The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, February 05, 1970, Image 10
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POLITICAL FOOTBALL
Judging from the pronouncements
reported in the press, it appears our
state governmental leaders are doing
us a disservice in the handling of the
school desegregation orders.
The Greenville and Darlington
schools should have been assisted by
all of our state leaders, from the gov
ernor’s office to the U.S. Senate, work
ing together. Unity could have been
the backbone of that effort. Instead,
our leaders split along party lines and
the issue quickly became a political
football
When our public school education
is threatened with mid-year disrup
tion; it is no time for our governmen
tal leaders to revert to political types.
They appeared more concerned
with name-calling, blame-placing and
credit-taking than they did with edu
cation.
MUDDLED PICTURE
With each passing day, the truth
of what accurred at the bridge on
Chappaquiddidk Island on July 18,
1969, seems to drift deeper ;ind deeper
into mysteries which are murkier
than the muddy water below. At ev
ery turn the youngest of the Kennedy
boys proclaims that he is interested
only in having the truth known. And
at each opportunity he has his army
of lawyers ready with a legal smog
machine aimed right in the eyes of
the public.
His original story to the Edgar-
town, Massachusetts police was at
odds with his dramatic television dis
play. His lawyers opposed the at
tempts to have the young girl’s body
exhumed for an autopsy. His lawyers
fought — successfully — to ban the
press and, in so doing, the public from
the inquest.
THE MANCHESTER, N. H., UN
ION LEADER reveals that the driv
er’s license, taken from the Senator
pending investigation, was not water-
soaked, nor was the ink of the signa
ture smeared by exopsure to water.
One explanation offered is that the
wallet containing the license had been
lost prior to the accident. But, we
cannot find any report that charges
have been filed for operating a motor
vehicle without a license. If the driv
er did not have his license, why have
charges not been filed? If the driver
did have his license, how come it
didn’t get wet?
Denials are being made on all sides
concerning what is or is not being
done to learn the true facts. As news
men, we want the truth because we
believe the public—our readers—de
serve the truth. We cannot but won
der if the Kennedy machine is being
oiled merely for the purpose of a re-
election to the U.S. Senate. It is en
tirely possible that the machine is be
ing geared to a run for the White
House. Should this be the case, a can
didate will be presented to the voters
who has shown a blatant disregard
for the public and the press and the
truth. If the man is innocent of wrong,
the truth would help him. If he is
guilty, he deserves equal treatment
under the law. right along with the
rest of us.
SALUTE TO TAPS
We salute the Clinton young peo
ple who recently raised over $1,000
for the March of Dimes.
Led by Kathy Frady and Gene
Simmona and advised by Mrs. Tony
Benson, these young people came up
with some imaginative projects and
worked hard to make them successful
They collected contributions in a mo
bile bath tub and they staged a com
petitive “walkathon” across town.
Other projects include a cake sale and
a dance.
The young people raised a lot of
money for a worthy cause and we’ll
bet they had a ball doing it.
NOTED AND PASSED
a Dr. Arthur K. Burns, new chair-
jnunZitCtH* Federal Reserve Board
was of Jan. 31) told the 32nd annua)
(iinner of Tax Foundation, Inc., that
pne Federal program requires more
khan 100 different forms and reports;
Lnd that a state official counted 120
different reports he must submit to
Lne Federal agency. Dr. Burns said
jttollka. ““expenditure reform”
|s.needed,mjore than tax reform. At
cast the new Chairman has the right
dea. Now we wonder how much he
Will be able to do about it.
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Crime report from the Nation’s
Capital: “more people were robbed,
ilain or raped in Washington last
If ear than ever before” . . .291 mur-
iers, up from 209 in 1968; armed rob
beries, 7,071, up from 4,460; rapes,
326, up from 260. If President Nixon
is going to follow through on his cam
paign promises to reform the “crime
capital of the world”, he had better
(as our youthful offspring would say)
“get with it, and sock it to them.”
Last June a group of 43 Soviet
citizens brought a petition to the Mos
cow office of the United Nations call
ing attention to repression of civil
rights in communist Russia. The UN
response: refusal to resognize the pe-
titioin, followed by an order from Sec
retary General U. Thant to all UN of
fices throughout the world to reject
any such petitions. Whatever hap
pened tS v the Four Freedoms the UN
was supposed to espouse?
