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- - - . , V / I * / w v Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C Thursday, December 17, 1942 OJbe (Clinton (Cbronirlr Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Pajrable 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 they 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. the middle of the night the sound of ack-ack fire woke us up; the air was full of searchlight beams and the flash of guns. We were at war. We rolled bur stuff in the early dawn and marched back to the dock ography, allso a‘picture of him in his | really know what this war means to'boat so fast? Didn’t I hear they ex uniform to be printed in- yore fine, send similar messages to their fel- pected an air, raid? Sure enough in little paper, his familey will live on low-workers and fellow-townsmen, in flat rock till he gets paced with | Thg war j s pretty far away to the g-men. he is winding up his af-1 a i ot of USt even though we aU have fairs, he has paid everboddy all he i f r j en{ j s or relatives in uniform and owes them except dr. hubbert green, almost 5,000,000 American mothers the church, the installment house anc j fathers now have at least one who sold him a raddio, and his taxes. son w h 0 is fighting for his country. [ where we boarded a-train such as we will rite or foam information as But we haven’t heard a gun fired or rv e neve r seenbefore theenaine . a ?° ut h “ "'O'™™* 3 l °- seen an enemy soldier. We haven't; was St thTsire of a cimiTeie! J tasted of war first-hand. So it is hard; phant and th4 cars were wooden and for a lot of us to feel the full impact | divided into compartments, with two of what is going on in the rest of the doors for every section. The seat- ; world unless we are jolted into real- : ity by a* message like Mr. Hocking’s. I We will all listen and act when wb wards the f.b.i. yores trulie, mike lark, rfd, corry spondent. According To My Way of Thinking I try to be reasonable when I hear backs were of wood and the seat it self wris covered with a cushion. The cars were about half the size of ours CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1942 good men criticising the rationing of, read su , c , h a " * man we land their color was red. I sort of felt essential items of food, gas, tires and k " ow - Mr - ? letter undoUbt-j like I was back in the 1880’s, miscellaneous products. Personally, I f<yy fiave Jus fellow-workers the. One thing that impresses us all isi think some messes have been made.!, needed, but to achieve his|that all the railway stations and em- !of the gas-rationing. We don’t mindch 1 aim °* getting this war .over with as|bankments and switches are planted j suffering as a whole (people), but;^ 00 5* as Possible, some man in every with shubs and flowers heatly trim- ~ j we don’t like to be individualized as ■ ac f or y a b d every town ought to med, which is something we could to pay, and thus only can financial, j. u jY erers There perhaps is no physi- a similar appeal. ✓vlmiHc Ho rnlloH nurnv in tho future f , , * ^ y-*? • WHT OUGHS YOUR CHILD'S coughing at night —caused by throat "tickle” or ir ritation, mouth breathing, or a cold—can often be prevented by rubbing throat ana chest with Vicks VapoRub at bedtime. VAPORUrs poultice-and-vapor action loosens phlegm, relieves irri tation, helps clear upper air pas sages, thus tends to stop mouth - breathing and % O invite restful -w# Iw sleep. Try itl Mr VapoRub sake of the nation, this gasoline ra tioning should have been general at the beginning. If its purpose is to save tires: well, tires wear out in Texas as fast as they do in Virginia. PARENTS—Prayers The Ballot Box ( ‘clouds be rolled away in the future, i^ai nM^ tn ratlnn vasoline in certain What the present state of dfemoc- The times should be changedt of | "tates where the auesUon of trans^r- racy in this country seems to need. course bu t we need to be changed a t a ti 0 n does not come ud but for the is a few more applications of the bal-‘ great deal more> Such a change mus t tatl0n d0eS n0t C ° me Up ’ bUt f ° r thC lot box such as was administered at precede a change in outward condi- the time of the recent general elec- ti ons> lion. ♦ * p r l occ "* Christmas-Named Towns r001 ISnneSS I