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This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. captured Cavite, without the loss of ernor of s. c. and asked what kind to do for our own and our town's ' in tha Thiirsdoy, June 25,1942 SSB,! ... - I 1 !! 1 ,, , co- j protection, is to keep our attic floor I an American, while about 167 Span- of sammons they ketched _ iards were killed and over 200 lumbia river, and he rote her that empty to dispose'of those dust- wounded. ithe only fishes evver ketched In his | laden treasures which wa think wei Meanwhile another Spanish fleet riwer was mud-cats and a few'might use some day but which we! under Admiral Cervera had sailed homy-heads. .know, deep in our hearts, will still from Spain and had reached safe. ^ |be gathering dust in the attic for the anchorage in the harbor at Santiago, 1 mrs. holsum more says the comer, rest of our natural lives. Cuba. An American fleet under Rear cash stoar is allsO overcharging her! r..* it*. o.iri n0 Admiral William T. Simpson and for tomatoes in cans and his ham Commodor* Wmfle.d Schtey waited up 5c p«r n>J» ou,ht to be took to; outside for his emergence, and a law. he says he is running his bizness, war p» r h*n« mir heroic but unsuccessful attempt was and when he needs help from thei m i ff ht h* wniinv made by a naval officer, Richmond govvertnent he will ask them for' Se sand wTl .ttw P. Hobson, to “bottle up” Cevera’s same, he got verry violent with dr.|^ e 8and WatCT md let the attics fleet by sinking a collier across the hubbert green who up-braided him narrow entrance to the harbor. for his sabber-targe in prices, dr. i On June 29 an American-army of green has to cut everthing down to 17,000 under Major General'William-his martch prices, but he took it With CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1942 war machines and essential civilian services rolling In this salvage drive the public is Roosevelt, became famous as a re sult of the fighting. The Americans lost over 300 killed and over 1,000 ceilings in sort to the f< must be p The Rubber Hunt . A nation-wide campaign is now under way for the collation of scrap g^ rn ^t spends ' fo'r "non-war^ command* o?°C?lonel^nwd *W^d i T rubber of all kinds to help keep the non . essent i a i nurooses helps to create co, ™ n ® nd 01 Colonel Leonard Wood afeared Of h l.: __J *;„1 »u,(iio n non-essenuai purposes luticavc an(J Lieutenant Colonel Theodore , an artificially inflated purchasing power which competes for a restrict ed and dwindling supply of goods. ^ ***** asked to fully cooperate. Every' And y et we have some in high au- ’ mounded and misSng" pound of rubber contributed willithority who tell us we have no is-, n » ]v o #i«*t knowing help just that much toward making sues t0 face except the war. ' I theTsanlfago mtuMali made a daX back numbers of Adolf Hitler and ^ There can be no real check on for the open sea, but every one ofi the emperor of Japan, to say nothing j n fl at j on without maximum economy of that other contemptible tyrant, : j n g 0vernmen t non-war spending. Mussolini. - —;— > Prodigal government is one of the This is a war of movement in strongest inflationary influences. If which vast numbers of motor ve- we are to avoid mad price specula- _ hides are being waged. They must^ion, excess purchasing power must were one man killed and ten wound- have rubber tires. Our supply of|b e steadily reduced. And government | ed. On July 17 Santiago surrendered, rubber in the Far East has been l itself is the greatest creator of excess a nd on July 21 another American seized by Japan. The only way, we 1 p Ur qh as j n g power. “Belt tightening”; a rmy under General Nelson Miles be- are told, we can obtain this very j individuals alone will achieve ,g a n operations against Porto Rico, necessary material is through the nothing if it is not accompanied by ( which was easily captured. By agree- collection of scrap. We are therefore | e q Ua jty rigorous belt ‘ tightening by ment, hostilities were suspended on asked to inspect our homes from government, and conservation of'August 12, but the following 'day, top to bottom, to gather every item> ever y ^ ax dollar. The tragedy is that the news not having reached Manila, of rubber which is not in use and W e have only a handful of men in, the fleet under Admiral Dewey and turn the collection over ter filling Washington, headed by that able and an army under General Merritt, cap- SURPRI8ES—Invention In England after the first few air R. Shafter, landed in safety hear a smile, as he was able to dubble bis ( h ° U8ewives | soon i showed little Santiago, but his forces were not monney at the ceilings, he says that - , Ior *?fn < y 1 f ry bom °f' o* 1 ® ready to go into action for about a is the nature of drugs. * fell in an attic they would sin | week. On July 1 a decisive battle ♦ i was 7 fought on the heights of-San monney is rather ska,^ ^ Juan- and El Caney, overlooking a t this riting, and we hops you will But one day ’ after ^ Germans us make it go as fab as possible. Fire - Tornado bile - Surety Forms of Property Insurance. SOUND PROTECTION AT LOWEST COST. > REAL