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\. ’T ^-7. PAGE FOUR THE CLINTON CHRONKXE, CUNTON. S. C. ollfe (Kllmton (EipronuU BaUbliriMd 1«H WILSON W. ^ARBE^ Editor and PnbUiA« PabUdMd Erety Thanday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING OOMPA]^ Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $1.50; Sijt Months 75 cents; Three Montbe 60 cenU Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Poet Office at dinton, S.C. T The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of stiboeribcn and leadem—the publisher will at all times appreciateNrise sucgestkma’ and kindly ad vice. The Chronicle will publish letters of cmieial interaat whea they are not of a dof«natory natiue. Anopymys wnaimnwfcaiHnw be noticed. This paper h not responsible for tiie riawa or opfadona of its correspondents. . . dtntry. Tbere imuat be an end to frah- b^ taetics by oountiofi, munic^Ii- tiee, states, and wo mhst get away frpm the faaume delusion that we can sf^liethinf’ lor nothing. If an hn- fm>vemnt''i8 needed in a oooMnunity it ahould be baUt In the-oM American way, frosn o<ur own financial neaoureaa instead of going to federal gov- ermnent begging for luufuloatB. nvhift- audio lou lark throwed 42 golds and was dedarsd the winner, she wa# assisted by jodie sue lark on nwrtny oboasiona, the forater done all of the tinowmg. cedar lane scored a few golds but tl^ knew they were of rtilCatohna to .go after ^**Tieless Joe «- <« e Esed from Tolbert wabh a sharp stick, so to say, ihs wbupped at ^ the atart. saJHe aquail sKd on the floor and splintcted and had to get out game, the floor w»H bf grsaxed from IlNMCATieN OP nnitJBS aa- ^N-r.«d.O«r..r, ^ ;<tter writer, but wbak 'has /Jn" 1913 our per capita debt for all now on and ^ rough places pkuried ^ was^ alleged to |to do wWr Ow eate when the brMtohes of government totaled out, the repeats were 28$ and that went 0*”^^ from poetmaatcais jg to ^ the money $69.28; in 1988 it, totaled $432.65; in fer hghto ansoforth. flat rodt will try South Oarohna^ for the '^^joffice^ioWera? Has not time ■idndiett- 1989 it was probhbly larger, though for the orange bowl. the figure is not yet available. That^ means that you, regaidless of how small your inoome may be, owe Uncle, Sam nearly $600, and that some day aoon a start nmst be made bo pay this. * debt. / y;or<Bs trulie, mike lark, rfd, conry sponderlt. CUNTON, S. C.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 194#' THE LITTLE “BOX” AGAIN 1 wounded, 114 mbsing. In addition 36 With the beginning of another year -Iritl^ and M twamded^ The Chronicle, as in the past, contin- battleship Admiral Graf, Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee Book For the Week Irene Dillard Elliott Although I^ve not yet seen it, I am coarineed that the book for this week is the sixty^ve^nt edition of prosperity of the iniquitous Republi-j-j can party whan it was in office. One,*** ^ Iremembc^ that not so long ago a' ;senator was pursuing 'hkn fiH* these! {then aocouitt^ makfaeikHw. The Democrats Me in office, aivd tbair l“authointiea’’ are iending out suave, sweetHMented letters ’^inviting” of- jfioe^iolders to ^Jadwon Day dkmera at $26 a plate, and if qn ol!^4iolder| does not understand that be wouM! TYPEWKITERS Authorised Underwood Dealer. Cteaniag and repairing all nuikes, reaeonaUe charges. Kenneth N. Baker $06 Margaret MHchell’s ‘^Gone With AUDITOR’S NOTICE The County Auditors office at La^ the pens, S. C., will be open from the Islt ues a practice of warning box on the front page. The caption of the box is, “Drive <'jin‘'fully—Save a Life.” It is pronunence each week in the hope roy ,the government. t-ha; it will warn drivers to bt* care ful, cautious and courteous, and that all will give their support to a cam paign to make the j'var a safe twelve nHmths oh the highways _of l.auren8 county and throughout the state. The . ae'i'iir iveoril >lu.w.' IT }H‘i oil' tiiet violent deaths in our My New Year’s Rcsoliitioiis ^ , carr'vi^iJ ’iJ"little Spee foig>ht .three Britirii cruisers De-j Resolved Thait I will not blame iM '*^**^* ^ Macmillan ^7 «f JM»unry to riw 'let dny of fioial st^etement on .air or naval caa j . - jv.