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/ V ■ A " . '‘v ' y Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. Thursday, February 10, 1944 dhp QHtntnn (EhrontrlT Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor aftd Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $2.00 r ....... 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 subsenbers 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 (V noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views .or opinions of its correspondents. • ‘ bald spots. Third, he uses up his re- it may occuV to other people, too. So sources before they attain any value it might be well for the public to be much, and fourth, he buck# his wpod on guard. After all, we didn’t ask for against his own cotton, and thereby advertising* on the- radio—but ever WAC MOBILE UNIT HERE SEVERAL DAYS loses money by selling his pulp wood since radio been old enough to i The WAC mobile unit headed by Lt. ' , CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank out friends for thejr kindness and sympathy during the receht illness and death of our husband -and brother, M. T. Motes. cheap srr that he can be assured that squahvk we have had to take our,, Margaret, Benjamin and assfstted by Alsp.for the lovely floral offerings, he won’t get a living out of his entertainment with advertising or Pni PianAm** T.nt* Pfr Coleman MRS M. T. MOTES. • cofton. C LINTON. S. C .. Till RSDAY. FEBRUARY 10. 1944 advertising or Cpl. Claudine Lutz, Pfc Inez Colemaii /•not listen to the radio at all., arij Pvt. Nancy Boyte, left Clinton, v It doesn't seem too long a step be- Monday. \\hys and Wherefores tween having radio advertisers-inter- ' . . I confess and adind that I know'rupL our conversations in our own During their stay here the unit pre- ; how to'eat, but I dor# know what to living rooms to having them mix into Se [! tC< ) a ^ nique sk,t wr ! tt ®‘" ® sF ^" eat or when tb eat. Take today, for our telephone conversations. , 1J y ^ th °^ casK)n to ,(,rc *hly im- instance: being from the sunny'-south Because advertising has alw’avs ’ pre5 i S ^he eligible women \\ rth uhat where it is mostly always cloudy and been on the radio, most "of us have !™? ht h ? Ve . hap . pen< ^ to our country cold during the winter months, I h-ad accepted it as a $ort of necessary evil « ad . not P atr,p ^ lc Americans .sacu-| a terrible hankering for some fried in the same way that we have ac- ticed S#me ° f their p easures 0 pro " chicken, and betook myself to a cepted static. Furthermore, we are place which said—“Southern Cook- aware of the-fact that many of the mg-” programs we like wouldn't be avail- offic ers stated, by the cooperation of, •—— able unless some advertiser was will- the 39th College Training detachment I sugested tn the waitress that she jng to foot the bill. . , band under the supervision of Lt I would fi*y“me soine white chicken But we rnust constantly watch out Frank A. DiPesa. Mayor P. S. Bai- meat: she . said—“unh-hunh.” She for the new roads advertising may ley * Postmaster Plaxico and others, fetched itV in after so long a time, invade. The ’ Buy War Bonds” mes- Women interested in the Army MRS. M. T. MOTES... MRS. MAGGIE GRIFFIN. MISS BELLE MOTES. Wantedi Wen and Women Who Are Hard of Hearing tect us'here at home. The recruiting program was' aided, j To make thi* simple, no risk hearing test* If you are temporarily deafened, bothered by ringing buzzing head noises due to hard ened or coagulated wax (cerumen), try the Ourine Home Method test that so many say has enabled them to hear well again. Yo« must hear better after making this aimpla test or you get your money back at one* Ask about During Ear Drop* today at y Smith's Pharmacy ' SAY, “I SAW IT IN THE CHRON ICLE." THANK YOU. "Fondly am little ovec- even examine smart hope, fervently do we cannot tind sufficient expression in on the potato salad tasted tine, but But perhaps . a pray, that this mighty scourge of war pure physical force. They make us that rooster Wrfs so tough I was never wary on this-subject. Fo" I have may speedily pass away . with feel, as Lincoln did in the darkest a bi e to’ break the skin on his back reached the- point where I ex; ■firmness m the right . let us fin-j moments of the Civil war, when he anc j wing, but I messed it all up and dollar bills to see whether a snimi ish the work we are in, to bind up said: *T have been driven many made it second-handed. I ra''thru with advertising man has yet been able the nati nT wounds, to care for him times to my knees by the overwhelm-^ f nt >d chicken up here.' to sell the treasury on'substituting a who shall have born the battle, and. ing conviction that lyfcad nowhere . — picture of tfie president of a cigarette a ./.W an.i his orphans, to do else to^go. ^ _ } The OPA has heM the line^pretty company for the familiar drawing of " 1 '* * George Washington ,11 which mav achieve and cherish well, but you can't get ahead of folks a ji..rv.i i.i'ti.i’ p-eace among our- BlIV Bonds'* The-'quality of the average item of sejvi and with all nations . . . " i Rc ' orts f) 7 om state headquarters of merchandise has been reduced 25 to j H w truly tho>e words speak to- Fourth War Loan campaign ^ l cen ^ anc as a whole, puces day They tit the war m, which we that bond sales are lagging far be on everything ha\e sneaked up by are. now engaged evert more than hind, as shown by the fact that only ^ ook ' ,IU ^ t!lK 'k not less than 25 per they d. i the war about, which he gi ] per cent of the state’s quota vent. The size of .