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Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. alt}* (Elution (Etjnmtrl* Established ItM 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 Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. 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 interest when tney are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. moores and the art squares and the hubbert greens, are oJc. for the du- Thursdoy, May 21, ■ FINAL SETTL! same as the gassoleen. the folks who the Germans laughed at them as be- devoted to her hopie and family, hoarded sugar, vizzly: the holsum ing a madman’s dream, Donald Nel- She gave untiringly of herself ,to son Went to work to make that the church and its activities. What- dream come true. ration, you can see their respective wives slipping out to the bam every _ _ | . day or so to get a sugar bowl full of worth of war goods which were “on Sunday school was her joy and sugar, they keep it hid betwixt the'order” and the trickling amount of pride. I mule stalls, and then they circulate goods which /Were being completed. Not only was she interested in her probate of Laurens County, at 10 ^ Take notice that on tha 29th day r . |ever she undertook she did well, in' f May, 1942, I will rendey a Anal Last year the wiseacres were her sweet and quiet way. Her cla f* l accoun t of ray acts and doings as ““S™ of the estate of Jacob H. Hunger'in the office of the of advertisements. the information that their mules is This year, under the genius of Mr. church and its work, but she also o’clock am., and on the same day bad about kicking ansoforth. | Nelson, that “on order” crack has took great interest in the activities w ju apply for a final discharge from f war is just what sherman said it been dropped from our language, of the community. Before she was m y trust as Executrix, was. just thing of it! dr. hubbert There is still plenty of war equip-1 stricken by ill health she was never l Any pe^n indebted to estate — j ment on order, but there s also a too busy to lend a helping hand | is no tifled and required to p^- ! beef on foot is another sign of what tremendous amount “on board”—on wherever needed. She always had a men on or before that date; and all war is. mr. slim chance, sr., sold a ships going to every comer of the kind word fpr others, and her Sen- having against ■atj yearling, cuckle-burrs and all, foT 14c world. , ! erous heart and spirit manifested es t ate w ji present them on or before a lb. last week, cotton is alls© hight,i Production figures are being kept themselves in the many good deeds sai( j duly proven, or be forever but as usual — the farmer has none quiet, but even the Germans admit, she did and the assistance given barred. f ' when it goes up. short hours and long today, that the United States has got , those in need. • j 1 ’ TFFF days has not hope the country in re- into stride in production and is out-i No tribute to this beloved woman' J Jr™ 0 ’ gards to labor, mr. sam skinner can’t 1 distancing every other nation. The WO uld be complete without mention; . ®** w * n T t i get no farm work done after the fac- > Germans admit we are now turning 0 f her home life, the beautiful devo- A P nl lv • ”* c ' j tory whistle blows for the secont i °ut more planes per month than they tion she and her husband had for 1 annrnxim»t*»iv 4 4nonno famiii^ will i we wiU b® ruint if it ain’t soon | are, and we have only begun. ieach other. Each gave to the other ! have to take^their cars off the road over and it,u have to be winne d or When this war is won, there is no 0 f the best of thought and heart. Al- doubt that one of the men who will ways gentle, patient and kind. They go down in history for his genius as. never seemed happier than when in a general will be Donald Nelson—a their accustomed places at church, general who wears a business suit jAnd how I have missed them. But without a single brass button. 11 i 0 ve to think of them as they must Next to Mr. Nelson’s job, the most now be seated in their rightful places CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1942 The Reason If you want to discover one of the "" it h in " six months! Within 12"months“ : else reasons why the magazines and daily at ^ vresent rate o( driving, at; papers are wet yhu may easily find least 12 ,000,000 of the 20,000,000 car- it now in the assortment of hquor w ih be forced to put their automobiles in garages because of worn out tires which they will be unable to replace. Whether the gas shortage or \jr, fans- Playing At Work In Germany tnd work week aver- j ages 60 hours, in Japan the average ■ portation problem is as serious as is 70 hours, all without over-time. The average work week for employ ees in this country is now 41.5. And we are in a world war with America expected to be one of the deciding factors in its victorious conclusion. Information, Please deer mr. edditor: will you plese ancer the follower- ing questions thru yore information collum and thereby help a* few of i cornplicated and over-awing tasks in a bout the throne. yore reglar readers? Who Pays the Bill? Co-ordinator Ickes contends we do mr s'™ chance ?