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■.■S l^age Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C Thursdoy, NoYember 13,1941 (Elinton (!ll|ron!rU Estoblithed 1900 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 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Officeat Clinton;BrC; ■ ■ ' ' ■ ' '1. ■ 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 inten^ when tney are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communicaticms will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE STOLL UPHOLDS $ID;000 VERDICT m Legion Auxiliary Sponsors American Cor of Wonders ’ Laurens, Nov. 6.—Judge Phillip H, Soli overruled a motion by defense counsel to set aside a $10,000 verdict Good News For IsoUtionisto And «««« berry, in her $25,000 suit against the The New Order Belk-McKnight company, now the mr. heinie henkel, a recent citizen. Belk-Beard Co., Inc., of Newberry, of flat rock is t^ihg to organiize a The plaintiff charged that she had little “america first” club^^wtt^ed been wrongfully accused, arrested ^ displays, will be located opposite after wheeler s^and Imdbergtrs-ma- [ and maliciously prosecuted by thet^ollce station above jpltts Motor com- chine. so far he has not got army' defendant company in connection j pany on North Broad street, from members except his wife and 4 chil- with the passing of a check in No- i 10 a.m. to 10 pjn. next Thursday. A dien and a stranger by the name of.yember, 1936. The case was trans-'small admission fee will be charged. The American Legion Auxiliary will ^)onsor the showing of the world’s largest automobile, the “American Car of Wonders,” on' Thursday, November 20. The car, which is over 50 feet long and con tains spectacular and educational WYMAN SHEALY PLUMBING HEATING Free Bsthwates Gladly Fnmlslied Oa AU Wwk. Phone 267-W SHOP— * 195 E. PerpBea SliMt Prompt Service CLEVTON, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1941 himmler goritzenborg. mr henkel has alreddy rote hitler a letter and asked for a nice cash subscription to get started on. he would of rote to mussolena, but ferred here from Newberry county land consumed three days. NOTICE OF COUNTY TREASURER t 1941 •r The Slow English If Germany keeps up the bad work j ^ j2i a month to defend the lib-1 t any use to waste postage on long enough she may at last | erties which make it possible for un-j ® coun ry.^ ver the English into a (reasonable labor unions to thrive j .. america first headouarters will hI.TC me S To'"J"'"' ' fuSlsh all the necessai? litterature a good account of themselvcs,,but^i «n'S'^ hate to see everybody else whipped first. It will be too bad if the Brit ish continue to sit around doing utaw I Tbe books of the Coimty Treasurer someboddy told hm Italy was ^ <ili*ction of busted and had not robbed anny na- - wi taxes for the fiscal year, 1941, at the Treasurer’s office from October 1, to December 31, 1941. After December 31 one per cent will be added. After January 31st, two per cent will be added. After February 28th three per W..O -..va aa aaa added, aud aftet MaTch tr> everybody else whiooed— •ui"’' Tr’'/^ ”|to send speakers down here to spread added and hate to see everybody else whip^ ^ ^^ke defense both possible and ade-' ansoforth, that is —if fijgy gajj anny that are will- nnfhine until Russia falls Thev ao- cocky, grasping, bulldozing ing to take the risk of talking in the are too much concern^' great 1 interest of the “new order” for eu- , , k aO a,, . • ♦ i Ber the coring of ^edcan sS^ majority of American people have.rope and america first, so far no .‘J® iTthlfr patience or cdnfidence, ought to • speakers have got verry far downi]^^/®*' J® located. 'This lo ineir aia. .