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f Poge Four TH^ CLINTON CHIOMIOLe. CLINTON. S. C. ulifr (Zlltnton (Elpnitiirle EsUbUilMd ItM WILSON W. HARRIS. Editor and Publisher ; Published Every Thursday By TkE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $1.50; Six Months 75 cents; Three Months 50 cents Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seelts the cooperation of its subscribers and readers— the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chtxjnicle will publi^ letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. a bunch that was suspended to thelcustoms of primitive man. but in light in the front room fel on the climbing the la^er fn^ sava^ry head of mrs. slim chance, sr. and to civilization the race has dropped almost scared her to death, she hasja good Qumy customs which we high-blood pressure and can’t standi would be better off if our forebars verry much fright. had retained. a horse to Hurricane to prMdi the last meeting day of the year. The congregation gave him $20, tor which he extended his thanks and said he would take the money and buy a new saddle. All churches at that time had ^ . ♦— Cooking, for one thing. I’ve little Negro members, but soon after their I everboddy pressent got afearcd' patience with food “faddists." but freedom they started their own that refreshments would not be, I’m sure that civilized folk today eat! churches, and Aunt Tollie Johnson served, they were hell back to the'too much cooked.food and not enough)was the Sunday school superintend- ^ last minnet, and were the folks hun- raw. We wouldn’t need as many den-1 ent. Union lesson books were used, gry? none of them had et dinner jtists as we do, otherwise.* ! We did not have any note books and were counting on a square meal,) Clothes are another item in which'then. The teachers would read two but they met with - disappointment. | we’ve departed fitxn the healthful < lines that would be sung, and then I there wassent enough food pn the ways of early man. To be sure, man-1 two more lines, etc. The Baptists and little paper plates to satisfy the appy- kind occupies colder climates than Methodists would kneel ^wn for tite of a katy-did. it consist^ of 1 our first ancestors did, but most of'prayer and if any failed to kneel the cracker and tiny cup of russian tea {us don’t need as many clothes as wet preacher would say enough to make (that tasted,like russia smells. • wear. I’rn glad to see the younger!them wish Ihey could get under the generation getting away from the,benches. CU.NTON. S. C.. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER' 28. 1948 ignoring The Post Living as wo are in a changing, expi'nmonting period, the greatest danger we face f>erhap.s in building for the future is that we forget or ignore the traditions and heritages ot the past. Under the ^tress of enthusiasm for miss annie chance did not make fetish of clothes, especially in sum-i anny definite announcements aboutjmer. They and their children will be p ^Al I cn the fourth-coming wedding, she inrletter off. timated that the happy day had not . ' ♦ . ITO FORT BRAGG been set, but stated that the ring had i ENVIRONMENT — Height The American people, fully awake Istick have benn used on her person. | sea level t3rpes, prairie types, and soU^ve Derember 5th. I she do not look much trimmed fori on, and doctors will be able to **0 (- to the menace to our institutions, the kitchen. ' .i lu w idea, a plan, a cau.se. it is easy billing to make any conceivable to throw overboard all that has gone bef( re. Reeau.se we feel strongly con- economic sacrifice m-the name of -hberty and security if they ecort- i-. verniiig abuses and inadequacies Washington. But the existing system, we are likely to American (■('innl them, or attempt to do so going to be satisfied yores trulie, mikO lark, rfd, corry spondent. S^^lthtoJiT “vei SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE I met an explorer lately who told RTIGIAL Life MzgMtiBe. |SJ9 ibIR H>naiiikT lil. MagMdM. $1.15 g>it till /eanttry 7. JAMES W. CALDWELL CaU $7$ D. E. TribUe Co. FUNERAL DIRECTORS EMBALMERS Lire—ad Baibelaian, C—iplato Medern Eqaips—t Day Pho— 94 Night Phonea 24, 853 or 255 Clinton, s. a ir a manner that wiH not only appropriating money and xMih what i.s bad, but with wh.ii i'^ good as , ,, know that tax monev for defense Till- produces results — that bureaucratic red