« n, f * kno » r not know, for on the brink of ration- 11 he , ca " ma * ie “ m ? n > widdow pay ing he censored the Eastern Seaboard * n » ,e 5* e " d “ rs « 1 . ,0 , r d, “ eaaed API gasoline figures. ’ -, husba "d d '« i intestate and left The Deoole are willing to do their no wlU ^ made no arrangements , . “ r t v. 1 with anyboddy to pay his honest detts part in this war emergency. If such ■ “ 7_ j_ “ this country today are those being worked out by Mr. Henderson and Mr Eastman. OPERATION—Wheeb Leon Henderson has been so much in the limelight with his program to freeze prices, ration sugar and gaso- MRS. J. V. EDWARDS. i ; FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 12th day of June, 1942, I will render a final ; account of my acts and doing as Ad-} ministratrix of the estate of Thomas; J. Neighbor? in the office of the Judge! of Probate of Laurens County, at 10 tory regulations they can be forced—* “nderraier|'““'"a ™ “ there' a on the same day' to assist and cooperate to help meet dame <lrsl and « ot " f 11 ' but ‘ s ° ' remnre^end "01 apply for a final discharee from This -incident happened recently in the crisis. But ®tey want figures and bui,ing a ne 'Y. P lann0 at P beaseat ' and h P my trust as Administratrix, a Western town. facts—the truth, if you please. . ! -d.nngvrnio Any person mdebted said estate is A farmer went into a pool hall and For montHc tr\ will \irallr vnorA ** miss sallie veeve smith would H* * ^baps too early to even t*™"* having claims against said ansoforth? she refuses to do so and 1 line, and to keep our economy from is not their attitude, then by manda-,^ ^ a „ abi ^ the ,falling to pieces, that he is now INSURANCE Fire - Tornado - Automo bile - Surety Bonds - All Forma of Property Insurance. SOUND PROTECTION AT LOWEST COST. REAL ESTATE B. H. BOYD Clinton, S. C. at pressent, and' are few prople who can comprehend Anal discharge from n that she in- how any man can suddenly turn our trust as Ac ? r ”| in ^ tr f tri3 ^j 1 * ne uum, u yuu picase. • i h a i ra ted 500$ in cash from his trunk, whole complicated economic system ^^ pers '? n mdfbted said estate the present, and probably X o rfoam him direct. upside down and still keep it run-r notlded and required to make pay- found a number of shipyard work- months to come —we will walk more 1 ^ * Inincy I ment on or before that date; and all ers playing pool on a week-day holi- and ride -less. Long trips are at an clay. The question arose as to why end'in the rationing area. We face a 2- miss same vwve smim vtouia, ^ow‘the" Henderson''anti-infla" f tate P re f f them on or be they were not working, and they told revolution m the American way ot n^Tutside of her state fo? ’ tion program, or the Henderson ra-; fore said.date, duly proven, or be for- the farmer it was because they could domestic i‘ fe * britches of oromise and recover alii- 1 tioning Programs are gping to work ever r r'Aira' T k n?T/-«nrM3c not get double-time pay. Then the ' We are headed back to the horse- britches of P r ^“ e . a " d I^ over jout-but we are lucky to have a mani JANIE LEAKE NEIGHBORS, farmer “blew up,’’ as you would well and-buggy days, i u 01T L - a 1 , ? d , . p , ^ j u in charge of that tremendous job I from her homefolks? he treated her i cn L ar 6 e OI mai iremenaous jou imagine, and told them in plan lang- _ - — - - - | V erry dirty, she had alreddy bought i who has ^ courage to act quickly uage what he thought of their de-; federal ^ Pfice Control mands in this war emergency. her flowing vail and things, she don’t ar } d ta ^ e a drm OP*** 1 ® reins when emergency action can’t Administratrix. May 12, 1942.—4-4c. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS — Pink or blue. With genuine* steel die en- thpv cnrnricgwi an* cniH-l Effective Monday federal control want it to get out on her as She wne “ ^? erge 7 c3 !. canb ® de " They seemed surprised and said. .. ■ barked un hv a mieht lose her iob as a scholl teecher 1 iayed- There is little doubt that un-, . „ , - A “What do you care? It’s none of your g'vernmentarSsing s^tem under he h^s rde her certaint y and postponements would:paving Envetepes to match. Chron S'TO'gbvSenfSviT. ^"blblTrkcarcltrenf storekeepers csn'Sfre^and mark it -personai" if »<*" '-tal. But Mr. Henderson’s,ic'e Pub. Co. Call 74. Tms^brings up the quesbon’o/who;b e doprived of the right to do bust-jdon’t want to print yore version. ' emergtncy operation may pull the pays the factories and workers pro- became the law of the land. I ♦ ducing war-time equipment. No one Und ® r J® plan - stabl ® c ® llmg pric ® s | 3. mr.’ slim chance, ,jr., wants to but the hard-pressed taxpayers, ai c bxe . i know if a person’s 2 pigs get out of a 1 ^ bands of Mr Eastman the job though the New Deal deceivers and A ° f _ Pr ! Ce pen of their own accord and rot up a . ^ controlling ever^thiJTg on whib patient through. The newest task, demanding the j genius of an Einstein, is that put in spenders for years past have en _ Administration gives to the consum- nabor’s garding and flower-yard if deavored to fool the public 6n this! ^ public a guarantee that prices on the owner of the said pigs can be point, to make the people believe an 11 important ® 1 ® m ® n , ts of m bVlI ?g ,sued for actual and punative damages the money is drawn from the air wd * rema in at or below March, 1942, and recover the value of his loss and through a sort of slight-of-hand p