The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, August 27, 1942, Image 4
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C
Thursday, August 27, 1942
aty* Glutton (Et?ronirU
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WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher
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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’
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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.”
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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.
Ink, Paste, Carbon Paper, Second
Sheets, Ink Pads, Stenographers’
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Loans are also made for financing approved remodel
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