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Pwr« Four THE CUNTON CHRONICLE Thursday, Pecwber 2,1»S4 Ollfp (Elintnn (C^rnntrlp Established 1»M WILSON W HARRIS, Editor and Publisher - HARRY C. LAYTON, , Assistant PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance) One Year $2.50, Six Months $1.50 Entered as Second Class idail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C., under Act of Congress March 3, 1879 The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—the publisher will at aR times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chroriicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. Member: South Carolina Press Association, National Editorial Association AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION National Advertising Representative: New York, Chicago, Detroit. Philadelphia CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1954 Don't Spell It 'Xmas' A nationwide crusade is now underway to stress the theme, “Christmas for Christ” during the Advent season. It is gratifying to know' that the campaign is gowing in interest in many parts of the country. With December here and Christmas fast approaching the writing of the word Christmas instead of “Xmas” will help em phasize the significance of the happy sea son. Each year we admonish our readers not to abbreviate the word by substituting “X” for Christ. Using the letter “X” im plies that we are too lazy, busy or lax to spell out the whole word Christmas. On cards, in advertisements and elsewhere the abbreviated word is used by thousands of people. In newspapers the short w r ord is handy because of mechanical conven ience in balancing short lines, but it is a habit The Chronicle fights against in its columns. Christmas is a beautifiul, thrilling word, full of meaning. It has to do with the eternal—with peace—peace on earth, peace of mind which passeth all under standing. It has to do - with culture, inspir ing music, generosity, love and interest in others. “X” implies that we do not know the real meaning of Christmas in this fast day and age. “X” is the mathematical symbol of an unknown quantity. So right now let us all join in a resolve that we will write it Christmas and fight against the use of that ugly,'inappropriate, undignified, meaningless abbreviation. Courtesy On The Highways An automobile expert says he has no ticed courtesy among drivers lately, and attributes it in part to the fact that auto mobiles are becoming easier and easier to drive. That’s good news. What with aik.. tomatic gear shifts, pow’er steering, power brakes, electric eyes that lower the beam of headlights as another car approaches, the driver has more time and attention which he can devote to courtesy. Wouldn’t it be w r onderful for the day to come when politeness will come as standard equipment for cars? That is too much to hope for. There are still many- driver “hogs” on the highways who show little or no consideration or politeness to others. One tried to push us off the high way yesterday, and this is a common ex- perience with many. Drivers should un derstand that all travelers on the highways have the same rights and privileges. Ev eryone w ho takes a steering wheel should be considerate of others they meet. We should all be as courteous at the wheel as when we happen to be afoot. Christmas Season Begins Today Santa Claus comes to town this after noon for the special purpose of greeting thousands of boys and girls and little tots in the arms of parents. Hia annual visit, always a thrilling event, is sponsored by the local Merchants association. In honor of the distinguished visitor a parade has been arranged featuring floats, bands and organizations. From ev ery vantage point along the line of march there will be great crowds—children and grown-ups, too, looking for the grand, Jol ly old gentleman w’ho always comes oft De cember 25 whether in times of recession or prosperity. It is good for th,e world that this is true. Today will be a gala day in town for great throngs who will come to see St. Nick and to see the lovely lights to be turned on to burn throughout the holiday season. These vari-colored decorations will serve as a constant reminder to shoppers and visitors here and passing through the city, that Christmas is almost here, that you had better get busy, and that nowhere will you find a better place to supply your Santa needs for all members of the family than right here in Clinton, nowhere will you wit ness a prettier light arrangement than right here in the same town. The continu ous string of multi-colored harbingers of joy and goodwill help make us all young again and indelibly impress upon us that this is the season of all seasons for little children. In the business district there are attrac tive decorations. Merchants have decor ated their stores and windows to add to the Yuletide picture and make the inside attractive to the crowds that will be con gesting th6 streets for the next twenty shopping days. While there