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Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. Thursday, July 22, 1943 ci>hr (Eltntmt (EljrmttrU \ Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Yeqr $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers— the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for th£ views or opinions of its correspondents. C UNT6N, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1943 \A/ A n All AlilrP 'pitfalls of such a daredevil venture.j ▼ * © Are All AIIKC They knew the Russian soldier was ! Any man who is inclined to criti- a rea i fighter and they should have; cize the farmer for spending his Sat- known something of the qualifications; nrday afternoons in town ought to 0 f t he Soviet’s best military leaders, think about the afternoons the town They should have been aware of Rus- man might spend in the garden—and sjjj'g manufacturing potential and the doesn't. extent of her actual armaments. They • should have known that the Russian ' army could fall back almost indefi nitely, if neces$ary. Why, then, did they take such a. •„ 1 . , , where she wouldn t believe our pig playing to the spotlight, pushing^ i tale > we fetched rnudc, y water - was "Meet the People.. (Each week In thla apace will be presented a picture and word portrait of aomeone whoae name la newa.) •The new war food administrator. Judge Marvin Jones, has long been considered a “natural’’ for that position by many Washing ton observers. ,#He is a Texas farmer. In early New Deal days he was chai^nan qf the agricultural committee, was a Sponsor or author of much New Deal farm legislation, and once was' considered for the post of secretary of agricul ture. Added to his agricultural background is 36 years of legal and legislative experience. • In 1907 he received a law degree from the University of Texas. Ten years later he was elected.to the Uni’ed States house of repre sentatives, where he rerhamed for two dec ades until 1940, when President Roosevelt ap pointed him a judge of the United States Court of Claims. • In Washington he is known for diis capable diplomacy and deft handling of delicate situa tions. As chairman of the United Nations food conference, it was his job to keep the delegates from running into dead end dis agreements His work at that first interna tional conference of post war questions should well qualify him for the difficult food prob lems that will follow the armistice. Judge Marvin Jones became “settled” before filling our ! bucket. When the teacher got to Two Kinds of People There are some people who spend much of their time seeking publicity, ' HH I sand opinions, no-doubt, and specula-! !r* v ' T". '1TZ real reason ,or «He;muTdV The C wt they do. Bui the res, of us are sal.s-^ ^ gsZ liople 1 a,WayS *» «« "g with me lied it we are able to escape condom- , hln q k , he genera , s , af , was „pp os ed,: J ust as mean and as as 1 nallon ' ! but was overridden by Hitler and his j Some be-! power-seeking satellites. I lieve he really feared the Russians, were going to attack him and that I fell in love with Judy Smith dur ing this , school term. She was a nice The Cotton Farmer Another trouble about being a pro- ^ KU ‘ ,,K i lu a “ aL '“ "“"k 3 ' 111 l Ti« irl bu * was sort of pigeon-toed and , . Ul , uuuult auoui utnig a pro he was beating them to the punch, I ducer of cotton is that during the; c nrnp think he re-diyeri that he had cross-e y ed * but even tben she lo°Ked greater part of the summer vou read , u a redlized thdt bad , better than the rest of the girls. She greater pan o.i me sUn ;“? ei y° u reaa a long, hard war in prospect and was . ft h riaddv be . about the prosperity of the peach in- nr . t ma f Pr i a ii v nrenared and had to " ore snoes ver y 0I ‘ en ' ner aaauy oe- dustrv (not this vear) and the big ‘ n °! *T a d 3 • prepa ed and had , ing rather rfch: they owned a top y ' , ^ ar; . , d in f Drg get the Russian resources or face ul- . Sh fetf . hed ege custard to prices coming to the tobacco farm-, tjrnat „ a p f pa t nthers: advance varied DUggy ' Sne lelcnea e gg CUSiara to ers while the boll weevil and weather 1 mate defeat ; c thers advance 'aned schoo j p retty often: once she gave me boil weeML weatner reasons tor hls unexpected move. | a slicc 0l that p retly yellow food and What the real causes were we do i loved her more than ever after not know. But whatever the reasons— that. She had red hair and oodlings i_ real, or fancied—Hitler’s