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/ I ^ ^ . / ¥dr . PAGE FOUR TfiE' CUNTON CHRONICLE. CUNTOM. 8. C. f I ... - ‘ ■ THUifesDAY. JaWaRY 25. 1940 ( ! (dlintan (ElprontrU BsUbDM 190# WILSON W. HASIIBft Editor PubliAw PabHriied Erory lliaraday By THE CHBONICLE PUBUSHING COMPANY ^ Subiicription Rato (Paywblo In Advance): . One Year $1.50; Six Montiis 76 cents; Three Montiks 50 cents Entered as Second Glass Mail Matter at the Poet Offlce at Clinton, S. C. The Ohromcle seeks the cooperation od Its siiieeribera and readers—the publisher ariU at all thnes appreciate wise sacgeetkMts and kindly ad vice. The Chronide wifi pul^Iish letters o(f eoteml intereet when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonysnons oommunioatloiiB wfll not be noticed. This paper is not responaSAe for the viofws or opfaiioiia «f its oorreqKmdento. Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee Flat Reck Socials | enr. slim dianee, jr., has bought out; the "afi-nhe-and-next-moming” fill-1 ing atatiim at the corner of church' and weetview etreets and will put in: a stock of groceries and bicycles and free air and wetter and a first-aid kit. whoever gets hurt nearby will he treated for nothing provided they'fill HP with gaas, and if they get killed, he will had their remains to a under- tODAy [TQNQMl ttrprhet which touch the average citisen do^t^ Some sell style, some quality, some give more for tne mon ey, some offer betteV service; but ev- ^ one of , them has siieCheded .be cause-they give consumere of their I'espedive lines What they yrant at [prices which satisfy the buyers, i they'don’t do that they fail. AUDITOR’S NOTICE The County Auditor’s office at Lau rens, S. C., will be open from the 1st day of Jemuary to the let day «f Bfardi, 1940, for the purpose of tak’- ing tax' returns for tl^ eimnig\g year; and f<nr the transabtkxn of. afi btsfi- • TO< IPGI as Col. Charles A. Lln(H)ergh has had. which is common to all human '>>>«»nty l»t« the natur,. Iciness peirtaiiung to the dfic^ For tha I convenience of taxpayers, retuma oan ' I don’t bqpr quite as much talk as be made at the following appoiat- we used to about chain stores driving ments throughout the county on dates the.J‘litUe fellow” out of bu^ness. .named below for the purpose of tak-^ ! Back of this talk probacy were the >0^ returns for the year 1940: merchants, exhibiting Jones’ Store, Thursday, Jan. 26tli, M. to 10 A. m; LINDY — Misinterpreted 1 do not recall any young man who unsuccessful ever got so much undesirable publicity ^be same sort of envy of the success- 9 A. free 'of ohargi. he got it off terms* ntediately the tongues of envy, jeal-i iousy and spite be^n to defame him. FINAL SETTLEMENT vrith his daddy’s endorsement. i Take notice that on the 9th day of the diurch was so cold last Sunday hU o^^Te* aiSf di^unc^ him .^^^0,1 will r«jdar a final CUNTON, S. C., THURSDAY* JANUARY tt, 194# ‘^because he disliked the Hmelight.. of JE? A awful tragedy of the kid-1?! !5! account of m]% acts and doings as eartabs of J. A. Bailey, Cooper’s Store Thursday, Jan. ZSth* 10 A. M. to 12 noon. Harris’ Store, Thursday, Jan. 26tik* 1:30 P. M. to 3 F. M. Lanford, Friday, Jan. 28ith, 12 noon to 1:30 P. M. Ora, Friday, Jan. 26tih, 2 P. -M. tc 8 P. M. y It is absolutely necessary for yoo^ "s TONS OF WORDS Industrial production is not the only kind of production that has been stepping up recently, ery mail these days we receive en-. veioi:)es from Washington, .some of them containing “verbatim” copies of reiwrts of special hearings, while “ sent sing the long meter doxology and j > j # t •• j » #• i. 