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H ■ / r /■ Page Four ' ' '' 1 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. ■fi ; ■ y Thursday, April 17,1941 Ollfr (Sltntnn QII|ronirU EsUbUahed 1900 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 60 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. i*i BOY SCOUT NEWS Monday night Troop 111 had their weekly meeting. The pn^am was led by the senior patrol leader. Plans were made for a boxing jamboree to be held soon to make money for tents and other badly needed camp* I ing equipment. Bobby Owens and I Bobby Turner ..were welcomed as jnew members. The Scouts had one visitor, Andrew Johnson. —JOH]^ PITTS, Scribe. NOBODrS BUSINESS By GEE McGEE LYDIA MILLS NEWS FOR THE WEEK CUNTON. S. C., THURSDAY. APRIL 17, U41 The Plight of Itoly ~ As in so many fights, the present horrible war seems to be a case of every man for himself, ^ance went down without any great assistance from her ally, and one notes with no heaviness of heart that Italy is trav eling the same road to defeat and with a greater measure of justice. Strikes Slowing-Up emment to go on i]t will be impos sible to attain maximum coordina tion, correlation and output so vital ly essential to the realizatibn of real cooperative, constructive effort, and _ _ _ to a full accomplishment for-our-de-^Reeder in Whitoire'sunday.' fense industries in their effort to help stop the beast across the seas. Miss Doris Jaekstm, CoiT«qNmdent Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Williams and Reba Patterson visited Mrs. SaUie Dodgins in Ware Shoals Sunday. Mrs. Sudie Grant visited Mrs. Minnie Hathcox in Laurens on Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. J. B, Reeder and funiliy, Mrs. Ellie Reeder gnd Curt is Jackson visited Mr. and Mrs: Floyd Mike Lark Asks A Favor of the War Dopartasent seeker-terry of war, {Washington, d. c. deer sir; our son, judd lark, hap benn draft ed and his person hM benn rnnovod from our midst and he is now incar cerated a army camp, you will find judd to be a | nice boy and ho wiU make you a good soldier, he has newer cussed, chawed tobacker^ smoked, druidE Ueker to excess, xim around at night without a efcort, and he do not gamble or shoot craps. — Defense Progran) We heard Vice-President Henry | Kansas and the federal government Wallace say in an address a few is .now underway, which will be nights ago, “foreign agents” are sab- Miss Nellie Jackson spent Sunday with Mrs. J. H. Roberts in Union. Mr. and Mrs. Jack LoUis visited A Stote's Rights jj'”; ““ ’*• ®“"- Showdown Needed l James MUchell of Goldville, A state’s rights showdown between guest Monday of Rev. and Mrs. Marion Moorhead. otaging our labor organizations to the great disadvantage of labor it- .''Clf. Continuing, he declared, “the public cannot hold guiltless those who seize the current situation to settle ancient, regional, personal and jurisdictional grudges and in so do watched with interest, no doubt, in other states. The issue boiled down is this: Milton King of Columbia, was the week-end guesj of C. E. White. Quinton Jones of Fort Jackin, spent the week-end with Mrs. Jones. pleas rite or foam the head man at the army camp to Idn^ take good care of judd. look after his chist close^. he suffers it right sma^ we,give him some salve to tak* alrag with him, allso some stuff to make mustard poltices out of. someboddy told us that he throwed all of it out of the train window as soon as he got two miles from home, but we know judd better than that. iv.*. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Holland* and Ksns&s xids D66n wfirn6u by tn61 „ * e...^ Washington nowers that relief vrants ^ Mildred, spent Sunday in Washington lowers that reiier grants Greenville with Mrs. W. J. Stewart. would cease July first unless Kansas; i* '< 7’ " banned the nublication of relief ex- BumettevOf Fort Bragg, visit-1 next morning, banned the publication or rebel ex Saturday. ' - •penditure. The legislature refused to; ^ j i ^ a. * , , ' Mr. and Mrs. Grover Jenkms and! make judd be careful about what if he don’t sleep well at night, plese tell them to soak his feet in hot wai ter and put a hot-watter bottle on top of his stummick till he dozes off in slumber, he had a breaking out cm his hands; ask tiiem to make him use his sulphur and lard reggular. if he wheezes anny, kindly make him tisp his nose drops, he had the vdieezes I real bad the night befoar he left the ing put sand into the bearings of