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Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. Thursday, January 1, 1943 utye Clinton (CljrnntrU 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 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. CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1943 Anrtfliar Now Tnv I is ^tven prominence each week in MilOTiier Mew i UA | the hope that it will warn drivers of j Without much fanfare or preview |Ca rs and trucks to be careful, cau-j of what it is all about, everyone r^jtious and courteous, and that all will; ceiving wages or salaries will have 'gjvfe their support to a campaign to a victory tax deducted from their make the coming year a safe twelve pay beginning with the first week of i months on the highways of Laurens the year we have just entered upon, county and throughout the state. The tax will amount to 5 percent Our 1942 record was almost per- of wages above $12 a week, or $624 a'feet, the best we have ever attained, year, but does not apply to the first | During the year there were only two $12 of any pay. Thus a man earning deaths in this county as compared $40 a week will have to pay a tax of with eleven fatalities for the pre- "Mee* the People.. {Each week in this space will be presented e picture and word portrait of someone whose name Is news.) •When Eddie Rickenbacker went to France in 1917 as a staff chauffeur for General Per shing, he was already famous as a racing driver who lived up to his slogan, "Get out in front and drive like helL" There’s a legend that General Pershing finally had him trans ferred to the air corps in self defense. •What actually happened was somewhat less dramatic. Rickenbacker, who had been work ing in factories and machine shops since he was 12, went to the flight school at Tours to Vork in the shops, on condition that he be jiven a chance to learn to fly. At the end at vo months he had downed his first German /plane and had begun the magnificent work /that made him our greatest flyer in World far I. ► He enjoys being a hero, but he takes the job seriously. No mere daredevil, he has a lot of 'real courage. The famous smile that won him the title of “glamour boy” in the first World war was still in evidence'after his part Eddie in this one had nearly cost him his life. Rickenbacker You are invited out. You have to sort of dress up. You take a bath (meb- be). You find a necktie that cad be said: (probably as it’s night-time), your shoes are wiped off or shined, but when you put your britches on, you find that 3" buttons are off, two in front and one behind: (most likely mashed off). , It’s a cold morning, thermometer 25. You still have some gas from! your “A” card. You are in a hurry 1 to get to the office. You swallow your | NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS The regular annual meeting of Stockholders of the Commercial De pository of Clinton, S. C., will be held Tuesday, January 12, 1943, at 4:00 o’clock pjn., in the office of the Bank, to elect directors for ennufag year, and to transact such business as may come before the meeting. JOHN T. YOUNG, President F. M. BOLAND, Cashier. FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 18th v day breakwast whole, kiss at your wife j of January, 1943, I will render a and miss her 3 feet. Grab your over-1 account of my acts and doings as coat, rush out the front door, and; Executrix of the estate of George A. hop into your car . . . and find that! Copeland in the office of the Judge the battery is dead, died a natural of Probate of Laurens County, at 10 tl/ f death' from lethargy, due to inaction . and you have to walk 2 miles. /- I should go to them, we all agree. Ra- $1.40 a week and a man earning $60: ceding year, and 17 in 1940. This de-t tioning of food is a part of the war, a week will pay a tax of $2.40 a' cline in fatalities all over the nation! and we should accept it as such, week. j »s noticeable and encouraging. It is) The civilian population back home abroad. Every £an and pound of I for spite, one day next week, I am food needed by ' our armed forces going to eat my regular dinner, taper rr UMINATION Of A' CARDS MAY / BE RECOMMENDED ew York, Jan. 5.—Elimination of i b arre d “A” gasoline coupons and reduction | of “B” and “C” coupon values prob ably will be recommended for the f astern area this week by the oil industry committee, it was learned today. This move was disclosed as repre sentatives of gasoline dealers in this section sought an OPA order to per- o’clock a. m., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as Executrix. 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 forever LOU A. COPELAND, • Executrix. December 14, 1942.