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• ■ ffWKTOjjf** : ' ' *Tp» i < t : ' f Air ■vi* IHE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Clean V Newspaper, Complete i' Newsy and Reliable She (Clinton (Chrmndc If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News (ir * t * vV I- Volume XLVII Clinton, S. C, Thursday, December 25, 1947 Number 52 CHRISTMAS WEEK IN ONION FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Items of Interest About You Know. (Issue of The Chronicle of De cember 22, 1932) THE SOUL OF SANTA CLAUS By Georre Matthew Adams , There is something deeper, finer, and more significant to* the event of Christmas than the mere giving of gifts. There is something magnificent D_V/*.. IfMMu* in the very air—the spirit of good People You Know. wiU, of thoughtfulness, .and of. con cern for others. Santa Claus is a mere symbol, but a very real one, and that writer for Miss Eva Story of Carrollton, Ga., ,j l j ew York Sun who long ago and David T. Pitts of this city were united in marriage Monday evening December 19, at Fountain Inn. Miss Nan White of Chester is the guest for a few days of Miss Redge Peake. Misses Almena Milling and Medora Browning, students at Converse Col lege, Spartanburg are spending the holidays at their homes here. " Allen and Bill McSween, Fred Ox ley, Ned Sprunt and Bailejr Williams students at Darlington School for Boys, Rome, Ga., are spending the holidays with their parents. W. L. Jones is spending the holi days at his home to Pfizer . , The following WlnUmop students' arrived yesterday to spend Christ mas with their parents: Misses Sadie Chandler, Virginia iCellers, Elsie l|itL tie, Lidie Leake, Ella Little and Copie McCrary, Rachel O’Daniel, Roberta Peay, Ruth Todd, Grace. Davis, lond Von Hollen Caroline Martin and Vio- lette Wheeler. William Moorhead of Duke uni versity, Durham, N. C., is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Moorhead wrote that beautiful letter to “Vir ginia,” telling her that Santa Claus actually lived, told the truth. He does live. He did then, and he does now! Christmas is childhodd’s great moment. But to us, who are adult, Christmas is a heart opener, and for us the task is to search out the souli of Santa Claus and translate it into' happy and helpful deeds. It was the birth of that Babe in Bethlehem, however, that “brought about what we now know as Christ mas. And the gifts that were brought to that crude manger were gifts of love and good will to express the joy of. those came to view the sacred scene. We ought to bear this in mind and not to lose the significance of the event. It should be an occasion of Joy and celebration that so beautiful a character as that of Jesus should have been tern into this world—and what we say and send at this time should be an expression of our feel ing for that wonderful happening. The soul of Santa Claus is a trans lation of hope, love, cheer and good will, applicable to all the world. To the children most of all, for Christ- aiNTON FACES QUIET CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY SEASON Business Firms and .Mills To Close. Yuletide Spin! In Evidence. Miss Alden Bailey of Easley is mas is to celebrate the birth of a IKiwonis Club To Act As Santa For Orphanage Family with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bailey for the holidays. Robert Vance of the McCallie child. But it touches us all. A card to a friend, a letter, or some simple gift is sufficient to express all that Candlelight Service At Lutheran Church cchool, Chattanooga, Tenn., is spend-1 we feel. Even a kind word .from the ing the Christmas holidays with his i heart is a gift for which many hun- parents, Mr. and ,Mrs. R. B. Vance.; ger! Venable Martin,, student at Hamp- den-Sidney college, FarmviUe, Va., end Taylor Martin, member of the echool faculty at FarmviUe, are at home with their parents, Prof, and Mrs. A. V. Martin for the hoUdays. Mias Emily Ferguson left yester day for a visit with her aunt, Mrs. is. HR Hones in Montclair, N. J. W. Watts Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack H. Davis, left last week for New York to join his uncle, D. L. S. Fuller, Jr., on his return to Paris. They sailed on “The Europa” one of the few fast boats which makes the trip in four or five days From the center of war-torn Eu rope, many years ago — and during happier years — that beautiful com position “Silent Night” emerged. And