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Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C Thursday, August 27, 1942 aty* Glutton (Et?ronirU Established \H% 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 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 6f 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. Laurens County State Ticket Congress, Lt. Governor, Comptroller General .Lt. Governor Comptroller General CUNTON. S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST; *7, 1942 It's Not So Now [the careers of men and to consider that many chances have come to one Most people can recall the time anc j f ew opportunities to another, when thiy had an unwavering faith WO j r i < | ^ quick to judge and slow in the old adage about everything t0 un£ j e rstand. Every man has the that goes up is sure to come down,: opportunity to be honest, to be fear but that was before they were on j ess support of the right, tc such intimate terms with the high vo i U me of the world’s cost of living and the altitude of helpfulness and in countless ways to lay up for himself those treasures which time cannot destroy. We too seldom see this equality of opportunity and make too little rec ord of the success which is achieved taxes. years for that which doe not satisfy, while others achieve a more enduring greatness because they did not seek' it for themselves. More Rationing Coming What’s going to be rationed next? That question is heard asked repeat- edly. Well, nobody knows; so if you ^ hear an answer put it down as an idle rumor unless it comes from an official source. Until Washington officials are ready (they can’t be hurried* because ( u . of endless red tape) to go ahead with | Tn6 LlOCtiOn KCtlimS rationing another product, the chanc-1 The Chronicle ’s staff, aided by es are we won t hear anything about ; f r j en( j s W orked hard Tuesday night it. The fear of encouragirtg and m- to gj ve p U hii c the county election creasing hoarders has discouraged returns -p w0 sm all unreported boxes any prenews of rationing plans. ; j n U pper part of the county made But it is true^-and this is official impossible to give the final “flash” that the Office of Price Administra- dur j ng the even j ng lion is working on a “universal ra-| The returns were “broadcast” tioning book, with various co^r, ^ roug j 1 a?1 g XC gjj ent gpg^^g S g t _ up pages and with different types To the firm of D. E. Tribble company coupon numbers, Which, will fit anyi we are j nde btecl for the courtesy of rationing program which may b e [ us j n g their equipment. The “mike”i adopted. When we all get such a was j n c h ar g e 0 f £) r £ Sturgeon, book rationing can then be started did a dandy job and kept the on a new product immediately, sl m- crowd as ^g jg^gjjgj vote ply by announcing, for example, that of the f or ty_one precincts At the t ^ ie la dder of fame, he hates to think the yellow page with eight numbers phone receiving and re-checking the ! ° f bein 2 P ut back in class 4_b on it will apply for coffee and the returns was w H Simpson, who al- ‘ green page f with twelve numbers on wa y S gi ac jiy assists us and without it must be used for chocolate candy. | w h om jt would be difficult to carry Mom the intormation that has on t ^g as accurate jy and leaked out about the proposed uni- j y as j s done eac h year. Others giv- versal bonk the American people j ng va i ua 5i e assistance at adding may expect many additional things mac hines, tabulating tables and in to be rationed-and probably right; oth g r ways W g r g L< E Bishop, R. L. soon. Until government speaks off 1- ,.pi ax j C o and L. B. Dillard.'It would cially, about all we can do is to guess have b ^ en impossible t o give the re wind will be next. turns without the assistance of our ^ friends, and to all who helped us in An Unbroken Rule ! an 7 wa y- we express our appred- Every now and then The Chronicle’ 4 PRECINCTS / • Joseph R. Bryson Congress Bridges Laney ✓ Williams Britt Lawson Rhodes < < Smith Absentee Ballots.. —■1 38 71 21 26 25 82 45 Bailey’s 128 44 43 35 31 19 37 37 B’ksdale-Narnie.. | 135 16 94 27 | 20 14 37 66 Clinton City 696 135 357 196 115 .152 175 240 Clinton Mill ...... 289 108 106 69 87 67 39 91 Cook’s Store / 56 5 42 9 4 2 2. x 46 Cross Hill ..J. Daniels’ Store .... 