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1.. ' .r~ r " .f - -f ■ / ■ PAGE FOUR THE (XINtON CHRONICLE. CUNTON. S. C THURSDAY, JULY. 1. 1937 N. (Oiintan EsUbllihcd *1»00 ■ Tgiitf' WILSON W. HARRIS. Editor and Publishar Publiihed Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CGJIPANY Subicription Rate (Payable tn Ad^^ance): One Year $1.50; Six Months 75 cents;?Three Months 50 cents Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation nf its subscribers and readers—the^ publishei^ wifi at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly ad vice. 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. • _ ^their efforts meet defeat. When an I attempt is made to reduce the.se huge j expenditures, particularly for relief, mayors and politicians of the great Uitiiea,JMJMtIivmg,^ia4afge measure off jthe government, rush to Washington j and loudly proclaim that there mustj be no cut or'retrenchment/ Ahd so A NEW, SURE WAY TO DEMOTH But There Are New Taxes Assurances that there will be no new taxes come from Washington, the record stains —'more spending,[Are they exactly true? Is it not the ■ more wasting, more piling up of debt! hundreds of milKons of dol- I—all of which means-that rising in-li*« new Uxes have been imposed •flation is here wjth’.an inevitable up-'*^ name of social security? I ward spiral of living'costs for.every-j taxes are requisite, say of- !thing we eat, we&f and use. The.se,of the treasury department, for spending facts clearly show that the the reason that the payroll taxes un- 'talk from Wa.shington of a balanced the social security act will permit The makers of the^Cunous Expello present a mechankal di^ vice to assure you complete protection from moth damage... the Szpelipmeter. It is loaded with Expello, which vi^torucs and seepi into every seam an^ crevice, killiog the moth uorm t!ut does the damage. A ^ge on tl» side tells at a glance v/h^ it is time to re£U. Gjst of reSll 75& Other Esqidlo padc- ages, for every household use, firom 25c to |L budget is all ballyhoo. y.. .1 — Nobody’s Business By Gm McCree .CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY. JULY 1. 1987 TIMEiS HAVE ( HANGED . The problem used to- be, and still is with some, to g«*t their own consent to wock, but with most it has now come to i»e a matter of getting the consent of a lal»or union, a type of organization that has shown the least It Striked Me Everything la Hunky-Doree , ' the c. i.. 0. fellers have come to town, they “are trying to oggernize bur 2 flat rock industries and mought start on dr. hubbert stitution. It will make the Supreme' court sub.servient to the presidency, i •With the Potomac parley over, mat.i’t-rt huBPert (treei.-. ter, of allocatioh of relief fut^s,' tax-,*^" "’'J' can e.ver ketch both ationr.lernand, for Pchoumje,,.multi,,"f ‘''cm on duty at the same time plied labor di.sturbances and other vilaT i.ssue.ri are .'<till un.dottled. aSincC j the treasury to borrow (mark that jWord!) approkimately $700,000,000 from the old age and unemployment re.serve accounts, instead of from in- ! vestors in general, j. This i.s the ^w of the Guaranty I Trust company, of New York: “Under the act as it now stands, a similar loan will be made each year, increasing steadily in magnitude.until 1950. Within thirty yeari the aggre gate amount of these loans will be suffitdent to)absorb the entire present drug sum of the direct and contingent pub lic debt, and by 1980 the debt will have to be increa.seb about $8,000,- 000,000 whether the government needs the money or not, if the provisions of KELLERS DRl G STORE Phone No. 1 .City Electric and Plumbing Co. E. M. Timinenman, Prop. » • WIRING — PLUMBING — HEATING . CONTRACTORS •/ Prompt Service All Estimated Free * V Phone 36 — Clinton, S. C. V’ the c. j. 0. wants all'of our workers' to be able to collect and bargain with {the law are to i>e carried out. It i.s - .11 i_ *. ■ * / tt* » Ia ttiiif Lu aim uaiKaiii vvii.ii.x(ic law ate \aj ifv cai i icu uuv. at in cooperation wjth the New Deal ^ mat men o e - a|cn< r , Wafipitol. it means that the leaders jirotjable that coTiiparatively citi- ministration and at'.the same time has bor troubles .have multiiilied and an- , i. .u,. ... . ;_i. been most favonnl byiit. ' l' serious thau ever before. , , month and the .strikers will SHKK.MAN WAS HJC.MT In the days of obi when kings \v^ to war with I'ach olheivjJUJ'-rgcTTT^l run of tin- population (Tf the