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/ \ i I PAGE .FOUR / II '■li altfp (Sltnton (El^rontrU EaUblislMd IVOO WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publishor Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $1.50; Six Months 75 cents; Three Months 50 cents Entered as Second Class Mall Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. I The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all timea appreciate wise susrgestions 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 i.« not responsible for the views or opinions of Its correspondents. -I then THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON. S. C. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 1. 193S the said publick votes itself j change, generally for the worse. I there being no further tbizness 1^. Stackhouse Against Crop Control in' the mind of yore corry spondent, he will close for this time, but if you jwill continue to send yore valuable paper to him for 3 more months, he, jwill pay you in full; his ritch sinking fa.st and as soon as he, Editor, The Chronicle: |a minimum of^ood products, such as Vote against crop control Decern-'corn, wheat,'Mts or rice. I have a ber 10 and return the farm to the stock farm in Georgia and wa.s taxed management of its rightful owner. ' $4.00 per acre because it was claimed uncle' proper way to judge the future I had too much com planted. I came is by the past. Think of the various^ home and was told that I was let off 1033 and I light, because the tax was supposed IS sinking fast and as soon as . railly sinks, he will inhairct thous-'P'*”* control .since ands and patient. thousands of dollars. tate complete centralization of gov ernment. “Democracy and local self-govem- merK must be done away with, if there is to he any real governmental eco nomic planning,” he said in an ad dress prepared for delivery at Johns Hopkins university. “Democracy arid* free enterprise iiave grown together. Individual right-*', protected by the courts, cannot The Real TroubieH of Today Been Ixrcated At {.ast deer mr. ed<litor: The hest regulator of economic ac tivities, he insisted, was the open market place. ( LI.MO.N. S. (■.. THl KSDAY. DECEMBER 1, 19.38 “HORSE SENSE" A recent liquor advertisement ear heard as a speech- rie<l the heading, “Morse a horse ha_; more sense with li'iuor. and the same can he sai<l of every other animal except man. make himself maker. .Sense." \V<“Il,j U’hat .Mr. Hiysori will talk about in than to find, his addresses and the position ^e ETKH KTTE TAI.K Is interest in this country in The I the arinounceiiieiit that King George and Queen Klizaheth of England are to vi<it the Cnitist .States next sjiring an<l call at the White Mouse. It will h« the first time that a reigning mon- atxh of the Itiitisii einpir<' has ever visited .America. There has h<'en some silly talk from Washington almul the proper oti- (}iM'tt<* to In* observed by the I’rt*sident and his wife wlnn the King and Qia'i n v'isit them. Should .Mrs. Roose velt curtsy to the Queen? Tliat sounds liki tommynot. If there is any question of tspiality, the halanee is in the favor of the Piesident and his wife, since the I'res- idenl is a moix* p(*wt>rful rult'r. The King of England’s position is Chat of a synihul rather than a ruler. Hut this is not a ixditical visit. The royal vi.skt to Washingt(*n is a visit ihy one gentleman and his wife takes on the many imi»ortant and far -reaching issues that will confront the next congress, will Ik* of <*spe<*ial in- 'terest to the peoide of this distriot. Hut .Mr. Hry.son douhtless knoavs, tar every inform' r |M*r.son doe.s, that: ! speech-making in Washington during 1 The past several years ha < counter! fo • jliltle, ei'l.c’ from senators or con-; gressme*!. M ith '"ew excejitions, the.sr.