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9 , Page Eight THE CLINTON CHRONICLE A Regular Chronicle Feature Butter Price Kept So High People Not Able To Buy It Babson Soys Price Fixing' j w0 N ew Youth By Government May Groups To Be Lead To Ruin. Organized In City J strong Christian character. Often times these societies transform the moral life and outlook of the stud ent body of the high schotfl. Mr. Lamoureaux presented the matter to R. P. Wilder, principal of the high school who gave his coo- sent for tl^e organization to be es- Thursdav, June 8, 1950 itablished in Clinton, provided they Babson Park, Mass., June 1.—Can anyone tell me, why, in the name of common sense, our government bought and stored away 114,000,000 pounds of butter last year at a cost to you and me of better than $78,000, 000? Clinton is to have two new societ ies for the development of youth: A Hi-Y club for boy» and Tri-Hi-Y club for girls. The organizations are sponsored by the Interstate Committee of the I YMCA and Vernon W. Lamoureaux Tne cry has gone j of charlotte is giving general direc- up from warmers t- 10n to their establishment. The as- across the land that s j stan ^ athletic coach of the high people s eating hab- Charles Burnett, will serve its are changing. aS anc j advisor. not^eatLag. as .much ^ Hi - Y and are butter as they used ^ sOcta^mgaiiuaUons. Ther are to. Obviously not-i clu bs of boys and girls banded to- they can't afford to. aether according to their motto To But why not? Be- cre . ate - maintain. and establish thrnnwhmit err would hold true to their religious purposes and objectives. With this understanding the membership will be selected in the fall. If flowers are conditioned before you make arrangements for them in vases and other containers, they’ll keep fresh for a longer period of time . Garden flowers, such as asters, cal endulas, marigolds, snapdragons and zinnias last much longer if they are t allowed to stand overnight in water to which has been added sugar. Use one teaspoon of sugar for each quart of water. Iris and tulips will last mu6h long er if they are picked in the bud and wrapped in wet newspaper immed iately. Plunge the wrapped bunches into deep water which comes up to the blooms. I Gardenias and camelias never drink water after they’re cut. Place these in a cool place and cover them with wet tissue. Violets like water cn their flow- ■ ers. Bunch them first, then turn bun-^ ches upside down and immerse in water to allow the flowers to drink from blossom ends as well as stems. All green leaves should be con ditioned by placing in buckets of water overnight before you arrange them. Flowers which are bleeders, like poppies, hollyhocks, poinsettias, lu pines ancl milkweed should have the tips of their • stems burned. Then plunge them into ice water to re main overnight. That Satisfying Flavor Boger VV. Babson throughout the school and commun ity high standards of Christian char acter.” There are 197 such organizations cause the economic medicine men in Washington have pushed the price so high that substitutes have to be bought. The family physician may i^ the high schools of the Carolinas. tell you that vitamin—reinforced , Perhaps the oldest from a standpoint margarine is just as nutritious as of continuous service is at Hamlet, butter, but abolish your phoney con- North Carolina, where the high trols on price and vou will see which school principal has served as spon- spread the people really prefer! They sor since the organization of the club, prefer good creamery butter. These groups of boys and girls hold Last year, for example, we spread a ™ u al conferences Jfor fellowship only Tone-half billion pounds of and for th f. development of their butter as against 2 one-fourth billion program activities. Throughout the pounds pre-war. But still the farm- ^ are 12 ^ Hl ’ Y a nd Tn - ers cry in their churns over the! Hi-Y clubs. sharp increases in margarine sales—j The Hi-Y and Trl-Hi-Y are in no from 300 million pounds pre-war sense new organizations and they to nearly 1,000 million pounds last have taken a firm hold upon the year. * young life of America and, in recent Yet they let the Department of years, they have united in a common Agriculture continue turning their fellowship with clubs of other na- churns! If the boys in the Agriculture tions. They operate now in many Department keep on, they will churn i countries of the world, butter producers right out of busi- J The program is one of fellowship, ness. And I say this as a boy brought recreation, social service, and relig- up on a dairy farm who has both ious activities milked cows and delivered milk. ; Memberships in these organiza- We Want Golden Butter tions are chosen with a great deal of But this isn’t the end of the sad care - While it is not a scholastic tale. People cannot afford to pay fraternity, membership is not limit- current high prices for butter. Hence, ed t0 those in the upper classes, its consumption falls off. The govern- new recruits must give evidence of[ ment buys mountains of the stuff to CLEAN FUN By SUNSHINE CLEANERS D LWINOP ^ H E A H ® •* ST ofe v AS SOON a<; £ V S LM7 .S ?u A t CK EP S 0Ry fS ' U As k YOU POEf A date > SUNSHINE • CLEANERS FOf?PICKUP AND DELIVERY - F i H: 436 FLORIDA ST.. CLINTON, S C. Keep A Generous Supply On Hand! Swell With Snacks! 2 Full Glasses In Each Big 12-oz. Bottle! plus tax PEPSI-COLA BOTTLING CO. GREENVILLE, S. C. . Read The Chronicle-Your Neighbor Does maintain high prices. So the dairy farmers go merrily on churning out more and more spread for no one to buy; but for Unc^ Sam to store away, and for you and me to pay for the privilege of not using. What's the Government going to do with all the golden butter bricks? Who knows? Recently they have been trying to give them to relief, agencies, schools, and so forth. But takers are few because they haven’t the kind of money it takes' to pay transportation charges, es-! pecially when a good substitute an swers the purpose. Anyway, who 1 wants rancid butter? To my way of| thinking, not only the butter, but the whole phoney system is rancid. Action .And Reaction This is but one illustration of the system of talse economics in vogue in this country today. You just can not tamper lor long with tne law Oi supply and demand before it will boomerang. Newton’s law of action and reaction also apply here as aptly today as two hundred years ago. Os trich economics (the head in the sand variety) is due for a terribly rude awakening some day. Yet, our President is urging other spending programs like the butter program that could run up a debt of nearly $15,000,000,000 in three years. Projects requiring huge outlays of public money—wnen ousiness is at near pea* perfoimance—will lead some day to economic disaster. If we must prime the pump in this fashion in good times, what can i the soothsayers possibly have in | store lor us in hard times? The aw ful consequences of this kind of reck less speeding ought to be taught by all high school teachers to their classes. The harsh ooject lessons of Great Britain p..er excellent source material. I nemrloyment Is Rising Unemployment is currently and steadily rising. Even Leon Keyserl- mg suggests we may have as many as 12,000.1)Of) jobless by 1954. 1 won der it Mr. Keyserling fees the con nection between a mountain of but ter and tne mounting unemployed. 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