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j 1 f. PAGE FOUR 'mrnrr^wr [ ’. THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CUNTON. S. a THURSDAY, MAlCa 7. 1»4» (SUittnn (ElprDtitfU BrtibHrii»d IfOt WILSON W. HASEIS, Editor Mid Pid>lWier Pidiltihod Etmt Hiaridur By THE GHftONKHiB PUBLJf^HING OOiCPANT Subscription Rate (Fa]f«ble In Advance): One Year $1.50; Six Months 76 cents; Tliree Months 60 oents ^tered as Second Glass Mail Matter at the Post Office st ^intoot S. C. The Ohronicle seeks the cooperation of its sidMcribers and publisher will at all timea appreciate wise sogceetioos and km^ ad vice. The Chronicle wUl publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatoiy nature. AnoQSvnotts oommmieatkMis will nnt be noticed. This paper is not responsible for tM Tigws or qpiaibns of its correapondents, ..J' right, and look r^ht, let the taxpay ers know it. H government refuses to ghra the public that iight to which it is entitled, then the newspapers ardl render public responsibility unfcss ithey be ^ineless, unanimous sheets ,untrue to the people they serve. Noboi^s Business Gee Mc€^ Births PITTS Mrs. James Pitts announce the birth of a daughter, Jacqueline, Sunday, (March 3, at Hays h^Hal. — ♦ WEISNKR 'Mr. and Mrs. Ned R, W'dsner of South Amfboy, N. J., anhounce the birth of a daughter, Edna Earle, at Hays, ho^iJaL Thursday, Peh. 22. Mrs. Wersner before marriage was Welles Surveys Europe WFI IHss Jane Ciarrett_of this city. CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 7, H4i SIX MONTHS OF WAR |mation Chat is gathered ia making the The European war was six months oki Friday and it must be admitted, . ,. ^ that it is a tame affair by oompari-,vtsett. son A Trip To Florida ) My doctor told me to stay in Flor-i QUICKER TRUCK SERVICE ida 10 days, and longer unices I feltj truck service for Southern .that I had recovered my health. through consolidation off fefkjw cant get along very well down « A. Motor Freight lines with .here unless he has more than $100 ®*t»nding the ' *• ahead. Every time I sign a‘*l^ frotn Oreemhoro, N. C., to New - ■ - WWMW, is lOinounced in an adver- tiaement in today’s paper by Fred Ridley, ptosident of T»nsportation, jchedi my fever returns and my Mood 'pressure goea The purpose of a census iriiould he I am running low oi^ my pink modi- eins, hut my blue drops are holding out aU right. My ear and noee pre- iac., ve March 1. m: .. COMMUNITY FUNERAL HOME CUnton, S. C. FOR COLORED PEOPd ONLT Phone 31f Rev. H. W. Walker, NEW BOOKS FOR 1940 ALL KINDS AND SIZES CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. Beyond (hat, R'seriptions will hive to be filled ere PINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice (hat on the 16th day! with the World war at this stage. 1 shouW not go. Information that is|long. My pink pdfs and rubbing reme-iw^er a fmd ABOARD S. 8. BBT nniiiiiii WoQaa, Undar-TtenkSp off State, •hewn a* ha bagm trip through Italy, Qennany, France, and Great Britain. He win rioort bade personally to the Praswent given in income tax reports, it is ar-|dies will last 3 more doings as Ad- gued, is supposed to be secret, too,|atfiff wn make chest poltiees out of nous war. but they have not yet badjbut weiy Jtmr reports are refcas^jhae given out to go through what they were called j showing earnings made by certain The people pf Groat Britain, France and Germany know they are in a upon to enduro in the firet six months' Amenican citizens. | il can grt a little breath today thru of the T7-18 conflict. ' Question 32 asks: “Amount of moft-, nostril and might hear it thunder In the last great European war ey. wages or salary received. This one <>»»*■ of one ear, and am able to walk (k i many. Austiha-Hungary and Tur- P«^icularfy, br^ new, has caused a key Avere in on one side, and Britain, sto™ of cridcunn, because as many Fi ance. Belgium. Russia, Japan, Mon- believe, it vkdates the Bill of Rights. teiiegix> aiul i8e*rbia on the other; beJurf is general that New Deal Germany had smashed across Bel- planners umpired tbts and several g jni and through Fiance to within *>tber qiKstions which refuse to rec- a :\ av inik's of Paris; ^ognize the inviolable righte to privacy of the individual. The centralization Th. ni;'.n\' Russians had invaded Ger- of power in Washington and the at tempt to regiment everybody fuid ev-j around at about the same speed I >iaugh:i‘V at Tannenberg and in the|p.yy^^j^ there under government con- have to mope at. One good thing ii>t battles of the Marne and Ypres contrary to what Aaner- about these folks in Florida is—'they m^stmclx of thie estate off G Fkqnd j TjlW’ Rfkflv FffW* Adanr, deoewsed, in the office off tftio OQQy VUF Judge of Probate of Laurens county, I OllStrf Ar at 10 o’clock a. m., and on tbe game j ^^oner V/enUlTy day will apply for a final disohaxge “—^ from my trust as Administratrix. | Columbia, March 3.