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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C
Thursdoy, November 12, 1942
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CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1$, 1»42
An After-War Division
It might be well after the war is
over to redistribute the territory of
certain nations. Japan could be given
to China, and Germany could be di
vided among such nations as Poland,
Norway, Belgium and others which
deserve reparation.
little fellow out of business, and built
political machines under the guise of
“social gains.” We have overworked
Santa Claus.
The people have seen incompetence
and inefficiency long ehough. The
warning is now sounded that they
want the nation run on business
like lines, that we must return to
sound financial policies and sensible
administration. The people have de
manded that all domestic policies and
| other considerations be dropped and
a more vigorous conduct of the war
substituted. '
NOBODY'S BUSINESS
By GEE McGEE
A Private Citizen Speaks His Mind
Spectator Comments
On Men and Things
voted to Hitler and all he stand;
—who is fighting this war. Whe;
time for peace-planning arrives,
will be the warped millions
must be dealt with.
* The world knows now that nothing
Germany promises can be believed,
and that the talk often heard from
some about those “good Germans” is
Sammle Skinner Will Soon Be A
War Worker
csammie skinner has bought hisself
a claw-hammer and a hand-saw and
who has benn practicing for a few days
how to drive a nail and how to saw
The trouble would be that no one: bunk and deception. Unless the gen
would want Italy or France. ^ration brought up under Hitler’s
*•" tutelage is completely wiped out be=-
A Good Sales Stunt fore the war ends, one of the great
and are even bringing tanks of milk
to some of our cities from other
states, though every article could be
produced here on a scale sufficient
for all our needs, with a considerable
surplus for sale out of the state. .
Anv discussion of farming brings There is *>®ething wrong with US
nn ♦L d ^^ ™cinl TnH B e «r ^! s<Suth Carolinians. Why can’t we
up the very pressing and serious I , ,. , ' . _. „
matter of farm-labor The army, the;?^ 11 ” aU t,10se a . pr0 * ,?
navy, the marine and air force, have ^ »• c ,‘ n p ? >duce *“‘ h “ ”
appealed powerfully to the martial j° th ^,‘ h ‘5 gS J
ardor of boys on the farm; and the J?° but we aU-too-frequently tad
draft has taken even more. Then,I*?* "f P">d>“* •» > 1°»- Why? It
again, the high wages in industry ^f ri sU „ t f c h an tbose ‘ h '"^
have drawn thousands from the soil ** « «*?« why ' anl " e do Jus *
to the dollar-an-hour and other jobs. | °®“|tand, consider the problem of
The farmer can’t get the labor for 1 dairying. With our mild climate we
his fields, nor can he pay wages in i ought to be a second little Holland
competition with industry. And all
the time, while the farmer is strug
gling to make a crop, and while the
world calls on him to feed everybody,
he finds himself beset by lack of fer
tilizer, lack of labor, lack of other
essentials; and what little he can get
of anything is priced on the cost-plus
of a manufacturer, which in turn is
based on high base pay, with time'
and a half and double time, and a lot 1
of loafing thrown in, but added to
or Denmark—that is, before the Ger
mans went there. We haven’t the pas
tures, but we could have them; and
we have thousands of acres of land
which could be developed as pas
tures. It might require lime, but we
have lime. The fault is in ourselves,
not in our land. Whenever we are
willing to organize our farm oper
ations on a basis of 365 days in a
year, with all the mastery of detail
necessary to operate at a profit, we
shall succeed as others succeed.
