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Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. Qfip Clinton CtyrontrU Established 1900 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 th* 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 Vrill not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. __j_ ' scription clerk from the county-seat! and all medisons will be concocted inj his own stoar in the future, this young feller went through a medical scholl in a hurry, but he knows all about such drugs as sody, salts, ippy- cack, tooth-paste, face-soap, bathing* Thursdoy, September 17, 1942 U. S. NOT WINNING WAN, NELSON SAYS Bethlehem Church to Newberry, over State Highways 22, 329 and 219; From Newberry to Prosperity, via Jolly Street Section, to Newberry, over U r S. highway 76 and County highways; , * u* u uu ,, i Camden, N. J., Sept. 13. —Donald From Newberry to Chapin to Ad- ll f^ t M * Nels o n . chairman of the War Pro- ams ’ Cam P to Prosperity to Newber- razor dIbqos, icc-crcam, ansofortn. 'rv over U S ot>h q+o+a irierii«■*«»** everboddy is asked to patronize him Auction board, warned tonight that 205* *7 and be nice to him, and thereby we are not winning theyvar and that From Newberry to Stockman to show, the old flat rock sperrit. although the nation’s production rec ord is not nearly good enough, shifts rev. will waite has benn down in . .. __j_ * hi, throte for « w«k and ha, not Tf ^ ^ allotment filled his church appintments as he that will force layoffs and production should of. he might have his lamax changes. * . ’ and tonsils removed, his eyes blear! Nelson spoke over a nation-wide at everthing and he is verry nervous, radio hook ^ his ^marks were'J^^* S. C., at 10:00 A.M., E _ especially when the collection is be-! J Thursday, October 1, 1942, for the Black’s Bridge to Newberry (via Kempson Bridge), over State High ways Nos. 395, 391, 194 and 372. A public hearing in the above en titled matter will be held in the Commission’s Offices in the Wade CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1942 If you want to get in connectionltongue-tied before their children, with a hard job, just try your best There is a form of paternal love some time to explain something for which blinds the parents to the faults which there is no very plausible ex- of the children. The love which de-j planation. generates into indulgence will at last — excuse faults which for the good of Those who have more of the mal- the child and society ought to be ady of pessimism than the gift of corrected. ^ prophecy are of the opinion that the [ The people whom the law puts in war will last twelve years, ten of j jail or otherwise seeks to restrain which will be needed for the United, were with few exceptions capable States and England to get ready and of having been moulded by parents two to whip the Axis. into good citizens, but the law facet a practically hopeless task .when evil One may occasionally pass a ceme- 1 tendencies have been allowed to tery near which has been placed an ^harden into the habits of maturity, automobile advertisement. We leave 1 ■ • it to you as to whether the fe,low WUnt Wft Affi Fidhtma For Who put it there was a humorist, a! M ^ w historian, or a prophet. !, rMenl . “•«* •“* I been recognized, by the public as one of the best-informed news commen-, There was a fescination about the on the ajr In millions o{ stones which men once told of their home$ when the announcement cam e, experiences when the ndians were,..^ is Ehner davis with the | here, and it may e a some o news,” radios were set for what he 1 absorbing records of the future wi 1 S ay-always in an interesting fall from the lips of those who^y^and informative manner. be able to ell of the days when, A short whil / agT P^ r . Davis was forests formed a part of the scenery. se)ected . to head th? of War TT Infonnation—his work to relate di- Some people are attractive because re( . t iy t 0 newspapers in approv- they lack polish to* such an extent as j n g j n f orma tion that should be given to be picturesque while others at- American people pertaining to tract by their refinement. There is world War and its progress, a third class-which fails to interest j T n l- new nosition Mr. Davi ing took up at church, e hoping for the best. yores frulie, mike lark, rfd, corry/spondent. 