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\ Page Four \ THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. (dlinton ^lirontfU EsUblldied IMt WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBUSHING 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 Chronicle 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 paperMs not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. , NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE TODAY... TOMORROW By Don Robinson LEGISLATION—OkMMvr omy and quality. And conversely, a curb on advertising would mean less sales, slower .production, higher pric es, and poorer quality. Thursdoy, Jonuory 2, l;941 The feated ▼oorl UISE—Undetected 'oorhis bill ought to be de but what is ^ven more im- I My New Year’s Resolntions . , . Resolved- That I won’t think hard ^ vicious practice of Uw-making, portant is to do something to end the nf tho man nr woman who riishoa in whlch the poople are fooled ioto, systcm which makes it possible for ahead of me and taLr^my Mrking ^“voring legislation in very much the*a biU to gain popular approval by snace I am off cussine afiafn*^ Hollywood entices. wearing disguise. It makes it tough ' ^ ^ ® I them into going to a third-rate for us voters when we have to look r, , j mi. . T 11 1- « II 1 movie, seems to have become ex- to sqe if legislation, complicated at Resolved; That I will have full re- tremely popular in Washington re- its b^ includes a set‘of false whis- tspect for my state, county, city and c^ntly. ikers. lira'll ff'tSTmire i^Mhey would Hollywood, if a Greto Gdrto! It w^’t long ag^hat a price-fix- reduce taxes. I will likewise have due turns out to be a flop, the.^ bill was passed by congress regard for red lights, stop signs, short skirts, painted nails—and policemen’s whistles. CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1941 We Start Another Year producers wiU play up the fact that'through the same kind of masquer- Greta Garbo is in it and not say any-1 ading. That bill, known as the fair thing much about the story. trade enabling act, was thrown out In Washington, the idea seems to, of congress when it first appeared. Resolved- That I will quit trying to'^ features some-1 Then it thumbed a ride on the tail- , reduce expenses of my household: it’ ^^‘"8 everybody wants and min^l ^rd of a bUl that was sui^e to pass, dent broke all. precedent by his elec-;(.g„'( ^ without a dissolution * other clause which would be. When the president signed that bill tion to a third term as chief execu- ’ . . .. . Another brand new. New Year is;tive of the United States, here, the traditional time to plan, to runner-up position was the resolve, to wake up, to stop and, (jj-aniatic photograph showing Secre- of family ties. I will continue to love i 8*'^®" at-1 the price-fixing hitch-hiker jumped }my ties. (They are mighty nice ties), |out into the open and said, “I’m the j , o.-r- — I Resolved: That I will not extend think. Many people do not kriow.^jjj.y s^imson drawing No. 158 credit to the fellow that says he will what they can do for the reason they ^ national draft. The fall of pay me next week or next Saturday.! Ple of this practice awaiting action have never tried. j France and the Battle of Oran was i have no more money to lose on such early at the next session of congress.! Here on the threshold of the new third. These are considered the really guys. (There ought to be a law). .The bill is written by Representative! year w-e make this resolve which we'big items of news from the battle! • I Jerry Voorhis, of California, who no will try hard to keep with your help;, zone. In order then came England j law!’ j Let’s watch yout for hitch-hiking Right now there is a good exam- legislation from now on. FINAL SETTLEMENT I ORDER J. L. Rentz, Administrator of tki estate of Mrs. Hattie A. Whatley, ye. Mrs. Ruth Watts, et al. Upon reading and filing the foire- going verified petition and eonstder* ing it right and proper that the pi^- er thereof should be granted; It Is Ordered: That the respondents, Mrs. Riith Watts, Harold Doan and Jolm Dof& do show cause before me at my ^ fice at Laureps, S. C., on the SIh of January, 1941, why the prayer oC the petition .should not be granted. Let a copy of this petition and oiv der be served on the respondenti b$r personal service thereof and if pec^ sonal service thereof caimot be IMmI let the said Rule