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Poge Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. 4 \ CfUratun QI4ronUlr EsUbllshed IfOt WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $1.50; Six MontBS~73 cents; Three Months 5j) 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. Anonymoos communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. plan or prejudice against it — we should patriotically respoira to the request by giving our cooperation and assistance in the hope that it will aid national defense. At the same time we need not well; it got drowned,-I got whipped. Age 7: Cow picked me on side of head! Never got over it. Age 8: Took up plowing and hoe- think we can fool ourselves in this'ing and picking cotton for a living, free country. We cannot be a Joshua and control the sun and moon. Age 9: Ran engine, helped with Farmers know you can’t get a hen, saw-mill, cotton-gin and thresher, to lay an egg by advancing the clock. 1’ . » Age 10: Went to school during De ll * ki I jcember, January and February. Got rromises Mean Lirrie ; burned to death in cotton gin. CLINTONi_S,^., THURSDAY. JULY 81, 1941 1 desired. Ashley got to make his Too Optimistic l speech depicting the greatness of his -.3^6 Germans under Hitler rule are' J ndhniably undeniably an able and ambitious people, but it may be that they were entirely too enthusiastic in setting up a 50-day schedule for the conquest! ^ of Russia. ^ — \ ! Not The Whole Story section. All of which shows you cant head off the Baptists—especially the An derson county variety. We hear and read much of the The election of Burnet R. May- bank in 1938 as governor of South Carolina was a victory for “machine {politics.” The Charleston mayor had I an organization behind him — and {from all appearances an expensive one—that could not be down^. Followii\g his election the gover nor said in his inaugural address in January, 1939: “Four years from now I will be turning over the affairs of this office to another of your choice and returning to private life.” Since assuming the office, in spite of that statement, the general pub lic has felt he has been “priming” for the United States senate. The hope no doubt was — B3rmes and Maybank in the senate, but when Age 11: Went to school 8 more months but never learned anything. Age 12: Farmed, dug doodles, killed snakedoctors and streakflelds. Age 13: Went to town for first time; stayed scared to death all that day. —. Age 14: Saw first suit of imder- wear, man visited us from county seat. Age 15: Wore my first storebought suit, price $1.98. Four sizes too big. Age 16: Fell violently in love with Tessie Jones; she failed to recipro cate. Heart broke. Life blasted. 1 finger-ring total loss. In the last few years it has become a major source of fuel in certain sec tions. Because of a plentiful supply and ease of use it is expected to be given more and more preference. fTatural gas is generally found In the same sections m petroleum; With in range of the gas fields it has bem found an economical as well as the most simple fuel to use for heating purposes. It seems probable that pipe lines will jeventually be built so that natural gas can be sent dis^mces without great expense and then na tural gas will be tised in countlen industries and homes. But no matter what fuels become, most popular, there are no dtngers* of fuel shortage in this country. Re ferring to the energy resources of this country, H. C. Dickinson of the bureau of standards said: “Solid, liquid and. gaseous fuels will alm<Mt certainly be available from stored-up sum;>lies for several thousands of years at the present rate of constimption.” OIL—Russia Ifr ^Vorlcs Two \A^qvs i ”” — ——" ——^ - „ • * growth of Columbia due to the es- Byrnes was given the supreme bench In arguing " i tablishment of Fort Jackson. To this!plum earlier than had been expected, ^ .T. . . . , tion a certain labor leader mad is to be added the fact that the capi-jthat upset the plans. candy; stateinent that la^r cannot ^®^* ‘ tal is the head seat for the distribu- Now the governor goes to Wash ier i zed. It thus ap^a^ th^la^ s for--a conference with Presi- not willing to take the same m^- We are told in a feature: dent Roosevelt and is promised two cine which it se®ks ^®^^® ® ^ news story from that city that this I more power projects for this state give to capital through sitdown and i reflected in mo-1 on the eve of the election. He comes other strikes. Th^e is abo H tie sm,yghide registration figures, bank!back and quickly announces himself in the internal affairs of the