—members. Any person indebted to said estate ^be state tax commiMion, Chair- is ootafieid and required to make paywi®*" Walter G. Query 'and J. P. Der- ment on or ^ore that date; and aHtbam, have completed 25 years as become a spring chicken again; I feel j P****^*'* 'having claims against said|®®***bers of the board. Wee I am"wep&rated only a few weekspresent them on or before! Both were appoint^ in the first from crutches and rolling chairs. date,' duly proven, or be forever ^ week of March, 1916, by the late Gov- barred. « ' temor Richard I. Manning when the LORENA O’DELL ADAIR, fcommissiop was first created. Administratrix, i Query recalled that the commisskm oeary around the book once wititout stopping for wind and rest. ^ 1 must be improving. I don't expect to ever Gray Funeral Home Qinton, S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS .-jtnd EMBALMERS Ambalanbe Service Phones 41 and S99-J L.t RUSSELL GRAY and V. PARKS ADAIR, ^n. Mgrs. I am not the only sick person in Forida. I see many others moping fi AAii". histni-y; > Japan Ava>^<<>izing German colonies believed, that in the I'ai East, Britain invading castle.’’ th m in Africa; ♦ Ships Aveiv sunk on the seven seas,^ AN UNMUZZLED PRESS three British cruisere going down Tn The much talked of Sanrtee-Oooper one (lay; project eetimated to coat taxpayers N'oav, a quaKeir of ^a century later, more than $40,000,000, broke into (be March d-. make^^^ihe warvaieiaine'TngBt. i5esi< old. Germany invaded Poland on Sep- mayor of Oharlerton charged at intereatii^ games and fine tenlTrer first, Britain and France de- public meeting (hat the proposed ixe-jSnigmg and-music, we had a long, hot, clare<l Avar on Germany on September moval of the centra! officis of the rough debate on: “Resolved, that the .1- . 1 —r._- r9.j.u_ -- ...aj— (hat lays the egg is the mother Feb. 14, 1940.—7-4CW. Icolleoted $2,131,208 in its first year! las a tax collation agency (1922).! Last year it received "$26,029,282. [ from 1915 to 1922 the • oommiasion j served as a board of equalization and assessment. CITATION FOR LETTERS OF ADMINISTR.AT'fON^ ican citizens have long been told and I don’t pay any attention to each other rn. q*-**, n, r* i- fiKof “A. man’s home is his i unless they get in somebody’s way:j Laurens Countv ^”^'*'** then they can scowl ji»t like human i j ^ being, up heme. Lot, of the unnnen WuMon. prob.te, *" Mr,. Anutnd. G. JoKn«>nl SINGERS TO MEBt’ V I made suit to me to grant her Letters | The' Clinton Singing convention will' We had a bia Valentine oaitv at Adminigtoation of the ^te and^meet , Sunday^ Jlaro^^lQ. a^ 2 o’clock th'.ixi. South Carolina PubHc Serv.ee author In thi.< ."i:: monlh-; B>-:rr:’' ?’'.i i.y i.^ni ^.i_r’L‘ivjn to Cohir.ibia, is F.ance havt.- fouglvt a \va. of attriiioh due to the hostile attitude of the apiin.'t Germany, content to h.ni her ( harleston press. His charge was ^di- in and hunt her economically. As long rected particularly to the editorial I m Ubout 10 minutes and reported a as this goes on, they feel they are attitude of The News and Courier, tie. | Whoever heard of three judgea winning. ably edited by Dr. W. W. BaH, a na-ivo*in«: » tie? They tried to pull some So far Germany also has waited. tive of this county. Such a charge is sup*’®me court stuff on us, birt we. In one phase, however, that of the nonsense. If the accusation of the!being good Demorats, suffered it and war on .\llitd and neutral merchant mayor is correct, why doesn’t the!®*‘<i nothing. Rhijiping. the current conflict is run- boa^ of directors of the Public Ser- ning ahead of the World war, a daily^vice authority say so. If the charge average of about 6,000 tons having is incorrect and the press is not a fac- been sunk as conVpared with about tor in the effort to remove the offices, 4,r>00 in the World war. the board imBgi^rwinriKMy «u|y Thero jg_.no-gain8aying the-faotTO.-Tbe respohaahflky is •«“ beVber Iwt jnrt thiit the .'Strain on neutraN. particu- body to either confirm or repudiate ® ‘have thrown away my These ‘are, tbareffore, to cite a’nd iadraonudi all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said W. D. Glenn, deceased, that they be and appear be at fibe'^rahirdK of God in tbe Clinton MHl community. The public is cordial ly invited to attend. BENJAMIN & . SONS PLUMBING sseimOese HEATING SERVICE Telephnne 9268 WE ARE HUNTING TROUBLE SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE The Favorite Papsr In CUnton Homes off rile chick.’’ I was on tbe affirms- J®*? Probate to tive side and by rights we won, but!** "J. La“’ tbe .throe judges retired and returned after publication hereof, at 10 o clock in the forenoon, to snow cause, if any they have, nby the .said Administra tion should not be granted. Given under my hand this 26th day of February, A. D., 1940. J. HEWELTTE WASSON, Time To Go Home My 10 tlays in Florida are up. I came down seeking a^retum to biMlth aflw_tiie_fflu and a few fo^orw-np medicines, packed up my few belong ings and am now ready to go back borne and take up my job where I left off. 1 brought, as I thought, enough clean things -to laiit me 10 days. I now find riwi I used only 40 per cent of the sox I fetched along, only three off my seven laundered shirts, two pairs of my undies, and the two extra tight- weight suits of clothes 1 expected to _ “summer” in which in 'FkMvda are the extravagance the newspaper r^iedj*^ “suit contSOTer un- laiiy in .Svaudinavia, the lowlands and the charge. Ihe cards, all of thdm, in the Balkans has been great. The should be spread on the table, plight. v>f Belgium and The Nether- Dr. Ball, replying to Mayor Lock- land-, plahttd directly among the wood’s charge, said that the “autbori- Avai iing poAve.’s, is obvious. Commerce^ty was a political set-up” and (hat on the high >A.*as is a chief problem [“expenses off administration are need- fo. .Scandinavia, ^ while ' the Balkans lessly extravagant.” He charged that are fought over ^diplomatically as a officials of tbe project have been soLiix'e of important raw materials!chosen on account of political influ- sought by both sides. !ence and without any succeesful ex- Few believe thdt conditions 'wilF perience in the develofHnent of «- continue long as they now are, andidustrial plants, particulafly hydro- that the present quiet of the Western'electric, illustrative of tbe oiuuge off front will soon be broken by the extravagiince the newspaper r^ied, u j « i i .* lo oming of belligerent guns. What that of the total sum ot $40,796,000 touched. Moral: l»ve a few trungs at home and save time aind worry. Of aD things I like most when it comes to eating its biscuits. I havenU looked a single biscuit in the face metrts will c»rt 60 per cent more ttlin?- the .mom« to be paid for Imwl; .od “*»• 7-2cw Probate Judge. SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE “The Paper Evetj^bodv^ Heads”^ >v another six months may bring in the allotted for the cie<velopment, land EuroiH'an situation dominated by the.Owners have been paid less than 5 jiuni-man Hitler, may be contemplated per cent of the total sum for 160,000 with profound horror. 'acres of land; riuvt the legal, land ac- ^ quisition and resettiemenlt develop- •SN(>OPING” CENSUS Xation-Avide againin some of in the national census 'because tht-y pry into tiie* personal affairs of. the protest has ronr ^ f the questions to be .. .. .Vs.",(Whoever tnvened toast was and is no dn^tiiig tKo pToject IS moTe than;, . , , ^ -..i, ■ rititoarv f.M^ aolitical or otharl ^ ™>ve .*he office, from ■ post-. Rop,r^ntam.es j(,«;»nKn»,ch«rleeton. to Colombia! Wby doemiA ® the board give riie people the truth? I friend of mine. That stuff is intended What are ui^real facte bad< ct Ihel'”'’ dotOkn^ aaF better. Pll o! ganization.s testifying -before When I get older, say about 66, so’s I can got a monthly welfare check and possibly a little flare-back from social security, I think I ahall move to Florida, build me a ehock near somebody’s orange grove, possibly on (he banks of a nice lake where firii-' ing is free, and locate in the said ptnemises permanently except, ci course. If welfare check is la^ enough we -will go to the immatams s< latc sidtcomnnittce, have been ,.'u„ e * d eu . . . ... , Why 18 Senator Byrnes, tbe man re- s:'<>ng in their opposition which has ... .. ' , , , . 1 V, u I ^ u A ^ sponsiWe more than any one else, for Sinead until it ha.s now disturbed eon-uT . j- \t,u- L I the huge spending on this question- iable project, so akent? Wih«t-x411 he The population census to be made ggy? And Goveonor .Maybank, alao b. ginning April l\ by 120,000 enumer- ^ne of the prime movers ia brii«ii« atoi.', will a.-k more than seven bil-it^^g project into existence. Why is lion questions of .America’s 132,000,-[tongue silenced? 