^things has shiunk spoke. Lincoln was speaking about has been puchased. / j something powerful. Ten-cent a war- among two groups ol people the duty of The Chronicled everything are not more both of whom wanted one kind of to tell anybody how many bonds they lhan five-cent portions used to be. liberty, whereas today we are fight- should buy. That's your own personal 1 •' ing a bloody, world-wide war to de- affair. In' the previous drives the Some wise men Sqy that inflation 3IRIHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES NOTED The Chronicle Extends Greetings To Those Whose Birthdays and Anniversaries Occur This Week. previous termine whether our type of exist-j i ar g er p ar t of the bond purchases'I s on the way. Inflation works some-j * nee can endure agaihst a coalition|h ave b een ma de by banks, insurance, thing like this: you go to bed with] ol nations and yegmen who oppose t . om p an j es an d cor p 0ra tions as would i a 'dollar bill in, your hand, and y° u , KiptKffav Wednesday Feb Ifi philosophy of freedom and lib- be'expected. They have the surplus! wake up the next morning, and lo * riawkiiU udl Mrs. Nathan Nabors will observe a our erty. - ! funds with which to make the pur- The civil war may have helped to chases and have responded in a most cement our nation together but vie- liberal manner to the appeals. The t >ry in this war should .once and sa i e orf individual bonds, we are told, forever establish our democratic has fallen down to a large extent, form of-government as a permanent There are many people who are able how; I don't, and unshakable factor in world af- to buy heavily, there are many others | fams. . • | who are unable ^o^ buy ’ in large; It has taken a lot of battles, a lot amounts because their salaries do not 1 of loss of life and- many heartaches justify the purchases if they are to to defend our liberty, but each test live within their fixed income. But has made us stronger and our posi- all of us should buy all the bonds tion in the world more secure. It we can. probably may be too much to ex- In these drives the principal mo-; j>ect but when victory comes in this live of most individuals in buying war let us hope there will be little borids is .the attainment of future fi-' possibility that any nation will again nancial security and a regular income dispute our right to live as we please, from interest payments on bonds.i This is the wrong kind of reasoning. Pi ' mAn U f u J Bonds today must be bought by UQirymen nil noro individuals in prodigious quantities and behold! there's, only a dime there. And the following week, you sleep again, and when you wake up, presto! the dime is gone, and so are you. Let's fight inflation if we know |. Mrs. S. D. Dawkins will celebrate a birthday on the 13th. • Pfc. Roy Lopez, who is .now with the armed forces in England, cele brated a birthday Feb. 3. | Roscoe Buzhardt celebrated a I birthday Monday, Feb. 7, and Mrs. Buzhardt had a" birthday the 8th. Cadet Nurse Sara McCrary of this city and Camden, is celebrating a j birthday today. Miss Jamie Little has a birthday today. 'Miss Frances Leonard had a birth day Monday, Feb. 7. Magdalene Stockman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis P. Stockman, cele brated her fifth birthday the 8th. 1 j Thad Johnson. Ill, son of Mr. and TELEPHONE—Advertising Mrs. T. C. Johnson. Jr., of Charles- I had a horrible thought the other ton ’ formerly- of this city, will bej two years old Monday. - . ] T vr vi , Mrs. T.-J. Blalock, Sr., has a birth- In New York happened to day Feb H Robert Knox, son of Mr. and Mrs. telephone number which Tomorrow is Miss Carolyn Free man’s birthday. Lewis D. Simpson celebrated a crats can't show us. Some day, let us hope, There has never been'-any argu- if the money is raised the govern- 1 ni Ent. rnent about the fairness of rationing ment is. calling for with which to supplies so that all persons might finance the war. Patriotism, not per- dial the get a share of scarce commodities, sonal profit, should compel their pur- gives you a weather report. After Gene"Knox oF Portsmouth Va* will We are all agreed on that point. But chase. As ^ matter of fact, if we hearing that it was going- to be be t h ree years 0 i d Saturday Feb 12 no one has yet figured out how price mean what we say in glowing trib-' “cloudy and colder” tomorrow, the Tomnrrm,- i* ivt.c. ceilings, which discourage