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Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, £ C. Thursday, Jonuory 28, 1943 $4* (flltaton (£4rnttfrl* 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 Pest 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. of the picture, let’s all try to see our country’s side of it. The Other Side of the Picture I received a letter from a good ha^e a Recent income who pay the great proportion of our tax bill. Some families won’t pay any of it, others of average income will have to pay more than $31 per billion to make friend who is in the army now. I am, up for those who don’t pay any, and | taking the liberty of printing a few people with largje incomes will be (excerpts from this epistle. These called upon to pay many times that ! items might help us to appreciate our $10,000 average necessary to get the ; own very fortunate position at home, country out of debt. ,We are depending on the army to win this war, but the army is not (depending on us (much^ to help. , ■ — Some people argue that the public First, this soldier-letter is dated debt is merely a bookkeeping nota-i ‘11:30 P.M.” He goes on to say— tion arid infer that, by some arith-l ‘This is the world’s worst climate.!metical juggling, it may be possible! DEBT—Erasing And added there to a perpetual sea of mud when warmer and ice when colder. Today was the first time I’ve seen the sun since my three weeks of existence here. We work, HURRY! CLINTON, 8. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1943 to wipe it out. Expert accountants can do remark able things with figures, but I doubt if even Einstein could devise a for mula for erasing those hundreds of system with all its rottenness. When They Mix There are few of us, perhaps, who are not moronic m some respect, but too many forget that when you mix the moron and liquor the result is a pluperfect idiot...We saw and heard did not find a word therein express a training camp, riot a reception cen- . . „ . , . ; ter. I wish the whole country knew And speaking of this monster t ^ at so idjers are not trained at re- Santee-Cooper, which has and WAIT! from 4:50 A.M. till 9:30; billions of debt from the gpvem- P.M. evei^ day of the week. This is ment’s books. Other wishful thinkers, who hope to get out of spending the rest of already cost taxpayers more than fifty mil lion dollars, we read Governor John** • ception centers. their, lives paying government debts, suggest that the government might carry the debt on its books forever one yesterday A Disappearing Line ing his approval or opposition to the utilities proposal. Was this an over sight of omission or commission? Governor Jefferies, shortly before Regardless of the Mason and Uixon . j eav j n g office, appointed a brother of line and with a disregard of how our , Governor Johnston as .a member of tathei, or grandfather voted, many' p u pij c Service commission,- hav- people have became disgusted with a j n g supervision over Santee-Cooper. political party which stoops to being a doormat for labor unions and a stooge for socialists. * . “We stop for nothing but pneumo-/! instead of trying to collect it. But ston s address to the legisature and. n j a jf you’ve got less than three: if there is a 300 billion dollar debt, drops on the end of your nose the this would mean that about eight doctors here consider you healthy. A cdugh merely indicates how long you have been here . . . the first 4 weeks billion dollars in interest would have to be paid on it e^ch year. At that rate, by the end of 40 years we would of training is the worst; the next 9 have paid 300 billions in interest and Fish Ponds Proposed If you live long enough, the gov- ernment will finally come around to^ youi way of thinking An example is the advocacy of a fish pond ort every flirm It might serve to dissipate a lot of bucolic pessimism, for of all peo ple the fishermen, are the most opti mistic and hopeful. It also may be a sneaking way that the government mg munitions we are apt to suspect has ol convincing the farmer that its stockholders of secretly hoping theie i i t ally no shortage of labor. j the war continues so their profits With a fish pond tin every farm, will continue to fatten. The big con- Iht iaimeis would be surprised at eerns always know how to sew-up how much help the.y could get free the ot i harge m connection with catching We weeks is mostly technical. I hope I’ll make the grade. I, as well as all oth.