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■ - 'T^JF r-r- 'TFy?"" ’ 1 / Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. Thursdoy^ Moy 15^ 1941 CflUnton OllfrantrU EgUbUshed 190# WILSON W. HABRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Eveiy 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 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 tney 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. taxpayer to pay the mounting de fense load justifies the construction of wasteful non-defense expenditures which fall in the *‘habit” rather than the “necessity” category. What say the $21 a month draftees in camps or the plowmen in the fields? The danger signs are at last posted. sure to slip in through the back door. 4— Always brag on the 06-cait hat which she paid $7.48 for, your money. 5— ^Be good to all of ^er klnfftiira and enjoy their visits to your hdme. ^Let “her^ do aU of the needed sacrifices “back home” un-; j less the government sets the example 1 by cutting down its own extrava gance and non-essential spending. The Washington spenders may go blithely on their way for a while yet —but the inevitable reckoning day is not far ahead. As Senator Tidings said a few days ago in a public ad and you do all of the listening. 7— Take care of the baby and the rest of the children while a “tea” is going on. 8— Tell her how sweet she looks in pajamas, head-rags, hair im- combed, in the mornings. 9— Never ask how little money she must have: let her tell you how much. CUNTON, S. C.. THURSDAY. MAT 15, 1941 Export Market Gone The agriculture department’s eco nomic bureau has issued a frank re- j)ort declaring that government crop dress, “We are not on our way to a! picnic.” 110—Don’t steal any of her cigarettes What is needed in Washington is a don't tote her matches off. general cleaning out of congressmen —Be kind and affectionate and at- and senators who are responsible for tentive iQ^her little dog at all such outrageous extravagance and an -time*. the other fellow’s. He is to inter-i unprecedented public debt of nearly! ^2—^Don’t ha^ your iii^t-shirt in viewed by Churchill in the hope thatuifty billion dollars. The voters should' his story may be obtained and that j begin now to organize for next year’s some vital secrets may be learned elections to get results. The city of that may conclusively affect the fu- control programs have operated to course of the war. the disadvantage of American grow- i The coming of this man who has er.s and to the stuck to Der Fuehrer during the most powers of cotton in ^Jirld market^ discouraging days of the Nazi The report is one of significance Charlotte in a municipal election a few days ago showed the world how it can be done. IS one since it comes just at a time when exports of American cotton, which once proudly dominated the world’s move ment, may mean that he saw defeat^ nun&irrr ahead for the Reich and had lost I NflK|||jY \ K||\|ilp\\ faith in Hitler. It may have been j UUJIIILJJ f i^e^r ^arke^ have slumped to the j believed he could bring about j By GEE McGEE po,„, 'since Pre-Crnteder.teUn uar days. j quaintances. It may have been that Foreign trade authorities expect uOjjjg went as a spy. It may have been more than 1,000,000 bales of Ameri-! qj Hitler’s courting Stalin can cotton to move abroad this sea- couldn’t swallow the new son, this volume comparing with, ggj.jjj^_^QggQ^ deal which is ob- about 6,400,000 bales exported last. y^g making. It may season and a record of 10,900,000 u^yg been that he believes that un bales in 1926. The AAA, always jggg Hjtier wins this summer he is! Hew To Grow Cotton At 10 Cen^ A Pound her drert closet. 13— If she talks all day on the phone, smile, smile, smile. 14— Never fetch anybody home • for lunch unless it is some of her folks. 15— If she can’t sing but persists in trying to sing, brag on her voice. 16— When she puts on at a party, you must put on too. 17— Don’t forget her birthday or her wedding anniversary; your pres ents help. 18— Don’t sweep up the sitting room while she is in it a-reading some thing. , 19— If she chews gum, buy her plen ty of the popping kind. FRANK WALDREF TO MANAGE NEW FARMER STORE Frank B. Waldrep, member of ffie teaching staff and coach at Laurens hiidi school, and a candidate last summer for county treasurer, has been named manager of the Lavurens Bonded War^ouse under the new ownership recently announced, ac cording to a commercial announce ment in today's paper. Mr. Waldrep, a native of Laurens county, graduate of Presbyterian col lege, and part owner of the new es- tabUiAunent, stated yesterday that he would resign his sdhool position at the end of the current sessiem and devote his full time to the operation of the business. Also interested in the