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Poge Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C.^ Thursday, November 25, 1943 NOTICE OF TAX SALE By authority of a tax execution handed me by the Treasurer of Lau rent County, I have levied on the property hereinafter deecribed and will eell at public outcry for c3k, either in or in front of the Court House at Laurens, & C., on Monday, December 6, 1943, it being Salesday in December, the following described property, lying, being, and situate in Laurens County, State of South Car olina, to wit: All that lot, piece or parcel of land lying, being and situate in the Coun ty of Laurens, State of South Caro lina, near the city limits of the City of Clinton, bounded by the Hebron church lot, being the identical lot purchased from Jack Pitts and Sallie Nance by deed recorded in the office of the Clerk of Court for Laurens County in deed book 49, at page 16, by Missouri Harmon. Levied on as the property ol Mis souri Harmon, the defaulting tax payer. ' • ' All that lot or parcel of Ignd lyipg, being and situate in the Gideon Hill section of the City of Clinton, con taining one acre more or less, bound ed by lands' now or formerly of W. E. Nash on the east, on the south and west by lands formerly of Gideon Leake, on. the north by public road, and being the lot conveyed to Chris Moore by M. S. Bailey and Son, Bankers. ? Levied on as the property of Chris Moore, the defaulting taxpayer. 04? (Clinton (Etjnmtrlr Established 19M WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate/(Payable In Advance): One Year 32.00 -A— 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 forjthe views or opinions of its correspondents. a half of her best killing weather ahead. Winter time is the time. not run against a sovereign govern-1 phrases which acted as an "Open ment, but the matter of wages is not Sesame" to any woman's interest*. Travel-Hog Listen, folks, don’t travel. If you must go away, stay at home. If duty claim for money on an open account calls you to a distant point, stay at The claim should not survive through mot a claim of the government "As I see this, a claim for wages, beyond a reasonable time, is a mere CLINTON, S C.. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1943 home. If there is no way in the eternity; nor should men be harrow world for. you to attend, to a matter ed and harassed by prowling agents except by going somewhere on a;who seem to be imbued more with train or a bus, stay at home. It’s the spirit of union labor than with better that you lose some business the purpose to act as responsible of- than all of your religion, most of flcials of the government, your temper, and then have your; “Men in business, for the most anatomy mashed flat besides. # part, are honorably and zealously i ♦ i trying to use their plants and re- My folks came to see me a week or sources to promote the national in- so ago. They and we spent the last terest. There are exceptions, I can three days of their visit here trying; well believe, but I think the major- to get train reservations back home. ; ity of business leaders as well as the From the evidence garnered at the-' majority of individual wage-earners ticket office, there will never be an-! are patriotic; men. The elements of other parlor car seat or an upper or discord seem to center and draw their Thanksgiving—Psalm 103 1. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. ■ 2. Bless the Lord. O my soul, and forget not al his benefits. has not, been able to do anything with them. enr m lower berth for anybody to any place anywhere in the world. Wf Anally decided to “ship out” in a day coach. I knoW other people who are hap- py-tempered bringers of the best. They may have to walk the via dolo rosa, but the dark places are made bright for themselves and for others midnight. 3. Who forgiveth all thihe iniqui-1 jjy light of their countenances and by the merry heart within. ties: who healeth all thy diseases; 4. Who redeemeth thy life from de struction: who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender mercies; 5. W ; ho satisfieth thy mouth with good things: so that thy youth is re newed like the eagle’s. 6. The Lord executeth righteous ness and judgment for all that are oppressed. 7. He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel. 8. The Lord is-*merciful and gra cious. slow to anger, and plenteous 'Yne will not always chide; neith- during the past year? er will he keep his anger forever. 10. He hath not dealt with us af ter our sins; nor rewarded us accord ing to our iniquities. 11. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy to ward them that fear him. 12. As far as the east is from the west so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. 