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7 v / Thursday, January 10, 1952 fHE CLINTON CHRONICLE /-.• Pace Three J* ♦ r A Six-Inch Sermon By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER One truth that must be borne in mind is that the happiness the self- pitying individual thinks others possess can be mostly imaginery. Extenral appearances can be de ceptive. Success Is neither easily won -nor completely rewarding. The poor man envying the rich one seldom reflects on his heart breaking early struggles, the rigid self-denials that were the price of achievement. Nor does the envier stop to think \hat in. gaining a for tune the rich man. may have lost health and thus the capacity to en joy the opulence that surrounds him. Another simple truth to be con sidered is that nobody is created to enjoy a full happiness in this world. There is an instinct in man which keeps him perpetually striving toward new goals. One success de mands another.^ If fame is won it must be kept^ alive by further achievement. Even among the modest and unaspiring there are dfesires that are never realized. One is faced thus with the all- important truth that happiness must be suoght outside man's tem poral, or physical, life. The un quenchable yearning in men’s souls is actually the longing for God, in Whom alone are peace and content ment. This- is -true tor everyone— rich, poor, learned, ignorant, weak, or strong. Comparisons between individuals are folly when one remembers that each man has his own special re sponsibilities toward God. The vital thing is that one should play one’s allotted part well, bearing in mind that ultimately the same rich re ward awaits all who have made God the center of their being. As Washington Sees It... THE NATIONAL SCENE The RFC also turned over to the treasury $75,000,000 resulting from proceeds on the RFC production programs in synthetic rubber and tin, and from liquidatiotf.,of war time assets. An additional $4,000,- 000 was paid on account of net pro ceeds from liquidation during the fiscal year of assets of the smaller War Plants Corporation. So this is a total of $95,345,812 turned over by RFC to the federal treasury as net income from its operations in the fiscal jfear 1951. Another operation sitll in the pro duction stage Is that of Manila. ports that U. S. population has doubled in the past 50 years and that population now is approximately 155,000,000; that this year broke all records on new babies, almost 4,- 000,000; that families are growing larger (that trend is up apd may top the mark of 40 years ago when av erage family was 4.7 children, which compares with 3.1 today). There are abddt five million single men as compared to 3,000,000 single women and percentage-wise, there are more single men on farms than in the cit ies, about five per cent more. Census figures, however, point to RFC now operates five aback plan*- fact farm population continues to tations in Central America with 25,000 acres under cultivation and 50,000 acres to be planted by De cember, 1952. Sale of hemp during dwindle, almost 20 cent in past decade and that farms aft getting bigger, averaging about 210 acres to day as compared to 174 acres in 1940 the year was 19,987,200. pounds i Reason is f.anh mechanization, since with pjrpduction of 19,500,850, trucks and tractors have replaced pounds. In its lending activities,! horses and mules—fifty per cent of the report shows' that during the the horses and about a third of the year the corporation approved 3,271 loans ’for $290,000,000 of which al most 90 per cent were in amounts of less than $100,000. At the close of the year the cor poration had outstanding 11,000 business loans with balances of $606,000,000. This is a decline of 1,092 loans and $108,000,000 com pared to the figures for June 30, 1950. The $108,0004)00 reduction in the dollar amount outstanding is largely reflection of full repayment during the year on the $92,000,000 Kaiser-Steel Corporation loan. mules. A new Republican senator, Fred A. Seaton of Nebraska, will be in his jseat when congress convenes in Jan uary. Senator Seaton succeeds the late Kenneth S. Wherry, senate mi nority leader. He is publisher of the Hastings, Neb., Tribune and de scribes himself as a “liberal conserv ative,” says he will not serve beyond the one year to whi^h he was ap pointed. About fifty former congressmen have signed themselves or their firms as lobbyists. Three signing this d- Special to The Chronicle. Washington, Jan. 8.—Because the “graft and corruption” in the op eration of the Reconstruction Fi nance Corporation, the annual re port of this agency of government public press has been so full of as filed this week by Stuart Sym ington, administrator, turning over to the U. S. treasury dividends of $16,345,812 on the corporation’s capital stock of $100,000,000, is im portant. ident Truman asked for resignation of the five-man board which ran RFC and named a single adminis : trator, Mr. Symington, with a loan policy board composed of the sec retary of the treasury, the secre tary of commerce, the RFC admin istrator and the RFC deputy ad ministrator. Final decision on all loans rests with a review board within the corporation in Washing ton and a policy of- full disclosure of loan information has been insti tuted. The “graft and - corruption charges” against RFC resulted in besides resignation of hte board, fir ing of ,a dozen or mor& other clerks and lesser officials, out of a total of several hundred employees—charges of influence peddling against both the Democratic and Republican na tional chairmen, William Boyle and Guy Gabrielson. Said Mr. Syming ton: “In its lending functions, the RFFC is operating with efficiency and dispatch. Credit for this condi tion goes to the fine men and women v/ho>make up our organization.” Bureau of the census year-end re- the Laurens cemetery and th Piedmont Service JStation, accor ing to Mr. Patterson. The decision to- establish the new banking fa cilities *was reached by the board of directors at their December meeting, he said. Preliminary plans call for a mod ern, up-to-date facility to compare favorably with those in larger cit ies, he stated. Mr. Patterson said that - an esti mate of the cost of the project has not yet been made, pending the drawing of plans. He added that an architect would be employed in the near future to submit sketches. Cementing on ’ the proposed branch bank, Mr. Patterson de clared, “We feel that the citizens of Laurens and Laurens county deserve and need this additional service. The city and county are growing, aficT further expansion is indicated. We hope that a drive- in bank will prove both popular and beneficial.” * Convenience and the saving of time were stressed as the main i benefits of the drive-in. Mr. Pat terson pointed out that customers can be served simply by driving up to the window,, making it 'un necessary to get out of their auto mobiles. It will also help to al- The main services of tjie pro- ■ posed branch would be the cash ing 4>f checks and receiving of de- ' posits. Addition of other 'services leviate the parking situation on the; at a later date is contemplated public square, he said. 1 Mr. Hfctterson said. * A t • Backache Backaches which may result from Arthritis, Neuritis, Lum bago, Rheumatism, Spinal Curvatures; Muscular Strain or Slipped Intervertebral Disc may be easily corrected by the modern sci ence of Chfroiiractic. ' -. ' . . - Consult Dr. C. J. Hart, 254 West Main St., Laurens, S. C., for complete details. Write or call 22501 for free booklet on anj of the above disorders. Consult Dr. Hart today. It will be remembered that Pres- Week were former congressmen Hugh Peterson (D-Ga.); H. Jerry Voorhis t (D-Cal.) and Albert L. Reeves, Jr. (R-Mo.) Palmetto Bank At Laurefis To Build Drive-In Branch Says The Laurens Advertiser: Plans to construct a drive-in type branch of the Palmetto Bank on a North Harper street site were announced yesterday b y Dwight F. Patterson, executive vice-president. He said that the bank hopes to have the building underway next month, subject to approval by state and Federal banking authorities. The proposed drive-in branch would be located on a lot, already purchased by the bank, between NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING ^ _ OF MEMBERS The Annual Meeting of the Mem bers of Citizens Federal Savings and ... Loan Association, Clinton, S. C., will! S be held in the office of the Assofti- 1 ^ ation at 220 West Main Street, Clin ton, S. 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