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7 PogeSix / THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. Thurs^y, October 3, 1940 -7^ As Washington Sees It THE milONU SCENE S. C. TURKEY CROP LARGER THIS YEAR THAN EVER BEFORE Columbia, Sept. 30.—South Caro lina’s 1940 turkey crop is expected to be not only 10 per cent larger than last year’s but the largest ever Special to The Chronicle. Washington, Oct., 2.—As the 76th Congress of the United States finish-1 produced in the state es its labors its members will go! Frank O. Black, statistician here back home to mend their personal!for the U. S. department of agri political fences and take a few long'culture, said that indications point breaths. Unless some tremendous, | to a record crop of 179,000 head, vital emergency comes up to war-jA total of 163,000 head were raised rant their Ipeing called back in ses-|last year and the average for the Sion, their work will bie done. A i five year period from 1932 through new Congress, the 77th, will meet in! 1936 was 143,000 head. Washington on January 3, 1941. j About 118,000 turkeys were sold Seventeen days later, on January 20, | last year for $378,000, Black said, the next president of the United!while 27,000, valued at $86,000 were States wdll be sworn in. I Consumed in farm households td Until that day in January, Mr. I make the gross turkey income in the Roosevelt will still be president, state $464,000. On the same basis, but whether he will be on his way he said cash income this year should back for a third term or Mr. Willkie be $413,000 and the gross income will be making his preparations to [$509,000. State Draft Boards Plan Meel !foon CHARTER PRESENTED TUESDAY NIGHT FOR LOCAL CUB SCOUTS Details of Registration Oct. 16 To Be Worked Out At Conference. Clinton’s pack of Cub Scouts heldi was three months in shooting, took camera crews from coast to coast and irom Canadn to the Gull. Scenic shots along some of Ameri ca's major railroads, sequences made (HI scheduled runt of nwdem etraam* Members of the draft boards re cently appointed for Laurens county by Governor B. R. Maybank will meet in Columbia with Col. Holmes Springs, state selective service chair man, Sunday, October 13, three days prior to drah registration. I their first monthly meeting Tuesday night at Florida Street school. The occasion was the presentation of the charter for thC pack to the local Lions club, sponsors of the group. Bob Back, assistant scout executive of Greenville, presented the charter to the committee composed of 1. M. Adair, chairman, Roy Oasque, and R. P. Wilder. liners, and historical shots from eariy day railroad pictures wnre used insure authenticity for the film. Tom Plaxico, the pack's cubmas- ter, was master of cerMnonies. The program included presentation of GRENVILLE HIGH RIPS CLINTON, 3^ machinery that carried it to a smash ing victory over Hendersimville ^the preceding week by, a count of 52-0. Greenville tallied IS points in each of 'the first, third and fourth periods. The local team was out- ^ classed throughout the game. Oap- Burnett and Mimnau^ were ^iihe featured stars in Ore backfield, ediile Shaw and Bridges played well in the line. Details of registration which will I certificates to den dads A. H. Cum- directly affect some 250,000 men inimings, W. Roy Pitts, Geo. H. Brock- this state between the ages of 2li®**^rough and to den mothers Mrs. and 35, inclusive, will be ironed out j Edward Henry and Mrs. Cummings, and organization for registering the ^h® 'cubs pre^nM a program in- prospective conscriptees perfected, eluding the singing and playing. Teachers in the public schools are!