The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, January 18, 1940, Image 4
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THCH3DAY, MWUSBY
Nobody^s Buriness
By G«e McGee
to DAY
*^I)s*’ whkh itove been added to the
ohi>fasldOned **three by modem
Hail, Hail, the Gang’s AH Here
a nice play was heH; at the acholl
boose on friday sight last, and it was j
V* on by Iflie boys and girls of the '
1940 gradorating class, it was entitled j
'teU, hail, the gang’s all here.” the;
play was wrote enduring the worlds
war, which is now caH^ war number,
ldg!i adiools. But R 4s the so-called
fi^s wbioh broaden the intensctoal
outioob and help to build character
iand the culture which is founded on
ch^acter.
w« have a long wtty to go before
our piAhc education systems wiH turn
1 P. M. to 4 P. M.
Joom’ Store, Thursday, Jan. SMh,
9 A. iU. to 10 A. M.
Cooperie Store Thpradiy, Jan^ lMi,
10 lA. M. to 12 noon.
Harria’ Store, Thursdigr, Jan. tSMi,
1:80 P. M. to 3 P. M. .
LandFord, tFViday, Jan. 2(Mh, 1£ noon
to 1:80 P. M.
ID
*0^ young men an<L^women of uni-' Ora, Friday, Jan.. 20tJh, 2 P. if. to
iformly high standards of oharaoterjs P. M.
, and culture. Until we have 4>uiR the It is absolutriy neceesary'for you
system to that level nobody should.make returns m personal proiMtty
The
SCHOOL— Cmde .... .
first school of which I have tbe.spending of any amount/has to he returned every year. U not
" A#’':a ^ 1 ! • ^ ry a.— 1 —
. village. I was five years old, hutrT'**' navies or most or me piease
mg of “o, johnnie, o, johnnie’ by i had already learned to read and!material things we tax our- places,
tonne <rf mrr. and mesdame sbm so I sat With much older boysi*^^^*^ ^ provide. .
chance, ir.
I and girls on the “third reader’’ bench-1
ies. The pupils were graded from tho
i S • A • . 1
AUDITOR’S NOTICE
.
S. R. DOmiOH,
Audit^, loMirens County.
CLINTON. S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY lA l»4g
the theme and ocheme was laid <«R
”■ ^7* “.Wh County A^'. <,«« ,t W
dressed as bnttish tommies and bnt-'i^..u ;_j i... i . . ^jrens, S. C., will be open from Uie Ist
iiy
the “sixth reader”
«.u h«ck, occupied by boys aiid girls of!V' ^
jtish iassMB, and eveihoddy had to talk „ older '"j day of January to the lat day of
or oiuer. , March,, 1^40, fwOSss purpose of tak-
We Do AH Kteda ef PRINTING
Bkcepk Bad.
CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO.
/ 1.^.. o..v,.«Ao. !■" The “central heating” system con- . ^ .v -
.<oak the rich and help the i^tle for the woric. Birt th« « not now the they were s^mg^ ^ b^ish'j^j^ ^ big potSlliS^-iZil^ ^
fellow, has lK>en for years the general’* yardstick of exnploy^t. It is a com- language » supposed to^be just »tove in the middle of the schoolroom. 1*^ ^
premise opon which our tax system "'only accepted saying thto if one is engl^ language,rt is wJ^.The older boys were d^iled to stokei";^ P^mi^ to tho office. Foe the
Lis grown. It is based upon deceit and,to ^ ^be fire with wood. It got red-hot in
^ ‘ . lu ....ii» ..,1. they are spoke bjTthe fumners of ml.-. - be made at the foHowii* appoint-
england, it might as well be the dutch
or the italyans or the turkeys talking
nTairUahuHi bV d^c^it.' The"‘Tittle fei: | have “political pull” somewh^ along
who can more p'ropt^rly be called <^h€ line. The reason the pay-
IcW,
helow-zero weather. There was a
wooden water-bucket^ with a tin dip
per from which ^everyhody^ drank
when thirsty. There was no such thing
as plumbing, anywhere in the village.
