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V " J * ' •? ■f * / page four TOE CLINTON CHROfOCLK, CUNTON; S. & imjRSDAY, MARCB 21. 1*40 I I (^4^ (Slintim (Eiftontrl^ ErtaWJM 1*00 * WILSON W HABUsl, BdiUxr aiid PAIWiot PoblAiked Brarj Thanday 87 THE CHBONICIiE PUBLISHING OOMPANT Subscription Rate (PaTaMe In Advance): I One Year $1.50; Six Months 75 cents; Three Monthe 50 crate Entered as Second Glass Mail Matter at the Poet Office at CHinton, S. €. The Ohronicle seeks the cooperation of ks subecribere and readen—4he publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly ad- -vfcef The "6hroniele wki ptd>Keh--iette>e tti general intareat wheu tha|^ aie not of & defamatory nature. Anonvnnous oommnnioatioos will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the vieara or opinioaa of its correspondrata. > 'cotton or cottonseed uiL After both^are to scuttle their own machine. ; have gone up or down, he tells'-me 'where il lost $50,000 by not buying or The prominent Roosevelt leaders in South Carolina will scuttle Roosevelt aeUing: and incidentally informs mcjafain if it he to their interest — as that I of course do not know wfakh| the7 dkl in * 1988.—The News and ,side to get in on, the Guying or the Courier, selling, henoe the great loss. | — ’ • — * Another feUow says he can fore-! BUTtlldAyS S,’'r,.U'^S'£.Ssrrrnr'i And Anniversaries | wonder why he doe? not go short and I ——♦ long and straddle himself, using hi|8 diniray Casque, son of Mr. and Mrs., orwn advice,—then he wouldn’t have,®*®!^ Casque, is one year old today. 1 to try to e^ his ideas, to others. He, C. E. Nichols will celebrate a birth-i woidd be so rich in 6 years that his day Wedneaday, March 27. income tax alone would pay the na-, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Coker of Spar-i ional..defc»t. - / r’ ■ ■ teTdinrg iWill nhsmww -wwt.j SPECIAL Cosmopolitan—2. years- $8.50. Good Housekeepingr—2 yasrs—$4.0# this oRer good until liMer part ef Mai^b. JAMES W. CALDWELL Telephone 87$ ? * COUGHS. COLDS ^ Pieishiit Eirectivf, Vapor IVestment. Kettle Fre* Sec Tour Druggist, -At -n-.-- t oa .■LitiJii * ■ "* * BENJAMIN & SONS PLUMBING HEATING SERVICE' . Teleyiinne 92ea WS Alls HUNTING TBOUBLE CLINTON. S. C.. THURSDAY. MARCH 21, 1940 iding anniversary March 25. Mrs. Co- The man who knows what to do to- ker is the former Miss Lois McDaniel,! morrow or the next day is nekher daughter of Mr. and iMrs. N. W. Mc- |‘alive nor dead.* He just simply aint.‘Daniel of this cky. | jlf anybody tells you to thb contrary,, Miss Pauline and Paul Benjamin,! ithey simply aint either. Just, so long twin children of Mr. and Mrs. J. E.i las ruin and’ droughts and Hitler and Benjamin, are celebrating their birth- j TKK MEANING OF EASTER (any individual. The only religious; Washingfton and liars have anything'day today. The time has rolled around again ®®*^**“* compiled as heretofore, • to do with markets, nobody knows j Jerry Brittain, son of Mr. and Mrs. /'hi-i«tian world will unite I-be reports of membership made'how to advise you correctly when to,J. E. iBrittain, will be one year old, fX the orga^ations.of the various j speculate. Thero are two jhe ; ,H.s <Kxas.on Xmmemorating the and creeds. ^ (market to one is up. ^ otJber ft By^ McMiHian, darter of Mr.! ston of the Resurrection. 1 iitrong efforts were made by rep-ido«^- Any fool ran make ^o guesses, and Mrs. ^nnie S. McMillian, will ob-| 'Fhe -work! twiay needs to know and I resentatives of various denominaitions I guess one right occasionally. sc^e a Mrthday Saturday, fiiarch 23. [ uiidei slant! the essential meaning and to hpveJthe long list of census ques-! Mr. ^ Mra. Hariy League wHl ob-j 'spiritual stimuluT of Piaster more'tion.s iniaude one about the religion I have just about made up my mindfirst wedding anniversary thari "?rtfr**Whro. We are told by'of each porsofi counted. The request, <fbat the way to go broke is to try to'M^ay. March 26. many that religion has faileti, that'we are told, was denied b^use of g®t rich and the way o get rich is toj thi; iilaitv homol.v virtues of faith and the earnest protest of representatives bard to make a good, honest liv-;., , ^ lovinjr~T^ndness ami mercy as lie- of the Jewish congregations of the >ag" Baf f®** $25£,or $50 or $150 per|birwidpy yesterday, tween men and their felhnvs are dead nation./They |>ointed out^that in many|y®ar ^ a*« f®l<l I can bwome a mH-j .