cleaijings, postal receipts, building I as a candidate for the senate to suc- when men ^ ."I" permits, retail and wholesale chan-* ceed his appointee. Senator Lumpkin, Iwrships are ordered to strike aga t Forbes | who was given a “mysterious” six- iheir wills. magazine in a recent issue stated' months appointment which the peo- that Columbia is the center of the | pie of the state have not yet under- third best business hot-spot in the stood. Because of the changes at "lited States today. home and abroad, the governor says But in portraying the picture of: in his statement, “I have decided to The Bike Is Popular „ ^ o * No matter in which direction youl^i^^®*^ States today look, or where you travel now-a . , - . j days, one is impressed with the ^"® cffyrapid development due:ask the people of South Carolina to growth of cycling as a popular sport.} largely to the camp, all the facts and send me to the senate because I feel The old-timers and the youngsters' 1‘gures are not included. The “story” I can be of greater service to them are surprised at the number of bi- ; motion the increased busi- and to the state in Washington, and cycles giving evidence that, in spite •’®ss of their many liquor stores. The because of my close association and of automobile competition, they are newspapers should prepare | friendship with President Roosevelt stronger today than ever before. And ® comparative statement for publi-, and members of his administration.” all of ihe cycling is not confined toi®®!!®*' covering the p^t two years This statement nieans that May- boyS and girls. month by month and give it to their bank is counting on'the “blessing” of The growing popularity of the bi-! readers, many of whom would be cycle is due to its inexpehsiveness i vitally interested in the finding, compared with other vehicles, and ■ ^®''^ months ago we were told doubtless to the armament program which will result in a rise in the cost and operation of automobiles. But the main reason is, no doubt, | that parents and grown-ups too, now have a greater appreciation of the bicycle itself as a vehicle for health ful sport. from Fayetteville, N. C., Camp Bragg center, that liquor store sales in that i in Washington. President Roosevelt to carry him to the senate. It means we are to have a “coat-tail swinging candidate, who, if elected, will be another “yes” man I city tripled in one month. How does Columbia rate with Fayetteville? The two states would like to know. Only a short time ago Governor Maybank, now engaged in the popu lar practice of “coat-tail swinging” for the United States senate, was all excited over the spread of vice in the areas where camps are located. He made a grandstand play at the time by calling the sheriffs of the state to What The President Said To keep the record straight, Frank lin D. Roosevelt, candidate for re- election as President of the United ^ Columbia for a conference on the States for a third term, had this to problem. He ought to know, as every say in a public speech at Boston, informed person does —that the li- jquor traffic, both illegal and legal, is .[one of the.ohiei causas for the bre^- |ing of prostitution, crime and law- i lessness. He didn’t raise his hand [against the business as a producer I of vice. Neither has the federal gov- I ernment. The governor didn’t dare j take an opposition stand against le- Igalized intoxicants though the ma- There are millions of American j qj voters had made their mothers who have not forgotten this. decision at the^poUs for prohibition, promise and are watching with grave, The greatest enemy of the young concern—the developments each day j paan in camp or anywhere else — is Send me to the senate. I am^the indispensable man for this job.” That is the sum of the governor’s an- no'uncement. Mass., on October 30, 1940: “And while I am talking to you, fathers and mothers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again, and again, and again, your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.” NOBOOn BUSINESS B, GEE McGEE swapped pet hen for 25 cents worth. Lingered at death’s door 3 days and 4 nights, then calM for more candy. Age 18: Graduated in 8th grade in country school; never darkened an other schoolhouse door thereafter, as, perhaps,! dear reader, you have al-^ ready guessed. Age 19: Went tc picnic; saw first ice-cream ever heard of. Wanted to taste it, but the fellow wanted 5 cents per saucerful. I had no 5 cents. Age 20: Learned to be telegraph operator, left home, almost died of home-sickness for first 6 months, but got over it. Age 21: Bought bicycle which led