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- V *'4 / *$ PAGE FOm / THE CLIKTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON. S. C. TOURSDAY. AUGUST 25, 1938 (Slintiin (E^ronUU EstAblialMd ItOO WILSON W. HARRIS. Editor and Publisher Published Erery Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY, Subscription Rate (Payable In AdranceH One Year 11.50; Six Months 75 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 publisher will at all times appreciate wise sujfestions and kindly ad vice. The Chronicle Vill publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be notioi^k This paper is not responeible for the view# or opinions of Its correspondents. ! f 1 ithe New' Deal’s owti projrram on such mesdame slim chance, party of thej NOTICE matters is too well know'n and ap- first part, and mr. opaque head, the; Notice is hereby given'that George • preciated by thinking farmers to be groom, party of the secont part. I Alfred Browning, Jr., a minor, will I forgotten by the distorted attack ofi fT,nA reafched his majority on and be- his opponents. Because of the high' nol^dy ever found, out why they the-date hereinafter specified and place he holds, he is in a position S^Lther^for a ^>"*1 accounting I serve and help Southern farmers dur- going together for doin« as Guardian 'i„K ,h, next 1 ye.r. with f.r *re... "Jer >»/-»-, ^"InJr Vthe er influence and effeetivene,. than ^ ^ Uurenx County, South Carolina, NOTICE Notice IS hereby given that James , P. Sloan having heretolosa jeaiched his majority, I, as Guardian of said James P. Sloan, will render a final accounting of my acts and doings as Guardian for the said James P. Sloan to the Probate Court of Laurens County, South Carolina, at I.4iurens, huth of hi., opponent, con,bin«i would vc-rJZw wUpe^e' were £>“‘h Carolina, on Ta«»’; |uth Carina on TueW ^pt^ c r, wu pressent, but the 10 children and. rev. The replacement of Senator Smith ^rawmaw would loac thi, important aitnculture.^^j ^rampaw were on hand, to see committee assignment for the South and pass it to a We.stern state. We should understand, therefore, in our day, September 6, 1938, at Ten (lOjitjer' 6, 1938, at Eleven (11) o’clock, o’clock, A. M.; and will at,the samel .'\. M.; and will at the same time ask time ask the Court for a final dis-jthe Court for a final discharge from charge fromy my duties a.« Guardian my duties as Guardian for the said for said minor, no honneymoon wil be took, so mr/ All persons having ’ claims against James P. Sloan. CUXTON. S .C., THCR.SDAY. AlT.rST 2.3. 1938 , „ .All persons having a claim against I voting, that newcomers to congress head says, in fact, the preecher got a the estate of said "minor will file the ithe said estate will present the same I take their place at the foot of com- bad check for the cerrimony. it will same duly verified, before said date, July verified, before .said date or be 'mittees, and usually those of le.H3 im- be hell by him however till opaque’s or be forever barred, portance. Seniority, gained ^through ship come in. he has benn looking for MEDORA E BROWNING Icmitinuuu, serviice, i, the elevator it ever since the world war. he i. Guardian for Georgi Alf^ that moves them upward. The much about, as sorry a man as flat rock has 25-4tcw Browning Jr jsqught after chairmanships are the'evver raised; drinks a right j ultimate reward if their party is in when he can get it, (iodge.s jobs like a power; Reeau.se of such seniority. Sen- bee martin, and chews and smokes the !atoi Smith ranks high on six senate other feller’s tobacco to excess. forever barred. JANIE L SLOAN, Guardian for James P. Sloan. 25-4cw. SMITH SHOri.ll UK KE-ELE<TED'.