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This paper is not responsible for the views or opinicms of its correspondoits. carry these into old age with yq2>^M<' cause'no matter how poorly you do them, they have taught you a keen appreciation of ttie same things dcme by masters, and appreciation is a treastv* not li|^tly to be disre garded. Faith. Faith is the priceless ingre- itUdESTus feel like we were sleeping on seashore beds. After coming home from woric» we*d all go out into tha .back jvd and let the children kqisdii wgler an us with a hose. During this process, we would fall over barrels, making dient. Faith in God and in one's fel-|like erg ware riding tha waves. After tal importance to the farmers, but he has many times been responsible for dty people gstting ^unkftemspled supplies of grater, gas and elae^te^: Weethv. extramas ate alwayi a favorite t^pie of conversation.' ‘ Most of US get the feeling .|hai we wei low man. Faith that good is stronger j ttie plunge, we always broutftt otir, than evil, and ttyit ri^^ will triumph sun-lamp out and got under it and over wrong. FaMt is t^ light shih-! laid under the rays till we got a nice, * “ *- **-*- ing in the long, dark ni|^t. It is the | dark-brown tan; some of us got blia-‘ tered ... we went to sleep under it like you do the sand near the boerd- waUc. tfire burning hi the jungle of uneer- ' tainty. — sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety—” When that little boy leaves home in the morning, he is equipped for the day. He is reedy for whatever hap pens. He has his treasures with him. He has has hank of string for a fiMi We had the cook aerve us nothing but beach rations, such as* slightly old fried fish, clams on half sheU, and a few crabs and some rice cook- ' . r ' FINAL SmUBlENT Take notice that on the 15|b dej el August, IML I wUl render « ftuii aoceunt of my nets ekd deiagi •• Admkiisindar of the estate ef M. & Nwtenhanib, la tee offies «C tbe Jtglge at Prated ef Laurens dsnate, ■t '}f«^eladt.a la., and on Use sites ^ WiU apply ter » fteal djgrhnje frwn isiy truft sa ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ " teking pteeetin this cdunter.'Wh . Aiy person indebted to sild tstete teink tte summers are wsnaner m T**^rt* njfud iregiiinri fn flillte gif colder teast th^ uaad to be, or' thors on or before that date; and alt line, and his ji^ knife to cut a fidi ad so kard it tasted like raw 90^ CLINTON, 8- C., THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1»41 READY OR NOT, HERE I COME! Editor’s Note:—This column is giv en over today to an article by Roe Fulkerson, the interesting editorial writer of The Kiwania Magazine. The address was one of the highlights of the recent Intematienal Kiwanis con vention in Atlanta. “Ready or Not, Here I Come,” breathes the personality and sincer ity of the man now reaching an ad vanced age. We are giving the article space and recommend it to our large family of readers for its. sound phil-. osophizing.— pole. He has his msrbles reedy if he I hte>pms to run into s game. He has this presasd toed his Africsn carries them right with him, where j stamps if he wants to ssvap treasures with anethcr boy. He hu kis Jive, turtle if he is alone end wants to be. the-ocean effect amused. He carries his treasures wittk I I have been asked l^y the program chairman to talk to you a few min he knows they are safe! Unless you have his absolute con fidence, you can try in vain to induce him to show you his treasiires. But if you :dK>uld take him by the heels, upend him and shake him well, you would find them lying on the floor beneath him. A dozen marbles; a hank of good, strong string; a jack knife sharpened to'a razor edge; the unsavory re mains of a toad that lost an argu ment with a ten ton truck; three stamps from British 6. W. Africa, stuck together and almost undeci pherable; and a wriggling, doUar- sized mud turtle. These are his treasures. He carries com. Such night we would ptgr e«di other 4 doUavs for board, lodg^ and surf privilegas. Wa let tha alaetric fsn blow its wind against the dUdi- paa all night to give us the roar-of- them to school, to play, and ^ven to , u- * , - u-,. ♦ bed wfth him at ni^t. Not your kind utes on the subject of a^a subject treasures at all, but exactly the on which I am rapidly becoming an ^ authority. Age is a peculiar condition, | ^^erever he is not at all unpleasant if you are out-1 treasures? What are you carrying with you into old age to console you and keep you fitted for it, but very uncomfortable if you ,are not. We all like to play games. We all ^■^J’^re'^ou-’cairpto^ wim like to show how intelligent we are, ^ you , ■ , j u . 