The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, December 11, 1952, Image 12
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Tie-ons which do so much to
ward embellishing a gift and in
many instances can be used later
as lapel pins, are much in favor.
They include Santa Claus heads,
wreathes, bells, snow balls and
holly berries.
New also are gilded holly sprays,
plastic clowns, comets, stars and
the'jewel-like decorations, and of
For J course candy cane tie-one for the
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