3,500,000 Hampton State Office Building, Cp- !WT, rboddy is addressed especially to f !purpose of determining ^ workers enrollfd in factory-manage-1 me nts of public convenience and ne- merit committees in 1,500 plants. He cessity in the premises. What Fools We Mortals Be, Mebbe! The breakfast food braze still ob- spoke personally to a rally here of the RCA-Viotor labor management war production drive committee. He said that further cuts in ma terials for civilian use and shifts in materials from one war product to W. W. GOODMAN, Director, Motor Transport Division. SUBSCRIBE TO THB CHRONICLE FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 2nd day of October, 1942, we will render a final account of our acts and doings as Administrators of the estate of Dr. R. N. S. Young 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 our trust as Administrators. 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 5 present them on or before said date, duly proven, or be forever barred. LINDA BELL YOUNG, OSCAR HODGES, JR., Administrators. Sept. I, 1942.—24—4c. Ink, Paste, Carbon Paper, Second Sheets, Ink Pads, Stenographers’ Note Books, Letter Box Files, Type writer Ribbons. Chronicle Publishing Co. Phone 74. tains. I don’t know/ much about another will be made to balance the breakfast foods. When I eat I want to eat something. Most breakfast foods are composed of; one-third su gar (before rationing), one-third (intent on production for victory, nation’s war production, but he said such cuts and assignments will mean enforced layoffs for men and women' You won’t like it,” he said. “I will not like it either. But we’ll do it when it is made necessary by the fortunes of war.” Stressing the view that the produc tion record is not good enough, Nel son said: “We have not won the war, we are not even winning it—yet.” Illustrating the necessity of pro- Before sugar became such a luxury ducing tools of war on a big scale,! and so scarce, I had invented an al- J he said that a. single division of pres- i most costless breakfast food. It is ajent day tanks supported by dive- perpetual breakfast food and can be I bombers would have^rolled up the used oyer and over, forever and ever. Hindenburg in 1917 in a week.”, ... This new food is composed of eight There is considerable ' .confusion or ten small china or glass marbles, concerning material shortages, he You pour your milk or cream overpaid, and while there are shortages milk or cream and one-third imagi nation. As a matter of fact, the only ingredients constituting the average breakfast foods are the sugar and cream we pour on them. You would n’t be much worse off if you’d omit the breakfast foods entirely, that is— most of them, and eat the cream and sugar just so. JOHN DEERE TRACTORS and IMPLEMENTS THAT WORK THERE'S A JOHN DEERE QUALITY IMPLEMENT FOR EVERY FARMING PURPOSE J. R. CRAWFORD CLINTON, 8. C. • * » the marbles in a suitable bowl, then sprinkle sugar (if you’ve got any/’ and stir for one minute. Then eat the cream and sugar, but avoid swallow ing the marbles. Wash marbles and lay them aside till morning and then use as before. because it has sufficient polish to mar its picturesqueness and not en ough to be refined. In his new position Mr. Davis has just issued a pamphlet entitled "The Four Freedoms>of the Atlantic Charter.” It emphasizes the neces sity of winning the war as quickly as possible ahd at the same time' forcibly impresses upon the people now and will be more in the future, the problems are .being attacked by increasing production, reducing civil ian consumption and better schedul ing. Nelson said that frqm now on it is going to be harder to increase pro duction. If a man tried to subsist on certain: “There are more physical difficul- breakfa&t foods, minus the sugar and' ties to"bd overcome,” he said. “Times Toots For Victory The next time a speeder passes fjehtine for glVmghim threC i HWe briefly stated by Mr. Davis, are the Four Freedoms we must pre- if we are to remain an un slaved nation: Freedom of Speech “To live free a man must speak openly. Gag him and he becomes either servile or full of cankers. Free government is then the most realistic kind of government, for it not only assumes that a man has you toots of your horn. The other day a radio announcer told about his success with the treat- sen e ment. He was driving along at 30 i miles an hour when a car went whiz zing by him. Realizing that this driver was wasting gasoline and rub ber, the announcer tooted his horn three times as .if to say, “Don’t be a Nazi.” The Car went speeding on past a second conservative driver. That! some i^^ n 6 on niind, but concedes driver took up the cue and blew his bis right to say it. It permits him horn three times. Both watched as to talk not without fear of contra- the speeder showed he realized what dictions, but without fear of punish- it was all about by pulling over to ment.” the side of the road and taking iti Freedom of Religion easy for the rest of the trip. i “We of the nations united in war, Whether it’s three toots of the horn am ong whom all the great religions or any other