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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C.
Thursdoy, November 6,1941
aI4r (Eltnton QIi|ron!rir
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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^ —
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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
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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
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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-
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