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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE,
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY j 1940
COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
' By Spectator
! JOANNA NEWS
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South Carolina needs a Be<n'PiHman. Well, the senate did not Gdldville, Feh. 6, — Misses S\id«e
The outstanding feature of this^legal 0.1.* t j » ir^ 1 *.
muddle* over the highway funds is tl»
failure of our leaders to lead. Or, it
may be that they are leading in the
wrong: direction. ' -'
There are a few men in public of
fice and the compassionate few who'
wx>uld kill not only the goose of the. Ty-Cobbimg
the pitcher, but swung at the firsT^Mae Wood and Agnes Tinsley,, spent j
pitchi^ ball and is now on first base, j the week-end in Newberry^ with I
That’s something. Here’s hoping the friends. ]
runner, now on first, won’t go to sl^p Misses Marie Trader and Ruth
on the bag; we need a run. So, who-
evei' is coa<^ng the senate, won’t you
Startles spent Saturday in Greenville.
Messrs. Alex Crawford and Kelley
golden egg, but would give the golden
egg to some one whose standard of
living may not equal oertadn stan
^se g^ the run^r to^a little.^tjtg ^ are .attending Oemson
Ty-Cobbmg and-slide for home? spent the week-end with their
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families.
■One hardly kwws what« what. Are' j|jgg Mabel Aldred of Bennetts-
— ---- - Finns be^ing the stuffing out ofspent the week-end at Joanna
dards" prescribed for those who feed^^^^he Russians. No, boys, the .
and fatten at the public expense. The Russians is like punching a bag; Miss Kitty ^Fisher left Friday fori
strange pait of this standard sub- ^**1 punch it a lot witbput . Fitzgerald, Ga., where she ^ayed at
aistence idea is that half the self- any impression. ^ trhe “i^ding of Bob Brunner and Miss
supporting people of the country: ♦ Harriet . Bowers. “Bob” has many
haven’t'all the things we are called I The admiials end other men of war friends in the vallag^ who extend to
on to give away to others. j are having a field day. To be able to him heaity congratulations.
,,Where our leader^ip ill this state!s*ubmat vast sums for new ships—andj Mrs. E. J. Willingham is spending,
is lacking is that we have substituted a!! thait—mi»t delight the soul of enyo few days in^^tlanta with 'her sister, y
personal honor, social qualitdes and bureaucrat in the military (and na-iMrs. Jerry Howai^. j
oratorical gestures for vigorous lead- ^al) service. Those boys are just as. Mr. and Mrs. Horace O’Shields of
t*r.ship along fundamentally sound >appy as a woman with a new mail! Abbeville, visited relatives here Sat-
iiTH‘s. catalogue. Oh, boy! lurday.
luook over the budget of our staU*. ♦ . Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Lollis and chil-
Are we getting \-alue in proportion toi The courts have tied up the gropos- dren of Greenwood, visited Mrs. Nan-
expenditure? c<i use of gasoline revenue. I have nie Matthews.
"The .state is the creature of the peo-1 never opposed the diversion pafticu-|‘ Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Johnkon and
pic, the people are not the dei>endcnts; lai iy on legal grounds, but on grounds children and Misses Fay and Mary
of the state. Perha{>s in time of emer-jof sound financing and wise policy.|Francis were Sunday gruests of Mr,
gency we use any expedient, like a'No matter what you may think of land Mrs. A. F. Campbell in/Clinton,
man seizing a floating log, but we I the highway department, the job be-{ Mr. and Mrs. Charles Murphy vis-
a»e just about in the same condition j fore us is to do a certain jcb, and we ited relatives in Gilbert Sun^y. ’
as Italy and Gennany. Sounds bad, j have not finished. j • ♦
doesn’t it? But what is the difference 1 To think of this as a matter of the! With The Sick
at bottom ? highway department is to go wide of | The friends of Lumus Blalock are
Hitler and Mussolini say that the^t'he marie. department is a group
people belong to the state. Therefore
distressed to hear >he is confined to
of public servants and will readily "his bed. It is hoped he will soon 'be
sei3?e-lb^sitale.^ , ^
state ordains. ■ Here we are claiming i of the highways is one wbich grows Gray^troud was operated on lor
that we are the state; we, the people, !on me. Each year brings more cars, appendicitis on . Thursday at the
ere the state. But we call on the state j j^oi-e buses, more ^trucks. All that ‘ Newberry 'hospital and is doing nice-j
for everything. The next step will be n^it'ans more traffic. That means morelJy.
for the state to tell us what to do, as.g^-jft movement on the roads in both! ——♦ —
the national government is doing now. directions.. That may ■sound foolish, or > Church Bulletin For Sunday
1^:00 A.. M.—Sunday school
11:00 A. M.—Church seryice. Rev.