be published in IVg Clinton Chronicle, a weekly pap(^ published in Laurens County, ttt three issues immediately preceditW the date set for a hearing herein ilA let a copy of said Petiiion and Order be mailed to the said respondents ftl: their last known address. J. HEWLETTE WASSON, Probate Judge, Laurens County, S.C. Laurens, S. C., Take notice that on the 7th day ofi Resolved: That I will sit idly by doubt has dropped in on neighboring'January, 1941, I will render a final ‘The CHRONICLE is resolved that heroically carrying on under bomb- ^ and let my competitor cut my throat. Holljrwood often to see how things it will untiringly strive to,be a better the Italians find a hard, rocky| While he is severing my jugular, he are put over out there, paper every week of the year, that j road pi Greece, Britain gets United [is likew-ise severing his own jugular.' The glamour, or front, for the bill we will bring you clean, constructive, States destroyers, Antonescu rules ((Misery loves company, and plenty' is a proposed tax on billboards, wholc.some, informative new.s, and, Rumania, the British retreat from |of it: the kind of competition we are; Representative Voorhis knows that that we will serve our generous and. Dunkerque, Russia pays for victory, enjoying today is the cut-throat i there are a lot of people who don’t patient and appreciated family of land the execution of fifth columnist.. kind). | like billboards. He knows that garden readers the very best we know how. j What will be the “big” news story j ♦ (clubs and women’s organizations are Wc have made considerable improve-(of 1941? It may be an open declara-; Resolved: That I w-ill continue to i always protesting against them. He ment.s to our plant in the past few tion of war by the United States. God Ipay until death do us part all of the knows that legislation to curb bill- months which enables us to produce; forbid. I money I can rake and scrape on ac- boards is popular. So he writes a bill a better and more attractive paper. ^ j count—of the wages and hours, the featuring a $l tax on billboards. We have other plans to put into cf- yi //■ ‘iil- Annin [social security, the unemployment,! That $1 tax won’t curb billbqjards, feet that will make it possible for us I nG LIlTIG DOX Myain state and county, the city and'and the collection from it by the gov- 1(^ serve you still more efficiently in The''Little Box" Again _ . .. _ . With the beginning of another year federal, the school district and thetemment won’t amount to a drop in the future. We will keep before our The Chronicle, as for several years license and the stamp-on the bucket so far as the treasury is eyes the star of Hope, with confi-^ past, continues a practice of carrying i luxuries, and any and all other agen-' concerned. But there’s another glam- dence lliijL.jye.are marching forward its little warning box, usually on the i gjes that tpiy future crack^poLmight i our appeal tj^ed- up with the revenuer to s{Ul better days. (front page. . 'think up to help destroy my business.'It will be contributed to our defense And so ending ’40 and stepping out The caption of the box is, “Drive j please tell Bradstreet I am fund. It will help to give us *8 few into the unspoiled, untried ’41, all of i Carefully—Save A Life.” It is given j through!) (thousand dollars of the many billions us engaged in making THE CHRON-1 prominence each week in the hope. » j we need. ICLE pau.se to wish for our subscrib- that it will warn drivers of cars and. Resolved: That I will listen morej account of my acts and doing as Ad ministrator of the estate of W. Cyrus Bailey, deceased, in the office of the, Judge of Probate of Laurens county, at 10 o’clock a. m., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as Administrator. Any person indebted to said estate is notified and required to make pay ment on or before that date; and all persons having claims against said j estate will present them on or before i said date, duly proven, or be forever barred. WM. J. BAILEY, Administrator. Dec. 6, 1940.