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4 ; \- ;'' V-- U?Sl'yx:u'-i \ V '’V-4-'T'<^,''-";'’^''2‘.'' \-' Page Six ■/ ■ ^ •# Thursdoy, Jonuory 16, 1941 As Washington Sees It THE NAHONia SCENE WEST CLINTOH PffiSONAL AND SOCIAL NEWS MRS. JOE CAMPBELL, Correspondent Washington, Jaii. 13. — The effects'ed Mr. and Mrs. Lewis of President Roosevelt’s fireside chat, Tucapau Sunday, delivered on the night of December, Mrs. Ed Norton was the week-end! 29th, are still being debated in con- guest of her sister, Mrs. Fred Rodel-j ®ress»onal circles here. Obviously de- sperger, in Union signed to pul an end to talk of ani Berry, Christopher Davenport, Rufus King. D. L, McGee is ill. Little Joyce Elizabeth Wright, 10- months-old dauij^ter of Jack Wright, is improving. Mrs. Wright died two months ago. Chuff Hendrix Mr. and Mrs. Marcell Barker, Miss (occupying Mr. atid Mrs. Ralph Stew- Virginia Smith and Paul Smith visit-i art’s house on Academy street. Smith in j Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Hunt moved to I their home near Clinton. t ^ ^ . Chu^ Hendrix, 42, died early Sat urday night at his home on Davis Brooks I after an illness of five weeks with fine farm lands, industrial de velopments, and with a fine future for those who invest their capital within this state.” ( The balancing of the state budget “by the Imposition of new taxes calls for courage and wisdom on the part not difficult of accomplishment.’ The Barnwell lawmaker said that with the higher cost of IWinf, “thit is no time for a material reduction in the salary of state employes, and those who serve on the faculties of the schools and colleges of this state. The property owned by the state and repaired Linen Shower Mrs. Odell Gregory, Mrs. aigTi<*o xo mu an ena lo lam uj an' «*_ -n/x Mrc woi.f.ar> r’min ^ and Mrs. Ray Cannon were I was a native of Georgia, but for early paace between Germany and Cr”in*S S™ ‘ Great ^itain and to arouse what Imen shower given for Mrs. Ceellj-^Jd^nt of South Cmolina. ^ . tha Crain, who is'a patient in a Co nome congressmen have called an, “apathetic America to the dangers Mrs. Fannie McCullough of Abbe ville, is making her home with her apathy. Most are paying strict atten- daughter, Mrs. Harold Crowb, and .at-- a- a.- r-™ Ore Mt. CtOWC. of a Nazi victory, the talk has at least aroused congressmen from any after which a salad course and hot, ducted by the Rev. R. D. Hughes, chocolate was served by Ithe host esses. Mrs. Lawson was the recipient of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Davis have j^ianyl u^ful gifts, moved to their new home near Clin- ‘ ' ton. j ■ O"® o' '»« most enjoyable parties ; and Mrs. V. H. Smith m Eldorendo, qj season was the miscellaneous ai.s; .....oosae.- ^ h'f . r. c •♦V, ♦ TVA ^ ^hower on Friday evening at the. H®”drix; one stepson, Charles Rob- gress again emphasized the necessity r i ances bmitn is visiting Mr. gf ^rs. Palmer Howard given j Prison; his mother, Mrs. Julia Hen- pf continuing and increasing aid to Mrs. J. la. bmith in Chester. Mrc s r .Cnoityrcasra ir on/iidrix: two sisters. Mrs. Bertha Roner tion to the mail from home to see if there is any sudden change in the opinion of their local communities, while those with defense bills are vigorously pushing them through committees. The presidents message to con Lawson at the home of Mrs. Cannon.* Funeral services were held at the Games and contests were played,{home Monday morning at 9:30, con ducted by the Rev. R. D. Hughes. The body was taken to the home of Mrs. Colbert in tl« Nevir Holland community near Gainesville, Ga., where final rites were hel^ at 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. Inter- Miscellaneous Shower of our legislators,” he declared in a prepared address acreptinf his unop-! must ot prowctad posed election to a third tenn as | whenever necessary. ... speaker. j “If from a careful study tWt tb# “Our job is to sell our state to the whole picture as is presented to you, citizens of South Carolina and then | it is decided that there can be no re attempt to sell It to the citizens of duction in appropriations, then we must find a source of income with. which to meet these appropriations which will be the least harmful to ment followed in the New Holland cemetei-y. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ruby of continuing and increasing am xo - - ^ - - - ^ 7,7 • , by Mrs. S. B. Snelgrove, Jr., and ltwo sisters, Mrs. Bertha Roper Britain, and the need tor a tremen- „ ="2. Mrs. Joe Terry, Jr., for Mrs.'WilUam i and Mrs. Lucile Hulsey dous production effort here at hoine..