>i 'gentlemen have ma<le thr*mselves White Mouse rulduT stamps and con-, gress has eomjdcdr-ly sui rendoixol its inUoiderl j)()wers to function as an in- deproident k-gislativr* body. Kocial and (“conomic legislation has lK*en drafterl by such men as Mo|)kins, Ickes, Cq- tell your congressman and your neigh- to be $6.00 per acre for trying to . bor if the plan is satisfactory. No land; make a living on my own land. I hear be permitted to Hamper the economic owner of today know’s how to trade ithat in 1939 if a fanner makes more govermpent. Have for next year. Under control thou-j than <50 prr cent moie wheat than he recent reconstitutions of gov- j sand-s of good tenants are walking the made in 1938 he is to be taxed fifty in Italy and Germany road.s trying to get on relief rolls. Thejcents per bu.shel on the excess. In this way—if we wish to pursue it. a questionnaire has benn sent out acreage that can now be worked in land of the free are farmers willing by the'farmers league of flat rock cotton and tobacco i.s too small to sup- , to vote for any plan w'hereby they pay asking their recippients to kindly set port a family even of two persons. A^a tax to work their own land? down and ..rite or foam them just government bulletin say.s 'the South-] Secretary Walltce ha.s instructed exactly how the pressent p<K>r man ^ west is trying to make a Iviing on an every paid w'orker in the extension .spends his dollar, when he i.s lucky average of six acres of land. The av- dej)artment to stress our terrible enough to get holt to one. erage j>er per.son in the Northwest is plight if we fail to vote for crop con- ♦ eighteen acres. If we hope foi a stan- trol. They never mention that if we yore cor’-y spondent, hon, mike dard of living al>ove that of slaves grt domestic aKotment t^at we are lark, rfd, has interviowed sevveral it i.s necessary to work more land per likely to get just as much sub.-ddy and families on this timely toj)pic, and person. j perhap.s more than if we have control, he is jglad to report that th^* aver- I hear if we vote for control we They do not mention the fact that wHI be ta^ed if we make more than present loan policy, coupled with ^on- ■ ■ trol, i.s going to lose us in the near' FI.\.\L SETTI.E.MENT [future every pound of export* trade in | .Notice is heix*by given that I will berth cotton and tobacco. - > Hipp & Chandler Clothes for Men and Boys Ynur Business .AppreciatWl age dollar leaves his fol'oWering channels, hands into t<j wit; the to'l>ackker .. - . clO snuff clO cigarettes clO chewing gum •. cib ga,s.solt*en cio i ms tall merits cl(J movie shows clO b(M)Ze cIO soft drinks clO preecher cOO ebrthes c(>2 fovMl cU3 rent ' c05 render a final accounting of my acts Do you think a handful of picked and doings as Executor of the estate county committeemen as.si.rted by a of { arrie h. Rivenback, deceased, to score or more girls can plan your ^ the Probate .Judge of l.jiui'ens County, farming operalion-s better than you South Carolina, at Laurens on Friday, can? If you do, v to hen, iCoivonan, .lame.s Ko.sevelt and others of the “jmige” group, and then sent to congress, not with a nxjue.st but a demand that it be given legis lative apnrovul and signaliue. This centralization of |M>wer in the' hands of the Prx*si<h«it and a few oth-l you can r<*ddily see how hard it make a livving with our nee«l- cessiti(*s being so numerou.s as relat- ixi alxive. if the government wouhl, furnish us jMxir folks with the first 9 iUMns lisletl, we could gel along verry dwent. we can go awhile with out meat and bread, but to4>ackker| ansofortJi is the biggest part of ouri existence now-a-duys, .so folk.s say. j December 16. 