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.: l PAGE FOUR rtB CLINTON CHR0NICL8, C14NTOH. g. C. IWaaPAT, ACCOST M, 1M» viilfr (Slintmt OllpronirU KBtiMhlMtd 19M WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING 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 Chromcle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers— the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions ()if its correspondents. Nobody’s Busmen Gm McGcc iThe Larks are StUl SunuBertaif in iThe Mountains While Bomefolks aret ' Stmmertnt in Flat Rock I deer mr. edditor: how is the weather down there? you folks must be burning up. it is cool and pleasant up here in the blue ^ ridge mountings, i wish you and all my other friends were^ finnancially able to come up here and enjoy, this fine ozone and landscape and| pretty views at sunset, rations are, running a little bit low, but we have some nearby campers that give TODAY AND TOMORROW By Frank Parker STOOCBRIDGE I the newspapers without question^ take their word CBAINB—Exaaiple One of the topics on which much ipublicity material.comes in my mail I is that of chain stores. When it comis ,from public relations oeganizatiasis, 'of standing 1 accept their statements! of fact. Iherefore it interested me,!, SCHOOL TO OKN The Joanna school at Goldville will open its lMO-41 sewion on next Monday morning at 9 o’clock with G. N. Foy as supeitotendent. The ^t^ teachsxs for the year appeared irt The Chronicle last wedc. 9 rm^ SETTLEBONT nouce CLINTON. S. C.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1940 THE LIONS HORSE SHOW : lieve that Hitler is going to conquer F( r the fifth year, with the Clinton'ff gland- ^ the administration ow T^lirPnS that that the next objective of the . , . , • that on the 29th day and seems woith passing on, to learn j of September, 1940, I wlU rend^ that the housewives of America are final account of my acts and throwing more and more of their | as Committee of the estate of Laura patronage to the chain stores, for,M. Hayes, deceaaed, in the o«iee of . ,, , ithe Judge of Probate of Laurens In the first nine months pf this,County, at 10 o’clock k m and da ! PUBLIcmr—Newa jyear, the 29 leading grocery, variety, I the same day will apply for ?flnal I In newspaper offices publishers shoe, apparel and auto supply chains l^iacharge from my trust as Com> call every item which comes ip fbusmess tean mittee. us stuff when we run out, but we'which might tend to make people stores^fn toe'^same liiils gain^ only|Is5Suf£*lSrdto JSteSS* let theni know that we are only bor- interested in buying something eith- about 6 per cent, according to de-'ment on or bef^ that date^d^ rowing it, and will pay it<Back if we gj. “advertising” or “publicity.” 'The' partment of conimerce reports. persons having chifms agahist on t orge i . ^ [difference between the two is that! turned public at- estate will present them on or before we are planning to go home to-, the publisher geU paid tor Printing I*!)' Proven, or be forever advertising material, while he dws to combat legislative efforts to im-, FRANK KELLERS SR Cmnmlttee. morrow. club as sponsors, the Laurens OnutVi staying in uncle budd’s sorry cottage.• get paid for printing publicity nose ruinous taxes on all kinds of •" there must be some sound and seri-■ ^ because it s more interest- the truth about their price-saving I (ous basis for them. What*^is it? ^ f i than a lot of the news they get. methods, and to realize that they We cannot believe that anybody is ^ * 5,' I’ve had a lot of experience with I would have to pay more If the chains ' -ihto the ?*■ here, but the with big ones, and’were taxed out of business. That’s _ifell in on us last night and a slab; never seen toe big ones turn'the press agent’s story at least, and! es, a .'ihip display drcn. down a good story merely because' I believe him. ? anyone in positionface and it » ^8ht smart.^ ^ suspicion that it might: ity and power stoop-1fix it; .t leaked annyhow,^^*^ “planted” publicity. l! ,JL and It dont look much like ram. fiPoi_. completed by the committee charge with indications ptiinting to a large attendance and county-wide, . ,nt,T,«..PruLe.s are to be Qfler«!,for‘'rjung “ a scare ____ __ the best horses in the various class-j struck yure-corry spondent-right on well as for the best horseman-' ignooie reasons, we by women and chil- imagine of high authority ing to such baseness as that sugges- The Lions club is to be commend-j would imply. ed lor their efforts not only in pro-, hPliPvP then that there' visited our friends on the^gp^jgi pf ^g^ York papers, ev- viding this clean and enjoyable form ^ thei®'^*^ thursday. he said heigry one of which had its origin in a o, entertainment for horse lovers ^ gopraee 1^1611 us the oeople^'®*^ ® press-agent’s office. ... .... of United States, the unvarnished' Th® biggest corps of publicity men. club state.