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I fi 1218 CoiWffe Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Annfieid, Jr. f Owner Second-Class postage paid at Newberry, South Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. 6 What 9 s The Next Miserable, Rundown, Backward Town We Stop At?’ 9 Daniel in the Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal ACROSS IDEAS FROM OTHER EDITORS From the Cedar Springs Clip per, Cedar Springs, Michigan: There will be loud protests from many quarters over what 1 am about to state here, but it would be well for these opinions to be publicly expressed also, and we invite tile use of these columns for that purpose. My little bombshell is simply this: I am opposed to the teaching of foreign language at the high achool level I'll go a s .ep further and say that I even object to the importance placed on foreign language in many college courses. Some professions have a need for it, of course, but to require it of students in practically every field is, to me, impractical Apparently mine is a minority viewpoint as there is an ever-in creasing belief in high education al circles that more and more foreign language courses should be taught in our high schools. The University of Michigan says Cedar Springs high school should offer at least two different foreign languages. The North Central As sociation—membe rship in which is supposed to enhance a school’s prestige—also says we should of fer at least two. We now offer one—Spanish—and many small high schools have none at all. To rm foreign language cours es in high school are a luxury we can do well without Qualified foreign language teachers are not too plentiful and those posses sing these qualifications do, and should, expect to be paid for them. The budgets of most small schools cannot provide this lux ury when the money and effort spent could no doubt be better ' placed for greater benefit for a majority of the students. I ask tins question: How many students will ever have a need for knowledge of a foreign lan guage? Although many go on to coUege, the vast majority become proficient in a foreign language with just high school exposure to it. For those who do go on to col lege, it will be available for them there with top-notch instructors in charge of the courses. I have heard the argument that the study of foreign language pro vides an excellent mental stimu lus. Judging by the way most of us murder the King’s English, I believe we can get all the mental gymnastics we need by devoting more time to the study of English and grammar. Much can be said on both sides of this argument, but for now at least, “das is alles.” Snapshots: White Dove Of The Desert SHKi' I San Xavier Del Bac goes to Padre, Fray Marcos de Niza, the first visited the Indians. In 176S, other Arizona sad when the walled city of Toseon was built. Father Francisco Garces hoOt the>fir»t church in the city. The successors of Padre Garces, the Friars Nardsco and BaKaxar, built the San Xavier 13 years laboring with the Indians to complete the tre- lertaking. The greater part of “La Paloma Blanca del ” (The White Dove of the Desert) was buflt between 1783 and 1397. The mission, except for its foundation. Is constructed entirely of •din-baked clay brick, covered with a white lime. The distance from civilisation, the crude implements employed by tiw* Indians, Che fact that the natives had never seen a structure like this one in their midst, these and other considerations made the election of San Xavier Mission a feat that has never been surpassed on our con tinent. San Xavier Is the best preserved and the only one of the oM still being used by the Indians. Two things have, happened in California which will have a far reaching effect on the future of so-called trading stamps. os* One of the things is a law which makes it mandatory for the cash value of each stamp to be printed on it, and. the com pany issuing the stamps must on de ni a n d re deem the stamps in cash. * * v Another part of the new law in C a 1 i f o r - nia is provi- C. W. Harder sion making it mandatory for stamp companies to post a bond assuring the redemption of the stamps it issues through various dealers. * * * It will now be interesting to see if California housewives de mand cash redemption. Usu ally, trading stamps carry a value of 1/10 of a cent, but only heretofore redeemable in vari ous items of merchandise which the stamp firm buys wholesale, and then figures out the stamp value so that those who redeem stamps for an article, pay the retail price. * * * Thus, it is expected many California housewives from now on will take the cash and buy what they want from the local dealers in these items. * * * The bubble of the