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TRE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. S. C
THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1940]
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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;
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