^mith defeated and Johnston elected? ,rommittee.s and as chairman of the The \o*e-:-s uf Carolina will senior senator has .supported 1 agriculture committee. Since 1933 he miss onlie chance finnished the 7 has had an inHM>rl«nt voice in fram-'>f^'8de in the flat rock school endutji^ go W irw poti,< nvxi i uewiay lo nomi- ; — - • • ..rnrtirallv all the maior leirisla- ing 1931. she ha.s clerked here and. u inajor proiHisals, llut there are some'ini? practically an int major legisia- • . ', i, ' i measures of the administration which tUm that came before the senate. W'hy there in the 10-cent stoars at the imiHirtant ami far-ieaching election uns or im au minis traiiin wimn 9 . ,.f,iintv H<-at i<t riirht attractive in the he opposeil. and this is to his ever-, »wap horses while cros.sing a stream ? i county-scat, is rigni aiiraciivc in ine I lasting credit- He opposed the presi-• Why exchange a man for a marion- face, but ha.s verry arge feet and is ^^e?a:’s supreme court "packing” plan, ette? W’hy replace a man of sound somewhat stooped, the reports that W’hy iiold this .Hgainst him? He should Inm^ftions and unafraid to'express she hits the Ixittk have benn badly lie appIailUcHl for hi.«^ stand. There was I them for a rubberstamp or vCritrilo- /'xaggerated, so her maw says, she not a word in the Democratic national quist’s dummy? These are questions' can cook, mebbe, and learnt how to platform and no reference whatsoever South Candina Vf.ters should seriously »ow on a machine m 1J32 but forgo. to the plan by the presiiient during face next Tuesday. For should the how by 1937. ^ ^ , his eainiiaign for reelection. He op- senior .senator be replaced by one of^ thinks he will set his hoy posed the anil-lynching hill (a vote-' his unanimous ye.s-men opponents the catching Northern scheme 1 largely in- riew-<ifmer would draw a committee miue.st for a loan in spinal and pushed by the h.ilters of ass,*r„„„.n, at the bottom of tlm sen- jfovverment from the “little the .Negro vole in the presi.lerit’s own ate and the important chairmanship ■^tate of -Ww York: the wage.-hours of the agriculture committee would day’, we nill because' he argue.l that the meas-;go .ailing away to a Western senator ure would-on.y inciease the a.lvaii- nio.t likely unsympathetic to this sec- opa.jue head was a stu- ■tages of Northern and Eastern tex- tion hi.inded by the presid. nt as pub- ty,,. ^amc classes with, his wife, tile nianufaetu.vrv and workers, and lie enemy No. Land Joking in knowJ- j would rebound to the.costly detriment etlgi' of the serious problems of the ^ of farmers »*f this state and the .'south. Soutlu rn coltmi farmer. ! best wishes are being tendered this Hut when he walked out of the I’hila-j Hiit .'senator .'smith should not be happy cupple. they haven’t got any- delphia convention, that broke the re elected solely becau.se of-his pres- thing much to start on, but their pa White House with him. The senator, tige and seniority. Coupled with that; and ma newer had nothing when they « 1:: o o < ► has be»n held in the stale since Re cun.'tractKui days. The choice for this im[>ortant post must Ih* made from the incumhent,.^ .'senator K. D. Smith. Governor Olin D. Johnston, and State Senator Edgar A. Brown of Hllrnwc(3 county. jrhe canqiaign xiravving lo a close this wivk. ha. Uh'Ii intensive and htnited. with mud -linging and bit terness m evuK'iwc. When the state itinerary .tar:e>d in ,lune at Sumter, .John-t .:i and Hr>,.»n jum|Hsl on Sena, tor Smith and hi- neon! and have k( pt up the Lirh: :t’: jhrough the cam paign. Sviat*'; Smith, like any other, hiOMuahle man. wa- forx'ed to strike liack and J. f« s:,1 himself against the kiiitl'of cheap l.tctic- his opponeiit.s hav«' !ol.i*w»si. Mr. Jikhn.ston. a. governor, has Ueii a colossal failure and by his ac- tions has prxiven that he is a small, man tn a big joh. He strut# on