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PAGE TWO THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6,195S 1218 College Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937 at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. Prosperity News MRS. B. T. YOUNO, Correspondent Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Barnes and their two children, Rudy and Susan Marie of Columbia, were Sunday guests of Mr. Barnes’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Barnes. Miss Jewel Connelly of Colum bia College spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dove Connelly. With the Con nellys Friday night and Satur day were their other daughter, Mrs. Eugene Eaddy and Rev. Eaddy of Folly Beach. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Edmunds of Asheville, N. C., Mr. and Mrs. Rogers Taylor and son of Sum- merton, were weekend guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Bedenbaugh of Easley spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Bedenbaugh. Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Connelly of Ambrose, Ga. spent the week end at their home here. Mrs. Mattie Schumpert is visit ing her son, Frank Schumpert in Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. Schumpert came up tc get his mother. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS BY SPECTATOR Well, now let us hear from an old-time, old fashioned daddy one who writes to a great Northern daily about discipline: “Re your editorial ‘Whose Education?’, I wrote you a let ter the other day giving almost the same line of reasoning and many of the same conclusions. Its opening sentence was: ‘The Declaration of Independence says that all men are created free and equal.’ The conclusions reached were that all men are not equal, never were and never will be, so why try to give them an ‘equal’ education? The first thing you have to teach children is discipline. They have got to learn to take orders and obey them. Anc when you have taught them that, you will be surprised at how bright they will suddenly be in their studies. I hold a degree of AB from Yale and MS from M.I.T. !! was raised with ‘home discipline’ with a razor strop or hair brush and learned to take orders and obey them. I raised my children on the same theory and my grandchildren are being raised in the same way. But we are only one family among many others who dote on the ‘youthful ego ’and al that rot. A child without discipline is like a watch without a balance wheel: He is no good to himself, his community or his country. And that is what we have at the moment.” That was written by a citizen of New Jersey. Here is another letter, this from a college professor: “Congratulations and thanks for devoting so much int erest and space to ‘What’s Wrong with U. S. Education.’ So here’s special appreciation from a -college professor on his long-awaited sabbatical breather for expressing yourself and letting others have their say. Having been in the game of ‘higher’ (sic) education for more than 15 years, having received much of my education here in Europe and now looking back, as it were, from this side of the fence once again, I appeal primarily to my col- leagues to ‘get off the wailing wall’ (with apologies to Mr. Nixon). The simple fact is that our educational institutions from the elementary level to post-graduate, i. e. creative research which presupposes thinking, must return some of its too eagerly assumed duties to the home and family where basic rearing belongs, drop its extra curieulars (the tail that has been wagging the dog), apd go back to the primary function of educating. (Now that we are in the danger of concen trating on mathematics and science, we must make certain that we do not inaugurate a sort of Prussian elite, regard less of its momentary advantages.) Our educational w r ays seem to have concentrated in recent years on making studies easy, with textbooks that condense, abbreviate, simplify and destroy any sense of personal discovery. We have cut reading to the very bone and filled schools with such a goulash of social competence courses and country club affairs that it is a miracle that there is any time left at all for the library and the laboratory. He^ Europe, the school day is stiH from eight to four, plus homCW 01 *^* with half days on Wednesday (or Thursday) and Saturday* short vacations. Discipline is strict, work is intense, and /schools do not waste time, money and effort to make themselves ‘attractive*—except as places where knowledge is to be gained, the mind trained, disciplines learned. A multitude of bookshops are doing a good busi ness in literature, sciences and languages, since almost every European city is at least bilingual today. Colleges and universities will simply have to demand more