T ric ® s for t J ie dura tion of the war. hold the pigs for same and charge for Until peacetime conditions return the k Vegetable Laxative Gray Funeral Home Clinton, S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS ...and... EMBALMERS Ambulance Service Phone* 41 and S99-J L. RUSSELL GRAY and V. PARKS ADAIR, Gen. Mgn. Government has no money to pay - • . - . ,, . . anybody until it first collects it from A8tore ir l u f be , u . n,t ed States charged highest prices that each individual the people. Government is merely an during this designated month are itsi their feed? (they are his pigs), he will look for a ancer mrs. silva linming, the boarding- agent of the people. Every bit of ®® lbn g pnees for practically every- house keeper, would like to be in waste by government, industry or tbln ,g eaten « ' v u rn a |l d used b y | be formed how long she will have to labor, comes out of the pockets of ® lvlian P°P U .‘on. To enforce the hold a boarder’s trunk and clothes for taxpayers. - bc ^ S1 2 g provlslons <* lta orders . a board bill befoar she can collect it It is a pity there are those w1fo bas be ^un a national repua- by selling the stuff? you know mrs. think government pays for waste or ,0n ° f ^ ® s u tabbshments on exorbitant charges of any kind-the fp ™ s Provided^for that purpose, people foot the bill through higher , ^he object of the new price con- and higher taxes. : tr °i regulations is to lower living m ; costs and put more money in the TL r .i - j s* .. pockets of the American people with I nC jOU f n and L<Of(On which to help finance the war. The I0DAY... TOMORROW By Don Robinson This week is being observed as plan and idea is sound and helpful, “National Cotton Week” in many bpth for the merchant and consumer parts of the country. It would seem and will prevent wild speculation in that in the South particularly, the prices. According to the govern- observance would be generally en- ment’s own expectations, however, tered into, and yet slight attention in present living costs will show only this section is given by merchants a small drop. Prices have increased and consumers to the special event. [ very little since March, the upward The purpose of Cotton Week, as trend beginning in the early fall and the caption indicates, is to bring continuing until early this year. But forcibly before the people the many the ceiling control will have the de- . , . . advantages and economic soundness sired result of stabilizing both prices ingtpn ar ® c * Gln g about winning this of making a still wider use of- home and business. war. grown and ftome manufactured cot- It is a huge task, one in which te n goods. The South should lead the honest mistakes are bound to be lining: she says you owe her 2$ for boards which you have no* doubt for got. yores trulie, mike lark, rfd. and making every wheel revolve to ward victory. Mr. Eastman has already acceler ated rail transportation to an amaz ing degree, he has destroyed barriers which interfere with maximum use of trucks and he is rapidly getting' our whole transportation equipment streamlined for war. It looks as though the team of Nelson, Henderson and Eastman has become just as strong a triple threat to our enemies as that undefeatable combination of the army, the navy and the marines. ~ w " Par Headachy Stomach In Memortam MRS. ALICE DAVIDSON McMILLAN Sour and Dias? Spatla whan caottd bp Cor* •tlpation. Dad only aa directed. IS doaca foe only 10 cant*. -dr Ur. Hitchcock s LAXATIVE POWDER Dr. Felder Smith Dr. DuncanS. Felder OPTOMETRISTS Specialists In Eye Examinations Office Bonn: Dr. Smith. Daily, 4:18 to • Dr. Felder, Dally, 8*1 to • Phone 29 for Appointment CLINTON, 8. C. Read before the Woman’s Society of Christian Service, North Broad j Street Methodist church. It isn’t helping much to save our mother. _ ___ „ democracy when we sit around the | i always enjoyed being in her world in per capita consumption of made. As the merchants of our com- Par lor and pick apart the war pro-! home. She had something of interest Fine tributes have already ap peared in The Chronicle and Advo cate to the memory of this worthy CHEERING—Sneering | Christian. These’ tributes were from I think it’s time a lot of us started ] those who had known Mrs. McMil- cheering instead of sneering at the - i a n for many years, and loved and job some of those big-wigs in Wash- appreciated her. And now I feel that 1, too, want to add my own word of appreciation for this noble Christian Call Us for General Repair Work CLINTON BUILDERS SUPPLY COMPANY Phone 15-J CONTRACTING its native and important product. munity proceed in an honest effort During this special week we are to comply with the regulations,' the asked to think cotton, buy cotton, public must be patient and co-oper- wear cotton, use cotton, boost cot- ative. It is no easy job for the re ton. in the hope of bringing about tailers of this country to'adjust their on the part of the buying public an operations in the price-control pro- increased appreciation and consump- gram over-night. We know that our tion of cotton goods. It is an idea that merchants will abide by the letter should appeal to the common sense and the spirit of the law. of all—the grower, the shipper, the Of course there will be deliberate merchant, the manufacturer and