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mm %) > t ) t i To Be A Clean Newspaper, and f Vekfvne XMI Clinton, S. C., Thursday, March 26,19#2 If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the Newt Number IB Roll Along the Assembly line Lapen Attend Presbytery Rally MEN 45 TO 65 TO REGISTER ON APRIL 27 •> . s \ ... •/. • / ^ COHOK CHOP OFF 21^47 MIES 7 1 1 ♦ • The final ginning figures lor Lau rens county released yesterday by M. W. Sanders, special agent for the bureau of the census, states that 11,334 bales of cotton from the 1941 crop were ginned prior to March 1. This figure, against 32,981 for the previous year, shows a decrease 21,047 bales. i The report reveals that last year ; the county had one of the shortest I cotton crops in its recent history due ! to government control measures, j addresses from various leaders of the ing forces, there is the possibility that drought and heavy boll weevil in festation. _ t t k a l. a Washington, March 24.—Men of 45 l One Hundred Men Meet to 65 must register on April 27 for Ai U:i| Trk U a/ ,r |non-combatant service, possibly work MI VrfiOSS mil IO near ^ war factories, under the selective 1 Church Leaders. service uw. President Roosevelt set the date. One hundred men from the Pres- 1 of byterian churches in Newberry, Lau rens, Abbeville and Greenwood coun ties gathered at Cross Hill Monday j unre £ istere( i for a rally in the interest of the de- After the registration of this group, which numbers about 15,000,000, only those of 18 and 19 years will remain* WPB TO TIGHTEN , PRIORITY CONTROL IN ALL INDUSTRY New System Designed To Gear Whole Economy Into War Program. fc nominational men’s work and heard' oldsters will be taken into the ftght- Washington, March 24.—A funda- .... . .. , mental change in the“ priorities sys- While none of these comparative . „ , JT . ~ . . , . . /. ...m A-K* ! tern * designed in effect to bnrig vir- > fy t— bamg auC hi Caaf. This type eir plane ha In action .against the enemy that the BrttWi TEST FOR SANTEE The following article is by “Spectator" who pirmkle "Mgn and Wugs M iiiyiiiti»«mi>mmmiihimmiim«iuitiiMm«in»iiMHiim«iiiimmmt»i»>u»ii> legality of a purchase of the that one man had a “beaver hat” full Carolina Electric and Gas com- _ _ by the Santee-Cooper authority will probably be challenged in court The plain intent of the act in forbid ding the Santee-Cooper to build north of Columbia is that it should not operate north of Columbia. There can be no doubt of that. Now wheth er a strained interpretation of build would allow the Santee-Cooper to buy is worth bringing before the courts, after a statewide campaign of enlightenment The Santee-Cooper octopus should die aborning. The people never were enthusiastic over the Santee-Cooper; they did not expect it to be realized. Even four years ago it was regarded by many aa a political gesture. The ***1 acceptance of it was based on the idea that it woidd be huift fed eral money and never become a lien that one man had a “beaver hat 1 Of thousand dollar treasury notes, Just throwing his money around! Now the dispensary business was Just a little piker business in com parison with the business of selling all the power used in this state! And the result would inevitably be the same sooner or later. If such a mo nopoly were cheated and put under the control of .angels for five years and saints the second five years it would follow as the night follows day that the fact of political control would make' it the football of poli tic ans and a snare and a delusion to all the rest of us. We need more business in the state •yes; but keep the state out of busi- Leaving aside the point of cal proAcisQfT of the $antee-Cooper ai that or the private should not set up, sanction or permit a political control of all the power generated ip this state. What would the politicians make of it within ten years? If you know your state you can answer the question. If you don’t know how the politicians run the state, ask somebody. If no body else will tell you, drop me a line. / I have made several references to School Bus Drivers to Attend Institute stitutiT wul be conducted SyildarSi attheLa it was am L of Educati puxpoee of m Instruct Th ou Satur- Laurens high was announced yesterday ucation J. Leroy Bums, the institute, he is to Instruct bus drivers In the use and operation of buses. In addition to class