241 70 139 52 61 38 79 . 60 70 18 38 12 15 11 16 29 Dials 37 6 4 27 3 6 8 19 Ekom i.-. ...' 76 15 32 29 23 19 12 20 Goldville .'. 419 65 235 121 102 132 75 107 Gray’s 20 3 13 4 3 3 9 5 Gray Court 218 59 95 62 52 42 34 90 Hopewell 59 6 51 3 12 12 23 13 Hickory Tavern.. 180 27 85 64 ; 24 49 36 66 Jones’ Store 128 36 58 34 17 ‘ 28 39 44 Lanford 46 7 33 7 3 12 12 19 Langston 1 85 27 43 15 33 21 12 18 Laurens City 1075 250 545 282 224 165 380 292 Laurens Mills .... 204 43 86 78 33 57 31 84 Lydia Mills 203 86 69 45 57 48 35 61 Long Branch 87 31 31 «3 12' 21 19 35 Merna ..^ 50 14 29 6 12 0 27 12 Mt. Olive 58 19 25 19 13 7 10 28 Mountville 85 13 55 16 25 16 17 27 Mt. Pleasant 38 * 3 28 ' 7 5 11 8 14 Ora 60 40 10 9 23 10 b - 16 Owings .... .... .... 126 46 55 27 11 20 47 50 Pleasant Mound .. 48 23 24 8 6 8 16 24 Poplar Springs .. 127 37 54 36 19 19 54 -33 Princeton 76 8 60 8 12 8 14 42 Renno ..’ 38 4 31 - 3 3 3 23 8 Shiloh 42 10 26 5 2 7 13 19 Shady Grove 27 6 15 6 . 4 4 2 14 Stewart’s Store .. 61 25 28 7 24 9 11 15 Tip Top 43 8 - 32 13 6 11 19 7 Trinity Ridge .... 65 14 29 22 21 10 ■ 11 23 Waterloo .. 90 . 34 47 10 9 16 46 19 Watts Mills 355 84 204 75 90 90 163 116 Woodville 142 45 59 37 8 11 88 5 Youngs .... .... 82 14 59 9 25 8 26 23 TOTALS 6022' 2131 3123 1588 1540 1479 1991 2016 First Coupons Must Last Until $apt. 21 The state OPA has reminded South Carolina motorists that the first page of coupons in their “A” gasoline ra tion books — those marked 1 —must last until September 21. | Coupons on page two Of the “A” ; books will not be honored until Sep tember 22 while page one coupons are no longer valid after September 21. j Page two coupons expire on No vember 21. SERVICES ANNOUNCED i Rev. A. M. Herndon is again pas- ; tor of the Pentecostal Holiness church ifor another year. He announces the following program at this church: Thursday night, 8:00, prayer ser vice. Saturday night, 8:00, Bible study. Subject, “Repentance.” v /Sunday morning, 10:00/' Sunday school. Sunday morning, 11:00, preaching. Subject, “Untrodden Path.” Sunday evening, 8:00, preaching. Subject, “The World’s Greatest Event.” il i You Don’t Get the News. , ... , Especially do we thank the man- rece.ves an anonymous letter either agers of election in this section for setting forth the writer s views on their heart cooperation in bringmg some subject, or pertaining to an their retUrns to the office opinion expressed editorially by the, Compl et e returns on .the county p«iper. Such a letter really an insult races are f ound j n tabulations in to- to a postage stamp—came in our mail jay’s paper yesterday. It was assigned to the of-| In the meanwhile, may we repeat flee wastebasket where such commu-| ,. If You Don . t Read The Chronicle nications belong. The letter indicated, in every de tail, that the writer had taken es pecial pains to keep his identity con cealed. A standard-size envelope was not used, the paper was unwater marked. the content (on typewriter) failed to given even a suspicion as to the author. Had it been signed and the identity of the sender estab lished, The Chronicle would gladly have given it space. yores trulie, mike lark, rfd, draft bored. 14,000,000 Dead In War Since 3\ New York, Aug. 22.—Fourteen mil- ♦ {lion persons have been killed in war Get Ready For the Bums since 1931 when Japan began her The old South of yours looks like; i nva sion of Manchuria, Prof. Atwood it’s going to produce bountiful crops jn. Townsend of New York university and it appears also that we might get estimates in an article written for fair prices for the first time in 15 The Freed World, years. This means that we are going to have an influx of shysters and peddlers and fakirs and agents and every other kind of dopesters known to crookedness. The advent of light ning rod agents usually tells of a The majority of dead were civil ians, the professor said. He placed 9,500,000 in that category. In China 2,300,000 soldiers and 6,300,000 civilians have been killed since 1937 alone, he said, and in forthcoming per^ of prosperity but: Russia ^500,000 Soldiers and 2,000, thanks to the WPB, they won’t be; 000 to 4,000,000 civilians have me able to function unless they make their lightning arresters out of bam-[ boo or pine poles, and they ain’t any too good to try that. These losses, he said, compared with 7,000 