|0- E- Martin ^of Whitmire, visited r All ot this seems to presage the f'-1 Lrws^r*vfsiS''trifnds''^in' ^ gathered for IhejBLATT REQUESTS peal of the Johnson act which for-! , " ^ Law.son visited friends in n n u—, ^ trv o rita.. 1 ♦ inff WclfOld Sunday. Mr. and «Mrs. R. M. Hampton and bids credits to a nation defaulting on its war debt, but the Johnson act occasion. Mrs. G. G. Hooper and Mrs. Grady Arnold won in Bingo. A delicious salad course with ice will not go by the boards without cream was served by the hostesses. T rieaKotirva cinr.o gucsts of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bal- swne of, the fiercesr deba.ting since Mrs. Snelgrove, the former Miss the controversy on Airferican con-i.**^,; .1 „ ,, .. . ... .. Betty Sullivan, received many useful trv. yiva, orwhy, Mrs. Minnie Redd, Mrs. Addie scription of manpower for the army. I and Precedent Set , , ' daughters of Whitmire, visited Mr. j Some quarters believe that the ^ *Adams Sunday. i president will not risk a defeat by Mrs. OdcU Gregory vis-i backing outright repeal of the John-, relatives in Chester the past son act, but will find some means week-end 1 circumventing it through an opii^n callahan of Mars Hill, of Attorney General Jackson. Thei destroyer deal has set a precedent j COOPERATION IN BOOSTING STATE DAYBOOKS CHRONICLE PUB. CO. Phone 74 Birthdays and Wedding Anni versaries January 12 was the birthday of J. , A. Dunaway. . Miss Evelyn Simmons celebrated Thei ^ —‘i A^'ber birthday Tuesday, Jan. 14. destroyer deal nas sex a precedent I' V. Wright, Jr., celebrated his destroyer aeai nas set a preceueni jyjj.g Victor Maddox andiu- . c which can be followed without any.j^^g Lila Smith visited Mr. is the birthday of Mrs C question of legality. ^rs. J. B. Smith in Newberry Sun-ly ^aL ‘'‘^thday of Mrs. C. In the meantime, the more mun-i . • , jij. oiease. d j „ dane matter of money has come to! ^ Willie Miller and Sunday, Jan. 19, Little Bardwell rnnf»rp«?innal attention One of the . . ^ ^ iviuier Cannon will be five years old. congressional attention, ^^e 01 Maudine, of Laurens, vis-, Little Billie Cranford was three first appropriations that the new.i, . w and Mrs R L Whitsel * craniora was xnree will havf» to make is for' . ana Mrs. wniisei. 1 years old yesterday, Jan, 15. congress will ha\e to maxe is lor, jjg^gs L. Riser of Fort Jackson,: jannarv 7 was the birthdav of Miss $1,000,000,000 to cover the deficiency . week-end with his parents, birthday of Miss r.t iQjn AithniiPh. thp nast roneress ine weex ena wun ins I Madeline Beckham, of 1940. Although the past congress Riser. 1 Mice ParHo Roll Fvans will oh- appropriaed $9,000,000,000 to covert jy. ^ m Charlie Barker and* ^ u ^ c ^ in iriofonco ovn^.nHitiirf>c thic nroved in-i t^nariie oaixer aiiu ggj.yg ^gj. birthday Sunday, Jan. 19. defense expenditures, this proved in- j.j,jl^ren visited Mr. and Mrs. Joe, o was the birthday of M sutTicient in the light of rising pnees.,^^^^ Greenwood Sunday. ia Mdam birthday ol M., These same rising prices ha ve| Mrs. Leo Riser and Mrs. Jack And-j poster was eieht years' brought the question of^price control, Columbia Sunday. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ to the fore, but it is not expected Mrs. E .S. Wright visited her qncle, that this will be more than a passing .j. p jg Woodruff, who was issue—at least, for the present. (seriously Ml. Columbia, Jan. 14.—Speaker of the House Sol Blatt appealed to South Carolinians Tuesday to join with leg islators “to the end that we might shout from the housetops that South Carolina is a good state, progressive, present financial problem is a task other states. Our citizens have done more to prevent progress in this state by unfavorable criticism and . bjr making statements imwarranted and our state and to the taxpayers.” imfair, than the passage of all the laws considered by legislators in the past. “There should be a joining of hands on the part of all of our citi- izens ...” i He recommended: 1. Immediate passage of biennial legislative session measures; 2. Immediate passage of all local and county supply bills; 3. Immediate passage of legislation in the interest of national defense; . 