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a board in two. he can hit a nail on „ U1 „
the head alreddy 2 licks out of five,{he cost to the farmer. Many farms
'Prom the runs which are period- P ^0 < bldm ^‘ h ? A “ ie , s ^ b f c » m i w “ ed ^
ically madeon some commodities it j* 0 -* 3 " wll > be k tha ‘ c< ; ntr » Ul ".e thls da £
would appear hat rat.omng Knot a £ ^
bad sales stunt. As soon as govern- , . , . ... ,. .... .
ment even intimates there is to be a;? rds ^ * hlch ‘ he ordinary civihzed
searrity or rationing, ample supplies. hdman bem S has bcen tau 8 ht 10
are laid in by many. Coffee is an ex- llve •
When this war is over—when Ger
man armies have been defeated on
the battle fields of Europe (as we
believe they will be in the not far
_ . r j ; distant future—the new North Afri-
I reasures I not tndura lean drive being the beginning of the
with his hammer and can saw a
3-inch board nearly square, after us
ing these tools a day or two longer,
so’s he will be sure’to know which is
the hammer and which is the saw,
he is going to a defense camp or
fort and get hisself a job at 14.50$ a
he has alreddy greased up his old
^over-halls so’s they look like a work
ample. We heard a gentleman say
yesterday he has enough razor blades
to last him two years.
are being run by men single-handed,
men over fifty years of age — some
over sixty. You may recall that stur
dy Newberry farmer, who, at sixty-
eight, does all his work and tends
fifty acres, including fourteen acres
of cotton. But how many like him
have we, in South Carolina?
Chrt South Carolina Commissioner |
, of Labor, Rhett Harley gave out some
mg mans gannents and he wiU wear advance J
them when he asks for h.s job. he |ccs 0( food our staft . within ^
has had some htue seams sowed m o Mnt p,, cen , advance in
the legs to hang a measuring rule 2 , months , be^t. The items of 1
on: he has no rule but will get holt (ood m e ntion ed are: eggs, butter, let-
of one befoar he seeks work from r
the govverment. he has newer car
pentered anny in his life, but says
H. D. HENRY.
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F. M. BOLAND
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tuce, fresh fish, freah-berffts, prunes,
lard, peanut butter, molasses, fresh
spinach, mild cheese, oranges, onions,
There are some possessions of end), plans must then be put into j that wont make no difference with; wheat com m ^ ali vanilla cook _’j
mankind which' are valuable by rea- operation to restore peace to a torn' uncle sam: a11 be wants as proof that 'j chuck roast veal cutlets bacon !
son of the fact that they cannot eas-'and poverty-stricken world. It will you are a 1.45$ per hour carpenter * i roasting^ I
ily be lost. That is true of our lovp be an enormous task. We need to yore hand-saw and hammer,
for the homeland, whether it be rejj- know now and not forget for a mih- ♦
resented as nation, state or county. I ute, that peace can never last unless sammie is a fair sample of the car-
It goes with us wherever our lots are the new form of German mentality penters on war jobs at pressent. of
cast and from time to time continues; is handled with iron gloves. Like'coarse, there are some good carpen-
to add to the sum of life’s tender- j their power-grasping, blood-thirsty | ters tbere, but there are 5 hammer-
ness. Another example is found in leader, the German people have and-saw carpenters to every one of
the real carpenters, sammie has hev-
ver built annything in his life but
once: that was a small chicken house,
after he got it finnished he went in
side to get his pack of cigarettes and
the house fell down on him and put- j
nigh killed him. . ; ;
the influence of a great teacher. We demonstrated to mankind that they
do not readily lose the truths that he deserve no sympathy and are not on
taught and the impression that his, intinaate terms with the truth.
life has made upon us does not fade; ' ■ ^
away with the procession oj the The Voters Speak
jOther treasures of life are those When the nation went to the polls
true friendships which endure amid last week the result was a sweeping
all the changes of time. We too often victory for the Republican party, if hammers and saws hold out 3
go through life striving after dollars their gains in both house and senate i more months, there wont be anny
and with too little thought of those exceeding the hopes of the most ar 7 '
enduring sources of wealth without dent partisans. Many members, who
which existence would be but a sorry have been conspicuous for their un-
show. wavering adherence to everything
^ J proposed by the New Deal—went
Better Politics Needed ! down in defeat
Now that the big election is all Before the election the Democrats
over, let us hope that politics can at held 256 seats in the House; Repub-
last be side-tracked for the duration beans 165. In January the lineup
rred peaches. The following were
cheaper: sugar, canned peas, salt
pork, corn flakes.