enterprise is C. D. Waldrep of Eas ley, a brother, who is president of the Easlejf Roller Mill with which the new Laurens firm will be affili ated. The warehouse is being remodeled to provide ‘space for the installation of modem grain handling equipment and a reUil feed and seed store. Ad 1-Rent a good larm to i gO-Therelore, 11 you keep her happy retady to defend their control pro- j j, ntay have been that he is grams over farmers, immedia^ly i unbalanced as Hitler now claims. It look issue with what they described j j^^y bave been that he took the sen- as the "implication ’ of the economic j sational flight to save his own. neck, report. They admit, as any believing that once crossed with Hit- person or agency must—that the crop ^ jgj.^ j^e was in for the same fate as | programs have impaired the competi-, captain Roehm. This, we think, was tiv’C jx)sition of A.mcric30 cotton in cxplsnstion iorcign marker ' What will this Nazi say whan he prices prevailing in world markets begins to talk’ How will his flight during the last ten years were “un-; " .affect the German morale? Is it an pro a e.. . . 1 indication that a crack-up is likely The report of the agriculture bu-, ^be German machine? These ques*> reau places the blame for the loss of tions now claim the attention of the markets to the control program re- ] ^orld. Hess dnd the Scotch farmer fleeted in a shrinkage to cotton pro- ^ bave the front page. The strange ducers^ to about 4,000,000 bales ® happening may mean much for the year. What has been true cot-l^jbg^ cause and then it may be only 12 ton in turn has been applicablle to ^ meaningless flash. Only time can wheal growers, tobacco growers, hog raisers, etc. Such facts prove be-, ” ^ yond question that gifts, grants, sub-}^. ^ sidies, and a regimentation of the na-| J IHTIG I 0 JlOp lion's millions of farmer^ has not done what the AAA promised be- Soying 'Charge It' Give' us $20,000,000,000 worth of cause the fundamental law of supply munitions- and demand cannot be abolished by charge it. legislation. That, in effect, is what the Ameri can people have said and now we are beginning to talk about collecting the payment. Where is thf money tb come from? How is this dc'fense tax burden to be Not Yet War Excited Most of us in this country don’t spend a great deal of time getting steamed up about the war. When we! discuss It and read about its awful-,paid? These are the two big ques- ness we sometimes get excited, but'tions before congress now. With a in general we go along leading pretty | new fiscal year soon to start and much the same kind of lives we have this vast defense program under way, always enjoyed. The governor of the hearings by the ways and means state has been attempting to get a! committee of the national house of sort of hysteria aroused among the' representatives are being held on a people on the subject of home de-! tax bill to provide the funds. Treas- fense but they have so far shown a jury officials and President Roosevelt spirit of apathy toward the idea. A | have recommended that the govern- good bit of the defense talk and agi-,ment next year spend $19,000,000,000 tation we hear smacks of politics and' ($12,000,000,000 for defense purpos- the people are not given the true es). About one-third of that amount, story back of it all. The American' we are told, would be obtained by people cap still get a lot of fun out borrowing as has been the common of living and we don’t think about i practice the past eight years. The the war as anything very personal— ‘rest—$12,667,000,000, by taxation on yet, I the people. To make this possible, Many people though, have that $3,500,000,000 in new taxes would be ‘■yet ’ idea in the back of their minds. | v They fear the future, but the pres-1 raise this amount means that ent IS still about as it always was, taxpayer’s pocketbook must be and we re making, or should be — hit harder and that up to the present tlu most of the present. 'we have paid no taxes in comparison but every now and then the war' what we are facing, sort of closes in on us and makes us ^he American people are willing led that we re living on the edge of be taxed to protect this nation a volcano that’s apt to blow us all to^^Sainst aggression and to provide aid .smithereens unless we start doingBritain, but they strongly feel something about it. When we feel' ihat non-defense expenditures should that way, there doesn’t seem to be he drastically cut. In January, how- much permanent good in grabbing president warned against gun and going out to shoot Germans.! ^^®®hing funds for “social services.” There is surely some deeper and "While that statement was made four more \ ital factor that needs to be months ago, it is not likely that the con.sidered—something that’s beyond, New Deal leader has changed his mental groping and can only be ex- i mind or other leaders of congress. rent. 2— Don’t pay any rent. 3— Buy 2 good mules on credit, to be paid for in the fall. 4— Give the mules up after your crops are laid-by. 5— Buy your feed and plow tools on credU. 