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Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, December 11, 1952 COMMENT ON MEN AND THINGS By The Spectator Did you “take stock” for Thanks- £[iuif»g?V*rhat expression—‘‘to take stock”—.used to be common. At the ■end" of a year a merchant counts ail his merchandise—so many yards o: this, so many suits; or so many tairels of flour—and all that. Today avc have accountants, in the place o‘. the old-time bookkeeper; and ac countants don’t “take stock”: they take an inventory. So, if you like, did you make an inventory of what yc u have and what you are? In a short time we’ll make “re turns'' to Uncle Sam; that's another jiajre for an inventory. Fellow me and apply this to your self, each one. I’m glad that I was l em an American: that was a fine ‘ it in life. Some of my cherished ends were born in foreign lands , at today share our great heritage. Recently I was a pallbearer for a mother who first saw the light across . e ocean and came here as a lovely ' rung woman. In this country she fra red' a family'of sons and daugh ters who grew into splendid man hood and womanhood as Americans. 7he mother and the-father were sturdy, sterling folk.' All of us arc newcomers, more or less, unless our people were Indians; and even the Indians are said to have come from Asia many centuries ago. i 1 count it good fortune to have the background of generations of Virginians and Carolinians, although both my fathers people and my mother’s people came to America by way of the grand old State of Penn sylvania. Truly we Americans are tire descendants of ancestors from many countries. And wherever we are, from Maine to Florida, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, we are Americans. This America of ours is just a bit different from “the land of the Pil grims’ pride”. Our early settlers were grateful for the opportunity to work: they regarded a man as re sponsible for himself and his fam ily, as a first obligation. Today we find many people who would change that. As a result, we may have great numbers of very ordinary people, but few, if any, of the stalwart and robust spirits who relied upon their own strength and resourcefulness. I’m glad that I grew up in the days of individual effort, when a lad could dream and then wont to make the dream come true. I’m glad that I knew a dollar when it was as big as a house and as scarce as hen’s teeth; I still have great respect for a dollar: it may not buy much but suppose we had French francs? Or Italian lira? Or even British shil lings? When I was in Europe the French franc was worth seventeen cents; the British shilling about twenty four cents—exchange value. Normally a Peruvian Sol—S-O-L —was worth about forty eight cents. Well recently a nephew of mine, who is quite a Scot in his approcah 1 to finance, said to me: ‘‘Here is a equally useful for serving marma- Peruvian Sol which somebody pass ed off on me for a dollar. You can have it for a dollar.” I took the lade or syrup at breakfast sauces at lunch or dinner. Silver hollowware ofifers arma- , for the starch out of him by quoting the opportunity for choosing ° 3 S ° 35 something for the recently married young couple, be it a pair of ro- six and a half cents. As I once had to bade and stumble over Dutch guilders, Venezuelan bolivars, Peruvians soles, French and Belgian francs, British shillings, Mexican pesos—and the like, I lift my hat to the dollar. Our great Government: may she be mantic candle sticks, a handsome vase for flowers, or a tea set to help them with their entertaining. Hollowware is available in tra ditional patterns which appear to be having a strong revival, while designs which mirror the modern rescued from the hands of spoliation age and are keyed to blend perfect- and ignorance. j ly with the changing decor of the Of course there are cases of mis- times, sound the changing note in ; management which are due to | silver hollowware fashions, neither spoilation nor ignorance How does this impress you? f" “A straw showing which way the winds of waste are blowing in the * | sphere of national defense is Ex-! ! hibit A in the report of a one-man I ! investigating committee conducted | ! by Representative Gardner Withrow, | ! Republican, of Wisconsin. Following the lead of a junkman’s <*♦ V I Vf si :: 13-Dicfrond LliUE PRINCESS RINGS H00* 9 • « • • a# Vf ■ Vf -V# -Vf ♦ ♦ *.♦ 2: :: ♦ ♦ % • St * • * * Holidays call lor Coke ‘ L Holidays are party days.., and the handy sirt-bottle •carton of Coca-Cola is part and parcel of the party. ‘for sale’ advertisement, Mr. With- jrow discovered these facts of melan- j choly interest to the nation’s tax payers: ! 1) In 1947, a junkman bid 67 | cents a ton for second-hand steel i landing mats, used for temporary aircraft landing strips. The bid was! accepted by the Navy. Although the | need for rearmament had become; evident, these mats were advertised j and sold by the Navy as ‘sufplus.’ 