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YOU HAVE IMPORTANT DECISION TO MAKE You have some important decis ions to make next Tuesday. What you decide can have a bearing on the progress and efficiency of your county government. Voters will go to the polls Tuesday. June 9, in the Laurens ('ounty Demo cratic Primary. There are three candidates for the nomination to Laurens County’s two seats in the House of Representatives. There are 12 candidates for the nomi nation to five seats on the first Lau rens County Council How this county is represented in the State House of Representatives is vitally important. Equally as impor tant this year is the establishment of the Laurens ("ounty Council. This County Council will be in charge of the general operation of Laurens County. It will have more authority than the current Board of Commissioners. It will draw up the county’s operating budget. It will de cide on the county’s purchases and- construction. In general, it will run the county. When the General Assembly was reapportioned, the County Council method of governmental operation be gan springing up around South Caro lina. It used to be that the State Senator ran his home county. Evi county had a State Senator and he controlled the purse strings. With re apportionment, every county does not have a senator. Some of the larger counties have more than one sena tor, some counties share a senate seat. Since some counties do not have a resident State Senator, many have turned to the County Council to assure that county residents will ope rate their county. That’s the purpose of the County Council. This first County Council will be vitally important to the efficiency of our county government. There are some good men offering for this pcfet. We urge you to study the candidates carefully and then make a point to go to the polls on Tuesday and cast your important ballots ZERO-BASE' BUDGETING 2-R—THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., June 4, 1970 Federal programs have a way of perpetuating themselves through con stant expansion and increased budg ets. Bureaus and departments in many cases feel that their importance to the nation and the people is in direct proportion to their ever-increasing ex penditures. * Dr. Arthur Burns, prior to accept ing the chairmanship of the Federal Reserve Board, proposed a sound, con structive method to ascertain the cur rent worth of federal programs and projects. He calls it “zero-base budgeting.” This means that each government agency would have to make a case for i|p entire appropriation each year, not merely for the requested increase. For example, each of the cabinet- level departments has thousands of different programs. Under “zero-base budgeting” they would be required to justify their worth, not just ask for new appropriations to continue their existence or to expand their activities. It’s just good practice to “take LHKCk THK HOOTS TOO! stock,” whether it be in the private or public sector of our economy. Let’s give it a try! TYPES OF ACCIDENTS 1969 Persona Killed Per Cent Persona Injured Ptr C#nt COLLISION WITH: Motor vehicle 22,500 39.8 3,440,000 73.2 Pedestrian 9,700 17.2 268,000 5.7 Fixed object 6,500 11.5 277,000 59 Railroad train 1,200 2.1 5,000 .1 Bicycle 800 1.4 71,000 1.5 Other vehicle Miscellaneous 500 .9 33,000 .7 Non-collision 15300 27.1 606300 12.9 TOTAL 56,500 100.0 4,700,000 100.0 Wish I’d Said That ACTIONS OF DRIVERS 1969 Persona Klllad P#f Cofit Persons Injured Ptr C#nt Exceeding speed limit 18,700 40.5 1,056,000 253 On wrong side of road 6300 13.6 236,000 5.7 Did not have right of way 5,800 12.6 795,000 193 Catting in 50 .1 12,000 3 Paasing on curve or hill 100 2 8,000 3 Passing on wrong side 1,100 2.4 83,000 2.0 Failed to signal and improper signaling 150 3 25,000 .6 Car ran away — no driver Drove off roadway 7,100 15.4 575,000 13.9 Reckleea driving 6300 11.9 1367,000 30.6 Miscellaneous 1,400 3.0 83,000 2.0 TOTAL 48300 100.0 4,140,000 100.0 TYPES OF VEHICLES 1969 i TttllrtEE Ml —* lea Mrsei W ^essvA. as 6 Per fatal Ac aidants Cant 1 Aocldttnti Cent r—tiiffir car 87300 793 4,676300 87.4 “Certainly everyone is en titled to their own ideas and this, generally is a healthy condition. However, when these ideas break into society to cre ate the ruination of property, then it is time to put on the brakes."