How would you like to. live in a Education is doubtless a great as- | town named Christmas? There are Take sugar rationing, for instance, set ,to humanity when all is said and j two places by this name, one in Flor— there is plenty of sugar in Cuba, but done, but a great deal of foolishness t j da and another in Kentucky. Blaine • Uuba is not just around the corner, has come to pass in its name, such as bas a Christmas Cove, and there are There is plenty of water outside ofj children having to get up by day- Bethleheros in Pennsylvania, Con-| Hades but I have heard tell that it 1 soldier-son is alive and well but who, break in order to get to school on necticut,^Indiana, Maryland, Georgia,!*® difficult to get water inside Uie learn. The deeper we get inland the flat ter and dryer the country becomes. time. Kentucky and New Hampshire. j pl ace - Were it not for sugar ration- There is a' Noel in Missouri and ing ’ about 20 per cent of the P 60 * 51 ® ... .. .. . t. I would have~all of the .sugar, and 80 “7 - , . ,y ir e ,n, w. r l azaret o' ? M ? i ; ! ^ cent would have no sugar at all. Christmas seals afe now on sale in, lucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North; p his app)ies to many other f tems tha( Buy the Little Seols The morale-building job in this The train makes good time. Before country has been a slow process. | we know it we are at our destina- There is still a lotio be done. And I^ion; it’s noontime when we line up think it can be done most effectively j in front of the station. The sun is and most rapidly by the fathers and i hot and we are perspiring under our mothers of the boys in the armed‘tin helmets. services. The appeals needn’t neces-j Some little boys and girls are fol- sarily be made by the parents who'lowing us. They ask all kinds of have had the hear-rending experi-1 questions. A little fellow wants to ence of the Hockings. There are | carry my gun^Ttake it off my shoul- plen# of parents who know their j der and give it to him. soldier-son is alive and well but who, tt. .. ., . nonetheless, are praying ferventlj; H 'but the smile soon wears that our victory will come rapidly and are impatient with anything ’ CALL Wyman Shealy For Prompt Plumbing and Heatim Service 105 E. Fertmon St are under government control. Were this community and throughout, Carolina and Texas. Hollytree is in j America. They cost a cent apiece. No Alabama and Kentuekyhas a Holly; ice control Christmas letter or package is really! Bush and a Mistletoe. Thirtcen_post-| , . J" „,„„h r™, named Laurel. 6X^1^ ^ ^ complete unless it bears one or more offices are ..a.„ cu : m n n v markets The oerson with the of these evidences of the sender’s j these towns handles large quantities niney vorid take charge contribution to a great philanthropy, of mail each Christmastime. | Qf all the things flt t6 eat having as its purpose the reducing ofj Santa Claus, Indiana, is the most tuberculosis mortality. popular-Christmas post office. • This Buy the little seals. ’ town of Santa Claus, since given that off as I let go and he has the whole weight and height of the gun and I . • . , , . . * , ; can see by his eyes he’s cured of S2r w,nlin * 10 *>' a grown-up soldier. These parents should make their |and j reach over and , ak , h gun , prayers, more audible to us, through back Th( . n he smiles again andl * t “ u | him: "It’s too heavy for such a hot! letters and talks, so that we would continually be reminded of how ' Tr„__. . ; much, the progress of the war means >> T progress to them. John Jones, who is taking things easy, could easily be spurred into action if his neighbor, who has a son in Africa, would recite aloud Write It 'Christmas' It’s a big job rationing 100 items | the prayers which are constantly in iuw.1 ui sm**ji<.«» * lvc “ “‘“‘‘to 130,000,000 people. Some of us are .his heart. ! in g Co- name in 1938, has been flooded with 1C ’ • K ,. „ , . — • , .. , „ .. ,, selfish. We don t like to be put out. 1 letters from all over the world until ,., . . , , — ... , - , _ We prefer to squawk and squirm now it takes a force of several em- 1 K America.’ FOR THE SOLDIER—A pocket-size New Testament is a most appro priate gift, $1.25. Chronicle Publish- INSURANCE Fire - Tornado - Automo bile - Surety Bonds - AD Forms of Property Insurance. SOUND PROTECTION AT LOWEST COST. REAL ESTATE B. H. BOYD Clinton, S. C. SAY, "I SAW IT IN THE CHRON ICLE.” THANK YOU. Many l*Of<e at this glad season ,'hrough «o"vember"and ^. rafter than to submit to what w. are follow the lazy practice ot wrrtmg ^ ber , 0 ha ' d)e the enonnous Yu , e .' not accustomed to. We havent seen * * Y c’’ frir- ri ctrri .. .. _ . .... tide mail. It is said that 60,000 pieces anything yet. At least, that is what AN AMERICAN AWAY DOWN UNDER •Xmas” for Christmas. The Chronicle does not allow spelling ‘ Xmas" to appear in n news or advertising columns. When What little boy or girl wou i dn - t be 'we know too little We might as well the , ,• .., , ’ fS*. . ! we think with our little, diminutive ‘ a day are dispatched around Chhst- ... . . . p-,’ ,. its thinker. What we know don t count a hurried merchant writes J'Xmas ’ thri| , ed , 0 Hve in a town at this s e a .:f d j ust ourselves to certain condi- amed for that lov- i T ons ’ tnos , e c f rlai " the .personification I force an adjustment. Letter From a Soldier In The Christian Science Monitor When we first saw the land down . ... „ J .u . • , under it was while going through the on his copy we take the liberty of Sf)n 0 j tbe y ear named f or that lov-i V ons ’ ose cer a in con i ions wi 13assage> i remember coming out changing the spelling. We should write the able Character ^ p ® 3Utlfu | ) of the Christmas spirit, word Christmas instead of “Xmas. The latter is a slovenly, empty prac- . . jr Tgs C a tice that should be discarded. When LGOming NOW 10 LQl the sacred name Christ is eliminated, - If the government’s nutrition pro- the substitution becomes an ugly, gram continues to spread as it has meaningless word. since Pearl Harbor we are apt to come out of this war all looking like Ahilitv nnrl Cmirnnp the winners of 4 - H club health prizes.; ADinry ana courage A11 over the country we hear . Needed ; women are taking nutrition courses, iODAY... TOMORROW By Don Robinson DEATH—Inspiration Bigwigs in Washington and in in passage. ... I remember coming on deck, it was night and the moon had not come out. The only light was from the stars and the phosphorous lighting up our wake. We were veryi close to shore and the rugged coast line stood out like a great black bar- ( rier. Word went through the ship like wildfire: We would be in port'in the morning. Gh boy! To have a fresh water bath and eat in a restaurant and have a glass of milk. To be on dry land and see trees, and flowers During one's moments of melan-' reading nutrition books and plan-, J^try ha ^ e a ^ n o e , ded and talk to a girl’or two. choly. he is of the opinion that what n.ng the.r^ mea^s ^ rtout the wa" aid moTe wiltog to 3 »ip ‘ 3 n't moving an, more.i we need in Washington is more sena- iaiesi ruies irom wasnmgion. Ane . , , _____ J sun is out What’s that in the 4 , ... u 1-4 food nrohlem next vear is eYnertedl^ 0 all we possibly can to support the; lb uul * vvndis uidi in me tors and congressmen with ability IO °a problem next year is expected ^ Dro{ , ram Some of the thincs 1 haze? A church spire, yes! There are and courage and sympathy for the to become acute. ' war P r °6 ram - bome of lhm ^ s ■ - - * rank and file. However, if they had course, the «- _- r — — — , , . T the ability, they probably would not "^itton business is <o prevent s j c k .strengttien our national mwale. but 1 Of course the nurnose of ill this'that have been done helped to s 00 ] 16 buildings, too. Land at last and utrition business is to orevent sick- strengthen our national morale, but I a c 'ty • • • Well, off the ship we came ink .tuii.b/ iwt-j. yvuuiu iivn poor health which could do know of none, including the speech- * n recor d time; the dock was blacked be here in the first place, and if they j es 0 f the President himself, which out and it was so dark you could just' had the courage and stood on their m °re man our enem es biggest gun® results as a short about ® ee the man in fr °nt of you. own feet and did their own thinking t to damage our war plans. To produce Promise as great results as a s* 10 " Wh hit the it prooer the; the fabulous amount of equipment letter written b y Arthur Hoekmg, I ^ ^ ^me city, proper me needed to win this war, to carry on one of the thousands of employees struts were empty but soon the our fMxnlian .mrinr thn of the Carrier Corporation in Syra-1 . noibe . of feet on tb g pavement handicaps of equally important. So if anyone hasn’t learned the lat- they could not stay. The taxpayers’ great need today is somebody to shut his stable door be fore all his horses are .gone. As it is, any organized minority could press its claims up there by demanding a ; . , , , _ deed to the District of Colombia gad “* ■«« P™l>«' find a readiness for signing on the! 0 ? 