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ev ^ 1 V tf, V •» ''NaT Poge Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursdoy, Jonuory 8, 1948 all|r (Uliuton QUjrfltttrlr Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant POblished" Every Thursday By - THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY „ Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $2.00 — Six Months $1.25 Entered as Seoo«4 Class Mail Matter at the Po.st Office atCUnton, S. C , under Act of Congress Marches, 1879. * ' ' The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers— the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when the-; are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will no. be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions ®* its correspondents. . . MEMBERS. SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION ✓ Exclus-ve National Advertising Representative GREATER WEEKLIES Chicago Detroit Philadelphia New York Pepsi Cola Announces Treasure Top Contest; $203, Prizes mailed to P. O. |Wx 12, New York 8, 'New Yorlt..-'" 1 "' ' _j 4 “In pur opinion, it is the biggest, ' rmist exciting, and iumisiag,^ contest ) ever brought forth in this counTry,” concluded Mr. Hartness*. The detailed rules appear in a big ! Probably the most spectacular competition ever to be offered to ^h e j special announcement in today’s pa- public began Sunday, ‘JaiTUary . 4tn. j per. with the opeitihg" of the Pepsi-Cola , “Treasure Top” contest offering SIMS BUYS HOME $203,725 in cash prizes, it was an- William B. Sims has purchased the nounced yesterday by T. S. Hartness, i resiijence on South Brffad street own- manager of the Pdpsi-Cola Bottling ed until recently by H. W. Simmons, company of Greenville. ’ 1 and occupied by Mr'. Sims. The sale “In my opinion,” said Mr. Hart- was made from Kilgore and Hunter, ness, “America has never seen any-1 thing like'this before. There are overt Laurens realtors. FINAL SETTLEMENT 15,000 cash prizes for the^public pius ■ Take'notice that on the 3rd Say of over 900 cash prizes for the dealers February, 1948, I will render a final who help their customers to win. I account of my acts and doings as Ad- . “Every entry wins at least a ‘treas- j ministratrix of the estate of Berle ure certificate’ for 100 points in the | Conway Hooper in the office of the •family sweepstakes,’ and the family ; Jud^g of Probate of Laurens" County who wins the sweepstakes gets as at 10 o’clock a.m., and on the same first prize $25,000 in cash. I day will aipply for a final discharge "In addition to that, there are 51 from my trust as Administratrix. J Home Cooking * DAYTON HOTEL COFFEE SHOP Regular Meals Breakfast r 6 to 8:30 Dinner 11:30 to 2 Supper (week days) 5 to 7:3(P ’ Sunday 5* to 9 Mrs. J. VV. Blake, owner, welcomes everyone to'visit the dining room, now open under her management. separate cash prizes awarded each Any pe ^ Qn injdebted to said estate CT.INTON. S. C.. TIH RSDAY. JANUARY 8. 1948 T Now H -’o J i o Lick Inflation i"ices I'outinue as the main ng many people whci ■are ; .to Wat*) ngton foi ivluf. •V: it ao-we see there, both the Re- pjciicaiv and Democratic parties :• .-V.m: iHihta's w.th chief interest .entertu on fr.us year's..big elections. Members n. r congress fiddle for votes mth anti-inflation - farces which get .vwhere The pn*)letn will not be aolved by government or a return Ip price controls. Uhis will only make TTHtters worse. Let the OPA stay lead lot ever. month it) every state of the Union.: : s no tjf ied and required to make pay. |A11 you Heed to enter the contest is rTien ( on or before that date; and all one Peipsi-Cola bottle top^with a de % p erSJns having claims against said sign hidden under the cork. ^, 1 estate wall present them on or before “In addition to the^ contest, Mr. sa j d da t e> duly proven, or be forever Hartness pointed out. “it’s going to b arred be a lot of fun for every man, woman ■ MABELL HOOPER ... and child to co ' llect and trade these, ’ Administratrix. mern wnh.UK majority or with the■ -Cola tmawigtom ami try end. Janu> ;,J. 1948.-29.4ew. . »r r 4 Set completed sets of Ttre diffcreiit^-rr"^. government an pow’er. He is free to ^ • i r tree' —■ - - : — “In the monthly contests one treas ure top is enclosed with a 25-word statement on “Pepsi-Cola '-hits the sipot because In addition, the | entrant states the number of differ-! ment 'with “freedom” and “liberty” as his rallying call to milfions—Even * so; the real free man can be de scribed. He is f^ee to express his opinion, whether or not it is.in agree- prinf what he thinks in a newspaper or elsewhere, subject to the old- established haw’s of libel and public decency. He is free to work or not to work, and to change jobs of his own vobUon without dictation from employer, labor leader or politician. He