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■. Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C Thursday, February 11, 1943 (Thr (Cltntnn (EhrantrU ■ Established 19— 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. NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE Confederate war. It was a discharge- able offense for an employee to sw^ar > while on duty, and this was rigidly ,enforced.* / marked Dec.'S, then again I received mail four days ago from the same people that was postmarked the mid dle of November. Air mail stamps Strange, Bat True 1 In building the Seaboard Air Line were responsible for the December Railway from Monroe to Atlanta, my mail. Anyway, no matter how late ■ father was a director and had much'The Chronicle is in getting here, to do with its location and general thanks a million and “keep ’em fly- ling.” There’s a lot. that I would like to . , , . oversight of its interests. Col. Cole* There won t be much complaining man se cured a contract for grading „ „ „ rT1t A WUU1U about the rationing business just so considerable mileage. The association i tell you back home, about where I i 1 ®?* “ "\ eat ’ ^ read ’ lard ’J^’ with my father caused a strong am and what I’m doing, but the cen- 1 ? th f r . food Products a f® affectfd. but friendship. He was in our home often, sor says no; so that’s that Thanks- just let somebody poke his chin out 1 ^ ° xnamra and talk about rationing tobacco, cig- This incident occurred when he Eiving and Christmas passed here as arettes, snuff, beer, whiskey, and one had a contract for dredging the har-Just another couple of days, although one or two othTr ueceS of life- bor at Charleston for the government. I did receive a Christmas card J*m ^en so»SoS?s go^g“o Sar fnmi He would leave his home Mondays! 18 (mailed Nov. 12) that reminded 8 by train via Clinton returning Satur- me that Christmas had really come sonjeoooy. j „ j ^ * several food items have advanced day same 'route. I W as agent for the Seaboard at th4s time, and to make CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1943 An Unsurpassed Record | lief in Columbia. Instead, they are j handed an appropriation bill that has Whatever else may be said for or now reac h e( j prodigious heights. It against the Democratic party, it has, wou i ( j appear that the Columbia high during the past ten years, hung up a. s p eri( j ers are attempting to follow the record which in the matter of spend-, exam pi e S gt by the Washington past ing taxpayers’ money will not be masters. surpassed. ^ The bill in its present status car- ■ i ries an appropriation of $2,912,500 for Victimized Industry the department-of public welfare, an considerably in price during the past ^be Colonel /more comfortable I few weeks and grumbling about this wou ld invite him, to my office « teal” is abroad in the land. Folks awa >t the arrival of the C. N. & L. are not satisfied-and can’t see why tram three hours later. One day, re- ifey should have to pay more for turning fronfi Charleston^ enroute at goes on their tables. Cigarettes, born®, he askedjf Dr. Jacobs was m 6oze, beer, etc., have also gone up a town. I told him I thought he was. [ght smart, but not a soul has com- He asked if I wou d contact him and plained, not even a tiny bit. ’ ascertain if he could see him Monday 1 as he passed through Clinton. I saw and gone. One doesn’t realize what a good country the U. S. is until one gets im/ to my office and away. While there is nothing much ral/ of the C. N. & L. to buy here, except a few things in Those who have never been eli-j increase of $553,000 over last year. It gible foV membership in any kind of is oar opinion that “politics” enters . „ t . ' Dr. Jacobs he said he would be glad A New York former coffee roaster: ... . * to see the Colonel, that he admired sent up a sample of his new coffee I ^ , ... . T . , , , : him very much. Monday on his re- substitute. It looks like cheap smok- T j*. . . . ... . . . . ^..tum, I met him at the train, told him mg tobacco. He said it is made of | _ : , . . . . ’ . . malt which has been roasted by a se- Dr. Jacobs would be glad to see him. t. , . nn„ _ iv. i He asked me to go wiui nuu. »? c cret process. It sells at only 22c a lb.j i,_ «11 nn; found Dr. Jacobs in his office, and he with him. We union, may well be bewildered over [‘largely into this appropriation. Gov-| That would make barley cost $11.00 • —* ‘m _ -—- '>--1 a 5 ug h e i instead of $2.25 per bushel before it is roasted. (It might pay us the fact that while there is a nation-| ernor Johnston and Senator Jefferies a bushel instead of $2.25 per bushel Ih^c^lone?^?