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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C.
Thursday, October 14, 1943
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so much that everything tastes like a
cigarette.
Washington sells mighty good cof-
| fee. Sugar isn’t scarce here. Only one
eatipg place has fetched his few
i grains of sweetening to the table in a
little waxed-paper- envelope. All the
; others leave the sugar bowl and
sugar and 2 spoons right in front
jof you. They hope their customers
i will be loyal and economical. I have
been using a spoonful of sugar in |
my coffee back home, that is—when!
I could find that much in the sugar
dish—and here I do likewise.
I was served a piece of ham with|
my egg this morning. It (the ham) j
Was about the size of a little pig’s ear j
and shaped like a little pig’s ear. It;
tasted like ham to the best of my
recollection, but was utterly devoid
_ of gravy or grease. It was sliced
T' nr Usiwa CUnnnaA !^ er °* men w h en *h e y are ready for|against the grain, which made it kind
limes nOVe V*nunyeu all-out civilian production, if left of hard to masticate. But not being
The problem used to be, and still alone by government, don’t know I in any special hurry, I got along all
is with some, to get their own con- what they can do about those work-1 right with it. The egg was pigeon-
sent to work, but with most it has|ers while they are installing: new size, and was too soft on top and too
now corrie to be a matter of getting equipment for peacetime manufac- hard on the bottom,
the consent of a labor union, a type turing. ^
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AT TENNESSEE CAMP
CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1943
of organization that has shown the
least cooperation with the New Deal
Unless some sound answer is found,
there is bound to be a period of six
crowd and has been most favored months fcr a year of widespread un-
by it.
employment. Millions of white and
colored will then not takfe it as a
sort of insult when asked to work.
The principle of reduction in acre- At present there is enough money
age might be profitably applied to saved by the people of this country,
No Tax Crop Surplus
taxation also. When the farmer in
dulges in overproduction he gets into
in war bonds and in savings banks, to
almost guarantee a major buying
Well, I have just learned of anoth
er state which, from all available
evidence, is the greatest state in the
union. Her name is Tennessee. This
makes two greatest states in the un-
jion that I have heard about in less
than 3 days. A Tennessee lawyer and
a Tennessee •iady stand ready to
vouch for the facts I am enumerat
ing below. ,.
the realm of diminishing returns and ^P 1 ^® an d period of prosperity after
when taxes are increased collection the war. At least it looks that way
becomes more difficult, but in re
gard to the tax crop there
ever any surplus regardless
volume,of produetbn.
on paper. But if those savings have
First and foremost, Tennessee is
known as the “Volunteer State.”
When war was declared (they didn’t;
NOTICE OP COUNTY TREASURER 1943
SGT. f C. PRICE, son of Mrs.
Jennie Price of this city, hai been
in army service three years. He is
stationed at Camp Forrest, Tenn.
man or by peace-loving bystanders.
If we compare behavior among in
dividuals with action between nations
—and there is a definite relationship
between the two—'the only assurance
of peace would be an international
police force capable of controlling
(gangster nations at all times.
The books of the County Treasurer show the following tax levies for
the year of 1943. After December 31 one per jeent will be added. After
January 31st, two per cent will be added. After February 28th three per
cent will be added, and after March 31st seven per cent will be added and
the books closed.
All persons owning property in more than one school district are re
quested to call for receipts in each of the several school districts in which
the property is located. This is important, as additional cost and penalty
may be attached.
All able-bodied male citizens between the ages of twenty-one (21) and
sixty (60) years of age are liable to pay a poll tax of $1.00.
Dog Owners! Your dog tax is on the tax books. You are entitled to
abatement of dog tax by reason of rabies treatment. But it is -necessary
that you present inoculation certificate to the county treasurer at the time
of tax payment or before. Unless presented then, tax cannot be abated.
Proper attention will be given those who wish to pay their taxes
through the mail by checks, money order, etc., giving name of township
and number of school district.
The tax levy is as follows: '/
Gen. Levy
Laurens— .
No. 1, Trinity Ridge 16
No. 2, Prospect 16
No. 3, Barkedale-Namie 18 ^
No. 4, Bailey 16
No. 6, Oak Grove , 16
No. 7, Watts Mills .; 16
No. 11, Laurens City 18
Youngs—
No. 4, Bethany 16
No. 5, Grays 16
No. 6, Central 16
No. 7, Youngs 16
Spec. School Bonds P.I. Total
1
5
3
12
11
5
11
16
16
17
21
19
33
38
I reel
t >MEN—Rulers
ly heard the theory ex-
is hardly to be spent to support families tern-j which war) Revolutionary, Civil,! pounded,/half seriously, that no per-
iS of th * nf I s P anish American, or the two World iman ent peace wiU ever be possible,
! USCd UP to explode sll our dresms of *mrorc\ in gmtiro ctat* —.Ml. ~
Railroad Fatalities Low
up to explode
new cars, new homes or new any
thing.
