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THE. CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. Thursdoy, July 30, 1942 (Sty? (Clinton (djrontrlr Established 190« WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher T Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $1.50; Six Months 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 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. properly asking. Will the President pronounce his public blessing upon Olin Johnston as he once did. Will he give the signal, as he did before, that he wants Maybank in the sen* ate. These are interesting, speculative! questions in the minds of the people. [ \ Such a spectacle as we now see ini New York must be recognized by in-) formed people as a real hindrance ators. and planes to washing ma chines is uncertain. Biifc the blue- TODAY... TOMORROW " sKi By Don Robinson CATALOGUE—Museum If you have a 1942 ma|l order cata- be put over in a miraculously short time — a much shorter time than it took for industry to shift to making war equipment with which it wasn’t day will apply fdfra final Furthermore, every industry which (from my trust as Ex FINAL SETTLEMENT ^ Take notice that off the 7th day of August, 1942, I will render a final account of my acts and doings as Executor of the estate of Jufia A. Ferguson Woods in the office of the Judge of Probate of Laurens County^ at 10 o’clock am., and on the edme ^ ~ discharge familiar. , -, -- ecutor. estate _ _ make paJK products they will deliver after the men t on or before that date; and all thumbing war ^y e may have to go without a, persons having claims against said to national unity at 9 time when the l 0 * 116 * ^^ht be a good idea to hopes to regain public favor is now. ^ny person indebted to said one single purpose-should be winning " an $ on it and nlevit Witn y° ur , planning big improvements in the j s notified and required to mak the war. There is not a newspaper hi s t0I 7 book I s - 4 „ s u , in New York that has not stated that h * ve just finished — __ this is a contest between the Presi- tnrough one of those hefty volumes 0 f things today, but these sacri- > estate will present them on .or befora dent and Mr. Farley for the 1944 and c ^ i curred ^ m *. , 4 f) er f. , was Aces will be more than compensated j date, duly proven, or be forever delegation control at the Democratic a veritable encyclopedia of the things ^ or by the marvelous products which haired national convention. ! w * uc " we ar * ^omg to have to do are p rom ised to us for tomorrow Yes, the President of the United wid ? out li }** ^ ar a l^< J enat0 J rS ',_ ; C ? n * ressn ? en : and dent^predict W (Will Discontinue CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1942 Why Such Restrictions? Almost overnight, government or ders put thousands' of automobile _ dealers out of business. Those who, jer marches on. • are still attempting to operate, be- of what we see transpiring in Wash ington on the eve of the November elections. We will never win this war playing politics as usual, while Hit- Washington administrators for every conceivable plan or idea continue to play the game of politics while the | fate of civilization hangs in the bal ance. cause of federal regulations and re- li oneY l n P ec fj ons strictions, find it impossible to oper- mone 7 ,n Cietriuns ate on a profitable basis. No business' Eugene S. Blease, former chief jus- group in the United States has beenjtice and now a candidate for the as hard hit, and we think so unfairly, United States senate, made this bold as this class statement at Laurens Monday when ‘ Filling station operators have ^00^0^“'"'"” 01 ^ been put under regulations and limi- j rens cmmi y voters, tations by which it is hardly possible for them to exist, and a forced, poor! service for the public is the result, j A new proposal now looms that re tail stores be forced to drastically curtail their stocks. If the idea is giv en the force of a law or order, it will include commodities which are abun dant, no less than those which are scarce. ^ t NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE ‘My one ambition in entering this race was to prove that a man could be elected to the senate without spending a “whole lot of .money.” I borrowed $3,000 to make the race. Every dollar of it is Eugene Blease’s money and I will not accept any contribution from Well, We Will Risk Speaking Our Mind This Once This Is not intended as a criticism of anything or anybody. We are pos sibly doing the best we can in our efforts to win the war. But the “sec ond front” (the new second front) is now old enough to walk but it has not even started to cfawl as yet. We have almost worn out this “front” talking about it. Our enemies create fronts without very much talk: it’s'many a mouth water in the months A lot of the things pictured in the I nrn | Trains Where catalogue are already unavailable J” 0001 1 ram > .,7, and the mail order houses are thus DIIS6S Are AVOliable forced to return millions of dollars - ♦ ■— ? of good U. g. cash to people who or- 1 Washington, July 28.