—7-4c. Thus federal tax is levied on 1943 due to less traffic on the highways^ income, and is a new tax in addition gas and tire shortages, and slower to the regular federal income tax. As driving by the public. If these restric- in the shortest time possible is the, think I am trying to whistle or get- an employe you will not have to tibns result in teaching the American j>goal we need to keep before us, and, ting ready to kiss somebody. My bother with making out a Victory people to drive with sense and there- 1 food is one of the essentials for vie- mouth and throat remain dry, but I tax return until 1944. ! by protect human life—‘they will bea;tory. {can eat, and that means much to me. Part of the tax becomes savings j lesson of inestimable value. H With these heavy food demands}! don't know how long this will last, and will be returned at the end of This safety campaign for the high- because of the war, production at! but it’s the berries right now. the war, we are told. The savings ways is ours — it belongs to every j home needs to be speeded up to the j proportion varies according to the man and woman who drives a motor maximum. Restricting what a farmer j number of dependents. With a single vehicle. It is a war against the ap- person, 25 per cent of the amount palling destruction of human life paid is considered as savings, where- caused by speed, recklessness, care- should exhibit the proper spirit and let hoarding alone. To win this war off by eating a dish-rag, a knife and fork, two onions, 4 toothpicks, a few; mit increased gasoline prices to en- bites of horse-radish, and anything | able dealers to ‘‘survive.” else in sight. But this medicine I am j It was pointed out that the oil in taking has puckered my entire anat- i dustry committee’s proposal, which . ... . .. „ - . , :1 . omy into one big pucker. Folks either will be made to the petroleum ad-HtL*! . I d,sch>r * e ministration for war, would make available for moving fuel oil into the Eastern states the tank car space now used to transport gasoline. ' ~One oil indpstry leader said that the industry^ had asked elimination of “A” coupons and drastic cuts in the value of “B’’ and “C” coupons as far back as October. Government officials know this is the solution he said, “but it is a po litical play. They don’t want to in terfere with people’s pleasure driving too much.” FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 18th day of January, 1943, we will render a final account of our acts and doings as Executors of the estate of William David Copeland in the office of the Judge of Probate of Laurens County, at 10 o’clock a.m., and on the same from our trust as Executors. 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 weekly or monthly basis. Endless Red Tape .The American people are indebted a ki- r . t LI , a,| to Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia A INignTmore 10 Miller for his vigorous crusade against ex-1 In spite of conflict and problems j a ccustomed to NOTICE The annual meeting of members of ! put a 2-cent stamp on it. You hurry i the Citizens Federal Savings and Little Thorns In the Flesh can produce will not relieve a scar-! The phone rings. You quit eating, city. The American farmers should 1 or sleeping, or darning, or knitting, be free to produce every pound of 1 or listening at the radio: go pick up as with a married person it is 40 per lessness and the increasing preva- food possible without government; the receiver, and say, “Hello.” Then cent.-An additional two and one-half lence in recent years of dangerous, restrictions and control. An incentive the operator says “Number, please.” per cent is added to the savings fund drunken drivers on the highways and should be given farmers in every part 1 The door bell rings, you drop ev- of each dependent the taxpayer sup- legalized liquor stores conveniently of the nation for the production of 1 erything unless it is the baby or your ports. located every few miles throughout more foods to help meet the present best china, and go open the door, and This tax was included as part of the. .state to-sdtisfy the appetites of emergency. there stands a man who says: “Is this the new revenue act passed by con- such public menaces. _ ; If we are to have an enlarged food where Mr. Bill Jones lives?” You say press which also raised regular taxes The record made in our own coun- supply to feed the people abroad i no, as sweetly as possible, and tell to the highest point in history. ’ ty and community should be a and everyone in the United States, him your name is Smith. (Mr. Jones The deduction must be taken out source of pride to all citizens. It there must be an increased supply of lives 5 doors down, but you forgot to of the employe’s pay envelope .or should challertge and inspire us dur- 1 everything people eat and wear. Stop tell him that). check by employer, either ’on a ing the coming year to do our part telling the farmer how little he can 1 as individuals to bring the figure plant. Instead, .urge and encourage 1 You write an important letter. You down to zero. It is a personal appeal him to produce more. land responsibility. ! Hoarding produces a scarcity, no to the post office and mail it. Two;Loan Association of Clinton shall bei matter what the commodity may be. days later it is returned to you mark- 1 held at the office of the Association, Hoarding is selfishness, a character- ed: “Postage due, 1c.” That’s your 1 ! istic of the American people who are fault, not the postmaster’s. It takes 3c having what they to carry on out-of-town letter. estate will present them on or before said date, duly proven, or be forever barred. JAMES ISAAC COPELAND. NENA MARTIN COPELAND. Dec. 17, 1942 —14-4c. • TYPEWRITER RIBBONS for all chines, portable and standard. Car- ! oon paper, rubber stamps. Call 74. “As a result,” he added, “ a lot of chronicle Publishing Co. people are going to be cold this win- ^ , ter just so others can drive their cars for pleasure. The government can solve this any time, but the only an-! swer we can get is ‘we are studying 1 the situation’.” travagance and red tape in Washing-! involving war production, our fac-j wan t ( an d when they want it. We do 1 ton. The pity is that congress is com- tories turned out a fantastic amount no t expect the American people to You are hard up for ready cash, posed of so few members of his cali- of war equipment during the year aC cept the challenge of Secretary Mr. A. Slowpoke owes you $25.00. bre and fearlessness. 