The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, September 12, 1940, Image 6
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THE CUI^N CHRONKXE. CLINTON, S. &
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1940
British Bombs Hit
Heart Of Berlin
One Incendiary Missile Goes
Through Roof of Reichstag
Building. Raids Extensive.
Berlin, Sept. 11. — British raiders
blasted central Berlin today with in-j
cendiary bombs and explosives, hit-|
ting the German reichstag (parlia-j
ment) building ,and shaking govern-j
ment buildings along Unter E>en Lin-|
den, in the hardest attack of the war'
on the capital of the reich. j
One incendiary bomb fell through)
the roof of the reichstag building,
gutted by the sensational fire of 1933'
and, though still unused, regarded by'
ttie Germans as a “symbol of the u
reich.” ' |
The building was set afire but the.
flames were .said to have been ex
tinguished quickly by watchmen. I
A 500-pound bomb thundered into
historic Unter Den Linden within
.300 yards of the United States em- i
ba.s.sy building. Which was undam- ^
aged. Heavy bombs smashed into the I
government building section shatter- J
ing windows and rocking adminis
tration buildings of the reich.
Other explosives ripped up parts |
of the Avenue of Splendor, handsome j
street through the Tiergarten and!
known os an important east-west 1
axis which Adolf' HitleFs^'pude,
Holes 12 feet deep were torn in the,
pavement. |
Still another explosive bomb fell
near the ministry of the interior,
blowing ground floor windows out
of the building occupied by the Ber
lin bureau of the International News
service .and American news agency. |
An official German announcement!
declared that the raiders, aided by|
a clear, moonlit night, were trying
to score hits on the government!
buildings of the Wilhelmstrasse—hit-;
ting back desperately after having
their own capital bombed four suc
cessive nights.
Most earlier British raids have
bcin beaten back at the outskirts of I
Berlin. But this time the raiders •
roared directly over the heart of the!
city. j
Military experts said on a moon-!
light night and in the light of dozens
of flares dropped by the bombers,
there was no possibility of mistaking
the government district.
The reichstag bujlding at present
is not u.sed and is being reconstruct
ed slowly after the 1933 fire, which
Communists were accu.sed of start
ing.
Speaking Of Compulsory Training
m ordMamce
AN ORDINANCE TO UEVY AN
NUAL TAXES UPON THE TAX
ABLE PROPERTY WITHIN THE
TOWN OF CUNTON, S. C., FOR
THE YEAR 1940, FOR THE PUR
POSE OF MEETING CURRENT
FISCAL EXPENSES AND TO PRO
VIDE FOR THE PAYMENT OF
INTEREST ON OUTSTANDING
BONDS OF THE SAID TOWN OF
CLINTON AND TO PROVIDE
SINKING FUNDS FOR THE RE
TIREMENT THEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE
TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN
OF CLINTON, S. C., IN COUNCIL
ASSEMBLED:
Section 1. That a tax levy bf
twelve (12) mills on every dollar’s
not paid on or pefore thi^ 8lst day
of liecember, 1940, next thereafter»
an additional p^lty of Five (5%)
per centum shall be ad^ by the
Clerk and Treasurer of said town
qpdhe Town duplicate and* the same
collected bjr the said Clerk' and
T|«piAurer ijod if said taxes,, penal-
and assessments are not paid oti
or before the /tint day of March,
1941, next tbareafter the Clerk oi
said Town shall issue his tax execu
tions for said taxes, penalties and
assessments against the property of
the defaulting taxpayers according
to. law.
Section 5. That ell ordinances and
parts of ordinances inconsistent with
the provisions of this ordinance be
and the same are hereby repealed.
Done and ratified by the Town
Council of the Town of Clinton,
S. C., in Cduncil assembled and the
worth of property, real and personal, c—i .
not oxen.^ by law from tLt.tion|®?J^*r,S^
within the corporate limits of the this the 2n4. day of Septam-
COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By Spectator ^
South Carolina needs many things.; pay like a big man, then the small
She needs more payrolls, more live-
man will be forced out. That will
themselves who -ask for such laws;
it is the element which lives on la
bor, always trying to sell some idea
to catch its vote.
Some days ago 1 stood amazed at
the work of a dirt shovel on a big
construction job. This gigantic ma
at-home farmers, more cows, hogs, {leave the big men in full command j chine is operated by about three
and chickens. She needs men in the
legislature who will act with re
straint in spending the people's
money.
We are rich in scenery, in climate,
Town of Clinton be and the sanie
is hereby levied for current expenses
and to defray public expenses of the
Town of Clinton for the current fis
cal year beginning on Jan. 1, 1940,
and ending on Dec. 31, 1940, wd to
meet current indebtedness contract
ed by said town for feneral corpor
ate purposes.'
