The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, May 28, 1942, Image 10
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THE CLINTON CHROIjlCLE, CLINTON, S. C
——^ i lands which are now overrun with
vjtataw !,Ia P anesei 80 practically our entire
TODAY TOMORROW source of naturai rubber ** cut ofr -
Thursdoy, Moy 28, 1942
By Don Robinson
RUBBER—Facts T* ”‘““r ’’“•""““I
A lot of this talk about our acutety ital .^ ar industries will not be able;
NOBODY'S
4. The biggest stock-pile of rub
ber in the world is on the wheels of! g v (tpp McGEE
nur natiori’s 34 OOft 000 aiitnmnhilpR I »
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our nation’s 34,000,000 automobiles, i
5. Unless something is done soon,'
hundreds of thousands of workers in
to go to work when their tires wear
out
Some Folks Call It Complacency
While Others Call It Ignorance,
Greed and Disloyalty
Lots of folks are. willing to use:
many strange ways to help the gov-)
ernment win the war. At least, that’s
rubber situation is apt to go in one
ear and out the other. If it does, it’s |
time every one of Us plugged up that t _
other ear and absorbed the facts. I * SOURCES-^FJguies
I decided to look over the govern- 1 ' Ir y° u like 866 actual figures, what they are doing up to now. ,
-rncnt’s figures on rubber primarily here are the ones which best portray ♦
for tny personal benefit in order to tbe acuteness of our rubber situation: ^ friend of mine drinks 8 bottles
get to the bottom of confusing re- Our ^normal needs for rubber av- 0 f ^g,. ever y day. He says the gov-
ports to determine what was the pa- ; era 8 e 768,000 tons a year. Last year ernmen t gg^ 20c- by reason of his
triotic thing to do about driving my> we imported about 300,000 tons more drinking (apd his wife and children
own car-Aftej-getting the dope there lban was use< * which^is the major d 0 without the difference, $1.02,
is no question in my mind but that P ar t our stockpile for this year. ; which they need badly), but he
it is a definitely disloyal act fpr, us k ast year 54 per cent of our im- |t hinks he’£ helping,
to use our cars for any but the most P° r t s came from Malaya, 36 per cent
necessary purposes. I- 2 A far - ofl n'Whbor told me a few
Here are a few of the facti which j* m (he Berma ^ ^ eSStes 93 f ay5 “ la ‘ she P a ^ e ^ her f r in
stand out: cent—and we can’t eet an ounce the * ara S e - She waUcs down t own
1. The government’s reserve sup- of rubber ^ year from any of those ! when she .fee* 8 that she wants to eat;
ply of rubber will be pretty well Japanese controlled areas. The other * 0 !™ caviar. she b uys a nice little
used up this year. After that, no- 2 per cent came from Africa and J° b ® of U for $1 - 50 * but no war
South America. ' 1
Mr. Aiken Payne is helping
body seems to know where our rub
ber,, even for vital war needs, will - In ^ our production of synthetic
come from. rubber was 15,000 tons. This year it, • *. u v. • u- ^ vsi 1
f. All of the talk about synthetic ls expected to be 28,000 tons. In 1943, a bi k e cac J 'h ^This car won't
rubber and growing guayule rubber if p r e se nt plans are carried out, we r ren a b * e , h ’. "if . V'
in this country doesn’t mean a thing, may produce as much as 350,000 tons I
so far as supplies for the next two or an d in 1944 mav nush this nroduction an< * mebbe bls wlfe . when she wants
three years are concerned. Synthetic as high as 700,000 tons. That’s some- to g p ° n P !f
rubber may meet many of our needs thing to look forward to—but it’s not f° g th h ^ y no 0wn 8 1
by 1944. but for the next two years go i ng to solve our .rubber problems
Ford and 4 bikes.
it will amount to little. As for guay- far SO me time to come,
ule rubber grown here and in Mexi- j As for ga y U i e , which has
been Mr and T#Irs - P iker Long are in-
co it will be 1946 before the crop grown in small-quantities in Mexico,, ves *' n ® money they owe their
will be sizable enough to count. ^-g bave started growing that in nur- grocer and their doctor and their
3. About 98 per cent of the rubber series but it will be 1944 before we!P reache / in ^ar bonds and stamps.
we impprt in peacetime comes from g ^f an y cr op and that crop will be Uncle Sam also gets the taxes they
only 12,000 tons. By 1946 we may P a £ on and soft drinks and
have 75,000 tons available from that ba s ; They .are helping them-
i source—^and after that the yield will se * ves brs t and Uncle Sam next,
increase rapidly. But that’s five years 7^ J
; from now and we can’t put tfie war' It looks like it is going to take a
Double-Purpose -
Laxative Gives
More Satisfaction
Don’t be satisfied Just to relieve your
present constipated condition. Meet
this problem more thoroughly by
toning up your intestinal system.
