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THE CLINTON CHSONICLB, CLINTON, 8. C.
THUBSDAY, AUGUST S, 1940
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Nobodjr’s Business
By Gee McGee
Flat Reck Secures A New Industry
! mr. slim chance, Jr., and mr. han-
'some moore have bought theirselves'
'a steam engine and a nice saw mill
to match it. it was secont-handedj
sevveral years ago, and mr. chance
says the outfit is possibly eighth or'
ninth handed by now. the first time;
they fired their engine it busted on
one side and would of scalded slim,
chance if the steam could of ketched
him when it started towards him. it
was fixed up the next day.
TODAY
AND
TOMORROW
By
Frank Parker
STOCKBRIDGE
That’s about the lowest tux on ordi
nary things. Silk stockings and other
luxury goods pay 24 percent.
The new taxes put the price of
cigarettes yp to 29 cents a pack, and
I the soldier in the army has to pay as
I well as the civilian back home. A
! private soldier gets $2.80 a week pay.
If he’s mairied, half is fiaid to his
FINAL SETfLBBUNT
Take notice that on the 20th dgy
of August I will render a final ac
count of my acts and doings as Exe
cutor of the estate of Richard B. Fer
guson, deceased, in the office of Vtna
Judge of Probat^ of Lam-ens County,
a1^ 11 o’clock a. m., and on the same
wife. That ieaves him $1.40, which,day will apply for a final discharge
won’t buy him a pack of cigarettes: from my trust as Executrix.
the name of the new saw
® w ,1 person indebted to said estate
I The income ^es have b^ raised i is ^tlfted and required to make pay-
Iagain. A single man earning $20 a ment dn or before that date; andS
jweek has to pay more than $2 a.persons will present them m or ha-
week income tax. Moreover, the in-*fore said dfte, duly proven, or be
I come tax is paid by his employer I forever barred.
CLINTON. S. C., THl’RSDAY. AUGUST 8. 1940
VV.ASHINGTON LEADS ALL ■ vice the county has a right to expect.
Ccn.sus figures reveal that Wa.sh-{This should be the yardstick and not engine, has only 3 wheels on it and
ington D C the seat of government the spending of money by candidates
.ponding and deficit piling, led all or the efforts and propaganda of
other citie.s in population gain during ■ "hired workers.” Above all, the char-
no chassis a-tall. they will saw pine
and poplar planks at 5$ per thou
sand feet, and they say they will re-
thc past ten years. This announce-j acter of the candMates^ne^s to^bCif^gg jq cherry and)
ment is no surprise. With the respec-| closely scrutinized and how tbeyjg^ggt i^gg as(R mought break
tive states converted into a sort of stand on moral questions. How do i their saw; it is too tough to be worth
one big state with Washington as the
directing center, and with multiplied
federal agencies created by the New
they stand on the liquor question?, anriything anyhow.
Are they personally dry? There
should be no ground left for doubt
Deal in the name of emergency—it i bn these questions. Are the men
TAXES—Increased ^
Probably you’ve noticed, if you!and deducted from his wages, 'hier ' FANmr r*/mrnrTnsoM
smoke cigarettes, that you’ve been higher the income, the higher the! — * Executrix
^rxA paying a cent more on a pack) tax rate, until the larger incomes pay j July i# 1940 R.4rw
„ K., since July 1. That’s just one item of more than 90 percent in taxes. Yet! _ ^ °
engine enterprise will be the chanreujj^ national defense taxes, to all the reports I get from England'
Si moore lumwr company, they wiuK ^jp p^^^ war • preparations, i say that everybody is facing the mu-
saw anny Umber that annyl^dy^ stamp with a picture of! sic and nobody is grumbling,
fetches to their plant but wiU notij^^j^^ ^
move their equipment around as packa,e of cijarettea, now I ECONO»nr-NecMa..T
the manufacturor «Vi m- ^1,,^ ^ ^
atead of 6 COTta. and of MurM fte Britain'. If we ever^
makers pa^ it on throu* the dealer ^
I* A money is- going to be taken away
That s only one of a doren or ^ ^
htUe tax increase which wn^ ^
vo^ last sprmg. thra means economies for everybody, a
hekvily upon anybody-yet. ^en reduction in our respective scales of
we get down to real spending for
whoever wants to buy anny slabs
for stovewood can get them aft^r
IS nci
wonder that the city on the! seeking the voters’ storage safe andl^j^^y some timber next month at
Potomac is enjoying an unprecedentr;conservative, or radical with ques-
ed boom with evidences of growth'tionable views? Do they stand on
and prosperitv seen in every direc-' their own feet? Is the candidate
movers., _ .„L^kini_my honest? Is he the
" Thousand., upon thousands of men
x")
^Kuicr"or Tellow you can’t put -yoiir
and wJmen h^^^; tlocked to Wash- hands on one , premiss
$1 per load f.o.b,_the company’s mill,
sawdust will be sold at 50c per sack
and it is mightly fine for chicken
houses and to be thrdwed around the
back-door pt-azza steps enduring
damp weather, if a feller is not able
warships, fighting planes, army
equipment, coast defenses, the en
largement of the Panama canal, new
naval bases and- airports, and t)ie
wages of an army andTa navy several
times as large as we now have, then
is when the taxes will begin to pinch.
