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Page Four THE CMNTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. Thursday, August 19, Y (Utjr (Clinton (CljnmtrU Ef bltifc«d 1H9 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 $1.00 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its corresiJondents. cash by the month to buy cigarettes with. as soon as dr. green furnished in the colledge which teeched him a el- lymentary education he decided to go to a medical scholl. he choosed a state colledge where he could get around seven million mofe garments; reducing the number of ribs in um brellas saved 2,800 tons of high grade carbon steel annually; and limiting the length of hair pins to two inches has saved 5,700 tons of steel. After reading those figures it is apparent that the final blow in win- everthing free, including board and | ning the war may well be struck by lodgings ansoforth. . he hope around j reducing the size of pin heads or en- the kitchen and pressed cjothes at | larging the eyes of needles, night for spending monney. he first | 11 1 ithought he would be a vetter-nerry, 1 . _ . . .... _ . but changed his mind when livestock ^ Private Clttaen Speaks His Mind went down so low in 1900 that folks! Pnmsmnsifr 4 would not' send for a doctor, but le\ | «NlvvVdlOl vOllllVIvIlIj £X, C0WS anso ' orth . di * n “ ur * 1 ;On Men and Things CUNTON. S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST I*. 1MJ 1 dr. green was a subcsription clerk 1 id a drug stoar at the county seat for 2-yr. then borried 75$ and bought i out the flat rock drug stoar and taken South Carolina papers are speaking so vigorously that the politicians are lying low to see just what it all amounts to. An editor speaks his j possession of same as sole owner and j “mind” and his “mind” is frequently 1 ■ 11 " ■ ' t , operator, he put a sody founting in Ibe same as that of most calm think TroHit Ac Mnn'c Friend l event we Iriyulge » n an y fanc y an -!it on creddick in 1029 and it almost ers. Of course editors don’t run ureuil Mb man b menu swprs When we eet half wav throuahiK...*^ k.,* k. ^Jam l '; t ” swers< When we get haW way thr 011 * 11 1 busted him, but he finally made the Credit is sometimes the friend and, the first paragraph we reaUze that if fhmal payment, he has prospered at other times the ener " y °* ma "' | we attempt to fill it out ourselves we ! onner count 0 f high prices, he is con- kind. As our friend it finances en- are sure to make a m i s take and may sidered a verry good fissican if there terprises mid promotes nnprovements, i 0S e the f arm 0 r business, and have jis verry much the matter with a fel- which are a th ® (to break rocks for .the government, i ler . h e does a little opperating, but many ways it helps us to hve ahead ^ many of us take lt to a lawyer, j his patience don’t risk him on their „nr tirr... anH pnahiec ns tn en- or banker, or someone we think insides. has a better knowledge of “Greek”! than we have, and we trust our for-! everbiddy far and wide depends on tune and our freedom to him, ipaybe' dr . green, when he don’t know what for a fee, or as a gratis job. !i n the world ails a patient, he sends I of Anderson has publicly arraigned Now anyone who is over 12 knows bi m to the hos-pittle. the report i the New Deal. Mr. Harris was once that he had intrust in a undertaking a Solicitorr he was also a candidate of our time and enables us to ert joy many advantages, opportunities and comforLs which would be de cayed or often denied, if credit were not available. Credit has made it possible to buy and pay for homes. Renters become home-owners because sound credit around counting noses; they are like ly to speak what the man in the street thinks because neither editor nor man-in-the-street is trying to get votes/ t Some men tell us that these press rumblings don’t mean anything. Perhaps they are right; but so much smoke indicates that there is or has been a fire. During recent days Leon W. Harris could possibly show less appreciation towards the South than thcfRoosevelt administration. Recruited from So cialists, renegade Republicans, politi cal soldiers of fortune, social reform ers; etc., the DenHcratic party of today in its natural aspects is as far removed in thought, sympathy, senti ment, and objectives from the South ern States as day from night. The short-sighted political philosophy that glues us to Washington for the few loaves and fishes that are tossed this way may be costing ua all that in years past has been most dear.” Looking about some more I find Bishop Smoak imprinting in The Press and Standard of Walterboro a story editorial from The Dorchester