it is the hope and prayer of us aU that some day there may emefcge from that unhappy land a new spirit of hope and confidence that will change the hearts of those now so deep in despair and so saturated with dark forebodings. How grateful each of us should be for having been born in a land where the spirit of liberty and freedom has St. John’ Luthern Church, of this city, will be the scene of a beautiful and inspiring Candlelight Service this evening (Christmas EVe) at 9:00 o’clock, according to an announce- numoer ol years the club ment ** ^ P* stor ' the Rev Jam j cs C.'Dickert. Such a service is tradi tional in Lutheran Churches, in ob- The Clinton Kiwanis club will again this year serve as Santa Claus for the boys and , girls of ThomweU orphanage. For a has been assuming the responsibility of providing bags at Christmas to ! add to the happiness of the children. greeting, "Merry Christmas,” and will be distributed to the large family on Christmas morning. Joanna Fellowship Club Enjoys Christmas Banquet The Joanna Fellowship dinner was given Saturday evening in the club house at Goldville and attended by two hundred members. A bounti ful banquet was prepared and served by the Woman’s elnb. The clabhouie was beautiful in elaborate Christ- servance of the Nativity of Christ. 1 mas decorations. The nave of the church will be The bags will contain an assort- , , , ^ J . 4 . ment of fruits. They will bear by dozens of tapers, and Third Biggest State Rev. H. F. Bauknifht, chairman of the committee in charge, served as two Christmas trees will stand in toastmaster, and the invocation was the chancel. offered by Rev. L. W. Brown. The Service tells, with quiet and i “America" was sung by the entire! ness ami free oi simplicity, the deeply inspiring story Jroup- j 1 of the girth of the Christ Child, Manyj Speciul music was rendered by] „ of the beloved Christmas Hymns will Rev J- Layton Fraser of this city, nOS V/peVl IVIIMI Clintonians are doing their lari- minute shopping today in preparation for a general observance of Christ mas Day. Clinton business will be closed Thursday and Friday as employe®* and employees celebrate the sensor, j with indications pointing to a happy observance. Business firms will re main open late tonight for last-min ute shoppers. Stores for several dayr. have been crowded with merchandinr more plentiful than last year. The city schools closed last Friday to re-open January 5. The orphi age schools have cloaed for the days and also Presbyterian college to re-open on Janaary fi. The post office will be closed oB day Christmas day and no deliveries will be made. The Joanna Cotton Mills company, Goldville, closed Tuesday n*ght tar the remainder of the week. The Hallmark Manufacturing cor poratron is closed for the entire week Gwen-Evan mills will dose fhark day, Friday and Saturday. The Clinton and Lydia Cotton m ils will close Wednesday and Thursday . Christinas cantatas and apeeiau programs have been presented in a number of churches in the city and community during the post week. Many will spend Christmas out sr the city visiting relatives and frieods. while others have retuiurd to their homes here for the holidays. Christmas, of course, is the day of days for children, the celebrate* centering around the Christ-CkiU. The little folks have been busy fiw weeks making knows their wants hr Santa. Indications point la a qaiet, en joyable Christmas ter nkahia ami this entire cumoannity. THE CHBOft OGLE wishes far its' flm—aate ol' readers a season of joy and hapja- anxiefy Watts graduated twd years ago j mas. And how important to echo its from Presbyterian college and has j beauty far and wide. We can trans made it possible for us to enter > n ^ 0 jCrOO RCDOftcd be sung by the congregation and the with his daughter. Miss Marie Fraser, About EufODOOB such a happy event as that of Christ-! c J' bia IV* 22—The value oi Pastor will bring a brief meditative a* acoompaniat. Mrs. Annette Moor- ' ’ message. The highest point is head Henderson, violinist, played reached as each worshipper is given Christinas carols, accompanied by crops produced in South Carolina recently been connected with L. ! fer the very soul of Santa Claus into '!. hi * year is the third highest in the B. Dillard’s store. | our own, and our whole spiritual 1 history of the state but eight per Misses Kallfa Fuller, Odetta Maun-1 nature thus be enriched through the cent less