our; provide the legal machinery to industrial machines. With those utterances we heartily agree as do a great majority of the America npeople. The Chronicle would favor no law prohibiting the organizing of labor. change the Constitution. Publicationbe verry of expenditures is a constitutional requirement in Kansas (as it should be in every state) and can be re scinded only by an amendment. The implication of the Washing- It has the same right in this respect ton order, reports state, has added Goldville with Mr. Jenkins’ parents. Mr. and Mrs. George Blackwell and ^n, George, Jr., of Newberry, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Mclnville. Mrs. H. W. Williams and Mrs. A. light and composed of ham and eggs and coffee and about 6 biscuits, and possibly a quart of sweet milk, make him keep his head combed, we nev- ver could make him look unshaggy. he ought to shave twiste a week, but as capital. We stand, and always'luel to the resentment’ ol Kansas he »<>"’* do that parents, Mr. and Mrs. Shirley, in Williamston. Mrs. M. F. Moorhead spent the week-end in Florida. Miss Margarine Berry of Green wood, and Miss Maudeline Wockl of Lancaster, were week-end guests of Miss Kathleen Shaw. Mr. and Mrs. Mansel Bridwell on joy, who is a patient at Worionan memorial hospital in Woodruff. Lem Francis of Goldville, spent have, tor a square deal lor both la- | against federal control, and why bor and capital. We are ready to'shouldn’t it. An uprising resentment admit there may arise conditions and in all states is the only way in which circumstances under which a strike | the country will ever become un may be justifiable, but such cases i shackled from bureaucratic and dic are rare. There is a better, more, tatorial policies to which it has been profitable and legal way for settling subjected the past eight years. A labor grievances for both sides. Cer-, group in the Kansas legislature be- tainly there should be no strikes or;lieve that now is the time to settle 'i” lockouts in defense industries in such! once and for all, whether Washing- ^ ' Mon - an emergency hour when we need to! ton is to run state affairs. They say be working day and night for a rapid ■ that year by year the federal gov- increase in pr(^uction to aid-Britain. | ernment has encroached on local ad- I We hold that no individual or >inistration, and although the legia-1 group should seek to take advantage, lature in that state, as well as oth-1 daughter, Eve of abnormal conditions to force jers, has enacted weK^e laws to fit changes in business relationships | the Washingtbn pattern, resentment that couldn’t be achieved in normal*has mounted. If the government car- times— ries out its threat Kansas will lose That no man should be forced to ,$400,000 a month in federal^ relief, join a union in order to hold his job, Regardless of bumper crops in all as has been the case in the construc tion of army camps throughout the country. That no man who wants to {industry geared at high-speed with work should be driven from his job' factories amd plants running day and by strikers. [night—the grab bag relief expendi- Madam Perkins, so-called head of tures of the New Dealers go right the labor department, has taken no'ahead without retrenchment, the action“^n spite of violence, assault'load growing heavier each day up>on and killings, but says that “medi-' the taxpayers’ shoulders. The perj “VTAV ation machinery” is adequate to set- capita public debt now amounts to j ^ waiu« rornnKaii ’ tie such disputes. $420, or $1,813 for the average fam-' t^ampneu. President Roosevelt has the au-|ily in the United States. Mrs. Eugene Harrison and dau^- ter, Wyondola, are spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. George Pressly and family. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Robinson and parts of the Unit^ States of ^ daughter, Jane, of Gre«r, spent the ^rts Of the unit^ btates, of billions ^eeij.en(j J. A. Robinson. ’ being spent on defense pro)ecta» of Mrr. Sanders r/t Union, to apnd- irig the week with her son, Roy Sanders. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Stroud of Laurens, spent the week-end with H. P. McClendon. Ed Campbell of Greenville, spent Mrs. Carolyn Burden and daughter, thority as commander-in-chief of the The threat upon Kansas is that if! ^ armv and navv to declare a state of I relief expenditure figures are nub- army and navy to declare a state of; relief expenditure figures are pub emergency and lake over industrial i lished, we’ll take all relief from your Claude Crocker of Winston-Salem, plants necessary to the execution of!state. That is now the practice all|ter,\Vrr”DTvid^LuSfield?