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Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. Thursday, September 2, 1943 i (Hi}? (Clinton (Eijronirlr Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday fey 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. ✓ v .. — The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers— the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when tney are not of a defamatory natute./Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. g »ervi Jappemese, but thinks 1947 will see 1 * them out of business. He says our, PROMOTED fight with them is like twisting 100,000,000 skunks out of hollow logs, one at a time. But he says—“don’t worry, we’ll get ’em in the end.” He borrowed 50c for a couple of beers and walked away. Page The O.P.A. A lady was complaining a day or, so ago about the high cost of wearing clothes. She said that even the f ew j clothes women wear now (to com-' ply with the law) make it difficult to dress up very often. CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1943 She showed me the tip end of an underskirt that she had paid $3.00 for. She told me, but didn’t prove it, that the said garment was made 1 t of very ordinary cotton cloth and the, seamstress who made it had not won | any sewing prizes or ribbons. D.ir CfnmH ThpnrkK ll less safety measures are worked out Th j s i ady was a sensible old thing-! V-JUr Jiupiu Micyiiso /'now which will apply to normaLghe was reared (and raised) on a. With rationing in this country aI Y 1 jtimes, it is very probable that in the f arm> She said the underskirt in! the shadow of want oyer the other st _ war era t ^ e au t omo bn e will be q Ues tj on cer t^inly did not contain ov-! sections of the world, it is hard to more destructive to human life than er one pound of cotton (21c). She] understand why certain high officials var itself Here is a problem affect- a n 0W ed the manufacturer 25c for! Gerald Suber, son of Mr. and Mrs. I » ^ a • . .Alll „ 1 J* 4 V* s-v 4Vi**-*_ ... ... % I and politicians still hold to the the- ; ing pu biic safety that needs to be j con verting the cloth into under-gar- ory of crop limitations. We can’t get tackled b y the best brains of the ment material away from the fundamental law of; nation supply and demand, regardless of: ^ what the theorists tell us. The peo- A Psivrstll pie are not as stupid-as some of our| On Taxpayers rayroll Henry C. Suber, of this city, has re- in the camaign press campaign is under the direc tion of the Newspaper Pulpwood Committee, headed by Waiter M. Dear, publisher of The Jersey Jour nal, Jersey City, N. J., and president of A. N P. A. during the highly suc cessful Newspaper United Scrap Drive last fall. Daily, and weekly newspapers in South Carolina have been asked to assist in the drive to increase sup plies of pulpwood for direct war uses, jfor newsprint and other print papers. ! In sections where pulpwood is an important crop, the newspaper com mittee is placing with selected week lies and small ^dailies paid advertis ing, urging greater production to help overcome a growing shortage which threatens the national war effort. Pulpwood consuming mills are placing additional advertising local ly advising farmers, woodland own ers and wpods operators of the ur gent need for pulpwood, what kinds of trees to cut,' where to deliver them, and giving specifications and prices. The farm press in pulpwood producing areas also is cooperating FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 20th day of September, 1943, I will render a final account of my acts and doinga as Executrix of the estate of J. F. Milam in the office of the Judge of Probate of Laurens County, at 10 o’clock am., and on -the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as Executrix. Any person indebted to said estate is notified and required to make pay ment on or before that date; and all persons having claims against —M estate will present them on or before said date, duly proven, or be forever barred MRS. FANELLA B. MILAM, Executrix. Aug. 12, 1943.—9-4cw. cently been promoted to seaman first class. Seaman Suber, who enlisted She further thought that freight leaders. and taxes and insurance and labor and other expenses incident- to pr^- in the navy a year ago, is now in foreign service. In South Carolina there are 59,000, d uc j n g the flimsy under-thtng could lars, but when he lost the judge usually ruled that he should pay one' dbllar and write an apology. His There shduld be no meddling or' federal employees drawing salaries possibly have amounted to over crop restrictions with a hungry j totaling $9,558,000 as compared with ^ us fetching the whole she-bang world before us begging for food. It 37,000 state and local employees tQ $1 00 Well, -the fellow she 1 apolotfes were usually so worded is all Nonsense, stupidity at its worst, drawing salaries totaling $2,9< 1,000, bought it from made 1% (1.00) and'f^ a f they were more to be feared according to a bulletin issued by the i the fellow he bought it from made than the original stories. Citizens National committee. From l% ( 10 0), and there you have $3.00.! When Mr. Bowles told me that this one gathers that those who make ♦ ; story it was evident that he wished Their Status Unknown . The