Some of the New Deal spenders
The American public has been h ave com e forward with the sugges , „
shocked by several terrible railroad tj on that industry b® compelled to .joined in the battles. (Andean they
accidents in recent weeks costing the g, ve war workers a six-month vaca- fight? Look at what they did to the
wars) everybody in the entire state even with a powerful international
volunteered, and that’s how it got its 1 police force, until women are in con-
name. Not enough folks were left trol of the government of aU major
back home to shuck the cows or slop I nations.
the hogs: even Dick, Tom and Harry, This was based on the ob _
vious fact that women are less in
lives of a large number of passen
gers. We have become so accus
tomed to using and enjoying railroad
transportation practically free of ac
cidents that we have a sort of
tion with pay during the expected
transition period. That is just anoth
er of the stupid, impracticable and
dangerous proposals that flow out of
Washington. Such a plan wou^d in
revenue officers).
Reelfoot Lake is in Tennessee. It’s
so full of catfish they smother each
, _ ,other to death. All a fellow has to
panicky feeling when we read such directly cost the consumer billions of |do to get fish is just reach down and
news reports. * t .dollars and would force thousands of ]pick them u^. Lots and lots of folks
The number of passenger fatalities smaller companies into bankruptcy
this year -will exceed those of any to further add to unemployment,
year for the past twenty years, we jf those who are working^ on this
are told, although the fataliies per serious problem do notfVrrive at
100,000,000 passenger-miles are very gome better answer than^ffovemment
little more than they were in 1940, or industry hand-outs we are sure
1926 and 1925, and less than they to drop right back into another ma-j saucers; in fact, they use them for
were in 1^22 and some of the earlier j or depression in.quick order. (saucers to blow and drink their coffee
who live around Reelfoot now wear
shoes and underclothes and can read
and write. Some of the catfish in this
lake have 4 legs and tails longer than
a squirrel’s tail , and they have mil
lions of scales on them as large as
years.
Figures show that the chances of
the average passenger being killed in
a train wreck are on a ratio of blit
Baseball Vs. War
>The New York Yankees have again
onT'^'eV“in'Vur "mUlloVYim f t > bl ‘ she<i thclr supremacy in base-
means, even at the death rate this b , al1 by.conduenng the desperately
year, the average passenger can look atrugghng St. Louis Cardinals with
forward to traveling in safety 370,-j ,our victories out of Bve games. It
000,000 miles-a journey which™ ,‘ he world championship
would require constant travel for'° r the deadly bombers from the
about 1200 years. ®I?“; The series was attended by
If one could be as safe from ac- f”/” 2 ,' a " s „ w,th * ross receipts of
cidental death at home or in recre- ui j
ation as on the train, untold grief , ** <* n ®s over, the bloody
and suffering would be averted. struggle between the Allies and the
The New York Times points out ^ X1S p * ac ® * n
editorially that just to keep a sense news-interest of millions of Amen
of proportion, it is well to remember
that seven bad railroad crashes since
1940 have cost 175 lives; whereas in
the single year of 1941 automobile
cans. War or no war, this big money
making exhibition always makes the
headlines.
Reports indicate that there was
from.
Tennessee Hits enough marble in it
to build every man, woman and
child, including the Japanese, a
tombstone the size of the Washing
ton monument. It is generally con
ceded (by Tennesseeans) that they
own the Missippi river. They have
more dams (electric and verbal) per
capita in the state than any other
country in the world except prob
ably Knoxville. They can grow any
thing in Tennessee from red toma
toes to Republicans. Tennessee is
also famous for her high mountains,
which are mostly in North Carolina.
(That’s abfyit all they said).
accidents killed 40,000 people in thei m ° re ® xcit ® na ®pl y® ar over the
outcome of this battle than at any
time in history. Hotel rooms were
sold out weeks ahead. Restaurants
were filled to the gills, night clubs
couldn’t start to accommodate th'e
United States.
It is miraculous that with the tre
mendous traffic that American rail
roads are handling due to the war,
such an infinitesimal proportion of . , ,, ,,, .
persons have been injured or killed. i® r o wc ^ s > an <* t^ 1 ® ball parks were
; bulging at the sides. In spite of gaso-
! line shortage and transportation
i problems the fans were there from
all parts of the country. Millions atj
home listened to their radios for full
accounts.