™®™^*y» March 26, is the WrUhday or inoperaiive. To such a false atti- i)art.s of the countiy the prejudice! b®®*”'® almost overnight. tilde of mimi Kastor comes as a shin- against Jewish people was increasing. Keith Adair has a 'birthday today. Mrs. James Bomirack celebrated a J. M. HefOVNG & SOKS / Grawal Coptractors ESTIMATES FREE -I- RESIDENCES A SPECIALTY / No Jpft Too Small or Too Large ing and lieainiful refutation. It is not-and that to reveal the^number of u. lx-' ohsi rvfd merely as the com- dews in each community might lead anti-Jewish demonstrations almost overnight. That.<rf Miss Miriam Coleman and Holmes sounds like a starving man selling Holland. ' . ’ bread and meat: why doesn’t he eat " some of it himself? Then he wouldn’t’ NOTICE OF SALE and I have to peddle it for a living. If you' Notice, is hereby given that I will orv aver death, nineteen serious trouble. It is to be hoped that control the board or use your own public outcry to the Highest it stands for the glory the apprehensions voiced by the Jew- loaded dice, like ‘Wall street is *c- ®^b at 10:00 o clock A.il., wer of a rt‘surix*ction here ish lepresentatives are exaggerated, cused of doing, then yoy might winl®" Fri^y, March 29, 1940, eitl^r in of a ridiiith, of the spring It would be a sad commentary upon • • • I’egardless of whether you seHj®’'" "J'"® Commercial D^^- f a new life in this glad hour and a the basic concept of our democracy if [short or buy long or hedge. ntory on^onto Broad ^reet in Clin- ^—— Iton, Sotrni Carolina, the following 'items of personal/‘property, to-wit: I Three shares Capital Stock in Ma sonic Temple, Incorporated. Balance of J)^>08it, Leander R. immolation of a triumph over the to grave, a vieloi cent lines ago and the i><> and now—of a ridiiith, of the spring It -would be a sad commentary upon[- of a new li' _4:<^«!ent future hope. Hs meaning it v-tur true that any such widespread;' cannot all Ik* told in music or in anti-Jewish feeling existed in thej ‘ flowef-s. or in stiiring sermons. • It is United States. The part that men of j not all in the glow of the hour of the Jewish faith played in the War of prayer and praise and song. It goes the Revolution and in the development I ■ fai livelier than words can utter; it and growth of the nation since then* , ,,K-he.< ,h. of tl» truth, .0 ^ The IndexWourn.1 ha. . lit* « 11 know, at the very heart of our human Their pimlK service has long been as r*--_ ? Jives, in their daily need of that wWch outstanding as their philanthropies, i thousand <k>u!^ in IS higher than oHrs^yp^.,^ country today the Jewish!parity paymerrts for cotton last year. aspiratMjfln toward that which is true race has gamed widespread promi-| j* amazing to note that mart etei-nally. . . nence. In the present Ne^v Deal ad-1 farmers in this class appear to Jive It IS each man s ami woman sros- ministration, with a Jewish secretary Clinton in Lpurens unec-tion and mitdhat of (. hrisi 5T;ihe f r v . ,a-u.y, a Jew on the supreme cmmty than in any other~“sectioo of on which this day in.-.si.-. loi i *ci. court ^'hench, Jews among the ablest state. Faster is the freedom and light, the leaders in the senate and house of yhe largest payment in the Mate to upspnnging .my of th<> emar crpation representatives, and a Jewish gover-i.^y ^ farmer, individual or coipor- of the soul of man. Ix-ast of all the nor of the largest and wealthiest^ation, was to a Cliivton man. He re- t. -divals IS It a time for selfish m- state, there is no room for senseless Leived over six thou.sond dollars. An- tiospcc-tum. for the. back w^ird Imvk prejudice against a people merely j Clinton farmer received over and till' luiprofitabie resemblance ofi because they observe a different re-i^^ dollars lailine and disaster. It is, instead/ligi - ■ symbolic of hope, the heralding of With The Press WHERE BIg ViIrMBRs' LiVe ' 1^^;^.