There’s a lot of talk about fixing
it ’so that the taxes won’t hit the
living.
It seems to me that the first plnce
met.,!, to seek and obtain govern-1 f I to pay tor hawing hia lumter sawe^ but will all be paid by the
merit mb. Federal emulovees on the ^hat solid type lAhose word is nis, chance A moore will saw for
payroll, have reached almost a mil-'bond and who can be depended uponjtoU at the rate of one-third of all
lion a total which civil service ex- r egardless of whatever pressure or j ^q^gred stuff, plus the puncheons
pert. ..ay is the largest in history..conditions may ar^se. ansoforth. _ f
than
More than twenty-six million men, his own self-interest and not the ,
and women are living at expense of good? this big saw-mill indus ry is a fine
government in its combined activi-: These are f’^“eme^y jmportanU thing for flat rock. |t js the^first
* ^tid—feTlgl—agencies qoestiimK about which—the v oters. ng-w -industry flat rock'has had for
administration should now be concerned. 15 years; in fact, it is the only man-
tie.. spending
which the present
pledged to cut down when it as
sumed office in 1932. That promise,
like many others, was quickly
thrown in the waste basket. t
I ufacturing plant in this section at
FLYNN REPLACES FARLEY ‘ pressent. the pay-roll will run some-
Edward J. Flynn, of New York, where’s betwixt 12$ and 15$ a week
rich. That’s pure bunk. There aren’t
enough rich folk to foot the bills if
the government took all their in
comes. Everybody will have to pay.
one of the leaders in the recent pre-! and that ought to stimmerlate trade
What does this mean? It means convention to renominate President in our two local stoars a right smart,
that one person in five of our en-i Roosevelt for a third term, has ac- mr. moore will haridle the saw mill
tire population is dependent upon| cepted the chairmanship of the Dem-i while mr. chance will run the engine.
their children will bear off the lum-
taxpayers through Washington. It ocratic national committee. He sue
means that at the rate we are trav-^ceeds another New Yorker,
cling (which we are told is not to A. Farley, who tesigned from the
be checked) taxeaters will soon out- jxisition alter expres.Miig his oppo-
mimber taxpayers. silion t- ;; third temi and being
ditched by Roosevelt as a candidate
G-MEN ON THE JOB tor the presidential nomination.
James ;ber and slabs and keep the saw
dust out of the way.
^
I Am Running For Office
a big political barbecue and fish-
fry was hell satturday p.m. at hick’s
iht American people are arou.sed' piynn. a leader in party af-1
POLl'nCS—DeUylng
L don’t know just what forin. -the
new taxes which this congress will
impose will take, but I have a
shrewd suspicion that the really big
tax bill won’t be enacted before
election. There’s money enough in
sight in the treasury to cover all
necessary expenditures to about next
February. ’There’s a presidential
election coming in November. My
hunch is that both parties will come
to some sort of an understanding
that they’ll get the new tax • laws
ready to bring out for debate, but
will hold them in committee until
after election.
