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]■ • I ■ I wmimi 11 '19l> PAGE FOUR TRE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. S. C THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1940] uI4^ (Elttiton (EtironirU EsUbUshed 19M WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBUSHING 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 aH times appreciate wi« suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatonr nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. permanent waving to do and verry little fihger-wavlng, and no face lifting. will knott took the same view of the tusly men. but they mought locate here anny way, if dr. green will rent them his offis. he ended, thanking the audience for its attention. C B. Nance (]arroll D. Nance of CroM Hill, former senator, after a complimen- ferer miss Jennie veeve smith decided I not to t^h a summer scholl in flat, rock, but will take up earlier in the fall, she will have some new coarses installed, such as home ex and sow- i^ things on sowing machine and fissical culture outside in the yard.j she has put on 12 pounds moye of ; flesh enduring vacation and she now j , looks well rounded out. she has benn j -teaching for us going on 17 years. CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1940 I rev. will waite closed his protract ' ed meeting at cedar lane after 4 days; I of fruitless efforts, a carnival was in j town and that kept everboddy away {from his tent, he tried to preechi WHAT HISTORY REVEALS It takes hundreds of years for any nation or group of people to learn years are ....... ... . . . down at the carnival one night but i ministration has ^n piling up d®bti flying jenny and the bingo stands 'and deficits. A tabulation of its defi- how to govern themselves. That is proved by the w'hole course of hu man history. It takes only a couple of generations for a self-governing people to be reduced to servitude to a ruler or. a government. That, too, is history. There is always a large percent-' age of any group of human beings! 1933 $1,783,848,180 drowned out everthing he said, he gave up the ghost and returned home, his collections, all tolled, was ~ fro’buss bill ’there spondent ketched a nice chance of fish in the new lake 1940 : last satturday. he divided them who place a higher value on present material welfare than they do on . , their inherent human rights to free-' UeSt m^ll history, ^ these star dom of action, thought and speech.; J^g figures reveal. What a contrast Everv failiJl'e of democracy since; |p promise of Candidate Frank- tijiu ~ hrr " *' hii r hfrn' Roosevelt seeking the presi- monv of"thenr*^'has^^n ^brou^tIoi^tf.'UiiUOd hl«»J , >- st5©S«Mw®"pw*ntses - and gifts.- 1941 amongst his manny friends, and after; Grand total $29,954,720,842. j gelling sevveral bunches, he had The New Deal has been the cost- enough to, last him and his’n thru! Tamday and up to noon monday. boddy else ever ketches army fish! down there to amount to annything. he knows how and won’t tell, the fuBcs vJtls'Ulm fisliBimai at 29, tons. Tsaak wal‘ ’'terraf benefits; -ftyr*«w>hwh- r, on the extravagance ana deficits oi| of the people have been willing to ^ ^ i pav bv surrendering their liberties, the Herbert-Hoover administration.| fc..' a mess ot pottage. The address contamed these para-1 yores -trulie; mike larkTrlfT,"' corry spondent. tary reference to the people of Center Point, at once entered into an energetic defense of his demo cracy. “No man," he said, “had the right to challenge my democracy”. He then referred to his birth in a small cabin on a farm near Cross Hill of a father who “marched with the Red Shirts in 1876” and fought to maintain white supre macy in South Carolina. “I have always voted the Democratic tick et”, he said, “and propose to go to the polls on general election day, Nov. 2, and cast my ballot for the nominees of the Democratic pkr- ty, both state and national”. Referring back to Jiis first elect ion to the legislature 20 years ago, at the head of the ticket, Mr. Nance said that he went to Columbia where! hard work gained him re cognition, first as a representative and then as a senator. In the house, he said, he was elevated to the chairmanship of the ways and means committe where appropria-_ toins for millions were framed “and not a dime has ever passed through these hands that was not well spent.” Subsequently, elect ed to. the senate, he said, he be came chairman of the powerful finance committee, the^only Lau- Candidates Open Campaign Mnciwsdty man iBMsr.W.attain that ag^, a lifffgjlqpf .Sooner or later, those nations- w'hieh have yielded to that sort of[ spiritual slavery have revolted, and' overthrown their rulers. They have' kept their liberty until some great' economic depression tempted them to tolerate once more the domination! of ambitious leaders. Past history 1 should be a warning to the present and future. I LIBERTIES TO DEFEND When a man will spend $10,000 tell the world the principles he stands for and why. that is pretty good evidence that he really believes in what he says. A New York busi-| ne.ss man. Sidney Hollaender, has done just that. He has bought the, advertising space on the back cover of the New Y6rk Classified Tele-l phone Directory to outline his idea of the American way. What he has printed is worth every American’s serious attention. He says: "1 like the American way. Why? “Because I can go to any church I please. “I can read, see and hear what I choose. graphs: “We are not getting an ade quate return for the money we are spending in Washington, or to put it another way, wfe are spending altogether too much money for government services that are neither practical nor necessary. And then, in addition to that, we are attempting too ) many functions. We need to sim- j plify what the federal govem- l^^ent is giving to the people, to “I accuse the present adminis tration of being the greatest spending administration in peace time in all our history. It is an administc^ion that has piled bureau on bureau, commission on commission, and has failed to anticipate the dire needs and the reduced earning power of the people. Bureaus and bureau crat?, commissions and commis sioners have been retained at the expense of the taxpayer . . . “If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and spe cial legislation like huge invert ed pyramids over every one of the simple Constitutional provis ions, we shall soon be spending Candidates For Senate Heard T can express opinions openly. manytortliomof dollars -more.. "My mail reaches me as it was ’ . . . . . . sent-uncensored ! S'" ■My telephone’ is untapped. I .'"“''‘“'’'“.■k??'''Jm!"* yi? ■I can join any political party I ‘'“f i spend and spend, tax “I can vote for what and whom ^ promised land of prosperity. please. “I have a constitutional right toi trial by jury. j “I am protected against unconsti tutional search and seizure. Neither my life nor my property! can be forfeited without due process j , . hT u 1. ^ ' Willkle Clubs We do not know Mr. Hollaender j ^ willkie-club-for-president has nor anything about him except that, rock with tom he IS the head of a company which he got turned off Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee munutactures labels. His name sug- , ^ time-keeper and he pe.ds a foreign origin, but his words jealt.him out of are those of a real American. He has|j,,^ 5 soreheads pin our Bill of Rights, mss simple..,^ compact form Tho^^are the and they have rote the ties which we must be prepared 10^^^^ ^ 5 Pp, ' tons for them to wear: they will be' .•g "pilUMdk to' their- overhaU& helow the4"“afid purchases -made for Laurens WAR ANNIVERSARY j empty pocket on the left side of their The hot days of early August are|chists. they don’t want no draft. fiauRht with a terrible significance' • for the British. So they were 26 some of the died-in-the-wool dim- ycars ago. j mercrats have started a whispering It was on August 4, 1914, thaticampane against willkie. they have (Continued from page one) brary, the N. Y. A. training school and the nurses’ home at the county hospital. The senator said that he had voted to repeal road taxes and fought against the highway in- •spection bill, which he said was ^.Dot a cockeyed f thing but a bill for. garage men”. If re-elected, he said, he*will try again to kill it. The senator claimed credit for a paved road at the State training school near Clinton and appropria tions for remodeling homes there and was about to enter into a discussion of the state appropria tion bill when time was called on him. O. L. Long 0. L. Long, the second speaker, referred to his birth in Waterloo township in which Center Point is located and launched into a dis cussion of then issues. Mr. Long stated that now and al ways he had stood for old age pen sions, especially the equalization of pensions. He was ready to fight, he said, to prevent this thing of one person getting $20 and another $4.67 when both were equally needy. It was during his discussion of pensions that Mr. Long first brought in his reference U> the president. Declaring himself wil ling to pay his part of the tax bur den for the old and aged, he said he had been that way “evec- since that great president went into of fice.” Then followed, his announcement about records. Declaring public re cords were public property he said, “From this stump I am going to discuss anything affecting their record.” ‘.