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i & Sr--ii J The Qironide Strive* To Be A Cleea News* peper, Complete, Newsj ##»»»»#»#####»»» 3bf OUudon (ttljrnntrlf If You Don't The Chronide Yon Don't Get the News Volume LV Clinton, S. G, Thursday, August 19,1954 Number 33 P. S. Bailey Continues Family Tradition 0—00000000000000000000000000000000000*00*00000000000 Note — The Greenville Pied mont is carrying a series of stor ies on individuals who have con tributed to the growth of the Piedmont area through expand lag industry. In last Thursday's issue the special article featured P. Silas Bailey, preaidant of Lydia ai Clinton Cotton Mills, organised, owned and directed by the "Bail ey" family since ISM. —- The article is reproduced here because of its interest and im portant part the mills are con tributing to the textile industry in this community. —Publisher The Chronicle By ROBERT SMELTZER ^ (Piedmont Staff Writer) The name “Bailey” has been on the door of the president’s of fice at Clinton Cotton Mills ever since M. S. Bailey bought the firm in 1896. The long line of Baileys, be- ginning with M. S. down through W. J., C. M., and finally to P. Silas Bailey, suggests a family dynasty in the textile industry. But Silas iley, the “incum bent,” is the’ last to bear the name. The LydLia and Clinton Mills eventually will be headed by descendants of the distaff side of the Bailey family of Clinton. Silas Bailey came into the presidency of the concern with the death of his uncle, W. J. Bailey, in 1948. During part of the time when President W. J. Bailey lived, his brother, C. M. Bailey, served as president of Lydia Mills. With the death of C. the phesidency of Lydia was joined with thafof Clinton, j Silas Bailey, and all the other i Baileys before him, may have in-1 herited the executive offices, they held, but unhke many other important officers in families who passed high positions down the line on the mere strength of family tie, these men knew their business. Silas Bailey wryly re called the other day how his uncle put him, as a young man, “through the mill,” literally and figuratively. Like all the Baileys, Silas was bonr in Ctintoa and want to Clinton public schools. While he was very young his father died and his uncle took over the ed ucation of the young man. From the public schools he was sent to Wofford Fitting School in preparation for higher learning. Next came McCallie School for Boys at Chattanooga, Term., and then back to Clinton to study at l^ifesbyterian college fpr an A.B. degree. He was graduated from PC in 1926 and the president-uncle im mediately put him to work in the textile business—as an outside cotton overseer. The job’s title is confusing. Actually the young college gradate maintained re pairs to the mill village. Eventually, in 1927, he was transferred to inside work as a shipping clerk. Silas' Bailey did not consider that a promotion, al-^ though* it did afford him better opportunity to learn the family business. Also his uncle wanted him inside the mill, doing office work, where he could watch him closely. General office work began to come his way which made the routine a bit more ‘ interesting and eventually, in 1930, his uncle must have considered him fit vice-presidential timber. Mr. Bailey said that his uncle was a great believer in hard work. And even though that guardian-unde showed absolute ly np favoritism to the young Bailey, he did show gre^t belief in him. The uncle’s faith paid off, for now Lydia and Clinton Cotton Mills have a combined count of 140,464 spindles — the standard by which the size of a cotton mill is stated. Together the two mills operate 3,462 looms. FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson College Information Specialist Community Service | in the hospital. And it carried Our changing agriculture calls, th * promse of a bumper yield. PUTSY SILAS BAILEY P. Silas Bailey is 50 years of age now, yet he has all the ap pearances of a much younger man. His interests, outside his family, run to the raising of purebred shorthorn beef cattle. He owns a model farm called “Creekland Farms” about seven miles from town. The herd con sists of 110 head of breeding cows and 4 herd bulls. The Bailey family is small. There are only Mr. Bailey -and his wife, who is the daughter of Mrs. F. L. Webb and 15-year-old Emily, who will be a sophomore at Clinton high next term. They all live in the old Bailey home. In feet, Silas' bedroom is the very same in which he was born in 1904. Mr. Bailey at one time was in tensely active' in the civic