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r .-7 wr IP"!.- }mv9 M<»?Uyy THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 19S8 / . -<^ THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON, S. C. Political Cards rtODAV Annoancemeiits For this Colonm ■ Are Psysbie In Advance. r i. i * I CLERK OF COURT J hereby announce myself as a candidate for re-election as Clerk of Court for Laurens County, subject to the result of the Democratic primary. JOHN D. DAVIS. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Clerk of Court of Laurens County, pledi^ing myself to abide by the results of the Demo-, cratic primary. C. .V POWER. ''I hereby announce myself a candi date for Clerk of Court of Ijaurens County lmd" ple(t|^‘ myabide bj’ the n*suits of the Democratic pri mary. VICTOR R. FLEMING. FOR PROBATE JUDGE I hereby announce myself a candi date for 4he loffke of Probate Judge of. Laurens County and pledge to abide by the results of the Democratic primary. J. HEWLETTE WASSON. ' I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election as Judge of Pro bate and pledge myself to abide by the results of the Democratic pri-! -wary. ’ ROSS D. A'OU.NGr 4 FOR SUPERVISOR nUMK STO.CKBRIDOE A.MERIC AN ^ rt>relgn I take off my hat to the memory of Caesar Gerard. Caesar was born in Italy. He was brought to .\merica as a child. He made his own way, work ed all his life a.s a mechanic, never married, saved his money, and when he ditd at 57 in Newark, New Jersey, he left a will in which he btHiuoathed his life {savings of $15,600 to the Unit ed States of .\merica bivause. as he sakt TTT **this tTiuiTrrj^^vas go(Ki to me.” In an age when native-born .\meri- “catis are running down iheir own country and telling us that other na tions are better than ouis, (’aesar Gerard’s beiiuest is a notewoi-thy event. America was gotxl to him ex actly as it is good to any man who works hard and saves his money. That i.s not true of any other country in the world. I do not know what Uncle Sam will do with the money his adopted neph ew left him, but I suggest that it IpiugbT tb“”b€ used to erect a monu ment to true -Americanism in Wash- fixed by the public welfare act. ! maximum amount that can be dravB by a member of the Jrtarte board in one year is less than $100, and coontj board njembers are limited to |7R per year. “All applications for assistance un-> der the law are filed in the county f where the applicant lives and the county board determines eligibility and^the amount , to be granted. The I state board in that respect has ne jurisdiction except as an appellate txxly. _ “At present the department is ex tending aid to nee<iy persons as fol lows: No. of Pcrson.H j Nee<ly aged 21,078 Needy blind 775 Dependent children Geneial relief 1,U‘J3 "This assistance goes to Average Award $10.67 13.76 6^ I/cft to right, the girls are: Mary Jones, Kathleen Moore. Rhoda Bagwell. Sarah Jean Eutsler, Sarah Jacobs, Helen Duliose,-Martha Mae Monroe,. Annette Roger, l.eft'to riljht. the boys are: Edward Simp.son, Joe Milam, Jack Elliott, .Allen Jacobs, Heath Blake. Jack Milam, M’iliiam .McMillan, Harry Rogers. 11.44 the fol- I lowing pr(>|)ortions of the slate’s to tal population falling within the rv- ! spt'ctive categories: —^‘NeedyA^g^r-2U7- per-4,006 of tal population'over sixty-fi\’e. “.Netxly blind, 41 iH.‘r 100,000 of to- ital population. “l)epen<lent children, 15 per 1,000 I of total pojiulation^under sixteen. “Population figures used in these calculations are furnished by the 80- ' cial security l>oard in cooperation with the census burt*au.” / I hereby announce my.*^elf a candl-, mgion. date for re-election to the office of County Supervisor of Ijaurens County and will abide by the rules and re sult of the Democratic primary elec tion. A. RHETT MARTIN. 1 hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of County .Super- vi.sor ^of I.aurens County and will abide by the rule.s and result of the I)em(xrratic primary ok*ction. J. WARREN CR.ANE.^ 1 hereby announce myself a candi date for Supervisor of I.Aurens coun ty and ple<lge myself to abide by the results of the Democratic primary. JOE R. ADAIR. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER I hereby announce that I am a candidate for re-election to the office of County Commissioner of Laurens County with the promi.se that I will hbide by the rules and result of the Democrajic primary election, LANDER B. STODDARD. I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-c*lection to the office of County Commissioner of I,aurens County, subject to the rule.s and re sult of the Democratic primary .elec tion. ■ JOHN H. WHARTON. I hereby announce myself a candi date fot County Commissioner of Laurens County, and pledge mys<*lf to abide the results of the Demo- ciatic primary’. C. BRYAN HOLLAND. FOR GAME MAR DEN I hereby announce myself a camii- date for Game Warden of I^urens County and plwlge myself to abide by the results of the Democratic pri mary. A. B. J.ACKS. 1 hereby announce myself a candi- ckte for re-election as Game W’arden of Laurens county and pledge myself to abide by the results of the Demo cratic prmary. SYDNEY A. LEE. FOR SUI*T. OF EDUCATION I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election as Superintend ent of Education of I.auren8 County, ^ and pledge myself to abide by the results of the Democratic primary. J. LEROY BURNS. FOR TREASURER I hereby announce m3rsclf a candi date for re-election to the office of Trea.surer of I.aurens County and pledge myself to abide by the results of the Democratic primary. I). ROY SIMP.SON. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES' I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election to the House of Repiesentatives from I.auren8 C/Ounty and' pledge myself to abide by the re- sult.s of the Democratic primary. ROBERT C. M ASSON. I hireby ahnounce myself a candi- •date for re-election to the House of Repre.sentatives from I^aurens County and pledge myself to abide by the results of the Democratic primary. CHARLIE L. MILAM. FOR AUDITOR I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election as Auditor of Laurens County and pledge myself to abide by the results of the Democratic primary. S. R. DORROH. FOR CONGRESS I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election to Congress from the Fourth District of South Carolina, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. G. HEYWARD MAHON,/R. SOFTBALL TEAMS WIN AND LOSE The Prather-Simpson company soft- ball team won their first game Mon day afternoon from the City Sales company by the score of 10 to 6. The City Sales nine won the second grame from the Pepsi-Cola team Tues day. afternoon, 10 to 6. In the stand ing of the teams, Prather-Simpson is on t<^ with one victory. City Sales second with one victory and one de feat, iuid Pepsi-Cola third with one defeat and no victory. ' HE.WERS — Protection I The beaver ha.s come back into , .America’s i-conomic picture. In col onial days and later the beaver was I the principal souice of wealth for the settlers in the North. New England’s foreign trade in beaver skins was asi important a source of revenue as Vir-J ginia’.s tobacco. I— -Mercilessly hunttnl, the beavers! were almost exterminated. Farmers killed tht m because their habit of building dams acros.s streams convert-j ed meadows into pon«l.s and swamps, j But now the beavers have begun to come back, prottHrUd by strict game laws, and their dam-building ability is being utilized for flood control and the prevention of soil erosion. One colotiy of beavers in Idaho built seventeen dams la.st yt*ar, enabling ' stockmen to water their cattle through, the dry sea.s<»n from the heaver ponds, ami bringing gra.ss growth back to what ha«l l>e«n ermltsl gullies. The de partment of interior has taken the Ixavers under its protecting wing and is encouraging them to go on with their engineering. Beavers may yet reclaim a g<MNl {utit of the “dust bowl." STATE’S PUBUC WELFARE BODY HANDS $2,000,000 TO THE NEEDY Figure Represents Period From (’reation of the Department Last August Through the La.st Month. selected and certified by the depart ment of iiublic welfare. This amount'sheet7 A traffic expert urges pedestriaiM to wear white clothing after dark. Something appropriate—like a wind- is not tiiken into consideration in cal- jculating the juTcentage of adminis-* ti alive cost to benefits extended. If this amount were included, the ratio would be about 7'a per cent. “Nunu'rous otht‘r service's i>erform- e‘d by the elepartment, which cannot be figurixi in eiollai's anei cents, nat urally incre'ase administrative eexsts. Columbia, June 25. — Chairman department in administering a new Thomas B. Young, of the public wel-|type of aid, ivlief for the neeviy un-1 fare boarel, announced teday the' state t'mployed. Assistance paid in .August! “AveM-aging the ce>st ove'r the emtire department of public welfare had i>aid (totalexl $58,127.03; in May, $422,-1 periexi, including the e'arly SPFX’IAL OFFER Cosmopolitan—16 months for $2.50 See your home agent. JAMES W. CAI.DMELi. Phone 38 approximately $2,000,000 to the needy 533.77.” in the