me into high society, rode with the Jones boys who had a rich daddy. Met Sudie. LoVe bug bit me, but Sudie dodged it. ^e 22: Sudie married Dick Botts. I got transferred to another town. Wore nicest clothes in community, paid as high as $10 for suit, $2 for shoes, and $1.50 for silk shirt. Age 23: Married finest woman (and school teacher) in the world, went into mercantile business, raised a couple of children, that is—she did, still married, still in mercantile busi ness, still like ice-cream and candy, and still looked up as not being very bright, but I’m older than 23 at this writing. from Washington. As a matter of fact, the United States is already in the war—only the actual shooting has not begun. A Priceless P(2Ssession In these days when the news col umns are filled with dispatches tell ing of butchery and destruction it is refreshing to read that almost half of the population of the United States now belongs to one or the other of 250 churches or religious bodies which flourish under our free insti tutions. The church membership has been steadily growing according, to the 1941 Yearbook of American Church es. The figures of this repeet-^ow what religion can do in a society where all men are free to worship according to their conscience. The 64,501,594 members of the 250 church bodies live, generally speak ing, in harmony with each other, and liquor. And from what the mayor of Columbia recently said in a public statement, there is no shortage of the fluid in his city. Moving The Clock Aheod South Carolina, along with many other parts of the country, went on daylight saving time Sunday at mid night when citizens of the state pushed their clocks" forward one hour in compliance with the request of Governor' Maybank, North Carolina adopted the same time, Virginia will go on the schedule next week, while Georgia remained Standard. Day light saving time in the state had not been observed since the World War of 1918. The plan is simple. It means ydu get up one hour earlier and are “ex-iiocake pected” to put out the lights and go to bed an hour earlier. Now and Then Johnnie, Jr., eats his cornflakes, cream, toast, scrambled eggs, and coffee in bed ... his mother fetches it in on a nice, clean silver tray about 7:45 •a.m. After breakfast Johnnie, Jr., goes to the bathroom and gets into a tub of warm water which his mother has fixed for him. He dabbles around in the said tub for a few minutes, then he puts on his pretty clothes that his mother fixed up and put out for him. Johnnie, Jr., takes his book-satchel which hia mother hands him as he walks out Jthe front door. A big yel low 8-cylinder school bus pulls up to Johnnie, Jr., and picks him up and whiffs him off to a beautiful school building where Johnnie, Jr., is taught everything but reading, writing and arithmetic.'Then the bus man takes him home. lODAY... TOMORROW By Don Robinson When I was a boy, say about tO, I got up at the yell of my father at 5 am. I put on my hat and shoes. (I slept in everything else I wore). I built a fire in the fireplace and one in the kitchen stove. I slopped 6 hogs, shucked and milked 2 cows, toted in (after cutting if necessary) enough wood to last mother all day. Then I ate my breakfast of milk gravy and / The principal object of the switch _ with the 68,000,000 who are withoutsystems is the conse^ation' ^j-itches to fasten my galluses onto. I such affiliation. The minister from' washed my face and hands in a the pulpit tells us — and we know i "J®”'® turn out tanks washpan in the back piazza. I Igot what he says is true, that one of the i T, great troubles with the church is!"*" '""S J" 0.at there is not a marked enough,^*:™; asked to give our r/^hrchi^r “'■isic"ersi“itcs-=r- Such a hel^hgion situation, how-i“"“ McrWce If Mcrihces are to ever, is one of America’s finest con- J? TiS.'"'' IrlbuUons to civilization. Here, 100,1;.^"^”^."® J®-*® ‘''®,..P~P'® as in so many other Helds, freedom! h®”"®'“d not m Washington. FUEL—Coal Our most popular and most used fuel has always been coal — mostly bituminous coaL In I'ecqnt years, oil has replaced coal in many instances, such as in a lot of home heating, but coal continues to be the leading sin gle source of fuel. It is estimated by the New York Trust company, which recently made a study of the consumption of ener gy in the United States, that of the total energy we consumed in 1937, 45 per cent was derived from bitumi nous coal, 30.4 per cent from oil, 9.8 per cent from natural gas, 9.3 per cent from water power wd 5.6 per cent from anthracite coal. It is not believed probable that oil will