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/ > Papo Four r ■h ' THE CLINTON CHRONICLE (3Il|p (Ciintnn (tt^rnnirlp Established 1M« July 4. 1889 — WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS — Jane IS, 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLg PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance) One Year $3.00, Six Months $2.00 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Poet Office at Clinton, S. C., under Act of Centres* • March 3, 1879 The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of ita aubscribers and readers—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. : The Chronicle 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 ‘ - ■ . . - j : : — Member: South Carolina Press Association, National Editorial Association National Advertising Representatives, AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York, Chicago, Detroit. Philadelphia f— T- 1 —— * 1 — CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1956 , The Immortal Story Christ/mas comes each year with the siitie glad message for one and all. We are pub lishing the original immortal Christmas story of shepherds on the hills and angels sing ing taken from the Gospels of Luke and , Matthew. Nothing approaching it in beauty has been written or will ever be written for a newspaper. The Birth Of Jesus And it came fo pass in'those days,, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augus tus. that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria). And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem: (because he was of the house and lineage of David); to be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, be ing great with child.' And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accom plished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her first-born son, and wrap ped' him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because t^ere was no room for them in the inn. The Visit Of The Shepherds And there were in the same country shep herds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them. Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tid- ings'of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall-be H sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suttdenty-there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, an<l saying, Glory to. God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. And it cable to pass, as the an gels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, I^et us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Ixird hath made known unto us. And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph,-and the babe lying in a manger. And'when they had seen it, they made known abroad the say ing which was told them concerning the child. • And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shep herds. But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them m her heart. The Visit Of The Wise Men Now when Jesus whs born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jeru salem, saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. When - Heryd the king heard these things, he was troubled and all'Jerusalem with him.. And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scril>e\s of the people, together, he demanded of them where Christ should be Ixirn. And ’hey said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judea; for thus it is written hy the prophet, And thou. Bethlehem, i^the land of Juda, are not the least among the princes of Juda; for out of thee sha-11 come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel. Then Herod,” when he had privily called the wise men, inquired of them diligently what time the star appeared. And he sent them-to Bethlehem, and said, Go and ''search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him.* bring me word again, that I may come and worship hjm also. When they had heard the king, they departed and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and,fell down, and worshipped him; and when they-had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and , frankincense, and myrrh. The Flight Into Egypt And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a (Iream,. saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word:, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. Whe nhe arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed Into Egypt: And was there until the death of Hereto: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet Out of Egypt have I called my son. Beautiful Story of the First Christmas There is no more beautiful story in all the world than that of the-first Christmas Eve. I can never find anything better than this to give to the readers of this column at Christmas- There is something incomparably sweet and pathetic about the recital of -those events on that first Christmas Eve, briefly described by St. Luke in the second chapter, when the tired and travel-worn couple enter the little town of Bethlehem after a long and tiresome journey to find shelter for the night. It was nightfall and when they came to the inn they find it over- crewided. However, Mary sent word in advance to her cousin, Elizabeth, the wif e of priest . Zacharias and the mother of ^John the Baptist, telling her they wepe coming. Elizabeth, had trav eled the ten miles from her home in Bethcar to Bethlehem; carry ing her six-months-old son, John, in order to be there and care for Dr. Spaugh her cousin, of whose condition she was fully aware. The little village is crowded with those who have come back to register for thu new tax listing. She finds the weaVy travelers at the inn and im mediately takes charge of the situation. She is no stranger in Bethlehem and has many friends and acquaintances there. Not knowing the exact time of arrival,of Joseph and Mary, she h’ad not made