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/ / ‘ \ Poge Four / THE CUNTON CHRONfCLE, CLINTON. S. C. Thursdoy^ September 18, 1941 (Slmtoti Ol^onifU EsUkUihed ItM WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and I^iblisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBUSHING COMPANY Subscription Rate_(Payable In Advance): One Year $1.50; Six Months 75 cents; Three Months 50 cants 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 adien 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. selves about such important issues. Secretary of Interior Ickes, made He has been “priming,” in our opin-| public a statement to the effect that ion/for the senate ever since he as^ he couldn’t find any'sizable number sumed the governor’s office. He isjof railroad tank cars available for the gentleman who promised the vot- shipping oU. Following his statement, ers that if elected he would serve his John J. Pelley, president of the As* four-year contract as governor and J sociation ’of American Railroads, then retire to private life. He has,said that 20,000 tank ears were not i been a champioti spender of taxpay-1 in use—lay waiting to transport oil [^ers’ money, his chief boast being,' to the Eastern seaboaid. I “See what I got you or will get for; Further check-up showed Mr. Pel- lyou if you elect me to succeed j ley’s figures were correct and these I Byrnes.” In Washington he may be'cars now are being put into use. The * expected to continue his efforts for'2(1,000 cars are cajole of moving political spending in this state as j from six to eight million barrels of usual. When President Roosevelt' oil per month from Texas to the At- wants a senator he goes into the re- lantic seaboard. Yet, if Mr. Pelley CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1841 A Good Simile ling to pay our share of necessary . . J * j taxes. But the people insist that A good simile suggwted to us ^ i Washington officials set an example cently is as follows: As thin as the sacrificing which thus far they partition which separates diplomacy ^ave refused to do. This explains the from hypocrisy. [apathy back home. But to listen to a lot of congress- spective states to get him. With May- bank undoubtedly his preference of the three candidates who entered the held, he may be expected, like the majority of members of that body— to stand for New Deal theories and policies. Truth is, congress has> be come largely a body of errand run ners. It has abdicated its authority Jto the presidmt and his “key" men in Washington. With the election over, the fact remains that the real, far-reaching The Optimistic View When you meet a fellow you have not seen for a number of years and your face is no longer familiar to him, the Optimistic way to regard the situation is that his memory or eye sight is failing and not that the years wrought such a change in you. men and senators, you’d think we were a selfish lot of children who would kick and scream if any of our toys were touched. Consequently, they prefer to tax us with deceptive hidden taxes, cut down on our sup plies when we are not lookinf, and never let us come face to face with reality, so far as government needs are concerned. When the next election rolls around, the men to get our votes should not be the ones who have had not brought this situation to the publicis attention, 16 Eastern states would have faced a serious shortage in oil this winter. Most of the 20,000 extra cars dis covered by Mr. I^lley were standing at sidings in the private yards of re fineries. Many of the cars had not been moved for a mont||h or more be cause oi lack of demand for tank cars. While all the discussion of shortage in the East was going on, if those jcars had been moving they ed with 396,823 in December, 1940. Thus, the over-all production for the 1942 model year—^August 1, 1941, to July 31, 1942—would be brought to around 2,450,000 passenger cars, approximately half the 1941 model year output. , The OPM said in August that die halving of production would be nec essary to conserve steel and other strategic metals for defense require-1 ments. | WB DO ALL Klftos OF PRINTING —BXCEPT BAD CHRONICLB PUBUSHINO CO. Gray Funeral Home CUntoiw S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS EMBALBfBRS Asilwlanee Serriee PfceMa 41* and 899^1 L. RU8SSLL GRAY and V. parks ADAIR, Gsik Mgn. t problems confronting the nation in could have transported millions of the present emergency were not dis- I cussed in the campaign. The candi- ! dates dodged — they told the people bedtime stories. That is' the way of South Carolina politics. G-Men At Work The human race is slow to realize for any length of time, if at all, that the way of the transgressor is hard^i*^^®^ 8®^ us concessions for every and that crime does not pay even its conceivable purpose at the expense more gifted followers, but the G-men taxpayers, but those who have put are doing a great deal to cause the i 1^® preservation of American de stock of crime to decline and to take: mocracy above everything else. the glory out of lawlessness. Look At Russia Frapce, who has lost the admir ation of the world, might very well take note of Russia and see how it should have done. England might also i consider that it takes more than call ing for help to win a war. It appears I fate of our country, that if communistic Russia is given it is time for voters to 'put an end the proper amount of help that coun- j to mollycoddling by those \ve elect try will again prove to be the doom j to office if we are to be saved fmm of those who have the ambition to i bankruptcy, rule the world. 