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Thursdoy, December 21, 1944 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. There is an atmosphere of good will and good cheer prevailing among the mem bers of this organization which finds expression in this petting to you. At the Ynletide season we > are reminded of our many pleasant business relation ships ... of your many courtesies ... of our own good will toward you. We (risk you a Happy Christmas: BELK’S DEPARTMENT STORE “Sells It for Less” And, we hope Santa brings with an abundance of good things for our loyal friends and customers. You have been good to us and in return we extend our kindest wishes to you, one and all. CLINTON CAFE “A Good Place To Eat” GEORGE P. MITCHELL, Proprietor To oil of you whom wo hovo faith fully endeavored to serve in tha post* ond to those of you whom wo would like to servo in the future, wo extend Christmas greetings. We assure you that we will moke •very effort to serve you next year as efficiently ond effectively os possible. We have • certain standard that we expect to set as a goal end our every effort will be directed toward the achieve ment of this purpose. < ✓ mm s May you enjoy this Christmas in respect. every gmUnqs JAMES PITTS STORE Irby S. Hipp, Manager Tree Use Traced To Forest Legend Legends dealing with the origin of the use of the Christmas tree go as far back as the Tenth century when George Jacob, the Arabian geogra- 4 pher, declared that all of the trees in the forest blossomed and bore fruit As the ties of friend ships are strengthened by the Christinas oc casion, so may our mutual accord and business associations continue to grow in confidence in the years to come. It has been pleasant serving you in the past and we wUl do everything possible to merit your confidence in the future. EDWARDS GULF SERVICE J. v. Edwards, Prop. + Page Eleven Wdw/and lumot wit ’ by Don Robinson NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS i transact such business as ma The regular annual meeting of l before the meeting. '.>[ con ?f Stockholders of the Commercial De pository of Clinton, S. C., will be held Tuesday, January 9, 1945, at 4:00 o’clock P. M., in the office of the Commercial Depository, to elect’di rectors for ensuing year, and to H. D. Henry, Vice-President. 4-3c F. M. Boland, Cashier. Subscribe To THE CHRONICLE Your Neighbor Does the night of our Lord’s Nativity. It is believed that Jacob’s story T PICTURE—Comparison Anyone who owns a copy of the current ■ Sears-Roebuck catalogue is familiar with George Inness’ beauti- j ful painting entitled, ::The Land of might have led to the Isfter custom j peace and Plenty,” which decprates of hanging apples and fruits on ; the catalogue’s cover. the evergreen tree, and, as is the habit in certain parts of Europe, of using a blossoming cherry sapling in the home as a Christmas tree. One August Imgart introduced the Christmas tree to America 100 years ago In Wooster, Ohio, and, in so do ing, preserved the tradition that had been handed down in Germany. In 1851, Rev. flenry C. Schwan, pastor of Zion Lutheran church in Cleve land, Ohio, put up the first Christ mas tree in a church in this coun try, for which he and his parishion ers were severely denounced by oth er congregations. The other night I was lookirtg~at~ that picture while a radio commen tator was blasting forth with news of death and destruction by war. j Here, on the one hand, was a pic- j ture which many rural people see every day of their lives—a picture of rich, fertile fields, a quiet colorful stream, a gold-crested mountain in the distance and a few human beings scattered over the landscape peace-1 fully going about their work. But, i on the other hand was a horror story of boys who had left that peaceful 1 land, most of them voluntarily, to go thousands of miles away and exist in One of the most beautiful legends a hell on earth—to spend their days concerning the Christmas tree is the ! * n a l an d where the landscapes are ancient tale dealing with the forest- 1 blotted with bomb craters, barbed 1 er and his household, who had Just wire and smoke, where the towns gathered around the fireside on are in ruins, where suffering and vio- Christmas eve when they heard a l en t death run rampant, and where timid knock on the door. j even the sky growls out and flings The forester opened the door to hot steel at any moving object. behold a little child shivering on the steps. Touched by the child’s cold and apparent exhaustion, the forest er took him in, and he was wel comed by the whole family and warmed and fed. Later, the forest er’s son, Hans, gave up his bed to the little child. In the morning, the family was No matter how many deep-seated reasons one may have heard for war, when you put those glimpses of two ways of living together the reasons for it all seem to become meaning less. Even though you know, deep in your heart, that this war has to be fought and won, you can’t help ask ing what force it was which led that awakened' by the singing of a choir I b°y in the Inness picture, who is of angels, and looking at their little shown sprawled peacefully on top of guest saw him standing transfigured j a wa g° n . climb down, pack in their midst. They recognized him h‘ s clothes, go off to town to enlist, as the Christ child. As the Lord I and willingly—almost eagerly—agree Jesus bade the family farewell. He I to be shipped overseas to fight to broke off a branch from a fir tree, deat b with an <5nemy whom he set it in the earth, and said, ‘‘Be- bad never seen. ^ ! hold, I have gladly received your . kind gifts, and this is my gift to S ^ , ^ IT Z7 H / S ^ r ^ / k you. Henceforth, this tree shaU al- 1 dou u bt ^ at J 3 ™ boy ways bear its fruits at Christmas ™ uld ^11 you why he climbed down time and you shall always have from the hay wagon and went to war i abundance ’’ 1 If you asked him he mi 8 ht 8 lve y° u 1 The first community Christmas ^ thestereotypcd ansvvefsbiit I tree was set up in Paris, France, in d “ u . b * ‘ h ?. 