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Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C Thursday, February 17, 1944 (5 hr (£ lint an (£l|ranirlp Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher One Published Every Thursday By ; the chronicle polishing company ■ ^ . Subscription Rate (Payable In lAdvance): Year $2.00 v ...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, b ' 1 * you can't spare him, mr. chance will | analysis of heroism because I once wait. holsum mopre, rfd. yores trulie. | made a father exhaustive study of FII^AL SETTLEMENT Take notice that o& the 20th day Various and Sundry Facts About Washington Washington, D. C.—This District of the qualities whic^gp to make aiof December, 1944, we will render a hero in connection with the work; fina i account of our acts and doings' being done ■ by the Carnegie HerOj as Executrices of the estate of A. J. Fund commission. j Milling in the office of thp Judge of That organization-was set up by. Probate of Laurens County, at 1G Andrew Carnegie “to recognize and! o’clock a. m., and on the same day Columbia embraces, many things be- ^jp ^ ose people in civilian life who | will apply for a final discharge from sides the Capitol. We have • moie ; demonstrated the-courage to risk .our trust as Executrices, folks here than necessary: sorpe are t u p j r , nwn f „ .. men own .lives to save the me oi! Any person indebted to saiu es- another. • „ j tate is-notified and required to make j In my talks with hundreds of bene-; payment on or before that date ficiaries of that fund J found it was all persons having claims hunting jobs, many pretend to' be wording, others, are seeking non renegotiation assistance, and still there are quite a few who want to know when the Townsend plan will begin to function. These last, are over 60 and don't feel like working, and ft they did feel like working is easier to loaf than it is to labor. BRONCHIAL COUGHS! op Bronchial Irritations Duo to Colds Buckley’s Fqmous “CANADIOl"' Mitptfre Acts Like a Flash 'Spend a few cents today at any&swl drug store for a bottle of Bifekiey’a CANADIOL Mixture (triple acting), CLINTON, S. C , THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1944 Final War Effort ‘•'This war began a long while ago. I am getting fed up with the thing. I think it*is nearly time we finished it." ■ ' • - , Although many of us have felt just,that way, we need to be cautious about making such a statement be cause it would, be : apt to make .'oth ers feel that we we/e-.Lacking ip. the stairrina and the willingness to make yac-.uiioes'which are necessary- to as sure... victory. .... : 7 ; ' But the above quotation happens I., - be from - General Sir Bernard Montgomery, commander of the Brit- Ghish ground forces in the 'invasion command, Coming from him we know it ' has nothing to do .with weakness but expresses a confidence in bringing about thee unconditional surrender of Aur/enemids ' in a coifi- paratively sl'oiV time .in order that c ur -young men mlvy ' soon come marching home. The general made this statement to the troops in his command in or der to stimulate thenv to , the great est possible .effort wheh the invasion begins. And the statement was re- ! Leased to the people—not as a cue for them to relax in their whr work' and sit op the sidelines doing noth ing to help in the effort—but to in spire them to join in a really all-out final-effort to overwhelm our- Ger man and Japanese enemies by record production ot arms, and equipment. | ter served, - The schools belong tp pur children' and should‘ be competently operated solely for their training and development, without interference or political pressure. . When and . if. the time comes when pur public school'-system ^because of! anc } asking i government hand-outs is -dominated 1 Washington by Washington^ bungling, bureauc- I racy, incompetence, -regimentation, : collectivism and dictatorship-—then local interest will be vdestroyed and the schools will suffeY Long ago we should have gotten out' of the : grab-bag- game. We fAtye no .right as parents to sirift’local,responsibility for our children to-the federal gov ernment or any other agency. We Most of the workers (?) are frozen -Ion their' jobs. If you watch 'em for a little while you’ll decide they are frozen in thei rtracks. About half of the work (?) they are getting paid to and fqynd it was all persons having claims against impossible to “type” the people who said estate will present them dh or had demonstrated that quality. They ^ before said date, duly proven, or, be came from all walks of life and had i forever ba¥red. G ■ * •no common trait wffleh stood out in; ELIZABETH MILLING DAVIS, their personalities. ! AGNES ROSS MILLING. And my talks with them led me; ALMENA MILLING ^LALOCK, to the’same conclusion that this sol-j Executrices, dier reached during his observations! January 20, 1944.