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Kim—»»»»»»#>»»»»#>»«»«»*»#»»»»• The Chronicle Strives To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and RettaMe 0hf (Elintatt (Cl|rmtirlf If Yog Don’t Rond The Chronicle You Don’t Get the News Volume LVI Clinton, S. C, Thursday, February 24, 1955 Number 8 They looked libe rabble, yet they were veteran soldiers and they dispersed themselves in ac ceptable military fashion. It was not only the worst win ter of the war. Weatherwise it. - . . , , , was the worst winter of the 18tn y et ^ een destroyed by alcohol, much encouraged, because you still own your home, though you are behind on the payments; you still have a car, though it is an old model; Susan has not divorc ed you yet; your brain has not century. Melvin J. Weig, histo rian of Morristown National His In Jockey Hollow me men fell ed trees, built more than 1,000 log huts, dug in and suffered. Many died. For days on end they had no meat. Again, they had no bread. Sometimes they had neith er meat nor bread. The lack of clothing was terrifying. The general had set up his headquarters in the home of Mrs. Theodosia Ford. You can walk through it today, a clean warm house preserved by the National Service as a part of Morristown National Historic Park. But it’s hard to visualize it as it was on the general’s birthday 175 years ago, crowded with aides, all suf fering from colds. They dined Joanna Car Death Is 'Unavoidable^ William Flow, 16, died in an unavoidable accident near Joanna the night of Febraury 7, a coro ner’s jury ruled. Four teen-agers were injured and young Flow was killed in the I tor which you'eari truly be thank- automobile accident The teen- - - agers automobile turned over you have normal sight and good hands with which to work. In fact toric Park, has pieced together |‘* Wl1 * take s 100 * 1 - you will from old reports a record of 28' see that t * iere are man y things blizzards. . ,, ful today; things you would not want to lose. , Of course, you may feel that I am saying, “Physician, heal thy self.” Actually, that is exactly whit I am saying. Not that I be lieve any alcoholic can do it all alone; positively not. But I am saying that SOMETHING CAN BE DONE ABOUT ALCOHOL ISM, BUT THE DECISION RESTS WITH THE ALCOHOL IC. Nobody will ever make this decision for you. You, yourself, must decide that you have gone as low as you are willing to go. You alone must decide to start up the long rough road to permanent sobriety. Once you make this I decision, God and man can help twice, landed on its wheels, throwing *>ut the occupants. An automobile crossing the Bush River bridge veered to avoid the vehcile and to miss a girl sitting on the- right side of the road and ran over Flow. Testimony at the inquest show ed there were tire marks on the bridge indicating the driver put on brakes as soon as he saw the situation. Coroner Joe F. Smith conduct ed the inquest in the Joanna club house. Apporximately 100 per sons were present. CEREALS As soon as the cereals are brought from the grocery, empty them into their containers. The containers should be closely cov ered to prevent insects from en tering. Washington Had Nothing To Celebrate On His 48th Birthday 175 Years Ago By CHARLES MERCER Morristown, N. J., Feb. 19.— The general was 48 years old. He didn’t celebrate. There was noth ing ti celebrate. It was probably the unhappiest birthday of his life—that 22nd of February, 175 years ago. For it fell in what an increasing number of historians agree was the hard- officers and gentlemen. The alliance with the French had cheered him because he i 1 knew he couldn’t win this war i without French sea power. But 1 the alliance hadn’t come to any- civilian, a successful farmer and, thin 8 y et in 1779 when he businessman. Physically strong! ti re <f an< f discouraged, to Morris- and reserved in manner. But not town ^s he rode down from the iittle better than did the men. , , ...... It is told how the general’s , y° u alon * the way ’ and wlU help hands always seemed tigthly y°“‘ clinched in those bitter days. His one to make children whisper in awe. Morally and intellectually strong. Not an agghead, you un derstand. Certainly no prude, for he enjojfed dancing and cards and a bottle of wine. He certainly didn’t think at Mudson Highlands that Decem ber, leaning into a bitter Wind, eyelids were drawn tight with weariness as he sat at his desk, writing, beseeching, ordering — but always maintaining bis steel control. He wrote,such lines as— “We have had the virtue and patience of the army put to the severest trial ... I hardly thought at one period that we should be able to keep it together . . . We est winter of his life. Yes, harder himself as a great general. In than the winter of Valley Forge' fact, he was too inclined to ask two years before. In the winter of 1955 you drive here in a heated auto by super highways that flow like ribbons across snow-powdered hills. Ov erhead a silver airliner floats through a blue sky. Television antennas raise their webs above warm houses. The children are well fed and laughing. It’s a land of comfort and plenty. If it’s worth wondering at all how it came to be this way, it’s worth remembering that winter of 1780 when George Washington turned 48. History had not yet crowned him with the diadem of great ness. Many already recognized the greatness, in him—but many did not. In the context of his time