The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, November 29, 1951, Image 1

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1 l- ■ % * •r The Chronicle Strives To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Qlltnlnn If You Don’t Read The Chronicle You Don't Get the News ■ ■ Volume m Clinton, S. C., Thursday, November 29, 1951 Number 49 ^ Regular Chronide Feature PATIENCE, SAYS BABSON, IS NECESSITY IN INVESTMENTS Sometimes It Tokes Years For You To Realize On Them. Babson Park, Mass., Nov. 24.—A friend of the Babson Institute re cently presented it a beautiful in door heated swim ming pool costing $235,000. When he h was thanked he re plied: “Don’t thank me. Thank those „ who taught me * PATIENCE. This gift of $2 3 5,0 00 cost me nothing." No Fairy Story The explanation of the above is that * # s* r w many years ago he bought stock around $2.50 a share in the Ameri can Investment Securities Com pany which controlled the Colum bian National Life Insurance Com pany of Boston. For years, the stock didn’t act well, and no profit was in sight, but all at once the American Investment Securities Company was liquidated. For each 100 shares of this A.I.S. stock costing $2.50 a share, he re ceived Columbian Life Insurance stock which today is worth $3,600. In addition, he received other se curities which more than repaid his original investment. Hence, his insurance company stock, used to pay for the swimming pool, cost him absolutely nothing. But this took twenty-four years and re quired great patience. Texas and Pacific Land # When I was ill many years ago with tuberculosis, I was sent to New ^dexico. With time holding heavily, I became interested in the stocks of two companies. These were the New Mexico St Arizona Land Company, and the Texas A Pacific Land Trust. I bought the former in 1916 at $1.75 a share and finally became a director of the company. This stq^k recently sold for thirty-five times what I paid for it I bought Texas A Pacific Land Trust another time when I was sick at $5.25 a share and urged others to buy it likewise, telling them that some day it would sell for $1,000 a share. They laughed at me, but it recently sold for $150 a share, or at DR. L B. MARION NATUROPATH Res. Phone 939 500 South Broad St. thirty times cost. Holding these stocks many years required tre mendous PATIENCE. Few persons have such patience. I believe that there are now similar opportunities for those who have the patience to hold them for twenty years. Bargains Naar Horn* Thirty years ago, I bought land in Wellesley for $300 an acre which is now selling for $10,000 an acre. When I bought this, I urged my readers to buy suburban acreage adjacent to their communities. These opportunities likewise exist today. In fact, last week I bought for less than $300 an acre, over 300 acres of high land within two minutes-of “the- Wellesley Hills post office. Some day my children will get $5,000 an acre for this land, but this will require PATIENCE. We live in a marvelous country; it is growing at a rapid rate; its people are becoming the healthiest, the most intelligent, and are making the greatest scientific discoveries. If we will grow spiritually as we are growing materially, and have PATIENCE, nothing can stop us. I am especially anxious that the bfenks holding Trust Bonds insist upon flexible Trust Agreements so as to take advantage of this great growth ahead. Thih should enable banks handling the Pension Funds —at the request of the Employeers’ Committee—to purchase stocks in American Industry—not mere Gov ernment Bonds—which stocks will pay both a fail' rate of interest and with patience some day become very valuable. I know no method to help readers to get rich quick ly. One must take time to create a fortune as to mature a baby into a twenty-one year old boy. Every thing worth while takes time and , PATIENCE, especially investing | money successfully. Incidentally, let me add that when people ask , my grandchildren about my busi ness and what I sell, they reply: “Grandpa sells PATIENCE.’’ What About Jobs Finally let me say a closing word to graduates of colleges and high schools. I beg of you to be PA TIENT for promotions. Don't let anyone beat you in waiting. For get salary, but take the job for which you are best fitted and in which you can render the moat ser vice lor Mankind, and havfc pa tience. Financial Independence comes from having a praying-partner and good children, who will help you save a little money each month for j insurance, for a home, and certain ; growth stocks. But you must have PATIENCE. Being in too much of a hurry will prevent you from making large profits;—yes, being in a hurry will be responsible for most of your losses. One Millionth Auto Fatality Expected In Dec. ft** Havilancl China jJ* Helping customers select gifts of dis tinctive value has been a traditional service of our store. Whether a simple remembrance or an elaborate present, you will find here an appropriate gift— at a right price. • • ... and for the very best china—a wide se* lection of beautiful patterns by Haviland, the most cherished name since 1842. A We invite you to come in and see our wide selection of useful gifts carefully chosen—while our stocks are fresh. .France SKoP e® Ai 0 * atkenafi/ MtfCIMAMflSCA j; C. THOMAS, jjewelesi It’s Time That ConnU** Who 'will be the one millionth person to die in a traffic accident? Where will it happen? Exactly when? The National Safety Council said recently the answers to those ques tions will never be known. If the present rate of traffic deaths continues some time next December a child will dart into the street, a homeward-bound salesman will try to pass a truck on a hill, a young couple will hurtle off a curve on the way to a dance, an old woman will be come confused crossing a street— and the millionth traffic victim will pass unheralded into a dusty police file. But even though the actual iden tity of the millionth victim will re main a mystery the Council has made plans which will enable it to name the fateful day as a climax to an intensive safe driving cam paign in which all safety organi zations are cooperating. The Council announced it is set ting up the machinery to supple ment its regular monthly reports with special weekly summaries from the sales. On November 15 the Council will begin issuing of traffic deaths since the advent of weekly bulletins on the grand total the automobile. These bulletins also will forecast the probable date of the millionth fatality. “Our only purpose in trying to identify such a grim date in his tory is to dramatize the horror of such a huge traffic toll,’’ said Ned H. Dearborn, Council president. “Perhaps 1 ; 000,000 dead — almost twice the number of Americans who have died in combat in all our wars—will crack the apathy of a nation which can see 35,000 persons killed by autos in a year without much concern. "It has taken a little more than 50 years to kill the first million. J If traffic deaths continue at the present rate it will take only 30! years to kill the second million, j We can only hope that this terri- i so that motor vehicle death totals | ble day of seven-figure reckoning will become a safety milestone— | not just another gravestone—on the road to more responsible use | of the automobile.” The Council which makes regu lar cumulative tabulations of traf- ( fic deaths, said that even its elab-1 orate nation-wide reporting system | is not fast enough to give up-to-the [ -minute totals. Furthermore vital statistics were not recorded com-1 j SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE pletely by all the states in earlier years after the turn of the century for some years are estimates based on the bat available information. Thus any attempt to identify the actual millionth victim, .Mr. Dear born said, would place the spotlight of notoriety arbitrarily on the tragedy of one family when “the spotlight should be turned on the tragedy of a nation which permits motor madness to go on.” Eiw»iniwiBKR«s>iniiMHMWwi—wwitimwHiiwaw Savings Accounts 3%—DIVIDEND—3% We invite savings accounts from the people of Ointon and vicinity. You win like oar friendly and efficient ser vice, and you will receive your dividend promptly each January 1st and July 1st. Any amount — from $1 up — opens an account. Each account is insured up to $10,000 by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. Two people may have up to $30,000 fully insured. Accounts by mail promptly acknowledged. Dr. W. W. Adams VETERINARIAN €14 Mnsgrove Street Phones: Office 958 Residence 991-W Clinton, S. C. 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