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Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON.,S. C. Thiirsdoy, March 13, 1941 (EUnton dt^ronirU EsUblished 1900 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 paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. law: he undertook to negotiate a peace with her. now he is nursing a sore noodle and doing his 'sleeping and eating at his brother’s house in east flat rock, he wishes now that he had fought it out and not considered Charley’s plan a-talL she has placed the 'Entire household in the new order. , sergt. lark is back from fort bragg. j it looks like h^ got in the right fort, I “l^ragg.” he says he is a sergeant, he jhas a little wad of padding in his {shoulders and he says that is the TODAY.'..lOHORHOW By Don Robinson sign of a offiser. he will begin tak- i: ^ COLLEGE—Work A college degree is no longer ai sign that a boy comes from a family which is wealthy enough to plunk down $5,000 in cold cash for his ed ucation. It is, more accurately, evidence ^ that a boy has perseverance, intelli- his Wgh schwl coii^.'But he ^*t ftunily was poor and he wanted to help them. Another reason he had quit was that he liked working in a factory better than going to achooL But aft«r a day’s work at the fac tory hefd sit up hall the nij^t read ing history, ^ilosophy and science. He enjo3^ studying and learning more than any boy of his age I ever met, but he just couldn’t take it in the way they parceled out learning in> school. They didn’t move along fast enough for him. I got him interested in the idea of college and he wmt back to finish ing flying lessons ere long, he saysigence and a real desire to make {stay^ long. The next thing i heard, 1. , X. ^1- 41.1....ui when he was 18, was that he had gone back to the factory and had got ! that he is being groomed to lead a something of himself. 1 covey of bumbihg planes to england' That’s how it happens, in spite of 'every 10 da^s. he thinks he will like {poor business years, that there are CUNTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 19*1 Works Two Ways The repeal of prohibition is work ing two ways in the matter of ad vertising. On one newspaper page is carried advertisements to promote the sale of liquor and on another page will be found an advertisement of a remedy for the cure of alcohol- mean or how it will work out, re gardless of'what its advocates tell us. Whether its passage will involve America in war abroad and dictator ship at home, or whether it will keep us out of war by aiding England, only time can tell. The Chronicle heartily approves the essentials of the bill to give the air. according to him, the gen neral is a verry nice man but is a little bit cranky, mr. lark is doing all he can to get him to overcome it. they are real buddies, so he says. jsm. bfficers raided tom head’s cow pas ture last friday night, they diddent find anyboddy at the still, but it was running at full blast, it was destroy ed with sevveral barrels of mash an- sofbrth. mr. tom head’s coat and hat were found lying on the wirm, but more students in college today than there were in 1929. Most of the boys an^ girls vdio go to college today go because they consider an education worth working for—not in order to postpone going to woik for four yearsj listen. He liked working with his more. That fact way strikingly brought out by a recent check-up which showed that approximately 50 per cent of college students are -earning at least part of their own expenses. It’s no easy job to work your way through college. A job cuts in on the Finland and Greece , needed help to Britain. We m\^t as- ggyg ^ hobo enduring 1939. he wasl Isist that nation in order to help de-j surprised to know that person was * * on_s^ies sisi inai nation in oraer lo neip ae- surprised to know that person was! feat Hitler, which will mean a great| bold enough to run a ?ill on his' married! The Carnegie organization, because they were convinced of his unusual ability, finally offered to support both CHto and his wife if he’d go on with his education. But he wouldn’t hands in the daytime and saving his mind for his spare time. • We gave up trying to help Otto— he was too insistent on helping him self. But I was interested in a letter I got from the principal of his school a year later. It seems that Otto had dropped in the school while a state exaihination for teachers was going victory for humanity all over the, premises, he is helping the sheriff the present war is written, Finland bjg gang will soon end. For Musso- innumerable college activities which When the history of the heroism | ^.orid. The American people are! ^etch hi’m "so he'savs’°it irhiVidea Pf small nations in connection with united in the hope that Hitler and run doY^ all stiLr^ and leggers. the town has benn verry dry since