'deceased, in the office of the Judge of .-l ... 1*7 .J ' j, .napping and murder of Lindy’s first- t..^ TX make returns as personal propmtP •(then he said the benediction and ...f ^^bato of Laurens county, at 10.. k needs. Those aetiabore and congress-, mMi ae saio toe oeneaicvton ana .rv*. /Ka «4in 4km men who spend the groatar pait of!a*ad# went home, the stove was o’c^ their time working to secure allot-* good ftX, but no fuel was on hands. ^ P - t "iwiii mr rhas to be returned every year. H aet In almost ev- mepts for their districts *%aek home’* deacon h<dsum moore had de^nded 'ery word he said and misinterpreting V. m. m., and on the same day' • ... ...v .r* . . will .My for . fio.l di.ch.r,e my trust as Executor. (estate will present them on or before I said date, duly proven or be forever tf S. R. DORROH, Auditor, Imurens County. ditor’s office in the couit house, .hOOId con.pi.uou.ly p.-. f..lo-nT«cor:r.^TJp“:"'An7j;;;;„7SM’u. mid mmt U.O .t on. of tfc. .b,^ ures of the report by counties before for eame, but he hed counted on elder wu-n iw. i-ko* fkm notified and required to make pay- ^ them. Before attempting to get aid|green who expected the clerk of the mnnfn^nt oyaa iyvfArin,. ^ before that date; knd aH for this or that pro}^, they ought Co [session, filbert jones, to look after the a ii^ l- i,--- iP**‘*®*'* having claiins against saiil atlH'rs protse the work of" ^vem-/*^ «.P ^ I heating biwiess, but he'said he under-warned England^ of the m.nt.J alph.bi.tic,l agencies and ’“"I;”* ’*'!?'‘'f* .Irength of the (Jeman air power he, issuetl to .spivad propaganda. In our spwding for liquor, v^jpsid to do such things ansoforth. denounced asPro-Nazi [barred. office, as well S» in thousands of and beer. Aleo how much of p^lK, ^ ♦ , Ilecent events have proved Undy Wm. J. BAILEY, others, this material ia assigned to welfare «k1 ^>«f funds n^e toeir| the flat rock town pump in the rio-Vit. Russian nlanes Viavp 5, 1940.—l-4tw. Executor, tin* Waste paper basket. It is a sig- ^ !***'*?^. a, . . . 9/\ CStWWWV TAV nil leant fac many instances, spend thousands of,may be needed, j mayor rote the W4).a. headquarters learned to their^cosit thati dtill-ii-s for writers to' Dreoare this* W ho‘is surprised by these astound-[Washington, d. C. and asked for a pro-j^, • • .u • " Ooiiai-s 101 Winers lo prepare ems .. . ^ iGerittan superiority in the air was no eiipy'*anr™tReir-Hoo!r^^F^^ therinr-ftgtiro*-t..-Nabody.-j:w«li™l*»monU^-lJLaD^lL.a._wa^iL.s»A^ forth in flat iy>ck. the town, will be. 7 ^ In our spending for liquor, wine p»id to do such things ansoforth ’ beer. Atoo how much of public I ♦- are and relief funds m^e their the flat rock town pump in the mid-; R's^an'nianeVhave 5, 1940.—l-4tw. If we are'die of main sreet frezz up again lastlyP/»"«s have turaed ^ p •« I. Km tin cans in Fin- ^e Do All Kfiida of ^RINTING air force incompe-| And England and ict that the government [«'>•« ‘o SP««* mHlions for liquor, we [week and busted, after the poleesman'. . . ^ ‘ e iHisinesses as well, what had took place, he and untralneiT. Except Bad. CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. W. J. BENJAMIN SERVICE STATION , Standard Products Can Washed and Graaasd Your Businesa Appndataiil newspapers in ceiving frte ihgs. TTooJr '11^^ the expectation of re- ■pace for their offer- HEROES — Hatred who faced facts honestly k^ th^t ^..v .... menuce the allies have met the nation and states in th«i liquor j out of wattor for bosses and mules] business and-urging people to bby and aod mrs. tom head and mrs. bert skin-> A M. Uu. output of :^„r c‘S.