declaration 0 f freckles. Bert Jones cut me out be- , , °f war against Soviet Russia will go fore the session ended. Sugar Subsidies idown in history as the greatest mili - I tary blunder of all time—not except are keeping you in suspense* as to whether the fall of the year will mean one or many trips to the gin. The announcemenf fre Our teacher would sleep a right . ... ,, Napoleon’s same mistake. They smart. Whoever woke her'up got a ton .hat the W ar Fn d Admi»istra soon discovered fh a t Stalin was'their thumping at recess We had things our tion has decided to suspend market- and mm-* shnwn hv the inum P ul 6 dl vve n,,a UUI maten ana moie, as snown by the W ay during her snoozes, but were he squeeze out of his brothers, sis- • ters, friends and money-lenders?! That is why we say that the practice of punitive damages has become more of a legalized racket than a ju-1 dicial determination of right and jus-. tice. It is the very essence of justice' that punishment should be fitted to| the offense; that damages shall be a fair compensation for injuries suf fered. But the practice is to regard the wealth of the party who is sued, rather than the offense he has com mitted, or the damages suffered through him, or because o( him, or; because of somebody working for: j him, of employed by him. ' There are occasions for punitive damages, but usually the actual dam ages should be sufficient. Some cases arise in which the actual damages cannot be proved though the offense is one which should not be over- j looked. Such actions as those for li-' bel and slander. You cannot prove how much one is injured, so you ask for punitive damages. Even here we have a peculiar Condition. Most men in business are courteous, though a crusty fellow looms us occasionally. Most people everywhere are pleasant and courteous; but if I ask a man bn the street for the time of day, and he, with his mind on the heat, suggests that I might make a trip to a still; warmer place, there is nothing to do' about it unless we square off like a pair of gOne-cocks; but if I receive that suggestion from a bus-driver, whose dinner didn’t agree with him,! I rush off to sue “the Company” for* thousands of ’ dollars, though “the Company” has tried by every means! be done. Better than that, there is a PRINCIPLE by which inflation can be avoided. L The trouble with the country,--and with its leaders, is not in lack of knowledge of the ways and means, but something else. Perhaps, a lack of unselfishness on the part of the various groups of the people; perhaps, a lack of courage on the part of those in control of things in Washington, to go ahead and put the shoe -on, no matter whose foot it hurts.—The Charlotte Observer. - ■ .,,■■■ * , ,, SKRIP INK — Black, green, Drown, purple, red, royal blue. 2-oz. bot tles 15c. Chronicle Pub. Co. tf s L— and' cabinet officers will enjoy greater public approval. So it is more or less of a tossup as to whether the President or congress will gain a stronger position as a re sult of the present reces, but it is likely that there will be a consider able shift in the present delicate rela tionship between the executive - and Igislative branches when congress: em P'°y courteous men. So the dis- reconvenes. And it is expected that | courteous man is overlooked, while I by September the fourth term talk ’ P de a burden on the stockholders of will be given increased consideration ] ‘ Company’! As you see, I’ll sue with politics more dominant thanj-h*"* f° r a b *2 sum, because they are ever in the activities of both depart- ab * e P a y ments of government. A Private Citizen Speaks Hls Mind Spectator Comments On Men and Things . limits set, just as we’ve established Those , limits for our courts in criminal cas- history will recall that stem old char- eg The tion against acter, the statesman, Cato—the cen- — . & sor, who was implacably resolved to or can borrow the money. j - Not all the cases appear on the' dockets for trial. The fact that such| a practice is permitted brings about many settlements out of court, but oppressive just the same. While there may be occasions for punitive damages, there should be ! nS qU °! aS W 1 ^ ^ cotton cr °P fact that he is the only man yet who quiet -about it . . . She’ was never great rival city of'c^arthag^We may g * vll ? g ^ a11 ^ ®Q ual Protection of has met with the .geneial appro\al j ias s toDD P d Hitler on land. to 9 Hr.,,re ot onv r'-dr. a c o c+otocmnn- ho aw a fundamental guarantee of X, but $50,000 