McCormack's Reaper
Local Library Program
Designed For Children
BY NANCY PARKS
During numerous trips to the
Public Relations office at Pres
byterian College, I kept noticing
an attractive bulletin board for a
library. Knowing that the college
library was downstairs, I as
sumed the bulletin board was the
responsibility of its staff mem
bers.
But the material struck me as
unusual-trains and astronauts for
college-age people 0 !? I wondered
. . .it wasn’t until this week that
I found out the whole story behind
the bulletin board.
THE LADY responsible for the
bulletin board is Georgia Young,
Children’s and Young People’s
Librarian. (You didn’t know
there was another library in Clin
ton did you?) Located on the se
cond floor of the Administration
building at PC, the library op
erated as a special branch of the
Laurens County Library and
serves primarily children.
The small library is not a
conglomeration of books for all
types of people, but is planned
and decorated especially with
children in mind. For example,
as you enter the cheery, mint
green room designed for child
ren ages 3-8, you immediately
know you’ve entered a child’s
world. On the right, the book
shelves are easy to reach and
labeled with pre-schoolers in
mind.
MOST CHILDREN who use
these shelves haven’t yet learned
how to read or are at least
new to the reading process.
Georgia has solved this prob
lem by putting upenchantingpic-
tures to represent the letter of
the alphabet with which the au
thor’s name begins. The pictures
of apples, ice cream cones, jack
in the boxes and fish are made
of construction paper and have
been attractively colored.
“This method," Georgia said,
“helps the children to find the
books themselves if I’m busy
and helps teach him his ABC’s."
MOUNTED ON the wall a-
bove the shelves is a parade of
nursery rhyme characters-Mary
Had A Little Lamb, Jack and
Jill, Little Boy Blue and others;
even the tables and chairs are
children-sized.
But books aren’t the only things
this library has to keep children
busy. There is a Snoopy Reading
Club for boys ages 9-13 in which
they read toward a certificate,
and for the younger children there
is a story hour held Tuesday af
ternoons for 3:30 to -1:30.
DURING THE story Lair, the
youngsters see film strips and
movies, hear stories illustrated
with flannel board characters,
and take part in seasonal acti
vities. Sometimes an entire cr> >up
will journey Gthe Laurens Coun
ty Library for some special acti
vity.
Although the library caters to
younger children, the older nes
aren't forgotten. An adj ining
room contains books •-specially
for children ages eight and up.
In this room are the reference
books such as the Book of Know
ledge, Britannica Junior En
cyclopedia, and the 1 Book of Popu
lar Science.
THE SHELVES contain titles
such as “Atoms, Energy and Ma
chines,” “The Bo .k of Scout
ing," “101 Toys Children Can
Make," and biographies of such
people as Helen Keller, Winston
Churchill, Dag Hammorskjold,
Pope John XXIII and Eleanor
Roosevelt. As a special service
to scout troop members, the li
brary has the “Merit Badge Se
ries" to help the youngsters ob
tain various badges in their
scouting activities.
Even college students majoring
in elementary education frequent
the library. For a Children’s Lit
erature course taught by Dr.
Dorothy Brandt, students are re
quired to read a certain numter
of Newberry and Caldecott Award
books, and this library is the
most available source for these
books. Other college students
participating in tutoring and help
ing with day-care centers check
out books to read to their young
friends.
FEW PEOPLE realize that
such a children’s library exists
or if they are aware of its ex
istence, they believe it a part of
the cohege library. The facts are
that it is a branch of the Lau
rens County Library and any book
that isn’t available there is ob
tained by the librarian there from
the Laurens selection of books.
The hours have changed, too, ac
cording to Mrs. Young.
“In the past, it’s only been a-
vailable for children to come up
at set times only. Now there is
someone available to come at any
time if called on, to provide
^ service for special groups who
"come to the library.
FOR EXAMPLE, just recently
the Camp Fire Girls wanted to
come to the library for a special
program. The arrangements
were easily made and I talked to
them about using the card cata
logue and showed a film strip
also. This is the kind of service
the library enjoys offering, * she
said.