^o time*in que^tion- wide shortage of labor, we still have; (of Santee-Cooper fame) are already strikes. Any man has the right to ! reported as “priming" for the U. S. to roast our own), n,iit vimrir Hp'Pets reariv and! senate next year. Neither may be, ^ There What this country needs is an au- ing him about the orphanage and its work. As usual, Dr. Jacobs was de lighted to tell him everything. He quit work when he gets ready and to seek an increase in salary and i expected to oppose this item. There ; *- — -- took us over the grounds and in the shorter hours, if no contract is vio-' is no plausible reason to justify this tomatic imaginator, something that ^ ok u , ^ lated but there is a curtailment of large appropriation and increase. To you could fasten on to your bodyj^ ^’rations The Colonel was ?e^J t Ka ^ i o-»i Ur ... u. i ^ ^ ^, i«; ^ ra lions, ine colonel was very the essentials of liberty w-hen others the contrary, it should be drastically | while indulging in different activities., erected n r V r7 afe denied ithe opportunity of filling 1 cut or eliminated. With an acute! When you are drinking this coffee^f ^terested^ Hr thanked Dr. Ja- the places which have been vacated, i shortage of labor on the farm, in ih- substitute, this “imaginator” would Is it a case of union officials putting dustry and all other business, every make you feel and believe that you', the larger cities, we get plenty of fresh dates, figs and tangerines every day from the natives. Once I bought olives, but they seldom sell them, although I’ve seen quite a number of olive orchards. Camels are just as common here as fish are in Lake Murray (Do you get what I mean? Sometimes we see lots of them and sometimes we don’t). Well, it didn’t take me so long after I was inducted into the army until I was on the boat. In fact, I spent six weeks at Camp Wheeler, Ga., get ting my preliminary training, then I was serft to Westover field, Chicopee Falls, Mass., where I was attached to my outfit. After two weeks there we transferred to Langley Field, Va., where we stayed one week. One week was spent traveling between the three camps, so I have to my credit the U. S. and the rest You Mdy Not Get As Mony As Three Poirs Shoes A Yeor New York, Feb. 8.—The Office of rice Administration has no Price Administration has not guaran teed that each person will be aBle to purchase three pairs of shoes a year, W. W. Stephenson of Washing ton, chief of the footwear division of OPA, said tonight Speaking to 3,500 retail and whole sale shoe dealers, Stephenson de clared: “The three pairs per year ration must not be taken as a definite com mitment by the OPA. The OPA thus far has decreed only one pair of shoes for each person for the next four months. What happens after that depends upon production — the vital factor.” He added that the OPA hopes it will be able to maintain a three-pair a year ration schedule, but he added that no promises could be made on that score. 4 Questioned after his address as to how the three pairs per year story became circulated, Stephenson said the statement was put out “by some body who had a brainstorm in Wash ington.” He explained that it was possible that the coupon to be designated as valid for a second pair of shoes this year may have to cover a five-months period. Stephenson ' said even this statement was not definite and that the actual rationing of shoes after the first four months would depend entirely on shoe production. A short time afterwards the Meth- on a show occasionally ‘in order 4 to I able-bodied man and woman who justify their existence and fat sala- will work can secure employment, rres? •»! ' What the taxpayers would like to Is it that industries which have know is this —with unemployment forged ahead and done rrtore than practically wiped , out, why is it nec- others to aid recovery and provide essary for public welfare funds (to employment are being victimized be- be given away) to increase from year cause'it is considered that they are to year? At the rate we are going this more able than others to bear the appropriation will soon be five in burden? Is a job worth being held j stead of three millions, and a salary worth being maintained. Nobody dares to give an answer, by mob tactics? { And this question — how did the were drinking genuine Java or Mo- | odist conference met in Columbia, of cha. You could eat cornbread and which the Colonel was a prominent imagine that it was cake. A beef- 1 member. At the proper time the Col- steak could be a boiled dish-rag with onel addressed the conference. He onions, and cold water could be iced- | said he was very much interested and tea, and many other edible foods I concerned in orphanage work; he was could be replaced with this debunk- j ashamed their church had done so ing gadget. Most of our