—17-4. of heroic acts on the Solomons— ———— — namely, that a great number of he- role acts are performed, not from sheer courage, but from fear of lbs Take a couple of sips at bedtime. Feel its instant powerful effective action spread thru throat, head and bronchial tubes. It starts at once to loosen up thick,, choking phlegm, soothe 'raw memlwahes arid make breathing easier. Sufferers from those persistent, nasty frmaving coughs or bronchial irrita tions due to colds find.lluekley's brings ouk'k and effective relief. "Don’t wait—4 gef Bu<'k]ey;s .Canadlol today. You get! V'cUcT ins'frfhtiy. ■ Smith’s Pharmacy do consists of holding a job. If you.. , , , , ... livg in Washington and observe, the: > n S Ibe Eespect of your friends if you amount of mail that copies /from 7 )n ^ Pj„ a y part of a hero when without to folks within, you’d think the opportunity presents itself. half of the outside is writing letters ’ Imagine, for example, walking past » may expect we do. d-ire consequences if of questions and telling | a frozen lake and suddenly hearing how the government! a child shout for help. There are few ought .to be run. And the other half people who would ignore that shout, is talking politics. ,; There are many who ..would approach G ! the hole in the lake with a feeling ; • And speaking of waste paper: it is' of almost paralyzing fear—but there gathered up, shipped somewhere, to! is something in the human system be made into usable paper again to which would lead most people to risk be used to write useless letters and their life to save that child no matter! send extravagant propa'ganda hack to; how gre,at their fear was. Part of; Washingtorn Tt is a sort of perpetual; that feeling at least is based on-the motion. Every state in the Union has need of every human being to have its quota of crack-pots, smart alecks, 1 t^e respect of his fellow; men J prejudices rabble; and so they make | I do not mean to infer that hero- ! j’a'noise! If the men in public office i sm is too commonplace. But I do were to undertake, to read one-half j maintain «that .the average soldier, 1 j of the bunk and punk and rot sent ; or tKe average civilian, if put in a! I to them, they would not have time position where he must choose be-, to eat or sleep, much less run their; tween having society ‘pudge him aj j respective jobs. ' j hero or a coward, would usually end; up with a medal. 7 G i % NEED CASH MONEY? AUTO LQANS — OTHER COLLATERAL Contact: g SERVICE LOAN AND FINANCE CO. « Clinton, s. c. l.i g LYNN COOPER G-. TOM ADDISON J* Phone 7-J Phone 99 if New Tax Law A Puzzle Governor John W. Bricker Ohio, began,his presidential campaign a^few nights ago . at a Lingplo Day celebration.- He opened an aggressive .fight. ^ fellow can get qsed to crowds, against our present domestic policies, j If one can ’ t g et used to crowds' he taxes, labor .policies, the . prohibition ; h . ad better stay away from. .Wash- of strikes in time of war. He dc-i mgton. You have _to rub shoulders dared himself emphatically as favor-; w;th every race ; color .and creed, implified tax law the people; g ome 0 f them are mortar mixers, ing a can understand. For this plank in 1 his. platform he should be applaud- 1 ed by every American citizen. We need a simplification ©f the tax law and the blanks taxpayers 1 some are white-collarites, a few are recognized as. belonging tp the up per ten, .and nearly all of them, es pecially the /female of the species, smoke constantly, rapidly and en- must dll, out and- file with the federal | joyably It all adds up to a mess that government. . Nobody . understands : has been scrambled.- them, not even the so-called expert! ' ' G——-— accountants as they have admitted in! could on what he: actually; owed . the; to-take from thos«y Who- “have"-' government in .income taxf The first j ■those who “haven't.” All the adviser told him that he .owed the, the second said he and the third, after j The Spread of 'Isms' ?