Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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% I j ' ! A JOB WELL DONE When i>r. Malcolm A. Mactionalu relmquiahea his duties as presideni ui Thomwell on Dec. 31, he can look oacK upon a period on dramatic growth dur ing his 26-year tenure. He has been an extraordinary builder of the institution and he will leave it on a firm financial founda tion. During Dr. Macdonald’s years of service 13 residential cottages, a gym nasium, high school and grammar school (buildings, the Hartness-1 horn- well Memorial Chiurch and Education al Building and numerous other proj ects that have been completed. During 1971, Dr. Macdonald will continue a relationship with Thom well in superintending the construction of an infirmary and museum. Clintonians have always been proud of Thomwell and Dr. Macdon ald enhanced that pride as he trans formed the Thomwell campus into a •beauty spot with tasteful, attractive landscaping. Through Dr. Macdonald’s efforts, the Thomwell endowment funds have increased from less than $400,000 to nearly $7 million dollars. But Dr. Macdonald is more than a physical builder. He also is a spiri tual builder and he undoubtedly takes the most pride in the fine young peo ple Thomwell prepares for the world. It is unfortunate that Dr. Mac donald will leave Thomwell under cir- cumstances apparently not of his own choosing and in an atmosphere of some bitterness over the way the situ ation developed. However, this does not diminish the magnificent contribution Dr. Mac donald has made to the welfare of Thomwell and the Clinton commun ity. Both Thomwell and the entire Clinton area owe Dr. Macdonald a vote of appreciation for an outstanding contribution. He has meant so much to so many and his contributions will benefit countless generations yet to come. POLITICS CUTS BOTH WAYS In boasting of the voting power of South Carolina educators, Dr. Carlos W. Gibbons, executive secre tary of the South Carolina Education Association, is treading on some thin ice, A news release from Dr. Gibbons’ office last week said: “Teachers across the country played key roles in the election or de feat of political candidates in many states during the recent general elec tion, according to Dr. Carlos W. Gib- 'bdns, executive secretary of the South Carolina Education Association (SCEA.) "Gibbons said, ‘The influence of the teachers’ vote was obvious, even in South Carolina where Lt. Gov. John C. West edged out Congressman Al bert Watson by 30,000 votes. It is es timated that Lt. Governor West cap tured 80-86 per cent of the profession al educators’ votes in South Carolina and this was enough to insure his vic tory over Congressman Watson. The professional vote in South Carolina crystalized sharply in the waning days of the campaign in favor of Lt. Governor West after Congressman Watson got tagged with political in tervention into school operation and discipline problems’. "Gibbons continual, Teacher in volvement in political processes of go- emment has been especially lagging in the South and this may be one of the reasons why educational support is lacking in so many vital areas. It is folly to divorce education from poli tics and inexcusable for the teaching profession to develop a laissez faire attitude about politics’.” We agree that educators should exercise their political rights. Cer tainly, they are among our best edu cated citizens, usually are well-in formed about current events and are highly qualified to make intelligent choices at the polls. However, we do not agree with) bloc-voting or with us ing voting power to promote special interest groups. Dr. Gibbons is using teachers’ votes as a thinly veiled political boast or, worse, threat. One of the requirements for ac creditation of schools is that they must be free of political pressure within the community. Yet here is Dr. Gibbons saying, "It is folly to di vorce education from politics ..." Politics can cut both ways. He can not expect to use the teachers as his own political force and still keep poli tics out of the schools at the local level. In fact, while waving the SCEA’s political banner, Dr. Gibbons mentions that "Congressman Watson got tagged with political intervention into school operation and discipline problems . . .” If Dr. Gibbons wants to play politics with the teachers’ votes, then he can expect political in tervention into school operation ami that would be a sad, sad day for public education. Dr. Gibbons says “Teacher in volvement in political processes of government has been especially lag ging in the South and this may be one of the reasons why educational sup port is lacking