^r'«.fnyi T,,.^ I. . ,uirk 1„ human l^'TmiuaT'roTOrt'o7 till govlm- increaw in whiskey consumption-and. and kitchen work at this pump and,nature which impels many to turn nieht nriiitinir office discloses toat in'more dfunkenr*eM. The repeal advo- now they are sans watter and will, be'against those they have set on a ped- ' r> months uL 60 0^^^ printed even werrt so far as to boldly sans it till something is did about it.;estal, often merely because the idol-i ized hero turns out to be really mod- j material rolknl off the pre^ proll^'^^^ it is a long'lane that newer .tlTriis.ieat, sincere and honest. People of that goveinnieiit imprint As wibh other these same the folks whp have benn livving off [envious turn of mind develop a tiatred form-s of mass Production, the in- ^ w^ L the old fa^er for 15 years mTughtIfor others who are better than they ciea.sed output brought with it a low- I^P<« w®® were oem on repealing! f fJ,.™ *rp • pr ripr oosi alboiurh the tbe 18th amendment, that at woold have to pay what stuff is worth from ara bUl Tf more ^n 118 000- halanoe the budget and help unem-|now on. meat and bread and corn and; The p^ple- of anc^nt Athens ban- ^ TO^y^!iagger ^p^s^if'th^ ploym«nt. Well, wbatj^ the potatoes have not fetohed ished their greatest leader, Aristides, 000 still unemnwyed and the «m)ugh cash to ke^ the folks who by ^pular vrte. Aristidw himself ^ treasury head, Secr^^ Moigenthan,*!”^!^ them to ikid sole and ^yjask^ one bf the citizw^s wh^he^was ^Because T km <w.ess Wis less loauariouA. at its recommending yesteruay to tlie houseitogether for manny years, but due to voting Against him. l ist session than it wa ’ in t^e nr'' apuropriations committee that the,^rop controil.and hitler and stalin, the tired of heanng him called the jusf, la^t session than it wa in t..e pr.- .jj ^ raised tiller of the soU mought have a chance was the rebly. ceding session, the Congressional “"“‘v on une puouc uwi uc xmiwou from forty-five to fifty biLions of jemluring 1940 to change his patched per of 'In our own times, the great popular ■hero of the war with Spain was Ad- the term reouired 1111 naees an further brazen promise was made that possibly be aWe to chaw and smokejmiral George Dewey. Nothing was too tall time hi?h ^The 39o’.hearing that bootlegging and the speak-easy were'* tetter grade of tobacco, but if. unde (great to do him honor. When he.mar- iSl i>Srt?!^k^ToTua^child^of proW^^^ turns them aloose, their last ried, the public contributed to a fundi ?e<mrl thl SltLoTv •'•'to oxilfe firever, once the law w^ state (3 years^ from now) will be,to present him with a house in Wash- ^ k77 u lJ- / F. .4 1 repealed. Many other equally mis- worse than their firsf state. ‘ington. But the American people .\dd all jtois to the flood of useless promisee were made which in' ^ [turned against him over night when nail which arrives m every office, ^ Flat Rock Is Looking Forward To 'he transferred the deed of the house and ,.»|*ciallj- from the A Sp«cUc«I.r Suicide |to hia bride. at news- fargotten'—that the Democratic J^., read in the! Nobody in his own time, or since, an «*P«^*ve jg32 made repeal one P*P®™ * weeks ago where . a,ever discovered anything reflecting on Prbfessional Anitouncement Dr, Felder Smith announces Dr.^'Bimcan S. Felder, a recent graduate of Northern Illinois College of Optom etry, as associate in the practice of Optometry in Clin ton, Laurens ahd Community. • - •Su.