‘There have been bonds sold in a way I disapprove of”, he shouted. Biitain t(K>k its fateful step to back!got it out all over town that if he is Belgium and France and enter the'deckted pressident that a collored war On August the 8th the first man or woman will be our po^mas- British soldiers set foot on French ter, but mr. tom head says this is a soil. By the end of the month all of j wild roomer and that he, hisself, is them w'ere across, and were soonjalreddy slated for that job: he is a being cut to pieces in that terrible! white man ©.k., but verry dark corn- retreat which seemed never to have ’ pleckted ansoforth. an end, and which left scarcely enough of them alive to serve as drillmasters for the others to come. So now again in another August, twenty-six years later, Britain faces an even more terrible crisis with her ally. France, already fallen. For an even stronger Germany-^ led by Hitr ler. who has thus far out-smarted Willie pintcher has jined up with the willkie crewd. he worked for a power company ’way back yonder, and he thinks the power boys ought to stick together, he was a pole climber till he telched a live wire, and ever sjne^th^ he has lived on his pension, some folks ^y oh~ the the Allies, keeps promising his massiQ-t- that he tetched the live wire on attack to annihilate England which now seems to have started. It is sig nificant that twice in August, usual- purpose to get a compensation, he talks N’erry harty for the g.o.p. crowd and thinks they will return the biz- county without public notice,” and then, “If anybody fought New Deal measures and refused to cooperate in helping redeem the country from the conditions of 1932, I propose to discuss it,” adding then the refer ence to men going along highways and byw'ays calling the president “names.” All of these things he promised to discuss on the stump. Turning to the roaci question, Mr. Long said he understood that a lot of roads had been built, but he promised if he were elected a lot more would be built. Under a 1936 road act, he said, the Ware Shoals-Cold Point road already could have been built. “It is going to be built”, he said. He promised, if elected, to do all in his power to get it built. “If T fair riivin noT honor. "Nobody can say Carroll Ntmce 'IfffSwT" got “infltrence, f' -am- going to build you roadK'H!^ one of them is right out yonder”, re ferring to the Ware Shoals-Cold Point road. The former senator challenged anybody to say he had not kept the promises made in his candpaign for senator. Some of the promises he listed were reduction •of the county tax millage by one fourth, providing for a vote on the rural police system and jetting the game warden in the primary. Going back to the matter of his influence he mentioned Ben Saw yer, state highway cqmmissioner. He said he had influence with Saw yer and wasn’t going to deny it. “I helped put him there and I pro pose to capitalize on 4t for the benefit of Laurens county”. Mr. Nance charged extravagance in county affairs since he went out of office. During the first three years of the present adminstration, he said, the county appropriation bill was 1246,149 as against |128, 850 during the first three years of his adminstration. .“If I go back I’m going to bring it down, broth er”, he exclaimed, to which a by stander yelled, “You’re going back”. Turning to the matter of bonds, he charged that $400,000 in bonds' had been issued since he went out of office. “I never put one bond issue on you and I never will unless you vote it on yourself’, he declar ed, adding that he would get all the roads he could out of the gas tax. Speaking of pensions, the for mer senator said that he yielded to no man in his love for the old peo ple. If elected, he said, he Would vote every dime for their relief that he thought .the taxpayers could afford, but he proposed to see them all fed out of the same spoon. Another thing he proposed to do, he said, was to see the old people get the money and not so much spent on these “investigators going up and down the road”. Repeating his declaration of in dependence from outside influence Mr. Nance said in closing, if elect ed no man or corporation'would tell him what to do. The senatorial candidates will continue to rotate with other coun ty candidates in the campaign ' (Continued from page eight) club market, and improvements of the county home. “I went into the office clean aind I expect to continue the same way,” he/roncluded. After being forced to postpone their speeches at the