room courses, to be taught by a representative from the state highway department, a 40-point inspection will be made of school buses. * The session will begin at nine o’clock and there will be four hours of class room work. Funds for the purchase of the midday lunch will be provided by the board of education. Mr. Burns pointed out that the in 15 Men Called For Army Service . ,, —- Local Board To Send First April Quota To Fort Jackson On 3rd. ton draft board No. SO has ban I 15 white registrants to to send in Columbia On FH- t Jackson __ day, April S, for Imtoctioti into tha army under the selective service act The young men will leave by bus at 10 am. Those who will make up the quota are: v Joseph Charlie Reid, Clinton. Hugh Nabors Denson, Clinton. George Washington Driggers, Clin ton. Lafayette Taylor Phillips, Laurens. Chariiq Coleman Sims, Waterloo. Edward Lionel Sanders, Clinton. James Bergin Neal, Clinton. Coy David Reed, Whitmire. Landrum Harold McAbee, Clinton. Joe Brady Compton, Laurens. James Brome Bass, Waterloo. James Wyatt Culbertson, Waterloo. Charles David Hughes, Clinton. John Michael Canupp, Clinton. .Wilburn Lollis, Honea Path. George Cato, Clinton (transferred from Board No. 83, Rock Hill). Tire Certificates The Laurens county rationing board during the week issued certifi cates for 9 new tires and 8 tubes, and two retread tires to the follow ing: R. A. Hellams, Gray Court farm er, 1 truck tire and 1 tube; H. B. Harlen, Lanford, mail carrier and farmer, 1 plow tire; Bryon W. Brown, Laurens, S plow tires and 3 tubes; J. F. Roberts, Laurens, trucking trac tor, 4 tires and 4 tubes; P. Silas Bai ley, Clinton, 2 retread plow tires. For the month the county has a quota of 24 retreads for trucks, and none for passenger cars. A new quota for April is expected to be assigned the board this week. church. The meet was held in the Liberty Springs church with the Rev. J. E. Ratchford as pastor and host. some or many of them will be as signed eventually to essential war work. Brig.-Gen. Lewis B. Hershey The Woman’s Auxiliary took charge has said that one purpose of the draft of the fellowship hour when a picnic supper was served from long tables arranged for the occasion. The des sert was funished by Paul M. Gal lant of Greenwood. The feature of the occasion which began at five in the afternoon and closed at 8:30 was the address by S. J. Patterson, Jr., a layman who is the Southern Presbyterian director of man’s work with headquarters in Richmond, Va. He spoke of the mobi lisation of the power of the men of the chvutb in the Interest of worship, evangelism, stewardship, missions, and various enterprises of the church at home and abroad and urged the men to a better fellowship among themselves within each local church. He advocated periodic get-togethers, at least every quarter, in a sort of club or brotherhood affair. The Rev. L. P. Burney, Augusta, Ga., director of religious education in the synods of South Carolina and Georgia, spoke in the afternoon and led the group in a round-table dis cussion of the various problems fac ing the men of the presbytery. F. M. Stutts of this city, spoke on the daily vacation Bible school plans for the summer; the Rev. C. A. Cal- cote of Newberry, and the Rev. J. A. Wilson of Ware Shoals spoke of the coming of Dr. W. H. Washburn, mis sionary from Africa, who will visit the churches of the presbytery April 5-19; the Rev. C. J. Matthews of Newberry, presented the quotas to be raised by the church in the drive for funds to help in the program for men in the armed forces. The Rev. the armed forces. The Rev. J. J. Hayes of Laurens, introduced Mr. Patterson. Dr. Roswell C. Long of Greenwood, is chairman of the com mittee that had the meeting in charge. Large Congregation Hears Erskine Choir A large congregation assembled in law was an “accurate and systematic appraisal” of the supply of man power. » Young People To Meet Saturday Presbytery Group To Convene At First Pres byterian Church of Greenwood. - The annual meeting of the Young People’s League of South Carolina Presbytery, together with the spring conclave for intermediates of the Presbytery will be held at the First tually all industry under the produc tion requirements plan, took the na tion a long step closer today to the goal of gearing the whole American economy into the war program. Effective April 1, most blanket priority