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I 4> r 4 * 0 PAGE FOUR THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, 3, C. / THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 19S8 r (Jlltntoti (EifrontrU EHabUslMd 1900 WILSON W. HARftlS. Editor and Publiaber Publisbtd Erery Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $1.50; Six Months 76 cents; Three Months 60 cents Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks, the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—-the [p publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly adr vice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the'views or opinions of its correspondents. Ndbodsr's Business By Gee McGee Flat Rock Is Asking For a City HaU New tODAV where the: CORRIGAN ~ Courage j The one-stop solo flight of young hon. harry hopkins, member of his cabbinet, Washington, d.-C. we notis by the papers big spending - lending - borrowing-giv- ing-taking campane is now in full sway, we want some of this monney Douglas Corri^n from New York to Dublin is the most spectacular feat ini flying since Lindbergh flew alone to ,, , , , , . . , Paris in 1^27. It is even more ainaz- lin front of the drug stoar last night.^han Lindy’s flight, for it was, It was moved and seconded that we old plane which by rights ^ ask the govverment to build us a nice bee„ on the scrap-heap , citty hall at once.Jience this request, j ^^ile Col. Undbergh’s' ‘ want you to put up our' , swayed down our way. at a mass meeting which was hell CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1938 we want you to put up part and yore part too. we will pay you as soon as we can get holt to .some monney. we can sponsor this AN I NFAIR SET-LP |And to make the proper distinction creddick, we suppose, an- The realization i.s gradually seeping'it is necessary that a handy waste bas-'^gr, plese. into the public con.sciousness that the ket be includi*d as a part of the news-j f' ’ »■- - tax on wages collected for "old age' paper office equipment. I mr. slim chance will sell his vacant benefits under the .social security act j • lot for the citty hall for 200$, and all' magnificent team-work of plane buUd- ohine built especially for his attempt to cross the Atlantic, and equipped, with the most modern instruments of that time. j Young Corrigan’s exploit complete-' ly overshadowed the round-the-world, flight of Howard Hughes. That was! of tomorrow will be a more beauti- fdl and colorful world than‘the one we live in nowxThe people themselves will be more beautiful, because they will be healthier. Their clothes, their homes inside and out, and their en- vinonments will be f^r more pleasing to look at. Standai^s of aesthetic taste will be universally higher. It will be a gayer world. There will be more and ^tter entertainment and amusements of all kinds, in which j an increasing number of the people | will take part. There will be'"|norej and better music, dancing, play and sports for everybody. The theatre and the movies will be better. And it will be a world better edu cated in the arts and graces of living, if not in inteiligence. Manners will be better, courtesy more prevalent; it will be a kindlier and more tolerant! world, inspired by higher spiritual | purposes and aspirations. 15 Years Ago Items of Interest From The Chronicle Angnst 2, 1923* THE LITTLE F'ELLOW PAYS , he asks is that he be givven a first,engineers and navigators. But ia not kept in a separate fund to pro-i vide for the old age of those who ^a'yj common practice of politicians is|n'ortgage on the same befoar and af-; Douglas Corrigan did his trick single- to tell the ma.Hses that the ‘‘rich payl^®*" said citty hall is built and handed. He serviced his own plane—, the tax, but is boiTowed by the fM-' eral government, and is represented in the treasury only by government bonds. This sy.stom makes it necessary for congress to make, new appropriations every year to pay the old age liene- the cost of government.” Such claims) are either made through ignorance or! I in fact he had built the engine hitn- , we c.n live you .11 •. note or will ^ »“* <l'K»tde<i for the direct purpoe,- of mislendiniIbond, for you. if you pre-,^ . and deceiving the peop,e, have •.ame, .nd will put the en-! , '’f'" *" ev-ltire creddick of flat rock behind u.e I"'''''’ of A recent survey shows that if eryone u fit.s falling due that year. It mu.st raise the money by new taxation, a, part of which will come, as all t«A r ni. r .u . . i . * .1.1. 