For anyone who would like to
visit the library, the hours are
from 2:30-5 on Tuesdays and
Thursdays, with the story hour
on Tuesdays from 3:30-4:30 and
on Saturday hours are from 9-12.
Keep your eyes open, though, as
a library patron, your picture
might be on the bulletin board if
you’ve been in the news recently,
a special added attraction on one
of the interior bulletin boards.
County Library Provides
Some Fine Services
Dear Sir:
To correct an impression
which may have been left by my
recent remarks to the Planning
Commission (reported last
week), I would like to call at
tention to the fine services which
have been for many years and
are now being provided through
the Laurens County Library
System.
In particular, there is the
Children’s Library, which serves
the children of the community
under the very capable direction
of Mrs. Georgia Young. It is lo
cated on South Broad Street, on
the second floor of the Library
bur ling, and if there are child
ren who have not yet discovered
this interesting place, they are
missing a treat--especially dur
ing story hour on Tuesday af
ternoons.
In addition, the County Book
mobile--a brand new one, in
fact—makes stops in Clinton and
in Joanna, including some house
stops.
We value these services great
ly.
My point, however, is this. If
a broader library program can
be developed, including services
such as these, the entire com
munity will be served more ade
quately than is now being done
under the present college/com
munity arrangements. Since an
opportunity for expanding publii
library service in Clinton doe:
exist, it deserves to be explored
Lennart Pearson
Presbyterian College
There seems to be no such
thing as peaceful assembly
anymore. And those who
“march for peace” appear to
be the most violent of all.—
H. F. Doherty, The Cavalier
County (N.-Dak.) Republican.
It takes 2,000 bolts to hold
a car together and only one
nut to scatter them all over
the highway.—James E. Pat
terson, The Big Sandy and
Hawkins (Tex.) Journal.
//>£ Oldlom&z,
“When your work speaks
for itself, don’t interrupt.’’
2-B—THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., Feb. 5, 1970
South Pulls
Itself Upward
BY THURMAN SENSING
Executive Vice President
Southern States Industrial
Council
The progress the Southern
states have made in the last three
decades can be attributed in part
to changing attitudes toward the
region amongpeople elsewhere in
the nation. For many decades af
ter the Civil War, the South was
♦he poor relation of the rest of
the country. It was treated in a
discriminatory fashion. No "for
eign aid” or anything of that sort
was granted to the South in the
late 19th and early 20th century
as it struggled to regain its eco
nomic place in the nation. The
benefits known by such defeated
nations as Germany and Japan
were never lavished on tlie part
of the United States that had
known civil war.
Pulling itself up by its own
bootstraps, the South rebuilt its
financial institutions and com
mercial organizations. It per
suaded national manufacturing
companies to invest in the region.
It was a long, slow process, but
m the 1940s the South began to
surge ahead. The quality of its
state government improved dra
matically, and the Southern
states, with tlieir strengthened
economies, started to devote a
much larger share of their re
venues to education, Lith basic
and higher. The vexing problem
of freight rates, which retarded
commerce, was eased. The fed
eral government paid more at
tention to Southern ports. Indus
trialists elsewhere in the coun
try gained a new appreciation of
the ability and responsibility of
the region's laNir force and re
cognized that Southern legisla
tures Mere industry-minded and
eager for progress through in
vest' ir-owned enterprises.
The result Jail this has tieen
a wonderful forward movement
n the part f the Southern states
continuing from tlie 1940miou into
the 1970s. Patterns f Soutliern
industrialization are changing,
with m Te highly skilled and com
plex industries relocating in this
region and making letter use f
the schools, colleges and uni
versities of the South.
One reason the South has pro
gressed is that its people lie-
lieve strongly in local govern
ment and in ther basics f th>-
American political traditi -n.
This regi n has few hippies and
ther dissenters fr m American
ideals.
The universities are not fac
tories f ideological unrest,
winch, tragically, is tlie caso
in some areas such as the North
east. State governments are not
dominated by tlie union Bisses,
who are virtual political czars
in some Northern states. Thus
opportunities for further ad
vancement, through the free en
terprise system, are extraordi
narily good in the Southern states.