- ers here, want to do my part and am anxious to turn on the steam. would still have the 300 billon debt on the books. Whatever plan is worked out, we are going to be paying heavy taxes for many years to come to pay the cost of this war and to pay off the excessive wages which millions of men, working on war orders, are col- D„ \A/«r • “When and if I ever get out of rrormng Dy war ' these army shoes I’nr going barefoot- If taxes-are to be raised again dur- ed the rest, of my life. Funny thing ing 1943 (as may be expected) one of happened the other day: I sneezed j let ^ lng tod 3 /- the fairest ways it would seem to do my bridgework out and it landed ^ 0 ’ even though it only costs us an it would - be to lew heavy taxes nn right in Ihe ulrnh 4n fnmL nf a cor^7 averagt ‘ of postage stamp per fam- poral. Never thought till a minute (dy. government • to spend a 1 later. I picked up my “chawers” and rn *“ion dollars, it would be a good tfidse who are earning extra income because of the war. War profiteering is recognized by all Americans as a decidedly un healthy thing. If a large company makes a fortune out of manufactur- president and jprime ministef, ,Xp which case the meeting would have been held very much farther to the east.” Stalin, however, was “unable to leave Russia at this time on ac count of the great offensive which he himself as commander-in-chief is directing.” While the prime xriinister, nodded assent, the president said the con ference had reached “complete agree ment” on war plans for 1943 to bring about the “unconditional surrender” of the Axis nations. The president and prime minister both said the Allies were determined to maintain the battle initiative in every part of the world, apd said that theater by theater every campaign had been discussed. This was taken' to mehn that Gen. George C. Marshall, chipf-of-staff of the U.S. army, Gen.-Sir Alan Brooke, chief of the imperial general staff, Admiral Ernest J. King, commander- in-chief of the U.S. navy, and Ad miral of the Fleet Sir Dudley .Pound, along with other generals had map ped invasion plans and probably also picked the generals for such field commands. The president said the meetings in the past 10 days had been unprece dented in history, while the prime minister chimed in to add that they surpassed anything in his World War One experiepce. One of the main decisions of the conference was to lend all material aid to the Russians, who are draining German manpower and war mate rials, the president said, and he add ed that China was to get a full meas ure to help to end forever the Japa nese attempt to dominate the Far East. The president said “unconditional surrender” of Germany, Italy, and Japan did not mean destruction of the populations, but destruction of the philosophy of these countries based on conquest and reigns of terror. CALL Wyman Shealy For Prompt Plumbing and Heating Service 105 E. Ferguson 8t. put them back in my mouth, dirt and all. If it had been a biscuit or some thing to eat, why. I’d never consider .even letting the foul thing get with- idea if we all decided to go in‘for stamp saving in a big way. ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL in ten inches of my mouth. But ev- HOLD PARLEY IN AFRICA erythng’s OK our way.” and we are now on tlu li- !i I0DAY... TOMORROW fat war orders over little firms, are‘told that six big companies gut contracts for ten billions during! the first short war preparation pe- By Doll RobinSOR rind They are subject to heavy cor- poration and. excess profit taxes, as.| they should be, and every precaution! (Continued from page one) Hopkins to the Churchill villa, and ! the prime minister immediately came (to start the meetings. The first began at 7 o’clock in the evening of January 14 and lasted until three o’clock the next morning. President Roosevelt met correspon dents in the garden of his villa Sun- JOHN DEERE TRACTORS and IMPLEMENTS THAT WORK THERE’S A JOHN DEERE QUALITY IMPLEMENT FOR EVERY FARMING PURPOSE J. R. CRAWFORD CLINTON. S. C. Windows On New Worlds / — ■ Hair-splitting is no longer a joke with the new electron micro scope, which makes visible a whole world that has previously been too small for scientists to study. Women In Business Hy the .end nf 1943, une out of ev- they should be, and every precaution) NUMBERS—Trillion m v turn war production jobs will be is needed to prevent their .makingI When I was in school I was under day afternoon. IiIImI by women mid about one out millions nut of the war. ; the impression that about the biggest Protecting American fighters and ot every two regular civilian - jobs But in this war it is individuals I numberswhic h existed were astro-j Spitfires roared overhead as the con-, will he handled by a member of'thei who are profiting most by the war _-Uonucal distances — the 93 million ference was held. The only woman gentlei sex; It IS Pstunuted by the men who were in the habit of earn-1 miles to the sun - the J5 ° million present was WAAC Captain Louise W a i Manpower commission ling $35 to $40 a week and now, be-‘ mil™ to Venus, and the 286,000 miles ; Anderson of Denver, Colo., a stenog- If this comes to pass and it is al- cause of the man shortage and the t* 1 f be moon. j rapher from Lieut. Gen. Dwight D. ready well on tlu* way with four activities of labor unions (with the But I imagine the modem school, Eisenhower’s headquarters, million w omen already in war plants blessing of the Washington adminis-: child * who has advanced beyond the | Hopkins was among the first to ar il would seem as though the name tratiun) are earning $100 and more a lfourth K>ade, pooh-poohs little num-! rive, along with the president’s fly- t hours with time bcrs Id 40 that and, if he reads the | ing son, Lieut. Col. Elliott Roosevelt, who was wearing the Distinguished Flying Cross recently awarded him. While the president’s envoy, Rob ert Murphy, flitted in the back ground, Generals