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/ / ursdoy, December 1^1940 -[ i THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. Page Sevcif*' FINAL SETTLEMENT ^ake notice that on the 7th day xif January^ 1941, I ikriU render a final account of my acts and doing as Ad ministrator of the estate of W.i Cyrus Bailey, deceased, in the office/of the Judge of Probate of Laurens rounty, at 10 o’clock a. m., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my tr^ as Administrator. Any person indebted to said estate is notified and required to make pay- nent on or before that date; and all persons having claims against said turn A Privote Citizen Speoks His Mind items. (I have never named one so far). SPECTATOR COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS ADMINISTRATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA GOV ERNMENT NEEDS OVERHAULING I work occasionally for my firm, shoes, she would easily fetch $5,648. it up. I checked up on the price green and dry cow-hides after I ( a pair of shoes mighty (home. The green hides fetch I wanted bad: that was last week, but I had'12c per lb. The dry ones, but most of my time is taken up, af- been needing them for nearly a year, fetch about 18c per lb. I hJKi 2 ter getting tax matters fixed (tern-1 f went to a shoe store. The man took i of dry cowhide in that pair of porarily) in preparing state and f*' X-ray picture of my feet and thus making the actual leather 38c. county tax returns, applying for li- found out' that they were mates. I ! Cense plates lor trucks and cars, pay- fold him I wore a size 6; he said, ' ing liability insurance for this and, “Yep, a 7 will fit you OK.” I let him j I began to figger as to the ni that and the other, making returns I decide about the size. Of course a 7 in the wood-pile. The cow-: •to the city for this and that and so .wouldn’t hurt my feet, as neither possibly got 10c for that 2 lb. forth, then we have to let the high-(shoe would^touch my foot except on'The hide-dealer got 20c. The Organized Business, Inc., appreci-j.No, the teachers of Columbia, Char- _ ^ _ atin* the ability of those in charae leston, Greenville, Spartanburg, An-} way boys tell us once or twice a year} the bottom. I told him to wrap them} got about 30c. The manufacturer ■ * * ' 111 ■ * ~ ^ u * ^ cii0 dcTson, Sumtcr, Oraugeburg—and al-"’* that our old cars and trucks ain’t fit I up. i estate will pi^nt them onpr before,01 our governmental agencies, sug-j^^^j everywhere else - are paid,to be on the public roads, and by said date, duly proven, or be forever gesfa. that these gentlemen propose I more. i that time I’m broke, humiliated, ban-ed. , reductXns in their budgets from ten ■ contributing emaciated, fidgity, and trying to to twelve per cent. ! about $9,200,000 a year to help the' think up some kind of business I can common schools: and for this, have! 8et intb that I wouldn’t have to work Dec. .• WM.J. BAILEY, Administrator. 8, 1940.—2-4c^ SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE 'Ilie Favorite Paper |n'Clinton Homes Unm liiM Inips Chaekt IImmUp Paia |aiekl| If yoa asCar from rhonmotk. ortlirHia or iMuritii tmfn. try tUo oimplo inoxponaiiro homo roMpo tlwt tlMMManaa oro uahit. Got a pockoco of Ru-Ez Compound today. Mix it with a quart of water, add tho Juico of 4 lomona. It'a aasy. Mo trooUo at all and oUaaant. You aoad only t tablfltpoonfuli two timm a day. Often within 48 houra—aomatimm oramisht—aplmdid ra- aolU aro obtainad. If tho pains do not quickly laavo aad if you do not fari better, Ru-Ex will oost you notninc to try as R is sold by your drugxkt andar an abaoiote mooeyhsKk vnaran* tea. Ru-Ex Compound ia for aaio and racom’ mended by The second part of the letter deals with the budget for the' next fiscal year, beginning July 1, 1941. The re search committee of Organized Busi ness, Inc., wishing to make recom mendations for the next fiscal year, decided that the cost of the state government being more an adminis trative'item than otherwise, any in telligent approach to a solution would require a survey of activities and personnel. It found at once that there $2. The C. I. O. I am sure must off got $5. The little bit of cloth thread cost somebody 12c. The smiling clerk handed me the bundle and I said how much, and he was possibly 5c. Social security said $13.50.1 said, Looky-here, young unemployment taxes amounted W M I 1 m ▼ Aaaa ^ _ _ * .X. I. > the local