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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C
Thursdoy, NoYember 13,1941
(Elinton (!ll|ron!rU
Estoblithed 1900
WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher
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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
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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
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^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
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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.
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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 $124)0.
Federal Land Bank vs R. P! Mc-
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formation is thus given of the work
throughout the South and in foreign
countries in which the denomination
carries on mission woiic. Not on^
members of the First church bu$ 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.
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