signal, it’s a good idea are represepted, see a triumphant for all of us to have a way we can peace by which all races will contin- express our resentment against any ( ue ibe belief in man, the belief in one "speeding as usual” these days. I bis elusive and untouchable spirit, j Since the three-toot signal has been -^d m the solid worth of human; started let’s carry it on. I life.” -9- I Freedom From Want 1 i . Pnfirknlri#! "Prosperous times have been en- IVieQr Karionmg joyed in certain regions of the world So meat is to be rationed. a t certain periods in history, but lo- Maybe it is necessary and maybe it ca i prosperity was usually achieved isn t. but the two and a half pounds a ^ expense of some other region, per person quota which is to be al-j^jeh was being impoverished, and lotted to all of us isn't anything to;the spectre of impending war hung' stay awake nights over. over all. Now, the industrial changes For a family of four, that means 0 f the last 150 years and the new ten pounds of meat a week. There; pj-gsp^t implicit in .the words “Unit- are probably few families which con-i ed Nations’ have given meaning to sume that much meat now—and if the phrase ‘freedom fTom want” and they do they can still supplement it, have rendered it not only possible with fish or fowl. -Jbut necessary.” There isn’t another country in the, Freedom From Fear world where people know what it is ^ “Aggressive war, sudden armed Bi- like to get that much meat each tack, secret police, these must be for- cream, he’d starve to death just about as quickly as he would if he ate shavings or wasp-nests or fog or moonshine or wash-rags. We love to throw our money away. We pay about $11 per bushel for com and about $8 per bushel for oats and about $9 per bushel for wheat when we eat certain “prepared-to-sell” breakfast foods. Don’t misunderstand me, folks—some of this stuff has merit and food value and vitamins and so forth, but so has parched wheat and com and oats, at 90% less cost. We waste half of our money on non-essential things: the things that we must eat and drink and chew and smoke. After we have done so— we ooze around and complain about hard times. Some men spend more dough for stuff they would be better off without than they spend for food and clothe for the wife and kids. But just try to stop ’em and get cussed out/ Admiral Says US Has Balance Of Striking Tf] Power In Pacific . , week. In Germany and Italy the people are luck if they get a few ever circumvented . . . the first move to free people from fear, is to achieve ounces of meat and even) in the coun- a peaceable world which has been tries which we are fighting that d £,p r j ved 0 f jt s power to destroy it- much meat has become something I S eif. This can only b,e accomplished unheard of. ^ j by disarming the aggressors and It would be interesting to know j k ee pi n g them disarmed. Last, time how much meat is consumed by the they were disarmed, but they were average family in this country. But no t prevented, from rearming. This it is a safe bet that two and a half; time they will be disarmed in truth.” pounds per person per week would ■ ^ .* ’ be an extravagance which many j —— families have never enjoyed. It hardly seems as though we need rationing to keep our consumption down to this high quota. Washington, Sept. 15.—Rear Ad miral W. H. Blandy, just back from a 26,000 mile inspection trip, de clared today that United States forces ( r presently hold the balance of strik ing power in the Western Pacific. . Blandy, Navy ordnance chief who talked with reporters at Secretary Knot’s press conference, declared he was not “bold enough” to make any forecetsts of the future Pacific ait- uation but that “for the time being, most certainly,” the United States held the balance of military ahd naypl striking power ^here over Ja pan. - ' are tougher. So are we—all of us. We will not be stopped.” Nelson saifi the efforts of the la-? bor-management committees to avert production Ibsses due to* labor trou bles had been largely successful. “You have read of exceptions where American fought each other instead of the Akis. You know the rising temper of the country toward such performances, but we must not confuse the exceptions with the gen eral rule,” he said. “I am glad to re port that interferences with produc tion because of disputes between la bor and management have been ex ceedingly rare in this production drive.” He said that workers still in peace time industries sometimes are need lessly concerned by wanting to get into jvar work and added:. - “I share with a patriotic worker in a. midwestem electrical plant the pleasure that he reported when the army showed him that the self-same, switch he made in 1941 for boudoir lamps, is in 1942, a switch for a bomber.” Nelson urged all labor-manage ment committees to strive harder to end absenteeism, whiclf'he called Monday morning sickness” or “pay day richness.”