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Pnnp Fnur THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. S. C. Thursday. July 8. 1943 aty? (Elintim Ql^ratitrU ~ -4- WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher* Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscriotion Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, & 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 tney 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, JULY 8, IMS Hmany of them were never able again I to Melons Are High , j t0 g et j n t 0 public favor. Judging from the present price of j rpj ie successful companies of melons, the heaviest garbage traffic | re alize that their brand names this summer will not be in connec- an( j compan y names, built up and re- tion with watermelon rinds. . spected because of the years of effort ~ w . - they have made to please the public, Headlines For Hitler are their most prized investment and Whether or not the villain Hitler they are not going to let those names had anything to do with the recent die and^e forgotten because of lack j ace riots in our country, he must of goods to sell now. In peacetime have been heartily applauding while!they performed a welcomed service they were going on with their advertised goods and now,' In -tact, as Hitler' has looked over '•*.» means of name insurance for the the headlines ,n our newspapers for Pos -war period, hey are eager to several months he must have got a ?■*>"» ■» "W-"* welcomed ser- lot of enjoyment from them. The VK \. , I strike in the coal mines was un- War or no war—advertising is still doubtedly his favorite story and the the most economical and valuable other strikes and threats 'of strikes medium known to sell merchandise, also made juicy tidbits for his read- whether the firm be large or small, ing. 1 # * ' If he has kept up with what is go- \ The Advertiser ing on in Washington—all the bung-ly^g A RiptL/Int# ling, confusion, indecision and fight-, **05 ^ DHTnaay ing among high officials — he must) We note with interest that our es- also have derived some satisfaction teemed county contemporary, The from this ugly spectacle. Laurens Advertiser, had a birthday Imagine how thrilled Americans the past week—its 59th. That means would be if we read that all German the turning over of a new leaf, the coal jniners had stopped work, or if starting on another milestone during we read that some of Hitler's prize a most difficult period for producing munition factories had closed down 3 small town newspaper, because of strikes or that German The Advertiser since the day it munition manufacturing was slowed was founded has been headed by up because of absenteeism. newspaper men of ability and char- It is true that Hitler has had plenty acter. Linked closely with the paper of bad news to read lately, too— has been the Ball family, owners of headlines about our plans to build the paper for a number of years. 100.000 planes in a year, headlines "Some one has said that it is para- about Allied victories all over the doxical that the older a newspaper world. becomes the better it should be and The bad news he has been forced the greater its service to the commu te confront, the headaches he has ex- n i ty . That The Advertiser has, and perienced are only beginnings of the-i s s tiu doing, and during its more inevitable that he must face. than half a century of service it has To win this war we must give Hit- adhered to the high and laudable ler and his cohorts nothing but bad principles and standards established, news. In his present mood of grab- when the paper was first launched, bing at every straw, a strike, a riot, u holds, and deserves, the confidence a slow-down, or Washington wrang- of the people and may be counted ling medns new hope and new morale upon to carry-on in the future as in "Meet the People...” .VSKk portrait • Hie third American woman to hold the rank at a full colonel is Florence A. Blanchfleld, new head at the Army Nurse corps. She has been an army nurse for 29 years, and has played a prominent part in the long struggle UMlevsiop the streamlined corps which exists • Colonel Blanchfleld was born on April 1, 1884, at Shepherdstown, W. Va. She took her nurse’s training at the South Side hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa., and began her army career in 1917. Her experience includes tours of duty in Panama, the Philippines, and China. She has worked at Walter Reed General hospital, Washington, D. C., and during World War I she served at I base hospital in Franca. serve Mis' Co*. Florence A. Blanchfleld . She is well read on government Information and political subjects, likes biographies, scien* tifle works, historic novels, and travel bodes. • SmaU and sandy-haired, she has the Arm Jaw of a crusader, but the eyes of a woman who understands people and who expects them to be straightforward and sincere with her because that is the way she will be with them. • struck a chord as Johnson said, “I was so fine. After they had gone, she thought I was back home again, asked “Will they ever come back?”" singing ‘Shall We Gather at the Riv er* and ‘When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder I’U Be There’.” Sunday at supper, the meal, coun try style and plain, but Johnson re marked to my wife, ‘‘You cook like my Mother. We don’t often have a and I answered “I hope so.” I then remarked, “My, is It not wonderful what the army is doing for young men in their training?” And aha re plied, In newspaper work then* is always a story back of a story, for whenever you find something worthy duck dinner, and it is so flood. Down of admiration, look for a woman; tor home we go for chicken.” y° u " in flnd , at o . j . . . . , sometime in every soldier boy’s life, evening when he opened s j s t er a sweetheart, and the great- the home town paper, the Clinton ^ ot mem ell. 2:30 a m. There simply ain’t any tell ing about husbands and wives. in Germany. What Production Means It is a common failing for us to lay more emphasis on that part of the truth which has a peculiar appli cation to ourselves. Most of us put the past. It is one of the best week lies in the state, a credit to South Carolina journalism. The publisher of The Advertiser, Alison Lee, assumed the management shortly before the writer became as sociated with The Chronicle. We were associated for a while in a busi- What You Can Do Without Whiskey The cost, of one gallon (8 pints) of so-called good whiskey will buy the following essential items and articles: 48 lb. flour. 5 lb. lard. 10 lb. sugar. * 10 lb. salt. 2 lb. breakfast bacon. 8 lb. fat-back meat. 12 lb. corn meal. 5 lb. rice. 10 lb. grits. ' 10 cakes soap. 2 packages soda. 5 dozen clothes pins. 2 cans baking powder. 1 gallon molasses. 1 gallon vinegar. - 6 bottles soft drinks. 1 plug Brown’s Mule. 1 box snuff. 1 can lye. . ' 25 letters to soldiers. 10 war starpps. 2 prs. shoe strings. 1 box toothpicks. 1 pair socks. 1 tube toothpaste. 1 set .coffee spoons. 2 heads lettuce. 1 head cabbage. 5 lbs. beans. 1 garden hoe, 2 gallons gasoline. 1 box insect powder. 1 dozen pills. 1 bottle perfume. 2 boxes breakfast food. 1 box black pepper. 6 lemons. 1 lb. coffee. 2 cans soup. 1 lb. epsom salts. 2 dozen bobbie pins (if). 1 sifter. 2 quarts motor oil. the public opposed the shipment of scrap iron and oil to Japan, Even then, the people, as a group sensed the fact that this iron and oil was going to be used to fight against us— but it wasn’t until shortly before Japanese bombers set out for Pearl Harbor that our government leaders finally put a halt to those shipments. y° u It is evidence like this which has led Dr. George Gallup, director of the Institute of Public Opinion, who has made more opinion surveys Ahan any man alive, to say of such surveys: “They have served to reaffirm faith in the judgment of the common man. They have provided sound statistical proof to back up the major premise of democracy, which is belief in pub lic opinion.” Chronicle I wish you could have watched his face. It .was as one view ing a movie. He smiled as he said, “It has arrived,” and I wondered if the bank president’s wife had had a baby, and he showed me this head ing, “Dobbins Has First Cotton Bloom” brought to The Chronicle of fice, and my mind went back in my newspaper experience of forty years ago when the first strawberries were brought in. As I took the wrapper he handed me from The Chronicle, these words came to my mind: “When the evening meal is over and* the dishes put away, and you settle down to store your mind with happenings of the day, there comes a peaceful feel ing over you, brushing from your face a frown, as you scan the weekly paper from your own Home town. And when I want some pablum, which nowhere else is found, I un wrap the little paper from my own home town.” Before Johnson left, my wife said, “Auntie, who is in bed upstairs and! is 95 years of age, has asked to see; and he replied, “I would be pleased.” My wife informed him that he would find much of 1 “Auntie’s” conversation is not of this world. As she took his hand she said, “You fre a soldier?” and she said it with much feeling, like my old grandmother used to say “God bless you” and I felt blessed all over. For there’s something about a spldier that is fine, fine, fine. Johnson related of his visit to the “Little Church Around the Comer” in New York City. The preacher Johnson said, “The most wonderful mother in the world’.” —E. F. CHARLESWORTH, Elmer Times, Elmer, N. J. 'ness, as a sacrament. This solemnity “Little After you have bought the above self first, and are selfish, and selfish-. .... ness rs the root cause of the terrible ness way. The severing of that con- world conditions we are now wit-j““{“” n( ^ p ™ ^ j merchandise, you’ll .till h.v. the tot- ose who uroduce the raw mate-I lishe r s - Mr J Lee is one of those sin- i i eft ’ * 2 ' 00 , for . your- ^®ffk!!! shorten the period between the time which springs from the soil are cere ' strai Snt sort of individuals whoj er * $2 ; 00 for your doctor, and $4.00 (the peop^ make up their minds and sprmgs fromjje ,0.1 are^ upor> . „^l^ndi^ money._ Men _ who_ don't |(he (helr ^ flnaUy gel nessmg. Those rial legarded I somehow missed in the Church Around the Cojmer.” My wife and I pointed with pride to the two service stars in the win dow and Johnson replied “My mother points to. six stars in the flag at