“'' H. D. HENRY, Executor, Leander R. Stone Estate. W. J. BENJAMIN SERVICE STATION Standard Producta CaxB Washcil aad Graasad Yoar Buiness Appredatad ligion from others. RiSiiri ec-ft-il Life,- the time for the looking and thinking* 'and acting l>e- yond and away from ourselves. Kastor, the anniversary of the su- piome victory of Time, with its mes- .s.ige of hope for every soul, illumi*- nates the pathway into the future, en- aiding men and women to look across t he grave, ami know that they are- going on. Without the hope and the courage this day in.spires, life w’ould Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee ; Two other Clinton men received .over fifteen hundred dollars each and I two more received over thirteen hun- idred dollars eaic^. I No other conrmunity in South C«r- lolina has such a list. The Clinton joabton farnvers are evidently large op- eratpra. CiV-WHTood Index-JourMt. ' I wonder why people look so un happy w'hile at church. I WONDER DOES NOT ROOSEVBLrS SHOT LAND ON SANTEE-COOPER? The News and Courier endorses and J not he worth the living—man would ; j ^-onder if electric and gas meters!Pdesident Rooeevek’s plea are actually read from month to always bo a misei-ailxle creature. This coming Easter Sunday mi.-'month. 'Monthly WHs are lions upon millions of believers will ^^o^^ ^^e same r^rdkss. mil-1, meet to tc-stify anew- to the truths that their faith is a living faith, that j wonder if a meter of any kind it .still rules the hearts of men. ^ except -when an IT CANT HAPPEN HERE One of ^he policies of the Nazi (Jovci-nment of Gemiany which has ooca.sk)nal one was found to be run ning too slow. that “the prohibition in the Hatch laiw against polkiral activities by fed-, eral employes be extended to a large army of sitato workiers paid out of federal funds." 'The News and Courier urges South Carolina’s senators and representa tives in congrees to vote in accord ance with the president’s ^lea. Mid H urges the general assembly of South CaroJina now in session promptly to pass a law, with teeth in it, supple- Gray Funeral Home Clinton, S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS «*ftSindftftft RMRAI MRRSft - Ambulance Service Phones 41 and 399-J ^ L. RUSSELL GRAY and V. PARKS ADAIR. Gen. Mgrs. SPRINGTIME IS BUBDffJG TIME WE ARE READY TO HEI*P YOU 1BECOME A— — HOME OWNER Investigate Our Direct-Reduction Loan Plan With All Others Before You Buy or Build A Home. VINOS LOAN ASSOCIATION Tetephone No. 6 ^ A Clinton Institution Serving Clinton P^plo Since 1909 I w^ondei-fwhy we elect men to im- iiroused ntoro indignation in America poftant offices that are notable phys-i than anything else reported in the fit financially, or capable men-* ... news from overseas, is the brutal; tally, to hold the said office. Ajid ijmentary to the Hatch law, carrying treatment of racial minorities in rog-|fm,ther wonder 'why we make the'-®'*^ -the apparent wish of Presklent ion.s w-heie the German Government ^me mistake over and over after -ure 1 has gaineii control. ^know that such a mistake has been 'I® taking this position .The News] Besides the persecution of Jow-s, made. »nd Courier is mindful that its wishes j in accordance with the Nazi doctrine: ^ ' might sometimes be defeated by* as the irrelevant. unbelievable places, say, in the state, up to 100 to‘The principle of the Hatch law is in accordance with the .Nazi doctrine' ^ ' might sometimes be deifea of <i-acial superiority, the reports from I wonder why it cost nearly Ic per strengti'ening the Haitcb law ( zi*choslovakia and Poland are filled‘mile to talk long distance to nearby'president advises. That is in Aviih tales of almost l>}-utality toward tlio.se conquered peo-ji5o miles. And we wonder again why j sound. It looks to the increase ,of de- ples. from Poland trustAvorthy ob- it’s worth that much per mHe to talkiCency and purity in politics. siMvei-s .semi news that what am- when you ride the same distance! In South Carolina are numerous ounts to a delibei-ate effort to ex- on a train or a bus at the same cost, state office-holders paid wholly or in li'i'ininate the entire i><»pulace i.s un- ^ iipart-by federal funds, thowiands ofl L''***' 1 r t. ^ wonder why it takes politkrians i I nose are examples of what can times a.s long to do a thing as it does' ^’®** « nian or woman of them hapfK-n when racial hatreds are suffi- y private board of directors ... to do »b®ul<l be a delegate to a county or a ciintly arou.sed, e.specially if they things and better things. istate convention. They should attend ai-e made part of a party doctrine„ ,. - ^ jto their official duties, and the party lespoh.sible for them j a state or a city has' Carolina aie persons paid j.tu- con lo o a ^vernment. spend more money every year salaries from the federal .A parallel suuation exusts in Rus- ^ ^ treasury who, forbidden poIiticaJ ac- sui, oniy in Russia the party in power; - has not directed its venom toward a xt-** i-x* . , . v/i V «iu o policies and practices are that ipoliti- particuiar race but lather toward a ■ .