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CAPITAL FUEL & SUPPLY CO.
COAL ‘ FUEL OIL • HEATING SUPPLIES
PAINTS
2009 Green St. Phone AL. 4-3126
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA
Boyle - Vaughan Agency
Insurance •
Surety Bonds •
1222 Washington Street
P. O. Box 837
Telephone AL. 2-2158
COLUMBIA, S. C.
THOS. B. BOYLE
THOMAS B. BOYLE Jr.
President
Secretery
JAMES A. VAUGHAN
E. C. McOREOOR BOYLE
Vice-President
Treasurer
Capital City Laundry
“Prosperize Dry Cleaning”
2227 Sumter Phone AL. 2-4341
Branches: 738 Harden St. — 1106 Lady St.
COLUMBIA, S. C.
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CUSTOM KITCHENS
946 Harden Street Telephone AL. 3-1431
COLUMBIA, S. C.
Authorized Dealer
Mutschler Porta-bilt Kitchens • Scheirich Kitchens
J. A. Clarkson, Owner, Graduate of the
“School of Kitchen Design” Michigan State U.
Wilson Radio & Television Co.
Complete Service in
Television, Auto and Home Radios, Inter-Communication
and P. A. Systems, School Sound Systems
1835 Main Street Telephone AL. 6-3473
COLUMBIA, S. C.
COPELAND COMPANY
CLOTHINO, HATS
and
FURNISHING GOODS
Phone AL. 3-1656 1409 Main Street
COLUMBIA, S. C.
complished in the future, as a
result of the solid foundations
which have been laid, could not
have been attained without the
services of dedicated men and
women in government, without
free and loyal citizenship in gen
eral, and without the contributions
made through such essential serv
ices as improved public education,
public health ana highways.
“Probably, in no other state has
a better balance of government
and private enterprise been reach
ed. Our progress has been rapid
but sound and our accounts are
balanced without back-breaking
taxes on anyone.
“I like to look back and think
of those dedicated men and wo
men with whom I have been so
fortunate to serve during my tw
enty-four years—the good compa
ny I have been able to keep —
those members to whom the credit
must go for creating in South
Carolina a state government with
an unsurpassed record of sound
ness and stability—a government
with a national reputation for its
enduring respect of the rights of
individuals according to the Amer
ican heritage—a government with
an abhorrence for regimentation
into selfish cliques and minorities.
“Standing here, reviewing the
years, I can see again the faces
of men who came from farms,
from offices, from factories and
from many other walks of life
to serve their people; to make
their counties and the state better
places in which to live and work
and, most important of all, better
places for the generations to come.
“Balance is the key to success
in practically every human un
dertaking; the secret of individual
success, of community success,
and it is proportionately essential
in all state, national and world
affairs.
“The crops of a farmer must be
diversified for balance; there must
be give and take between employ
er and employee in business and
industry; a football team must
have balance.
“But balance is not a tangible,
definable element in most of its
aspects. It is something we must
strive to find. We sense it when
we see a man who is able time and
again to rise to an occasion; it
is the constructive mark of prog
ress in the kind of government
which provides lasting peace and
prosperity for the people.
“Balance is not something
which can be attained and rested
upon. It does not come in any
permanent form. It is as fluid and
changing as the new problems we
face from day to day, and from
year to year.
“What gave us stability at the
last Session of the Legislature
will not be the same again this
year.
“We must move fast enough,
but not too fast.
“We must appropriate enough,
but not too much.
“We all know that public educa
tion is our most compelling im
mediate problem. We must do
more in the right directions for
our schools and the teachers, but
we must insist in return that they
do more for our sons and daugh
ters.
“We must do our utmost to con
tinue to give stability to our es
tablished industries and to guar
antee future conditions to encour
age new industries which are so
badly needed in so many counties
which as yet have not been for
tunate enough to obtain a share
of the industrial development.
“The only possible right answer
to the human problems which
confront South Carolina and oth
er Southern States lies in a calm
and sincere application of justice.
Decisions must be made to fit the
circumstances as they exist in the
hearts and minds of the people of
each particular State, and not as
they might be agitated from the
viewpoints of other States and of
the Federal Government which
know little or nothing about our
problems.
“As charitable as we are, tole
rant of the views of others, all
of the people of this Nation must
understand, we are South Caro
linians, proud of our heritage and
we will use every reasonable, hon
est and lawful means at our com
mand to protect our way of life.
“The wisest heads of the Nation,
among all the classes, parties and
races, must be made to recognize
that a reasonable balance of ac
tion and procedure is necessary if,
in the final analysis, any real
balance at all is to be achieved.
“We appreciate today, I am
sure, that we are enjoying some
of the better things of life after
generations of hardship dating
back to the War Between the
States, on through the intolerable
and oppressive reconstruction pe
riod, and the slow and hard uphill
struggle of the intervening years
when there was so much catching-
up to be done.
“We happen to be fortunate that
it is in our lifetime that circum
stances, reflecting great credit
upon those predecessors who toil
ed and bled for us, have allowed
us to experience the fruition of
better economic times.
“We were restricted for so many
years to a relatively poor agricul
tural economy in the South. It
was not until after the depression,
during the days of the Roosevelt
New Deal, that we actually began
to catch up.
“Once given an opportunity to
prove ourselves, we have demon
strated beyond every doubt that
we are better equipped mentally
and physically to produce than in
most other parts of the Nation.
Our people recognize the benefits
of earning good pay because for
so many years they knew the
hardship of working hard without
much in return.
“Our people do not subscribe to
the false doctrine of too much
pay for too little work. They do
want to be compensated fairly.
They want to be paid honest
wages, for honest work, but they
still strongly resist and resent the
philosophy of something for noth-
ing.
“Our people do not want outside
influences to come in and run
their jobs for them; they do not
want outside influences to come
in and run their schools for them;
they do not, in short, want any
thing more than to be able to live
and work and worship according
to their deeply ingrained sense of
the American way, which in too
many other sections is being cor
rupted by those who wish to move
too far too fast.
“We are convinced, I am sure,
that the great development of
South Carolina in recent years
has been due to a strong inherent
sense of balance, with our better
balanced people and better bal
anced government.
“In snort, we have hoed a steady
row. We want to keep on doing
just that.
“The men and women in State
g overnment—Legislative, Judicial,
xecutive and Administrative De
partments and in the schools and
colleges—have all contributed to
our progress, else there would
not have been such progress.
“Our progress will continue on
ly so long as such united efforts
continue. 1 have no doubt but that
a continuation is assured because
we have good people working to
gether under constantly improving
conditions.
“Today, in many respects, has
certainly been the greatest day of
my life. I hope and pray that I
will continue to justify in a small
degree the extraordinary honor
you have bestowed upon me. ...”
The Southern Israelite
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