of teachers an dstudents than mere textbook-chewing in class, miserly assignments done almost under duress (since they may interfere with athletics, R.O.T.C., a dance, etc.), and rekindle personal curiosity, individual reading, and a general devotion to education as at least part of the fulfillment of life. We condemn the USSR for its educational methods, and yet I detected in many conversations at home and in many subsequent letters an ill-disguised jealousy for methods that have apparently produced such wondrous results. We seem to be going on a binge of science now, with more money, more scholarships, more promises for rewards ‘to catch up with the Russians’—and if the Rusians so will it, might we also be in for more ballroom-dancing in 1960 ? We have been passing the buck from parent to school and back again, now involving the government as well, as far as education is concerned for several decades, with such shifting of responsibility that there is no responsibility left, one party assuming the other is doing the job. We need to clarify the scope of responsibility of parent, school and student, and then permit the schools to return to the area of knowledge, ideals and thoughts. Let? the requirements be higher than quiz-grades and let an academic degree stand for more than admission to a high er salary scale. And let education be once again more than a half-hearted capsule preparation for a good job.” A third letter comes from New York State: “Your recent appraisals of elementary and schools were extremely informative—they showed a nation wide apprehension over current educational practices. Much of the fault lies with current teacher-training ins titutions and the laws governing certification of public school teachers. Teachers colleges in recent years have had to take high school graduates from the lowest fourth of the graduating class since better students are siphoned off by technical and liberal arts schools which assure their students a good living after graduation. State teachers colleges must not only teach the fundamental subjects to their students but they must also offer them courses in methodology, in psychology, etc., in accordance with the teachers certifica tion laws. In New York state, for example, a college graduate who has 60 hours in physics or mathematics cannot teach unless he has at least 12 hours in education courses. The private schools which do not come under these regulations obtain teachers who know their subject matter and will pick up the technique of teaching it through experience. One of the results is that private secondary school graduates are generally one year ahead of their public school brothers and do not drop out of college as regularly.” Since education is the livest topic of the moment, meaning of course, formal school work, what think you of this, from a great Journal of Business, said to be the businessman’s daily intellectual arousement—The Wall Street Journal: “Among the sad—and true—facts about our educational system reported by Secretary Folsom to President Eisen hower were the following: Only one out of three high school graduates has had as much as a year of chemistry; only one out of four has had a year of physics. Only one of three graduates had more than a year of simple algebra. Only about one out of five of all high school students, in the year 1955, was taking a course in any for eign language. Every one of the 48 states has a special program to pro mote the teaching of home economics and the distributive trades (merchandizing) in the secondary schools. Only 8 of the 48 have similar programs to improve the teaching of science and mathematics. These are the educational deficiencies which Mr. Folsom proposes to attack with a billion dollars of Federal funds. It would be an ‘emergency^ program, like Jupiter or Atlas; to crash us through the educational barrier in four years. Yet to anyone who will look about the countryside at the new high schools, rising like architectural gems, it should be self-evident that these are not deficiencies of money. Algebra requires little more than a blackboard, an interested teacher and intelligent pupils. A magnificent physics or chemistry laboratory, can be built for the fraction of the cost of a gymnasium. Mr. Folsom does not understate the gravity of the defi ciencies; he does not err in thinking that good education, like anything of high quality costs money and it is tra gic waste for good minds to be left in ignorance. The error here is in the remedy he proposes. If there are four students in a high school and only one is taking physics, there can be many reasons why the other three do not. They may not have the intellectual capacity. Their interests and aptitudes may lie elsewhere. They may, as young people sometimes do, prefer