11942. • I Wickard and await the beginning of You call on him the tenth time and As an example of red tape and When we consider that part of the rationing,’ though that is what we he tells you: “Sorry, but I can’t pay bureaucratic incompetency, the case job during the past year was to build ought to do to help make the pro- you till next week.” That’s what he No. 1 Broadway, Cinton, S. C., on January 20th, 1943, at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, for the election of di rectors and for the transaction of any other business of the Association. B. HUBERT BOYD, 14-2c Secretary-Treasurer. of a Nebraska manufacturer .is cited, plants and machines for producing gram a success. ! told you last week and week before and there are thousands of others war supplies, the record of goods ac-. Washington officials should stop last and every other week that has just as bad. This manufacturer re- tually completed should be enough to dropping the ball. This latest fumble come and gone, since the account fell ported among his inventory a ten make Hitler realize that he can’t hurt the new food program before it due. dollar roll of bronze wire. Then be- hope to compete with American pro- g 0 t started—it is a common example 1 gan an endless stream of letters and duction. 1 of experiments in restriction by bu- You send your best suit to the telegrams from a government agency. The most accepted figures for pro- reaucracy. pressing club. It is returned on time. He received questionnaires, blanks duction during 1942 show these re- ^ j — . and forms that so amazed and dis- suits: * gusted him that he packed the roll 49,000 planes. of wire and shipped it to the agency’s 32,000 tanks and self-propelled ar- office. tillery. Then the manufacturer wrote a 17,000 large anti-aircraft guns, letter. He said “We are making shells 8,200,000 tons of shipping, and do not have time to correspond In some instances we were short of continually with your office regard- goals set at the beginning of the ing this single piece of bronze screen year, but we were close enough to all wire.” of them to show that, in 1943, our This is transpiring all over the plans to produce machines of war country — business men are being fast enough to assure victory will nagged to distraction, they are being, be achieved. For, from all reports, flooded with complicated forms they we are now in high gear on produc- do not understand, and most ofition lines. which are unnecessary. In recent When the goals were set Hitler years this red tape disease has grown ridiculed them as an impossible like crab grass. There is no need or i dream. Now, with the evidence be- excuse for such bungling, confusion 1 f° re u s, Hitler is doing the dreaming and bureaucracy. ANTISEPTIC LIQUID ' CLUA A/ ' FA ST' When Your Back Hurts- And Your Strength and Energy Is Below Par It may b« caused by disorder of kid ney function that permit* poiaonoua waste to accumulate. For truly many people feel tired, weak and mlaerabl* when the kidneys fail to remove excess acids and other waste matter from the blood. You may suffer naffing backache, rheumatic paina, headaches, dissiness, setting up nights, leg pains, swelling. Sometimes frequent and scanty urina tion with smarting and burning is an other sign that something is wrong with the kidneys or bladder. There should be no doubt that prompt treatment is wiser than neglect. Use boon’s PxlU. It is better to rely on a medicine that has won countrywide ap proval than on something less favorably Known. Doan’s have been tried and test ed many years. Are at all drug store*. Get boon’s today. DOANS PI LLS NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE ■ | Happy Days Are Here Again, Mebbe Having been down in the dumps for the past 12 years with both real and imaginary stomach truble. I ft-1 nally made up my mind to call on a stomach specialist. I took it over to | him . . . last Wednesday gone. * I had never undergone such an examination before. He checked me —and his dream is by now a first! ^ rom Dan to Beersheba and back i degree nightmare. Every day, due to' a ® an ’ cross-wise, length-wise, side-! y*. . J C *. *. i the marvelous fighting of the Russian wise an< ^ otherwise. He looked like Lnurcn and Jiarc army he is being defeated. he was determined to find something Dr. James H. Taylor, pastor of the A — (seriously wrong with me. Central Presbyterian church, Wash- | TUp p 00 H Blunder i ington, D. C., a native of Charleston, ^ . , u . 