13. Like as a father pitieth his chil- hour or so ahead of time. Enough folks ( were already lined up at our train gate to fill that train 2 or 3 times. We squeezed ourselves into inspiration from the Washington sat ellites of organized labor:” * 3. The train left the Union Station at— “As a practical fanner I know you will agree with me that K is almost a delusion to expect farmers to in- Well, we went to the station an crea se production with a reduction of ki*** cn Vwxo/*) r\t t i m f* TTrtru ICfVl * J J l - - - * As Thanksgiving is so near at hand t the mess. When we finally got to the and as our nation has been rendering ] exit al | t 4 e -f 1 ? ats in 3 or 4 caw thanks to Almighty God for the good, ^re filled. When we got to the coach things received at His hand year af- | we were mashed flatter than a P 311 " ter year for so long a time, and as i cske among 2 or 3 hundred others us we of this good land are so richly were going away and abundantly blessed by Him from whom all good gifts and all perfect gifts come, would it not seem un gracious, ungrateful, unappreciative, and unthankful to refrain from rend ering abundant! thanks, and deep gratitude to Him and to all who have been so good, so kind, so thoughtful nitrogen, added to the very grave difficulties of labor. “We who produce crops; who ac tually deal with the problem of pro duction, know that by a more liberal use of fertilizer we may hope to make up, at least in' small measure, for the other difficulties which beset'’ Nothing to be grateful for, eh? What lovely panoramas God has stretched out before our wondering eyes. The grand procession of a myriad singing stars; the Are moon riding in chariot of silver and chariots of gold across the silent and measureless stretches of the night; The sun open ing his great and glorious eyes with the advent of a new day, rejoicing Our folks got standing room in an aisle, but had to stand on one foot. There was room on the car floor for only 1 suitcase: they had 3. They had to tote the extra ones while riding. There was a steady stream of hu manity going one way thru the coach i while a steady stream of humanity | was going the other way in the coach, i More folks were standing and mov- i ing about than were sitting. This was war, and what Sherman said about; war is so, especially if you try to travel. Fghting in the front lines ain’t much worse—I don’t think so. So, friends, you’d better stay at home for the duration. drenl so the Lord pitieth them that; as a strong man to run a new race, scattering a billion golden beams over the dark and gloomy places of the planets and causing millions of men and women and little children to revel and rejoice in his largess of light and opulent beauty. Nothing to be thankful for this year? fear him. 14. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. 15. As for man. his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so h^e flourisheth. - 16. For the wind passeth over it,’ and it is gone; and the place there of shall know it no more. 17. But the mercy of the Lord is A Private Citizen Speaks His Mind Spectator Comments On Men and Things How about the bus drivers? Well, how? We read of old that there once flourished in peace, happiness and plenty ^ man named Job. In course of time he lost his fortune, his fam My me! Look around and about . . ..• . . .. at the golden splendor of the trees.!ily, and his health, and was covered rom everlasting to everlasting upon,^. the rich and radiant bfe H e was true to the faith them that fear Turn, and His right-, the falUng leaves 7 • ; and ljves in mem ory as the world’s eousness un o c i ren s children, i Marvel over the tender grace and i hero of faith and fortitude. “Though t? f K' sUC t u a f >f ep h u S c £ venant ’ the prodigal charm of an autumn .He slay me, yet will 1 trust Him,” and to those that remember his com-| day so cool so calm ^ bright J expre Jed the essence of Job’s reli- mancimems to do mem. A certain man had attained unto gion. I sometimes think the bus driv- r a pr ! pare t 15 f* 16 heights immortal. One enquired I er of today is the modern miracle of n in t no nc • onH Hie Lr inc*_ ^ 1 ^ thr„ne ,n the heavens; and his king- th( . 0 , ^ , otty lifc Rep|ied d0 ?n r ni lh i aI1 ~i k- . the '“Min man. “I had a friend." 20. Bless the Lord ye his angels, Have (alled r( . ad ..The Miracle that excel m strength that do his ;of rri e ndship ,.. by H ugh Brock? commandments, harkening unto Me. David and J 0 „ atha 4gesua and John, vonre of h.s word. ' paul and Timoth Dam0 „ and p^_ 21. Bless ye the Lord all ye his w;w „ , L. „ C1 . .etc vo minictorv of hie thof r4o hie ^ lias » Milton and King, Shelley and patience and good humor. Down the road goes the bus, but the unmusical alarm announced that someone “wants off.” So the bus- stops. Perhaps a couple of hundred yards farther someone “wants on.” Then, the modern Job starts again. hosts; ye ministers of his. that do h.s' k^, CariyleandTcnnysomTen-1 irnde down me ™da stands pleasure. nyson and Holman—these and among waving