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Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. Thursday, September 24,1942 (Sip (Clinton (Etpantdr Established 1M0 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Ti— 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 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. ( ^ Southern'people ever saw the Italian est of our hation’s young men are skirt dance, and it caused many giving their lives every day—perhaps bulging eyes to those who were so fortunate as to be present at this nice occasion. every minute—to protect our country and our liberty. We are sending supplies to them, but if evpn one gun, or tank, or plane, which might be added to their force is delayed by Washington inefficiency, it means Rev. Will Waite preached a won derful sermon at Rehoba church last Sunday. Miss Jennie Veeve Smith lives are unnecessarily lost, played the organ, and in addition she j n war times we become hard- also led the choir and ( sang a solo engd to death—unless it is the death from Hetchkner with minor varia- 0 f some loved one, some close friend tions in B flat and C high. Before or husband or son. the service Miss Smith made a short FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 2nd day of October, 1942, we will render a final account of our acta 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 ees Administrators. Any person indebted to said estate is notified and required to pay ment on or before that date; and all 7£ : LINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, One adVantage of long life is ^that your length of days may be able to carry you'(across the span which in tervenes p^tween a couple of eras of - fbrmfince. prosperity/' ,i*,i . * f ¥ not Rim that riutteth on his r boast jis he that taketh his [talk on world conditions and asked h ^ a * dn8t ““ i everybody to buy war bpnds and has spen ‘°y er ?° ^ them on or before (stamps. Miss Smith also had charge ^ to g *Y e him V 1 of taking up the collection which;^.^ “ W^y to m^e amounted to $2.50, being about $2.00 To her ^ hat *?“ above the average collection at this ^ 0 ” 1 * 8 her Ufe ' Ima * ine how she wS, average collection at tnis; must feel if she reali2eSi whcn ^ . « | gets the noUce of his death, that it A tennis party was held on the| co . uld have ^ Prevented if-if courts of Mrs. Dr. Green. Miss Jen-! v ' a1, > nie Veeve Smith won the doubles and j H he had had the support of a said date, duly proven, or be forever barred. LINDA BELL YOUNG, OSCAR HODGES, JfL, ?.. Administrators. TO KEUEVB rm nc MISERY OP UvfLd/lJ 6166 Try “Rub-Bty- LIQU1D TABLETS . SALVE NOSE DROPS COUGH DROPS —a Wonderful .oj(T.” ,We can afford tp wait on per- Johnsmith Sees 1 Red suspenders, as a political ern “ t Am OM Shoe blem in Georgia, have been washed I ^ by tides of ballots upon the sands of 1 T^iis ^editorial pertaining to the political defeat. They were a lurid moving of the offices of that gigantic insignia of a colorful era in state: political monster, Santee-Cooper, politics and will 1 now have several from Charleston to Columbia, is from years in which to fade from the tex- j The News and Courier of Charles- ture of the cloth and the memory of ton: the voters of that state. There is a class of people in the world which is always seeking to buy at a Jow price and there is another class which wants only that which is good ev'bn 44**the quality boosts the price. In every case you get only what you pay for, and the man who | stresses quality usually gets the bet- j ter return for his money. Wor Job For Children The plan for putting the 30,000,000! school children of this nation to j work on the salvage campaign is apt i to be the step which will make a big' success out of a campaign which so | far has been very disappointing in its results. Our adult population has. been made well aware of the nation’s; need for scrap and we realize that the winning of the war may depend on turning in enough scrap. But i many people continue to postpone i doing anything much about 1L { . But when the enthusiasm of school; children is injected into this cam- j paign the whol^ attitude toward 1 scrap is apt to change. If they can’t do it any other way, the children will shame us into making that long- postponed scrap hunt. U the plan for putting this job in the hands of school children is car ried out intelligently — if they have goals to shoot at and awards for out standing performance—there is little doubt that even those children who don’t know what the war is all about will see the job is done in record time. Curtailed Deliveries Until the war is oy^r, unusually fast delivery service by stores should no longer be looked upon as a sign of an outstanding merchant. All stores which use delivery trucks have been ordered to con serve them to the limit, since there j will be no more such trucks available until after the war. They must do everything possible to make their tires last for the duration. The merchants are trying to carry out this order to the .best of their, ability. But if one merchant, in his! desire to serve his customers as wellj as possible, continues to carry on a “delivery as usual” service, others, who are making a greater effort to conserve their trucks, are in danger 1 of havinff their business hurt. In the last analysis, the conserva tion of store trucks lies in the hands of the housewives who trade with, the stores. If all housewives would: make an effort to f carry all of the packages they can, to order for as i many days as possible at- a ’time when they want delivery service and to do their shopping with the idea of cutting down deliveries in mind, it will help necessary service to last longer. 