- that the profits from the performance will be LAND SALE counted one day recently eight first-' The State of South Caroliina, page news stories in the most influ-1 County of Laurens. ! Court of Common Pleas. m -tock raising in the county. The of the Yn'ted States, toe unv...g.^ maTHteto^ “by sight conservation work among the PJ®Pf"fions are such as unbutunate. Foi these reasons the. fh®.i>®f‘®f fh^t we are jin show deserves a generous commu nity support and interest which The Chronicle hopes it will receive. THE ELECTION RETURNS The Chronicle's staff, aided by men press agents. used for their istration in this matter of defense home!^ w^ wilf Jil?’you ^f"® — ^!yor« toes-tingle and yore head itch' «» t- ucuiKci from a foreign foe. As wei-^ . ^ j ., . ? * g' and yore chest heave and yore eyes read the reports and comments oti ^ competent reporters and authorities, ,n„ent sUmp. it is called on such matters, the danger to the' ® United States hinges upon the late haP^mess^ of Great Britain and upon nothing' " gjgg X we have not heard no war news If Britain is defeated and the Brit-!*!'' ® days, we hope england has in friends, worked hard Tuesday night to gi\ e the public the electiop news ish navjT falls^'into' Hitl^’s hands,! vaded germanny and Italy and that and keep the big surging cro*wd in- ^ |g obvious, we will have good' ffi® ® place foiTned as to what was happeniing grounds for alarm. Washington of-'f® forget yore troubles, if you have over the county as the ballots were fipioiHom is artinv as if it exnected i anny, and i know they are numerous counted. It is quite a big job to is the oS'with you as you are leaning too poll the county, and requires a why not come out with iti’'1'^^c^' toward willkie and too littlei efforts to make people be- PROPAGANDA—Depends We hear a lot about “propaganda.” It is supposed to have the mysteri ous power of making people believe white is black, or that everybody we don’t like is a Red. Propaganda is a perfectly good word. It means any effort to influence public opinion, and began with the organized effort to pn^iagate the Christian religion. We use the word nowadays to considerable amount of time and bluntly? And why not do something towards yore local dimmercrats. you tabulation to give the results, but we were able Tuesday to give the best service we have yet offered. ibout it now. instead of dilly-dally-! will have to live with yore nabors, mr. edditor, so plese, for yore own General Pershing put his finger on^®^®’ careful wh^ you lieve that <Hie side or another in any controversial question is lying and the other side is not. If it’s the side we’re for it’s just .“educational” but Practically all boxes were Hashed ^j^g when he proposed in a ra- we will leave for the home and the jf _ j^'g side we’re against it’s early during the evening, the late ness in gtving the final flash being due to the considerable amount of dio broadcast that some deaHto supply ^ Britain with 50 or more of our antiquated but still we should make*^®®^ ^^® nioming '(TiirifQin ' time required to count the large ygefuj destroyers, of which we have Clinton The and Laurens city boxes. 250 or more available. All of the re yores trulie mike lark, rfd, e-toorist. returns were “broadcast" ports we have seen indicate that de-‘ It’s All Over Now through an excellent speaking set- stroyers would be of more service*deer mr. edditor: I “propaganda.” The only way propaganda or pub- {licity gets into a newspaper is by itfle editor’s volition. There is no sln- I ister, backstairs way of getting prop- I aganda printed, that I ever heard of. I I’ve been editor of several newspa- up. To the firm of D. E. Tribble Britain in this crisis than more! after spending 5 days in the bluejpers, and I’ve printed lots of pub- company we are indebted for the planes. The General does not talk ridge mountings and 2 days coming | licity stuff that I knew was propa- courtesy of using their equipment, through his hat, but has no official j home, a distance of only 85 miles. The ‘mike