frantically. He or she is flag- 22. Bless the Lord all his works in other immortal friendships of theiging the bus; a passenger gets, on. all places of his dominion; bless the g rea t and the small—what reams; The bus starts again and gets up Lord, O my soul. Another Thanksgiving By Dr. R. O. Lawton, of Greenwood the Lord. By GEE McGEE and volumes of gratitude should as cend from our heart of hearts to the Great Friend for the friends He has given us! The war this Thanksgiving has , i some of us tens* and taut and almost Enter into his gates with Thanks- reac fy f° snap But even in times giving; and into his courts with ^e these, which, indeed, try our praise. Ps. 100:4. ; souls, we may look around and about, I knew a man for over forty years. 1 an< ^ U P * n f° Gods face, and find In al! that' time I never heard him some surcease from suffering and laugh merrily and enthusiastically. respite from pain. He was too stingy. A man gives away something when he laughs. i The grateful, appreciative, thank- | iul man laughs, and laughs heartily , very human Book ! NOBODY'S BUSINESS It is lull ol tears and laughter. We find this fine sentence in it: ‘ A merr^ heart doeth good like medicine. It is full of rejoicing texts. “Rejoice evermore.” “Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.” “In all things give thanks.” “Enter into his gates with thanks giving and into his courts with praise.” “The Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth-endureth to all generations.” “I will sing of mercy and judg ment; Unto Thee, O Lord will I sing.” The thankful, the grateful heart cries out: “Bless the Lord, O my soul; and let all that is within me, bless his holy name . . . who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mer cies; who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is re- , newed like the eagle’s.” I have been into homes which re minded fne forcibly of that old hymn: “Hark from the tombs a doleful sound.” I got out as soon as I could, or at least as soon as it was decent. You can’t rear children in homes like that. You can’t entice guests into homes like that. They have squeezed dry the invigorating fruit of the tree of life. v With deepening gloom, they have chased away all the bright-eyed children of kindness and driven off the light-hearted children of laugh- « ter ' You say, in festive mood, well, 'thanksgiving is about on us again. They turn upon you sad eyes, and in funeral voice, say, “Is it?” What are you going to do with peo ple like that. What are their near est and dearest going to dp with and about them? In deep reverence, I sometimes wonder what the Lord is going to do with them. So far. He speed—then somebody “wants off.” And so it is. Nothing could gladden the heart of a bus driver so much as to have a lady pull the cord about ten miles from nowhere and turn a brilliant smile on the driver and ask for her trunk—nicely roped down on top of the bus All such little incidents keep the drivers agile in body and cheer ful in spirit. One reason why most of the driv- Come, and let us give thanks unto! ers are such nice fellows is that they I find that there are substitutes being offered for nitrate of soda. Why offer substitutes when we can get the nitrate of soda? “I again appeal to you as a prac tical farmer to wage war on the prac tice of compelling the use of substi- tues because someone has certain theories to try out. You and I may be just as convinced that the general staff is wrong in its use of weapons, but we are not insisting on substi tutes. ' 1 "It is not a mere dream that we may face a shortage some day; the dream of perpetual plenty may be the idle one. “Please do what you can, regard less of theoretical values.” ■ ; 4. “As you know, the old-age insur ance tax will be doubled on January 1st unless congress acts before then to continue the present rate. There is no sound reason for increasing the tax. The receipts from this tax for the last fiscal year were $1,130,000,- 000; the benefits j>aid, including 4 an administration charge of $27,000,000, were $176,000,000. The trust fund on July 1st was $4,268,000,000, twenty- four times (he withdrawal for the year. The present tax, with the pres ent rate of employment, and with accrued interest, will bring into the trust fund nearly an additional bil lion dollars, counting on receipts of $1,130,000,000 and even allowing for withdrawals of $200,000,000. “Surely with the burdens now borne by the people, congress will not embark on excursions into un charted seas of philanthropy. “I am writing on behalf of Organ ized Business, Incorporated, of South Carolina, which has a membership comprising virtually every type of commercial enterprise, from the cot ton mills to the smallest business units. This ^ membership embraces most of the economic activity of the state, whether for capital invested or persons employed. “Your consideration is earnestly