Unfortunately, there are ele
ments in the nation with a pro
found sectional bias against the
South. There are those who want
to radicalize the South and to
punish it for not taking the ultra
liberal tack espoused in some in
fluential intellectual circles.
These elements have urged a dou
ble standard of judgment and jus
tice. They would make the South’s
lut far harder than the lot of any
ntlier area.
We see this today in the de
termination to impose on the
Southern states requirements for
teacher transfers and busing of
school children that are not made
elsewhere. W'e see Southern
school districts ordered to meet
disruptive and virtually impos
sible timetables which are not
imposed elsewhere m the na
tion.
It is tragic, shocking and al
most incredible that after so
many years of Southernprogress
there should be an effort made
to plunge Southern sch'>ols into
chaos while the schools of otiier
regions, with the same mix of
students, should escape serious
government interference.
Several Southern governors
have made this point in recent
days, and their appeal for equal
justice should be heeded by fair-
minded Americans inevery state.
The governors aren't refusing to
alter school systems according to
r urt order; they are simply say
ing that if one type ofscIkxjI sys
tem is to le made mandatory for
the South, tlie same system should
le nJered for Massachusetts,
Illinois, Calif nua and the otiier
states. If a time-table is set for
Atlanta, it should tie set for Bos
ton and Pittsburgh.
The United States can't have
two sets of federal laws -- "he
ppressive of the Southern states
and one leaving the other states
to do as ttiey please in sch'xil
arrangements. Constitutionally,
the schools are tlie business of
the states and local government.
But tlie feikral courts have ruled
ottierwise. It is intolerable how
ever, t • see court orders Esued
that deprive the'8JHb#nllstates
f equal justice under the law --
that impose conditions T chaos
n this region while leaving tlie
schools in ttier areas virtually
free of interference.
The unequal Triers issued by
the courts in recent weeks threat
en to undo much of the progress
made in the South over a perirjd
of many decades. Tlie situation
should offend tlie sense of fair
play -f the entire American peo
ple.
PARSON JONES SAYS
Preacher Gives
Insight On Sin
Dear Mr. Publisher:
We had a visiting preacher
last Sunday and he really give us
a new insight about sin. Rev.
Wright Now allowed as how sin,
like everything else, has changed
over the years. He said sin now-
a-days was such things as over
population and air pollution. Dr.
Now emphasized that if we don’t
soon cut down on people and pol
lution, there wasn’t gonna be
any society a hundred years from
now. It was a right good sermon-
at least it got me to thinking.
Since Sunday I’ve been giving a
lotta thought to these two sub
jects, and have reached some
conclusions.
First, I’ve about decided that
neither the government nor in
dustry is gonna do anything about
pollution. So - I’ve come up with
a little scheme of my own. We
oughta manufacture nose filters
to fit in everybodie’s nose holes.
Folks would be made to wear
these just like they do clothes.
The filters should be changed
at least twice a day. They would
come in different sizes, so’s a
fella could buy a fit. Otherwise he
might sneeze and blow ’em out.
Now about over population. I
think we’re going about this whole
thing backwards. We’re trying to
limit the population by using birth
control pills. As I see it though,
the problem in this country ain’t
too many people, but too many
automobiles. The space a car
takes up would allow at least a
dozen people. Then if you add all
the highway space, you see why
we ain’t got room. So - I suggest
we invent a birth control pill for
automobiles.
Well, so much for over-popu
lation and air pollution. I gotta
close and get this thing in the
mail. If I leave now I can avoid
the 5:00 o’clock traffic rush. On
the way over I’m gonna stick
some pipe filters up my nose,
just to see how they work.
Parson Jones
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WORTH
ABOUT
A thorough appraisal of the
record will reveal that the na
tion’s business community—
both on its own and in concert
with government—is develop
ing. underwriting and imple
menting viable efforts to solve
the problems which you right
fully say demand attention. In
terms of responsiveness to
these needs and increasingly
effective solutions, I think a
noteworthy record is in the
making, with expenditures
ranging in the billions. With
out profits, this money would
not be available for those pro
grams, which offer no mone
tary return to industry what
soever.
Russell DeYoung,
Chairman of the Board
The Goodyear Tire &
Rubber Company
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