—Heavy war der them. * l time demands on transportation fa- Another group of products can! c ilities will force the elimination of only be sold to people wno have pri-! much local service now being offered oriUes and another large group wiU; by the nation’s railroads. Defense be unobtainable as soon as present i Transportation Director Joseph B. stocks are exhausted. I Eastman said today. When we will again be able toj in every instance where local train purchase those things which we have, routes are parallelled by “reasonably taken for granted for so many years,; adequate” bus service, the local nobody knows, so it seems a good I trains should be discontinued, East- idea to keep the 1942 book on hand;man wrote state public service com- to show Junior the pictures of the mi M i 0 ns. Engines and passenger cars things which made living so easy be- thus released could be transferred to fore the war. ' more important uses, he explained. “This should be done in spite of _ .. some degree of local dislocations and Those gorgeous pictures of big, inconveniences, for the wartime heavy-treaded tires, .shown in the needs of the nation must be para- mail order catalogues, will make mount,” Eastman added. “Unneces 'GOODS—Disappearing about time for us to act or else. anybody. That is a refreshing declaration for':!; 8 have gone to roost. They fly out The government through the pri- ° , , , i.i inai is a reiresniiiK ueuiarauuu lur. • j j o 1 ' only system, already has complete I lt ls generally oc . 8asK >" aU J r an ,? dr ?P 8 'f" . , control over the manufacture and k h ^ » part 'when the weather .s pretty ... but rrX._ 7. i we can't win a war by sitting or set- to come. The hashing machine pictures, the Our forces in England and Austra- refrigerators, the bicycles, the lawn- mowers, the cameras and the hun distribution sary, duplicate service must clearly be avoided.” The policy will be implemented by a survey of local rail and bus pas- . . . , , , senger service by the state public dreds of farm and kitchen gadgets service commissions, four of which portrayed wiU also bring many a! already have advised Eastman that sigh from those of us who have be- duplicating services have been elimi- come accustomed to easy living Most of us, I imagine, have lost nated in their jurisdictions. Eastman also urged the commis- track of the hundreds of items which; sions to expedite action on all pend- the , of g° ods - ^ ny in our elections. The belief is now .. * w r ♦ would so stringent a retail order be a , , thls sta , e tha , a man “n* °n a nest. We realize tha we necessary, or even considered. ° chance in offerine for hieh! mU5t be ready when we establ,sh a There are many reasons why in- .. . . . must he second front: we can’t go off half- ventory control should not be im-’. . ’ , exoensive or-i cocked ’ but there is a P° ssibillt y of; industry is now prohibited from ^ applications for discontinuance of posed „ would force thousands o, ™ ^^ | 180 discontinuance cases now are up for consideration in various parts of ‘ stores to cancel orders, it would in a f . nit i 7 „ n _ CQV Ri an i, win seem concerned about any second gradually by the try-to-buy method given period cause the closure of . ^ , ... y ’. y- front, that is—our second front. : anH ar * tKot /».«•_ & ^ . u .. win because he has the money on his many stores — they simply couldn’t obtain enough goods to make their’ ‘ . 'I 8 -. We. are going t& win in the end, continued dperation, - economically In J he last race {or governor in but we ought not to let the * end get possible. And above all. it .would this state it was generally reported, work a definite and unnecessary and there was plenty of evidence, hardship on the consumer. that lar g e sums of mone y were s P ent - By and large, American retailers In t be recent senate race there were have been outstanding in cooperat- reports that CIO money was poured too far away from us. At present, the wrong end is pointing at us. We and are quickly realizing that, dur ing the past month, the stock of mer- DAVID JUNKIN WOODS, ‘ . Executor. July 7, 1^42.—30-4t v .'~ ; NOTICE US TRANSPORTATION Bids / for the transportation ' of school /children of Laurens county, shall be opened in tbe office of Coun ty Superintendent of Education on Tuesday, August 4th, at 3:30 p. m. The final date for acceptance of bids wiU be 12 o’clock noon, August 4th. This notice shall not apply to dis tricts owning their own buses, as trustees in such district will award contract. Routes subject to bids are as fol lows: Hurricane No.