11 " 8 ' , . ts lma l t0 ai V, Ther f J s dotted line. One of the changes that ? lenl) ' ot raater , 1 , al av i‘ ab ‘!' 1 ,nclud - time may soon bring is that offices lng a Sraphmally and- simply pre- which were once a mark of distinc- n ' n0 " bei " s distributed tion have become a badge of shame, i ? rougb de 't nSe h e , ? d q U „ a J f ? throughout the country, called “Eat ~~ f ™ ~ ^ ! Right, to Work and Win.” Some Dont S for Christmas In normal times it is a personal Here are a few don’ts for Christ-, matter whether we eat the wrong ma.', recommended by safety author- 1 things or the right ones, but today ities. that need to be practiced at this we are expected to “eat right” as a season: patriotic duty to our country at war. 1. Don’t give small children toys 1 involving alcohol, kerosene or gaso- line engines. They may tip over andi IJAnD||C|yCCr set the house on fire. M/DUI/I J DUjiriLJJ « 2. Don’t permit small childrei* top run electrical toys without the su- Dy vjfct mCvltt peryision of an adult. 3. Don’t permit small children t 0 ; ^ccuuations under the of tbe Carrier Corporation in Syra-'‘* olbe OI Iee; on ine pavement wart good health is cose. N. Y. j“> ‘ bair windows and Mr. Hocking is no trained public! t0 ( °y. r s ‘d®®- relations expert, no student of propa- bu ddy, we ganda, no advertising expert. He is 1 merely an American citizen who works in a factory producing war equipment. But the Hockings have already experienced the greatest tragedy that can befall any family in war—that of having their son kill ed in action. While mourning over that tragic event, Mr. Hocking realized that he had a message ih his heart which must be delivered Americans. to his fellow Flat Rock May Lose A Very Valuable Officer LETTER—Slogan The. letter Mr. Hocking wrote to his fellow employees following the news of his son’s death, reads in part: “TO MY FELLOW WORKERS IN FACTORY AND OFFICE: “Seven weeks ago my only son was killed in the war. Most of you know this but you can’t possibly know how use toy movie projectors without us-1 ing safety film which burns slowly. Ordinary film bums expensively and __ _ gives off smoke and fumes which that he has benn offered a job with' wbo j ust | ost b j s hJ’y too may cause death if inhaled. 4. Don’t use candles or light extra fires without being extremely care- .ful, especially in regard to candles on trees, are glad you’re i here! Thank God we’re not alone any more! Good lucky, Yank.” There’s a mother crying, her son’s somewhere in the Near East. I hope someone welcomed him when he ar rived. “Do you know my cousin Jack Smith? He lives in Oshkosh?” “Come around and have a cup of tea.” “What’s that song yot>’ve all been singing? Australia never heard of it. Sing it again.” Wonder why they pulled us off the You Can Afford To Buy A Home ... if you are able to pay for if by assuming the gradual liquidation of the first mort gage out of income. The Citizens Federal Plan for monthly payments of interesf and principal-reduc tion on home loans actually shows savings in interest alone. We can put all the figures on paper for . you and prove it, and will be glad to do so without obligation. CLOSING NOTICE—Our office will close Friday and Saturday, Dec. 25 and 26, for Christmas. Each Account Insured Up To $5,( i EDERALoAVINGS |AND LOAN ASSOCIATION Telephone No. 6 * A Clinton Institution Serving Clinton People Sindt 1909 T , , , , , , • i Hardy’s mother and I feel. That is, I our poleesman has let it leak outj none 0 j you ex( ;ept Walt Gardner ...... , who just lost his boy too. the fbi. his sallery is so low here in “Since Hardy’s death I’ve been do- flat rock, he says he must look to thej ing a lot of thinking. What I’m try- future. for the past sevveral months