After election day senators and
for economy to begin is in. the gov-i
ernment. I’m qpt thinking now of
taking anybody off relief. I’m thfiik-
ing of the general extravagance!
which is-apparent to anybody whoj
has ever had opportunity to olmrve
the operations of any government
department or bureau at close range,
as I have.
There's nothing new about that
tendency to waste money. Neither
political party has a monopoly on it.
It all arises from the human feelings
that everybody’s money is nobody’s
money, and it’s no sin to waste it.
IN MEMOIIAM^
Betty Ann Shealy
June'22, 1938—August 9, 1985
NOTICE
I OF BUS TRANSPORTATION
/ Bids for the transportation of
school children of Laurens county
shall be opened in the office of Coun
ty Superintendent of Education on
‘Tuesday, August 13th, at 3:30 pjn.
The final date for acceptance of bids
will be 12 o’clock noon, August 13th.
This notice shall not apply to dis
tricts owning their own buses, as
trustees in such district will award
contract.
Routes subject to bids are as fol
lows:
Hurricane No. 15, to Clinton; •
-Mountville No. 16—^Mountville—
1. Lisbon to Mounville;
2. Rock to Mountville;
- 3. Old Mountville to MquntviUe;
Sullivan No, 17—^Hlckoiy Tavern—
1. MorfV .to Hickory '^vern;
2. Shiloh to Hiekoor Tarem;
Laurens No. 4i Bailey to Laurens
City;
Mt. Gallagher to Ware Shoals;
Mt. Olive to Ware Shoalar;
Rock Bridge to Mountville;
Rock Bridge to Ljdia Mill;
Lydia Route to Clinton;
Shady Groverto GoldvlUe;
J. LEROY BURNS,
18-3c Co. Supt. of Bd.
machine _ which delivered the ™
a>
to defend our nation on a scale never in turning out majorities for j hands aching and bleeding from hav-
i- n t. U..U cnri vmg benn shuck so much. mrs. hol-
before dreamed of, both with physi-; both as governor and
cal armaments to,repel inv’asion | j.fg jg one of the “four
without and the moral armaments of i horsemen” who engineered the
patrioti.-m and watchfulness to expeb “draft.” He belongs to the
the invader from within.
Our defense against the “fifth
column." which is already at work
country's most notorious machine
bosses (Hague, Guffey, Kelly and
Elynn), is the dominant factor in the
sum moore says that 2 of the candy-
dates for the leggislature almost
wrung her hand off, and she wont
be able to milk her cow for at least
3 weeks.
jn every part of the nation, lies i^'-Xammany organization and chief
constant vigilance on the part of sllj federal patronage dispenser for all
citizens, to note 'and report to the York
proper authority every ket or trtter-7 ^
ance on the part ot any individual ' ddeslmn c^_^up ol
or group, native or toreign-bom.l'‘"'"f Farley s place, the name ot
whefh »«ma to indieate an Intent •» tfaTmLirnS as hTtlely ^uccli
hamper our preparations for defense Whether the place was officially
or to undermine the loyalty of any'®^ Whetner the place was on‘ciaiiy
of our neoDle I - ^; offered Byrnes, neither he nor
The iSthini good citizens should'have publicly stated
do ,s to try to take the law into their,Byquoted as say,ng.
own handi ‘Our rising wave ot pa- ">“<1' up my mind that I would not
triolism. through misdirection must “ucept the chairmanship and my
no, engulf personal liberties and'"""Vl1, JT m •
bring suffering to the innocent,- saysifu'^ Byrnes be offered the impor-
J. Edgar Hoover, director ot thg Fed-i P"st? It he was obiectionable
eral Bureau of Investigation The' “ 5'
work ot running down all subversive,*^ would not the same
activities and everything which'fm considering him
seems suspicious in this respect has!?o* *^0oha'rmanship? It has
been assigned to that bureau, cb-'^" that President
operating with trained police inves-lRoo^voli ‘urnrt down Byrnes tor
tiVators all over the nation. Every nil
one of the hundreds of reports re-'S'', Colhodtc church to become a
ceived daily from housewives, bank-, P™*,'?**"'- “as teated this
-nTrsfore-clemv-TcctoryTOsrkers. m--'would,prodtice.^IiU,4ioUUcal
action among the heavy Catholic
dustrialists, farmers, salesmen and I
vote of the nation. Neither Roose-
uncmployed pj^nsons is investigated. , „ i. j j .i.