* 15 to Clinton; Mountville No. 16—Mountville—, 1. Lisbon to Mountrille; 2. Rock to Mountville; • 3. Old Mountville to Mountville; Sullivan No. 17—Hickory Tavern— 1. Mema to Hickory Tavern; 2. Shiloh to Hickory Tavern; Laurens No. 4, Bailey to Laurens 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. SAY. “I SAW IT IN THE CHRON ICLE.” THANK YOU. For Only lOYNow Less than chandise available in many types of th e country stores h". become extremely limited j The, added that the discontinu- 1 With practically all thing, made of. ance 0 , loc a l passenger service did metal or rubber, having gone to war,' no , mean ^ would ^ abandoned have a powerful job ahead of us. We or .^ a P t ldl y the to* | and the track requisitioned by the : Americans must hp thp fathpr mnth-! available civilian merchandise is government for relaying elsewhere ■ The policy would not affect commut- i Americans must be the father, moth — --JP . . .. .-. « , * t a er - banker, store-keeper, food-pro-1 dw ‘ n d* m 8 !' ke a snowball in July. ing with the government. Manufae- into th ®. state f n eff ° rt , ^ f 1 ^: 1 ducer and nurse-maid to about ten- ! —— turers, retailers and consumers will one of tbe candidates and defeat his fifths 0 f ^ world. And our un-1 GADGETS—Christmas * make any “necessary” sacrifices with- 0 PP onent - • Idertaking has not yet scratched the Last week I received from Wash- __ __ Tiii[n|j out grumbling. But they should not Mr. Blease has in a straight-from-(surface: we haven’t shot from taw ington a new list of articles, made!the state commissioners iT might 'be be forced to accept destructive re- the-shoulder statement made known up to now: we’re just sighting. from iron and steel, on which manu-lwise to continue train service and strictions for which there is no cur- his position on thg. use of money toj ♦—— *——* s — ^ - rent justification. gain office. ^ j We are still kicking and Complain- When government puts business What is Mr. Maybank’s position? J ing. Did you read that piece fn the out of business through regimenta- He has not publicly expressed him-; papers the other day about a big 1 previously issued, includes hundreds ing as the need for railway cars tion and interference, how and where self in the campaign. i sugar factory in Texas bursting open of popular items. A few of them are: in the name of ordinary common Public officials should be elected! with sugar while berries and fruits; Atomizers, automobile accessories ers’ trains or freight movement, they emphasized. In some instances, Eastman told facturing will be entirely prohibited halt bus service. He asked that ODT beginning next month. The list,!be advised of such situations since which is simply an addition to many:the ne bd for buses was fully as press- It se only a* directed. Dr. Hitchcocks LAXATIVE POWDER .sense does it expect to get the Si60,- because of their ability, character 000,000 it is now spending a day to and qualifications—-and not because win the war, not to speak of the of the size of their campaign fund multiplied millions being spent for so-called social gains (political) which have not the remotest connec tion with national defense? Il t,fi £ ‘ re * s thing this country needs above all else in this war emergency, it is a house-cleaning in The New York Fight Some time ago President Roose- were rotting Well, it got a big hand! (except those required by law), awn ing frames, bag and pocketbook frames, beds, binoculars, bird cages, blackboards, cash registers, chick feeders, Christmas tree ornaments, Nobody checked on it to see if this were true, or if the sugar was not stored for government use for mak ing ammunition or awaiting ships to be transported where it was needed,; cigarette cases, cigarette lighters, veTt'publicly ^toimed “that*'poTii !° r if th , c tellow wr . ote thc ? rt .i cl *! clock f s “' com P atts ’ corn POPP*™. tics should be abandoned because of; was 8 llar “ r 8 H J t ‘ erlte ' 08 whether cr0 « et s ' ts - the war-that all time and energy ? r not'anybody had any berries or ,j u _ j _ ^.