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Thursdoy, Aurgust 20, 1942 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C Poge Nine "Aunt Rochoel \u A Frigate ClUsea Speska Hb Mind Spectator Comments On Mei} and Things . / ALLIED FLEET SET TO MEET ATTACKS OF PACIFIC ENEMY .tin for^thb*warf a ^ SsSlSsl' Naval Units Under Several months ago, when Preai- fponf of him - Thit ia true of most ot dent Roosevelt asked for suggestion. " •“ ^ *Pecial concern for a name, he wasn’t seeldng one of ^ mdment looms lar * er th * n the jun to h.v;. i«X tThiS; SS! ««*'r i s!«r u of««tutur. coo- war on in the history books of the verBely ’ thwe are dreamers who see future. He aAed fo7iiWa^ hi; aU ^ ^ but fail to see the tree BATTLE CRY—M It b said that sometimes one can’t, see the whole forest because hb view i land of Timor for the fifth time in a drove it into defeat before it could week and carrying the attack farther reach and attack the Allied tran»> 'afield to the northwest in a raid on ports Janding marines and supplies is 1 New Ireland. the Tulagi area, there has been no Some observers here took the raid surface engagement, on Port Moresby as a sign that the Long-range bombers of the Mao» Japanese either had reinforced their Arthur command have* persistently air power in this area, or were try- sought out Japanese ship concentra- mg desperately to divert southwest tions in die enemy occupied bland* - . — . . Pac,fl ' alr ™en from their from Timor to New Britain, in order Admiral Ghormley TakejT^S" 1 inTfS?* the to prevent any sort of reinforcement R«***■!A |_ .American offensive in the Solomons, of the Solomons, but there has been DOilie rOSmOliS 111 Since the nitfit of August 8-9, no indication that they have found Solomon Islond Aroo when Admiral Ghormley’s cruisers the Japanese warships. Possibly these m * |*nd destroyers engaged a Japanese have withdrawn to the Carolines for J naval force of similar make-up and the time being Pictured - above b Miss Rachel Whitmire, affectionately known to her many friends as “Aunt Rachael,” who will celebrate her 87th birthday next month. ' “Aunt Rachael” makes her home with her niece, Mrs. James Dunaway, and Mr. Dunaway on Florence street She was born September 8,1855, near Whitmire, the daughter of the late John Hill and Dinah Duckett Whit* mire. For the past 38 years she has been a resident of the Clinton Mill* community where she b .a devoted member of Calvary Baptbt church and is loved by all who know her. A Soldier Writes The Chronicle b in receipt of the following appreciated letter from an other soldier: Editor The Chronicle: I am writing you a line to let you know how I feel every time I get my copy of the home town paper. It makes me happy to read about the people I know back home when I gm so far away. It b fine out here in Texas and I am enjoying my work. But wherever J go, I will always think of Clinton, and The Clinton Chronicle. I hope every one b enjoying good health. Kindest regards to all. Pvt Melvin Lee Williams, Co. B, 359th Inf. Bn. Camp Wolters, Texas. (Political ) REMEMBER! 85 E-LECT LOTT LAWSON COMPTROLLER GENERAL a business ofllee” reauzea mat names and battle-cries ^ "*-*“*; ^General MacArthur’s Headquarters, l — " ing I wonderto,. I’m .11 .1«. wlthojit be- ; The “War for Survival” Was con- “i 1 " *** Ghonnley’s combined fleet which sidered one of the best *u*I*«t*d;kL 80 successfully shielded the marine;! names for thb world-wide desthlVj sccm ^ e .. 8 P v * ro<d ?***. n< ? w occupation of the Solomon blands struggle. But for some reason that ^, were reported deployed tonight in names hasn’t taken hold, for mort of anticipation of a showdown naval' us still use, for want of a better title,' 15 flght for aU ^ *«alanes northeast of the name “World War No. 3 ” , ^ hfulevards of the future. Unfor- Australia . T r We could call thb the “War to' ' Dboatches from Allied naval Save Democracy” or the “War to End * b * end ^ loD *. v J™ with w a “ headoWtem in ft* S^ft Wars,” both of which are descriptive f™**?