in so many vital areas 99 We suggest that Dr. Gibbons look closer to home when he is trying to place the blame for a lack of educa tional support. We also suggest that SCEA mem bers take a good look at the effective ness of the SCEA’s representation of their legislative interests. A good starting point would be to contact their state representatives and sens ors to get their opinions. Education in South Carolina is is far more important than the SCEA and it is far more important than lob byists and political pressure groups. OLD NEWSPAPERS Aside from wrapping fish or starting fires or training puppies, what DO you do with yesterday's newspaper We like the idea of the Levil- town, N. Y., Women’s Club which is conducting an experimental program to cut down air pollution. The club is spearheading a community paper re cycling program which not only cut* down on pollution caused when pai>cr is burned but also could lie a revenue producer. Members of the women’s club visited 2,800 families in a test area and asked them to collect their news papers from throughout the week and put them out separately instead cl leaving them with the regular gar bage to be picked up and burned. Through cooperation of the Hempstead Department of Sanitation, Thursday was set aside for picking up the newspapers. The regular garbage pickups are Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The newspapers collected will lie sold to ^ paper salvaging company for 40 cents per 100 pounds. The com munity expects to get over $50 per week for the "paper and will save a similar amount by not having to bum the paper in the town incinerator— and also cuts down on pollution by smoke. Clinton’s Street Department al ready is shorthanded and it’s doubtful that it could handle any extra project. However, any club which wanted t<> sponsor such a project undoubtedly could pick up the papers on a specified day and, even with the cost of picking up and transporting the paper, prob ably could make a profit. It’s worth thinking about So says the VA... b> VETERAMS DISABLED BY INJURY OR DISEASE WHILE IN ACTIVE SERVICE ARE ELIGIBLE FOR COMPENSATION 2-C—THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., Dec. 10, 1970 SENATOR STROM THURMOND REPORTS TO THE PEOPLE TWO CANALS Attention is now focused upon ownership, the so-called treaty the two s:rt‘at artificial water- rights were of no value. I’lti- ways of the world, the Suez mately, Egypt was so weak that Canal and the Panama Canal, the Soviets moved into the vac- The Suez Canal has long been uum left by Britain and France; closed by Egypt, while the Pan- and now the Soviets are alxiut RETURN TO HAUNT Father Hill Is Battler For Decency In U.S. ama Canal has never been closed willfully by the United States. By a strange twist of fate, the nation that most desires the opening of the Suez ('anal is Egypt’s ally, the Soviet Union. Once the Suez ('anal is opened, the land-locked Soviets will at last have control over the warm- water route from the Black Sea through the Suez Canal and the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean. Soviet ships are already on sta tion at Port Sudan and Aden; they are rapidly increasing their presence in the Indian Ocean, driving their range of influence down around the Cape of Good Hope and into the Atlantic. Thus, in time of war, the enor mous Soviet fleet will 1h j free to roam the seas at large. NARROW WATERWAYS The prospect of this develop ment shows us the strategic im portance of holding control over the narrow waterways of the world. For just as the Soviets have l>een striving to get effec tive control over the Suez, at the same time they have -ought to undermine United States control over the Panama ('anal It L h ghly disturbing, there fore. that a Presidential ( om- to walk off with the long-sought prize. A defense treaty with Pan ama is likewise of no \alue if we do not have the rights of a sovereign in the defense of the Canal. We cannot share defense rights when a small defenseless ration is given ultimate author ity. In an emergency, we would lack the proper initiative to act; in the long run. we would face the danger that the Panamanian government could become radi calized or overthrown. It is follv to reach out for a new canal, when, in doing so, we would let fall our historic rights Moreover, the closure of the ('anal in - •uoh a -ituat ion u on ,) have a -t •non- otfi" 1 ! upon o;;r st rati rb- pn pan ilno St ml o show that TO por oo! 11 of a;) i O,. i aiaro th; it l'oo- tin o'jo}: ’jo ('anal is hound for or < on.ir o from U.S, port -. In Wo i !ij W .. r II, th u K i iroan War. 