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/ i Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, July 9, 1953 Eichelberger Again Wins National Award Hugh L. Eichelberger of this city, a leading member of the New York Life Insurance Company’s field force, for the seventh consecutive vear has been named winner of the National Quality' Award given jointly by the National Association of Life Underwriters and the Life Insurance Company Management Association, it was anounced yes terday at the New York Life Home Office in New York City. The National Quality Award is a recognition given annually to life underwriters “who concftict them selves according to the highest standards of ethics and who main tain a high standard of competence by means of continuous study and practice.” To qualify for the award,, an agent must have demonstrated a high degree of service to policy holders as indicated by the percent age of the life insurance sold by the agent in a two-year period being continued in force, the announce ment said. FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist CREDITORS' NOTICE All persons having claims against the estate' of President Dillard Adair, deceased, are hereby notified to file the same duly verified, with the undersigned, and those indebted to said estate will please make pay ment likewise. C. C. ADAIR, Administrator. June 29, 1953 3c-16-w Dr. Fred E. Holcombe OPTOMETRIST Offices at 200 South Broad St. Phone 658 Office Hours 9:00 to 5:3C Don’t buy auto insurance Wind! Let your own comparison prove the greater value of Allstate’s protection and service. Allstate, the an to insurance company founded by Sears, Roebuck and Co., is nationally famous for its • New eotier-to-understand policy • 14 added benefit, at no extra cot! • Special low rate* for former, _ • Nationwide claim ter vice | MAIL nut COUPON MOW! I John L. Mimnaueh Aeent King A parts, Apt. B-4 | Clinton. S. C. Phone 809 ! Without obligation, pleat* toed mo rate* and Ml detail, om ANdote Auto Inwreoco. Hamm Addrcu Citv A You’re in Good Hands with J FINE FURNITURE Down Through the Years tTe. Jones & Sons The Best for Orer Fifty Years CLINTON, S.C. Plus Thirteen Other Stores in South Carolina More From Less Our population is increasing in this country by 7,000 a day. But the number of farmers is decreasing by 1,000 a day. Yet we still grow plenty of stuff to feed and clothe the folks, export a lot, and often build up surpluses that hurt. That hardly makes sense. Yet it is true. A tribute to the efficiency of the American farm. Look on the world map. The United States is small. You can cover it with a hand. Yet earth’s greatest abundance comes from that little area. Efficiency on the farms! We have a marked degree of that. Yet there are miles of room for improvement still. Once we just extended the fields into new lands to get the growing needs. There are very few frontiers left there. Now it must come from what we have, by in creased yields, if abundance is to linger here. HUSTATE B WM INSURANCE COMPANY founded by Seors, Roebuck and Cn. A wholly-owned tubs'dtory ol Sears, Roebuck and Co., with assets and liabilities distinct and separate from the parent company. Home Office: Chicago, Ilf. time goes on, science is more and more in the saddle with us. Let the plant breeder or the ex periment station find out something new. It is not long in getting dem onstrated in the field by the county agents. And from there it is soon a part of farm routine, and we move on to new conquests that science brings. And that’s how fewer and fewer farmers are constantly coming up with greater and greater total pro ductions of food and fiber. Yes, with science Jn the saddle, that can be done. And we have no where nearly reached the limits yet. Look at supplementary irrigation! There lies a whole new world for us to conquer here in thp rainfall belt. I tell you of farmer-experience with it often. In that undeveloped po tential lies the hope for fulfillment of a goodly portion of our growing needs for generations to come. Farmers are beginning to embrace it right along, experiments ■ are pointing the way, and the outlook there is good. * • .* The Wind T was cro'ssing“a‘'grfeet lri _ ttOWrF town Columbia the other day. A gust of wind took my hat for a ride. I ran after it a piece, and it just kept tantalizingly ahead of me. Eventually it came to rest. As I stooped to pick it ap, another gust took it a bit farther, and it landed' in the swirling accumulation of debris in an open .alley. Wind is a mystery. It had been a! still day. I wondered where that gust had come from? Yes, and where it went. You can’t see it. But you can feel it. Then on another spring day, it was very still and hot. I saw clouds drifting in from the west. A dark funnel formed and I could see a tapering tail whipping towards earth. It touched alobg a few miles from where I stood. In a few min utes I was there and saw the havoc that the tornado had wrought to farms and villages, killing several people and doing great damage to crops and buildings. I wondered then, and still do. Where did that whirling wind get its irresistible force from? It had laid its wake of havoc through dense swamps and fertile farmlands for many miles before it reached, our section. What constantly re newed its power? Written explana tions don’t quite seem to satisfy me. Guess I’m just too dense to get it. Invisible power, irresistible, on the loose, a terrifying thing! It goes. And all is serene again. Where did it to? Yes, and where did it come from? . Root Knot Has your garden got to where it v/on’t grow vegetables on account of root knot? Many have. We used to have to abandon them when tlfat happened and put the garden some where else. But not so now. Science has developed materials with which we can treat the soil and kill nematodes out of it. At first it was so expensive as to be used only 6n gardens. But now it base gone to the fields. On tobacco lands it has found its greatest use. County Agent King of Marion, told me the farmers there used it by the carload the past season, and our tobacco man, J. M. Lewis, says about half of the tobacco land in the state