Giraud and d6 Manpower commission will become a week, working short hours with time bers like that and, if he reads the newspapers, doesn’t think he’s “talk ing big” unless he refers to hundreds of billions. The word trillion hasn’t yet be come a very common term, but, as I studied the President’s budget for, Gaulle, clad in French army uni-1 misnomer and should be changed to and one-half for overtime over 35 or include womahpower. !40 hours. htich year since the last war worn- Why wouldn’t it be fair, then, for en have played an increasingly im- each man to report * the income he re- poitant role in business and in fb^jeeived before we went to war and pi o 11 ions anil by the time this wai g** reouired to nav an excess orofits oi ** vi,vu . .voiiivii.n ******&* * 1 yjl l *--* m *-***'- > v ***** *** * ci * 1 * 4 ^ **** 1 ends they will have assumed a major ^. v the ....tween , f il was obvious that it will soon ; forms*, appeared from the presidents; position in industry Millions of thesei ‘ t . u ... .. n(J tht . n .. v , ‘ ‘.^become a household word. jquarters. They were closely followed women may be expected to show no; , , ‘ ' K ‘ 8 ‘ Because of the way the word bil- by Roosevelt himself, wearing a light di.spostion to give up their positions y ' 'lion, in reference to dollars, is ban- gray suit with the usual cigarette when the wai is over' To those’who' There seems to be no sense or rea-j^jed about in Washington, I imagine holder held at a jaunty angle. Churchill, in a dark gray suit and feel this way the home will become'f" 1 . ^‘'Uons ‘ ,f me " that even the penny-pinchers in con- a sei nodal.V interest They will want t( ! tloul >h‘.or triple their incomes out gress are getting so they are willing •°t die war and force those who ard'to approve any bill which only calls not profiting to pay for'this extrava- f or a reasonable number of millions, i gance through heavy tuxes. to have a hand -in running business, industry and polities, and to the ex tent they prove efficient and, make good; many will no doubt be retained a-. Was the case at the end of world w.o number one. He's Too Expensive It M. Jefferies, the legal “kmg- Ine ot Santee-Cooper, who recently reined as governor and returned to! th» senate as Colleton county sena- J toi, has announced that he "probably would Stales U a- .t NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE Let’s Remember That This Is Our War. Too Too many folks blame their trou- MILLIONS—Tips As we thumb down the list of items in the new budget, those which arej under a hundred million look sort of like the item for “tips” on a sales- nrtan’s expense account. As far as the general public is con cerned, little interest is shoWn in any of these miscellaneous items which altogether add up to only a billion or tw'o. Yet up to 1917 the total an nual expenses of our government had with the inevitable cigar, followed them to the four chairs in the garden. As de Gaulle and Giraud shook hands for the benefit of photogra phers, the president opined that it was a momentous moment. Giraud and de Gaulle immediately* went back into the house and the 1 press conference began. The president on behalf of the prime minister and himself, express ed regret at the death of the Cana dian Broadcasting Corporation’s war correspondent, Edouard Baudry, who was killed by a machine gun bullet^ when the plane in which he was. rid ing with other correspondents en- route to the meeting was lost over Mi k tidies is the gentleman who ~ ; , me eivu war, wueu uic guvcriuucm i Spanish Morocco and was fired upon Pldi , i.um for about $180,000 for £ ussmg th ^ * ot ' al r ‘‘tion board, they spent $1,300,000,000 to put our coun-jby Spanish ground defenses. • dal legal services in connection T IC » keS and try together again. | The president then went into the that political monster, Santee- Hershey - f wholt country were Billions, as far as government ex-; background of the meeting, saying became clear when the North African campaign was launched that between himself and the minister would be necessary. during the two years of .the war. In j He said Stalin had been kept ad- 1917 government expenses totaled ( vised on all details worked out at the meeting, and in the words of the be u candidate for United .. , ■ , .. - — - — < n iti- m 1944 His statement ^ es dnc ^ ^conveniences on the ra- never amounted to one billion, ex- 1 11ion board instead of on Hitler and. cent for the vear 1865 at the end of it of trial political balloon ..... ... A . . ... ‘ ur u,e moo. ai me tnu oi K times IS the gentleman who H " th ^ f bru jthe Civil war, when the government the small town at- *° SU( * ctvn ^ ,uu * * n the temper pense is concerned, is a term which ’that it serving the project as ° f the average 8roup ot Wizens whoj C ame into vogue with the last WorldAfrican an annual salary l ,f stormour ration boards almost daily,, wa r. In 1917 government expensesia meeting • resigned to become i we wou, d lose the war in 3 weeks. we nt over the billion line and soared, prime mini Many persons believe that mem- w 1111 Cooper He is al> torney who wa chu t counsel at $10,0(10 when he resigned governor Rumors out of Columbia! say that he