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7 Int: CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON. S. C. I" THURSDAY. DECEMBER 2^. 1932 Reynold’s New Year’s Resolution ITALY I have'just grot back from a rapitC but rather (Comprehensive tour of Italy. By railroad, automobile and air plane 1 covered pretty nearly that en tire peninsular, and saw for myself j the results of ten years of Mussolini. Italy today is the least depres.sed vnation in the world. Everybo iy is at work; out of a population of '2,000,- 000, I was told, there are les: than a million unemployed, inolpdinc the aged and invalids. The whble nation is thoroughly organized and a new spirit of national pride and coopei- ation has been developed. The Italian people give every evi dence of being the happiest peopl - anywhere in the. world today. Meas ured in dollars, they don’t handle! ninny, much money, but measured in terms I of food, clothing and comfort, their workers are la^tter off, on the whole, than those of any other nation. HorsiNt; One of the biggest things the Ital- j ian government has done is to im-| prove housing tninditions for workers • in cities. In Milan, which is the New! York of Italy, the industrial and fi-i nancial center and the largest city. C saw literally thousands of new apart- m«>nt houses, built by private capital with government aid. modern arul san itary in every respect, where woirkers can rent four-room apartments for $.‘5 a month. On the outskirts of Kom^, along the famou.s .‘Xpjiian Way end just over the caves known as the cata-' combs, where the bone^ of millions| of Christian martyrs lie, I saw where the governmenf had provided lulu's-f ing for sixty thousand workers whoj were moved from the slums of the! old city, which have been torn down and made into parks or new high ways. The same thing is going on in many other Italian citi(*s; and every one (if these housing developments has as its central featuriL* a new and modern school house, with playgrounds and parks around it. The next generation of Italians will hr better educHte(i_ than-its pai t’nts were. • depression than other | iieynout iikh t 55 per cent of its pop-hit FAKMINi; One reason why Italy has suffered less from tlu nations is that 5.) per ulation lives on the land. i Tlun-e is hardly a srjuare inch |of i land in Italy that is not under culti-j vat ion. Kven the mountain sides of the Appenines and the .Maritime .Alps, are teriaced. ill tiny tracts, as high a.'i vegetation w+ll grow. Perhaps the biggest Jlhiiig which the Fac;st government has undertaken is: the reclaiming of all the waste lands, j 1 .saw the great drainage works which! have r<‘claimed the swamps along the | Adriatic. Here again private capital I and the government cooperatoti. the; reclaimed land is .sowed to ci ojis,, stiK-ked with lattle. sheep or poultry., laid out in small holdings, each with its modern farm-house and out-build ings. and sold on «a^'y terms to new I farmers, while the National Institute of .Agriculture, organized much like| the .American system of county; agents, gives intensive assistat^ce in helping the people get a living from I the land. ■^'r W.AS llie lust niglil ot tiie old year, and Iteyiiold was gidiig to bed. “I wlHii 1 could iiiiike Home of those things t'oiisln l.iicy aii<) (.’nu.sin Kstber were iiiak Ing." be said. "They are going to begin In the morn ing. ('oiisin I.ney is going to practice her niiisic some and study aritiimetii hiirder and keep her dresses cleaner.” ■"lou mean resolutions?” asked his iiioilier. ‘1 «*s. that’s it." said Iteynold. “res-o u-tions. I want to make some res-o u lions; but I d<»n’t know wliat to make.” “Well, let us think,” said his niothei “What kind of resolutions would he good for a little boy six years old to make? You don’t want to make too I believe, if I were you. I would make Just one.” “laiey and Hstlier made Ibts ol tliem,” said Reynold, “but they are hig girls, tine resolution would l»e enough for a little hoy, wouldn't It?” “I think It would.” said his mother, ”iind I think that a whole year ta too long a time to make resfvluflons for. If 1 were you, 1 would make lone good re.solutlon for one dav of the New Year —the first (la.V—tomorrow." “.All right,” said Reynold. “1 wilt make me for tomorrow. What would you make?” “It is your re.solution,” said his moth er. “You ouglit to make it .