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Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C Thursday, October 21, 1943 @4? (Elintan (EipratwU Established 19M 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 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. . / (P.S. They grow potatoes in S. D. also). ens, he just laughed at me. He didn’t tell me what was wrong with my figures, but he told me a story of his I thought it would be nice to run j experiences with chicken raising, over to Baltimore last Sunday. And! He said that when he V^as a boy it would have been nice if I had run over, but I went on a train; running would have been so much pleasanter. his father gave him and his brother 100 chickens. That was when he was in school and didn’t have much time to take care of them, so his father NOTICE OF COUNTY TREASURER 1943 The books of the County Treasurer show the following tax levies for the year of 1943. After December 31 one per cent will be added. After January 31st, two per cent will be added. After February 29th three per cent "Will be added, and after March 31st seven per cent will be added and the books closed. AJ1 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 managed to squeeze myself into .had the hired man feed them, clean; the property is located. This is important, as additional cost and penalty iy coach. That wasn’t so difficult the coops and do all of the work. His may be attached. I a day —there were at least 50 persons right | father paid for all the feed, too behind me squeezing their way in| But every afternoon when he got also. I was boosted off the floor and home from school he would go out held in suspense until I had been;and gather the eggs, take them into’ _ .. _ _ pushed half way through the coach, ■ the house and sell them for the full j y° u present inoculation certificate to the county treasurer at the time then I dropped. market price to his mother. Some-: 01 ?F Unless presented then, tax cannot be abated. j a f > l e "b° < tt e d male citizens between the ages of twenty-one (21) and sixty (60) years of age are liable to pay ar 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 times he would kill a chicken and As fate would have it (I first to her for $2.00. thought it was luck), I found room: Make a deal like that, he said, CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1943 They Eat No Meat, Meat continues scarce and high. Those of us who eat it and can’t get over, production and distribution must be freed as quickly as possible of artificial handicaps. That is the only way to achieve, in fact, the fic- all we want owe a debt of gratitude ^j on Q f future abundanc^ now being to approximately 2,800,000 people i n created for the people by planners this country who are confirmed vege- 1 and dre amers of every stripe tarians and don’t eat meat > at all,! , ' rationing or no rationing, in war or peace Jime. If those nearly three million peo ple did eat meat, efCn under ration ing, they would consume at least 5,600,000 pounds a week. So it is obvious that vegetarianism is doing a lot to keep a bad situation from being a lot worse. The Institute of Public Opinion made probably the first survey ever made to determine the number of people who eat no fish, flesh or fowl and arrived at the figure above. The figure, of course, does not include babies who are too young to eat meat i%ut confine- their consumption to milk, juices and strained vegetables. The great majority of the vege tarians, according to the recent sur vey, hail from large cities. There isn’t much hope that people who live in the country, and see juicy steaks, roasts, pork chops and legs of lamb from the time they are running around on the hoof, can ever be per suaded that.their appetites could be satisfied with a Sunday dinner fea-, luring roast‘carrots. That is just not -their menu. Shot With Loopholes The latest method the unions have thought up to call a strike without labeling it as a strike, is to have all members play sick at one time. By this subterfuge, and by having union leaders say that they had noth ing to do with it, milk delivery men in New i York and New Jersey thought they had found a smart wny of getting around the anti-strike law. This is just one of dozens of simi lar methods which have been tried, including slow-downs, sit-downs, and various excuses for absenteeism. In The Value of Free Enterprise The tradition of free enterprise is the essence of the industrial democ racy we are fighting for. In the minds of many there is a feeling of defeatism so far as our free enterprise system is concerned. There is fear (and rightly so) that present rigid government controls and end less red tape will continue in perpe tuity, and change our form of gov ernment into something vastly diff erent from what we have