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I * Pajfe Four THE CUNTON CHRONICLE Thursday, August 25, 1949 a hr (E Union OUirontrlr Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $2.00 Six Months S1.25 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C., under Act of Congress March 3, 1879. The Chronicle seeks t ie cooperation of its subscribers and readers— the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle 1 ' will publish 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 ol its correspondents. MEMBER: SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION by Julius Caesar in 45 B. C. which 1 the World Association says "due to its irregularity and the time differ ence caused by erroneous astrono- mcial calculations was Corrected and readjusted in 1582 by Pape Gregory XIII.” That's’ hw the calendar, we have been operating under so inef ficiently all of these years, happens to be known as the Gregorian calen dar, and since that time we are told that "mankind has labored under its shiftiness, irregularity and instabil ity.” The orld Calendar association further tells us that “this illogical and confused calendar has its ill ef fects in home and family. It causes : the family complications in the plan ning for vacations, holidays and an niversaries. The new’ calendar they say, “offers a way for better plan ning and budgets for home, social I welfare, civil and church activities. I. And then one of the numerous oth er defects in the present calendar^ which is pointed out is that "cum bersome legal phases such as “the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November election day brings it on any date from Nov. 2 to 8.” In dustry is affected, too, by the cal endar in use we are told, in that “no ' co-ordination, comparability or ag- which are constantly battling, they reement is possible among the day, also would have to seek other pas- month, quarterly division or season- wfhrh i oV-' V 1 lures And this would mean the tree : al period. They constantly vary from e- the d Sturbanct m,v V Wh^ I foliage and the * rass - And without. ye ar to year. Months have from 24 neon’e *av our cmmTr^ pmu'm 'pp! 1 grass the cattle WOuld die ' and with ‘' to 27 weekdays plus Sundays. This '■ ur country comd ne\- out meat anc j vegetables we would Anders difficult planning for indus- er "go Communist” because the vast'aie Thp thporv that it would 1 , aimcuu P !iV , , majority would hp onnrwpd to it a e ' 1 ne tneor - v S 0 ® 4 that would trial programs and compiling statis- majonty would be opposed to it— require about 10 years to finish the tics is merely wushful thinking. U)b , 1 L thp iwnai ro,-r,i..tir.r,o^«. J There must be merit to the pro as history shows is for a small *-ouo Th£> result of course \ s that as we posed change because it has been to form a political oartv and running' 3 ° Wly wipe 0ut bird * life ' and our endorsed by scores of varied kinds L n <ome «loean nrh rr»mmnni-m r r ' end * y * nsec ^ allies, we make the of business and organizations in all or Nazism use to promise ‘he peo- USe ° f che ^, icals progressively more parts of the country. As we said at' pie all the political and social* re- r lf ces?a , ry - . U . e m “ st even im P r egnate the Outset, it’s a pretty deep subject the soil with poison, and this pro- and something new. We have chang- ces* kills the earthworms who have ed and revised -about everything ' a function to perform. e i se under the sun. It might not be 1 l.ving m a promism*” oolitical era' Whe ! e will 1 al1 end? Bugs, in- a bad idea to have a round with) os shown bv the last presidential sect3 dest r°y ln g every where they our calendar and see if it can be ‘ ‘ a ' fight seems to be going readjusted in a simplified and Tmi- to National Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia CLINTON. S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 25. 