nations at wai' were hardly affected. .A few llinusaiid professional soldiers ami iul\entun*-s,‘eking volunteers did the iiik but Only <‘nch other. i • Todav war involves entire collect flue.s of about 1$ jier zens realize the pos.sibilities inherent have a, in this jirospect.” right to bargain with‘their bosses to ! However praLseworthy the' motive I get their jobs hack. all of our employes seems to he for this .Abci^ security act, it should she “recognized for what it i.s •—a gi-| gantic experiment, or set of experi- today more .ludging by the government’s action, or rather lack of action, i,t is now ■generally charged with being in sym pathy with radical labor leaders. The su.calle.d Democratic party is badly. vvith thi'ir jobs and sattis-^ . -.u . i 11 .. , r , . If ■„ . 1 |saiii.MKu wiwi iiu .1 j,aiiu aiii.-i meiits. With .spi«tt palpable weakness.- .'spilt inui find.'^'itsi*l-t in hti t*mn«irfHS-» ri|,xj \A'ith the* ikiv' thi*v’ Hrt* rc'cciv'itiir' i *■ j 'au J. . , \UH} wiin uu pa> inx y art- fin.viiiK corm’tion and With nu- sing position. It ha.-, received enor-i,j^,,| sattisfied with their-hours anso-l other Yiious cash contributions -feom- lA'wis tht- im-1-.v folk’s that-aw’t-sattis-j ' fighting^ and they did not niuke war and his riO. Not stopping there, in; the c. i. o. folks, they ai'i’tthinly the iviliaiis hut jinly fiiinfht against j the polit'ical*(;ampaign last fall it bor- ^;jt(|j^fjj.,j pj.j-ijvj.se the workers a^e not flawed fifty thousand dollars f'"'." |,i;iyiiiyr them, annythinjf at pressent. him. .Ami no public rebuke <»r con-; . ———♦—;— demiiing of Ia*wis with his sit-down it mought be best for the employes| strike practices aiul unlawful confis- iju>t to M-nd the c. i. o. head .<iuarters'. , ■ ... , , •, c.^iirigof projiertv, has vet come from about l()<KI$,per inont.h ami not jine you-go basis, with a definite rtHjuire- ■ Ithe union at all.'just.rite or foam ^^at taxe.s colUH.'te<l in ailvance nobody I johri lewis as followers: “|)lease take.^^ benefit payments.^^be us«;d to Hf- wiir stay out of the'^be public debt and not to fi- uiance extravaganL . schemes of. e'x- pemliture.’’ t I'mler whatever name this social upon C, nations. fi‘atuie.~that must be experience to i)e proved old age re- ■serve account should he aholi.shed or I drastically reduced. Both the old age efresiling SO be refreshed at home Nm one’s life is safe in a country wliich IS engaged id a imidern wifr. { That IS why all the world shudders j with IVai when tlu* possildlilyL of an-i lus. Die-' d iinemplpymerit benefit plans- 'should be adjusted towanj a ‘pay-as- ber great’ war becomes Seiioi tin* administration. What will hapjien tiexl. ta:ois of nations whose people have .-u 11 udered their lilHUties and thi-ir vo.ce in the affaiivS of'tlieir country fia'e (leiiionstrated that • they ate withiHUr :»pV'.‘'.V >'hep they to war. If proof of'' ,that were needed, it is supplied in the hoiiiltardment by (Ji-r- ttian slitys of a .Spanish town in re- know.s. Vuui guess is ju.st as ginid as nolis Dial we will stay <nit that of anyone else. This (luestion still c. i.,o. in Hat rock, hut we will have looms, however: Dttes the Bn-sident our ndton mill pressiderit reduct intend to maintain his , partisanshij) i per month from our pressent salU‘.. . IpvumL ldie 1. tK labor movement’.M and send it H you. that will fix you'act will collect new taxes by it siV.show long'and why’.' • j ii|» and keep us fixed up from a strike; {bt* great wholesale a,mi the tieasuiy Im Washington will use the cash. The piling of these taxes will he a stand- \ cure jilane- for an attack by .S|)aiii.sli asr- upon a t’oTinan warship. There ii-ed to ne soinetbing heroic 11 going to wai for one’s coiu^try. bu: not' now. TJiere is certainly notb- h.g heroic in murdering inoffensive i .'iliair-. women anil ehildreii. It sa \ ' more of shameful cowardii'e. I.ft us hope that if America is ever iiivohed ag’aiii in a foreign war — \\ tm ii (lod fortiid our soldiers w’l iifvV'i tie called upon to do sui'ti <lii walk as tlu SI’ENDINH l’A(TS .\ccui dingl to the latest .statement of the ■ treaspry. the ' nation’s gross public debt has passei OPP.IIPI) mark\ Df eouise you take-in this eoliimn of zeros. .At the mid .of hist .Iiine the public deld fig- ure stooii at .'j'.'I.’l,.”) l.'i.lMMt.lHK). .At «'iid of .lime ill'Ib.'ld it stood at 1 {'.t.OPd.tMM). In August, IIH'.', the high- !e>t nionth-mid figure to which World I war expenditures had carried the ^,icountr\’ was .