0\ir Top Bombers Just how good, many , are asking, is our top American bomber, the Fly ing Fortress? When this machine came out new several years ago it w.as announced the best in the world. It was the best at that time, but the war in Europe disclosed some weak nesses in the original Fortress. Since that time it has been improved and the public doesn’t really know just how good the latest machines have been made. We are tdld they have more speed, more armor, more guns and are capable of ascending higher Removal of offices of Santee- Cooper will be regretted by Charlestonians not solely or chiefly for reasons of money and trade. The officers and employes of the “Authority” have lived in Charleston long enough to be of the community; they have been accepted by the Charlestonians, as is the Charleston habit toward agreeable new{ffmer$. The business of Sontee-Cooper could be transacted in one place as well as another unless the place were the Aleutian Islands or other too remote locality. With radio, good roads, tele phones, air and earth vehicles making every man’s office just anjund the corner from every other man’s office, Santee-Coop- er’s administrators could per form their duties as well in Monck’s Comer or Holly Hill as in Charleston or Columbia — or they could perform them equally well in a building by the side of the road fifteen miles from any No corporation is compelled to have its main offices in a city these days and especially an Au thority engaged in tying all neighborhoods in one should have offices out of town where rents are based on the value of land at $25 an acre, not $1,000 a front foot—more than $20,000 an acre. For removal o’f Santee-Cooper offices to Columbia is a motive as plain as an old shoe is to Johnsmith. In Columbia, the ad ministrators and employes of Santee-Cooper will be in touch with, and touchable by, gover nors, legislators, attorney-politi cians, all persons who are cogs in the machine and oiled by the machine. Santee-Cooper’s offices must be where its officers and other sen-ants can be “contact ed.” They can be “contacted” in Columbia as in no other city or town and, be it remembered, the political artists prefer not to give orders by telephone. They like the safety idf personal contacts. They like huddles in rooms with the doors closed and the shades down. Probably the Santee-Cooper 1 administrators would be happy to remain in Charleston, and, as no one else has been at pains to say as much publicly since the latest notice of removal has been given, The News and Courier expresses,regret that the remov al is likely. 1 Santee-Cooper cannot operate politically with approximate ef ficiency except in Columbia (or, possibly, Washington), and fail ure in political operation would cause it to be looked on by the politicians who “angeled” it at the expense of the American taxpayers as a wasted enterprise. The workers of Skntee-Cooper do not yearn to move to Colum bia. Tney will have to go where they can be conveniently “con tacted” by governors, attorney- legislators, “friends” of congress men and general counsels. NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE -■ singles, having defeated 4 ladies and 6 men from the county-seat. After the games, Miss Smith entertained with an imita(jon Indiah snake dance, and gave 4 impersonations in English, French, German and Span ish. She was encored so many times she had to be carried home in Mr. Slim Chance’s car. ■’ Yours very respectfully, tank or plane which desk men in Washington didn’t order in time. Or if a plane, out on -the high seas, had started out a day earlier instead of being delayed by some government worker having to leave the office early to have cocktails with one of his girl friends. I don’t blame Washington particu larly. We all still have a lax atti- (Miss) Jennie Vejve Smith, jtude about this war. But it’s time '• we realized that the very delay costs Can We Trust the Brain Trust? {lives. / Trying to fix ceiling prices on food,] -■■ ■ ♦ JOHN DEERE TRACTORS and IMPLEMENTS THAT WORK THERE’S A JOHN DEERE QUALITY IMPLEMENT FOR EVERY FARMING PURPOSE * J. HCfcAWFORP CLINTON, 8. C. clothing, gas, oil, rents, and service rates without placing a ceiling on wages and raw materials is just like trying to stop up a 2-inch bung-hole with a lead pencil. Wages and raw LABOR — Blood And now for the workers in war factories. I don’t agree that they are all over paid. Some of them are still materials do more toward raising or earning a wage on which I would fixing prices on items that make up ( not like to try to support my family, the cost of living than all other agen-1 But in most cases they are earn- cies combined. (This will possibly ;ing more than they have for many res dawn on our congress after the elec tion). How can -March 1942 prices be maintained, say, on a cotton dress, if since March 1942 the cost of making that dress from raw cotton into cloth and from cloth in a dress has ad vanced 25 per cent? How in the world does the government expect to enforce the March 1942 ceiling price's on hams and breakfast bacon;be forgiven, if the live hog from which these f I admit is years. . Not long ago there was a strike in a plane factory because the work ers wanted a dollar a day more. Maybe they should have had it. Maybe the company’s earnings were high enough to pay it and still make a profit. But the fact that they considered their selfish demands more important than the lives of men who needed those planes can never (items of food are taken has advanced [from 11c per lb. to 15c per lb. Per- jhaps they have not yet considered the fact that hams and breakfast ba- jeon are cut from hogs after they are I slaughtered. is almost impossible Everybody knows of course that the farmer is Washington’s chief 1 goat. He has always been the world’s greatest goat. He sells his stuff for what he can get and very often has to feed his own family on stuff that ain’t fit to‘sell. Trying to prevent in flation without controlling wages is for those of us who are far from the war fronts to measure our ac tions in terms