1938, at 11 A. .M.; and will at the .same time ask the Court for a final di.scharge from-my duties as executor, of said e.state. All jK-r.sons having claini-s against isaid estate will fill* the same duly verified on or before Dwember 16th, 1938, or, be forever barred. .M. L. RIVENHACK. Executor, E.state of Car rie E. Rivenback. ote for crop control, j If you wi.sh to be a free man again and regain contn>l of your farm and fill every tenant hou-e with happy farmers, vote again.rt control.’ ' WADE ST.ACKHOU.SE. Dillon. HOME LOANS On'FHA Lonj; Term Plan. Easy Monthh Pa^'ments. FIRE & CASUALTY Insurance Hugh N. Denson AGENT Phone 300 Clinton. S. C. 12-15-5cw U. S. Economic Planning Scored for ers has l‘•.sulled in both harmful and' we do not spend annything costly i'Xperimentation. When men | preeching now ,as you will note 'with backbone like Glass, Hyrd, Bai- can set at home and listen at 'h-y, Wheeler, George, Smith and oth- 'moots all day long, enduring (*rs have opeiuNl their mouths in op-jsunday anil week-days, for nothing; 1 |»o.sition to certain legislation they | no colh'ction is ever $ook over the NOTICE OF ST(K KHOLDERS' MEETING .Notice i.s hereby given that a spec- in iai imx'ting of the stockholders of — •Joanna Cotton Mills will be held at ' '^‘^jthe offices of the company, Goldville, I South ('an)lina, at 3:30 P. .M., on* ^"'^h I Monday, the 19th day of Dwember, 1938, for the purpose of considering | a resolution of the Board of Direc- Baltimore, Nov. 26.—Benjamin M. '.Anderson, Jr., i*cononii.st of the Chase :: National bank of New A'ork, .said to day governmental economic planning the United States would necessi- In anirther gentleman and his wife, and the propi'r etiquette is what is have i»'te’jireted as unw'ise or barm- air. most of our clothes and food ^ tors for the decrease of the authorized ptxqier when one gentleman calls ati^^i public giMxl, they have Ikh*!! ulr(*ildy furni.si}M*(l by the relief Rud 1 j^^^ck of the corporation from ani.th. i gentleman's house to hreaH 1, $1,.500,000 to $500,(MR) and of its hr* ad of for a social hour. ! is what eats up our dollar. (IKTTING SET FOR DEFENSE W do not know, nor doe** anyone inuhinent the danger of a the I'nited States may do tiow \\ .11 j^involving Lfor political crucifixion j There has biH*n, anil still is, imtire ;ly too much federal regulation and mr. jones and his wife quit using' I tamperirng with Inisiness and the pil- tirtiacker and snuff and cigari'ttes ing up of billions of ilollurs of debt and gassoleen and chewing gum last I which must l>e met by taxpayers. ^ week: they dii*il. we are niiurly all b We hi*pe tliat there is nothing of the kind in the offing. Hut it is ap- paitnt tliat the folk who are rumiitig tilings III Wa-hington believe that this cou’rtiy should jw»t itself in a position wh'MT it can protect itself if neces. sary. ' Soin(*1 iiiies the best way I0 kei‘[i HU' of rt.ir is to tu' prepared to fight if 1 hica'iiieil and to let the other feJlow know that we me stronger lliati lie Is We get the impression that .semi siicli tlusoy underlies the re- \iv«'d talk Ilf a great program of na- tioMal defense. We do not understand that anyone fiais an actual invasion of the I'nit- I t S;ati-. tlioiigb tlcncral Malin ( laii', chief of staff, say- wc ought to * ; ve a lilt lU'O e ant i aircraft guns and earclihght- t<i guard again at- t:i. k fii-m tl/*' air. ■|'i - I'll ideiit' !ia suggested that we 'iee,i ;i imieii l.iigei figlg.iug air f ,1 tha'i we have now. I'hcrc is ta '•* I't a kiiig ^■ltI)g)e- to appre)>ri- ate 'inoiey lo inciease our military p’.. s f om the piesiiit goal of about 2, 9'.I to nine t.i ten thou -and. Tliere has Ihh'U a from .the .so-called still greater contiol over the whole ix'onomic striK'ture of the nation. What