Every item cited by Commissioner
Harley could be produced within this
state. However, it is likely that near
ly all the items are brought from i
other states. Beginning with eggs, 1
which advanced 40 per cent in fourj
months: every country store and ev
ery small town store has eggs which
come from the fteighboring farms.
NAPOLEON DID US A FAVOR
Yes, sir, good old Nsppy did us s favor when he met his
Waterloo. He proved yon Just can’t get too big ... And we oper
ate on that basis. Small enough to meet you personally and give
you a real service; big enough to give you the finest at the low
est and get it to you first ... We develop your kodak film, and
give you eight prints on "VELOX” for 25c.
ASK ABOUT MAM-O-PRINTS — SLIGHTLY
HIGHER IN PRICE BUT WORTH IT
SMITH’S PHARMACY
Finishing by Fearson’s Photo, Laurens, 8. C.
! Many a town and some city residents
; buy their eggs from thrifty farm
1 wives of the community. But when
you think of nearly two million peo
ple the egg market must be support
ed by hundreds of thousands of doz
ens of eggs from other states. Equally
labor on the farm, why should a fel
low work for 1.45$ per day on a farm _ _ _
or in a stoar when he can get ten' true j s that of pork products. We
times that much, vizzly, 14.50$ per| don’t pretend to be a lard-producing
day, from uncle sam? ability and skiU s t a te, though our several packing
and experience don t count: sammie | plants may SU p ply a considerable
has the right idea, the hammer and quantity. We bring in most of the
saw plus a little bit of brass, up to a lard as well as vegetable oils.
week ago sammie couldn’t drive a 10-
sledge-hammer, but he’s an A-l car
penter now. that is—almost.
yores trulie,
^ ^ mike lark rfd,
corry spondent.
TO OUR CUSTOMERS
Due to conditions caused by the war, we want to ask
our customers to order everything in case lots or more.
We open at eight and close at five except Wednesday
at twelve noon.
Thanks.
.* •
J. C. TODD GROCERY
of the war. One of the great diffi-lwill be Democrats 223 RepubUeam ?f™y_ h nad m ” “ , a ?l h °i\ w , it !L a
culties in-the prosecution of the war 209. Before the election the Demo-
has been small “politics”—whereby a crats held 65 seats In the Senate,
man in office puts his personal inter- Republicans 29. In January the
ests and party ambitions ahead of Democrats will number 57, Republi-
the interests of his country. (cans 38. Sixty-two senators were
—, „ . , , _ ... . hold-overs and not required to meet
, ^ r .. s a . )r °‘ i„ nnt the voters. Had they been up for
which the American people do not re _ el . ion in the light of what hap _; i am almost used to wanting ai-
^ l ee i S U ln a ^ d !'m T ,n In nffi.P pcned, a large majority in the group rea dy- Not having a car keeps you
kind which influences 3 mun in oiiice . , , , . - . ., »•.• from beim? worriod fihoni 3 poni* % _ f .
to keen in close touch with the oeo- would 110 doubt fallen ln . the pohti- oeing worried about a cop b ftsh Perhaps Mr Harley hasn’t
to keep m close touch \vitn me peo al upheaval sticking a little yellow 2-dollar over- 1 th correct figures on the cost of
pie he represents and to speak for L ,, p . I narkine demand under vour wind- . e J* 1
Every person is entitled to his parking utmanu unoer your wind f res h flgh in South Carolina. If he
own explanation of the factors that s h ie ld wiper. We have a law against wou i c j take into consideration what a
certain parking practices and it isj flsh costB a town _ mani whe n he
every now and then. spenc j s a day at the lake, he would
Butter is brought in from the dai
rying states. I recall that during my
residence in Anderson, years ago,
most of the butter sold in the stbr&s
there was made on the adjacent
farms. Throughout the state, howev- 1
er, the butter consumed by our peo-
VT . pie is brought from other states.