—2-4c, CURE—Purpose But now let’s get lo the point of Mr. Voorhis' bill. The billboards are ers, advertisers, patrons and friends trucks to be careful, cautious and j and taijj less; eat less and sleep more; —a New Year filled to overflowing j courteous, and that all will give their ^^ay nice things about folks or not say with all good things, and free from i support to this campaign to make the at all; avoid folks who would cough sorrow, anxiety and misfortune, [coming year a safe twelve months on or sneze in my face; laugh at old (the thing you’ll hear most about, but 1 the highways of Laurens county and jokes I’ve heard before, even if 11 the real story is in another clause . ^ J 1^1 w u I •. .throughout the state. A OOOa New Tear naDir l Our record for the year ending A business man said to us yester- Tuesday was not quite as bad as that day. "I hate to take stock and am of the preceding year, but it is a can’t laugh as loud as the teller laughs; make my present stock of old out-moded clothes last for the duration of the war — unless it be- That clause, down near the end of the bill, reads; “No deduction of advertising ex pense from gross income shall be al lowed in computing taxable net in- RUBBER STAMPS All Sixes — Qaiek Serriee CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. D. E. Tribble Co. FUNERAL DIRECTORS •..ftiicl*.* EMBALMERS Licensed Embalmers, Conplcto Modem Eqalpraent Pay Phone 94 Night Phonee - -94f-35a OF Clinton, S. C. alw ay.s. sun y w’hen the lime rolls black one nevertheless. During 1940 , Hornes against the law to look like _^_, ^ around. ^ there were 1/ deaths in this county [that; and, last, but not least, I will! Advertising expenditures of. While a great many people may ^ as compared to 20 for 1939. This pay my debts promptly and renew (less than $100,000 are exempted. feel that way about taking inven- means that at the end of every 21 (my notes on time, and smile and _i i— —j_ ...liu P ► tones, they are important to find out days of the year one person was-smile and smile—if possible. ju.st how we stand as the old year killed in an automobile accident in' ♦ departs and a new milestone is en- the county. This tabulation includes! Free! Free! Free! tered upon. , only fatalities and gives no record of| whole country has gone pre- It is a queer habit, when you st<^ those who were injured. In compari-ij^j^^j^ crazy. Nearly everything you prbfit of $100,bOO, but has spent -this thing of cast- son with many counties, our figure carries a coupon or a prize of ,$300,000 during the year on advertis- some kind with it. It looks like you .ing, it must pretend that its profit can now send in 10 of any kind of has been $300,000 and must pay taxes This clause has nothing to do with billboards. It applies to all advertis ing— advertising in magazines, over the radio, and in newspapers. It means that if a company shows a to think about it ing up our accounts at the end of is high, while in a number of the each year and making high resolves larger counties their heavy toll has to be better in the days that lie far exceeded ours. (wrappers and 15c and get a nice 10cion that amount. ahead. . * 'Y.® ^ s^n the final fatali-jpj^j. y^^ tops! The purpose is to stop big adver- But with all its queerness, it is a ty figure of the highway department manufacturer and he tisers from spending big amounts on advertising. good sort of habit both for the busi- for the entire state in 1940 In .1939 gg^^ y^^ ^ ggj something that ness man and individual. We are all there were 3,412 accidents, 476 killed, iy^^ don’t especially need, provided, inclined, the Good Book tells us, to The National Safety council a few* j course, th^ you enclose only 25c ADVERTISING—Cart become backsliders, and unless we days ago estimated that American jj^g t^pg ji^jg oj. ^ jj.g. Qn first thought $100,000 might often remind ourselves of‘our ideals, traffic deaths would mount to at l®»st i gQyyjg|jjjj.jg nothing till you stop seem enough for plenty of advartis- we are not very likely to get close to 34,500 this year. This figure was al-,j and think, which none of us ever doling. But when it is measured against them. I most 2,000 higher than the total We are on a puzzling sort of vpy- 1939, when 32,600 persons were; a^, and much of the time our des- killed.