ratings now on the war pro duction board’s books, will be re voked or allowed to expire. Com panies operating under such ratings will be required to apply for priori ties aid underc/^JPRP.” Tills plan, announced last Decem ber, already has been, extended to a number of companies. Under it, a company makes a single application covering all ,o{ its material require ments for a three-month period. Rat ings are assigned on the basis of In dicated importance of the company’s products to the war effort or eissn- tial civilian needs. WPB thus will be able to exer cise closer control over the flow of raw materials to industry and im prove its efforts to assure that "first things come first.” Trends in WPB operations also in dicate a tighter control over inven- Presbyterian church in Greenwood "«t S.turd.y beginning •« 10:301^“ a '"}- Mi “ A?" °i Cok "|ldle stock, ol scare, materials. Vari- coUe*., president of the league, wlll| ous ln du«rles are being told to sell preside and conduct the business ses- certsln ltock government, at cinnc A nAxar v**** 1A f arts! sions. A new president and treasurer are to be elected. The theme for the day’s program will be, “We Build With Thee.” All intermediates of all the church es in Greenwood, Abbeville, New berry and Laurens counties are invit- [ vending, weighing ed to attend the meeting with the 1 machines will young people from the same church es in order to conserve tires. At the same time the young people are hold ing their meeting, the pioneers will conduct their conclave in the church chapeL M .. . Members of the committee on reli- X K. Roberts of this city, spoke *of gfous educition *ffo wffl taftt the the local church program for men in young people ire Dr. Roswell Long, Greenwood, chairman, Rev. C. J. atthews, Newberry. J- S. Morse, ville, Rev. J. J. Hayes, Laurens, v. J. K. Roberts and F. M. Stutts this city. % The young people’s program will set prices, or face the probability that the inventories will be seized. Other developments important to business and industry: Conversion: Production of auto matic phonographs, (juke boxes), and amusement April 30, and shop facilities will become available for war work. No more domestic washing machines and ironers will be manufactured after May 13, though spare parts will continue to be made. Typewriter industry production was restricted to 323,000 standard and 73,000 protahle models during remainder of the year. These ma chines wil be allocated to the army, navy and other essential govern ment agencies. (Limitation order L- 54-A). Special efforts will be made to convert to war uses food plants crippled or closed down as result the political (and busings) ,dangers; ^ut* i* authorized by a state act and that the local board is merely offering its cooperation. Song Service Sunday At Bailey Memorial There will be a special song ser vice at Bailey Memorial M. E. Church South, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 29, followed by an evangelistic ser- monette by the pastor, Rev. W. R. Quinn. which are a part and parcel of the Santee-Cooper scheme to enlarge Its scope and, finally, to absorb all other power enterprises in South Carolina. In the first place, what is the San tee-Cooper project? Our legislature created a company called an authori ty gnd authorized it to borrow mon ey and accept grants for a power de velopment, but stipulated in the law that the state of South Carolina should not be liable for any debts of the authority. Now we have a scheme to borrow money for this authority, but on the faith and credit of the ___ The program will consist of several itateTtad to""broeden''toe "teepe of ^ So V“ h 5 r '2' w0 £ its activities until it controls all the power companies operating in this state. And, it would borrow the mon- ey for that purpoaeon the credit of the state, with right to tax you and me to repay it! Truly a noble idea! the Lexington Water Power com pany (Lake Murray) isn’t rolling In fat proftp with expert direction and a ready sale for its power, whpt do you expect of the Santee-Copper? Would you double, treble, quadruple an investment under a management Methodist quartet, solos by Mrs. H. S. Wallace of this city, and familiar revival hymns by the congregation. Th» pMtrir •irtomta th#i public cordial invitation dal service. to attend the spe- The Presbyterian college baseball will open here Wednesday, April 1, when