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Poge Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. Thursdoy, September 23, 1943 (Clinton (ElpronirU EsUbUahed 19— WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday Ry 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. Cf. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers— the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. i/ . I won’t like the place. They tell me . . of certaih localities to avoid and so CADET SERGEANT on and on and on, as if I didn’t know j. what I’m getting into. CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1943 Anyway ... I am going to render the best services possible to my em ployer. I am not going to loaf on the job or depend upon anybody to do; my work. If I can help my good old' ; Uncle Sam on the side to win thisj I war, I’ll do that too. I am having a! little bit of trouble getting a room; close enough to my office so’s I caiv Jp I foot it at least twice a day. My lastj ' trip to the capital taught me to stay, . off buses, street cars and other places of scuffling. I hate to leave my home town. There ain’t any better place than An derson, with our schools, churche | chamber of commerce, and otht matters of a civic nature. If the! | by we can ! turbulent waters come crashing out of the home -' f ° Iks shou ' d m T iss ™ T waters of war and float , P er T 1 * 8 ?, ? S Learning At Home H Yvakcio u4 _ _ Many a man, perhaps, can sit on ; smoothly int0 a placid havfen eco-lj .y* 11 feel , hke 1 7 the back steps with his little boy andj nom j c stability. There just isn’t any fellow - man to a small extent. I hive get as much joy out of life and learn 1 stability left lying around after na- about as much as some who take anions get through chewing each oth- long trip to some distant point. | er > s ears No Longer A Power Mussolini may again become a nominal ruler (the chances are re mote ) over some section of Italy for a brief season, but he will miss nis navy, his army and whatever meas ure of esteem he enjoyed before he became a vassal of Germany. His power is gone—his day is over.. never thought before how much the word “home” means to me. It’s hard to leave here, but it’s all settled. I’ll j . „ „ do the best I can in Washington and ^Various ways must be de yis e d ^of not f or g e t my friends “back there.” * (P.S.: I intend to keep my column a-going). Some Strange Twists There are some strange twists in' the activities of the government that cannot be explained. In multiplied instances it pays four or six peopf£ for doing the work of two, and even recompenses loafers, while there are other groups which it calls upon io work for nothing — including the newspapers. — After the War—What? What will business be like when the war is over? That question is taking up some of the slack between full employment and serious unem ployment. One way, no doubt, will be the retaining of three or four mil lion potentially unemployed in the army, navy and'air force. It is all right to believe that we are going to devise a scheme to stop wars for all time. Maybe we are— biff! people have been trying tor do ^his for several thousand years and they have not been very successful. Maybe this time we will “put it over’’—but we had better keep a fat fighting force in readiness just in case we do not. A big fleet on the coast, an air force to cover them and to see that ho enemy fleets can reach our shores; and a mechanized army of two mil lion husky Americans— would have TODAY... TOMORROW Bv Don Robins&n GARDENS—Jan Although no canning census has been taken, the record sale of glass jars during the past three months leaves little doubt that there are more quarts of home-canned vege tables in America’s closets today than at any time in the history of our country. AVIATION CADET DOYLE J. HALL, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hall, of this city, who has just com pleted the army’s primary flight * training course at Th underbird field, Glendale, Arts., has began his basic flight training at Gardner field, Taft, Cal. At Th underbird field he was a cadet sergeant. Prior to entering the army air force at Nashville, Tenn., In March, he at tended Presbyterian college. age back-yard garden has yielded a lot more than was ever expected. The supply of home-canned goods is so great that farmers would , prob ably be worried about soiling their produce if it weren’t for the great amount of food our government is sending out of the country. After the war the back-yard garden could offer real competition to fanners except for the fact that when vegetables are plentiful and cheap it will take little urging to persuade most of us ama- . I - Some women have become can- been very nice things to have had|ning fiends. Starting in timidly by ^ ^ ^ around upon certain occasions—and [ putting up a few jars of beans, their | ^ur gardenem^to* stop digging may come in mighty handy some first success^ inspired them to go in time in the future. A strong post-1 for canning in a big way. As their war army, navy and air force willJ horde of » beautiful glass-encased being asked by millions of people., f u t ure insurance without | vegetables grew, their desire for Your guess is probably as good as the other fellow’s. Will there be a big buying boom? If so, will manufacturers be able to meet the public’s demands? In an effort to