the' hu.'ting. abtout what he ha# done a# governor. wh«‘n a^ a matter of rtn’-j onl. *he has ha<i absolutely no influ-1 eiue with the general assembly and; whatever may have Iwen accomplished by that body' has l»een m spile of him. Mr. Hrvkwn ha., long Ix'cn a domi nating ludilical figure in Kariiwell coutitv. For twentv Years he , has .vctvrd in the hrtu.e and senate vvhi re he IS known t«» Iw- affiliated with a ceitairf factu»n and ha-^ no n*cord «»f state vvnle av'hU vx'ments to appeal to the people. (iovernor Jxihnston is .a HHi^per cent New iValer ami vhxnild this Imast tie taken from his sjwsvhx's there would tn' nothing left. He i. a unanimous ye.s-man. ami shxiu'ol he go to the senate may be countisl the l»a't uiwerta.nty a ruldier st.iiiip Mr. Brown t. al'x* a DMi jht center and ha., so shxvuttsi in his sp«'eches. lake -lohn.ton. he has Intm hoping for the pinning of a lose upon him- silf by IVe.nlent Kox«sr'Velt, Both Johiislon ami Brown have g< ne all ovoi the 'Tate charging that ^••natot Smith ..iid in a speis’h in congre.' that “a man 01 .•» family can live in South Caiolwa on fifty cents a tlay.” I'm- .enator from xia.V to day ha. denoufK'vsl iht' axva..ati»in .h. a III, and 'hx tx"\' xf i . aigumeiit a. CUM u d :n the ^\o»g'*-..ix»nal Kis'oi d fu!;y 'Uti'tae* ate. ' staleimMU. It ..ti >ald t! q*-1 tus xippoiu'nts do no* <ut wh,»* t'a Congressional bim .aymg.* The * • vva’ guing for o o o o < ► i > o 4 ► 4 I 4i 4 ► « ► 41 4 * ♦ married, and they haven’t got anny-' thing yet: hut they have hell their^ own, and have mannaged to live thru the 1930 depres-sion and are not do- vvas d4>ad right in the positiim he took i?' his long ri-coril of service and va- and thereby let it U* known to thi'jiii-d experii-nce, his proven -fahility world that he i.s a white supremacy j «>“l character, hi# ingenuity, initia- Dem.K-i at. He’^did not leave because I tive and independence, hi.# time-tested, he ohjeetrHl to hearing a prayi-; by a i unshaken arni unpolluUnl JeffiT.sonian had enduring the pressent re- Negro ministei. hut a# an 4ipeM and. Democracy—’and probably above all j cession, thanks to the w. p, a. and the cuurageou.# obji'ction of official nxciig-] else fiir hi# true and unflinching! j^^vving room, good luck, young folks: nition 411' Negroe.. a# a fact4ir in th4*ii4tHn4l for while .supremacy. 'may you be as happy as 2 turkle national 1 white! ItemtK’ratic party, j Senator Smith wears no mans col-jj,jyj.^ an.soforth. 7 It was a lMd4l protest, an4l one thiit lar, hut stand# 4111 hi# own f4*et and j yores truUe, .South Carolina voters should heartily thi/ik# ftir himself. He ha# servtnl hisl mike I>ark, rfd, . clirry spondent. emhjrse. against the national I>emo- sta^e with steady (h-votion and withi i'ratic |»aHy tijienly declaring itself ajhigh distinction. Hi# reelection willf - — national Negio |Hi|itical party in d4>-1 not only’ serve tlu* best interest# .of| LAND SALE fiance of the traditions and position'the slate hut at ihi- same time prove jTbe State of South Carolina, of .Southern lK*imH-rat#. IB* dni not « ri-pudialion of outside ini’ddling andfounty of Laurens. dodge, evade. 01 indulge in ambiguous a resentment for the vindictive at-j In Court of Common Pleas. phia.es. He .px*ke out hi. convictions' tempt to send to Washington onlyi J. W. Henderson, Plaintiff, vs Ed with eourage ami fearlessness and let nu'ii of the jelly-fish variety who will, Si'xtou and Hyman Lurey, Defendant. It he known to the world that he un- bend their kmes and fall to every. Pursuant to a Decree of the Court craik of the whip, and how to 4•ve|•yjiIl the above stated case, 1 will sell at ordei is.u4-d, whi-ther it he for thei public outcry to the highest bidder, hetternu’iil or iletrimenl of iKe peiqile. ■ i-ither in or in