desires are little for their widows and orphans. in foreign service. Although I would based on imagination. Food, A War Weapon Farm Bound I see by the papers that the gov- thousands on welfare rolls live and emment is going to draft lab°r for | p h “ nage on Dr ja^g' p | ani ^ h e care for themselves before thev be- farm work. That’s a hot one. I d like would subscribe $2,500.00 and would to know who they are going to draw He told them of his visit to Thorn- well orphanage and what a noble work Dr. Jacobs was doing, and he wanted their church to start a cam paign to raise funds to build an or- I care for themselves before they be „ - , » • ,* r> gan receiving these funds? We heard „... gr ‘ C 44!L, a , j of nobody starving before the agency Wickard has set a national goal of i was established. 20 million Victory gardens with 6 ... , . million on farms and 14 million in The whole thing just doesn t make the back yards of town and city resi- sense. dences. ■ m Surveys made, indicate that half of I’^g PanQ6r of Federal the non-farm families of the country ^ . are planning to plant such gardens School Control on for that purpose. I warrant . to haul every person that will be sent to the farms in my state (South Caro lina), for actual farm labor, in a wheelbarrow. •*' * What does' a man want to work on a farm for under the present circum stances and conditions? If a man give more if necessary. The campaign was started, resulting in the Epworth orphanage located at Columbia. Soon after, the Baptists built the Connie Maxwell orphanage at Greenwood on the Jacobs plan. I have always thought Dr. Jacobs should be credited with being the father of deno^ninational orphanages. His success demonstrated what could like very much to get back home, I would not take a million dollars for my experiences here and on the way across. But I don’t think it will be so very long now until the job over here will be finished, and all the old home town boys will be coming back. And I guess by now the town needs a new coat of paint so we will paint her red again. Although we are not allowed to put our rank or organization on the outside envelope, I think it will be OK to put it inside. Thanks again for the faithful newspaper sehuce, and may you and all the staff enjoy a happy, success ful New Year. Sincerely, CPL. J. D. BOLAND, JR., Co. A, 871st Air Borne Engrs. Battalion (Avn). APO No. 528, cjo P. M. * New York, N. Y. SAY. “I SAW IT IN THE CHRON ICLE.” THANK YOU. Be Quick To Treat Bronchitis this spring because of the food short- Prominent school men in this and | owns his own farm and works his; be done Ha(J he not ventured and age brought about by war demands, other states are clamoring for the j own family thereon, the very best he| yen the possit)ilit i es j do ubt if we Probably, after food rationing gets passage of a federal bill now before can hope to do is to make a fair liv-j^ ould have denominational orphan under way this month, even more the senate, to allot $300,000,000 a i ing. His earnings, even at P re sent J ages today P people will recognize the desirability year for aid to schools. This state, if farm prices, won’t average over 25c s of getting food from their own back- the bill passes, will receive more per hour for actual time spent in Six Negroes Report For ! Army Duty February 23 yards. than eight million dollars, A. C. Since the American farmer is be- Flora, of Columbia, president of the ing depended upon to keep our huge National’ Education association, told army fed as well as supply the food Greenville teachers a few days ago needs of nations all over the world, growing and gathering crops. Yours sincerely, W. H. SHANPS. ‘One of my neighbors, a farmer and j Jeff Boland, Jr. anyone who jack-leg carpenter, has heretofore Here is a proposal that needs to beamed and has grown a reasonably.- helps reduce civilian billed, as Senator Harry Byrd of Vir- slze d crop Of stufT . . . which, all told, demands upon the farmer is perform- ginia ’ is attempting to do. Our schools netted him about $500.00 per year. I ing a highly patriotic act. should 5e controlled and supported saw him last week: he 15 working in It may well be that the extent of by t he patrons and taxpayers of the Charleston and is being paid now our ability to ship ’ foods to other local communi ties. Taxpayers should; (° nl y> $74.35 per week but expects a countries will be the determining dcct the trustees and maintain a raise * pretty soon* Another tenant lions of other just like these two fel lows. factor in winning the war. Certainly contact "with the schools, if i farmer that barely kept himself in food will be the most powerful wea- South Carolina is able to spend fifty; chewing tobacco and overalls is get- pon we can use to rebuild the morale m mi on dollars a year for liquor, we i $58.50 per week. There are mil- in those nations which Hitler has ma i ce ourselves a bunch of lying hyp- been starving. It is also a necessity. ocrites when we talk of our poverty for keeping our allies in top fighting and fi e g for hand-outs with which to condition. 