*, Stat^ of South Carolina . The Public Service Commission ; * Columbia ~~i Septe/nber 11, 1942 • MT 491 * ’ ’ CORRECTED NOTICE IN RE: DOCKET NO. 3125—The application of T. E. "Davis, Newberry, South Carolina, for an emergency Clgstf A. ’Certificate of Public Con- «nience f and Necessity to transport defense workers to Joanna Cotton Wills, Goldville, S. C., Aragon-Bald win Mills, Whitmire, S. C., and Mol- Blandy bad been Ssked “are we! lohori,, Oakland and Newberry Cot- NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE, A Cause of Crime A lack of respect for the law, j Current News Items From Flat which is wrought out ihto murders, | Rock robberies and crimes of lesser dimen- 1 mr art square, sr., had as his din- sions is apt to give rise to specula- ner, supper and breakfast guess last tion as to the causes which are be-'week mr. bert'labers from washing in position -to hold the Japs against anything they might throw.” “Yes,” he replied; *“I think We are. But we can’t do it by merely hold ing. We^ got to keep pushing. The best .defense is a -strong offense. We can’t remain static.” hind these conditions. The inherent perversity of human nature must ton. he works in the bureau of print ing. they fought side by side at bear its share of the blame, for all ichatto-therry and destroyed sevveral of-us know that it is easier to dOmachine gun nestes and killed 14 wrong than to do right. The admin-jgermans apiece in hand-to-hand istration.of the law, both on the part j fightfhg. they enjoyed theirselves a of enforcement officials and the courts right smart talking over ' the -old is hardly ever faultless. The main cause, however, as has often been noted, is that the training of the child has been neglected. It is not often that the child who has received the proper attention at home must later be taken in hand by the officers of the law. The parents who fail to do their duty , are mainly instrumental in filling the prisons of the country. Parents too often fail in the matter times, art told about the time he shot at the kazer and hit him, he thinks, on his mush-tash. miss Jennie veeve smith taken up her duties as the,flat rock high scholl principle last monday with a large concoarse of friends and loved ones and pupils pressent. she had a fine opening, yore corry spendent made a short talk on how to save america of proper instruction. In modetn and it was heavily encored, miss times they are so much taken up with the task of preparing their children to make a living that they neglect the more important task of) allso exalted them not to smoke or teaching them how to love. In the weightier matters of truth and jus tice and all that goes to make right eousness, they frequently stand smith asked the mothers to plese try to teech their younguns some man ners and how to behave at'home and drink in the pressence of their off springs. Spartanburg Fair Be Held October 5*10 As the time draws near for the opening of the Greater Spartanburg fair which is tq- be held during the week of October 5-10, inclusive, ev ery indication shows that this year meeting will be even of greater and more diversified interest than ever before. This is especially so in the division of the fair known as the “Junior Fair.” Entries to date show that in cattle, swine, poultry and garden products the young men and women of this section are outdoing themselves. Methodists Observe Orphanage Day * The annual Conference of the Methodist church in South Carolina set aside Sunday, Sept. 20, 1942, as “annual orphanage day.” The offer ings on that day from both the church school and church service will be given to Epworth orphanage, Colum bia. Each year fully half the total amount contributed to Epworth by the Methodists of the state is given on “orphanage day.” About 800 churches, with a membership of 156,000 will participate in this offer ing. dr. hubbert green has hired a sub-1ICLK. 1 say* ruuufnrpf the chron- over the ton Mill, Newberry, S. C following routes; From Newberry to- Goldville Clinton to Goldville, oyer ’ U. Highway 76; From Newberry to Belfast School to Goldville,, over Cdunty Highway and StateTiighWoys 56 and 66; From Whitmire,to Goldville, over State Highway No. 46; From Whitmire to Union to S^pn tiic to Carlisle to Whitmire, over U. S. Highway 176 and State Highways 215 and 72; From Whitmire to Clinton to Gbld- ville to Whitmire, over State High way 72, U. S. Highway 78 and State Highway 66; From Newberry to Whitmire over U. S. Highway 178; . 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