this raid was hell bn the outfit. and Greece will take their places at ^ni they -have, contempt. In shorL the v’er>' frohl oT the procession of our people are violently partisan, and those who have loved and fought for | ^be American nation is definitely liberty with supreme bravery against g^d irretrievably involved in the Eu- great odds. The same attitude on the ropean war on the side of the allies. part of France would have brought The American people, fully awake about the size of his lasrcheckThim early defeat to Germany. ^to the menace of Hitler, are willing {and jnr. art square are farmers and ^ to make any conceivable economic^ are nabors. art’s check was for 20$ Time For Action sacrifice in the name of liberty and while slim’s check was for only 15$. One can hardly pick up a news- see the huge fundsjmr. chance thinks (hat the man who usually turns out to be an asset. Ask any coUege-boy, and he’ll reel off the names of outstanding students, foot ball stars, class officers and student „ v . . 4 leaders who are working for their mr. shm chance, sr, has rote the ' seeker-terry of the agger-culture education. Not having things too easy seems to breed determination. There are exceptions—but in general the ones who can afford to take things easy are often the ones Who are eased out of college for not making the grade. on. He had taken the test—just for the fun of it—and had received the highest grade of all the normal school and college graduates who took it with him. But he wasn’t im pressed. He said he’d never want to teach—^he was happy working in the factory and studying nights! p6nse of the taxpayers. Congress has ai^repriated $9,000,- 000 for training students in engin eering activities essential to our de fense program. Arrangem«its have been made wiOkilO engineering col leges to give training to 57,853 stu dents. These courses will not take the place of a regular college course— but they will give an intensive two to six months of training in special ized fields, which will mean good jobs for the students if they com plete them successfully. Selection of students is left in the hands of the ^igineering colleges. Wh«i the colleges accept an appli cant, the cost of their instruction will then be paid,by the federal govern ment. W. J. BENJAMIN SERVICE STATION Standard Products Cars Washed and Qreaasi Tear BasinMa AM^redatad HEROES—Courage moer without reading of strikes and solely for this purpose. Greater Pleasured these farms took some of Soms to Dlants hoWine defense “bviously called lOT average and added it to mr. walkouts in plants holding d e se industry and labor j sauare’s farm he is verrv muchlv * ■ contracts. -Todays pa^rs carry an ^ victory j wrought up^ver it th^^rsh^ld ^1 years'ago I visited colleges account of four such strikes m van-. ^ ^LTthe ^rsTze ^ to interview should of benn 20$ each, what he told the seeker-terry is not fitten to , . J . • .. and keep ourselves from actual par ous sections, higher pay being , ti(.ip3tion in War. The American tax- case. „ payers are not going to be satisfied Hitler, we iniagine, gets a kick | mere bills appropriatihg money reading about strikes that take place raising taxes for defense. They day after day in the defense Indus-1 know that tax mon- tnes States. When ^®| ey for defense produces results—that reads about the tie-up of of, ^ ^ —waste dollars worth of production in Beth-1 avoided-poUtics dis- lehem steel plants, for instance, probably as if he had already | national defense is to be pro->- won a battle in Arnerica. For if it is ^ prdinary governmental ex necessary for to give maximum, reduced to the help to England for England to unngggssary activities, ea^ slow-down in that program direct bearing on de- a definite victory for Hitler. put in this collum, so it must of benn bad. I NEWS FROM BATTERY "B" AT CAMP STEWART country “heroes.” I was representing the Carnegie Hero Fund commission, an organi zation endowed by Andrew Carnegie for the sole purpose of giving a per manent boost, either by education or some other means, to prople who had risked their lives to save the life of another. Mr. Carnegie believed that courage was a good yardstick for measuring ENGINEERING—Free Under the government defense program, there is a new opportimity for thousands of young men to get an engineering education at the ex- BENJAMIN & SONS PLUMBING . •••iistdi*#*. HEATING SERVICE Telephone^ 9268 WE ARE HUNTING TROUBLE > The boys who did not get to go: g person’s worth—and he set up this home on the week-end at least had j simple “risk your life” formula as a The American people want to see fense, must be stopped. For we are something to look forward to. They anticipated the return of those who these continual strikes banned, still ^appropriating and spending money for every conceivable non- whether ^ey be