W. Ray Anderson.
5:45—B. T. U.
M.—Church service, Rev.
We need leadership here in South U,inf,pie^ but recently a man having.oc-
Ce^lina, T^nn, purposeful, informed,'casion to travel frequently between
resourceful, even aggressive, leader- gumter and Georgetown told me that
ship, to survey, appraise, study, esti- be usually drives from Sumter to
mate or evaluate what the state is Manning by Paxville because it is'/ 7:00 P.
sjxmding our money for. We are and built for swift traffic, whilejC; C. Vaughan,
spen(1 ing. si>ending and^xmdmg with^^tivas- direct JMXUfa&.XP0C^»«SiHX0iter —liltbr --..i,
out knowing what we are doing. , Manning (and three or four miles' Anderson will be here for his regular
• ^shelter) is by Alcolu. The direct road service.
Well, congress finds the money for was built (the Sumter county part of
WP.\ and PWA and a dozen other it) years ago and is narrow and full
agi-ncies of spending, but it cuts | of sharp and rdangerous curves.' My
lls
plia tax
deeply the farm benefits.
■ infoi-mant tell
The national govem'ment is finding .takes the longer route by night for
millions for many so-called services'g^reater ease in driving and for safe-
wHlch are of no gi''^t usefulness, ty. Heie, then, is a piece of road, pos- serv^.
Anything advocated by the president sibly eig^t or ten miles long, built I
Girls’ Gub Meete
Tuesday night, the Girls’ club, with'
me that he always Miss Lib Ross and her committee asi
hostesses enjoyed their monthly j
party. I>elicious refreshments w’ere
Girl Scouts Organize
commajids a large support, just on some years ago, that was a splendid)
p^irical gmunds. Congress swallowed ^ghway for the ti^ic of 1930 butj The girls completed their organiza-
all the doses prescribed by Mr. Roose- really is not suited to the needs of Ition Wednesday night. They di-
velt, even to the disruption of the 1940
earning power of the nation; ‘it now •
lamely and weakly follows the bell-1
With the Press
weather into whatever pasture he 1
leads. !
Farm incopie and a man’s bread and,
meat are above any political party.
No party means anything today. Ac-| _
Cluing to the standards of Woodrow' .^-hat delinquency among juv^
W ilson, \\ ade Hampton and Ben Till- ^iles is increasing the’icountry over,
man we have no Democratic -phe age-bracket m w4iich .the great
What we have is a lot of .shrewd poh-)
vided into two patrols. The girls
from ‘14 to 16 voted to call them
selves “Rose Patrol,” with Miriam
Davenport, patitil leader Ind Fay
i Francis, lieutenant. The girls from
*********************** 12 to 14 wiH be known as “Redwing
THIS IS ONE ANSWER Patrol,” and elected Bobby Jean Carr
It seems to more- ,general]^ leader with Mary Francis as their
some and delicious,—has made the
pause that refreshes America’s favor
ite moment. Everybody welcomes
the refreshed feeling,—the happy
after-sense of complete refreshment
Coca-Cola always brings.
R E F R e
THE PA USE THAT
BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY Of THE COCA-COLA Oa BY
GREENWOOD COCA-COLA BOTTLING-COMPANY
lieutenant.
'Redwing Patrol has completed three j
of its tests. A^ large flag has been
-y-" ^
® ^ crime is being committed presented to tlm troop by Mr. Dur
ticians who have captured the South continues to move forward. . 'nnn f
grin.
the D«»Dle convict clothes or shovel- lowed the meeting.
^ ing and picking on the chain gangs | ♦
There was a hearing this week on matured almost to the point ofj ~ Woman’s Club .Meeting
the propo.sals to repeal the statute j The Woman’s club at its meeting
which imposes a special tax on in-* But today a cursory trip through voted to act as sponsors for*the Girl
come derivixi from interest, dividends, the prisons and penitentiaries would Scouts. A Girl ^out committee was
etc.. This i,.s a fine effort, sponsored show a complete reversal of the pic- formed. Mmes. Rob Francis, chair-
by the chanilxM*s of commeroe of the tuie. :man, R. G. Carr, Sallie Bridges, Lot-j
state and the South Carolina Feder- Today’s criminals are young people.Rowland, E. J. Willingham, Maud
ation of Commerce, Agriculture' and I why that’ j Bridges, and Miss Margaret Warren.
Industry.