was in charge of Prof, standing to give weight to his words, we are back in good old flat rock H. E. Sturgeon who did a dandy Britain can hold off Germany 1 again, we are thru with being too- job and kept his hundreds of list- tjy the aid of such destroyers as we rists. we are wore out both boddy and sole, we went away broke and got home in worses fix. who-ever invented vacations ought to be dug up out of the ground and lynched, two vacations the same month would kill annyboddy. eners informed as to the detailed sell, lend or give to her, then vote of the thirty-nine precincts.'qjjj. pej-]] would be greatly lessened. We are grateful to Prof. Sturgen jj Germany wins in spite of such for his services. At the phone r®"|help, we are no worse off. It seems cei\ mg and re-checking the returns common sense to take General was \\: H. Simpson w'ho always, pgj.ghing’s advice. If there is a good jgladly a.ssists us, and without whom jqj. doing so, won’t some- it would be difficult to carry o*' body who knows the “inside” facts! borried a moddel the work as accurately and rapidly Washington come out boldly and with, it was homed enduring 1930. as IS done each year. Others giv-|tgii ug the truth? [it was wore out befoar the second ing \ aluable assistance at adding' ^ | hand man ever sold it the last time, machines and in other ways were C.' ,*» a vr-ab aai-at we got up the mountings in fairly W. Anderson. F. M. Boland,/ E. B. , IWLLAR-A-YEAR MEN shape, but when we returned Pinson and J. W. Milam. It would have been impossible to ganda for something or other, but only because it was interesting to me, and I thought R would interest my readers. What started me off on publicity and propaganda is a couple of mim eographed sheets 1 lately got in my mail from Bill Sharpe. Bill is an ex- tn vacate ip®*^ propagandist for his home state ^ . lu North Carolina. If the things he herein, immediately upwi, the con- sends out to the papers about North) elusion of the bidding, shall deposit| Carolina aren’t true, they’re at least I with the Clerk of Court toe sura of J. B. Townsend, Plaintiff, vs D. Workman Johnson and Mrs. Alice Smith Worthy, Defendants. Pursuant to a decree of .the Court in the above stated case, I will sell at public outcry to the‘highest bid der, either in or in front of thej court house at LaUferts, S. C., (XiJ Sales Day In September next, being' Monday, the 2nd day of September,! 1940, during the legal hours fori such sales, the following described property, to-wit: All that piece, parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being about five (5) miles southwest of the Town of Clinton, in the County of Laurens, State of South Carolina, containing seven (7) acres, more or less .and be ing bounded on the west by a Laurens Coirnty public road that leadjs off from S. C. Highway No. 7; and on the south by the same above named public road; on the east by lands formerly of Carl T. Chandler, now of D. Workman Johnson; and on the north by lands formerly knowm as the S. T. Bailey Place. Also the rights and privileges of water from a natural spring located near the line of this property on the north. I^e said tract of land is the same and identical property acquired by D. Workman Johnson, by deed of Dr. T. L. W. Bailey and Annie D. Bailey dated Sept. 3, 1937, and reooixled Sept. 6, 1937, in ’Deed Book 72 at page 91, in the office of the Clerk of Court for Laurens County, South Caro lina. Terms of Sale: Cash. The success-! ful bidder* other than the plaintiff; BENJAftON^ SONS PtUlitelNG REAmG SERVICE TMbplimic B2S8 we are auNTING TROUBLE V Mb Gray Funeral Hoiiie CHntoiL $. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS EMBAUMERS Ambalaaee Service PkMM 41 and IH-J L. RU8SBLL GRAY ud V. PARKS ADAIR, Gen. Mgm. REAL ESTATE FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE LOANS FINANCED ON REAL ESTATE b.h:boyd Teleplione No. 6 CHaion, & C. back home, old man troubble rode with us, slept with us nnd stayed got out to the main raod. we made 14 miles the first day THE DOLLAR-A-YEAR MEN We’ve been hearing a lot lately give the about the Dollar-A-Year man being returns without the assistance of the backbone of the defense drive! tanjpiori up in our hair, we had 5 our triends. and to all who helped) for which billions of dollars has and Blowouts and 7 punctures befoar we us m any way, we express our ap- j is still being appropriated by con- preciation. Especially do we thank igress. Who he is appears to be a the managers of election in this sec- mystery to official'Washington, tion tor their hearty cooperatiion. i A writer in the capital has dis- The results -ot toe- set?