■a,.,a^....a.a^ai ^y>a b-ia.L-oai a.,,t a^f Kiel .. a. • __ Is ImpoiTant, Bs ddditional cost and penalty may be attached. Among interesting things to be seen in the presentation is a modem mobile radio station, television equipment, moderp 100-watt ama teur radio telephone, a photostatic copy Qf the Declaration of Indepen dence,' Civil war relics, stamps, cu rios, lelics and handiwork from for eign countries, the United States se cret service displays of counterfeit money and* an exhibit of British crown jewels in replica. the books closed. All persons owning property in more than one school district are re quested to call for receipts in each Radio Comes Of Age speakers have got verry be renounced and kicked out of his I south on this mission, powerful position. Far too long, the' ^ mr. henkel believes that if he can New Deal administration in Wash- This month radio broadcasting coddled and played ball | ^ fellers that have been out comes of age and celebrates its 21st with this labor leader and let hun ^f w.p.a. or hasn’t got a big par- birthday. In addition, it is also cele- have his way. They are afraid of, qj. not been furnished brating the 15th anniversary of net-, I^wis jiecause his organization has relief or has not benn put on work broadcasting. ^ tremendous vote-pulling power govverment payroll, they will Radio h5s made tremendous strides 'join his club, most of the people during its youth—since the day ini With a war emergency confronting i who hate roosevelt will line-up with November 1929, when station KDKA, I the nation—what has and is still be-' america firsters. Pittsburgh, first aroused public ip- j allowed to transpire is an out- j • terest in radio broadcasting with a rageous disgrace. No wonder the peo- ■ edditor, the local qlub will ap- program announcing the returns on pie are badly divided and there is a, pj.ggjg^g your influence, (if you have the Harding-Cox presidential elec-j decided lack of unanimity or sacn |ficial spirit back home. Of course, that wasn’t the real be- j ginning of radio, which had been in experimental stages for many years All able-bodied male citizens be tween the ages of twenty-one (21) and sixty (60) years of age are liable to pay a p>oU tax of $1.00. Dog Owners! Your dog tax is on the tax books. You are entitled to abatement of dog tax by reason of rabies treatment. But it is necessary that you present inoculation certifi cate to the county treasurer at the time of tax payment or before. Un less presented then, tax cannot be anny left, in this great effort to keep Proper attention will be given america out of the war till england' those who wish to pay their taxes « A - .m ^ ^DIO REPAIRING COSfPLETE LINE of TUBES M. BOYD OWINGS (At City Sales Co. W. J. BENJAMIN SERVICE STATION Standard Products Cars Washed and Groaned Toor Bosineas Appreeiatod Payroll Tax Proposed is licked so’s we can then fi^ht alone all icy-lationists think it is by far better to whip hitler by ourselves and had. been successfully utilized The treasury of the Unit^ Statues, | rather* than with the help of the al- 1 leys, and then we will get all of the tates, in the World war. But that was the the public is now informed, propAs- first program broadcast for the pur- es to have the average worker pay | glory pose of arousing public interest in up to 15 per cent of his income ini radio. payroll taxes. This means, if the plan | Are On Our PsyroU It all is said to have started when is put into effect, that out of every ^ ^ ggg^j Baptist or a H., P. Davis, then vice-president of $100 earned by employed persons $15 gggjj Presbyterian or a good Metho- W^tinghouse, read a small adver- will be subjected to tax which the ^jjg^ gj. g^y other good church mem- tisement of a Pittsburgh department government will force the employer vjgj.