The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, December 29, 1932, Image 6
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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-
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^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
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