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7 / V f Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. S. C. Thursday, August 7, 1941 W^t (flluttan OII}ranirU EsUbllahed l»Of WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICX^ PUBUSHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payabie In Advance): One Year $1.50; Six Months 75 cents; Three Mopths 50 cents Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clintcm, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers— the publisher wUl at aU times appreciate wise suggesUons and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest wbm they 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. " mindful of death.” she must of benn quoting someboddy. CLINTON. S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1»41 The Roce Is On ' The United States senate race in which the people of the state are manifesting little interest, is now on, the candidates being greeted with small audiences as they let forth their oratory and attempt to con vince the voters that “I am the man.” Governor Burnet R. Maybank has nominated himself. Cong. Jos. R. Bryson has nom inated himself. Olin li). Johnston has nominat ed himself and a decreased consumption of mil lions of gallons may be expected. In the Eastern coastal territory in cluded in the^ proclamation, there are more than 10,000,000. motor vehicles using 7,500,000,000 gallons of gasoline annually. Including other uses of gasoline, we are told that this re gion’s annual total approaches 10,- 000,000,000 gallons. To meet this de mand, tankers bring crude oil to At lantic coast ports where it is refined. In recent months many of these tankers have been transferred to First, It Wm Totf Dry; Then It Wm Too Wet the weather beaureau, Washington, d. c. deer sirs: what is wrong with yore depart ment? why can’t you look after the weather? to begin with, our section | >enjoyed ^ 75-day drowth and that' almost mint us, but lo and behold, as ^ soon a^ the drowth was broke by a? train which lasted a week without a| let-up, everboddy commenced to! grumble about too. much wetness, it' (Cleared off 2 days and then started 'raining again and it has benn rain- |ing ever since. I the grass is so tall in our fields we have to stand up on a stvimp to see our cotton, in other words, the grass has outgrowed the cotton by about 75 per cent, it’s too wet to hoe or plow, that is —at* this riting, but It mought clear off . anny day now: the moon will change tomorrow, unless something is done about too much rain, you ^ill have to ask that the department of agger-cultime increase our parrity checks or put us on di rect relief, as it looks Aow, the fiat rock community won’t make enough lint cotton to treat a case of earache with. j Great Britain to help feed her war The voters from the list, will make: machines. As a result, according to their choice in a primary to be held Ickes, thirteen Eastern states tmd next month. [parts of four others are finding it All three are thoroughly saturated | difficult to bring in sufficient quan- with Newdealishness, well versed in j titles of oil. Because of this situation, spending taxpayers’ money. [the restricted twelve hour sales pe- the recent rise in the price of cot ton hasn’t helped \is farmers anny. in the first place, we sold our cotton last fall for 10c a lb. and in the next place, what we mortgaged to the gov- veirment 2 years ago was took over last july. and in the third place 20c cotton wont help the farmers unless riod has been put into effect in the I they have some cotton to seH. our -|.i I L I A k*f’ [hope of arousing motorists to save j complaint is about the weather and I h6 Lock Of AltlDlflOn gasoline and also prepare them fori you reppersent it. if you could let us While there is certainly such a,possible “allowances” in the future.[have a rain about ever 7 or 8 days thing as “pull,” and it plays a big, While the saving scheme is volun- from now on, the govverment could part nowadays in almost everything j tary it is deserving of the fullest de- turn us a-loose. affecting everybody — the fact re- gj-ge of cooperation from both seller mains that without individual desire)and buyer. and ambition we are not liable to! xhe following ten rules for conser- get far ahead. • jvation have been approved by the our midst and it has ketched the There have been few business sue- ■ Defense Council and recommended; farmer with nothing to sell but grass. it is always one thing or another wages and prices have gone up in to motorists in the present emer gency: 1. Proper carburetor adjustment— be sure that your carburetor is ad justed to give you the most economi- cesses accomplished by those who had no ambition or desire to go for ward — to attenipt to do something for themselves. Behind the whole human race in every race is the thing we call de-^cal mixture of gasoline and air for sire. It is the steam of the human efficient operation of your car. engine. It is the urge of human ac-; 2. A properly tuned-up engine, complishment. .Have your service station carefully People do not fail so much because go over your car to make sure it is they want for wrong things. Some operating at full .efficiency. Clean do,' of course. But most people do spark plugs are important, not succeed because they do not! 3 Drive carefully—the most effi- know what they want or do not want cient speed for low consumption is a thing hard enough. The efforts of from thirty-five to forty miles per mankind should be not to suppress. hour. Gasoline consumption mounts nor destroy desire so much as to di- rapidly with increased speed. At sixty rect it into projjer channels