—what would you think of a store saying that wireless sets to hear to deduct from the paj" envelope preacher that you hired at a salary of concerts sent from the home of Frank along with the usual or even increas- $12 500 00 per year plus expenses Conrad, in Wilkinsburg, were for ed social security payment which incidentals, that would get up sale. That little ad changed Mr, Da- goes into the general spending treas- ggy y^g^ gj^y vis’ whole attitude toward radio—^or ury. » devil is only a boogy man to him it said, for the first time, “Ra- The people are getting too much | g^^j ^j^gj jg abroad in the dio can serve the public.” Before that money, treasury officials say, and; ^yg^^ gygj^ g preacher would it had been thought of primarily for for this reason congress is asked topreach very many sermons along private purposes. Dr. Cgnrad, who levy between $4,000,000,.000 and tjjose lines tiU he found it necessary started as an amateur but by 1920 $5,000,000,000 of new taxes next vamoose—because he would not was one of the best known operators year. Whether the new tax structure *gii oreoare for a hereafter in the nation, broadcast several times will be put into effect on top of the a week for the benefit of the few $3,500,000 revenue bill approved! ^ . .. , sn-caUed bie people who had radio sets. He would only two months ago is not known,i brainy and brawny in the U S talk, play phonograph records and but most likely it will since Secre-j _ J’ • som^etimes have friends in to put on taw Morgenthau is urgin^^^ insofar m .the test a show. , ate consideration of the program. ! • Mr. Davis listened—and from then The absurd reason given fof this: Thev are not on he devoted his effort toward plans payroll tax is the pretense of pre- jTlfa^^ to broadcast programs of the widest venting inflation. Therefore the ( p,;ssible public interest. f ' ‘treasury says, the thing to do is to j Radio rtas many faults. There are take away from the people in extra [ g^giging tbeir rights as to free s^h many ways in which it must be taxes the spare money they have and I changed and improved. But all of us expect to spend. Get the money at! ^ ^ their will admit that for a youth of 21 the earliest moment is the slogan. ^d years it is, to say the least, a young- before the people get a chance to 1 ... through the mail by check, money order, etc., giving name of township and number of school district. ” Thei tax levy is as follows: ^ Ordinjary County 11 mills Constitutional School 3 mills Road Bonds 9 mills Past Indebtedness 1 mill Weak Schdols 1 mill Hospital 1 mill State (retirement state bonds) 1 mill ster who “shows real promise.” spend it. our country suggests a plan of action While we all know that money is j ri^^. needed for defense, and the people are willing to be taxed for this pur pose—'they are strongly opposed to Judging from the way some of our servants (?) are acting, they think Hitler is an angel, Mussolini a saint, and the premier of .Japan—(we won’t know who he is when this appears in print) can destroy Asia, Australia and the Malay States and not hurt America. Such men as these might fill the position of magistrate at Punkin Center or might, with LoGuordio Wins The re-election of LaGuardia as mayor of New York, Republican, So- ^ing taxed in order that the lavish cialist and American‘Laix)r leader, 1 j-g^g qi spending for non-essentials while it broke tradition, did not come mgy be continued. During these per- unexpected. It had been predicted' jious times a halt should be caUed from the start that he would win, qj^ so-called social gains, the build- though his majority of 133,000 out of, jj^g gf town and city projects the a total of morje than 2,000,000 ballots people^ can well do without, and was the smallest proportion by which | which have not the remotest con- a mayor has been elected in the na- nection with defense. The spenders some training, become a constable tiori’s No. 1 rnetropolis since 1905. He j gj-g bi the saddle and they refuse to ® town. They have got no is the first candidate to win three; curtail or put an end to their waste- i "'ore business being in the senate ienn.s in the forty-three years of the'fuj spending and extravagance. The Goebbles has in Paradise, greater city. ; only relief for taxpayers is a clean- j While the governor of the state, j j^g gut of off ice holders in Washing-i strikes and walkouts Farley and other prominent Demo- j already too long