The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, October 21, 1943, Image 4
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C
Thursday, October 21, 1943
@4? (Elintan (EipratwU
Established 19M
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(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.
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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!
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^ 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
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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
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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 _.......
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MdNTOSH'S
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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. LANE MONROE,
County Treasurer.
21-2c
When I told a man who was raised
on a farm that. I had figured you
could aufka an annual profit of over
ants flying over, don’t you know. $15,000 a t>y raising 5,000 chick-
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