1 ^ Present pork-barrel politics and soft-soaping of voters is an outrag eous shame, American citizens feel who realize our nation’s future is at stake. We need men in Washington who have the strength, the intelligence, the integrity, and the backbone — to warrant putting into their hands the TODAY... lOMORIiOW By Don Robinson An Easy Buying Age The Election Result As was expected from the outset. We live in an age when installment the special primary Tuesday resulted selling has reached what seems to be in the election of Governor Burnet its highest development. You can R. Maybank over former Governor make a purchase at as low as five, Olin Johnston to fill the unexpired cents per day to run on through the j term of James F. Byrnes in the Unit- years. The system has behind it the. ed States senate. TTie governor ran theory of enjoying what you buy [strong in the lower part of the state while you are paying for it and it i and also carried a number of Pied- carries with it the temptation to buy[mont counties. The Charleston “ma- what you do not greatly need and | chine” was well oiled and worked cannot afford. There’s where the perfectly in. his behalf, giving him abuse of installment buying comes ipqre than 13,000 votes afminst less in. It takes an elert mind, a hard'than a thousand for Johnnon. head and an obdurate disposition toi When the senate race opened with turn one’s back on such alluring ave- I Bryson, Johnston and Maybank as nues of credit. i the candidates, there was little in- m [terest manifested, generally speaking. Bon On Noise Needed I lack of enthusiasm was evidenced by A number of towns and cities in: the fact that more than 300,000 vot- this section are launching campaigns ers did not take the trouble to vote, to do something to lessen the volume' The apathy was state-wide for sev- of unnecessary noise which people jeral reasons which need not be dis- must endure every day and far into cussed now that the election is over, the night. Ordinances in many in- i While the vote in Tuesday’s primary stances are bearing down on this nui- j showed an increase of approximate- sance, while in other places educa-, ly 35,000, still thpre was this spirit tional efforts are being made to bring' of apathy and indifference on the about the desired relief. ; part of the voters as to its outcome. In this community such a cam-, Nearly 300,000 qu.ilified voters would paign is needed and would be wel- not vote for either Maybank or John- corned. There are always in every ston. community (ours is not exempt) a! When Byrnes was handed the su- few drivers who delight in blasting; preme court plum in recognition of their horns at full power to the dis- j past services rendered to President turbance of the general public. Such ■ Roosevelt, it became evident at once demonstrations by horns, loud out-1 that the President desired Maybank bursts from automobiles, and other ! as Byrnes^successor. Hardly had the noises, are needless and an annoy-' campaign opened before the gover- ance that should not be allowed. Au- nor, in a letter from the president tomobile horns have their place when addressed “Dear Burnet,” was asked occasion demands but never for the to take the time to come to Washing- purpose ofr seeing how much fuss [ton.” Then it became generally ac- they can niake or how much atten-j.cepied by the public that Roosevelt tion the drivers who blow them can wanted Maybank though the part of attract. There should be a ban on such practices by the city authori ties. And speaking of noise, the night political wisdom withheld a definite public announcement. The^ president was not interested in either Bryson trains seem to start blowing before]or Johnston. The New Deal adminis- they reach the limits and keep it up | tration of thousands of federal office- until they are a good distance out of i holders in this state was arrayed the city. This seems an unnecessary against them both, though like May- practice that could be lessened at [bank, they both boasted of their least. I membership in the New Deal family. Yoimg people should get out of > Johnston was used by the president their cars and walk to the doors of ^ in th^ lalst senate race against Smith, the homes they are to visit and po-^The chief executive, it will be re- litely ring the door bell. It’s both a'membered, came down to Greenville nui.saqce and poor manners, to stand and made a speech in the darkness in the middle of the street and blow of the night from a railway car in PIPES—Network If we could lift the roof off of America—pick up a few feet of earth and see what is going on underneath, we would discover a network of transportation which would amaze us. I never though much about pipe lines, except when a water faucet failed to work or when I saw men digging a ditch on the side of a road, but since all the talk started about building a pipe line to transport oil to the Eastern states, I got interested in how much is now done with pipe lines. The figures are amazing. From what I could find out about it, pipes handle 50 per cent more of transpor tation in the United States than do the 4,500,000 trucks which stream day and.night over our highways. It is hard to imagine more transporta tion activity going on under the ground than on all the highways above it, but that’s what the figures show. In the large cities, the pipe lines carry gas and water to practically every home and then there are long pipe lines carrying oil from one state to another. To most of us the talk about building a pipe line from the oil fields of the West to the Eastern states sounded like a tremendous un dertaking, but to those who have built the pipe lines which now en twine underground America, this as signment is probably just all in the day’s work. barrels of oil. 48.4 PER CENT DECEMBER AUTO CUT IS ORDERED Washington, Sept. 15.