against Y, on identi cally the same facts, is clearly not of farmers and the public. There will stopped Hltler on land ’ Jknown to sleep over 2 hours at any btTample markets for all cotton pro- Germany made a fatal move. It had single nap. Once while she was wrap- duccc j conquered practically all of Europe ped in the arms of Morpheus, two or word regard Cato as a statesman; he has olit . been dead two thousand years. The J ^ J ‘rival,” you know, really tells Government should remove rdstric- and her P° sition seemed well-nigh three of us boys fell out of the sj^ool the story, for the word itself prigi- j instead of una ssailable. Her only active oppon- house loft right ker-dab on her. Shelnally meant men living on opposite i farmers not to ent was Britain, which alone could Would have whipped us if she had banks of a stream, and who would "never have defeated her. been physically able. She limped for inevitably have a clash of interest lions on growing sugar paymg out million- grow it. Then it would not be neces -ary to ration sugar. Subsidies are What was the real reason ter this handouts that must be paid for by fantastic blunder? Nobody kribws. taxpayers. The principle is wrong. jOnly history can tell. We do know), Such facts must convince every in- bowe \ er ’ * be Nazis will be con formed person that we have a bunch t l uered and tbe doy of their final fall, 'Tif crazy people In Washington hand- 111 0UI 0 P inion > Is In tbe very near ling the sugar and other production problems. several days after that. future. Seizing Enemy Patents One of the major victories of this war has been won in our country as a’Tfsllll dl the seizure of billions oU dollars worth of property and pat- j ents formerly owned by citizens of j enemy nations. NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE WITH THE PRESS ». Editorial Comment From Various Papers. The Real Inflation Question The President says the question is, made forever “Are you in favbr of inflation or memofable because it gave to the ar0 J 1 } y° u ’ . , . . • ! Special to The Chronicle. world the military genluS Hanibal, a . Nobody who knoWs what inflation I Washington. D. C„ July - TO. i’^|<<*>« Ptague <® ! ™' | No^y wto'h^heaM whaTtofla- President has shown no signs Tu "““- ^ tion those who pjotes !o ,mg >n a hurry tor the return ot al know what it is wants it,-if thfl-j to enjoy until September 14. In fact,j“'.R?me_' Ca.o,_fearing the^power of, h XdThe 2 PrSitient knows that, too.! THE NATIONAL SCENE As Washington Sees It growing out of the use of the water. 1 So it was between Rome and Car-; thage; they were living across from each other and disputing the control! of the Mediterranean. Singularly! enough, our troops hava recently fought in the land , gress from the recess which it fxpects,f ea ^ ng Vhe”piweV'of he is probably breathing a lot easier, I^ art ^!!:_ n . e Yf r TT “P. ‘". h u:f a “..Pll He knows still more, —he knows as he tries to cooe with the Droblemsl the Romans to destrby the big rival " e Knows sun more, ne xr Over the Week-End In | , , .. p k ■ ion the tip of Northern Africa When- ^ ba ^ ^ b ® real question is not the of our domestic economy, by knowingl un ine ‘•'j 1 OI . woruier " a rica * . eu b e as ked but rather a«? to the means! Flat Rock that congress won’t change his olan-i ever and wherever Cato spoke, re- n f asjcea, pui ratner as to the means It is now reported by the Office of deer mr - edditor: ’gardless of the occasion, or the topic bf P re Y entm 8 inflation. | the Alien Property Custodian that rev - wiB waite has just wound up However, congres.s is recessing un- 0 j the moment the fierce old Roman' That s what he, every company in this country in a serious of 7 days protracted meet-, der different rules than usually a PPiy; W ould say, “And moreover, Carthage which Nazi influence was known to in Ss at cedar lane, it was a fair suck- t0 recesses. Ordinarily the members must be destroyed.” have existed has been. Americanized c ®ss: he paid all expenses and cleared can only be called back by the Pres and that patents owned by enemy 4 dollars, over a dozzen soles were ldent > but this recess was taken un nationals have been made generally saved - s ° be said. available to American*industry. : , . ...... , e . . . . . i hon. holsum moore has assigned his vice-president, the speaker .... sctipe of this victory is indi- co ttod cr0 p to the boll weevils bought rna i ori ty or minority leaders. Thus, if! tice of talking about punitive dam- The i der a special arrangement by which I A friend says that I have one habit congress could be called backLby the < that makes him hark back to the days r or the °t bis youth, and that is the prac cutid by a few figures recently re- nisself 2 long fishing poles and a mat- congressional leaders don’t like the ages, ts k-a.