©nd primary.'-cowered that, neither - the .treasury., will be broadcast on Sept. 10th. which writes the checks, nor civil In the meanwhile—Tf You Don’t service, which keeps account of the Read THE CHRONICLE, You Don’t clerks, knows how many of these Get The News.” one-buck employees are on the pay- ^ ! roll. And you can get a half dozen SCHOOL DAYS AGAIN (explanations of why the governijhent interesting and they get printed. Presumably they make people think it’s a pretty good state. Bill sends along a sUnry, for ex ample, about the town of Louisburg, N. C., where folks like to take things easy; so some of the sidewalks have been divided into three traffii: lanes, the center one for walking aiid The . . , two outer ones for sauntering, talk- we broke down near shady cav- jjjg politics or just loafing. Sounds ~ like a gbed^ Idei fdf*ijniy Then Bill comes along with a geo graphical discovery. School books for years have taught that Mount Mitch ell is the highest mountain in the vemr,-a garrage towed tis - m. -he told us we would have to have new bushes In our bearings, that our car buretter was skipping, our univer sal was short-circuited, our brakes were dragging, 9“*^. i Eastern states, with Clingman’s Days these men $8 33 a month for I re-lined, our radium £)onie second. But Bill Sharpe re- Schcol day.s are about here again inese men a momn ^ . _ . . five (5%) per centuig of the amount' .. , , what actually is volunteer service. after the usual summer vacation pe- . . u- u • 1 a.More than 100 of the big brains noa. In the Lnited States during' , , , . t.- , I ... ... of industry and commerce, we are September more than thirty million , •' .u T^ * ch^dren will lluck back tu the public'*?'**’ 'T®''*'*"® schw,l.s besides the great number' 5"'?'"'“*“"" ntobiltzmg in- irods were back-tiring, our pan vias that a North Carolina peak 2»-3q bid as' a guarantee of his good faith in the bidding. The same to be ap plied to the purchase {Mice uptm hia complying with the terms of sale, otherwise to be paid to plaintiff for credit on the indebtedness. In the event the successful bidder shall fail to make such deposit, ^ ■hmiiH fail to c(»nply with the terms of sale, the said lands shall be re-sold on toe same w sdme 'subsequent sales day on the same terms, at the risk of the defaulting purchaser. The! purchaser to pay for papers, stamps and recording. VIC R. FLEMING, Clerk of Court, Laurens Coiinty. dustry at salaries ranging from nothing to one dollar a year. The idea is not a new one, however, for during the World War in the admin istration of President Woodrow Wil- T., ........lo. oc son, these dollar-a-year gentlemen t.i Bppearcd to gladly give their who will go to church and private schools of all kinds. Thirty million promising young sters getting ready to take the plac-' es ol as many oldsters in a few) dragging, our radiator was busted, j ^^hout even a name, one of the our crank shaft was crook^, and “Black Brothers” in Yancey county, that our checks were no good so far, jg three feet higher than Clingman AT HIGH SPEED A brake ttiat “gTaba- wU kill you quicker than one that does not hold, for it causes the car to sweirve and crash. See us for even, quick, safe stopping brakes and be safe. Official Serviee Sowers Garage PhoM 196^ as he was concerned. there are in all Poland, more than in Belgium almost as many as in we finally got the old car a-run- ning by ourselves and 2 good tramps w'ho were hitch-hiking southward, they hope us a right smart, one of them said he worked for henry ford in detroit, but quit him when and only 39 feet lower than Mount Mitchell. Unimportant, perhaps, but interesting—and it’s propaganda. services for the common good. Her- Engbind And we are spending, administrator, who pay tares,* aboat-jnLty dollars <» doUar-per-annum a year average for thfe education in group and rendered conspicuous ser vice to America and the world. Big William S. Knudsen, of Gen- The future ol the United States of ^."'al Motors, the commUsion’s pro- America as every thouehtful oerson “^^tion expert upon the invitation ,1of President Roosevelt, has referred the public schools of every boy and girl., must understand, lies in the hands himself as a dollar-a-vear man ol these youngsters. It is therefore u..