Our advice to every reader who! nor ^mes have denied the ^
secs, hears of or suspects that un- P^ident is understo^
American activities are going on in ° preferr^ a Roman Catholic
his community is to write at once tosucceed Farley. Mr Flynn, the
the Federal Bureau of Investigation'"^ a Catholic.
some of the candy-dates made
short speeches and bragged on their
selves and their kinfolks a right
smart, al of them said that they
were self-made, and even with that
—they all done a mighty poor job
of it, so said mrs. art square, endur
ing the meeting and barbecue, miss
Jennie veeve smith raised about 4$
to help buy a new carpet for the
pullpit at rehober church, she says
that candy-dates are mighty big-
harted when they are rxmning for
offis, but they always get over it
after they are defeated.
much easier for a congressman
to vote for a tax increase when he
knows it won’t hurt his chance of]
returning to congress, than to go on
record for taxes which might anger
his constituents.
The prospects are for higher in
come taxes for everybody and taxes
on incomes that do not now pay
them. By taxing all incomes above
$800 a year the experts figure ttiat
2% million parsons who are not new
directly taxed will be called on for
their share of government costs.
A little life so precious.
Too precious for this world.
Gone to be with Jesus
And be His angel girl.
Your sweet little face we miss,
With eyes so bright and blue.
And look to that happy day
When we shall be with you.
The days are long and empty
Since you went away.
But He would choose so sweet
flower
To be with Him each day.
And when he said
“Suffer the little children to come
unto me,” •
He, I’m sure, was thinking
How sweet Heaven would be.
But since His wish was granted.
That to Heaven you might go.
May we try to feel assured
That it is better so.
We Finance
AUTOMOBILES
S. W. SUMERa
Jacobs Baildliif
ASK ROY
the fishes which were served were
hot ketched .locally, but the market
man said a friend of his ketched
them in norfolk, Virginia, they et
verry good, but the fat-back meat
which they were fried in tasted bet
ter than they tasted, cornbread was
allso on hands with each helping, all
for, 25c. coffee was \5c extry and so
was ice-tea ansoforth. some of the
candy-dates made like they, xliddentabe American people are-determined
have anny appetite to eat nothing,
but mrs. slim chance, jr., said that
they said that because they diddent
have no monney to buy nothing to
eat with.
it is going to be a hard summer on
Ultf rcutridl OUitrdU 111 V CMlKctkiUII I ^ ^ , tLijI ® ® —
at Washington, or communicate with! ^nator Byrnes, who was labeled the deer people, they will have to
shake thousands upon thousands of
horny-hands and smile when they
feel more like frowning, the country
has more politeness in it than it has
countv or city law enforcement offi-'^^ Chicago convention as one of
cers. Don’t start to stir up trouble' s chief lieutenants along
for your suspicions may be altogeth- Harry Hopkms, Ickes and oth
er unfounded. The G-men will quiet- ^ if° ^ down the
ly investigate ^nd find out the truth. signa been i ewer had befoar. men who are seel^
^ [flashed for him by Roosevelt, he ing offis are bowing and scrapiltg
Till.' iriMi» nv Mirv xn pi prr I'^ould be the vice-presidential nomi- and praying in publick and singing
•THL KIND OF MEN TO ELECT today instead of Wallace. His in the quire and donating a dime
^ supporters are right in re- here and a nickel there, none of
things they have evver indulged in
der way next week with speaking mistreatment the senator
engagements in all parts of the coun-^^^^i^^ manner in which it
ty as provided in the itinerary ar-] administered. The fact that
ranged by the exwutive committee, tg ^ Southerner, from a state
Political interest this year whether ^
theie be much or little, will be cen- ^^^j^^ chief reason why‘he was
tered in the respective counties, since Wallace. ’The latter
there are no statewide contests.