1840, but was not popularly accept ed throughout the world until the advent of electricity, when the light ing could be stabilized and proper effect given to its display. Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who | came to England in 1840 to wed the i young Victoria, is credited with ! into words at all. In fact, it probably I wasn’t a reasoning process that made 1 him decide to be a soldier. It was i more an emotional reaction or an in- • bred spirit. To understand it probably necessi tates a clear understanding of the whole history of America from the time this boy’s ancestors fought In- bringing the Christmas tree to the djans ^ th / ume his father (ough ,l in the first war with the Germans. British isles. J Custom Maintained It all undoubtedly adds up to pro-' tection of the home. Way back that meant the home in which he and his family lived, jLhen it meant the con- ! tinent on which his home folks be came more dependent for their wel fare, and finally protection of “home”i / became an international affair, j Without analyzing it too closely, that farm boy on the hay wagon feltj lit in his bones that his land of peace] and plenty could become a land of barrenness and poverty and perhaps of slavery unless he went out to help drive the thieves away from the pot of gold at the end of his rainbow. GLOBAL—Prosperity When the war is all over, and that , farm boy comes back to the way of ''life he has fought to protect, he is going to have a clearer understand ing of the close relationship between his prosperity and international af fairs. He is going to bo more world- minded. He is going to realize that the price he gets for wheat is re lated to the price charged by Russia, that it is affected by the size of our merchant marine, that it depends to In accordance with an old custom Purchasing power when the °* island and that it is closely tied up with the prosperity of industrial concerns in our country and in for eign markets. j When he gets back and looks over the landscape — his farmland — he is going to understand that his farm is i not an isolated world in itself but !?• r\ |is part of a global picture. He is go- Huge Yule Log Tire Unce ing to realize that he cannot prosper Thousht to Ward Off Evil 'or long unless the laborer and the O Hiic irxocom onH tno <avrvnrtor ar»H Centuries ago huge fires were built in the great baronial halls in Eng- which some say began original St. Nicholas dropped a parse of gold down a fireplace and it accidentally landed in a stocking hung nearby, these youngsters hang their stockings with the greatest of care. land on Christmas eve and servants brought in a log that was to burn throughout the Christmas feasting. businessman and the exporter and i even the financier prosper with him. Whe/i he comes back he is going to know it was worthwhile to get down from the hay wagon and go to foreign lands to turn back the ag- It was customary to save a brand g ressors who, if ignored, could have, from each year’s fire to light the trough economic pressure, brought next one with. If the log was P ro P* our people to their knees without erly burned it was believed that the even having to invade our land devil was powerless to do any mis chief to the household. And above all, he is going to real ize that a war is why any part of One story has it that stockings world endangers his home—that were originally hung by fireplaces f am iiy’s security can have no per- buming Yule logs in order to ab sorb the odor of the burning wood and thus give the wearer protection from evil. manency until good. war is outlawed for POST CARDS —For Service Men, 25"for I0c. Send your son, brother Several Santas i or relatives several packages if you There are several Santas, including waot more mail. They are a “quick Kris Kringle and St. Nick or Nicho- note , hom ^- No squired for las. The original St. Nick was * mailing. Chronicle Publishing Co. bishop who is said to have lived to take part in the historic Council of Nice. This is disputed by historians, 4 but he certainly lived prior to the reign of Justinian, in whose time several churches in Constantinople were dedicated to St. Nicholas. Sprinkled With Wine Zenicans of. Bosnia burn their Yule logs a day later than the rest of Europe. Just before sunrise the fa ther drags the log into the home. As he enters the door he is doused with wine. The log itself is sprinkled with kernels of corn to assure the family bountiful crop In summer. -LONO MAY OUR LAND BK BNIOMT WITH FRKDOM’* HOLY LIGHT." MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EACH OF YOU Wishing you oil the happiness whicn may be contained in an old fashioned American Christmas. TRADt MASK PEPSI -COLA BOTTUNG CO. Greenville, S. C. DIKE YOUR FERTILIZER NOW| There’s a crisis in the making! If stocks pile up in fertilizer plants and agents’ ware houses, the stream of supply will choke up. They must move fast or the lack of man-power vyill cause a para lyzing shortage. • Take the Chilean Nitrate situation for example. To supply the quantity needed for 1945 crops, many car goes must be unloaded each month at each port, then moved out by train and truck for immediate allocation. It must move out of agents’ hands as fast as it moves in. If not, the choke-up starts and works back to the ports, even back to the ships. Already theie’s a threatened shortage of nitrogen, due to sharply increased war needs. Unless you help smash the bottle-neck by taking your nitrate as soon as it is offered, the shortage will become acute. Thous ands of tons will pile up at U S. ports or on the docks in Chile. The only place Chil ean Nitrate does you any good is on your crops. Get yours now ... while you can. Storage Tips Pile all materials on dry boards in barn or shod. Pilo matoriols separately. loop piles close togothor. Destroy the bogs when you se the contents. 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