000 inhabitants. There' are six phases Can it be that certain politicianB, , , of the censu,s to oe taken this year.Lje dJibetately attempting to muzzle the sunmier. lir.'^t is the oc*«i>ting of about 132,- press in order to keep them from t 4>e.u»nti«t« Bnd 000,000 people in the population cen-' oublishine the true facts rtiowiiw I wish ou* scientists and apecialisM sus, then the housing census to o*>-|h^ pZic ta;n data on 33,000,000 dwelling units, dered? If that bfe tbe game, they the business census which willl can-!have picked tbe wrong man. Dr. Ball ^ alS \ass 3,000,000 (business concerns, the-jg not built 'that wav He has convic-1 or ma„ufe«urere which willllnf ^ c -ver 170.0C0 manufacturing e»»tab-j presses. He stands for TRUTH. Free- ^ ^ ^ ^ common I'.shnnents, the farm census which will dom of speech, freedom of the prcaa. embrace 7,000,000 farms, and the cen-jVVhen these aae taken from tbe Amer- sus of about 12,000 mines and quar-.j^an people, there wiU follcw dictator Ties. The enun>erators in the census'«,hips, socialism, totatitarianism. (political jobs controlled by congress-! The Ohronicle has before said. cold, and its bedfellow, the flu. Ten persons out of 1,000,000 might have cancer or T .B. or some of (these olfaer^ hard-ffoug(bt diseases, but everybody and his mother and'<^dy and aH the mtn) A\iLl be paid four cents per have _ name. It is e.stimated thait they may Santee^Coo^ is a politick make $25 to $30 per week. family have colds mkI fhi, if they num^ other pap^. (^1^^ .^^h out, five'or six times a ' marked throughout with extravagance year. The^cost to Unde Sam for^ his de- and wasteful spending, an expecimenti i* wm-feared that snow 'WbSd cave cennial nose counting will he $50,- whose completion is doubted, and for . . in the dome of tbe national capitd.| t as long as congress is in ssasioa raise (he roof. ' raging over the nature, legality and.in (he development? What mot« prort^ purposes of some of the questions to jig needed- to (he baiieff be asked. i that it was conceived by a baodfal off The information sought in the com-> politicians and <^ioe boldera, (iirt K ing tabulation is regarded by many [is political in its make^op^ (hat poli- as an invasion of constitutional i ticians like Senator Jefferies and oth- righfts. Much of it is certainly notjers are being paid exhoibitant and germaine to the inquiry as author-; wholly unreasonalile feea for their ized, and there is no need (unless po-jservices in promoting (the develop- litical) for many off the “snooping”; ment. questions to be asked (by the census j These tax-exempt power proJeCU takers. The list of quertions goes fat'are calling for (he flfwadhv off nd- beyoi^ that of any previous decade [lions of doRars off taxpayera’ mooey. and it is believed in many quartma There should hie no secfroqr aa to riieir the infoo-maition is being gathered for expenditures. Tbere is iin|jrti|j too an army of snoopers in Wairiimgton. I much secrecy In SaoteeOooper, and This belieff is held regardless of the I in governmsiii in. gjenenl, luriistMl, fact that secrecy is pledged on infor-Utate, county and Idtty. U Aliy aia W. J. BENJAMIN SSBVICB STAIION . Standard Prodnets Canr'Wasksd and Graaaad Toar Barinsaa Ayprariptsi COUGHS, COLDS \osm/ien& PMmiIjl JBffMtlYb Vaptr I&gk of the Aboveisthe'BmcE. SY'BCUiL4Hloortour'‘ ingsedan 9996^ T here are a lot of( thin^ about tbis stunning 1940 Buick to claim your attention, if you want to know what’s what in motorcars. F6r instance, you've got to admit that it has done a lot to beautify the boulevards. And, from the way folks are..swiiidiod over to Buick, it must have soifie- thing value-wise that’s pretty important. What you hear about its quick-off- thc'^mark engine gnd the silkiness it gets from balancing after assembly certainly calls f(or inquiry. '' 'So do the rave notices BuiCoil Springing gets and the talk you hear about ^ve-foet front teat room in the Super and its Foamtex cushions soft as a dqwn puC skipping this, even skipping tbe £Kt that Buick’s prices are lower than some sixes, one thing done is enough to send i^ou hot-footingtay our Buick dealer. That’s the obvjous fitot that as Buick goes these days so goes the' industry. • ' ■ ^ So do the obvious thing. Gd try out this superb traveler. We think you’ll de cide you’ll never be redly happy till you have one. PM'|ti)€ja Roghi ns f! ierl prteoa 'kdtBvtrtdat Flinty Mich. TransperiatkH hasd\n railreutt state and local taxes (if any), epdmal egnipment and. es^s^ lies—exOv. Prices smkft^ Si chante withesd mtsice. / THOMASON MOTOR COMPANY EAST MAIN 8TBBET LAUBEN8. SO. CAa Xi-'-i-' i/.-.