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■•AGE FOUR
THE CLINTON C^NICLB. CUNTON. S. C.
(Slmtoh QlifrirairU
EsUblished 1900
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Tuesday, jfUNg •, mo
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HOW THE NATION WILL REAM
Duties of Newly Orgraniied National Defense Commission
Outlined. Momentous Effort Gets Underway Immediately
Washington, May 31. — President
Roosevelt led the United States to
day into an era of “emergency man-
^agement” to rearm itaelf.
Seven cMrdinators—members of
• a civilian national defense commis-
ision—were organized and ready to
j undertake an experiment in Demo
cratic shortcuts to apply this coun-
across from John J. PeUcy, president
of the Association of American Rail
roads and representatives of private
transportation interests.
When Stettinius has 100,000 tons
’of iron ore to move from the ph-
'heads of Minnesota’s Mesabi range
to the smelters of Ohiot hidiana* or
Illinois, for example, he will not
ify Budd. Budd clears thb order to
VOfAL BBTTUDnNT
Take notice that on the 11th day of
June 1940, we will render a final ac
count ol our acts and dohifs as Exe
cutors of the estate Of J. W. Cope-
la^, deceased, -in the office of the
<fud§e of Probate of Laurens eouiffy,
at 10 o’clock ajn., and on the same
day will apply for a final discharge
from our tr^ as Executors.
Stettinius will have absolute con
trol of the speedup of minims of Iron . TJ:..’”! 4 u L. a
ore, its conveyance to smelters. Its who pute fu I '®*l»®«**WM5r 1
processing into Inm ingots or steel ^ P«>vide luf- « and required to make pay-
plate. The same rule will apply tojl!®*®®'
cotton, coal, manganes<i. niwir, and <»®
other stratexic materials ! ^ Pelley togfethtr will $be to It ^ ,
4 J 1 .* transportation “bottlenecks’’ are duly'proven, or be forever
Once Ihe raw cuterlak are ready , ^.p, at T minimum, becaae the _
(or proc^ing, ^udMn railroads, along with Mr. Rooaevelt.! Bessie Slteraaves Copeland.
ment on or before that date; ami all
persons havlttg dBlms against said
estate will preaent them on before
mmiA #lm4A .ls.1. < a
tfy’s genii^ for mass production of|Conrtol His aMignment enyis^es; ^ope to avoid govemmeiit operation
CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY, JUNE 6. 1940
^ Mason L. Copeland,
fighting planes, heavy guns, tanks assembly lines to produce fighting succeeding emertencies i David J. Craig,
and other instruments of death. j planes, for example, just as mass'epjjg realize, Mr Roosevelt sald’i ’ ' Executors.
Mr. Roosevelt, in effect, is dele-1 Production made P<^ible the ,00 , againsH^»y 1940.~g-4c
gating major powers to two indus-; building o. .0,000 automobiles daily.;roads to private hands)
trialists pf proven ability—General | Their first problem is . ascertain- j if the government again takes them
Motors corporation President Wil-lment of priority requirements of the [over as it did in the World War.
THE VALEDICTORIAN extension of a gigantic bureaucracy' g Knudsen and United States armed forces. From army, navy and fivinir nnt iinHg>r rnn<iiH-
T< Cecil White, of the Clinton high which is a direct menace to the per- gg^j corporation Chairman Eldward(marine corps specialists for tanks,u,,. 4u_„_ 4l,_ ,«v4in'
,<i, hi'ol graduating class last week, petuation of democratic, representa-, p Stettinius, Jr, But Mr. Roose-1 receive specifications for tauks, ! atton i
\\»nt lir.'^t honor over several close tive government as provided by the.^gp guide reins firmlyi planes, guns and other implements,nriees of affrimltnral nroH ■
c(,mender... His valedictory address. Constitution of the United States, jn his own hands. , Knudsen then must locate spai^!_4- P*^^**:)
I,.m.Hracy Mu,st Be Preserved " wi^ "Td ''ear durinj Productio. (acilltlM capable ol lab;
timely and well written that it nation laces today — and it never85-minute initial conlerence yes- ricating the items or, 11 such lacili- ,,
terdav when Mr Roosevelt assiened' lies do not exist, make arrangements) v.nesier v.. yavis oi we leqerai
The Atperic-an people need to be- commissioners to their 1 to construct new plants.- '.ieaerve . board is given the job-qf ;
come aroused and joih as one in a
w;,.- given publicaiion in The Chron- faced a more vital one.
icU- A friend writes us. “Cecil’s ad-
driss was marvelous."