* ..j l. j ^uaJties since the start of ithe wwr. j . , , . . Russien-Finnifilh—^Russia announced| Resolved, That I will pay my taxes; T-he story itself needs no reviewing pertasniM to the ofl th a smile as long as my money'** **»»» *»»««• Every Southerner who of ^x^yers. will toward all men. counlv. an increase of 10 deaths over , , , , , the likts figure. This means that at 1^ the end of ever}^ 23 days of the year oto person was killed in an automo- Inie aeciden'i in our county. This tab ulation iiuiudes only fatalities and,' The most expensive baby in the g'iws n I iveoid of tho.se w'ho were in- United States—the federal budget— stand, in a cardboard binding of'Con- tax retures for .the eosmtif year, federate flag design. ,and for the transaction <tf uM buei- to the office, the in a Red army conununique Deoemheriwith a smile as long as my money'** *bis time. Every Southerner who 23, 1,823 killed, 7,000 wounded, whHe lasts and will look forward with deep'«»ak®» *”7 Pretense at being a reader ^Ilow^ appotot- Finnish sources estwnated Russian concern to more and more taxes from books has either read ft, heard I* ^ couiwy on datM losses at 30,000 dead as of December I year to year. , : discussed until -he thinks he haa read 26. Finnish dead, about 2,0i00. j ♦ ^ j it, or is ashamed to confess bhut he ^ These figures'make an* inbereeting! Resolved, That I will not undertake | Jm* not read it. Millions *^''9 k^s Tuesday, Jan. 9th, influence a legislator or a senator; lK>ns of readei-s beyond the South, be-i ' •Watts Mills, Wednesday, Jan. .lObh, 9~A. M. to 4 P. M. the number of copies sold, or lang-iMill, Thursday, Jan. llth, COMMUNITY FUNtaiAL HOME CaintOB, S. C. FOR COLORWPBOFLE ONLY ^PhMkllt Bav. a W. WalkM, MsMgw .study as people dn most of the na- pa.st year has Ix^en a bl^k^o7 tte'^^rld'haW b^n loining;T will leave him entirely in the hands yond America, beyond the English, wunng T.ne yeai Cbn^as season in|Of lobbyists who get good pay to language have read rt. Any report oni the familiar dhani “Glory to God in *way. I uages into which translations have 'd A. M. to 4 P. M. I Resolved, That I will look forward been made, would 'be out of date, for* Uliivton Ui^, Friday, ^Jan. 12th, I with hope that' better Conditions will, both increase daily. EJven'the alreadyp ^— AN EXPENSIVE BABY obtain in my line, but I will not fail!triumphant ■pBoture of the same name, jurisi. In comparison with many coun- hai< lieen put to bed. The budget mes- tic.“, our figure is high, while in some'sage of President Roosevelt which uf '.he c. untie.'^. particularly the larg- will go to congress this week, is ex- (. ■ K>, their deaths haVe exceeded peeled to place oxpenditures for the our toll. next fiscal year at $8,000,000,000, For the new year we should all re- about $1,000,000,000 less than the solve to do our level best to reduce current year - if adopted as set-up, the figu.e .7 to zero, if possible. We which is altogether unlikely. When start out to<lay with a “clean slate”— congressmen and ;^aitors finish add- bow wonderful it would be if we could ing on every dollar they can for this i: standing right where it now or that projec^ siAsidy or^xperiofient| to look backward and anal3rze my'does, not here concern us. j many mistakes, and" use my experi-. The pobrt" now is, and must con- ence as a guide into future chasms, jtinue to be, that Miss Mitobell’s great — epic of the = Confederacy,—for that’s' Resolved, That >1 will not put forth!what > “Gone With the -Wind” is,—is ' A. any special effott to discern the weak nesses and frailties of my feilow- tnan: I shall trust him not to disae^ me and mine to a point where the few good traks we might have wUh- now available for oiwnership in every private Hbraiy in the .South. 