he was rather like many a gen- 'Europe after that as an able gen eral whom circumstances ‘or nec essity has raised to command from the days of our earliest In dian wars to Korea. A National Guard type of gen the advice of subordinates. Like the time in the summer of 18 after the British booted the Americans out of New York and the traitorous Charles Lee talked him into splitting his forces and the able Nathaniel Greene talked him into trying to hold the Man- tattan heights. The British had chased him clean across New Jersey and he’d pulled back across the Delaware and it looked as if the jig was up. Then, 'acting on no one’s ad vice but his own, he hit Trenton and he hit Princeton in a series of masterly tactical moves and frightened the British back near, ly to New York. The historian Travelyan says he was recognized throughout his saddle creaking in the deep were bereft of every hope from cold, no man could have felt less the commissaries. At one time like the father of his country. the soldiers eat every kind of Morristown lies-on a triangular horse food but hay . . .” plateau with sharp declivities on. You drive out to Jocke Hollow two sides and the bold ridge of | through the cheerful, well-fed Thimble Mountain behind it. It' crowds of the modem Morristown was an excellent military posi tion. Defensively, its eastern ap proaches were through rugged passes in chains of hills, while streets — many of them looking forward to a day off next Tues day. The hollow is deserted of visitors in this cold weather. A 1 Htting bottom means some thing different for each alcoholic. I sincerely hope that you have hit yours. If so, there is no way for you to go now but up and out. Let’s make the road up. Sincerely, Maxie defiles to the west offered routes winter stillness lies on the land, of withdrawal. Offensively, it I There is no sound but the mourn- threatened the flank of any Brit- [ ful cries of crows. eral. But the general himself did not realize it. He was busy trying to hold together a rabble in the shape of an army and wheedling Congress for supplies and cajol- eral to begin with. Primarily a, ing You wonder why the army stayed and endured. And then you realize it was the general who kept them here. By the strength of his character alone he held the army together as a force—a weak force that win ter, but a force that would rise and fight in another season. Alcoholism Todov By Maxie C. Collins, Director. J Fairview Alcoholic Rehabilita tion Center, Ridgeway. S. C. best Nitrate of Soda mads! ish movement either up the Hud son or toward Philadelphia. Three miles southwest of the Village, which then contained cbout 50 houses, was a wooded rrea known as Jockey Hollow, which offered wood and water and windbreak. Into this area streamed ragged columns of men. They numbered about 10,000. They were badly clothed. There were many sick, coughing and spiting in the snow. There were many lousy, scratching them selves. Nearly all were hungry. And everybody was cold. ‘hecQntmentaUineof, To ^ Alcoholic; 79 and 80. This was the solid D ear gju core of the revolutionary army, Toda said ..j feel t formed into 10 infantry brigades than a d rm absolutel on the and one brigade of artillery. bottom » j hope that y0 £ meant every word of it. You will hear a lot about “hit ting bottom” in Alcoholics Anonymous. Just what does it mean? To understand this you must realize that you are differ ent from a tree or a rock or a cabbage. You were created with the power to choose A rock dropped into a pond will sink to the bottom. For the rock, bottom is where the density of the earth at the bottom of the pond will sustain the weight of it A ship sinks to the bottom of the ; sea, and the bottom is where the floor of the sea sustains the weight of the ship. But man is different. There are no arbitrary forces that fix a bottom for the human soul. Man’s bottom is where he decides it shall be. The alcoholic never reaches his bottom until he gets as low as he is willing to go. With some this is the first drunk. With others, it is the first blackout. With oth ers it is the loss of the first job or the first jail or the first hos pitalization. Others go on and lose their jobs, homes, families, self- respect, health and finally life it self without ever hitting bottom because they never get as low as they are willing to go. When you say that you are now on the bottom I am very FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 28th day of February, 1955, we will render a final account of our acts and doings as Executors of the estate of Guy L. Copeland 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. FRANK MILLER and LOUDA MILI.BR, Executors, Clinton, S. C. Jan. 24, 1955 4c-w.Feb. 24 Subscribe To iHL CHRONICLE PHONE 74 Wanted! MEN and WOMEN ' 18 to 50 To Train For Civil Service Exams Salaries to $8360.00 Yearly to Start Specialized Or General Training File Clerk Secretaries Bookkeepers Timekeepers Statisticians Clerk, Typist Stenographers Office Machine^ Commercial La a Treasury Agents fit General Meat Inspector Public Health Clerk, General Service Livestock Inspector Park Rangers Hospital Attendant Mail Carriers Elevator Operator Social] Worker Watchmen Forestry Border Patrol Fireman Postal Clerks Storekeepers Railway Postal Clerks Police Women PBX Operators CIVILIAN SERVICE BUREAU P. O. Box I0S1 Greensboro, N. C. 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