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THE CUNTON CHRONfCLE, CLINTON. S. C.
Thursdoy^ September 18, 1941
(Slmtoti Ol^onifU
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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. |
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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
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NEW YORK LIFE MAN
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- - - ^^ 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-
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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!
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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 . . . OU
One of the most amazing examples
of potential waste in tranqiortatiett
has been brought out in the recant
discussions of the oil shortage in the
Bast n •
After atq;>ar«itly making a Rudy
of the situattoh, Ralph K. Davk%
acting prtmletim coordinator undac
cionuNs
/srsap mm
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