ten months since its o|HTationsi nj, statement said furtheT: began Augus.t 1. | $2,000,000 does not “The percentage of a<lministrative GmxI and clothing provider! cost to the total amount of aid ex- fedi’ral surplus c«>mmodities tendid,” Young sakl, “has stemlily ation and <listributed by the dt‘cline<l from 43.40 per cent in Aug- ment during the same peruxl of the ust to 8.85 p«*r cent in April. ; value of $6.58,220.42. “May administrative cost was y..37 “Nerthor does it inchale approxi- per cent of the amount of a-ssistanit' mutely $I,080,0(M) ftderal money sent paiil, the inor«'<Hse over April being to russly «le|M'ndents in the slate by <lue to additional work idacisl on the fsiys (‘nrolUsl in CCC camps, who are days when costs were relati.vely high-! by the corpor- depart- j est, the I'atio of cost to benefits has inclide 13.04 per cent, still not taking into the culculation-'allotment by CCC enrolle(>s to needy de|K>ndents. “There are sixty-.seven employes connwltHl with the state office, in- cliaiing fiold re|)re.sentative.s, and 322 coutOy employes. The .salary of the highest officer in the state <lepart- ment nn<! 1.‘msp of the highest offi cers in the o(»unty departments are . Gray Funeral Home Clinton, S. C, - FUNERAL DIRECTORS ... £tltci ... EMBALMERS Ambulance Service Phones 41 and 399-J U RUSSELL GRAY aad V. PARKS ADAIR. Gen. Mgm. M’ORDS — Meaning If every word meant exactly the same thing to everyhixly, a grx’at deni of misumierstanding wtuild he averteil and 'there would not Ik* nearly so jmuch quarrelling ovit |H)litlcal .state ments. Unfortunately, many words mean one thing to one man and an other to <»thers. The m<*st widely-misurulersttxxl word in {xditical language to<iay is “liberal.” There is no way of telling, when a man calls himself a liberal, whether he means that he is a left- ^ wing lailical or that he is a hrond. mimled, tolerant, defender «»f the rights of minorities, which is the old -fashioned, standard (iefinition of po litical liberalism. It has b«>cume the fashion to call |K*ople “lories” who jhave no sympathy with lory doc- ^ trines, and to biand as “re«ls” all who advocate any kind of mk-iuI reforms. There ought to be some sort of a national court for the definition of words, and penalties for their misuse. For, after all, words are weapons which can put dangerous ideas intO; people’s beads. SUBSCRIBE Ttl THE CflRONICLB ’Tba Papar Bvarybady RmitiT JOBS — M’orking Tools It coats one of the big oil companies about $12,000 to provide the tools for Aach employee to work with, accord- iug to the annual report of the So- cony-V'acuum company. Of course, by “aools” is meant the entire physical iplant. A pipe-line, a tank ship or a fmtng station is ju.st as much a nec- leswary tool, without which there would he no work to do, as la a monkey-wrench or a hammer. ' I have never been able to figure out the .Socialist theory that, some- I how, the world’s work can be done I without capital. It can’t lie done with out tools, and the tools required for modern industry can only be provided by assembling the savings Of a large Inumber of people into pools of capital ■ large enough to buy the tools of pro- jduction. 1 The same company also reports ithat its last year’s taxes amounted to! ' more than $2,000 for every job, I>ower i taxes mean more pay for every I worker. RELIEF — Overpay j One phase of the whole work-relief j program which I have never beenj able to understand is why government should pay W. P. A. workers higher wages than private employers of the same class of labor can afford to pay. That is particularly true in the “white collar" projects of W- P. A. More than 11,000 persons in New York have been drawing $103.40 a month each, for work Which would command not over $75 a month if done for a pri vate business. I don’t know, of course, how far the W. P. A. wage scale is out of line with that of private business all over the country, but I know that'in my hotne town, it » increasingly difficult to get man^lal labor done at jshat has ■ always been considered good wages, because W. P. A pays so much more. FOR CANDIDATES If you are an announced or prospective can didate, we will be pleased to supply your Print ing needs. If you desire cards or other advertising mate rial, let us supply you. Our service is prompt and prices reasonable. USE OUR ANNOUNCEMENT COLUMN Place your official announcement in THE CHRONICLE’S candidate column, where it will be read by thousands of voters. 1-' WE DO ALL KINDS OF PRINTING EXCEPT BAD. CHRONICLE PUBUSHING COMPANY Clinton^ S. C. Phone 74 1