taxes been reduced? As the state contributes more and more to common schools, has the school tax on your'^ome or farm been reduced? It should be interesting if you would ask your county auditor. The teach ers, through an organization main tained here, make a constant drive for higher salaries at the expense of; the state. Thy are asking for ten dol-i lars a month more for next year, and for nothing most of the time, and would let me make a fair living without having to lie about it. The only consolation I have, if it be con solation after all, is my competitors are in the same boat and it’s leaking also. fellow, I don’t want to buy an inter est in this store: I only wanted a pair of shoes. He said $13.50 again. I didn’t argue; I gave him a check for $13.50. -I hopie the bank* thought as much of that check as I did. He rang (easy) 25c. The retailer evidently ffot the ba.lance. He had a nice store, aaff the rent was way-up yonder. folks, don’t forget: a cow-hide aii^ anything to be sneezed at, 'that after it’s made up. Somebody’s Going Barefooted If A Change Isn’t Made From this day hence, I am going to is TO wntral record of ^rsonnel or 1’^ that the original rtiembership. have more respect for a cow. It ain’t activities, for each service oj^rates, of fifty cents charged the teach- [ because of her milk that I have at Kellers Drug Store Beware Couglis from common coras That Hang On largely .as an independent unit, not only as to its program, but as to the number, duties and pay of its per sonnel. Organized Business, Inc., has requested detailed information rela tive to the personnel of all sendees, the salaries and activities of such persons. • - Organized , Business, Inc., through C. Norwood Ha.stie, its ers has been raised to two dollars and that is the war chest. Any one who has ever taught knows that a thorough teacher is a pearl wjthout price, or a pearl be- last seen fit to do honor to her: her hide has turned the trick. I am not ■§urf Oreomulslon relieves promptly be-! and raw, tender inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding yon must like the yond all price. No one could say that a con^tent teacher is overpaid. Of course no one is entitled to a certain ., sum of money in all circumstances 11 * ’lany more than a first class man in calls is entitle^ to certain profits and recommendations made general, if we have ten . thousand teachers I should _ feel safe in classifying them as A, B, i and C, knowing full well that there; ery calling. | We have very few class A lawyers, but we have hosts of class C. Farm- mar-fhe hTdr* so valuable while she’s wearing it, but after she; discards it, something sets in. If I could sell my cow (her nan^e is Liza) and get the price for her that her | hide would be worth<j^ter it becomes surveys by commissions and committees i which have given months, and even - I years, to investigation of government within our state. It sounds- a very pertinent challenge "in conclusion: that the same careful appraisal of governmental functions be made as way It quickly all^s the cough or you are to have your moi has frequently been made of indus .... trial and commercial enterprises, and same, as well as merchan- ibney back. CREOMULSION For Coiytiis, Oiwt CoMs, Bioitchitw W. J. BENJAMIN SERVICE STATION Standard Products ^Cars Washed and Greawd Your Business Appreciated that we abandon the antiquated methods of a century ago in govern ment, as we have in industry and in our manqer of living, and that we streamline or modernize our state government, so that larger benefits may flow to the people through lower unit cost in government, as has been the great contribution of American dising. Excellence and Superlative ability are not commem in any ac tivity. So the question properly aris- j es about horizontal scales of pay, and certainly arises in case of increases. I know, of course, what the teach ers will say-j-and I admit it readily— that the actual nervous expenditure of a teacher in five or six'hours far I industrial management and labor exceeds that of most office-worker We Finance AUTOMOBILES S. W. SUMEREL Jacobs Building throughout the year. I in ten. No one can deny that who has Virginia and Alabama have made^ver tried both. And the social con- notable advances in the 'simplifica-I tribution of the tecaher transcends tion of the structure of government [that of almost any one else in public j and have reduced costs