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i Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S: C. Thursday, Jonuory 21 # 1943 (Hip (Elwtnn (H^ranirlr Established IfM 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... * / I powers in this contest were for May- bank in preference to his two oppon- ■ * says. That extra day gave Hitler time! the next few months, our former AUDITOR’S NOTICE to fetch in 1,000,000 Italians and 500,-1 easy way of living will hardly be The County Auditor’s office at Lau- ents. May bank was elected. The past 000 Roumanians, and 250,000 Hun-1 recognizable. garians, and 225 Germans. This kind of backfired on Stalin, but he has not done so bad for himself. re ns, S. C., will be open from the 1st summer Johnston, at the last minute, announced for governor against Man ning and was elected. Johhston’s inaugural address was largely a repetition - of his recent campaign speeches. Already there is speculation that he will try his hand;ought to be dealt with, but he thinks And, by comparing our for the U. S. senate next year against; this way about it: If our leaders lives with those of the people in I convenience of taxpayers, returns can Smith. Should he enter this race and My Uncle Joe could tell the war The only thing we can do is make, . .. up our minds to accept the exigen-jdsy of January to the 1st day of cies of war time economy and take a March, 1943, for the purpose of tak- Pollyanna-like atttude toward our i n g tax returns for the ensuing year; ration books, our food probems and and for ^ transaction of all buai- and navy departments how Japan our lack of services of all kinds. , .. —... . - . . .. ~ ... . . - - restricted ness pertaining to the office. For the don’t request him to help, he will let war-torn countries and with those of be made at the following appoint- them go ahead and continue to make our mitfons of boys in the armed ments throughout the county on date* mistakes and blunders. He predicted services, there is still plenty of; named below for the purpose of tak ing tax returns for the year 1943: Goldville, Thursday, Jan 21, 9:30 CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1943 TT ” , 1 ,. .. state highway department and its di-. The Former's Job i^rVogram re<nmg hea ^ late 860 Saw : The American people are being > nored P f er - on * of ** most f ca P able ^ told daily that the nation is facing 6 • trustworthy men ever to serve the a serious food shortage. .4. , Jr . • St ?, te As 8 ovei ™ r - he substituted If this war is to be won there must MlSpiOCCd EmpnOSIS military for civil government, £1;- be increased food production tor | Much is being heard from some win, he would resign as did May- bank. When asked a few days ago by a reporter whether he intended to the man the number of isolation- \ grounds for us to think, that we are to serve the four years of his term lists that would try to retract theif the luckiest people on earth. as governor, Johnston evaded a direct j words and actions, except Fish and The meals that we may complain ♦ s m reply. ‘ Lindbergh: he thought both of them about on meatless Tuesdays would * 10 0 P m How Mr. Johnston will conduct I would have flown out of the country seem like a banquet in other parts Goldville, Friday, Jan. 22, 2 pjn. himself as governor remains to be i immediately after we declared war, of the world. Having our own private to 8 p.m. seen. He has an opportunity for lead-'but he missed it They only crawled automobile to drive 200 miles a Dr. Thompson’s, Friday, Jan. 22, ership. His first administration was a in a hole and pulled the hole in after month would be the height of luxury 9 a.m. to 12 noon, stormy four years, the greater part! them. My Uncle Joe is the smartest in any other country. And having 1 Waterloo, Friday, Jan. 22, 2 pan. 1 of which was spent in denouncing the ’ Joe I ever saw. " the money we haye to spend plus to 4 p.m. . . — the thousands, of things we still can, J. C. Martin’s Store, Saturday, Jan. buy with that money would make — 1 most any foreigner think he was liv fODAY... TOMORROW m£ mimary xor civil government, ar- > D I** rayed class against class and brought | tty l^Oll KODHISOn home and foreign consumption. Food about the economic security of the h fu' : ———“ is to be an important factor of the This * 0 f minor importance of the ^tote he wSTstend. His ! POINTS-CenU * The providing of an enlarged food ^ce 3 of ^rndn^uaT^L^orT^our' P ar ^ on record ' like ^ veral of his ! 