1 .. you to make other people like how quick witted, what a keen sensei^. , . J', of humor we have. We like to dem-' ^ onstra e yir taleots and abilmes, mental and^ physical. .,„,.Unce tor Father." Or, “We have to Remember the first game you . considerate of Mother you know'” learned to play? “Ten twenty, th^. [ TZik fort>, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty,,^ . about you You want them ninety, one hundred! READY OR : ™ NOT, HERE I COME’” Hide and|*°^®"‘ ^ ^ . seek, we called it. The children still! play it ' ^ make it unnecessary for Age plays the same game with ev ery one of us. Not a serious game, unless we w-ant to make it so. It is the game of seeking youth, and hid ing age. Eternally comes the sten torian voice of Age calling “Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, one hundred! READY OR NOT, HERE I COME!" your chil^en and other young folks to make allowance for you, and show you consideration? What is there about you that .will make them want to be with you? Old age is like poverty, in that it is nothing if one is fixed for it. And how do we fix for it? Will money do it? Well, not money alone; a thou sand times no! Even the nice shiny him and he k equipped for happi ness. ”—seventy, eighty ninety, one hun dred! BEADY OB NOT—” The time to prepare for age k when you are young. Now k the time to accumulate the ireasures that will make old age the happiest time of your life; the treasures that wiU keep you from being lonely and bored; the treasures that will insure you against having your children say of you “Of course we have to make allowance for Father!” God is good. We stay, young. Only the people around us grow old. But it is still a good idea to have a live turtle in your pocket! Just in case! NOBODY'S BUSWESS By GEE McGEE It A Trying Ordeal became necessary a few To get the full effect and benefit of the leaehore, we let all kinds of bugs, iBoaquito^ insects and red ants bite and sting us to their heart’s content. We talked about how rich we were, usfhg each other as strang ers from' other parts of the country, and bragged terribly on our ances tors. We enjoyed this vacation for-2 whole weekly the longest outing that we ever had, and then we went back to living-normal agate, and now^we are aU very well indeed, thank you. (P. S. When tesects were scarce, we stuck each other with pins to get the real seashore effect). Yours truly, Gee McGee knd Family. rODAY...IOHOI8!OW By Don Robinson WEATHER—Predtetabk I have always felt very sorry for days I the weather man. ago for me to send a fellow a photo graph of myself, including my entire anatomy. I don’t think 1 ever had my “pitcher took” before. I have 6 reasons for not wanting to be photo graphed, and all 6 of them are . . . I’m just too ugly to appear on any thing permanent. I picked out a first-class picture He probably can put up with the name-calling letters which he re ceives fro mirate picnickers when he predicts sim and they get rate, but it’s among his own family and friends that I’ve pictured him being in con stant hot water and the butt of un- ceakng ridicule. My sympathy for the weatherman, however, was based ^ the belief that gallery and sneaked in. I didn’t want • be k wrong a large percentage of the God is good. No man ever grows, • i. * # .,1. • i All V.^ rtvvv,., com fresh out of the mint says old. All his friends grow old, but for,;.. him, Time stands still. One day he meets his old school friend, Bill Jones, Whom he hasn’t seen in ten years. He is shocked. Bill’s face is a road map of wrinkles. His cheeks have depressions in them where Bill’s upper plate has allowed them -not In Money In God We Trust We Trust! A lively interest in life, and a joy in living, are not like a pound of pork chops or a package of prunes. They cannot be bought and cwrried home to enjoy ot leisure. They are the result of an (men mind and an anybody to find out what I was up to. I mustered up enou^ courage to tell the man my business, and apolo gized. He said that I ought not to worry about being so ugly, and inti mated that he had taken pictures of worse looking things ^than me, but he didn’t have any of them in his show window. to sag. His hair line has receded. u j u * from his brow like the shore line at »P"' “d n>?