answer these ques tions and to avoid a major depres sion after the war—which is entirely possible — manufacturers will soon want to line up their potential cus tomers for automobiles, refrigerators, washing machines, radios, home equipment, and numerous other which we may not hope to avoid more became insatiable. I know of another catastrophe. NOBODn BUSINESS By GEE McGEE one woman who has put up over 600 jars of vegetables and that prob ably isn’t close to a record. Canning has reached the stage where a woman in a small town feels like A Private Citizen Speaks HU Mind Spectator Comments On Men and Things Surely of all articled of diet we Southerners have depended most on corn, ground corn, com that has been broken up, milled, converted or re duced to such small particles as to be a conglomeration of molecules, more or leu. Now this processed com is known to us as meal and grits. You could say “grist,” but when we cook grist we call it grits. No, that won’t do. We have no grist, we have grits. When cooked “done,” af ter being soaked all night, something results which, with hain-gravy, beef- gravy, batter, or just anything, will make you believe that General Grant surrendered to General Lee at Appo- matox. And, mark you, this delec* table dish is a humble food, but stands with«.^dlgnity all its own. We call it hpminy. This unassuming dish is served every morning in every home of vigor and vim. The plough- boy “eats his fill” and goes forth to the wear and tear of the long day; the merchant, the lawyer, the doctor —all the hardy ones—go forth to the battle of life nourished and sustained by hominy. When a man “goes off” hominy and goes out to the fray with a wee bit of this and a trickle of tomato juice he is no longer able to fight in the front-line trenches. No, sir; he must be on the staff. However it may be, what was my astonishment when, upon entering! the sanctum of a wizard of finance) I found a bag—small paper J)£g—of, grits sitting in the cool of- his office | window. And he was so proud, he I was distinctly cocky, if he had found i a bottle of 1780, something left in Charleston by retreating English; or 1 a demijohn smuggled in about 1812) from the private stock of Napoleon— | this I could have understood as ac counting for his rubbing his hands ^ in gleeful possessiveness. But it was| a bag of grits; this near-millionaire was exulting over the prospect of hominy for breakfast! Americans are fed up with re forms. A recent Gallup poll resulted in 50% expressing a preference for America as she was; 32% wanted more reform; 10% were undecided. The 32% would be about equal to all those now drawing Federal pay, together with their kindred, don’t you think? BAY, *T SAW IT IN THE CHRON ICLE.” THANK YOU. Faith, Hope and Charity I takes faith, hope, charity, ferti things—including airplanes. With the hzer .labor, and money to grow cot- world-wide boost aviation because safe prediction that this mode of big crops, the stuff was cheap; when making'"veBetabTeT laTt 1 ' throuclTthe' £° ^ transportation will become common- 7 £rew sorry crops, and scarcely none w i n ter P1 ^ am * w ^ en to place. ~ 'at all, everything was high, includ When (his war " is over it will be i n 8 whc^t I didn’t produce. The New Deal, with Senator Wag ner as spokesman, as frequently in ■ a Conversational outcast if she ^ past, now proposes to expand can’t tell about her experiences withl SO ci a i security at a cost of 12% of j deserted, most of the remainder be- pressure cookers, her theories on pre- payroll— on employers and 6%!ing killed, wounded or captured. Of serving vitamins, her difficulties over on employees. It is fine of course, 75,000 Germans, perhaps 40,000 led Here is what the Allies did' in Sicily: “Defeated 300,000 enemy troops.. Thereby they eliminated the Italian Sixth Army, of which more than half timing and sterilizing and the yield except the 12% and all the hundreds by one-armed General Hans Valen- of her Victory garden. As a subject 0 f thousands of New Dealers who;tine Hube, escaped to the Italian of conversation, for this fall at least, j WO uld be given nice fat jobs to tell mainland. Estimated Allied casual- even talk about bringing up babies ;US what to do. If I catch the'Tiu- ties: 22,000. “Destroyed or captured, in the first 30 of the 38 days,’ 260 tanks, 502 give the baby sooth- guns, 1,691 planes. Allied losses:. 103 I that has come to ton. I have farmed off and on for 35 HLn««inn iUS What 10 do ’ 11 1 catch me * u - of the war it is a years, bust mostly off. When I grow h f s take se ^ ond place to ^ussion manitanan spir it, the basic idea ♦hof fKio bier crons the stuff was rh*an- whon of P r °P er and improper, methods of ; wou i d be to tell us when to take a a difficult job for industry to shift from making war equipment to man- jing syrup and when to use. a kid- The Victory gardens of 1943 are ney piaster—and all that, you know, now being carefully stored away in' At last the New Deal has taken the , . , 'jars—and they probably constitute a . %rc ,.,5 . . . , 7.. I have good tenants on my farms. ;bi| enough supply to keep millions ' phy , a ln har \ d ’ a " d wlU >oon ufactunng the civilian goods they A year or so ago I had a “faith, hope 0 f neoole well nourished throughout have 1116 nurses * den tists and drug- made before the outbreak. Unless and charity” tenant. His reports were the^whffer no