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•. f i ' / PAGE EIGHT THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CUNTOW, B. C. THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1»40 Badgett Quads at Easter Galveston; T«c. . . . Tha jonniMt qnadnipIaU in the eonntry shown here recentlj In their Beater hoUdejr llner7. The hlond ilaters ere thirteen montha old, here bine eyea, aeren teeth eedh en i end welf h leerrwelfht e total of nearly eighty ponn^. Joan on the right la the heerywelgl at M-powda, and ahe ia already walking. They are left to right: Jeraldlne, Jeanette, Joyce, and Joan Badgett, TWO SIDES TO EVERY QUESTION By LYTLE HULL happens at times like this; it hap pened at the time of the WoHd war during my own lifetime. The people get whipped into a frenzy by "holy Washington Sf-ecial to The Chroiiicle. Washington, April 3.—Washington continues to display more interest in personalities than in governmental IxJicies and legislative programs. That is chiefly l>ecause policies and programs follow pretty closely the ■well-established lines of politics, while nobody can tell w'hat any individual may do; and occasionally men in pub- hfe do things which put them in the spotlight and furnish new angles for political controversies. >iobo<ly is surprised, or veiy much i interesteil, in Washin^n, over the action of the senat^^ adding more' tiian $200,000,000 to the Agricultu-1 ral Appropriation Bill as passed by-y thifc house. This is election year and _ the fann vote is important. The political party in power has a better chance of getting itself re- j ejected if it .spends another coupJe of hundred millions of the taxpayei's’ money in the effort to buy the votes of the farmers. For that is precisely what this increase in fami appro priations, to an aggregate of nearly a billion dollars, amounts to. That is standard political prac tice, regardless of which party is m power. It does not follow that the distribution of public funds to Agri culture or Labor or to any other or ganized pressure group results in swinging great masses of voters one way or the other. The Farm vote and the Labor vote are 'bought and paid for in every election, but the bellers have never been able to de liver the goods. ' , r i? • • It is an old political lacket which run the farm without nie and I don’tjers before you get our of training practically never worfcs, except to know what would happen to you. Why j camp. distribute a nice slice bf cash to vot-! you let our country get us into i Act Two ers who pocket it and then proceed' tihis mess ? Haven’t you and mother e' Farewell to family and friends, tc vote the w'ay they intended to vote"! Couldn’t you have written Mr.^j Training. Departure for the front, anyway. j Jones, who represents u.s in the gov- Over the top. The whistling Shell- Promoting Personal Welfare j e»*nment, and asked him to invent j oblivion. Recognizimr that the farm aDpro-'®^"'^ muzzle to put on the war-i f^int light of another dawn. it«ognizing tnat tne lairo appro i mongers before they worked the peo- pg*,™ ^ oonsciouaness The avonv pnation, the purity in politics legis- . ^ senseless frenzy’” * / m lation, and most of the other f| of coW and of stiffening ^unds. The ceedincs in (’.onirress w'hich make' Well, you see, son,-it s like this: I heai-tbreak of loneliness. The realiza- beadl^es have theTr origin not in any|\«^ ^ thatUion of coming death. The ten-ible real puii>ose of promoting the general! war-mongers at work tell-; anger—all too late—at those among welfare, but are rather intended to people that the Blanks were (us, ^tjen and women, Wiho preached the serve the personal welfare of their' throttling our foreign trade and wei'e! gospel lof death. The last long iwAiling |j(rom^?rs or the partisan welfare off^*^'"? colonies from us and were cry: "Mother, Mother—what have I their particlular political organiza-^ little nations. They, done to deserve this? Don t let me die tions, experienced Wa^ingfton obser-1 ^ Blanks we^ al- out here all alone! vers refuse to get excited over them,i they woodd fm^y Three and senators and representatives as' ^ On through the years a. mother’s e rule aie careful to watch their steps anguish as that haunting cry dim al- l^t they lose some votes by taking ij^ weya in he^ M me 4ie the unpopular side. ^ ^ '^'^‘out here ^ alSie!”-^ayTtS pfc- When it comes to discission of per-i _ *^^'|ture of that poor mangled kid plead- .MMialities, especially of ^embers of | wanted to fight. , ing for one last kiss from bis moth- the American Diplomatic\Coip8. theer% Tips; one little caress from hei; A Three-Act Tragedy In Almost Any Family Anywhere Act 0n» "What is ail this talk about war, _ fathVr'TTJStol Smith told me we wope-^-wai” maniacs and by writers who going to fight the Blanks?'and that I j sneer at the word ‘isolationist’ and will 'have to go voluntarily or be who think the word ‘patriot’ has forced to do so. I don’t want to kill t something to do with an iriah brawl, anybody-^or be killed. Who will do! "We really don’t know what we’re the plowing wrhile I’m a'way? You [fighting about, and I admit that your can’t do it on account of your rheu- j mother and I should Iiave done some- matism; it even hurts .your back to, thing about it. But you’ll be all right milk the cows. Suppose I/never come'—this^ war "won’t last a month. 