has lHX‘ti the result another nation-wide depre.ssion. And so long as we have thi* present »|M*ctacle of maltreated hiisines.s, tenifii*<l capital, mounting taxes, and destroyed initia tive. Just so long will the ri“turn of pro.sperity l>e retar<lisl. our m*i*dcessi- ought newer to have had, hut which we can’t now get along without, rile shares from 15,000 to 5,000 of the i»«r value of $100 each, and to approve or disapprove a re.solution of the Hoani of Directors that the corpor ation is.sue ten-year seven p«*rccnt notes or delfl*ntures of said ci)rpqr-_ in the sum of $500,000, and for transaction of any and all busi- desirable in con- j>ersi.stent demand just like the Joneses: *«», "inner ciicle" for lies tixlay si«i*m to be them things "9* 1 1 ness nece.Hsary or neetion therewith. Hy order of the Hoard of Directors (this I Ith il;iy of NovemlM-r, 1938. I F. L. RKGNERY, I Itc Secretary, or foam. yores mike coiry truly, lark, rtd, spondent. D. E. Tribble Co. FU.NERAL DIRECTORS EMBALMERS Licensed Enbalmers. Complef* .Modern Eqaipnent Day Phone f4 Night Phene* 24. 2.53 or 2SS Clinton. S. C. ft Dr. Felder Smith of DRS. SMITH & SMITH OPTOMETRISTS Specialist In Eye Examinations Office Honrs Onily Phone 2f-W for AppoiataiMit Clfaitoa, S. C i-»aesese3e«aeaeMaweit38»w»**^aiai>ity}|^M[;y Clinton Finance Co., Inc. .Auto Financing Fire Insurance Office: JACOBS & CO. BLDG. NOTICE OF SALE I*ui*suarvt to an Onler of the Pro-1 \Ve agree that it is time for Jit'ua- lutle-('ourt for Ijaurens ('outvty. State hors ami congressmen to talk out ami of .'vmth <’arolina, in the matter of reasseii the | owers of their office, the ertale of J’lara E. DiK'ketl, de- W’hetliei they do soj_remains to bo ceasml, I will .sell at auction to the j >eeM. 'I’lu 1 event eUn'ii?! yond doulit impre*-’ that the i>eo|vle are tired ami disgusl- )n should Ik*- highest bidders for cash on the Hth upon congress day of December, 1938, at the office of .1. F. ,laco>hs in Clinton, S. eil with our rubber-stamp, jelly-fish twi‘en tlu* hvuirs variety of reioesentatives in Wash- and file o'eltH'k iiiglon wiio have betrayed the fumla- inental principles upon vvhieh ooplar Ameiiean goveinnient was founrli*<|. ,\ii woiiib'i the nation’s ]>u1^lie debt i*- at an all-time high of over thirty- eight liiilio'i dollars ami is «>xpeet»sl per shan to cross the thirty-nine Idllion mark common st(K*k of within the next three week'. >f t«*n o’cliK’k .A. .M., one o eltH’k P. .M., the iH-rsonnl property, giwids and chattels of the said estati* of Clara K. Duckett. «le- eea.sed, consisting of the following: Twenty-five shares of tin* stvH'k of .lacobs List, Inc., of the par value of \: the had Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee S, I ll< w l. Wav Out N4 The Right deer rtnr. edditor:— \v«' not is that you had a recent ar- tickle in yon* paper vvhieh said that the ifarnu'rs havt* bev*n ruint by ami crop controll and vv. p. a. ami j oHrer govvermeiit aids, including thel boll vveeviis. yPu evvenlently have newer fainietl. i the ' line time We are building liigginav y \iuei iva ba.s ever .''IV iiew liattlolup', •IC new de- 1 , ]'■. ‘;nevv 'iilimarini'. four : .li i aiiil a lot of smaller ves- .iie a'leady eitliei' uiiilei con- .s' >1 ;;i.ii 1.1 authorized. The ipiot loll .iia! Ill a ly arise- W liat <lo -ve neeil ^uvli a big navy toi if vvi* do imt VApect t*> be attavke*!? We cer tainly ilon't expect to attack anyltody. ■|'he answaw i> found in the ivcent utteianee-; of the President on the sub.evt ofrtbe sivlidarity of iivterest^ of a,l the nations of the .American 1 yj,j, injiin a farmer continent, north ami south. It has Ih-en a fixed policy of the United State.' fi>r. nioia* tlian a 1(H) years that We will not stand f*»r any European nation establishing colonies or tvthcr- xvisi getting a foothold anywhere in .America. Cmiei the .Miinroe DtK'trine it is up io the I’nited .'states to resist any attempt by Germ.inv, Italy or any otht country t*i get control of any pail of South or Central .America. Then* havi- been many .'igns imii- cating that .one* vn another of the t>v- ii'isoforth; Fifty shares of tlu*[ Iac»>l>s A: Co. Inc. of j the par value of $10.