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3 ■ t . r r • f ^ ■:y~ I V v^^"' '3' / Poge Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON,-S. C Thursdoy, Morch 6,1941 (Elintmi QUyronirU EsUbliahed WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING 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 t^e 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 kind^ kdvice. The Chronicle-will publish letters of general Interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE . ALFONSO'S BODY IN TEMPORARY TOMB Rome, Italy, March 3. — The body i of former King Alfonso XIII of Spain was placed in a temporary tomb to- CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1841 Automobile Dependency An analysis, recently made’ in a number of typical small towns, of the dependency of people on the au tomobile, shows that over one-third of farmers depend entirely on the automobile to reach the stores where they do their shopping. City folk now ride back and forth to their work. dollars of debt upon the people is responsible for business and invest ment conditions that confront us today. Newspaper Advertising I Praised 1 Thirty years of “advertising well , . , , ’ directed” are being celebrated by Two-thirds of the people^of theCampbell-Ewald »company this average town area travel over a mile n^Q^th, who handle all Chevrolet ad- to do their shopping and 18 per centj company was organ- travel five or more to get to -^g^ Lansing, Michigan. The Chances Entertain WHh A Be- i ^ lated Valentine Party • predecessors m Sjiain s El Es- a big volentine party was hell last corikL night at the paUatial resaerdenee ol Kl°« Vittorio Emanuele and Queen m‘ .n™ ...H “1™“ 0* Ilhly *«'» only crowned r. SraSTt tte rit^ tor A^ni to SS the tJ,.a. they got mnted^up ^^the they got date for the volentine benn on februwary the 14, according miss exile, Mary of Angels. to what mii, Jennie veeve smith told ““i.S'® miss tiny chance, but hawing it 2 or i ® ^ ^ ol Italian TO MAKE DRIVE FOR BOY SCOUTS WORK'MARCH 11 <* The Clinton district of the Blue Ridge council, Boy Scppts, will launch its campaign for funds On take part. The preliateary guim will be continued tonigbt, wi|h semi-finals and diampioni^ gaf^ being played Friday and Saturday nights. P. C. has been listed against fteee tSoh strong teams, Kentucky State ers college, Morehead, Ky:, Kentucky State college, Murray, Ky., and iKuncu iis campaign lor lunos ou - r t Mai^ 11. The district, since bec«n- ^uthwestern Louisiana ingpiute, ing an organized part of Blue Ridge council, has ttijoyed a steady growth and has contributed -in leadership, scouting activities and financially, to make the council one of the leaders in region six. During 1940, 242 men and boys re- XllldO villjf UUV IlaVVXliK iV * U1 I j At^ 1 ^ i M ..I nwVf Si'S* IllCll flUgWI LRV/V 3 weeks later did not matter verry; ^ I ceived leadership in the character mii/>K omviirov v wUrk KrAvif' UTCu fiDcl th© str66ts thfou^h 1 buil<jin|f citlzciiship trslniiis pro» much, anyway, everboddy who went';;;. to it enjoyed it as much as if it had of benn hell on the proper day andjg^^^^ Maria de M^^^traff^e^ ; tombment. night. in order to have the future volen-i biw.'« ‘j | r* tine parties on the right date, mes-j PlKimQld ICS CraOIII dame chance has carved it op the! A/lv« In mfinf*1 KnarH in fh* Kaolr eaffintf ^CIvS Ifl V^firUlllvIC mantel board in the back setting room and in the future it will be pulled off on februwary t^e 14. the floks who attended this gathering say that they bought their volentine, . ww. . ., cards at half price at the 5 and 10 ■ Dixunaid, product of the A series of advertisements for Dixlmaid ice cream begins in The Chronicle today and will appear each the stores. Of the fa^ families, 71 j anniversary makes this adver- percent travel over three miles and^jgjj,jg the oldest in Detroit, 4.3 per cent over five miles to town, j agencies in the the report showed. . ! country to‘have retained its corpor- .A.nalyzing farm family shopping identity and its directing head habits further, it Was found that, ^ period. stoar onngr count of them being past i Greenwood Creamery, is noted ev- due. that was a help to everboddy. at ®*Twhere for its tasty, wholesome the front door the guesses were met ^ and is made and packed in by miss haadar chance with a false!, ® sanitapr m^ner. The popu lace on. her sister diddent need one, i jf *" *®® creajn is on sale by a num- as nature had provided for her in a: - dealers in Clinton, and in great way. I Goldville. FINAL SETTLEkENT Take notice that on the 26th day while a third could not get to stores . i. , *u without their automobiles, 10 per During each of these years cent of the other would depend on company has had an average year^ the farm truck, 6 per cent would use ^iHmg of more than $10,000,000, de- when the guesses walked into the bed-rc^m to leave their coate anso-!gj ^arch, 1941, I will render a final forth they were all put night scared account of my acts and doings as Ad- to death by a big yellow punkin with, of 'he estate of Dr. E. F. thaa^ eyef and 2 noses and^re^s whkh,Tayior. in the office of the JudgJ of m^'was standing in a comer and staring t r-......