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i k K ( * V Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, December 14, 1950 Trees Available For Planting Now Tree planning time is here again, according to Assistant State Forester E. B Price. Twenty-seven million lyttic trees grown at the state forest tree nursery in Sumter county will l>e shipped to landowners all over the state during the next three months. The little pines will be planted on abandoned fields, gullied hillsides and other kWe lands. Any landowner can get up to 3,000 trees free of charge and additional trees for $2.50 per thousand if the trees are picked up at the nursery. For a shipping charge of 50 cents per thousand trees they will be shipped anywhere in the state. Mr. Price stated that ordinarily about 1,000 trees are planted per acre, at a spacing of 6 by 8 feet. You can order your trees from any district forester, county ranger, county agent, soil conservationist, or | vocational .agriculture teacher. Or’ you can write directly to the S. C. State Commission of Forestry in Co lumbia. Babson’s Letter CALL 74 FOR YOUR PRINTING AND OFFICE SUPPLY NEEDS BOVTEBY, Inc. Laurens, S. Carolina LAUNCHES A SENSATIONAL BARGAIN GIVING EVENT. IMAGINE IN THESE TIMES. Beginning Friday Morning BOOTERY Usual Good Service and attentiveness will be accorded every patron — no matter how small the pur chase. December 15th, 9 o'clock 'The Lost Word In Bargains' is what you'll say when your eyes behold the price tags on this panomara of high grade Men'a. Women's and Children's Fine Shoes and Housa Slippers spread befora you in a sort of help-yourself fashion. STORE CLOSED TIGHT All Day Thursday to make ready for the most outstanding occasion we've ever attempted. PLEASE don't judge our bargains by the pricee before you see the fine merchandise—As Bootary. Inc M are known for fine quelity . . . Remember it is Quality For Salt. In Plain Words TOO MUCH IS TOO MUCH Our stock is altogether too heavy. We are overburdened with fine Shoes. There is no alternative — regardless of the sacrifice or lots we must face—failure has no place in our entire being or vocabulary. THE SALE MUST GO ON AND LOW PRICES WILL DO THE TRICK — WE ARE NOW PREPARING FOR A SALE THAT WILL BE THE TALK OF THE TOWN. Fina new Footwear all Nationally Advertised Brands for all the family all includ ed — Everything must go and all at extremely low price! NOTICE During this groat tala wa will maka no re funds. charges or ex changes — all aalaa fi nal. We guarantee every article to bo ex- a c 11 y a > advertised. Our S years are back of this. Prices will Readily Convince You of our deter mination to sell this surplus stock and all short lots. We have taken on this task serious ly—we've reduc- ed the prices recklessly and we have marked fine qualities ri- dloiously low. The Value Story In A Nutshell Thousands of Dollars in Valuat . . . raady in this "Ones, in a Lifatima" avant! NEW Winter fashions and matsriah just arriv ing and pricod below-regular NEW FOOT WEAR bought months in advanc# at money-saving price levels for you . . . timely values in EVERY department in cluding best grade shoes for all the family in short lots at give away prices. That's the story of this groat sale I SEE OUR FUL PAGE AD IN THIS PA PER FOR STORE WIDE LISTING OF SAVINGS TODAY—SEE PAGE B-l. Everything is of STANDARD NATIONALLY ADVERTISED Bootery Quality By that we mean that the same fine high quality typo of shoos that you vo learned to recognise as Bootery. Inc., standard for five years is sale-pricad during this sale. As always you can buy with confidence in this groat sale. v '■ CERTAIN QUANTITIES . .LIMITEDI.... In certain cases, the stocks of [ Once In a Life-Time Sale." values are limited in quantity, and wa advise early shopping. We reserve the right to limit quantities and all items are subject to prior selling. Check Your NEEDS Now! See this full page ad now! . . . Get a pancil . . . check your needs for all the en tire family. You'll find "Once in a Lifetime Sale" Savings listed and group ed for easy iden tification. Now Is The Time A Word About This Sale Event Now comes this — greatest selling event in our history— offering matchless savings bargains that far outstrip anything we have ever at tempted. Friday morning-.