\ourself. Anything that you want to det»*niiine to dir the lirsi ihiy of the year.” Reynold thought awhile, and then tie said: "1 will mliul you nU day tomor row.” ‘Very w«'ll." said Ids iiioiln*r; "that J*.ffUL -Nv"'- .Yyir’s r(>soluiioti;.tlonX forget it in the inoriiliig ^ tlo to sl(*ep now." 'rh(‘n she kis.sed Idm good night and W(>nf out. and Utwnold went to sleeji U lu>n he awoke the next tnoriiing tlie first thing he'thought of was his New Year’s resoiutbm. He wotidered If his motlier laid forgott»*n. She didn’t sa.v anything nlMiut it when lie went down to break fast. She di'^n’t tell him to do anything, wi he didn’t have any clianct* to keep his resolution, hut he iiev'er once forgot It until—who do you think came,? Why. (Jreat aunt Rfii den(*e and (Jreat-uncle .Nathan. CJreut aunt Prudence hmuglit Reynold a pret ty little willow tiasket full of cake— thn^e kinds—chm'olnte. coconut, fruit. Reynold liked cuke better than any- . ‘a a-W'r ArAmhPf/ J V i a 0 H n a 1 ^Al’l’Y .New Year!” we cr\ i with the host t'hristian In ! tetiiions, and. In so doing we ccleltnife the Clo.se ol i what is [lerhuFis the oldesi j |iagun fesiival known to 1 niari. I or .New Year'j dti.v j || j erid.s the Yiiletide fivsiivaf » ri ( a mi liar to oi;r .\ryan tincestors | |l IJweoiortid. or “the turning time.” j Among primitive peoples everything ! is thought to live; tliiis to the ani j mistic .savage tlie lightning and tie i falling trees are living and unfriend ' ly things trying to hurt liiin. | .Naliirajlv enough in this stage ol J man's develoinnent the sun was re ! gurd<‘d in tlie sjime light—ns a rtai Koning liejri^'—and since the snn fur tiislH*d primitive man with liis very tiieiins of existence he came to wor sliip It and to watcti after its welfare Even today lliere are trilies wlio during an eclipse turn out with great clamor and shoots arrows Into the air iirideT tlie irnpn'ssion tliey are at tacking thejnonster who is devouring tlie suii.”^ “ " { Little wonder, tlien, that early man vvatelied witli growing fear (he year j ly (liania of winter—the diaitli of ^ v«‘gi‘tafion and the apparent W(>ak('Ti ot tlie su/n. I’erliaps this time It j in really would die and leave liini cold tielpless! *'I'heri w lieti hojie trtid iiTiTiost fled would come the great day of the turn ing time, tlie day wlien the son tiirtu'd hack and liecaiiie gradually stronger that fn due lime gr(*en Imds inigiil spring f'ortli and (he song, of the fdrds trernld Hii'-t-tTttttng^-of tmiHher sf»ringr^ 'I'he world was s.avi-d and man re jolced during tliat season of Hweohir tid. I^hting gn*at hontlres symiadic of the SLUi's warintly, and ofTering gifts to Freya,-the Mother goddess. t)ur modern [lersonlticntion of the old year is an aged man.dying, ami the New Year we conceive as an Infant. The rebirth Idea persists. The prohnlde naison for the sacr(*d nature attributed to the mistletoe In aunt said the basket of cake was for him. Mother gave Reynold a sllee of the fruit cake, then she put the basket away in the paptry. A little while after Reynold asked if he miglit have some more cake. “No.” said Ilfs mptiier; “tnere will be eake for dinner; you must not eat any more ef your eake today” Reynold 'was Just about to draw his lace Jiito a frown when his motlier lool<(>d at him .so strangely that It made him think of Ids res«dution. Then the fumii«‘St looking smile ohastsl the ugly frown from Ids face. Mother smiled loo, and noddl'd and gave him ihnn' pats on tlie shoulder that meant “Hur rah! Hurrah! Hurrah I”—Kxehanf*. Lighted Great Bonfires, Symbolic the Sun's Warmth. of only on the rent income. If there is no inoduction or no income, no taxes. That struck me as a .sensible system. Hist IIM.INE I All Italy is .regimented. Every busi- WHL.AI .A.NH I()ILA(( 0 ? ness, industry and occupation is or- Italv lias set out to grow all of its j rp. ; • , , ganized. The Italian parliament i.s own wheal, both the durum variety . . *• used for making macaroni, and soft of members elected by 400^ wheat for bread. ; trade, industrial or agricultural Ten years ago Italy was importing^ g|-Qupgj they do not represent dis- five-sixtlis of ii> wheat. Toda> it they represent occupations. f growing five-sixths of its ow’n wheat, j -• *- • -ij i- Jtl 1. / u ♦ M.. ko.; These occupational guilds or svndi- This IS a result of w’hat .Mussolini has dramatically named the Battaglia | oates have absolute fi'eedom to com- del’-frt'atwr’’The Battle -of^rai^ _ m »ny_jenleriirise_thai Js. for the! This is something for American public welfare. So has every individ-, »h..at Kiowws to think about One of n.uch nionoyl our b,g oxport market*, which form-1 providcj he does d honest- ” |ly. But there is plenty of government al siipervisit^n to see that the'^ublic , . , , .1. interest is served. Sometlung of the same sort ts hap- ^ pemng w.th tobacco. In Italy the K»v-;business honestly, but; ernment ts the only »f i ps,.»i,.te.l in dishonest methmis. were^ cigarsandcigaiettes. lt used to mt-, port tobacco, mamly America. , No» m the southern itart of the pen-^ j, extieme-i insular and jn the African colomeS |y ...