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/' -.••-I' < ’J- ■ / i m Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE/CLINTON, S. C Thursdoy, July 17,1941 (Utfr (Sltntiitt Qlt^ranirU EstobUihed 1»00 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher THE CHRONI Published Every Thursday By OLE PUBI 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 Prat 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. Anderson, and others. The* field is a gentleman, he certainly would not now wide-open. Already Represen- s)vap places with the .Italian puppet tatives Bryson and Hare are defi-,|Or even keep company with him, nitely announced, with the entry of' Representative Richards also expect- Mussolini is the clown of tile war. j ed. Neither of these gentlemen would The whole world knows him and is [offer should such action require (asjlaMi^ing at his. supposed bigneai and I it ought) that they resi^ their j activity. If Hitler has not rescued present offices. This practice of hold-1 him from the valiant Groins,, he ing one office at the expense of tax- would not now have an Italy to brag . payers while aspiring for another about Take a look at the Big Boy; because it offers more prestige or a he has declared war on Russia. He 'larger salary—is one that has been will soon begin aiitidng Russia's ‘ growing in this state in recent years fleet in the Atiantic and the Medit- cdmer«i wonT admit havine done 'until it has become a common pro-,en;pnean, which ain't in these places, ^ tinkering and thinWng over cedure. It is unfair and unjustified of cours^. By the time this piece invention atanme timenf^ther land should b« s^ndemned by theireachM print, he wiU have h.^ nn^!^?ir people. The holding of two offices is [no less than 5.000 Russian plgnes,' ,oope of^S^terest was demon himself. He wants to entourage evr eryone else to Invent. That’s thq reason he prepared the book on the subject, and that’s the reason' he started the American Bureau of In- venticm, whici^ helps embryq invent^ prs to make tMir hiventions pay. CONTEST—Defense I don’t know how many thoaisands of Americans have taken a crack at inventiag during their life-time, hut it^s hard to find anyone who, when CUNTON. S. C.. THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1941 A Cheerifig Report contributed largely to its success and enviable record. It is a valuable Clin- lalso a common practice on the part | from which figures, by the way, my jof members of the general assembly readers wiU kinly deduct w^tever jof our state. At the time Col, Wynd- they want. I ham Manning offered for governor! in 1938 he held a government posi-i Ihe majority of Mussolini’s sol- tion. He immediately resigned that'diers have been mi^ty lucky: they post because he did not consider it {have been captured or kilted in Af- good taste to hold one office white jrica. It must be a great blessing td spending taxpayers’ time traveling | be a prisoner of war instead of a liv- Every newspaper has its a^ i asset, one of which every citizen j pygj. state working for another. {ing soldier gmeraled by such a mess doubtless most of them have t^j^ the community has reason to feel| His example, however, is one that of bunk as II Duce. And being a many, so we were recently cheered [proud. by the report that a gentleman had * ' , just returned from a poorhouse I where he had visited a friend whOj Political SltUOtlOII had formerly conducted a newspa- | ^ith Byrnes, the state’s No. 1 New per which pleased everybody in thei ngaler, appointed to the judgeship,^ town. Beyond The Horizon We are told that on a clear day, a person standing on the eastern shore of t’ne United States can see out into the fight for Byrne,’ pl.ce.-we limit of an appointed senators term) j nt tK.. sMaat onH and with the state executive commit tee’s meeting over, the political field few office follow. The mis- idead Italian soldier might not be l^jalf take the voters made was in not so bad as being a live Italian citizen electing Manning in that race, in-' or soldier with that bird at the con- stead of Maybank. trols. May the Lord have mercy on While The Chronicle is not, and 1 bis soul if he has one. He has plenty will not become the least excited to answer for. if the services of the ablest and best men for public service lue to be ob tained—they must be drafted. Busi*- ness men of sound Judgment, ability and successful in their own affairs. TODAY... TOMORROW 6y Don Robinson FORTUNES—Ideas If you want to make a fortune, all strated recently in a contest conduct ed by.ttie Rever^ Copper & Brass company. That concern, which is do ing a lot of defense work, advertised ■m competition for ideas wMidi wtoUld aid d^ense, and limits entries to men who worked with madtinas nr metals. That 'meant that the replies were pretty much confined to the labor) group, most of whom don’t have col lege degrees or engineering training. I Yet over 2,000 men submitt^ ideas in that contest and about 1,000 of them were practical ideas — ideas which could conceivably heh> Uncle' Sam with the defense program. i Hie winning idea was one to and accidents and deaths resulting from blind landing of airplanes and fhe governmmt already is working oni putting