known. There is a growing feeling that super-government, which will domi nate everything, is here to stay. That kind of economic defeatism is as bad as military defeatism would be. There is no truth whatsoever in the theory that fascist economics are of necessity permanent. The plain truth is that the free enterprise sys tem of our natior^ is justifying its existence and its philosophy com pletely and perfectly. Government, in wartime, controls our economic life. But government, of itself, produces nothing. Free" en terprise, working with government, produces everything. Free enterprise in the manufactur ing field makes the ever-increasing quantities of tanks, planes and guns which are now destroying the Axis and opening the eyes of the dastard ly Japs to their inevitable end. Free enterprise in transportation carries the incredible load which war im poses—and at the same time carries the load necessary to the mainten ance of civilian life. So it goes, in every field of activity, from the raising of food by the farm ers to the manufacturer of battle ships. Never in the history of the practically all cases union leaders, world has an economic system per- declare the strikes to;be “wildcat” | formed so efficiently as the free en- affairs over which the/have no con- terpnse system is now performing tr °l- 1 for the United Nations. All are clear demonstrations of thei The American people have will- fact that our anti-strike law is full mgiy accepted drastic limitations on of loopholes and is too weak to deal their freedom. They have accepted with the labor situation satisfactorily, those limitations for one reason and They also demonstrate that the “no- only one—we are in a war, we de strike” pledges of the parent union manti a military victory as soon as aren’t worth the paper they are writ- possible so that maximum freedom ten on. They further furnish all f or au mankind may exist in the enough to sit down by the side of some colored people, 1 old mammy abo.ut 80, 1 buck boy about 17, 1 painted-lip damsel fabout 19, and 1 pickaninny old enough to crawl and mean enough to bawl. So there I was!. Jim Crow and John Crow accom modations were the same for. all. More folks were standing than were sitting. About half way over the old mammy opened up a shirt box of food. She had no teeth, but you should have seen her biting the meat off the leg of a chicken and supple menting same with pound cake. The boy’s eating was like feeding a com husking machine. That food smelled good, and did they eat it! The baby began to crawl around. It wasn’t in any mental shape to be crawling around and that’s where I drew the color line: I put my grip in my lap. I was stepped on, mashed, punched jostled, choked, and sat upon time and time again before I got to Balti more. The train arrived af'iast. Ev erybody and his grammaw got up in the aisle about 10 miles put of Bal timore and started toward the doors, I never did learn why they were in such a hurry. I was finally - rolled out of that coach like a roller bear ing. No more unnecessary traveling for me—I’m through! y. — ^ ro P e f. 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 i The tax levy is as follows: ^ u. Gen. Levy But until I learn the hard way, ^ _ I’ll continue to think of chicken rais- j’ p£o^p£. t Rld * e and you can really make money out of chickens!” Spec. School Bonds P.I. Total [ODAY... TOMORROW 6v Don Robinson ing as a good paying business. I shall continue to think that if I can make $3.55 profit from one chicken, I can then make $35.50 from 10 chickens, $355.00 from 100 chickens, $3,550.00 from 1,000 chickens, $35,500.00 from 10,000, etc. That’s just the simple multiplication they taught me in school. / Role of Forms In Stole Praised In Greyhound Ad The current series of Greyhound bus advertisements, which has been appearing in this newspaper and in others throughout the state, has been featuring the part played in our com munity life by various occupational groups and organizations. The important roles played by the state’s highways, schools, and news papers have already been interest ingly presented. This time the farms of the state have their turn. City dwellers and farmers like will un doubtedly discover in the facts pre sented many things they didn’t know before about agricultural achieve ments of the state. Particularly now, when farm pro duce is so essential to the war ef fort, Greyhound officials feel that all should have a clearer realization of the job farmers are doing and the bus lines are taking this . means of encouraging more people to think more about the farms of the state. proof needed that the Roosevelt New Deal regime is controlled by labor. In almost everybody’s mind by now there is no doubt that the only future But these controls and regulations should not be accepted by the