the Blue Hose meet the University of South Carolina at 3:30 in the first game of the season. before proof of its success in its ori ginal field? / Now if the Santee-Cooper should gobble up all the other concerns and hayfe a state monopoly what would ba fee result? Well, if owned by the, the skip? . Are] 1th the busness zeal of politicians that you put such, a mammoth ip their hands? ts coma down to earth and walk tita politicians. How would this ok out? Well, now, Senator soon have charge of all tne power in his bounty! He would be the power boas, because be is the politi cal dictator. And aU the power sov ployes would have to be political supporters of Senator X. And the po litical opponents of Senator X soon have all sorts of power Mas! But that is only tha smallest j action! What happened under our dispen- •“T? SQBte gntVMteD with W Rke mllliodaire chgRkai liwaiMki ‘ DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE ■ SO FAS THIS TEAS THESE ■ATE BEEN o FATALITIES AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS ia , LAURENS COUNTY Let’s Strive To Maks 1942 s Safe Year On the Highways. Presbyterian Men Elect Officers The March meeting of the Men-of the-Church of the First Presbyte rian church was held last Thursday evening with the retiring president. Prof. H. E. Sturgeon, in charge of the program. The guest speaker was Dr. John McSween of Chester. Upon the nominating committee’s report the following officers were elected for the coming year: H. L. Eichelberger, president; W. C. Bald win, Sr., vice-president; L e 1 a n d Young, secretary-treasurer. have Doris Gaddis of Greenwood, as devotional leader and will have the j 0 f 'recent tin orders, theme of the day presented In the! Construction: 35,000 additional form of discussions in three sections family dwelling units for war in- on (1) “The Adequacy of Christ,” dustry workers approved. (2) “Christ and the Church” and! Miscellaneous: Shearlings order the Thom we 11 Memorial church Sun-j(3) “Christ and the World.” Reports amended to prohibit pulling of wool day evening to hear a sacred concert • on the Memphis convention will be | from sheepskins when it is one inch of psalm anthems presented by the i made by those who attended and or Less in legnth (amendment 1, Erskine college choir under the aus pices of the local Associate Reform ed Presbyterian church. The impress ive program was rendered in a most capable manner by sixteen young men and women composing the group under the able direction of their di rector, Mrs. Anna C. Tate. Dr. R. C. Grier, president round-table discussions will be held general conservation order M-94). on the new Presbyterian youth theme, j sale or rental of new office raa- chinery ordered stopped, except on Marriage Licenses ! orders rated A-9, or higher on new -- PD-l-A or PD-3-A certificates Limi tation order L154-B). - Ban on cellophane packaging ex tended indefinitely (amendment 3, Showing Increase college, spoke briefly of the value of music. Hazel Long, an Erskine stu dent, spoke of the importance of a Christian college and of what is of fered students at Erskine. J. Hewlette Wasson, Laurens coun- of the ty, judge of probate, announced yes-i limitation order L-20). A. R. P. Women To Meet In Greenville • 1,1 1 The annual meeting of the presby- terial of the Second Presbytery of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church will be held at the Greenville church April 15 and 16, it was an nounced yesterday. - About 100 women from 35 churches western South Carolina, Savannah Minister Honored By Club Rev. A. L. Patterson, D.D., pastoV of Hull Memorial Presbyterian church of Savannah, Ga., has been elected to honorary lifetime mem bership in the Ministerial club of day sesslon Presbyterian college, it is announced I Th « sessions will be presided over by Bobby Schwanebeck, president of- by f}”- s - Tmkle l r _ of J * tlan ^ the organization. Dr. Patterson will Pif ident of the presbyterial with terday that the number of marriage! Oils: Manufacturers having tung licenses has been decidedly on the | oil on hand which they cannot use increase this year, a total of 145 hav- ( may sell stocks to other manufactur ing been issued through St. Patrick’s, ers for permitted uses (amendment day, against a total of 130 for the 8, general preference order M-547). first three months of last year. The Petroleum: Priority assistance