is danger al ways of becoming too commercially-mind ed, still a real Christmas spirit and atmos phere helps to impress upon us all what Christmas originally stood for, and what it should stand for now. And in our homes holiday decorations, trees and arrange ments will contribute to the meaning and impressiveness of the season the world is soon to celebrate. Without Santa Claus, of course, there could be no Christmas, neither can there be a Santa Claus without the Christmas spirit. This character of generosity is one that all love for he is indeed the bearer of gifts, good cheer, happines and kindness. Pity the man or woman, boy or girl, who does not believe in Santa Claus and what his jjeart signifies. And so to climax to day’s annual celebration, Santa, in his tra ditional red suit, will bring a thrill to thousands of admirers and rightly so. From today on He will be on his big job of promoting faith and joy and happiness, which this selfish world sa^ly needs. Yes, Christmas is here and we should all join in helping restore its proper spiri tual emphasis. Let us as grown-ups catch the spirit of the little child. We are thankful that there are still lots of good people in the world. 0 ***** * Now that the football season is closing our colleges will get back to normal again. ******* A pessimist is the fellow who is expect ing an umbrella and pair of rubbers for Christmas. ******* The turkey that lived at Thanksgiving may not know it, but Christmas is just around the corner. - THI UfPf« ROOM NASMVIIK TfNMfSSH THi, WORLD S MOST WIDELY USFD DEVOTIONAL GU'DE Stand in tha gala of tha Lord'* Housa. and proclaim thara this word and say. Haar tha word of tha Lord, all ya of Judah, that anlar in at thasa galas to worship tha Lord. (Jarsmiah 7:2.) Raad Jaramiah 7:1-7 or II Tim othy 3:10-17. ^ One of the dramatfc moments in the coronation of Queen Eliza beth II occurred when.the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland presented her with the Holy Bible. Then the Archbishop of Canterbury said, "Our gracious Queen: to keep your Majesty ever mindful of the Law and the Gospel of God as the Rule for the whole life and government of Christian Princes, we present you with this Book, the most valuable thing.this world affords.” The Bible is the most valubale thing the world affords. In the march of human events, it speaks to every need of mankind. It gets at the heart of things, and teaches man how to live on intimate terms with the things that abide. Here is wisdom. This is the royal law. These are the lively oracles of God. PRAYER Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for Thy Word. We are grateful for the blessings it has brought to our world. Through Thy Son interpret it to our hearts. Lead us to establish our daily living on its eternal truths. In the name of Christ, our light. Amen. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY "It (the Bible ) gives a light to every age; It gives, but borrows none.” J. C. Lowson (Nebraska) Take Steps Now To Make Holidays Safe BABSON . . . Looks Ahead Fifty Years By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass., Dec. 2—Part of our Fif tieth Anniversary, celebrated recently in Welles ley, Mass., was spent looking ahead fifty years to the year 2004. Dr. E. F. W. Alexanderson, a dis ciple of Steinmetz and long-time engineer-re searcher for General Electric and Radio Corpor ation of America, made some startling statements. If he and the other speakers did not hold such very important positions today, we would take these statements "with a grain of salt," but under ! the circumstances they deserve attention. Here’s what we predict for fifty years from now. On Our Tremendous Material Progross Our offspring will look back on the 1954 era as one of primitive existence. Automaton will have taken over completely, not only in the fac tory, buf also in the home and on the farm. Fop example, Dr. Alexanderson predicts that the busi ness executive will live in the country and com mute to work by helicopter over a special-fre quency airline channel which will pilot his plane automatically and safely to its destination. The busy business executive won’t have to go to the office so often, for he will have private TV cir cuits between his home and his office and can go into conference or look in on any part of his fac tory by means of numerous television eyesu He will be able to go to his summer place in the mountains and, again by means of private TV cir cuits, see and talk with his children back home. By the same means, he can look in on his cattle or into his chicken house. A button pushed at his mountain house will carry an impulse via short wave to the chicken house back on the farm, and the chickens will be fed and the eggs collected, sized and boxed, automatically. Machines will be powered by atomic capsules, and by 2004 we will consume as much power in one year as we did in all the years from 1 A. D. to 1954! Homes and working establishments will all be air-conditioned. Electronic