^ifruits to be canned around Sugar Those are just a few of the items listed under A, B, and C. But they Washington, both in congress and of ' land - How we do enjoy big gulps of! are enough to give a general idea of alphabetical bureaus and administra- tors who seem determined to put Ue b V , e ,? mer ‘ Ca !? . a- . a cQiintry s. business men either in K But lhe P r os'dent has contradicted bankruptcy, or barely able to sur- hlaown a PP™L3B(i is setting a hor- v j v(? nble exampreTnot only for congress ^ but for his bureaus, war agencies and D ... All I subordinates all down the line. He rOlltlCS AS USUQl has entered the New York Demo- As one travels in the region near cratic contest for the nomination of Ocala, Fla., the -ghostly reminder is governor by drafting Senator James seen of a barge canal experiment on M. Mead as his candidate and be- which more than $35,000,000 was stowing the White House blessing spent and thrown away seven years upon his head. . . ago by the administration now in It is reported that Kennedy, the power in Washington. Tammany leader, American Labor During all these years a little party leaders and other machine pol- group of politicians headed by Sena- iticians from that -state have been tor Claude Pepper of that st</te, has' summoned to Washington for politi- been attempting to get the dead is- cal conferences and that the presi- sue revived and an authorization dent is primarily responsible for made of additional millions for its Mead’s entrance in the race. These completion. !“key men” did not deny the report Last week that effort succeeded when they left the White House, when the senate approved $93,000,000 On the other side we find Roose- for the “waterway” which has been velt’s candidate opposed by Attor- pet of the present administration. 1 ney General John flict. Those words 'were applauded v V J e „ ♦wo l Nazi Propaganda and common rot. If it had been good news, it wouldn’t have got 10 miles from its author. how rapidly all kinds of items are going to disappear from the market. By comparing this one list with the index of a mail order catalogue I found it called for the elimination of more than 200 of the products in dexed. When I first heard that purchasing What We Don’t Know About Jeeps We have seen hundreds of jeeps and they are frequently shown at work (?) in the movies. They hjave|power in 1942 would greatly exceed their place in war, we reckon, but so j the merchandise which we would be far they have been used only to do j able to buy, it was a difficult state to stunts, jump ditches, run at 75 mph, imagine. I couldn’t picture anyone and haul soldiers all over the coun- going to town with money In his try. In battle, they would be fine pocket and not bring able to spend it. things to retreat in, that is—if you; When the Christmas shopping sea- wanted to get the fighters away in a 1 son comes around again the great hurry. They are rough and tough, but except for stun) and display pur poses, we have pur doubts about their effective use ... in actual com bat. A few enemies secreted in trees or in other good hide-outs could take care of the contents of jeeps with 22 rifles. Jeeps leave the men that they ;i cii tne present administration.: ney General John J. Bennett, who In The Greenville News a few days has the blessing of James A. Farley, hluT'^poTed^^ any^kind‘of‘assauU, ago a letter was published from Sen-'New York state chairman, former!and their real use must depend on ator Pepper thanking Senator May- ; postmaster general and manager of; the speed and durabUity they pos- sess. It takes tanks and armored cars bank of this state for his valuable the 1932 campaign which landed assistance in securing passage of the President Roosevelt in the White Florida barge canal bill. “I hasten to House. tell you (Maybank) before anyone We see this political line-up—Far- else how magnificently you contrib-'ley and his man Bennett vs. Roose- uted to making that happy result velt and his man Mead. possible,” said Pepper. i The outcome of this fight will re- _ _ The huge sum of money sought for veal who is the master in New York nofyet been tri^d‘ouragainri‘a‘reri this experiment is a non-essential state — Farley and his faction or!fighting corps expenditure. Every dollar of the President Roosevelt and the New amount should have been put in the Deal. M6re than that, the pitched manufacture of war munitions qnd battle for domination of the ap- equipment. Here we are losing the preaching convention fend nomina- war every day on all fronts while tion, according to Tfie New York Maybank and pther senators and Times, “is a real contest for control congressmen work for appropriations of presidential convention delegates to attack, and they have got to be good ones at that. All of this might exhume our ignorance as to what it takes to fight with, but we are using up lots of steel and rubber on many socalled war implements that have One 50-ton tank could stand off l.QOO jeeps and then take time out to smoke. Don’t misunderstand us: We scarcity of goods will become strik ingly apparent to all of us. There is apt to be very little to put under the 1942 Christmas tree except war sav ing stamps. FUTURE—Promising ' , We are going to'learn to get along without a lot of things, but that isn’t going to