tapt' is cut—waste reduced—de- that peo- withj TODAY... TOMORROW jme of the Aymara Indians of Peru. jThey live in the high Andes, 10,000* J|(Bet or more above sea level. If they! | ► are brought down to ordinary heigths they die in a few weeks. All their, Of r I \t ars when experimentation is the elder of the day. Great changes ,in underway, si'ine have proven helplul. others disastrous and alto- lay avoided—ixilitics discarded. i It IS one thing to appropriate bil- 'ions. It is another thing to translate' By Frank Parker. STOCKBRIDGE gtihtr questionable. We aie seeking, billions into airplanes and ar- \ve are told, a permanent, balanced bodily organs are adapted to low air. 'pressure. A few years ago in Denverj . I was told that horses brought up toi I the mile-higlr city gain eight or ten} iqches in girth, as they expand their kings to breathe the rarefied air. I often wonder whether the change SMOKING — Crutch ,, . * , , . .u All mv life IVe been a heavy' upper floors tillery and fighting ships. Any run- smoker. There's something about to-; of-the-mili politician can vote to bacco that is both physically and P^' spend taxes but it will be a dark mentally stimulating. Doctors have'P^®' ^ iiiiy.It?>; if,politics is per- warned me from time to time^'torr mitted to dominate the actual job of forty years to cut down on cigar- our needed weapons. The ettes. I didn’t pay much attention Last summer my .. cut up, and I got and economy are the essentials of the worried. 'Hie doctor started off jwith the usual advice, to lay off This is the time to make democ-[cigarettes. ih , America's capacity toi j tried ’ it. Along in September I {again yesterday, stated that as a tn.n .ctKini, to ^ produce is limitless ^ the American stopped smoking entirely. It wasn’t I small boy he first went to church at .'(>( Ill I ami t'cononilc order that will pro. Hie gie.Ui r opportunities for the in.o.M- oi the people. Where we will l.tmi. how thr- rmmtry will come out - no "lie has wisdom enough tn say. m;,;iing K'oiy sensible persons must know that .1 that this eountry tin extravagant basis government h^^^ h.is operated it in recent years. The , , ' , wui iivkruicvi wtrciuuiid. i xic pttpc I riirin t Veekuning^^^^^^^ "nd industrial and economic states-j until’ this year, ritkomng dav is ahead and nianship is vital. Speed, efficiency heart* beean to is eountry cant continue on ^ Harrison Copeland Talks Of The Long Ago Harrison Copeland,- in reminiscing gr istn in Ami ►Simple de iH“->- .md iiiflu iduals the full chance to work out their destinies, is lang uishing. .•• •o;.inrre .^ nv dR^ ^ P®’ I ^ad been smoking about 30 a day. a body of woods. Rev. Boyd, “Uncle I vvhu^h huj- '''‘cal’shackles that have been weld-| But something else happened. I found; Mark," had announced that because; * " onto it in recent years, that I couldn’t do my regular work^^ long dry summer he would} Finally, we should turn again to of writing, without tremendous ef-'^er special prayer for rain. Great' the constitutional concept of our fort and great fatigue. I had to!crowds came, some in wagons, cw government—a government of limit- quit and lie down to rest every few * riages, buggies, horse-back, and tiur problein.-. will never be solved ed powers acting as an umpire oof minuteer walking, all bringing-dinner tor tite{ wt liare .-\s a matter of fact, that is done wiVal ha- already happened. Only a l(i( k .it viHiditions today ib needed f" DT'i've the charge. to the people, “I see a cloud forming, ! thank God it is going to rain.’’ There We Make Long Term Loans BUILD -BUY -REMODEL -REPAIR -REFINANCE CLINTON HOMES If will be a pleasure fp us fo explain pur loan plan in relations to your mdividuol needs. You will like its simplicity, economy and conven ience. / TALK OVER YOUR PLANS WITH US Each Account Insured Up To $5.000 by tbsregafding-thr-Tfs^t witti Tts k-s- a dictator, in the affairs of ^he peo-; i stuck it out for six weeks. Then'day- “Uncle Mark’’ delivered twoj suns ami experienc es. Change that pie—a government which is the-ser- j called the doctor in again. L sermons, and after the first prayer j Inrei t- "I Ignores that tradition will a ant, not the master, of its citizens, pointy out that when a man has 'be looked out the w’indow and said t.isdv fi(, gra\-e harm to the common We ha\e Jittle hope that it will belused a crutch for many years he but a definite policy should be can’t