big value in stamp savings will thus be burst in California, at least. * * * But probably of even greater import to the trading stamp method of doing business was the unanimous and spontaneous © National Federation of Independent Business decision of California service station operators to discontinue the use of trading stamps. • • * County by county, the service station men stopped giving out stamps, and all report there has not been the loss of a single gallon of gasoline sales since stopping stamps. ess The only report is that their profits, always squeezed down low by the prices set by the major * oil companies, show sortie improvement see'. It was interesting how this move in California to throw out trading stamps got underway. * * * Major oil companies some months ago rigged prices so that service station operators could only make 4.5 cents per gallon, or something like 10%. It was soon determined by many station operations, that by .giving trading stamps, they were being cut down to 3 cents per gallon. mm* Then a few observant oper ators scattered all through the state started doing some ac counting work on the opera tions of their own businesses. * * * As a result, these operators found that the stamp com panies were taking more out of their service stations than they, the operators, were getting de spite working 70 hours per week, or longer. < * * * Notes were compared. Some thing had to give, they decided. They could not support the ma jor oil companies and stamp companies both. So the deci sion was reached to throw out stamps. Gasoline sales in Cali fornia have not dropped one pint as a result. j Rev. ROBERT H. HARPER THE OLD FOLK O UR NEIGHBORS have been preparing to Visit the old folk in Kansas. They have entrusted their Siamese cat to my sister, who loves cats, and also the gold flab in the children’s aquarium. Their Cadillac has never failed them heretofore and they figure it will take them the two days’ hard driving. They plan to stop in Muskogee the first night and the second night at Salina, just a little short Of the old home. The four children, including the oldest, a boy, and three little girts, will doubtless enjoy the JUST A THOUGHT: f How many times in younger days did we ran to mom and dad for help? And, how grate ful we were for the comfort which they showered on us in times of need . . • just as they are grateful now when we take time from our busy lives to let them know that we really ap preciate and lore them. trip. And so will the parents, who take turns driving, though re sponsibility is theirs, because they are going to the old home, where the young mother may sea her mother and be as a child again. And the weariness of the journey will seem nothing when they get to the end of the way. While planning your vacation, remember the old folk, if they are still living, and gladden their hearts by a visit. We may be re minded of the joy that Laban knew when he received the serv ant of Isaac as a guest and learned of his kinsmen who had eone out to distant Canaan. 'Dream Job' Helps Crippled l ots Dorothy Buck is so happy today in her “dream job” as a top-rank physical therapist that she’s given no serious thought to marriage. But attractive Miss Buck is i. 'tre than a physical therapist, fa inating as that field is to a you * woman who loves chil dren and has a particularly warm spot in her heart for those disabled by birth defects. At famed New York University Medical Center in New York City she is administrative as sistant in the Children’s Divi sion. The medical college of the University is aided by the New March of Dimes. Hers is probably the only “dream job” of its kind in the m jc nation, she says. “With these tots, new prob lems arise every hour dealing with walking and crawling, and devising new ways of doing both. And that means a chal lenge every hour. There’s noth ing routine, about my job,” the brunette and hazel-eyed ther apist says. “And for that I’m grateful” She tells how she made a ca reer in physical therapy and of her interest in The National Foundation’s professional edu cation program which, in this one field alone, offers annually 103 March of Dimes scholar ships of $500 each to applicants in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. She studied first at McGill University, Montreal Next, this enterprising young woman en listed in the women’s division of the Royal Canadian Air Force and taught physical edu cation and rehabilitation at the Boundary Bay Base near Van couver. She then obtained a bachelor of science degree in physical therapy at New York University; worked at Bellevue Hospital in New York City with patients stricken with a wide variety of disabilities; and later by attending night classes