For this Double-Purpose, use Dr.
Hitchcock’s All-Vegetable Laxative
Powder—an Intestinal -Tonic Laxa
tive. It not only acts gently and
thoroughly, but tones lazy bowel
muscles—giving more satisfaction.
Dr. Hitchcock’s Laxative Powder
helps relieve Dizzy Spells, Sour
Stomach, Gas, Headache, and that
dull sluggish feeling commonly re
ferred to as Biliousness, when caused
by Constipation. Use only as di-
' rected. 15 doses for only 10c. Lar~o
fanv’v ^i/r 250 4' 4 *'
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off for five years.
‘‘Pearl Harbor” or a “Covantry”’ to
wake us up and put our feet on the
ground. About 75 per cent of the
TIRES—Reclaiming
j • . The only source of rubber in ^ny! people in this country don’t knowt or
1 quantity available to us today is/re-!don’t believe there is a war on. And
•claimed rubber.'Re-claimed rubber 23 per cent of the rest of us don’t
won’t, by itself, do a lot of the jobs seem to care about it.
for which we need rubber, but, by ■♦■■■■ ■■
; using partly re-.claimed rubber in The government is trying to look
J almost everything, we can make our [ 6 months to a year ahead in con-
l stockpile of imported rubber last trolling prices and production and
I longer. ^ distribution, but about half of us
It is estimated that there may be
i as much as a million tons of rubber
! in the homes of America in the form
istnt
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Dr. Felder Smith
Dr. Duncan S. Felder
. OPTOMETRISTS
Specialists In
Eye Examinations
grumble and growl and raise sand
generally when any restrictions are
placed on us. We have got to get
of old rubber boots, galoshes, toys, 1 over this spirit and feeling or we are
worn out tires, hot water bottles, etc. going to lose the war.
If we will all search our houses and - ♦
backyards for every scrap of -rubber All-Out War Aid
>d will turn it in when there is a 1 . r mr edditor .
local .rubber collection it will go a „ at rock has ' tot0 the win .
long way toward easmg he sititation. h program verry stout, their
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But when re-claimed rubber is
considered, our automobile tires must
be a great temptation to those of
ficials whose job it is to find the rub
ber for our war needs. Each of us,
Office Hours:
Dr. Smith, Daily, 4:15 to 6
Dr. Felder, Daily, 8:30 to 6 ♦>
Phone 29 for Appointment \\
CLINTON, S. C. S
principle product is chickens, ever-
boddy has a large flock and it looks
like we will have plenty fowls both,
for the preechers and home con-
on our cars carries about 70 nounds 8um P ti( >n generally, plus a large
on our cars, carries aoout (U P™™* 8 over-plus for the market.
of rubber tires—a total of 1,180,000 ^
tons, or almost twice the amount we , nn
ordinarily consume‘for’all pdrposes mrs - art s Q uare bas 20 little bid-
in a year | dies alreddy hatched out and 1 hen
We are being permitted to con-; * setti ng and another one l<x>ks like
w tinue running our cars only because sbe wan t s 1° se L bu t being verry
they are a necessity. We must stop ] y° un 8 “ she do not seem to know
thinking of them as being pleasure 1 bow * mr ; edditor, if you have anny
cars and must stop all non-essential! information as to how to make her
riding. We are being entrusted with and tend to her bizness, plese
precious rubber—-which is needed for r ‘te or foam mrs. square at 23-j.
bombers, ships and tanks — only toj ♦
permit us to go on playing vital roles a mink got into mrs. bert skinner’s
Gray
Funeral Home
Clinton. S. C.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
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EMBALMERS
Ambulance Service
Phones 41 and 399-J
L. RUSSELL GRAY and
T. PARKS ADAIR, Gen. M
in civilian life—to carry on our jobs
and to perform war duties.
