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Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C Thursday, September 9, 1943 £hr QUinton (Hhrontrlr Established 1900 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 cboperation 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 nature. Anonymous communications will I not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondent^. t when the time comes for me to leave of the services for which We normal- home; ly give tips will gradually be dis- This query relates strictly to arith metic. Do you “reason” well, arriv- FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 20th day of September, 1943, I will render a final account of my acts and doings continuted. As the draft and war in-iing at fair conclusions? Well, let’s I Have Been Telling My Farm dustries absorb more manpower, we i see. What is wages? The earnings n Tenants Goodbye lean expect to have to shine our own*for work; and the money so earned j I am afflicted with several farms, shoes, carry our own luggage in ho-! is your living. Is there orily one las Executrix of the estate of J. F. 11 enjoy farmipg when I don’t have tels, eat in self-service restaurants kind of wages? | Milam in the office of the Judge of to endorse or waive or furnish or and watch our own hats instead of| Are not the NET profits of a taer-j 0 * Laurens County, at 10 o’clock a.m., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from stand for or supply the fertilizer or leaving them in check rooms. There chant his wages? We call them prof do any repair work on residences, will thus be less and less reason for;its, but aren’t they wages? barns and outhouses When a land- tipping. ^ j Is not the rent received by an lord breaks even he has % done well, When the details of , our better owner of property his wages. -nie| m y ^ru^as xwu nx^ but if he fools with a farm too much world of tomorrow are worked fcut, • landlord needs his rents; they are his j r ^ ull ^ to Sak e he will not only not break even but Iet us h that our economic planning: the merchant needs his prof-, ^ ^ ^ ^ 1 W he will go broke. I have been badly ners will ^ forget to relegate its; they are his living: the ^^jSSoM havtag dates again* «5d bent for several years: it will take ent tinninv habits tn the iunkhean needs his wages; they are his living. P-f 8 ”" 8 .^ving claims agamsx saia 25c cotton to make my tenants think and substitute a clan whereby em-' If 1116 laborer is entitled to a higher wdl present them on or before more of rte • ■ wm be req^red .o pay thSr 1 Pay-scale because the things he buys j ^ date, duly proven, or be forever i employees instead of leaving it up ar ® Jngh er > why shouldn t the land , lord share in that prosperity? Does not he buy the same goods as the MRS. FANELLA B. MILAM, Executrix. CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1943 Retribution The ironv of retribution of history Well, I have just visited my farms to us for the last time before leaving for T , . . . .. . M ^ my work in Washington. One man .''’ant to give tips for super others 9 Yet many cry aloud for more ^"^ cw wanted his bam re-weather-boarded. ^ V1C ®J amused ^ereTy’t^re^ve pay for laborers - and demand that, C i XATION FOR LETTERS Another wanted new windows and our tips . are U8ed . merely to relieve e ^ be controlled or stabilized. Is* CITATTON FOR LETTERS T — window lights tn his house. Still an- an employer of giving his help fair: prospe P rity for one group, or for ev-1 ADMINISTRATION the pole and our ways of living are : othe r good man said in order to keep^f 55 ’ the whole point of tipping is The State of South Carolina, decidedly dissimilar. from getting his neck broke, I’d have destroyed. We would like to see No : Nobody understands Russia or its to floor his front pi-azza. Another ! . s,gns \ r \, 1 estab-| Someone has written a book in' County of Laurens. By J. Hewlette Wasson, Probata is shown by the report that after stator, Stalin. In the war confer-■ friend said that he was tired jump- ; ls hments and if we still wai j{\ ^Iwhich he insists on the anti-poll tax Judge _ _ i devastation of Poland, Germans ar ^ ences be t W een Roosevelt and Church-! ing out of his front piazza and de - rexvar d som eone who does something and anti _j im c row i aw as^ essential Whereas C S. Cleland made suit to now being bombed tuit of er in ancl he has ^ e j d himself a i 00 f and re- demanded new steps, cost' $14.00. I’d ex ra ° r ua ^ at W1 b ® entirely a s t e ps toward the solution of the racial m ® }° grant him Letters of Adminis- seeking refuge in Polish territory. fused to enter into the deliberations, pay his folks 10-cents a jump fromi persQda act no concern to th e Why, nobody knows except Stalin, now on, but they prefer steps. j management. ^ This attitude-can be explained in * -— One of my tenants grows some A Private Citizen Speaks His Mind The