a crip course to hard work. The school authorities, as very often happens, may steer them away from a subject in which they will not do well because a poor pupil may lower the school average. The teacher may be incompetent to arouse enthusiasm. In our own community—and many others—only something called ‘general math’, a smattering of arithmetic, algebra and geometry, is required for graduation. There are repu table colleges that require only one year of math for •en trance. If their elders will not extend the reach, who should expect young people to extend their grasp? Mr. Folsom would take his billion dollars and spend part of it on testing program for students, as if no one had ever heard of the classroom as a place of challenge and testing. He would spend part of it to pay salaries of administrators and supervisory personnel, as if more administrators will fire students with a ‘desire or incentive for education.’ He would use part of it to expand state units to provide more counselors to counsel the additional counselors who are go ing to counsel the teachers on how to teach. The only part of this billion dollars that would go directly to educate young people is the program to provide scholar ships beyond high school, and even that mistakes the mark by aiming less at an educated citizenry than at an output of engineers and scientists to ply a trade for the defense program. The saddest thing about all this is not the waste of money nor the proliferation of bureaucracy, foolish though they be. It is that having suddenly awakened to the way on*- . tional system has wasted the nation’s bright youn<- we seem beguiled by the notion that we can r it e- right by opening our pocketbooks. The cure is not in money v u* secondary comunity, and the teacher jYS are 1 HAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER Our country store would get in a shipment of cloth a time or two a year. Most mothers would go there, pick out a bolt they liked, and buy it all. % She would then make garments for all the family from it. Shirts for the men and boys and dresses for the girls and women. _Then, for the next year or more, the family was attired in a sort of uniform. This had its advantages. Waste in remnants was small, and when patching time came we only had to match one pattern. Thus we can see, economy was the watch word in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork. For living was hard. At the old one-teacher school, away back in the woods from our place, I can well remember see ing all the children of a family wearing garments from the same cloth. And our school clothes too occupied a special category. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Williams and Mrs. H. P. Wicker spent Sat urday in Greenwood as guests of Mr. and Mi's. Woodrow Black. Mr. Black and Mr. Williams celebrat ed a joint birthday dinner. Miss Mary Langford, who is teaching in North Augusta, spent the weekend at home. Miss Joy Thomason of the Brookland Cayce school, spent the weekend with her mother, Mrs. Vida C. Thomason. Mrs. P. C. Singley spent last week in Columbia with her daughter, Mrs. W. D. Callahan and Mr. Callahan. On Sunday Mrs. Singley was given a birthcfhy din ner. Enjoying the occasion with Mrs. Singley besides Mr. and Mrs. Callahan were Mr. and Mrs. C. Mower Singley and Lt. and Mrs. Frank C. Wise. Mrs. A. J. Richards, Sr., of Heath Springs spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Young. Spending Sunday with Mrs. J. A. Sease were Mrs. J. B. Goldman and Mr. and Mi's. Rudolph Phil lips of North Augusta. iospital Patients Mrs. Frances Boozer, Rt. 2, Prosperity. Mrs. Lucille Cockrell, Rt. 3, Prosperity. Dewey D. Counts, Rt. 1. Mrs. Mamie DeVore, 1234 Cal houn St. Rev. Alvin G. Fulmer, Rt. 2, Pomaria. Miss Dolly Hendrix, Rt. 3. Heyward Hawkins, Rt. 1, Salu da. Mrs. Lillian B. Hendrix, Rt. 4. Miss Ethel Koon, 817 Boundary St. Miss Annie Knotts, Prosperity. William Joseph Magbee, Pope Circle. Dr. E. H. Moore, Rt. 1. Mrs. Estelle B. Martin. Caldwell St. Mrs. Lucille Mills, Rt. 4, Winns- boro. Ambrose Mayer, Rt. 3. Mrs. Elizabeth Minick, Rt. 1, Prosperity. Mrs. Estelle Marlowe, Newber- ry. Mrs. Euna Mize, Newberry. Mrs. Marie Nicosa, Rt. 1. Mrs. Willie Padgett, Piedmont St. Mrs. Kathleen Plampin, College St. Susie Marie Ringer, Pope St. Mrs. Ella Rae Summer, Rt. 1, Chapin. Dr. Mamie Summer, 2026 Main St. Amos Shealy, Neal St. John C. Stone, Rt. 2. Robert Simmons, Rt. 22. Mrs. Vidalia Shearon, Rt. 1. Robert Turner, Montgomery St. Mrs. Helen Vaughn, Langford St. Colored Patients Thomas M. Bishop, Benedict St. Will Coleman, Newberry. Wates Cannon, Pomaria. Jim Chalmers, Boundary St. Baby -Boy Gallman, Johnstone St. Annie Lucille Smith, Coates St. Robert Singley Jr., Newberry. Mildred Simpkins, Vincent St. MILLS CLINIC PATIENTS