the fault of | military project under the guise of eaders, the fault of employers, or^^j^^ national defense program. Our the fault of government. Congress should .be turned -into air- should get the facts and proceed to ^ remedy the situation. For eve^ time appropriated for public did go. For they knew that those who {beneficence. means of selecting a group of people, from all walks of life, worthy of his did go will be just like Santa Claus when they return. Almost every man who returns from home Sunday brings a box of goodies such as cakes, pies, home The beneficiaries of the fund in clude hundreds of boys and girls who are being sent to college on an “all expenses paid” basis, because, ac cording to the'Carnegie formula, they made fudge, etc. About 11 o’clock on. have what it takes to become worth- a strike is called, another defense| other projects all overl night you can go into almost'while Americans. <irder is held up. It’s time for less - -oiintrv as is still beine done bvi^^y tent ^and find a picnic in fullj Mr. Carnegie’s formula is an inter- politics, plain talk and definite action' jJJ® New D^alert ! swing. j esting variation from the usual meth- in Washington, all too long delayed. [ xhia is th« time ta .Demoe-! "^tie highlight ot the, week .was a od of pickinR students for scbolar- ^ racy work. Spending should be con- \tf0nini0n-56nS6 Showit' jeentrated on defense which is the Those Louisiana officials who halt- j purpose of the lease-lend bill, ed plans to have four men condemn-1 ■— ed to die on the gallows broadcast | statements over the radio just before their execution the other day^should j D||C||JCCC be given credit for using common-j IlvDvM I J DUaJInL^^ sense judgment. ip ^CC The four Arkansas convict-killers{ iViCVsCC were hanged for killing a posseman' — after terrorizing North Louisiana jn a series of auto thefts, smashings, j Flat Rock Enacts Some Very abductions and fights with peace of- i Rigid Laws fire call last Thursday night. The boys were getting ready to go to the picture show and other places of ships by competitive examinations or high scholastic standing. It is the method of a self-made man \«dio amusement when an order came for'realized that there was something an “all out” formation with axes, deeper in a boy than his'ability to rakes, etc.,,to fight a forest fire. 'The remember historical dates and Latin high type of efficiency of our battery verbs by which he should be pudged was upheld in this call, and our j as worthy of encouragement and ability to conserve men and material help, was excellent, for we left camp with 55 men, two rakes,'three shovels and one axe. When we returned we had 57 men, three shovels, 1 rake and two axes. The two extra men were accounted for in the fact that they ficers before they were surrounded j the flat rock town counsell met in ^ : after two convicts were slain in the' executive session on friday night count off, hunt. igone and passed some verry timely! average, and shortage in tools BRAIN S—Independence One of the winners of the Carnegie medal for heroism particularly im pressed me as being the type Andrew Carnegie had in mind when he set up his “courage” formula for judging men, but I doubt if even Mr. Car- Just before the morbid broadcast the sheriff of the county was advised is still a mystery, but by no means an uncommon occurrence. Private Red Lawson says he joined the army for a rest from the clerical business. He was drafted for a week audiences and while doing,so, they instructed the poleesman to enforce by the attorney general of the state | them to the letter even if the viola- that it would have been a violation j tors happen to be his own wife, or of the law to let the prisoners talk the wife of the mayer or anny of the over the air. The proposal was then i wives of the various and sundry al-| post canteen, and jus work quickly banned. I dermans. no exception will be made saUsfactopr an order camej Radio manuscripts running from | to anyboddy anny time regardless of! 80 to 500 words had been prepared race, color, kinship or profession. I 4. , by the four men who were sched-!this applies to dr. hubbert green as' says that the only uled to go on the air at eleven o’clock - well as .other folks: be has bennT aboiR_ the camp is that the day they were to trudge up the parking a-straddle of the sidewalks I “ ^ Chester, scaffold. Microphones had b e e n ansoforth. ' hnnr=*i n f ^ placed in their death row cells by the ^ Monroe, La„ station^ in which the! ■ audience no. 54, civvil code I prisoners, it was revealed in state-' owners of all dogs who run at 1 ® ,, 4. 