Section 2. That over and above!
and in addition to the levy of twelve
(12) mills as hereinabove provided
in Section 1 of this ordinance a levy
of twenty-six and one-hall (26^)
raiUi^be and is hereby made on ev
ery dollar’s worth ^ pr<q)eTty,
, and personal, not exempt by law
from taxation, situate and within the
corporate limits of the Town of Clln*-
ton, and the same is hereby levied
for the purpose, of raising taxes to
pay the interest accruing on out
standing bonds of the Town of Clin
ton and to create a sinking fund to
be used in the retirement and pay
ment of said bohds as they ihature.
The excess, if any, to be used by the
Town Council for general corporate
purposes.
Section 3. That the Cl«k anSJ"
Treasurer of the said Town shall
enter 'said levies and assessments
upon the books of saict Town and
receive said taxes. That the said
taxes herein levied shall be paid to
the said Clerk and Tre^urer tn law
ful money bf the United States at
the office of the said Clerk and
ber, 1940.
(Signed) P. S?.BAILEY,
Attest: Mayor.
(Signed) DyC. REUSTESS,
Clerk and Treasurer.
We Finance
AUTOMOBILES
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S.W.SUHEREL
JhcoImi BaildiiiB^
of the field. Last year a bill was in-1 men. It scoops up the dirt and pours
1 1 4 ♦ X. 4oK I it into waiting trucks as one con-1 Treasurer op or before the 15th day
legislature to estab-, operation. It does as much lot November, 1940. f
WALKER’S
FUNERAL HOME
Clinton, S. C.
FOR COLORED PEOPLE ONLY
Day 9280—Phone»—Night 319
Rev. H. \V. Walker, Manager
, ery person employed except house
in our nearness to the ocean and to l servants and farm labor. Look about
the mountains. South Carolina is a
troduced in our , tinuous operation.
lish a wage and hour law which ^,5 twenty-five men could do
would compel every employer to pay
at least twenty cents an hour to ev
j wwin. as iwciiijr-iivc iiicii WUU4U uu. Sectloo 4. That on all taxes and
with hand shovels. The result is that assessments, or any portion thereof,
.twenty-two men are out of work, charged against any property or
There are no maximum hours or i party on the books of the said Town
Dr. FeUer Snth
Dr. Dncai S. Fdder
OPTOMETRISTS
Specialists In
Eye Examinptions
— OfflorWm:
Dr. SmUlk Dally, 4. to C:39
Dr. Felder, Dally, 8:30 to 0:30
Phone 29 for Appi^tinent
CLINTON, a C.
your town; outside the cotton mills
and other large industries — which
are already covered by a national
law—are not the majority of people
who work paid about all the con
cerns can well afford to pay? Of ___ _
. . course there are skinflint in Mine thrusting upon us. In some few
broadcasting stations maintain a j places, but not all men in business j things we have advanced since the
high standard of public service. Our’are skinflints. We have a large num-j toilsome days of our fathers; but the
courts are fair to all; and our pub-!^r of people who cannot earn ^ work remains,
lie administration is free from taint.
healthful place. It is neither very
rich nor excessively poor. Within a
few miles of any town one can hunt
and fish. Its people are nearly all
native Americans. Its newspapers are
independent and clean; and its radio
minimum pay for the big machine;
nor does it pay old-age benefits, or
pay rent or feed a lot of little chil
dren. It is the natural answer to all
the artificial social and economic
schemes which visionaries are
bf Clinton iot the fiscal current year
and due to the said Town that shall
unemployment insurance; nor does itmot have been paid on or before the
We criticise some acts, tome decis
ions. and some policies; but the gen
eral tone of our public life is good.
twenty cents an ho^; their service k
is not worth twenty cents an hour.ra
What would happen to them if suchj
a law were passed? They would bel
15th day of November, 1940, the
Clerk and Treasurer of ithe said
Town shall proceed to add a penalty
of Ten (10%) per centum on the
Town duplicate and ‘the. said Clerk
and Treasurer shall proceed to col
lect the same, and if the said taxes
and penalties wd' assessments are
BENJAMIN &
SONS
PLUMBING (
•4Uld„.
HEATING
SERVICE
Telephone 9268
WE ARE HUNTING
TROUBLE
——- — .
Our state has what is both a virtue* dismissed. When the law tells you tol
and a defect; like a fond and indul- least twenty cents an hour|
gent father, who buys everything his to a worker,, whose .service may ^
{children cry for, the state authorizes worth five or ten cents, what will
{and engages in every sort of cictivity! yoiLiiP? You will dismiss that per-
> which any group will persistently son So the person who might hon-
demand, even though, like the over- orably earn ten cents an hour will
indulgent father, it be unable to look iose the opportunity to earn any-,
the world in the face on the first of thing. , ^
the month. And then as’to the eight-hour lim-
—— it: art there not many occupations
The world is being swept off its whicThi are fairly easy and do not ex
feet by theorists. A hard, practical
man may have a vision and be im
pelled to work toward it: but a vis
ionary is a man who has a dream
haust the workers even in ten hours?