Farmer's Job It has long been understood that a * or l he reason that there are. man must be comparatively’wealthy ihajor differences, of opinion between C attl e . He wanted ir new P astu re P - - Anglo-American powers and fence, 4 cow stalls, a rabbit gum, a ! jPcCIdlOr LOITl 1116111$ lb. 10-penny nails to do) On Men and Things problem in the South. I can’t im- i ^ at * 0 ” ^ IJ 1 ® es t a *® an d effects of agine that any thoughtful colored Maggie C. Boyd, the foreign 1 Russia. Much complaint has been f r ow to split some boards with, and minister would think those matters so important; certainly those meas ures would not solve anything. Those measures did not produce the race problems; they grew out of the prob- !lem. The poll tax agitation seems toi in order to be able tb accept a posi tion as ambassador to a foreigi. , , , ^ country. Under present conditions it ^ eal d Russia about the lack of abou t 25 _ _ ( looks like a man will need the same ^ second front and little appreciation certain repair jobs about and about, j qualification in, order to keep on expressed for the millions of dollars They are all powerful good workers! Would it be disastrous to change' the P o11 tax revenue goes to the farming ' ** war aid W6 are furnishing that and slow spenders, so I have sr - presidents during a war or while ne-'^^^^ the? respective counties. | nation. As to when and how that ra nged to take care of their demands, foliating the peace? | The colored people are very proud of P/\r»f/sefrc Nlrtw P/tmilsir ;major operation is to be made must f ii ke to farm while crops are grow- _ _ V_0nrest§ riQW ropuiar be determined by our own military j ng and plenty of rain falls when if we have more than one able man i take one eent from them You will find a masculine repro- chiefs and not the Russians. crops need rain, but stuff sure looks i n all America, we are not so de- ^1 efforts at legislation are coer- bate here and there who would be Russia has done an outstanding bad now. intensely interested in such endur-. fighting job in this waf, as we all These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kin dred and creditors of the said Mag gie C. Boyd, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the* Court of Probate, to be held at Laurens ■^be largely a misunderstanding; all Court House, Laurens, S. C., on Sep tember 23, 1943, next, after publica tion hereof, at 10 o’clock in the fore- ^ ^ noon, to show cause, if any they If our nation is a'country of law; l h ^[ r schools and would not wish to ^ t^ ie gr a nt d ed Adniin ^ trati0n Given under my hand this 4th day of September, Anno Domini 1943. ’ J. HEWLETTE WASSON, ' lfi-2c J. P. L. C. pendent that our success is wholly i ? lve - Southern white men will not ,bound up to one person." If, however,'y*®M to coercion; nor can better rela- unce tests as would determine which gladly admit. Stalin is the first man j We had too much rain for 4 weeks jjhe government of this republic has tions grow out df force woman could make silk stockings, if;to stop Hitler, and had it not been and for the next 5 weeks it didn’t become merely the PERSONAL pos- any. last the longest, and which of for the strength and superiority their even cloud up. Cotton stalks are all session of one man, to be guided and InrnA SwPPfr Pnfnfn the darlings could. win the laurels armies have demonstrated it is hard undressed. The few little bolL5 on governed b y whims* caprices and JWCCI rururo in the matter of putting off the pur- to predict what might already have these stalks are already open and f anc i es 0 f t he moment—then our so-lCfOp 1$ Predicted chase of a new coat. happened to both the British and much of the cotton has been picked.! ca u ed government by the people is! Americans. The people of this nation The boll, weevils didn t get off as j us t an i d i e dream. . j Columbia, Sept. 4. South Carolina do not admire Russia and her form I light as we did because of the j i s Mr. Roosevelt the one indis-! farmers will probably gather this of governmeri;—they do admire theinj drought: they died, and we are left j pensab i e man ? i n the p irst World! fall the largest sweet potato crop home W. L. Taylor Our contemporary. The Laurens great fighting qualities and successes Advertiser, spoke editorially last against the Hitler regime, week in the highest terms of W. L.j Bute when we are fighting a war Taylor, retired mail carrier and for- s j de ^ s j de a g a j ns ^ an enemy set mer. newspaper man. who pa*>ed on des t r oying all mankind if pos- away recently at his home in L au “ , s i b ie, there is every reason to expect r ens an understanding to grow up be- The Chronicle desires to add a tween our nation and Russia which word of appreciation of Mr. Taylor, would take years to bring about in a personal friend of the writer's, and normal times. That understanding, a gentleman in the finest sense of the it seems, has