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I ■!■■■■■■■■ 7 Pngt Tea THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday. April U, 1956 By SPECTATOR- COMMENTS oil MEN AND THINGS The Joanna community is one which is happy because it is com posed of happy people, all being good citizens and all working to gether. Two publications from Joanna are always interesting; one a weekly, Joanna News—is full of news, telling of the happenings to one and all. giving emphasis to all the churches and to all the other community organizations. The Joanna Way, the handsomely pre sented magazine, continues the news of the community and car ries. sometimes, a message .from Mr. Walter Regnery of interest to the big family of Joannians. South Carolina industrialists, as as a rule, bye in happy relation ships. but I know of no great com pany which finds the manager and all his associates so complete ly one big* happy family » 1 know the Joanna community and 1 know the fine gentleman who so graciously presides over it that he seems to carry out the ad monition of The Master: “He tha* is greatest among you. let him be as the younger; and he—that :s. chief as he that doth serve.” Surely Mr. Regnery works all the time for the community... In. his splendid service he has the wholehearted cooperation of ev erybody. One of the chief lieu tenants is an old friend of mins from Edgefield. James B Hart, a veteran in the fine service at Jo anna —• :—<— m A remarkable thing about Mr Walter Regnery is his close and constant study of every phase and detail of the operations of the mammoth plant; he is a genius at details but always .has a tong view as well. AJL-.? If anyone wants to see a Vast j indutsnal plant at top efficiency he might spend a week looking over Joanna Briefly I might add that I al ways learn something from The Joanna Way. Here is a paragraph the* first definite information |on the subect I ever read: "We must concentrate on pro ducing the best possible cloth at reasonable cost. Therefore, we need to give our attention to the single process of the mill opera tion. Second, our loss on the vil lage operations averaged $183,- 441.76 a year over the five-y^ar period, 1950-1954 This, of course, must be absorlped by the cloth making corporation, as things now stand, cutting down on prof its for wage dividends and im- j provement of the mill.” "Wage dividends”—that is the | bonus paid every year but one since the Regnerys have operated Joanna—18 years.!!! * * * Have you thought of the Bible merely as a book, sometimes sell ing for very little* Here is some thing of interest: "The Bible is heading for new sales records in 1956. Spurred by the upsurge of religious interest in the U. S.—and aided by some dignified merchandising—sales of the. sacred book a# expected to i top the record six million copies which publishers estimate Ameri cans bought last--year Bible-making is undergoing some v^st and varied changes. Re vised versions, based on modern archeological discoveries, are coming. Thomas Nelson & Sons, for ex- irmple, published a two-tone book jacket on some of its editions. Harper & Brothers.^ with 150 as sorted Bibles in its catalog, offers a red-covered one for Mother’s Day. The World Publishing Co. sells a pearl-beaded Bible for $6.00. Oxford University Press offers a w'hite moroccoette Bible with washable plastic handles. Bible prices range from 25 cents for a paper bound edition up. Many copies, of course, are freely given by churches and other or ganizations. The venerable Amer- Be Sure to Ask Us about Our Home Loan Plan lean Bible Society has distributed about 50 million Bibles at cost or less since its founding in 1816; in 1954 alone, it gave out over 550,-, 000. The Society also sells the Bible on long-playing records. Increased cost of leather, gold edges, paper and labor are push* ing prices of some Bibles upward. The Jewish Publication Society has spruced up its $2.50 edition and now sells it for $5.00. Come July 1, Harpers will charge $10.95 for an English Bible , that now , sells for $9.95. The American | Bible Society has already raised its list prices. The nation’s Bible sales spurted upward at the outbreak of World War II and have been rising steadily since, publishers say. The upturn followed a decline during the 1930's from the highs of 1927- 129. I 'Sales for 1955 were 33 per cent | over 1954,' reports Ben D. Zevin, I r president of World Ptfblishing | Co., one of the largest Bible mak ers. He estimates his company’s sales this year will be 10 per cent) to 15 per cent ahead of Last year ! In comparison with other best-1 selling books, the Bible is far and i away the undisputed leader in satbs. In 1955, for example, 430,- ] 000 copies of Anne Morrow Lind - j berg's ‘Gift from the Sea' were, sold through bool^ stores and the j book was rated the best seller for j the .year by Publishers’ Weekly, j