'educate our boys and girls. When the Thus food this year will be a wea-, f edera i government puts up the mon- pon of the most potent variety and ey d lays down the law and red tape the more the people back home can as fiow it is to be spent. Every per- take care of their personal food needs son 0 f average intelligence knows this the more of this ammunition can be is true p assage of this bill will in- sent to the battle fronts of the world. e vit a blv lead to federal control of the Who will be drafted to do farm labor? Certainly not the clerks and school teachers and industrial work ers? They are already making 5 times as much as any farmer can pay them. Loafers might be drated, but they won’t work when they reach the A loud call comes for the man; school system and produce compli- • 1 * Vi t Vi ... . • » » w.'th the hoe. cated and embarrassing racial prob lems. The government would then dictate our school systems and tell us Permanent Freedom Four score and seven years ago how to run them. That has been the our fathers brought forth onto this story of the past affecting every al- continent a new nation conceived in,, phabetical agency, project or under liberty and dedicated to the proposi- taking it has financed. As a glaring tion that all men are created equal, example, look at that political mon_ ; Ikq!!* 1 We are now engaged in a great civil ster Santee-Cooper in this state. And; ^ war testing whether this nation or!when we shift local responsibility for) any nation, so conceived and so dedi- our children to the federal govern-, SHonds WfitfiS cated can long endure.” ! ment, the result is the destroying of farms. There ain’t any use in wishful thinking: the farmers are going to use the labor they have at present and the little th^y can pick up all along and do the best they can. None is going to be sent to them unless some agency, besides the farmer him self, pays the freight. I’m a farmer: I think I know what I am talking Writes From Africa THE CHRONICLE has received the following appreciated letter from one of its friends and ^subscribers, Corp. Jeff D. Boland, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Boland, of this city, who is now in army service at an undisclosed location in Africa. tco can long enaure. i l C J Those famous-words of Abraham community interest, the passing oflUt Urphanage rounder Lincoln's fit the war in which we are our own responsibility to others, and now engaged even more than they did the war about which Lincoln the yielding to political pressure. We had better be aroused and con- spoke. Lincoln was speaking about a cerned over keeping our schools rath- civil war among two groups of peo- er than turn them over to Washing- pie both of whom wanted our kind ton with all its bungling, bureau- of liberty, whereas today we are^cracy, ‘incompetence, interference, fighting a world-wide war to deter- regimentation and collectivism, all of mine whether our type of existence which spell more jobs and more pay can endure against a coalition of large; at taxpayers’ expense. It is all clap- nations which oppose our philosophy trap that we are not able to finance of freedom and liberty. Since The Chronicle recently be gan publishing several chapters of “Personel Recollections of Clinton,” by the late Dr. William Plumer Ja cobs, W. H. Shands, of this city, has written of an interesting incident to Dr. Thomwell Jacobs, of Atlanta, author of the Jacobs biographical book. Because of its unusual and his torical importance, Dr. Jacobs has our schools without federal aid. There < requesfed permission of Mr, Shands The civil war may have helped to isn’t a state in the union which isn’t cement our nation together but vie- able to educate its own children if tory in this war should once and for- ■ common sense, economy and wise ever establish our democratic fdrm of planning is used. We need to revamp government as a permanent and un- our educational system, to cut out shakeable factor in world affairs. Dr. Thomwell Jacobs, Oglethorpe University, Ga. ithe thrills, to stop putting so much; ~l iiuniwcii. to publish the recital to which the latter consented. The letter follows: . Somewhere in N. Africa, Jan. 23, 1943. Editor, The Chronicle: Just a few lines to express my ap preciation for the faithful service of the old home town newspaper. Since I’ve been in the armd forces, The Chronicle