4. Immediate passage of legislation to finance the $3,500,000 state deficit by issuing notes at a low rate of in terest; 5. Early passage of the state ap propriation bill “with sufficient reve nue for balancing the state budget.” He asserted that “if we in no wise interfere with present revenue cewn- ing into the state, the solution of our For Flu-CoMs ATMOSPHENE At Your Druggists A new tax bill will have to be Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Beckham at- old Jan. 7. Helen Foster will be six years old Jan. 18. Jasper McGinnis will observe his birthday Friday, Jan, 17. Charlie Barbery of Fort Benning, [celebrated his birthday Monday, Jan. and Friday, Jan. 17 is the birth' passed to pay the expenses of funeral of Ernest Coth current year, but this will not be Lancaster on Tuesday, brought before congress until after Mrs. Jerew Davis, Mrs.!,., the March 15lh income m.xes are in. 3 Davis, Miss Jennie Davis,} .’“‘T ^ Fort~B^- A new bond issue may be floated to Mrs. Ligon Davis of Newberry, Barbery care for present expenses. This will ^ Hedspeth, Mr. and Mrs.l""'^®- Woodard will be eleven years require an almost immediate expan- TT Lell Rev and Mrs J T1 woodard wiuoe eleven years .ion in the present $45,000,000,000 debt limit to the $65,000,000,000 pro- j^ing Sunday, posed by the treasury department. | Miss Marjorie Brow of Greenville, There seems little doubt that this ex- yjgjtejj jjej. sisters, Mrs. C. L. Bras- tension will be permitted immedi- gg^j Miss Hazel Brown the past ately. iweek. Nor does there seem much doubt* Mis.1,^., that a new reorganization bill will Chester^ spent the week-pnd with' Street, be pushed through congress beforegrandmother, Mrs. L, W. King.; January 21st along with a bill to con-, Qj.g ^gg^jg and son, Robert,! „ MnriHav attImnnrJT\Ar<i r v tinue the emergency powers granted g„^ j ^ DeYoung * J’ the president during the past eight,c,,r./iov Dunaway gave a birthday party hon- ~ Society To Meet Monday The Missionary society of Calvary Baptist church will meet Monday evening at 7 o’clock at the home of MTsses Gerry and Audrey King oil Washington I oring her granddaughter, Ruby Anne ,in Spartanburg Sunday. years. A number of these powers ex-* ^ave Fllen Blakelv of Soartanburg Jire on that date among them the j. vfslting her grLdmot^^^^ Manchester, Tenn., who power to devalue the dollar further u-ggig Blakelv ' jwas celebrating her fifth birthday, and to control the $2,000,000,000 cur- Mr. a°d Mrs Thad Taylor, Mr. and rency stabilization fund. The new re- ,y. g 3 Soiers and Mr and Mrs.I occasion, organization bill will probably not^jgj.gj^gg Laurens, visited' games were played exempt any specific governmer al g l_ McGee Sunday, agencies from its provisions as thCj Miss Vernielee King of Goldville, past one did. spent the week-end with Miss Ber-| agencies were exempted from the ^^j^g Qraves bills provision but it has been made j Arnold is visiting his rister,■ , nif-«»Ar4«wi clear that the president wants rione,^j.g gegry Wheeler and Mr. Wheel-; owrtio iw^rric WKr, nioH Tan of them excluded m 1941. ^ . gj. Fountain Inn. 1 S a3^A Dies Asks $1,000,000 _ : Mrs. Ora Woods and son Robert,! ® 'The Dies committee is reasonably ’ were visitors in Greenville Saturday. ■ y & y certain of obtaining the S^,000,000 it Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Foster and chil- Kas asked to continue its invesliga- dren of Whitmire, Mr. and Mrs. Wil- tion of un-American activities. There-He Childers and Mr. and Mrs. Her- will be some opposition to the ap'r i.man Taylor^ of Lockhart, were Sun- propriation, but Deis has sold him- day guests"of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. self and his committee to the Amer- Foster. lean people so firmly that few con- Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Foster and chil- I refreshments were served by the hostesses, assisted by Mrs, Hughey Barnett. Each little guest remem bered Ruby Anne with a gift. The angels came and took our own darling away, * We loved her so much * With all our hearts—it didn’t seem right for us to part. But God in Heaven knew best— He needed her there so she could gressmen dare to take an open stand dren were called to Greenville on against him. ^ account of the illness of Mr. and Mrs. Then, too, the house will have to i_ Burton, act on the committee report con- j Mr. and Mrs. J- Barbery and demning the set-up and the adminis- children. Manning and Burdette, ac- tration of the National Labor Rela- companied Mrs. Barbery’s mother, tions board. Shortly before the close Mrs. Susie Blanton, to her home near •f kie past year, this committee com-1 Gaffney,. Saturday. pletfd a year’s investigation of the Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Ealy and chil- labor board's activities and delivered dren were visitors in Greenwood Sat- a scathing denouncement in part of j urday. y* its report: : Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Blease and R. F. rest. No more sorrow and pain to bear. Little Bertie, we know you are happy there. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Lunsford. «' Father and Mother, Sisters: Reba Nell and Margie Ann Morris. Brother, Curtis Morris. Birthday Party Mrs. W., H. Adams entertained a number of little boys and girls, hon- “The committee concludes that* Ealy were visitors in Spartanburg: when an administrative agency of the, Sunday. ' Franklin Davis government so far forgets its proper! Miss Reba Nell Morris has as her i ^ junction as to delay the will of con- guest this week Miss Brunell Morris'. . .. Hravidni? rnnta«t gress, harbor and protect avowed of Prosperity. ^ Littleton won m the drawing cutest. enemies of constitutional government, willie Crawford and “Bubber” Hill I hi w invent extra-legal (and even ' visited relatives in Spartanburg Sat-1 lawful) methods of tormenting and j urday. I Miss Edna Wood, served refresh ruining employers, foment and per-; - ' P t th petuate industrial strife and oppress j There is quite a bit of moving tak-1 ® iments. Bach little guest remembered and penalize certain labor groups to ting place in our community favor others—then the time has cornel Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Davis moved to when the people of this country must their new home near Clinton. Mr. raise their voices in insistent protest'and Mrs. L. C. Whelchel moved in lest industrial peace, and with it, the.their house. entire program of national defense be I Mr. and Mrs. Lewis King recently jeopardized, and the fundamental: moved to the home of J. F. Davis concepts upon which their govern- j near Clinton and his mother, Mrs. L. ment is based be ultimately aad ut- W. King, moved into their house, terly destroyed.”^ Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Green moved Restrictions On Labor I to Columbia, and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph The committee report, scathing as {Stewart moved in their house, it is, would undoubtedly have little! Mr. and Mrs. Grange Campbell effect on this new congress, were it not for the stress now being put on national defense. With sevenJ bills have moved into the house formerly occupied by Jamqs Burton. N. C^ Guest has moved to Georgia, pending (with at least inferential of-1 and Mrs. R. L. Sullivan moved in ficial approval) which would prO-'tiieir house. hibit strikes in defense industries' and which would put stringent restric tions on the activities of labcx*! ft seems likely here that the Walter act and the whole labor board is .due for a vigorous shake-up. Yet through aU the controversial issues offered, one thing remains dear here in Washington—that the 'final word on the grave issues of na tional policy will rest with the VThite Beuse. PnMfaSwt Booeevelt, ^dcted ier a third term, is as trenched in his pewer over ebagress Mrs. Mary Passmore moved ih Mrs. Sullivan’s house. L. D. Cooley and family have moved to their home near Clinton. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Sanders are oc cupying a house on Washington street. Mr. and Mrs. Pruitt Oakley are as he has been throughout his first two toms. Occasionally, presidential desires may be overrkklm, b^. fer the most part, the president ndU rule lUnesB Among those having the “flu”: | Little Wallace Patterson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Brevard Patterson, Mrs. Earl Braswell, Jimmie and Lucille; Braswell, Mrs. J. C. Meadows and I five children, Mrs. Betty Lawson, R. L. Sanders, Mrs. W. R. Strange, W.j R. Strange, Jr., and Jimmie Strange,) Mrs. Joe*^9trickland, W. H. Adams, Mrs. R. B. Cox, Mr. and Mrs. Henry j King and seven children, Lindy Har ris, Mrs. Marvin Stewart, Roy Tram mell, Helen Bagwell, Clara Jean .Vegetable Laxative With Proved Feeture The punetTial, fentle rdief from eonst^tion wum is generally en joyed when BL\c&DRAUGHT Is osed hy dixeetlona is dxM to a eo^ hinatioa of vegetaUo'ingrediei^ CUef of thsM is an *'int«etinai tndedaxative” whi^ htipe tone legy hosed nmeeles. Next ttae. re* eiernber gpiey, amutte,' ttme- tasted BLACK-DBAUGRTI R !■ tse: tf*4B Calls For... EW ROOKS • - - - - ■,■■■■ — I. 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