'Is < id.. i cri-is of 1 and t ho Y ■ War, t ho Canal ha- plavod vital ilfplo' rolo ,'iiior i n lovr: 'to - and na\ a! It, I,o-- of tho C,i. ;,! wi mhl lw oi|mvalont to }o-ino a lai'L'i' nan : of tho Navv. UNWISE Th. For information, contact the nearest VA office (check your phone book) or write: Veterans Administration, 232H, 810 Vermont Ave., NW, Washington, D C. 20420 NEW YORK, N. Y. - Here in the nation’s largest city to address the emergency leader ship conference sponsored by The Center of American Living Inc., I had the privilege of sharing the platform with the Rev. Morton A. Hill, S. J., a battler for decency who de serves the thanks of all re spectable citizens. Father Hill is one of the three members of the presi dential Commission on Ob scenity and Pornography who dissented from the majority findings. The views of Father Hill and his two colleagues, who filed a minority report, should be widely known. In order to help achieve this im portant goal, I am devoting this column toexcerpts from Father Hill’s speech. The following are among his most telling comments to the leadership conference organized by Lady Natalie Douglas-Hamilton, who heads The Center of American Living: “There’s a wild storm of smut buffeting our country to day. It’s drowning out good media; it’s choking our culture; it’s corrupting our morals. “The purveyors of filth are more brazen than ever. Smut peddlers, confident that highly paid legal counsel will see them through anything, are trans porting theirtrash across state lines, are importing it, are sending it through the mails. Commercial films are project ing the anti-hero image to our young people. He’s an unloving non-achiever, non-creator; a violent, oversexed or perverted drug user. Underground news papers—there are some 200 -of them in the country--are serving up a poppourri of sex, drugs and rebellion. “And then a presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, after two years and $2 million of your tax money, comes up and says in effect: ‘Leave it there. It’s all revved up. Let it take off. Let’s repeal all obscenity laws....’ This is what’s known as the Danish solution and it is what 12 Americans on the Commission voted for.' “Although the President re jected the majority report and the Senate rejected and cen sored it, we have not seen the last of the publicity it will get It is possible that the big brainwash has not even begun. “The Commission did not do its job. It was mandated by Congress to make recom mendations that would effec tively and constitutionally re gulate the traffic In obscenity and pornography. Obviously, the Commission did not carry out this mandate. “The Commission began in slant and bias to prove a pre conceived theory, and it never changed or altered course. mission appointed hy President deiitial on •till’d--lot ui.K :.L Jehnson in 19fil has just delix- Panama ( 'anal pn rn; .'ii fv }—P ered an elaborate studx with unwi-e a ml um.o, , • ' ;t i \ M...I conclusions which would require ormzation of the i j :t i" f. the l nited Stall's to irixe up its canal wi •Hid n-q ui r* n " !, t ■ V. soxereipntv in the U.S. ( anal treaty, a till Wouh -1 prov: ide a! Zone, and build a new sea-level most a- Croat a c;i pac:t v a’ a canal under international cm- fraction i •f tho V 1 > ’!:;«• trol. mated co- .;. Th o now Canal recommended 1 have int mduct d such a pm- woull i co-t $_’> hillion and he posal in Senate Bill S. J J 2 *. exo;r vated by conventional With cur -ox emit nt x undiluted. mean -. But. most important, it the U.S. would be ii n a p osjt ion wouh ] require the negotiation of to defend the Canal more e.-l'ilx new treaties, yivinp Panama and quickly, and to take s t r i n - partii ripation in the operation. pent security mea sU re*. \I1 de- income, and control of the cision-ma kmc and kl *> op« rat me Canal. The Commission ar^xio- that such an arrangement would he levs vulnerable t" radical agi tation in Panama, and therefore easier to defend. LOST RIGHTS But the example of the Suez ('anal reminds U' that once the British and the French tfave up the rights of sovereignty and personnel on the Canal 'h uild he American citizens with unim peachable securitv The Panama Car ird' p rtant the surrender it P sh mid learn what is happ* Ur it - t ha .r I \V, evidence (in a study of its own) that organized crime is in volved in the smut industry; it presented overwhelming evi dence. It named reputed members oferime families who were involved. It named corpo rations owned and operated by reputed members of crime families. It concluded, in fact, that the smut industry is in fested with racketeers. But the Presidential Commission could find ‘no concrete evidence’.