*.. Jl standing in a comer and staring them in the face, a candle was put inside of it and lit by the chances, busline, and the remainder w’ould spite the fact that it did not reach j decorations were hanging use farm animals or w-alk. , an annual billing of a milhon dollars When we consider the few years! «"til many years after it was or- that the automobile has been in ex-, gamz®d. istence, this dependency on them | A large percentage of this money gives us a good measure of the speed has been spent each year in news- with which changes take place. It papers, for Mr. H. T. Ewald, the likewise forcibly reminds us that the! president of the company, is a firm world now moves on wheels. ; believer in this medium of advertis- ^ I ing. ^ . ^1 u I “Today, the newspaper, one of the VfOming L^loscr nonia j oldest' mediums of advertising, con- In spite of all the great tragedy tinues as a truly great and powerful and destruction going on in the | force to sell goods,” he states, “and world around us, it is the little tra- j will continue to be a spearhead of gedies that happen in our own com- j most advertising effort as long as it munity which strike deepest into our j remains a free press, hearts. | “While each advertising campaign It is a definite human characteris- j should have a tailor-made merchan- tic, and nothing to be ashamed of, dising and advertising suit, the mer- that we cannot have the same per-1 charjdisers of few commodities of sonal feeling over most major trage^ ^ general use can afford to ignore the dies in the lives of people we just | tremendous cleavage power of news- read about that we feel over minor 1 papers, weekly a? well as daily. every where and it Was a beautiful sight to behold, jeppemees lanterns made in new jersey -were strung up from one comei to the other. tragedies in the lives of those people who are our neighbors and 'Our friends. In this community, although we “I often think of newspaper adver tising as an electric switch that ac tually turns on the light when and where the light is needed. This me-j have all been horrified over the war dium seems to me to be right ]>ehind ■ in Europe, for urfitch the Beast of the* actual salesman and the’actual Germany is r¥?^nsit after the children removed their disguises and quids of chewing gum, they were led into the spacious breakfast room where everboddy eats all of the time, and they were shocked to find a table loaded with good vittles. after everything had been et up and the guesses were filled to their chins they returned back to the parlor-room and played games of all kinds, the boys and girls over 12 stayed outside on the front piazza and in the back piazza and behind the house as much as pos sible. this was a ideal night *for mak ing love as the moon was not shin ing. even if this fiesta was 3 weeks late it 'was the best enjoyment flat rock has ever had in the way of en tertainment. yores trulie, mike lark, rfd, corry spondent. concern ponsible, our personal sale.” j over it^w^ magnified ai Probably one of the greatest prides' The Wailing of a Bnsinesa fii^n My time belongs to the govera- thousand fold when our boys begarijof Mr. Ewald is in the financial in-!ment. My days are filled to over going to camp for military training. | tegrity of his organization during its When Battery B, our own national entire corporate life. It has never guard unit was mobilized, the war | missed a cash discount in the pay- and its outcome was brought closer ment of publication apd other bills— home to our community. nor a payroll — for even during the flowing with making tax returns. My daily routine is encompassed about by the wages and hours bill and I can’t work my help long enough to make a living, except a living for From now on, these boys—the boys State of Michigan and, later, the na- them. My city taxes take my Janu from our town, community andcoun- tional bank hoUday in 1933 the mon- ary, February and March profits. My ty—will be uppermost in the minds ey for the payroll was rushed from city license, granting hie the prlvi- of their parents and friends as we,New York City-by airplane. lege to live and breathe within the watch the day-by-day steps which - America takes. ■ ■ — We shall think of the war from |if|T|J Tljr nHEff now on in terms of what will hap- yy||ff \Wl PKtjJ pen to those boys next — the boys whom who.se we’ve watched grow up, families we know well and, w’ho are now called upon to play a leading part in America’s future, , That those already called, and those to be called, may all be returned, safely to their loved ones is the hepei and prayer of this community, and of evew other community. • i , ^ T •" t >-4 Editorial Comment From Various Papers. WAS NO COMPULSION “Charlotte, N. C., Feb. 26.