production, utes to freedom and our professed weather "voice" went on , to say, will increase supplies of .scarce com- willingness to make sacrifices to win "Help Win the War. Buy War Bonds.” modifies. The Washington bureau- the war and get our boys back home 1 thoroughly approve of the tele- b i rthday y &;terday in the shortest time possible — we phone company aiding the war bond _ _ y ’ ^ our eco- should be glad to buy bonds regard- drive in this way. But the horrible NOTICE TO CREDITORS nomic wizards may learn the wisdom less of* interest enticements. .thought that occurred to me after!; V,,-— . of planning for plenty, instead of Unless bond buying, in the last hearing that'message was —maybe All persons holding claims against merely rationing for scarcity, which analysis, 'is wholly- dictated by the some-day the telephone will become tpe estate^ot L. W. C. Blalock. de-| is the germ of inflation. i urge to cast our'ToTso far as pos- a medium for all kinds of advertjs-| cea . • W1 ‘* Present them.to the un- Take the dairy business as an ex- sible with the men at the front, we ers to use to sell their wares. dersigned, duly proven, on or before, ample. Month-ago. m fact two years, can lay no claim to being patriotic.! The more I .considered the possi- j Fe Pru ar y» or ag.i, the disparity between the cost Real patriots care not a*whit for bility, the more it bothered me. .1 ol producing milk and the selling 1 personal security or profit when their could just picture some super-sales- price allowed, was pointed out and nation is in peril. man getting the ear *of a telephone co. recti-.n urged. But the matter was Our freedom is in deadly peril be- company executive and painting a t , - . di rt-garded and the charge made cause-too many people are working lurid picture of the profits which. Ualed February j, 1J44. 24-3c that farm prices f° r i imc and a half instead of for, could be made out of telephone ad-! be forever barred. F. M. BOLAND, J. B. SPEAKE. Executors. In-mp Washington were Yespon-ible for inflation, re-1 Victory. This Fourth War Loan cam-I vertiging. gardless of increased labor and'sup-i P ai S n is an opportunity to turn over “You’re just suckers,” T could hear (i -ts. Right now in this state a new leaf, but we doubt that it will the super-salesman saying, “to go to| ine laTe vlar y ie ; w - Laldwen^will pg| NOTICE All (persons holding bills against ply cia rymen have been begging for a he done. We should buy bonds for all the trouble of trying to sell tele-; sent Ihem duly proven to the under- ta;. increase in the price of their the sake of our country and our boys phone service to the people when,"if! , ,y ,*! c h lo '. Those in- Inr 'iiict but 1 they get is a deaf ear.i a t the front—and forget self. If we you carried advertising like radio oebted to said party are also asked r- di-anpearing*cream do. this, then only can we justly and does, you could give yoqr gervice t0 I T iake settlement by this date. bu Well, butte i a th hg o: the past, cheese' is a iaxury. and milk is daily growing scarcer Ail over the country farmers are-^gc.ng out (jf milk production to a\a .d bankruptcy, and because ,of the unfair national attitude toward their industry. honestly call ourselves true Ameri- away. You have the best home cover- cans. j age network in existence. If you fet national ■advertisers use that network 17-2c Miss Caroline E. Caldwell, P. O. Box 903, Spartanburg, S. C. The Jap Hoi'ror Stories The tlT.i ture stories recently re-1 bv ( NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE they’d pay you hundreds of millions of dollars a year.” , FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 20th day of December, 19^4* we will render a final account of our acts and doings lea-e: lure our war department—sto ne- of how ‘American soldiers had been subjected to inhuman treatment; in Japanese prison camps—are the most horrifying stories that day ' Killing the Goose For Its Featljers Washington, D. C.—A congressman MENTION’S—Examples While the war is going omand tele-“ as Executrices of the estate of A. J • phone service for civilians is beingMilling in the office of thd Judge ofj | curbed there is no danger of such an Probate of Laurens County, at 10; innovation being introduced. ! o’clock a. m., and-on the same day But suppose, after life is normar will apply for-a final discharge from | again, the telephone c o m p a n i e s, our trust as Executrices. I b< hv made a speech in the house the other t s ^ ou ' d be mesmerized4nto letting ad U J' i. i , vertisers instead of consumers na- Any) person indebted to said es- l-"'-^-^ war ^hey ihat there; f or telephone service. Let’s see how payment on or before'that date; and . . . t . nc .ut ol war ipeyshow-t^- a eat movement on foot" to sud- ; 11 might F ork - , aI1 P orscns ha ving claims against .. .