matter how scarce they plan tar ahead, and are given something like the following: |canne" goods mTy b«ome on the assurance they will not be interfered » I grocers’ shelves. with by permanent government reg-i Just 1st. “My cotton’s up to a good ulations or attempted control, it stand. It’s all chopped out, dirted and SAVING—Money would seem almost certain that they looking fine. Counting on 30 bales; From the bookkeeping standpoint, would be forced to curtail operations this year. Nope, don’t need a thing;these home-grown, home-canned during the shift period and put mil- in the world except good cotton vegetables constitute a real dollars lions of men out of work. And that 1 weather.” would be enough to set off a major depression in short order. j June 15th. “Had fine rain last But if industry knows it will be | night. My cotton’s knee high, pretti- allowed to expand to meet new needs est I ever saw. Found a few squares —if it can be assured of immediate this morning. Not a weevil in sight, customers and is persuaded by the , Feel sure of 35 bales of cotton this and cents economy. I’he average Vic tory garden, even if it wasn’t too successful, undoubtedly more than paid for the investment in seeds, sprays, fertilizers and jars for pre serving. If the backaches from cultivating gists, too. I’m prompted to repeat what I’m telling the physicians: “You know that a bill is on the calendar* of the United States senate tanks, 250 guns, 274 planes. “Gained more than 20 airfields and at least four first-rate ports (Ca tania, Syracuse, Palermo, Trapani). There they don firm control of the Mediterranean, held vital spring-! boards, for further assault on Eu-| rope. Gave battle experience to an in-! which would socialize medicine. It is I vasion deet 3,267 ships, an inva the Murray-Wagner bill (senate bill| slon army °* P €rha PS 300,000 men.” for expanding social security). public to shift to civilian manufac-: year. That ain’t hay at 21c per lb.” and the heartaches over crop fail- turing even faster than it shifted to war work in 1941—maybe a depres-! July 1st. “To much rain for cotton, sion may be averted. Ain’t plowed in 12 days. Grass is ures were included in cost the profit might be questionable, but most vic tory gardeners are willing to charge This means that the public should fc> adt Sharp-shooters doing lots of up those items on their profit and cooperate with manufacturers on all damage. Found four punctured 1 loss statements to experience or to studies which will be made to deter- squares on one stalk of cotton yes- ! exercise. mine what we are actually going to terday. If this keeps up, I won’t make 1 In one town, where Victory gar- buy during the first year following your rent.” dens were operated on a town-wide the war. The answer is all-important j ♦ basis as a co-operative proposition, for business. ^ August 1st. “My cotton crop looks it is estimated that the average fam- * * sick of a fever. Shedding badly. Wee- ily got $10 worth of vegetables for Normol Lows Wrecked vlls everywhere, large bolls falling each dollar it invested in a garden. Advocates of government spending off ’ ho PPers clipping off all young! Since the average investment .was and deficits without limit should now fruit> ex Pect to cultivate again if it ’ around $15, it would mean that the take a good look at their theories in ever stops -raining. Would like to | co-operating families got about $150 action. The only limit* the New Deal i have about $ 2a to carry me through worth of produce at -current retail regime places on deficits is the speed 1*’^ September 1st. I am sure you’ll with which borrowed money can be spent. There is no use kidding ourselves or letting the Washington crowd fool us. The country has been rocked back, back on its heels, and it cannot get your rent.’ August- 15th. “Never saw such weather for cotton. Leaves,’' squares and bolls all over the cotton middles. Sorry now I used so much fertilizer, ail be blamed on "the ’facTtharm^t! 9^ e twice as much as I will make of productive effort is being shot ? etter be Poking for another tenant away in the war. Skyrocketing pub-! for ? ext y ear - Sorry the government lie debt had wrecked normal laws | won 1 Pfy us what c0tton s worth - 30c of supply and demand and savings P® 1 " long before the war began. The pros-1 0 * 1 n “Ig » . pect of state socialism has been im- 1 .. ♦ Ut :i weeds ’ , bu S s and Vegetables fight for measurably increased as a result of . tle blt b * tter tha " I thought, but not survival, were more than repaid for the ever-rising monument to ‘heir efforts. Wasteful spenders have had—and are J , my f* lea ^ , Pales, still having-their day. '° ld land aint much account ’ been prices. The gardens were probably oper ated more efficiently in this town than in many places, but even a gar den which wasn’t properly weeded or cultivated or sprayed undoubtedly yielded enough beans or tomatoes to more than pay for the small invest ment. Tomatoes and beans have a habit of coming through no matter how adverse conditions are so that even the. laziest gardeners, who planted their seeds and then let the And the people themselves are plowed too wet. Government looks largely to blame -they have been like ‘. , ' s ^ wiU ‘ n * t0 h ? 