Autos and Auto-Note , Fresh fish plays a small part in the
f : ^ ed t0 __ W , a ^ in j’ .. a . " i diet of our peaple. Probably seventy-
five per cent of our families never
them. Most men in office do only a
halfway job of this. They merely . . „ , t . , ... ...
keep in touch with the members of ejected themselves in the election.
the party who elected them and do
not attempt to represent the people j^Jor ^ssue.
who voted for their opponents
The war in our opinion, was r\o enforced
The American people j W® don’t have as many cars on the
have voted and are unanimous on street (all days long) as we had be-
Hi question of winning the war. j ^ ore Pearl Harbor and gas rationing.
When we Remand our congress- Hitler has no ^^5. in either po .: We are not exactly “ritzy,” but we
men. senators and high officials in ]hj ca l party The people want the are having a large number of blow-
Washington to forget politics, we ac- war handled without fumbling in! outs in our cit y» every now and then.
tually mean that they should be bet- Was hi n gton and without a mess of
ter representatives and politicians— red tape and bureaucratic confusion.; When it comes to traffic lights, we
that they should think of all of the The adm i n j s tration has gone too have two or three times too manyJ
find that fish can be the most ex-j
pensive item served to a hungry, peo
ple. Seriously, I am told that fishing
boats don’t even put out from some
cdastal points because the fishermen'
are either in the fighting services ori
have become carpenters on govern
ment contracts at a dollar-an-hour.
Some of the items cited by Mr.
people in their respective states, and j ar j n tbe d j rec tj 0 n of a laborite gov- j In fact, we had twice too many be-, Harley may not solve the problem
nation, and not just the political or-s ernmont and the voters showed their fore rationing of gas and tires set in. ^f subsistence for us, as peanut but-
ganizations and people who put them resen tment. The forty-hour week We think the city council will re-; ter, prunes, vanilla cookies and on-
in office. . , should have been- discarded long move some of them within the next : ions Th/> real staples didn’t advance
Our big job is to wm this war and ago ag a war produc ti 0 n necessity : year or so. Political sub-divisions act - • -
get our young men safely back home and an en( ^ pu t to strikes. The aver- J slowly, if at all. Wherever we had a
just as soon as possible. To this end, age wor i c wee k j n Great Britain is car or truck wreck at a street inter-
particularly in congress, it is neces- fjf t y_ s j x hours against our week of section, we hung a traffic light,
sary for the Democrats to realize that f We can . t win a war b seei
they also represent Republicans and how little we can work
for the Republicans to realize they
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collection of taxes at the office of the Town Clerk, and
will remain open up to and through December 15.
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per cent shall be added if said taxes and penalties are
not paid on or before the 31st day of December, 1942.
The levy for current fiscal year is 38Vk mills; 12 mills
for current operating expenses, and 26 1 /2 mills for in
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standing.
D. C. HEUSTESS, City Clerk.
. The American people are fed up our best stations bootlegging gas. We
also-represent Democrats. ion the regimentation of everything don’t know whether this is true or
It is not a matter of which party is and everybody by the New Dealers not. In fact, we have no right to in-
so much — wheat flour 6 per cent,,
chuck roast 4, veal cutlets 3, bacon 7,1
roasting chickens 6. What sort of 1
chicken is a roasting chicken? Surely
our Charleston friend, Commissioner
We hear every day about*som^ of Harley, isn’t pulling our leg. Fried,!
to have the controlling power in and their Gesta 0 methods.
Washington that we should be ex
cited over—but whether the kind of
men we have in these high positions
They
are protesting vigorously against
the policy of bureaucracy upon bu
reaucracy and the endless employ-
chicken, baked chicken, stewed^
chicken, chicken pie—all that we’ve!
known—and done—from our youth,
vestigate, not being a federal officer.; up; but roasting chicken?