1 imagine the government gave us supply is the farmer's problem and Dnme war objective Nobody back Predecessors, was a^blow at law- a months warning on rationing of responsibility. He should be treed * ome J sufl , rl L, for , ack J work.! from restrictions and told to produce everything in his power. He should not be required to spend his time suffering food and clothing. verdicts of juries and sentences of 1 keepers would have time to make a the courts. His liberal attitude to- Social security machinery, we are warc j convicts is welKknown by the ■■ [told by the President and a few oth- DU blic battling through a mare °‘ er^ tlid. to Thlgm-n*. P mental red tape he doesnt under- quick review of the principles of arithmetic. But the new 1943 version of arith- ALL FARMERS ASKED TO COMPLETE FARM PLAN WORK SHEETS In making plans for producing rec ord crops to meet war needs in 1943, all Laurens county farmers will be asked to fill out a farm plan work sheet giving full information about It is to be hoped that the new'metic is apt to be more complicated v , . , suppose, that an additional per- governor’s second term will be;than the arithmetic we learned from Thn mitiruk nf thp farmpr is not cenla g e payroll is" to be taken pitched on a high, dignified level — jour school textbooks, since it dealsithe farm, according to Grover C The outlook of the farmer Is -not , ; entirely different from his first ad- with “points” as well as cents. Be- Roper, chairman of the county USDA a rosy one. from employee and employer. as well as cents. Be- Social security, as we have it un- ministration. der federal; control, is a forced iasur- [ ance by government upon the people. Sove the Tm Con Save the tin cans. That is the r^e- it is government in the insurance quest the Chamber of Commerce is business in competition with P r * va ^ e ' |JADAnV r C D||C|k|l!CC making of every housewife in this companies. The Chronicle is opposed livDvU I 3 DUjlliL33 community as this organization starts to government in business, regSrd- „ PTC 14 a salvage campaign to open Febru-; less of the field. *ty OCu fviCVSkw ary 3rd. Trucks will call on that date, it is human nature to desire secur- — at all homes for a systematic collec- ity, of course. The insurance busi- 1 tion for salvage. nesses, the savings banks and other Don’t Mojikey With A Live fore doing her shopping, after ration ing goes into effect, a woman will m have to figure how many points she — 1 can afford to use during a specified War board. Since community leaders are as suming responsibility for getting the work sheets signed, each farmer will 23, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Hickory Tavern, Monday, Jan 25,' 10 a.m. to 12 noon. Reeves and Hipp Store, Monday, Jan. 23, 1:30 pan. to 3 pan. Bolt’s Store, Monday, Jan. 25, 3:30 pan. to 5 p.m. Jones Store (L. H. Lott), Tuesday, Jan. 26, 10 aon. to 11 a.m. j J. G. Phillips Store, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 11 a.m. to 12 noon. Cooper 81 Bailey, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 1 p.m. to 2 pan. Harris Store, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 3 p.m. to 5 pan. • .Clinton City, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 10 aon. to 5 p.m. Real estate is not to be returned this year. All new buildings, person al property, poll taxes and dogs must be returned. If not convenient to come to the county auditor’s office, please make your return at one of the above places. A 10 per cent pen- period, what fqpds she can buy in receive a^personal call from one of ( a ny g oes on a u pj.Qpgj.iy no ^ re j urned jthe largest quantities with her re- * maining points and how to serve bal- j anced meals and economize on points ; and cents at the same time. his neighbors within the next few weeks. Entitled “1943 Farm Plan Work Sheet for Maximum War Produc- Mouse Hence, it is quite possible that! tion,” the work sheet when complet-, those who are not good at figures' ed will contain information that will will, toward the end of a rationing serve as an inventory on both crops after March 1st. JENNIE V. CULBERTSON, Auditor, Laurens County. Be Quick To Treat Bronchitis In every home jn the community institutions and enterprises thrive on j ^ ( > . there are useless cans that will be man’s longing to gain financial inde-1 About 2:30 o’clock last Friday period, find that they are forced tp and livestock on the farm in 1942 worth much to the government now pendence. - % morning. I awoke with a splitting feed their families during the re-land 1943. It will also serve as a facing a shortage of tin so vital in Many men are afraid to change headache. I went to the bathroom for maining days on a diet of urirationed j guide to local selective service boards our war effort. Nearly 90'per cent of to other work than that they are do- the purpose of taking one or two foods. They may, for example, have in th e deferment of farm labor. j # Ame rica’s tin formerly came from ing because they fear new ventures aspirin tablets. I opened the medicine to sit down to a dinner beginning Jhe second section seeks to obtain Chronic bronchitis may derelop ll Malaya, which-is now cut off. • may imperil their position and oppor- cabinet and a mouse jumped out on with- pickles followed by a main "^formation on the farmer’s needs in c h itis is not treated and you cannot