United States now has an up the federal machine are well paid , You know, folks — a Jew 1% he were in a position to be carrying army of alinosLJ7,000,000 men. It is ; and well fed. ... ionly $1.00 added , to an article that on similar battles. He said that he only about 500,000 short of its goal—, Look at another state, Virginia, as cos ^ oo, thus making his selling always meant to’go into the news- a force of 7,400,000 by the end of an example. There are 138,000 fed- p r j ce $2.00. Somebody’s making a paper business himsetC and he un- 1943. jeral employees in that state drawing w ^ a j e 0 j a p ro fjt on cotton goods, doubtedly had in mind .the same Maj. Gen. Lewis Hershey, selective sa l ari S s t°f a l in £ $22,356,000 as com-; anc j a j nt f arni er that’s doing service director, has announced that 1 pared with 58,000 state and local em- i SQ Women generally know what 446.000 of the 6,559,000 men wholP^oy® 65 drawing salaries totaling, are (aiding a bout, and they are have until now been deferred as! $5,160,000. The federal government ^ ^y^g^ qPA or no OPA, that cotton fathers would have to be inducted n °w h as more persons on the taxpay-, goo ds are selling at about twice this year in order to meet the needs ers payroll than the total of all °f|(pi us ) the price they were being of the armed services. The proposal' f* 16 employees of. the 48 states, and handed out a year or so ago. to call fathers, it seems certain, will includes county and city em- be hotly debated when Congress re- P lo y ees -.. . _ „ _ According to Senator Harry Byrd, ~ * 'CITATION FOR LETTERS, ADMINISTRATION The State of South Carolina, Cpunty of Laurens. By J. Hewlette Wasson, Probate Judge: Whereas Mrs^ Iseda E. Hill made suit to me to grant her Letters of Administration of the estate and ef fects of Paul F. Hill. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kin dred and creditors of the said Paul F. Hill, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Laurens Court House, Laurens, S. C., on September 7, 1943, next, after publication here of, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why Gray Funeral Home Clinton, S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS •••3nd**« EMBALMERS Ambulance Service Phones 41 and 399-J L. RUSSELL GRAY and Y. PARKS ADAIR, Gen. Mgra. fighting kind of newspaper which his great-grandfather had publishced. Although Mr. Bowles has never »» uw ™ the said Administration should not got around to publishing a news- j )■ . , paper, he probably saw in the. OPA e gran job an opportunity to get into the Given under my hand this 24th assembles this month. And the call kind of fight he has always de sired. In OPA there is plenty of op portunity to strike at political cor ruption, to help strengthen our gov lor additional men, both fathers and of Virginia, one oLthe^ablest men in TAIXAV TrtM0DD0\A/' ernment anc * to £uard democ- Ivl/AI ■ ■ ■ I Vl’IwIvIVw if racy against the efforts being made non-fathers, would pose many new public service today, 55 per cent of problems upon industry. those persons on the federal payroll rN-_. D/vkJne/M* Fathers under 38 vears of age do; a »'e not directly engaged in the war BV UOD KODinSOTI not know their status how-or what effort. When Thomas Jefferson was to expect in the future. One day they President of the L mted States there are informed they are to be drafted was one federal employee for every day of August, Anno Domini, 1943 J. HEWLETTE WASSON, Judge Probate, Laurens County. 2-2c BENJAMIN & SONS PLUMBING HEATING SERVICE Telephone 117 WE ARE HUNTING TROUBLE umsKtsxxxwsz&sxMsmsu&mmmt to take the government out of the hands of the people It is a good safety first measure to have a man like Mr. Bowles holding one of the most responsible BOWLES — Youth , lor service. The'next' day the" state- 5.308 persons. Now there is one for j When I was a middle-aged man war _ time jobs - in . Wash ington ment is denied by Washington of everv 45 persons. These are heures of 24 I went to see Chester Bowles., every 45 persons. These are figures of 24 I went to see ficials and Congress savs it will not that ou e ht to awaken every citizen newly appointed general manager of Art^prN crkD who has the welfare of his country the Office of Price Administration blAlk AjIxtU rvjK be allowed. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox says he is all confused a * heart, and should cause a revolt about geting a job I felt middle-aged on that visit be- 9% INCREASE IN ItnVn'’ the'cL iftim' of'*fathers There The American people do not object cause I then thought any man who PULPWOOD OUTPUT Smatom ot to t**itin»te expend.tures made for j had. reached the position of being: are iu-t as confused as Mr. Knox. the prosecution of the war, but they head of a large company must ne-j Production of pulpwood to manu- What fathers want is the truth in- are 0 PP° sed to enormous waste. The |cessarily be an old man. And Chest- f ac ^ ure products for vital military -lead of uncertainty And they are' war must be won regardless of the er Bowles, as president of one of the and civilian uses must be increased entitled to reliable information , costs of winning it, but the people largest advertising agencies in the ^ 9 per cent ^ South Carolina dur feel strongly that the