1949 Twos Ever Thus It is usually a small forms which are desired at the mo ment. and all the other goodies which they can possibly think up We are polit pres go. “ * ‘ i"H against the human race. Will the bugs f or m way that will be acceptable ♦S .m P ew‘tnn ,tinally win out? And if so ’ what Wl11 strata of society. IIS m C.Pv wlOil ♦ r\ ♦ Kxx \V r 0 3T0 HOt - — - happen to the bugs interested in this last Reedy River Baptists election when everything under the high heaven (free) ’lie people It got results day. Enough pe >ple fall for the palav* £r°« th tTmake d^mebmii pos-l New Calendar Proposed In Quarterly Meeting sible to bring about conditions that For a long time there has been an Tonight At Whitmire enable them to take over the reins, agitation to change the calendar, ^ m of government Once in the saddle, with many advantages pointed out. Thp Rppf iv River A««oriatinna! the group has command of the police The World Calendar Association. Inc.j Traini Un f on hold iU ter ., ‘ nd the military and can maintain is proposing the adoption over the j mass meetin Thursday (tonight) control for an indefinite period. present Gregorian calendar which wej, t 7 O . clock at the Central Avenue Eventually such leaders begin to nov ' use take .idvnatage of the.r position, i Of* D. They commandeer the best living i hr T™! 1 ' ''"•iVoutn in Action’, will be giv quarters and provide themselves has talked to us on several occasions “Youth Sings” Led bv Cleland with the expensive luxuries which ab out the need of changing the cal- Reed * 0 ' they bad promised to the ordinary *[' d * r and wrot e an article two or ..youth Testifies”—Horace Hamm, people Before long they are living ‘hre** years ago m The Chronicle ex- j r n fine houses, giving' champagne I P la ‘ n ‘n* the new plan if our mem- Announcements. Roll Call. Electionl parties, and getting the best jobs for or y us correctly. We are frank _* Officers for 1949-50 ••Hf.r >on> to admit that the “Doctor” was over, * hoes of Ridg ecrest-Miss Caro- In due >urse a new society is head in explaining the proposal. lyn Abrams. born It waxes rich and powerful and . .^ ent , y na ^ e . reoeu ® d a batch “Youth In Action"—Led by Rev. often abuses it's porogatives to such 1 litera.ure explaining the change. Alvin Boone and Rev. Joseph Walker. i — — . , , , I Baptist church in Whitmire. The fol- J. Woods of our city, one of ! lowing program, emphasizing "Thei level-headed men we know., Youth In Action .. f ^ be iven; | an extent itself the meted out And so h ..lid over. Today ample o perogativi :hat it brings'down upon ume destruction which it to those who preceded it. >: >ry repeat!* itself, over _ ... , ——^ .— Joseph Tne association pronounces the cal- >x:hl . ist In M Life . s Wor k ”-Mo- endar we now use as unsatisfactory ze , le Jackson and George Frady T e ili, hvmn IpH hv c scientific and other activities of the man.’. We presume it is equally un- satlsfactory for the activities of wom- •.c navc n Russia an ex- e n who now hold an important place oid routine. Our unas- ; i . be business world. 'uming friend, father of the people. j-e new u’anned cale-dar wJl do " a . c " urcne5 111 T neeay niver Joe Stalin, n whom we have no con- -his calendar will do Association are urged to send repre sentatives to this meeting. . Congregational hymn led by Cle land Reed. "Challenge” by Donald Cook. Hymn of consecration. “Fun! Food! Fellowship!” All churches in the Reedy River New Regulations On Enlistments M-Sgt. Edward Q. Ham, in charge ment regulations. On and after Sept. 1, he said, in order to retain the grade in which 1 discharged it will be necessary to | re-enlist within a 30 day period fol- J lowing discharge. All former members of the Air fidcruc, finding rhat his son did not \ Every year will begin on Sun shine into:> ‘.ually amongst his fei- day , i January. •vs. .cn: h.m to a military tra.n- j. Each quarter year has 3 months sn >"1 :or aviation pi.ots. He cr 13 weeks or 91 days. -r.. wd ei^nt years agj as a lieu:- 3 j n each quarter: the first month 1 an. Today, age 29. he is a lieuten- totals 31 days and begins on Sun- ant genera. We doubt if there are da y; t be se cond month of 30 days | f Ai Frir „„ v t . , any lieutenant-generals of that age be »i ns on Wednesday ‘he third f . Force recrultin 8 here * ^Ued among the common folks ^th also o^0 days begin" on Fri- attent,0n yesterday t0 neW re ' enli3t hen tnc Communist leaders first da y This arrangement recognizes a oiok er in Russia, they lived as | barmc)n jou$ variety, them othfr comrades did but that 4 Days and dates alwavs a , ree d.dnt ,a>t Today they live like rich ' from vear to vear nukes, with the masses of the peo- 5 Each mont ' h will have 2 6 week-1 pie under their subjection like slaves. days> plus Sundays. . ...t' e.e: been thus, when leaders g week keeps to the familiar unl.mited power, 1*. ^urns order of days beginning with Sun- Force who have been discharged! them into tools. day ' more than 30 but less than 90 days ~ p .