“God Bless America,” a display of expected to help the draftees in fill- i stamp, post mark, and amteh book iing out the questionaire forms, it [ collections, and two short boxing move into the White House, nobody i The number of turkeys sold and^ will know for sure until the day [the income from them have more j has been indicated that registration l*’’aiches. after election which is only a few , than doubled since 1929, when 53,-! day—October 16— will be a ,sch(X)ll As their project for the months of weeks ahead now. 000 head were sold for $223,00,' holiday. The Orecnville high powerhouac grid team tore through the CUntim hi^ eleven for a 39-d victocr in Greenville last Friday night h|fore 4,000 chilled fans, including a large crowd from CUnton. Coach Speer’s team flashed the same bkicking TO OITE 8UPPEB TONIGHT The Wesley: Bible class of Broad Street Methodist church will give a chicken supper tonight at 7:45 in the church dining room. Supper will be prepared and served by members of the Woman’s Society. The enter tainment committee invites all mem bers to attend. Almost anything can hajipen be tween now and election; almost anything can happen after election and before the new administratiion and Congress are in their seats. Events have moved with such rap idity in the past four months, and October, the cubs will study InMm Black said. LIONS REVERT TO FRIDAY MEETINGS , . ^ , Beginning Friday, Oct - oriKi have, taken such unexpected turns,revg^t to its original Lime an hour earlier that nobody in Washington.^ willingmeetings on the second! ^1 to make an unqualified pr^iction of Friday evenings of each', what will happen at the polls on No- ! For purposes of the draft this [lore and tnake various articles of ! county has been divided into two: Indian craft for use at the next pack I districts, the personnel of which [ n^e^ting October 31. ) was announced last week by the i ^ [governor and published in Thelfo ShoW Troill Film Chronicle. j 'tk.. ex- _ . month during the fall. The time for vember 5, or in national affairs meetings, however, will be 6:30. thereafter. ^ schedule was*!, instituted at Ready To Adjourn j a recent meeting but it was found Early in June the 76th Congress j to be impracticable. The board of was about ready to adjourn. In fact, | directors decided to return to the the date of adjournment had been I decided upon, June 20th, just before j the Republican National Conven-1 tion date. When newspaper men! asked President Roosevelt what he! thought about adjournment he re- [ plied-. thiU. iic saw no reason^ .whyl senators and representatives should remain in session any longer unless they wanted to make speeches. i Yet the four months since early 1 June have been the most dramatic,! one might say the most momentous,) ■ *■ j The upswing in travel within 11, the,original schedule, but to move the United States is interestingly 1 plained in a one-reel motion picture, .f”Streamlined,” just released by J Pathe News, Inc. The film is sched- BUYER MEETS CC| I rn IN OUR ad OLLLurN COLUMNS ! uled to show here at the Casino [theater on Oct. 7th and 8th. j Focusing on the effect pf modem. I streamlined trains such as Sea board Railway’s “Silver Meteor,” on I America’s traveling public, 4he film CITY TAX NraCE % Due to unavoidable delays, the^ity Tox Books for the payment of 1940 to|tes not open until October 15,1940, insteod ^tober Isf, os previously advertised. D. C. HEUSTESS, Ofy T 22 Kt. GOLD / decorated^ jn’recent American history. The Re-j publican party nominated for presi-1 dent a man who had never heldl public office and w'ho had been a' Democrat up to three years ago. They picked Mr. Willkie in re- spon.se to an overwhelming popular demand tor the strongest possible man they could choose to head their party. Mr. Roosevelt-decided that a situation had arisen which called for all of” the expefiehce he had j gained in the presidency and sought j and gained a renomination. Andj congress instead of adjourning, not; only remained in session but en acted a portentous and far-reaching laws than had ever before been put on the statute books and appropriat ed more money than any single ses sion had ever before appropriated. • All of that in four months, prac tically out of a clear sky. One man alone was responsible. His name is Adolf Hitler. Unanimous Belief i Up to the middle of May thej American people—and the American congress—had held an almost unani mous belief that the war in Europe was none of our business. It couldn’t possib(y touch us. France, with its impregnable Maginot Line, and the finest »army in the world; Britain with the ' world's most invincible na\y- they would hold Hitler if he trided to advance toward the Atlan tic. And even if he did gain the Atlantic coa.'t. the ocean stood be tween u.