Mrs. Charles Anderson and baby boy, Batesburg. Mrs. Francis Epting, 715 Glenn St., Newberry. Mrs. Minnie Frick, Chapin. Mrs. Minnie Reagin, 1222 Glenn St., Newberry. Mrs. Jessie Eargle, Leesville. Miss Florence Miller. T’ormC Taft Morris, RouC ity. Carl Epting, Po' J iC- ’eorgia ' February 3, 1958. By the time this Report reaches print, I hope to have introduced my bill to unify the Armed Forces. I have been studying a number of different plans, and, as this was written, my bill was in the final drafting stage. Another plan of unification is being prepared under the direc tion of the Secretary of Defense, who has said that he hope^ to have it ready to submit to Con gress around March 30. It is not my intention that Con gress should enact any legislation along this line before hearing the recommendations of the Defense Department. At the same time, I don’t think that Congress — which bears the primary responsi bility for all legislation—should sit back and wait for the Execu tive Branch to draft the law. The sooner we begin the process of holding hearings and sifting ideas, the better we will be prepared to consider the Executive Depart ment’s ideas when they arrive. If it seems desirable, the bill can be amended or completely rewritten before being brought to a final vote. , Toll Television I am getting a lot of mail from South Carolina on the subject of toll television. The overwhelming majority of it is in support of my stand against pay-TV. I am more convinced than ever that I am' doing what is best for the general public. According to one estimate, a typical family watching television for three hours a day would pay $i).10 a week, or $473.20 a year for toll television, or seven times as much as the average family spends on shoes for the entire family. There is strong evidence to in dicate that pay TV and free TV cannot exist side by side. An Observant Eye One of the highlights of the session so far was the report by Senator Ellender of Louisiana on his trip last fall to Russia and ten other countries. He went into Central Siberia and saw areas that had never been visited by an American official. Speaking of foreign aid, Sena tor Ellender concluded that “the people of the United States have seen the wealth of this country poured into other lands with al most complete abandonment—with little or no long-range results.” I agree with him that a “new- look” is needed. A Personal Note I am deeply grateful for the 1 recently told you of our “Sun day clothes.” They were strictly for church, weddings, particular visiting, and the like. They were often store bought, or made at home from a little better material.. Then the school clothes came next. They were always made at home, even to our pants and coats or heavy jeans. If there was work to do when we got home from school, we pulled our school outfit offand donned overalls, our every day work clothes. In them we were most comfortable, for we didn’t have to take care then. Now from these three sorts of clothing, don't get the idea w'e had a lot of ’em. One Sunday out fit, including shoes, was all. Two school outfits, washed on alternate weeks. And several changes of old er patched-up work clothes that had likely once occupied the up per categories. That made up our outfits in the Stone Hills when we were kids. many messages of sympathy that I have received since the death of my mother. Nothing can allay my sense of bereavement, but I find solace in the warm sentiments ex pressed by our friendu and neigh bors all over the State. Recent Marriages William B. Ackerman Jr., of Prosperity and Marcelle Boozer of Newberry were married at New berry on February 2nd by Rev. Neil E. Truesdell. A. Richard Eaves, Jr., of Co lumbia and Shirley Adams Nich ols of Newberry ware married by Rev. Walter S. Pellus at Beloir on February 2nd. Recent Movings Mr. and Mrs. Joe E. Smith hay* moved to Apartment F-7 of New berry College apartments. Feb. 1: O. F. ArmAeld, one fhre- room dwelling, 926 Jessica Ave^ $10,000; W. Kolodij, one five- room wood frame dwelling on Amelia St., $8,000. Feb. 4: M A J Store, repairs to store building, 1110 Main S*., $116; E. M. Price, repairs to dwelling, 1808 Hamper St., 000. * : ■ If I csili oily. . hold Mr. and Mrs. Herman Teale have moved to 1225 Summer St. Mr. and Mrs. David Satterfield are now residing id 2, Carol Courts. Apartment C- my baby “Now nu»ybe John will believe me when I tell him a r^w car, financed by Purcells would save us money. Come to think of it, why wait to t«U John. I’ll start looking around for that new car myself. J'urcells “Your Private Bankers* 1418 Main St. Newberry MOVED / — TO — New Location MARTIN FEED & SEED STORE Is Now In the New Location At 630 Caldwell Street (Former Location of Newberry Milling & Distributing Co.) New Telephone Number: 33