that idea, submitted by Eu gene Phillips of Texas, to work. But the most interesting part of the response to that contest was not the ideas themselves, but the evi dence offered td show tiiat men woiiting in our mechanical tradra FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 15th day of August, 1941,1 will render a final account of my acts and doings as Administrator of the estate of M. B. Bedenbaugh, in the office., of the Judge of Probate of Laurens County, at lO o’clock i. m., and op the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as Administr^r. Any person indebted to said estate is notified and raquixed to oiake pay ment on of before that date; and all persons having claims uahist said estate will present them'on or be fore said date, duly proven, or be forever barred. J. F. BEDENDAUGR. Administrator. July 12, 1941.—7-4CW. jis now wide-open and the next few .. days may be expected to bring im- the ocean a distance of 16 miles. Thei ... hi ri.'on stands as a curtain between 1^ . ^ ".men who know that the fundamen- our shore and the tragedies which are! ' i . j ai rules of arithmetic cannot be going on at sea and on the other side Governor Maybank ap^intM Alva j changed by legislation or spending, of the Atlantic. Pumpkin of Columbia, for the | gj.g gQj.gjy needed in Washington to- ♦ j i .uj u ^t this season of the year day rather than professional self-, i a^gn’t just pulling levers and dream- cn'Id, eathi (or vacalii;^^ politicUn, j^a which fill, a need for m.mon, of hosiches of our seaboard and peer out .( _ '"‘I*.*’* Walennan did it by liiVM*-l*»“y thlnWn* up mw way, to do things faster and better — new ways to make America an even more de sirable place to live and work than it is today. who is the best vote-getter in the That is the “ability" yard- in South Carolina, plus in many in ovir the Atlantic, there comes, g salary of $10,000 annually to ac- doubt, a fMlmg of the closeness to]^ the a ur. Many say that part of the doesn’t sound exactly reason- pleasure they used to get from visits i . , . , . to the seashore has disappeared. As . annofnted a. a "flller" or Pt'fbary. That Is the "ahilliy' yaro- thfv olav and swim in the waves appoin^ as a flller or .^htch selections are made inty piay ano swim in me waves, j antique. Possessing the char-' they are conscious of the fact that experience he wliUe the.r little piece of ocean is appointment by u.scd for fun and sport me big ex- g„g.e„or take the appearance of p.msc of sea out beyond the horizon' .^jth no Intima- is l.llcd with danger and destruction j ^ appointee would offer and death The ocean always has election tor me unexpired been known for m^mg P^ple,,^^, ^as mere an agreement be- w"'ore aptio mi nighZ?es spirts are apt to be nightrpares. would be appointed with the understanding that he would not offer in the called election? Byrnes and Lumpkin? It’« too eaiiyt , au . u .* to announce his neW. But we can 1 » tounUln pen mat wouldn’t teU you who he will be —me manlt't*- WUham Painter did It by de- vising the simple cap you see on pop bottles and beer bottles. Hyman Lip- man made a fortune by putting a lit tle rubber eraser on the end of a lead TTPEWRTTER RmONS For Afl Make MacUnes, Standard and PorfaM^ ADDING MACHINB RIB BONS 4DDIN6 MACHINE PAPER • Call 74 Chronide Pub. Co r stances—the lavish spending of mon-j did it by ey to buy votes. NOBODY'S BUSMESS By GEE McGee And then the matter of two vacant What History Reveals It takes hundreds of years for any nation or group of people to learn j federal Judgeships in the state en- how to govern themselves. That is ters mto the picture. The successor proven by the whole course of hu^ to Judge Frank Myers of Charleston, man history. IJ takes only a couple j father-in-law of Maybank, has not of generations for a self-goveftiing been filled since his death last year, people to be reduced to servitude'A Charleston man, according to po- to a ruler or a government. That,' litical speculation from Columbia, too, i.s history. * iwill get this appointment. The resig- There is always a large percentage Judge Lumpkin will cause of any group of human beings who ® second vacancy. Speculation also place a higher value on present ma- has it that Donald Russell of Spar- terial welfare than they do on their' t^nburg, former law partner of inherent human rights to freedom Byrnes, is slated for this place and of action, thought and speech. Every is not expected to offer for the sen- failure of democracy since time be-1 si® ss had been predicted by his in- gan has been brought about by prom-1 friends and supporters. ^ ise.'