for most decided increase was in Janu-, production, refining, transportation ary when the permits to wed were and marketing of petroleum extended 60, exactly double last year. Febru-i indefinitely (preference rating order ary 1941 had 32, with 61 for 1942, P-93 extended and amended), and March 1941 had 48. ^ Petroleum industry may apply " x preference ratings to purchase of of- Napoleon Mitt Takes New Work Hce supplies’^ahd certain automotive equipment (preference rating order P-98 amended). Deliveries of gasoline to service in and Florida, which is embraced in the Presbytery, will attend the two- Napoleon Hill, lecturer and writer, stations cut 20 per cent in seventeen Georgia | who has been associated with Dr. W. Eastern states. District of Columbia. be the principal speaker at a banquet to he given here by the club next month at which time he will be pre sented his certificate, of membership. The Savannah minister is the sev enth from the synod of Georgia to he elected to honorary membership by the chib. Tax Paying Time Extended May 1 entertainment provided for delegates by members of the Greenville congre gation. A number of women from the Clinton church will attend the meet ing. Special Services At Head Springs P. Jacobs and Jacobs Press for the Washington and Oregon past year, left last week for Marietta, order L-70). Ga., where he is now connected with a newspaper syndicate as a feature writer. During part of the time Mr. HU was located here he was a lec turer at Presbyterian coUege. , (limitation Ross Lynn Called For Army Duty InstaUations of new fuel oU burn ing equipment in same areas dis couraged (limitation order L-56). Sugar: Receiver of refined sugar may transfer contractual right in undelivered sugar without having such sugar charged against his que- ta (interpretation 1, general prefer- lence order M-55). j Textiles: Viscose rayon staple fiber Ross McCain Lynn of this city, a producers ordered to set aside speci- i second Ueutenant in the officers’ re- fied portion of production for worst- Iserv* corpvhw been called to active ed industry (amendment 1, general army duty and left Friday for the preference order M-73). There wiU be a series of special preaching services at Head Springs late Reformed Presbyterian near Mountvtile, beginning Friday evening, March 27, at 3:00 Associat chhrch, The time for the payment of state and comity taxes for the year 1941 was extended by the general assem- j o’clock, and continuing twice daily bly just before adjournment, until > through the Sabbath. Dr. Harold J. May I, 1942, with no penally in ad-! Ralston of the Erskine coUege facul- ditton to that stipulated by law when: ty will be the minister on this occa- such taxes are paid during the month of March each year." AU taxes not paid by May 1, will carry a seven per cent penalty and be placed in execution for collection. LIONS TO MEET FRIDAY A meeting of the Lions club will be held Friday evening at I o’clock et the did) house, it has been an nounced tty ehih sion. The public is cordially invited. Spring Holidays Set At College Charlotte air base, where he has been assigned to the ordnance divis ion. Mr. Lynn, son of Dr. and Mrs. L. R. Lynn, has been a member of the fac ulty of the Darlington School for Boys at Rome, Ga., for the past ten years. No Lake Fishing During April Rationing: Organization of the gasoline-rationing unit in the OPA was followed the next day by a ceiling over service station prices for gasoline in nineteen states along the Atlantic seaboard and in the Pacific northwest where tanker sink ings have compelled a 20 per cent curtailment in deliveries to retail I outlets. Prices, according to OPA's | regulation, cannot exceed those post- (Continued 6n page seven) Announcement is made that Lake, HOLMAN SPEAKS TO TEACHERS Spring holiday* college will begin at Presbyterian on Thursday af ternoon, April 2, and extend through Tuesday, April 7. Dr. Marshall W. Brown, dean, announced Greenwood on Saluda river wiU be closed to fishermen during the month of April under a game statute passed last year. It is also stated that all anglers using rods and reels wher ever they fish in the state, must have licenses costing $1.10 each. Hugh Holman of the Presbyterian college faculty, was in Columbia to address English teaci Carolina Educa meeting on Friday Ject wa« “Novel Ush of the South iation at a His sub- for Eng-