and promoted service. I concede that. But for that efficiency at the same time. . ! con.secrated and efficient teacher, No one with even elementary ‘ whose life is a lesson, who deeply .knowledge of business would create hnpresses the young mind and stim-- isuch an organization as has been ulates it constructively, who guides created for our state. A business i& the youthful spirit into wholesome studied, surveyed and overhauled activities, there are ten or a hun- ‘ occassionally, and better methods dred who are decidedly mediocre, j contrived so as to promote output who tej9^ch...tQ fill a gap, and who feel .at lower cost. But government piles hke slaves because they lash their on one thing upon another, and then unwilling spirits to work! We may builds offshoots, so that it looks like make machines by mass production. v.-- BENJAMIN & SONS PLUMBING ...and... HEATING SERVICE Telephone 92fi8 WE ARE HUNTING TROUBLE a patch work. D. E. Tribble Co. FUNERAL DIRECTORS .Maud... EMBALMERS '' Licensed Embsimers. Complete Modern Eqnlpment Day Phone 94 Night Phones 24. 2.>3 or 255 Clinton. s. c. The State of South Carolina does not control Clem.son College and it does not control the public schools. The state owns Winthrop, The Cita del and Carolina, it owns the Medical i College; but it does not own Clemson College, for you don’t own anything that you eannot control. Clemson j College has thirteen trustees, seven i being permtment members of the j board under the will of Mr. Clemson. I These seven choose their successors, j For example, a successor to the late Frank Lever will be chosen by * the j six survivors. The Legislature has given to Clemson probably several; million dollars more than the value of the property given to the State by Mr. Clemson, and is giving to it a hundred and thirty thousand dollars a year now for its college work, to-! aether with three hundred and thirty-nine thousand dollars for ex-1 to " umW‘one"tMchersr'thi7 com^ but it isn't the way to make teachers. 1 The observation T havfe mad4 about ^ grades of teachers certainly applies! to clerical employees of the state! and cqunty. All employees of the state who through native ability,' trained to certain positions during! years of service ar? very valuable,} who could not easily be replaced. Yet they see pretty faces and vivacious manners regarded certainly as high ly even on the payroll. Nothing is so! demoralizing in any service as to: keep superior merit dowm to the level! of the ordinary. We have employees in the elate who, after year’s of com petent service, have reached middle age and find that a little pull and ■ other extraneous matters put others on the same level with them» or nearly so. | Of course I admit all this when' the teachers raise the point, but hor-, izontal scales don’t mean anything. tension work. I do not mean to say that full control by the State would make any difference in the work of the college; I do poiint out that just a few years ^go the state accepted another gift of land with a string tied to it and has not only given mahy times'* the “value of the land, but is giving this year $71,000. It would be a good rule for the state to decline all gifts with strings, for it is an expensive gift as a memorial I which costs the state each year more' I'than the value of the gift. As to the common schools, mand good salaries not by efficiency. by law, but :0S0Dn BUSINESS iy GEE McGEE FREE FOR OHLY bO OCTAGON COUPONS Self Basting OASTER VMM Fffffff tmr Day In and Day 0«t A man asked me the other day what I did for a living. I intimated my*^ him that was a powerful persona) I point is that though the state is now question, but I proceeded to tell him called on each year for more and of *uy routine and let him make more money for salaries the state • up his own mind as to whether or does not control the schools. The uot I should get a livelihood from Schools are controlled by their re- ^uch efforts, spectlve school district trustees, chos-, en usually by the county board of education, except in several cases of direct county control, as I recall. Until a few years ago the schools were supported by the 3-mill consti tutional school tax, which was re cently voted out by the people. Im mediately the legislature put on a state-wide 3-mill tax — which is a very different thing altogether and completely nullifies the act of the First, I explained to the man that! I go to my (wholesale) office