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\ .-i I < Page Four -r- THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. Thursdoy, November 6,1941 aI4r (Eltnton QIi|ron!rir Established 190# WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance); One Year $1.50; Six Months 75 cents; Three Months 50 cents Entered as Second Class MaU Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. ^jhie Chronicle seeks the coo^rafttoirof its'subscribers and readers— the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest vdren they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous conununications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. Up to last week our prospects for this investment were indeed slim, but we can now see the light. gresses and that the best safeguard for the future is to acquire land, a new house^ and innumerable other possessions vdiich will increase in We are going to save up all of this j value. money ($5.00) by cutting comers. In , the reshuffling that is going on and we don’t mean cutting mmers the savers may become spenders and in our Ford. Our first efforlj at re- i the spenders savers, but individuals , ducing took place yesterday. We have [ will continue to be just as different ; three offices in our' business end of 1 a* they ever were in their spendhig RADIO REPAIRING COMFUR UNI <1 Tens M. BOYD OWINGS (At City BalM Co. CLINTON. S. C.. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1941 Human Nature Changes Little entire community as from the committees today’s paper. These volunteers are en- I men of this I will be seen !announced in Human nature is very much the , j .k same in every generation, the main 1 titled to the liberal and sympathetic difference being that we give new, fuPPort of every man and woman m names to old forms of delinquency, the Chnton-Goldville area in order For example, we speak now of be-; that our quota may not only be ing modern, being sophisticated and raised, but over-subscribed, being a good sport. In the more. Americas enoiroous nati( frank and forthright days we simply {tense efforts at this time r^uire a called it playing the fool. aU American Red ^^ i Cross activities. Funds reabzed dur ing the membership-period will be j used to enable this great organiza- T de- Gee McGee Missed A subscriber writes, ‘‘I missed Gee tion and its chapters to carry on its McGee’s Nobody's Business column' expanded services to the Army and from my paper last week. I enjoy it! Navy and to widen its national de- every week, along with other Chron-! fense program for the civilian popuv icle features, and hope you have not discontinued it.” No. sir, we have no intention of severing compaay with the inimitable Gee McGee. His column was onfltted last week for the first time in years, due to last-minute changes that were necessary in the make-up. He is back today with his column of wit and lation. As evidence of how closely Red Cross activities and war relief are linked together, we are informed that expenditures of the organization for relief work abroad amounted to more than $47,000,000 up to the end of June. The need for Red Cross help to multiplied thousands of vic- interest which many of our readers I tims of war in other lands still con- tell us frequently, they immensely I tinues. At the same time the need enjoy. for services to our people at home is increasing rapidly in line with the national defense program. This means that enlarged fimds are need ed now to a greater extent than ever before to buy milk and food to meet the building we occupy. We decid ed to move the “boss” (our stenog rapher) from the middle office to the oustide office where she could keep everybody out except folks who want to pay their accounts, etc. Well, this made it necessary for us (the fellow who sort of looks after, things) to move into the middle office and thus vacate the rear (private) office. We don’t need any private office. Everybody in town knows all and evidently sees all that we do, hear, think or say, so why try to fool ourselves. By making this move . . . we cut out one telephone, one heating xmit, one electric fan, 4 75-watt lamps, and the cost of keep ing the office a-going. (For Rent: one office.). We never saw so much junk in one place in our lives as that that had accumulated in our office. We began to check up on what we could throw away. The first thing was a^bushel or so of personal bills that we had paid in the past. We ain’t bad about throwing away records, but as the “boss” said . . . “You mi^t as well throw ’em all in the waste-basket; the fellows had such a hard time col lecting them once, they wouldn’t think of trying to collect ’em again.” So they went, and about a truckload of other stuff went along with them. We are now ensconced in office No. 2, and it ain’t private. The war can go on; we will do our part as soon as we get the 5-spot. Everything else we will make or earn or find will go for taxes and taxes and taxes and licenses and licenses. We will do mighty well to make $5.00 from now on. Unfair To the Public It would appear that since the gov ernment has legalized the sale of liquor and thereby made it conditions, clothing, medical, easily available for evei^body a guj.gical and other supplies to make thus increased the possibility of peo ple acquiring the habit of its use, the government should also main tain some institution where con firmed drunkards would be cared for and thus relieve the public of those burdens and nuisances for which liquor laws are largely responsible. The state’s new Senator Maybank, a dripping wet, might interest himself in such an institution since he de- surgical and other supplies available emergency relief whenever and wherever disaster strikes, to ren der service to our armed forces, pub lic health, home nursing, and many other needs. To enumerate all