. J 1. ju J ji J . w • u 11 1. 1. J 1 watching agricultural prices. These,
... ... I new posts. Knudsen, hardheaded Knudsen s big job will be sched-!w-
Cecil is the young man who edited battle against the forces of central-^ gg^^yg mass production, asked ^ uling; Planning so that parts of work toward parity the pre-
! world War levels—^but should not
tht high school paper the past year zation which, in the name of effi- Roosevelt directly: “Who is to! planes, tanks and similar items ar-
and did a most creditable job^^ While ciency, or benevolence, are cutting, ^g boss of this commission?
hi does not belong to the football! the ground of government from un- Equally directly, Mr. Roosevelt re-
hcroes. he is an excellent student, a|der the people and placing it in the pjigd; “j am.”
thi'i'oughly dependable, deseiving lad hands of politicians in the national| Knudsen, it was understood, spoke
— the very sort of graduate our high capital. _ ; unhesitatingly before accepting his
schools should strive to produce. We “““
an for Cecil, first and last.
rive in the order of their as^wbly. j y^gy yjy during the last
By this plan, a fabricator of troop
war. Supplies are more than ade-
' commission, indicating clearly that
CIVIUZATION—THREE NATIONS wg not ac^nt if the commis-i * .4 4, .......4 uw
1 if^n of)"® acccpi 11 ittc commis-(^Qr motors and steel produced with-
Maintenance of the cuilization of gjon were to become an advisory oo* labor coooeration and labor
the world as we know it depends Vounril without the nower to ruV , ana lanor
- on three Rritain France and 4«> C^t, planning. This task gOCS tO Sidney
whwls before he has complete tne^ tg depleted foreign
vehicles wfon t receive manufactured
Chassis. j Harriet Elliot of the Uni-
But coal and ore can’t he mined versity of North Carolina will look'
after consumers’ prices and Leon
Henderson, securities and exchange
commissioner, will watch raw ma-
are under
JABfBS W. CALOWBLL
Call 271
AN EXPENSIVE FIELD
.Ve learn from The Laurens Ad-j on three nations, Britain, France and vu o4„„cjr cormnissioner, will watch
vt thser. a well informed gazette, that] the United States. The^ nations aoimrance that he wa- the Con-1terial prices. Both of, these _
I linens new $*>50 000 airoort mTd- are not the only civilized countries r u- ^ " was estab-Tgress of Industrial OrgamzaUons. control now, Mr. Roosevrtt said. '
Lain t ns ntv, 3.,.on.uuu airport, iniu ^ are noi me oniy civiiizea countries ygj.jj„g jj^g defense commission for] ^ji, train 1000 000 p— 41- . m,-. „„
way on the Laurens-Clmton high- m the world, but they are the only! results not stage dr^sinas Knud-' • ** j For the pr^nt. Miss Elnott, Hen-1
M-riv K tn Ke fnrmaiiv onened Fri- ones powerful enough and wijh re- gg-. re'oortedlv nledxed his coonera-'^rvice and opet^e th derson and Davis will be little more
the worldly," 3.statisticians keeping a close
nr, fnr n.,rot,or, I system. Under his supervision will: watch over price trends, but their
way. IS to be formally opened Fri
day. June 14. Th;s is the first time'sources enough to save me woriu'yQj^ g^d “signed up for duration,
wt have seen in print what the air- from destruction and from being RnnseveU «aid
poi . coni. I. is a WPA eovernm.n. completely domioat^ by loree, ^lat Se Tommie ■ S„r';rml«“"exSrtV;u^^^ ,0,7
required six years for are seeking to crush it under heeLioinn uriii nnt tn AnnnnA ««I expanaw vwauonai etition of 1917 loomed.
project that required
at his prwsjbe 50,000 youths receiving primary 1 powers would be multipli^ if a rep-!
sion will not have to depend on, training schools of the National
con.^truction, ^work beginning back in Daily reports from the battlefields voluntary cooperation alone, but “in i Youth Administration which will be
Decemberj^ 1933. This |s^the^air^ Europe paint a very dark picture' effect" will have powers to cut red preparing hundreds of thousands in
technical skills e$;sential for non-
combatant support of a fighting
_ , J,. I . - army, and the new training to be
Government planes and those of a'that means that the people of Europe After their mitiai meeting with given to civilian conservation corps
number of citizens of the state are wju be slaves. Mr. Roosevelt, the defense coordina-1 enrollees.
