The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, December 21, 1950, Image 26
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, December 21, 1950
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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
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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
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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.
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Farms
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By J. M. ELEAZER. •
Clemson College Extension Infor
mation Specialist
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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,
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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.
Arriving early in the morning, I
would put in a full day seeing things,
catch a train back that night, thus
the world war peace conferences
completely overlooked. It is a sober
warning that one day in the year is
enough for Santa Claus and that
Santa Claus should be for children
only and not for adults and nations.
—The Easley Progress.
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THANKS
AT CHRISTMAS
Accept this sincere expression of our apprecia
tion for your friendliness and patronage in the
past. Our most cordial greetings and best wish
es for your happiness.
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LYDIA MILLS
STORE
J. C. Todd Grocery
J. P. Prather, Mgr.
Wjroad w. For tf
had bo friend* 1ft#
yen there would be
ae firm like om
r 6ur sincere thanks for the aMoeiation and pat
ronage with which we have been favored.
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