—A sweeping 48.4 per cent reduction in piusenger automobile production for December was ordered by the Office of Produc tion Management today and some government sources predicted that an even deeper slash might be expe^ed for January and succeeding months of 1942. im^mo L Eicbelberger NEW YORK LIFE MAN 19 Ymum SxptrkMt* Professional Insurance lnfomiati<»i Fumished Free Member — The NatiMia AfRodaikm of Life - - - ^^ Undenrrlten. The curtailment after the first of the year probably will take the form of a levelling-off process, pinning production approximately to the fig ure specified by OPM for December —204,848 passenger cars, as compar- FOR SALE My Residence on Centen nial Street, at attractive price, easy terms. Also two other residences. B. H. BOYD Clinton, S. C. Hudson Says It With RECORDS! You can arRue aU day about **dbdin8,** but you can’t argue with facts. That’s why, when the subject of per formance comes up, Hudson just invites you to look at the record books of the AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION Contest board. To save you the trouble, we’ll tell you that Hudson holds nearly 150 of ficial stock dosed car performance records ... more than any other automobile built today! From mountain dimbs to fiying sprints, you’ll find that a HUDSON has ’’done it better.” Proof enough that a HUDSON will serve you better in day-in, day-out driving! BUILT TO SERVE BETTER .. . LAST LONGER . . . COST LESS TO RUN PITTS MOTOR CO. Sales—HUDSON—Service Day Phonf, 82 Night Phone 386-W your horn to attract attention. Soft-SoofMiig The Vofers If a mother treated her children an effort to defeat the senior sena tor and elect the gentleman who had announced from~ the White House was afraid to TRANSPORTATION Pipe lines have been used for transporting liquids for thousands of years. Back 4,000 years before Christ the Babylonians used crude clay pipes for transporting water, and in Jerusalem the Temple was supplied with water through earthen pipes en closed in stone blocks. As early as the First century A. D. lead piping was used to conduct water for house hold use in Rome. In 1685 Louis XTV had cast iron pipe laid in Paris. Transportation by pipes is by no means new, but never has a nation been so dependent on piles as Ameri ca is today. Millions of people con centrated in city areas couldn’t exist for a week if anything happened tb interfere with the service of the pipe lines. With uninterrupted service, the pipe lines constitute probably our most efficient means of transporting oil, water and gas. It is estimated that they handle 12 per cent of our natioinal transportation problem, while 8 per cent is handled by trucks, 18 per cent by ships and barges and 62 per cent by the railroads. As our transportation needs in crease for the moving of defense equipment, exhaustive studies are being made of our nation’s facilities. Reports indicate that we needn’t fear any transportation problems if all of our $80,000,000,000 worth of trans portation facilities . are used ef- iciently. gamble on Johnston again. In the the way the majority of congressmen contest just over Maybank had the and government leaders treat the White House blessing, though his op- people they represent, those children | ponent has repeatedly touted that would turn out to be spoiled brats. | Roosevelt is the greatest president We voters elect a man to office, or i the country has ever had. should—because we want hiss to bej Neither Johnston nor Maybank the guardian of our interests.. But. stand for the political principles and that doesn’t mean we want him to [opinions held by The Chronicle as mollycoddle us and give us a stick of well as thousands o| white men and RAILROADS—Movement During the World war we had a lot of railroad transportation prob lems and from filem learned one im portant lesson: m^ trarnyportatloo rather candy every time we open our mouths. Just as a child has more respect for a parent who says “no” vdien it is for the child’s best interests to say “no,” we have more respect for women who did not vote because they would not endorse either of the candidates, Johnston’s record as governor was not one to gain for him prmnotion to the senate. His insurrection a^dnst Washington representatives who are j the highway department, his imwar not afraid of offending us if they make a decision which they know ranted and unfair fight against the late Commissioner Ben Sawyer will be to our best interest in the! (worth more to South Carolina than long nm. In these complicated times, when our leaders don’t seem to know what it’s all about—^the people are willing to co-operate even if asked to do some things which niight be a little easier not to dO. "Wh^ we know the government must raise huge sums of money for defense (andi not 'to po litical spending-as-usual) we’ra wiU- both Johnston and Mayt>ank) has not been forgotten. Neither has his abuse of the pardon power been forgotten. Maybank, like his predecessors $ince Richi^ 1. Manning, has made a mediocra sort of governor. He has shown no leadership or influence in the state or general assembly. His positkm <m moral questions is well known by those who concom them- depends on the movement than the number of freight cars. If freight cars are used for stor age, as they aften were during the last war, it wouldn’t matter how many cars ^ere available—^we’d still be short. At the'present time there are over a million and a half freight cars in serviceable condition. But unless the transportation problem is handled efficiently, many of those can vdll be standing on sidings v/hm they could be moving goods. This same need also applies to all other means of transportation. If a truck or a ship spe^gludf its time waiting to be yato^dt^or load ed, it actually requires two trucks or ships to do the work which one mi^t be doing. WASTE . . . 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