opening meeting at Center Point because of lack of food and again at Clin ton Mill that night when the speaking was called off cm accoimt •of rain the candidates for treas urer, ■■ county commissioner, game warden and cononer made their , first appearances of the itinerary at Clinton high school yesterday morning. All of the four men in the race for treasurer were mak ing their first speeches in a cam paign for county office and all but one is new to political at al^. Treasarer • H. Lawrence Kennedy, Laurens business man, said that he had spent most of his life in book keeping and accounting with va rious banks in this coimty and jt|.ad spent some time in associ ation in the State Banking de partment. He said that he knew how to accurately keep accounts and handle bonds and based his plea for relation on the claim that he was “skilled and experienced.” San M. Leaman Announcing that he was 35 sioner for 52 years and declaiwd himself as fitted to meet prob lems in county financing and road work. A. H. Moore, farmer of the Trinity Ridge commun^, refer red to his 10 years former exper ience in ttie office of Commission er and his “10 years of observa tion since that UnM." ^Humorous ly referring toTRe fact that he had been prevented from appear ing on two occasions he said if his speech sounded a littk stala it was because “I put it on cold storage at Center Point and left it there over nijdit.” Arch Owings farmer of the Hickory Tavern community and magistrate for four yean in Sul livan township, said that he was interested in no roads for himself but wished to see that “sections of the county not so fortunate as us get their share.” J. Herman Power, a native of Dials township and former com missioner for four yean, declared that “I will not ti7 to take the supervisor’s place but will be ready to cooperate at all times to keep the expenditures within the' supply bill and for the best interests of the coxmty.” Everett W. Brown, Cross Hill farmer, remarked that “I am pretty scared since this is my first speech” and saidjthat he knew of no particular issues in the com- misrioner’s race, but promised “the best that’s in me if you elect me county comimssicRier.” GaaM Warden of Cross Hill and had receive3*^ special training in—bookkeeping... accounting and commercial law, Sam M. Leaman, at present asso ciated with the land acquisition phase of the Buzzard Roost de- velojOTient, said that he was run ning for the office because he felt perfectly'able to fulftll the duties attached to it. He invited a thor ough investigation of his private and public record on the. pact of at tie the voters. y T. Lane Medree Now occupying the office by an appointment iby (governor Maybank, T. Lane Monroe, well known in Laurens mercantile and civic circles, declared that he had been assured by the governor that he could legally hold the office for the full three and one-half years of the unexpired term of the late D. Roy Simpson. “However,” he declared, “the county executive committee has voted to put two 3rear8 of the term in the primary and, as a good democrat, I intend to abide by that ruling.” Frank WaMrep I After identifying himself, Frank ' Waldrep, Laurens high school ! teacher and athletic coach, said i that he deemed it an “honor to ; offer for the office” and pledged t the full extent of his knowledge ' and ability in conducting the du- | ties. He painted that he-is a<H graduate of Presbyterian college, i a fonder assistant coach under ’ Coach Walter Johnson and that “for two years I served as man ager of a Poole Transportation of fice imder a bond of $35,000.” He said he cited the latter work as evidence that he could capably handle a responsible position. Ceenty Ceeimlssloiier E. Frank Anderson, farmer and merchant of the cojunty,. said that as “your county commissioner, I will be as careful in speifding the county’s money as I would my own.” Archie F. Cook, farmer and general business man of the Ow ings community, invited the vot ers to “ask my neighbors about my qualifications for the job” and promised an “honest and impar tial administration.” J. Y. Martin, farmef and mer chant of the Mt. Gallagher sec tion, said that his section of the county had not been represented in the office of county commis- man of Laurens, said that wtahed to see an -eqtudr distelbu- '”tlon' of the game ahd'to person* ■ ally see that “the hunting season open and close,to every man at the same time.” M. A. Cannon, farmer and mag- ‘ Istrate’s ’’deputy residing in the Belfast community near Clinton, said that he wished to secure the cooperation of all sportsmen in the distribution and protection of game “so we will have