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■ ' V — — ~-s 1i l Thursday, January 7, 1954 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Five ■V ,: V M COMMENI ON HEN AND THINGS By The Spectator the add all beauty and grace of living cipitation of that moisture and get the area of the largest population: as. The Eastern margin of things, of waving grain’, of blossom-1 to fall on an immediate area when growth and the largest increased drought area has been until recent' ing trees arid flowers, of flying nature itself would. have carried ^ irrigated water is in the ly in Central Tex^s and Western birds and leaping fish; without the moisture to a more distant spot s ou t^ wes t part of the where in time it wbuld precipitate al mea m connection with «“ M !>! r .“‘“ r *! J!!* The weather was our,, topic a while back. There is much to be said and I expert to tell more about it, according to a Very interesting study which has come to me. What about water? Wind and weather and water. Do you recall ( the remark attributed to the Ken tucky Colonel, in discussing water? “Water? It may be suitable for bathing purposes but no gentleman would use it for a beverage”. I’m reminded of a remark to me by a distinguished son of the mid dle west. He inquired about con ditions in this state and 1 told him that we had been having heavy and frequent rains. This was some years ago. “Well,” he said, “you can’t produce anything without water.” We think of water as pre-emi- water, none of these could be’. Research in connection , h lllat the «*»,**• 'rainmaker' weather showed beyond the slight- est doubt that there, too, a revolu-’ »• m0 ! 1 « ases - ' ust stealmg thc tion is taking place in respect to moisture from another area, the relaionship of water and man-,- A third method of obtaining Wat- kind. Let us discuss, first, what is er for irrigation is by damming up taking place in the waters in the rivers from mountains and hills ocean and in some of the great lake and holding back the water so it afea$—of the world. Suppose you may be ‘doled out throughout the read in your daily paper, for exam- year in ditches and irrigation proj- ple, that the water level in Lake ects. But, obviously, if the winter Ontario was now the highest since snowfall in the United States is the year i860, and that this very, steadily declining and the amount part or, tne country—• Oklahoma.*! Historians agree that where NATURE ^ IS CREATING n\ost severe drought in the past ONE OF THE MOST SEVERE ~qq y ears lasted twenty-three years DROUGHTS WE HAVE EVER an( j began in the year d276. At 4 KNOWN. The Department of the -bout that time, a thriving Indianj the Court of Probate, to be held at Laurens Court Hopse, Laurens, S. C.,—on January 18, 1954, next, after publication hereof, at 3:30 p. m., to .show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand this 2nd J. HEWLETTE WASSON. Jatf. 7-14-w-c J. P, L. C. Interior calls this drought.‘one of. civ ji izat j on founded on irrigation in clay pf January, Anno Domini, 1954 the eight most severe droughts ' the Gila river basin disappeared, as in the Southwest since the 13th ^ a 'i so t h e cliff dwellers in South- century’. Year after year for the western Colorado.” past ten years the situation, grows — . progressively worse. The goye^ri- 1 CITATION FOR LETTERS OF ment defines ‘the area of drought as ADMINISTRATION consisting of all of Arizona and The State of South Carolina, New Mexico, the Sbuthem part of County of Laurens. California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, By J. H. Wasson, Probate Judge high level was typical of what was of rainfall is declining, there simply most Q f Texas and a small part of WHEREAS, S‘. G^Sultoa made ocCTRring throughout the Great isn’t sufficient water existing to Oklahoma. It did not begimin all suit to me to grant him Letters of S*y— T SAW IT IN THE CHRONICLE’ IF YOU DON’T READ . The chronicle YOU DONT GET THE NEWS ring throughout the , Lakes area. In another column of hold back in the reservoirs or dams, the same paper, you would read With glaciers of the United States that large areas in the southwest decreasing in size, obviously th'o are suffering from one of the most; amount °f water running off into serious doughts and that millions' rivere from the higher areas in the of people are affected by the great- s P r i n fe will b e lat est lack of water in the history of Africa and South America. It did not begin” in all suit to me to gran of these areas at the same time. Administration of the Estate