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Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. Thursdoy, July 3^ 1941 ali^e (filtttton QlliranirU EstobUahed ItOf WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thxirsday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $1.50; Six Monttis 75 cents; Three Months 50 cents Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at^Glintcou 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 uiey 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 / Propaganda, No Donbt deer mr. edditor; mr. slim chance, sr., spent last week-end with his third married dar ter at the county-seat, he fetched home some startling news, but dr. hubbert green and manny others doubt its authenticity and are of the opinion that it is natzi and vitzski proppergander. The Bell Still Snraks CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY S, 1941 mr. chance says one of the men !whO works in thetcoart house told 'him that he heard over the raddio that Charley lihdbergh is planning to fly back home to germanny and take rudolf hess’s place in the cabbemet been for strikes, but common sensei of hitler, his friends, germans and tells us the number is considerable, others, mought secure his old plane. Every strike affecting defense prepa-! the “sperrit of st. louis” and let him ration should be prohibited, at the! use it for the trip, we don’t believe a' Celebrating Our Independence This year the Fourth of July should ^ ^ preserving the rights word of this, mean a lot more to most of us .thaji I ^ demands investi- just an opportunity to go swimmi g, passed' upon in a fair and to go f|shing. to go on picnics or to L j ^ Washington ad mr. chance allso said that barber who was shavving hifti told him on 1 ministration has made a complete i the “q. t.” that sen. burton k. wheel- Faced with increasing threats to fjQp jjj handling this serious problem ier, the icy-lationist, and friend of the our independence, In recent months ^ j^^gt critical time. Since last “america-firstrfor - the - new - order” shoot off fire-crackers. ■we have probably hjeard more and thought more about the virtues -of life in America than at any time June — just one year — we have lost club, will soon sail for sunny itlay over 18,000,000 man hours in essen- where he will find folks who appre ciate his great merrit and worth, he do hot now like the american form of govverment. 0 m , tial defense industries by strikes, since 1917. We who for so many j j^Qg^ qj v^^hich have been engineered years have taken our independence qj. incited by subversive groups, for granted have suddenly become i Communists, Nazis and aliens who vitally aware of it as a way of life, belong to labor unions and have mr. robbing hood who runs the which is worth any sacrifice to pro-; ug^fj every pretense to declare strikes meat market, leans verry strong to- tect. land thus hinder and delay our whole‘wards the c. i. o. ansoforth. he whis- The Fourth of July has been the defense program in this period of j pered to mr. chance that he heard by most important holiday in this coun-| crises when we are racing with time [the grape-vine that mr. john 1. lewis try tor 165 years—when our country- to save Britain and protect our own i is making plans to go to russia for a men declared us to be free of all ties nation. The administration has look-1 post gradurate coarse on how to keep to England and stated our beliefs as ed or> for months and done almost follows; ”We hold The5e“truths~tcr be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are en dowed by thetr Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights. Gov ernments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the gov erned.” nothing to put an end to what has been Happening. "Its pbHcy has been to buy off strikes by forcing an in crease of wages. strikes a-striking and how to stir up trubble. mr. hood says he alreddy knows enough about such things, but he feels like a few further instruc tions ffom Stalin, etc., will help him But one thing we haven’t had to | both labor and his country, worry about is the efficient move ment of raw materials and of fin ished products to their proper desti nation in this country. The railroads have done a notable job of handling a rapid increase in hauling goods have coiwte retfand the e come'roretf. Ll6l common rk^hhof humankind”' mface ERTYas face iS face with tha n^ererly of aaser+ind anew ■tha'i' fundamental ri^t^ free ipen, St pcntiih humanify to become tiw viOTm rf a rtdhlass .ambition that is deh^ined to destroy whar , it cannot masher ” • JULY4, without any disruptions. Further- . more, the American people have felt All of the complicated systems of j secure in the belief that there would government we have devised since j be no interruption in their service that time have been tested, law by jdue to labor difficulties. We know law, in the light of its adherence to jbat railroads have an enraploye- the platform as set forth in our Dec-jgjjjpjoyer mediation plan by which, laration of Independence. All of our.