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I THB CLINTON CHRONICLB \ Thursday, Ptc—ibtr 1,1»M By SPECTATOR.. COMMENTS on MEN AND THINGS Amertaa is jprosperin*; South Carolina is prosperous, but the old story still may be told: in the land at plenty; in a period of booming prosperity, there are many who are scraping the bot tom of the barret Let us see the bright side: “BmpOoTineat in September was the highest Dor that month on rec ord. The number of persons at work laet month, according to es timates by the Departments of Commerce and Labor, was 94.7 million. This represented a gain of 2.6 million over a year ago. Un employment last month declined to 2.1 million, the lowest level in nearly two years, and compares with 3.1 million for the same pe riod in 1994. Factory weekly wag es averaged $77.90 in September, the hipest on record, and repre sent an increase of $6 above Sep tember of last year. The gain is the result of higher hourly rates and the lengthening of the work week. Consumers are spending freely. Not only is disposable income at an unsprecedently high level but savings are being heavily drawn upon and there is a steady increase in borrowings to a new hitfi marie. Total sales of retail stores in Sep tember axe estimated at nearly $15.9 billion, as against somewhat over the $14.1 billion in Septem ber, 1954. For the first nine months, sales aggregated $134.5 billion, or 10.5 per cent above the same period of last year.” This condition is not altogether a happy one for the economy, or the people, as a whole. For the record shows that the people are spending their high wages and withdrawing savings and borrow ing more money. Everybody knows that many people operate on bor rowed money; money when used to buy or build something as an investment is quite different from money borrowed to buy perhhable things. Easy credit is the pitfall of many people; in matters of bus iness or finance some axe as ily mistaken as an old friend of mine who oonaoiidated all his debts with a loan from the bank and said he didn't owe anything. Many of us fail to use or apply simple arithmetic In our daily planning. “Naughts a naught and one's a Agger” is still true. One and one are still two and not four, although many folk have either such speculative minds or such amazing faith in happy events that they indulge in financial sprees as though debts could be settled by the dew of the morning. Have you ever ridden on a train, a railroad train? I haven’t been on a train in a long time. Some years ago I went to the Un ion Station In Columbia with a lad who was brought up In the automobile era; who had ridden thousands of miles in cars, but had never been in or on a train. I think he thought be had to enter by way of the locomotive and pay his (fare to the engineer or the fireman. . g The railroads are operating on a large scale and are still our prin cipal long-distance haulers; but now we have buses, airplanes, cars, etc., also. * What makes the mare go? We don't hear that expression often today, though it was once very commonly used. Let us change it by asking what of the future? So far as the business outlook may be concerned I find that the great enterprises of America are con tinuing to plan for future on a colossal scale. One great enter prise has budgeted one billion, two hundred million for expansions and developments In 1996; another will spend a billion. America is still a young and growing country. uranium; I still think of our mod hilis and swamps as staahou— of groat wealth, although wo have not discovered these sources of The Great Jehovah did not make anything that is without potential use and value. Within this genera tion we have discovered large- scale uses for natural gas and LAURENS COUNTY TAX BOOKS OPEN Ceanty Special Wide Sebool Laurens No. G6 19 25 Laurens No. 56 19 22 Ware Shoals No. 51 19 35 Greenville No. 520 19 42 Beads Edaea. Total 44 3 44 1 55 61 I (County-wide includes: Ordinary County, 10 mills; Bonds, 8 mills; Hospital, 1 mill. Total, 19 mills.) (Mauldin-Simpsonville-Fountain Inn Water Dist.) levy 17 mills. Every male between the ages of 21 and 60 years, who is not physically disabled is required to pay $1.00 poll tax. Tax books opened September 15, 1955, and will re main open without penalty through December 31,1955. Taxes will be collected through April 16, 1956 with penalty added and will go into execution April 15,1956. The following penalties will be collected: January. 1 per cent; February, 2 per cent; March, 8 per cent; and from [April 1 to April 15th, 7 per cent. SAM M. LEAMAN County Treasurer Pepsi-Cola Refreshes without Reduced In Calories ...TAKE HOME A CANTON TODAY! PEPSI-COLA BOTTLING CO. Greenville, S. C. Recently a well was drilled near New Orleans to a depth of 21,482 feet nearly four mtiea deep. It took 299 days and $1,900,000 to drill that well. This is in search of oil and gas. Suppose such a depth were drilled in our swamps; or even in our sandhills! Who knows? Where does the water come from? Every time I pass a filling station and see the water used for washing cars I think of the prob lem of water. Most of you have either used town water or good well water and you have had no water problem. In most countries you drink water at your peril. I spent three or four months in a town below the Equator whose water supply would not appeal to any of you. In fact, I had to buy distilled water from a brewery— about a hundred gallons a week, to supplement the regular supply. This water was brought to me in casks across the backs of bur ros. Just think of the millions of gal lons of water used in a day by the homes and filling stations of Co lumbia and Charleston. Even the small town* must provide an abundance of wholesome water. I am not now thinking of the indus tries and their great use of water. But think of all the water in the sea; surely we shall always have plenty of