continue to replace the use of coal during the next 10 years at the rate it has done in the past 10 years. The development of the vatj of either will be determined , by ease of transportation, price and taxes, but in general the use of oil will probably be more or less limited to transportation whereas coal will con tinue to be the most popular fqel to industry. In home heating the present prob lem of transporting oil to the East, due to those 50 tankers which we ^ gave to England, is expecte<f to ^ujn my slate and pencil and word primer! ^® trend back to coal, at least tem and little tin bucket \vffiich contained! porarily. One of the chief reasons the Ger mans went into Russia was to get oil. Russia is one of the leading pro ducers of oil and has vast fields of it which have not been tapped. But so far as production of oil is concerned, the United States has a big lead over every other country to the world. In 1939, figures of the United States bureau of mines show that the United States produced 61 per cent of total MTorkl production of oil. Rus sia was second, but produced only 10.3 per cent of the total and Ru mania, which is world-famous for its rich oil fields, produced only 1.7 per cent. Venezuela was third, producing 10 per cent of the total. These are production figures and do not give a clear picture of the capacity of the world’s oil fields. But they do indicate the comparative output possible with the equipment which each country used before the war broke* out and show that by any measure the United States has a big lead over all. Although ther^ are 13 states to'the United States which produce consid erable oil, by far the greatest produc tion is to Texas which, to 1939, pro duce^ 38 per cent of our annual sup ply. Other states which are known for their oil producing capacity are California, which produced 18 per cent of the supply, Oklahoma, 13 per cent, Illinois, 8 per cent, and Louisi ana, 8 per. cent. The other states M^ch produced the remaining 15 percent of our oil supply are: New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Vir ginia, Kentucky, Kansas, Wyoming, and Arkansas. FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 15 th day of August, 1941, I will render a final account of my acts and doings as Administia^jat-ttw Jjlate of ML B. Bedenbaugh, in the office of the Judge of Probate of Laurens County, at 10 o’clock a..m., and on the same day wiU apply for a final discharge from my trust as Administrator. Any person indebted to said estate is notified and required to make pay ment on or before that date; and all persons having claims against said estate will present them on or be fore said date,^ duly proven, or be forever barred. J. F. BEDENBAUGH, Adminiatratoar. July 12, 1941.—7-4CW. ——— .. ^ ■ FREE—Desk package Carter's Bjtoff Ink Eraser with each quart ol Car ter's Mid-night Blue Bla^ Ink. None better made. Call 74. Chronicle Pub lishing Co. CEEIBU BAIPD9 BOLOnuBUHil DIXIE'S wheels of defease are turning sc a tempo never before equalled.'To the aamerous fac tories, military bases, and dm public at lar^, quids,' depend- ahle telephone service wm never more important than now. Providing and safeguarding dus service in diese hut dtang* ing times is a tremendous task. Soudicm Bell of necessity is a big organization widb fhoosands of hi^y trained telephone vet erans vdK> have met and maa- tarad mai^ esaergendes. ' About 10,000 new tclephona recruits, added during die past two yean, are beu^ teamed by, diis czperieoced army for ^iaa> porcanc posidons on the tele phone firing line, and more are being addM daXtf, In all, a combined force of 23,000 wodeen is rushing tele- |dione expaosioo to. maet die South's ever-incrcasiag drmanda. Speeding up the delivety of sap- pda ate lour bege telephone siqipfy bases located widiin over- ni^t readi evety major in- dus^ial and military center in die Soudi. This army of loyal telephone men and women is working in bannoey CO upend aadtoaale- guard dbe lines of tdephooe com- ^ municariondiroo^houtdieSpoth. SoiTiai BaiTREPiHE ISO TOEiiHH emnw leaaaaoaATia - I polished my hair with dishwater grease. I put an extra skewer in my a small bottle *01 ho-made molasses, possibly 2 pieces of. fried bread, and 4 biscuits, and lit out for school. Our little red school house, which was not painted at all; (dust had set tled on it from the nearby red hills, IS a cling There are different opinions as tOian^ that’s howltgot I’ed) was only a priceless possession we should: to and prSL:t at aU hazards, what the dayUght savm* time w U very, very short 4 miles away. I hop- If