front of the Court WHERE SAFETY IS ASSURED THIS LOCAL ASSOCIATION PAYS 4% DIVIDENDS PAYABLE SEMI-ANNUALLY Think of the Hospitality . . . you can extend in a home of your own. Don't let the mo.st important years of your life hy without home-, ownership—we will be happy lo explain how' available It Ls—in a friendly chat at our office without obli|?ation. SAFE AND PROFITABLE Invest your money in a Clinton institution, owned and directed by Clinton people. Start now and save monthly, or plan to “Own Your Own Home.” WE OFFER Long Terms Easy Payments rEDERALSAVINlfS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION Phone No. 6 A Clinton Institution Serving Clinton People Since 1909 . , 4-tMnpr«Mni,#inglv uppuscs any .#t‘m- uprni without 1 . 'f .u ,, , blancc of political I'xiualitv for the # a Koo.cV4‘lt o .1 ix .1. . I South till thv* .cualc fiovo in .lamiary, months after Svmator Smith protested, against the prx'.eiice and proniMUMice 'of NegivH's at the DemtH'iatic ,convention. Senator .lames K. Byrnes' (.New lh‘alei > of this state, during lit'Co* I 'X ’la*' .''•'.tih* b'.i live nwik vv ,■ -I’i i .»t -» V u «• r the w.iiri- leiy hhi.tva- fiirui.-- to ! * which he ; w .> op;>.>M i.: oe I h.xi ge j‘e .1:1,0) to .n an effort the fight again.'-t the anti-lynchtngj. hill, d«^'lared without «|uaIifu-ution, “The NegrvH’s are in coiitrid of the DennH iatic pait.v.” Si'iiatoi Smith oti-• po>ed the antl-lynchini^hill. I’lesident Koo(-*‘velt refu'exi to >lale his position on the bill when so retpie.ti'd hy tele- giani. u|Hni a ixveiit visit to Green- ville. It IS fx»r hi. position and vote on these issue# that the pn-sident is <*ut to “purge” Smith and other# w Im are not tel m»Nl a. lilan al# who havi" not seen eye lo e.ve with him on every i.sUe. .\ lilH>i;al. according to the'Nevv De.i! xlet'imtion. is one who agrees with tin* president all tin eveiything. Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee Week-End News Items From Flat Bock., I the eaiinoii hall train which passed thin flat rock going anif coming on tucstlays and tliursdays will change its .#ch4>dule so’s it vyill run onlly when Some freight is reported at the coun ty seat for them to haul, they have turned their hi/.iu*s.# oviu' to the truck lines on a silver platter. theie i# some meanness going on in flat riH’k,_iit night, sevveral houses have benn robbed, about la of the 2-h time, on filling .tatioiis have benn broke into, and the 3 stoars of the town have House, at Launm# C, H., S. C., on salesilay in September next, being Monday the fith day of the month, during the legal hours for such sales, the following de.scribed property, to^ wit: I “.All that piece, parcel or lot of land situate, lying and being in the Town of ('linton, ('ounty and State afore- .saiil, being one lot shown on plat re corded in the Glerk of Gourt's office (for 1-aurens t'ounty in Hook 17, page I B'lh, a.# numlH’r 31; said lot fronts on I Elizabeth Street for a distance of fif-j ! ty feet and runs hack a distance of 2Pd feet to the rear end of lot No. 11. The above descrihed lot being the sanu* as was deedi’d to Ed Sexton on the r»th day of Di’cenrher, 1931, and n-v’orded in the office of the Clerk of Court in Deed Hook <>3, at page 3S3,” Ti’inis of .Sail': Cash. In the event POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT A^Cominon Sense Candidate! A MAN OF ACHIEVEMENT Ihe .mater’s stiaighl !;ued and in- all-o benn tampered with by v.iuihle loyalty tvi the deiiUH'iacv of'breaker., nothing of value has hi- state and of the South eutitle. him mi##ed except some saidmes. • > lee’evtu'ii on the first ballot. .\ml - * - --E-t »»• . .* ■ .«• J ’-a: thx'y are 11 t 1 ■ ' - - >,'l ! x>I a ’v\ - ■ . ^ x.lV.iUx'x* : !U' t 8 i *; i..t.ix - .4- ; : ' thx- tru:!i. T u 1 ’ -T ' *■* -X K - J, : hf x>i';'i- V ^ ^ 1 Mv'c ’■•J. a# - , tha: Sx ii.itx'i V ‘ t ■ 1 \*»5 .