water. Well, what about the saltiness of sea water? “The long-time dream of scien tists for a oomxnercdaUy-feasible way to make salt water fit to drink is approaching reality in north Texes. A utility whose day-to-day job is to supply householders and in dustries hereabouts with electric power, has been experimenting with an electrical device for fresh ening brackish or saline water. This water is not nearly so salty as sea water, to be sure. But there’s no question that the pro cess works. For more then a year, this pilot operation has been turn ing bitter, mineral-laden water in to a drinkable liquid, at a cost of about 50 cents a thousand gallons. The aim from here on is to attain high-volume output at lower cost. Salt water can be converted in to fresh by several different meth ods, but aU are relatively costly, ranging generally from $1.20 to $1.50 a thousand gallons. A few U. S. cities have paid as much as 30 cents a thousand gallons for mu nicipal water, but a cost of five to ten cents a thousand gallons is about the highest that’s economi cally acceptable. In desert re gions, of course, where drinking water has to be brought in, higher prices can be justified. Texas Electric officials concede they still have a way to go before the device Ihey’re testing can be used on a large scale. But they're sufficiently intrigued by its pros pects to spend a wad of sharehold ers’ funds for further engineering and development. The workability of the electrical water-purifying process depends on the fact that the impurities in sea water—sodium, chlorine and some 40 other elements—are dis solved in the water in ionic form: that is, they have either positive or negative electric charges.” When I was in Peru an Ameri can engineer persuaded President Leguia to authorize a gigantic project to assure water to irrigate the desert of northern Peru. The dream was to turn the Mar anon river, a main feeder of the mi^ity Amazon river, from its eastward course, leading it westward thru the Andes mountains. Before that dream could even approach reality President Leguia fell—his faH in some measure due to the heavy expenditures without such visible results as average men could appreciate. “While Texas has its share of water troubles, the problem is far from a local one. Many ritie* and towns across the country are plag ued with brackish waters, unfit for use in industrial processes and unpalatable for human consump tion. The hope of de-salting sea water to make the deserts bloom is ages ota, though this grandiose goal is titill far from arttainraex*. But scientists are stepping up their search for ways to get more fresh water because demand is contin ually increasing. Present nation wide usage, says the U. S. Geolog ical Survey, is about 200 btitton gallons daily. By 1975, this doily rate of consumption is expected to have risen to 400 billion gallons. The problem in every water- freshening system is the cost of the fuel or energy required for the conversion job. Scientists hove known for hundreds of years how to distill water on a small scale, but big stills are costly to operate and salty corrodos pipes and boil ers. Natives of sea-girdied Islands have learned to trap rain water in cisterns, but such supplies are lim ited to the available storage ca pacity.” IVEY LEAGUE and DICKIE RANGER PANTS $3 JO & $3.95 L B. DILLARD Bring a Friend To Qwrdi With Yon Through the • •• B&< Through cold, snow-covered Helds, underneath ice-encrusted trees, the river runs its course. This brings to mind the Christian Church. It was founded upon the teachings of Jesus who lived His life and did His work unperturbed by the coldness of many of His fel- lowmen and of th? ruling officials. He knew that His work would stand because it was founded upon truth. It not only stood, but has flowed steadily on for centuries. It is still going on today in His churches. If you do not attendchurch serv ices why not go this coming Sun day, and identify yourself with this steady flow of the best for which life stands? There is always room in the river Jor one more drop of water. There is always room in the Church for one more worshipper. / * * 3§§:: ; - * . 'M w rt-m 'Mi-*t >?' ^ , MmM fti THE CHURCH FOR AU .. . AU FOR THE CHURCH Th* Church i* th« greatest factor on earth lor the building of character and good citizenship It is a storehouse of spiritual values Without a strong Church, neither democracy nor civilization can survive. There are lour sound reasons why •rory person should attend services regularly and support the Church. They are: (1) For his own sake (2) For his children s sake (3) For the sake o4 his community and nation (4) For the sake ol the Church itself, which needs his moral ^ i**? '-ir K.. EL*' la Teeefey ... W«*ae«Ur. TfcwrsSar .. PrMay >r1 Plan to go to church Bibls daily. rsgu »«* Ctupl.r Votm. Pula* M t-IZ Pula. 44 l-tl Joh. 4 t-IS johii T 17-44 John ir 11 21 Rtv.Ulio. 21 IS Pula* I4S 1-14 TMa Strits Of Mi i Is Bdiaf PwMIrtui Each Weak By th* Cttfrton Final la tba latercat Of lacreasiag Church Alt—dance TODD GROCERY CO., Inc Phone 8 Bank Of Clinton in Young’s Pharmacy it Howard’s Pharmacy 1M Giles Chevrolet Co. PhoM 26 Farmers Feed & Seed Store IMS Burriss- Harrison Co. 4M Anderson Appliance Co. PhoM t27 Citizens Federal Savings and Loan Assn. PhMMt T. EL Jones & Sons isi Clinton lire & Recap. Co. ~ ISM LB. Dillard PhoM 142 Carolina Service Station ' PhoM <14 Gray Funeral Horn Phong 41 Timmerman Motor Co. PhMMllt McGee’s Drug Store Phong 1 r Gulf Oil Corp. . Phong 21 Cooper Motor Co. Phone 515 Sunshine Cleaners Phong 436 Belk’s Phone 84 Todd Grocery Co., Inc. Phong 8 McMillan Service Station Phene 2 Clinton Cleaners Phone 948 D. E. Tribble Co. Phone 94 Chandler’s Garage Phone 71 H. D. Payne Co. 129 Johnson Bros. Super Mkt. Phone 239 Clyde Body Works Phone 850 Industrial Supply Co. Phone III Chronicle Publishing Co. Phone 74 Baldwin Motor Co. Ptoc 584