United States dead. Prof. Townsend said his estimates were based on minimum figures available, and that if maximum fig ures were used the total would run FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 14th day of September, 1942, I will render a final account of my acts and doings as Executrix of the estate of Ella B. Crawford, in the office of the Judge of Probate of Laurens County, at 10 o’clock a. m., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as Executor. Any person indebted to said estate is notified and required to make pay ment on Or before that date; and all persons having claims against said estate will present them on or before said date, duly proven, or be for ever barred. VIRGINIA BOLT BOYD, < Executrix. August 10, 1942.—3-4c. NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS The annual meeting of Stockhold ers of the Clinton Bonded Warehouse Company of Clinton, S. C., will be held August 28, 1942, at 4:00.o’clock pjn n in the office of The Commercial Depository, to elect directors for en suing year, and to transact such bus iness as may come before the meet ing. H. D. HENRY, 27-3c Sec.-Treas. NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE Another Good Man Has Been _ . Turned Down This newspaper does not print hon. henry morgan thraw, anonyfhous communications. The seeker-terry of the war, name of the writer must be known ; Washington, d. c. and, while it is not compulsory that jeej. s j rl the signature be published if such} You will be visited by book agents, medicine peddlers, fortune-tellers, religious dupes,, cranks with tips and. to 22,000,000 instead of 14,000,000. ideas to sell, bums with a stock of 1 m 6-cent flavoring extracts that you j must pay a .dollar for, or not get LoiirenS Mon them; and then there will be the us ~!T n L oc Own I ual group of fake oil stock salesmen, j ■ OKCS VJWn Lire and the fine literature exploiter^ will! —————— simply come in droves. Our good col- | Laurens, Aug. 23. — Morris Page, ored folks will possibly be robbed | store and service station operator first and then all the rest of us will: near the cit y on the Laurens-CUnton follow. road, died early Sunday at his home as result of v a self-inflicted pistol wound, according to inquest jury. Dewey Surratt testified that he at tempted to restrain Page from carry- Our recommendation is . . , buy what you need from your own home- . folks, in their stores and shops. If . mr. holsum moore wants to know i they haven’t got it, nine times out of i ^6 ou ^ bbj avowed purpose, but the request is made—the name must be why you an turned his son, hansome|ten, it ain’t worth having. We already i man broke awa y. entered another known and on file in the office for down and sent him back from have a large number of so-called [locked the door and immedi- the newspaper s protection. ithe war. it looks like when you have The Chronicle is glad from time a chance to get holt of such a fighter to time- to carry contributed letters ^ he i s you should grab the oppor- businesses and transient hawkers j a tely fired the fatal shot with the that are getting from 500 to 1000 per witness looking on through the win- cent profit for their wares. A busi-|^ ow> - on matters of public interest when tunity. he says you °all diddenf do ^ ness tha t ba s to overcharge and rob ; Pa 8 e was a 5011 of the l ate James they are not of a defamatory nature, nothing but thump him on the chist! the public in any such style ought to i R - Pa g e of Laurens, and is survived Whether the views expressed agree a f ew times and make him ‘‘ a . a h” be outlawed by the federal govern-i b y a sister, Mrs. Osie M. Sitgreaves. with those of the publisher does not and listen to his hart through a little ment or taxed off the face of the He graduated from Laurens high enter into the question. There are xubbe r telly-foam, why diddent y 0 ui earth - S 01 ™ 5 such schemes are in op-1 schoo 1 and attended Presbyterian col- prmciples {c ! r which The Chronicle take b j m out and let him show you ieration all around us even now, just, le £ e - stands without compromise, and bow be can sling a axe or sboot a as they have been for years, opinions we hold are expressed in gun or d j g a ditch? these columns. To every citizen we «! accord the same privilege. This heri- nobody has ever