— Officials announced today that the Duke endowment board of trustees would authorize distri- city, absorbs my April profits. The state and county and federal and school districts levies eat up all I make during May, June, July and August. My insurance premiums consisting of the coverage of fire and water and running over folks and damaging property and stealage and burglary and theft and inside and outside pro- jtection, plus the few necessary and i unnecessary drives for money for {he other fellow’s use, swallow, my in hospitals in North Carolina and South Carolina at a meeting March 31.” Low Investment Yields , Mention was made here recently; of the enormous amount of idle money piled in banks of this and other states which has no stimulating I Duke to establish the Foundation, power to business because it is Had he lived a few years longer, he generally would not have established it—the governmehts, state and federal, MASONS TO MEET FRIDAT Campbell Lodge No. 44, F. M., .—u.onx- I , oxi. will hold a' regular communication butibn of ar6una“$t006,000 Se^mber, OeJ^r, ^r7:30 oHock. T. C. ’ vember and December. Everywhere No one compelled the late Mr. afraid. The banks also, sf.>eaking, are loaded down to an un precedented extent with government ’ would have taken the larger my trucks go a large covey of high way-men patrols •are eyeing and looking and listening at them ... to see if they are over-loaded or if they have lights on them or if they should not be on the junk pile. 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 ini^bted to said es tate is notified and required to make payment on or before that date; and all persons having claims against said estate will present them on or before said date, duly proven, or be forever barred. E. C. TAYLOR, Administrator. February 14, 1941.—13-4p. Lafayette, La. SUBSCRIBE TO THEjCHRQNldL]^ gram of scouting. Thirteen per, cent of the scouts attended Camp Old Ini> dian for one week or more during the summer camping period. One scout received the highest award ob tainable by a scout, the Eagle badge. 92 merit badges aiul 57 promotions in rank were awarded. The committee, headed by R. E. Ferguson, finance chairman, feels that Clinton will support the move ment fihi|nciall7 again this year as well as continue to furnish able lead ership for the council. P. C. COMPETES* IN S.I.A.A. CAGE TOURNEY MEET Coach/Lonnie McMillian, athletic director at Presbyterian college, and eight players have gone to Bowling Greq^ Ky., to participate in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic as sociation basketball tournament which began last night , Eight or more teams of high stand ing in S.IAA. basketball circles will z'tf 4*^ Dr. Feiilw br. DundiR S. pPTOMETtOSfB Spedaliste In Eye Examihatikmi Olllee fiMn: Dr. 8*ltli. Dally, 4:U to I. 'It .t. Dr. FeldMT, Dally. .ll:Sf Phone 29 for Appointment CLINTOlf, t. CL TT- BENJAMIN & SONS PLUMBING -HEATING SERVICE Telephone 9268 WB ARE HUNTING TROUBLE : FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the ^5th day of March, 1941, I will rend«r a final account of my acts and doings as Administratrix of the estate of Vf. D. Glenn 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 Administratrix. Any person indebted to said estate is notified and required to make pay ment on or before that date; and all persons having clainui against said estate will present them on or before said date, duly proven or be forever barred. AMANDA G. JOHNSON, t . Administratiix. Feb. 13, 1941,—i8-4c. FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 27th day of March, 1941, I wiBP render a final account of my acts and doings as Administratrix of the estate of J. Rhett Copeland in the office of the Judge of Probate of Laurens County, at Iff o’clock a. m., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as Administratrix. 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 estate will present them on or before said date, duly proven, or be forever barred. BEAUFORT COPELAND, Administratrix. February 20, 1941.