The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, July 03, 1941, Image 4
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C.
Thursdoy, July 3^ 1941
ali^e (filtttton QlliranirU
EstobUahed ItOf
WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher
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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.
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Funeral Home
CUstofi. S. C.
punhuiTbirectors
ENRALMERS
41 and 2H-J
L. RUSSELL GRAY and
T. PARKS ADAIR, Gen. Mgn.
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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.
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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
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