than the record high value ey knd Dudley Jones, students at the Charleston Medical college, will ar rive today to spend the holidays at their homes here. Governor Blackwood, accompanied process. of last year’s crops. * Based on season prices to date, 33 Washington, Dee. 23. — Vandenberg. Republican, of an individual candle and receives Miss Gladys Willingham, from the altar the light, symbolic of: W. K. Waits spoke briefly as chair- ( Christ as the light of the world, with of the proposed Memorial hos- j Ran, said Monday he has an ‘‘ope-' „„ the admonition to carry it out ihto and medical clinic la ae cycled arr< not and methods What we give, at this time, from' * .. . commercial tAick the world and live under its guiding ^ community. He'stated thatiof handling proposed American tr heart is what counts. That is thej valued at $334 170 000 ^ an< f purifying power. After all can- the employees of the Joanna Cotton inonuc aid but is “emphatically com only permanent gilt. We Just have to, ^ compares wilh , he to ’ p value our by Carroll D. Nance, senator-elect from Laurens county, left yesterday for Memphis, Tenn., where they will represent South Carolina at the Southern cotton conference, sche duled' to be held in that city. Rev. and Mrs. T. F. Wallace and little son of St. Matthews, spent the holidays with Mrs.. Wallace’s moth er, Mrs. Arthur Copeland. Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Sease and lit tle son spent the holidays with their parents in Silverstreet and Prosper ity, Miss Jeanette CrawfoM of the University of Pennsylvania, Phila delphia, is visiting Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Crawford. be rich in willingness and in spirit to gne greatly. Christmas should be ond highest of $330,000,000 in 1919. a thanks giving time! And it is in the province of us all to make it just that. NEW SUBSCRIBERS HONOR ROLL 1948 is just around the corner. A subscription to THE CHRONICLE for the New Year will be a tift •luri will bring pleasure to friends or loved ones fifty-two weeks. List your subscription. Wo will send card* noti fying the receiver of the gift. Thankr and welcoipe to those on Misses Lyde Ray and Josie Pitts lour Honor Roll this .week: of the Grady hospital, Atlanta, Ga.,, are spending the holidays at their! homes here. H. D. Payne is visiting relatives: in Lakeland, Fla. J Mr. and Mrs. Hugh L. Eichelber- COX HOME AND AUTO SUPPLY, Clinton. The decrease of nearly $28,000,000 from last year is due chiefly to small er outturn and lower prices for most j attend, crops. The crop of lint cotton was worth $102,080,000. This is 14 per cent less than the $118,861,000 brought by lint in 1946 but the second highest value since 1923. Cottonseed production was worth approximately $20,800,- 000 or 10 per cent more than last year’s crop, due to higher prices for 1947 seed. The vlue of lint and seed is $122,880,000 compared with $137,- 688,000 last year. The state’s principal cash crops of cotton, tobacco, peaches, commercial truck and peanuts were worth $208,- 755,000 compared with $250,810,000 dies are ^ lighted, the congregation 1 Company will be asked to raise! milled to the general objectives files out into the night, singing the *** donations, the remainder' *av ing Western Europe on a setf-hel? familiar “Joy to the World, the Lord to ** provided by the Regnery inter-1 basis.” is Come.” i for the construction of the com-1 Hi* announcement was interprater The public is cordially invited to 1 mun ity building in the near future. The drive will begin January 1, he said. Voters Must Obtain NeW Certificates \Dr. W. K. Greene, president of Wofford college, Spartanburg, was ] the guest speaker. He expressed bis ] pleasure in being present and said, Laurens county electors wishing | ^ V'* word fellowship. If we •'are to have world peace, he said, it will only come on the basis of those to vote after January 1 will have to acquire new registration certificates, according to a notice now appearing in The Chronicle from the county board of registration. All certificates heretofore issued, the notice says, ex pires by operation of the law at the principles laid down by the great Prince of Peace whose birth we now celebrate. Dr. Greene made a unique address on the subject of “Christmas,” stat- | ing tha tthe Christmas story is the ing that the Christmas story is the end of this year. | M. D. Milam, 5r. fc of this city, is a'£‘ " ,a ‘ ‘T 7 “ “ e member of the board from thi, ,ec or “'* ^ Chrutnu. observance REV. LLOYD YOUNG, West Clinton. last year—a decrease of 17 per cent, tion of the county. qer announce the birth of a daugh- j Goldville Exceeds tre, Luta Catherine in the Anderson 1 c__ 1 C-l,. County hospital December 7. ^ e °' ^ Q * e V u P* a "MERRY CHRISTMAS" GREETINGS TO YOU 'V R. L. Plaxico was chosen as presi dent of the Clinton Kiwanis club for the coming year at the annual elect ion of officers meeting. Caption underneath a picture of Mrs. Franklin Delanb Roosevelt, wife of the president elect. “Mrs. Roose velt put to rout all rumors that she would carry outside activities after the President-elect takes office, but instead will devote her time to hos tess duties at the White House. Fashion Nate Contrasting sleeves and tunic sil- (Continued on page two) Residens of the Joanna community at Goldville have purchased more than $800 of Christmas seals against a quota of $500. W. K. Waits is chair man of the drive. BACK IN CHINA Two Clinton boys, George R. Tur ner, Jr., son of G. R. Turner, and William B. McLendon, son of Mrs. Btella McLendon, both in naval ser vice, have returned to Tsingtao, China, aboard the destroyer USS Ma son, after visiting many of the im portant ports in the western Pacific. An unusually large collection of attractive “Merry Christmas and j Happy New Year” greetings appear in the advertising columns of today’s paper froip the City, Chamber of Commerce, merchants, banks, mills, and varied other business establish- 1 ments. and customs, mentioning the Yule log, fur tree, mistletoe and other tra ditions, culminating with the presen* Christmas dinner. A committee as leaving wide qpen the road ta final congressional agreement on Ife- form and the extent of Americer> help to be offered If Western, nsn- Coenmunist Enropean nations. Republican house leaden already have talked of coming up with a GQf plan as a less costly alternative Jr President Truman’s proposed lanr year $17,Mfi.MMqf program. Vandenberg told reporters that fcc- maintams an open aahad on flhe amount of ajd that may be necessary, on the method by which it may be administered and we “the impact en the domestic econosey.* “I am open minded an the *trm ture of the European rtesvery plan,’* he said. “But 1 consider tee objecthre indispensable from ter standpoint of intelligent American self krteiet- The whole question of procedure v drawn for the! next dinner-meeting of the club, con sisting of J. D. Butler, F. L. Ellis, Ru fus Batterwhite, J. L. Delaney and they express appreciative sentimeni for evidences of such favors and n vv u friendliness, but ask the pleasure of. 1 ^; U ' McFadden. serving the public during the New In * ddl ^o n *0 Chairman said *te from thr their oorr House Speak Bauk- Year. They likewise wish for every- 1 «*»nittee m charge of the s?tt \ mdicafcd one 365 days of health and happi- 1 er * >yable .* ocial event Saturday eve- ness for 1948. < nmg e 011 * 1 *^ of R C. Rowe, 3. W. Today’s paper goes to our subscrib- £ 0< ? > ? r ’ *** Hunnicutt and Qlm ers Wednesday morning in time for C. Johnson. These messages, full of good-will Christmas .We hope it will be read and beautiful sentiment, are inserted!toy all our readers during the glad by Clinton business Arms as a means j holiday season. Tn addition to these of publcily,i expressing thanks and special greetings, it is filled with appreciation to their friends and cus- much other interesting and appro- tomers for their patronage, confi- priate Christmas material, dence and friendship during the year j We hope you will enjoy this now drawing to a close. Not only do j “Christmas Edition.” J. AT OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL A Clinton resident, William Mixon, is among the 91 persons reg istered for.the new term of the South Carolina Opportunity school, accord ing to a statement from T. D. Wat kins, principal of the school. The Michigan knows nothing of Republicans to program, a move r Martin, Republican, of is under way in that body. Vandenberg sain however, that he presumes the Re publicans largely wiB be “together* when the program is AaaJJy brought to a vote in the eegnlav session of congress which hrgins January f. SPEAKS IN Dr. M. A. was the guest evening for tee bnation ol the Laitri •f this cit>. Inst Tuesday night” ede rink • 1 W V* 1 FT v y y~ > j Y v*4 --MV*. ■ .«:*>* .A 'Vv r \ ^' j — J - A- f--1 >■1 j