af- Al! cans must be properly pre- tunity to • earn an honest living at my shoulder. This mouse and I were course of olives and candied fruits 1943. Here; he will list additional 1 j ord ^ a gh^ce ^^h ail y mgdifcijie pared as shown in an announcement present. The maj’ority of people have both badly frightened. It ran around and ending up with a luscious des- for^ machinery and other ma-, less Potent than Crebmulslon^ which in today's paper. These instructions an innate longing to reach a point' my neck about twice, and then it [ sert of jelly and noodles. should be carefully read and fol- where they can assure themselves. jumped'to the floor and then’s when lowed. and their families of food, clothing, the marathon took place. I SALES—Budgets A committee of the Chamber of and shelter for the rest of their lives. ^ I Those few women who really took Commerce headed by J. Leland Such lofty ambitions often are not. The bathroom is. a mouse-proof algebra seriously when they were terials, and also will state whether goes right to the seat of the trouble to he needs financial assistance and ^ oose ^ expel germ laden h°w much This Win serve as a guide by which the various agencies of the mucous membranes. department of agriculture can ren- 1 Creomulsion blends beechwood creo- der assistance needed throughout the sote by special process with other time year. tested medicines for coughs. It contains Section three of the sheet seeks in- n °N(fnmtter how many medicines you formation which’will serve as a farm; have tried, tell your druggist to sell you Young, has undertaken the task of realized because of social eruptions, bathroom, but this individual mouse iq high school may be able to devise making the collection in the city. We wars, business depressions and count-; g 0t there somehow or other. How formulas which will help them with are all asked to'help—to save the tin less other things that interfere withI'ft g 0 t into the medicine cabinet will their shopping. If they let X equal tan.. a, feeling of security. The tragedy of always remain a mystery. After I got ration points and Y equal cents, it . , . ... - .. ,=,1- fV> . - the New Deal common theory of re- iover my sudden fright, I undertook may be possible to work out an equa-« tS^tt,,^: RpvPmiP nnH Linunr / cent years 15 that lt has encoura g ed to send that little rascal where he 1 tion which will prove that the eve- Y° r Iorce on th * ly allays the cough, permitting rest and revenue anu Liquur millions of people to seek and ap-1 wouldn't bother anybody again. I ning meal should consist of spinach, f a . inc i ud sharecroppers and ^ ee n t or you are to have your money According to a report of the South pi auc i a n moves to have the govern- c b ase (i him around the room about pork chops and sweet potatoes. - ac * dl * 10na * labor em-j back. (Adv.) Carolina tax commission for the cal- men t and labor unions (at taxpayers’j 15 times, hitting at him every sec- But for those women, who, even in Pl°y ed * . 2 * and additional endaj- year, revenue from sales of al- expense) take over the responsibility Q nd with a towel. I always hit where normal times, have to bring all of iabor needed in 1943 for the three coholic liquors in the state for the 0 f their support and security. This'he had just been. ! their fingers into use to add up a mos ^ important crops or enterprises month of December amounted to belief instilled in the minds of many, ! . *•» grqpery list, the new point system is on *be farm. There is also a space for entering the housing facilities for the farm. “The over-all purpose of the farm plan work sheet,” Mr. Roper said $409,908 as compared with $260,793 , has killed initiative, a willingness toi After bursting an electric light, one apt* to cause great confusion at first, for December 1941. Such a jump wor k an 3 self-effort on their part. J 0 f which I shave by, and having Actually, there is nothing very dif- shows that in spite of a war on our yet the history of our country knocked over the electric heater that ficult about the point system and, bands, there is to be no let up in m a k e s it evident that the successful we use whether we need it or not, I when mastered, it is apt to mean that 4 . - drinking back home. men of the past were those who decided to change my fighting tactics. j most women will be able to plani’b 15 we ®* c ’ 15 *° provide information With the state in the legalized spurned ease and security, who took 1 sneaked into an adjoining room and more healthful and at the same time *bat will enable the government to liquor business, we are bartering our chances and who withstood all va- got a broom. (Note: don’t ever try more economical njeals than they °“ er t be farmer assistance in produc- youth for revenue. We are, in sub- rieties of hardships ii> order to reach to kill a mouse with a broom, unless ever have before. !