< .and anything he could do. ' Why-T:holi1d we worry'.’ The .State Depaitment and the presidiiit may have known, prob ably did know, more than they told the [111 bile about the way things Wile nioiing 111 Kurope. ‘It came to ■••the .Arnei ivan 'peopie- out ol a efehr sky the ei'iKiiiest of Denmark, of, Holland, thin ol Belgium, then the uttir c'4iap:>e of France, “stabbed ill the back " by Italy, as the presi dent .-aid m his spee'ch at Char- lotti \il;o on June 11. _ KM,Lia..a >>11' lett alone witli her back to tiu‘ wall, and tor the first tune lln |)t ojile ot tne UaiteU Stales; realix.Ki tliat d' Kngland went, and Eiigiaiiu', navy, nothing stood be- Iwein O' ;.nd tlie Nazi powers but an o(_t-an Im' which we had jrol fighting Inp- enough to prevent Hitiir :.om tro.-.smg and establish ing ill:, air ba;-es at our front doors.,! The jirc.Mdent went to cdngres.s aii.i l.iiu the iiicture before the sena tor.- and n ;>ieseiitati\cs. They saw. it ilimiy. The people had already! SOU! it clearly. The press had risen, to the imminence of the unexpected thietd Irom overseas. Events fol-j lowed fast. The president asked for: and received almost wartime author-' ity. He a-ked, and got, nearly 15 bil lion "cTbirar.s to build a Iwo-oceitn navy, to enlarge and modernize the; nation's land forces to begin, a Actual photo thowin^ booutiful "Now RomHo" Pottorn Ploco Sottiof.' f f> .V> X $1 DELIVERS ff - •I ^ *• it NEW ROSETTE" X. 'V Made in U.S.A. / i ^ .A-.' SomcmsM BWlRrtHiiiiiig slnrH. riqht h*rt with tkit s«p«H» MTuic* ia tfM Imaqin* ... I It pi«c«t iuckidktq compl«t* sHvprpIpit s«rvic* 4or pight % . . idinnor torvice f«r pight . . . oomplpi* ^iMswpop lame* for pighf. Wp’vqcombinpd tfcp ilirpp tprvicps M pnp pffrpctivp pntpmble . . . pw|m»m4p bpyond dppertp4ion and worthy of thp smart hpstPM pdioap tpWp pppomtmpnti must bp in unques? tfonpbly good tpstp. TKp dinnprwprp has a baputifui mutti-colorad flaral dasign with a 22 Kt. Gold Dacorp. tion. Tha gtastwpra is crystal ejaar .. . avan coastars and tippers have bean inclwdad. Tha 34 piece -silvar- plate sat is charmingly dadgnad ^ . hat a lO-ytar raplacamant cartificate.^lWy are going to tali quickly so act today I handle knives. •/ \ TIm 111 |K. bHMlUi CoMistf Of: 41 HMlNIMiKSn I Pinnar Platts I Jr. Soup Platas • Irtad A letter Piatos I Cups t Sauctrt ^7''Vtgotabl# Dlih PUttar . 42 neca CUSSWAII SfT $ lead Taa GUttat t Water Glauos I Fruit Juico Giatsos I Sippon t CMitors I Suftr I Crtamar 34 Mm* SIlVnWAlE SET t Stalnlan Staal KaWts I Taatpoons ! Buttar Kntfo I Oattart or Soup Spaanf .1 Dmaor Forks I Sugar Shall - pro gram of building 50,000 fighting air planes Overnight Realizatiun Overnight the I'ealizalion that we. were on the verge of war submerged | all other considerations in Wash-: ington. Congress enacted the first ixiace-time conscription measure ini our history. It enacted tax measures! which, though inadequate, are the most far-reaching since our last participation in a wai., It authorized the re-establishment of the Council on National Defense. And it ac cepted without resentment the presi dent’s personal and unauthorized a- greements with Britain and Canada for mutual defense and for the ex change of fifty of our fighting ships for naval and air bases off our At lantic coast. '** ■ PAY ONLY 5Dc A WEEK EASY TERM SCHEDULE WE NOW HAVE'THE .r 1941 WE DO ALL KINDS OF PRINTING —EXCEPT BAD CHRONICLE PUBUSHING CO. GRUEN, BULOVA .a ELGIN WATCHES From •24.75 Up Pay A Week 50' ..L.. On Purchases Up To $20 Pay A Week 75' On Purchases Up To $25 Pay i A Week 4 Ob PiB'chaseg Ud .To : $40 EXTRAS NO CARRYING CHARGES f HAMILTON'S EASY TERMS Broad Streot CLINTON, S. C. •Vi Cnttt An Swrtli Cupihui’* . . \ -H.