratio
rtuM can be writing to ^ drop
serffcimves in Washington to match inventories coincided with a boost in sales,
some of the criticism with, words of
< . ■'
praise.
Let’s keep up our guard by back
ing the National Guard.
That’s Sick
There are, it should be mentioned,
white people who are poor, too. The
census figures for our nation say that
there are ten times as many poor whites
as Negro. Do you think for one minute
that those wretched, jobless whites in .
Appalachia would d tj£^ nMironj* f a i r iy c i 0 se to current levels
downtown to raid and loot“every liquor over the next month or two, following which
vw
thus bringing the inventory-sales ratio down
to 1.55—the lowest level this year. But one
swallow does not make a summer, nor do
single dips in total inventories and-or in
ventory-sales ratios indicate that a turn
about in the economy is assured. The hard
cold facts are that both inventories and in-
their year-ago levels.
Of course, it may well turn out that the
inventory adjustment — slight and brief
though it has been—is just about over. Or
it may be that it has only begun and that a
further shaking out wiH take place over
the next two or three months until busi
nessmen feel they have reduced stocks to
a more realistic balance with sales. Most
Stories
Behind
Words
there will probably be a gradual—not sharp
—build-up in stocks.
PLANT AND EQUIPMENT
EXPENDITURES^
Right now, it is hard to imagine where
a sufficient stimulus to business .could
come from that would warrant a sharp
rise in stocks carried. Those who antici-
disturbances . . must be accepted by the pate j^n early upsurge in business are plac-
majority, white enmmutrifour ng£T * n 8 Cgood deal of faith in a further broad
tion," are patently phoney.'affiey bias--? 1 "'* government expenditures and in a
new.*wave of capital spending. If BOTH
store, TV shop, and exclusive haber
dashery in sight?
The finger-shaking Freuds who
rush out of their segregated suburban
homes to assert that “the major burden
of responsibility for the current civil
By
William 8. Penfield
Trivial
“Trivial’’—trifling or of little importance—
originally meant “of or pertaining to the cross
road^.’’
The-word is derived from the Latin “trivium"
—a place where three roads meet—from “tri"
(three) and.“via" (road or way). Trivium was
extended in meaning to include any crossroad or
public square.
The crossroads or squares were favorite
places for persons to stop and gossip. The Ro
mans described such meetings and the gossip
that ensued as “trivialis—of the cross road.’’
The gossip that was exchanged was of little im
portance, therefore “trivialis—which became
“trivial” in English—acquired this meaning.
Youth Wants to Know
By RANDT GRIFFITH
So much is written now
about the explosion of know
ledge, the sophistication of
young students, the impor
tance and necessity fof re
search that teachers might
well ask when their young
sters can be taught the fun
damentals of research.
The best tifne may be—
probably is—in the fourth
grade. Here, if the curricu
lum has not changed too'
much since my observation
days, pupils take up new
studies such as grammar,
history and studies in which
a mastery of reading can be
taken for granted. So why not
begin the practice of elemen
tary research?
A good correspondent writes
me that Mrs. Christopher
Adair (Louella Leaman) has
had a notably successful ex
perience with having her 4th
graders writ£ themes on local
history. Wonderful J Let us
hope that all other fourth
gra^le teachers will—do—fol
low suit. How can this em
bryonic historiography be
turned into researched his
tory? ^
The two most basic axioms
of research are probably: 1.
Begin with what you know;
2. Be able to prove, and docu
ment, each step in your study.
For beginning this kind of
accurate research Geneaology
offers what is most universal
ly easy and pleasant field.
Here the researcher begins
with himself and proceeds,
step by step, “back to Ad
am,” as the hyperbole says,
each step accompanied by a
citation of authority proof.
For example, Johnny be
gins with his own name writ
ten into a ■ framework that
continues indefinitely. All the
best genealogical societies
have forms that save labor at
the same time they show at a
glance what the searcher has
and what he lacks. Maybe
our printers cah illustrate:
Father (Male line always ’*
above female)
in which he was born? If not,
certainly he can subtract his
age from 1967 and arrive at
the year of his birth. At the
same time he gets a good easy
lesson in being accurate. The
form I use carries this frame
work through three repeti
tions, thus having on one
page Johnny’s geneaology—or ____________
Family Tree, as is popularly
used—back to his eight great- . • ,
grandparents. (Louella, and Story of Bonnie Parker and
anyone else who reads this, Clyde Beatty, Outlaws.
pheme the 99 per cent of the black
community in our country who work,
save and pray on Sunday whether or
not President Johnson requests them to
do so.
goveflfyment and capital spending do spurt
smartly, inventories will respond on the
upside.
But goverment spending alone at an ac
celerated rate will not turn the trick. In
deed, too great a rise in government spend-
That 99 per cent doesn’t think or ing (and borrowing) will tend to slow down
talk about hyphenated - Americans. the rat e of capital expenditure by draining
They learned from grandparents, par- off funds could ^ used for that P ur
ents and in person, in two world wars, pose - As the money supply tightens further
in Korea and in Vietnam, that not even
a hyphen separates Americans fighting
to keep the American dream alive.
There are no hyphenated-Americans
in fox-holes or trenches.
Can the color-conscious Freudians or
the quaking politicians name a country
in the world where 10 percent of the
population is represented in as many
high posts, as in th e United States?