affairs of his home town. He was Clin ton’s mayor from 1934 to 1946, “too long for anybody,” he said. He has been a charter member of the Lions club for the past 20 years and has served one term as its president. He actively maintains membership in the Loyal Order of Moose. His church is Clinton’s First Presby terian. The Clinton Mills is presently capitalized at $331,000 and the Lydia plant at $400,000. Both plants are manufacturers of print, broad doth, tobacco cloth and twills and employ 2,000 per sons. On the topic of the northern textile industries migrating south Mr. Bailey shrugged his shoulders and remarked that the South is the logical place for such industries. Mr. Bailey is proud of the type of work his employees do. He said that the native stock from which these people come is prob ably the reason for the feeling of responsibility they have for their jobs. It was for the benefit of these people, the citizens of Clinton, that the Bailey Foundation was organized some time ago. It has contributed greatly to the many churches, schools and other or ganizations in the town, though the workings of the Foundation are neither generally nor widely known. The last Bailey of a long line —P. S. Bailey—has more years ahead of him as an industrial leader than he has similar years behind him. Though his plans for the future years are not sharply defined at this time, they do include a program of progress and growth for the two mills of the Bailey family. P. S. Bailey may be the last president to bear the family name, but that name will never become blurred in Clinton’s his tory. STAINS Before trying a stain remover of any kind on any delicate fab ric test it on some underneath portion of the garment where it will not show. If the remover affects the color, no harm will be done to the garment for new community services and custom work arrangements- I see things coming about every where I go. Heavy equipment for lowland clearing, where pastures are to go, are at work in most counties. Pond building, too, is calling for most of diem. Few if any of these outfits are just for use on the owner’s farm. Some are rwned by the counties and some are privately owned. But they are kept busiy doing custom work for neighbors all around. Combines, too, lend themselves to custom work. And some of them move from south to north with the harvest. Out in Greenwood county, J. J. Griffith has put in a modern seed cleaning, feed grinding and feed mixing plant for custom work. County Agent Garvin tells me Mr. Griffin has conferr ed with the livestock and poul try folks at Clemson, secured thier recommendations and for mulas for mixed feeds, and is in position to grind and mix feeds for farmers from the ingrediento they have, and add what’s need ed to balance them out. This is in line with develop ments in the field now. We are growing a lote more* grain. And we wonder where we can store it and sell it. Bins were already about full with old grain when the recent crop came off. We are also getting well along into the cattle business. But most of our cattle are sold from grass. Here and there I see a farmer who has found feeding out some of those cattle to be the best possible market for that extra feed he is growing. Selling feeder cattle and grain are similar. They are both raw products. And we all know that the producer of raw products doesn’t usually fare very well. But the fallow who deaf the fin ishing usually has a better chance. » So, in this case, we can com bine two of thoee raw products, feeder cattle and grain, on a good many farms where we have both. The result then is a product that is more finished. Instead of hav ing two raw products for sale, we then have one finished prod uct. And that finished, grain- fed steer usually brings enough more to pay for his keep and a profit on the operation. Clem- son's livestock specialists, Du- Rant and Cato, will be glad to help you size up your situation on this. Contact them through your county agent. • • • Sava The Liver* Heard my old friend and one of the best fanners I’ve ever known, Ryan White, of Sumter county, had been ailing. So back in the early summer I went by to see him. Sure enough, that paid in his hip had about ruined the socket. So the doctor had put him in a new swivel joint. With one of steel now, what will he be doing, for he has always been about the workingest man you ever saw. He works a good sized me chanized farm BY HIMSELF! Yes, that’s so, except for an oc casional day laborer he picks up. A fine grain crop was almost ready for the harvest