heard of him hav- tage of treedom of thought and .ving weak lungs or a spattering hart speech is one of the things we are 0 r shortness of breath except when their country. It you have any mon fighting for in the present war. he runs 10 or 12 miles without stop- i ey to throw away, save it ... by in- Our unbroken rule stands, how- 1 ping, his education is limited, and, vesting in war bonds or stamps. The Last rites were held at 10 o’clock Monday morning at the graveside in So, folks—get ready for the crooks. '.Laurens cemetery, conducted by the They will make you think they are, ev ’ J° die Martin, really rendering a service to you and j ever, and we are taking time out to while he can’t out-read a college pro- again call this policy to the attention fessor, he can out-fight and scuffle a of our readers. It is a waste of time, dozen of them, because he could not to write us and not sign your name. ; ance r a few questions in joggerfy is We invite letters from our readers.; no reason why he should of benn „ Especially are we glad to receive and turned down, the genneral in the these ruthless.usurerk, They pay no publish communications from young army will show him where the ene- licenses or taxes or *anything else: — 1 “ J r ' ” they only “leech” on what you have worked for. Just tell ’em you are not patent medicine peddler seems to have the easiest sailing. He has something for every ailment. Don’t sic the dog on ’em: nobody wants a dog that has been contaminated by men of our community now in the service, whether they be in camp or on foreign soil. my is and he would do the rest. mr. moore mought rite or foam his; interested, congressman about this as soon as Standards Of Success the ^cktion has benn hen and itiRej Cross Chaoter It is often noted that we are living w } on i be lon g now. if toe army needs ^ . ■/ in a material age and our standards stron g men, they should of took han-. Seeking Workers v have much to do with that which we moore ' be knocked 4 men and 2 The Red Cross chapter is again see and handle. The adding machine, | Poleesmen down m a little fracas at calling for volunteers for the cutting the. bank, the tax records and like;, e ^ oi y i } > y " sea ^ * a ?* * aR and n ®vver and sewing of various articles of means of calculation are employed as ^ 2 j tee , lf dec ^f‘ OI J clothing needed for war relief. Any- one able and willing to do this type of work is urged to give a half day a week at the Red Cross sewing rooms. r ” Please notify Mrs. H. Earl Spencer when you can serve. Phone 349. measures of success. Men thus seek! 136 revers ^ d - p }f s f sem * a P aid telly- happiness, which if they find it at Sram to hon. holsum moore, bis pa. all, will be found by means of trav eling along a hard road. It is this which puts much of the stress and worry and many of toe forms of dif ficulty into modern life. It is this which brings blindness in regard to the truly great things of life and makes much too brief toe list of those who have reached toe realm of those who have nobly performed the duties of life and have solved its problems in the sanest and happiest manner. ' The opportunities for real success and happiness come to all men alike and are not dependent upon their talents or their possessions. The world today is. prone to look upon and tell him to tell hansom where to report for duty. < his ma is verry badly disappointed because he was rejected and sent home, he had promised to make a insurance policy in her name for 10,0000$ befoar he went acrost the ocean to jappan, but now she has benn denied that by toe recruiter at the war barracks, he was willing to be a cdpperal or a major or anny- toing just to get started, he would of took his chances as to climbing up RUBBER STAMPS AS CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO, Sistar To Preach For Presbyterians Rev. William C. Sistar, pastor of Georgia Avenue Presbyterian church, Atlanta, will be the guest minister at the First Presbyterian church Sunday merning. Mr. Sistar is known here by a number of friends, being a graduate of both toe orphanage and college, and of Columbia Theological seminary. I Clinton Wins The 'Little Series' Clinton Cotton Mills won the Mid- Carolina league play-off Saturday by defeating Joanna 6 to 4. 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