•. ; For die past several years we have been going through a period of his-i raan y case S: tory made up of scrambled econom- Americans have always.had a rep-; ics flavored with fascism, socialism, station for seeing the funny side of 1 communism, bureauism and countless things—even very "serious things. j other “isms.” We'are still suffering; That’s why most of us can laugh] from these diseases spread by dicta- at the story of the man who went lors and arrogant bureaucrats. ^ bargain hunting among internal reve-j Each “ism” claims t<5 be the' "dear nue advisers to get the best figure he . people's" savior from toil, and, prom ises for. . . , ... "isms” claim fo be the cure for wpr, ‘ government S60. but they all teach' class’ hatred—I owed over $200, hatred- ef the man who through-hard work, self-reliance and initiative has “savedG . • ' - “ ' "i ". The United an aggressor only for equa freedom. ■ •> ’ We in this^ country must not allow ourselves to/be fooled by “isms"—; though‘many have already fallen for these deceptive theories. , We can make adjustments without upsetting! a nation of contentment. We have a. constitutional government that- has! survived, depression, and . '“obstacles; before, and it certainly Ccin pull .out] of 7? present problems if we do hotf allow "isms” to undermine its'foun dation. To say. we can't—is utter non-j sens e. , t . " G Blaming war on capitalistic phases! and trying' To incite our against capital (private Savings), doesn't make /ense in spite of what the Washington -crowd tell, usf The countries t-hat claim to'be non-capi- talistic are the most war aggressive. ; /^- Don Robinson HERO — Fear FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 6th day of March,, 1944, I will render a final account of my acts and doings as Committee of the estate of . Troy A. Bailey in the office of the Judge of, Probete of Laurens County, 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 j is notified and required to make pay- ' ment on or before that date; and all | persons haying claims against saidJ ; estate will present them on or before i said date, duly proven, or be forever ! . barred. " j A, F. DENNIS, ! Committee, j 'February 6, .1944.—9-4cw States has not been nation, it . has fought rights and individual ! SOLDIERS' r TESTAMENTS with j Psalms 'Khaki back, index page for 1 name and address. An ideal gift to | send the relative or friend in service. A hero—according to. g definition e Chronicle Pub. Cb. Phone 74. looking over the same data presented picked up from a medal-bedecked! to the ofrfef Lv’o. figured he was en-! young soldier recently returned from | titled to a $30 refund. _ [the' Solomons area—is a man who is! The story throw’s the limelight on too scared to run backwards. j a situation which should not be al-! In giving that definition I realized; lowed to exist in our country. ' If that it was partly a matter of mod-; the men trained to figure income! esty, since this, soldier had, without! taxes are totally unable to get the [ any question, distinguished himself! right answers, how can an untrain-1 in« fighting against the Japs. But it! ed wage earner hope to file a correct! wasn't all modesty, for he made ho! income tax return? How a group of ! bones about admitting that for three senators and congressmen supposed, solid weeks he was one of the most to have average intelligence 'at Jeast j’frightened individuals in the Pacific. —ever allowed such blanks to be] If you took a hero aparty !&^see printed and distributed among the what makes him tick, this soldiPr. people no 1 one can undgrgjtand- " j said; you would often find a brain i It is high .time that congress'takes j naif paralyzed with fear. But fear qf this: Tax business out, of the realip i-this kind, he .explained, - is - a/ tw6- of higher mathematics and wrttes a; sided fear. "In ' my. case,’G he said, J new, simple tax law which we can all; “although shivers went up my back' understand.' It’s bad enough to have lover the thought of our first contact: people t0 pay the big taxes .which we are! with the enemy*, I was much more; obliged , to pay these days (largely, afraid of appearing "cowardly in the ] due to* New Deal spending and ex-; eyes of my pals., And anyway, where there is a wheel turning there is investment, -which is! capital. No matter whether the peo-! pie do the investing, or the govern -i mi nt does it, -the people in the end] are the investors. IrGGhe progress of' America, the people have put up*their own capital; and the government has remained! their servant as our Constitution in- ; tended it to be. We had better be oh; guai d day and night to kegp it* so. j travagance before the war started) .without having to shut our, eyes and try to figure what we owe by guess work. ’ G .