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I Pace Twelve THE CLINTON CHRON1CLK JThijijdayj^ecwijber^ms i A Kumn Is Burn ‘ BY CLINT iBONNER r O Little Town 0/ Bedikhcm A big man writes a song for little chnaroi Phillip? Brooks was M big man. Physically, mentally and spiritually he was one of the biRgest preachers in America. He stood six feet six and tinned the scales proportionately. He sang 200 hvmns from memory and blasted out sermons at the rate of 250 words a minute. And his writings raised the evebrows of many a staid theologian. In December. 1868. the massfve preacher walked the study of his Episcopalian Church in Philadel phia It was just before Christmas and he was outlining a sermon on the Nativity. Out in the church. Sunday School Superintendent and Organ ist Lewis Redner ran over carols for the Yule services Real Estate Broker Rednet was a bachelor hut he loved children so well that he built the Sunday School from 36 members to more than 1.000. Rut Redner could have loved children no more than big Phillips Brooks. Three years earlier Rrooks had spent Christmas in the Holy Land and he devoted most of his time there to writing to his ItM’e friends about Bethlehem and the shepherds who watched over their sheep just like they did when the Baby Jesus was born. With vivid memories of the Holy City, Phillip* O title town ot Bethlehem, hnw still we see thee lie* Above thy deep ond dreamless sleep the silent stars go by; Yet in thy dork streets shineth the everlasting light; The hopes and fears of all the years ore met in thee tonight. For Christ is born of Maty; and gathered all above, Wh le mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love, O morneng stars, together proclaim the holy birth, And pro'ses smg to God the King, and peace to men on earth. Brooks put aside work on his sermon and wrote a Christmas song for the children of his Sunday School. Then he asked Lev is Redner to write a tune for the verses. But the organist made no claim to being a composer Day after day Redner earned the poem in his pocket but no melody came to him. He was still worried about the assign* ment on Saturday night just before Christmas. But at midnight Redner awoke to strains of music that, he said, seemed to "come down from heaven” and that Sunday morning in 1868 children of Philadelphia’s Holy Trinity Church sang "O Little Town of Bethlehem” for the fir: Time When Phillips Brooks died at 57 in Boston, In 1893. a little 5-year-old girl summed up the big preacher's personality when she said through her tears. "How happy the angels will be.” Yet, like Musician Lewis Redner. Phillips Brooks was a bachelor. Historians call him a great preacher— Bishop of Massachusetts, dynamic and elegant; but children who know nothing of history nor have ever heard the name Phillips Brooks sing every Christmas a carol that a big preacher wrote just for his little friends. How silently, bow silently th* wondrous gift is given! So God imports to humon heorts tb* blessings of Hi* heaven. ( No ear may bear His coming; but in this world of sin. Where meek souls will receive Him »till, th# dear Christ enters in. O holy Child of Bethlehem, descend to ut, w# pray; Cost out our sin ond enter in—be born in us today, W# bear the Christmas ongels the great glod tidings tell, O com# to us, abide with us, Our Lord Emmanuel. »■»*»»***<******** FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson College Information Specialist Cotton In TTie West And Here "Nothing is so constant as change.” I've quoted that often, for it is so true. Look at cotton. Back in 1932 Arizona, California and New Mex ico together produced 258,971 bales. Last year they had increased Dr. Felder Smith OPTOMETRIST Phone 794 Laurens, S. C. STOP SUFFERING With HEADACHES BACKACHES and NERVOUSNESS Go To The— HART CLINIC IN LAURENS — and get well. Telephoni 22501 or 2723 for an ap pointment or go to the clin ic located at 205 Church St, LAURENS, S. C. that over 10 times to 2,714,000 bales! And this was done on about a million and a.half acres for an average yield of about 900 pounds of line per acre! They are planting their full al lotments. We are not. That means the cotton acreage is moving west, on the present basis for figuring allotments. We once planted almost 3 mil lion acres in South Carolina. This year we planted less than three- quarters of a million, or consid erably less than our allotment. Our farmers have bfen repeatedly told by Clemson that the only way to retain their cotton acreage un der the present program is to plant it. Therefore, they must not need it all in their farming scheme. Maybe that’s all right. Only time will tell. But we should consider the matter well before giving up our heritage with cotton. How ever, changing conditions might make what we are doing advisable and necessary.. We are surely growing into di versity. And, as we master new things like grass, and trees, and livestock, and poultry, and grain farming, maybe we will be better off, with cotton remaining only on the lands best suited to it and full mechanization. For. folks, remember, we are in a changing world. It has always been so. But faster now than ever. Hoc-Killing Time In recent years many farm folks have drifted away from butcher ing at home. I won’t go into the reasons here now. But with cheap er hogs and refrigeration we have now, likely more people will be butchering again. Clemson has recorded the es sential steps in producing good home cured meat in its revised Bulletin , 77, entitled “Pork for Carolina Farmers.” It is free from your county or home agent or from the college. In the estimate of many people, including the writer, good country ham is the king of all meats. Some manufacturers have tried to imi- Savings Accounts 3%-DIVIDEND-3% — We invite savings accounts from the people of Clin ton and vicinity. You will like our friendly and efficient service, and you will receive your dividend promptly each January 1st and July 1st. Any amount—from $1 up—opens an account. Each account is insured up to $10,000 by the Fed