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4 V \ : n>' Thursday, November 10, 1949 -•V. ’ —H THE CLINTON CHRONICLE P. C. Student Wins _ Prize for Editorial A Presbyterian college student pocketed second-prize money for his winning editorial in a nation-wide writing contest on the alcohol prob lem. Allen M. Pool of Anderson, Pres byterian senior majring in economics, wrote his winning entry for the In tercollegiate Associartion for Study of the Alcohol Problem. His cash award totaled '$50. Students throughout the United States and Canada competed. The 1949 awards were announced in Chi cago by Contest Secretary Edwin H. Maynard, at the same time the win ning entries were published in the November issue of International Student. The contest, now in its third year, is part of the Intercollegiate Asso ciation’s educational program. Babson Says Advertisements In Papers Can Show Trends Page Three Dr. Felder Smith Optometrist Laurens, S. C. 126 EAST MAIN STREET Sooth Side Public Square HOURS FOR EYI ^ EXAMINATIONS: 9:00 to SJO Wednesdays 9:00 to 12:30 Phone 794 for Appointment Goodyear Tires and Tubes BATTERIES AND ACCESSORIES McMillan Service Station Sinclair Products Phone No. 2 I. DO YOU HAVE PROPER FIRE PROTECTION? Is your roverage adequate? Should you suffer a disastrous Are would your insurance cover your loss? Think this over. See os for all kinds or Insurance, Surety Bonds and Real Estate. We invite your business. Clinton Realty & Insurance Co. B. Hubert Boyd Phone C Parents Advised to Send Children to Christian Schools. Babson Park, Mass., Noov. 4.—I wonder if we spend enough time stu dying the advertisements in our daily or weekly newspa per? In addition to comparing prices charged by differ ent concerns for the same articles in any given week, there is another most in teresting compari son. If you will make a scrap book of ad- ■aflwv.rnim vertisements over a period of years, you will become an arden believer in Newton's Law of Action and Reaction. One of the best clues of the financial situation is not the stock market, but the relative number of those concerns advertising to hire people compared with the number of persons wanting jobs. It would be a fine thing for newspapers to summarize these figures each week and report theron as they now report the rainfall, temperature and stock market averages. Business and in vestment analysts get some of their best information from comparing the advertisements of goods and prices. I am especially interested in wat ching the bankruptcy sales of busi nesses which appear in most Sunday newspapers. During the war, there were few such and—when they did appear—they referred mostly to ga rages, filling stations and other bus iness real estate. Often then, in this column, I advised readers to buy some of these bargains. Those who followed my advice can double or triple their money today. Since the war I have been telling readers that a time will come again when more bargains can be obtained. How Ta Get Bargains These bankruptcy advertisements are now increasing; but the time to buy has—in my opinion—not yet come. So many veterans have gone into business about which they know nothing that there may be a million business failures during the next few years. Some will be in your own community. Hence, now is a time to build up a good bank account in or der to take advantage of these bar gains if they later appear. More money has been made with PA TIENCE than with any other thing. The “Business Opportunities’’ may increase every week for the next two or three years. Next to good bank accounts, the best investments which parents can make today are in practical educa tion. I don’t mean in an ordinary college cultural education, but ra ther one that trains young people for some specific work—so they will be an expert in some trade, business or profession. This is what I am try ing to do for young people at Babson Institute, Webber College and Utop ia College—catalogs of which I will send freely to any reader. These three colleges are purely non-profit institutions which I founded largely for my millions of newspaper read ers. Importance Of Character Education But to whatever college you send your young people be sure it is a Christian college, supported by those who believe in the Church and for all that is good which the Church stands. Colleges are now elminating Communist teachers; but they should also dispense with all who do not believe in God. the Church and the power of sane Prayer. I fear there are too many such who are teaching our young people today. Protestants blame the Catholics for wanting their own schools, and yet the Prot estants are permitting the public schools to eliminate religion alto gether. But to