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Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C Thursday, July 15 # 1943 aty? (Elratmt fttpraniri* Established IMt WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Entered as Second Class Mall 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. ' / , Mr. Halleck and Mr. Boren is that,]guns. We didn’t shoot down any of NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE A Solution of the Coal Mine Situ ation, Respectfully Submitted although one is a leading Republican (Mr. Halleck was the gentleman from Indiana who nominated Wendell Wiilkie for the presidency) and the other is a strong Democrat (the fact that Mr. Boren comes from Okla homa is evidence enough) they both vote the same way on matters which the planes but we kept them from bombing the field artillery. They dropped their bombs but didn’t hit anything. Late that afternoon the planes came back but they did no damage. The shells from the German guns did us more damage than anything I think I have a solution of the coal f 1 * vi *? 1 the P 1 * 8 ®™* 1 * 011 oi our t elso. I was so nervous and tom up in@ Question* Whv not sive ^l ,onn ^ *»vemment. „ a,' end of the Brst day I didnt mine question. Why not give the, mines to John L. Lewis and his fol-i Mr - Halleck introduced a resolution | know what to do. The next day we lowers. Just say, John, here’s the t ^ e ]* ous 5 wklng for an investiga- whole caboodle, lock, stock and shov- j activities by war agencies, jels. You run ’em from now on, pay the resolution was passed, Mr. !all bills, including your own month- , .J* n ^ ras named to head the com- ly dues of about 1 million dollars, j mittee 1° carry on the investigation, and then you can pay the miners! Both of them wanted this investi- be $20 per day. stayed in the same position and it was worse than the day before, ’tfhe planes came three times that day, do ing no damage. Those German planes aren’t what they are cracked up to be. They just came in, dive a little, what you think they are worth, meb-! gation made—not because it would be i drop their load and turn tail for CLINTON, S. €., THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1943 good for them politically — but be cause it could help to throw back The mine owners say that they will ^ ose . forces which are working to ibe glad to make as much (net) as 10c j substitute regimentation for freedom. ~ " — — i per ton on coal mined. If John Lewis’ i because two congressmen, out status is that of “dictatorship.” Wei conscience,, (assuming of course that; 0 ^ ^35 in the house, happen to , may call it any name we like—it is [ he has a conscience) hurts him, he j P ut l^dr country above their politi- Estimates mdicate that the school, st iii dictatorship.^This is one of the might give the operators 10c per ton| cal P art y, is not much reason to re fer the use of the property ... in ap- new our faith in the national legisla- peasment or for standing rent. If Lewis owned the mines . .. you know how long he and his cohorts would The Children's Part children of the nation, encouraged by j serious menaces facing America to- theii - teachers, bought in the neigh- jgy— a danger We had better recog- borhood of $300,000,000 worth of war n j ze and fight against, bonds and stamps during the past an y minority group should seize school year, tor ten months control of our government (they con- be able to run them Well, I’ll ^n U nnnnnr° W a P urchase rate f ! trol our elections now), abolish the i about 4 weeks, and certainly not $30 000,000 a month. mav i elections and run the country with-!yond the fifth pay day With school vacation on here may ^ ^ volunt consent of be expected a big slump in their buy- ple __ that would constitute a dicta torship. Germany is a dictatorship say be lt’s right hard to get along with torship. Germany is a dictatorship the i nkskys a nd the Portilios and the been other signs recently to indicate u because a small group called the Na- Zevertzs and other “furriners.” John tVi of r>r\r\ ctmee m n\r Ho I tll0 best of US til FC. We d* ing habits. But encouraged by teach ers and parents, sales should pick up in the fall. The investment of the, , c . _. . , —■* school children is needed to help w.m 1 J‘ on3l ? oc * 311 ^ P 3 ^^ nsth ® co “"'! might lead them a few days, so long the war as well as that of grown-ups. : try . and orders ***€ lives of the ma-, as be baits them with money and And it is teaching them the excellent ItaWTnd^Russia * m ° re money * but just as soon as he habit of thrift l The same a PP lies to Italy and Russia f a ji e d to meet one man’s demands or -mm- I under differently named groups . turns some guy off for murder, high- TL- \/_l...