is free to run (for public office on ent treasure tops they have so far coHectedTTJie number -of tops so col-1 leced makes no difference in the awarding of the prizes which are ' Big business could lick inflation. . j__ i,, <»w<iiuiii« ui uic *. culd union labor. Combined the, ^idme h hi, dmire. He r, on th<- amp .1 quickly. If ^abor un.on, ^ c ]n bus , n „ J ^ a he atatemeut. Even, entrant gets at -rwwsid of threatening new wage de- ^ ,7*^ - ^ ... least. *»-treasure certificate for -100 unands. would moke tne fiat state- ^ . points for thebig family sweepstakes, mem mat these demands were -out” 1«.,» tmK "At the end ot six months, when for the candidate of his choice. He is free to engage in business under a cunrpertitave system which penalizes and favors none. He is free to deter- . j . ... . I mine his own destiny, and he is not an4 Ural production would be speed- ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ other <xl up, provided industry will check the tit in their prices and, wher-1 •f.vr compatible with good econom- „ will-begin to lower pr,ces-tha d eirt omrl*™ - „ , „ . , .uflatmn back w-uuld b« broken and frwd<m , s lost ^ ^ are en .,^us 40 lamdy pnzes w,U be award- indust,w would,, t need to raise pr,c.| d c(1 dictatorahip has fc^Ud-UK. "rst <»■"* « 5 - 000 in « any tnure-and wouldn t dare do A . ca* - ^ ;s idmigdle,! here, another there, the ‘ -The en„re contest w.U be judged These are not separate, unrelated entities. Every last one of them is the family sweepstakes close, the 100 families in the United States having the greatest number of points will -be the finalists in the family sweep- ■ stakes contest. Among these 100 fam- And if that powerful triumvirate- state seizes business, then takes over! by the Reuben H. Donnelley corpor- the tabor unions, new interpretations ation.'the nationally knowm judging busmens, capital and industry man- .agwuenl-made the dat statementi— mal a-.ey were BI,me lo begin to cut and aBsen , b , y _ t „ it i _-“*ll treasure top entries should be pms. e,en i. icy 11 “ A ’ e ’ step after step, until the job of des- — trends they would,, t have to ask ^ t ^ plelbd ^ abcf to forego wage raises. Until!. hap^tms,-prices' Ffivtators traoe on lear, fear of, wanf, fair of. hunger, fear of cold,! all the natural m^teriaj fears. They passes the buck on promise a maximum of material “se as everybody wants a cunty” to the confused people they entk’e. And this poses another ques- sells. Tjjis blindness u>n had bolter ‘ ponder — can a to the faots of life has clouded the people in return for the surrender of their Gin Days Due to the* scarcity . of Fuel Oil for operating our cotton dryer, we ask that our customers send cotton to gin only on FRIDAYS It takes several gallons of oil to heat up for* one bale, so by ginning all on one day we save fuel which is badly needed for home furnaces. • .‘fSWfc.',* C-W-S GUANO CO. Phone 62 CLEARANCE SALE! COATS and SUITS .. Vz-Price DRESSES . Vz-Price SUITS, one lot *. ........ $5.00 DRESSES, one lot ., $5.00 n A INCOATS, one lot $5.00 SWEATERS REDUCED BAGS REDUCED All Sales Final Chaney’s •dxretiring like this will recna.n high regardless of Wash- icgton-cBatoer. . ' Everybody onces — just h'x price when he buys and a high v.'bvle price pr.iblem.-The working- i ineir freedoms, obtain more goods, nan wants cheap food and clothing a ^Sher standard of living, a greater -along with all-time record wages. ; niea ^ une protection fnom adv*r- The fanner wants machinery at pre-, sity - •var prices—along with a record price'" Question answers itself. Thei Vir crops. Of course,’ such a Utopia advancement in-the a. an impossibility, and those who historyn^. the world has been in the dance must finally pay the piper. 1 where there has been the Prices are high, too high, we-all £ reales ** amount of freedom for the know. Thear present level is the in-i * nd ’ vddua * United States. It is evitable result af many forces, and; no *5cident that the pay of the aver- .s a perfectly natural development a ® e American worker, measured ’ in following the greatest war in history, lerTrrs P&ncjjasing power, is ten or "egardless of what the trend may be' a dozen times that of ttse average n the future. But Jugh prices are a Russian worker. A still better com- fiir reflet-mm of present-day wages, j 15 f°und with present-day purchasing power, consumer demand, I England, the country to which' we pdbkie debt, and* high taxes which are the closest by the b 68 ^ McGEE’S DRUG STORE Filling Prescriptions Is A Profession With Us Phone No. 1 BURRISS- HARRISON CO. Phone 4,15—W. Pitts St. YOUR FRIENDLY FURNITURE AND APPLIANCE STORE T. E. JONES & SONS Clinton’s Newest Furniture Store Complete Line of Home Furnishings E. Carolina Avenue Phone 131-R CLINTON Service Station ‘At the Sign of the Orange Disc” AUTO HEATERS / Gulf and Goodyear Tires and Tubes government has refused to. lower. 