$LNi,.'i9(’i,(Ki().(KI(l. |*ut an- at the same tune, yores at wurk, u. s. workms.’’ ihg invitation to politieian.s t,o launch Imlsiim moore .says he do uol think; extravagant schi-mes. It may Ik- that .. J, .aiinv of , the head kmx'kers, such as tin* social security taxes will finance the S.Pi.lha),-»■ , , . , , , 1 ■ - » 1 I ' hro, iiiartiii and hid. inoviteh and mrs. ,the eompletion of the moonbeam can 11 J I 1 sankovitch and sol ko'kiizzox, are in-' scheme-on I’assamaiiuody bay, Maine,! teriestiMl at- hart almiit the iiresscnt; and of--hip canal in Florida, albeit, (If future wellfaie of our lahorinj^ the former i.s more likely to win t folks^^ it is only what they get out of 1 VVashingtoji’s favor, unless the vSouth 'it that kt^i'pAJthein trailing the odorV'sluill cease to he .solidly Democratic. ; ^so to speak, he thinks that only .about .Ammicuns who believe that every-, ! .'id pm i-mil of the kihor leaders he-lthing about flu* social security act is j long to the comjminists of russia, and Dilessed should investigate the politi- <!eniiaiis itid at .AImeria. 1 wa.\,-smie , , ■ ctea-ed .'S'Jd.lidd.tHHl.dOd, uf which fn- I'.kld the debt lias in- not 7.^ |K*r iTiit as has benn said. jcrepse $1 l.L'dd.Udd.ddd has occurred in - anvwav fRt rock is enjoying ber; compulsory in prosperity :at this ritii)g. '‘verboddy ; _ _ I turn plenty to eat and^ wmar and drink j those-of tiu' private insur-i ^ ^ * ^ ~ " oper-'and smoke and dip aiul ri.le and pay!',,^.^. companies. Payroll taxes I estlos>iies-, prevalent <-verywhen‘ at ions'have extended to siuh an ex-|tbe preeeher and army change the ^ iiiwbicb we are li^ Imit in the past Idiir-years that today | i-. i. o.. could possibly inaki the roads crowded witlHoim out of every eighty men. women! for t|ie worser. art squari' j«ays b't’s' ^.||] rmiuirml at this time, but 'autoiiiobiles, the iK'cupyi il,^ eagm* toand tdiiblimi iii’tbe I iiiteri .states isi|m^ wellfuiougbalotie. he-iisi'dtiiwoik’^, ^ ram from y x pla i n mg that ■ gid into some differenV place from ion the regular federal payroll. In'years ami years ago, ihul he saivl pj.j.,, iihi)osed.-:rNews' oim uiwbieh Ibi-y wtie before, I Washuigtoii alone lbei»^ are 1 1 T.ootl newer made hotbmg'liy ‘piffl big ' «\Iicr'fbey get ,tlun . timy are-iio jLiet , fi-ileral employfes, moiT cal phases of the establishment in- .c^iulmg the costs pf its collection and OIK BK.STLKSS AGE One iiumot but help be impressed; 1”*^* tbiee Jeais. and oftmi distressed, with the .spirit) 'I'lm federal governments , I III 1a-t iiig. \ (111 ee companies, ray roll lax»‘s arej pouring into the treasury and leaders would Ix'ii,, jf()\eminent say that'no new taxe.s wmh to keep on dtlier time m llu than at aiiy- histor\ of the coun work. Ins wife still works and he not \sanl her to strike. do try. The .peak of tife wurld war inclmi-, tel Iltisfmd, but mm w here el-e.. '^'h-is .^--pirit has become more* ap- 'ei parent beC.au-.e the antoinobile lias lulls tbery are h’J l.’J.'i'.' ihmsous. I’lie'-e; , the cliaiice for lUnck mo- figures do not include the army and'*^‘b hojie uii a tew days ago wlu*n it (I. On the federal dcpai tmmital pay J I Taxys anil Taxe.s everboddy ill flat na'k wa.V power- g;\i ii people ttiecliaiu’e for ipnck mo- figures do not include the army timi Irom place to place at a moder-' navy, legislative ami jmlimal liraiich- becoine eiivulated that the gower at. expense. Vet this i< not wholly ales, the lUMI.IhH) in (’('(’ i'amps. Add all j"''’'''. 'vav_ g.iiiig to reduce the socia m w d(’\ 1‘lopiumit. Belore, the days of|tbe.>e together and the federal pmi- .luLomobiles thme was the same de-lsioiiers, and we have tlu* astonishing t.o some extent for going places, j total of -1,900,(100 people regularly Hv-j he luH se and buggy ha-' lieeoim'') mg on federal funds derived from the .s 1 n bu’ ,'i taine and discarded amusement luiw out of date. 