The burden of keeping America’s
civilian economy rolling rests on the
shoulders of America’s motorists. A
‘‘pleasure trip” from now on gives
hen-house and killed 4 hens and 2
roosters, thus cutting her flock down
to 6, all tolled, she will newer have
no more use for minks unless they
i are in fur coats, she had 2 imported
{hens and 1 imprted rooster in the
the keenest pleasure to our enemies, j 1 0 V all comming from reggistered
stock in n. c. she is hart-broken, but
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MENDING TAPE—Fully transparent' is holding her head up and setting
and flexible, seals without water. 1 mink and skunk traps, she thinks it
10c roll.»Handy in home or office. 1 was the former instid of the latter
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1. Electricity is
ning of every aubm<
an amaxing variety
jobs, from turning t
cooking the coffee.
2. For that reason, there must be
well-trained electricians on every
underwater craft. At this school.
Navy electricians attend classes
taught by Q-E engineers
a* O 'i] x 1
3. and go out into the
shope where they watch workmen
construct the same kind of elec
tric equipment. that will some
day be put in their charge.
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4* This is but one proof of the
thorough training which the B.S.
Navy gives its men, so that the
vital equipment of war will always
be ready for action.
General Electric believes that* its first duty as a
good citizen is to bo a good soldier.
Cmnmrmt Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y.
IM-U-tU
that ruint her, as the latter left no
odors of his vissit, if he done it.
dr. hubbert green is going in for
ducks and gooses instid of poultry
and chickens, he has a nice swamp
at the back of his barn for them to
lay and hibernate in. he says 1 duck
egg is equal to 2 hen eggs and 1
goose egg is equal to 2 duck eggs, he
is thinking of trying to get a few
ostriches to increase his egg output,
one ostrich egg will feed a whole
company of marines, if they are not 1
verry hungry and are not verry par
ticular about what they eat. 1
I Hi yores trulie,
/• ’ mike lark, rfd.
EXPERTS FORESIT
RUBBER SHORTAGE
TWO MORE YEARS
Akron, Ohio, May 23. — America,
here it is, straight from the horse’s
mouth: You can forget all about
tires, golf balls, tennis balls, hot
water bags- and anything else made
out of rubber until at least 1944—
because there just is not going to be
any.
That is what the men who know
told correspondents on the National
Association of Manufacturers “Pro
duction for Victory*-’ tour of war in
dustries—men like Harvey Firestone,
Jr., of of Firestone, Thornton G.
Graham of Goodrich, P. W. Litch
field of Goodyear, and William
O’Neil of GeneraL
They know a lot more about rob
ber than anybody in Washington and
they held out not the slightest hope
of relaxing any of the rubber restric
tions for the rest of 1942 and all of
1943.
But—they said—the whole indus
try is going to bat to maker all of the
tires, treads, insulating wire and any
thing else the army, navy and air
force need. —-
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TYPEWRITER RIBBONS tor all Ml
/ *b < rftg. portable standard. Car
bon paper, rubber stamps. Call T4
Chronicle Publishing Co.
Miss Kathleen Crow
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Conducting The Chronicle’s Cooking School
, • • ■ • v..V . ; ■ - ^ ' 4 “- . . 1
— Recommends —— ^
Bread
TO ||£lP YOU R COUNTRY
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“fresh;
AT YOUR
GROCERS'
Colon id I
”Po° d |J retU l
Miss Kathleen Crow
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Cooking Sc
NEXT WEEK
WILL TELL >
• THAT
Pasteurized Milk
Is Your Greatest
Health Insurance!
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DRINK/MORE GRADE “A” MILK
In that statement DRINK MORE MILK, there Is the answer to a hun
dred questions. “How can I be strong? —* How can I beep goingT’* — these
and many more all answered by the same three words. Milk supplies In
abundance the energy and vitallty so necessary to ns. It builds young
bodies to be strong—it opens young minds for knowledge and keeps ma
ture minds constantly on the alert. Milk is the one drink that not only
satisfies your thirst but rewards you in the form of more radiant health.
MILK needs no sugar, it's’ swoet, delicious and refreshing.
We have the latest equipment for pasteurisation of milk, and can
supply you daily with milk in the raw form or pasteurized. Our dairy is
inspected regularly, all bottles are washed and rinsed in a germicidal
Iptkm and then stored in a steam room where live steam is turned on and
bottles left in this room for seven] hoars. Our herd consists of the finest
Guernsey cows. > - ; J v .
- MAKE MILK A REGULAR HABIT At YOUR TABLE.
OUR TRUCKS CALL DAILY AT YOUR DOOR WFTH DELIVERIES.