—C. Dale Noah, The Brookline (Penna.) Journal. STRICTLY FRESH One sign of aging in men is when the menu in a bunny club gets the eye more care fully than the waitresses. * * * Take pride in being sharp as a tack and someone is bound to hammer your head right into the carpet. ▼•Mela TOTAL 11,400 200 600 2,200 too njm 15A 2 A S.1 A 100.0 417,000 64,000 42,000 112,000 28,000 7.8 \2 .8 2.1 .7 100.0 Nothing Idealistic About The Turmoil Passing the collection plate is what too many pa rishioners do on Sunday morning. • • * About the only time a bor rower is repaid with interest is when he’s seeking trouble. * * * People who have money to burn do so because they don’t. latenutfeaal Parley The first international par ley of great powers held on American soil was in 1921, when President Harding welcomed delegates from nine countries to the opening session of the Washington disarmament conference. BY THURMAN SENSING Executive Vice President Southern States Industrial Council The American citizen, try ing to make sense of the tur moil on college and university campuses and in the streets of some cities, understandably finds it hard to fathom what’s going on. They read about mobs of protesters converging on the nation’s capital and learn of in stitutions of learning being closed down as students and professors go on strike. The confusion is compounded by the fact that influential television commentators and slick news magazines published in New York City hold up demonstra tors as ‘•idealists" and the wave of the future. The beginning of wisdom con cerning the nation’s current predicament is understanding that there’s nothing idealistic about the protest movement convulsing America. There’s nothing idealistic a- bout U. S. Senators demanding that America cut and run and let the communists turn South east Asia into a bloodbath. There’s nothing idealistic a- about university administrators abandoning their responsi bility to parents and the public by allowing radicalized facul ties to leave their classrooms and parade in the street. There’s nothing idealistic a- bout militant students -- the criminal Left referred to by Vice President Agnew -- ran sacking college buildings, praising Black Panthers, and setting fires. There’s nothing idealistic a- bout promoting drug addition and urging the legalization of marijuana, a mind-distorting agent. There’s nothing idealistic a- bout political leaders such as Senators Albert Gore (D-Tenn) and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass) trying to halt America’s de fense research and develop ment -- the key to the securi ty of this nation. • There’s nothing idealistic a- bout hippie types who revel in dirt and moral degradation and Jump naked into the pod be hind the White Boose. There’s nothing idealistic a- bout talking “peace” when the real intention is defeat of the United States in a deadly cold war straggle with communism. There’s nothing idealistic a- bout shouting “academic free dom” when that freedom is used to shatter yoong citizens’ belief in their country, its consti tutional principles and free en terprise system. bout newscasters who slant the news to discredit the President of the United States. Irrationality is never ideal istic. Drug addiction, bombing of ROTC buildings, refusal to serve one’s country -- none of these things is ever idealistic in any way. F rnally, brainwash ing of the people by the spread ing of false notions is the op posite of idealism. It is utter ly cynical. The genuine idealism of A- merica is vested in our Con stitution and in the traditional principles of our national life: faith in God, belief in country and respect for family and community. This idealism is deeply rooted in the hearts of the vast majority of Americans. But their beliefs are scorned by effete intellectuals and bit terly attacked by the New Left revolutionaries who want to burn down America. Amy Rand, the novelist, re cently published a brilliant analysis of the situation facing the nation. Miss Rand said that the New Leftists now disrupting the country "are a desperate herd looking for a Fuhrer.’’ She added that the sundry little dictators who manipulate the radical protesters “do have a mongrel system in mind; a sta tist dictatorship with commun ist slogans and fascist poli cies.” The new Leftists are profess ional wreckers who hope to plunge the country into total chaos and seize power. The hope of America lies in public un derstanding, in recognition of the brutal, mindless character of the protest movement. The A- merican people must see that the demonstrators are an army gathered under the banner of ir rationality. This army must be defeated by an aroused and re solute people who insist that their elected leaders and re sponsible officials, including university trustees and ad ministrators, treat the destruc- tionists like the anarchists and the traitors that they are. The protesters who talk of "peace” while breaking glass windows and lighting torches have no program but destruc tion and national paralysis. They must be contained, sep arated and prevented from clos ing universities