‘ n ® . , e war - by using the •stance, saying the more intoxicants the goals they had set for themselves, he is already “ketched” in a mouse-I Just as people refer to prices before facilities of every farm can we the public buys and dririks, the more by hard work? They have guarded trap. It simply can’t be done. That they make a purchase, they will hope to meet our 1943 war goals for money we will have with which to against allowing themselves to fall 1 infernal mouse flashed around that-hereafter check the “point-cost” in operate our public schools. We are a i n the category of the lazy and in- hypocritical people. competent. The Washington administration is. Now with the world experiencing dripping wet. The secretary of war its greatest upheaval, we say that room at about 345 m.p.h. My speed was only 340 m.p.h. the same manner and they can also look for “point-sales” where foods which alre plentiful will be offered for a reduced number of coupons. ... I did enough hitting with that and secretary of navy in recent pub- government proposals apd personal broom to kill 500 rabbits, but that lie statements strongly indicated that demands of security and hand-outs mouse was never stunned even a lit- | CLERKS Figuring the use of intoxicants by our men in;should be abandoned and forgotten tie bit. He ran up my pajamas seven! The biggest difficulty with the service'is essential to help maintain j un tii our country’s security and free- different times. I lost him once: he | point system is going to be in making morale and win the war. An outrag- dom is assured. We need to stop* pi ay- had hid himself (or herself, as the; transaqtions with grocery store ecus claim and untrue. j n g politics and direct our thoughts! case “mought” have been) under miy I clerks. With many of the stores al- toward coping with hardships in- collar. And to make bad matters ready short of help and customers , In speaking of revenue and whis key Roger Babson says: “There is no worse, he didn’t jump off as he should have done: he shimmied down stead of toward dreams 0/ an easier revenue from alcoholic beverages, it existence. We need to practice stoi- is a myth and a mirage. It costs any cism instead of insisting on being inside my back. If my blood pressure community eight timqs as much as it “soft.” brings in, in court costs, poverty,; crime, slaughter and degradation.' ^ . 1 j n g eac h other-for about 45 minutes — ~ 1 he New governor I. . . and I was so tired, I was half The Rubber Crisis i South Carolinians have been given dead ... he accidentally jumped becomingly increasingly impatient over service, there will be plenty of headaches involved in collecting ra- KEROSENE... 12 c per Gallon YARBOROUGH OIL COMPANY WEST MAH * STREET TYPEWRITER RIBBONS for all ma chines, portable and standard. Car- oon paper, rubber stamps. Call 74. CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. ( twb voluminous gubernatorial ad it would seem to the great major- dresses w jthin the past two weeks, had been two points higher, I would;tion stamps as well as money, have died then and there. After chas- j As has been the case with gasoline and sugar and coffee, people will be come much more ooncefned With coupon-pinching than penny-pinch ing. Gas station attendants tell me into the bath tub. I turned the hot . . . . water on him and after he had sue- that many of their customers, alter ity of the American people that when )neit her of which may be expected cumbed and passed out, I flushed him handing over their precious “A” cou- those responsible jn Washington re-, t o have much weight. 'down the drain. My headache had'pons, forget all about the money end fleet upon the mess they have Governor Jefferies, of Colleton disappeared when the mouse-killing - - - - - made in recent years in handling the |COUn ty an( j Santee-Cooper fame, pre-, ordeal was over. I never slept an- CALL Wyman Shealy For Prompt Plumbing and Heating Service 105 E. Ferguson St. INSURANCE Fire - Tornado - Automo bile - Surety Bonds - All Forms of Property Insurance. SOUND PROTECTION AT LOWEST COST. REAL ESTATE B.H.B0YD . Clinton, S. C. rubber situation — they would hang , sen ted a long list of recommendations their heads in shame. Having com- before he retired from office to re- ple’ely fallen down on the job they ^qj-jj the state senate, should have been removed and the Governor Olin Johnston in his ad- responsibility of handling this pr ob_ dress Tuesday outlined a number of lem placed on the shoulders of oth- changes in government he advocates. ers. other wink that night. We Have Some Smart Men Outside the Army and the Navy I am sure that Secretary Stimsoh has never heard of my Uncle Joe. It’s This country Is confronted with an acute rubber shortage due to several reasons, we must all realize by now. When Bernard Baruch, one of the He came out for state-wide prohibi-; strange that he has not sought him of the transaction unless they are re- minded—but when cash is requested 