The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, January 04, 1940, Image 4
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THE CLINTON CHRONKXE, CUNTON. S. C.
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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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FOR THE NEW YEAR
RESOLVE TO STOP PAYING
RENT AND OWN YOUR HOME
s r
Vae oar long-term montUy iireet reduction plan. It
w|H aoen rndkg yon debt-free in otrning your own home.
Amide funds aYailaUe tar lohns. No red tape, prompt
serrice.
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ON YOUR SAVINGS FOR 1940
PLAN NOW to INVEST YOUS SAVpiOS WITH THE
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