- Dec. 15th at 9 o'clock promptly we start the most phenomenal sale and bar gain giving event. It will enable everyone to buy high- grade footwear at sensa tional reductions. Bootery, Inc. is your assurance of distinctive footwear of good taste — select ed with unusual wisdom and ability—and made to meet the strict requirements and ex quisite demand of the Bootery. Inc. standard of excellence and workmanship. NO HOME exercising strict frugality and caution, dares to ignore this sale's importance in economy and thoughtlessly fail to profit in its super-quality valuaa- There's No Alternative —Regardless or the Sacrifice and Loss We Must Face. Babson Park, Mass., December 8. Three stories from different sources and from different parts of tfhe world suggest What happens to initiative in the “Welfare State.” Fair Deal Initiative A friend of one of my associates was traveling in Europe recently. He found himself in a railroad station in the Russian Zone of Austria with his wife critically ill. He immediately re quested the station master to summon a doctor. The sta-' tion master did so Wgt w. BaMm but in a few min utes returned to say excitedly, “The doctor says he won’t come unless he’s paid.” The friend replied, “Of course I’ll pay, but why do you ask?” The doctor when he arrived point ed out that they had a system of socialized medicine, that he had al ready seen more than his quota of patients for the day, and that more calls meant no more for him than additional marks in the book. He. therefore, would make no more calls unless he was paid in advance! Here is regimentation in medicine. Even the professional man, long an exam ple of initiative and resourcefulness, is deprived of his heritage. Two More Examples We ddn’t have to go to Russian sat ellites or to Britain to find examples of loss of initiative. Recently, the di rector of personnel of one ol the largest automobile manufacturing concerns visited Baibson Institute. We were discussing pros and cons of labor unions. This particular individ ual was an enlightened person and pointed to many of the good things that the labor unions have done for both the worker and the automotive industry. But on one point he really exploded. Said he, “I can never for give any union for killing the initia tive of the man who wants to do eight hours’ work in six or to do it better than another worker.” This past summer, a neighboring school teacher Aad an unfortunate experience. He was mowing his lawn, and his little girl of nine was helping him rake the grass. Other children in the neighborhood came along and asked the little girl, “How much are you getting?” When she replied that she was raking the grass because she liked to help her daddy and that she wasn't getting anything but a lot of fun, her playmates chastised her with a sharp, “Sucker! What a dope you are!” The sequel to the story is that the father was so perturbed about the general attitude of the parents and children in that particular neigh borhood that he moved away . The Great Isaue of Our Times What has happened to those home- spun qualities ef character, initia- tive, drive, and resourcefulness that made this country ao greag? The childish notion that someone will take oare of us without our making any effort ourselves is fantastic econo mics. Individual initiative is the foundation stone of security, headth and prosperity. The present attitude to do and give as little as possible will ultimately bring on depression and unemployment. The greatest issue before the Am erican people today is to find public officers who will give us the social climate necessary for the develop ment of individual initiative, self- reliance, self-betterment,, and selt- achievement. Felix Morley, recently writing in NATION’S BUSINESS, stated our problem in plain words when he said; “The theory that men owe it to themselves to win their way has been forgotten. Instead of believing that all men are worthy of respect ... by virtue of their indiv idual efforts ... we tend to say that all men are worthy of support by vir tue of political action.” When Father Carved the • •• BOAR’S HEAD «?HAT ROAST TURKEY is to ” Christmas dinner today, the boar’s head was to the Yuletide feasting of Medieval England. Preparation for the feasting be gan duriftg September or October when the boar’s flesh was at its best. Hunters tracked the animal down with well-trained packs of boar-hounds and it was dangerous sport, attacking the ferocious beast with spears or surrounding him and driving him into a net. His ear was his most vulnerable spot, but before the dogs could get a grip on it and pin him down, his sharp teeth often wounded—some times even killed—the hunter and his dogs. Nevertheless, the pluckier the boar, the louder his praises were sung, the merrier the feasting, when his head was borne to the Christmas table. Added Compensation Given A & P Employees Additional compensation totaling $2,500,000 will be distributed among employees of The Great Atlantic Sc Pacific Tea company on December 16, it was announced yesterday by John A. Hartford, • chairman of the board. All A&P employees throughout the country with six months or more service will participate in the pre- holiday cash distribution. Last year the company voted $2,250,000 addi tional compensation. World's