1 almost; ^ sadd in every home. Now we have, set down for us in dmmortai words, 1”®^ all that was told us- by our fathers Lydia Mill, Monday, Jan. 15th, 9! A. M. to 4 P. M. Ooldville, Tuesday, Jan. 16tih, 9 M. to 4 P. M. I Goldvtll, Wednesday, Jan. 17th, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. ' . i S. W. Deap’k. Thursday, Jan. IStHi;'* We Finance AUTOltWILES — o — S.W.SUMEREL Jacobs Building M. Renno, Thursday, onto 1:30 P. M. Jan. l»th, Friday, Hn. 19th, 9 12 A. in us will he coviened with rubbish' »nd grandfathers who .w^re there to that won’t blow away. ketj) ikcs contrel of a steering wheel a^rt’sponsibjlky to do li..- .le. in this campaign for .-afe driving and con sidy-ration of otheis on the nigh- ways. .-Ml oveK the land safety experts aie doing a mined effort esral hals strengthening their ..RfietoteeiL Th*'* I "will endeavor al- to have enough ap.*re time on my hands to do something daily or bd! own political ts—11 »s probable that the money. church, for my city, will show little, if any, decrease. j^y county; for my state, not for- The budget is, of coui^*, a 'huge getting my duty to lour schools and see it for themselveo.- And a pretty good thdng to add is that color touch of the flag of the Confederate States of Am^ica. > - Ehnotlonal as we all moat feel about “Gone With the Wind,” it re mained for Douglas Southaiil Free J fO>l „ OAi,!, k man,—wi» alone is to be compared ® 12 noon. Ooss Hill, |M. to 2 P. M. j Mountville, Friday, Jan. 19th, 3 P IM. to 6 P. M. ! Dr. Ihompiaon’s, Friday, Jan. 19th, 9 A M. to 12 noon. ■ Waterloo, Friday, Jan. 19th, 1 P. ;M. to 4 P. M.^ -J ' J. C. Maitina Store, Saturday,! Jan. Dr. Felder iSnuth DRS. ^BUTH A SMIT1| OPTOMETRISTS SpeciaUst In Eye ExaihinatioIiB Office Haan Dafly Pkona 29 for Apprintiaant CLINTON, 8. C. ft l)ook filled with facts and figures colleges, and thus try to make j with Miss 'Mitchell in interpreting E. Wilkins’ Store, Monday, Jan. w'herein the president tells congressiorur country and cannnunity a better |a cynical generation the heart of the', ihcy can in this dotcr- to the penny bow much he thinks it’s'place jn wihich to 'live. (Confederacy,—to edit for us some of protect human life, going to cost the people to run thej : jthe alien reaotiVns to this incompar Th je ami tnm is .something that government rejteatod over and over— called the u* ,noloris\and pedestrian, to time various irii woikers and organizations, it askance and said publicly and jg forced upon line, and thatlSoiuth that n St needs to ' > Up I\.l Safety state and county patrols, insurance vately companies and other affiliated groups, your are attempting through educational is campaigns to Jtach every motorist budget as a baby. Not only has K eve y day with a timely woid of reached an unprecedented annual f|g- waiming. They can offer helpful ad-'ure, but pur national debt has broken vice—but they can’t open your ears all records, either in peace or war .Princetoft, Moi^y, Jan. 22nd, 11 i jA..M. to 12:30 F. M. [ for another year. It isi Resolved, 'That I will seek out the!able stoiy. He has found so m«ny 1 Monday, Jan., “baby” b«»us^ from tameT^casion often to speak a good word Northern and Western readers who F M. , nous people have looked mvl friends, and not wait till the 1 are now converts to the cause of the* 7* “• ^b^** Monday, he not only has had to 22tKl, 3:80 P. M. to 6 P. M. | need help. Reeolved, That I will not question a person’s motives when I know be and eyes if you deliberately insist times, until it is now fast approach- ig trying to do'good: That I will con- upon being blind and deaf. They can ing the present legal limit of $46,- tvnue to listen more and talk leas: show you the road to safety—but ihey 000,000,000. In the past nine y®*ra>'nMt I will strive to help to make can't make you take it7~An^ when it since the depression struck the UiHttdlou]. homes real 'homes rather than becomes known that you have violat- S^tes, it has increased more than jug^ n place to live: And that from ed traffic laws, then speedily and se- $25,000,000,000. Just sp^id and 'waste vtieJy the penalty of the law should a few raBlions nwre and the figure be applied by officers upon all vio- will reach 42 billions. The spenders labors without partiality or discrimi- will then spend and give away aome nation. more and the next stop milA be 43 This war is your war. By you is billions. Then on to 44, and a jump to meant every man and woman who the limit of 46 biUions.