What War Means
Is it not extraordinary, or we
might say strange, that of all the men
and women -who have lived during
the past several thousand years, there
There are many who feel that with
have been so many who could wage a war on our hands and young men
what they called glorious warfare— ; being killed and wounded—-baseball
but so few who could keep the peace, i and other sports should be aban-
The search for peace on earth has 1 doned for the duration. Probably
failed time and again. Is it not in- they are right. There are others who
credible that, knowing the devasta-! contend thfe{ such interest in base-
tion which war creates, our leaders, ball during wartime is in no sense
of world thought and culture have! unpatriotic. They cite as the best
been unable to devise a means of proof the fact that service men were
preventing it?
The world knows — or certainly
among the most excited witnesses of
the games — and even on foreign
should—what war means. It has a fronts many a former baseball fan
record of destruction dating back
5,000 years. It has only to look back
was temporarily more interested in
how the “series” was coming out
TODAY... TOMORROW
Bv Don Robinson
PEACE—Fighting
As long as a punch in the nose is
considered an appropriate means of
settling an argument, it seems doubt
ful if we can hope to have perma
nent peace in this world.
For a war is primarily an out
growth of man’s willingness to use
physical force to settle differences.
We perhaps have advanced to the
extent that force is only used as a
last resort in settling most personal
or international disagreements — but
there is no indication yet that we
are approaching a refinement of civi
lization wherein that “last resort”
would ho longer be employed.
There are, pernaps, an increasing
number of individuals and an in
creasing number of nations who
would control their desire to fight if
clined to fight than men. Women
may have violent arguments, but sel
dom do they even reach the hair-
pulling stage in settling those argu
ments. Their natural inclinations are
opposed to physical force. And when
war is und^r consideration, it is al
ways the women who are most
strongly opposed to it.
Although' women who have ruled
countries in the past have led their
nations to war, it was pointed out
that they were living among coun
tries ruled by men and were there
fore forced to think in man’s terms
rather than follow their natural in
clinations.
Whether it will be necessary to
turn the control of nations over to
the fair sex to prevent war may be
debatable, but there is little hope
that it can be permanently prevented
until man can be instilled with the
feminine quality which rules out
physical combat from his list of pos
sible weapons for solving anything.
CARD OF THANKS
A. B. Blakely and children wish
to thank their friends and relatives
for their kindness in their recent
bereavement and during the long ill
ness of their wife and mother. She,
too, appreciated the favors shown
her and often spoke of the thought
fulness of these loved ones.
No. 8, Warrior Creek
16
No. 10, Lanford
16
3
Dials—
No. 3B, Fountain Inn
16
' 24
No. 1, Green pond
16
6
No. 2, Eden ..._
16
1>
No. 5 Gray Court-Owings
16
15
Sullivan—
No. 1, Princeton ,
16
3
No. 2, Mt Bethel
16
5
No. 3, Poplar Springs
16
6
No. 7, prewerton
16
4
No. 17/Hickory Tavern
16
, 11
GCO 17 (Spec. School t& GC
and Bonds to S-17)
16
15
Waterloo—
No. 1, Mt. Gallagher
16
8
No. 2, Bethel Grove
16
3
No. 4, Center Point
16
5
No. 5, Oakville
16
4
No. ’6, Mt. Pleasant
16
2
No. 7, Mt. Olive
16
8
No. 14, Waterloo
16
3
Cross Hill—
No. 13, Cross Hill
16
9
Hunter—
No. 3, Rock Bridge
16
No. 4, Wadsworth
16
•
No. 5, Clinton
16
14
No. 6, Goldville
16
6
No. K9, Kinards
16
8
No. R42, Reederville
16
13
No. 16, Mountville
16
g
Jacks—
No. 1, No White School
16
No. 2, Shady Grove
16
5
No. 3, Renno
16
1
No. 5
16
4
No. 6, O’Dells
16
' 3
No. 7, Garlington 2**....
16
5
No. 15, Hurricane *.
16
3
Scuffletown— t
j No. 1, Long Branch
16
5
21
16
20
20
16
19
12
12
16
4
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FINAL SETTLEMENT
Take -notice that on the 26th day
of October, 1943, I will render a final
account of my acts and doings as
Administrator of the estate of Rob
ert Y. Copeland in the office of the
Judge of Probate of Laurens County,
at 10 o’clock a.m., and on the same
day will apply for a final discharge
from my trust as Administrator.