^hods. i Italy IS grow'ing five-sixths of its own ^ ; tobacco. 1 . erly took millions of bushels of gniini annually, is no longer a market the United States w’heat grower.. for TAXES .1 was greatly impreHsed with the age of some of the houses in, Italy which are still occupied for re.sidential and business purposes. A house three hundred years old is almost “mod em.” In the Jewish section of Rome, where there are still descendants of the Jewish slaves captured in the- Holy Land by the Emperor Titus, while Saint Paul was still preaching, soma of the buildings have stood since the time of the Caesars! Biany build ings from six hundred to a thousand yeaif old are still occupied in Venice, Ploranee and Naples. They are all built of atone or brick, of course. Thtf have survived because Italy, like ether SiBupeaa nations, has never iawaj real #et^e out of exisiem^. " is naAu oiA or buildings lead pays only on irhat, boUdings pay taxes I School Supplies Thick bradded Tableta—4c. Assorted odd Tablets—2 for .5c. W sheet Fillers—5c. Composition Books—le. Stenographer’s Note Books—10c Examination Tablets—Ic. Pencils with over-aixe ermaera— 2 for 5c. Cedar Pencils—10c doaea. Soft lead Pencils (No. 2) S for 5c. Big Agate Ink Tablets—5c. Ink—Ic bottle. THE B(X)K STORE the Kdda.H and early Celtic mythology, the importuiit part it played in tiie 1>rui(lic rites,, and its modern assiK'ia- tion witli Christmas, may have betui the mysteriouH rintare of this plant’s liirth, springing as if does for no ap (lareut reason and with no visible roots from the body of an oak tree. Although .New Y’ear’s day is ,uien tioned as an important festival hy rucilus In tlie first century, It Is .not referred to us a Christian feast day" until well on In the Sixth century. It wag then that the date of January 1 was universally. accepted, although even now in countries such ns Russia j and Greece, where the Gregorian rather tlian tlie Julian calendar is In i use, the occasion is celebrated I’J days later than Is customary with ns. I In Imiierial Rome the day was ded , icated l»y .Numa to the two-faced god ! Janus, in wiiose honor men were wont | (iuring this festival to forget <dd' grudgi'S. and to whom they would of j fer sacrifices of cakes, wine and In cense. And us a tribute to this two faced god—this ^od who could hK»k lm(‘k at w hat had passed, and forward at what was to come—.Inlliis Caesjir ^ named the month of January. | In England it used to be the custom to save a part of the Yule log to light the New Year’s fipcT In order that some mysterious ^o^nulty. reminis <*ent of the pagan vestal fires, should ^ remain unbroken. Many other j strange superstitions were conneideil ' with the day. among them that of the “first visitor,” which still prevails in Scotland. I c .According to another old legend, the first pitcher-full of water drawn from a spring on New Year's morning i was supiHised to possess reiiiarkahle I properties, and niaidens used to ait j up all night to obtain this “creain of < i the year." | We still sit up to “see the New j Year In." ! 8(^, when the bells ring out at mid 1 night and we rush into the street, shouting and slapping strangers on the itack, and (terforming what we think to j be very original antics, let us remember thot people acted in precisely thk' same manner and did exactly the same “original’’ things at the f^tival, of the Saturnalia In pagan Ron|e more than 2.0Utl years ago. For there la nothing new.under tht sua—Boston Herald. J 1 B I I a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a n a a a a a a a a I a a I a a a a a ii /, K Put TKe“ \' To Work... A circus wagon can be pulled along a dirt road — they can buckle down and haul it through a little sand and mud. 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