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Page Two THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, December 21, 1950 I V To our many friends and customers we extend our sincerest wishes for a happy holiday and a prosperous New Year! Many thanks for your continued patronage! Adair’s Men’s Shop For The Man Who Cares CHAISTIDflS ' * To all our friends and customers ... we extend our very best wishes for the hap piest Christmas ever and may the New Year fulfill your every wish. DAILEY’S Midget Super Market We feel genuinely pleased and privileged to extend sincere Holiday greetings to our many friends. In the spirit of appreciation for the confidence you have shown in us, we wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! GEO. A. COPELAND & SON w hove found that the value of friendships in business is [invaluable and we are grateful for yours .4 JOYOUS SEASON TO YOU Morrison Furniture Co. A ^ \ /M. / /Mpt\ ■ l f ■ f , i Farms & Folks By J. M. ELEAZER. • Clemson College Extension Infor mation Specialist ( Between Christmases “Between Christmases” is what I once heard a fellow call the delight- j ful week between Christmas and I New Year’s Day. During that time work is usually | regarded lightly. That is the regular routine of work. It is then that we visit at any hour of the day or early night. And the folks usually j>ass good things to eat around so'that' regular meals at the table are re lished little. We are just as liable to go hunting, if a neighbor comes with dog and gun. Or to the woods to cut some backlogs for the winter fire. We always liked some green ones for that because they sing as they burn. And the dry wood is added as need ed to make the blaze and make the sparks fly when you chunk it. If hon eysuckle or briers have ridden down the garden fence, we are liable to clear the whole thing anway and re-1 build it at this season. Shrubs are! likely to be set in the yard, and if' another shade tree or two is neededf i we dig it from down on the creek and set it too. In fact, this is the time that the saving the cost of lodging. On the trip to Jacksonville the schedules were such that I had to spend the night, if I was to have time to see anything much. I saw the os trich and alligator farms, among oth er things. A tin-type photographer got me cornered and took several pic tures before I knew it. I started off and he called me back in a rather threatening way and said I had to take the pictures. I protested mildly, but he squelched me, and I took ’em.j That took 60 cents out of my total of $1.65. With $1.05 in my pocket and, the v baig of sardines, crackers, and; Vienna sausage used up, I faced the night and next day home with a dol lar and a nickel in my pocket. I found a cheap upstairs rooming place across from the depot. I paid the 50 cents for it and went to bed. Some thing was biting so I couldn’t go to sleep. The light was turned on and I never saw so many bedbugs before. I shook the blanket out and got on the floor. In no time they were down there too. f got up, dressed, and went and sat in the depot until the train left a little before day. At Jessup about mid-morning I ran to a near by store, got three large bananas for a nickel, a tin of potted ham, and a box of crackers. And after a change in Columbia, I arrived back at White Rock about sundowWwith 40 cents in my pocket and a /great adventure under my belt. Christmas Parade 1950 The parade was held every day! beginning just after Thanksgiving 1 and on up to the middle of Decern- j her, each day in a different town. I women folks usually get a lot of need- It b in the w | ld bitter cold| ed work done around the house by | mountains along lhe Yalu River near the men. 0 f R uss j a and China, I progressing southward day by day. The route of the march was lighted by the flashing yellow lights of rifle and machine gun fire, with the con stant noise of exploding shells. Fre quently the whole line of march was outlined by the bright flame of burn ing buildings. All the vehicles en Christmas music is on the air, and there are special occasions at the church. Men wear the new ties they got and ladies their new scarfs. New calendars come. We throw ) away the old ones and hang the ones | that hold a plumb new year. Late Christmas cards keep a-comln. New \ ear s ones are sent to those we, ^ ere( j were drab army brown or dec forgot, and vice versa. t orated by camouLflage. The occupants At night on the last day there is were hundreds of terribly disillus- a feelmg of expectancy in the air.! ioned terribl disoonsolatei terribly The kids stay ^ and shoot their last, young kids. Santa Claus firecrackers, as the clock strikes mid- or j usb 0^5^33 extravagance was night, and