was treated against root knot back in the early spring. The cost has come from $40 per acre dowji to $12 to $15. And they are j treating some sweet potato land too, King told me. Our man, Hugh Bowers, is testing that out on sweet potatoes. * » • Boys Are Thai Way Summer brought many delights to us kids in the Stone Hills For we had to make our fun, and sum mer had so many things. The common June bug was very useful to us. We’d chase ’em around the yard there, tryng to beat the chickens to them. The chickens got most of ’em, but we got some. We’d tie a small thread to one of their back legs and let ’em buzz around us in circles. Eventually the thing would tire and drop to the ground or light on us. Occasionally, while one was thus resting, a sly old chicken would steal up and get him. Then we had to chase the chicken down to get our string back. When Zeke and I were quite small, once we got some tumble- bugs we thought were June bugs But they wouldn’t do right. And when the older boys found us with them, we never heard the last of it. At all seasons we rode sticks for horses. With a string tied to the front of it, we imagined that was a bridle. And we ran for endless miles “riding” those things. And to carry the illusion out a little far ther, we smaller ones would ride double with the larger boys, just like we did behind grown folks on real horses and mules. One thing we coveted was an old iron buggy tire. The blacksmith at the foot of the hill would occas- inally have one worn too thin for any other use, and he would give it to one of us. We fixed a hand stick with a notch in it. With that we pushed that tire around at a lively clip. We would push that thing so much we’d wear that stick out. And we would get real pro ficient at it. We could make that rolling tire go anywhere we wanted it to. Little things, all of these were. But they brought employment and delights to barefooted country kids in our time. Business Good, Says Sec. Weeks New York—The Secretary of Com merce says “Business is excellent.” The spokesman for the National Association of Credit Men sees us entering “a mild deflationary pe riod” with signs that “the going may be rough.”—- President Eisenhower’s econom ic adviser says the present boom can’t last forever, but “the Gov ernment will at some state inter vene to check” a downturn before it becomes too severe. There you have the three points of view about business most com mon today: 1. The optimistic view that busi ness is going great guns and that there’s nothing to prevent its stay ing healthy. 2. - The -moderately -pessimistic view that a readjustment from the boom is inevitable and may well be starting now. 3. The belief that if a slump is coming the government has the power somehow to keep it from snowballing into a depression. Commerce Secretary Weeks bases part of his optimism on his belief that businessmen in their planning for .the coming year already have discounted the long anticipated peace moves in Korea. He believes most businessmen reject the notion “that we have to have war to have prosperity.” The credit men’s executive vice- president, Henry H. Heimann, sees “sellers” markets and easy dollars becoming things of the past." He cites: “The presence of com modity prices, the greater selling effort needed in housing and in the automobile market, the soft ness of the prices of steel scrap, the continued decline in farm in come, the surplus in the appliance market, the slight slowing up in the payment of acounts.” But Heimann sees a silver lining in all this: “The condition is healthy for a normal readjustment is long overdue.” And he says that “only our own folly would bring” about “a serious readjustment.” The president’s economic advis- ear, Dr. Arthur F. Burns, is more concerned in his annual report to di rector of the National Bureau of Economic Research with control ling unsound booms than with new ways of halting recessions. Dr. Bums; who is on leave of absence as president of the bureau, thinks we have built up strong defenses against economic depression. A stronger banking system, unemploy ment compensation, automatic re duction of taxes when national in- come contracts. And he places stress on the government’s assurance it won’t let deflation go on unchecked. One phase of the present boom —the lohg upgrade swing in the construction industry^—is also dis cussed from two angles today. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that 3,000 fewer homes were started in May than in April —the first April to May drop since World War II. The National Association of Real Estate Boards further reports that mortgage money for new homes continues scarce in some areas. The upturn in interest rates hasn’t brought out the money as expect ed. But directors of the American Institute of Architects, in recent session, pre4ict their members will be kept busy well into next year. Schools top the list of their jobs for the months ahead. In many regions industrial buildings come second. In some districts church planning tops the drafting of new homes. Dr. Felder Smith OPTOMETRfST Laurens, S. C. 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Now this word has been given new meaning by the greatest Dodge of them all—the ’S3 Action Car: Dependable Economy In the 1953 Mobilgas Economy Run, the Dodge V-8 beat all other cars in its class . . . outperformed all 8’s in every price class to establish Dodge as America’s Top Economy 8/ Dependable Power-for-Safety Ten days later, the same Dodge^ V-8 set 2 new official AAA per formance records for standard American cars. Proof of reserve power-for-safety. Dependable Comfort Dodge Modern Design does away with “meaningless metal’’ and waste space outside—provides more comfort space than ever inside. You enjoy more head-room, leg-room and elbow-room. Dependable Handling East. Dodge for ’53 brings you new mastery of the road, new maneu verability in traffic, new parking ease. It snugs dpwn on curves like a true sports car. Dependable Extra-Volvo Feotores Safeguard hydraulic brakes with two brake cylinders in each front wheel. . . Onflow ride control... 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