—20-4cw. A GREAT DEIF^SE FOR YOUR FAMILY A Home ALL Your Own It’s so easy to buy, build or reHnanoe thToiigh our spund, economical home mortgage plan. Small, rtot-like payments reduce the amount owed on prtndpdi eadi month—and bring you to free-and-clear 'homeHMwnersLlp years socmer. Tliis homo-owned ^d kome-opevated association is readjr’tbliefp a olBec today for information without oblig^ion. * J Each Account^!nsured Up Tq $5,000 degree will be conferred. All mem bers urged to be present. V. P. Adair, W. M. R. D. Hughes, Sec. pa bonds which pay very low rates of his estate, by the inheritance tex interest and thus reduce their in come. The News and Courier is not hps- jtile to inheritance taxes. It belieW The rate of interest on funds placed j that inheritance taxes should not be in savings accounts and on time cer- turned into the “general funds” tq be tificates has been reduced to a low spent, or squandered, from year to minimum. Many bqnks refuse out-[year. right to accept funds on this basis. ! They are “capital levies.” ’They A bank advertisement we have I should be set aside, for the estab- just read in a newspaper in a promi-j lishment and maintenance of “foun- nent city gives notice that on and, dations” — to support hospitals, or- after April first the maximum rate of interest to be paid on savings accounts and time deposits will be phanages, homes for old people. Why have not governments as much sense as J. B. Duke had? They reduced from 2 to 1per cent per | have neither the head nor the heart annum. In explaining their action the of a man like Duke. Charity demands stare me in the art of face as I go to and fro in the land endeavoring to make ends meet and live peaceably in my own household. Tax collectors look upon me as a thief and a robber. Folks who have 5 per cent less of worldly goods than I have feel that I ought to split fifty- fifty with them. My business is checked and double-checked from Dan to Beersheba. If I sell cabbage, I am required to buy a state and federal license, and so it is with Irish potatoes. If I sell seeds of any kind, it is ditto. If it aint one thing, it’s two other things. Were the state of South Carolina to receive from the estate of a rich man $3,000,000, how long would it bank stated that the-demand for sat isfactory loans is below normal and it is impossible for banks to invest all their deposits in loans. A large last? portion must be kept in cash and on. It would “cover the deficit”—and deposit with Federal Reserve banks'blaze the way for another deficit, and others, and the remainder can What are the annual costs of ad- be invested only in the highest'ministering the Duke Foundation? grades of bonds. The action of reduc- j The annual cost of administering ing the rate of interest, the adver-. WPA in South Carolina is more than tisement stated, is justified by con- j $800,000.—The News and Courier, servative banking policy. The prevailing rates of income on United States government and other high grade securities are the lowest in financial history. With govern ment spending 21 million dollars daily, the rates are likely to drop lower. In. many instances the yielcte from these investments now are con siderably under 2 per cent. Recently offered U. S. government sectirities due in 1945 pay % per cent interest. There must be a new confidence re-created in business and the in vesting public before we may hope ioT a kxNMming-up of idle money to pn>-up industry and business in gen- eraL Government extravagandi and the piling of multiplied billions of Beware Coughs cols from common Tliat Hang On Oreomulslon relieves promptly 'be cause it goes right to the seift at the p moaen trouble to help laden phleglh. and aid andvomti gem nature to a soothe the __ way It are to have you mist like the al]iyatb9a««d>arfoa SJON Crffc, IiwmIM My license tags (on my trucks) are “J”f the highway department says they ought to be “M” or “N” or “P”; or I can stay off the road and use a “J.” My kinfolks think I am rich. My creditors know I am broke. The com pany who comes to my house have to be fed on roast pork and baked chicken instead of cow-peas and combread. My gasoline tax is enough in a year to feed and clothe me and half of my family. Everything I see, hear or smell is taxes, taxes and tax es. I am old enough to know when it used to be a pleasure to run a busi ness. Now there’s no pleasure being connected with a business, as the busine^ runs me . . . crazy. And worst of all, homefolks won’t trade with homefolks. P. S. Woe is me. 4 • Yes, that's Utcrally true. Our bosiiiess is to guard yeer heelth. We sra your Door’s trusted as sociates. When be gives you a prescription, bring n here tp ^ compoundeo. For our establi^ meat is Prescripdoo Headqu^ ters. Each individual preacrip* tion rcoaivea the undivided at tention of a akillcd, regiatarad aaciat. Only freah, potent highi quality art uaad. to Naturally, you mi|ht exnea • pay—an^ wp^ ^ willing > pay-ra praodnss for atach to pay-ra praodnss aarnca. Yht afoteUy it ofota no ' urtdallr it odeti aaora to hart your Doesor*i pea- icripciona coapoeuidad ' ■ . ■ ' . -O-- SADLER-43WENS PHARMACY niithw, 4w EDERAL5AVINGS |ANO LOAN ASSOCIATION Telephone No. 8. 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