dad ge^out his old rusty ^ lhe minds of none of them ^ «^ n hr « « <*°ub\e load. Cars terror had lsolated even dreams of speed by with horns blaring and the, ^ Santa Claus ^ coimnander hld null whistle in the distance blows (s0 rec<?ntly promised . fact thit Ai.h all its might. , * .' no relief but retreat was offered A new year has been born. And 1 made tbe p arade a s ii en t one so far, we go to sleep feeling refreshed and| as the p articipants wer e concerned. ready. Worth His Money Some months ago I heard Ralph iBell, up-to-date farmer of Lee coun ty, say that he knew Clemson’s ex tension marketing chief, Torn Cole, The route was lined by thousands of citizens who had been promised a new deal by a something they did not too well understand known as the United Nations. They heard that another organization was bringing up was an expert on marketing, for he 1 the back end of the parade which had saved him $2,700 on one deal. For some years Tom has been working on a pecan market for South Carolina. It was started the past fall on November 16 at Orangeburg, be ing held each Thursday, 1 p. m. in the poultry building at the fair ground there. It was an auction mar ket. Cotton Allotments We live and learn. This year we have learned that flat percentage bas is is a poor way to allot cotton acre age on years that control is necessary County Agent Hopkins of Anderson tells me that the county was allotted 55,000 acres of cotton the past year. And that was enough, if it could have been put on farms that wanted co<t- ton. But being dealt out uniformly, it went to all 6,371 farms. Only 2,700 planted cotton. So the county came up with only 38,684 acres and a short crop that contributed to our present cotton shortage. In this day of growing diversifica tion, a flat percentage basis for cot ton allotments to all farms in a coun ty is very unwise. And in most counties their ex perience was similar to that in An derson. Dairy Cattle Improvement Fourteen of our 46 counties now also offered to all peoplg a new day. These onlookers whose houses had been burned by representatives of both the promising agencies were reduced pretty well to an allegiance to whichever of them would furnish the next meal and a warm fire. There were numbers of little children who looked from suffering and misery. A!! of the bands were silent and the only accompaniment was the slow grind of truck and tractor motors—and the weary trudge of foot soldiers. Gifts thru force of circumstance were dis pensed for those bringing up the rear, but much diligence was used to de troy the gifts of ammunition, trucks, tires and food which might have been greatly welcomed by the oncoming thousands. The procession was re marked to bear strong resemblance to a tragic march westward from Moscow one hundred forty years ago, when a «great military strategist {learned that the best soldiers can not fight bitter winter and hordes of expendable humans rated by their overlords merely by numbers. De feat, bitter tragic defeat is hard to bear. We can’t shrug it off because it is far away. But the sad ill-advised Korean campaign ought to be more completely realized to the end that the United States, the world’s great- have the artificial breeding of dairy j est power, has been humiliated by a cattle. And the fifteenth is about; gangling, sprawling wealc nation, that ready to start Clemson trains the technical men who handle this in the counties, John Lyle supervises it, and the good bulls in the college herd furnish most of the material. The other day I dropped by to see the man in York county. Since the work was started there a little over two years ago, he has bred well over 3,400 cattle. At the recent fair, 28 of their, fine artificially bred year lings were on exbibit. Thus farmers are getting better bull service and at less expense than keeping an, inferior bull. For very I few farmers could afford such bulls as they get service from through this means. Boys Are That Way We got posses on the Southern Railway by virtue of my father being a country doctor who served it. I really rode those passes, while the rest of the family cared little about roaming. And neighbors thought my folks rather reckless in letting me go about as I did. By the time I was IS I had been to Washington three times, Jacksonville, Knoxville, and Norfolk. And I want to tell you that was getting around for a kid of the stone hills. Very few of my friends had ever been out of the county. And they asked me many questions about the far-away places. I traveled light, very light, often taking nothing but a paper sack with a lot of lunch in it. Funds were lim ited. 60 I usually traveled at night. 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