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Page Four THE GLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. Thursday, July 23, 1942 aJtj? (Clinton (Etyranirlr Established ItOO WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $1.50; Six Ninths 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. and beer going up. Of course these things come, flcsit, while food and clothing come last. Noticed anybody ■ doing without any of the above men- itioned necessities No? (But some ;are using substitutes). If you read the papers and hear FOMY... TOMORROW By Don Robinson ADVERTISING—Change be utilized to help win the war. NOTICE OF REGISTRATION For mass response of all the peo- j The Laurens County Board of Reg- pie, it. will soon be evident that there' rstration will visit the following nlac- is no method whch can produce re-1 eg for the purpose of receiving appli- sults with the speed and efficiency of, cations f« crates to vote fithe ■overusing. i general election: The power which has been used to; July gS—Clinton, at office of the persuade us to buy automobiles, re- ute R. W. Wade. ’ » frigerators and washing machines folk, telk, youll conclude that no- Advertising has taken some queer ^ 24 — Goldville, at Company body in charge of government mat- turns unde _ _ time condition/ - i wlU now prove effective ini store. iters has half as much sense as a billy We have ^ strange ofj f a “ for the ^ July 27-Lydia Mill, at Company igoat. We dont give ein credit for rubber companies spending money to Tf C0Un ?f 3r ’ ♦ i store - anything If they clamp down on an persuade us not to use rubber, gaso- : .JJ 28-GrayfCourt, at Abercrom- item—ration it—we begin to find big lin e manufacturers running expen- ’ the war role which it is b ie and Owing.: supplies of it somewhere . . mostly sive advertisements to teach us how f.™ * ssu f^ in «- there is Uttie doubt j u ly 2&-Cross Hill, at Miller Lea- somewhere, way off. Hitler dearly to cut down on the consumption of | ° f ^ ^ ar , "J man’s store, loves for US to act like that. ■ - — CUNTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JULT 23, 1942 y Laws Are Needed Dne of the apparently strange con- ditions of human life is that laws'^jg phase of the program most care- i ' m ! We are all apparently just going! amounts of money to tell'us why along and expecting to win the war, they can’t sell us anything these without much sacrifice from the days. < ; homefolks. All of the fighting is be-1 * Most of us had, until recently, ling done by our soldiers and sailors,'thought of advertising as a “salesman : or rather—the army, the navy and in writing” whose whole duty was to war labor board that its wage award tiie air corps. We are too busy fussing , make us buy as much as possible of will meet the living costs problem of i about what we have not and what everything available the steel workers ... we shaU watch the other guy has that we can’t,get . to render much service. their products and countl«S W.U-1 •■'d known companies spending large [ NOTICE OF BUS TRANSPORTATION must be enacted and enforced main- fully.” This may be taken as a po ly in dn attempt to ke&p men from < wa y 0 j saying we will be heard /the things that are harmful to f rom a g a i n w ith our demand for the doing /the things them. The purpose of the majority of our laws is to keep people from do ing what their common sense ought to prompt them not to do. That is true of every form of crime. \ higher scale But while the steel workers are being granted an increase, and other industries are now making their de mands for similar action before But now advertising is showing us its other face—the face of-the educa tor instead of the salesman—and in Sounds Like Foolishness Warehouses throughout the coun- price fixing and price ceilings. That’s the best move that the government has so far made. Any of you fellows happen to be old enough to remem ber 1919 and 1920? Remember sugar at 35c lb. Flour at $20 barrel? Fat- boardss, not one Word dp we hear! back meat at 27c lb.? A pair of cheap about increasing the wages of farm- overalls at $3.