** f* ^-^tedness, both ^^^ft. Pacific of what we want thb war ft he hut f « , -«ight and near-sight coming at araa uia . uie *r«»test pf stress on ™ the wrong time. , forthcoming operation/ at sea now we?anVput tol m™ch sftlk^tW ^ Aleutian blands: Why didn’t' 11181 -^U^t^Stftes landing forces names ™°^ ! we have men and bombers and sub-j are ^tablbhed in the Gaudal- Probablv what we need in a name mar,ne * «bd mines there? Well, be- cahal-Tulagi area of the Solomons, j which paints a glowing picture of a cauae th * r w * ren ’ t 8ood, were of 1 These advices, necessarily unof-, . .. “ ™ * no service, just a lot of rock sticking flcial, suggested that big sea battles; out, you know. Well, the Japanese {still brewing In the waters of the took one or two of the blands. They' Solomon chain would prove the turn- 1 were no good stilL Then the Japs log point in the fight for the barrier better world after jh* war rather than one .which merely portrays the horrors of defeat — something more realistic but along the line of “The War to Make Our Dreams Come True.” Sent more men and more men. The Japs still have them. We haven’t ousted the Japs yet What b the* trou ble? Our men in Washington are too near the trees to see the woods. I There have been plenty of slogans " ear , . _ ~ _ which have grown'out of thb war, ^ anow . 1 c* 11 speak tnethought of i southeastern Solomons, meanwhile' but most of them have been created: ^ Jner ‘ ca ’ t 16 1X18,1 “ fo® street ki gave at least tacit confirmation to by slogan-makers instead of being say®* foat we are not satisfied With Washington’s assertions that United bora out of battle. ( the high strategy. It doesn’t look States marines had well established We’ve been propaganda-bed into ^ ^ the Ja P ane9e still footholds. ^ - rallying ‘‘Remember Pearl Harbor,” (The Berlin radio broadcast-a To- R but even though the Pearl Harbor hap, ? y over the depredations of ?ub- kio dispatch to D N B saying that » T SAM " Wi. wnnHpr uhnnt th. and ^ United States engineers bases north of Australia—New Brit ain, New Ireland, New Guinea, and others even more distant. Tokio’s continued silence about the fate of the Japanese garrisons in the revenge, the slogan b too reminiscent of “Remember the Maine” and b weakened by the fact that, so far as we know it was created on the “bat tlefield” of Washington, D. C n in stead of by some hero of the Pacific.' ” —~— ;xn a t American landing forces had The best slogans—the ones which 1 * 1 ? 8 f^rtam secretly, of course f OU ght their way ashore on Tulagi h.v. gone straight to our hearts—I ~ h °". thm * 8 P^ge-lng? The JSe hurried tS usually have been spontaneous ^ a c ^? i a ? d d * tai1 ',was the main objective of Admiral bursts of men in the heat of battle, r *£° rt 18 a * reat rtimulus to — ' - we wonder about the other. Nor are we thrilled oyer the Washington bu reaucrats. Wouldn’t it be worthwhile for con- were taking part in the operations ashore. (Thb was the . first Axb admission that American landing forces had ac- It b the drama and thp color sur rounding them which imprint them indelibly on our imaginations. “Sighted sub, sank same” wouldn’t have meant much if it had been a Ghonnley’s attack. tion. One must have something to re-1 „ . nnrt* and on* ♦«' ' T " e presence of engineers, who SS; thl r^rt 7 ^ ^ 10 would foUow shock troop!, ashore, Either t^much come, .out of * “ K,n * 1 “ di, '« Wt^too, or too little. At eo, reU. bomb.™ Port Moresby ator in action it appealed to «very- “V?® 11181 Isn . t P 1 ® t 8trat "|Japanese raid on'the^ustra^an one of us. Another, of the more rous- j but *"® r rfense area since the opening of the ing type, b the exclamation of the £e * lc ai ? d mt £ lli£ ® nt ®<Torts to check £or ^ Solomons marine going into battle who said to subm . a . r . in e s oft ™ r 5°?^’ let us use. j ^ ^ Mme Ume airmen from hb buddies, “Let’s go—do you want s ^ ou d pl ^ 8 hun " General MacArthur’s ™»nm» nd were to live forever?" dnd *ub-shasers in the Gulf and bomhi * w®. 1 ® South Atlantic; a hundred planes and b ° mbinf * D<Hny bm9ea <» the b- iimvc ineam muen u « naa oeen a ~ • Twenty-four Jaoa Washington invenUon, but when it' ft W f 1136 struck meanwhile, X was the expression of a young avi- 8 ?2 al J^ ,orc ® J Japa * in a high-altitude att ator in action it appealed to everv- n **®- course that Isn t the *trat-; ^ . Gray Funeral Home CHnton, S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS EMBALMERS 41 L. RUSSELL GRAY anl Y. PARKS ADAIR, Gea. Mgra. WRRERIIIMIRRRWWMEWWEilERRRM BENJAMIN & SONS PLUMBING HEATING SERVICE TelephoM 117 , WE ARE HUNTING TROUBLE fiEMMKWSIIEREEERSEEWimEKMMM Some slogan to stir civlians into f° uth A r an ^i 8 hundred planes and greater action will soon evolve out twenty-five blimps, all our gasoline of thb war —but the chances are it and 8U * ar could be transported safe- - -- ly. And it could be done in two or three months, even starting at scratch. Where b the American spirit of will be shouted by a soldier rather Ithan invented by a Washington pro fessor who b ordered to sloganize America into action. initiative and daring? TTnrm-n ■mpinninn Very P ro P®rty we are devoting •I have looked over lists of dozens thou£ht fo Russia and Britain, but no of slogans which have been invented one fcan prowl around the German for such purposes as selling war j coa sts. They have more fronts to bonds or to get war workers to speed worr y them than we have, but they up production. BUYER MEETS SELLER c N c^ AD Some of them seem to hit the nail right on the head, at first, but when I read them by the ream I can’t help seem to give thought to each one and they prepare for all that may happen. Are we overloaded with people in high places, running about in circles U ujbiu Ujr Uic ream i can l neip —-” r. 7 • —*** but recall the slogan-maker whtf +or sitting in smug complacency? - *— * — We’ve done splendidly in part, but is America using her strength? Real ly, the question should be: Is Amer ica so organized as to use her spent a day in. my office one time. Thb professional slogan-maker wrote slogans for $5 an hour. All you did was give hkn the problem you t - - ~T. — —:—- —. — — wanted sloganized and he went to istr * ngth; «> r she a giant blind in work. At the end of an hour or two ftn * ‘ >v * aru1 *" ““ he had a Ibt of slogans a yard long— and most of than were first-rate ex- one eye and lame in one foot? We read of committee and more committee; of advisers over advisers; and enough red tape to bind the world together. pressions of the problem. Slogans for advertising — catchy . . combinations of words which stick ... shou,d lik ® America to be more like the old Model T — without so D. E. Tribble Co. . - . .. ( j ■* f • *' . • \ FUNERAL DIRECTORS EMBALMERS Day •4 Clinton, 14. 358 ar 311 8.C. ii\ our memores—can be produced in that fashion. Rut slogans which will rouse us to “sweat, blood and tears” must grow I out of something deeper than clever , mental gymnastics. ■$ SONG—“Over There” ' As for a song I’ll admit I don’t lb- ten to the radio much on these warm summer evenings, but I’m quite sure if there was a new song which was going to be the hit of this war I would have run across it on my oc casional contacts^ with the ether waves. Just as with the slogans, there are plenty of catchy war songs around, but we still need one which’is writ ten with “bombs bursting in air.” If Francis Scott Key had spent the Rev olutionary war days hanging at a piano in some tin pan alley, we would never had heard of “The Star- Spangled Banner.” Today there are probably thou sands of song writer* who are fran- tidly trying to write the 1342 ver sion of “Over There,” and they will undoubtedly produce some songs which will get a high rating on'the Lucky Strike radio hour. But if there b to be a song which,will real ly Inspire us to greater war effort it probably will be written by a soldier who haa been through a blitzkrieg or a sailor who has learned what it b like to have hb ship blown out from under him. Instead of attsmpflng to do these Jobs at home, we would be better off to turn over the war-naming the slogan-writing and the aong-compoa- ing to the army, the navy, and the much fancy stuff, with very little softness, but delivering all its. power to the wheels and pulling the load. We have too much horn and uphol stery. What we need b traction. TYI»EWIUTMS AND cuUnEmTa bmkmvt FARMERS... Makt tvtry market- day BOND DAY! » ' For oar fighting man, for our country’s future and for frsedom ws must meat and bat our county War Bond quota and kssp on doing it. . Pick up your War Bonds and Stamps on your second stop (* town.. . right after you've sold your eggs, milk, poultry, stock or grain. No investment is too small and no investment is too large ... the important thing ' ia to hay every time you aollt V. S. Trr*tury Departmiui WOMEN! Modern facts 4* 6! years use mimic for MENDING TAPE—Fully trunsparont and flexible, aoab without water. 10c roll Handy in home or office. 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