~ and to . a num ber of other nations on robbery and grand larceny, th6 I he value OT V^naracrer ;both sides of the ocean. I whole she-bank would strike on him. The time comes sooner or later; Look at these nations today. They! Wouldn’t you just love to see Lewis when a man realizes that character j f urn j s b a n tbe proof needed that die-[trying to settle his own strike? is the greatest asset of any citizen. /: tatorship has not worked out satis- i tore. But when- you listen to Mr Halleck and Mr. Boren talk you can’t help but feel that they may herald the rebirth of a congress which will once again become the champion of the people’s rights. BACKBONE — Opposition Come to think of it, there have battleground. After the battle moves forward, these^dead are buried by our men who. bring up the rear. I was in Tunis and the town looks right nice. I saw lots of pretty girls and they sure did look good to me. It had been about three months since I had seen a white girl. The streets of Tunis were lined up with trucks carrying German prison ers. I bet I saw five thousand the two hours I was there. Some were singing with joy and some had long faces. Tell all the folks hello and that ev erybody is well.' Love to ell, 1 —VERNON. home. They seem to be afraid of our planes too. The shells that day were terrible. We had never seen anything like it before. We stayed in our fox holes for 12 hours straight. A lot of them fell very close to my fox hole but I just kept praying that one wouldn’t come in the hole with me. None of pur boys was killed, but one or two did get wounded a little. The field r artillery lost two boys that day and a good many wounded. The two that were killed were in a fox hole and the shell came right in on top of them. When night came, we decided to move because the Germans were get move forward this time, we just shifted to the left about a mile and a that congress may be shaking off its political trance. It must have taken some backbone j b a if. We stayed there two days and, for congressmen from industrial areas it wasn - t s0 bad, but we still couldn’t! to vote for the anti-strike bill when [ g et those Germans out of the hills, they knew that millions of union members opposed it. And, as I recall reports on speeches made in congress recently, there seems to be a growing attitude of “fed-upness” with all plans that are pur next move was backward about two or three miles, where we stayed for about six days, with noth ing much taking place. We waited until we got some more help. The Wealth, position, power, fine rai- actorily th a t it has proven a curse I _ o .... ^ .... . over-flavored with nolitirs or rail fnr iBritish moved U P with us and they imt arr mrrriv the nomn and cir- o I 7116 new t,tle cr titles of the boss over navorea with politics or call for . . .. .. . ^lta a n r ceror 1 .ife th andTave a no en~- 3 b ' eSSmg ' ! would ie: John L. 'LowVlWien't|n'or« bureaus and expenditures of during’value aoart from this charac- i There are sinister forces now at: the Coal industry of America,' more billions for non-war purposes. ir Of the man The worth of any work in our country which would llke j President of the NLRB, President of! H may be the hot weather that is; np . morT , {np whpn ri nviivht rame ter of the ma . ny tQ ggin dictatorial power over our! ciq, President of the UMW and i giving me this feeling of hopefulness ne 1 mornm 8- When daylight came had three tipnes as much equipment as we had. We all moved forward at night and got ready to attack the man must be traced back to the at titude of his heart, mind and soul lives, over all we say and do. While we are engaged in war is the time they quietly work to accomplish their purpose. They want a regimented toward those things which are true, good and beautiful. If we all had this outlook u Pon eople — a completely socialized state life we would be happier and might,*' ^ have a different conception of the road that leads to real poverty. It is during periods of great stress such as war, that such agitators, who Secretary and Treasurer of Every- ’ a bout future events in Washington— thing and Everybody, Unincorporat- bto* unless the coming presidential election of 1944 interferes too much, I think it is possible that we may end ed. Capital stock, $000,000,000,000.75; surplus $000,000,000.50; undivided, profits, $000.30. Private holdings of [ the wa r with a fighting congress John L. Lewis, $8,000,000,000. Reserve for taxes, nothing. Reserve for de-1 we opened up with every gun we had. I’ve never heard so many guns before in my life. It was a continu ous roar and thunder. We stayed in these positions^ for two days, firing most of the tune. The Germans didn’t fire back so much because we had the ups on them. The second night about 1:30, the Germans started shelling us. They had never done this before (fire atj night). We all jumped up about half asleep and almost scared pink. We thought the Germans were trying to drive us back with a counter attack, Miss Myrtle Traitftnell of this