Eagle-Record, which I also quote: “The Jasper county Democratic executive committee’s action in 1 adopting resolutions condemning cer tain policies of -the so-called Nation al Democratic party has finally brought out in the open some of the things which South Carolina citizens have been thinking for sometime. It has been to the advantage of fed to work in war plants, and many more had been inducted in the armed services, Bankhead said in an inter view that his proposal would round out the program for soldier reha bilitation recently suggested by President Roopevelt. The Alabama senator, long-time advocate of federal farm aid, and author of many bills in behalf of agriculture, said he hoped the bill would be ct>-sponsored in the house by his colleagues. Representative Henry Steagall (DAla.) Bankhead explained thah his pro posal would be apart from the ex isting farm purchase program ope rated by the farm security adminis tration, which was set up under the Bankhead-Jones act: This plan in volves acquisition of land by the government, and re-sale to eligible farmers with government-held mort gages. Recent congressional action cut appropriations for this program from $50,000,000-to $30,000,000. NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS oral .. .. The annual meeting of Stockhold- ° th * I L 1,011 , ers of the CUnton Bonded Warehouse that if he fills out a paper with in tent to defraud the government, he loan plans are available. Credit ini can and should be punished. If he many ways comes to the rescue of the needy and brings them the necessi- parlor at the county-seat is a false hood. it is his cuzzen. he is a dem- is a crook he is going to falsify any- mercrat, but do not love the new how—provided he believes he can dea i V erry much, while dr. green is ties which lean years would other- get away with it, but it would notj on ]y our friend, let us say: if you wise deny. enter the minds of the vast majority eV er get sick, send for him. he is There are those, who with one of American men and women to pur- j jg yissit cheaper than all others.” stroke condemn credit as an enemy of 'posely make a misstatement in docu- , —< - They are either uninform- ments of this kind- I The warning the government now! - attaches to the mass of forms it sends; | JQ|^|Q|^pQyy mankind. ed or ignorant. It would be truer to state that, as a general rule, credit is always friendly and that it is man’s out appears to us to be" a superfluity use or abuse of it that makes it our and an unintended affront to the citi- enemy. There are comparatively few zenry as a whole. It may be argued men who can stand prosperity—who | that the “jaily” threat has to be in- have the wisdom and the will to;eluded for the benefit of those who spend wisely when they are “flush-; may be tempted. But those who may ed” with money. Look at the last i be tempted know the answer without war as an example. It is then that i having to read it. 6v Don Robinson MATCHES — Wood I happened to notice that wooden, for the senate in 1930. In the same good town lives an editor whose editorial independence and vigor have won a broad recognition—Wil ton E. Hall. Says Editor Hall: “Jasper county is little, but its spokesmen are loud—too loud fpr the comfort of .those who would have South Carolina bend its heck to the New Deal Yoke.” Speaking of the proposal to have the Federal Govemirient pay the cost of national political campaigns, the Anderson Independent says: “First we heard of this plan to have the treasury foot campaign expenses was a suggestion in the daily column of wax o, household matches seem to be a| Mr8 . Franklin D. Roosevelt . . . . a man becomes too lavish with bor- The American people fully realize little shorter than usual. Curious to This iniquitous proposal is nothing rowed money or commodities pur-'that many of these documents are know if that had anything to do with| more than a plan to perpetuate in chased on credit and does not take i necessary in times like the present,! the war, I checked with a match due account of that sure day of reck- and they don’t kick about them— manufacturer who said, “Yes—the oning when the money must be re-1 much. They do kick about endless, government has ordered us to re- power the party in the saddle, in this case the New Deal. . . . . This is another one of those dizzy schemes paid. useless red tape and confusion, j duce small wooden matches by 1-16 t 0 ‘protect’ the people from the ‘evils’ of politics. If we get much more ‘protection’ from the New Deal cAck- pots, citizens are going to wind up a mass of slaves in a land that was pnee To those who take this attitude, AmeHc^sdon’t likebeing threaten-; ofaninchinsizeand