to be present for the gala‘event, we in Asia, if Japan can complete. tors sj^nt an hour with one of his! Mr. Roosevelt is anxious that there
arc told. Other planes are to come her conquest of China ^without col-j executive assistants, W. H, McRey- shall be no waves of Sti^kes In key
for the celebration on Sunday, the lapsing herself, she will be overlord | nolds, and decided to meet here again national defense industries, and
that The Advertiser stated .some time, jj^jggy if the German army cruchesjtape, iron out kinks in vital indus-
ago in a news item, "was rented to a Britain and France, one man will tries, and eliminate bottlenecks to
Laurens citizen for $100 a year. , j^g master of Europe—Hitler—and,speed up production
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special OTFES I
FATHER’S DAT—JUNE 19 i
Give him Esqttire, 1 )ritar--4SJU.
This aSer gaai imtil JMw 39.
JAMES W. CAEH^ELL
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16th. the details of the program for jn th^t part of the world. jnext Thursday. Several of them,
this day to be worked out later, ac- If these things corne about—and! including Knudsen, returned to their
cording to a spokesman for the com- the possibility is not remote—the po- ■ private businesses, while Stettinius
mittee. sition of the United States will be’remained here to begin work at
OWe may be old-timy, but we do not critical. This nation will be the one'once. They will have offices in the
hesitate to say that the Sabbath is remaining bulwark against world-1 federal reserve board building,
the wrong day for such festivities. It wide tyranny. On our shoulders willi The following, Mr. Roosevelt said,
IS no more proper to conduct “flying'rest the responsibility of carrying! is how the defense coordination pro-
.shows" or open an airport on the the torch for every ideal that civil-1 gram will work.
equally determined that Vorkers {; [
shall have their full legal right to
organize. It will be Hillman's job
to help iron out labor difficulties,!^
guarding against major stoppages.
New Deal wage and hour standards,,,
will not be relaxed. The training pro-p >
grams will seek to eliminate skilled -''
Sabbath, than it would be to open a ization has fought for centuries. No! Stettinius will have full charge of| When labor has mined the raw
new printing office or mercantile es-, nation since the beginning of time [raw materials; Knudsen of fabricat-1 materials and fabricated them into
tablishment on this day. The Sab-^ has been faced with such a momen- ing them into fighting planes, plane finished products, the job of moving
bath, more and more, is being com- tous task. ! motors, machine guns, tanks, gun the goods will be turned over to
mercialized and made a holiday. At These things being so, what course! powder, vehicles for transporting j Burlington Railroad President Ralph
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the rate we are going, there is dan-' is the United States to follow in the I troops and guns, and all other im
ger that it will eventually be de-[ present emergency? What shall be) plements of modem mechanized war
stroyed. jour attitude toward events that are
The Chronicle is frank to admit it taking place in the world today?
has-^iover been an airport enhusiast shall we sit' idly by and say they
because there is no real need for one don’t concern us? Shall we proclaim
in the coimty and since only a small) an isolationist policy that many
handful of people are benefitted by: shortsighted so-called statesmen in
the expenditure. this country have been advocating
If the government was determined for years? ,
to spend $250,000 in the county to The nation, under a dramatic
create employment, this amount put awakening by the president, is be-
inti) thLs unnecessary project could, latedly taking steps to arm itself,
toi instance, have been far more The move has practically unanimous
pn liiably spent and benefitted a support. But the United States is
laipe proFKirtion of our population not in imminent danger. Whether
had It been expen.:led in building and wq, admit it or not, our first line
improving cross countryjxiads of the of defense is-in Europe—Britain and
county. For while only a’small fbw, France. And Britain and France
arc interested in an airport or fly- are in imminent danger of defeat,
ing. all citizens, city and rural, are Britain’s Prime Minister Winston
interested in, and vitally affected „by.a::iiurchill on Xuesday issued an ap-4-
thc improvement and expansion of peal to the Ufiited States that can’t'
our entire county road system. be ignored. Speaking before the
^ ! house of commons, he said: “We shall
TOO Ml CH GOVERNMENT i never surrender and ev'en if, which
Said Wendell L. Wilkie recently, j jo not for a moment believe, this
The people of the Urhted States will island or even a part of it is sub-
bcgin their real recovery from thejjugsfetj g^d starving, then our em-
depression when they demand that a pjre across the seas, armed and
curb be placed ui>on government guared by the British fleet, will
grown too great.’’ carry on the struggle until in God’s
In the past ten years there was good time the new world in all its
oniy one major activity in this coun- strength and might sets forth to the
try which showed any real expan-j rescue and liberation of the old.”