.\mrrica-s va.st working middle class,'‘’oll has growm to such unpreceitented . .
h'.s borne the brliiit of this deceit, al-,"ooihers us that patroru^ ^ la^-Jfor all we can understond.
though he cWs not realize it. ly become a funct^of p^ltics. Too
Thei ' ue- not enbugh “rich” pwple'^^any people are locdcing to govern-j miss jennie veeve smith conducted _
in the United States to maintain the: for .support and get^ it at the play, she is A experienced a<^r! LEARNING - Books
ftderal government for moix* than a expense of taxpayers. The^ counriy|an<l has Uiought of hitting the hollj^i j gypp^g^ least half of the men
b, i,.t ,t,Tiu<l, ..v.n if ever.v ulckel they n»>7“>n>«y*7 I”- O"** ««| W^ trail, bjrt hat kept p^irw't«» ^JTeu of my generation got all
w,... confiscate,.. Politicians!--nting d<*t loa^-leea Ux.e..ers. jV^^het^HThi^.^ t
know the futility of “soaking the;
following appoixut
ments tduroughout the county on dates
lumed below for the purpose of tak
ing tax returns for the year 1940:
S. W. Dewn’s, Thursday, Jan. 18th,
10 A. M. to 11 A. M.
Itomio, Thursday, Jan. 18th, 12
noon to 1:30 P. M.
Cross Hill, Friday, Jan. 18th, 9 A.
M. to 2 P. M.
MountvHle, Friday, Jan. 19th, 3 P.j
net,.- But many have no, the integ., HEItO-WORSHIP DANGEROUS »he *wli;^ ij“?jht”o write7n 1
nty to admit it publicly. They dclib- In Germany every man, woman 5,^ with such maxims as “'honesty is theL
erately advocate the continued spread, child ils expect^ to give the Naii be^ policy” printed in flowing script' (i
in ..ne form or another, of the vicious “salute” whenever passing a pictiire^ver did ancer her kttdr She says ^ ^ »-| Waterloo, Fnday, Ji
])iactice of “h dden taxation,” in spite of Hitler in a shop window, or jbe not of got scarlet, and hadj “Monroe”'
fan. 19th, 1 P.
J. C. Martin’s Store, ^turday, Jan,
of the fact :hat the practice, if noting a Soldier in unifom,'-or eve®: ben" offe^ in minnor roll, she would ^ f illtoi! ori q ‘"i ??
euriied, will spell ultimate rum to the gp>eeting a friend on the street. Those ®f "^l^ '^bat ju^ to break into verses, short essays, extracts* F' P
nation and the individual citizen. who fail to do so, if not arTeftted,!l™^ll8rht ansoforth.
Our pre.sent tax system of hypocri.sy are i t'garded with suspicion.
be . - — , . . „ „„ ., ,
our politicians is to drop hypocrisy nations g;ovemed by <bctators. lasted 2 hours, hut includedfrom those old “readers,
for the sake of solvent fiscal sanity Italy one must give the Fasciet sa-l^be sate acting ansof^h. evwtlung, arithmertic we were drilled in addi-
aiul the benefit of the nation. .lute; in Russia those who fail on alojig pretty well till o^ of si.tion,’ suMraction, multiplication and
■ '■ anJa*>4-A fllonn'&rS"* HO flooomvt Doys ilmMr a
must be shown up. The challenge to Similar conditions obtain in other' this pkay, hail, had, the gang^s all kpyg gjj.|g taste for good! a i9-tn p v
. J 1... . X T_ I here’ asted 2 hours, hut that included i;. 4. x .. . . .. A. M. to i^.dU r. M
ifrvm. +,kx» f * uu I E. E. Watkins’ Store, Monday, Jan.'
fi^ the ^tir^ of great authors.122nd. 9 A. 'M. to 10:30 A. M. i
which we had to read aloud. Many,, PHneeton, Monday, Jap. 22nd, 11
'public occasions to salute with dench-.acwurn. 'b^s flung •!division,''vrith fractions and even ded-
ed fist are actually risking their tlHr’Winder and tapped rniss for the older pupils.
sallK veeve smith on the head and'
COMMUNIS.M DENOUNCED , __
This thing we call Americani.sm is lives. All must show outward rever-1 Spelling: was strongly emphasised,
the outgrowiih and fruit of the spirit- ence for the ruler and the ^ ^ “apelling bees”
ual ideals of liberty, of tolerance and party, no nmtter vhat their inward what to say whra th^ those, one can hear today
of human brotherhood which are the feelings may be. radio. We fot a smattering of
solid and enduring*, foundations upon It is hard for Americans to under-ar___ big, thin books with
which our nation was built. Many, stand such things. ’Inbred in the;^ maps and
sometimes most of th ihom.v o: Anieiican spirit is the sense of per-lg-v^a j* a fing» animals and people, and we all had to
America often loige. or overlook sonal independence, freedom from re-
tho.se ideals, .some even scoff at their straint, liberty to act as one feeks in- ^ . ' ... « a u
But when it eomps to a /.Innoxl imur oa in an Anino. nn liK. I "C BClleVe 111 SetlSlDlC V fCC SpCCCn
learn to draw a map of our own state.