every! morning as early as the cook will permit me to eat breakfast. I open^ the mdU, answer such stuff as needs to be answered, ask the folks in the place how’s things, and then I usual- j ly find some federal or state oivcoun-' ty or city tax inquiries to look after.; Also a few wages and hours ques-! tionnaires to absorb and to reply to. i voters. In time, school districts were allowed to vote special taxes for the* support of the schools. Some districts voted very high taxes and the assess ments had to be brought down to al most nothing. Then followed the ef forts to get state-aid for the schools. Soon the state was asked to guaran tee a sipc months tenn for every school then seven months, now eight memths. At the same time laws were passed fixing minimum pay for teachers, ranging from $75 to $90 a month. This mTOh Is paid by the state. I wish to say that the impression generally held that all teachers are paid only these salaries is inexact. These are minimum salarlea. Every teacher from GUlisonvilie to Tirzah gets at least $79.00 lor eight months. The teachers, however, are claaaified, beginners receive at least $7$. a immth, but this is Increased yeai’ by year until It raaefaes $90 a tnonth. But is this the salaqr actually paid? It takes only about one-third of my time to make tax returns for our selves and a few friends who don’t know how to make them either.' About 10 per cent of the balance of my time is spent in answering in quiries about the returns already made and making small remittances to take care of errors, oversights. Ex cess deductions, refunds for mistakes made in respect to gifts, donations and contributions. I entertain a targe number of gov ernment men. They check and dou ble-check me and my affairs a few times every year. I answer all kinds of government inquiries aj^ut what we get for com meal and hay and cottemseed meal and alfalfa. I have to tell somebody every Monday morning (tiy mail) to whom I aold sugar and ahortt and emm meal—and mune any perastti suspected of mak- any booUag Ikker from such ffe Arc Proud to Announce WRE milNG HUDSON NOW! It gives us great pleasure to announce our new association with Hudson...an association that makes it po^ible for us to bring our friends and customers today’s finest automobile values. Come in and see us — we promise you lasting satisfaction. it Forlhefirit time in'Iowpriced con, a choice of inferior color com- binotiont that hormoniie with exterior colon. NO EXTRA COST I SAFEST CAR EVER BUIITI Patented Dowble-Sofe, Hydrog- licA (two-woy stopping from the some foot pedal); Pofented Front Whoel Control for extro sofety even if o fire blows; and other unique sofety feotures. VALUE WITHOUT EQUAL! Longer Wheelbases, Roomier Bodies, Still Easier Ridir Driving, New Improved Typq Synchronized Silent Mesh Trans mission . .. 194rs test Investment in All-Around Value. Hudson Offers Fine Automobiles In Ivery fopuior Price Class AT NfW PRtOS STARRMC AMONG AMERICA’S LOWEST New Hudson Six pnd Super-Six (in the lowest and lew price Helds); New Commodore Six ane~ Eight end Commodore Custom (in the moderate prite field). MORE CAR for LESS MONEY in Every fioputer Price Class. 1695 l.ar illMflrattd n mew HuJsam Sex IV Imx* r-fhwr laurtaf Sedan, A htU iideuall lines and De Lmxe Rummtmg boards extra; wM or wfthoHt standard running hoards—wo extra cut. fornew 1941 IfudMoSixConpe, *delivered in Detroit, including Fedfrai taxes, nut io- cludioa state and local taxes, i( any. Low time payment term*. l*rtces subject to chanae without notice. A PITTS MOTORS Next to Express Office Play *Santa* to Your Pocketbook BY SAVING At McCOY’S GIVE YOURSELF A PRESENT Save money by using McCoy’s Regular Ga^line. Stop in today and save approximately 20% on every gallon of gasoline purchased. McC'oy makes this big saving possible by cutting put the middle man’s profit. Try a tank today and let your wear’s performance 1^ the judge. McCoy’s attendants offer you coiirteous, e^cient service. McCOY’S REGULAR GASOLINE 18c Gallon McCoy’s Regular Gas Has Same Octane Rating As Other Regular Gas. FREE! ! ONE QUART OIL McCoy’s is giving away ABSOLUTELY FREE one quart oil with each five gallons of McCoy’s regular g^liwf jhirchased from our station located in Clinton. TUNE IN on THE RANGERS over WBT—^Tuesday and Thursday, 8:30 to 8:45 A. M., Saturday, 7:30 to 7:45 A. M. McCOY’S Z STATION Statioii Corner Florida and Mussrrove Streets ■J