delayed. I ®^® caused by these un-American crat political leaders were out and gj.g fgeing the present crisis Politicians. Labor naturally be- out against the mayor in favor of with a busted treasury. For ten Sieves a part of what they are say- O’Dyer, President Roosevelt had years, in times of peace, we have'^”® during this emergency, and our publicly endorsed LaGuardia with gg^g deeper and deeper in the red [workers see no reason why it should his blessing. This was not a new ^ve have sunk twenty thousand mil- ^® ^ delay the making procedure with the president. To the [bon dollars in debt for non-military!®^ planes, ships and tanks—if, by contrary, when he wants and needs j gfid political purposes. Before we | they can earn a little bit a certain man in a state he goes out reached this expensive problem of i™®*"® ^oney, and not hurt our gov- "" ^ emment at the same time. I am TYPEWRITERS Authorized Underwood Dealer. Cleaning and repairing all make*, reasonable chargee. * Kenneth N. Baker^ Phone $09 SAY. *T SAW IT IN THE CHRON ICLE ” THANK YOU. . SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLB Gray Funeral Home CHntoii* S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS EMBALMERS Ambnlance Serriee Phonee 41 and S99>J ^ L. RUSSELL GRAY and T. PARKS ADAIR. Gen. Mgrs. INSURANCE Fire • Tornado • Antomo* bile - Surety B<mds • All Forms of Property Insurance. SOUND PROTECTION AT LOWEST COST. REAL ESTATE B. H. BOYD Clintem, S. C. Will remoee yo«r| OQiB with one aie or moncT JlFFYlSC For Salel^ 8ADLER-OWENS PHARMACY S to get him, if possible. The recent senator's race in this state was an example. Roosevelt wanted May financing a preparedness program, before a gun is shot, we find our selves buried in debt and forced to l>ank, he had no interest in either 1 gQjjtbiue borrowing and borrowing. Johnston or Bryson. . ! This proposal of Morgenthau will During the past eight years, 'tfeulti- meet the approval of the Ameri- j ^® down, plied millions of dollars have been. gg^ people. While they are willing afraid that we have about 12 to 15 men in certain branches of our gov ernment that would laugh up their sleeves if every defense project were sent to LaGuardia from Washington I jq jjg taxed for preparedness, and Pmi-nwf in—grant, subsidies, ^nd expendi-j j^ake sacrifices when Washington be-l tures for every conceivable puJiiose.> g|ug ggj g^ example—they resent PiCturC SundoY This no doubt was a big factor in thei^gji^g penalized on this new scale of -m' race. Money telks in big poUtiM heavy taxes levied upon the payrolls j The Brotherhood of the First Bap day. The truth J^the man with the Uf emplpyes, whatever their jobs tist church is sponsoring a moving xno. t noney us the one who wins. 1 may be. picture, “The Better Way,” at the What is needed is to cut govern-! evening service Sunday, Nov. 16 ment expenses to the bone. Threats' This is a stewardship picture which of more taxes to be piled upon the • presents in an interesting way the people because wages have ^n in- ideal way of church fln«nring All A Show-Down Needed The time has come—it has already Total 27 mills Laurens School Districts No^ 1, Trinity Ridge „...9 mills No. 2, Prospect .— 8 mills No. 3, Bark^ale-Namie 8 mills No. 4, Bailey 7 mills No. 6, Oak Grove 6 mills No. 7, Watts Mills 17 mills No. 11, Laurens 22 mills Youngs School Districts No. 4, Bethany 15 mills No. 5, Grasrs 17 mills No. 6, Central 9 mills No. 7, Young^ 8 mills No. 8, Warrior Creek 8 miUs No. 10, Lanfdrd 12 mills Dials School Districts No. 1, Greenpond 13 mills No. 2, Eden 10 mills No. 5, Gray Court-Owings .26 mills No. 3-B, Fountain Inn .24 mills Snllivan School Distrkto No. 1, Princeton 13 mills No. 2, Mt. Bethel 12 mills No. 3, Pbplar Springs 16 mills No. 7, Brewerton 16 mills No. 17, Hickory Tavern ...29 mills No. 17, Gray Court-Owings....30 mills Waterloo School Districts No. 1, Mt. Gallagher 8 mills No. 2, Bethel Grove 7 mills No. 4, Center Point 10 mills No. 5, Oakville 8 mills No. 6, Mt. Pleasant 4 mills No. 7, Mt. Olive ..21 mills No. 14, Waterloo ...8 mills Cross Hill School District No. 13, Cross Hill 27 mills Hunter School Districts No. 3, Rock Bridge 8 mills No. 4, Wadsworth 6 mills No. 5, Clinton 18 mills No. 6, Goldville 11 mills No. K-19, kinards 8 mills No. R-42, Reederville...