reservations, and now the whole town was full. But she does know where there is a clean; dry stable, where they can find refuge for the night, and where she had made ample preparations. She was sure they would be able to find better quar ters for them on the morrow-. Providence has a way of overruling the best laid plans of men. and turning their mistakes to fit into the great divine plan. The hour had struck for the advent into the world of the Prince of Peace. With the kindly help of Elizabeth, the Lord of mankind is ushered into this world amid humble surroundings, with thq companionship of the meek ox and the lowly ass, that animal on which He was to ride to His coronation on the Cross None may ever say that he had more hum ble surroundings at birth. On that first Christmas Eve, humble men, the shepherds, had seen the marvelous vision on the Bethlehem hills and Jiad heard its great message, accompanied by the music of heaven. They came immediately to the manger to give their best, their adoration. The next day Elizabeth finds a comfortable room in a home of relatives in Bethlehem, and the family is moved from the stable. Later came representatives of the world’s great and wise with their costly gifts. • - The tw-o extremes of society meet around the Christ Child In His birth, men who have never had anything before, shared together. Ba^rieriv have a w r ay of breaking down in the presence of Christ. ' Here is common ground on w-htrh all must meet, if they w-oiild find eternal peace. •.**.• • • • •*♦ ♦*»«««,• ♦ ♦ #• • • «*•••••«« »«• SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING Exoculiv* Vic* President Southern States Industrial Council SHALL WE SPEND OURSELVES INTO DESTRUCTION • . A headline in last week’s U. S. News & World Report says, "World Crisis Means Bigger Bills for U. S ” If we continue to act as we have acted since the end of the Second World War. that statement is undoubtedly true. We have had a sort of 'sa viour of the world' cbmplex, a sort of 'foreign aid phobia', dunhg the past dozen years. We pour out billions abroad without question while we haggle over millions at home. We have largely approached this self-appoint- t d mission of ours from an economic viewpoint, with the appparent belief that if we paid all the bills for all the crises that arose, the world would be saved. Now we seem to be caught in a whirl pool of, spending from which we cannot escape, or from which we do not seem to want to escape The foolish aspect of our attitude in this re- pt i t is that we act as if our supply of money will unquestionably-outlast the world’s supply of cris- es. Such an attitude is playing right into the hands of the Communist doctrine that the free nations of the world—and they are referring mainly to the United States—will in this manner inevitably -pend themselves into destruction. The Commun- ists can then- take over without firing a shot Shall we walk into their trap with -our eyes open, or shall we blind - ourselves to the facts 9 If we are going to be realistic abouLit, we must know that crises will continue to‘arise so long as the United States is willing to pay the bill. We are simple inviting destruction when we operate un der th*' theory that Use can bring an end to them u.U by spending enough -dollars. The world has never been without crisis somewhere in it. and it probably never will until Gabriel blows his horn. This is not a diesussion of self-defense! it is not a discussion of how best to preserve peace in the world It is simply an attempt to emphasize what -hould be a-very self-evident fact; namely, that our supply of dollars is not inexhaustible,-that we cannot continue our present program of foreign aid indefinitely ^without spending ourselves into destruction^ Jt iL an attempt to point out that we are ignoring thi.-^fact. that under the philosophy under vjuch wg i\wyoperate there w;ll never come a tim when we can say to ourselves, “We can now- stop fireign aid.” The record of the last twelve years bears out this statement. $61 billion of the American taxpayers’ dollars in As of next June 30th we will have poured out foreign aid. It is .now expected that our outlay for the next fiscal-year*will be greatly increased. Now would be a good time to pause and ask our- stlves, what, would have happened had we not spent any of thih mon£y a tall?- The actual fact of the case is -that the world perhaps would have been much better off than it is now! Ha^ not the net effect been to destroy the self-reliance of oth er nations? » We met a ‘crisis’ in Great Briu ' in 1946 by lending her $4 billion. Sound thinking Britishers have said that the effect of this loan was to put the Socialist Government in power in that country and delay its economic recovery by many years. Then we met a ‘crisis’ in Western Europe by establishing the Marshall Plan. This was to solve ^ 7 the problems of the free world in three years. It failed miserably—but we simply fell back on the New Deal philosophy that the reason for its fail ure was that we had not spent enough of the tax payers’ money, so we continued the plan under a different name and have continued it ever since under one name or another. We went on then to meet ‘crises’ in other parts of the world,, until we have blanketed a large part of the globe with America^ dollars in an effort to stop Communism. It became current knowl edge during those years that the best way to get money out of the United States was to threaten to / Thursday, December 20, 1956 go communist if it were not forthcoming, that the^ more communists a supposedly free nation had wihin its boders the rhore dollars it was likely to get. We even went so far as to help out-and-out communist nations like Tito’s Yugoslavia and out- and-out dictator nations like Nasser’s Egypt. What has become of our common sense? What has become of the backbone of our