city, ^ b€fore long they stopped firing. This is shown by the fact that ways waiting, its aim is servitude— class in school, I was realy and truly is in receipt of an interesting letter , We cam ®® ut °* our * ox nol® 5 ana propaganda w’hich amounts to free and its nam e is “dictatorship.” becoming educated. We had no from her brother, Staff Sergeant Ver-! went t0 o® 4 *- ~ grades: we just studied one book af-'non A. Trammell, now in service in The next morning we got up and are never satisfied with any status i p rec i a tj on - no thj n g other assets, I'PlINTllN RQY _ _ r , quo, get in their licks. These warped, million featherbeds and 2 million 1 Y" 1#W ’ Free Space Seekers creatures need to be watched. The. rocking chairs. Yep, if you want toiU/DITCC AC CIAUTIUA There are many people, business New Deal machine of office-hold-j John L‘. for good (or bad), just > Tv Kl I Lj wl llwM I 111 w concerns and agencies in the world ers ^ full of them. imake him and his’n a present of all ... a . * who think that newspaper men are Y° u can see signs of this sort of the coal mines. IN N||PTH AFPIl A either stupid or just plain fools. The “scheming on the part of govern- ^ 111 I1VMII HI l\IWi federal government is the most not- men l almost anywhere you look care- able example of all, full y for il - nev er sleeps, it is al- A Second Term In School When I reached the second-reader | advertising, is sent in great quantities to them in every mail in the hope Quotas Olid Food that it will be published without ^ m uie uiuc-, charge as news There is not a week- Announcement comes from Wash- b ack spelling book after having been and has two brothers in the same " anti-aircraft unit, Henry and Hous ton. ter another and advanced. I had al- 1 North Africa. Sgt. Trammell is the | ready passed “b-a-k-e-r” in the blue- ] son of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Trammell, ly paper in this state that would sur-l* n *J. on War Food Adminis-J turned back six times vive ninety days if it attempted to trat j° n has decided to sus- put into type and publish only a q 110138 on ^ year s small part of the free publicity m a-i cotton terial it receives each week. j The WFA decided, it stated, to lift It is for this reason that the waste-| the quotas after a federal crop re paper basket has become a very port estimated that th^ present acre- necessary and valuable part of the | age in cotton is about 8,000,000 under i the 300,000,000 acres which could I certainly envied the two girls and The letter is published below since one boy that were in the fourth read- it gives a vivid description of the • er. It was wonderful to know folks 1 young soldier’s first battle and will that smart. I recall how remarkable 1 be read with interest by his friends: equipment of a newspaper office. m | have been planted under the AAA . A T . || program. Underquotes, farmers who Vacation At I hornwcll |S ell in excess of their allotments are A large number of the orphanage | subject to a penalty tax of about children and members of the staff. eight cents a pound. With restric- are now on vacations with friends and tions removed, they will be free to relatives in this state, Georgia and | sell all they produce. They will not Florida. It is fine for the youngsters; be forced to pay a heavy penalty tax that they can get away once a year or threatened with a jail sentence if to visit loved ones and friends inter- they happen to overplant their allot- ested in them, for ^ vacation outing, j ments. This sounds like common Vacations which bring a change from!sense. It is a long over-due decision the usual routine, are good for on the part of this federal agency. grown-ups as well as children. It is noted that about eighty of the boys and girls of the institution will remain on the campus during the va cation season because they do not have homes to return to. Special plans have been made, the manage ment states, to add to the recreational The cotton acreage this year is one of the smallest in nearly half a cen tury. The principle reason for this reduction is the farmer’s inability to secure the needed labor. He cannot compete with private industry or government in the scale of wages. We are no longer confronted with a it was when they spelled “i-n-c-o-m- p-a-t-a-b-i-l-i-t-y” off the book. I cried a good deal about poor little Fido who was shot by his master be cause he thought he (Fido) was mad. North Africa May 21, 1943. Dearest Myrtle: I guess this is the letter you have been waiting for for a long time. Now, I can tell you some of the things Poor little Fido was only trying to (that happened during the fighting tell his master who was riding a here. horse that he had left his saddlebags j First, .I’ll start with Alger. We back down the road, and that’s Why j stayed in Alger a little over two he kept snapping at the horse’s hind feet. As a