1 they don’t even bother to ask the' price. But it Is going to mean that* each purchase will require double the time it previously did for paying up. First the grocery clerk will have to figure the cost in dollars, then he tion for which the majority of the'out. Uncle Joe would have prevented I mus t figure out how many coupons people have voted while their wishes I the debacle at Pearl Harbor, that is— are owed him, and after that he will in the matter were ignored by the! if he had been consulted about a general assembly. The Chronicle | month or so prior to the bombing ablest .business men in America,;stands, and always has, for prohibi- He knew that Japan would 1 attempt rived at his answer. Many women stood on the White House steps three j tion and a clamping down on the years ago and begged that quick ac- 1 liquor business in this state and tion be taken to relieve the expected throughout the nation. patiently have to explain to the poor er of the mathematicians how he ar- shortage due to world conditions, he was laughed at and ignored. . We all know by now that rubber must be conserved to the limit. That is why we have such tight gasoline restrictions. Reports from Washing ton indicate that unless plenty of synthetic rut>ber is made by Septem- Governor Johnston in his address called for “peace and harmony” in contrast to the attitude he assumed to destroy Pearl Harbor during the month of December, but he had it marked down on his almanac as De cember 6, J941, at 2 p.m. instead of December 7, 1941, at 7 a.m. when he entered upon his first term Uncle Joe would have been of as governor in 1935. The people hope some help in the invasion of Africa he means what he says. i if his cooperation had .been solicited. Johnston’s political record has cov- He missed his calculations only ered an extended period. He first ran ber of this year, our nation’s rubber. for the legislature and was elected, supply—and that includes the rubber jin l’930 he offered for governor and available to all our allies — will be ; was. defeated by * Blackwood by' a practically exhausted: This means,small margin. In 1934 he came back that unless we are going to let the again against Cole Blease and was jeepls and army trucks run on their; elected governor. At the end of his rims, the rubber pile must be added four-year term he returned to Spar- to at once, while the civilian popula tion does without. The war, now looking brighter each day for our side, will be speed ed up to a soon victory or retarded to a large extent, by the success or failure of the government to get hold of sufficient quantities of rubber needed for war purposes. Meeting the problem requires the best brains and initiative of the country instead of delay and bungling by the dicta torial Jesse Jones and others when tanburg for the- practice of law. In, 1938 he offered again as an office- seeker in the United states senate race against Senator Ellison D. Smith and was defeated. In the heat of the campaign President Roosevelt made a stop in the state and went out of his way in Greenville to make a pub lic dig against Smith. The President wanted Johnston elected. In .1941 Johnston again tried for the senate with Bryson and Maybank as his op ponents. ‘the New Deal Washington slightly there. He had figured* the exact day that the Allies would at tempt to invade the Dark Continent, but instead of landing at Oran and Casablanca, he had them put down to first take Dakar, and then drive up the coast and overlap Algiers, Morocco and all the rest of the coast over to Tripoli. Then he would have cut Rommell off between Sirte and Homs. But his advice was not so licited. As to the Russian campaign, Uncle Joe predicted that Stalin would be gin his offensive move north of Stal ingrad in December 3, but Stalin— while his mind ran true to form with my Unple Joe’s mind, waited a day, and attacked on December 4. He made a mistake there, so Uncle Joe have implicit trust in the addition of grocery clerks, so far as money is concerned, but with the new “point” currency they will probably look up on each transaction with suspicion. GRUMBLING—Fortune People who like to' grumble over inconveniences and discomfort, ^ivill have a field day during 1943. With food rationing, gasoline ra tioning, transportation diffculties, shortages, fuel oil rationing and a million and one other .complications which are bound to develop during We Buy and Sell USED CARS TRUCKS TIMMERMAN MOTOR CO. Clinton, S. C. A MORTGAGE CAN BE A BURDEN! IS YOURS? The terms of some mortgages work undue hardships, particularly during these times of high taxes and high costs of living. You may be able to refinance yours at a great saving, by using our low cost, monthly payment plan, which in a surprisingly short time, will free your home or business of debt. Full details from our experienced officers with out obligation. 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