throw it away without some adopted which will prevent further damage. I’d been relying on ciga-)was another song, more praying, and i excursions of government into busi- rettes to keep up my "pep” for so suddenly a heavy rain began falling,* o^ss. long, that to quit smoking now was i necessary to eat in the ♦ ^ : like throwing away a crutch. Thej^^burch instead of on the adjoinit^ , ^ —; doctor agreed that whatever damage grounds. We little boys were afraid ♦ ; smoking had done .to my heart had our feet in. what we thought already been done. I started smok ing again, and I’m having no trouble A Changing Population For yenrs .scHUilly-minded people hiive h<-en bemoaning the trend of the human race toward the big cities anci away from the country and the small towns. Government statistics nou tell us that there is a decided movement of population away from the c-ities and buck, to the eountry. The automobile i.- principally re- st>onsit)le lor this. It is possible for j>i'opl(' to live in NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE was Holy v^^ater. “Uncle Mark’’ would sing, laugh and cry while preaching. lAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION ^ Telephone No. S A Clinton Institution Servinsr Clinton People Since 1909 1 with my work. The time to quit. everybody loved him. | o smoking is before it has done one Rev. Ray, who lived in Union, rode, any harm. ! Flat Rock Has Its Fourth Big HEARTS — Strain i War Scare Naturally, I’ve been looking into flat rock had another big war Jbe whole subject of heart troubles.: rural regions and .scare last friday night, mr. slim* ^be one thing about them on which' werk m the big towM> as millions are chance.-sr.. reported a big german seem to agree is that morel di'iiig. K.-ptcially i.- this true i>er- bumb behind his barn, he thought heart diseasedn Amer-i luining to employees m industrial had benn dropped by a natzi stuker.[>>^^ than from any other cause. Just* .md other plants. While many are in fact, he heard the stuker flying bow much or how little smoking has, mn\ mu out to what we commonly over his house in'low-gear the night with this situation ^s a point ^ lull the counlry. they are not going betoar. and he said--atistr'■ttrart"he is * great diflerencfe bfb theie -eekmg employment. As a mat- heard the bumb hit the ground, but, [ ter oi< Put. the larm population, due at the time, he thought it was hisT belief is that tOo much blame ti' giiNcrnment regulation and crop wife slamming the kitchen door. placed upon cigarettes. Doctors^ I uitaiimeiit. has been decreasing. It ♦ find that a high percentage of their dot s not K'quHc the amount of labor he reported the matter to the {X)- 'heart patients are heavy smokers. or .-lock to iijx-rate a farm as was .lcOsrnan. bqth of them . slipped, up. Uuf so is a lilgh. percentage of folk ihi ca-f a lew year- a.go These peo- within 2b feet of it and they both ■'vho never have a. sign of heart' pie arc ucttmg (»ut in the counliy swore to the mayer that they heard j frouble. There are no statistics of the| a.. a> ir(im the noise, dirt and high d a-ticking. it was partly berried in number of people who have smoked 1.' M;, cost ol tlie metropolitan aieas, the ground, it looked powful danger- to excess all their lives and never but tluy arc clinging to their city ous. they expected flat rock to be bad a symptom of heart disease. .1' 1 ;. in.itP 1 of lad, the line-u|) blowed into kingdom come when that There’s no doubt that most of usj no\^ I- that ol tht' big cities against time bumb exploded, everboddy in Ptit too much strain on our hearts.: iht loup.tiy, witli the New Dealers the naborhood packed their stauff in There’s something in the air of I perill ing tniilinn- of dollars mtt) the cars and fords and wheel-barrows America that tempts people to try iaige titles t(t keep them IrtJin crack- and hauled it as far as possible. |fo do more than the folk of other, ing Kverybody wants to live off the 'countries do. We work at high ner-; big cities and the Icderal govern- the poleesmen H^lly foamed thejvous tension, develop high blood nit ni IS helping make it po.ssible. jshenff at the county-seat to come at j pressure, and play havoc with the •S.iim towns will continue to grow, once and fetch the fire trucks and all | workings of our bodily machines. But "thcis won't. Many are already dead, fbe help he could, when they arrived Prcoably