matter of fact, all of us younguns cried about poor little Fido. It looks like the mean old man could have found out about his saddle-bags just as well before shooting the dog as he did afterwards. program and pleasure of this group. heavy sur pius of cotton. There will The Chronicle along with many other be markets for this year’s entire crop, friends, hopes these boys and girls | ca nnot get away from the funda- will have a happy, good time. mental law of supply and demand. Turning to the subsidy program, Too Much Specializing Chester Davis recently resigned as This is a day of specialuatioiTwith ,0 “ i . adm.nis rator, because he was the tendency spreading in all lines j %■" of activity, both commercial and pro-i cV a' ^ a . . , ments is wrong. Subsidies are hand- „ , ' , , . „ , _ j , outs, expensive raids on the treasury. One barrier to having harmony and! ^ understanding between all types of people in our country is the fact that months and I really did enjoy it, ex cept for a few bombs now and then. We were located right in the center of the town, where we could see ev erything that happened and every body that passed. Alger is one of the prettiest towns I’ve seen since I left the States. If you noticed the post All of us had to say a speech on j cards, you know for yourself that it • riday afternoons. Those speeches, j s very attractive. I sent some cards represented the most embarrassing, home that showed the building I periods of my life, counting every- stayed in. I watched the burial ser- thing. My favorite for a whole term ( vi ce f or Admiral Darlan from a win- was “Six- little rabbits went out to dow. ^ run, up hill, down hill, oh such fun.” j The bombs that were dropped there The teacher finally got tired of the 6 weren’t too many, but more than any ittle rabbits and made me get a new j of us wanted to see. Some of them speech. We played the following; didn’t miss George’s (George Hill) ifames at this school: two-holey cat, | gun very far but he came through stink base, roley-hole, who’s got theloK. That is where Sgt. Bond was we are specialists and don’t give much thought to the specialties of others. The farmer, for example, is vitally interested in legislation and regula tions which directly affect farming, but he is not greatly concerned over what,is done to help solve the prob lems of the laboring man or of the business man. The laborer, on the other hand, doesn’t care very much what is done about or for the farmer so long as it doesn’t raise the price of the food he buys. The business man is interested in the problems of the fanner and the laborer to the extent that solutions to Government has bungled and failed in its food program. With a crisis confronting us and the possibility that we may go hungry within a year, we need to abolish regulations and restrictions and work harder than ever before to produce every thing we can to help feed and clothe the world. We must increase food, sugar, cotton, wheat and dll* other production—recognizing that food is as important to winning the war as guns and munitions, planes and ships. We need to wake up and begin to realize the full importance of our se rious food problem and devote all cur energies to solving it. The time has long passed when we should quit toying with disaster by allowing their problems affect his prices and th “ riSt ? •”<* ,rom , a K political, a short-sighted, or a sel- his supplies, but in most cases he doesn’t bother to analyze their dif ficulties from their standpoint. And so it goes with other trades and professions — these groups have reached the point where they look upon themselves as specialists apart from the other fellow. All of us have our own type of problems—plenty of them, and can’t expect too much sympathy from other groups Who don’t understand them. But we would have a higher standard of living in this country if each of us would make a real effort to try to see the other fellow’s problems through his eyes as well as our own. Sinister Forces At Work In any group of people, whether it be national, political, industrial or sdcial, where the majority is ruled without its consent by a minority, the fish angle continually to bungle the food situation. We could and should close up half or more of the govern ment agencies, send thousands of em ployees home. The farmer would heave a sigh of relief and the con sumer would never miss them. Production of all farm products must be stepped up if we are to win the war. If we deal with these prob lems present and future—with cour age and intelligence, with realism instead of theory, if we abandon the deceptive idea that the government can successfully regulate everything and everybody, and if we get back to sound, horse sense fundamentals, we can solve these problems. They will never be solved through the methods now &sed. say. *i saw nr in the chron icle.” THANK