time has come 1 country, was only five years older i ng the second six months of- 1943 | —and long since passed—to cut out than I was. At the age of 29 he was t Q meet fhe War Production Board unnecessary expenditures of the gov- a leader in the advertising business q U0 t a f or the state, the Newspaper A Dangerous Yardstick War production officials are dis- ernment, both in the handling of do-[along with his partner, Bill Benton, p u ip WOO d Committee of the Ameri- turbed over the fact that they were 1 mestic affairs at home and the gi- who was an old man of 28. ! can Newspaper Publishers Associa- able to spend only S250;000.000 a day gantic war effort. The war and the To thousands of young men, like'tion announced this week, lor war purposes during July as fourth term campaign are so closely myself, who had just recenty grad-1 The quota for South Carolina, an against an expenditure of almost tied together they cannot be sepa- $300,000,000 in June. The Washing- rated. The Washington officeholders uated from college and wanted a'i m p 0r t an t producer among the ma- writing job, the Benton and Bowles I j or pulpwood states of the North- ton crowd led by President Roosevelt and spenders are organized to look advertising agency was the most de- east, South and Lake areas, is 726,- has one chief thought — spending. af ter their own interests. sirable spot in New York. In addi- 000 cords for the year. Production Millions of dollars in the name of| A report published recently in a tion to the owners of the company I to June 30, as computed by the war emergency have been wasted— national magazine stated there are, being in their twenties, at the time' WPB was 34JL547 cords, which is and will continue to be. , 2,571,000 officeholders and employees 11 saw them there wasn’t a single 14,453 cords or 4 per cent under the the federal service, or 670,0001 man in the whole large organize - This fact disturbs the war pro- in duction officials because it indicates a decrease of 15 per cent in produc more than the whole number of men, I tion who had reached the ripe old women and children, white and col- I age of thirty, tion when the aim of the War Pro- ored in South Carolina. We are also! It was entirely a young man’s duction board is to show a produc- 1 ^°^ d Iff at 3,017,632 persons are em- organization. And every young man tion increase every month. Most peo-: ployed by state and local govern- ple have learned to accept the dollar! men ^ s » niaking a total of 5,589,132 expenditures as a yardstick of pro- employed to govern the American duction, but it is a dangerous method For rough figuring, we suppose daily expenditures do give us an overall picture of how production is going, but taxpayers would be a lot people at home. This will give you only a bit of light as to the federal machine which is kept well oiled and running smoothly. And what is happening in who had had his unrefined ideas frowned upon by “old fogies” sought out Benton and Bowles as one com pany which didn’t measure a man’s ability by his birthdays. THANKLESS — Fight If Mr. Bowles runs the OPA the happier and better satisfied if the I the states of South Carolina and Vir- way he used to run his advertising government could, some month, £inia as cited above, is going on in come through with a report of in-' ever y state in the United States, creased production but decreased ex- ^ff 611 tff® figures of the larger states penditures. We don’t like the idea of visualiz ing production entirely in terms of dollars. It seems rather unhealthy for those of us on the sidelines to begin cheering and throwing up our hats are considered, we are mere pikers. NOBODY'S BUSINESS when the government has managed] 0y GEE McGEE La hrekk a new record in the speed | 1 with which it is able to get rid of i business, we can expect a lot of red tape to be tossed out of the OPA windows, and we can expect to see the end of the “now it’s legal, now jit’s not” regulations which have con tused the whole nation. ; Running the OPA is a thankless job, vyhich invites criticism on all fronts. The OPA’s assignment is entirely one of inflicting necessary restrictions on all of us—whether we are manufacturers, "retaiTers, or just quota for the first half of the year. Unless 377,453 cords are produced before the close of the year, there fore, South Carolina will fall short of its goal. Government requirements for pulpwood, the raw material for mak ing smokeless powder, rayon for parachutes, plastics for airplane parts, weatherproof containers for shipping ammunition, foods, blood plasma, and other supplies for our armed forces and allies overseas, as well as for newsprint and other pa pers, have been computed at 13,- 000,000 cords few 1943. From this overall figure quotas were set up by the War Production Board for each of the pulpwood producing states. Donald M. Nelson, WPB chair man, emphasized the critical nature of the emergency in an appeal to the fanners of all producing states to give extra days to v the cutting another billion dollars of taxpayers’ money. 