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 said
estate will present them on or be
fore said date, duly proven, or be
forever barred.
T. G. MURPHY,
Administrator.
Sept. 24, 1943.—21-4p
No. 2, Musgrove 16
No. 3, Langston 16
No. 4, Sandy Springs 16
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No. 12,.Ora 16
GENERAL LEVY—
Ordinary County
Bonds .
High School
Hospital Bonds
Hospital Fund L,.
Total : - 16 Mills
Persons sending in lists of names to be taken off are requested to send
them early and give the township and schooj district of each as the Treas
urer is very busy during the month of December.
T. LANE MONROE,
County Treasurer.
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21-2c
25 years to find these piUIul statis- than in how his own army was pro- were not forced to do so in self
tics: Total mobilized forces, 65,038,
810; killed and died, 8,538,315;
wounded casualties, 21,219,452; pris
oners and missing, 7,750,919; total
casualties, 37,494,186.
..Thank God the fighting forces
havt not fared that badly as yet in
World War II; but they are on their
way toward that ghastly record if
the reports of losses on the Russian
front are to be fully credited.
Civilization is still in its swad
dling clothes, but it is nevertheless
old enough to know that it may never
get out of them unless it devises
some scheme to put an end to the
slaughter caused by warfare. This
war, Heaven knows, is serious and
grossing.
Whatever may be said, it still re
mains a fact that we can’t stir up
national excitement over our war
effort to the pitch shown over the
battle of battles on the baseball dia
mond.
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NOBODY'S BUSINESS
By GEE McGEE
The Other Side of Washington
Washington, D. C.—This Washing-
horrible enough, but try to conceive, water tastes Uk® it’s got some-
if you can, what a world war fought m **• ^ * or bathing and
washing out handkerchiefs, but to
use in place of beer wine, whiskey
or soda pop, it simply won’t do. It
leaves a sort of after-taste that this
50 years from now would be like.
It is possible, maybe, to put an end
to warfare, but it requires a combi
nation of brains and selflessness, .. . . , . .. . ,,
which the world has never yetj wn ^ er ba® y®* been able to diag-
known. jrose. Don’t guess a Japanese or
The constant striving for peace on! 80 ^® 1 * 1 * 11 * **** j 11
earth has been a fruitless search, an( j! c o n tainin»ted the aqua (that sounds
will continue to be so long as man- h ® aved <**? I am
kind is dominated by selfishness. thinking of writing my congressman
Where Are We Headed?
The question of what is going to
become of highly paid war workers
when the war ends and production
of war equipment stops is or# of the
questions which Washington and in
dustry must answer and doesn’t
know how.
No solution has been found thus
far. Large industries, which know
they can employ an enormous num-
One man told me that according
to his palate, the city water had too
much H20. Not having ever been
acquainted with this H2G stuff, I
said “uh-huh!” You see, it’s like this;
I have been used to drinking the best
water in the world, limestone, soft,
tasty—that is, tastes like water, and
not something else. I can't get used
to this stuff. The natives say they
don’t notice anything peculiar about
it. Guess they don’t; they all. smoke
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defense. Neville Chamberlain went
as far as any man ever has gone to
try to keep his country out of a
fight, but his over-civilized ’tactics
appeared to Hitler as an open invi
tation to try to land a “haymaker.”
Secretary Hull tried to avoid a fight
with the Japs as long as he could'
with the result that they got in that
first blow at Pearl Harbor.
CONTRCfL—Children
To get to the roots of war, all we'
have to do is spend an hour watch
ing and listening to a group of boys
at “play” in a school-yard.
As we watch them jumping all
over one another and getting rid of
their excess energy with antics-simi
lar to those of a cageful of monkies,
we will soon hear an angry little
voice shouting above the din, “Cut
that out if you don’t want a poke in
the nose!” or ‘•Let’s beat him up!”
or “Do that again and I'll sock you!”
Even among the youngest school
boys we find a natural inclination to
settle matters by physical force.
But civilization has taken a long
stride forward during recent yean by
taking definite steps to prevent fight
MclNTOSH'S
SHOE SHOP
We are doing business at
the same old place.
34 MUSGROVE ST.
ing. Mothers and school teachers try
to teach boys to control their tern-
pen and settle matters by peaceful
argument while, among adults, we
hire policemen to curb pugnacity.
Settling arguments with gunfire still
continues in this, country among
gangsters but is definitely outlawed
by decent citizens. There is no ques
tion that even fist fights aren’t what
they used to be and are usually
stopped when poaaible by a police-
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