and otherwise halting the normal and essen tial processes of our society. The protesters must not be allowed to delude the people and destroy a great and free re public. Product Sales Said to Fulfill Human Values SENATOR STROM THURMOND REPORTS TO THE PEOPLE FORCED INTEGRATION There’s nothing idealistic a- Battle of BalakUva The famous Battle of Bala- klava was fought in the Cri mean War. After mistaking orders, the British Light Bri- E ade launched a spectacu- r but futile cavalry attack which cost 247 lives. The aims of business and those of young people are quite similar, according to E. B. Speer, president of United States Steel Corp., who says that both business and youth "want to make a contribution which results in a better so ciety." “What we aren’t doing." he said, "is to make our young people realize that the sale of a product does not just end with the sale of a physical item; rather it fulfills a hu man need." Speaking at Houston, Tex.. Mr. Speer said that, in the final analysis, human values in most instances have to be translated into material needs. “There fore. industry is inexorably tied to the concerns of society," he said. Lose Youth, Lose Future “Unless we make our youth cognizant of the role of busi ness in society, we have lost our youth. And when you lose your youth, you lose your future.” Mr. Speer outlined a number of challenges which he said business must be prepared to meet during the decade of the 70’s. One of these will arise from the great economic growth ahead. He said that, barring economic disaster, the United States in less than a year will have the world’s first trillion- dollar economy, and will have added another half a trillion by the end of the decade. “Our absolute growth over the next decade will far exceed the total annual output of any nation in the world in all of history," he predicted. But by 1980, two out of three adults will have grown up in the prosperous postwar era and, with family income doubled, "people will have dif ferent values and aspirations that will profoundly affect markets.’’ Better Understanding Needed “Businessmen must listen carefully to the criticism of our system, ponder whether indeed our values are in ordir, and then figure out if we have the means to establish a role for our young people in man agement that has a relevance to social needs beyond the mak ing of a profit,” he said. But the final challenge, he said, will lie in the ability of business to appeal to youth which “no longer intuitively accepts the glories of the mar ket economy.” Industry is to blame for this attitude, Mr. Speer said, be cause it hasn’t told its story well enough in terms of the business contribution to a bet ter society. The Special Ad-Hoc Subcom mittee on Schools has just com pleted a series of hearings on the results of forced integration. Witnesses before this special subcommittee included school board members, teachers, stu dents, lawyers, a psychiatrist, and just plain parents. The purpose of the subcom mittee, set up by the Senate Ju diciary Committee, was to ex plore what happens when the schools are forced to integrate under Supreme Court guidelines in defiance of community wishes. FREEDOM OF CHOICE Those testifying came from school systems in North and South Carolina and Georgia. All these systems were in conform ity with the 1954 Brown decision of the Supreme Court and with the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In these systems, every child was free to choosy any school he wished to attend, regardless of race. In other words, no State action, whether by law or regu lation, forced a child to attend a certain school because of his col or — until the recent Supreme Court decisions outlawing free dom of choice. The witnesses included both liberals and conservatives on the race question, but all agreed that discrimination should not be a factor in pupil assignment. All were deeply concerned by recent decisions of the Supreme Court that, in effect, have made race the ONLY factor in pupil and teacher assignment. The hearings showed that, by making race the basis of pupil assignment, the Supreme Court has polarized the races and sowed deep division and distrust between the racial communities. The constant emphasis on white and black has made people far more race conscious than ever before. The witnesses pointed out that a white child or a black child, uprooted from his familiar friends and surroundings, and transported into an alien atmos phere because the color of his skin is needed to attain mathe- matira! ratios becomes deeply resentful. It is only natural that he transfers this resentment to the nearest child of a different color. LEARNING DESTROYED t gration, the learning