School (^ned every day with a
prayer and reading from the Bible,
expres.sion. But when it comes to a clined so long as in so doing no lib-' ... ..... • . ^ x 41- > -
pinch the people of America have erties of others are infringed. ' while wliloqui^ in fr^ of the.followed by singing. We had “sing^
m ver faiksl to prove again that the There have been efforts in the past’*®^ night, nir. slim chance ing hooks” with the words and music
spirit of the founding fathers is* still and they are still being made, usuallyif*^^ understond all he of patriotic and popular songs. The
dominant in our lives, still motivates by well-meaning and patriotic-minded about uncle sam and the u. s. song I remember best was “Not for
our actions. peeple-^to impost such compulsioneicbance.Joe,” which ridiculed the woman suf-
f’atent evtmts .-erve to demonrtiate upon people. The practice of nequir-, movement to a catchy tune. It
•tin. -.luth that .the American spirit ing school children to salute the flag, ^ « masculine world.
-.li: prevails. It has been the fashion for in.stance, is more calculated toto expatiate on, ^ ^
among so-called “intellectuals” in this bring the national banner into con-r ^ j TEACHING — Discipline
country, for some years, to preach the tempt than to inspire respect and rev-j __ „ , .u_4 1- ! Teachring school was a man’s occu-
doctrine that there is a higher ideal erence for the spirit for which it
»t e,.ve,n,n<..nt than our cwn. and that ata^. Th^ ia thu o^nioa ^ and will —I I*
Hurs.a, not tho I n.ted .Status, has,.Umted Circu* Court of Ap-|^„^ ^
“' Iv. v,..l it. lP«la, in docKhng that a PPiutkylt*"* . ^ ^ . ^
L. C. Taylor’s Stare, Monday, Jan.*'
22nd, 1:30 P. M. to 3 P. M. '
J. R. Bnzhaxdt’s Store, Monday,,
Jan. 22i»d, 3:30 P. M. to 6 P. M.
Hickory Tavern, Tuesday, Jan. 23rd,,
9 A. M. to 11 A. M.
Reeyes A Blip’s Store, Tuesday,
Jan. 23Td, 11:30 A. M. to 2 P. M. '
Boit’a Store, Tuesday, Jan. 23id,'
2:30 P. M. to 4 P. M. 1
Owings, Wednesday, Jan. 24itih, 9
A. M. to 12 noon. |
Gray Count, Wednesday, Jan. 24th,
Again, Eiao brings’you befter
ptoitiuctl. ESSO, s gaBo|nc so
good it mceb premiom spedmea-
tions. ESSO EXTRA, the finest
fuel ever sold at the Esso Sign.
W. J. BENJAMIN
SERVICE STATION
Phone 9275
mr. ch^oe ’lowed that uncle ^ | y„„ i„ childhood. Many of the
doeu all he can to keep the cholera toaohera of tie mO’i were atu-
derits earning money to pay their ex-'
lltr when Ru.'-sia demonstrated to
school
1 J l, J • 1_A a. 1* »^IIIII»I« UI-PL 11^ X 94^111 lllliru
bMrd had •« ■•«*« to o^jlettin* earl hrowder prowl around
woild hy Its pact with Germany T"" “'"'UT!' ^toM tim pnbKc tpiyilumon, ii, eitlaens and do mote dam-
fbo rornmnnitt «f»R ntnrP because they rcfusto to salute the; ^4 . ...
V .image to tbesn land their surroundings
meni2>ers of ^
jsofort^.
The j'udgi^ of the thigh court were
that the Communist ideal was more ywause timy
ruthless and self-seeking than any- *=ban the cholera will do to bogs an
thing we of America have* ever,® wh^h rrfuse to bow down
dreamed of, inany of the-“fellow-tfa^ything but God.
ek rs" in this country began to have 1 .....
;hi i! doubts. And when Russia clinch-j^*”*"^**® upholding the rigbt of
eti that revelation that Stalini.sni is J**® children to salute or not to sa-
merely another form of autocratic . . • Patnotifm
domination of the weak by the strong,I*® somebhing wnich can to lorora
by undertaking to bring Finland un- American citixen. It woi^
der the yoke by an unprovoked in- ^ ® rianocracy if tiie
vasion, the .si^es fell from the eyes'^‘“'f should cpiM 'wbra any hanun
of such un-American Americans as authority could dictate whom or what
had been deluded by the rosy propa-
we must salute. That is the reason
ganda emanating from Moscow.