• • • . j- ■ ■ , . , , cal divisions and sub-divisions, 9 times ,>an.cularjconom.c cl^». hverybody cftn gftt ftnd vho has W ably to gam wealth by j, ^ h,.< "W” efforts^r who ha. mhe,-.t«l ^ ^ wealth, ,s an oAftyt- of hat^ to thyht i„„,«|,ately the next yeftr inaf*.<l < ommunist (rovernrnent of Russia and , , , , . ,, of putting it on iw debts. IS marked for extermination. ' Hun- YOU CRN Mr MORE ‘t 4 m lit;-*. ♦ ^ I wonder what a political dtrflar is really worth if the U. government r dieds of thousands of Russians have ■tietn ))Ut to death by the Stalinist goveinment for the mere crime of (joHyr is worth only 59c. And I won- potssessing pioix-rty. we keep on raising money 1 hu.se are matters to keep in mind, suffering Chinese and Finns especially by Americans who are in- instead of all of us gobting into a hud- c-hned to li.sten to starry-eyed prophet.s ^ there and beat'the ol a new order of things, a promulgat- j^vil out of those Russians and Japs ing to the youth of Amenca doctrines ^hiis stop the necessky of fur long di^-arded by our people and now relief. They are murderers newly imported fr<w Europe as pana- robbers. iocial and economic » 1 wonder -why a man that is sup- They are false prophets. VVe should posed to have a reajionable amount of sense would write such 'a piece as this. If you wonder the same <bhMig why don’t you write me and say so? cea.s for all our si ills. steer clear of them and their teach ings 1' SENSELESS PREJUDICE And write me some of your own won- Wben the census enumerators make their count of noses of all the people! in the United ^tes beginning next How To Get Rich In 8 ValmuM month, they will have to record the' *Every mail fetches me a lot off in- race to whkh each individual inhabi- formation as to how I might get rich, tant belongs. Everybody will fbe listodfThe whole country 4s fuH of apeeial- as ekhor White, Negro, Indian, Mexi- jists investment advisers, tedurirai in- can, Hindu, Japanese or Chinese. No questions, however, wiH be ask ed by the census takers m to the re ligious affiliation or preference off structors, and nmn who aay they can look into the future. One guy Icnoars idmtt I dbouid boy tivities, would ibe f^t cats caged, 'with out even a ball of yarn to play with.! What classes of perswis Mr, Roose velt’s enlargement of the Hatch law would properly restrict we cannot with exactness say, but we suppose i thait some of the farm agents, social j security and welfare officials and of ficers of the Santee-Cooper and Buz zards Roost authorities would be af fected. Is the president shooting at Santee-Cooper? i In 1938 l^Uth Carolina was thoui^j to J»e a New Deal state. President’ Roosev’ek blessed a candidate and by' him tried to purge an anti-New Deal-! er from the senate. The preaklent'sj purpose—4to the delight of The News , and Courier—was set at naagM byi- the prominent New Dealers, hia so- called friends. We tell the president that the South Oarolins New Deal polifciciana, paid from federal funds, having thnwra him again convenience. The president is probai>- iy shrewd enough not to trust Ms promiedt South Carolina friends too far. The principle that federal offiee- bolders, imgoitant executivea and lag- ialators excepted, be fminddra pMki- cal aetivkies is sound. i Theaame firincHde khould he adopt ed in stdbe poHties. Watch. Yo« sHN aas how aagar tbs Booft Carolina I dom once will throw Wm down lin u it suits their intereata and 'CHeWROlETt rmsTMJUMJ" um 9 mm Cyg>if‘*2hy HI GUBS ‘659 « MASTIR as MISINISS COMPf Othar modato aligItHy Mghar All models priced at Flint, JAichigan. Transportation basod on^rail rates, state and local taxes (if any), optional equipment and aecessories^extra. Prices subject to change without notice. i CLumu^ac. if: ■l L— iLzth*’