— J ' • - As consulting eye specialists we offer complete opto- metric^services in eye examinations, jwrescribing and fit ting glasses, replacing lenses, frames, etc. We invite you to visit our offices or telephone for ap pointment. CLINTON PHONE 29 LAURENS PHONE 794 5^ coulees' which is directed pajHiis, and you have situation which needs sensible and immediate i.-i an extravagance for which is. no plausible excuse’ and one sena-, tois and congressmen could greatly ?: of its principal Dlfcnks a«d putting it ^oung put a notia in Uio paper,the oharacter of Georga Wa«h«gt4m, ‘ into effect is about the only promise got a job to support , but all sorts of maliaous lies were of the platform it has fulfilled. [‘‘‘s familey with he would commit sui- There ore today more than 400,000 ^ hisseVf. the feUer got 7 V 1 7 *'u ^ b'TTu " 1."”' places «»e United States engaged the next day and the curtail If they would. But they have..^ ^ business, a number of,«ory went on to ^ay that he is now no intentioa-of^mg so they like tw ^hese being right here under our home Ireggniar at SSI-perareek. --want to drag them down to their own wx ll to see what they say put in ® . ♦ • IavaI print at taxpayers’ expense. doors in our own county. i What does this all mean ? There can be but one answer—increaM in drink- TWKNTY-FIVE MILLION A YEAR drunkenness lawleasneas «k1 FOR LIQUOR crime. If you doubt the ohaiVB—obedt One of our '^esteemed subscribers police records which unmistaka>Uy aiyi a splendid citizen of this commu-'give the proof. It means legalised li- nity, calleil us over the phone yester-'quir w leaving its path of deetruetkm, day and asked: [that conditions are growing daily Mr. Editor—Can jrou tell me how from bad to worse. ,. . much South Carolina spent for liquor' Why wiil a Christian professing mr. slim chance, jr., decided to un dertake the same stunt, so he rote a notis and put it in'the paper and it read as followers: “deer friends—if I do not get a job at 35| per week or more witMn 5 days, i will climb up on top of the cotton mill smokestack and jump off and kilt myself, i and my circulated^ and printed about him im his lifetime. Ordinary people are shamed by the mere existence of superior men and I BUSINESS — Excuses I pay little attention to the con stantly recurring attacks on “big bus iness,” for ^ have been around long enough to realize that most of the outcry against successful business men comes from those who have not allso owe back monney on vwpte imU»M«.Uy doM tteir ey«i 1 * “*.*",1.'*““' to .uch conditiomi? mv do not >' want to Mp MW m from the smokestack, give me a job t's, .tir. we.can, we replied, for wej^o such conditioos? Why do not fatb at once, signed, yore hart friend, slim chance, jr.” broke the pa.sl yeai Y ^ are ju.«a in leceipt of figures’^ roum*era and mothers rise up in an aggres- ties for the fiscal year ending Juneisi'e, determined fight to save tJheir 30. I'tyo. The estimated sales' are'boys and girls? $21,010,260 (sounds like New Dealj No law can ever be conceived in tbe .sntnding figures, doesn’t it?) I mind of man to make the liquor bus- For tho |>a« two .voara tho Foder-lineot doc^ Theno never ™ a ^|bles. one man wnt a piatol and a note at. I tote., .f.