the | frauds, sly chiseling by some, but consumer. We Will Ride Less these will be in a small minority. Such firms, if found, will be subject to heavy penalty. . , . T , , n nnn * • * The consumer has his responsibil- La,st week 9,000,000 motorists ini;. ■ „ n .. y. . ' ’ . . , , . ity as well as the merchant. Both the rationed area ^went to school ' . , . „ . ., . • _ , «, . . , . .. must work together to avoid mis un- houses and registered for ration i cards which will give them from 2' ^“ the nar. oTburer and il^r 57 gallons o, gasoline between ^e^tand^ng an? ^ operation. NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE May 15 and the first of July, ac cording to their classifications. ^The proportion • of A cards issued is N far lower than was expected, while B cards and X (unlimited) are /ar higher. . 4 The rationing program, which has behind it the force of federal, law, applies to seventeen seaboard states. The wrfole «egistration system was bungling, since it was left very large ly to the person making the appli-’ cation to decide how much gasoline he w'as entitled to. There was criti cism, grumbling, and charges of fa- w . p .b. and the o.p.a. thought of it voritism. Such complaints should and; boll weevils last fall cut the use of will be handled by county rationing our cars about 25 percents, then came boards. Holders of “A” cards should along the tire trubble: and not hav- not be penalized or have to suffer; ving anny tires that could be risked because of too many “B” and “X” | over 2 miles from home cut us down cards - 25 percents more, the fifth and sixth There was resentment also over payments cut us down 15 percents Various and Sundry Items In and Around Flat Rock gassoleen was alreddy rationed in the flat rock community befoar the the fact that some parts of the coun- try were rationed, others nob lf the here we is: no money, ho gass needed, YaSoning of gas is necessary to help win the war, then we say it should apply to all states and all the people alike. and verry few cars equipped. green has not had a soft drink in his drug stoar for the past 4 days and The primary reason for the re-'the al-nite filling station has put up striction, in our opinion, is to cut a notis which reads as followers: down motor travel to conserve tires, assuming that government reports on the synthetic rubber situation are correct. There are simply no tires for sale, and not likely to be for acme time to come. An Institute sur vey just completed indicates that unless driving is drastically-reduced, notis—out of sody pop fdr the dura tion.” that’s bad. we would soon real ize what war means if cigarettes and beer were to run short, and mebbe lipsticks and face dressings, war Is bad. our sugar situation is about the gram. But it might do a lot of good to show her visitors, for she was a if, instead, we began figuring out very busy homemaker. And especial- how we can best work with the men ly interested in her flowers. She| who, whether we like them or not, could produce the rarest blossoms' are going to decide the outcome of and relate something of interest this war. about each one. ' We can, if we like, find plenty of| Mrs. McMillan was a devoted! things to criticize In Washington to- member of the Methodist church, day. There is a lot of money being Her long and faithful work contrib- wasted, there is plenty of unneces-1uted greatly to Christianity. We' sary confusion and there are many would speak of her as a noble Chris- iV* ri 1 i A1 L — x * jobs which are not being handled in a way that merits our applause. But we shouldn’t let those things bind us to the miracles which are being performed by key rrt'en in our government. For there are plenty of miracles being accomplished. MIRACLES—Fear Perhaps the three men who have been ordered by the President . to perform the greatest miracles are: Donald Nelson, chief of the War Production board; Joseph Eastman, head of the Office of Defense Trans portation, and Leon Henderson, chairman of the Office of Price Ad ministration and Civilian Supply. ■ There, are many others who have been assigned difficult tasks, but I pick these three as outstanding be cause they have been commanded to conduct a three-man revolution overnight—a revolution which all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t, in ordinary times, put over in a generation. These men may do things which make us fear the future—which turn out country temporarily away from tian woman. She was a loyal wife and mother, r<» LET US INTRODUCE YOU to the safe way of avoid ing loss. We’ll gladly make a survey' of your insur ance . needs, check your present, protection hind give you a complete report more, as we could not meet same, and demneragy jnln-path* whleh hav* *1- ways been foreign to our way of life. But they are ignoring our fears and our caution in order to accomplish things which are necessary tP. save America today—and that is all which really counts right now. Donald Nelson, almost anyone in Washington or in industry will ad mit, deserves the credit for already having thrown war industry into high gear. NELSON—Genius When the President asked for such fantastic increases in production that S. W. SUMEREL, Agent Jacobs Building-Flume M CLDTION, 8. c. 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