ESTATE they would simply shovel it up while it was still burn ing and toss it out the window. by it, the federal government itself' s an ti a g 0> and the Spanish withdrew help 1 us nudw it*®) passible^ f 5 * 06111 * “ware of this practice, the is one of the most inflationary mfliu- i thin th _ fortiflArf oitv A C in thP nation thp hiliions the Joined, city. A force I the poleesman is Ikying for the cor- the vessels was sunk or put out of commission. The Spanish loss of life was large and Cervera and 1700 of ficers and men were taken prisoners, while the United States casualties e man that runs it is and he makes him ces. plese repair yore midst, or we will re- leal coarts, our rights ed and not jellied, rite or foam if you can’t handle Kim, and we will take the law in our own 'hands ansoforth. mike lark, rfd, 1 town clerk. bombs began exploding instead of just burning. An incendiary bomb has a barrel running down the cen ter flilled with thermite which burns for about a minute. The outer portion of the bomb is made of magnesium which is set’ afire by the thermite and bums for 20 minutes. The Germans devised a plan of having an explo sive at the front end of the barrel which would be set off when the thermite finished burning. This illustration is given merely to emphasize one fact: since the Ger mans know we are getting educated in fighting the types of incendiary bombs they dropped on England, it is quite likely they will devise some new type of bomb for us—one with which we are not prepared to deal. Dr. Felder Smith Dr., Specialists In Eye Examinations Offiee Heart: Dr. Smith. Daily. 4:11 te • Dr. Feldar, Daily, I*# te C / Phone 29 for Appointment CLINTON. 8. O. stations or the Boy Scouts Friday fearless Senator. Byrd of Virginia, when they make a canvass of the w h 0 understand that business and city. . individuals must tighten their belts Rubber alone will not win the war, j n order to pay for war and prevent i tured the city after six hours of fighting. The total American loss of life during the war was about 1,500 on the battlefield, and about 50 from disease. Peace commissioners met at Paris on October 1, and a treaty of peace entirely a volunteer army. of course, but we can’t win it with- uncontrolled inflation out rubber, experts tell us. Estimates, ,p^ e recen ^iy p ass ed price control as to the quantity of recoverable bm wU1 be of sevice in keeping rubber range from a conservative mgny prices from m0U nting higher.! was signed December 10 Spain gave and believable half million tons to Wbile it is no m iracle-worker, it is'up all claim to Cuba, and ceded Porto the apparently fantastic guess of ten j ntended to p ro f e ct the consumer. In! Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to million tons. In the first week of the turn the consumer must he i p This the United Sjtates, which agreed to campaign in New York state, as an means there shou i d b e no hoarding, ’ pay to Spain the sum of $20,000,000. example, 1,108 tons was collected. that the public should buy normally. The Spanish-American army was The public should keep firmly in Don . t listen to wild rumors—no one mind that this hunt for rubber is not s t a rve in this country, or have for tires for pleasure driving, t is to dQ w jth 0 ut basic necessities, needed to help wm the war. And is propel t 0 add that in this I £1 • • fight against inflation, retail industry The Enemy Ini lotion Of this country is gladly doing its bit. The nation is facing two ruthless Merchants by the thousands, chain enemies, either one of which would and independent, long ago realized tejfr it to pieces without a moment’s the danger of inflation. They at once hesitation. One is the Axis—the other adjusted their operating practices. Inflation. They are helping to guard the pub- Writers, commentators, preacher^, lie’s pocketbook. The fact that prices song writers, politicians, slogan mak- for necessities have so far not gone ers and others use. up ninety per cent up excessively in comparison to of their energy writing, singing, slo- wage increases—is largely a matter ganing and commentating on our of their doing, physical struggle, and calmly ignore ® the equally dangerous economic bat- SpanisH-AmeriCQIl tie. Fortunately, there are a few men ^ . qqq in government who realize what this WOT Of I OVo enemy inflation will do to us if we The City, of Clinton had the dis NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE let it get out of control. World War tinction and privilege this week of No. 1 furnishes a disastrous example entertaining a large group of United if we will reflect back a little more Spanish War Veterans and Auxiliary thon twenty years. members who were attending their In this concerted fight against in- 20th annual encampment, flat ion, President Roosevelt put Leon . Many people ask, who are these Henderson in command with prac- veterans, and what sort of a war tically unlimited power. The country did they participate in? The follow- is divided on how well he is perform- ing condensed biographical sketch ing that enormous job. He s gaining of the conflict is therefore published in unpopularity as