large ones by ed. They don’t consider it necessary 11-4 of an inch. mans friend and helper becomes an--I , t s eemed «o me this was rather enemy and hard times must be faced first P lac ®> an d it reminds them awamni* n# th*. tn because of their reckless spendmg!Hitter in the second|° ticians In the/ state to keep the re sentment of the people against na tional homefront policies from be coming too public. The average citizen of South Caro lina, however, knows that the present Democratic party is not the party of Thomas Jefferson, John C. Calhoun, Woodrow Wilson, or Ben Tillman. It is the “New Deal” party; the party-of Boss Hague of Jersey City, of the Nash-Kelly machine of Chicago, of Pennsylvania’s Guffey, of Walter White and the Association for the Advancement of the Colored People, and of the radical labor leaders. Southern Democrats have nothing in common with it, and would never supported a third term if they had not been betrayed by their own lead ers. The Democratic party in South Carolina and other Southern states should be purged of all political lead ers, who, hat in hand, kneeled before the New Dealers and begged for the crumbs that were tossed to the “Sol id South.” Only a short time ago, they dared boast and they were “100 precenters,” and their only claim as to their abil ity and fitness for holding public office was the amount of “bacon” they could bring home from the New Deal table.- Company of Clintdh, S. C., will be held August 27, 1943, at 4:00 o’clock P.M., in the office of Commercial Depository, to elect directors for en suing year, and to Transact such bus iness as may come before the meet ing. Jtc ' Yours very truly, Joe L. Davidson, President. H. D. Henry, Sec.-Treas. and high living. Credit properly used is friend. When otherwise used it will iawIabTding'citken 7r a~ cro^He place. It creates a creepy feeling ev-! which the government has gone to | free.’’ a. 1 1 • a. a« a • i ♦ i 4 o f »-*-» rf av-c- ah y hy * o Vxi »o i _ » a , |ery time one reads this threatening man s warn i n g — whether he be a decent, mortgage our future and insure for feels it is unne cessary, unpleasant, j ther I found that even this insignif- us harships m the days to come. , un-American, intensely irritating and' leant change actually did produce | bits, as I quote: “The New Deal was - enormous savings. For by this slight a Prodigal Son wasting his inheri- .... ...... . . _ _ too superfluous to have any effect Whot Will WC COt: ! other than to create an uneasy Jeel- Eeating is undoubtedly going to be i ng which is foreign to the American a lot more of a problem this winter ■ way of thought. than it has been so far. This fore cast is based on information given out by experts who have given their lives to food production and distribu tion problems and who doubtless know what they ard*'talking about. They are not theorists on government payrolls. The probabilities are that nobody will go hungry and everybody in this country will get enough food of some kind to keep healthy—but there will probably be great changes in our diet. Especially will this be true Of the millions who reside in towns and cities and rely almost entirely upon cans and packages from grocery stores tor their food. Meat, for ex ample, which is scarce now, is apt to be a lot more of a rarity by fall. As a result of so much threatening Soyth Carolina voters are begin ning to wake up. Self-seeking, am bitious politicians caff no longer herd them like sheep. They are not go- put its fingers in everybody s busi-i i turn the pages and find the Easley ^8 1° contribute funds for the New Deal Party this year or any other year, and they will support neither the Republican nor the New Deal party in 1944.” HEADQUARTERS ^ • ' —for — USED CARS ALL MAKES —ALL MODELS Timmerman Motor Co. ' Carolina {Service Station CUnton, 8. C. ness on the grounds of conserving materials. But when I checked fur- Progress writing of “The collapse of the New Deal.” A casual reading brings such choice reduction in the size of matches— a reduction which makes no differ ence to anyone—it is estimated that there will be an annual savings of ing fearful of our shadows. NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE Various Items of More or Less In terest From Flat Rock deer mr. edditor: everthing is mowing along verry smoothe in flat rock, the farmers are over their sweat about their crops, in june, they thought they would make a bale of cotton to the aker. _ , . , . * i ... . i in july they decided that three- E . ggi> ’ w | uch unti recently have been q uar t ers of a bale to the aker would plentiful, are now high and we are ^ now> since the dry weather told will become increasingly scarce Chickens will be about as difficult to find as the proverbial hen’s teeth. In grocery stores more shelves will become vacant and housewives will and boll weevil have taken their tolls, manny of them say that they will be thankful to get one-fourth of a bale to the* aker, and some of .. . . . , , .them are hoping to get only their find it hard,.and in many instances seed jt’ s nearly that bad. impossible, to supply their needs. r We ' 9 might as well face the facts. .. . . i .. 