and Government records show that it effects of Maggie Wicker Sulton. began in Arizona in 1942, in New These are, therefore, to cite and Mexico in 1943 arid also the same admonish all and singular the Kin- year in Western Texas, in Southern dred and Creditors of the said Mag- California in the year 1945, and the gie Wicker Sulton, deceased, that It is a v peculiar quirk of fate that year 1947 or later in Central Tex- they be arid appear before me, in -f Or. Felder Smith OPTOMETRIST Lou Phone 794 S. C Earlier I have stated the observa- ss } * ft .4c < ' tion of Huntington that a rise of 4 & degrees in world temperature IS would have a ^disastrous effect for mankind. Meteordlegists have esti- jj mated that a rise of only 2 degrees nently associated with growing - carlh s temperature would - ‘ melt all Uf the lice in the polar ^ seas and increase the height of the , ocean level. by 150 feet And let 1 us not forget that the large amount of polar ice has a profound effect i | plants, but industry uses vast quan tities of water, millions of gallons in a short time. Here is something interesting about water: Did You Get Your Dividend Check? In England, where one is never on ^e climate of most of the west-J ern world. This polar ice has low- ft ered the temperature in the past *.• in the United States and Canada by ^ many degrees. It ,is the most im portant factor in controlling the temperature of the" ocean, espec-; i served a glass of water in a res taurant unless he demands it, wat- .er is defined as ‘dog soup’. When you journey over to Paris, you find this precious substance described as a substance used more for mak- $102,201. ing oceans than anything else*. You at great depths. The icebergs and I know that water is by far the greatest factor in our lives. Even our bodies are composed of 77 per cent water—end, as a matter of fact, only a minor part of the earth itself is land. 71 per cent of the whole globe is composed of oceans or frozen areas. Below the equator the oqeans comprise 81 per cent of the entire area. The most important things in life we take for granted, including wat er. Because someone else takefe care of the problem of water in our life, we are apt to forget that the very civilization under which we exist is, dependent on water.-Thom son King, in his book, ‘Water, Mir acle of Nature’, says: “Above all, water is the bearer of life. All life is sustained by and in protoplasm, which is a suspension or solution of a number of substances in water. Without water, there can be no pro toplasm. Without protoplasm, there can be no life. Not only human and the large amount of polar ice definitely control the temperature of most of the ' ocean at great depths. We see, then, that anything which affects the temperature of the polar areas of the world will completely change the course of na tions and the balance of power in the world today. “As I see the irrigation situation, there are a few basic facts which we must always keep in mind. First, the population of the country has increased so enormously in an area which nature evidently orig inally, meant to be an arid or semi- arid- area. Second, mankind has been very wasteful in destroying the trees lhat hold the water which nature gives in those areas. Notf there are two ways to reclaim and get water for irrigation. The first is by sinking weils, which we find is no solution at all if thousands of ethers sink wells and lower the water level. A second system is to was paid opt to 2230 people during 1953 at the rate of 3% per annum. Why not put your money to work today? All money put on deposit by the 10th of January will draw dividends from January 1st w on June 30, 1954 LAURENS FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION • 4 . .. ^ j SAVINGS INJURED UP TO $10,000.00 call such individuals ‘rain thieves’ and not ‘rainmakers’. It is true that bodies, but those in all forms of hire a ‘rainmaker’. But I prefer to life that ever existed on this plan et, animals, birds and bacteria, have been largely watef and could not if there are clouds going over ^ haxe existed without it. So, to the! specific area, a ‘rainmaker’ can, by manifestations of water, we must chemical methods, hasten the pre- now on display.. New 7)4 DODGE 1954 , JANUARY 1954 SUN JAQN TUtS wto THUtS m SAT | i ^ «. * 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 If 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 J 7 IS 19 20 21 22 23 25 26 27 28 29 30' Good lime to look bolh ways! 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