* The address made by Father Hill deserves to be publicized nationwide. Indeed public officials and community lead ers need to familiarize them selves with the entire Hill- Link-Keating minority report which makes clear the menace posed by the smut peddlers. With the facts devloped by Father Hill and other dis senters, there is a foundation for an organized, continuous 1he and reasoned community voice against the traffic in porno- graphy—a traffic in which syndicates crime plays a key role. Father Hill’s organization, Morality In Media Inc., 1256 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y., 10028, can provide con cerned citizens with whatever information they need to com bat smut peddlers in their communities. 'not j>rr fxirrd or J>ri ntrd af govt rn mr n t *!]>{* PARSON JONES SAYS Idea Of Pleasing Everybody Is Silly "It's not those who lie awake nights that succeed, but those who stay awake days.” Greet each dawn with a smile and your neighbors will wonder w hat you were doing up all night. Harold S. May, The Florence (Ala.) Herald. Beware of the half-truth; you may have gotten hold of the wrong half.— Fred W. Grown, The Bergen (N. J.) Citizen. I’ve just about quit bother ing myself about any contri bution to posterity, as it looks now there’s a right good chance of posterity not even getting here. — Charlie Crawford, The Democrat- Union, Lawrenceburg, Tenn. rz/Weft “The New YorkState Investl- gatioo Commission presented /TWk’nyjr^.ifu IF YOU AIN'T PROTESTING NUTHIN, HOW COSE YOU'RE DRESSED LIKE THAT’ Dear Mr. Publisher: There’s a lotta talk these days about updating everything in the church to make it re levant to our times. On the surface that sounds pretty good. Folks tell us if we’re gonna get the people Interest in the church why we’ve gotta give ’em what they’re in terested in. One church out in California took that to heart and started showing dirty movies. And sure nuff atten dance picked up. I read where another church increased its attendance by holding ‘pot* parties. (The kind you smoke, not cook with.) One little fella in our church suggested that during Sunday School we dispense with the lessons and just chew bubble gum* lean just see our church changing its name to the Church of The Holy Bubbles. We’ve got four or five inactive fellas in our congregation, who’d come every Sunday if they could play checkers in the pews. Mr. Publisher, if I sound silly its because the hole idea of “pleasing everybody* is silly. There was a time when a preacher took his text from the Good Book and then called the shots as he saw ’em. Sin was sin, good was good, hell was hell, and heaven was heaven. Now-a-days we gotta serve relevant Ice cream and compromise cake. And - that’s the reason so many folks have got the spiritual bellyache - too much junk! It ain’t possible to make the Word of Godpalatable toevery- body and still please the Al mighty. Sinners who love their sins are just naturally gonna dodge the church. Folks stay away from church for the same reason a crook don’t like the spotlight People that don’t want God messing around in their business ain’t likely to be in love with the church. So, Mr. Publisher, things being what they are, God being holy and man being unholy, why people * have 'just got a built-in reason for running in the opposite direction. If a man is honest, it might hurt him as much to g to church as it would to have a cancer operation. The more a fella hates to g- the more he needs to go. Well, so much for making some folks mad. If you think what I’ve said is a little strong, just sprinkle a little powdered sugar on it and let ‘em wash it down with skimmed milk. Until next time, I remain steady. Parson Jones SS Rate Probably Will Rise People call the Social Security Office in Greenwood everyday to ask if the social security tax rate will increase in 1971. “The best answer to that ques tion is: “It probably will*, said J. E. Gunter, Field Re presentative of the Greenwood Office. He stated that the tax rate is scheduled to increase In January 1971 to 5.2 per cent for employees and 6.9 percent forself-employedper- sons. Employers match the contribution of their em ployees. The present tax rate is 4.8 percent for employees and 5.2 percent for self-em ployed people. The present tax base of $7800.00 is scheduled to remain the same. This means that an employee earning $ 7800.00 this yc ar pays '$377.40. Next year he will pay $31.20 more for a total of $405.60. “Probably* creeps into the answer because the “jury is still out, said Mr. Gunter. He explained that Congress is ex pected to debate possible im provements In the Social Security law during tbe week starting December 14. 1970.