Federal Price Ad- below: ministrator. He told a press confer- While this war between Spain and ence a few days' ago that he would the United States in 1898 was the be willing to resign the position if shortest and most decisive of all congress imposed his retirement as a American conflicts, as there were condition for authorizing subsidies only 114 days of actual hostilities, it to be used to keep consumer prices exerted a great influence on world stabilized. Speaking of himself, Hen- affairs. Its end marked the loss of the derson said. “I predicted when I took last of Spain’s colonies in the Ameri- this job that I would soon become eas and in Asia, and the entrance of th'e most unpopular men in the coUn- the United States into the group of try, and I seem to be making pro- nations having colonial possessions, gress. I know I am wrong with some For many years the United States ol the politicians because I have had ^^een one of its neighbors, Cuba, tried to do the job given me. But I oppressed by Spain. The Cubans had was appointed by the greatest poll- been governed with the harshest kind ticuin of all time and I expect to of military discipline, and their re stay with it until he (President volts, especially that of 1895, had Roosevelt) thinks I have outlived my ( been quelled with unnecessary bru- u.^tlulness.” It might be added thatltality. American sympathies were the OPA budget request is for $161,- with the Cubans. President Wiliam 000,000 to carry on its work With a 1 McKinley addressed diplomatic notes provided staff of 66,000, of whom of protest to, Spain, and relations be- about 6,000 would be on the inspec- tween the two nations bee a m e Another Flat Rock-ite Has Made Good willie skinner, who is in the navy rote his ma last week and said that had sunk 3 submarines and a gunboat by liisself. he shoots the tar- pedoes at the enemy and has never missed a single shot yet. he Sunk 2 ships, so he says, with one tarpedo: it struck a big^hip amid-ships and went thru it and dove into another ship and sunk it. he saved 45 sur vivors by hisself, but some of them was germans, and he diddent think they ought to count, he throwed 8 of them back. ’ willie is trying to get a furlough home, but the genneral, of the navy told him he was too valuable to let go even for 2 or 3 days, if willie were to leave, they would have to tie their boat up till he got back, he would rather be in the flying corps, so his mother says, and has let the genneral know that he wants to be a dive bumber. he says he can drop a bumb on a dime at 4 miles high, you see, he has alreddy flew some and has had 25 hours in the air. willie has promised his ma 25$ of his base pay congress has just put thru, he rote her and his pa’not to vote for anyboddy who voted against the increase of pay. a navy sailor tion list. We are all agreed that this ruin ous enemy of inflation must be curb ed. Even if we as a people were cap able of realiziag the desolation and destruction of everything we hold dear—and we are not—which run away inflation will bring down upon strained. On February 15, while on a visit to the harbor of Havana, the United States battleship Maine was blown up and 266 members of, her crew were killed. A naval court of inquiry declared that the Maine had been destroyed by a submarine mine, and us and our pfbsterity, we would still suspicion pointed to Spanish officials be incapable-of resisting the urge On April 11 President McKinley sent to succor this deadly enemy. We; a message to congress in which he would still continue to bid up prices declared that he )iad exhausted every of everything we wanted to buy. We have lived so long on the scale of plenty and government extravagance that we. are simply unable to com prehend the fact that from now on until UJis war is over we are going to have to do without many luxuries and even necessities. If we create wild inflation again—the Axis might win this war unless they are too ex hausted to win anything by the time inflation gets control. We need to know that inflation plays no favor ites. It would ruin and starve us just as it did the Germans. It took several million marks to buy a square meal in Germany during those terrible days of inflation. Exactly the same thing can happen over here. Wash ington officials alone cannot stop this enemy—the American people— all of them—must .help. " Inflation is caused when public purchasing power goes* up at a time when the supply of goods available for public consumption foes down. That rule is almost universally agreed to by economists. And judged effort to prevent a resort to arms. On April 20 resolutions adopted by congress declared that Cuba be con sidered, independent, and empowered the President to use armed forces to support her rights. Neither the Presi dent nor the Spanish government wanted war, but public opinion in the United States, inflamed by irre sponsible articles in the newspapers, compelled them to resort to arms. The President called for 125,000 vol unteers and the battle cry became, “Remember the Maine.” On April 24 Spain formally declared war, and the following day longress declared that a state of war <had existed since April 21. The first .battle occurred not in Cuba but in the Philippines, another Spanish possession. Commodore George Dewey,, in command ol a small fleet of American warships 18 Hong Kong, China, was ordered to Manila bay, and he arrived the ol April 30. The peat morning he engaged end destroyed a lives a hard life and has td set up nearly ay night evvery night, willie stayed in the crow’s nest 5 nights and she says he ketched 7 crows, he is a. expert with, a spyglass, he can see a perry-scope 7 miles, he dropped a depth bumb right down into a pCrryspoce once from his boat, oil and daybree rose up to the top of the waiter, that showed that he got bis prey. • i mrs. skinner has rote him to send his pitcher so’s it can be put in the paper like sammie hoskms was. she asked him to have it took with the general standing by him with his hand on his shoulder and the other hand* saluting ansoforth. watch out for willie’s pitcher, if he had of benn twins, his ma says the war woujd of benn over by now, The Price-Ceiling Law Is Apparent ly Violated In flat Rock mr. Icon Henderson, o.p.a., Washington, d. c. v deer sir: * plese send a f.bi. man to flat rock at once and enforce the price fixing law against the corner cash stoar. this stoar is not followering its martch 1942 celling prices and ig nores it he says his prices .have all- ways benn below toe ceilings and that he sells at cost because he buys at cost, he'basis this on his fine cred- dick. mrs. slim chance, jr., has his back to the wall on 2 cans of sammons. he sold her 2 cans enduring martch for 38c, but he claims that toe 2 cans he chaffed her 49c for last week are imporied gammons and la a different [uality and that they were the Columbia riwer. but toe lebals off both lots of them'and they are toe same, she role the gov- RAIDS—Expected There is little doubt that before this summer is over some of our blackout “rehearsals” and some of our air raid "drills” will be the real thing. Now the way \raids built rather than destroyed morale in England might seem to be a warning .that the same thing would happen here. Our enemies undoubtedly realize that an attack would quickly add to our unity, our production activity, and would make us more eager’ than ever to get into the fight. But they also realize that it might cause feverish defense activity which would take away from our offensive power.! They’d like to see the towns of I America demanding more protection! — more guns, planes, fortifications! and soldiers. If there arc raids this summer that j will be their chief aim—to stir up! defense activity and thus dilute our offensive strength. BOMBS—Type If the Germans do drop bombs in the United States this summer, what kind of bombs will they be? ’ That’s a subject which is being discussed at air raid schools all over the country and, of course, no one can do more than guess at the an swer. But it is considered very unlikely that heavy high explosive bombs will be used at present because their weight is too great for a long trip. Not that a bomber couldn’t carry them a long distance, but they couldn’t carry enoygh to make the trip seem worthwhile. But high ex plosive bombs might fee flown in from carriers or secret near-by bas es, so air raid wardens, firemen, po licemen and others are being taught what to do about them. # As far as civilians ^re concerned— if a high explosive bomb falls near by, the only thing to do is report it and keep a good distance away. Some have fuses in them so they Will ex plode in ten minutes, Others may go several days before exploding. There is no difficulty in recognizing them because they are enormous in size, most of them ranging in weight from 2,000 to 5,000 pounds. But because of the difficulty of hauling them — and because of the probable purpose of any raid being to spread fear over as large an area as possible, it seems much more likely that the enemy woi^ld send over bombers-full of incendiary bombs — little fiery missiles which weigh only two pounds and which a bomber can carry in 1,500 lots. WANTED— C LOTH ESifi ANGERS We ask ouf^ Atttoaners to please return Hangen with garments. This will aid us in conserving our present short supply. BUCHANAN'S Phone 28 D. E. Tribble Co. FUNERAL DIRECTORS . EMBALMERS Lirsussd Embalm ers, 1 Compiet# Day Phone 94 Night 24. 2S3 or 255 CHnton, S. C. INCENDIARIES—Attics Because incendiary bombs are con sidered thfe most likely to fall out of the skies over the United States, hundreds of thousands of civilians are being instructed in what to do about them. 1 ^ l t Brief instructions have been print ed everywhere and most of us are now familiar with the fact that, they should be fbught with either sand or a spray (riot a stream) of water. There is no doubt thdt if any of our towns are showered with incenA diary bombs, enormous damage might be prevented if each home had in its attic a pail of sand, a couple of pails of water and a shovel. But no matter how much that simple pre caution is preached, there will prob ably be few who will do anything about it until after there has been an attack. 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