j book trade journal. The Bible’s j 1955 saleS-:'Near six million. As with every version since] Saint Jerome put the Bible into Latin in 405 A.D., various new editions are arousing curiosity and stirring some ecclesiastical disagreement -j^both of which ] seem to be sparking Bible sales. The Catholic 1 Episcopal • Com- j mittee of Confraternity of Chris tian Doctrine completed a trans lation of the New Testament in 1941 and has compiled two or three volumes planned for the Old Testament. The Protestant Re vised Standard Version was com pleted in 1952 by the National Council of Churches. And the Jewish Publication Society of America hopes to finish a revision of the Old Testament by 1960. The new Protestant version was released in September, 1952, with one of ’the biggest promotions ever given a single book. | "We’f-e using every technique of modern advertsiing — providing j it’s dignified—to put the new ver- , sion across,” says William R. Mc- Culley, president of Thomas Nel- ' son. "By the end of this year, we’ll have spent $1.8 million to push the R.S.V.” The results: Nelson sold 774,469 R. S. V.’s in the first three months of the cam paign and .yearly four million to date. S&le^ this year are expect ed to be about 850,000. up 20 per cent over a year ago. Interestingly enough, sales of older versions of the Bible, have gone up despite the competition fromJhe R. S. V. newcomer. "We had record sales in 1953, 1954 and 1955,* reports Wilbur- Rugginea, You know the saying, "It costs nothing to ask.” It may save you a lot of money—when you find how our home loan plan can help you finance* a home, economically, on monthly payments to fit your incomie. Your questions and your loan application are welcome here. AND LOAN ASSOCIATION A Clinton Institution Serving Clinton People Since 1909 ' , Telephone No. • • . r t Support Your Local Chamber of Commerce USE Enjoy the comfort of smooth, cushiony riding with Marftik lubrication. Marjak protects chassis, fights w ear and friction, assures feather-soft driving for 1.0(X) miles or more. And Marjak is tough — it won’t jirmtt, sc|tteeze out or wash out. Drive in today f r longer lading Marjak chassis, lubrication! STOP IN AND SEE YOUR TEXACO DEALER SOON H. D. Payne & Co Your Texaco Distributor Laurens County manager and editor of the Ameri can religious department of Ox ford University Press, whidh sells the King James and other ver sions. The American Bible Society, founded to "encourage a wider circultaion of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment,” also is vigorously promoting the Bible. "We’ve set up literally millions of dollars of newspaper and maga zine space and radio and televis- i ion time to encourage Bible sales," reports the Rev. Robert T Taylor, society secretary. - Publishers won’t tamper with content of the Bible but they have made changes in covers and bind ings. One of the innovations: a "heartshield” Bible designed to protect servicemen in the World War II and Korean conflicts. It | had a thin,sheet of steel plate'in l the cover.” j Whether we are informed about; the Bible, in the- light of its wide circulation we are certainly aware of the great building of churches and church educational buildings going up on all sides. "One Sunday this" spring, the 400 members of St. Peter’s Luth eran church here will sing the Doxology with special meaning. They'll be worshiping for the first J time in their roomy new $237,000 church building, a glass-walled structure on a wooded three- acre site in a growing residential area! within commuting range of New rkXiljL. i 1 The new church and its striking j modern design are typical of • many aspects of the nation’s rec ord wave of church building. In J 1955 U. S. religious groups put up $760 million for new "buildings, 25 per cent more than the preceding year arid far more than the $675 j millon that had been predicted by government economists. And there’s no indication'^hat the church construction pace will slow. Church building in 1956 is i expected to rise to $900 million. ! That’s well over 10 times the level of a decade ago, and in sharp con trast to expectations for other segments of the construction in dustry. Over-all private building probably will rise only 3 per cent this year. ran or tnis oumxtTtg which some observers say will pour $7 billion into new churches in the coming decade—reflects population growth and building that-was deferred during World War II. “But primarily if i* An other indication of the tremen dous resurgence bf religious in terest in the United States since the end of World War H.” — We Are % » IN CLINTON SEVERAL WALNUT DESKS TWO AND FOUR DRAWE R - . 1 '■ , 1 ■ - i METAL FILES A , ONE TYPING TABLE " ' ■ - £ — - ■ OFFICE CHAIRS ONE MAHOGANY WITH LEATHERETTE CUSHION. SEVERAL FOAM RUBBER CUSH IONED TYPING CHAIRS. . ' . 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