the larger cities will not the fire-chief walked right up to the get much larger, as recent census fig- big bumb arfti kicked it over, it turn-i do. im - indicated. There are as many ed out to be an old black oil drumj gx-ople as ever, if not more, who go that the chance younguns had fixed for instance, daily to New York for tip for a playhouse, three of them work, but who sleep in some other were asleep in it with outlying boroughs of the city, or in alarm clock by their side so’s it adjticent counties, or even in other w’ould wake them up by dinner time. .sl;.t(>-. And what is true of New ^ York. IS true of thou.sands of other as soon as the bumb theory, and <iti(- Bringing the practice closer >>>>1 tbe bumb itself, was exploded, home, we find right here in our own*^be citizons began to look around for county hundreds of people who work sb'm chance, sr., the man who re in town and live in the country.' ported the stuker ansoforth.. there Ttic -team engine is another fac- ^ newspaper men on hands all- tor contributing l(» our changing ^o that wanted a story from mr. jKipulation. When large-scale factory chance, but it seems that that is one industries were started, power could -story that will newer be told by hot be tran.'mitted farther then the’bim. he has not yet benn found, no- length of a belt. Now electric power anyboddy knowing the where- 1.- available everywhere, with the abouts of slim chance, sr.,owill plese tendency increasing to build factories o*" toam his wife at 1-j. no re near where the people live. Truly our ward population Ls a changing one, with a great part of the people traveling ** Now* Looks Like Wedding Bells on wheels. . !■ FhU- Rock 1 miss annie chance was tooted at Waefinn Tax Maapw mesdame art square last Thf . Jthursday betwixt 4 and 5 at a nice The new federal ^dget, President • tea given in her honnor as a proo- R«K>scvelt announced yesterday. wi41;pective bride, if her sweetie’s draft we get things done and have a good time doing them, as no other^ people provitto sharp cuts in appropriations {number is drawed on tbe next draft, tor all non-nulltorr public works. i she will marry him beCear he toaveo He fuither said that by next spring | for the orient ansoforth. they miMtd and- summer the defense program [him 2 numbers on the last gold fish w a.s going to u.se the very greatest (drawing, number of people out of work andi wanting to work. Because this would! cut down the total of the needy un employed, he added, new spending WORHff — Glands Talking about such things with, their ma’s several doctors who are more or less specialists in heart troubles, I found j them mostly of the opinion that Wor-' ry kills more people than any specific disease medical ^ience can put a name to. “There’s nothing the mat ter with you than a hundred thou sand dollars wouldn’t cure,” one of them told me, when he found I was' worried about finances. The human body has wonderful j defense mechanisms. Against fear it has the adrenal glands. When one is afraid of anything, those glands se-, rrete adrenalin, which flovFs into the >lood stream, increases the blood pressure, and gives the muscles greater power to fight or to run away, liaat is one of the defense | mechanisms that humans have in common with other apimals. | But the other animals are afraid only of i^ysicid danger. We imagine- tive humans conjure up fear out of money troubles, concern about our families and friends, things that haven’t happened and may never happen. should be concentrated on defense That is a sensible statement, one I the color scheme was gold and pink and consisted of roaas and chrissyantbems wbkii were fetched by tbe various aiNI supdry fusease wtM) attended the paitTf end bung up that should have been made month* everwbere aaay of Ihai^ would HABITS — Food Most of us are victims of one bad habit or another, of which we may be totally unaware. Very few live the sort of life for which nature de* signed our physical structures. To be sure, tilt WoRld wouldn’t have made much inofress if 'huBsanity hadu^ of the waye and V Salas of new 1941 Chevrolafs in October topped oil previous marks for th^ month in Chevrolet’s 29-year history • • • o record- breaking reception for o record-breaking t ' cor value • •; a new high tribute to the leader V-' for the finest car the leoder ever built! ($> V Ills .n ■V : GOst ihc. CUNtON, 8. C ..jr- -{SSir ..".Ife'i;.’*