- 13 mills No. 16, Mountville..... 18 mills Jacks School Districts No. 1, No white school 4 mills No. 2, Shady Grove .13 mills No. 3, Renno 10 mills No. 5 — - .4 mills No. 6, O’DeU’s 10 mills No. 7, Garlington 8 mills No. 16, Hurricane „...8 mills Sonflletown School Districts No. 1, Long Branch Kk mills No. 2, Musgrove —10 mills No. 3, Laqgstcm .....v- 7 mills No. 4, Sandy Springs— .....8 mills No. 12. Ora — 10 mills'* Persons sending in lists ot names to be taken off are requested to send them early and give the township and school district of each .as the Treasurer is very busy during the month of December. T. LANE MONROE, tf County Trw. eres H Mone^ To Bu^ A Car! L <f If your preset cal’ and your ayailablf cask equal one-third of the cost of the car yon 'would like to boy, WE’LL LEND YOU THE REST, provided you have a regular income. You win like our way of doing business and will aj^edate the saving that we can dfer yon over other partial payment plans. ' t " Call ns up for particulars <h*, better yet, come in today and tiUk It over. ■ / S. W. SUMEREL JACOBS’ BLDG. Clmton^ S. C. PHONE 80 soiourned with us too long — when jlj.. .• . - -- the government should cease from'®F®“®^’ breeds fe^, confusion and agencies of the Southern Baptist distrust among the people. There ^ convention are shown in action. In- ting the labor unions what they ve willing to do and b^in to tell them firmly what they must do. When a young man is drafts into army service he is asked no ques tions as to what he is willing to do or upon what terms he desires to serve—^he cannot open his mouth in opposition. The governmrat says come on, and he goes. That’s all mere is to the order, no dodging or hedging. The same positiveness should be mown towards the labdr unions and their leaders, especially where their employes are at work on defense or- dna. What President Roosevelt, Madam Perkins and our congressman and senators are allowing to go un- efaedeed ibk this country is enough to arouse toe disgust and anger of should be an end put once and for all to experimenting and political craftiness. * Clerk Mokes Three Public Soles Clerk of Court Vic R. Fleming made the folU>wlng three sales at November salesday: M. E. Garrett vs R. A. James, 37% acres in Waterloo township, .sold to R E. Babb attorney, lo# $100. Carlos Boyd et al, vs Azilee B. Culbertson, et eL tract No. 1, 94 acres sold to ‘&. M. Osborne for $800; triurts 2 and 3, 58 acres, sold to C. H. Teague lor $124)0. Federal Land Bank vs R. P! Mc- -J formation is thus given of the work throughout the South and in foreign countries in which the denomination carries on mission woiic. Not on^ members of the First church bu$ also those of nearby churches are invited to see the picture. Gowan, et al, 483.35 acres in Cross Hill township, sedd to K E. Babb, attorney, for ^500. for COLD IMSOOIIFOBTS liqoid Otea KEROSENE... 1 Ac Per Gallon YARBOROUGH OIL ' COMPANY wnciun w—er A Part of Your Home Is in Every Check Rent mohey becomes R monthly investment in yoor own home when yon buy or buUd with our Direct Re daction Payment Home Plan. Here ^rogr loan is tailor- fittM, in sise of monthly payment. In length of term and anoimt of loaa^to leTymi aei at onM Our aim is to provide yon with the tat'^loan—best fw safety, finest in service, lowest In total cost. We invite yon to ciHne in today, learn how yon dm bay ot boild a h<Mne from income and how anxioos we are to help you. No obligation. U. S. DEFENSE BONDS AVAILABLE HERE Each Account Insured Up To EDERAL5AVINGS |ANO LOAN AStOCIATipN TslBjliami No.’ 9 ’ A ClfaitoB InsUtutioB Servinf CURtan Peeide. 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