„ Tempemnee and Uw cent drunk m, matter whether „Hml, the KriMrceiiuTit in t.bis slate have issued victim is clothed in silk or in ;smokestack a siau im-nl show ing the approximate Tbe liquor traffic degrades politics, re- ’ childrens must have food and cloth- been successfol. Men who have not themselves the qualities which make for busihess suc cess excuse their own failures by ac- the verry nbxt.day mr.' chance got all kinds of advice about his trub- cusing the successful of dishonesty and unfair practices. Since the vast majority of men who go into business for themselves eventually fail, dema gogues who disclaim against the suc- large l-A-.'' (U-1 PVO \U' cessful can always drum up a following. ,/ you can t enmo tnei Since no human being is perfect, use this gun.” another [there can always be found enough ex- a rope and- a note which amples of lapses from the straight MiK* fioin :il«:oh(>hc beveidge sales ®nd the home life of the poo-i „„ FwiivAurM-.,- «M,.irMa4awir' J ' uu . • i w lu ,, , 1 • 1- f K-vi 41... ** followers, the smakestack<and narrow path to give color to the .ii) ti) (l:!'fot4y b;;fore our l>le. iw tmsuiess is bad in the hands t-,. ... -n.:. .. w v . 1 .u ~ ■ -I Lf tKk. iv, 4Kw. wvF fk. ^'3^” onough. you better use this; allegation that big enterprises are a .1, th.. enuinmu, «on„m,c ^ rope and try the barn rafter.." atiH;merce to the public and tend to “ ■!“*/, “■'Other sympathiter aont a dort ofl.tifl* or aupprcaa the "little fellow." I THE BOOKS ARE OPENJFOR THE PAYMENT OF Your 1939 COUNTY TAXES » Pay an(jl Save! __ I7t for January. 2% for February. 3% for March. 7^< from April Ist to 15th April 15th, the books will close and all receipts not paid will be executed. 4 J l..tt r .«,r. K.o- the .bird year th.'™.nt fod.Ml ornate. TWO t m..110,11 am '«>Jpasul then st'ito- ^ . .feet that he woulddent get his bones'poople fall for. 'Wiey like an “under ti.^ .i., this roport that^ There is nothing that can be said m!broke up if he woul'd use pizen; he dog” to be sorry for. I have y^t to 31 \\ t (luotv. j favor of tbe liquor industry. In what Et viTiUf far the slate for the year^eveV form it exists k takes toll qf the form of liquor, beer and winejevery other business, and the revenub in taxi.s amoiinlefl to $2,491,026, Eati-[ produced therefrom comes, to m large mating retail >ales at ten times thejdegree, from those least able to buy anioCmt of the questioned , e-tinulled dog” to be sorry for, I have y^t recker-mended 4 grains in hot watter. meet a man who is sorry for himself!]] ■ ^ twhb has anybody but himself to blame up to this riting slim has not yet f<jr bis troubles. dumb the smokestack or used anny of j , ^ the items sent.him for his suicide con-1 SUCCESS — Ideas tate tax, w-hich is not it. A government that must need to yenienoe. he has newer benn able to I I have never known of a successful fair estimate, total exist from revenue derived from .gsuch[bold a job in excess of. 2 months at?business founded and operated on any right to exist. |« sallew of not over 7$ per week-lbasis other than giving the customer '‘Wlitfdfitbif “to 424,^0.260, the , We should bang our beads in s’ - x . ..... a * Us U shame <«omebodBy has set a long ladder up [the most possible for his money. All at.:# depart- , . 1 a f • » • I'”'*'"”' ” ^— -—Mr—-— — ’-'-’V 4 xiivtib ortA/xc |^xx;iT xxuiix .« ipiizkx^ COUTl" j ' lu pro^iDKion, w,. Isentunent, the (egBliuttkm of k)tozi-.jseweral citizens of flat rock wiH.vol-[ter of piece goods sold by a 'retired ^ Bringing thi* aiatter close home, cants will go and ho one knows thkjlunteer to help him to the bop .it is a sea captain, R. H. Macy. Laurens county, with legalised stores ]better than the liquag manufacturers, ibad smokesta^ to climb, ae it has no ii i.auicns and.iC'lint^, jjaitl,tax rev-iThis is exactly what they are afrakljrangs attached to H and it mought tr ue of $22,(Xj,y, with! estimated sales of, and fighting against all the while have to be dumb from the inside, if of ^:22(i,t:i0. divide: Laurens $131,- throufi^ propaganda, constant adver-,armything happen;, we will rite or t WAR BULLETIN BOARD ^ ).