not yet been reached, term. We had known him for-a num- though we are all in the highest ber of years and appreciated his fine terms praising the work that Soviet qualities. Men of his character are Russia is doing in the Allied cause, i Please” sign is a welcome If It Is a Magazine that yon want, see . .. JAMES W. CALDWELL The Magazine Man to tell the tale: I have a few more, War the British removed their lead-!ever produced in this state and Agri-j turns to attend to before I lea\e; er a rea n v ereat man—Prime Minis- ^nituro rv.mmtecir.nai. t t>™ [004V... TOMORROW Bv Don Robinson er, a really great man—Prime Minis- culture Commissioner J. Roy Jones ; ter Asquith—and tried Lloyd George, sa jd today he hopes ample prepara- 1 1 during which the heat and strain of, tion will be made by them to care i that terrible war; the French tried for the crop during the winter several leaders of government and months finally chose the Old Tiger, Clemen-1 He suggested that all potalo curing T ‘ , .ihouses be utilized and that others be . " th “ »•*?•*»“ constructed where it is feasible to do battle we have made changes, both so know „ Mr . Joncs ^ ‘that; many potatoes are bankecTbut I also too few. We can take it for granted, how- in the army and navy; and so far as TIPS—Wages civilian leadership is concerned, so To most of us a "No Tipping, many changes have been made that ( community in the state ome addition (we can't remember the names. The X ^0^ accesTto re^?ar to any restaurant, barber shop or ser- j British and French changed their su- Mr. Taylor was the sort of citizen ever, that. Russia is just as anxious vice establishment in which we ex- pi erne commanders of the land and many were proud to call friend and as we are to have peace after this his going away brings deep regret to war. Undoubtedly Russia will want many who will miss him and cher- to have a lot to say at the peace ish his memory. conference, and rightly so. There curing houses and who do success- pected to have to hand out nickels |.naval forces during the First World whUer^ban£ ^M^ suw^t^t and dimes to anyone who spoke to us. j changes of commanders in this war. lfar ^ ers w £ 0 have Ui resort to ba^k- Originally, tipping was practiced I War, and the British have made many. ^ their ootatoes obtain information merely as a means of showing our jin fact, the British started w-h INSURANCE Fire - Tornado - Automo bile - Surety Bonds • All Forms of Property Insurance. SOUND PROTECTION AT LOWEST COST. REAL ESTATE B.H.B0YD Clinton, S. C. The Plonners Still Plan New Deal planner^-spenders are pj e — and ge j ^ planning all the time. Their basic p e0 pi e 0 f our country shouli philosophy is this: If it s good, the rpake every possible effort to under government should regulate it or n- nance it, but by all means the gov- may be disagreements'at that time ! appreciation for good service. If a; Chamberlain as head of the govern-, and use e care . a ... over the terms of' Settlement. Russia wa ^ r > ess arranged to get our ham- ment and now have Mr. Churchill. y ear » may be counted, upon to demand a burger cooked just the way we liked;Should they have kept Mr. Chamber-' ernment should control it. Just now two new far-reaching control bills are before Congress: 1. To provide doctors, nurses, hos pitalization—everything—and to tax every payroll 12 per cent; 6 per cent stand and sympathize with the Rus sian viewpoint, and we have a right to expect the Russians to do the same w.ith us. We will both have the same final aim of a long-lasting peace, al though our plans lor achieving that aim may widely differ. It is hard not to look upon Russia from the employer and 6 per cem suspicion. But this we should from the employee. The surgeon gen- jj-y do j n hope of understand- eral in Washington would decide j ng g i an ^ nation’s problems and what doctor you should call—and all ambitions that. It aims at the complete sociali- j — ^ zaticn of medicine. — 2. A forestry bill would disregard, the states and put all forests under supervision and control of bureau crats in Washington. What is a for-1 est? •'Land bearing a growth of trees of any age,” etc. Of course, the bill 1 promises money (they all do) to the states, and all the usual soothing syrup, but it has all the earmarks' NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE It Won’t Be Long Now I am getting ready to make my of ‘ a F perni C io U s"*land-grabbing, wit'h! debut into -Washington politics and the federal government running the SOCJa l bfe, that 1 s— as much ^ oc,a ^ farmers’ tiny patches of woodland. , bf ® as a country fellow can absorb. It will only be a short while now Being its betwixt seasons, I am untiriindividual freedom will be gone sort of bothered about wTiat to take unless voters have a house-cleaning a l° n 6 -with me. It s too- early for in Washington. fal1 th,n | s and t too late for summer i things. First, I am