( . ..j-ane-eaie still being guid- ^ mills with pulpwood: The telephone “time”, pur-; said estate will present them on or id t)\ ti ])i so-called religion „ ■ .V * „ -n. .chase mieht be for" that moment fol- before said date, dulv nrnven nr he vertisers instead of consumers pay tate is. notified and required to-make the supposition is that the mills need f hase might be for ~ that moment fol- before said date, duly proven, or be which know^uolaiv but that °^ 4 the : jCJ." pnTn''wood"''to "make naiierTor lowin fi the raising of the-receiver. | forever barred jungle. It is thfcs .savaeo inrioctrina- • In *s puip wqpa to mane paper lor ..._ 4 u _.. : pt .TAnca.- tion wineii mu savage indoctrina- „ ... the Japanese the government use and so forth. dirty, treacherous and fanatic fight- 1 ers that they are. It explains Pearl! Instead of just having the operator, ask “Number, please?" as she does This congressman recited the fact now ' some advertiser might pay a Harbor and the atrocities which are that we have between 10,000,000 and ^ or ^ une to have her ’precede ^that ELIZABETH MILLING DAVIS, ' AGNES ROSS MILLING, ALMENA MILLING..BLALOCK, Executrices, bales of cotton, most of QO 051 * 011 ‘^ith, “If you want a de-; January 20, 1944.— shc c kmg the world This type of r vvhich might be called a surolus The Rcio^s breakfast tomorrow morning, | AT „ savagery i. by no means confined to wn *f. n migni pe called a surplus, ine a -. box of vitamin-rich Toastv AIR CORPS STATIONERY, genuine b„t runs through «« public seems-1. have torfotten that 01 nch Toasty ._ V* • , jcottQn makes good paper, and if there’s anything we have too much' oTTodayTiTs cottoni Paper bags have' reiver before your conversation been substituted for cotton bags-for! an °thoi' advertiser might be • i p. rUo vi-P : that packing fertilizer, cement, lime, cow g ad to pay a bank full of dollars to ' ' ’ . , and chicken feeds, sugar, and hun- have a voice say. 'This conversation v\ tiit: Utiici lo in- , . e .■ , , . ic enf the military ent re nation. Although Vye,.havt'. reason tu.believe these .-tones -Lh-’at now come to us are true, artt! therefore should be re vealtd to the engraved, attractively boxed Then, as your friend lifted the r e-l Chronicle Publishing Co., Phone 74. before’ 4-^ QX- O hxxt- population, the effect on ror stories fn a war I n « i o 'e of C m'r^ciV'Tian dreds ot hdr items that could be w sponsored by throat-soothing Zebra cicu.j^t.h n.o.a.c of ou^cu ibaiL^. ^ cigarettes—the cigarette that puts a smile in your voice.” • Of course a tie-in with telephone HP ~ j j calls to grocery stores and drug ^pneffort to get us, to Using snrtall pines for pulp wood! stores c ^ uld brin g f abu i 0UB p rices ; jilay a more active part in the war,is a horrible thought, as scarce as from advertisers! And the telephone liL* Ol UUI CiVliiail i j • *4 /rr*. will not be tempted by papked * n cotton - (Thats not effect thp-se true stories "have had rncasure ). the people to “ invent” other hor-i _ _ LD DISCOMFORTS program, ; saw-timber is ip the South. Cutting companies could probably work out During the last war we remember down our sapplings when they reach an automatic control which,, when- that many stories pf this nature, a size of 6 or 8 inches in circumfer- which were often not too carefully ence is like killing our calves hefiore checked, werereleased for our con- they become cows, eating our punets sumptidh. None, of us want such sto- before they are old enough to lay, i tomer nes—we pray that Wch things won’t! destroying our comstaks before they c j ous SGup happen — but at the same time we'“shoot,” pulling our o ever .anyone called a gffteery store telephone number, would turn on a record Which would advise the “cus- to be sure to buy A’s-' deli- B’s codfish flakes,- C’s but at the same time we'“shoot,” pulling our watermelons! home made bread, D’s. baked beans nn tewant the truth kept from us. when they are green, and many other and the p'roducts of aU other adver- The Tong delay, of the war depart- similar stunts. tisers who were willing to pay for a ment in releasing these stories indi cates that they checked them in de tail before permitting publication. What does the average farftier get for his pulpwood? First, a few dol- The stories make us realize more lars per acre that he could do with clearly Ahan ever before the fiendish nature of the enemy we are fighting in the Pacific. They will make us out, and grow pine trees worth five times as much. Second, he creates • entertain such advertising proposals, gulleys and ^washes and erosion, plus 1 But because the idea occurred to me mention. RADIO—Static I am not too serious in thinking that telephone companies would eyer BENJAMIN & SONS PLUMBING •••find*** HEATING SERVICE Telephone 117 WE ARE HUNTING TROUBLE ^‘YIAI! li 8ACKM ATTACK LET'S MAKE 194 THE ALLIED VICTORY YEAR Now is the time to bu^ more War Bonds than ever, let's make this year go down in4i|s- tory as the year of the downfall of Hitler and Tojo. — Bonds offered for sale at this institution. No charges on our part. 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