<>«F “«>• *“ low tide. His neck has wattles on it!'*” <l>™-,Sto^ and bonds are like the neck of a turkey, and there I *" arc money bags under his eyes. He!«'«'' ““J'S than they ever sighs and lies and tells Bill that he! doesn’t look a day older. He has no idea that his own face has shocked Bill as much as Bill’s face has shock ed him, because Bill, too, sighed and lied! Yes, God is good. No man ever grows old. Only the people around — Forty, fifty, sixty—” All right! I heard you the first time! Well, what can we save as treasures to take into old age with us? The real treasures of the small boy are the things he can carry with him. The real treasures of a man are t^ him grow'old. But inexorably Age l^^'^S? old agi wi continues to call “-twenty, thirty,!^'”'* He showed me the dressing room. I petted my held heed with his coed) and brush. As I wanted to look as pretty as possible, I slipped a few jolts of talcum powder on my face and rubbed it'te with my handker chief. I don’t think I ever saw my clothes hang so loose and shaggy on me: my pants bagged so bad at the knees I felt real lorry for them. forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, one hundre3! READY OR |greater value than bank ac- NOT, HERE I COME!” After the summer shower counts and vast estates. ! His first and greatest happiness , ^ X • ^ 1 can come from his love of people; his and the sun comes out again, eve^ | i^teregt in them., The greater the leaf and blade of grass is ^pangled, n^unbCr of his friends, the happier with diamonds, and stretched across,is. A young man has thousands of the blue sky is a gloripus ramtow! hundreds of friends. of color. classmates, fraternity broth- child who has been penned up on the business acquaintances, relatives veranda by the ram, remembers that by the dozens, hundreds of tieigh- there is a plot of gold at the end of j jjors. He knows everybody; eyery- hat rainbow, and sta^ off across ^ody knows him. He is interested in the meadow to find it. As he trudges j ^^at happDens to everybody, and ev- through the wet grass, the rainbow, ^j^body is interested in what hap- recedes as he advances. Instead of i bim pttmg closer, tee pot, of gold gett, if he is a smart young man, he will farther and farther away until final-into old age with him that pro- ly it fades from the sky. | found interest in alF his friends. Age IS like that piot of gold at the neighbors and fraternity brothers. He fixed me in the studio chair and pushed my head back against an inm yoke; then he hid under a black shawl behind the camera and sighted at me. My nose began to itch, and a fly seemed to be crawlteg from my' left ear over the horizon of my right ear for the purpose of tickling it a while also. The man told me to look pleasant. I couldn’t think of anything to save my life to make me Icxdc plea^t except the recent advance# in wheat and cotton, and I didn’t own either of thwn. end of the rainbow. The man of^thir- ty feels that his boss of forl^ should sit back and take it easy and give a young man like him a chance to as sume his duties and his salary. The My. lips began to feel thick, my eyes were leaking, my spiecks seem ed loose on my nose, and the longer the man pxnnted that lens at me the hcQer I got and the redder my face turned. I couldn’t find any place to leave my hands, and he wouldn’t lej me cross my legs and there I was with four limbs, and every one of teem in my way. ' time. A review of the accuracy of his. reports shows quite tha contrary to be true. Dtiring the last year he was right in his predictions between 85 and 90 per cent of the time. So testead of being an unhappy fellow, actually be is probably quite proud of himself. For each day that he opens himself to heckling by his friend there are nine days in which he can say, “I told you an!” And moft of us consider anyone ite ''ekpM^&a any subject if he can be right M per cent of the time. WABNING8.