Dorothy Buck extends encouragement to Bobby Schnurr, 10, of Staten Island, N. Y., a birth defects victim. she telescoped a two-year course into one year in guid ance and personnel adminis tration. " “What is so satisfying about the profession of physical ther apy, she explains, “is that we treat the patient as a whole. We don’t restrict ourselves to the immediate disability at hand. And in the case of handi capped children, we also find ourselves ‘treating’ and ‘teach ing* their parents—telling them that when thegreat day dawns that Susie or Tommy can leave us, rigorous physical therapy must continue and that father and mother must serve as home therapists. “For any young woman with the normal desire to help others in difficulty, particularly children, there is no more de sirable career than one in physical therapy,” she says. “It’s certainly far better than pulverizing a typewriter or taking someone’s fractured dic tation.” Finally, even if Dorothy Buck has no immediate thoughts about marriage for herself, she argues that there’s no reason why a physical therapist can’t have a career and a family too. FOR AND ABOUT TEINAGERS Should This Girl Give Up On Him? By C. D. Smith This week’s letter: “There is a boy I like very much and he goes to the same high school I am 16 and he is 17. I am a Junior, he is a Senior. I only met him at the first of this school year. He at first started showing a lot of interest in me and I in him and I sat with him at football games. Then after a while he seemed to lose interest in me and telling me that I tried to tell him what to do and acted no more than a slight friend to him. It isn’t true and he doesn’t even speak as a friend now. My friend says I should give him up and I have tried but I can’t seem to forget him because I like only him and can’t get him off my mind. Am I wrong in try ing to keep him? What would you do?” We would first ask a question: Is he worth ‘keeping 1 ? And the answer would have to be based on considerations more important than “liking” him and not being able to “forger 1 him. What kind of.a person is he? Thoughtful? Considerate? Of good character? Does he really like you? On the other hand, is he thoughtless? Inconsiderate? Does he expect too much? The mere fact that we like something or somebody does not mean that that thing or that per son is good for us. A man with an ulcer may have great desire for certain fried foods—but past ex perience remind him to leave them alone or be prepared to suf fer the consequences tomorrow. Ihere is something in the na ture of all of us that makes us want the things we cannot—or should not—i-have. The mere fact that we don’t have them seems to make them all the more de sirable. More often than not, when we get something that we have wanted for a long time, we wind up wondering why we ever want ed it at all We don’t say that we have ade quately answered the young lady's question. But we do sug gest that our young friend do some serious thinking about what we have said before she decides whether or not to try again. If haze a teenage problem yen want to. disc nee, or an observation to make, address year letter to FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS, NATION AL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER SERV ICE, FRANKFORT, KY. ON EVERY FIGHTING FRONT National Guardsmen — tankers and artillerymen—were already in the front lines when the Jap anese attacked the Philippines in 1941. Guardsmen fought from Bataan to Okinawa, from North Africa to Germany in 34 bitter campaigns of World War II. The 34th Infantry Division from Iowa and Minnesota was the first full U. S. division to serve overseas. MILITIA WILL FIGHT Colonel John H. Parker was a seasoned old regular when he got to France with the AEF in World War I. His nickname was “Gatling Gun” Parker, a memento of. Spanish-America War days in Cuba. Assigned to the com mand of a National Guard In fantry outfit from Connecticut he was quickly impressed with the way nia men handled them selves under fire. To Major Gen eral James G. Harbord, one of General Pershing’s principal sub ordinates, Parker exclaimed, “Harbord, the next slob who tells me the Militia will not stand , fire...can expect to be called a. liar, even if it is in General Pershing’s own office that the incident occurs!” and either yen meet our demands or get children.