1 . f ipay one-fifth of the total cost of gov- revenue eonies, out of the pcK’kets ol r . y j i . . i i i ‘ , , , ' lernment—ftnieral, state and local, the workers themselves, the very one.'*' who liave alrea<ly had an income tax dexiucted from their pay envelojies ?ov- same. had to turn over to the lernment all income in excess of $5,000J.so far. year, the sUm collected would only we have defaulted but 3 i"8;*nuity, ,re,K>urcef^ne». initiative and courage which built this nation, still live in the youth of America. t has been said for the same pur|>ose. At the same time, the .‘1 per cent interest on the, intmls in which the sta-ial struiityj funds are iiivestt'd, must Ik* paid out nf taxes. In .short, the wage-earners who are the ultimate lK*neficiuriea of the sys tem will be taxed thrtH* times over to pmvifie for their own old age se curity. This' .set-up is^^so complicated and bui (ieiKsome that it is unfair and In other wonls, as here often before, the great bulk taxes are ‘‘hidrlen taxes” — and theyj are |»ai<l principally h.v the person of small ami mcKlerate means. The aver age consumer — that means you — is the om* who is iM-ing soaked and who must continue to he caught and soak- we want the jail house put up in the second story of our building, mr. hol- sum moore has benii arrested for driv- FAIR — Froaperity Next spring two world’s fairs w’ill ing,while drunk 3 times here of late‘compete for the interest of travelers and he has broke out of our cally-jTrom all the world; one in New Y’ork, Ifoose ever time he has benn put in one in .San Franciscl). The pyesenl out- ev’er same, that will newer do. we need a| better place to incaix-errate him in, , Roger L. Coe of Rome, Gm., luts been selected as a member of Preaby- terian college faculty for the coming year. Mrs. C. M. Bailey and daughters. Misses Lucy and Florence, are spend ing some time in Brevard, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. Neil Turner of Elber- ton, Ga,, are the guests of relatives in the city. Mrs. M. G. Woodw’orth and daugh ter, Miss Betty, are the gusets of .Mrs. Robert Adams in Pendleton. Mrs. J. P. Whitten of Arkansas, is the gue.st of her aunt, Mrs. A. B. .Henry NOTICE OF REGISTRA'nON FOR MUNICIPAL ELECTION State of ^utjh Carolina, County of Laurens, Town jof Clinton. Notice is hereby given that W. D. Copeland is the duly appointed Super visor of Registration tor the Town <rf^ Clinton, County of Laurens, State of South Caredina. Every male and female citizen twenty-one (21) years of age and up ward having all of the qualifieationa as mentioned in sections 2287 and 2290, Volume 2, Code of La'ws of South Carolina, 1932, and who haa resided in the State for two years, in the County for one year and wiiMn the incorporated limits of the said Town of Clinton for four months next preceding the election to be held in said 'Town of Clinton on Tueeday, August 16th, 1938, and who has paM all taxes due and collectible for the preceding fiscal year and who holds a County Registration . Certificate en titling him or her to vote at a piling precinct within the Town of Clinton shall be entitled to register. The said W. D. Copeland, Super visor of Registration, will have hia office open at the store of J. T. Cofia- lend and Bro. on North Broad Street in the Town of Clinton for the opr**— pose of registering voters froi^9 o’clock A. M. to 4 o'clock P. mTaoii each day except Sunday until 12 o’clock noon August 6th, 1938. Dated this 11th day of July, 1938. P. S. BAILEY, Attest: Mayor. D. C. Heuatesa, Clerk and Treasurer. 8-4-4c as soon as you get this letter, plese .set asiile .30,(K)(l$ for our citty hall, ed to pay the staggering forty billion, p ^ begin dollars debt load now being pjU*<i uponj^,, draw on you as soon as our foun- liation is laid, don’t put this off, plese. the country by the Washington cham pion spenders of taxpayers money. A loaf of breail, for example, is taxi'd 57 times, we are told. The tax •'^hare when you pay; yj- fouin for more information. yores trulie, look is that half « million visitors will come to America from abroad ami that close to a hundred million Ameri cans will attend one ex|>osition or both. The motor, rail and bus travel over the highways leading from coast to coats will be heavier in the' summer Miss Emmie Pitts entertained Sat urday morning in honor of Miss