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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
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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!