** soorjte x-SSs-'v: • • :*. • • ■ MMm- lip llliS: Training Program Last year, for example, more than 8000 Guardsmen took active duty courses at U.S. Army ser vice schools. Courses range front to fullscale gum one week refreshers resident courses of ten month* duration. More than 3000 Guards-' men were enrolled in Army ex tension course programs. Guardsmen who would become ew second Keutenants must ttend an accredited Officer Jandidate School. Active Army' )CS is open to Guardsman md, in addition, 4k States now perate officer candidate pro- Tams based upon Fort Benning Infantry School standards. “Training with modem equip- nent under strict professional itandards, the National Guard today is ready to meet its res ponsibilities as a first-line mem- ber ofphe U. S. military taamlf, says. General Kerr. PENTOMIC PUNCH—The ground soldier's new Sunday punch “We’re an effective military is the “Honest John” rocket. An artillery weapon in the Army force today. We’ll be more Guard’s 21 infantry and six armored divisions, this gives ground tfective tomorrow and the day forces immense firepower increase,^ after.” wimm HISTORY In The Fore In Peace and War The National Guard tradition of service to country and com munity is an unbroken line which links the missile age of today with the era of the Min ute Man. " Although the heroic figure of the Minute Man and ihe “Spir it of *76” have come to sym bolize the 20th Century concept of the civilian-soldier, the fact is that the National Guard tra dition is even more deeply root ed in the American past. It began, in a sense, when the first set tlers patrolled the perimeters o f Jamestown and Plymouth. It flourished in the courageous ‘trained bands' who protected settlements and opened roads through prime val forest. The colonists' philosophy was that an able-bodied man would “join the avocation of a sol dier” to whatever business or trade happened to be livelihood. This was the philosophy which led to the reliance that was to be placed in the militia over the years. An American phe nomenon, it defied the Europ ean tradition that arms were to be borne only by“professionals” led by noblemen. Nevertheless, Colonial militia forces fought shoulder to shoul der with the British in the French and Indian Wars. They helped win the i-’ je of Louis- bourg with skill which startled the professionals. British noble men were inclined to look down hel? noses at “a regiment of r '-..v.rd ermea — led by a lumber mer chant!” Britain's professionals and noblemen would meet these pro vincials again. It began, the history books got its mpetus. What is now known as the “National Guard” was first the Organized Militia. The term Na tional Guard was first asso ciated with the militia in 1824 when the 2nd Battalion, 11th New York Artillery (later, the famous 7th Regiment) was se lected to serve as guard of hon or for the visiting Marquis de Lafayette. The New Yorkers promptly re-named their outfit the “National Guard” in defer ence to his “Garde Nationale.” Of great importance to the military structure of the U. S. was the passage of, first, the Dick Act of 1903 which set the stage for modernizing the Guard along the same lines as the Regular Army. The Nation al Defense Act of 1916 official ly bestowed the title “Rational Guard” upon the elements of the old Organized Militia, or dered the organization of the Guard to conform to that of the Army itself. This estab lished the Guard firmly as a part-of the Nation’s organized peacetime establishment as well as an integral part of the Army of the United States when in active service. In 1916 some 159,000 Guards- meiT were mobilized for duty along the Mexican Border. In World War I the National Guard furnished 17 divisions. Eleven of them saw service un der General Pershing in the AEF. Of c—ht V. S. rated “excellent* car “superior” by the German High Command, six were National Guard divi sions. In August 1940, the President of the United States ordered the National Guard into active military service. This brought into service more than 800,000 men in 18 combat divisions as well as numerous non-division- al units and 29 air observation squadrons. This at one stroke doubled the strength of our traditionally meager peacetime •* nu* i'.** Regular Army. Guard unite and individual Guardsmen served with great distinc tion on every World War H battlefront from Bataan to Okinawa, from North Africa to D-Day and the Battla of the Bulge. In July of 1060 the U. S. en gaged communist forces in Ko rea v and a “partial mobiliz ation” of our forces took place. During 1950-63, 188,000 mem bers of the National Guard saw active service. Eight infantry divisions, 22 air wings, and hundreds of other units of both the Army and the Air Nation al Guard were ordered to duty. Two divisions were hurried to bolster our forces in Europe; two divisions and two air wings were rushed to Korea. Battle-tested and time-tested, the National Guard up-to-the Minute] Men are ready today just as they have always been ready, willing and able in over 300 years of service to country «T»d c*7mh*mfty. *■ v ; Vi