I comes from the great grain area with
About 12,000 men and women are doubtful politi-
enrolled in the county which means'^a, ^he chief concern of the
there will probably a primary, tj^i^d-termers is to win.
vote of from 8,500 to 9,000. The elec- Howbeit. Byrnes remains a loyal
Uon brings to this group of qualifi^l | jjew Dealer, ready to carry the ball
voters the responsibility of going to the president when his services
the polls to select a number of of- needed to pull him out of the
e • I M • V ^ a a aa ra ra #• m li^ ^ a a aia ~ _ *
befoar. all of them are sure of elec
tion.
yores trulie,
mike lark, rfd,
corry spondent.
WAR—Profttleas
We are not at war, I hope we
never shall be at war, and I see np
reason to expect that we are going
to be at war in the near futuj^. ’The
surest way to keep out of .war is to
get fixed so that nobody will dare
to attack you, and .that is what we
are doing now. But some folks are
grumbUBg'^^)j(er the trifling rise in
taxes alread^in effect. They don’t
want to pay the price of peace.
They’re going to pay more, all of
us are, before we get or. a safe de
fense footing. And if we should ac
tually get into war the cost which
will have to be sfiared by everybody
is beyond the imaginings of most of
us. If there is one thing on which
W. J. BENJAMIN
SERVICE STATION
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Can Walked aiM GiraMd
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D. E. Tribble Co.
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H. D. HENRY & COMPANY
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more than ah3rthing else, it is that
nobody shall make any money out of
war or preparations for war.
You’re already paying more for,* *
your movie tickets and a lot of little |
luxuries. It won’t be long now be
fore you’ll be paying more for almost
everything.
BRITAIN—Taxed
I’ve just been studying the new
tax schedules for the people of Great
Britain. Although the Labor party is
strongly represented in the govern
ment, there hasn’t been any attempt
to make it easier tor the “little fel
low.” First, there’s a big sales tax
on everything except food and chil
dren’s clothes. An ordinary pair of
LEGAL NOTICE
Know all men by these presents:
On the date of August 5, 1940, the
store known as Western Auto Asso
ciate Store, home-owned by W. S.
Walker, was sold to J. B. Cathey.
The purchaser, J. B. Cathey, adlii
not be respcmsible for any bijhr eeei-4
socks pays a 12 percent sales tax.
licials who are to direct the county s ■ truly be said of him—he'tracted by or for the aforeiwntioned
OTT i nan fOUT ^ * i-— _
kisses the hand that smites him.
affairs for the next two and
years.
It IS the duty of voters to examine The average retail price of gaso-
into the fitness and character of ev- ^ ii„e as of June 1, 1940, was 12.86
ery c^didate^king their suffrage,;cents a gallon, which is’the lowisst
regardless of the offire, and to make since November, 1934.
their choice on this basis, with em-jTaxes, state and federal, however.
phasis ^?"'po*‘o"®harwter. While averaged 5.42 cents a gallon,
this ought to be the yardctick used -
in the sel^tion of ail public officials,
there are many voters who too of^
cast their, ballots for other reasons.
It is for this reason that the most
competent and honorable men are
often defeated, while others are
elected who are unfitted for the of
fices. There are always capable, de
pendable men in these races, and
there are others not qualified, un
desirable, or of unknown quality.
‘This being true, it is the duty ol all
good citizens to investigate the can
didates and vote for those they be
lieve by training and experience are
qualified to render the type of ser-
SPECIAL UNTIL JULY 18
CesaMpeUtan Magutae—IS MmUis
for $2 J8.
JAMES W. CALDWELL
Pbmie 278
WALKER’S
FUNERAL HOME
Clintoa. S. C.
FOR COLORED PEOPLE ONLY
Day t288-Plieaes NltfRIlf
Rmr. ■. W. Walker.
store or previous owners prior to the
date of sale, August 5, 1940. /
Ic * J. B. CATHEY.
FINAL
Take notice that on the 26th day
of August, 1940, I will render a final
account of my acts and doings as
Administrator of the estate of OftRe
Wadsworth, deceased, in the office,
of the Judge of Probate of Laurens
County, at 10 o’clodc a. m., and on
toe same day will apply for a ftoal
discharge from my trust as Adminis
trator.
Any person iaddbted to said estate
is noUf led and required to make pay
ment on or before that date; and all
persona having claims against said
estate will present them on or before
said dale, <^y proven, or be forevtr
barred.
CLINTON A. WADSWORTH,
Admtnistratar.
July,28, 1940.—4C-19.
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