^an^^ the defense program. He has the I over the country, keep the people in j A n:,i rriwiror power to control strikes already, the dark when they ask how their' - ’ granted him in the lease-lend bill.’money is spent. Privacy in federal,| What must happen before the situ- state, county, city or school financial'!, , and^Mr*! ation becomes serious enough for j affairs breeds suspicion, and rightly'Lawson. him to act? . so. Industrial disputes in Great Brit- * This is a glaring example of what ain for the year 1940 caused a loss ’ has been going on—of how each state of 940,000 working days. By way of j has been regimented into a “small” contrast, the Bureau of Labor sta- j New Deal under the domination of tistics in Washington has just re-' the “big” New Deal in Washington, ported that a total of 1,000,000 man-' It convinces those who use their days was lost by strikes in this minds to think that the reason this ’s mother, Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Mahaffey of Arcadia, were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Prince and family. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Shelton and Harmon Alford spent Simday in Charlotte with Mrs. W. M. Vaughn. Mrs. Shelton remained for a weeks’ visit. country in the short nonth of Feb-' country is in such a sofry economic A ^5 Ellis^spwnt ruary past, with the situation prob- lix is because there IS jtS too much I Copeland near ably worse for March and April thus' government. Everywhere one turns, | • Marnaret and Izelle Press- far. This compared with an average one finds some sort of political man- , s Marga ei and izeile Press lor the five years 1935-39 of 828,701 agemept. and political management man-days of idleness because of > costs r^ioney. It has cost the people' strikes in the month of February, 'of the United States during the p^t'v Miller and -Josephine ^hr-present administration has six years so exorbitantly that the j Woodruff been so closely allied with “key” (federal debt passed -the $45,000,000,- ^ political leaders and bosses in the 000 mark before we got to the de- h great city industrial centers it has j fense spending program which is to ^ Biancne been unable, and in most instances, | raise this amount by many billions, has refused to act swiftly and stern-' Such spending has killed the spirit ]y when labor troubles have arisen. [ of industry, hardihood, fortitude, res- These leaders have been taught tojolutibn, frugality and thrift on the believe that strikes, lockouts, or sit--part of millions as taught and prac- down “parties” will be looked uponjticed by their ancestors, by the powers in authority with tol- j We have gotten nowhere through eration rather than condemnation, multiplied new-fangled economic This attitude is responsible for what panaceas. What does it all mean? is happening over the nation today, j Too much government and political If there is to be defeat of the Ger- i centralization of power in Washing- man enemy, things necessary to aid ton by which each state is subjected Britain and Greece must be made as to orders from the high seat of speedily as possible and rushed to spending. We have too long sat idly their aid. This cannot be accom- by and allowed this travesty of de- plished with plants closed down, - mocracy to grow from bad to worse, holding-up millfons of dollars in de-iAn awakening such as is now break- fense armament contracts. T h e ■ ing loose in Kansas is needed nation- American people, fully awake to the Miller spent the week-end with Mrs. Myrtle Blakely in Laurens. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Sumerel are now making their home in Wood ruff. he always waited till satturday night, you will oblige us by looking after our poor judd. he will possibly be a major or a genneral ere long. yores trulie, mike lark, rfd, corry spondent. Goat Getters 1. The guy that will tell you the same old joke every other week and do all the laughing himself. 2. The man Vho eats onions or garlic or sardines for lunch and then tries to transact business with you on a face-to-face basis. 