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THE COMPETITOR
By Sally S. Eads
through college, I planned
own a small town news
My uncle Tom had left
for me to go into business,
mad I felt sure old Mr. Thorne
-if Hardinsburg would sell The
Clarion. But when I went to see
him, he refused to talk about sell
ing, and I learned that his grand-
;r, Lily Thorne, was the
for his refusal. Lily loved
tha newspaper business, she was
Has power behind the Clarion, and
jfae did a fair job. But not as good,
I thought, as I could do.
Well, I decided, I wouldn’t be out-
I would start a new paper
show the Thornes what a
l' paper was like.
At first, the noise from my print
ing press and other machinery was
Music to my ears. -There Was an
uB boom in the county, and peo
ple responded surprisingly well
is my call for subscribers and
•Bvertising. I was doing fine. I
a newspaper man, and I would
the Thornes who was who.
only “fly in the ointment”
the way Mr. Thorne took what
X was doing to his business. I had
Bwught he would make a fool
mi himself, cavorting around over
Mjr starting a second paper in a
gown of six thousand. But not him.
He treated me like a brother.
•*Hello, Son,” he would say when
■wm met, and Lily would smile and
aay. “Good morning, Mr. Conrad.
Jfy friends called me Burt, but I
didn't want to encourage familiar
ity with the Thornes.
Their friendliness, under the cir
cumstances, made me jittery. I was
even unhappy in church. Lily sang
In the choir, facing me as I sat
In the audience, and her white
mod pink complexion and her pan-
ey-blue eyes fascinated me. Her
smile lifted me right off this earth.
What a way to feel toward your
competitor!
One day when I was in the Post
Office. Lily and her handy man
came in. She didn’t seem to no-
that 1 was mailing out only
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Dem Purcell people are a knockout to deal
wit. See ’em when you want to finance yer
next car.
PURCELLS
“Your Private Banker#’’
1418 Main St. Newberry
FARMS
about a fourth as many papers
as she had to send out. When she
went out, one of the clerks teased
me about her.
“Beiug a newspaper man, you
could ihterest that girl,” he teased.
“Yes?” I said, and hurried out.
I made up my mind right then,
that I would leave Hardinsburg.
I was whipped and I knew it. But
how 'could I leave Lily? I knew
she was too loyal to her grand
father and The Clarion to marry
me. I planned all week how I
would get out of Hardinsburg with
out appearing to be a quitter. Then,
just as The Leader went to press.
I had a bright idea.
“Whoap!” my helper called, and
the press stopped.
“Defect in the press,” I s&id and
sat down.
In a short time. Mr. Thome hur
ried in. “May I help you. Son?”
he rsked, and went to the oress. I
coaxed him away from the press
more quickly than I expected. But
he asked me to come and help
them get out The Clarion, and said
as soon as their paper was off the
press, mine would go on.
I was never so humiliated in my
life. I worked like a trouper to
cover my embarrassment. We all
hurried, and both papers went
out on time.
“Son,” Mr. Thome said when the
last paper was gone, “why did you
gum the works this morning—de
liberately stop your press?”
I knew my face paled, but 1
made a clean breast of it. I had
been wrong in starting The Lead
er, and I wanted him to have
my business. I would go to some
other town.
“Son.” he said, “The Clarion
needs ypu, and we need your new
equipment. We need The Leader
How does “The Clarion-Leader
sound to you?”
“Oh!” I was too happy for
words.
I looked at Lily, and knew right
then, that The Clarion-Leader
would eventually become a family
affair.
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information Specialist
Mirror Is a Real Beauty Aid for You
THE HARVEST
The snow of another harvest
now comes to the fields of cot
ton.
The corn has yellowed ripe in
the field.
And the golden cured tobacco
turns to real gold on the auction
floor.
Grasses and weeds are maturing
their seeds.
And the plaintive chant of the
cicada tells of the waning season
of summer.
Ere the harvest is in, lands are
being broken now for another
Fall and winter grazing is seeded
soon now. If too dry, irrigation at
places makes it possible. And thus
our boast of year-round grazing
comes true.
With the old system of all cot
ton, there used to be an off season
and lay-by time. But not so now.
On the diversified farm there’s
something to do all the time. Nor
is this bad. For it has its re
ward.
FARM STORAGE
Farm storage!
Do you have it? Diversified
farming calls for it.
^ack in June at harvest time I
saw oats selling for 60c a bushel.