has followd me around to the different camps and now it has followed me across the Atlantic. Al though it gets to me somewhat later now than usual, when I was back in the States, I read every word of it, news and advertisements, and thor oughly enjoy every word. My latest copy, the Nov. 26 issue, was received yesterday. It is always welcome, and is just like a long letter from home. When my daddy writes, he says at the end “If I’ve left anything out, The Chronicle will cover it.” My first copy to get to me in N. Africa, was received the latter part of Novem ber. Of course they were September copies forwarded to me from Langley Field, Va. It was very exciting for us to read about the N. Africa campaign in the Nov. 12 copy. It was the first news we had seen about this cam paign in an American newspaper. And of course it had advanced much since then, as the paper was received around Jan. 10. • . Our mail service has been pretty slow, but is getting better and pretty s6on will be up to par. I received mail December 30 that was post- The local draft board will send the following six Negro draftees to Fort Jackson pn February 23 for army induction: Joseph Nathaniel Alexander, Rt. 2, Clinton; James Paul Wilson, Wash ington, D. C.; Orane Stokes, Char lotte, N. ,C., Preston Manciel, Green ville; James William Taylor, Char lotte, N. C.; Luthefr Carter, Charlotte, N. C. Chronic bronchitis may develop If your cough, chest cold, or acute bron chitis is not treated and you cannot af ford to take a chance with any medicine less potent than Creomulsion which goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden jjhlegm and aid nature to'soothe and raw, tender, inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. » Creomulsion blends beech wood creo sote by special process with other time tested medicines for coughs. It contains no narcotics. No matter how many medicines you have tried, tell your druggist to sell you ‘ Ion with the under- a bottle of Creomulsion standing you must like the way it quick ly allays the cough, permitting rest and sleep, or you are to have your money back? r (Adv.) SAY, “I SAW IT IN THE CHRON ICLE.” THANK YOU. Gray Funeral Home Clinton, S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS •••And,** EMBALMERS Ambulance Service Phones 41 and 399-J L. RUSSELL GRAY and ▼. PARKS ADAIR, Gen. Mgrs. JOHN DEERE TRACTORS and IMPLEMENTS THAT WORK THERE’S A JOHN DEERE QUALITY IMPLEMENT FOR EVERY FARMING PURPOSE J. R. CRAWFORD CLINTON. S. C. It has taken a lot of battles a lot emphasis on activities outside of the 1 notice ^ ^ clinton Chronicle “of loss of life and many heartaches' class-room and get down (o the fun- you have written a biography of Dr.! to defend our liberty, but each test damentals of education to equip our •' . , ... T . i has made us stronger and our posi-i boys and girls for-Hie and work :Jacobs U,e ' 1 have olten thou * h 1 . , .... would tell you of an incident that’ tion in the world more secure. Wheni We have a war on 0 ur hands. Ev- ha ppe ne d about 40 or 45 years ago in' V h Ct °i7 r 6 ery non - esseniial ’ non-defense ex-1 con nec tion with your father’s life, but should be little possibibty that any j pe nditure should be eliminated, but ; overlooked telling you when in con _ nation will again dispute our right j the spenders refuse to comply with v ersation with you. to live as we please. Doesn't Make Sense The house ways and means com-' year. Certainly this is no time to give this demand by the people. But don’t forget we had a national election re cently and another is coming next mittee has reported to the legislators $300,000,000 to the states for school the 1943-44 general appropriations experimenting (a common every-day bill amounting to $17,093,217. The bill, the biggest in state history, ex ceeded last year’s $14,467,940 total by $2,625,277 and topped budget commission recommendations by $2,- 118,194. It is likply that when the Edgar Brown regime in the senate complete their “consideration” of the money measure there will be further increases. The people are asking for tax re^ die a-boming request) when every available dol lar is needed to fight Hitler and his gangsters; when the federal treasury is busted and begging the people to loan it money, when unprecedented taxes are being piled upon taxpayers, and when restrictions and conditions are making it harder each day for small business to survive. This -grab-bag school scheme should A very fine Christian gentleman lived on the old Coleman estate near Whitmire known as Colonel Coleman, a devout Methodist, the father of William Coleman, who built /the Whitmire Cotton Mills. You probably know him. Col. 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