situation was destroyed. Motivating a child to do well in school re- uires a combination of factors, e child has to have pride in his community and pride in his school. The child has to have a feeling of belonging and partici pation. The mid-season forced integra tion ordered by the Supreme Court went contrary to every common sense concept of edu cation. The witnesses reported that students of both races were angered because they were pulled out of their athletic teams and extra-curricular activities. Many had to drop courses because their bus schedules could not get them to the new school on time. School spirit disappeared — because a school is not a building but a cohesive group of students and faculty. Morale among the teachers likewise fell. In order to make up the racial balance, grade school teachers who were ex perts in reading were suddenly told to teach high school physics in a different school, as just one example. ANOTHER EXAMPLE One teacher who felt a special mission to work among cultur ally deprived children reported that she was arbitrarily assigned to a different job in a different school because her skin was white. She questioned whether her substitute, also arbitrarily assigned, would be sufficiently prepared or experienced to ban die the complex problems in the position. Such situations have had a devastating effect upon both stu dent and teacher morale. Surveys indicate teacher resignations of up to 4. 1 ) per cent at the end of the contract period. Many, if not most, of these teachers will be lost to the profession. Students, faced with strange teachers who are ill prepared for their tasks. ha\e in many cases given up interest in school work. The school boards testified that they originally had ex pected their problems to be with the cra-h implementation pro gram forced upon them .without warning. Rut the real problem* have come since implementation hs* been completed In short, the hearings showed 0 i — that, as a result of forced inte- At-ruovw n tt f,r, f,nr ti i>r /it gorrrnmrmf rxprntri A - -4 Parson Jones Says Next Phase Around Corner? I Dear Mr. Publisher: I had a chance to go back to school and do some refresher courses. My wife said 1 oughta go on account of all the changes that had taken place since I graduated. Well sir, I thought a- bout it a long time and finally decided not to go. It’s a fact that things have changed a heap. That’s the problem - things are changing so fast, that by the time I got out, what I learned would be out-dated. Or as the old slogan goes, “the faster I would run the be-hinder I would get". Changes? Man alive! Since I left school so many changes have taken place in religion that it may even be confusing to the Lord. First, there was the scienti fic age where everything had to be reasonable. They called it the age of “modern man”. So they went through the Bible with a slide rule and throwed out everything that didn’t fit Feed ing the 5,000 and walking on the water di(ta’t really happen-they were just little stories to tell a point. Walking on water was somehow more offensive than the atom bomb. Next came the age of “secular man". I think they called it “man come of age". Folks didn tneed God and the church any more, cause they’d shed their knee britches and was wearing long pants. We were gonna build heaven right here on earth with a few computors and a little American know-how. Boy’ That one Mowed up in our face. Then we turned to another fad - “the youthful man". Reli gious thought must now be gear ed to folks under 35 years of age. Music, theology, the whole works has gotta get young. If Jesus came back today he ’d have to put hair-coloring on his beard. Mr. Publisher, from the way things are going, the next phase will be called "hopeless Man", and I got a suspicion it’s right around the corner. Well, I gotta close for now and do a little praying. I’ve a- bout come to the conclusion that if the Lord don’t straighten us out we ain’t gonna be straigh tened out. Like the song says, "Oh Lord, Come On Down". So long. Parson Jones Consumer Bureau Dear Mr. Editor: Why is it that the business man has the Credit Bureau, and the average person has no means to compete even when he has a legitimate gripe? If you live in Clinton, and you go to a supposedly reputable firm, and they do not complete the Job even on the third try, you have no BETTER BUSI NESS BUREAU or any otter a- gency to assure you of good ser vice. Therefore, if your name is submitted to the Credit Bureau, without any prior notice to you, the only thing you can do is pay- tor services not received or have your name placed on the BLACK LET Were it pot for the consumer,*: where would the businessman ^ be? § Yours truly, Mrs. J. E. Stockman;