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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE/CLINTON, S. C
Thursdoy, July 17,1941
(Utfr (Sltntiitt Qlt^ranirU
EstobUihed 1»00
WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher
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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
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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.
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SAT, *1 SAW FT IN THE CHBON-
ICLE." THANK YOU.
D. E. Tribtde Co.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
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JOHN DEERjE TRACTORS and IMPLEMENTS
THAT WORK
THERE'S A JOHN DEERE QUALITY IMPLEMENT
FOR EVERY FARBUNG PURPOSE
J. R. CRAWFORD
CUNTON, S. CT
SUGGESTIONS-Boak
Mr. Gross has so numy ideas which
he ham’t time to do anything about
that he has assembled several hun
dred of them into a book called
“Fame and Fortune in Ideas.’’ He
hasn’t time to finish inventing a lot
of them, se he^ Just broadcasts the
basic ideas to anyone who wante to
pick them up and put ttiem to work.
Such things as paper dust cloths, slot
machine gasoline tanks, maffietic
dust absorbers, self-cleaning pipes,
vibrating erasers, automatic nail pol-
isheiy, music page turners, mosquito
etectrocutors, fireproof .money> and a
hundred and one other'ideas.
Mr. Gross ,is one of America’s lead
ing exponents of the “Never say
can’t” idea whidi has been respon
sible for so many of the inventions
we have today. And the subject is of
such great interest to him that be
isn’t satisfied with merely inventing
W. J, BENJAMIN
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