The government loan on it was
93c. But most folks didn’t have
safe storage and therefore couldn’t
use the loan. Thus they lost the
33c difference right there. And
if it goes up above the loan price,
they get that too.
County Agent Thompson of
Hampton told me they had 38,000
bushels of approved farm storage
for grain. It was mostly built in
timp for this year’s crop. Durable
metal bin storage was being built
there for 65c a bushel capacity.
Thus this needed storage would
save enough right there to pay
half the total cost. And the
government would loan up to 80%
of the cost of constructing it. So,
folks, if you intend farming right
on, you might do well to look into
this matter of adequate farm stor
age for grain, soy beans, grain
sorghum, corn, etc.
Prices for them at harvest time
are usually depressed, for nobody
wants it all then. But store them
awhile, and prices usually get
considerably better when the dis
tress stuff gets out of the way. Ask
your county agent about this mat
ter.
CRAZY IDEA
Every now and then someone
comes along with a crazy idea
One of the craziest has to do with
farm surpluses. They say we need
only to curb the plant breeder,
the experimenter, and the agricul
tural education folks, that they are
the principal cause of overproduc
tion.
Well, a good many ills do afflict
us. And some of the worst of
these are farm surpluses. But I
want to say this. We will never
cure what ails us by sorry farm
ing.
It is pure commonsense that,
with high labor and other high
fixed costs, we must raise every
pound we can on every acre we
plant. If we have too much stuff,
we are not fools enough to think
the way to reduce It is sorry farm
ing. No sir, there is another and
better way. Our tobacco growers
seem to have found it. They have
held their acreage down in line
with prospective needs for 20
years. And at the same time they
have applied every improvement
and trick of science to their acres
and practically doubled yields. And
having done that, theirs has been
a golden harvest. Once the$ did
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CURVED ANGLER . . . Sophie
Leclair, rising young French
film actress, does a bit of fishing
in her native country near
Nevers, France.
stone the prophets,
But it didn’t pay.
you recall.
LOT OF STUFF
Last spring in a great ware
house in Savannah I saw a hun
dred million pounds of nitrate of
soda. Yes, 50,000 tons of it!
And • in other warehouses there
and over the country there were
like amounts of other fertilizer
materials.
We live in a land of growing
plenty. But for chemical fertilizers
we would have likely seen scarc
ity, hunger, and nakedness rear
their ugly forms in our midst be
fore this.
With the industrial chemists
playing their magic with the ele
ments, with the experiment station
testing out and finding new things
and with the county agent then
demonstrating them in the field,
our soils are made to. yield a
better harvest. And the result is
that growing millions are fed and
clothed better and better, as time
goes on.
Man’s great quest on earth is to
find food and clothing. And in no
major country has he succeeded
in that like here. So thanks to
the scientist who* are constantly
reaching behind the dark curtain
of the unknown and bringing out
new facts. And thanks to those
who then demonstrate them in the
field, that all might see. And,
finally, thanks to the farmer who
sees and acts.
BY EDNA MILES
'J'HE advantages of a magnifying mirror as* a real aid io beauty
are many/ Though first glance into one is always somewhat
upsetting, a second glance can be both educational and rewarding,
beauty-wise. ^
This second glance may reveal to you flaws you didn’t know you
had, but flaws that others have noticed. Many women fall into the
poor beauty habit of taking themselves and the way they look for
granted. But that’s not the way observers see you; the flaws are
clearly visible to them. ’
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A magnifying mirror is, therefore, of first importance to you iir
learning the tnlth about your skin. If there are tiny blackheads,
imperfections or blemishes that you thought were well concealed
by make-up, the mirror will show them to you. And to good pur
pose. Once you’re aware of them, you can correct them. , .
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It will also provide an indisputable check on your browline, re
vealing to you stragglers you'd not noticed. It will tell you a com
plete story-about the dry and oily areas of your skin, giving you
a chance to treat each, separately. ,
As flaal check on the smoothness of her make-mi. actress Yirshiia
Mayo makes use at a magnifying mirror. It’s als6 a reliable And finally, it's the last word on the smoothness of your make-
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Sergeant Powell
Returning To States
From Japan 7 .
Sgt. John W. Powell, whose
wife, Hildagard, lives in Buffalo
Gap, Texas, is returning to the
U. S. after serving with the 8205th
Army Unit at Camp Koknara, Ja
pan.
Sergeant Powell, son of Robert
M. Powell, Newberry, was a baker
in the unit. He entered the Army
in 1936 and had been’ overseas
since March of 1952.
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