is expected now to be 1 returned to that position Mi Jeff cues man to serve the state, either as gov . „ emoi oi United States senator. What l ‘o 8 a? ' an d fuel oil and sugar and this country needs now is a clean-out! coffee ^ y wan 1 t * tb f y frequently be- - in Washington of the spenders for al come bl B er ^and sullen, and begin to less expensive, more bers of the ration boards own the $12,698,000,000 and in 1918 reached is too expensive a l boar d and make their own rules and < $18,522,000,000. After that they drop- state either as gov-I re * u ^ at ' ons ‘ ^ they don't get all of ped back to around three to four bil lion a year until 1932. Then they went up to five, six, seven, eight arid nine billion and, in 1941, reached etlnomical and lgrowl and grumble and cuss-out per-j $12,775,000,000. cotise. Native group of public officials. I *° ns who are trying t0 do what is; All of those figures sound like It is the only hope for taxpayers if necessa ry to keep the country .going small change now, as we plan for a they are to survive. *} on * tbe be ‘ st £ t>an Fj? » * ar its hands. Nearly all of the folks who are doing their best to treat the pub- ; lie right at these boards are either FAMILY—$3,125 As was to be expected, Governor working for nothing or for a measly) To get down to the kind of money Jefferies in his farewell message to salary. *j individual citizens deal in, our gov- communique added that Stalin had been “cordially invited tp_ meet the State Monopoly Sought 100 billion dollar expenditure \he year 1943. for the- legislature, recommended that '3-ox, OKe Slsr IF-KLES DUE TO A COLD. ! ernment expenses for. 1 9 4 3 will legislation, be enacted giving the jf we could realize what's ahead of amount to approximately $3,125 per Sanjee-t ooper set-up authority to us anc i s f 0 p anc j take stock of our i family. A nd if, by the - end of the war, absorb, buy or acquire other private selves and make up our minds that, the public debt reaches 300 billion, power companies now operating in this is our war arid.* not the ration as it may, the average family debt tlu state and paying taxes. (board’s war, we might be of some will be over $10,000. 1 to is a plea for a^ state power service to our country. If khe people For each billion the government monopoly to which The Chronicle 0 f this community, including this spends, the average cost per family has before expressed opposition. I he writer, were to record what ‘they i is $31. So. in checking the federal proposal should arouse strong oppo- (^nd \ve7 have done up to now to budget, a family should decide, for sition throughout the state. Senators h e ip w in this war, every single deed each billion dollar appropriation, ami representatives should be told 0 f nearly all of us could be written by the people back home, so there ( on the back of a postage stamp. Let’s can be* no misunderstanding, that the se e, now, what sacrifices we have plan is a violation of the'Constitu- made, tion. But a still greater objection is) — ♦ that Santee-Cooper was born in poll- j Well, to begin with, we bought a tics, that it has been suspected as a few stamps with our idle pennies and political octopus since it was author-| put them back into circulation; we ued. An organization created and pitched an .ffd aluminum boiler into the scrap; we took some iron down to the dump and got only 60c per 100 for it (we ought to have had -75c); we walked down town one day last week so’s the east could get m6re fuel oil; we shipped our spare tire off to the government, it had 5 punc tures and one biow-out in It, and— lemme see, that’s about alL Folks, il we can’t see the ration board’s side promoted by politics may be counted upon always to operate through po litical pressure and influence. This colossal monopoly is loaded with possibilities for graft and the building up of an organization that will attempt to control the political life of the entire state. The state has no business in the power business. Don’t forget the old state dispensary whether it seems worthwhile for them to spend $31 of their own mon ey for the purpose for which the money is being appropriated. Even from the viewpoint of pur own money, however, a million dol lars or so, spent by the government, is still “«nall potatoes.” The average cost for each family for a million dollar government expenditure is only about three cents. So if we can have a new building-in Washington, or a big park built by the WPA, for the price of a postage stamp per family, we’re apt to say, “What the heck .. . ” and let ’em Jxave the mil lion dollars. I have been talking in averages so far, but actually it is the people who KEROSENE... 12 c per Gallon YARBOROUGH OIL COMPANY west mad: stuet INSURANCE Fire - Tornado • Automo bile - Surety Bonds - AH Forms of Property t SOUND PROTECTION AT LOWEST COST. REAL ESTATE B.H.B0YD CUnton, S.C. 1. Using particles of electricity instead of light, the instrument makes a mosquito’s stinger, 1/1000 the diameter of a hair, look like this. 2. Crystals, dust particles, disease* producing viruses can be enlarged to a million time* to examine their nature and structure. 3. 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