'Hie back, and you and mother and little' Blanks are about to have a revolu- sister are ‘left akme? You couldn’t t tion and they’ll throw out their lead- gentlemen on Capitol Hill oan you couldn't pirt jroOT finger »n what they please with impunity. They I definite with which to can t lose any votes and they may i t’’'’' Roosevelt Silence Threatens party Senator Asserts Washington, March 30. — Senator Johnson, Democrat, Colorado, declar ed tonight that President Roosevelt, while keep^ silent on* the third- term issue, had "harpooned and tor pedoed" other potential presidential candidates until the Democratic .party ■was "floundering in confusi'mi." The Coloradan, who is supporting Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Montana, for the Democratic nomination, added in a statement: ' "If the president intends to go through with it and accept the nomi nation, no one can weH complain be cause 8n>art politics are play^ in that cold-blooded way; but if at the el^- enth hour he should abandon the scut tled Demomatic ship, he must accept the responsibility for the disast^ which is so ol&viously and relentlessly bearing down upon her.” • Johnson said that the president “is certain to be nominated for a third term unless he positively refuses to accept the office.” The ‘‘practical, hard-boiled politicians," he added, want the president to run "for the simple reason that he can win." .‘‘A year ago the Democratic party had a dozen attractive prosp^ive candidates,” Johnson continued. "Had politicaJ developments ibeen permit ted to take their o6urse, many of these able men aaould have grown in public esteem with the monttis. "However, the president, perhaps with the n^est of intentions, has stymied dem'ooracy’s most dependable sounding boat'd, the primaries, and he has haipooned and torpedoed other candidate for .fee presjdency until now on the very eve "of the election the niajority party is marking time, floundering in iconfusion aitd trailing in 'puUic acclaim." Average Man Has 2.6 Shirts Do you wake up in the morning with only half a shirt to put on? ' Figuratively mirn<Mis of Americans Ido, the Niational Cotton council says, I pointing to the vast shortage in cot- ' ton gannents and household articles lilL the United 'Stotes. I Estimates indicate tiiat existing ipem>naJ or family inventories are as I follows: dress shirts, 2.6; underwear, 2.5; pajamas 2; sheets, per family, 4; towels, per family, 8; overaHs, 1.5; work pants, l.h, and w<^ shirts, 1.25. To bring Amerjkmn personal and famUy inventories up to a point that ■vraaihl penisit taro* ^han^^aa n vaaah would require approximately 1,500,- 000 bales <of cotton above the quan tity already consumed domestically, the coundl said. CITA'nON FOR LKlTBltS OF ADMINISTRATION ' The State of South OaroHna, Laurens County. By J. Hewleibte Wasson, Probate Judge: ^ Wher^, Mary B. Day Williams made suit to me to grant her Letters of Adminiatratkm of the eetate and effects of Isaac Williams. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred ai^ creditm of the said Isaac Wil liams, deceased, that they be emd ap pear before me, in the Court of Pr^ bate, to be'beid at Laurens Court j House, Laurens, S. C., on April 5, IMO, next, ai0t^ p)ri>Iication hereof, at 3:30 p.m., to shenv cause, if any they ^ve, why the mid administra tion i^uld net be granted. Given under my hand ithis 21st day of March, A. D., 1940. J. Hewlette Wasson, 4-acw Prefcate Jtid^. A sewer in /Califoi’nia clogged, and investigaitors found a kiddie car,i a play wagon, and a tricycle. Perhaps they were stored there for a qui'-'k geitanray from the truant officer. R. H. CAUSE BARBER SHOP . ‘TTie Friendly Shop** — o — RBADY TO SERVE YOU PROMPTLY AND WELL. — o —■ I have with me: BEN HEATHERLY , LEE POWER — o — YOUR BUSINESS APPRECIATED ly J. M. SONS General Contractors ESTIMATES FREE RESIDENCES A SPEOALTY No Job Too Small or Too Large ^ 9Bp! I 1921—1940 Hdgh L Eicfielberger 1: NEW YORK LIFE MAN 19-Years Experience Professional bisurance Infmnnation Fumidied Free Member — The National Association of Lifo Underwriters. i: /A, j.'ain credit as friends of the plain . . , rt^>ple when they criticize the con-'^T^^ ^ ?? anj^ing ouct of the wealthy men, either it. This sort of thing always tOfcir own right or as .husbands of! ^ t- . • xt t j L ■ , V ^ . tu IT J Spy- Jwnmy votes m New Jersey and helres.^es, who represent the United! • * j i. ^ . .i... Ti J .... I intends to run for senator this year. Mates a.s ambassadors and ministers ■*. .. ^ J with the backing of the powerful Democratic party machine of Mayor Frank Hague of Jeyrsey City. .