3. Picture shows that bore you with long previews a week or so ahead of the coming feature, plus about id minutes screen advertising that you have no interest in. y • Our 32 Year of Service I NOT STONE AND MARBLE! NOT MULTI-LOCKED VAULTS! r NOT GRILLED WINDOWS! A baiTding and Loan —IS ITS PERSONNEL 4. The imitation car driver who backs out of his parking place with out looking or giving a signal and incidentally busts your fender: if you are there, he’s sorry; if jrou ain’t there, you never know who did it 5. The chronic politician who grabs your hand and gives it a wrench and a shake every time he sees you. (Who invented this hand-shaking business anyhow?) 6. The business man who ought,to know better who says: “I seen him last week, or I haven’t saw him In several days, or I had came in before you got there, or just between you and I, or just betwixt I and you, or he eats a right smart.” 7. The radio annoui^r who re peats his advertising statement over and over and uses 10 minutes to talk shop and gives you three minutes of entertaining program. oughi~to|v: make it at least a 50-50 short). 8. The shimp wl coughs or sneez es in your face and then apologizes by saying: “Please excuse me, I’m just getting over the flu; this is my first day up.” 9. The public speaker who yells at you with half of his speech and whis pers at you with the other half. With The Sick Friends of Mrs. Marian Neal will regret to learn she is ill at her home yourself on Main street. Mrs. J. A. Mills is seriously ill at her home. Mrs. W. W. Williams is confined to her home on account of illness. 10. The friend who is going to you next week and the bupa on street who wants a dime to buy |i cup of coffee and If you give him the dime he gets a schooner of bew . . when you really ought to have had 11. And several other folks that have certain habits that we know better than to refer to: I try not to offend kinfolks. Birth Annoanoement Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Poole an nounce the birth of a daughter on TYPlEWEnSERg menace of Hitler, want to see that tax money is wisely used to produce results—that both capital and labor do their part to translate the billions we are preparing to spend into air planes and artillery and fighting ships. The wisest industrial and eco- ,Saturday, April 12. The little girl ^ssue has been named Janet Carolyn settled as to whether there is any| longer such a thing as states’ rights. i W M ■ S Meets The New Deaters (spenders) pop I jhe Woman’s Missionary Society the whip, the senators, congressinen regular meeting at the home and public official of the res^tivelo, Mrs. L. H. Campbell Thursday. AatlMriaed Undenreod CleaBing mmi repalriaf att Bake rcaaonable dtorgeei Kennetli N. Baker PhMelM states dance to their music. That is naturally to be expected. If Wash- nomic statesmanship is vital. Speed, ington puts up the money they are efficiency, economy and honesjy are'going to say how, when, where and the essentials of the hour. by whom it Is to be spent The America’s capacity to produce is [same will be true if the dangerous limitless — the American genius for j bill before the legislature in Colum- achievement has proved itself toojbia is passed seeking federal aid for often in other crises to be doubted!our public school system. Once we for a single second how. And that genius must be freed of the political shackles that have been welded onto it in recent years. Common sense will tell us<that the rearmament program has been seri ously delayed and handicapped by the series of strikes which began last fall’ and' have continued to the present If such are allowed by gov- put our schools under Washingtem dictation, once we take their money —the inevitable result will be their operation under federal arbitrary regulations. We had better stay out of the political New DmI po^ bar rel and retain the control of our schools. For once that ia lost com munity interest and siqgXNrt ia gone, and our children will sitfer. A number of members took part on the program, the subject being, “An Urgent Gospel Challenge To True Discipleship.” The next meet ing will be held with Mrs. W. J. Dabbs. line Birthiaya April 17 is the birthday of Inez McDonald. Mrs. Mansel Bridwell will observe a birthday on April 20. Malvenie Bridwell will be five years old April 20. James PolsOn will celebrate a birthday Ajtfil 23. FUNERAL 8UB8<S1BI TO THE CBSONICLi The Favarite Fager In Otetan Jmm BMBALMERS Aaibnleaee Setyfce PiMMe 41 aai Itf-J U tUBSILL GRAY aii T. PAlKi AimR flan. Mt A Bailding "and Loan —IS ITS PRINCIPLE A 'Bailding and Loan —IS ITS ATTITUDE A Bnildinsr and IxNui r —IS ITS EXPERIENCE. 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