ovens will cook our food in seconds. Foods will be wrapped and seal ed in inexpensive plastics and will keep crisp, fresh, and deliciously palatable indefinitely. Peo ple will be healthier and happier. They will live to be a hundred with no debilitating effects. This age will be known as the atomic age, an era of un precedented technological advancement and ma terial prosperity. On Government and Business Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest, Treasurer of the United States, predicts that one-half of our elective and appointive officials will be women in 2004—half of the House of Representatives, and a third of the Senate. The Secretary of State will be a woman. Through the efforts of women the world over, there will be an effective outlawing of war. In predicting business trends of the future, considerably more emphasis will be given to sampling, market analysis, and discovering what people think and why they think that way. This kind of analysis will enable us to predict human behavior and business trends far more accurately than is now possible. On Education and Man Both Miss Margaret Clapp, President of Well esley College, and Dr. Alexanderson are concerned about the kind of civilization our technological advances will leave us with in 2004. Roth fear that science, if pursued on a straight materialistic plane, will lead man into some real trouble. There is a serious fear in the minds of many educators lest education today is too concerned with teach ing facts rather than developing thinking men and women of character and stature who know why as well as how. " A good climate for business and a soundly ad ministered government do not just happen. They are the products of able leadership. And leader ship, good or bad, is more closely tied to our relig ious and educational system than we may like to admit Good leadership depends on excellence of instruction in church, school, and college. In the last analysis what we do with our technologi cal advances—whether we shall have peace or war, progress'or decline in the art of living In 2004—may well depend in the kind of churches, schools, and colleges you and I want and on the fi nancial support we give them today. Making the holiday season merry should also mean making it safe. The happiest time of the year can be very hazarodus as well, fire prevention officials point out. The last 10 days of Decem ber and the first 10 of January always show a marked increase in home fires, records show, but they need not if these precau tions are observed: 1. Buy toys with safety in mind. Beware of those operated with fuel, for even a small amount of it can set a child’s clothes aflame. [ In eleqtrical toys, buy only those 1 properly warranted for safety. 2. Inspect Christmas lighting early. Look for loose connec- ; tions, broken sockets and frayed wires. Better discard a light ing set than take a chance. 3. Buy a fresh tree and don’t bring it indoors till Christmas eve. Set it on a floor of mate rial such as ciay tile, which is fireproof. 4. Use metal, glass and asbestos decorations for the tree. Cotton batting and paper catch fire eas ily. Put nothing on the tree that will burn. 5. Don’t let Christmas wrap pings pils up in the fireplace. Be sure the fireplace apron is quarry tile or other fireproof ma terial extending at least 16 inch es from the chimney breast. 6. Don’t go to bed or out for the evening and leave the tree lights on. Don’t overload electric cir cuits by plugging too many cords into a single outlet. 7. Be sure the tree does not block possible exits in case of FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 28th day of Dec., 1954, we will render a final account of our acts and doings as Executors of the estate of Claude Vernon Monroe in the office of the Judge of Probate of Laurens County, at 10 o’clock a. m., and on the same day will ap ply for a final discharge from our trust as Executors. . Any person indebted to said estate is notified and required to make payment on or before that date; and all persons having claims against said estate will present them on or before said date, duly proven, or be forever barred# i —MINNIE MONROE, CLAUDE B. MONROE, Executors. Nov. 23, 1954. 4c-w-Dec. 23 fire. And finally, remove it the day after Christmas, before it has a chance to dry out and be come an even greater fire hazard. Remember: even a fine fresh tree ir a very considerable fire haz ard, for th oils in evergreens make them bum readily and hot ly. New Income Tax Accents Deductions The new Federal Tax Law puts the accent on deductons. Al though it cuts no tax rates, it will give a break to working mothers, teen-agers with part- time job^ and people with big medical bills. ‘‘Many taxpayers will now be able to claim a longer list of de pendents,” Charles B. Seib ex plains in the December Catholic Digest. “Any person who is a member of the taxpayers’ house hold and gets more than half his support from the taxpayer can be claimed as a dependent. A foster