1 mr, slim chance is up in the air from Washington, we are daily grow- j seven million board feet of lumber. In Washington, I found, there is a large staff of experts working pn the simplification of every imagin able product and its work already has resulted in savings of 450,000,- 000 board feet of lumber, 600,000 tons of steel, 17,000 tons of copper, 180,000,000 yards of cloth and quan tities of other material. The saving in man hours of labor has also amounted to many millions and the standardization of products has con served millions of square feet of space on freight cars, boats and trucks. FRILLS — Conservation Already there are over 200 prod ucts which have been simplified and standardized. Most of us are famil iar with the Victory bicycle—a light, practical bicycle which is the onAy kind which can be made now. By government order, only two bicycle models can be made—one for men and one for women. By eliminating the frills from bicycle-making the government has saved over a mil- Nnt rnlv arp thp HpmanrU nf thp I 011111 13 U F *»* «« lion pounds Of brass, almost 35,000 armed forces heavy, but the more about socurt _ <*1^^ that is being pounds of tin, 44,000 pounds of nick- places our armies annex and the more preeched and possibly practised by urisoners we take so much greater some of 0Ur higher - u P 4 s and lower - pnsoners we laxe, so muen e reaier > downs be savs them that desire so- is the need for food. In addition, , n e sa y s A“em inai aesire so- investigations made reveal that enor- ,cia e< * ua 1 y oug h o ave i , a mous quantities of food is being wasted at army camps and other places, and an increasing amount seems to be going into black market channels and production of some kinds is off considerably. So-called Washington experts pre dict everything from “all the food we want,” to n starvation rations,” but food buyers, who have a practical knowledge of what is available and what isn’t, seem to agree on a middle is—if they have not alreddy got it. but them who do not desire .it should not have it poked down their throats ansoforth. this sounds like verry good logic, as for the south, mr. chanc£ says—we are o. k. he feels sorry for the ignorant north tho. miss Jennie veeve smith has gone to the mountings for a week or so. she travelled by bus and rote back el and 29,000 pounds of copper. The steel saving amounts to 50%. This same type of conservation is being ordered for every conceivable type of product. The Simplification Branch of the Waf Production poard now is working on over 1,000 items which will be simplified this year. We will learn abouf them gradually, but before the year is out we will see changes in repair tools, household bnishes, nails, screws, towels, sta tionery, scissors, and a host of other household items. All of these changes, no matter how minor, will reflect large savings tance .... It filled the high offices of the land with men of pitifully weak character America was really jarred when on December 7, 1941 it saw that the waste and folly of the preceding rears left us almost helpless against foreign foes. The deep, smouldering doubt has been Justified as the New Deal became 'more and more openly a political self perpetuation scheme « . . The abject surrender of Roosevelt to La bor Bosses—not to laboring people— has disgusted the most fervent sup porters of the original New .Deal It is a tragedy that the New Deal could not have been more American and less Communistic'and foreign.” The Easley paper does not flinch from a fight, does it? It is one of the noble army of patriots. Hear another editorial from The Chester Reporter: “There’s no probability that the South, or any considerable portion of it, is going Republican. Memories of what happened in the years fol lowing the War Between the States are too fresh in the mind to make that possible. It should be realized, however, by the people of this 'section that the Democratic party of today is entirely different from the Demo cratic party of a few years ago, and that no Republican administration BANKHEAD WILL PUSH BILL FOR FARM BUYING John H. Bankhea*d (D.-Ala.) said to- John H. Bankhead (D.