and save miles per hour you consume thirty- - its force for something worthwhile, j three and one-third more gasoline The greatest wasters are the wast- than at thirty-five miles per hour, ers of time. This group has been rap-: 4. Avoid “jack rabbit” driving. Do idly increasing in recent years be- not try to be the first away from a cause government has encouraged traffic light. Sudden bursts of speed millions to expect something for ngg up gasoline unnecessarily, nothing, thereby discouraging per-, 5, Avoid over-use of the choke at sonal effort, initiative and hard work, starting. It was intended that the people^ Avoid unnecessary use of first and support the government. Now gov- second speed which consumes more ernment is expected to support the gasoline than third speed, people. j 7. Do not let your car idle at the ■ [curb. Shut off the engine. Fooling Oursolvos i s. watch your tire pressure. Un- “Nothing is ever going to be free ■ der-flated tires put an extra drag on and as everboddy has plenty of grass of their.own, it won’t fetch anny- thing. unless a change in the ele ments happens verry soon, this sec tion will have to graze their crops down with their cows, everthing else has benn reggerlated by the govver ment except weather, and we can’t see why it has not benn handled as per usual, rite ^ or foam when a change will take'place. yores very trulie mike lark, rfd. WITH THE PRESS Edit’orJal Comment From Various Papers. in this country,” wrote Paul F. Cad- man, economist of the American Bankers association, recently. “Some- the motor. 9. Take an extra passenger with you—doubling up on trips will often body will have to pay. To the ex- j save large quantities of gasoline, tent to which the government <ii8”| 10, Have your car correctly lubri- penses bounty of all kinds and for all cated — crankcase, chassis and gears purposes, the burden on those who maximum efficiency, work and attempt to save something; for a rainy day—will increase. When the rich, as a class, have been re- j - i. n - duced to bankruptcy, and when the DllflllCfr middle class have been driven to de- j Nl|n|||l| \ KM\|llr\\ peridence, further contribution willt- ^ be forced in the form oj compulsory j By GEE McGEE labor. The skilled will bo. compelled 1 ^ to offer their best. The unskilled will I be driven to offer the little which* they have, and the whip of the super-1 government will be the,^ incentive to human effort. The Moores Have Returned From Their Vacation mn and mesdame holsum moore That is a dark picture, but history! haveTetumed back from their sum- fully justifies it. The price we pay'rner vacation to the ocean beach, for a super-state is the ultimate they had a grand time as far as they complete loss of all liberty. Germany went their trip was broke off verry and Italy, with their slave economies, short onner count of mr. moore los- are sufficient proof of this, | ing his pocket wallet and it contain- Today w’e have government in ®d his monney at least — that is the credit, government in business, gov- j report of maddam j'oomer. ernment in farming, government ini — all lines of endeavor. Let that trend I the nioore’s expected to spend a continue and increase—as it will un- week with mr. moore’s married sis- less an awakened public stops it in [ter who lives at the beach, she mar- Washington, and the future envis-i^ied a husband that is doing verry ioned by this bank economist will [well for the fix he’s in and they had come true. In our search for some- j 3 spare rewms for the moores and thing for nothing, we have lost sight!their 7 children, imagine their dis- of our traditions, of our system of appointment when ^they arrived at the ocean beach, mrs. moore’s sister and husband had took their vacation and were spending it in the blue ridge mountings of n. c. free enterprise, of all that history teaches. We are destroying the sourc es of wealth—which means we are destroying the sources of employ ment and progress. That is the road . to dictatorship with a vengeance, ] worked a hardship on the mores with many signs pointing now that ^ to have to go to a private home and we are headed in that direction. Lib- P®y hoard and room rent for sleep- erty or doles—the choice is yours. ‘"g- it was so unexpected that it took Whom A Legislature Is Against Measured by performance, no gov ernor since 1918 has had “a success ful administration” in South Caro lina, or, for that matter, an “admin istration,” except in the matter of pardons and apoointments. ’The administrations have been 90 or 95 per cent by the legislatures. ’They, about seventeen years ago, revolutionized the school sfstem (first with the “6-0-1” law);/they increased the appropriations ot col leges; they fell in with and adwted the federal “matching system’" for old_age pensions; they have elected as'^usual the they established the Sant^-Cooper Authority; they increased the income taxes about the time the congress increased them; they enacted and kept on the books until lately the “tax on intangibles"; they authorized the road bond issue; they have mightily increased taxes and spendings since 1920, and they have created tl^p deficit which con fronts the state although North Caro lina faces a surplus of $5,000,000 and Mississippi also faces a surplus.' They have seldom if ever abolished a bureau, department or salary. Governor Richards approved the road bond issue, but Mr. C. E. Jones, the road commissioner, was the man responsible for that measure. Governors have adVised, and in most important matters their advices have been spumed by the legisla tures. ’The legislatures represent the peo ple voting in primaries, in the