- / • BUSINESS I !By CjEE McGEE ^ r ~ “When the time came when I did] get in a real fight with some Japs,” j he said], “I was, for the moment, too] ; busy to be 'afraid, but even then I] ! recall thinking that this was the big! " test and that I would much prefer to ! die fighting than to sacrifice the re-, speed of the other / ! lighting with me.” men who were / A Flat Rock Native Wants / A Favor ; — flat rock, feb the 14, . war department. ' Washington, d. C. Let's Keep Our Schools The Chronicle is strongly opposed deer sir": to federal control of our public-school t mr, slim chance. has asked the i TEST—Opportunity ^Webster defines a hero as “a per son of distinguished valor or enter prise in danger, or fortitude in suf fering.'"!" That definition, if analyzed, em phasizes the fact that a man must] be, exposed to danger or to suffering : in order to determine whether he! has heroic qualities. - I Construction Laborers ’ Needed Bv Vital War Job v In the Vicinity. * of Knoxville, system. A tendency toward increased fed eral control of education has a/isen m this country gnd . is spreading, against which taxpayers and patrons nced^To. a rouse themselves. Unless this tendency and agitation is Check ed, our schools will suffer dire.con sequences-Tn our opinion. 'Unless We have our eyp.s open and are will- jng .to speak our minds' something is likely to be done in Washington that wi rassing. undersigned^|o c leter* or foam tor ontact yore offds by According to the experiences of the purpose of ask- my soldier informant, there seems to ing you to grant his son, slim chance, j be no way to tell ahead of time what: U f-. 1 A—G1GG »• V A»* r /-e ^ /-k ! ic* I di'F »ra rf _ jr on. a 10-days furjow to come home mr. chance - do not think it would be treating-the army right to keep, slim, jr.. out of the war verry long, we might lose it, slim is---a great lighter;- he fought in the egyptian -campane a fweek and then was; prove harmful an^J embar-ftransferred tc^/guaddy-canal where: he fought .tWo weeks. G . ■ I f The governme\t States is to dominate is. to say to us, “this of the United a situation and is the kind of then slim, jr., was sent to Iceland fbr 3 days where he shot down 5 type of man is most apt to disting uish himself in battle. Like .most sol- ' diers to-whom I have talked, he told ] how men who were always thought \ of as ‘‘mama’s boys” in their home] towns" had performed feats of re markable bravery while some who! were .known as daredevils at home] turned out to be gun shy . But he. was concerned with what he considered the unfairness of the ; situation df the millions of men in] the army who .may never have an opportunity to make a bid for hero- era i control and let it be known. Our schools should be owned, con trolled and supported by the tax payers and patrons of the local com munities Taxpayers should elect the trustees and maintain a close contact with their schools. A Parent-Teach er association such as was recently organized here can render -a valu able service in Increasing close com- unity interest in the schools in or der that our children may be bet- jap-planes to his creddick. you will find him either in europe. asia or afferca: wherever the fighting is the toughest is where you will locate slim. education* we want you to give, this : i u ft y -wates full of germans who were Gsm. He pointed out that the oppor is the curriculum we designate, '.arid] frying to drop bums on cuby. he is aGunities to be a/hero, even if you these are the students and faculty' tail, gunner up in the air, and* a-75; have the qualities which make one,] .... i.- >-— » -«—*■• - - - are s0 few. and 'farrtjetween that -tije 1 average soldier is apt to go through the war without being tested. “It’s like a football team,” he said. “The guy who wiris all the applause 1 is the one who makes the touch downs, even'though he would never] be $hie to make .them if it wasn’t ! for the good job being done by the rest of the team. When I got my medal,” he said, “I just happened to be on the receiving end of a forward; pass. A squad of Japs were throym at me and I was in the right spot to I catch them.”- ~ members you are to have,” that,is tjie minie-meter gunner on the ground first, step in. the direction of Federal i destroyed 8 german tanks in the control, of education, and we will be ] battle of sisily. * helpless." We will he faced with new! ——r-*- *• racial problems. Every patron, es-j slim has fought all over china and pecially, should be opposed to Fed- attu and jappan and he has over 12 tell slim not to fetch anny mon- ney: his daddy has plenty of it—he put his cotton in the govverment loan, that’s why. telll slim to get off the train at the county seat and his daddy will meet him. of course, if 77 RESPECT—Medal I was interested in this soldier’s Working 53 hours per week— SO.575 per hour for 40 hours, plus $0,8625 per hour for addi tional 13 hours,, making a week ly total of $34.00, weather, per mitting. 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