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Foge Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON. S. C. Thursdoy, Morch 15/ 1945 £hp OIltnt0it (ChrontrU Established 1900 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. drinks and other confections for the benny-fit of the graveyard, the po- leesman will be on duty to .see that no skin-games goes on betwixt the, ; jockeys and hoss owners, come, one, | I come all, and enjoy yourselves, watch : the papers for the date of same. yores trulie, | . holsum moore, rfd, corry spondent. ♦ j In the Beginning Years and years ago, when hnost of ; you were little boys and girls, not counting the folks who had not ar- j ' rived, I went away to take a job as j telegraph operator. I had never been; very far beyond out of sight of home j before. Addresses Congress C LINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1945 Our Monument To Debt I remember that I borrowed t $10 1 j from Pa. I put $7.98 of that in a fine | ! suit of clothes that turned me blue | | from fading. I had shoes and hat to) ! match, and they cost the balance of i j my borrowed capital. I had $2.50 of i ! my own that I had saved up over a | HENRY LAURENS After becoming located, I learned Photo shows President velt ss he addressed a Joint ses sion of congress on the results of jy. recent conference held by the Big Three at Yalta. ish and confined in the Tower of London in 1780. After a long confine ment he was exchanged for Lord Cornwallis, who had surrendered to 1 General Washington at Yorktown. J With Jay and Franklin he negotiated in will. The idea is to, look to govern ment more- and more, for everything. We are told that with war costs,As an example, Senator Olin John-;“‘^ r * s -^ is '" re " r ~^ c " a ^ied mounting about four billions a s ton visits Columbia this week andj^ e along for 30 d ays . month, our national public debt may talks about federal aid to state sup- soon reach 300 billion dollars. None ported schools and colleges as pro of us can "take in" such figures, of! posed in a bill pending in Congress . ni ._ hf _ v _ T vear ago Wide* Roosevei, J ta“ S ."di»c, SCmT j us"ed j doub? thal \ **** The debt right now is 235 billions, government puts up the money, re-j bought a big necktie- it cov-! and time-corisuming tasks which which mean.-a that the high expected gardless of the project, it dictates and g . , f f m h t ’ j have burdened the farmer for cen- jh ak is just around the corner. j says what must and must not be j erecl nal1 01 my c " esi ‘ I turies. Coming closer home, a debt of 300 done - billions equals about $2,113 per cap-^Permanent Job^ and earnings,1 ita, or $8,000 per farm _ id, no. economists have figured out, only-from industry that can operate will amount to $42 per capita per year. The spenders in authority dling hot air and premises that gov would do well to study thes Xmptm^fw.lnant'^’SSd taxed to death to pay for. the poll- 1, The farmer-, life of tomorrow hi bring it to a speedy conelusiori must^toans should be stirring themsehes every two or three days—but i ^ p^'b^^and s°table S maSe" ^' NOTICE Notice. is hereby given that the undersigned will apply to the Secre- Bom March 6, 1724 tary 0 j 0 f South Carolina on Henry Laurens, for whom Laurens ! or after the 12th day of March, 1945, county is named, was born in Char-' for a charter for “Tlie Joanna Foun- leston, March 6,- 1724, received an d a tion,’’ a corporation organized and education in Charleston and was j to be operated under and in accord- trained 4or mercantile pursuits, in ance w ^ h the provisions of Chapter which he ultimately acquired a for- ] 58> . Article II, Sections 8158 through tune. In 1771 he went to England 8 i67 ) Volume IV, Code of South Car- and traveled on the continent. He! 0 ij na 0 f 1942, and acts amendatory was an advocate of the rights of the thereto, providing for the incorpor- colonies, publishing papers a n d‘ation of social, educational or other ^ pamphlets of marked ability. Re- eleemosynary corporations, and to be turning from abroad in 1774, he was jbeated and have its principal place I a member of the first Provincial 0 f business at Goldville, S. C. Congress in Charleston, 1775. The! WALTER REGNERY, h r WaS a™ pres . ld ® n ^ of WM. A. MOORHEAD, South Carolina and was elected a J B HART ?„ e h „ C °S tinen “. 