Russia? Britain? China? France?
India?
Or what about China, which hosts
international conferences to incite in
surrection in every country in the hemi
sphere? A Negro in Havana has the
stature of a straySyiimal, and any Ne
gro who bothers to read knows it.
And what about the wealthy Con
go, where a Negro named Mobutu
gouged out the eyes of two political op
ponents, then hanged them, wearing
hoods to cover his brutality? He wants
to do the same to western-educated and
refined Christian statesman named
—and as interest costs are locked in a high
range—businessmen whose profits are al
ready being squeezed by higher labor and
materials cost and who face the prospect
of higher taxes are more likely than not
to trim their capital expansion programs.
DON’T BE CARRIED AWAY
A sizable percentage of business failures
are directly traceable to poor inventory
control. Indeed one of the tests of a suc
cessful business is the ability to correlate
inventory with sales. If you have a busi
ness—whether manufacturing, wholesaling,
or retailing—you should bear in mind that
inventory holdings which you as an indi
vidual can decide to build up or to cut back
constitute both a danger and a source of
flexibility in our economic system.
In the matter of inventories, the best pol
icy is not to be carried away by what oth
ers are doing, or by what you surmise they
may be doing. Instead, study actual trends,
especially in your own and related busi
nesses, and make your decision on the bas
is of facts and the needs — current and
prospective—of your business. Do not be
afraid to boost stocks if conditions war
rant it, but do not rush into large-scale
forward commitments without thinking
through what they entail. Above all, avoid
going too deeply into debt. If you get in a
tight spot later, it’s cash you’ll need, not
goods.
CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1967
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Intelligence quotient, IQ, is
a measure used by psycholo
gists and educators to ex
press a person’s intelligence.
Although there is no way
known to man to measure in
telligence precisely, the use
of the IQ as a measuring
stick has given these people
some figures about intelli
gence. And it is believed that
about one half of the mem
bers of our society are nor
mal in intelligence, and the
other half are persons of low
intelligence.
Tests are used to find a per
son’s mental age. His mental
age is divided by his age in
years and the result is his IQ.
IQ scores help teachers
plan class sessions and help
them in guiding individual
students. But hardly any
teacher uses the IQ score as
a hard and fast guide rule in
dealing with individual stu
dents. Because the success of
a student is not in the last
analysis determined by what
his score is. Motivation, in
genuity, originality, among
other desirable qualities, can
not be measured. And in the
last analysis these are the
most important factors.
Whether you be well endowed
intellectually or otherwise, if
these unmeasurable factors
are not operative, scholasti
cally speaking, you may very
well not achieve. Many bums
and misfits are intellectual
. CREDITOR’S NOTICE
All persons having 'claims
against the estate of William
R. Thomas, deceased, are
hereby notified to file the
same duly verified, with the
undersigned, and those in
debted to said estate will
please make payment like
wise.
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Mary Farrow Mason
Executrices
Box 304, Clinton, S. C.
August 21st, 1967 3C-S7
Auction Sales
Horses, Ponies, Mules,
and Tack Saturday, Sep.
tember 16. Will be sell
ing pack and miscellane
ous items at 3:00 P. M.
with Ponies and Horses
to follow.
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Corley Auction Barn
Rt, 3, Batesburg, S. C.
8 Miles East of Saluda
on Highway 378
giants. Contrariwise, many
people with meciocre IQ
scores have mad~ lasting
contributions to society.
Do you use your mind to
the best advantage? What are
ways you can improve your
performance in the classroom
or on the job? These are im
portant questions. It all boils
down to this one question:
How well do you use what
you have?
Johnny
Birth
; Date Place
: Birth
: Marriage
:: Death
: Residence
Mother
could you give your great-
grandmothers’ maiden
names?)
As for the second axiom,
if Johnny is not too sophisti
cated, he may not know when
his parents were married,
much less his grands and
great-grands. So what does he
do? Simply asks. Thereby fol
lows a first rule for proving.
His parents can probably help
him through his four grand
parents, provided the grands
cannot answer. By the time
he gets to the great-grands he
may have to go to a second
sound method of proof, the
family Bible and-or the
grave-stone inscriptions.
As genealogical research
progress into the more and
more dim past it becomes
more and more difficult and
fascinating, but more and
more sources can be found on
which to base proof. One of
the most important of. these
sources is the Federal Cen
sus, taken first in .1,790^ and
re-taken everyj^n years sinc$
that time. In South Carolina,
the 1790 Census has been re
printed, and in the State Ar
chives are microfilms of sub
sequent enumerations as far
as the National Archives per
mits yublication. *. ..
If Johnny is nine or ten
generations from 1790, there
will probably be family • Bi
bles, grave yards, arid D. A.
R. records on which he can
depeM:^’”-
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(Not for small children)
Shows 3:15, 7, 9 P. M«
Saturday—1:00 P. M.
We will run through on
Saturday
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29205.
Coluriibia
: Date Place
: Birth
: Marriage
: Death
: Residence
Of course Johnny knows
say, but can he cite the year
Century Club
To Meet Tuesday
The Centliry'Club will hold
its first meeting of the fall
season on Tues\ Sept. 19 at
4 p.m. at the home of Mrs.
George Brokenbrough. Mrs.
ward Campbell will be the
narrator.
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