throwing away A , C j. n m y good panama hat, but the wool AnOiher spending rrOjCCl hats for the coming season have not South Carolina school participating—m—the feeding program will be children arrived in town yet. Looks like I’ll lave to go -bare-headed, allocated i it, or if a botblack gave us an extra lain rather than-swap horses while good shine, it seemed a natural thing crossing the stream? to do to say "Thank you” with a tip. { We hear it said that we must not, NOTICE OF SALE Pursuant to-an Order of the Pro- But as this practice became more make a change because the peace- bate Court for Laurens County, State universal, employers soon took ad-; table negotiations mifst be in the South Carolina, in the matter ofj vantage of it by reducing wages and!same hands. No American ought to * be P au l v U*ll, deceased, making employees depend on. tips! say that If he has read the history * WI se * a * auction to the highest for their living Thus hotels, restau- j of the United States he recalls that rants, shoe shine parlors, barber just such arguments were used to shops, railroads, etc., began enticing persuade George Washington to ac- people to work for them by telling them of the prospects for good tips rather than th® assurance of good wages. As a consequence, these employ ees now expect tips whether their service is good or bad and are more apt to grumble over a tip being too small than show any appreciation over being given a tip at all. When tipping reached the point cept a third term as president; but Washington never enjoyed the idea of a nation with only one man in it. And of all men who might have fancied themselves indispensable, who has been in Washington's place, the first president, of a republic whose very existence was due prin cipally to him; and whose interest and paternal solicitude might surely have justified hinvini thinking that no one bidders for cash on the 18th day of Gray Funeral Home Clinton^ S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS ...and... EMBALMERS Ambulance Service Phonee 41 and 399-J L. RUSSELL GRAY and V. PARKS ADAIR, Gen. Mgra. where Emily Post and other authori- i could take his^lace. But though in ties on good manners began telling [ manner an aristocrat he believed that the public what tips were expected | a democracy must prove its capacity of them for various services, it sim-! to live by trial and error; and that ply meant that management had sue-' no decocracy worthy the name was ceeded in establishing a practice j dependent on one man. Only Mr. which lilted millions of dollars from Roosevelt and his vast army of hang- September, 1943, at the office of Rob ert S. Owens,-Attorney at Law, in the Jacobs Building, at Clinton, S. C., j between the hours of ten o’clock A. M. and noon, the following de- ~ 7 scribed personal property of the es- tate of the said Paul F. Hill, de ceased:— Five shares of the Class A their own payrolls. WAITER S—Business Common Stock of The Hallmark Shirt Co., Inc., of the par value of! $1.00 per share; Five shares of the] 6% Preferred Stock of The Hallmark J Shirt Co., Inc., of the par value of; $100.00 per share; One 1938 Model ( Dodge Coach. All bids to be received by Robert S. Owens, attorney for, the undersigned. Mrs. Leda E. Hill as Admin- | istratrix of the estate of Paul F. Hill, Deceased. ers-on would talk such foolishness I Dated at Clinton, S. C., as the one essential man. That is all tommy rot; the invention of politic Sept. 7th, 1943.—16-2c. BENJAMIN & SONS PLUMBING ..juid. M HEATING SERVICE Telephone 117 WE ARE HUNTING TROUBLE At a luncheon I recently attended !^ ns wh « s ® brea d is buttered by Mr. in one of New York’s biggest-hotels,'R 005 ®^ or m wh °se name they each waiter had a table of ten peo- P* - ®® 0 themselves like strutting pea- pie to serve. The service at my table i co <-' k s. was particularly bad. The waiter * have no axe to grind; nothing to fairly threw thp food at us and took^ ^ thiough Mr; Roosevelt Q.T.| no interest in whether his customers an y other politician; but I have the $1,564,300 to be spent for school] My old overcoat ain’t fit for Penn- lunches this year, it is announced | sylvania avenue and would look from the food distribution adminis-; worse on Massachusetts avenue,, My tration headquarters in Columbia.. last winter’s suit won’t work oyt: I The general assembly has provided' thought it would till this morning, funds to supplement the amount. 