* ^ .r ’ FACTS—Pay My observation of press agents and publicity mdn has been long and, on . ^ ^ ^ . . I the whole, favorallle. T can’t recall he refused to make motors for having caught one in a deliberate Ue brittan they pushed us up 3 hi^ j^rty years or so. The big busi- and r^e on toe running board Ulljnegg organization which used to re- ?*®y broke off no more mountings fuse ^ ^^11 newspapers anything, for us. we will sweat and fan and. discovered that it was better to tell fan and sweat in the fut'u’e it iWl ■ V. ith our poor nabors) yores trulie mike lark, rfd, toorist. Ol the highest importance •» give at- gartonolIT’S^ We JONES WANTS ttntion m whatjhe_y_are_laugh^in Knudsen’s aides looked ud the' TO KEEP RFC POST school and to the men and women aides looked up the resrK.nsible for their trainlnif It is reported that under It, , „ . defense commissioner’s work without fortunate that the fundamental vir tues of honesty, industry and per- compensation. Why the paying of a dollar an- Washington, Aug. 28. — President Roosevelt will ask congress to per mit Jesse H. Jones to retain his pres sonal good character are still ‘^cul- ^ volunteers, one asks. Of-lent post as federal loan administra-j was bom, cated in the vast majority of the Washington offers these rea- tor after he becomes secretary of counselor.” schools of America. And while these children are be ing instructed in reading, writing. them the flat truth than to leave it to reporters to guess at it. The Pennsylvania railroad started the plan of telling the iMiwspaper men all about every accident on its line. It made friends of the papers and did away with guesswork esti mates of the number of people hurt in train wreclu and what caused them. Others saw the value of that sort of*frankness ,and a new prof^ionl that of “public relations; Men with that title dif- t HOIVIE TO BUY, 1^, OR REFINANCE *LM FUNI sons: It makes him a full-fledged commerce ;/er tram pms agents mainly that < employe; puts him on the payroll; on^ the payroll a man can collect arithmetic, and a great mimber ol expenaea (as a "volunteer- other subje^, they sh^ld at the could not); on the payroll, he Is same time be familiarized with the ^ elemental facts of our badly dis entitled to obtain certain informa- turbed social and economic systim employes, m order that they may be saved from a great deal of trouble, disap pointment and hard-knpeks which have come to the world of grown ups in recent years. tion which is open only to govern- DoUar-a-year employes actually do collect pay, and have their checks framed and hung in their offices for proof. These public-spirited men who are financially able to come WHY NOT THE TRUTH? CARD OF THANKS We wish to toank our friends and neighbors for their many deeds of kindness and ^nnpathy sboam dur- forward when a crisis arises and i ing the recent iDncM and death of Stephen T. Early, the White House) they wwk harder and get m<Mre press secretary, made this announce- money. One of them told me oncc|! ment today and said Jones was “very; that his greatest difficulty was in [ anxious” to accept the commerce: getting his employers to tell him the portfolio. He will succeed Harry * L.' truth so that he could pan it oo to Hopkins who resigned last week to the papers. The top men In that pro-^ recover hia healtti. | fession have such a rotation for I square dealing and truthfulnen that offer their services voluntarily—de-jour husband and father, J. H. M. Many thoughtful but puzzled|serve the thanks and J^preciation ofi Young. The floralofferinff were also Americans are wondering what the exact truth is about the war situ ation in Europe which has stirred our government to such feverish ac tivity in the cause of national de fense. Does official Washington be- the American people. When govern-' greatly iqipr®ciated. ment needs to get big things done it’ quickly turns to gentlemen of such business calibre and ability nrther than to the average run of politicians and perpetual (Mffice-holders. > 4- MR& J. H. M. YOUNG AND CHILDREN. 8UB8CRIBB TO TSB CHRONICIJI ‘The Paper Bssryhiffy We Fifumee AUTIHMOBILES S.W.SUIiEm WE HAVE AMPLB FUNDB It) HELP YOU BECOME A HOJMB^WNER. Thig iwie bWited, KiMt operated aaMcUUioii by txpttitiicffi offlicerg md dirgeiarg wbo know loctl rtnl igUi« vglagg gad bgme- ownhif problggui, ig rca4y to gggbt yon. CoHM in Mid ggk )gr fall dgtailk Eseh Accoont Ingured Up To $3900 ■v AVINGl ND LdiAN ASSOCIATION N«.« \ -(a- r; \ -A' 4