solicited.” [ODAY... TOMORROW Bv Don Robinson He raad books such as “Tasted Sell ing Sentences” was usually coached by an expert who had knocked on thousands of doors and had an enviable record for prevent ing doors from being slammed in his face. PENNIES—Dollan A man I know, who two years ago gave up door-to-door selling to be come a parachutist in the army, used to make as much as $100 a week ringing doorbells to sell a "sample offer” of magazines and books. One day he demonstrated his line to me. It was easy to see how he hoodwinked people into buying enough reading matter to last them a lifetime. He started in by telling me that I had been lucky enough to have my name picked as one of a few in /town to whom he was permitted to give a beautiful set of classics free subscriptions to a number of zines his company wanted to larize” in my town. After making me feel that I was the prize winner on a “Pot of Gold” radio jpirogram, he then explained, as a sort of an after-thought, that I should give a few pennies a week to a poor little newsboy who delivered the magazines. He made it sound like a charity suggestion which had noth ing to do with the sale he was trying to make. And then there was the matter of postage—which he realized he wouldn’t expect his company to assume—but that was just another few cents. And then there was the cost of the special deluxe binding on the books, since the cheaper edition had been exhausted. When he got through it still sound- AU that tract, piece or parcel of land lying, being and situate in Lau rens County, State of South Carolina, ed as if, for- a few cents, I was go- j containing 28 V4 acres, more or less, ing to get the buy of the century. All j known as the Robt. H. Fleming I had to do was sign a little card' home-place, bounded on the north by expressing my appreciation over ac- ^ an< ^ s formerly of W. J. Fleming, on cepting this gift from his company— and, instead of bothering to pay a few cents for toe newsboy, postage, etc., I could simply send a quarter a week to his company. He showed me that his “penny” talk actually obligated me to pay $42 over a perid of 3% years. But he said that when he got through with most people they still felt as if they were getting something for nothing., TRICKERY—Laws I imagine when this young man drops out of the sky in Italy he will toe east by Spartanburg and Laurens public highway, on the south by lands of W. T. Blakely and L. B. Blakely, on the west by lands now or formerly of L. P. Blakely and W. J. Fleming. Levied on as the property of Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, Joe Martin and oth ers heirs to the estate of Robt. H. Fleming and Miss Taluiah Fleming, the defaulting taxpayers. All of 4wo lots of land lying, be ing and situate in the Town of Ren- ^ no, Laurens County, S. C., being all have little trouble in disposing of his i of lot 19 811(1 the southeastern half parachute to the nearest farmer for ol lot No. 3 as shown on a plat of fail He The Quick and the Dead Washington. — The capital city is lagging a little in some respects. We went over the top in our bond drives and all other drives, but for some reason only 66 peprsons have been killed in the District up to this date, whereas they had got 89 up to this time last year. This decrease in vio lent deaths is probably due to the tightening of brakes and better head lights—the pedestrians appear to be a little more agile this year than last, and can jump quicker; that might be due to vitamin pills. The “Walk” and “Don’t Walk” street signs have saved several lives. But standing on the curbs till the speedsters go by has done more to conserve life and limb than has any other single agency. Speeding is toe rule here except in turning comers: it seems that whatever your speed is before you get to toe comer in your car, you are required to double that speed in making the turn. Washington is ahead^of Baltimore and Buffalo and Scranton in crippling folks but she doesn’t cripple them as badly as these other cities. Where Baltimore, for instance, breaks both legs of the slaw-jumper, Washington breaks only one leg, and possibly a collar bone. They hit ’em sort of light in Washington. Washington, how ever, cracks more skulls (accidental ly) than any other place. That’s due to harder pavement. More men are killed than women, but there are more children killed and injured than there are men and women put together. Yet, the car drivers will tell you that children are harder to hit than grown folks on account of them being smaller But Washington has shout a month and have passed through much tribula tion and have reached a sort of bea tific state. Below are letters to congressmen which state briefly matters of inter est to our people: 1. “Please let me trespass upon your time. I am interested in the Fulmer bill—R.R. 2400. In this I may speak especially for the South Carolina unit of the National Cotton