of the activities for which your Red Cross dollars are wisely spent would take pages. It is not necessary to recite them, so firm ly established has this agency of ,. ,, . J. . » I mercy become as the American phil- hghts m spending taxpayers money.importance. In giv- for every conceivable purpose. He would no doubt gain the hearty sup- IX)rt of President Roosevelt, whose record shows he is as wet, or prob ably more so, than Maybank. Nurses Badly Needed Miss Mary Beard, chairman of the subcommittee on nursing of the Health and Welfare division of the government, estimates that more than 31,000 additional nurses are!of mercy, needed this year by the army, navy, I — government agencies, and civilian | mimmmmmm institutions. To meet these require ments, she says, it will be necessary for many retired nurses to return to active duty. In addition, 50,000 girls must be enrolled in schools of nurs ing and hundreds of thousands of women must be trained to be volun teer nurses. Whether or not we become gaged in nurses in ing to the Red Cross, one gives to the service of mankind. Its^ emblem is symbolic of unselfish service and neighborly help to those in need re gardless of race, color or creed. The banner of the Red Cross has become a national emblem under which the armies of peace are enlist ed in a never-ending warfare on disease and disaster in civil life. We should all be enrolled under its fiag NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE en- We Should All Love Our Dairyman The life of a dairyman is just one a shooting war, additional, night after another. I have tried to large numbers are needed find out when a dairyman does his to* meet our present needs. Becoming' sleeping, but have not been able to a nurse today is not only an oppwr-jdo so. I have talked with several tunity for women to learn a noble j dairymen during the past few days and wo/rthwhile profession but is as and they all tell the same story , . . patricitic a step as it is for a man to they go to bed late and get up early, voluntarily join the army. ; habits. HOARDERS—Daager Probably the group t^ch is doing the most harm in this country today is the hoarders . . . the people who are buying coal or oil for a year ahead, are buying refrigerators or washing machines which they don’t really need, are stocking up on sta ple foods as soon as they hear there may be a scarcity, and the women who are buiring quantities of silk stockings in order to make stu« that they have plenty even though there may be none left for other women. Hoarding was one of the problems in the last war and, as scarcities te- come more apparent, it is apt to be even more of a problem during the present emergency. If all of us could be persuaded to buy in a normal manner and not to stock up ,a lot of scarcity would probably be entirely avoided. All of us have been made so con scious of increasing prices and in creasing scarcities in the last few months that it is natural to try to figure out the best way to protect ourselves against the future. ^ut at the same time, if we are all willing to make sacrifices to keep otir defense program running smoothly— one of the most helpful sacrifices we could make right now would be to curb the urge to get the jump on our neighbors by purchasing for tomor- rov^ — SAY. “I SAW IT IN THE CHRON ICLE.” THANK YOU. for COLD DISCOMFORTS Uqdd 35c «Haa That Nmw Dm# BSfoct” INSURANCE lire - Ailtomo- bile - Bonds - All Forms of Property Insoruice. SOUIND PBOTECnON AT LOWEST COST. REAL ESTATE B. H. BOYD CUnton, S. C. SUBSCRIBB TO THB CHRONICUI TSAOf MAM lODAY... TOMORROW By Don Robinson MONEY—Budgets Practically everyone in America keeps some kind of budget, whether it’s a carefully worked out account ing system for the disposition of in come or a few rough mental notes on when the coal bill and insurance bills come due. How best to handle a small income has been the subject' of coimtless books, magazine articles and govern ment studies—but the solution still is as debatable as how to get rid of a cold. If you analyze the spending habits of your friends you’ll find that most every family reacts differently to money. There is the family that sacrifices necessities for luxuries and pleasure; another seems to sacrifice all other pleasures for the pleasure of saving; others stint themselves to be gener ous with their friends; others spend only on themselves; others put all of their money into insurance because they are more interested in securi^ in the future than in having things today; others spend everything and don’t worry about the future; and most all of us have some peculiari ties about our financial management which no one can understand but ourselves. Efforts to tell people how to spend money usually fail, because millions of different types of people never can be regimented into agreement. the fact that railroads were on the P"' road to bankruptcy and a number of. ^ ssi g^ou . them operated under a receivership,] The dairyman gets all of the bad the Seabo^d Air Line sei^ this, breaks, including bottles. Nobody h^'rK..