we look far into the future, the use of various fuels is quite unpre dictable. It may even not be too far off when we will have teamed to get most of our needed: energy from the sun. RESOURCES—Unlimited When we hear about the millions JOHN DEERE TRACTORS and IMPLEMENTS THAT WORK THERE'S A JOHN DEERE QUALITY IMPLEMENT FOR EVERY FARMING PURPOSE “ 7. R. CRAWFORD ~ ~ ' CLINTON. S. c. jWKlWMUHKRIWRmtWRRRttRRmillRRIIItRMWmwilltRltltttRRMWimRMRMMi A Baptist Story In connection with the urgent ap-j asked by the governor, we doubt peal being made to the American that it will accomplish the results people to buy defense savings bonds, | we are told it will by its enthusiasts, this true story comes from Ander- In the first place there is no ipower son: * scarcity. The recent fine grains drie^ An Anderson lady entered a local,up that propaganda hullabaloo by bank and informed an officer she certain politicians of a power short- accomplish, or fail to accomplish, n-d 2 miles and enioved it I skinned barrels of oil and billions of tons White The Chronicle adopted the j mite and was happy I threw rocks which this nation consumes plan as requested and at the time at birds, and toad frogs for the lasti®®®^ year, most q£ us wonder when .. . . rejoiced that rocks were the oil wfells will be pumped dry and plentiful I got there on time, 8 ajtn. when the last of our mountains of coal will finally be sfioveted into the I studied hard for 6 or 7 hours. I nation’s coal bins. desired to invest to U. S. defense savings stamps. “Do you want bonds or stamps?” asked the cashier. ''“I’d like stamps,” she replied. “What denomination, please?” “Baptist,” said‘the lady. The incident brings to mind the story of the late Josh Ashley, a rep resentative of that county. White en gaged in making a characteristic speech to the legislature portraying the glories of his county, he was in terrupted by a member. May I ask the gentleman a question, he,said. Yes, sir, he replied. What is the alti tude of Anderson county? Over whelmingly Baptist, shot bade Adi- My. The lady bought the stamps the age in the South. The l>lan, further more, is not universally adopted, and this means that the broad results that mlftot be expected are hardly likely to be rdtlized. The idea is b^pin too late to the summer to accomplish much, for the switch back will have to be made by early fall A further factor is that the manufacturing plants of the coun^ are practically aO operating on a 24-hour per day basis with their power consumption at its highest peak. There can no savings there. In the big cities where gay night life is enjoyed and power consumption is probably as great as in the day-time, a savings may be effected if the people can be induced to turn out the li^ts and fo to bed. But wheOiar We have fai^ in tiie had to study hard, 1 was so dumb . . . and as you have already said, it, I admit that i have not yet overcome that dumbness). I played myself dead tired at the 2 .little and 1 big receai- es. I ate my dinner and was thankful for sudi fine food. I loved my teach er. I had no aspirations or inspir ations; I was o^ koint to school because my father and mother told me to do so. Books turned .out at about 4 pjn. I skipped and trotted back home and did my day’s work, and was contented. MUe-Stenea In My Rariy‘ Life Age 4: Learned to say “daddy.” Stood alone by holding to a chair. • —♦ Age 5: Pulled ft coflee pot off of stove, ^ badly ficalded. Afe •: Ttazowfd my cat in tiw But actually, there isn't much to worry about for a long time to come, if ever. According to the national resources committee, our present reserves of these fuels amount to about 3,000,- 000,000,000 tons of ooal and over 15,000,000,000 barrels of oU. In addi- tk^ ttiere are plenty of' unexplored reserves wi]|id^ if neceiaary, would undoubtedly produce additton fuel to fill all of our needs for many years. It is estimated that the average de mands for power in America, whmi all demands for industry, home heat ing; tnuupoitatioo and other uses are aU grouped, together, amount to 40 horsepower p«r hour for every hour of the year. Natural gal Moki ttke one at tka best bate ter Ike tufl d the totore. Don’t Wait Longor For That Home YouVe I Always Wanted Let our Long-Term, Economical, Direct-Reduction ^Loan Plan h^p you have it—NOW—"with monthly pay ments that will be just like your present trent payments.' Numerous happy home owners in Clinton have found this to be just the plan they wanted. It wiU help you, too. Inquire today for full details without obligation. 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