Christmas Legends Numerous Multitudinous legends claim in numerable origins for the Christ mas tree. One better known legend concerns an early Christian mis- aionary, sometimes identified as St. Wilfred, who once came upon a group of Druids preparing to make a human sacrifice under a large oak. He had the oak cut down and, as it fell, a young fir tree sprang up in its place. The missionary seized the evidence and made the fir tree a symbol of the new faith: henceforth, the tribesmen were to set this symbol of immortality in the halls of their lodges at Christ mastime and surround it with feasting and love and the laughter of children. The legend of the Faithful Pine which sheltered the Holy Family during the flight to Egypt la less well known perhaps, but so very charming and touched by the mys ticism appropriate to the Nativity theme. With Herod's soldiers in pursuit. Mary shnpty had to rest awhile and sought shelter within the hol low trunk of a huge fir tree. As the soldiers approached, the tree bent its branches to conceal the huddled little group. When the danger had passed, the baby Jesus blessed the old tree. And if you cut a pine cone lengthwise at Christmastime, you can still see the imprint of His little hand. Nor has legend overlooked the bright baubles which bedeck our modem Christmas trees. The first Christmas tree was really an ap ple tree, according to legends col lected by Florence B. Robinson. And, although the fir tree long since has supplanted its predeces sor for Christmas use, the popular tinsel bauble of today is the repre sentative of the fruit which for the early Christians symbolized the fall of man in the Garden of Eden and his reclamation by tha birth of the Saviour. JAPANESE FRUIT CAKE For Christmas Made On Special Orders TINMAN'S BAKERY Phone 334-W Mlstlctot Hat Coma Lonf Way Sinea Days af Druid Wirshiii The mistletoe has come a long way from the days when it was worshiped by the British druids to its present status as a criminal killer of forests. However, its use as a symbol of love, peacemaking and goodwill survives to this Christmas intact from the pre- ChristiaA days of the ancient Scan- dinaviai light god, Balder, whose palace stood in the Milky Way. The beloved Balder, so the myth goes, was slain by a mistletoe ar row but was restored to life at the intercession of the other gods. Cus tody of the mistletoe plant was then entrusted to the goddess of love who ordained that henceforth anyone passing beneath its bough should receive a kiss in token of love, not vengeance. Held high, it never could be evil. B'Q’R °cold II symptoms You nay expect prompt relief from cold symptom by using a mild laxative end analgesic that leaves no drowsy after effects. Even if your cold has developed, use and see bow quickly you feel much better. Be sure it’s “|.Q.g”—iccapt bo substitute. MOKE PEOPLE AKI BEADING THE CHRONICLE THAN EVER BEFORE! Christmas Mass Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve is the event of the year in Rome. Every Roman Catholic church in the Holy City is crowded with men, women and cl3ldren anxious to see the processions of ehnrch officials in their splendid robes. The larger the chnreh, the more beautiful the sight. And, of course, the ser vice at St. Peter’a is the most magnificent in the world. At St. Peter’s all the men present are required to wear evening clothes and the ladies must be dressed in black, thus offsetting the brilliant beauty of the robes. Even the guards on duty are attired In elegant red and white uniforms. Stephen L Stetson Hats $7.50 L B. DILLARD it u t fO+ LIONEL Trains and Accessories Yarborough Oil Co. WEST MAIN ST. CLINTON, S. C. “Your Goodyear Store” PLENTY OF FREE PARKING SPACE NOTICE FOR PAYMENT OF 1950 CITY TAXES Notice is hereby given that Town Taxes for the Town of Clinton are due and collectable up to December 31st for the year 1950. The Tax Books are now open at the office of the Town Clerk and will remain open up to and through December 31st. A penalty of ten (10%) shall be added if said taxes are not paid on or before January 1, 1951. The levy for current fiscal year is 53 mills; 15 mills for current operating expenses, and 38 mills for interest and sinking fund on various Bond Issues outstanding. WM. B. OWENS, City Clerk. AT BIRDSEY’S Vacuum Packed COFFEE y IK}# ...«•«. 79c BIRDSEY’S BEST, lb 75c Package • FOUR BROTHERS, lb. . ...69c 3 lbs. $2.03 FAIRPLAY, lb. ... 59c 3 lbs. $1.68 COFFEE & CHICORY, lb.... 55c 1 'i ■ FLOUR 10 lbs. 25 lbs. 50 lbs. BIRDSEY’S BEST ..... 94c 2.19 4.28 Plain or Self-Rising FOUR BROTHERS .. 85c 1.97 3.83 Plain or Self-Rising MONEY SAVER 72c 1.65 3.20 Self-Rising CORN MEAL 59c 1.45 Old-Fashioned Stone Ground TREND, 2 pkgs. for 35c Birdsey FLOUR & FEED STORE V. P. ADAIR, Mgr. 13Q i^ US g rove BIG SALE!