- and gifts of material benefits for! The governor’s race next summer which the mass of the people have ■ is another big factor at present. Will been willing to pay by giving up Olin Johnston wait until next year their liberties. Look at Hitler and i® governor or will he jump Germany. ihe senate arena now. We have Sooner or later, those nations his public statement that he will “run which have yielded to that sort of i^r something next year, ’ which in- spiniual slavery have revolted, andl*ii®®i®s that he is raring to get back overthrown their rulers. They have' oo government payroll, A caucus of kept their liberty * until some great | his friends and advisers has Just been economic depression tempted them to [held in Columbia and we are told tolerate once more the domination^that an official announcement from of ambitious leaders. ! him as to his plans will be forth- Too much power vested in govern- coming in the next few hours., There mom toads to the surrendering of the ^re others also, who are being individuals’ rights. This Is one of the “Primed” for the governor’s race, serious troubles with our nation to-1 The big question is, what will day, with more and more encroach- Maybank do? Has he done sufficient moiit being made upon business and trading to perfect his plans to ’offer individuals. Past history should be a' ihe unexpired term as Senator warriihg to us during thls' j^rilous successor? White he has been time, and for the future. .considered a prospective candidate J [ever since it was decid^ Byrnes was A s z LI A A. I to get the federal bench plum, he VOiUODiC Asset has maintained a silence with no Clinton has a number of varied en-j announcement or intimation as to his terpi i*es, manufacturing concerns, plans. Our guess is that he will make in.'-titiitions, etc., that are making a the gamble for the senate swinging lai ge contribution to the develop-| onto Byrnes and the Washington ad- mi nt and stability of the community. ^ ministration. One of these assets is the Citizens Already we are told through Wash- Federal Savings and Loan Associ-{ington newspaper correspondence ation, which has been successfully i that President Roosevelt’s selection opvijued for the past 32 years. The to succeed Byrnes is Maybank, objects of the association are to pro-[though'he has made no public an- moie thrift by providing a conven- nouncement as to his choice. But what about Olin Johnston if the pres ident comes out for Maybank? John ston is the gentleman who announced lent and safe methcxl for people to sa\e and invest money and to pro vide^ for the sound and economical financing of homes. Since it began it has admirably discharged this duty, having helped approximately tor the senate in 1938 from the White House steps with the blessings of the president. He boasts that he is a 100 owners. Since the association was federal ized in 1937, its voIUme of business two thousand people become home- per cent New Dealer. And then there are New Deal congressmen and likely to be other New Deal aspirants in the'race. White this much is specu- has rapidly grown until its assets lative, the state’s political situation, have now passed the five hundred dominated by “ring rule,* is certain- thousand dollar mark as shown in | ly confused now. If President Roose- its statement of June 30th. During jvelt attempts to tell the people of the same short period it has financed' South Carolina how to vote wiU their 331 homes and has 350 investors. Its j answer—b«r resentipent -as shown ail illation with the Federal Home before? Will (he reply be the same Loan Bank of Winston-Salem gives it a substantial line of unused credit as Texas voters made recently when O’Daniel was elected to the senate should additional capital be needed, over Johnston, who had the endorse- Its Calient dividend rate is four per ment and blessing* of the White cent per annum. House? The people have not forgot- ii.vcc facts are cited here to show ten what happened in the attempted thv,. til.home-financing institution purge in Maryland, Georgia and tiiis is making a large and important c<m- state when the president came down tribution to the growth and progress j to Greenville and made a spifcch oi ammunity, and that it holds the cuniidence of all who are famil- ia; with its equitable dealing and record of service. Without its oper ation a large percentage of homes buiii here during the past twenty- five or thirty years would never have been erected. And it is not at all out of place to add that this associatiem was organ ized by B. H. Boyd as secretary- trca’urer and has continued under hi urection until now. His thorouEb knowledge of buUkUng and loan fi- m nctiii;. his sound Judgment and id>te direction erf its management have from the rear of his private cw at tempting to defeat Senator Smith with the election of his man John ston. In the approaching senate race there may be expected a number of candidates. If Maybank runs, this doubtless means that Edgar Brown, political boss of Barnwell county, will be in the race. Russell of l^er^ tanburg, who is said to have a good chance, may offer if he doee not land' the Judgeship made vacant by Lump kin’s appointment Olin J<^ston ia expected to run. Wydm of Orean- vilte, may tbow bia band, ol The First and Second Joints of Flat Rock Have Been Raided our little to>ini was shocked bej^ond explanation last night when it was raided from the Jay-bird caffe to the all nite eating and dance hall, the sheriff and about 75 depputies swooped down on us. we diddent know that we had anny sin going on in our midst till the next morning, six or seven of our leading men are missing this morning, bonds are be ing arranged. the jay-bird caffe was ketched with 4 bottles of unstaped whiskey, but mr. silent knight swore that he kept it there for a tickling in his throte that