Lots of folks think it is smart to sell j I notice that Mr.. Harley didn’t say ♦
bootleg gas and lots of other fofkp anything about “roas’n ears,” or mut-
think it is “putting something-- over ton corn, sweet com, sugar com—just
during the present emeigency are ment of 0 ffi ce _holders at taxpayers’! on Uncle Sam” when they buy Jacpt-j roasting chicken! Nor has he spoken
„ e S r r f US ,h°» n r a e ^T en 6 “I*™ 6 - Therc are n ° w 2.5’1.00»;l<-e eas. tires, etc. There's not much!of groundnuts, ground-peas, pemuts,
a i p pie ox me nai on. employees on the federal payroll difference in the sight of the law in goobers and pindars — just peanut-
/ v r r II which is 670,000 more than all the selling bootleg gas and tires and butter.
Hitler S YOUth Followers -men, women and children, whita and whiskey and opitirh, but all of thesej Perhaps I told my audience about
When the German army started colored, in South Carolina. It is, things go along in polite as well as
this war ,by marching into Poland stated that the number of office- impolite society.'
and murdfering everyone in sight, a holders and employees 1 now employed | ♦
lot of people in this country blamed is 280 per cent greater than in the Every day or so some “nincompoop”! ffy for feeding 2,400 hungry children
Hitler and his loyal gang of cut- first world war. The great majority
throats without denouncing the Ger-! of these are receiving salaries two,
man people. three and four times ‘larger than they
But those who held that belief have! could earn in private employ-1 will sodn h»ve tires for everybody.”
been mistaken and deceived, as the rnent, or than their services are About 99 per cent of the folks seem
record reveals. As the filadman grad-i worth. The whole of Washington, | to believe such rot, judging from the w
ually battered in the whole face of 1 these employees, senators, congress-1 number of applications for new tires; declaring it to be monkey food, and, < >
Europe and left it bleeding, not a men, high officials and heads of mul-! that are made to the OPA board just therefore, unfit for even hungry chil-
an experience I had with peanut-1
butter. Years ago, in Peru, one of the ' *
I side-lines I had was the responsibil-1
ity for feeding 2,400 hungry children
in Washington makes a statement, i a t midday and 1,000 at bfeakfast.
which some newspapers are careless They had been given a little milk and
| enough to print ... to the effect “We a plain roll. So I ordered four tons
of peanut butter from the United
States, to be used with their rolls.
They refused to eat peanut butter,
of protest came from the Ger- tiplied bureaus are living in luxury, j after the Washington wiseacres ex
people. Perhaps they haven’t not knowing what the word sacri- plode. There ought to be two laws!
means, while the people back
word
man people. Perhaps they
lifted a hand or raised a voice to fice
stay Hitler’s atrocities because they home are called upon to sacrifice j Methodist Delegates
knew it would cost their lives, but and experience the pinch of war . .. ^
whatever the reason, it is senseless economy. These office-holders and Attending wOntetenCe
for us — in the light of what has bureaus set themselves up as dic-
The Rev. J. H. Kohler, pastor of
Broad Street Methodist church, and
transpired — to continue hoping that ( tators rather than servants of the
any remnants of the breed of Ger- people. Their desire is to master the
mans we once admired will be heard people, and to a large degree they!lay delegate W. H. Simpson are in
from until the Nazi war machine is are not even courteous in dealing i Chester attending the annual meetipg
crushed. with the public.* The people have of the Upper South Carolina Metho-
We can’t trust a people who have gone to the polls and expressed their dist conference in session, at Bethel
blindly followed such a wildman as
the German leader. After this war is
over, we are going to have to deal
with a new type of human being who
is cruel, merciless, totally lacking in
religioa and trained and taught by
their school tetfehers from early
childhood to hate and fight and kill
It is the German yputh—blindly de
resentment.
Another public reaction is the
waste and extravagance that has
gone unchecked for the past nine
years—by the New Deal spenders.
We have spent and spent, we have
experimented with every conceiv
able social legislation, we have ham
strung business and about put the
Methodist church
Mr. Kohler has completed his first
year as pastor of the local church.
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dren, fed as a government charity!
What, impresses me is th%t our peo
ple pay the high prices indicated,
Dr. Felder Smith
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