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Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C Thursday, July 2, 1942 (Clinton (El|rontrU 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 centsj 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 they 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. district under general election regu lations. . We have heard numerous citizens in recent years express the opinion that they should have an opportunity to express themselves as to those who are to operate our schools. Do the | majority of the district’s patrons de sire to elect trustees or prefer the present appointive procedure. They I0DAY... TOMORROW By Don Robinson instability when the whole world is; in turmoil. We can’t expect to cling to a pattern for our personal lives when the whole world pattern is be ing tom to pieces. STURGEON TAKES LIONS CLUB HELM . CLINTON. S. C.." THURSDAY, JULY », 1»42 Holiday Warnings Here is your Fourth of July duty as suggested by the National Safety Council: 1. Don’t use fireworks. Leave the shooting this year to the men in uni form. '[ • 2. Avoid automobile trips. If you must drive, cut down your speed and step up your caution. You’ll save cars tires and lives. 3. Don’t overdo in exercise, eating or exposure to sun. - • 4. If you swim: Don’t go alone or when overheated. Wait an hour after eating. Know the depth of the water. Don’t show off or indulge in horse-1 play. j 5. Remember — accidents help the i Axis! The Kitchen Can Help The next thing to save, we are told, is household cooking fats. During July each housewife will be asked to keep every drop of fat available, keep, it until she has at least a pound, and then turn it in at a meat or food store. The reason: quantities of glycerine are needed lor. explosives. Glycerine is made from fats. Most of our fats and oils have been imported from' the Far East. But it is estimated, according to the government, that two billion pounds of cooking fats are ordinari ly thrown away each year. If those two billion pounds *can be collected, our glycerine problem will be solved. This is an opportunity for every pendent States/ may of right do.— And for the support of this Declara tion, with a firm reliance on the pro tection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. Some School Facts A lady subscriber of The Chronicle and patron of the Clinton schools, writes us: Will you kindly give the fol lowing information in The Chronicle? Does the law prohibit women serving as members of the board • i " of trustees of our schools? Do you favor or oppose women as school trustees? How are our trustees selected? Do you thipk trustees should be elected by the taxpayers? An answer to these questions will be appreciated 'and read with interest by your many .women readers. The Chronicle is glad to publish this information and express our opinion on the questions asked. Answer to question No. 1 is No. NOBODrS BUSINESS 6, GEE McGEE Current War News deer mr. edditor: holsum moo re keeps up with the war news, he talks about it all day long every day at the town hall as he has the' roomy-tism be is not able to work, so that gives him plenty of time to exercise his brains, if anny. holsum moo re says the japs lost 25 ships in the corral sea battle and that when they attacked midway is land, they lost plenty more . . . they tried to slip up on- our boyS from the rear at midway, but as hjs son is i there, they failed and got a hot re- j ception. the japs simply don’t know j the mqores. mr. moore says that europe will be in this war before it is over, and that great brittan will jine the alleys anny day now. he looks for. russia to in vade paland and scandanavia befoar the summer is ovver. the balkans are now reddy to fight, so he says— and they are a vicious people. he do not think much of the ital- CONFUSION—Facts Like everyone else, I get annoyed at times over the conflicting and con- Dr. Harry E. Sturgeon was install- as president of the Clinton Lions I and whether or not my car will have ® meeting Friday evening at to go bare-foot after those precious j ^ ie near here, tires are worn down to the rim. Also taking office with Dr. Stur- It is a natural reaction to assume j ge ^ tv% we £fl. * that those in the know-the men who! W™- Owmis, first vice- have access to the real facts—should j Timmerman, second be able to tell ua. just what the situ- *>!