%»xx ’.'A* #:atx-mxnt. H, .1 1 'K V ■ :V any -x-n-il*;!* 11.. .It; V. ■ - ; ■ ;»■ f vvoulti n«*\v Ik, iVx; •-■.X ■ - ■- "> X t : h«> natixxn',-. t*;; .;'t.it: ; ;;nc a ^ C.*t‘i7a:ix>ti# in' hi # xKiaii faiK*’ f., 4 .t'Cl A'll ? _ Whvn P f ‘i. a K'.v-xvxlt o.Tini* tx» 4. x'x'tiv ‘ ‘ ■ '> ■; ’.hx' jun]>xv#x* x>f h. i’lHK' J .- xanJ;.|.u-y. hv ■Kirx.l a- - : < vva- pulling x>ut .1 1 ’t lvr:,, v< ativ lain- ’' > ; * : a V V ' -. *11 fifty oynt# Tr ..t . un.ix’i hai'.J slap «,'» #. w ! i ‘ A t V >K xxf ohx*ap 1" ■1 ’U’-. ‘ M i: V . Vx * a.i.xwxd him- >1, i: -.*11 tiu- J . *; r, x' 'nq' X :>• infx>i - n*. atii M ;x‘ #* ■».«•■ Sx'.a; XI .<mi;h a X K-U>U' « » • -l-. • xV X - > :t ” That 1> tlu* C*iulUiV : ■ Thx- ChatJxx’.tx Oh- v» r. an-1 X fvrli’g xxf thill- ^anxi- xi f Vxx* . '.hi# -tatx-. Senator S niith. -v'tk iig ivvlxvtum. is stanxling on hi# xvwn fv#'! and jvximts to his lv>ng tWord of Sffvict with bexau.e »>l his 30 yeai.# «>f ste.idla#! In should he .\. dean of ^TmtI ^TTFoiTg U'.n lei ship e’111 Tied to eong;e.#, Ditmvrals and chairman of the pow- ei fu! agnculfUia! committee, he holds ,» commamling p. .ition »>f prestig*’ .iiivi influence, Hi. two opponents say ’ll.It .cnit'iuy court, little, hut they know better of v'ou'so -they spiead 'Uch polit'cal Ivallyhoo in the ho|»e of tliaw.ng v.»tt# frx*m the man whose the black.miht shop ha., put in cobi drink- here of late, shoeing hosse# aiuT mull - ha# nearly played out. he will po,..il|Iy ;idd a filling station later on, and mehhe a Inauty shoppe, everthing i# changing so fa't. he do not know which way to turn, his liarter. qiu’enie, I.. taking beauty lessons now. l;4vv- the successful hiilder should fail to benn ‘’"inply with tlu* terms of .#ale, the .aill lands shall l>e re-sold on the s-inu* or some subsequent Salesday on the same terms, at risk of the defaulting “BRING HOME THE BACON WITH BROWN” L purchaser. The purchaser to pay for papers, stamps and riH’oriling. JOHN 1). DAVIS. ^ c. c. c. r. & Cl. S'. Dated Sept. Id. l'.»3S.—9-l-3c. i OFFERS ACTION vs. BLUFF AND BLUNDER! “I desire that South Carolina's particular interests may be served in the United States Senate.” The as.ijjunuTiI of senators to tm sitii'iis a. chainiu'ii of committees and bicarb :o othe! p«v#itioii- of influence power is ina«ie .iltogither on the ba sis of seniority, which means the ’.ength v*f vummnu.oiis sorvice in the Senate, It is therefore of tivmemlous impi'itaiKV tx* a state to have a sena- tx'i with hmg .erv;cc luvaiise of the the fire .which broke out in the drug stoar last week was confined to rubbish ansoforth. no medison was burnt, the waiter .spicket which dr. gr»*en gets watter frohi to mix with of sody and dianiont dyes, and which h4* uses t»> mix up his high- price m4‘dison. was damaged, but ho ..ent to the town pump for his re- xtuirements. it was fully covered by insurance. piestiire an.! infliMU'e his seniority lost; a pocket-book with the name x>f the und4'“rsignod rote on sanu*. if the finder will return the streial se- South "Carolina, in .Senator Smith. »’umhor and tlu* x=i reseat.# for enjoys the highe#! senuirily among payments on .a radio and a set Gray Funeral Home Clinton, S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS ... und ... EMBALMERS Ambulance Service Chones 41 and 399-J L RUSSELL GRAY and V. barks ADAIR. Gen. Mgra. D '"xH-* atic sei -enatxu s. He is ox of lightning rml.# and a strip-down 1 ■ >f service onlv hv Senator Borah (Ke- false teeth, he may keep the -5c PxihlicatD of Idaho. (cash! as a reward and no questions As chaii-man of the agriculture finder is dishon- with committw. Senator: Smith has spon _*est, newer mind. pruie. He is no: want^Nl by IVe>ixient #ored every mow^to help agriculture* .;kinner had a birthday par-' Roosevelt brvnusx* he is not alway# a m general ami particularly the inter- friday to cellar-brate hi.s 7th yes-man anxi evarage to. vote est# of the cotton farmer.