YOU. thimble (that was sort of a gal game), and go in and out the window, and ante-over. And, believe it or not — those were interesting indulgences. TODAY... TOMORROW Bv Don Robinson HOPE — Bureaucrats Maybe this country isn’t going to the dogs after all. That was my reaction after hearing two congressmen, one a Republican i and on all the afternoon but when he got hurt When you hear a bomb falling it almost scares ypu to death, because you never know where it will land. The next place we stopped was the front lines, where the fighting was taking place. This was in Fondouk Pass. We were attached to the field artillery. The first night we went into firing position, but when daylight came nothing took place. About nine o’clock in the morning we moved for ward about five miles and set up again. Just about dinner time our guns started firing, to see if the Ger mans would fire back. We fired off still started firing again, but they didn’t fire back. Before long, we found out that the Germans were gone. They pulled out after they fired that night. The battle for Fondouk Pass was over and it belonged to us. We went through to Kalrovan, which is about twenty miles from Fondouk. The Ger mans weren’t there either. We stayed there three days, and while there the British 8th Army came by to carry the fight on. We left Kalrovan and came back to a rest area for five days, which we needed very badly. This is the end of our first battle and I don’t think I had better toy to tell about the rest. I never would get through writing| I will tell you a few things I’ve seen here and there. First, I’ve seen lots of German tanks, guns and trucks blown all to pieces. A lot of these tanks were the Bib Mark VI that you’ve heard so much about on the radio, This tank weights about 66 tons and looks like, a rolling house. It’s so big. I’ve also seen lots of dead German soldiers lying around on the 10 "T * M* ,A a IN 7DAYS YTU. 666 ^ Liquid for Malarial Symptoma. SAVE! BY PftIHTINC Pittsburgh Paints P&G Paints John Deere Tractors and Implements That Work Richtex Brick Adas Cement Cumberlite Mortarmix Concrete and Clay Pipe Celotex Roofing Sheet Rock and Rock Lath Linseed Oil Leptyne and Turpentine Water Mixed Paints Paint Brushes Sand and Stone Glass Yemason A Wood Preservative and Stain Hammer Mill and Cutter Contracting No Job too Small, Plenty too Big. J. R. Crawford Clinton and the other a Democrat, tell about the job they are trying to do to pre serve the economic system which made America great and the form of government which is the envy of all the world. From what I have been reading in the papers since the war started, I lad formed the impression that con gress was so busy playing politics nothing happened. That night we were getting ready to move forward again, when all of a sudden we heard some funny whistling sounds and ev erybody stopped still. Sure enough, the Germans had fired back and that gave us a big scare. They didn’t fire but about ten rounds and stopped. That was my first taste of a fox hole. Well, we went on with our moving that the people couldn’t expect their and into firing position before day- legislative department to protect light. The next morning at 7:30 every them against the growing threat of a gun in our division had started firing government of the bureaucrats, by the bureaucrats and for the bureau crats. Congress seemed to have trad ed in its backbone for the votes of pressure groups. But I have new hopes for congress now after listening to Representa tives Charles Halleck and Lyle Bo ren give new life to those rallying cries of our ancestors about free en terprise, business competition, free speech and the need for preserving our Constitution. My 4topes aren’t based on the oratory of these con gressmen—but on the fact that they are actually doing something about it. HALLECK — Boren One of the impressive things about at the Germans. I stood up by my fox hole and just laughed and said to myself. We’ll show those dirty rats.” Our guns continued to fire about 30 minutes and stopped. Everything was quiet for about 15 minutes and then the Germans started firing back with everything they had. Their shells fell real close to us and I don’t mean maybe. Everybody was scared to death again. The real thing had come at last We fired at each other all day long and shells were bursting all around us. The same day about 1:00 o’clock, some German planes came over to bomb us. Our job was to keep the planes off. the field artillery, so we opened up with our anti-ai&raft YOU CAN BUY OR REFINANCE A HOME CONVENIENTLY AND . ECONOMICALLY The Citizens Federal Attractive Loan Way It’s just like paying law rent... except that you are buy ing a home for yourself instead of for the other fellow. COMElN AND TALK OVER YOUR PLANS WITH US! v No Obligation — We Are Ready to Help You! 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