“.K Th'I feels disposed to pay for a brokM may be that the railroad employes W. J. BENJAMIN SERVICK STATION Standard Products Can Washed and Oraaaad Tov BaMaeaa Appradatad TYPEWRITERS Authorized Underwood Dealor. Cleaning pnd repairing all nakaa, reasenable charg^ Kenneth N. Baker Phone •#• KEROSENE... I Ac Per Gallon YARBOROUGH OIL COMPANY WB8T MAIN SISIE* The Right Start Is Important ♦ Naturally, if you have. definitely idetermined to buy a bome, a carefuIly-tIuHight-ont financing |h:o- gram is essentiaL^ One main function of the Citizens Federal is to offer direct-redaction loons planned so as to meet the ability of prospective owners to acquire their homes through monthly payments out of income^ or to refinance existing loans on favorable terms. Plans such as we suggest make home oiwnership remarkably simple for many folks who otherwise must continue to pay rent. We shall be ideased to have you can for details without obligathHi. ! Each Account Insured Up To $5/XX) EDERAL5AVINGS [AND LOAN ASSOCIATION TdzpluNW Na. • -1 A Clinton Institution Serving Clttnton People Since 1909 i 'f* SPENDING—Peculiarities As I think over the spending hab its of people I know there are cer- The Railroads' Plioht I hurt the dairyman. He gets up every j tain ones which stand out for their A A • 'light, summer and winter alike. He financial peculiarities, r-.n the Amcri- coming about 3 hours before day- There is the bachelor who says he .. iirn-w n - ' ^ i jg the Only food supplier that a cus- can’t afford to marry but never 1 ynlr ^oesn’t find its miUc pkked -clothes, pays $100 a month for an cent they are s^king Such workersevery i apartment and carries $50,000 worth •irp '.iiParKy iu u Hioming, Sabbath included, at the of insurance. hor n tniP^nr manv ' crack-o-day, Several fits are thrown, There is a millionaire who picks up been true for many years m spite of Mr buttons on the golf course to take home to his wife because she might find a use for them. There is the couple who spend money freely on other things but practically starve at the end of the month if their allowance for food is used up. ’There is. the family which goes without ne^ed clothes and has no decent furpittire in their home but insist on eating the best foods money can buy. There is the family which inter views all of their friends before buy ing anything to find someone wlio can get it for them wholesale. Those are just a few that I can think of, for as I consider the people I know I can’t think of one person who hasn’t some peculiar quirk in his h£|ndling of money. are not particularly concerned about or a stolen milk bottle or a milk bottle that the family needs for this feature since they figure that as <„ner purposes, storage, keeping ho- a ast resort government ovmer^ip' 33,^5, and sich like; the “‘“Jfifairyntan has to replace 85% of them will then, as usual, be free in the spending of the money of the tax payers. Such a result, when it comes, will be another step toward the gov- with a smile. If feed advances in price ... a milk customer can’t understand why milk should go up. ..... ... I If labor costs more at the dairy, that emment of this country by the un-| shouldn’t affect the price of miWet 10ns and will mean poorer service to i cetera the public and larger deficits. Gov-j ’ ^ ernment in busings spells'with cap-j The milkman is the last fellow to ital letters inefficiency, extrava-1 receive his pay, that is—in many gance, red-tape and waste. WPA and j cases. The doctor and the baker and ^ntee-Cooper are glaring examples, the radio maker come first. The in- There are scores of others just as bad that might be mentioned. The Red Cross Colls Again Once more the people of America are being called upon to make their annual commitmenti to the greatest charity of alL Bei^baning on Armis tice Day’ and continuing to the end of the month, the Red Cross mem bership drive will be in full force. Every home in Uie land is asked to display the* window card of member ship. The Ciinton-Goldville membership drive is being sponsored by the local Kiwanis club, beaded by J. H. Pitts, Jr., of that oziaQizaUon as general chairman. Chaina«i Pitts has been busy the past two wedEs (wganking for the drive and eoBsting ttie sup^ port of a number 6f men and wo- stallment collectors always beat him to the base. Sickness in a family is the best excuse for not paying a milk bill. Next comes new tires for the car or an auto refiair biU or Susie’s in college or grandpa has been cut off of xelief or taxes or insur ance or beauty parlor woric or mefo- be the dog is in the hospital Mflk is the'most essential food for any household, and I pity any famUy tiiat can’t get enough of it each day to meet every requirement, but let’s not forget the good old dairyman vritoi works night and day to help us sUiy fit to work 8 hours a day or less. We Have Taken A Step^owai^ We art tr3ring.our level best to ae- cumulate enou^ taaaey to buy a book of Defense Stamps ($5.00) so’s we^win have iomething4o riiow for our year’s work at CSuristmar-tiir^ CHANGES—^EMmomics Ekronomic eruptions, such as we are going through now, always cause radical changes in people’s spending habits, but usually it just causes a sort of reshuffling of habits rather than a group chgnge. These changes already have made marked headway. For instance, there are the men who have always Mmscientioual^ sav ed part of their income and now feel that the future is so uncertain that they might as well go on a spending spree now rather than take the chance of losing ttelr money later on. There are others who are earning better incoqies than they ever earned &i their lives but don’t expect it to last so are putting all they ean for fibe rainy day whirii they mhw is boimd to come. others feel that mmay may ^^acrease in value as the war pro- TO llAt M STYUNG TO IIAD M raiFORMANa 10 lao M ECONOMY amour MR SERVICE OE Dhtincthft without being agtenshn CHEVIt0L£1$ NEW MODELS 0 i J Thalr swrpaaalno qucrilty—plus thuir Mirprisino •cunomy—auts tham sqnu’t frwM M othur Torpudo” mosluto Superlative grace and beauty distin guish Chevrolet’s new Fleetline Aero- sedan and new Fleetline Sportniaster.^ And, of coune, they also bring you all of the Unitized Knee-Action comfort... all of the VaHe-in-Head *’Victory” per formance and economy ... all of the 3i-year-pro?ed depandahlUty which char acterize the new Chetrolet—Tlie Ffnarf Chevrolet qf AU Time* See theee dletlnguithed cars at your nearest Chevrolet deolar’si and convince yourself that pays to buy the leader and get the leading buy/* n J * — ITRRIISIOBUYlHElEADiR AND GET THE lEMHIK NY Giles Chevrolei: Companyjnc CUNTON, S. 1