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PAGE FOCR / THE CLINTON CHRONitLB, CLINTON. S. C aI4^ (Ulinton (EtpranirU EsUblished 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $1.50; Six Months 75 cents; Three Months 50 cents Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers— the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly - advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will ‘ not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for th^views or opinions of its correspondents. — •I cash, he is a big •hussler ansoforth mr. edditor, if you will run a nice | peace in yore papper for slim chance j with a bathing beauty’s picture at the of the coUum, he will give you and yore wife and 6 mean; younguns a ticket to bath in his pool at least once a month, rite or foamj him at once if you intend to except {his verry kind offer, he being a {deacon in the church he will not {stay open betwixt 10:30 and 11:15 i o’clock on Sunday mornings, thus i {givving all sinners a chance to go to tODAY ID bridge across the river. That was the beginning of America’s greatest railroad system. ‘fHURSPAY, iUV 1#40 enterprising men money that America has grown great Ine tendmcy today is to diaoourage the Vanderbilts and everyone dse who is willing to risk ttielpM'of caoi- WEAtTH — CrIllelMd I hear radicals and discontented I hope of gain. The U; people criticizing everybocbf who has Slatas would never have got t6r ever made any money in developing base if the Government had alopged the r^urces of America .Such peo- everyone from trying to build and pie ask why the wealth so developed _ iso should not be distributed equally steamboats, 130 years ago. amcmg everybody. The answer to that, aa I see it, is that when a man Hike old Commodore Vanderbilt gets CLINTON. .S. C.. THURSDAY. MAY 16. 1940 TRANBPOlTAtlON — Wheels Nothing is more Interesting than to' an idea, spends his own money to preechmg. this is going to prove a study the different ways that differ- {see if It wiU work, and if it works .big a^t in flat rock and ^munity ent peoples and races have devised|charges people what they are wiUing .and it means cleaner liyving for aU to move people and merchtodise I to pay for the services they get, he who has cl 5 and a bathing suit and! from one place to another. It would [is entitle to keep whatever profits will use both. be interesting to know the name of i he can accumulate ^ ^ i the inventor who first cut a cross- i iwiyicf I section of a log, bfimed a hole,' a 1 cauual|^ k.^vaiwi through it and put an axle In to make W. J. BENJAMIN SERVICE STATION . Standard Products Cars Washed aad Crsaasd ‘Your BiniMai It is through such advenfunes df. C.Al'SE TO BE THANKFUL, , to be good Indians and not imitation ‘ While the rest of the world is de- i white men. pies.seci and torn to pieces by wars Club At Rally the first wheel. He didn’t live very, long I ago. Wherever the American I Indians came from, they never had' and the mi.'^ery they entail, it is in torosting to note that two great fairs On Saturday, May 11, thirty-two seen wheels until the white men What has brought about the change | members of the 4-H Girls’ club of brought them four hundred and fifty in the white . men s attitude toward {the State Training school, accom- years ago. the Indian has been the discovery panied by their leader, Mrs. B. Sloan,: I like to wonder about the people for education and amusement are ' that there Is no e.ssential enmity be^ , attended the Laurens County 4-H i who first put masts and sails on boats occning in New York and San Fran-I tween the two races. There is room rally (achievement day.program) at [to make the wind do the work of for both, and the old hatreds have Poplar Springs school. | moving them and their goods. They What a contrast to the death, de-j disappeared because neither is inter-j An invitation extended to this: must have been very brave men. struction and debt that faces warring, fering with the other’s way of living, group by Inez Lambert, president of Indeed, I think sailors are still very nations. At these fairs will be pre-i The urge to regulate other people’s, the 4-H club at the Training school, .sented a record of industrial and in-j lives has probably been the cause of to hold the 1941 spring rally at the vellectual achievement for the bet- more wars and human misery than school was accepted. jfly in airplanes. This newest means U'l-ment of humanity. ' any other one thing, in all history. It The girls contributed to the pro-1 of transportation is still an infant., This nation should feel m o s t i is that sort of intolerance which lies]gram of the day a song, “Sandman’s Children already bom may live to, thankful that it can devote itself to at the root of the great conflict now Baby,” and a short original skit on |see airplanes as big as the great ^ such constructive undertakings. Our going on in Europe. We have set an “Personal Grooming.” |ocean liners crossing the skies at a* record ol progress in this respect and example of tolerance in our modem Inez Lambert and Ruby Thomp-’speed of a thousand miles an hour. { many others, ought to be an object attitude toward the Indians, That is-son were placed in the blue ribbon f Anything can happen. j le-son to our people to .stand firmly ' an example which Americans might dress group, Beatrice Ledford andj j lor policies which recognize the su- well apply toward others with whom Ethel Garvin in the red ribbon group,! POWER — AppUed ' All modem forms of transportation j brave men. Bravest of all are then men who perionty of intelligence over brute lorcc in securing lasting, settlements ol disputed questions. We .should be thankful that we can tft vel in America as free citizens, that we enjoy free speech, and that a iieo press is still ours. Once that IS tost, our liberties are gone. they do not agree in everything. Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee Ida Burbage, Mary Heller and Emma Mae Hall in the blue ribbon apron j merely demonstrations of me- group, and Emma Mae Hall won first I power applied to different place in knitting. {kinds of machines. The result is that Three girls entered the 4-H story j p^pjg engaged in one branch of I contest, the results to be announced 1 gy^- to be in. all later when the stories are judged. NEW HORROR OF WAR Laurens Chief b Givm Loving Cup Laurens, May 12.—In appreciation Flat Rock Breezes it is with much pleassure that this Hitler conquered Poland in three corry spondent infarm her manny _ weeks. He conquered Norway in two. add-miring friends that mrs holsum Nobody questions that by making moore’s little spitts puppy is much hi.^- people take guns instead of butter better at this riting and is up and . for .seven years, he has created a around the house as usual, his life of his long and faithful public service powerful streamlined military ma- was disspared of once or twice but here, James T. Crews, who had re chine now making the whole world the boss doctor fetched him around gently retired as police chief was sit up antL take notice, and feel con- she is verry happy and talks about i honored this wet.K when the Lauiciis cerned. But conquerors are never it all the time, she took the illness Business league piesented to htni A satisfied, as history reveals. Given of her little boy a few months ago’silver loving cup The presentation power, they want more. The same is much easier than she did her dog, made by Colonel R. E. Babb, true of politician.'; in high offices ol but the boy was much worsen off. /'^ho referred to the fact that Mr. trust. Now we are told the Nazis are dogs is dogs, according to her hus- , Crews had served the ,city both as {fire chief and as head of the po lice department. going to create German style.s. “Fore- band. es have arisen in the mode industry,”, ♦ says a German announcement, “cap- everboddy is getting reddy for the i nni iKT a r>uti able of creating German things w’ith scholl commencement at flat rock. NORTH CAROLINA CHILD a German character.” miss jennie veeve smith, our affi- KILLED IN COUNTY It is easy to guess what those fore- cient principle, is all wrought up • es are and what the resulting modes over it onner count that she has not Laurens, May '12.—Johnnie Wil- of them. The newest transatlantic airline is owned by a steamship com pany. Railroad companies are run ning bus lines. The moving of goods and people | from wherever they are to wherever: they are fanted is, after all, one big! industry, the parts of which are al most interchangeable. Every new phase of this great transportatiim { web is either an ou^rowth of, or in some way tied in_with, earlier devel opments in the same field. The same names and families run through the history and development of all forms of transportation. For 150 years, for example, the Vander-{ bilt family has b^n epgaged^^ in transportation and practically noth ing else. I saw a report a few days ago that one of the youngest mem bers of that family had been made a director of an international aviatiem j company. That, I reflected, would will be. It is just possible that Danes, yet got noboddy to preech the backy- son, five-year-old son of Mr. and {have given the founder of the fam- Norwegians, Austrians and Czechs laurate sermont. she do not care to Mrs. John H. Wilson of-Pisgah For- ily something to marvel at. who submitted quietly to German risk rev. will waite. he is only a est, N. C., died Sunday in a hospital , ^ military domination will rush into country preecher of verry little note here of injuries received Saturday: VANDERBILT — Smart screaming revolt when German styles and no cash a-tall. she has rote afternoon when run over by an auto- j He was