when I was there, and he had just fin ished a cracker jack concrete block storage bam astride a little hill there that gave him a nat ural body-height floor to load grain from at each end. He only has 10 acres of culti vated crop, and that is com. A neighbor, Bill Brown, came and i laid it by for him while he was Hogs, beef cattle, and grain are his money crops. His 83 clean Hampshires were sold to Harvin Packing company the past spring. They reported to him that they didn’t lose a single liver from the parasites. Grow ing hogs on clean land accounted for that His hogs are farrowed on clean grazing, and they are harvesting their feed in clean fields all the time. They never see an old dirty lot, where hogs get so infested with parasites, both internal and external. And a healthy hog that can really make efficient use of feed. Most hogs from the southeast are so infested with internal parasites that few livers are saved, the packers tell me. But Ryan’s experience, and that of others who follow Clemson’s sanitary plan, get good fast- growing top hogs of 200 pounds in 6 months or litte less. And those parasite free porkers mak* cheaper gains too, plus cleaner carcasses and usable livers. Those lost livers on most hogs are your loss, for you. County agents can outline to you the full practical sanitary plan for rais ing hogs, if you are interested. • * • Boys Ara That Way We talked here last week about the corn products we ate in the Dutch Fork when I was a kid, of the many good things that could be made with corn. And I still think it’s a shame more cooks can’t seem to make those taste-tempting treats that are possible out of com meal and grits. Much of the com bread, for instance, that we get around isn’t much to eat. While made right, in thick pones fashioned with the bare hands, or thin and cooked fast in a skillet, it can be made to rank high among good things to eat. And after butch ering time in the winter, a few dry cracklings stirred in the combread dough makes a tasty delight that just goes with but termilk. 'At butchering time in the win ter, we always made liver pud din’ out of the liver, head, some of the skins, and other trim mings. Cooking them left a thick, rich, tasty- broth. In that we stirred com meal until it thick ened. That, cooked done, was another glorification of com. Eaten hot, as it was. was good enough. But molded, sliced, dipped in flour, and fried made a breakfast that was easy to take and on which you could work and not become weak. Then on Sunday, when the fat ted hen was cooked, com really came into its glory again. For com meal dressing, properly made aud seasoned, is better than the chicken itself. (And, by the way, some of the best I’ve ever eaten was here at the Clem son House. It is rare that a pub lic eating place gets an old dish just right and tasty as memory decrees.) With us, corn, good clean corn, was not always handy- Drought would sometimes hit, and the crop of nubbins was short. Or the claims of the livestock and poultry would cause the pile to Smith's Guernsey Has Fine Record A registered Guernsey cow, IMS Darnell’s Ins, owned by L M. Smith of Kinards, has; com pleted an official advanced reg istry record of 10,162 pounds of milk and 529 pounds'of fat on two times daily milking for 305 days. She started her record as a junior three-year-old. This production represents approxi mately 4,883 quarts of high-qual ity milk. Clemson college super vised the record. vanish ere the new "crop came. Then we would pull some a little early and dry it in the sun so it would shell. Or borrow some from a neighbor whose ertb was not yet empty. But com, we had to have it Occasionally the old dry com in the community would get so low before the new crop came in that we had to carry a few chick ens and eggs to Chapin and buy some meal and grits (hominy we called it). A fellow would be sort of ashamed of that and had rather no one saw him. For it was a boast some could make that they had never bought a grain of com, meal, or grits in their lives. It was a reflection on a farmer then to have to buy these necessities. IF YOU DON'T READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DO NT GET THE NEWS SPECIAL — -SEASON CLOSE OUT- FRIGDAIRE _ AIR CONDITIONERS. — .WINDOW UNITS BUY NOW FOR NEXT SEASON AND SAVE i Anderson Appliance Co. Phone 927 104 W. Pitta St. JACK W. ANDERSON — JACK RED DANGER...POLIO STRIKES WITHOUT WARNING New Low Cost POLIO POLICY. PAYS up te $10,000 for oodi Member ef yeer Family ACT NOW^. 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