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% { { I 1! A ■I Thursday, May 28, 1953 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Pasre Five COMMENT ON MEN AND THINGS By The Spectator lent waters of the Channel. And j iced tea”? “Why not, Sir; we have now the days were very warm, no cold coffee? ’ So I thought the bat- rain for several weeks. One day a group of us Americans (Yankees, they called us) went to a large popular restaurant for the midday meal, meaning to rebuild our wasted tissues with hearty Old English fare, kidney pie, maybe, and Yorkshire cheese and all that, you know. I had been entertained by the “Bobby” (policeman) who Tom Linder of Georgia, usually | me to the restaurant. He has something of sound sense in n eY er batted an eye; nor did his his Bulletin. This is a good state-: f ace show even the least interest, as ment: he said* “Two blocks to the right, “During the years of. the last one block to the le f t( t h re e blocks decade and until now the Mbrket I to the right and g 0 to the top”. Bulletin has consistently called at-j Thaf ,. g0 to the to p.> me ans to go tention to the obvious fact that this yjjtii you get there, country cannot produce its own j once teased an English lady in food and fiber and at the same time p eru a bout the cockney pronuncia- purchase its supply of food and fi-1 tion suc h as the “Hy market Thy tel o’er, just because I was so meek in manner and speech. Then came the waiter, with a style that seem ed to say, “I know how to humor these crazy Yankees”. He brought m e a cup of boiling hot tea, with milk in it, and a bowl of ice. Well, well!! HOUSEHOLD HINTS It’s easy to get cakes to bake per fectly flat on°top if you spread the batter around the sides of the pan first, and then let the batter fill the middle. If you have egg yolks to save, cover them with cold water and they will keep perfectly for several extended an invitation to take part in the school. __ In a few days small grain har vesting will get underway in Lau rens county. The operator of a combine can lose money on the grain if the combine is not proper ly operated. Owners of combines are urged to have their equipment properly checked before the rush season of grain harvesting is at hand. days. i JL To cut very fresh cake or bread ♦.* t r _ _ in thin slices, place the knife which ! ber from foreign lands. Any school I ter .» f or Haymarket Theatre. She you’re going to use in very hot J boy should know that if we produce j completely demolished me with! water for several minutes, then dry , what we need in this country and lhat calm scorn 0 f the English as and use at once, also buy what we need from foreign she said; “Why that only proves * ♦ * countries we, will have a surplus.! what class o{ people you associated exepet for tossing together! They The same congress in the begin- w jth.” So that fell flat. will be crisp-cold and more pala- 8 ning of the New Deal made pro-j In tbe res taurant I thought of tea,liable. Wrap washed and prepared g vision for burning wheat, plowing, tea English love tea, you vegetables in plastic bags before 8 up cotton and corn, and destroying know They drink it at all hours serving time. 'I* cattle and hogs. The same congress j and t0 drown grief and despair, as ! Having breaded cutlets or fish? | £ enacted so-called reciprocal trade: well as t0 ce iebrate great good for- The egg and crumb coating will more, ah English cup of tea has body and pickup and rejuvenation: when those folk take three cups of tea they are ready to conquer the world. Now our English friends like their tea hot; they drink beer warm, too, I’m told. No new fangled Yan kee foolishness for them! No sir! Warm tea! Like most Americans abroad, I clung to the traditions' of my great native land and wanted iced tea. My English companions, in amaze ment and disgust, nearly slid under the table. “Oh, you cawn’t, you know; it isn’t done, bah jove”. Seeing that my thirst for iced tea was a diplomatic blunder, just short of war, I assumed my most humble attitude before the dignified and stately waiter and meekly submit- agreement laws tinder which we would import from foreign Coun tries the same commodities we were destroying in America. Those of us who called attention to the falacy of this policy were merci lessly berated by the New Deal press and by the Internationalists of the country. The statement that other nations are short of dollars is a cover-up phrase. Most people in this coun try are short of dollars. If we have any obligation to see that people are not short of dollars, such obli gation would be to the people here in America where dollars are the monetary unit.” “When soybean oil and soybean meal and other vegetable products are converted directly into imita tion ice cream, butter substitutes 'and substitutes for other dairy products, it is apparent that s uch* ted his proposal like our truce team substitutes can be sold at a lower in Korea: “Waiter, could you pos- price than milk and milk products | sd jjy contrive to bring a glass of and still show a profit. ; — The manufacture and sale of margarine and other substitutes for dairy products is forcing the Amer ican dairyman out of business. The Government is attempting to buy the dairyman’s products and keep him in business. At the same time the Government, under reciprocal trade agreements, is trying to buy dairy products from dairymen in other nations to keep them in busi- - -0*ss. - j This principle is highlighted by our imports of dairy products and the accumulation of surpluses of dairy products because we are im porting dairy products for which we have no earthly use.” “We need much in the way of raw materials from other lands. These, of course, we should buy. Nevertheless, when we buy any thing we do not need, it is only a waste in our economy. We should honestly recognize the fact that we are numerically and economically too weak to try to en force our ideas of Government on two billion people in the balance of the world ” “Be a good neighbor to other lands without trying to run their business and without letting them run our business. Buy what we - need and *pay~for it. - Sett what we don’t need and collect for it. Cancel out whatever debts other nations owe • us.” This is sound doctrine, though not in accordance with our so-call ed Internationalists who mean w’ell, probably, but are destructive. ( • * • President Eisenhower recom mends that we spend nearly six bil lion dollars on our foreign aid pro gram. The Commodity Credit has loans of three billions. Mr. Tru man’s figure was a billion or so more. All this is proposed for the fiscal year 1953-54, eight years af ter the close of the war! How long are we to continue this? If Europe is so weak, so shaky, let her have her collapse and rebuild her econo my. Certainly we cannot bear Eu rope’s burdens and carry the world on our shoulders forever. A great man, a man of vast inter ests, makes this edmment: “You are always thoroughly sound in our fight against Socialism; and the Government going into business to different kinds is nothing short of Socialism. Our pouring billions and billions of dollars into Europe has never seemed to me to be ad visable. Some of this money was used for building hydro projects in France; and some for other public works; and some for building roads in the jungles of Africa. When our Congressmen and Senators vote for this kind of thing, they haven’t got a leg to stand on, when the farm ers come to them and say, “You are helping all these unappreciative foreigners bountifully, why can’t us farmers get a reasonable price for our product?” What do you think of that? • • • It was a hot day in London. Ev erything seemed upside down. When I crossed the English Chan nel from Bolougne to Folkstone, the water was smooth. The rough ness of that Channel is well known, blit it was calm when I crossed. And there was no fog in London. I missed the two best known inci dents of travel; the heavy, impene trable London tog, and the turbu- tune. Tea settles all things. What’s stay on better during the frying process if they’re well refrigerated after the coating is put on them. Sheer bits of lace or trimming can be washed in a pint jar by shaking. Use this method for rins- in(g delicate bits of fabric, too, to prevent snagging. COMBINE SCHOOL WELL ATTENDED The Combine school held at the Laurens County fair grounds last week was attended by 60 or more people which was considered a good attendance. M- C. McKenzie, assistant agriculture engineer of Clemson Extension Service, had charge of the meeting. The Laurens Tractor and Imple ment company, handlers of John Deere, and the Naco Farm Supply, handlers of International _ equip- :: ♦ ♦ j; :: 4th District ment, furnished various sizes of combines for the school. All ma chinery dealers of the county were FARMER AND LABORE1 Born and reared on a\ farm. Bob Ashmore gained his education by working as a farmer, store clerk, tiAet seller and mail carrier. 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