$0? Well, price ceilihgs 1 ers. Wages of farmers are determined! are for the purpose of permitting a , . , . ... by the amount received for the crops; poor man and a semi-poor man to try are loaded-down with . f, ’.they produce. Nobody is clamoring to live. But let’s keep on fussing: that’s which means there .s no scarcityjt^ ^^^^ ^ ^ * cently a large part of the strawberiTj Cotton tod would ^ fetching crop was a loss because sugar could (twenty _ flve cents g or more> no l, be obtained . f or preser\ mg ; were it not {or g overnmen t 0 pposi- The government P.a'd out $3.500^ iriterference , „ 000 the past year in Puerto Rico, I , I Florida and elsewhere to growers . _ ~ . w Thirty Yeara of Progress „o, grow S u S ar. S o m e „ f «he indu A Staggering Tax Bill ; h J e ' b h - The House nas overwhelmingly J lions of people and destroying billions We are raising the devil about;stead of trying to tempt us to buy 14 v* rta 1 1 lx S _ % s _ * < a _ an old American custom. Before this war is over, there will bo more peo ple weeping that there are now com plaining about foolish things. vidual subsidies amounted to several' hundred thousand dollars. a . ,.i . . „ .. .. . Such facts must convince every a $6,271,000,000 '(yoif can t of dollars worth of property. r^r^nn that havp o take. it in) revenue bill and sent it *“ bunch of crazy people in Washington 1 1, 0 . th e Senate where ^ I ^^V ZO.OOO.i^ school handling the so-called sugar prob lem. ‘ debated, most likely increased, and girls and maidens how to smoke cig- finally approved. 'j The public cannot begin to com- _! prebend what the gigantic new tax I bill means — but in January we will The Busy Senator Senator Mayb'ank is so busy, he know. It will bring the wasteful ex-1 and by so-doing we have increased arettes, and have thereby made miL-. lionaires by the dozen. We have neglected our home-life says, that he cannot attend the cam- 1 travagance of recent years, and the , paign meetings in his state. He says cost of war, close home to every citi- he is for winning the wat, and must zen. ■ ' • stay in Washington. So "is everybody The bill — by far the largest tax else for winning the war. measure in the nation’s history—lays We have re-instated booze and by and through its use • we have filled ^ _ our asylums, increased the income of There are many questions citizens, a heavy hand on every segment of j undertakers 55 per cent and have overcrowded our jails. the prison population by 43 per cent. things, it is being used to teach us how to make things last and how to get along without the products which the advertisers have spent fortunes in promoting. Some people wonder why a com pany will continue to spend millions of dollars for advertising when it isn’t looking for a single customer. It might be the kindest thing to think of these organizations as buy ing space for educational messages entirely for philanthropic reasons — because of their unselfish desire to help us with our problems. In a way that is their purpose— but most of us realize that such mil- lion-dollar gestures of assistance can not be made too frequently without being backed by a sound business motive. In the last war, several big com panies busy with war work discon tinued advertising altogether. By the time the war ended we had almost forgotten their names and many of them were never again able to get back into public favor. The big companies of today real ize that their brand names and com pany names, built up and respected because of the years of effort they have made to please the public, are their most prized investment and they are not going to let those names Bids for the transportation of school children of Laurens county shall be opened in the office of Coun ty Superintendent of Education on Tuesday, August 4th, at 3:30 p.m. The final Mate for acceptance of bids will be 12 o’clock noon, August 4th. This notice shall not apply io dis tricts owning their own buses. July 31—Watts Mill, at Company store. From 9 ajn. to 4 p.m. at each place. „ 7 Persons 'having certificates dated in 1938 or since do not need new ones. Mrs. Gladys Ray Cook, P. B. Bailey, H. C. Sims, 23-2c Board of Registration. NOTICE OF REGISTRATION FOR MUNICIFAL ELECTION State of South Carolina, trustees in such district will award' County of Laurens, contract. Routes subject to bids are as fol lows: Hurricane No. 15 to Clinton; Mountville No. 16—Mountville— 1. Lisbon to Mountville; 2. Rock to Mountville; 3. Old Mountville to Mountville; Sullivan No. 17—Hickory Tavern— 1. Merna to Hickory Tavern; 2. Shiloh to Hickory Tavern; Town of Clinton. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I. B. Copeland is the duty appointed Supervisor of Registration for the Town of Clinton, County of Laurens, State of South Carolina. Every citizen twenty-one (21) years of age and upwards having all of the qualifications as mentioned In Section 12, of Article 2, of tne Con stitution of South Carolina, as Laurens No. 4, Bailey to Laurens i amended, and in Sections 2287 and 2290, Volume 2, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1932, as amended, and who has resided in the State for two years, in the County for one year and within the incorporated limits of the said Town of Clinton for four months next preceding the election to be held in said Town of Clinton FINAL SETTLEMENT on Tuesday, August 18th, 1942, add Take notice that on the 7th day of who has paid thirty days before the August, 1942, I will render a final | election any poll tax then due and account of my acts and doings as;payable and who holds a County Executor of the estate of Julia A. j Registration certificate entitling him Ferguson Woods in the office of the.or her to vote at a polling precinct City; Mt. Gallagher to Ware Shoals; Mt. Olive to Ware Shoals; Lydia Route to Clinton; Shady Grove to Goldville. J. LEROY BURNS, 30-2c So. Supt. of Ed. Judge of Probate of Laurens County, at 10 o’clock am., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge froiri my trust as Executor. Any person indebted to said estate within the Town of Clinton shall be entitled to register. The said I. B. Copeland, Supervisor of Registration, will have his office open at the store of J. I. Copeland & We have invented many.machinesi d i e because of lack of goods to selL of war that might destroy us while i n peacetime they performed a wel- of this state would like to ask the the American people through higher senator. , Many voters already are taxes. Under its provisions the aver- asking, is he afraid to meet his op- age ctizen will pay from two" to three ponent who is fearlessly and with times as much income tax next year _ ^ ^ courage and candor, giving his opin- as he did ths year. It reduces his tax | we are trying to destroy our enemies.! comed service with their advertised ions to the people of this state. It is exemptions from $750 to $500 if sin-! . I goods and now, as a means of name much easier for a candidate to ad- gle, and from $1,500 to $1,200 forj We have substituted buses and insurance, they are eager to perform dress voters from an enclosed radio heads of families. It increases normaF f° r trains: we have ^ made our; an equally welcomed service, room than to meet them face to face, tax from 4 to 6 per cent and gradu- J Sabbath day a “frolic day” . . . and In the meanwhile, inexcusable ated surtax from 6-77 per cent toj we get most of our preaching over blundering is typical of many of the 13-82 per cent. It provides for collec- the radio administration’s approaches to the tions of income tax beginning in Jan- problems connected with the war. ;uary at the rate of 5 per cent of the difference between salary or wages and. personal exemptions, with the rate to become 10 per cent in 1944. We are wasting more money than we earn. We are working only about half the time. We are taxed out of.Q* scrap materials. GOVERNMENT—Help One of the most important services which advertisers are performing to day is in helping with the collection business to give jobs to useless gov- We no longer have any neighbors and very few friends. We have one- fifth as many divorces as we have What Production Means It is a common failing for us to lay ' rornnraHnns under the bill will eminent' workers(?). more emphasis on that part of the have ^ creases in combined normal truth which has a peculiar applica- and sur t ax from 31 to 45 per cent, tion to ourselves. Those who produce ^hile excess profits taxes jump from' the raw material w’hich springs from p resen f 35 t 0 60 scale to flat 90 the soil are regarded as the backbone er cen ^ of the world. However, they are no 1 Liquor, beer, wines, cigarets, to-' emergency arrives - We eat knick- more necessary for the progress of baccos, oil, telephone ’and telegraph! knacks and feed our best foods to our the race than the factories and the bills, transportation fares, freight and dogs - ctiies? which tufn raw products into eX press rates—under the head of ex- tinished goods and provide a market c j ses — are a jj heavily increased, for what the farmer has to sell. Eith- 0 j C omes in addition to er would be in. a sorry plight