eral Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. Two people may have up to $30,000 fully insured. Accounts by mail promptly acknowledged. Chartered and Supervised by the United States Government LAURENS FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION 104 W. Main Street jj Laurens, S- C. 22271 fate it in the familiar "Smithfield” type hams. And they are great im provements over the usual sort But they just don’t quite measure up to the aroma, taste-delight, brown-gravy, and general come- hither that a piece of really good country ham does. Will Henderson and his son, Fred, down at Ninety Sax, have built a reputation and a business of curing good country hams. They cure hundreds of them, test them before they go out, and they reach all parts of the country. And Hen derson cured hams usually win at fairs. The curing method he uses is the same as d^cribed in Clem- son’s Bulletin 77. I have seen many who used it successfully. Burn Out The Chimney We used to watch for rainy days in early winter to bum out the chimneys. And it is still a good practice, if you use a fireplace. Soot accumulates in the aver age chimney. There It dries out and will eventually bum, when it gets caked thick all over the walls. And that usually happens on onfe of the coldest and windiest nights of winter. For then you have a roaring fire whose flame reaches the dried soot. My, what a frightening roar, when that soot catches! And on tap of the chimney you see a column of fire and burning soot masses cascading 01^ and falling on the roof. On dry, frayed wood shing les, that has taken many an old landmark. The way_we always burned out our chimneys was to pick a rainy day when the roof was wet. We’d fluff up a newspaper, light it, and push it up the chimney. It would catch the soot and bum the chim ney out clean, doing no harm. Set Your Christmas Tree In Water Bill Barker reminds us that set ting a Christmas tree in a jar or bucket of water helps keep it alive and from drying out so. Thus its danger as a fire hazard is great ly reduced, and natural freshness retained. Boys Are That Way Did you know wood freezes? Green wood does, sped a 11 pine. I saw it often as a kid. During the winter days, when there wasn’t much other farm work to do, we would go to the woods and work cm next summer’s supply of stove wood. We used pine for that altogether. Back then we didn’t value trees any more than we did air. They were both in such abundance as to give us no thought. And we didn’t cut the cull trees for wood either, as we do now. Just the re verse. We cut the best ones. And I’veseen folks cut a trial slab out of the side of a beautiful straight pine just to see if it split good. If it didn’t, they’d let the damaged tree stand, cutting only those that split easy. ' We liked to cut our wood when it was cold. Often the green wood was frozen then, and the chips popped out clean and easy. And if they were not frozen, we’d usually cut off the blocks and let them lie there until a cold day ca^ne along and they did freeze. Then they were a cinch to split. You just hit ’em with the axe and they popped clear open, That frozen wood looks differ ent. It is sort of glazed and icy looking. Wood cut then did very little drying until spring. And when that from the previous winter ran out, it was rough goin’ in the kitchen. For that was one thing the house wife was fussy about. She let her men-folks know that they must keep plenty -of good dry wood in the box if she was to keep good hot food on the table. And we m* n erttters Meed to e«rt too well to let green wood come between us end our chow. !»»■ »......................... . --------- - r rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrf frrrrrrr-rri i Bring a Friend To Church With You INTO THE DULL ROUTINE There was little excitement in a shepherd’s life. Long, uneventfu.l days beneath the hot sun on a grassy hill side. Long, lonely nights, still and . shadowy as the moon rode slowly among the clouds. All the monotony of a million lives today. But into the dull routine of a shep herd’s life came the vision that has cap tivated the imagination of man for two thousand years. An angelic voice say ing, “Fear not...” A heavenly host singing, “Glory to God...and peace...” The startling proclamation of the Saviour’s birth! The message still comes with bright ness and joy to all whose lot it is to labor, to endure, to wait. And the Church, preaching the. Truth of the One born that night in Bethlehem, calls men from the drabness of worldly pursuits to see this Thing which has come to pass, which the Lord made known unto a band of bored shepherds centuries ago. THE CHURCH FOR ALL ... ALL FOR THE CHURCH The Church is the 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 edn survive. There are lour sound reasons why every 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 of his community and nation. (4) For the sake oi the Church itself, which needs his moral and material support. Plan to go to church regu larly and read your Bible daily. Day Book Chapter Vcraaa Sunday John 10 1-1* Monday John 10 14-30 Tuesday . Isaiah S3 1-12 Wadnssday Isaiah 61 l-II Thursday Lukt 2 1-7 Friday Luka 2 S-20 Saturday. .....Psalms 23 1-6 This Series Of M Is Being Published Each Week Bj the FeUowiag Cttnten Finns In tbs Interest Of Increasing Church Attendance CLINTON CLEANERS Phone 948 Bank Of Clinton in Young’s Pharmacy it Todd Grocery Co, Inc. Howard’s Pharmacy itt Anderson Appliance Co. *17 Giles Chevrolet Co. Phooe 24 Farmers Feed & Seed Store PhsMitz* Burriss-Harrison Co. Pinas 4IS w Co. Citizens Federal Savings and Loan Asm. Phene • T. E. Jones A Sons Ml MM L B. Dillard Ph0M 143 Carolina Service Station Phone 614 Gray Funeral Home Phone 41 Timmerman Motor Co. n* McGee’s Drug Store Phone 1 Gulf Oil Corp. Phone 21 Cooper Motor Co. Phone 515 Sunshine Cleaners McMillan Service Station Phone 2 Clinton Cleaners Phoa^MS D. E. Tribble Co. Phone $4 . ► Chandler’s Garage Phone 71 H. D. Payne Co. Phene 126 Johnson Bros. Super Mkt. 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