^^vahteble The weatlier man ia really a na tional hero, judging by ttie service he performs for millions of i>eople in this country. He has saved himdreds of farmers from bankruptcy by his frost warnings and farm crop weath er service. He has saved thousands of lives by his tips on hurricanes and by tracteg the movements of floods and blizzards, and he has prevent^ the destruction of untold noillicms in property by preparing people for qui^ and violent shifts in climatic (xmditions. It is estimated that weather pre dictions can be credited for savings to ai^culture, commerce and the people in general amounting to hun dreds of millions of dollars each year. Cautious fanriers, as well as ship owners, aviators, fi^ermen, and even power company managers, have learnt that it pays to give the weather mam an important role In guiding their daily activities. In cities as well as country areas, the weather is closely related to most all of our pocketb<x>ks. The weatherman is probably of most vi- When you find a desperately unhap py old man, you find a man who is interested in nobody but himself. And that old man is as likely to live X ^ , XI. X xE- ® mansion waited on by dozens of man of forty feels that tee old men ■ servants, as he is to be living In the of fifty who are ahead of him m the j almshouse organization, shoOld give way to the j The mwt important preparation young nien of forty who have some j jqj. ^ happy old age is keeping frimd- repair; keeping interest^ in I fterly derent.~^ he dM, The'guy I fifty looks at the old men of sixty l^^hat is hanneninv in voiir num tnum' * 14 4 ^ fho town.sent it to was finally convinced by his stenographer, so 1 heard, that toy photo was really and truly the pic tore of a human being. I tried my level best to l<x>k nor mal, but I am sure the photograiteer thought I was a-fixing to cry. The moles on my cranium seemed to be as large as onioQS, and I knew that picture was going to be a “Nick, the Ripper” for l(x>ks. He flteally snap ped me. The next day he sent me the proofs and told pne he could touch them up and make me look and wonders why the doddering old' nj to the people in it. If this sounds idiots don’t retire and let youpg men hkg participation in Kiwanis activi- of fifty take over and run the or-,ties, that is the way I mean it to ganization. The man of sixty leelsigound' that hi!fc.^iates or tee same age .. _ seventy, eighty-” should get out and let a marf Uke Are you here again? him, who (»rtainly is young for his ’The only eternal youth is the youth age, head up the organization and try to make the young men under him realize that only a sturdy man of his years and experience can keep the organization from running wild and coming a cropper. Yes, G<k1 is goocL No man ever grows old. Only the people around him grow old. But Age still calls— “thirty, forte* Htty^ stete* seventet eighty, ninety* one hundred! READY OR NOT, HERE I COME!” Of course it isn’t calling to him. He forgets that the last banana on the bunch is not the best. It Is only the ripest! Let’s forget these old men for a minute. Let’s think about the happi est creature on earth—a small boy. Every small boy has certain treas ures to him more precious than gold. They are so dear to his heart that he doesn’t trust them to lodt and key. And be (toesnt leave them lying around the house for Mother to throw away, or little Sister, to make monkey business %rlth. No, sir! Ha of the mind. Your body will grow old in spite of you, but an alert, curious, acquisitive mind stays eternally young and is an everlasting source of joy, not only to the possessor but to every one Who knows hte>- A man’s real treasure house is his memory. In nothing else it he ricte, and in nothing else is he poor. Fur nish y(Mir memory more carefully than you fumitti your safe deposit box, tmr you wiU enjoy it a lot longer. The more things a man knows about, knows how to do, the more interesting people wiU find him, and the more interesting he wlU find himself. What are your hobbies? Golf? Fishing? They wiU give you a lot of fine memories, a lotsof good stmri^ but they are kiz^ of haitt on creaky knees and elbows, whe«cy brilows and an old pump. Miisic, clay modeling, wood carving, gardenteg? You can is more rate or leas xete than in the past.' Actually* accordteg