with-; soc i a i security taxes, state, county, out the other: and neither has a right c ^y and sc hool taxes which have not For many months it has been the general concensus of opinion that only by well-planned advertising could the scrap collections reach the proportions needed to make the home a worthwhile source of supply for is notified and required to make pay-; Bro.” on North Broad Street in the ment on or before that date; and all'Town of Clinton for the purpose of persons having claims against said j registering voters from 9 o’clock estate will present them on or before A. M. to 4 o’clock P. M. on each day said date, duly proven, or be forever barred. 1) AVID JUNKIN WOODS, ___ ^Executor. July 7, 1942.—30-4t. SAY. -I SAW IT IN THE CHRON ICLE.” THANK YOU. {marriages. We pray only when an j factories. There were many in Washington who believed that a gigantic advertis ing campaign should be paid for by the government itself to make “scav- We have grown soft. We have lit tle respect for our government heads. We have become money-mad and selfishly foolish. We are all awfully busy trying to keep ahead of the Joneses. How terrible the awakening, which is soon to come, shall be! Thornwell Matrons to cjaim too much importance in re- been lowered in spite of mounting lation to the advancement which the {^9^1 taxes world has made. ... ' * i The question naturally arises, with The truth is, all are laboring to- i ncreas i ng government restrictions gether in a realm which needs and t0n business, with taxes mounting to should appreciate the value of all t b e — bow in the name of high j a X/,,,.,,*;**.. forms of labor, for the torm produc- beaven is business to make sufficient; ” VOCOllOn tion applies not only to the chang- p ro f\ts to pay such taxes? Truth is,! * ing of seed into a harvest, but also man y small bus i ne sses cannot make! with the majority of the Thom- to those additional changes whereby t b e g ra( ie and are already falling by wel1 orphanage children on vacation the factory adapts the raw material tho wsvsirip Thp rasualtv list will at their homes in this state, Georga, to the need of the consumer. 'continue to grow y .Florida and elsewhere, the following • There are many who feel (and rna t rons are a^ 50 en i9y* ng vaca t* on ® - A Wnrnprl Dpmnrmrv 'they may be right) that the New ^ rs - Varina Betsil, Eno/ee; Miss ^ ^ Dealers want to impoverish business' ^ nna b e l Harvey, Woodward; Mrs. It is well to notice, perhaps, that with suc b excessive taxes in order Pbil Price, Brownsville, Texas; Mrs. Joe Hough, Kershaw; Mrs. Hattie Blankenship, Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. T. H. Newkirk, Wilmington, N. C.; Miss Agnes Seyle, Greenville; Miss Leo nora Leonard, Woodruff; Mrs. L. A. Gambill, Greenville and Clemson; Mrs. D. E. Matthews, Bartow, Fte>; Mrs. Dora Barker, Danville, Va, Miss Janie Stewart is spending the vacation in Fountain Inn and in Dur- TYPEWRITERS AND ADDING MACHINES Sales and Service CLEANING A SPECIALTY Reasonable Charges KENNETH N. BAKER * Phone 306 except Sunday until noon August 8th, 1942, except that said office will be closed on Wednesday at twelve o’clock noon. 1 Dated this 14th day of July, 1942. P. S. BAILEY, Attest: . Mayor. D. C. HEUSTESS,. Clerk and Treasurer. 6-4c SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICL1 , , , , , with such excessive taxes in order some care should be taken to keep ^at it may be easier taken over for democracy safe for the world. The soc i a ii s ti c operation. The way to gain democracy ol the world, in so far as a socialistic system is unbearable it continues, to exist, is liable to be- taxat j on warped by the poor as well as the. war mus t b e won, big money rich. The democracy of the poor andjmust b e spent to gain the desired of those who would appeal to them ^ v j c ^ or y^ Everybody except a fool shades off into socialism and is main- j{ n Q WS this. And yet in the face of !y interested, by tax^s and otherwise,; t bj s staggering tax bill (which will to take from the well-to-do and give b e permanent after the war and poor, while the democracy |probably still highaz) we see the!bam, N C., attending summer school to the the rich is liable to narrow down to senate approving $93,000,000 fer the scmp form of special favors to capi- j on g debated Florida ship canal pro- tal. The whole New Deal gospel ^ j ec t which has been a “pet” of the one