3 crmi,T>on language, inheritance and Higii taxes is a big factor in high j * rad dion. Sociaiisn which, can be prices, but government as it criti- van Su a ni of dictatorship — has 'uses bus.nesti, refuse's to recognize a Sg r;n ' a tod every English economic 'Tus fact. We will not have low pric-! ^ ^ as produced less goods ex so long as we have high wages, ^ or ex P° r t. hot more goods for ex- urrprecedented consumer demand, ^ e9S c°*l. hot more coal, less enormous debt and extravagant a 6r»culitural production, not more ag- spending in peucetune. The latter ric utUiral ppodixrtaon. Worst of all, it two are the reiraon your withholding j ^ as Itie energies and ambt- ^nd other taxes renfain high. | ^' oris people. There can never 1^ be progress in a state where individ- If Wp Locp Frpprlnm ual opportunity, inLUative and enter- r we Lose rreeoom prise are dtscourage<l ^ the gov . We Lose All ernment does all the thinking. This js a day of confusion, uncer-‘ super-state is not only spirit- tainty. No one can read the future. ually barren but materially ineffi- But that does not mean it need be! c ' eik ^ - W^h we attempt to trade free- m age of cynical resignation to fail- i^ 01 * 1 ^ security, we lose ire—and of the gradual aSandon-' ® 0 ^ 1 - men of rights and privileges that ,rhe ha P e of nation is that our t'wk two thousand years of almost! w -111 by example. Just .<’i. -ntNtnikt - *. for mankind to a l World conditions. The hope «ecure. * Ihe world is that it will be able YARBOROUGH OIL CO. * Goodyear TIRES —“BATTERIES ACCESSORIES ■Open AH Night Phone 440 UNCLE JOSH Copyiijitit m;. Pu(>lish«ia Fra(«K« ■I No one can minimize the problems ^ rea ^ Ihe shackles of oppression, that now confrorrt the nations, rang- ^°P e .mankind lies in a re- ■rtg from , the terrible specter of un- aff ir»nation od the rights and dignity leashed atomic energy down to such individual. Americans need temporary difficulties as shortages of more 11,30 ever before to realize this! SNELGROVE’S GARAGE _ A.'c. SPENCER, Mgr. EXPERT AUTO REPAIRING Phone 451 West Main Street materials. The very extent and num ber of these problems have added to he confusion. TYiey have, as an old proverb goes, “made it hard to see thg forest because ot the trees.” They have obscured the fact that there is really only one basic problem, and • fhat all the resit hinge upon it in one way or another. Congress nor Wash- .ngton bureaucracy will never solve our problems. Look at the mess they ■nave made all albng the line. ^ We might as well face this fact-»- sooner or later, the people of the world, including the United States, will have to make a complete and final choice batvveen the chimera of 'security” and the reality of free dom. There is danger in using such surds as “treedum” and “liberty” these days. Dictators and tyrants have artjtempted to pervert - them out of any semblance o their true lean ing, and to a large degree they are succeeding. Hitlef, after all, estab lished his slave state and fought his disastrous war for world enslave- truth. Lindsoy H. Cromer Passes At Kingstree Lindsay H. Cromer, 58, editor and I publisher oJ The County Record at 1 Kingstree, died Monday morning at ' the hospital there 'following a criti-! cal illness. The funeral services j were held Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Cromer was a former resident i of this city during which time bej was employed in the printing busi ness. He wa& a son of Mrs. Annie J R. Stevens Cromer, and the late L. H. j Cromer, Sr., who lived in this com-' munity for a number of years. He is survived by his widow and j one daughter, his mother, .Mrs. Crom er, who made her home with him;] one sister, Mrs. S. A. Glover of Wil son, N. C., two brothers, J. P. Cromer i of Kingstree and J. V. Cromer of! Ocala, Fla. The latter about years ago owned The Clinton Gazette I which he purchased from its founder, J the late W. J. Dendy. ’ Pitts Coal Co. “Best Quality Coal” Phone 75 Pitts* Service Station “Service With A Smile” CHANDLER’S GARAGE General AUTO REPAIRING Phone 71 “Uncle Josh Entertains You We Professionally Serve You” RUBY’S Beauty Shop ,r r - Phone 453 Willie Purdee bought his girl a corsage V had to glue it on her shoulder when she showed up in one o’ them strapless evenin’ gowns . . . Snow is so prett'y to watch yer neighbor shovelin*. R. E. WYSOR, HI --- -K. Jacobs Building Phone 85 Insurance Real Estate F. H. A. Loans • :S CUNTON CAFE GOOD FOOD WELL served “On the Square” DEPENDABLE * —Lubrication —Tire Service —Washing & Polishing TEXACO PRODUCTS CAROLINA Service Station Phone 27 D. E. TRIBBLE CO. BUILDERS SUPPLIES Phone 94 WE ARE READY TO SERVE YOU! Call 458 ' * L Service Laundry and Cleaners “Service With A Hop"