2) The original buyer of these ‘surplus’ mats (at 67 cents per ton) resold them to other dealers at prices varying from $30 to $35 per ton. At the time the Congressman saw the ad, the price had climbed to $75 per ton. 3) And this is the payoff: the United States Army is at present buying new landing mats—and pay ing $157 per ton for them! This is the kind of ‘essential de fense spending’ censured by Senator Byrd in his ‘Byrd budget’ of last ] Spring. It may explain, in part, why the| ; nation, despite stratospheric taxes, faces a $10 billion to $14 billion 1 deficit for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1953.” (The story is taken from an editorial, Richmond, Va. j Times-Dispatch.) How does that impress you? ; Sometimes I think some officials i drop to a new .low of utter imbecility in administering^ their offices. One of our troubles is that poli ticians hold the offices. By that I! mean the real hard work, the real j yes, or no is uttered by a lot of! second—and third—rate officials ofj grosa-inexperienee and raore^ glaring I incompetency. Then again, no one seems to know even one Department 1 of the Government. One Department i may have a dozen virtually inde pendent sub-divisions, some buying i brooms at a dollar a piece, while others are selling dollar brooms at (ten cents a piece, so-called surplus, you know. Sometimes a man is put in charge of a large organization in the Gov ernment and blunders along, al though you would not trust him to operate a small store. And just about the time the world suspects him of such crass inadequacy as would call for his instanst dismissal, someone will declare that he is doing a “grand job,” as the expression is. I’ve seen and known many offic- ials. but very few ever did “grand jobs’, so far as I can see. Most of them were very ordinary and did Must ordinary,.routine work. I used to feel a bit of scorn for I those who came to me in Peru and made much a-do about our admin istration. Perhaps I should say that the work of the world is largely routine daily performance. Few people do anything of superior quality; most of us are just plain people, even if we do strut sometimes. tOTTUD UNDE* AUTHORITY Of THE COCA-COLA COMPANY IY GREENWOOD COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY "Coin” k a ngktmrwJ hmdt mm*. © 1952. THE COCA-COLA COMPANY Lasting Qualities Of Silver Make It A Significant Gift The combination of enduring usefulness to be found in silver hollowware, and its beauty of de sign, affords the givers of Christ mas gifts who are looking for something especially significant, the solution for many a major problem. For here are to oe found gifts not only suited to the round of en tertaining which is so characteris tic of the Yuletide; here also arc! gifts which have the lasting qual-j ity of heirlooms to be cherished for a lifetime and passed on to the next generation. The wide range of gifts to be selected from the long list of sil ver hollowware also makes way to choosing gifts fitted to the gift giver’s budget says $he Jewelry In dustry Council, for here are items ranging from a simple yet beauti ful little card or ash tray on up to complete dinner services. A silver bowl useful for serving hot foods, or holding iced relishes at cocktail time, for fruit arrange ment in the living or dining room, or for, holding flowers, tends to demonstrtte the wide usefulness of gifts picked from the hollowware list. Silver bread and butter plates are another example, when the lady of the house sets a formal table, they will lend finesse and elegance to the occasion. Between times they may servt as card trays or coasters, for serving small fruit, or use at the tea table. Consider a gift of a silver gravy boat for some hostess. It will be OFFICE SUPPLIES Complete line, all the little Items needed for the office. CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. Phone 74 How You Wrap A Gift Is Very . Important Be the gift humbly practical, ex pensively precious or modestly whimsical; be it for friend, relative or for the home, you can endow every one with an extra quality of gaiety and warmth by the manner in which you present it. The secret is in the way you choose and use the colorful wrap pings, the great variety of tie-on devices, the engraved seals, and the brilliant ribbons that are avail able in the stores to help you dec orate the packages. In jolly traditional Christmas mood, green and red and wnite can be combined to compliment colors of the Christmas tree. the gift of the sophisticate there children. ‘ are wrappings to be found in stark black and white; deep blue and silver, copper and brown, gold and white. For the children there are papers imprinted with Santas and his reindeer; and for them and other folks who are young of heart, there are gaily striped papers thah take their decorative motifs from Christmas candy canes. 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