my home.” My wife answered, “What a mother, with six boys in the service!” And Johnson feelingly said “The most wonderful mother in the world.” The incident brought to my mind the morning that Donald’s and Gene’s mother arose at 4:30 in the morning to bake ginger cake, and I wondered why. She answered, “We may always have ginger cake, but we may not always have Donald and Gene.” One batch went to Texas and the other to Georgia. Sunday evening the boys left by bus for Fort Dix and my wife kissed Gene and she put Ji§r arm around Johnson. I turned my head. She may have kissed him too, I hope so, he ANSWERS — Action Dr. Gallup has an interesting way | asked hmv to be a witness to one of of demonstrating the soundness of | the weddings. After the ceremony | i the collective opinion of a group of | wa s over the minister entertained I people. He will draw a line three Johnson to an evening dinner. ThiS| I feet long on a blackboard and ask. soldier wondered at the speed of the I each person in the room to write on | marriages, one every half hour, with ] la slip of paper how long they think two shifts of preachers. Down home,! the line is. Although no one may give! he added, we treat marriage with so the exact figure, the average for a [much of seriousness^ and impressive- sizeable group invariably^ is three' feet—the right answer. This accuracy of collective opin ion as opposed to individual opinion can be applied to all kinds of things. One man may want pay-as-you-go taxation because he thinks it will have him money. Another may want it because he thinks it will make it easier for the government to collect taxes. Another may want it because he can’t seem to save money for tax es. Another may want it because a friend of his, whose opinion he re spects, thinks it’s a good idea. But when the great majority of people want it—even though each may have a different reason for arriving at the same conclusion—there is little ques tion that it is a sound program. The public usually gets what it wants eventually in our democracy. But a lot of national headaches could probably be avoided if we could as world. However .mportant their job ^ 0 .J d ,s hls £ ond - Whlle he hates pub- | d aT S0 c^plakf aE>u" ar ° Und t0 dt>mg somethin « about it. may be. thev are no more necessary an J has no earmarks of one who ^ink and also complain about for the progress of the race than the se ! km * headlines, he is a straight independent thinker, and has a big, kind heart—as those who know him the HCL, should read it twice and ponder. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR factories and the cities which turn raw products into finished goods and ... . , provide a market for whatever the ! n * irr l a .* e y .'y i , a never j farmer has to sell. Either would be e ; s nght hand know what his TfiMODDfiMT TT in a sorry plight without the other; lefl hand lUUAT . . . lUNUKKVVVl “*** hOte-The Ghromcle has re- and neither has a right to claim tool We extend hearty best wishes to | interesting letter fr o m E. much importance in relation to the!The Advertiser and Publisher Lee. j DV UOII KODIIISOn j£. Charlesworth, publisher of The advancement which the world has'Whi^ some contemporaries often! „ - j Elmer Times, Elmer, New Jersey, made. work apart and even at times fight The truth is, we are all laboring together in a realm which needs and should appreciate the value of all one another, no such attitude has ever existed between The Advertiser and The Chronicle. And so long as forms of labor, for the term “produc- j the papers continue under their pres- lion - " applies not only to the changing en t ownership this close tie of co- ’ operation and friendship will exist. We know nothing that can break it. of seed into harvest, but also to those' additional changes whereby the fac tory adapts the raw material to the need of the.consumer. The word pro- duction proper used, has a far-reach ing meaning. 0 War Brings Changes Advertising has taken some queer turns under wartime conditions. We have the strange artomolies of rubber companies spending money to persuade us not to use rubber, gaso line companies running advertise ments to teach us h6w to cut down on the consumption of their products, telephone companies through similar NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE | parts of which are published below OPINION — Action IMr. Charlesworth writes of his im- There is one outstanding fact that pression of a Clinton boy, Pvt. Ray- public opinion polls of the last few; mond Johnson, who recently was a years have brought to light, namely,' week-end guest in his home. Pvt. that the collective vision and collec-! Johnson is a son of Mrs. J. B. John- tive decisions of the people are miles | son of this city, who has seven sons ahead of their political leaders. Given in the service. the facts, the people pass a snap! — {judgment which their leaders comei The Most Wonderful Mother In i around to months or years later. ■ the World I Take the doings of labor leader! Saturday evening, June 26th, my John L. Lewis as an example. The son Pvt. Gene Charlesworth came people urged legislation even before I hoiqe from Fort Dix, New Jersey, and the war started which would have j brought with him a buddy, Pvt. Ray- made such actions impossible. For mond Johnson, of Clinton, S. C. This MclNTOSH'S SHOE SHOP We are doing business at the same old place. 