^ny difficulties which have arisen j chance heard allso that sen. nye is relations with foreign governments have been settled without disruption | arrsmging to move to norway and mr. chance allso learnt that harry bridges has jined the church out on the paciffic coast and-^111 give up his sins of omission and commission and let that country live in peace from now on. he had rutlaer live right in this country than to be exported to australia where he knows the aus- sies woulddent put up with him over 3 minnets, just long enough to get their guns loaded, plese help, us cor rect these false reports. (p.s. mr. AUCTION SALE Commercial Bonk, In Liquidation have been studied from that same of service. viewpoint, and anything which has gut we are told there is trouble ^reatened the continuation of our. brewing in the railroad industry right independence has been repulsed. inow. Because of increas^ handling In our hectic discussions about of freight the railroad employes en- live with mr. quissling). Up and Down Main Street In Flat Rock ill uui ncvwv. owruMv 01 ireigm me raiiroaa employes en- the cittv councell of flat iwir politics and social programs, we of-, vision big profits for the railroads ^ audience last nieht and changed ten ^lose sight of the crystal-clear'and are impatient to get theirs. That the namro? todlirfst^^^^^^ aims of our form of government as jg human nature, and the same re-' Joval ^aveime^^^wh^fer *^cle wa^ set forth in the Declaration of Inde- action may be expected in all Indus- ^ changed to crooks drive noboddv pendence and in our Constitution, jtry. The price of cotton has advanced j'^es on two thoroS^wSS All of us have been taught about. ,^4 .Xbm these documents in school, but few’^ill be called to oav more for ev- iKie morc lor ev [ojj streets With such names as Imd- of us have read them since. On this grythmg he wears or uses manufac-i berg and wheeler after they forsook their own i>eopIe. they moved to Oth er locations. Fourth of July would be a good time'tm-g^ from cotton. But getting back for everyone of us to get out a his-! to the railroads, they have asked for tory book, or even the World’s Al-j^age increases of 30 per cent which, manac, and read onre again these it is estimated, would cost the com- the all-nite garrage has gone on a l^ous documents. When we cele- panics 900 million additional dollars 140-hour-a-week basis, his two help- brate the signmg of the Declaration, a year, which, the railroads say, is j ©rs struck for higher wedges and that of Independence this year let s be ,700,000,000 more than thair total forced him to strike for shorter sure we know exactly what it is we net income last year. ' hours, he is just about busted anny are celebrating. Still Spending, Wasting In spite of increased railroad ac-1 how and he thinks he can lose as tivity, railroad statisticians figure if much monney in 40 hours as he has they complied with \mion requests they would be worse off than at any Senator James F. Byrnes, who is' depression. And their expected to ta^ h|s ^at on the Su- preme Court bench this week, con-, tinues as the snokesman for Wash-' eammg more than iiimes as tne spoKesman for Wash ^ ^ the railroads’ mo^ ■nglon spending. Every few days an] 33 announcement comes from the 3,3 1 3, for wage of spending of another gift or allo-l3;,^33 3^3 ,33 33 , ^ 33ii3(«ds that cation or a project or projeeU m, u,3y are paying 111 now that business this state. The iatest from him B ani3„n ,333, •'33strictions will possibly allocation of $3,338 in federal funds Justify p ■■ v“ “7'' -‘i Railway Age magarine gives these Rock Hilk This, too, we suppose, w .33,3. passenger locomotive en- n.iUonal defense, gineer on a Western railway is now The Amerman people are willing 3^ 333 pp ,,3 33,33,. to be taxed to carry forward the na- - - benn losing in 55 hours, he will allso go to strictly cash on r^airs and parts, that alone will reduce his biz- ness 75 per cent, up to he says he has lost most of his moimey on his own and his wife’s kinfolks. miss jennie veeve smith has almost recovered from falling