The house invited two citizens (not ^ . . . ■
metniers of ,th« legislature) to pp,..''P » of v.rj^ auai^.
sent ariruments for and airainst the' “ ® demonstra-
R 'We fact that 16,000,000 of the 30,000,-
repeal .of the law on intangibles. K- v_a
B. Herbert, widely knewu Columbia■“?« chtldton mjtm country brtween
attorney and former legialator, argued living no
for the Ux. J. K. Breedin. manugingir^ o'. tnatruot»n, our ^ _
director of the Farmers and Taxpay-j ** , ^ one need go Saturday night, Feb. 17th, the club
1 * .1 eua. further m explaining ithe gruesome t -w..;-
Well, the inquiry, no doubt, opens
I This committee will assist the Scouts
ers league, argued for repeal of the
tax.
I agree fully with the aigumezlt
that no man in public ofl^ tats •
lien on the place of delegate to the
national Democratic conventioo. We
gruesomf
phenomenon. of youthf'ul delinquency
and crime ih ffie United States.—The
Charlotte Observer.
in making plans to raise money and
act as consultants. ,
The club voted to bring GoJdville
two performances a year for two
years under the direction of W. P.
Patton of the Carolina Assembly Pro
gram Group..
will,present 'Mr. and Mrs. LeWain in
an hour and half program of magic
and ventriloquism.
THE TENDENCY IS DANGEROUS I , ^
uiiai LXfimx-rubu: wnv*r,rtxx.. t.,: Now it is proposed to revive L
are becoming less and less democratic [discarded practice of mWntaaning
every year. Why should anybody have state scholandiips in stAe colleges.
a reserved seat at the convention? 'Every boy and every girl in a atate^^ '
' * supported college is now enjoying a * surpnfc shower fw her,
Beware Coughs
from common colds
Hang
subsidy.
The state colleges of South Caro-
; Mna have received a itotal appeoximat-
ling $5,000,000 from the fetteral gov-
VW VAiiiti^avv All wak;/ awcrif awa vt xay^
'I'llSif’ nSinCF plant enlargements. They are re
« UCrI lACUI^ \/U|ceiving 'handsome appropriations from
Creomulsion relieves promptly be-1 the genera^, asaembly for maintenance,
cause It goes right to the seat of the ] These ^^appropriations will in time be
Double to loown Kerm ^Aden phl^^ or the expanded plants will
increase secretion and aid nature to . “
soothe and heal raw, tender. Inflamed rot down lor fall itirto d»use.
bronchial mucous membranes. No mat- ! Many years ago ■when nearly every-
ter bow many medicines you baye 1 body was poor waa ■color of ewcuse for
tried, teU your dnigglrt to kU » state schoiarsihipe. '
battle of CreomtiMon with , the .tiiKler- A*ri<b*urel eclnlaniiipe we *•-
ernmeirt in the last four or five year,. Ottered about Mra. Poaf. When the
tabhahed in Gemsbn because it seem
ed prudent to hire boys to taki the
courses.
Mrs. Spires' invitation was different,
she was to attend a birthday party in
honor of Mrs. Luther Poag. All dur
ing the afternoon every attention was
many and lovdy gifts were presented
to Mrs. Spires she was too astonished
to speak or eten open them.
An unusually pleasant social hour
followed with coffee .and doughnuts
and attractive Valentine favors.
Priiiting
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that jQu are to like the way
U qukduy allays the cough or you are
to your money bade;
For CooghSi CkEtt Colds» Broocnitit ■Ajssomate ’^Befonned PrsEbyberians,'o’clock Sunday afternoon aL *rarkey
Creek chutcb near Ware SBioals With
the Rev. Mr. PMts in ichaige. Borud
was in the church cemetery.
Mrs. Scawrgiht Dies
JMrk. MolUe Seawright, 71,
Saturday Rt the home of her son on
Mikon RiWmI after iteven months'
illness. Mrs. Seawright was known
to her friends ss “Grumy.”
Ptmeral services ware tWtd alt thiaa
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Luthensns are sui^xnting ooileges for
boys and girls.
! The members of these chorebss sre
'skimping ithemsdTee to keep their
looHe^ going. Boys and gixis in none
|of them are subtilised, Imfireetly, by
'appropriations and federal aliotin^nts.
'To^eep their heads ahoae water, the
ohuroh coilegesi haye an luiceaahigly
painful strugsgle.
Education dioidd not be the monop-
^oly of the state. It diould not be' the
Imonopoty of the churches.
‘There is a strong and increasing
tendency in South Carolina for the
state to monopolize education of every
kind. The prc^sal fb reeetabliah state
supported aofaolardnpe b a kymptom.
It is a dangerous tendency.
-—The News and Courier.-
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