of socialism, the substitution of, presen t administration since it came the controlled Socialized State for power—a non-essential expendi- dividual freedom and initiative. jture which will make no needed con- The ancient statement that all men trfbution t o the war effort, are born free- and equal- has often j •pbe spectacle we see in Washing- been questioned. They are neither. ton( playing of politics, delay and free nor equal in regard to inherited dodging of vital issues affecting the tendencies of body, brain, soul ®nd unt jj a ft er ^6 November elec- purse, and no form of law can make t j ons —j s no ^ ca i cu i a ted to arouse en- them so, regardless of what Wash- thusiasm and sacrificial emotions in ington theorists say or do. There is a th e people back home. In the mean- difference in talents, the Bible teach-; while we a re losing the war day by es us. Tbe best that democracy can day do is to give to each a fair-field ini which to develope what he has and to properly conserve what he gains, but even then those who were un equal at the start will be even fur ther apart at the finish. The Forgotten Farmer The United Steel Workers have been demanding an increase in wag es of One dollar a day. Their claim went before the National War Labor NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE for orphanage workers at Duke uni versity. Mrs. Bessie E. Godfrey is visiting her son, B. Frank Godfrey, in Colum bia, and daughter, Mr$. Clarence As- bill, in New Orleans, La. Miss Clyde Smith has returned from a month’s stay with relatives in Seneca. Mrs. A. W. McDavid of Pelzer, Mrs. A. S. Peden of Fountain Inn, and Mrs. O. C. Vaia of Hickory Grove, are substituting at the or phanage for a month. If It to a Magazine that yo« wish, see or phamT JAMES W. CALD WELL, at Clinton Tea Room. Ettber straight subscriptions or 24 months contract plan. enging” the order of the day in every household. But while Washington was hemming and hawing about such a plan, industry decided that it could perform a public service by getting this program- started. Industry, therefore, employed the outstanding leaders of the advertis ing business to plan how the job could be done. In Canada and England the respec tive governments paid the full cost of such campaigns, but in this coun try-industry jumped at the opportu nity to perform this service to the country. So big concerns which have no goods to sell are now spending a for tune to help their government, to strengthen their relations with the public and to play a. part in helping to protect the system under which they have thrived. CRITICS—Results In recent years, both among con sumer groups and in government circles, there have been groups who looked upon advertising as a sort of an unessential luxury of industry. Although men who know the value of advertising have pointed out that advertising has made mass produc tion possible, lowered costs and raised our standard of living, its ene mies have continued to attack it as ecohomic wastei But jthose who have in the past doubted the usefulness of advertis ing are now being shown how this sales tool which industry has used and defended so vigorously, can now Double-Purpose Laxative Gives More Don’t be satisfied just to relieve your present constipated condition. Meet this problem mors 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 lasy bowel muscle*—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. Large fami'v size 25c. Adv. We Don’t Like Te Be Told If the war is won, it’s not going to be won by the folks back home. We are all more or less to busy corn- board which granted an increase of. plaining . . . We haven’t got time to 44 cents a day to “little steel,” and jno doubt it will apply to others as well engaged in the steel industry. The raise was granted, it was stated, to offset the increase in the cost of living. In accepting the recommen dation of the board the committee said: “We do not agree with the analysis of mAjority members of tbe help very much ... for grumbling and accusing and growling and aim ing. Our wrath is poured out daily on some poor government official who is frying to do hto duty. thing^ /nobody has raised any sand at all about soft whiskey totmcsQ 1 and When Your Back Hurts Doans Pills Our Home Purchase Loan Unchanged by War ... The same long Terms i • ... Tfie same Low Cost* ... 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