a pretty smart Dutch boy, with the official Nazi party label sevveral far-off dignitaries but have' mobile near Barksdale on the Laur- young Cornelius van der BUt, who come streaming over t|ie border tq, jip .tca^naev ghe JU'igtL.q. col-jena-GreenviUe highway. Tke driver. spread destruction. TI.ME FOR ACTION—NOT TALK . Sneaking of the claims and counter claims over the relative merits of sea power over air power, DeWitt ledge pressident, but he has to stay; of the car, Tully F. Babb, Gray Court at his own scholl and work, ever-. resident, told slieriff’s officers the boddy come, on add-mission. child, playing with other children, ♦- j ran unexpectedly into the road in we had a big wind storm in our, front of him, making it impossible to midst last tuesday. it blowed the'avoid the accident. Mr. Babb had MacKenzie, Associated Press foreign top off of slim chance’s ford but did the victim sent to a hospital at once. writer, says the question of suprem-, not disturb the mortgage on it. mrs.; The Wilsons were visiting at acy IS something to be determined, ’ sligh skinner lost a mce chjeken, Barksdale. Funeral services for the and the outcome of the war will house an a imported rooster, the | lad were held at 2 p. m. Monday at the residence of Roy Douglas by Rev. Robert Hughes. Burial was at Highland Home church. likely depend on this. "If Hitler can, top of dr. hubbert green’s barn was smash the Allied fleet, he will win blowed off, but .it had benn trying the war — if he can’t, the blockade' to fall off for 7 years, he do not will in the long run give him a night- pay much attention to his home life. | ^ ^ mansh time," this expert believes. ! the well shelter at the town hall' WOMEN’S ’COUNCIL The trouble of the Allies thus far careened, but the polleesman ketch- has been not in lack of resources,' ed it and hell it up till the mayor but in lack of smartness and ini,tia- < could come and nail it back, no ti\e in pro.secution of the war, as other serious dammage was done many oi their own people are now . except the wind blowed thni old insisting. They have allowed them- , man smith’s whiskers for the third selves to be outsmarted at every - time. turn by a man who is either one of' ♦ ■ the master strategists of history or I crops are about 2 weeks late this one of the luckiest opportunists who ' spring, but this was in sympathy NAM^ DELEGATES Laurens, May 9.—Mrs, Harry Wil liamson of Barksdale has been elect ed director ol tbe Laurens county council of farm women for a four- year term. Mrs. Earl Workmah of Clinton was named as a voting dele- worked the fMRiily farm on Stirt—(J [ Island in New York harbor. Hfe was handy with tools and built'a large sailboat. He used to carry farm produce up the Bay to the tip ofj Manhattan Island for sale. He would I carry passengers, at a price, if any-; one wanted to make the trip. One day he saw a strange craft at the Battery wharf in New York, Iti was Robert -Fulton’s new steamboat,! run by machinery instead of sails.! Young Vanderbilt decided to build one like it. He was not allowed to navigate his steamboat on the Hudson river, where an exclusive [franchise had been given, but he could steam down the Bay, around Staten Island, up the Raritan river to New Brunswick, and from there transfer pessengers and goods -to the Delaware river at Trenton, where an other steamboat would take then to Philadelphia. Cornelius Vanderbilt and his wife with the govverment in checks: they gate to attend the state short course for farm women at Winthrop college | opened a hotel at New Brunswick, were all 3 weeks late, not much can' in July. Mrs. J. Gray Harris, presi dent of the Laurens council of farm raised eleven children, and laid the foundation of the greatest fortune in ever lived. While Hitler is a supreme scoundrel, it must be admitted that he .< a smart wild hog. be done till seeker-terry Wallace ’ women, also will be a voting delegate ,^all America for the next 100 years. 11 there are those who claim that greases the wheels with dough, cot- at the state meeting in Rock Hill. cAnd the Vanderbilts have hung on to lien Hitler i.s merely lucky, then the! ton is coming up and dying as usual! xhe Laurens farm women hav^n^ost of it ever since, an.^wer is that luck which holds good I and has the big leg. corn has sprout-I vioted to donate $10(1 to buy new in .so many instances as his has, is ed and is being et up by the crows. * booing for fjje Laurens library, from^ ]ust .IS go<)d and result-producing as j oats is nearly big enough to cut:, which the book trucks operate, large- mastd strategy. I are our old mules happy? they have ^ under the sponsorship of the edu-' The English and French have’had' benn getting alon^ for the past few! cation department of the council, plenty of time to get over their un- {weeks on a little jjit of grass and a! headed by Mrs. L. C. Taylor, dei istifnation of the Nazi dictator. Tots of atmosphere, if we can all x^e fall meeting of the Laurens Thc ii repealed claims (true) that he J make a short crop happy days will j fgnn women will be at Lanford. IS unscrupulous do not help them {be here again. i ^ win the v!