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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
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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. William- H. {
Vanderbilt surprised his old father
by becoming the president of a {
profitable railroad running through
the old family farm.
The old man stuck to steamboats,
and ran his lines up the Hudson from
New York to Albany. Then some
smart promoters ran a railroad up
the river. That hurt the steamboat
business. Cornelius Vanderbilt gotj
mad enough to go into the railroad
business with his son,. They built,
another road up the Harlem Valley*
to Chatham, with a branch line over,
to Albany, and got a.franchilie for a'
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