public i to be maintained in perpetuity. When and if we are placed under a com- CHICKEN S—Expense Five months ago, in this column, I told about having become the proud papa of a batch of 25 baby chicks and of my experience, with no equip ment and with no previous knowl edge of chicken raising, in bringing those chicks through their first peril ous week of life. Well, today I am celebrating hav ing become a grandpa — the first of those little chickens has laid an egg! After the excitement over the first egg ever raised by our family had died down, I began figuring how much it costs to raise a chicken to the egg-laying stage. I had kept care ful records, thinking that I might some day want to expand my back yard enterprise. The figures, at first, seemed rather discouraging. Disre garding all cost of equipment and labor (which was plenty!) the cost per chicken was $1.45. It was broken down this way: Cost of chick 19 24 lbs. of mash 86 8 lbs. of scratch 26 Litter 12 Grit 02 I admit that, through inexperience, FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 15th day of November, 1943, I will render a final account of my acts and doings as Committee of the estate of Clar- ence G. Bums in the office of the Judge of Probate of Laurens Count?, at 10 o’clock a.m., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge, from my trust as Committee. 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 before said date, duly proven, or be for ever barred. L. E. BISHOP, Committee. Oct.45, 1943.—ll-4c. NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE way to prevent strikes is to give or u wc aic a L . om . ganized labor anything its rabid lead- j piete government dictatorship like ers demand or to have a law which several other countries — then free. . waste d considerable feed will deal out real punishment to aU enterprise and initiative are de- strikers. So far we have been settling' s troyed forever in America. We are' b t f which I didnt consider strikes by the first method. It’s time | then headed for bondage. —long past time—we did something about the second; but this is too much to expect with the cards now being stacked for a fourth term cam paign. The Merchant Is Helpless The American people are being constantly informed of changes in the point value of rationed commodi ties. After they are made, it is ex plained that they were necessary in order to “adjust” demand to meet dwindling supply. For example, if, in the opinion of the rationing authorities, too many people want to buy a certain item, it is a simple matter to raise the point price of that item. Demand promptly falls off. It works smoothly and quickly. To all appearances, the old-fashioned laws of supply and de mand (in which we believe) become crude by comparison. But there is one catch. Under the , old national laws merchants knew ' what to expect from consumers, and .consumers knew what they could j count on from merchants. Merchants knew their customers would buy so many shoes, so many barrels of flour, so many tons of canned goods, and other commodities. Now they do not know what the demand will be and neither are they able to supply the goods to meet those demands. The American distribution system had reached a state of unequaled perfec tion before the war and rationing through a point system by "which points are more valuable than &oney. Under the present method of jug gling the laws of supply and demand, the merchant is helpless. When he purchases goods he does not know whether or not his order will be filled, nor does he know whether he will be permitted to dispose of those goods as in the past. They may be rationed and the point value set so high that they will be frozen on his shelves indefinitely. All the expense saving efforts of the distribution in dustry, from the largest to the small est retailer—which have so long ben- efitted the consumer — can now be wiped out in Washington with a scratch of an official pen. This means that when this war is The Other Side of Washington Washington, D. C.—Every person I meet swears by his or her home state; each, of course, having the best state in the Union, including the Dis trict of Columbia, where they make their respective livings. I learned through an acquaintance a day or so ago that South Dakota is by far (plus) the greatest state of all states admitted to the Union up to now. The greatness of South Da kota hinges on the pheasant popula tion thereof. In other words, I’d say right off that South Dakota is the “Pheasant State.” This happy South Dakota-ite claims that his state has 175,342,989 pheas ants within its boundaries, and by the time this appears in print, the pheasant population will have in creased several hundred thousand. They (pheasants) multiply mighty rapid. A friend of mine from the South joined in the conversation