council, toe South Carolina Farm council, and all the business in this state interest ed in the production of cotton, “The Fulmer bill would, in effect, take off the taxes on cottonseed oil when processed into margarine. I know that the taxes were never im posed for revenue, but to protect the dairying interests from competition. SALESMEN—Door-to-door One occupation which seems al most to have completely disappeared with the war is that of door-to-door salesmanship. ^ Before Pearl Harbor, the sales methods used by some of these sales men had reached such a fine point that it took a housewife with almost super-human powers of resistance to terminate an interview with one of those salesmen without finding her self the unexpected owner of a set of children’s books (even if she had no children), the possessor of a cer tificate showing that she would, dur ing the coming year, receive dozens of magazines for which she had no intention of subscribing, or holding need not argue toe bill; you and l| in her han(1 a receipt for the down “It has occurred to me that while 1 brushes. payment on a year’s supply of soap, a correspondence course in stenogra phy or a matched set of brooms and removing all sorts of bars against foreigners we might very well re move statutory barriers to free op portunity among ourselves. The cot ton farmer does not ask special priv ileges; or does he ask that other le gitimate national interests be penal ized and ham-strung. “Let’s resolve it into this: The South should not accept a status of inferiority nor should she suffer toe adverse discriminations .of a con quered land. While making the world free, let us enjoy freedom ourselves.” 2. “I wish to submit a matter for your consideration: reports have come to me indicating that representatives of the Wage-Hour administration are conducting a campaign which has toe effect of a sort of terrorization. They are stirring up claims for wages for three, four and five years. I need not mention that this is unsettling and annoying in toe extreme. It is not only ( a highly disturbing influ ence in 'enterprises now operating, but constitutes a doubt, or liability against enterprises even after liqui dation. "I should like to suggest that since this is a federal act the congress im pose a time limit for the claim of back wages. "I know, of course, that time may The door-to-door salesman of 1940 was no untrained peddler—he was a trained salesman who had mastered a tested technique of practically mes merizing women into signing on toe dotted line. Instead of having to put his .foot in the door to tell his story, he used carefully selected words and When Your Back Hurts - And Your Strength and Energy Is Below Par It mmj be wawd bjr d border ol U4- oojr function that permits poisonous vasts to' accumulate. For truly many people (set died, weak and miserable wbaa tbs kMaagrs (nil to remora eiceea ■utter (ram tbs at least twice its original cost. _ But when he .retump to this coun try after the war, I doubt if there will be any place for his type of salesmanship. Although most Americans have al ways admired sales ability and have been tolerant even, of those salesmen who have been smart enough to put something over on them, it is im probable that door-to-door selling will ever gain reach the stage that it had before the war. Just as the medi cine man, with his uncontrollable gift of gab, disappeared : from the American scene, so will the salesman who uses trickery rather than quality merchandise to attract buyers. We may have occasional visits from unlicensed “working my way through college” magazine and va nilla salesmen, but as distribution and marketing return to normal most towns will pass ordinances against house-to-house selling except under very special conditions. And the fed eral government, through the Federal Trade commission, will be more ac tive than ever in protecting the pub lic against toe type of legerdemain which made the house-to-house salesman famous. American salesmanship will con tinue to thrive as long as we have free enterprise in this country, but the out-and-out faker will find it in creasingly difficult to ply his trade after the war. SAY. *T SAW IT IN THE CHRON ICLE.” THANK YOU. the Town of Renno made by E. P. Jones, surveyor, Oct. 8, 1890 Lot No. 19 bounded by lands of John BeR. Miss Minnie Ray and Mrs. John BelL The half of lot No. 3 is bounded on southeast by lands of David Cope land, on the south by Bell street, on the west by lot of the Bell Co., on the north by alley. Levied on as the property of Mrs. Rush Nabors, James Hollingsworth and others, heirs to the estate of Mrs. Beulah Hollingsworth, the defaulting taxpayers. Terms of Sale: Cash. Purchaser to pay for stamps and recording. R. A. BABB, Tax Collector, LaurenT County. TESTAMENTS—Especially made for young men in service. Chronicle Publishing Co. 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