4 ments read by an announcer, empha-' large on the streets of flat rock and| ^gt. Veimon Trammell says that sized that “crime does not pay.” : vicinnity must wear muzzles of a ex-{'J'"®" got home Saturday night Executions are sordid affairs, but;eepted type or if not muzzled, theyl|J« they must be. Capital punishment is " ’ ' ^ ...4.,.,. , 00 negie himself would have known how to handle him. Otto was 15 years old when I met him. He had quit school because his THE JOY OF Home Ownership MAY BE YOURS Picture to yourself the joy of living in a home all your own! Now let ns help you make this a reality by financing its purchase or construction for you on a knig- term direct reduction plan. lt*s simply economical) convenirat^wi|^ mcHlthly pay- ' ^ ! #un details ments like rmt truylng your home fmr yon without obligation. Each Account Insured Up To $5,000 I iiliiiiiP EDERAL5AVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION TelephoM No. • A Clinton Institution Serving Clinton People Since 1909 /"T m cat mi? needed as a protection to .society and a warning to criminals that crime doesn’t pay even though they refuse must be confined in a suitable dog- | h® should have stayed at camp, house at their respective homes, i Private Vincent says that if the (budd smith got bit by a mad-dog kept in effect he UUCM. I cvv.. U.V.U6M u.trjr behind his bam last tuesday. he is ^ Yna ex-cook, to heed the warning. The fact that {testing and taking the pasture 1^**^ homicides continue to increase in. treatment), spite of the number of felons who are T* ., put to death is proof that no good| audience no. 55, civyil code could be expected to result from the I whoever parks his ford on the attempt in Louisiana to make the sidewalk on mam street enduring the banging of four murderers a sensa tional' feature attraction for radio day or night will be fined 5$ or 5 days at his option, (rars. slim chance. listeners. The decision was a sensible butted into- a car on her side- {walk last night but is resting yerry comfortable at pressent). BLUE HOSE LIST NINE GRID GAMES Coach Lonnie McMillian has an nounced that the Blue Hose will play nine games during the 1941 football season, opening with Clemson as in the past. Two of the games are to be played here and the other seven away from home. _ The complete schedule follows: Sept. 20—Clemson at Clemson. MWAimami Ma&affmntoffmm uSmumMTMmt Lease-Lend Bill Passes f audience no. 56, civvil code The lease-lend bill, designed-to j peddlers, agents, solicitors and place almost, unlimited aid at the house-to-house drummers must geti disposal of Britain and other nations a permit to rob folks befoar doing! Xa '"4^^.^”'* fighting aggression, has been passed j so. it can be had at the citty hall} Oef by the senate and house, and signed' for 3$ per day. (mrs. art square paid fv." .^^4' by President Roosevelt 'during the, ij for a 10c brtlsh last monday.! al-Clinton past four days after stirring nation- (moral: if you must get skint, whyr oct 24 n^iothorna nv 4 wide debate. Following hearings be-I not let yore own itownfolks skin: (nipht) ^ VeUnton fore the foreign affairs committee; you?) ' where the bill -received a favorable i report it Was sent to the senate early j audience no. 57, civvil code in February where a decisive major- as grass is beginning to grow on All can alike? Drive a Hudson just once and you’ll find out diat here’s a r^iMy difftrmt, really fie/ler car. For one diing, it’s the 1941 safety .winner .. 4 and winner in its efitts in the Gil more Grand Canyon Economy Run. Come in and see for yourself ... and see how little itcosttto own one! ity of senators backed it and oppon ents fought the measure. For hours and days it brought forth spontan eous floor debate. our streets, cow owners will plese take notis that all cows must be tied in the middle of the street to graze and not where tfiey can get bn the Nov. 1—Mercer at Macon, Ga. Nov. 7—Erskine at Rock Hill. Nov. 15—Wofford at Spartanburg. Nov. 22—Rollins at Winter Park. Fla. The bill, signed by the president, i sidewalk, (miss jenhie veeve smith immediately became operative when he ordered an undisclosed list of war materials to be sent to England and Greece. It gives the chief executive sweeping authority to “sell, transfer, lease, lend or otherwise dispose of’ any defense articles to friendly pow ers. 'Carrying the possibilities and almost unlimited power it does, no human being can tell what it will got her foot ketched in a cow rope on thursday and sprung her hipp. she will recover but the cow wont), everboddy be gowemed accordingly. Flat Roek News Items 9i More «r Lem Infimst conditions are no better in the home 0f mr. silent kniidtt. he used die lindberg plan on bis modier-in- Answers To Quiz 1. (b) is correct. 2. (d) is correct. — 3. (b) is correct. 4. Wheeler, Montana; Nye, North Dakota; Johnson, Cali fornia. WR DO ALL KINDS OF PRINTING —SZCBPTBAD CHRONICLS PUBLISHING GO. r, iWi W| ft- •M Sfal Is MM •! SW H J l^NIV Mrim b 9««f P9|i- H9SS0III Pitts Motor Company Nttt To ExprcM Oflbo piaUm, S. C.