7,000 Lives Saved For those who like to find silver Now We Know plain consumers. Nobody likes res- I know all about when the war will trictions and most of us are apt to end now. Uncle Joe told me last start swinging each time this new- type police force steps a little too heavily on our toes. As scarcities increase this winter, Friday. He has given it serious thought, and having finished the 4th grade in school 45 years ago he . linings, considerable satisfaction can; knows his geograhy, history and ev- tff^ O pA wlU be for ced to interfere be found in the restrictions on pleas- ; er thing with our lives more and more so that ure driving from the fact that thei ♦ supplies which do remain available of pulpwood in an effort to avert * PREPARE FOR A BETTER POSITION AND A SECURE FUTURE Begin now to fortify yourself for continued employ ment and advancement when the war’s end intensifies competition for good jobs. Acquire an extra business skill, as career insurance. Subjects offered: Every subject we teach has practical business value. Intru^tors are expert in giving personal assistance. Stu dents ,ad\\ince individually, as rapidly as assignments are completed. No age limits. No entrance requirements. Reasonable tuition rates. Modern equipment. CREDITS RECOGNIZED BY THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCA TION. Fall Term Opens: Day School September 7 Night School October 4 GREENWOOD COLLEGE OF COMMERCE . 205 Textile Building GREENWOOD, SOUTH CAROLINA Phone 2562 number of deaths from automobile i Uncle Joe says that as soon as them i can h® shared by as many people accidents declined 37 per cent during R U -shions get ridt of them It-layans as possible. Food rationing will un- the first half of 1943. jthat are fighting them in Bull-gary,!doubtedly become a lot more string-) Records of the Metropolitan Life an d run them Ru-manians out of the ent and some of us will blame the i Insurance company show that in the i ukey-raine, and push them Hungry- OPA rather than the war for many! first six months of the present year; ar j ans behind the Dellmation forests, scarcities. “a threatened 2,500,000. cord short age” this year Receipts of domestic pulpwood at the mills, the War Pro duction Board estimates, were 24 per cent short of requirements at the half-year, while inventories were 23 per cent under those on tHe corresponding date in 1942. Five government departments and war agencies are cooperating in the Victory Pulpwood Campaign which was launched early this month. The the mortality rate from automobile things will break for the Alleys, accidents was 11.6 per J.00,000 £s against a rate of 18.4 for the first six months of 1942. This means ap- It is surprising that a man of Mr. Bowles’ ability is willing to walk ihtb the Germans this lion-tamer type of job where he Uncle Joe thinks will retreat backwards until they knows a hundred million people will proxinrvately 12,000 people were killed reach the Poor-land border and will be ready to snap at him whenever; by automobiles in the first six months, then throw down everything they he makes a mistake, of 1943 as against approximately might have to tote and make a bee- But possibly it was this danger 19,000 during the same period of Une for the German border and there which whetted his appetite for the 1942. Thus the restrictions on driv-jthey will hide behind some barracks job. For Mr Bowles comes from a ing and the 35-mile-an-hour wartime j the Jecks and Frenchies and the New England family which has a speed limit can be credited with sav- J Danishes and the Bell-jums (all of reputation for relishing a fight for ing over 1,000 lives per month. When which is slaves) have built and then speedy and reckless driving is re- j we will have to smoke them out duced, the casualty list is always smaller. Safety officials and experts are studying this record with keen in terest, and well they should. They realize that after the war there will be more cars and more speed thanimonth later, then if a few honest ever before—but they hope to find Germans can be found, they will su^ some lessons in wartime restrictions which will aid in “saving lives when motoring returns to normal. They know the solution cannot rest on limiting the use of automobiles, for people are going to ride if they can get the rubber and gas. But un- thru Turkey. He believes Hitler will be shot by his own men within the next six months and that Goering will take over and hold till he gets shot a a worthwhile cause. render and ask for jhe best peace terms Stalin has to offer. He don’t think that all of the Germans ougth to be killed on account of Hitler: fifty per cent will be enough. Uncle Joe aint so sure about the LIBEL — Apologies Mr Bowles once told me about the fights enjoyed by his great grandfather, Samuel Bowles, who was publisher of a famous news paper in Springfield, Mass. Samuel Bowles was a crusader who was feared by all organizations who were tuying to put anything over on the public. “JJecause of his fearlessness in fighting organisa tions,” Mr. Bowles told me, “my great-grandfather had libel suits on his hands almost continuously. Us ually the suits were for a million dol- HEADQUARTERS — for — USED CARS ALL MAKES —ALL MODELS Timmerman Motor Co. Carolina Service Station Clinton, S. C. INSURANCE Fire - Tornado - Automo bile •'Surety Bonds - AD Forms of Property Insurance. SOUND PROTECTION " AT LOWEST COST. REAL ESTATE B. H. BOYD Clinton, S. C. 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