to the stetistks recorded by the weather bureau, wbieh aeem to contradict mote anjr weather argument we aoay toiter up^ 4Imi» has been very Uttla vaztetlan in either prsdpitetion or temgaea* tore, over a period of a yaar, during tote ceoteiy. Ba the New Yodc vteinite* for kl- stanee, the aveeagt annual itenpHsa- tmre has ranged teem a loer of iflj in 1917 to a high of 94jB in IMl. ' As for preditetetai, the rangrteaa been a little greeter, hut R dQ«n*t stay away teem the everage for long. For 40 yean the avenge pemteHa- ti(m has been 42.76 In^es siyi in 1938 it was slightly above end in 1939 klightly below the average. There is, te course, a great differ ence between average temperature and average rainfaU in different sec tions of this country.' In summer, temperatures don’t vary as greatly betwean dUfocent states, the warmest state for July be ing Arizoiui with an average temper ature of 90, and the coolest being the San Francisco section of California with an average temperature of 68. ^ San Francisco the averag# Janu ary temperature is only eight degrees lower than the average July temper ature. - „ RAIN—Beeards There are stiU plenty of old-timers in the East who talk about the blizF> zard of ’88 as a snowstorm the like of .which has never been seen before or since. They’U argue until they’re blue in the fact that that snowstorm holds all the records, althoute^ tor 48 years the U. S. weather bureau has calmly reported more mow fell te 24 hours only five yeers later, in February, 1893. In all secti(xis of the country we hear stories of record saowfalb but less about record rainfalls. Rate rec ords are usually based on the num ber of dajrs it rained te a row—that figure having been interesting to many people ever since the 40 days of rate reported in ttie Noeh’s ark story te the Bible. There is tme rate record vdkich stands out, however. That’s the one which took place te the Sqn Gabriel mountains te California on April 6, 1926, whan 1.03 Inches of rain, equiv alent to 118 tons of water per acre, foU te a period of one minute! That’s more rate than tea ^ in many states te an average month and it all Ml in gi seconds. If HHKI riead of rate it would have equalled over 10 tedbes te that minute, for te water content 10 inches of snow equals (me of rain. There is little chance that any rain reemd ever will equal that one. SAT. “I SAW IT IN THE CHRON ICLE.” THANK YOU. estate will preaent them'on qrjba- fore aaid date. 'd^ ptgm, or ba forever herxed. J. F. B&DENBAKOQIE, AonupisiraiQCe Jidy 12, IML—7-4ew. Noim or BUS TRANNFHKXATIOff Bida for the traa^Kwtatleo at sdkool diUdren of Imvena Cowitr shaU be ogirned' in tha oifoe . «f County Superinteodent of Edute^ten on Titeadqy. Auguat Oth, at 9M Tha for wiB he 12 e'dock aoen, AuguM Mh. Thia smttee dtall net afgly 4e 41*- trkts owning their owb' bume, es toustees in aueh diitrict HHI mmU coittrect Routes sitoject to bids axe as fol lows: HurrIcaM No. li, to Clinton; MountvlUe No. 18--4iountvRle— 1. Lisbon to IfoimtvUla; —2; Jtodk to Mountvilie; 3. Old MountvfUe to IftonntvUle; SuUiven No. IT—Hicki»y Tamm— 1. liema to Xiok^ Tavmn; 2. Shiloh to Kiekory Tasesn; Laurens No. 4, Balky to Lawegs City; Mt. GnUegher to Ware Shoals; Mi. Olive to Ware Shoals; Rock Bridge to MountylRe; Rock Bridge to Lydia Mill; Ly<ifo itoute to Clinton; Shady Grove to GokIviUe. 31-st J. LBROY BUBKR pt (rf Co. Supt BENJAMIN & SONS PUJMBIN6 HEATING Ttbphfae WBABSBDinniG TRQIIW.k FOR SALE DESIRABLE HOUSE AN D LOT <»r iOITTM BROAD 8T. If iRteregtgR, tg <1 ygtRRRRRgRWRggMMRRggggMgMggWMgggggggHgMMlIgggmt JOHN DEERE TRACTORS ofid IMPLEMENTS THERE’S A X)HN DEERE QUALITT nfPLEMKNT FOR EVERY FARmNC^ PURPOSE J. R. CRAWFORD GUNTON, 8. C. W. J. BENJAMIN SERVICE STATION Standard Producta Cars Washed and Greaaei Tew Sea-Shering At Ow Inland H«pm. me and my folks wanted to go to the 8eariK>re on a vacatkm this sum mer, but for the following (four) good reasons, we stayed at hmna: , 1 — We didn’t have the money to spare. ' 2 — We didn’t have the money to spare. 3 — We didn’t have the sumty^ H>»re. 4 — We didn’t have the sooney 10 spare. Griiy Funeral Home CObIB^ s. c. FUNERAL DIRECTORS ■■igpd— EWALMERS Anihelaace Swvise l^henes 41 and 899J L. RU8SBLL GRAY aM T. 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