34 MUSGROVE ST. SAVE! 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Or it could be stocks methods begging us not to use their , on margin, lines except for absolute essentials, ; When you meet a guy that says and countless well known companies; “Good morning,” but doesn’t see you, spending large amounts of money to he’s got a past due note at the bank, tell us why they can’t sell us any-{and has been called: and he has no thing these days. Some of them are idea how he is going to get by, if— telling us of their plans for the after- When you come face to face with a the-war period. girl who is chewing gum at about This means, that advertising is 250 r.pjn., and only one lip is lip showing us its other face—the fate sticked, and her hair is blowing to of the educator. Instead of trying to'the four winds, she and her sweetie tempt us to buy thkigs, it is being have had a falling out. ^ve used to teach us how to take care of| When you run across a fellow that {hearted way. two years at least, public opinion sur veys have shown that the public— including labor itself—favored anti strike legislation. But the represen tatives of the people needed to have this fact banged into their heads from a dozen different directions before they took any action — and it is doubtful if they will take as strong action as the people want until they have had a dozen more demonstra tions of the vital need for it Another recept example was pay- as-you-go taxation. Immediately af ter it was suggested, every poll made of public opinion showed the people had made up their minds and were overwhelmingly for it—but it took congressmen many months to agree to it and then they did it in a half- what we have, how. to make things last and how to get along without those many needed items and pro ducts which are now “frozen" or im- rolls his eyes like a dying calf, and he mumbles his words, and he asks you twice what you name is . , * but still calls you Bill, he’s just getting possible to secure because of war over a drunk and needs a snort to conditions and scarcities. Some people wonder why a corn- kind of taper off on. If he’s pulling his ear and looking pany will continue to spend millions; down at the ground and hasn’t laced of dollars tor advertising when it up his shoes and his tie is catty- isn’t looking for a single customer now. They are not doing so for phil anthropic reasons, we all must know. To the contrary, such millioo-dollar gestures by many of the nation’s most successful corporations are backed by a sound business motive. In the last war, several big com panies busy with war work discon tinued advertising altogether. By the time the war ended the public had almost forgotten their names and wampered and there’s gravy on his PUBLIC—Jadgment Even on questions of warfare, which a lot of us feel should not be decided by parlor generals, public opinion has so far proved to be more nearly right than expert opinion. The public, for example, was prac tically convinced over a year ago that Germany might be knocked out soldier brought so much of Joy and happiness into my home in his short stay with us, that I am writing to the editor of The Chronicle the following, realizing that one who has made so many friends in my home town, in so short a time, his friends In Clinton must be legion. Sunday morning the boys were up bright and early, getting their clothes cleaned and pressed for church. As my wife was. very busy, Johnson did all the ironing, much to my wife’s sorrow, and my boy said “Don’t worry, Mom, Johnson likes- to iron, and you know I can’t bear to wash and iron. I’ll do something for him later.” The boys attended the Presbyte rian church in the morning, and were received and introduced from the pulpit. Sunday evening they attend ed the Baptist church and hym-sing. One could see that the hymn-sing shirt and his peepers are glassy, the {of the war if we could muster up next to the last installment is past due . . . and the “easy payment plan” is Just about ready to grab his car. When he snaps at you for telling him “Howdy,” he and his wife have just had a fuss. It might have been burnt toast, or it could have been where he was the night before, and yet—it could have been why she her self stayed out Saturday night till sufficient air power to destroy her factories and demoralize her people. But military leaders pooh-poohed that idea as “fantastic”—-and not un til the last few months have they come around to agreeing that this is now a probability. For at least four Fears before Pearl Harbor, according to the polls of the American Institute x>f Public Opinion, INSURANCE Fire - Tornado - Automo bile - Surety Bonds - AD Forms of Property Insurance. SOUND PROTECTION AT LOWEST COST. REAL ESTATE B.H.B0YD Clinton, S. C. HOME LOANS 1 . / The desire to own one's home is fundomen- tol ond universal. If financing your home seems complicated ond top expensive, ask about our home loon plan that operates like paying rent. 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