forefathers? Are we so frozen in our fear of communism that we cannot stop pouring out our dollars even when we know there must be a limit and even when we know down in our hiarts that the demand will never cease until that limit has been reached? r^yieditatinn ClwUppcr Rwm C TXf UW« ROOM NASHVtlti TENNfSSH THE WORLDS MOST WIDELY USED DEVOTIONAL GUIDE They saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him. (Matthew 2:11.) We had set up our creche on the low bookcase by the picture win dow. As packages arrived, we laid them near the creche. One morning I noticed that the packages had become so numerous that they were begihning to hide the small manger scene. I called the children and said, “I wonder if we see what is hap pening. They did see and quickly began to plan and rearrange so that the tiny baby again had his proper place of prominence. Do we see what is happening to us when we allow the hectic round of activities that we have come to associate with Christmas to cro'wd Christ out of our hearts and homes 9 Dreading the shop, ping, gift wrapping and card sending, cleaning, baking, and enter taining. one mother sighed, “I’ll be glad when it’s over.” On a loved one’s birthday we honor him and find ways to ex press our love for him Let us likewise hold in highest place and count it all jof to show our love for Christ on His birthday. PRAYER O Christ, I would make room in my heart for Thee. Cast out my sin and so make my heart a habitation wherein Thou canst dwell, honored and loved. Help me to allow nothing to separate me from love and fellow ship with Thee. Amen. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY Today I will honor Him whose coming gives hope and brings joy to the heart of man. Mrs. Clyde N. Rogers (Ohio) A&p Employees To Shore In Income Employees of the Great Atlan tic & Pacific Tea Company throughout the country will share more than $2,500,000 in pre-holi day compensation this year it was announced today by Ralph W. fyurger president of the food chain. Every employee with as much as six months’ service will re ceive a part of the annual fund voted by the company’s board of didectors. Distribution was sched uled for this week. County Peppers Sell for $5,920 Pimiento pepper growers in Laurens ..county realized $5,920 from their crop of 1956, according to County Agent C. B. Cannon. They planted 189 acres and pro duced 74 tons of pepper for which they were paid $80 per tqn. Ap proximately 68 farmers partici pated in the crop. In 1953 the bounty produced 151 tons on 180 acres valued at $15,019; in 1954 they produced 102 tons on 273 acres valued at $9,180; and in 1955 they produced 331 tons on 184 acres valued at $29,971. Farmers will be given an op portunity to sign pepper contracts with the Pomona Products Com pany, Griffin, Ga, during this month. Agent Cannon said. The cmoparly would like to have 400 acres growing pepper in 1957 in Laurens county. Due notice will be given over radio and news paper as to date, hjbur and place for signing contracts. The grade of pepper for 1957 will be the same as heretofore; that is, the pepper must be sound, red in color, and measure 1 5-8 inches in diameter at the large end and delivered at a central loading center as heretofore. The price will be $90 per ton. With reduced cotton acreage in Laurens county, pepper growing may be used as additional farm income. ScTTar. there' is n6 gov- ernment control on growing pi miento pepper, Agent Cannon said. ■ i ■■ County Bond Sales In Nov. $42,893.75 Series E and H bond sales for the month of November in Lau rens county totaled $42,893.75, it is reported by D. F. Patterson, county savings bond chairman. During the year bond purchases have totaled $506,587.50 on a quo ta of $530,000, which is 95.6 per cenbnf the quota. Clinton Mentioned In Publication On Reaching Chest Goal Clinton joined five other com munities to be written up in the Christmas edition of the Cam paign Progress Report of Caro- linas United a'-- reported reaching the 100 per cent mark of their community chest drive goals. A total of 44 of the 84 com niumties in South and North Caro ; lina have now reported 100 per i cent on their quotas. Joining Asheville, Marion, Gas tonia, and Waynesville, N. C., and Aiken, S. C.. Clinton received the following publicity in the report: "Clinton, S C., with a consider able increase in goal but with in creases in giving all the way down the line. Campaign Chair man, Dr. Fred Holcombe, reports more than $18,000 raised on a $17,987 goal/for another 100 per cent campaign in Clinton.” 'F YOU DON'T READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DON'T GET THE NEWS Phone 74 MEMO & loit-mUtute Santal-— ARROW gifts ARE ALWAYS WELCOME In a last-minute rush? Then shop the one-stop way for sure-to-plcase Arrow Gifts. Choose smart dress shirts, handsome sport shirts, newly-styled ties, plain and fancy handkerchiefs, and comfort able Arrow underwear. Arrow Shim*3.95 up Ties l.SOup Foncy Shirts .‘^.95 up Handkerchiefs 35 c U p Sport Shim. 3.95 up Underwear ...1.00 up Adair's Men's Shop - “For the Man Who Cares” FOR EVIRYTHIK5 ARKOW rnc»i indvdt Federal Tea "Waterproof OI len« ai cryitol it Intact, cate unopened Only e competent jeweler iKould replace cryitol ar data ca*e. J. C. THOMAS, Jewelers CLINTON ‘It’s Time That. Counts' JOANNA SPARTANBURG MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM 2 DAYS • JAN. 7 AND 8 - 8:30 p.m. MAIL O R D E R $ PROMPTLY FILLED Bex Office Ope* 10 e.m. to 5 p.m. i l STEAM HEAT’’ and many others PRICES: (taxes included) Orchestra $4.50; $3 50- $3 00 First balcony $3.50; $3.00. Second balcony $2.00 Enclose self id- dressed stamped envelope with mail orders. Mail to Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium. P. 0. Box 1410, Phone 8107 for reser- v ions. Tickets to ‘ Pajama C*me” will make ideal Christmas presents. Buy them early. ^ , Y -X- ■0 .