'Besides the two holes in the elbows, The federal government, it *is stat- i the mohts have made 4 more holes in ed, will reimburse each school as jit, two on each side of the second high as 9 cents per pupil per day. front button. My heavies will be OK The purchase *of food,'its prepara-'in two months, but my lighties are tion and serving are functions of the too thin for next month. All of my school lunch division of the state de- ties are so saturated with gravy, partment of education. This means,eggs and molasses. I’ll ha>^ to dis- that hot lunch supervisors have been card them altogether, appointed in all the , participating counties, which means the creation I have two pairs of shoes, one pair of more jobs to be paid by taxpay- is a 1939 model and the other pair is ers The school districts applying for white, nought last year, two sizes too the federal aid will be called upon small, and they pinch my heels. I to supplement the funds by furnish- can’t afford to walk through the halli ing cooks and supplying supplemen- of the lower house a-limping. Tht tary rations either in cash or sup- congressmen might take me for £ plj es ( lame duck. My socks simply ain’t. 1 The Chronicle does not believe in don’t know how I have been getting spending money for this or many along with such socks, but being at others projects that are not neces-'home ain’t like being among strang- sary If we have nearly two million j ers. I’ll have to locate a few pairs dollars to spend it should go to win-!with only one hole in each sock, and ning the war. Right now the federal | R must be at the top. government'is begging the public to , * . - I have already got my medicines ready. I’ll have a special grip for them. Nope, I ain’t sick, but I sim ply must have my medicines. I think I shall take along about 9 different kinds. Naturally, I’ll turn up on some new medicines in Washington, and I shall of course want to try them. You needn’t ynile: all of you take medi cines pf some kind and mebbe sev eral kinds . , V and you ain’t sick either. It’s just an old neighborhood custom. I’ll be r ready and waiting loan it money through the purchase of bonds to help prosecute the war. Feeding children is the responsi bility of their parents—not the fed eral or state government. The Russian Mystery * There will probably always be a lot of mystery surrounding the true nature of relations between this country and Russia. Our forms of government are at opposite ends of had what they wanted. But when tipping time came I saw solemn conviction that the welfare of ou^ country requires the complete i lim take a quarter and a half dollar ^ r " R° oseve R an d all out of his pocket, put it on a plate bls henchmen, as “bait” and then begin passing the plate to each person at the tabid.! Old Hickory, Andrew Jackson When anyone put less than a quartermight have served three or four on his plate he uttered a sneering terms. Says a great historian: “Above sound which made it clear what kind all men of his times Jackson was the of a cheapskate he thought that per- 1 idol, the oracle, the teacher of the son was. When someone gave him a great unformed democracy.” Jack- quarter he neither sneered nor look-’son .retired, though so strong, politi- ed pleased. His only -expression of cally that he dominated the country pleasure came when one man put 50 by force of his personality, cents on the plate. To him the waiter! President Grant, who had a great mumbled “Thanks.” claim on the North, and might have In such places tipping base become^ been publicized by press agents as entirely a business transaction. But the great national savior, did not ?ven in the smallest service estab-! fancy himself entitled to remain in lishments tips pre now taken for the presidency forever, though the granted. whole South was seething and al- Because tips amount to a fairly : most ready for guerilla warfare be- >mall proportion of a bill, the public | cause of Carpet-bagger and negro nas not complained too much about!rule The brewing national insur- the practice,* but practically everyone rection; even the operations of the would be pleased to get back to the i Ku Klux Klan, didn’t make necessary old-fashioned method of giving a tip!the continuance of President Grant, only for exceptional service instead of as a contribution toward wages. In most cases, today, it is the man agement, and not the person to whom | we give a tip, who gets Ihe full bene fit of our generosity. MANPOWER—Non-essential As I looked over the recently pub lished list of types of jobs which the War Manpower commission considers unessential, I was impressed by the fact that it included so many occu pations which commonly call for tip ping This uigioubtedly means that many How “good” are you “at figures”? HEADQUARTERS, — for— / USED CARS ALL MAKES —ALL MODELS Timmerman Motor Co. Carolina Service Station Clinton, 8. C. Modern Home Loan Financing . . . takes skill, experience, plus a broad understanding of real estate values. There’s usually one best plan to fit any situation. We know so many of the answers that you can have a Citizens Federal program to fit your property and your ability to buy it. * You are the one to be pleased. Our job here is to see that you are. When you decide to buy or remodel, we will be glad to show you the way to save some real money. 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