< divide Clinton |88,H10. [tising and the expending of big money foam you. The reprwt ofj tb^ committee shows in varioos ways. , . Thai while rhere w-as a 'smalTdecrease 1 ♦ m the .sale of hard liquors, there wasi an aiaiming increase in tlie sale of •wine and beer •amounting to $1)608, 410. The tax on liquor is $1.26 per gallon, on l>eer 15c per gallon, and on wine 36c i>er gwllon. STnee wines oon-' tain 21 per cent alcohol and the tax! London. — Mine or torpedo smks is ’ ' .. - is a drinking which will make tbe useTj^in defends war bkxdcade eiiuaTly as intoxicated as liquor if a my* AnMriean shippers fail tp sufficient amount is consumed. There opeiWte -with contraband control at are 500 licenj^ liquor stores in the [cihrmltar. ’ ~ yorea tfolife.' mike lark, rfd, corry spottdent. A railroad man got the idea of buy ing' watches wholesale and selling them at retail to other railroad men, and the great Sears-Ri^ebuck mail- oVder house is the result. ^A shoe salesman had an idea for much lower than on liquor, there [British deabroyan Emioikh, between growing consumption of wine|i75 and 200 men beliered loat; Brit 15 Yews Ago jiteaui of Intareat item The jCkroakle better-looking sfaoes to be sold at oiver price everywhere. Frank Melville’s i etm h now the head of the largest,( shoe distrBsluring and manufacturing { chain in the world. J ' I used to know a chap named Whe- iaapiry 22, 19$S. stale, with more than 5,000 [kaoes that sell beer, ale and wine day and night, Sundays included. Almost twenty-five millions spent HDL9IINJU.—'Roaaian jdanes raadi Tbe groeerjf and haShdapnib Wsineis of J( A. Bailey has faaen purchased h^ J. Ferrell MUam and lx now belnc 4^erated at the same looatSoa under the name of Mfiaptbi Qnmsry. ^r. Ian who ran a cigar stand ih the' annually for alcoholic beverages, and yet our state stands daily with arms 1 oikstretched begging for Washington tb^ipnd-ouits on the pretense that we are i{h)P«rtystricken and not fiimnciaHy iiWe 'to provide for our own local centMl Fha-rf. — W. kill. U Nann«ii Finn, nfnit 1,000 killed m vain aasaiAte on tinea north' Bather Holland has accepted of (Lake lawkigB. BUCHLA^^. — AUiea want Ru mania of “gmaa compIkatiaMi? if at tempt is made to foree Britiab and FrMMh ail tu ^ionfah-jiK' companiee to faraiih oil to a position as booldteeper with Blakie- ly’k Grocery. and Mn. J. Haap Stene^ )fft Mill week to iepepd a Flcr^ TO TBB CHRCWICUI SAVE SAFELY HERE, EACH ACCOUNT IS INSURED UP TO $5,000.00 Economical Home Loans Our long-term hoifte bans are available to responsi ble citizens to help them buy, build or.refinance a home. RENT RECEIPTS ARE WORTHLESS AS COLLATERAL— WHY NOT . . Own Your Own Home Yates House in Syracuse.'He bad an idea, wbtoh grew into the United Ci gar stores. ’ Dr. George Hartford had an idea th^ there was profit in selling tea eheapo* than the general ikores 8old|! it His eons stMl operate the laigest , chain-store system in the world, the Great Atlantic A -Pacific Tea com pany. bstead of beefing dbout hard luck, get an idea and make jt wdrk. That’s tbe onl;^ rule for success I know of. CHAINS —^ laterpriaing ' ilVe talked about. sibsb atorce. ba- eauM they are tbe *1b1f bdifneii* en- IM ns help you^hrough our modern, simple financ ing pfaui. We are ready with amipte funds, quick service, no red tape. EDEftAtSAVmS lAND LOAN ASSOCIATION Telephone Nat • i ¥■ A CBatm iNslitgtiMi Serving Clinton People fieoeppee^eiheeeeeeeeeoeooooeeeooieopp