6— Sell tKem as soon as you are thru with them. 7— Apply proceeds from tools sale on a down payment for a car. 8— Give a second mortgage on the 10th, 11th an4 12th bale of cot ton for your guano. 9— Don’t produce but 9 bales. (That will leave the guano man out). 10— Use your government checks to live on if you can’t get credit. 11— Hire your neighbors to help work your crop. Agree to return for day work in the fall. 13— Become so busy in the fall that you can’t pay that work back. 14— Keep your kids out of school to help make the crop. 15— Stay away from church and save that 5c per Sabbath. 16— Vjsit your friends (if any) and eat as many meals off of them as possible. you’ll be happy, mebee. Sanitary Survey Completed In City The city and county health depart^ ment, with the assistance of the city police completed a sanitary survey of the city of Clinton last week. The survey showed only 8 homes whose sewage disposal facilities were not of approved type and condition. Owners of these places have been notified and immediate corrections are in order. ' Sixty-eifdtt sources of drinking water were found to be open wells which were not properly protected 'against contamination. These sources are being plact^ed as unprotected- unreliable sources of drinking water. Most of the homes using unpro tected water sources have city water mains accessible and can obtain a safe water supply promptly. Most mosquito and' fly breeding places were found, the same of which can and will be corrected; others must be oiled or otherwise controlled ditional' features include cotton stor- grain storing and exchange and retailing of poultry supplies. The war^ouse will be formally opened about June 1, Mr. IValdrep said yes terday, at which time he invited farmers of the county to pay it an inapection visit. P. C. Codet Corps Rated 'Excellenr CoL James E. Matthews, com mandant of cadets of Norffi Oewgia college, Dahlonega, visited Predl>y- terian college during the week for an annual inspection of the Reserve Of ficers’ Training corps. The unit was given a rating of “exc^lent,” ttte twelfth consecutive year it has gain- |d this distinction. SPECIAL FOR FATBER’S DAT Esquire—1 year, |3J3. See , JAMES W. CALDWEIX 67 West Main St Phone 276 Cllnt<m, S. C. J ^ conns Wltt'rekseve yenrl JlFFV*25< For Sale By SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY ^ , . . • - J • w throughout the insect breeding sea- 17—Quit smoking, chewing, jdnnking ^ H. R. Perkins, M.D., Director, Laurens County Health Dept. plorecl by attempting to dig deeper into our spiritual natures. It's hard to put your finger on things like that. It requires a recep- And so it may be expected that the country will go right on spending prodigally on non-essentials, with towns and cities hanging up their live state of mind that most of us!stockings every night. This is evi don’t have time to work on. Maybe and cussing 18— Sell all of the wood and timber you can off the iMMliord’s farm. 19— Don’t waste that money; buy yours.elf a radio. 20— Eat only 1 meal a day, and eat that at night. 21— Work at least 14 hours a day. 22— Make your wife do the cooking, washing, ironing, mending, and milking. 23— See that your wife works in the field during her spare time. 24— Don’t buy your wife any new clothes except every 5th year. 25— Get as much direct relief as pos sible. 26— Get a friend to endorse a note for you to put you thru the sum mer. 27— Fall out witji the friend-endorser as soon as possible. (He’ll have to pay it). 28— Hire your cotton picked at 20c per cwt. 29— Pay all hired help with pota toes which should be borrowed from a neighbor. 30— Pick the boll-weevils off your cotton stalks by hand. 31— Unless you can buy calcium on credit. 32— Don’t subscribe for a newspaper. 33— If you try to grow cotton at 10c per lb. you won’t have any time to read. 34— Don’t waste your time talking to peddlers and politicians. 35— As you won’t havf any equity in your 10c cotton, grow plenty of vegetables. 36— Keep a cow; no matter who I owns it, keep it, that is —if it gives milk. 37— Don’t feed a milch cow that has gone dry; give her back to the FOR PERSPIRING FEET USE CTA HDI foot O I/l-UllI LOnON At Your Drugrist'f S5e Have You Heard This? IPs important to every fM’ospeetive hMne owner to know about our simple, economical hemie loan plan that enables you to borow the money you need to buy or build a home and repay it in small monthly amounts like rent over a period of years. Ask for full details now. No obligation! We have ample funds and are ready ud anxious to help you become a homs-owner as we have hdiped hundreds of other families in Clinton. Each Account Insured Up To $5|000 'EDERAL5AVINGS |AND LOAN ASSOCIATION TtlsplHHM N*. 