stop us from wanting them back at the first possible opportu nity. When the war ends there is going to be the greatest demand ior goods that there ever has been in the his tory of this country. With our pock ets loaded with war bond money, there will be millions of us who will want to make the down payment on a new automobile the day the peace is signed. We’ll be mobbing the stores trying to replace practically every gadget we have with something new, shiny and up-to-date. How long the period will be in which industry can shift from mak- Are yon entitled to wear $. “target” lapel button? Yon are If yon are investing at least ten percent of your in come in War Bonds every pay day. It’s yonr badge of pa triotism . CALL Wyman Shealy For Prompt” Plumbing and Heating Service .•* 105 E. Ferguson St. INSURANCE Fire - Tornado - Automo bile • Surety Bonds - AD Forms of Property Insurance. SOUND PROTECTION AT LOWEST COST. REAL ESTATE B. H. BOYD Clinton, S. C. TYPEWRITERS AND ADDING MACHINES Sales and Service CLEANING A SPECIALTY Reasonable Charges KENNETH N. BAKER Phon«. 306 Dr. Felder Smith Dr. Duncan S. Felder OPTOMETRISTS Specialists In Eye Examinations Office Hours: Dr. Smith, Dully, 4:15 to < Dr. Felder, Dhily, 1:30 te 6 Phone 29 for Appointment CLINTON, S. C. y^RRwnwnnimieniBRwtnnRiwtRRRR know these jeeps are intended for ing tanks to cars, guns to refriger- many purposes, and v not especially of this type, housing projects, etc., in in 1944, either for a fourth tenmfor this state and elsewhere. And then Mr. Roosevelt or for a successor they have the audacity to tell the picked by him.” people back home' that we are not' Farley and Franklin Roosevelt went down the road * together the for use in fighting I1U \ Iltl units. To win, we disturbed sufficiently aroused and over the war situation. From Florida now cornea the re have got to have men and machines that will go places and stay places when they get there. We are wor ried about how the war is going . . . against us at this writing (7-10), and first and second time the latter Tan | it is going against us faster anH a ^ w, , , , . tor toe presidency. But they split in-harder each day. *Mebbe this is the port that considerable objection is 1 1940 over the third-term issue, when reason why jeeps ain’t so strong being heard concerning the measure Farley refused to line-up with the j with us. President Roosevelt signed last week machine. He withdrew from the con- authorizing the spending of $44,000,-. ventiqn and later from the cabinet. 000 on the barge. The chief objectipn He iff how bitterly attacking the New is that when the waterway would Deal candidate (Mead) as a weakling be ready for use is far too remote and unanimous “yes” and uncertain, it requiring years to I Who is to b* governor of New York complete the project across the state.!state is a matter of'little concern to They say 4hat the war will be over . South Carolinians. But an issue of long before the canal is likely to be vital importance to voters and tax- completed, and that the enormous payers is who is to be governor of amount of money needed for its com- this state and senator for the next pletion could be more advantageous- six important reconstruction years ly used elsewhere against the Axis. The New York situation is cited to Then too, the required manpower show how political maneuvering to and machines are too greatly needed advance selfish interests continues in on projects more directly related to spite of the war, its casualties and the war program. • - i present sefiouffhess. What will be the This is just an every day example procedure in other states, voters are A second front in France or Italy or Norway or China qr somewhere, must start soon, or it will be too late to start <me. After the count of 10, it’s all over for the gtiy on the floor. If we should have s second front, it must be understood that sudh ifeder- taking will prove the most serious and most horrible thing that so far has taken place in this war. Hitler doesn’t seem to care about our seb- ond front ideas. Guess he knpw* how > strong he is where those “fronts” might appear. Jeeps, we apologize and will wait to see you in action be fore saying anything more against you. Kidneys Must Woi k Weil Foe Yew To Feel Well r 4*y» tM ...at :r I; The Citizens Federal LOANS ARE AVAILABLE ON FAVORABLE TERMS — for— * 4 BUYING HOUSES-FOR RE FINANCING EXISTING MORTGAGES—AND FOR REMODELING PURPOSES. • X ' See Us for Full Details, Which Are Cheerfully Rendered Without Obligation. , M MW* *1*7 o—k.—m*»aai UmnsmSTii H Of Jm tb> M»o4 fefenr to bodu, Eocf> Account Insured Up To $5,000 ..v Doans Pm. , ederal Savings \Mjlp LOAN ASSOCIATION Tel—h— Naw • ' v !7 A Clinton Institution Serving Clinton People Since 1909 T"