%r, but he must be dealt 1* • # with by deeds rather than by words, j Another ‘New Elnterprise Time for action and grand strategy} For Flat Rock by the Allied foices is here. Lip talk mr. slim chance, jr., is bmlding a| observance of national “open will never settle the question of su-' big dam on simkins creek which will 1 libraries, the Florida LIBRARY TO OBSERVE ! “OPEN HOUSE WEEK” premacy or the outcome of the be called the “last chance swimming | cf-p-t ophorff lihrarv will wolrome spreading war m Europe. Germany, pool.” it will have diving boards I J^rs May S! and Hitlerism must be destroyed if land the watter will be 6 feets through 24 'The public is cordially Western civilization is to survive. .where yore heads g^ down into [,t from It, and it wil have another,community,” as the library slo- THE CASE OF THE INDIAN . place in it that is ankle deep for the | ^ » kids to wade in and still another i‘ ^ ^ The people of the United States | . . . have not very much to be proud of' place in it that is knee deep for wim- in our national record of the treat- men without pretty figgers to wade ment of the Indians by the white men. The early colonists of New in with their clothes on. MASONS TO MEET FRIDAY Campbell Lodge No. 44, A. F. M^ will hold a regular communication Friday night, May 17, at 8 o’clock. England and Pennsylvania took pains this pool will be made out of clear | -pbe F. C. degree will be conferred, to pay the Indians for the land which _ watter and he will put allum in it! ah members are urged to be present. they occupied. But most of the early ' every other night to kill germs , European settlers iust walked in and which have crdwled . off of people, took possession by force of arms. , and he will allso have the watter The great mistake the colonists, tested for purity by the state gov- made was to try to force the Indians erment so’s you wont get pizened to adopt white men’s clothes, their if you swaller some of it thru ax- customs and their religion. Indians cident while swimming around an- resented that more than they did soforth in it. he has a special place having the whites occupy their lands. < for folks to swim on their backs in Most of the Indians felt no proprie-ian another deep hole for them to tary interest in land, anyway. | tread the watter wHh their boddies In recent years there has been a' standing erect, great change in the attitude of the V. P Adair, Act. Secretary. R. D. Hughes. Master. American people and our govern ment toward the Indian. The latest report of the Bursaiu of Indian Af- airs indicates that the number of In dians has been increasing steadily for years. There probably never were as many as a million IndUaas in adiat is now the United States. There are close to 700,000 Indians now. The government is encomraging and help ing them to live according to theb aid tribal customs—in oRmt woeds, mr. chance is financing this by his- self except his daddy i^t him the monney to build the dam and allso the bath-houses of whidt there will be 3, at foltowfars: i tor wim- min and one for men. &cy ar^ a 100 feet apart bo’s one cni’t peep into die otl^ adiile die is changing. IMdits will be put in them allso. he mouflit adl beer and soft drinks it his swimming hole if he can puy diem on eraddidc mad sell dwra for * T FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the llth day of June 1940, we will rinder a final ac- ebunt of our acts and doings as Exe cutors of the estate of J. W. Ckipe- land, deceased, in the office of tbe Judge of Probate of Laurens county, at 10 o’clock am., and on the same day will -apply for a final discharge from our trust as Executors. Any person indebted to said estate is no^ied uid raquired to make pay ment on or before that date; and all persons hav^ claims against sa^ estate will present them on before said date, duly proven, or be forever barred . Bessie Sitgreaves Copeland, Maaoo L. Copeland, David J. Craig, Exceutmri. Ifay to, 1940.—t-ic RAILflOADS Competitors While Cornelius Vanderbilt was building steamships and naming them all over the world, the railroad { was invented and he took one trip on the first line connecting Delaware and Hudson rivers, the Camden and Arpboy, the original line of the B. & O. The traun was wrecked and he swore he never would ride on the steamcars again. But his son, William H., who had stayed home on Staten Island, had a different idea. The railroad wanted to bridge its tracks from Perth Am- i boy across the Island to the upper! harbor of New York. 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