^! l j pr t Sldent ’ • j Ra * ym ^l! d nf ’ ^ o’ a tion is today and what it will be to-i ^ Du ^ ca ” s * morrow. So, when we read one day! tr * ld ®f’ 9; that the gas and oil problem is about! S 1 Ll ° n to be solved and read something the j ta ^LL ? Ia ?T Ad o i^’ tai1 tWl *i er ’* next day that gives us the impression' Simpson and Archie that fuel will soon be delivered to lC1 ■ easterners in eye-droppers, we want to know why “they” don’t give us the real low-down and stick to it. The probable answer is that “they” don’t know the answer dither. “They” don’t know how much longer the Germans are going to keep sinking our tankers. “They” don’t know when there should express themselves. If they filing announcements regarding how feel that the present law ought to be much ga^Une there is going to^be changed and made mandatory to elect, the time to say so is during the j next few weeks as we face the elec- l tion of a county delegation. If you favor such a change in the law make J it a point to contact the house candi- 1 dates and ascertain whether or not they will pass a bill in the legislature placing the district under a special act.. INSURANCE Fire * Tornado • Automo bile - Surety Bonds - AO Forms of Property Insurance. SOUND PROTECTION AT LOWEST COST. REAL ESTATE B. H. BOYD Clinton, S.C. mnimnnnnnnniiMnnnwiWMiwiMinn 11 Under the law women are eligible*! y ans> an( j his opinion of roomania is to serve as "school they be appointed the same as men trustees, whether or elected. In reply to question No. 2 will say that we are not opposed to women kitchen to aid in this phase of the serving on school boards and know war program. You may even be paid no reason why they should be barred a cent a pound or so for the fats from rendering this public service, turned in, but that’s beside the point. It is a known fact that mothers are if uro nporipfl for pxnlosivps closer to the children than men and every^o^nan "ernght to do her bitTby this means they are deeply interest- complying with the request. Real Meaning of Fourth (The Declaration of Independence, come „ — . - - -• - -— in Congress, July 4, 1776; from the grace and wisdom to the school board engrossed copy of the original manu- ed in the educational welfare of their children. Several capable wo men possessing an intelligent under standing of public school education to our mind who would add script in the Library of Congress). The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America When in the Course, of human events, it becomes necessary fof one were their services available. Question No. 3—How are our trus tees selected? They are named by the county board of education com posed of five members, J. Leroy Burns, C. K. Wright, R. E. Babb and people to dissolve the political bands Rev. Jodie A. Martin of Laurens, and which have connected them with an- R. E. Sadler of this city. The county other, and to assume among the pow- board is appointed by the state board ers of the earth, the separate and of education upon the recommenda- equal station to which the Laws of tion of the county superintendent of Nature and of Nature’s. God entitle education, who is elected by the peo- them, a decent respect to the opin- pie for a four-year term. The trus- ions of mankind requires that they tees of Hunter, school district No. 5 should declare the causes which im- are appointed for five-year terms by pel them to the separation.—We hold these truths to be self-«vident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to the county board of education upon the suggestion and recommendation of the Clinton member. In answer to the last question we hold that trustees (whoever they are) should be elected by the tax payers of the district. This statement verry bad. he says that they are nothing but snakes in the grass for hitler, he is glad that austria has stayed out: that gave poor little po- land a chance to arm herself, she is reddy for hitler now: you can count on the zecks a little later on. they are allso reddy to martch. if Ireland do not invade england by xmus, she will newer do so. she has a large force on the rivver banks betwixt her and england, and eng land is a-feared of ireland. iceland is nearly strong enough to martch on norway and Sweden: she will be jinfcd by greenland and labrador. secure these rights, Governments are has no reference whatsoever to the instituted among Men, deriving their present board since we have express- just powers from the consent of the ed this opinion before in these col- governed,—That whenever any Form umns, as the files of the paper will of Government becomes destructive show, when the personnel of the of these ends, it is the Right of the board was. entirely different from People to alter or- to abolish it, and j what it now is. to institute new Government, laying Under the present law patrons and its inundations on such principles free-holders of the district have a and organizing its powers in such right to file a petition with the coun- iorm, as to them shall seem most like- ty board of education asking for an ly to effect their Safety and Happi- election from year to year as terms ness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate of trustees expire or vacancies oc- that Governments long established cur. Such petitions must be signed should not be changed for light and by at least one-third of the resident transient causes; and accordingly all white patrons and one-thirti of the experience hath shown, that man-, resident free-holders of the district kind are more disposed to suffer, and filed at least.thirty days before while evils are insufferable, than to the time of election. When this is not right themselv^ by abolishing the done the county board makes the ap- fcfrms to which they are accustomed, poirtfments as it has been doing fpr But when a long train of abuses and the past several years. Such a pro- usurpations, pursuing invariably the'viso sounds stupid. Who is going .to same Object evinces a design to re- the trouble and expense of traveling duce them under absolute Despotism,! over a large s6hool district seeking it is their right, it is their duty, to”! hundreds of signatures to a petition? throw off such Government, and to!If done, it has the appearance of provide new Guards for their future making a strike at the trustees in security.