return to advertisements; do not be content with reading the "Business Opportunity'’ advertise ments in your newspapers and maga zines, or even the advertisements of clothes, foods, refrigerators and ra dios. Also read the advertisements and news columns relating to schools and churches. The future of your children depends on their character, education and health,—much more than on styles, deodorants or hair oils. If women would give the thought to the inside of their heads that they give to the outside, most of Amer ica’s troubles would be over. If we men would read the editorials of our newspapers with the care which we give to reading the sports pages, there would be little unemployment and no advertised “bargains’’ of bankrupt businesses. of charge from the nursery,’’or can (by the General Assembly order the seedlings at a shipping Assistant Forester Price stated that charge of fifty cents per thousand, landowners in Laurens county whn An individual landowner in the want to plant pine seedlings this faJ county can obtain more than the or winter should contact either tha 3,000 free seedlings by paying $2 50 Laurens County Agent, the Laurea* per thousand for additional seed- County Ranger, the district forester lings at the nursery, or S3 per thoou- for the Newberry district, which" sand for the seedlings delivered. includes Laurens county; a member The number of free seedlings to of the Soil Conservation Service, or be given each landowner was de-; the Columbia office of the S. C. creased frm 5,000 to 3,000 this yearState Commission of Forestry Free Pine Tree Seedlings Available •For County Farmers ' Special to oThe Chronicle. Columbia. Nov. 9—Pine tree seed lings are now available for Laurens county landowners at the nursery maintained by the South Carolina State Commission of Forestry at Wedgefield in Sumter county, ac cording to E. B. Price, assistant state ^ forester. ! As long as the supply is available, ; Laurens county landowners can ob tain 3,000 pine tree seedlings free MdNTOSH'S SHOE SHOP Send Your Shoes To U» for Best Materials and Workmanship. 11 GULF PRODUCTS Tires, Tubes, Batteries and Accessories AITO HEATERS INSTALLED Clinton Service Station E. Carolina Ave. Phone 96 OLDEST AND LARGEST B A L. ASSOCIATION IN LAIRENS COUNTY That’s Our Business The purpose of our association is to help citizens of this community own their own homes, and at the same time provide investment opportunities for those persons who wish to put their idle funds to work. Hundreds of homes have been built in this county through financing; by this association, and we are real proud of our record of achievement for 40 years. If you wish to build a home of your own. we sug gest vou come in and talk to us about it. Or if vou have money to invest come to see us. You’ll find our association a good place to borrow or invest money. DIVIDEND RATE 3 r ; EDERALdAVINGS [AND LOAN ASSOC IATION Telephone No. • A Clinton Institution Serving Clinton People Since 1909 Gray Funeral Home Clinton. S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS and... EMBALMERS ' AMBULANCE SERVICE Phones 41 and S99-J L. RUSSELL GRAY and V. PARKS ADAIR. Gen. Mgra iiUBBBieniMOUUeitKRItKUIIKMM—a A COMMERCIAL HOUSEHOLD WIRING Electrical Appliance Repairing and Electrical Construction Work Floor Plugs A Specialty ARNOLD M. CANNON 406 W. Maple St. Tel. 312-XJ Center-Point Steering with control centered between the front wheels for maximum driving-ease with minimum driver fatigue. Only one low-priced car 4 • * brings you all these EXTRA VALUES JZZ- Fisher Unbteel Body Construction with tree/ welded to steel above, below and all around you for the highest degree of solidity, quietness and safety. FOR QUICK P L U M B I N C REPAIRS , CALL... TELEPHONE 117 Benjamin & Sons Expert Workmanship CRANE Quality Materials World’s Champion Valve-in-Head Engine the extra efficient power plant with the valve-in-head design that’s setting the trend for the automotive industry. 5-Inch Wide-Base Rims, plus Low-Pressure Tires the widest rims in the low-price field-plus extra iow-pressuro tires - for greater stability and riding-comfort. ... and it’s the LOWEST PRICED LINE IN ITS FIELD! Curved Windshield with Panoramic Visibility supplying all that extra vision which means extra safety in driving with a fuller, freer view all about you. Extra Economical to Own and Operate and traditionally worth more when you trade; for Chevrolet is America’s most wanted motor car—new or used! Cerfi-Scrfe Hydraulic more outstanding than ever be fore with new Dubl-Lije Rivet- * less brake linings that last up to twice as long. Say— “I SAW IT IN THE CHRONICLE’ Thank You GILES CHEVROLET COMPANY, Inc. . » Phone 26 West Main Street Clinton. S. C.