the doctor said would turn to larryn-gitis unless it* was eased with alcohall every now and then, he took a sip of it befoar breakfast and a sip after dinner, and only two sips befoar supper and 4 sips on retiring and going to bed. it hope him a right smart, but he still coffs some, the sheriff told him to tell his tail to the judge. the all-nite eat and* dance hall was verry bizzy at 3 ajn. when the of ficers arrived, only 4 piccolos and 5 slot machines were seized, allso Jim joe huskins, bob burkett and a few others who would not give their names, the owner, aleck skinner, ex plained that he ran a eating place and a filling station ail day and up to midnight and then he opened up his cabber-ray and hell a night club till about 5 a.m. he told the law that he did not violate annything and that-he had a right to run his own bizness. some strong drinks were all so seized, he is alreddy out on bond. rev. will waite^and our poleesman are sick over the whole ^ng. rev. waite says he has done his part to lead the folks of flat rock away from such things and the poleesman told this reporter that he had newer heard of anny wrong-doings at eith er of \he places raided, the report that he had sold out to them is a mistake, the 5 dollars that the for mer paid him was for 4 hens and a rooster and the 10 dollars the latter paid him was for collecting 2 bad checks off of holsum moore and slim chance, he seems to have a 'fairly clear conscience and he looked the Sheriff right kerdab in the eye when he talked with him. yores truhe, mike lark rfd. Right This Way, Larfles and Oantle- men. See Tratned Aniaral Do Trieka Mussolini is Hitler’s big-mouth, hoop-jumping trained animaL He is loyal to his boss. He barks at nothr ihg if Hitler wants him to bark. He growls constantly of his own accord, evidently thinking that Hitter likes him better s^cn he growls most He has no mind of his own, if any mind at all: but how he can rant idkl rite. He sinks millions of tmagtoary tons of shipping every day and, usiteg his o(wn figure^ he h^ ahreedy shot down all of Britain’s airplanes 4 or S different times. 1^ Hitler wins—and you may reat assured that he won’t win—Mussolini would amount to about as mudi as n blind bed-bug when R comes to run ning the affairs of Eutope. Ha now ranln as tha d*ffmny-on-tiie-throne initidy, Hifter «• his dicUtor. Before ttw ww is over, no dprfbt MumOBbI wrftikl Hke to W^BWUeSaleMle: making the first safety razor blade. There’s nothing to it—this making a million dollars—if you run across the right idea and put it to work. Just look around your house. Think about how some little step in the house work could be made a little easier. Think of *3 way to speed up dish-washing. Whenever any job about the house irks you, think up an idea for making that task more pleas ant. Somebody’s going to do something to rid us of present inconveniences, and you might as well be the one to make the fortune as the next fellow. INVENTING—Fascinating Inventing sounds like a fascinating business when you talk to an in ventor. * I talked to one recently who has his mind so chock-full of Ideas that he doesn’t know what to do with them all. And a lot of them ara [food, practical ideas, many of which have paid him handsomely. Ray Gross told me that he’s been inventing things ever since he was a kid in ^ort pants and .for many years now he has devoted all of his time to the exploitation of his ideas. For each successful idea he thinks up he has dozens which don’t work out—but he showed me a few recent ones which were enough to convince me that he has a whole trunkful of ideas that will pay dividends when he finds the right buyers. One I particularly liked was a phonograph record printed on paper. He is selling that idea to advertisers so they can have a record in*es8e4 into their magazine advertisements. When that goes into production, peo ple will be able to tear an advertise ment out of a magazine, put it on the radio and listen to a good re production of music or voice. Soon, when you spend a niclAl for a maga-4| r zine, it may include all the latest inumbers on the Hit Paradel NOTICE OF BUS TRANSPORTATION Bids for the transportation of school children of Lavurens County shall be opened in the office <rf County Superintendent of Education! on Tuesday, August 5th, at 3:80 pjn. The final date for acc^tance of bids will be 12 o’clock noon, August Sfh. This notice shall nbt apply to dis tricts owning their own buses, as trustees in such district will award contract. Routes subject to bids are as fol lows: Hurricane No. 15, to Clinton; Mountville No. 16—Mountville— 1. Lisbon to Mountville; 2. Rock to Mountville; • 3. Old Moimtville to Mountville; Sullivan No. 17—^Hickory Tavern— 1. Merna to Hickory Tavern; 2. Shiloh to Hickory Tavern; Laurens No. 4, Bailey to Laureps City; Mt Galltrfhw to ML OHveto ware Shoa Rock Bridge to Mountville; Rock Bridge to Lydia Mill; Lydia Route to Clinton; Shady Grove to Gold^ille. J. LEROY BURNS, 31-3t , Co. SupL of Ed. FOR SALE DESIRABLE HOUSE AND LOT ON SOUTH BBOAD ST. If interested, spfdx to B. R BOYD CUnton, S. C. y •Am SAT, *1 SAW FT IN THE CHBON- ICLE." THANK YOU. D. E. Tribtde Co. 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