F.dna Karie Moore of Hamlet, N. C. •Miss Alice Benjamin has returned from a visit of several weeks to rela tives in Darlington. W. J, BENJAMDI SERVICE STATION Standard Products Cars Washed and Greaaad Your Businesa Appredatod like thi'y done when the last monney jyay than ever before. So will the was gone with the wind befoar we I ever found out it was available, rite »|uestionabIe, and is one of the , ianche of laws enactixl by our social buy a suit <*f clothes, gasoline, ami economic reformers that should rigarettis, food or whatnot—go to a be revised by congre.ss. The tax on wages ciklU'cted (which is a govern- mtntnl form of compulsory insur ance), ^should be kept in a se|«irate fund to be paid to those who pay the tax. It .shouhl not he subjt'ctt'd to the lending-.‘*pen<ling-bot rowing crowd in Washington. movie or do almost anything el.se. The tax load is the little fellow’s loud. mike lairk, rfd, town clerk. WHY DID HE CRAWFISH? Two weeks ago, E. L. Oliver, execu tive viee-president of 14fcbor’s .Non- Partisan li*agiie whieh is heailed by .lohn L. l/cwis, announcisi he would We Are Being Starved To Death Because of Too Much Stuff * I 'Fhe South has again become famous ; by reason of the fact that—‘‘It (or we) i.s the No. I economic proiilem of the day." That is possiblly true, but WH.AT THE JI NK YARD SAYS Traveling the highways toward al most any destination one pusses a junk yard here and tlyre filled to ca-{.standing for pacity with automobiles which have|yf opjHtsition personally come to South Caroliim in then' is a way out: If the government the near future to engage actively in* will furnish us with enough money to the of primary camiiaign for the pui^Hise fighting .Senator K. I>. Smith, 1* election. His weapon would 1k‘ *tne of the left theiV acvustomiHl place in the'senator’s op|M.nents. GtMHvnor Olin arteries of transportation and fill a;Johnston, who has (MOHikeking in his buy our Cigarettes, our snuff, our to- haeco, our automidiiles and our gaso line, the worm will turn. congestion on the roads leading to the great metropolitan cities of our At lantic and Pacific coasts. There will be more people on the road looking for foo<l and lodgings than there ever have been, more trailers and more cars to pull them. One-certain effect of this enormous increase in travel is that more money will pas.s from hand to 4iand, and move faster, than in any previous re cent year. And that spells j>rosperity. The world’s fair.s of 1939 ought to give a great impetus to economic re covery. more emphatic place in the realm of complaint which pisiple make again.st aui'h allegini insult.s to natural seen- race. A dispatch from week statiMl that it Wa.shington this has lM*en learned ery. Such an aggregation of worn and [at the office of the league that .Mr. broken machines does not. of course,' Oliver ha.s alMwidorusI any intention of si'rve as a .stimulus or inspiration to looming into the state as previmi.sly the poet or dreamer of dreams. It is!planned, following a ea^y to imagine, hiwever, that such South t’arolina officials a vollwlion of the halt and the maim-'^anization. Oliver statisl definitely, i'll and the blind of the motor worlii however, on July 15, that the league did not leach the enii of the journey,!^ siip|Hirting Oovenior Johnston in without leaving in the past some col- his effort to unseat Smith, orful hits of history. They are ilis-. Why has Mr. Is'wis’ representative taid.d emblems of prideful days.|rthandoiu'ii his visit to this state in which were oftentimes a pleasure tojlH-half of John-ston? Why liid the ('lO th« rich and a bin den to thi* P'Hir. crawfish on its threateiusl invasion We make a ginxl living except fof the niH'essities enumeratiHl alxive. We sp«‘nt more for cigarettes alone than we do for bread am) meat. We .speml as much for snuff as we do for cloth ing. We spend mon* for cars and gas than we do for doctors, lawyers, school teachers, preachers, milk, hats, conference wUh| '‘^***"‘ •nd pirssibly rent of thi or-1 on tenant farms and town tenant resi- They are evidences of many an empty [HH-kct/lxMik. or they carry the rword /»f man.v a detsi of service in an age wlun -peed is a foremost require ment. .'some arc coniu'Cted with hit.s /)f faded romance and others with iliisls of sill, darkness and crime. Change and time, wear and service, hope and fear, pleasure ami pam have wrought their work upon these hat- tereil cais. They rest from their la bors, ugly ami disiardisl as they are, amid the peace of tlie^ junk yard, and yet they the itlea for the purpose of defeating Senator Smith? Did the league’s officials in the state with whom he communicatial after making his threat, advise against outside meddling and •> dences. .So. .Mr. Government, you take care of the few item.