^ Where the drives a caY or truck. It should cause j country is going under the diraction individual of its so-called social reformers no- yuu grave concem as an over the appalling desti-uction of hu-,body knows, but evaiybody knows we man life caused by speed, reckless- *re on our way. ness, careles.sne.ss and the increasing Putting the baby to bed is an old this day on, il shall yearn to. walk a Htde doeer to (if not in) the narrow path, shoot straighrter, and bear my part of humanity’s burdens with less murmur and more willingneBe. pievffence of dangerous drunken driv- printer’s expression which means it’s ers on the highways since the state going to press, and that’s irh^ the and nation has gone into the liquor j budget is goang—ito the government busi.ncss. printing oflRice. Xt is by far the coun it i.s a war. we- repeat — a a war. we repeat — a never- ending fig'ni U) protect and save life, the other fellow, your friends and faniilies, or maybe your own .self. - Let us determine to do our part to kt“ep the little “death box” clean for llMb. 'try’s greatest consumer of the com ma, it is the decade’s greatest digest er of the decimal. Nobody knows how, Resolved, That I now realise that very few of the things enumerivtod above can be accomplished witbout the help and support and good sriah- es of my friends >and associates; therefore I hope that 1 ehaH so Kve and so act to deserve theee things of my people. biit .b* begins to wonder “if the cbH-y*"’ 2 P. M. dren of the Confederates who lost-the'. T®?**^^* J*®* 23rd, war in the field were, in the realm of 2:^ P. M. to 4 P. M letters, winning 'the peace.” Long live I Wednesday, Jan. Miss Ifitcbell! The book will live for ever. LAURENS NEGRO FALLS FROM TRUCK, KILLED Laurens, Dec. 81.—Ulysses SmHh, 30, Negro, was killed Sunday after noon ■when he fell from and was run over by a triick loaded with machin ery. The aoeident happened. on the Laurens-Spaitaobarg highway. Sheriff C; W. Wier and Highway Patrohnan RT L. Best investigated the accidoat. An inquest was hrid Monday. NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING All the News Available In Flat Rock mr. bolsum moore has had bad tuck with .his 1949 new year’s resaer- may of the printta* ^ frees commas A swallows between the, hu.. 1 Vw.= , J .-L a. a.1 •_*. " januwary the 1. be bas already broke ^ f S; ^ of them, he claims 1*at tt was which the pnblK la vmaWe to take m.;^ the boy. toW him «»t k was sody waitter in the bottle but it turned out to be something veirry It goes for decimals as an average .small child goes for candy, rattling C A SI ALT Y FIGURES ^ ^ the millioim of &ni,an,'‘;“' P»°7 '"'“j^w.Sl'atroJi^r.'TlhrpoJ.;;^^ AVAR Dc.<p!U‘ .. Fivn-ch and Bruish soldier s facing I night. Last year the figure was each oihcr on •the Western from, pf-'$8,995,000,000. ficial and uirofficial casualty figures! What does this all mean? IR means indicate that lo.sses in that conflictif^®* the New control ^ Wash- aie fai' exceeded by Chose in the Rus- 78*<>t' * poKticaJ spending orgy sian-Finirish am^ Gemian-Polish cam- *^* gigantic debt is a con- paign.s. slant growing perH to Bberty a.nd de- Uck of exact infoimation and reti-' ^** *»<> ccncc of wai'iing nations to admit 'World has been so prodigal as los-c-. makes accurate comparisons spending tehat we have not difficlilt-, but availa'ble information ^rned.' It means ‘that no natron has, shows that the war in Finland since j^ **‘® *^*i*^®^ Novembei 30 apparently has cost'^'*h “ means a mortgage im^e lives than all the combined land, *8*ms* *11 that we harve, land all that the good sanrarritan and took him home instid of <to the callyTbooie. the other one he broke was Che one whikoh related to tk> cussin. be cussed violently on the wajf ‘down main street The annual meeting of the Board of County Commissioners will ^ be held .as required by law January'4, 1940. All ckdms against the county should be filed at the office of County Super visor on or before Dec. 31, 1989. 