#. What ho birthday, a few insignificant priies his convictions. Th'oughxvut his long has done for the cause of working were fetched along, but nothing to career he has stovtd a> a Jeffersonian tH*ople is attestevi by the enxiorsement jjf bis ma say that the ice Democrat ami has fought effectively of his candidacy, for reelectiori by the p^eam she served cost her 3 times as and bravely for the flag ihroughour .American Federation of l.abor. A “re-j^m.b the gifts, in the future, he! his career- His reconi shows that he actionary.” as certain Washington of- -.:ii have to cellar-brate without re-i ha, supports fully #« p.r c-nf of tho ficial, brand nron. or a "aWpin* »on- 1 New IVal program. Ihresident Rimse- ator” as Johnston portrays Bmith,! ’ —^ ♦ i velt, who woulfi rejoice in the sena- could harvily have earned such approv- Flat Rock Stages a Surprise I tor’s defeat, has said in one of his al from the most respected labor or-' Wedding | fireside chats that if he couui be ganizution in rthe world, while the a run-away marrixlge of much inter-j right 73 per of the lime ho wuuld t'lD backs Johnston. What he has est l4»ok place at the parsonage last, be happy. This gives ■’'Cotixm Ed” a done for the farmers of America and satturday night just after dusk had; batting average above that'the pre.#i- South Carolina by his earnest support, set in. the contracting parties were as| dent hgs fixed far luaself. |of measure upon measure for agricuU, followers, to wit; the bride, miss onlie; Why does the president deiire tural aid And, by his contribution to'chance, the secont darter of mr. and' Clinton Finance Co., Inc. Auto Financing Fire Insurance Office: JACOBS & CO. BLDG. W. J. BENJAMIN SERVICE STATION Standard Products Cars Washed and Greasad Your Business Appriedatad .A standard of living in South Carolina equal to that of any State in the I'nited States. Farm benefit.# second to no other State, as against the present ratio of $5 for siime of the Western States as compared with only 3l for South Carolina farmers—Equity in acreage allotments. Wages for relief and other workers on the same basis as wages in other sections, rather than the ratio of $5,.50 a day in New York and I’enn.sy]vania to 75 cents a day in .South Carolina. Shoulder-to-shoulder cooperation with labor organizations to protect and advance their rights under such provisions as the col lective bargaining act. Old age pension for those eligible, paid wholly by the Federal government, at the rate of $30 a month for all Staten, rather than the pittances of $8 and $10 a month paid now in South Carolina, the lowest of any State in the Union. Ixow-cost hospitals (but not socialized medicine) instead of so many marble-fronted public buildings of less humanitarian use. Continuation of the CCT on a high plane. Federal retirement funds for school teachers, trained nurses and other eligible groups not now protected under the Social Se curity group. White supremacy. State’s right.#, Uriff for revenue onlv. and absolute opposition to any anti-lynching bill. A continuation of the Roosevelt-Hull peace policies, and an Army, Navy and Marine corps second to none in the world, with particular attention to expansion of the air forces of the three services. And ABOVE ALL, protection of the rights of South Carolina and promotion of the State’s own particular interests in the cai- dron of activity which prevails in the Washington of today EDGAR A. BROWN KNOWS SOUTH CAROLINA’S PROBLEMS AND NEEDS FROM HIS SERVICE IN THE STATE LEGIS- LATURE SINCE 1920. f