out of a ham mock a few days ago. she limps slightly when she tries to walk fast into the dining-room for meals, she is not swanging anny at this riting. she will avoid hammocks from now on. it was a hard bump she received For the purpose of completing the liquidation of the above named bank, all assets not heretofore disposed of will be offered for sale at public auc tion at 11 o’clock in the'forenoon on the 15th of July, 1941, at thd office of the undersigned Conservator, at Clinton, S. C. These assets noW con sist of: Parcel No. 1. The stockholders’ lia bility and judgments thereon of the face value of $7,700.00, exclusive of interest. Parcel No. 2. Note of John M. Copeland, secured by mortgage of 163 acres of land, of the face value, exclusive of interest, of ,$1,951.50. Parcel No. 3. All other personal assets of the Bank, consisting of: Undisposed of notes and bUls re ceivable of the face value, exclusive of interest of 1^7,980.53. 14 shares of\^e capital stock of Young Brothers Livestock Company, in liquidation, original par value $1,400.00. 25 shares of Hunter M|g. and Com mission Company, in ^ liquidation, original par value $2,500.00. 2 shares capital stock Masonic Temple, par value $200.00. Parcel No. 4. Vacant lot in the Town of Clinton, Lfiurens County, S. C., containing about one-hidf acre, boimded on the north by Jbnes street, east by Holland street, soutfT byj lands of H. D. Henry and Jack H. Young, west by lands of Larry Dill ard. - Parcel No. 5. 108 acres of land In Laurens County, S. C., known as J. J. Smith place, adjoining lands of the estate of Mrs. N. A. Henry, and oth ers, subject to mortgage in favor of Federal Land Bank of .Columbia, or Land Bank Commissioner. PV’cel No. 6. 532 acres of land, more or, less, known as the E. C. Hipp plaM, in Laiuens County, S. C., adjoining lands of Jack Davis, John T. Young and others, subject to mort gage in favor of the Federil Land ^^ank of Columbia. Parcel No. 3 will also include all right, title and interest of Oie afore- Mid Bank now in hquidatiim in oth er property, than that hereinbefore numerated, tingible or intangible, to which the said Bank and-or the Conservator thereof may now havi, or hereafter acquire title, excepting only cash, or money on deposit. The interest of the said Bank and or its' Conservator in said property will be sold in separate parcels as herein enumerated, pie conditions of the sale will be that the highest bidder shall immediately deposit with the Conservator ten per centum of the amount of his bid to be re tained by the Conservator in the event he fails t«i fissnplgr edtli 4hs terms of sale, otherwise to be credit ed on the purchase price, and the successful bidder shaU'^mply with the terms of sale by pajdng his en tire bid in ca$h immediately at the close of the sale, otherwise the prop erty. so purchased shall be resold immediately on the same terms at the risk of the defaulting purchaser. The pun^aser of the real estate shall pay for deeds and stamps. Any of the aforesaid property may be seen or further information con nected with the sale obtained from the undersigned Conservator and in formation may also be obtained from Babb and Babb. Attomejrs, at their office at tAurens, S. C H. D. HENRY, June 21, 1941.—10-3c Coniervator. J AAi - S For i"'.' OJR Nl a'i issue * ^y* I Funeral Home CUstofi. S. C. punhuiTbirectors ENRALMERS 41 and 2H-J L. RUSSELL GRAY and T. PARKS ADAIR, Gen. Mgn. ywtmtmuiRRRiiRirtiRWRRiiiiiiNimiwmtmminiMwmmwwwRitmt she dropped. when she fell out. she was trying to iTonTl dcTuiTi’DreDarT^n^Vmyaml*'' !'“n. over in it so’, the sun ivo^ddent b rf Ss^rtoT co^' ''' ” her and that’s when Dui eye sironyy op^syi to a con^ monthly that he works only 43 tuiuat.on of the unchecked extrava-' g gany of the past eight years. Right ^373 g ^4 473 a year. 'The demanded salary raise of 30 per daily that Hitly is out to defyt thel^^^j increase his hourly Jay woHd, when his forces are driving 31127, his monthly pay to $485 hard against their new opponent., g^^ his annual pay to 96,820_for hussy, and when Great Britain can-^„1^ 43 hours a month.” not hope to win unless the United States sgnds an unending stream of planes and tanks and other equip ment across the Atlantic — it would Union restrictions have steadily in creased the per hour rate scale with the speeding up of train schedules. ... . , The magazine further adds that sesm that senators and coneressmen ..,33 3, ^,,3 y,3 3 3 ly-l 1 1 « a n rv I ^ ^ ^ would realize what ^ before ^ and, passenger train em- put an end opce and for all to uy ^ 132^ ^ necesyry spendmg. Money should he ^ provided for defense yd not a dimej^^j employes an average of for the so-called social gains. 