The* magnificent response ef the
-American people to Mr. Hoover’s ap-
jH al for help for Finland is not meie-,
iy a token of our respect and sym-1
pathy for the Finni.sh i>eople; it i.® j
Anifrica’s denunciation of Commuisni |
and all that the Soviet government
.*;taTi‘is for. - r I
111 like mariner the, sfpirit of .•Amen-'
canism has been invoked by President:
lUai.-evcIt in calling upon Catholics,'
i’rolestanls and Jews to bury their
hero-worship is dangerous.
State Aid For
a drove.fedderal agents will go
hundreds of miles to fight the boH
weevil and the jappemese beetle, hot
nobody seenis to to 'wiffing to bother
a worse pest, viz: fritz Irahn, when he
-taUts rot and sedition to our people,
of coarse they put him in the pen for
steeling, but tliat is one of the least
injuriM he has done to america. other
little hitlers are dtill carrying on.
penses at Harvard or Yale or the
smaller colleges. One of the necessary
quaKfidbtions for a country iteacher
was physical ability to maintain dis-
cipime. The farm boys were pretty
husky and had no respect for a teach
er who couldn’t lick them.
A birch switch or a hickory stick
always stood beside the teacher’s desk
and was used on childi;en who were
unruly. The' teacher I remember,
a red^ustadnSd college man named
Herbert Field, took a ruler to me
once. I had caught the coat of the
boy ahead of me with a fish-hook and
pulled him down when to got up to.o
recite.
Later we had a woman teacher,
widow of the village cigar-maker,
whose father was a member of the
scattered to the 4 winds in the u. s.
I and thus undermine dimmockeracy
our gowerment is willing to tot
russia’s punk and propper-ganda be . , . . j . u
' school board. We all liked her be
cause she let us do'* as we pleased.
Then my folks moved to Washington
and I got into ithe city 'schools. 4 tod
Representative Wasson of This* or our oranges or our poultry: then I*^4
County. WunU To Inereau*!?-
Schools Sought, with communism and 'boJ^^iekick-ism,
but j'ust let some pest bother ouf cows
Funds For Transportation.
uncertain terms, everthing seems to
Columbia, Jan. 15.—'Representative
I be sck^red hut our men, wimmen, chil
dren, and gowerment.
teaching was life career.
it)|H*an iialimi.'t.
EDUCATION — Cost
In those old days the idea of edu-
cligiou.'^ difffivnce.s anti unite in a'Robert C. Wasson of Laurens, new! mr. ^^ance says be thinks the time j x. 4- x 4j- 4 4
sohd front of .spiritual re.sistance toJ^jh^jiji-nTan of the house educatkm com-^1*® listen. ° ^ L^l c^-
.,1 .h. G.«l.eks of „id today th.t .a.un.p- trcSSdfe tiL
!tion by the state of more costs of pu- tlmu^nOs children and anvthimr
I IMF rAlT« A HUT be faevoiHl that waa a luxury whWh ^
I l.Mt CALli A HALT ;to .t Ukmg over a raouth of »<*o«llov:^^U'’■* >•"> h«i to pay for.
,i,<)W€vfer, everybody realizes!
NOTICE!
THE BOOKS ARE OPEN FOR THE PAYMENT OF
Your 1939 COUNTY TAXES
Pay and Save!
\7c tw January.
2% for February.
3% for March.
7‘/fi from April 1st to 15th
April ISth, the books will dose and alt receipts not
paid will be executed.
irt
A Wa.'.hmgton dispatch yesterday aid. ^4^ ,how
.'-U’.ed that more than 1,330 federa^ An outstanding need at prAent ” merman ^^m^ne or •!'t>hat the interests of the state and the|
agency employes are being given dis- our educational system is an increased^ swoman^ or
transportation, I shocks—we wouldn’t mindj**^**^!*’ as well a^th^ of thejo
_ X x,_ _ J commiinitv aiwi'WMh inffivifi'MBl. ’’
p™. community and'ithe individual.