he has benn reading detedkertive stories and now feels that he can 5. Don’t wear inflammable cos-'make hisself a verry satisfactory tiimes, esp>ecially Santa Claus beards, without fireproofing them. 6. Don’t use inflammable orna ments and evergreen decorations. The Past and Now ' There are various angles from g-mhaan. he has studied flnger-print- ing. nearly everthing around the citty hall has finger-prints on it, including the walls, tables and books, he uses soot out of the stoves for his prints. * * ■ * „ ♦ our poleesman will be hard to re- ing to figure out is why so many of us are taking things for granted and not doing all we can to help win the war. “Maybe it’s because we keep hear ing and talking about the war lasting for years. That sort of thinking might keep anyone from»4*urrying. “It could be that this long-pull stuff was why we lost almost half a million minutes of production time which one may approach an expla- mighty good judgment in time of nation of the times through which trubble. he newer arrests noboddy pla l e ;_ he ._ kn , 0V f 8 a "?. USe ':last month through absences and tardiness. we are now passing. One man co gently argueS that the fault is not in the times but in the people. Such comparisons as we make are mainly a contrasting of the circumstances of the present with the conditions of other days. If we were to go back to remoter years when market condi tions were much the same as they are today and when men worked harder and longer, we would And a period in which there was much ini tiative, contentment and progress and not so much unrest, confusion and dependency upon others. Men then placed the supply of their own needs foremost while the supplying of the when he or the other fellow is mad. he says that by using these tack-tics, noboddy ewer, gets hurt' he has a nose for crime, he has arrested a farge number of suspects, and one german bunder, but he got away, he do not know where, he will be locat-1 casl , alty ^ to come ed, but has Washington, d. c. on his mind. the poleesman is too old to be drafted and too young to be junked, he is fine With’ a pistol at short range, and he says as soon as he gets some new species he will be oJc. at long range, he uses only reading specks now. the doctor told him to markets was secondary, and conse-lbuy some by-focals the next time. quently a matter of profit. Another states that the trouble with the most of us is that we have Had too muefi credit. Well, credit is all right, a great convenience and benefit to mankind, if not abused. We need to be, and are sure to be forced back —to the old virtue of measuring our needs by our ability that will let him see objects far off as well as close by. plese notify the publick not to apply for his job. if it is vacated by him, this corry spon dent will probably except it. the mayer is his cuzzin. ♦ as soon as the poleesman leaves for the f.bJ. we will send you his bi-. “Any way, I’m fed up with all this talk about a 5 or 10-year war. There’s no sense to it. We can win! this war quick. We’ve got to. If we don’t your boys will be killed like mine was. Please, please don’t wait for the Throw yourselves into high—NOW. “Get going as though both the Huns and the Japs had to be licked in 1943. Maybe they will be if we really try. “I suggest a new slogan for Car rier. Here it is— “LET’S GET IT OVER QUICK! “I hope you won’t'think I’m preaching. I’m not. I’m praying.” MORALE—Jolto Because there is no xioubt in my mind that a letter like Mr.,Hocking’s can do more to build morale than all of the thousands of* posters and speeches and magazine articles that have been turned out since the war began, I want to urge others who STATIONERY-BIBLES GIFTS THAT WILL BE APPRECIATED MORE THIS CHRISTMAS THAN EVER BEFORE! • I ■■■'. Of all the years to give paper for Christmas, this year is the most ap propriate,' for with so many of our family and friends in the armed ser vices, letters are one of the chief links that unify us in the great task that lies ahead. Stationery will be a means of keeping up these friendships and family ties. BIBLES AND TESTAMENTS Just the gift for the youhg men in service. We have a complete line j \ from which to make selections. ■I ' • Buy Now To Avoid Disappointment. Publishers—Printers — Stationers