of life and death— but any worker or employer who lets anything interfere with war pro duction can put this down as a cer tainty: every delay CS production is being paid for with the blood of American soldiers. SCRAP — Bullets And it’s not just Washington and labor and employers who should take the blame for bipod being spilled. Every one of us could probably very much like trying to control* the do something we haven’t done which ocean’s waves with a feather. Instead 1 would save lives, of having the cart before the horsy, [ Take scrap iron. Whenever a steel the government has put the horse up j company has to let a blast furnace go out because of a shortage of iron, it means that the production of planes, tanks and guns will be de layed. Right now steel companies are not turning out all of the material they could because of the shortage of scrap iron. Perhaps the government isn’t call ing for materials loud enough to make us realize the importance of them. But we all know there is a war on and we are not as well equipped as we should be. Let’s not wait for the government to come and get the scrap we might turn in —let’s make it our own business to find out what is needed and see that every ounce of it available in our neighborhood is put into the war. in the cart and labor owns both the cart and the horse. The farmer (the big goat) will of course pull both the cart and the horse until he decides “what’s the use.” Then he will try to crawl up into the cart with the CIO, etc. We do not have a labor cabinet or a labor congress, but we have a la bor government. Labor dictates what [ shall be done and what must be done, but is willing for anything and ev erything to be done if to do these things labor is not affected adverse ly. The nigger in the woodpile has become triplets, and everybody knows which pile he is hid in. Are we going to do anything about it? No. Are we going to hedge and stop inflation without fixing limitations on labor and raw materials? No. A 5-year-old picky-ninny knows these things. But, mebbe and mebbe not, after the election, a right-about-face might be possible and we are just hoping that by then the war and in flation will not have deluged us. TODAY... TOMORROW By Don Robinson DEATH — Minutes “Suppose you’re ordered to hold a position until you’re killed or cap tured; the precious minutes you can hold up the enemy’s advance is worth a gun and a man. You’re ex pendable. You know the situation and you don’t mind. But when you come back here, after seeing your friends give their lives to save minutes and see people here waste hours and days and even weeks . That’s Lieutenant Bulkley’s speak ing, Kero of the Philippines, who res cued General MacArthur, who es- i jeaped death a dozen times only by! miracles and who, when interviewed for an article published in Reader’s Digest, told the most heart-rending First Aid Books To Be Distributed A handbook of first aid issued by the national Office of Civilian De fense, Washington, will be given ev ery home in Clinton, J. LeGrande Mayer of the local civilian defense council, who is in charge of distri bution of the books, stated yesterday. In an effort to put the first aid booklet in all homes in the city, the Boy Scouts will begin a house to house distribution next week. I in the air. Great* Britain thinks that' Veeve Smith, Supt. of the Flat Rock she has something better than the ( Flying Fortress. It was developed with a view to night flying and was given a capacity for carrying more bomb weight than our bombers. The British now claim the best bomber in the world. They are using both the Flying Fortresses and the Lancaster and should know, but we cannot de pend on the British to praise us. They are thoughtful in some things but they sometimes are forgetful in al lowing full credit to the war ma chines of other nations. We do‘not have to wait on the British to tell us whether or not the Flying Fortresses will do the job and are worth the money. American fliers are using them now in Europe and Africa. They seem to be getting along pretty well with them. If the British have a better machine and better trained Miss Jennie Veeve Smith Pinch-hits For Mike, Lark, RFD I, the undersigned. Miss Jennie|story which so far has come out of! this war. That last sentence, about soldiers | giving their lives to save minutes, while people here are wasting days and weeks, should be posted on every building in Washington. And not only in Washington. The Aill meaning Of it needs to be brought home to men in factories who con sider striking because, they'd like more money or don’t like their boss, to employers who delay production to wrangle with the government over some inconsequential clause in a contract—ahd to the people all over this country who want to help but are not doing all they can because of social engagements or just plain laziness. Schools, a graduate of the State Uni versity, a famous Southern college, and a holder of an A.B. and a MA. degree, have been asked to pinch-hit for your absent correspondent, Mike Larkv who got drunk last night at the fish fry and in consequence thereof, can’t write, or if he could, his head is going around so fast he can’t think of anything to write about. Mesdames Moore and Skinner gave a party at the palatial home of the latter last Friday night in honor of Miss Jennie Veeve Smith who has just returned from New York where she is taking a Ph.D. course. Several hands of Bridge was played, but the high-lights of the evening were two songs by Miss Smith and an’ Italian ■■ skirt dance by Miss Smith who was pilots the world will soon know it accompanied by the radio. Very few WASHINGTON — Laxity Let’s talk about Washington first Out in the Pacific, in France end HOTHIUQ BREAKS SO tMILY AS GLASS yetrso few kinds of insur ance are so inexpensive as Plate Glass Insurance. 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