-ed. Iney show that the property tock tQ dig baits with> and has re _ way things are going in Washington,) Well, ciSSCii. > 0 * Z ici are worth 0\ei seven 4 „ J.. th^\7 on n ronton tHic coccirm nt nnv TTix/zai m billion dollars, that over 2,000 busi- ne.~> firms are involved and that the patents seized total nearly * 50,000. tired to th rivver banks for the du ration of the summer. taxes, and some other themes. what do you think of this? they can reopen this session at any, Five men are arrested for being just time. jconvivially over the line, let us say; This is the first formal recess con- i n °t stupidly drunk, nor brutally one That’s what he, and others in Washington, are in such a stew about. They are trying to find the way to head inflation off. Nobody wants inflation, but every- 1 body is not in agreement as to how to avoid it. There is a theory by which it can! . . .. • mr. tom head says good licker is gress has had since 1938. During thatisoused; but just in that condition of ti m , r S ettin g 50 skace - B iooks like he will time there has been a great change! fellowship which makes them demon- L = have t0 swear ofT - he bou 8 h t a Quart in the politics and the activity of drably affectionate toward every- snence and many of tnem, vm ik a new brand for and hpfnar ♦ v.x. loo* bodv on the street—iust lovintf everv- ,,, , ■ .. ri . of a ne w brand for 6$ and befoar congress. Until the last election, con-i bod y on the street—just loving every ou, by. the finest scientific minds of haf][ . of it was firunk, he had to retire gress was thought of more and more body. All are the same, in the same the Axis countries, are now bein g to a bed and call in 3 doctors it was as merely a "n^her stamp” body' c o nditi o n - Understandin 8.P at i ent P°- used to heip beat tne axis. made out of fire) brimstone assy . w hich would give its approval to any-i bcemen probably try to shoo them The Office- of the Alien Property fititedy and t.n.t. in the candid opin-‘thine the President reauested ioff > not wishing to lock them up. But Custodiiin I. Chicago now has an in- lon . I Recent., howeveH“ has denlon- 1 — *• <»“ 01 ‘ ha , strated its independence ot the ad- rauch 0 ‘ h,s - dt , ! en 8 th - ^ TYPEWRITERS AND ADDING MACHINES Sales and Service CLEANING A SPECIALTY Reasonable Charges KENNETH N. BAKER Phone 306 SAVE! BY PAINTING Pittsburgh Paints P & G Paints John Deere Tractors and . Implements That Work Riditex Brick Atlas Cement * Cumberlite Mortarmix Concrete and Clay Pipe Celotex Roofing Sheet Rock and Rock Lath Linseed Oil Leptyne and Turpentine Water Mixed Paints , i 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 dex of these patents which can be ob tained by any American manufac ture tie hon. holsum moore says he thinks ^^^^ ; ^‘‘t"„”\“'t, men are arrested and held over for rer. If the applicant has the facili- the best piece of work done by con- . , h . n .. v " a e vou eo ta v ievis- !the P olice court. The next morning ?s for making use of any of the gress during the past 12 months was P .• wh f rh P W as rontrarv to the ad-! the P olice court has them U P- The patents, particularly for carrying on; adjourning, he hopes they can be kept m i n i. tratinn ’, nlan . it ant i. ! cit y j ud g e looks them over and sa ys : war work, he can then, at small cost, at home until we get further along PL.' wiciation over the President’s! “ $1 ° or 80 many da y s -” ° f course, if get a license to use them. Now is a xsruu s«rir»n»;r»r* sniKe lecisiaiion over me rTesiaeru s j ^ good timp to use your ingenuity — if you possess such. with winning the war. (p,s. most of Q +r ,ithe men have been too demonstrative them need to be talked to by their i ^/^ b d ® a s v f 0 h ^ e ‘ he (0 ^ w "^!.he court may go to *25, if no ham, constituents). En bfodW 0„°e vo?. 'C.TfS!