(K) j»ei .-liaie; OtiC; llutulivd and Ftu'ty shares of the prc-{ fi rn d stiK'k of .lacobs A: Co. Inc. of tlve par value of $10.00 i»er shari*;| .Note of .lacolis tV Co. Inc. in the amount of $2619.17; On** 1933 Chev-i ' roIi‘t Coupe; and also all other per-, sonal pixtperty belonging t<» the saiil .estate. ’ ' .1. F'. .lacobs as Exocuti*r ' ,a»f the Estate of Clara E. Duekett, Dtvt'ased. relief Mated at Clinton. S. the 2.'>th day of .\vn.. 11)3S.— Ico. eas you can’t him work by givvingj for not raisitig cro|)s, and | hurt his feelings hy letting! on the vv. p. a. when he is| YOUR SURPLUS FUNDS broke; vvbat W'e tti'inl is more boll | vveeviis, seatterevi ovver the entire cotton belt instead of just onmy farm like last vear. ri.AUK YOUR SAV INGS WitH IS VVHKRK YOU (;ET 1N- Sl RKI) SAFETY — GOOD RETURNS. A Tt to last hubbert green claims that we' Individuals. lUisinesses. ('hurch* I 12 months drovvth in the u. os and Schools, are invited lo invest their surplus holdings in, this as.s(K'iation. or. need '. wiiisei than annything else. he says we have pleivty of provisions us 2 years, including cotton, j’ uncle sum could divide it' talitarian nation.' is eager to got j'os- Fossion «*f Hrazil. If this country has to fight, it seems more likely that it will he to proti*ct Hrazil and other South .American nations frv>m foreign pc'notration than to rtqiel invaders in the north. .Apparently we are getting all set! up betvvixsl us so’s it vvoubl hold out and not lot wall street gv't holt of -aine U) gamble on. mr. art svpiare say^ it don’t mat ter now what .party grabs the gov- verinent, republicans or dimmenenats — he is down and out and therefoar for defense, and that ^t alone mav ^ anny downer or anny outer, be enough to prevent any nation fronC^’ trying to put something over. saddle, he got l>cat for kurriner last year in his home county and now he hates everboddy exceipt the -22 fel- j 4 Per Cent Current Dividend Rate. Save Any Amount Any Time. Safety Your Savin(i;8 Insured Up To $5,000. VASHINGTON ilers Avho voted for him. EYES ON it was not^ that the new repro-; sentative frony this district, Joseph R. I iM»ir»ticks i.s .sorter like typhoid Bryson of Grt^nville, was in C/tdumbia fever: it runs its coarse: and the the other d^y and talkovl of his plans.! case generally g<‘ts .so bad that it In a newspaper interview he was'dies, or a now vioctor is called in that quoted as saying he was going to be | knows how to treat the mallatly, meb- a “.‘»pe«king congreasman” when he'Ik? we, need a new doctor, no party goes to Washington early in Janu ary. In his campaign this summer he criticized his opponent for failing to can stand being on top verry long, it get.s too powerful or too rotten for the publick to utummick it, and EDERAL5AVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION Telephone No. 6 A Clinton InsUtation Serving Clinton People Since 1909. SAHTACLAUS WILL ARRIVE IN CLINTON FOR HIS ANNUAL VISIT FRIDAY, DECEMBER HE HAS ACCEPTED THE INVITATION TO BE THE CITY’S GUEST EXTENDED BY THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, AND INVITES EVERY LITTLE BOY AND GIRL IN THIS ENTIRE COMMUNITY TO COME And welcome him. DETAILS OF THE BIG CELEBRATION IN HIS HONOR WILL APPEAR IN NEXT WEEK’S PAPER. DO YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING EARLY IN CLINTON