The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, August 19, 1943, Image 4
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THE CMNTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C.
Thursday, August 19, Y
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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.
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SONS
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SERVICE
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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
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