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nii^. July 24.1941
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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
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WBABSBDinniG
TRQIIW.k
FOR SALE
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THERE’S A X)HN DEERE QUALITT nfPLEMKNT
FOR EVERY FARmNC^ PURPOSE
J. R. CRAWFORD
GUNTON, 8. C.
W. J. BENJAMIN
SERVICE STATION
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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
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EWALMERS
Anihelaace Swvise
l^henes 41 and 899J
L. RU8SBLL GRAY aM
T. FABBS ADAIB, Gen, Mgtm
We Want To Help You
CitfatoRg Fetfertl ig r tantHgtion RTgRifaiii In
An haabum prfaBirilr-iHtli Ht frlenAi aad iwlfliben..
We Arto RBiple fvnAi iilMlp %tdM,‘niRtr,
re&uuice^ er npiRdil wHk loiiff teng
repl estate Iordk DbrI w^;Ja BMple
by ciMRiiiB IB rrA taBdgr'RrftiHi^l<)#ia
fufiMtei witligRt .oMiigitiHi*’ ■
mm
My wife and X reasoned togeRier,
and we decided to make our hodae
(located 228 miles from Gie ocean)
as near like a sesshore eununer^
reeort cottage m ’possible, tad thui
—vre’d^be able to enjoy the coast at
our own (mortgaged) inland botnau
The first thtog we did gas to pake
semM com cobs and
mattregiae go’s oitfh^^7|^be eg-
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