1 f everybody holding out their hands for the past except -the, farmer. Leaving next POINTS—1979 More important to many families than the amount pf money they will save as the result of canning is the ten years for money taxed from the week for / a d «*ense Job: hope you saying of ration points “other fellow ” can have your crop 6 athered - 1 can *! With many canned it Because of'such riotous spending ’ f® 1 n ° help ’” (It is always some- very high point value even a and wastefulness taxpayers are now thmg) ’ |i ars ^ sumipe? vegetables consl weighted down with an unprecedent ed tax burden. Taxation must be as balanced as crop rotation is to soil fertility, if savings and wealth are preserved for a continuous tax crop. That is exactly vdiat has not been! job * 4 expect to try t0 make a few inat is exactly wnat nas not oeen i ^^<3, 1 a m not going to be hard done. Winning the war and the peace j to p i ease; ril ^ just as proud of ^ items having a few constitute a real point economy. One.woman I Hate To Move, But— (who canned 128 quarts of common By the time this appears in print,; vegetables and fruits estimates that I will have been in Washington about s he has saved 1979 points, a week. I hope I will like my new On her shelves she has 10 quarts “This bill makes the surgeon gen eral dictator-of medicine. He would assign to each practitioner the num ber of patients he might attend. Spe cialists would be designated by the surgeon general. “The surgeon-general would be able to control hospitals, medical re search and education. Dentistry and nursing would also be subject to his regulation and control, at his pleas ure. \ ‘‘The amazing advances in medi cine have developed from general devotion and skill based on individ ual initiative and resourcefulness. Men of medicine have been—and are —America’s highest type of individ ualists; nor can they carry on the great tradition of medicine under the dictates of Washington bureaifcrats. “This is another of the New Deal panaceas It has an idea that all the ills and afflictions of mankind can be charted, prescribed for and regu lated . by politicians. “The New Deal ploughed under the farmer’s cotton, drowned five million of his pigs, terrorized the utilities, browbeat all business, and now, Doc tor, it’s your turn; it will chloroform the physicians.” You’ve heard of people eating humble pie? What sort of pie is “humble pie”? I’ve seen (and eaten) some “sad cake”; and I’ve eaten some pie that should have been sad; should really have been ashamed of itself, though, instead of humility, It was as tough and stiff-necked as the chil dren of Israel in the wilderness. Anyhow, we’ve heard of humble pie and have probably tried to eat it in rebellious mood. Well, you have be- fore-iyou Humble Pie. To discuss this -subject as a culi nary artist^ or technician of the citchen, some one might rise to make Jie point that pie is an aristocrat, just as cake is. True enough; well, :hen, humble food is that sort of jrub we think of as mere “vittles.” ENGRAVED Calling Cards for army and navy officers. An ideal, useful gift for father, husband, brother or friend. Ask to see samples. Chronicle Publishing Co. Phone 74. P&G Paints John Deere Tractors and Implements That Work Richtex Brick Atlas Cement .-•.r , • Cumberlite Mortarmix Concrete and Clay Pipe Celotex Roofing Sheet Rock and Rock Lath Linseed Oil Leptyne and Turpentine Water Mixed Paints Paint Brushes Sand and Stone Glass Yemason A Wood Preservative and Stain Contracting No Job too Small, Plenty too Big. J. R. Crawford Clinton depends on both. Fumbling agricul ture or taxation means hunger and suffering, or worse. Post-War Insurance It is possible to do anything—even to avoid unemployment — after the war, though no one has ever discov ered just how that is to be done. Wars always cause dislocation in the economic machinery of the nations involved, and world wars upset the rhythm of the whole human race. No one has yet devised a method where- Republicans who might be interested in associating occasionally with me as I will of any Democrats, if there are any such animals in Washington who might feel disposed to permit me to loaf among them. Everybody has given me a full de scription of my work. They know all about everything. (One of them vis ited Washington before the war, and he’s got everything down pat). They know that I won’t find a place to eat and sleep. They also are sure that of peaches, 25 quarts of beans, 20 quarts of beets, 18 quarts of carrots, 40 quarts of tomatoes and 15 quarts of squash. Under the new point sys tem, peaches are worth 27 points per can, beans 10 points, beets 8 points, carrots 8 points^ .tomatoes 21 points and squash 21 points. With a total saving of almost 2,000 points, her chief worry is what on earth she is going to do with all the coupons which will be left over in her ration book this winter. I don’t know how many tons of vegetables the government figures would be grown in Victory gardens, but all indications are that the aver- BENJAMIN & SONS PLUMBING .•.and... HEATING SERVICE Telephone 117 WE ARE HUNTING TROUBLE Consider These Advantages Of Buying a Home Now: 1. It is a positive way to get the full benefit of the dollars that come your way. 2. The same convenient CITIZENS FEDERAL Financing Plan that enabled so many to buy homes before the war. is still available to yon. 3. The money formerly spent for other things may now more readily be put into baying a home for your family. 4. 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