game wardens all over the couAty.” A basket of beautiful snapdragons from “friends” was ptesented Mr. Cannon at. the end of his speedi. John D. W. Watts, present game warden residing in the Trinity Ridge section, was unable to at tend due to illness, but sent a statement of his regrets. Corener R. I. Burgess, who ascended the platform with the did of crirtches, said that “I am not sp^h mate rial; I am coroner material” and pledged himself, if elected, to try to make “as good a coroner as the great old gentleman who has just passed away.” He was re ferring to the late J. H. Th<xn- ason who died after annniim»ing for re-election. T. Raymond Campbell described his experience as deputy coroner for three years under Conmer Thomason fittinK^ ^jm to aa; surSe the office of cefToner. Joe L. Chaney admitted that he was “scared to death” in mak ing his first appearance in i>oli- tics but added that, “like the Irishman’s prayer, I don’t call often but when I do, I want yon to answer.” Townes A. Willis, mayor of Gray Court for the past six years and .a former member of the house', asked the voters to consid er the fact that “a coroner in a city of one-half million persons with whom I am acquainted is blind.” Mr. Willis is also blind. He promised a faithful adminis tration of the office. A strolling fiddler gave Paderew ski his first lesscMi on a piano. SPECIAL UNTIL JULY SO Cosmopolitan Magastne—15 Months fbr $2.50. JABIES W. CALjlWELL Phene meetings yet to follow. COPELAND TO CAMP Carol W. Copeland, second lieuten ant in the United States army, left Monday to report at Camp Jockson, Columbia, for a year’s active duty. Mr. Copeland has not yet been as signed a post. ly a breathless month, the fate of a | uess world back to private interests great empire hung trembling in theji^ i*'- balance. What a black war anniver- • ’ ^ " sary. PILING UP DEFICITS Secretary Morgenthau, forecasting a $5,700,000,000 federal deficit this year, is urging congress to open an- of the n.y.k. cooking department for other source of government revenue, incompetence, mrs. hasta worit is mr. head, the willkie leader, asks all people who have benn tromped on by tee new deal to come into his camp and line up with his club. mrs. merry bobbin Is likely to cmne in as soon as possible, she was turned out An increase in the present $49,000,- 000,000 federal debt limit to permit more deficit financing is predicted By Mr. Mprgenteau. It is further stated that at tee present rate of de fense expenditures it would be nec essary to increase the limit by about $9,000,000,000 next summer unless new taxes were raised. Unless new taxes are enacted, the treasury stat allso in line for the club: she lost out with the wellfare board for no rea son whatsoever except 5 of her boys were alreddy on the govverment payroll in one way or another. ed, virtually all of the new $49,000,- 000,000 federal Sorrowing power would be exhausted by June 30, 1941. The additional taxes now ad vocated are to be used for new de fense costs. Year after year the New Deal ad- Flat Reek Items the knott familey of georgy has been investigating flat rock with a view to locating here in a permanent way. mr. knott and his sistef may knott, are engaged in the barber shop and beauty parlor biznem. they looked at sevveral joints in town, but did not make up their minds, miss knott says from the looks of tim flat rock wimmen, there would be no resign but will be in there four years fighting to get it”. Declaring his vote was not for sale, Mr. Long said that he did not propose to sell out the senatorship for any road. Diverting from roads, Mr. Long said he understood that a lot of jobs have been promised, but that he hadn’t promised any, declaring it beneate him to buy votes with the promise of jobs. Coming back again to roads, he compared Laurens county with Greenwood and Colleton counties. Greenwood with two-thirds as msny people, he ssid, hsd gotten 10 miles more ef highway paving and Colleton twice as many. “If they have got influence”, he saksd, “what have they been doing with it?”. Mr. Long concluded his address with the declaration that “Nobody has ropes on Lang Long” and de clared his intenti<m to aerva tka people of his county whatkar eleet-. ed or not. “ CaR m will always And me marty; SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE “The Paper Everybody Reads” REAL ESTATE FIRE uri UFE INSURANCE LOANS FINANCED ON REAL ESTATE B.H.B0YD TelepkoiM No. 6 CfotoB, 8. C. Dr. FtMtr Sirilh Dr. PaacM S. FtMir opitHttnuem SpeckUitHln Eye . 4 to •:$• Dal^. t:M ta $*44 Dr. 9r. FMHor. Pkoao a for AsfolatMMrt 8. e. 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