^ “WUh average^ mcreases of, j \yant to make a few suggestions[a large company to spend. $100,000 tme( " . - the job that advertising attempts to do, it is an insignificant amount for fed landfall seems to be in a stage from 5 to 8 per cent for every geo-|^g g^j. poultry raisers, fanners and'spent to tell 131,000,000 people at^ut of doubt. Where we are going, what graphical region, the traffic death • ycgg^gj^ig growers. They will have'to la product means an expenditure of lie.s ahead, no one knows. It is be- picture for the first eleven months premium-wise if they expect to one-thirteenth of a cent on each per- cause ol such uncertainty that we of 1940 was black in every part ofjggn t^gir wares. For instance, an egg i son for a whole year. No matter what need, like the traditional recourse of the country, the council reported, ggn^r ought to advertise that he will'kind of advertising a company did, it the mariner, to look at the stars and The report further revealed that ru-jgjyg g nice frying-size pullet if an! couldn’t attempt to tell 131,000,000 remind ourselves of our charted ral accidents can be blamed for the i ggg_ggjgj. send in 10 egg shells | people about its product with such a cour.se. ; larger year s toll. It stated the aver- 35^ qj.^ jg gggg farmer wants! ridiculously small per capita expend- Regardless of scientists telling us'^ge increase in traffic deaths was 3 more roasting ears (in season) 1 iture, ^ that resolution-making is all “hum-'P®,*^ cent in cities, against 9 per cent could tell the world that he willj Instead, if it attempted to get along bug.” it is well to formulate plans rural areas. gjyg j^jg rattlesnake watermelon on an expenditure of $100,000, it and “take .stock.’ Have you worked This appalling figure 34,500 deaths; streamlined stripes) if the would have to limit its advertising hard and well, or have you drifted ought to stand as a danger signal corn-on-cob customer will send in activity to the cities where it could along without trying, expecting a warn the driving public. lonly 2 bales of shucks and 6 cobs, reach the biggest number of people gox ernment or some other sort of All over the land safety experts pjgg 4Qg That ought to produce re- for the smallest amount. In the coun handout or subsidy to keep you go- 3*'® doing all they can in a deter-; ' ing'.’ Have you! been honest and fair effort. to protect, human -life. in your business, or have you cut the '^'b® rest and this is something that Take a turnip seller for instance: corners when you thought you could n®®ds to be repeated over and over he should advertise that he will give get away with questionable methods? up to the motorist and pedestrian, away absolutely free of charge, 2 try towns it would mean we’d stop Tiearing about new products, and new developments, so far as advertising is conc'emed. Actually, whether the bill passes Man to Man... I wish to thank you for past patronage and extend to you an invitation to moke this your store in the future. It Was 33 Years Ago ... that I left J. A. and P. S. Bailey, Merchants, and started trying to serve the ond Boys of Clinton and this community. Eoch year hos given me greater pleasure, because each year has brought me new friends and new custom ers. I TRUE SERVICE BUILDS FRIENDSHIPS... I count ray friends and customers my largest ossets. Sincere good wishes for every doy in the New Year. L B. DILLARD Have you been a giMid citizen? All ■ Safety workers and organizations,' gjgg g^ggl pgtg^ggg if ^he turnip buy-' or not, most companies couldn’t af-l of the.se questions and many others state and county patrols, insurance ^yjn send him only the roots and ford to cut down their advertising! just as important that might be asked' newspapers and other af- tops clipped from a dozen tur-j expenditures to l-13th of a cent per -furnish a good starting point for a f^iated groups, are attempting nips, and 10c of course. The cash isi person. Instead, they’d spend more New'Year’s resolution. i through educational campaigns to ai^-gyg sent along to pay for the than that and pay taxes on it. But And above all else we need to every motorist every day w'lth present that the guy is giving away, they’d spend less than they do now understand that we have been put on 1 ® of warning. They can jg^g cantaloupes, as an example; if —and that would mean just one! this earth as men and women to ^^®*' helpful advice but they can t the producer will offer 5 full-size thing. Prices would go up. For the sejve a purpose that is greater than'®.