between the gentleman from South Dakota and me and he said: “Why, Mister, South Dakota has more pheasants than Russia has.” I told him that those were peasants in Russia and not winged pheasants like they have in such large numbers in S. D. He said “Oh.” I would guess that when a fellow in South Dakota wants a pheasant pie or a baked pheasant for dinner, all he has to do is walk out in the back yard and shoot straight up with a .22 rifle, and presto! from 1 to 5 pheasants fall at his feet. I don’t think the Audubon society would let anybody shoot straight up with a shotgun. That would kill too many pheasants. It often gets too dark to play checkers at noon in S. D. Pheas- were taken into consideration, I doubt if even an authority on chicken raising could do it for much less. Of course I may have expected too much. I had the idea that chickens sort of supported themselves like birds do. But I soon found that they act as if their sole duty in life is to eat as much mash as possible. And as for roosters — when they go at their eating seriously they make pigs look like pikers. EGGS—Profit Although the investment in raising a chicken to egg-hood seemed high to me at first, an analysis of future possibilities became intriguing. In fact, according to the advertisements, I could probably sell those chickens right now for at least $2.00 apiece— which would mean a profit of almost 40 per cent in five months. But to look into it further, I fig ured that if I keep the chldkens and let them lay eggs for a year, normal expectations should mean a profit of about $3.00 per chicken and I would still have the chicken to eat or sell. I think I have figured that $3.00 profit conservatively. I estimate that the chickens will average 13 dozen eggs each over a year, that the eggs will be worth 50 cents a dozen and that the cost of feeding won’t be over 7 cents per chicken per week. , On this basis, if I made a clear profit on eggs and then sold the chicken for $2.00—it would mean a total return of $5.00 on my original $1.45 investment — or more than triple my money. This thing is getting more and more fascinating. Maybe my arith metic is all wrong. Maybe I ought to think more about equipment, chicken’ diseases, casualties, cuts in egg prices, feed scarcities and an of those pessimistic things fanners talk about. But if I’m right I ought to be able to make a killing on WaU Street by telling those financiers of the biggest buy of the century — 300 per cent profit guaranteed—Chickens, Inc. 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 am., 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. 3, Barkedale-Narnie ... No. 4, Bailey AW No. 6, Oak Grove ig No. 7, Watts Mills 16 No: 11, Laurens City ig Youngs— No. 4, Bethany ig No. 5, Grays ig No. 6, Central S 0 ’ !• - No. 8, Warrior Creek ig No. 10, Lanford Dials— No. 3B, Fountain Inn No. 1, Green pond ig No. 2, Eden ig No. 5 Gray Court-Owings 16 Sullivan— — No. 1, Princeton *. No. 2, Mt Bethel Ig No. 3, Poplar Springs Ig* No. 7, Brewerton ig No. 17, Hickory Tavern Ig GCO 17 (Spec. School to GC and Bonds to S-17).... 16 Waterloo— No. 1, Mt. Gallagher No. 2, Bethel Grove 16 No. 4, Center Point 16 No. 5, Oakville ig No. 6, Mt. Pleasant 16 No. 7, Mt. Olive Aig No. 14, Waterloo /ig Cross Hill— No. 13, Cross Hill Hunter— No. 3, Rock Bridge Ig No. 4, Wadsworth ig No. 5, Clinton “ No. 6, Goldville No. K9, Kinards ig No. R42, Reederville 16 No. 16, Mountville 16 Jacks— No. I, No White School 16 No. 2, Shady Grove 16 No. 3, Renno —5 ....................i............... _ __ No, 6, O’Dells ig No. 7, Garlington : ig No. 15, Hurricane Scuff letown— No. 1, Long Branch ig No. 2, Musgrove ig No. 3, Langston ig No. 4, Sandy Springs 16 No. 12, Ora ig GENERAL LEVY— Ordinary County Bonds ...................... High School Hospital Bonds Hospital Fund _....... ■i . Total MdNTOSH'S SHOE SHOP We are doing business at the same old place. 34 MUSGROVE ST. ... 16 .... 16 .... 16 1 .... 16 5 .... 16 S ... 16 It 5 7 11 .... 16 J 4 • 7 .... 16 4 .... 16 4 .... 16 .... 16 3 .... 16 o 24 .... 16 6 1 .... 16 15 7 3 5 * .... 16’ 6 4 .... 16 11 - 12 .... 16 15 12 .... 16 8 .... 16 3 ' .... 16 5 4 * .... 16 2 8 3 L 16 9 * 16 .... 16 .... 16 .... 16 14 4 .... 16 6 4 8 13 8 .... 16 .... 16 5 4 .... 16 1 .... 16 4 3 5 ..... 16 3 5 - 16 2 .... 16 5 3 16 16 17 21 19 33 38 21 16 20 20 16 19 40 22 “17 38 19 21 22 20 6 45 6 49 24 19 21 20 18 24 19 41 16 16 34 26 24 29 24 16 25 17 20 19 21 X 19 21 16 18 21 19 7 Milts 7 Mills l 39111 ••••*••*•••••■•••••••••••••••••• % Mill _. ”*;—; — — - - - v .l6 Mills Persons sending in lists of names to be taken off are requested to send ffi®“, early “? d fiv f t* 1 ® township and school district of each as the Treas urer is very busy during the month of December. — T. 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