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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.
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Night
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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.
Another thing we are being asked
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