-Ala.) laid to day he would introduce a bill at the forthcoming session of congress which would enable persons qualified in ag riculture to purchase farms under government-insured mortgages, simi lar to the federal housing authority (FHA) program for urban building. Commenting that more than one million farmers had left < rural areas Gray Funeral Home CUnton, S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS ...and... EMBALMERS Ambalanee Service Phenes 41 and 399-J L. RUSSBLL GRAY and ' ▼. PARKS ADAIR, Gen. Mgn. mmmm benjamin & I SONS PLUMBING HEATING SERVICE Telephone 117 WE ARE HUNTING TROUBLE WANTFXI DOGWOOD TIMBER Wood con be cut 20 in. to 8 ft. long. Must be 4 in. ond up at little end. Must have 2 in. white wood around hollow. $25 per dord delivered to: WILLARD SUGER Box 421 — CUnton, S. C. that she had to stand up all the way of the roacTfuture”. ~They~think well tw0 soldiers and enjoyed it!om materials which are needed for ! w ■ -1 '“ —«- ^ar. They will also be instrumental in releasing thousands of men' and thousands of machines for vital war keep on eating, but they’re not say- | v ®T ry she did not mind sack ing what. They are the advisers we! er ^lf ing for ° ur boys over there as will do well to listen to as we con- we ^ as over here, she will stay 24$ sider "what will we eat.’ Threatening the People Life at home these days is made up of five principal functions: work- worth and then Come home, she do not need annything for her health, she is seeking pleasure ansoforth. work. CLOTHES — Needless One of the most complicated but some improvements have benn ] most interesting steps toward con- made on the flat rock posoffis. he servation is the order limiting the use of materials for clothes . I did not realize that there had ing, eating, sleeping, signing govern- i has swept it out both behind and in ment papers of various kinds, and front, washed off the glass window wondering if we filled them out cor- j so’s a feller can sees him on the in- j been an order banning cuffs on rectly, and how many years we have side, took the 4 sheets of tanglefoot men’s trousers, which again seemed to spend in jail if we made a mis take. In the good old days we didn’t have many such documents to sign, and off the desk that he put out last like a small drop in the conserva martch, removed the cobb-webs from the unused boxes, and filled the ink bottle out front you woulddent usually when we did receive a ques-jknow the old place now—It’s changed tionaire or a statement of some kind' so. he does this every 4 years when to fill out, there was no dire warning!he comes^up for re-appointment as contained therein of life behind the pm. bars if we failed to dot the I’s. But nowadays we fearfully scan the in coming mail for a long envelope with no stamp on it and containing an interminable document which no or dinary human can understand but which an occasional lawyer thinks he can. Especially is this true as re gards business firms. This we are told to fill out pronto—or else; and the “refrain” is usually the same, differing only in the size of the fine and the length of the jail term in the Biography of Dr. Herbert Green dr. hubbert green has-benn in flat rock going on 22-yr. he was horned tion bucket, but after looking over some of the figures on conservation I am now ready to agree that the moat trivial- seeming order may bo worthwhile. For I found that by reducing tho lengths of tails on men’s shirts, the material saved was enough to make 10 million More shirts taking belts and pockets off pajamas provided material for 2Va million more pa- and fetched up in n. c. he attended 1 jamas; eliminating rayon stripping he gradurated in the 11th grade. He on knit undeiwear saved a million attended the local scholls in his home town till he went to colledge on a scholarship, his book* were bought by his poor old aunt who died intestate, his spending' monney was sent in when possible by his grammaw and his own daddy furnished him enough pounds of war-essential rayon; sim plifying men’s work clothes and elimhiating unnecessary buttons saved 125 million yards of thread and 150 million buttons; leaving off unnecessary pockets from work clothes provided material to make sonny to MIST TOOI A young woman wild col lided with a man In Syra cuse, brought suit against him for $5,000, alleging •he receired a brohen leg. An ./Etna Comprehensive Personal Liability Policy: would cover a daim such as this. Are yen insured?. WE LOAN MONEY ON AUTOMOBILES S. W. SUMEREL, Agent to buy of refinance BETTER TALK IT OVER WITH US You'll like our simple, low-cost home-financ ing plan. Ask for details no obligation. 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