covm- ties, and the legislators consult the electorates of their counties, not thk electorate of the whole state which chooses governors. A “mandate” of the state elector ate is not a mandate to the elector ate of a county; hence a Quadruplets Administration may Continue eight or ten years or longer. The last forty years “legislative courtesy” between and among county delegations has steadily gained The Gasoline Curfew A curfew on gasoline sales became mr. moore’s breath right out of his mouth, he got thru the first day and night o. k., but the land-lady made him pay his lodgings in advance, he effective Sunday throughout the host his wallet the next morning and Eastern seaboard upon ^n order from the office of Secretary of the Inte rior Harold L. Ickes, federal petro leum coordinator. Under the ruling, no gasoline sales are to be made from 7 P.M, to 7 A.M., the object being to reduce consumption. Secretary Ickes has further warned motorists that unless they curtail the use of motor fuel volimtarily, more drastic steps that’s why they had to hurry on back home, he was lucky to find his wife with 2.75$. this was used for gas for his brother’s car which he berried to vacate in. / 4^ the moores went in a-washing one time in the ocean but they were careful not to wade out into the wat- ter in further than waist deep, th^ will be taken. We may come to a carried their undersuits and bathing rationing plan, he has indicated Whether the ruling cuts down con sumption much is doubtful. If it en courages motorists to drive into sta tions within the given sale hours with a request that you “fill ’er up/’ the plan will fail in its purpose. On the other hand, if car owners curtail pleasure or unnecessary riding their gas requirements will be reduced. suits to swim in and the mfo let the whole drove go in for 35c. they all enjoyed the waves and the breaken and the xmder-tow. the watter was verry cold to mr. moore; be had not benn used to having much of it on him. mrs. moore says to yore corry* spondent on her return to flat ro^: “after all, there ain’t no place UlM home, be it ewer so bu^le and strength until now it is powerful in the executive control of counti^ ex cept In counties whose dele^tions split—as they sometimes do. In twenty years, indeed since the end of the term of the late Gover nor Manning in January, 1919, gov ernors have had a relatively iiuig- nificant and^ rather pitiful influence in the affairs of the 'state. | To couple the name of a governor with an “administration” in South! Carolina is no more than a figure of speech. It has a pretty sound,'and some of the governors have rolled it under their tongues even to their hurt. I A governor of South Carolina is! jusually a person whom a legislature is against.—The News and Courier. PussUag Qnesttons Why is It, that in the minds of Ad ministration leaders the farmer ^o does his own work, who works in his fields from before dawn to after dusk, is not entitled to the classifica tion of “labor?” If he and his family do not woric, no one on the face of the earth does work. But this farmer man, it appears, in the minds of the administration, is entirely on the outside so far as the benefits and protection of labor are concerned. In his excellently worded, in gen ial, message to the congress a few days ago calling for some plan of price control. President Roosevelt said most correctly that there must be no favoritism of one class over another His own words were: Economic sacrifices there will be and we shall bear them cheerfully. But we are deter mined that the sacrifice of one shall not be the profit of another, nothing will sap the morale of this nation more quickly than penalizing its sweat and skill ^nd thrift by the individually unde served and uncontrollable pover ty of inflation. Our objective, therefore, must be to see that inflation, arising from the abuse of power to in creased prices because the supply is limited and the demand in flexible, does not occiir during the present emergency. However, in concluding his mes sage, he again emphasized the view that while “ceilings” or controls on practically everything would seem to be in order, these should not apply to “labor.” ’That must mean that the small farmer toiling in his fields with his own hands must consent to have a price for his farm products fixed, and apparently for the benefit of the consumer of the cities, but the in dustrial worker in the cities must not have any such thing put on him. ■ Why is this distinction as to “la bor” in the cities and “labor” on the farms in the coimtry? — The Green wood Index-Journal. TODAY... TOMORROW By Don Robinson PROSPERITY—Jolto It looks as though we are soon go ing to see the ano^ly of a period of prosperity and a period of depression taking place at the same ttoe and even in the same communities. Our old economic practices are in for a series of severe jolts, our busi ness “cycles” are expected to revolve in all directions and even that law of supply and demand, upon vdikh business has always functioned, is apt to be twisted into unrecognizable form. It’s going to be a period when peo ple who have money to buy goods may not be able to buy the things they want most, when stores which could do landoffice business have to turn customers down and when non defense workers are losing their jobs while defense workers are gettkig paid premium wages. Total income and purchasing pow er may break records in 1941, but| there will J>e new groups of unem ployed, many non-essential indus tries will be hard hit and the gov ernment will be issuing countlen rules and orders to try to ke^ the situation from getting out of hand. ' SCARCITY—Bonds ’There seems to be something al most sacrilegious about “repealing” the law of supply and demand even during such an emergency as this. Under that economic law, any pro duct which became scarce would au tomatically soar upward In price. If, 5,000,000 people wanted to buy auto mobiles and only 9,000,000 new cars were available, the operation of the law of supply and demandl would be similar to an auction—the automo bile dealer would, in effect, sell the cars to the 3,000,000 highest bidders. But because the government is forcing the autmnobite manufactur ers to create a possible scarcity by requiring them to produce millions of dollars’ worth of defense equipmmt, it feels that it must protect the con sumer’s interests by .preventing the high price increases which scarcity would naturally cause. To prevent prices from skyrocket ing is the Job of the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply, which, to my mind, has one of the hardest tasks of all the defense or* ganizations. It is faced with keepii^ prices down uhen it is natural for them to go up. More and more, as that office^ known as die OPACS, faces its jMrerf)- lems, it comes to one outstanding so lution, namely: most larlce problni;kS would melt away if ^ people who are earning more money would put those extra dollars in defense bonds. ALUMINUM—>UBempleyment During the week of aluminum showers, when most of tis contribut-.. ed old pots and pans to help relieve the aluminum shortage a lot of housewives must have pondered over the fate of the door-to-door alumi num salesman who sold them much of that equipment. The answer is obvious—he is out of a job, along with a good portion of the factory employees in the aluminum cooking utensil industry. The aluminum scarcity has been so dramatized that we are all conscious of it, but there are hundreds of other | businesses which are faced with sim-1 ilar problems. [ There will be many business heart breaks. There will be many small companies forced out of business be cause supplies are not available to them. But if a choice must be made between freedom and hardship, most American business men will be will ing to take hardship and like it. ’There may be days ahead when the bargains are a good deal better than t^ey are today. Above aU, there is no need for anyone of us to buy durable consvimers’ goods at this time with the idea that we are getting in ahead of spmdsody else.” In other words, the decision is left pretty much up to you. You won’t get a patriotic black mark if you buy that new car, but you will get a phis for your patriotisin if you let the old car do and buy defense bonds in stead. FINAL SETTTLEMENT Take notice that on the Ifitli day of August, 1941,1 will render a final account of my acts and doinM as Administrator of the estate of M. B. Bedenbaugh, in the office ef the Judge of Probate of Laurens County, at 10 o’clodc a. m., and on tiie same day will apply for a final disdiarge from my trust as Administrator. * Any person Ihdebted to said estate is notified and required to make pay ment on or before that date; and all persons having claims agabost said estate will present them on or be fore said date, duly proven, er be forever barred. J. F. BEDENBAUGH, Administrator. July 12, 1941.-t7-4cw. FINAL SEITLEBIENT Take notice that on the 4th day of September, 1941, I will render a fi nal account of my acts and doings as Administratrix of the estate of Jay- mon Joseph Smith in the office <jf the Judge of Probate of Laurens County, at 10 o’clock a. m., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as Admin istratrix. Any person indebted to said estate is notified and required to make pay ment on or before that date; and aU persons havixig claims against said estate will present them on or be fore said date, duly proven, or be forever barred. JIZZIE BELL SMITH, Administratrix. Aug. 4, 1941.—28-4p. PATRIOTISM—Bnyliig Many consumers are asking what they should do, from the patriotic standpoint, about buying products which they want but which fiiey could get along without. Is it against the best interests of their country for them to buy an automobile or a re frigerator? Should they c\|t down their standard of living? Should they stock up on necessities to put away for a rainy day? One of the best answers to these questions was made recently by Miss Harriet EUiott, associate administra tor of the OPACS, who said: “If you really need, and had In tended to buy a car, or*a refrigeratori or a new .washing, maekine, tan pal ahead and get it by all means. If you had no such plans, then don’t make any. Put your money into defense bonds. They are a much mc^ patri otic investment and you will be sav ing useful materials for defense. hTere may be days ahead when the cash will make you a good deal hap pier and a good deal more secure than a worn-out washing machine. CITATION FOR LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION The State of South Carolina, Laurens County. By J. Hewlette Wasson, Probate Judge: Whereas, Edna Bryson Emery made suit to me to grant her Letters of Administration of the estate and ef fects of Guy Edward Emery. l^ese are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the Kin dred and Creditors of the said Guy Edward Emery, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in file Court of IH^bate, to be held at Lau rens Court House, Laurens, S. C., on August 14 next, after publication hereof, at 10 o’clock in the forenocm, to show cause, if any they have, why the' said Administration should not be granted. Given under n^ hand this Ist day or August, a; IL, 1941. J. 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