^" your ears and eyes if you de- cantaloupes for only 25c and 10 ad-(primary purpose of advertising is to ourselves. If we ever lose faith or bberately insist upon being blind and ditional 5c cantaloupes for 50c, an' increase consumption to the point touch with the truth that man is a ^bey can show* you the road to gxtra cantaloupe will be given to the .where mass production can be most spiritual being, then regardless of —but they can t make you take individual consumer provided he, she efficient—to the point where a pro- OWN YOUR how much or how often we plan and resolve—it will do us no good. 1 or it will send the seeds from 5 or 10 duct can be sold at the lowest pios- What Is Big News? it. i This war,AS yours. By you is meant cantaloupes back to the seller with(sible price. ! every man and woman who drives a 5c in coin. . You have probably read dozens of 1 car or truck. It should cause you I ^^ examples of how advertising has re- ^ _ I grsve concern as an individual over The spud grower needs help. He ■ duced prices. Puncture-sure automo- What is big news? The query is^'the appalling destruction of human 1 should offer to trade a nice ‘ green-. bile tires used to cost $25 to $40. oft€‘11 asked of newspapermen as to bf® caused by speed, rfecklessness, 1 and-gold potato bug inbedded in Now punctur-proof tires cost less what means they take in determ in-[ ca*’®l®ssness and the increasing prev- beeswax for the eyes of only 25 (than $10. Advertising made mass ing the really big news. There is alence of dangerous drunken drivers spuds, provided—as you have already production possible. Mass production rc'ally nb set plan for determining it,'Oi’t the highways with liquor stores guessed—that the buyer enclose with; meant a better product at lower cost, no lint* which can be drawn. It’s jUst tbeir convenience located every, the potato eyes (just referred to) the The same formula applies to radios, that the new'spaperman through ex-^^®''’ ihiles throughout the state, sum of I5c. Don’t get the idea that it automobiles, electric refrigerators, perience in handling items knows the' Thousands of lives would be saved by don’t cost something to catch a po- canned goods, or most anything else minute he sees a story whether it is fbe observance of these two iron tato bug and mash him into a pretty, you can think of, really big news or not. H you drink, don’t drive. If little cube of beeswax. If the manu-| There’s no'’doubt in most people’s What is big news to one may be you drive, don’t drink, facturer gives premiums (or rather minds that advertising leads to econ- trivial to others. A young woman will H’s a war, we repeat, a never- sells ’em) with everything, why, «;a> the account of her marriage is ending fight to protect and save hu- should the farmer not do so, too?' the big event of all. That business is man life, the other feUow, your fam- (p. s. Don’t fail to give your name moving upward sounds best of all ‘lies anc9 friends, or maybe your own and address). j to the hard-nressed business man of self. naiu p ^ subscriber-friend As Laurens county citizens let ns SPECIAL UNTIL FEBRUARY 14 resolve to do our level best to keep Woman’s Home Companion, Amer takes control of a steering wheel. ANNUAL MEETING OF BfEMBERS recent years. said to us recently that the most im portant item he had ever read in his “favorite newspaper” was the an nouncement of the birth of his first grand-child. Each year the various news agen cies about this time list the ten big , news stories of the year; that is. the( The annual meetir^ of the mem ten which in the opinion of the of- here of the Citize^ Federal ^vings ficials are really the headline news L^ Assoclahon of Clinton, items of the year. The election of J":' election of directors President Roosevelt to a third term, and for the ^ansaction of any other (after he drafted himself at the i^® cago convention) is considered by the|held at its ol^ m ClMUm, S. C., at Aviated Press as No. I in the ten 12 o clock, P. M., on Wednesday, Jan- great news stories of 1940. The topi nary 15, 1941. position was given because the presi-! 9-2c B. H. BOYD, Secretary. the figure for ’41 at zero. This is a ican Magazine and Collier's—all three timely challenge to every one who 14 months for $4.75. JAMES W. CALDWELL CaU 276 Clinton. S. C. NO’nCE TO STOCKHOLDERS The regular annual meeting of Stockholders of the Commercial De pository of Clinton, S. C., will be held Tuesday, January 14, 1941, at 4:00 “O’clock p. m., in the office of the D^ pository, to elect directors for ensu ing year, and to transact such busi- ness as may come before the meeting. H. D. Hezury> Vice-Preaidefit. 2-Sc F. M.*Bolc^ Seey-' W. J. 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