'This request is in the interest of clakn- ants as well as the county and should not be overlooked. J. A. GUTHRIE, (bounty Supervisor. B. Y. CULBERTSON, Clerk Board of County Commis sioners. 4-^ 24«h, 9 A. M. to 12 noon. Gray Court, Wednesday, Jaru 24th, 1 P. M. to 4 P. M. Jones’ 'Store, Thursday, Jan. 25th, 9 A. 'M. to 10 A. M. , Cooper’s Store Thursday, Jan. 26th, 10 A. M. to 12 noon^ Harris’ Store, Thursday, Jan. 26th, 1:30 P. M. to S P. M. Lanford, Priday, Jan. 2Wh, 12 noon to 1:30 P. M. Ora, Friday, Jan. 2eth, 2 P. M. to 3 P. M. It as ahscriutely neosaaary fog you to make returns m personal property has to be returned every year. If not convenierrt ^ com to the County Au- d>tor’6 office in the court house, please meet,me at one of the above I^ooes. tf .sta and air activity of Che Allies and,may be .produced by our chiUfcen. To the debUtontees of flat rock gave a big party at th^ home- of mr. • mid mesdamc slhn chance, sr, last timrs- day evening betwixt 6 and 12. ever- boddy who is counted as anyboddy a-tadl was on hands, the ladies wore evenings altogether and even the eve nings were verry sfparsely distribut ed about toeir anatomy, especially in the backs and in Che fronts, the Ge:inanv since oariy September. Loss?-‘make matters worse, Che debt prob es ii, in.- September Polish war far l«m grows more tnenacmg, every day, exceeded iho.se in either of the other national budg^ is aknoet M fw njgjj ^ renited tails and .waiter’s two conflicts. Truth is, the Allies andj^^'*’ balance as k was eariy in the which ithcy got at ibat ooioBty- Gcrmany are doing little fighting ^preasion, with ou^, in spite of the the dancing .was veiry brisk and, with most of the noise coming fro-m highest and greatest number of I consisted of swing and jitterbug aiiid| Hitler, who is forever bragging about *1" our^natio^ history exceeding charleston, it was a great oventl what be is going to cto. <• j income by billions. j>rc*j>cpt. Tbe following is a late tabulation 1 It has surely become obvioiis by of officialiy announced or authorita-, now to all who study oon<ytioiis, that tively estimated casualties in the we can expect no help from pioiiticians chi-ee wars: ' —they wHI apend ai^ spend as long Polish-Gctman—German losses an- as the voten acquieaoe. Oongreeamen nouoced by Hitler October 6, 10,572 and senators, spurred xm by politi- dead, 30322 wounded, 3,404 missing, ewne aaid others “bnri( hoine,^ Pohsh, German foieign office report largely beoame heggaira in Wdahinf- ton for farm and other adbaidieB, echool buiidinia, awammiiig pooia, air ports, power projecta and ahnoat ev erything riae conceivable for the dia- triote and states (they repreaent. But November 3, “no accurate. estimates” would be available for .two years, but eetimated 840,000 Polish soldiers tak en prisoner and 1,000,900 unaccounted for. French-British and German—Brit- ^ese poktarians, you must reanember, isih, officially announced December 22, do not foot 'the tax bHl. If there is to including la^, sea and air military be a sdution to theae i^antiioea, it dead, 2,505; French, announced by must come from a public raheiiwn Premier Daladiar December 22, 1,434; against ^>endlng and extramgaoee. German October ,aAnc«nded in oomnumqtte 17, iociucUng only Weytm front land forces, 196 dead, 856 )to hope for eapanaion in privhM in- Then thece inant he nn end. tp lniend corapetitloii (irith hoaioiw if nne taunt 1940 moddel crop kaoJ being made in our midai and thal'a^l CDunte for the few nearly new oars on our atreets and highwayn. eottan, has .weat up, but it did not want ii> tai it was too late for 4iia Mlarwito grew H. evwboddy l^ad mkwdily aald their cropa eooeept mr. art aqaara: lie bed hh 2 bales and k sttU haMbv them for 15c. be borried yenry teMy on it, but he haa a big eqidtty at IMi rMteg. be k looking around for aOMs* fowennant bonds aari vHB iM ootton and buy them aa aoon an aitsm tnea to 25c per lb., and holn(fai down to 62. S TWINS ATTHE £sso ESSO M dSO EXfitA, ihak ara Efi^ I9 §tip»nim tbe baaketbaH game baterbdt fame and flat rode at ttn'$eeai coaM was tbe fastest ever aiw in S. R. DORROH, Auditor, Laurens County. 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