'riiere is u natura-1 longing ta .see iiew and different scenes, ami ax’erage human nature is sweetened and brightened by changes. People get somewhat larger -notions, and their minds are not linvited entiriMy by the narrow ericle of their own neighbor hood. So it’s, a good .thing to get off on a trip or vacation occasionally as a helpful diversion. But the folks -who take all their spare time for fly<ing around all over the country, are not gaining much mental development: Many, to the contrary, are getting in trouble, vio lating laws and pro|)er standards of living, and oftentimes bringing/ conf taxpayers. There are in Washington r»U federal agency legal divisions, 24 agencies concerned with gox'ernnumt hond.s-, 24 concerned with the acqui sition of'land, 16 dealiiig/with wild life conservation, 9 with credit and fi nance, 12 with home and community planning, and 3 insuring deposits and loans. In addition to the Washington departments, w’e have set up in eftch of the 48 states miniature federal governments which receive their, or ders from the national administration. For the past four years the federal government has spent $14,000 every nyntqtf nf avory day, moliidihg Sun seemity age to .'lO years, nearly alt of out poppeilalion would enjoy the gov- if this was done, as verry few of mu citizons are under that age at pressent. ( AKD OF THANKS j We wish to thH.Mk our friends for thy kindness and sympathy shown us- during our recent liereavenlent, and for the lieautifiil floral offoriligs. May i.id’s blessing rest on each of you. .Mrs. P. S. .Feanes and Family. babbit befoar the depre.ssion struck the all-nite filling station i.s cuss ing the payroll tax for helping folks who quit work to get another joli. he say-s if flu* mohhey is gbmg to be spent foolishly, the feller ought to bt* paid to keep the job he alreddy has. whoever thought iqj that law is leaps and hounds ahead of a brain-truster, so he says. yore^trulie, mijve Ixark, rfd,« corry spondent. SUBSCRIBE TO THE C<IRONICLB “The Paper Everybody Raada** hon, holsum moore says the publfck has quit smoking tol>acco in their cig- aretts. what they are railly smoking is taxes -w^iich is flavored with tobac- VO. the Tederal tax on a 15c pack of days. It ha.s added, and still is adding these coffin faHf TF and the state to the national debt at the rate of $7,000 a minute. It is spending $2 for cern and .sorrow to their parents. i‘‘Very >$l oL income, boy or girl who'wants to stay in the Ihiring this period recovery and re- middle of the road all the time, and' lief expenditures'have amounted to whose parents allow that desirx* to go unchecked, would be far better off at home sitting^under the evening lamp, reading t.he story of wo*rld progress and perplexing problems they soon must face, and acquiring happineas by associating with the faniily. Mo tion i.s'stimulating, an<l desirable up to a certain extent. But if one must $12,7S()jOOO,000. Here is an astound ing fact—’While it is. estimated thgt there are 12,000,000 less unemployed than in 1922, we are spending more tax is .3c and the freight and wrop- ping paper is 3c, so you see—only every 12th puff is tobacco., hon. are-square says the same thing about gassoleen. the gass don’t post nothing a-tall, according to his fig- gers. the state govverment gets 6c per gal, the fedderal govverment gets !ic on relief now than we did then. Injif railroad (Ing your pardon, 1933 the federal relief bill’was $1,276,- he meant the trucks, as they have 795,62*2, in 1936-,'n we spent more took this haulage away, from the rail roads, that is—mought nigh) get 3c, than, two billion and for 1937-38 the president has asked'for, and has beenij ®*^'^ ^he wholesailer and the retailer have ri.t tncessanVly, it suggeiits that {given by congress, $1,5()0,0()0,4)00 fori^ct about the same as hte tax-eBters, something is wrong,-'that the empha-jthis purpose. And so the story-might ^hat leaves the pil well.s about & sis is not being put at the proper'go on. citing figures showing^ the un-.P^I* hut tax or no tax, folks ain’t place. D. E. Tribble Co. FUNERAL DIRECTORS EMBALMERS Llecased Babal»era, Coaploto Modem Bqvi^amt Day PhoM 94 Night PhMM 24. 258'or 2SS Clinton. 8.C 6 PER CENT DIRECT LOANS — Buy - Build — Remodel — Refinance _ . WHY. NOT USE YOUR RENT MONEY AND PAY FOR A HOME ALL YOUR OWN? Your neighbors and friends are'doing it. So can you. Now, as never Wfore, you can secure funds here under our monthly Direct Reduction Plan, mi a long-term, easy repayable, basis, thus reducing your next month’s in terest. There’s no red tape, no delay, no worry. Come in to day and ask for details. * Invest your money in a Clinton institntion, owned and directed by Clinton people. Start now and save monthly. Each account faimirHl up to tKOOO-Oft: ^ Citizens Federal Savings & Loan Association New Downstairs Location, National Bank Bldg. Phone No. 6 * . 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