child, a child awaiting adoption, a distant cousin, or even an old friend can be a dependent under this new standard. Children who contribute equally to the support of an aged mother, regardless of where she lives, can rotate the exemption among themselves yearly." Another benefit is provided for those who must pay to have chil dren or other dependents cared for so that they themselves can hold down jobs. The new law states that any such person can deduct up to $600 of the costs of nursery school, sitters, nurses, or other care for children under 12 or other helpless dependents. Only one $600 deduction is avail able per taxpayer, however, no matter how many dependents. The parent whose teen-age children earn money in summer other part-time jobs is a ma jor beneficiary. The new law permits dad to claim Junior as a dependent regardless of his earn ings, as long as Junior is under 19 or going to school. The teen ager, of course, would pay tax on his own inemoe in excess of $600. Sponsors of the new tax law, Seib states, feel that it will re move inequities, simplify tax rules, and otherwise ease the tax burden. They are confident that its relief provisions will spur in vestment and economic expan sion and create new industries and jobs. x “How The New Tax Law Helps You” is condensed, from Nation’s Business. Churchill's Remarks Start Political Storm Bristol, England, Nov. 26- Prime Minister C archill joked today about the political rumpus he touched off by revealing his willingness to use beaten Ger man troops to halt a westward sweep through Europe by the Russians in 1945. , * In a puckish mood, with his eyes twinkling, Churchill told 2,- 700 Bristol University students. “I thank you for your kindness especially on a day when, by looking at the morning papers, I am supposed to be in a bit of a scrape." The students, jammed into , a public hall, laughed and ap plauded loudly. They had just presented Churchill, the chancel lor of their university, with an antique silver tray to mark his 80th birthday Tuesday. ^ A political storm raged in Lon don over a remark Churchill made last Tuesday to his con stituents in Woodford. The Prime Minister said that at the close of : World War II he instructed Field | Marshall now Viscount Mont- 1 gomery to stack the arms of the surrendered Germans so they easily could be reiisued to the Germans in case the Russians kept driving West. Pro-Labor newspapers and the independent Times said Church ill had blundered by bringing the subject up at this time. Some Laborites in Parliament said it was unfortunate Churchill had stirred Soviet suspicions at a time when the Russians might be adopting a softer atitude toward the West. Churchll’s remark touched off alarm even in some Conservative circles. The Prime Minister also took part in a colorful degree confer ring ceremony in the bomb- scarred great hall of the univer sity. Among those honored with the degree of doctor of law were two members of his cabinet— Chancellor of the Exchecquer R. K. Butler and Minister of Labor Sir Walter Monckton. Churchill urged the students to take an interest in politics, but | cautioned them: ( “It is most important that no I r eedless personal bitterness should be introduced into our life. I think we have achieved this probably better than almost any country, for we have very keen politicis and at the same time many of us are friends across the party line, and we work together.” Cotton Crop Estimate Is Raised Washington, Nov. 27.—The U. S. Department of Agriculture has raised, its cotton crop estimate 700,000 bales above its October forecast, setting the new estimate figure at 13.2 million 500-pound bales. This was revealed in a rep >rt issued recently by the depart ment’s Agricultural Marketing Service. The new figures raise the es timated United States supply for the 1954-55 marketing to approx imately 22.9 million bales. With disappearance expected to be ap proximately 13.7 million bales, the carryover on August 1, 1955 would be 9.2 million, compared with 9.6 million a year earlier. A new record in average yield per harvested acre is expected to be set this year as Indications point toward an average of 329 pounds, compared with the pre vious record of 324.2 pounds in 1953. Ginnings of cotton prior to No vember 1 from the 1954 crop totaled *9,670,000 bales or about 74 per cent Of the estimated crop. This was the most rapid rate of harvest since 1943. To the same date a year earlier 66 per cent of the 1953 crop had been ginned. Domestic mill consumption of cotton during October averaged 35.8 thousand bales per working day. This compares with 33.3 thousand in September and 35.2 thousand in October, 1953. Ex ports of cotton in August amounted to 190,000 bales. SAY— "I Saw It In THE CHRONICLE” YOUR MERRY CHRISTMAS STORE HELLO THERE! Belk’s now have a personal shopper. If yon are un able to come down town and want a selection made for you— Just call 84 and ask for Personal Shopper.. 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