Yet the little hotels, stores, small re
pair shops, garages, even shoe-shine
places—all, everything, woul^l have
Meeting thi
which requires nothing for its reali- j to pay at least twenty cents an hour
zation but another dTisam'Or a ma*4TDr not more than eight houry a-day,
gic wand. Chemists-may have vis-1 for five days. Can you operate youri
ion?, but they work with almost in-
1 finite pains to realize them. No de
tail is too small for their earnest
business in five days of ^ight hours |
each, and pay at least $12.00 a weck|
to every man woman and child? Pol-'
.{.and.persistent exploration...What is!iticians .advocate this sort—ol Ihing
' proposed in the exact field of pure 1 because they, hope to catch a big J
science Ts modestly suggested and j vote by it. We should have France!
investigated to the farthest reaches {much in mind now. France fell com-'
of the subject.
pletely under the spell and sway oft
How different with many of those I crafty vote-seekers. All sorts
Vlth-
A$ <Mir nation looks to its
defenses, speed is the order
of the day. And vital to the
quickened tempo of industry
and national« ctivity is die
country’s telephone service.
From sea* to sea, in every
corner of the land, it must
function sir.Gatlily, quickly,
regardless of the added bur
den it is.called upon to bear.
In the nine southern states
served by Southern Bell, more
than twenty-one thousand
skilled telephone workers,
with years of e.xpcrience in
ineedng emergencies, are keen
ly consdous of die important
part they play in the national
defense program. They accept
this new and challenging re
sponsibility with full confi
dence, for they are prepared
—organized, trained, and
equipped—to meet the test of
the tunes.
Southern Bell and the en
tire Bell System are in high
gear. They are meeting die
aadoa’s needs today. Tb^ are
seadjr R) meet tfaoee of cooMm
tow.—-Sasrffiarn Bdi TtU-
pkemi mi Ttiogntfk Cm-
who talk about social science. With- j schemes were worked out. The peo-
out the exactions of mathematics pie were almost persuaded that they
they affirm with conviction all sorts could live even without working. Of
of theories, which the multiple ac-| course we have seen idle men thrive
tivities of human kind render incap- in mysterious manner; but the world
able of proof. For them to think a lives on work, on production, on the
plan desirable means that they shout! great virtues of honor and self-de-
it from the housetops, as a thing'nial. Within twenty years France de
praved beyond dispute. Then they generated until she proved herself a
assume an air of superior virtue, a j mere crust and she crashed. In our
large humanitarianism, and b^ome I country we are facing all that today,
in their own conviction, apostles of a' Smooth, persuasive voices have be-
j new order. | trayed the high trust of leadership
I One of the new social ideas is that I and are sapping the nation’s strength,
of a minimum wage and a maximum Is this of tenefit tp the people? Is
number of hours of work. There is the woricing man benefitted by wage
some truth in all the argument for land hour bills which become inflex-
this, but like all half-trfiUi it is more. ible law? If a small business fails,
mischievous at times than the work! what becomes of those who had
of evil men. We know that a man | earned their living there? Are they
must not work to that degree of absorbed by the giant concerns
physical and nervous exhaustion which control the field, after all the
which makes his life nothing but!little fellows have been hm out? If
work and sleep; we know that a man j so, . why have we millions unem-
driving a passenger locomcRiVg! ployed? Most of the success stories
should not be kept on a strain, for]of the wofld are of men who worked
so many contiguous hours that his j long and late. Have we any ambi-
j mind becomes beclouded or con-' tious men left? Are there any who
I fused. But, while a principle' may {would like to rise to leadership? Or,
be establiihed, it does not argue for; ate we all to live on a common level
such absurdities as six hours a day. of mediocrity, none ever trying to
True it is that six hours, even in advance? Wage and hour laws vlr-
two shifts, may tax a man in amne tually hold everybody down to the
hazardous occupation; but all sfcpi^^el. If there is any quality
hazards are usually taken care 51' ini of ournudlhood which has been her-
the relations of management and j^-jald^ in prose and poesy, it is tbfe
bor. Equally true it may be, that in .strong, struggling ihen, emerging
sustained creative intellectual, work j from the raidu; by superior or
one cannot maintain a high standard | greater ability. But imder the regi-
of production over long successive | mentation of wage and hour laws we
hours; but there is a vast difference j glorify inepitude, ineffkimicy and
between mere clerical work and cre-
fative brain concentration. We know
that every business thrives, or even
. exists, through its profits. If n man
opens a little lunch stand vrifli five
hundred^ dollars capital, be mod eam
a profit'on that five bundled or he
will sogn mom his
If the small man can’t afford to
sloth, and hold everybody down to
that. Ask men working uzktar such
a law if would like a dumoe to
cam more. The mnMtlous and indus
trious will teU you "yas," but the
drones will tell you “no." Theiefoie
we are to he a nation whidi digni-
ficli drones and is fashioned by finm.
Another FYanoe? It isn’t fiie woiliffi jjte
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