~7 ...T, „ 7. Months have their irregular 1 must re - enlist P rior to Sept. 1 if they Uur right With Bugs number of weekdays including Sun- «ish to hold their former grades. The It has been remarked mat if hu- , holds tr u ue f ? T {oT t m ? r mem : man beings stopped fightin® insect Every year has an even 52 j of °t h cf branches of the armed beings for 10 years, the humans w ' e eks. plus the one or two new wor- serv 'ices. If they wish to enlist in, wou! i ease to exist. (That makes ld holidays (Leapyear Day, June 31 the Air Force and retain the grade a > perpetual struggles we have to and Worldsday, December 31.) tda t they he.d in other branches of i fa e for the rest of our lives one 9 - Holidays and anniversaries are tbe arm o d forces they also must be against multi+legged bugs called in- stablized on their regular days and m by the end of August. se.t?. the other against two-legged. da t es - \ l bugs called Communists). 1 10- Religious feast days, such as. Practically every plant which! Faster, are left to the decision of gi n .vs has some particular specie, or, the churches. species, which attacks it and saps its' H- Perfect coordination is attained productive vitality, or destroys it sea-i among' the different calendar unites sonally. or kills it altogether. There at the end of every quarter year and is a worm for corn,'-one for cabbage,, the year itself. one for melon vines, etc. The potato! 12. Every year and quarter year has its own ;>et bug, which the gar- are comparable from year to year, dener must fight, so too, the tomato* 13. To secure the stability of the plant and bean vine. A good garden- calendar, at the sSrne time retain ■or told us yesterday of how an in- the accuracy of the length of the <ect was destroying his fine tomato year that it takes the Earth to make patch. There are few plants which a complete revolution around the are impervious to one sort of de-*Sun, the 365th day follows Saturday, stroyer or another. i 30 December. With the old Decem- And there is that devastating boh ber changed to the new Worldsday, weevil against which farmers are which falls outside the week yet fighting day atid night poisoning and, belongs to the last month of the out- spraying with airplanes. They are ; going year and dated W or 31 Dec- harder to kill this year than even ember, it becomes the closing day of before a farmer told us yesterday, every year. Worldsday will be con- and according to estimates on thisisidered a world holiday, year’s crop these pests will have eat- 14. Leap year day, the 366th 'day, en up 180,000 bales of cotton which follows Saturday, 30 June is consid-; shows what a destroyer he is, how ered as another world holiday in leap he eats money; real money, and is years. It is the new Leapyear Day, the cotton farmer’s enemy No. 1. W or 31 June. Both these days stab- Now the theory goes that if—to take an isolated case—we allow the potato bug to destroy that crop for a number of years in succession, we would have no seed potatoes to con tinue on with. And the potato bug, lacking his accustomed food, would be compelled to, attack other plants which would spell more trouble for the farmer and gardener. If wfe apply this progressive prin ciple to the cabbage worm, the corn worm, and all the other worms, bor ers, beetles, grasshoppers and such ilize the calendar, making it the same from year to year. This is com- I parable to the establishment of Stan dard Time and is now used through- | out the World. A new World Calendar, scientific, andAmiform, it seems to us has much merit and would be thoroughly prac tical. It would rearrrange tke yearj 1 into equal quarters and halves, re moving many irregularies of our pre sent marking of time. 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