7^ . , j • I was x-rayed up, lying flat on my , wrote an article in The Washington' Administrator Wickard> an( j v ice-versa, besides in many' Evening Star a few days ago in^ 0 ^ the American people over radio 0 ^ er positions. I was thumped and vited grocers to load their shelves j blood vim and vivacity which he protested the governmeht’s method of collecting the Victory tax from ministers and other church em ployes by requiring the church to act as collector as a “violation” of the principle of “separation of church and sLstc ” Dr. Taylor in making the same ^ hoarders and pocketbook patriots, protest to his congregation made jt; M^ing such an announcement five clear that he was not protesting pay- 1 ^ ee ^f in advance was a colossal ment of the tax itself-but only the blunder, the same that was made a lew nights ago that more than 200 ( pumped j was dosed and injected> j kinds of foods will be strictly ra-; was p Unct ured for a blood-test, and tioned starting in February, he m- m y p ressure was taken in respect to method of collection. „ Dr. Taylor, is correct in his posi tion, we think. When the church is made a tax collector for the state it is a clear violation of the fundamen as 'far as possible, and consumers to carry their baskets and “fill ’em up.” j T u j * * i i • It was a tio to trade sneculators nan- 1 had not eaten a normal meal in 'so long i will not now attempt to name even the year. After all was said and done, I was given two bot-' ties of capsules, white and pink, and I have followed directions patiently and consistently. The very first meal that came after' my visit to the doctor was supper, and I had eatefi no .supper in years and years. Well, that night I ate sup per and gave my organs a test. Much to my surprise and my wife’s aston ishment, I slep like ^ log that night, and I mean—like a big log. I am now taking on anything that is on the table. Ham is light diet, but with coffee and gasoline. Food ra tioning should have been announced as it went into effect even though the plan was not yet completed. Secretary Wickard in announcing tal principle of separation of chifrch V 16 P oint system of rationing canned and state, and is an entering wedge and fw UltS vege_ into the destruction of our religious e ?’ to the public not to liberty. If suth a policy is begun and hoard ’ to refrain tr ?™ rushin g ^ t , he spreads in other matters, as is likely, l^® arest grocery and laying in stocks, to happen, we may awake too late ap P ea was altogether proper, of some morning to the loss of our re- £ ourse ; ^ ut H) e . Secretary should u^ious freedom. 'know by now that when a scarcity of _ _ One of the principles the war is a commodity forecast or even inti- we bave no ba m. Cabbage and col- being fought for is religious freedom. human nature for the This can only be retained by a dis- buying public To rush in and replen- tinct separation of state and church. Every day there are new signs ish their supplies. This is not the first time such an opportunity has been that we are headed for a totaUterian! given .; Lo ^ k " hat . happened when a form of government-with govern-' scarcit ?: of sdk hose became known, ment attempting to regulate a nd; Wher > the pubhe was informed m ad- eontrol teverything and everybody.! Y 3 ^ 6 ^ gasoline, tires sugeir, cof fee', and other household necessities were to be rationed. The same hap hazard program affecting those he- And it should be added that this dan gerous tendency was- begun several years ago by the New Deal regime in time of peace. The 'Little Box' Again With the beginning of another year The Chronicle is continuing a prac tice it began several years ago of carrying its little warning box on the front page. The caption of the little box is “Drive Carefully—Save A Life.” It cessities will no doubt be followed with canned goods. We heard a gro cer say yesterday that heavy drains are being made on his stocks. That is what is happening .all over the country, the natural thing to expect. Canned fruits and vegetables, and dried fruit are among the foods most needed by our fighting men and our Allies. Next year, we are told, half our production of dried fruit will go / lards and tumipgreens used to put me In bed to smell them. Now they are easier on me than dessert. Just Relief At Last For Your Cough Creomulsion relieves promptly be cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender Inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulslon with the understanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CR For Statement of the Condition of the CITIZENS FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION CLINTON, S. C. As of December 31,1942 < ■ ■ ’ .. . • . . ASSETS— / First Mortgage Loans 1479,621.96 Loans on Passbooks and Certificates 223.30 * Other Loans . 1,000.00 Real Estate Owned and in Judgment 5,550.27 Investments and Securities 15,700.00 Cash on Hand and in Banks 28,544.05 ' $530,639.58 LIABILITIES— Members’ Share Accounts $491,350.60 Loans in Process 397.02 Specific Reserves ’. 6,033.07 General Reserves 5,156.95 Undivided Profits 27,70L94 \i $530,639.58 .Home or Business Loans Let us help you buy or refinance a home, or business property, of your own with rent-size payments on our simple financing plan. You will not continue to pay excessive interest, continuing fees and commissions with our plan. Ask for details today without Obligation. Insured Savings Home Loans OFFICERS B. H. BOYD, President J. P. PRATHER, Vice-President B. HUBERT BOYD. Secretary-Treasurer ederalSavings AND LOAN A$$OC!ATION Telephone No. 6 DIRECTORS a H. BOYD S. W. SUMEREL ’J. P. PRATHER W. W. HARRIS W. A. MOORHEAD HEATH COPELAND D. C. HEU8TESS T. D. COPELAND a HUBERT BOYD A CLINTON INSTITUTION SERVING CLINTON PEOPLE SINCE 1949 OUR RESOURCES HAVE PASSED THE HALF MILLION DOLLAR MARK s