6 A CUnton Institution Serving Clinton People Since 1909 4 > 1 it can be compared with radio. May be if we could tune in our minds to some great force that is domihating the atmosphere around us we could pick up inspirations that would change this distracted world. denced by allotments announced ev-' man vrhd holds the mortgage, ery few days from Wadiington* by]38—By observing the above rules to Senator Byrnes (as though he puts up the money) of funds for college, school ‘end public buildings, street paving, airports, water, sewerage and power projects, golf courses and ev ery conceivable purpose. Just a few days ago he announced funds for the construction of an athletic field for one of the schools^ of this state. And so it goes on all over the country— an endless spending of money and This Man Hess One of the weirdest happenings of the war came Saturday w^ien Rudolf Hess parachuted from a crash-bound fighter onto a Scottish moor. By suchjpiUn^' up ofdebt’in spite**of the sc an unexp^ted feat he jumped into j rlous problem confronting us of pro- the limelight and gave the world+vlding national aeffaiseTun3fc Secre something to talk about. But there tary Morgenthau haif plbaded for a was another person who also made billion dollar cut in non-defense the front page by the incident, the spending. President Roosevelt In his Scotch farmer armed with a pitch- fork, who found the unexpected German caller lying in a field be side his parachute. With all the bombing going on in that country one would imagine every farmer would have a good shotgun handy at his disposal. But not so with this Scotchman—he rushed out in a hos pitable manner to administer to tiie injured unknown flyer. But just to see that nothing was started, he car ried the old fork along as his emer gency weapon. Hess showed good sense when they met. Why Hess, number three man in the Nazi hierarchy, made his fantas tic flight to Scotland the World does not know. Your guess is gs good as letter to the chairman of the house ways and means committee omits all mention of the word economy. The people are willing to pay for ade quate defense but at the same time they ha^ a right to expect rigid ftcoQ<my in the non-delense and noo- essential operations of government, piis extravagance that has been go ing on by the New Deal regime was defined when first initialed as “emergency” in nature. Now wiOi huge defense spending, with indus try geared at high speed, with bump er crops of all kizuls, and with prao- tically eversrbody able to secure woric who wants employment—the hw has oMne for a shaving down. Nsftb- er the willingness or atdhty of the the letter, you, Mr. Fanner, can grow cotton and sell it at 10c per lb. and come out all right, that is—just like you started — except for a few debts which you’ll never be able to pay. 1 How To Be Happy Though Married Don’tjwake the little lady till breakfast is on the table. 2— Don’t stay out at night without written penstssldfi: 3— If she has a bridge party on; be W. J. BENJAMIN SERVICE STATION Standard Products ' C^ara Washed sad Oraaasd Tear Bi TYPEWBiTERS Aatherinsd Clsaafaig aad A record never before epproached! . 'A'Whea the 29)000,OOOth Ford rolled recently from the assembly line, an tU- dme record for the industry was Set. 29»000»00d units built the same man agement and all bearing one name—a name that has become one of the best- —ImoWa Arade-mark s in the world! country, is already id production on light weight airplane engine castings. Work is right now under way on a new 118,000,000 plant for mass, production of big bomber assemblies. Orders have been filled for military vehicles of several -^pe^ including army It Is ngoificant that tbit achievement cars, staffcars and bomb service trucks. I comes at a time when our country is making a mighty effort to re-arm swiftly. For to further tliat effort, to help speed It along in any potsiNe way, we, have In the midst of this activity for National Defense, building the 29 niillioath Ford car Is simply oorpart of the day’a work, tlie puhUc hiw hfdaimed the l!^l ^olfored the vast focZliiies of the Rouge . Fnrdcar gs the finest in Ford hisfory. Bard Plant and every ounce of our ^pertence. Diaiers are rafoying dieir greatest sales As you read this, a tiew $21,000,000 ami txpectlag their best year since 1937. Ford airplane engine plant, started only ft la good to /enifacAy the tfaingg last faU, Is nearly completed. A new mag- America needf,end to be sctdng records nesium allc^ plant, one of die fowln the on die wayf