** listed above, and then you'll see the South ix'ally go to town. We make plenty monney to live on; it’s things that we can’t do without that keep u.s broke. We have nothing left to buy homes and farms to live in and on after wo stock up on our habit-forming rt'quirement.s. Some folks talk about "bumper tin' crops" bringing prosperity. The only mixing of the race issue? Why has thing a bumper cix*p ever does i.s the league soft pedaled its endorse-j hump the Jk’t.hOO.tUK) people w ho grow it. You have never heaixi of a cotton meiit of .lohn.ston? The practice of mixldling in stale mill having to close.down when cot-; contests has la'come a common pro- ton was 12 cents ami sUawe. You wont' cediire in nx*ent months hyl certain | hear of any suffering ami unemploy-1 individuals and organi/ations. I*iesi-j^ment in the west when crops ai'ej Roosevelt hiis been makTng a smalL TOMORROW — Progreas The New Y'ork world’s fair 1939 has for its-slogan “The World of To morrow." 'I doubt* whether it will dis close the world tm it will be 80 or 40 years from now though it will indi cate some of the directions in which the world is moving. I trunl to list some of the things that make the world of today which were unknown w'hen I attended my first world’s fair at Philadelphia, a little boy holding my father’s hand, in 1876. There were no electric lights, no telephones, no movies, no automo biles, not even bicycles, no airplanes, no typesetting machines, no steel .'iliips, no air4)rak(>us, no radios, no ar tificial refrigeration, no kmlaks, no steam turbines, no rayon, no phono graphs, no tractors, not even safety razors in that Ix^arded world of my childhiHHi. Celluloid was a novelty, kerosene lamps had not yet complete ly displaceii whale-oil and , candles, wiMHi-pulp paper was jjj.^coming into u.se and halftone picturcyritS^d not been inventtni. .AnylKkly who had tried to forecast the worid from the point of view of 1ST»> and had described it as it is now wouhi have U'en calioii crazy. Finance Your Home With I Home Folks! It’s a grand feeling to know that you deal with friends. We work with you, see your side of the story, and help you become a happy home-owner. That’s why our convenient, economical plan is a favorite* and why we are growing steadily each month. If you are not a home-owner, ask us alwut our low- cost way to be one. All information gladly furnished without obligating you in any way. Save Your Savings Here Invest your money in a Clinton institution, owned and directed by Clinton people. Start now and save monthly. Each account insured up to $5,000.00. We offer SAVINGS and INVESTMENT plans. EDERAL Savings |ANO LOAN ASSOCIATION Phone No. 6 A Clinton Institution Serving Clinton People Since 1909 ; dent lavi* a history as varii'd a.s,tour of tlu* country tolling tho pooplo of lilt'll ami wonion. how to vote -doing tho vor.v thing KRKK SI* VI E SEEKERS .Not a (lay goes )ty tliat our largo ^ offico wa-tohaskot is not fillod with| ull i'oits of proiMgamUi sent us ini groat voluiiio ill tho holiof, or with' tho roquost that it ho givoii froo puh-1 licity. What applios to us is appli- cablo to ovory nowspapor in iho IJnit- eii Slatos, both daily and win'kly. Tho groatoi part of tho inatorial oomos from govornmonl agoncios ami do- paitmont.s. Tho writors who occupy air-conditiunod buildings pro|>aring tho copy draw handaomo salaries for thoir work. They take thr newspaper men for foods, we presume, for as «oon as they complete their a.ssign- I he repeatedly denied ho would do. The ! presulent wants only "liherul” con gressmen and senators re-elected. By this he means one w’ho agrees entirely with his own view.s, and does no thinking for himself. The piH>ple of South Carolina are capable of doing thoir own voting without outside meddling or implied dictation. It hut large enough to serve the purpose of crops. This will apply to parts of the country. all other The Goml laird didn’t expi'Ct us to grow enough stuff in one year to last thrix' years. Had He considert'd tbat right and pi*ojH‘r, he would have made <;CESSES — The Future .Any gue.ss about the physical chang es in the world in the next forty years and the social and I’conomic changes which will flow from them is more likely to be wrong than right. However, I am going to hazard a few the years much longer.' You’ll never i upon the indications of see any gooii times anj'whcre in thel^^*-’ present. UnitiHl StaU's as long as we make! The world of tomorrow will be a surplus crops. A large crop is the ciunpletely eli-ctrified world, a IS no Kiwino«« nf Pr««i ^^G'p towai'd bankruptcy—regard- better refrigerated world and a worid, ousiness oi t resi-i, . . . . . ' ..... dent Roosevelt. Ickes, Hopkins. "Son economists, politicians, Jimmy," Guffey. Oliver, Walter White, I Prognosticators say. Ohea^i food WP.A, PWA, or any other of the in ner New Deal cirole as to how our piHiple cast their ballots. The state primaries are no affairs of theirs. If such interference does come, can’t be bustl'd. bought by a guy who is in which chemistry will play a larger part than m the world of today. We will produce electricity at much less cost and use it more efficiently in a thousand ways than we do now. 'ft will heat every building in winter and ments they forwaixi them to the news-i* “«r<>P «»'trol. papers. Should we comply with these We have big crops now of every thing except money and religion. W’eikeep them cool in summer. And most have heard for years that our trouble of the materials we use to make hous- Wcll, they weron’t free reque.su it would cost us several thou.sand dollar.s annually to put the copy into type, and we would soon be put out of business. To add to this ever-growing army of free space seekers, we always have political matter sent us during elec tion years from certain candidates with strong resentment at the ballot ^ |>of|ttx)lIed last year, but nobody has box. ' Cross Anchor Road Soon To Open es and clothing and for our daily food synthetically by win be produced chemical means. By 1980. we will be getting our do- deckled what to do with the stuff we don’t need. The Republicans and Lirt>- ;erty Leaguers were going to export mestic water supplies on both coasts ! bilKons of dollars worth of goods directly from the ocean, and extract- i when produced, but evidently they, ing « Urge part of our minerals and jliave lost the address of those “fur-j chemicals from the sea-water W'hich Clinton-Cross Anchor-SparUn- rin“ buyers. Poverty will always fol- we will distill to make it drinkable. low in the path of bumper crops:, And by 1980, also, most of our pas ! The burg highway, Route No. 66, which with requests that it "be given publi-jha* been under construction for tev- cAtion. There is no more reason why months, was ^ven its final sur- a candidate should be given free ad- f*ce-treatment during the past week. I in their big crops) you simply put the vertising than a merchant. The mer- * The road is now closed to traffic but I rest of the country out of employ- when you stop balf of the U. S. from senger travel from city to city and buying (because they have no equity chant has merchandise to sell, candidate must sedl himself to voters if he gains election. Newspapers have space to sell— not to^ give away. They must gain their livelihood froi^i their advertising income just as the merchant or busi ness firm must sell their merchandise, to stay in business. the 's <‘xpected to be throfrn open to the the public early next week. , Road Now Closed For Re-Surfacing _ Tho section of Route 7 between Clinton and Cross Hill is closed this To draw a proper line between news week for r^-surfacing. MTiile the work and free piiblkity is one of the hard- is under construction traffic is being eft jobs a publisher must confront'diverted via Laurens. ment Check you recorda: when you get thru you w'Ml find out that you ■have never seen any prosperity when excess crops were, produced. It can’t be done, that*t all: nation to nation will be in the air at 400 or 500 miles an hour, five miles above the lughest clouds. Call me up in 1980 and tell me if Pve guessed wrong. BEAUTY STANDARDS Of one thing 1 am sure. 'The worid TO clean S.ARDIS CEMETERY Tuesday, August .9, jhas been desig nated as “clean-up day” for Sardis cemetery. All interested parties in the community or elsewhere are asked to come early and help in the work. SPECIAL OFFER Cosmopolitan—16 months for 12.50 Seo your home agent JAMES W. 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