\nd there is nothing in ^e Hatch “pure polities" law that limits the loving band to wipe away the sweat of agony; one won! to heal his wound- got us all ril^ up js/th fear al^ hrt- Women get ^^Build-up n Tw C. Johnson , , t }■ • Phimbingy Heating and Electric OVER 30 TEARS EXPERIENCE CLINTON, S. C. PHONE 381 lb Iat foreign countries. Congres.s has alway.s been ’too airaid of critici.sm from the voters back home to appropriate enough money for our diplomatic seiwice to enable the repi-esentatives of country to maintain the relations writh the officials of foreign govem- ment.s which are necessary if the dig- ndty, power and prestige of the Unit ed States is to be upheld. ^ I The result is that nobody but aj vei-y wealthy man can afford to ac cept ap;>o'intment as an ambassador to ah imjKirtant nation. Congress allows top salaries of $17,500 a year to American amba.ssadors, and such trifling expenses for secretaries, nec- esi^ary entertainment, etc., that our repere.sentatives at every important jK*st have to spend out of their own j-vx-kets two or three times the amount of their salaries. -Accounts for Diplomacists That accounts for the fact that our anioassador to Paris is the extremely wealthy William C. Bullitt; that Jos- eph P. Kennedy, a multi-millionaire, repre.sents the United States in Lon- d'On; that “Tony’’ Biddle is our min ister to Poland, and so on down the line until we get to “Jimmy” Crom- w'ell, the American minister to Can ada wiho made himself a front-page headline figure, drew from^-the Sec retary of State the shatpest rebidce on record ever handed out to an American diplomat by his government and started a debate in Congress as to whether or not he was a fit per son to represent the United States at Ottawa. * His statement was decidedly un diplomatic. Anything expressing or purporting to express the views of his govemmwit which an ambassador or minister penipotentiary says in public is assumed to be an authorized official statement by his government, and Jimmy Cromwell hadn’t consulted anybody m Washington before ' he spoke. No Punishaient ^ Beyond the ofificiad rdiiuke by Sec retary Hull pscbably nothing will be done about it. Everybody likes Jim my Cromwell. Many envy him, more or leas openly, for his aaccees in mar- ifying two great hdrsMes in aooceae- ion, his present wife being Doris Duke, with fifty or sixty millions in- iMriied from her fisllisr's tobacco bnainaM. Everybody IRms Doris. a number «f magmflricBt asii^ hi HmnS; Jlorida, Primyl- mmia, Morth CaretiM, and Maw rible knowledge that she might have saved him if orrly she had raised the cry of “Treason” ■when she read or heard the blood-mud ravings of war- > crazedT maniacs who H.AD no sons to lose. I Epilogue In agony and loneliness he died, No hand to help liim cross the Great IDivide, thia'®‘^® of contributions to the party No mother’s brea.st to hold a fallen ^ campaign cheat wluch may be made by the multi-rfiillionaire wife of a candidate. head, No dinims to beat a requiem for the dead. Agoodwiyio'relievs periodic dis comfort from functional dysmenor rhea due to malnutrition, such as headaches, nervousness, cramp-like pain, many women find is by using CARDUI. It ususlly sharpens ap petite, increases flow of gastric juices, and so aids digestion, helps build resistance to periodic din tress. Another way CARDUI may help you: Take it a few days before and during time." ^CARDUI has been popular for 50 years. ■TEZ'iiP^i^ » smr A MSTtac! Yf “A lot of people look at tbetiseaad qualityof a Pontiac and deeida with out ever inveatigating that Pon tiac’s price is beyond their reaeh." ■ t,, .y, -K IT’S AMAZING the impras* sion of bigh-prioed hurary tiM low-priocd Pontiae has given to the American pnhlio. In a rseent survey, niao oaf of ton pOople gness^ the Pontiac price from 9100 to $200 higher than the actual ggnra. Audi9% of those who guessed so bij^ said it was worth that diferoncet i “They spot me in my big, new Pon tiac a^ inquire how I can afford it. Few realize that Pontiac’s price ia right down with the lowest/’ ^I tell thorn to trite a good look at > a Pontiac priea tng. It’s an aye-op*nar. A^ that’s svhy I’m driving a Pontiae.** “I never mias a ahanoa to show off my Pontiae.Thera tea’t a smootha r eeiginc oe earth, and I’m getting thnM tofour more miles a galloo.’’ Its human NATUSB to let your friends in on a good thing. Tlmt’s why Pontiac owners are so busy advising their friends to buy the new 1940 Pontiac. They’re imntiagout that, ata price right with mo lowest, Pontiae delivers you a big, iong-whoalbaao eor—-wido-aoated and roomy—furniahed and inishod in luxn- riona faahion—and powered by a power* packed engioe that ehriioi^ss tba gaao- hoe economy of the smeffrs^ ehra. Why poatpona that bif*eer, qoeUty-. car thrillP Whet’s to stop fbu, whee e big, Jianutifui Pontiee eosts so little? f« ^ ■ " ■ W^Pw « MPHHbp AHpRpa M WW9W^wwWltU9m f an rntf rates, state end heat taaet {if eqy). eflkaal eguigmeut mad meeeteoriet— extra. Prioee ssi^eat to eh A Geuerwl Jfstest Felne. 'W a/ Mvy-