—Such, has been the patient office (whoever they might be). Why sufferance of these Colonies; and in the name of common sense, should such is now the necessity which con- any individual or group of individ strains them to alter their former uals be expected to undertake such Systems of Government. The history a task, llie law should be changed of the present King of Great Britain and made mandatory that as the is a history of repeated injuries and tenps of trustees expire they shall be usurpations, all having in direct ob- re-elected by the free-holders of'the ject the establishment of<an absolute, district. Take the Laurens district as Tyranny over these States. To prove an example. It operates under a spe- this, let Facts be submitted to a can-; cial act requiring that an annual did world .... < ; meeting of the patrons and taxpay- We, therefore, the Representatives ers be called, that a financial report of the United States of America, in be submitted covering the receipts General Congress, Assembled, ^ ap- and expenditures for the year, and pealing to the Supreme Judge of the;that trustees be elected to All vacan- worlci for the rectitude of our inten- alaska has declared war on tokio and jappan and is fighting them hand to hand at a harbor owned by the dutch, if the alutian islands had 3 or 4 airplanes, they could whip yoky- homa and Osaka without anny trub- ble. honolulu plans to invade for- mosa late this summer, but it is be ing kept as a militerry secret, mr. moore knows his war news. yores trulie, mike lark, rfd, corry spondent. The War Will Gve Us Time To Think and Teach Us What To Think Aboyt We did not necessarily need a war, but we needed something to put us back where we belong. We are com ing out of this war a new people, a new and better nation, and with a different view on life. Heretofore we have been living selfishly and lavish ly, spending more than we earn, and wasting as much as we need to get along on. No matter how much a per son or a family earned or was paid, it was never quite enough. We have thousands of useless, worthless, wasteful organizations . . . local, national and otherwise . . . that [could and should be abolished. We I have lost sight of debt. We have bonded ourselves to the hilt. We have not prepared for a rainy day; and now dog if it ain’t clouding up all around and over us, and we are not ready for a shower. If we don’t watch out, we are going to have defaults along with our faults, and the end will be a* long ways off. Some families have 2 cars and 4 bicycles: many of us are not able to own even the bicycles. We have grown soft and lazy. Millions of our people don’t know how to work un less playing is called work. Thou sands upon thousands of perfectly good noses .have been on the grind stone for many years in order that the idle members of the family might keep up with the Joneses. We have grown soft, indifferent, lazy,, extrava gant («ften with the other fellow’s money), and if you’ll look around you’ll find that you and your neigh bors have not yet taken this war se riously. might be trouble on one of our coasts which will call for emergency trans portation of things much more im portant than the gasoline needed to take' the family to Uncle Joe’s for Sunday dinner. ■ ■» ■■— “THEY”'—Baffled That vague group of people—us ually residents of Washington, D. C. —whom we refer to as “they” when we have some criticizing to do, don’t have any crystal balls into which they. can gaze to get an insight into me future. “They” are just ordinary human beings, somewhat above average in intelligence, who suddnly have had problems dumped in their lapis which would baffle a building full of Ein steins. “They” are being called upon to perform major emergency operations on.our economic system in an effort to keep it functioning under condi tions which it has never faced be fore. They can’t look up in a book to find out what was done in the past under similar circumstances, fdr there have been no similar circum stances.’ Our economic system has been; built up over a period of many years* by the trial and error method. Today, a brand new economic system is be ing forced on us overnight and each month new, unpredictable changes in the war situation call for drastic re visions. Under the circumstances, it would seem advisable to be patient with the “they” group who are dealing with a lot of unknown quantities, who are constantly being given new suggestions and ideas and who are undoubtedly doing the best they can to create some kind of order out of very difficult and fast-changing sit uations. c were installed as director for three-year terms. In his inaugural address, President Sturgeon promised a year of contin ued activity,' and bespoke the co operation of members* of the organi zation. The retiring president, T. Heath Copeland, reviewed the activities and accomplishments of the past year. OPTOMETRISTS / Specialists In Eye Examinations OAes Hears: Dr. teUth. Daily, 4:15 to • Dr. Felder, Dally, IsM to « Phone ^9 for Appointment CUNTON, 8.G. WANTED— CLOTHES HANGERS We ask oar caatsasers to please return Hangers with garments. This will aid ns In conserving our present short supply. BUCHANAN'S Phone 28 BUYER MEETS CC| j CD IN CuR AD ^L.L-LL,l\ COLUMNS... SAY, *T SAW IT IN THE CHRON ICLE.” THANK YOU. D. E. Tribble Co. funeral Directors EMBALMERS licensed Bnibahaen, Complete Day Phone •4 Night Phones 24. 253 or 255 Clinton, s. c. 1 jpsssngnnMnHHMSMgKmuwiwnnnnnnnHHWwnnitnnMwnitiinnnwnnwn tions, do, in the Name, and by Au thority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and de clare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES; that they That, in our procedure in cies or expired terms, opinion, should be the our district. \ Nobody appoints a mayor and councilmen for Clinton. No board appoints the county judge of pro bate, clerk of court, sheriff, legisla- are Absolved from all Allegiance to | tive delegation or other county offi the British Crown, and that all po litical connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Inde- cers. The same principle of demo cratic government applied in the mat ter of trustees is sound and has its advantages. We contend that the trustees entrusted with the manage ment of the schools and spending of approximately $80,000. annually of taxpayers’ money should be selected by the patrons and taxpayers of the We are going to win this war, but before it is won the people at large must help. They are not helping now except casually and hobby-ishly. We are all more or less going along as if nothing is at stake: just listening and hoping, and of coure we believe that we will win tomorrow or next month or next year or at least in 2 years, so why worry. One upper-cut to the Jaw rarely ever wins a fight. Two or 3 minor victories mean only teat we are possibly nearing a 50-50 chance, and not that the enemy is beaten. Think is over, please. If It Is a Magashm that yea wish, see or phase JAMES W. CALD WELL, at CHntoat Tea Beam er 24 SECURITY—Change It always has been a strong part of our nature to long for security and for a clear set of rules by which we can plan our lives. We resent changes in the rules, new restrictions with which we must conform, unplanned for drains on our pocketbooks and regimentation of our lives. Even though we realize that great changes are necessary to build an ef ficient war machine, many of us practically demand that the govern ment give us a clear set of rules for the duration. We say we are willing to make sacrifices, but we want to know ahead of time just what those sacrifices will be so that we can plan pur lives accordingly. Such rules, however, will not be forthcoming. We will be given rules and plenty of them, but until this war is over, we can expect the rules to change constantly. Just as the gov ernment is forced by war conditions to make .daily shifts in its plans to cope with unexpected situations, the people in this country must, for the present, adapt their lives to change instead of to stability. Security is definitely one of the things we must sacrifice for the time being Until the war is over we must travel along a road which is poorly posted and on which the direction signs are being revised continually. INEFFICIENCY—Excuse All of this doesn’t mean that we should stop criticizing inefficiency in government. The changing situation is danger ous in that it can be used as an ex cuse for inefficiency. We must keep close watch on the activities of gov ernment officials to see that they are not being influenced by any factors other than the winning of the war and the welfare, of the people. We should criticize unnecessary red tape, make it clear that we ob ject to government expenditures which are unessential to the war ef fort, and attack war profiteering. But there is .no sense in fighting against chance, against unexpected restrictions, and against temporary MILITARY and VICTORY STATIONERY JUST THE THING FOR THE MEN IN SERVICE Beautifully engraved in gold with United states Army, Navy and Ail Corps insigaia. ■ " ■ 50 SHEETS AND 50 ENVELOPES $1.00 * *v IN GIFT BOXES Victory Stationery for Men and Women. Single or Folded Sheet Truly a Handsome Gift! CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. 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