' ChildrMi of the <po<>reet farmer ori
... . ..!iS>rmaTi~ iwirMx ” hut mr Ant -ouwr»' o*>*tioii are .Mlvdved in tto problem of'
mi.ssai notice.^—the largest group, to appropriation for transportation-” mine, out mr. art squ^,^ _ _ —„ *x 4t--:f
U* discharged at one time by any Wasson, a former teacher, said in . . 4 4. x
government office since the supreme statement. ® ^
court invalidated the .NRA in 1935.1 "The state now .provided ’ aboutovm lo^ flat rock ^^s
Of tht* affected group. 700 are in $300,000, for this item and the coun-i**«*^ and minks mad-
Washington and the others scattei^d ties’ cost is over a million doHars.!^^ '<>hey tother m, but ^^e
throughout the country. The reason Most county taxes afe raised by aj**™ “P we do.
for the dismissals, it is stated, is the levy on property; tfaereifcHe, the trans-,*® en<Jed n»r. chance 8 gao-fert.
discontinuing of loans and grants by'portation item is a bwden on the
the pabHc works administration.
property owner. My idea would be for
There are more than three million the state to bear about 6Q, per centj
poi .-vons legularly employed in full-of“Uie cost of this item ($750,000).
yorea irulie,
mike laark, ^d,
staff reporter.
time public work in the United States,' “I would prefer 'the state’s taking!
Florida possesses the laigest “trail
er town” in the world. It is a 80-aere
according to a report prepared by a ™ -^Irewreation locaUd at 3kn»U. tutd
former member of the U. S. civil ser-,states giving nine months aiA Thej. lliLUi. ,^4*
vice commission. That number of per- supporting ^ the achotos for onei TxxAwax*
sons ■whose salaries are paid by tax-^'motfth by the countiee helps, to ke^l , i-. ’
payers, includes federal, state, coun-jtocal intereats and local administra-
ty and municipal employes. Excluding tion.”
relief workers, the federal payroll is' Wasson said that toe state’s public
approxhnately one million. -teehooi -system ’%hs made nraoh pto-
While
FINAL SETTLEMENT
Talte "not£to that on the 9th day of
, Fehruary, 1940, I wGl zander a final
nobody wants to see people groa during ^ psmfc few yeaia. 'nie|aooount of ray arts and hi
lose jobs, tto^fact remains that there j school syvtem during the depreeeiop j E<a>eutor ,0# ifrf Jr A, ^tellay,
are now too many pppole on the pub-'took Hh reduction In state firads and j deceased, in toe office of toe JudRa of
city slum-dweltor now get a better
education, under better surroundings,
with better-trained teachers, toan
anybody got when I was a schoolboy.
States contribute^from tax funds to
aid in maintaining and improving lo
cal sehooils, because the realization
that only by educsitlon Can American
standards of ctozenship be implanted
and' maintaktod in- a changh^ and
confusing civilization^ '
Modem education costs more. It
calls for het^ equipped taatoers at
Mgdwr pi^, arid more of them to
equip the youth of today to face the
erorid on ^ own.
lie payrolls because they are useful to!tried to r^rkie toe most of it. IXiring
political leaders. There is<an iiKessant the past 'thrM years the general ia-
appeal to office-holders on the part semhly has heen ve^ gracionB to the
of individuals for jobs, and it is for edueatioiial eystom in Qouth Chn^hia.
this reason, coupled with multipHed Teachers’ sabnes iiaye baan raised,
activities and spending of govern- additional month of state aid add-
ment, that the list has grown by leaps cd. and many other henefite grinted
in recent years to include thoosrihds this department.’*
of unnecessary and over-lapping peei-
tions.
The fact that a man or woaum ie
employed in public emrice ilMwid be
sulDcicnt proof that to or she is
There ara many fiavoca lor lee
eream, but moet peogde ctoup to toe
eld tovoritea---viHtfie, toseMte and
strawberry, k hae bam Coagd.
Probito of Lanrane county, at 19
o’dbck''1i. m., and. on toe aame day
wiU apply .for a Hud dieehaiga tram
my trust Us Eaeeutor.
Any p«raon indebted to said latetn
is notoHed and teqitowd to malm pay
ment on or.hefot* toat date; and aM
peraoM hatoMr elailina agginat
eataf^t wi> pceeent them ba or ~
aaid dihA (KUy pfWkD er tw faiwlMIr
bwnred.
woL J. BAoinr,
Jan. 1940.->1-4I». ^
CHARACnat-Xamrladge
Tbe final teat of «i^ edDeatkmal
eoheme <is whether or niot k builds
ehhracter. Mere knowledge M not
enough; though the head of a great
buifama aaid to me lately that to
woaid talte on any man or woman
udw had a tooroukh of any ^
one atojeot, whether k relaM to kb
huMneae dr not; for to have taastarod
one thing tboroughiy is evideute that
one hea learned te think.
lEife vhcatkmM tramkig..;^ is .ntt
anadllL ^liia dhlaet of aduteMou is net
16 earn a toriM, but
htor te'lfve.
teoff at the
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