^ been done and nobody offended. « ' o -But can you conceive of the judge a bad auto wreck taken place , dictated g ho me econom^ program the i saying “ Four of you are flned $25 l front of the drug stoar last Sunday, .if I each, but X Y is fined $25,000” —all A little over two years ago, on |Wben a strip-down ford met a auto L been ekactly in the same con Blunder No. 1 Of All Times June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler declared head _ on and knocked 4 teeth out of' to f0lkS ° n | d Bion? Our city courts don’t do that; war nnnn Russia and to this dav no >„ i * i- l What they think Of it all. . , k war upon Russia, and to this day no skinner’s mouth, bent his axle, . one outside of Germany and maybe ; busted a collar bone, mashed his fa - '. * n mos ^ sections of the country it j discriminations in criminal cages. As nor do our state courts make such Russia—seems^to know why. Of a d !<ii a tor, jolted his carby-retter off, j s expected that the people will make you know, the trial judge has a limit the reasons given out by Hitler and S p run g hj s ^Rikle, and killed 2 dogs, it clear to their congressmen that they tq guide him. But that is what we by Ribbentrop in their proclamations •» (heartily endorse their recent activi- do ^ su jts for damages. Our criminal of that day,‘there does not appear to dr hubbert green says practice is ties. If that it true, we can then courts impose sentences based on the be one of sufficient weight to have verry poor, his patience have not got Pcct to find the returning congress ACT of the offender, varying some- made such a hazardous step necessary : enough gass to send for him with, so even more ready to buck the admin- vvhat, it is true, but within defined to the German strategy. they seem to be using old remedies, istration on any proposals which do limitations; in actions for damages Hitler claimed that the Soviet gov- his drug stoar trade is off 50 pg,. not directly affect the war effort. So |the offense or transgression, negU- ernmeqt was working to undermine cent 0 nner count of the o.p.a. he has far congress has continued to leave gen C e, or what not, is frequently a Germany in the countries conquered had a hard time keeping sody jerk- the war program under the direction m i nor consideration in determining by the Nazis, and that it was actively ers> b y the time they learn how to the President and will probably the amount of damages to be asked?"! aiding British policies in Europe and jerk, uncle sam calls them to the continue to grant whatever appropri-1 what counts supremely is how much' elsewhere. Both men stated that Rus- f r0 nt. ' | ations ha says are needed to keep our i 8 the defendant able to pay out of sia was massing vast numbers of men and armaments along the Ger man frontier but denied that Ger many was doing the same thing. The terrific power of the initial German thrust against Russia proved conclu sively, however, that she was doing .so and that Hitler and his master minds had lied. He had been prepar ing months for the attack. The excuses are hot good enough— Germany was prompted by other and more mysterious reasons. Hitler may be an ignorafit man, as many think, but the men who compose the Ger man general staff are not. We say Hitler is smart and tricky, or he could not have accomplished what he has. These men associated with him in high position certainly realized the yores trulie, mike lark, rfd, School Days My third years in school, which consisted of about 4 months*- found me in the Third Reader, but I still studied spelling in my blue back speller. I was “turned back” every now and then in both of my studies. It took me a long time to learn how to spell “incomprehensibility” off the book. As a matter of fact, it’s still rather hard to spell that word. I was frequently honored with the duty of going to the spring for water, a distance of about three-quarters of a mile. When we found a pig in the spring we had to wait till the water vwwMMWMwwwitiniinfwwHmwwH I armed forces and those of our allies his own property; or how much can 1 functioning with maximum effici- j . I ency. j Shine political experts believe that the Presidents popularity rating with the people will take a jump while congress is away. They point out that the limelight has been on congress rather than on the President during recent months and, with congressmen away from Washington, the Presi dent’s activities will once more be the center of attention. They predict fur ther that if some of our domestic problems, such as food production, turn out better than expected, the President is now more apt to get the credit. And if the war outlook is still brighter by September, and it looks as though it will be, the President Dr. Felder Smith Dr. DuncanS. 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