sion: the United States government. This country might as well face the'
Government employment has in-. situation: It is going to have to serfd*
creased nearly 100 per cent; govern-'aid to the Allies—speedily—and in
ment expenditures have increased great amount. They need planes
nt arly 200 per cent, now amounting and tanks. A statement from Eu-
to o\er $9,000,000,000 (new war de-irope in the past’ few days said that
E. Budd, who, using the President’s
description, will represent j the gov
ernment on one side of « double deah
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We will loan you money on your car or refinance your
car for you.
Our terms and rates are standard.
HMMERMAN MOTOR CO.
CHRYSLER — FLYHOUTH
Phone 119
Sales and Service
CUntoiL S. C.
fen.se not included). Government
borrowing has increased over 150 pet’* be worth ten next week, and one
one airplane sent this week would
cent . . It has enormously added to
il.'^ power over our lives and it has
largely delegated those powers to
federal commissioners who are not
responsible to the. people nor to the
congress.”
El.sewhere in his talk, Mr. Wilkie
ob.served that years ago a great eco
nomic and social battle was directed
against unscrupulous men and busi
ness of wealth, and against the con
centration of economic and monopo
listic power in a few private hands.
But today a far more dangerous situ
ation has arisen with the deliberate
concentration of power in the hands
of those who run the government.
Political as well as economic democ
racy is in danger. Every liberty, ev
ery right, which the people relin
quish makes the authority of official
dom greater and more strongly in
trenched.
The giving of sweeping new pow
ers to government is inva'riably the
road to dictatorship, and is a. road
that, once traversed to any great ex
tent (as we are doing), is seldom re
traced short of revolution.
Never in history did government
so dominate our lives, as now. As a
glaring example, the farmer is now
told from Washihgton what he can
and cannot produce qn his farm. The
-New Deal crowd (champion spenden
of all time) have created thousands
of commissions of every tort and
vested them with an unprecedented
aombination of legislative, executive
and'iudkrial authority. We have p«*-
mitted the creation and almost da^
hundred next month.
We^ hope the United States will not
be deaf to the plea of the British
prime minister. The neormous man-
ufacutring capacity ancT resources of
this country should be inimediately
put to work td supply the Allies
j with shipload after shipload of tanks
‘ and wave after wave of planes—
fly them over the Atlantic as soon
as the last screw is in place. #
Reports from Europe state Hit
ler is staking his all on a short war
and a quick victory; if he does hat
win this summer he will be imable
to carry on the war because of lack
of supplies and materials. The Unit
ed States should see to it that, as
far as planes and tanks are concern
ed, the Allies shall hold out until
Hitler exhausts his limited resources.
Britain and France are fighting
our battle—that free .nations shaU
not perish fn»n the earth.
NOTICE
All persbns having claims against
the estate of'the late R. W. Wade, de
ceased, will please file same duly
itemized and sworn to before either
O. L. Long, Attorney for the estate
of R. W. Wade, at Laurens, S. C., oiri
Mrs. Frances S- Wade, Executrix, at
Clintbn, S. C., on or befofre July 1,
1940, and all parties indebted ‘to said
estate will lUcewise make payment
to either of said parties on or before
said date. FRANCES S. WADE,
Executrix of the last Will and
Testament of R. W..Wadc, Dec’d.
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SiHnetiaie Rffo one of oar borrowers wl|oJ«id a l«|n wHb oar AMMi-
atkm, ffedffdl to maKe certain tlw l&aa woRlI be'paiff in case of his
althoni^ al the time he was in good health and working every day. He
insnred his life through our loan Insurance ^n.
A weeks ago death stopped this borrower’s visit to ear He
had paid a small amount each month along with his loan payments^ and
the above check did at onCe what he wonld have done, had he lived. It
paid the balance due on his mortgage and we had the privilege of taming
over to the wfdOw and other dependenta, the mor|gage marked *TA1D
IN PULL.” ,
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If. you are plalining to borrow money for your koine, may wt make
this mggMUbn? Ut os explain to you net eniy o«r lenn plan erUch
thoosanda of people kave used, hot a|so our loan plas Insurmnee pton.'
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