46 per cent.” The employes could A great many ot the thinp we are ,^7 much 'larger daily, monthly spending lor, like the athletic pro-|3„j ^333,^ 3333,^^3 3, 33i,ti„g ^333. ject cited, have not the slightest con-; ly wage rates if their unions did not nection with any legitimate defense I 3^ program. It is an outrage in an hour | like this that auch squandering of white this matter of wage tnereas- taxpayers m^ goes on lor non-|33 1,3,3 „ employes of essentials when every dollar that' » » .j the industry, it is to be hoped that can be rais^thr^ enonnous | ,,^3, „iu put their cards on creases in federal taxes is needed Lu-._ui i *i j for effective military defense. I A house-clearing is needed ini Washington, where congressmen and I senators in ei^t years of peace have increased the national debt by thirty thousand .million dollara before we reached the war emergency. Trouble Brewing In Railroad Industry the table and settle the problem in a fair and business-like manner. The railroad unions, made up of a fine group of American citizens, shoqld Most of the American people have been wgrried and irritated about the:well playing in the defense of their use their present differences as an opportunity to show other branches of industry and the whole world bow labor and management can dt down at a table together Mid'coma to an agreement — without strikes, without picketing, without cutting eadi oth er’s throat, and without slowing up one iota the part which they are so interference with defense production caused by strikes. The order of the day seems to be strikes, more strikes for wage increases and new contracts agreeable to the heads of the move ment, the most prominent of which is the CIO crowd. No fij^ues are available to show" just how many more ships, tanks, planes land guns might have been built if it hadn't jobs, their homes and their country. Switzerland is now licensing on^ gasoline motin: vehicles used for emergency and-'necessary purposes. American railroads, used only an average of 112 pounds of fuel to move 1,000 tons of freii^t a mile in 1940. rev. will wf^te and familey of 8 will not take anny vacation this sum mer. he says if his church members don’t pay him anny better in tjie near futvire than they have benn paying him in the recent and distant past, he will have a hard time to live at home, much less off somewhere’s else, they have all of his sallery sub scribed, but there is a big difference betwixt subscribing and paying, his two leading deacons are 11 months behind with their promises ansoforth, yet they sing and pray as loud as ewer. yores trulie, mike lark, rfd, corry iqiondent. ‘ W. 3. BENJAMIN SERVICE STATION Standard Praducto Can WMkad and Gnaaid Tour Basinsas JOHN DEERE TRACTORS ond IMPLEMENTS THAT WORK THERE*S A JOHN DEERE QUALITY IBfPLEMENT FOR EVERY FARMING PURPOSE J. R. CRAWFORD CLINTON, 8. C. / TT-n‘TTr‘TTTtrTTTT[TnmTnniffi!nnnii.tTmrMiiii(iwMiiin]iiiiiMiiiiiMiiiiMMWMg FOR PERSPIRING FEET staeIi LOTION At Yaw Dr^gflira lia Post Office To Close Friday, July 4 The Post Office will be closed Fri day in observance of Independence Day. There will be no carrier ser vice on either the city or rural routes. For the benefit of patrons of the office th9 general delivery and stamp window will be open from 10 to 11 o’clock. Methodist Women To Hold Zone Meet A zone meeting of the Methodiaf Woman’s Society • of Christian Ser vice will be held on the afternoon of July 10 at 3'.30 at Trinity church in Newberry circuit. Mn. N. N. Thomas of NewbssiT, is the leader. Men\bar8 local organization are in^iad of the to Attend. WB DO ALL BINDS OF PRINTDfO —EXCEPT BAD CBRONICLB PUBLUmm GO. WIYR Yom |/NotMiag so welUeb? Bveryooe has been giviag 70ttaidiriosi.fio doubt.So nwy we chime iawidionrbit?WeddakMuHi it reslfy is good cotinseBk»sV^ SADLEg-OWtNS PHiUlMACY —LOW COST « —LONG TERM —QUICK ACTION —SAFETY At the CHixens Federal a home hwii eaa be arranged for yon at krweat poeafl^ eeat . . . without' delay . . without Ffd It requires n6 lilmp^smn fotcrest payments ... there are no renewed fees. ProgreasiTe, monthly reduction of principal wipes off* the debt eoaipletelly in a ciren nnm.- her of years. Whether you intend to hnild, buy, refinance or mo dernize, this *%t]^eaniffned** type Ipaa b worth careful consideration. Aak for detaBs today. Eoch Accosot Inuind. Ur Ta $5J)00 SAVINGS LOAN AtlOCIATIpN No. 9 . A ClfaitoB InetHirtkm SnnrliMj’ CHaten People Since If09 / -- eeeoeeeeee^eeeeeeee