1 Congress -i March 7, IMS.-lc Corporators, succeeding John Hancock as presi-, dent. Sent as minister to Holland in' 1779, he was captured by the Brit , , * . , ,.. .. . . Rural electrification will have a lot My striped sox looked like a stick | tQ do with rapid increases in farm U 1 ; interest > which maintain government come i ^ ^T^Vr toe Z?Z~ ^ucHom sT will marvelous in- figured out, only from industry thaf can operate U i s t a C rt e d L uslng hair oil the ventions of lhe scientists-inventions capita per at a profit. Therefore; instead of ped- d » y - 1 S o 0 n le frned how to for automatic weeding, for spraying authority dling hot air and promises that 8°'-, handle a knife and fork but never i frorn the air ’ for im P rovin g the s ° ll > e<e figures ernment will provide jobs, which the ; handl< ! a knl [f, a " d ’ for treating seeds and plants so that taxpayer' people themselves would have to be f>‘ " .w« wTth' the will be multiplied, uixpajti.h h . fw- ♦v.e, ^i,_ to the left hand. I did away with Mr* n r ic Aunt Gussle Hears All the Gossip Now Sha’i found th« almsU Ouria* Homo Method tot. Thouonda temporarily dbnfoned found It halpod thorn, too, to hoour well a rein Hardened or ooarulated wax (cerumen) hed left them annoylnrly irked by rinrlnr. busxlnr head noisea. Then they dUeorered simple, effective Ourlne. Try thl» test yourself. You muj>t , . — 1 hear better or you get your money back, his Will that his body should be ere- ! A»k about Ourlne Ear Drop* today at mated; and his instruction was car-j anrmre pharmacy ried out. This is said to have been SMITHS PHARMAC^ the first instance of cremation in America. “The Rexall Store” be provided, we ah will agree.. But to see that private enterprise is given. ’ whiskers to start withj a u Potable and f table market for in non-essential spend,ng'nnd the every possible encouragement «> 8° f e grevv in modernity gradually, and ; <he 'ael amount of food products he cl minati, n of bureaus, grants, hand- ahead and expand and employ the considered fully civilized after 31 wl , . ® t0 . P roc | uce . ^ nc *. 1 J 1 , axf rwer. tKo hoct ^COnsiUCICU iuujf Liviuicu duct o milt v/atos thd inrinctrial marlcdt hp outs, expennientation in ond waste for drastic retrenchment. business greatest number of men at the best. " 4 , . , I business f . . . r . .. nrn ri„P. years on the job. It was wonderful me has. long passed wages, in order ot roll up produc tion and employment to the highest I 10 130 20, -a grown level possible. j ^ t Government should stop invading the province of private business as I man. The Need for Hormony As a result of the Yalta confer- is championed by many of the po- once, Churchill. Stalin and Roose- ( litical planners. If Congress really vcIt seem to be more palsey-walsey wants to create jobs instead of a than over before. In their respective totalitarian form of government, let countries each has heaped high, it concentrate on the sound Ameri-1 praise on the other two and. as a re-j can idea of encouraging private en-i suit, are definitely breaking down' terprise to*do its utmost uqfier fair f some of the public suspicion of any and reasonable public regulation" and future enmity between present allies, taxation. Hot air doesn't create jobs. | TJkku/and TUtnoVuM’ by Don Robinson cultivates the industrial market he, should have little to fear on this| score. He must hold to the dream o{' Henry Ford’s of an automobile, which, in basic ingredients, is not; dissimilar to a seven course dinner, i In Memoriam JOHN T. BLAKELY In the passing of John T. Blakely | on January 22, 1945, the Men’s Class; 1 of Broad Street Methodist chbrch lost a most beloved and devoted mem- I ber—one who had been a member iof the class at various intervals for CAMPBELL LODGE NO. 44, A. F. M. REGULAR COMMUNICATIONS Third Tuesday Night of Each Month at 7:30. STERLIN YOUNG, W. M. V. P. ADAIR, Sec. Royal Arch Masons first Thurs day of each month at 7:30 P. M. but if the, leaders will get together on a com- mo three insisting on a harmonious relation ship. many of those problem:> will ev aporate AUTOMOBILES—Farm j more than thirty years and who had In 1935 Henry Ford said: ■•Thei^en a teacher ot the class lor part time is coming when we shall grow Brother Blakely was a man who most of an automobile. The mne * j ^ the he pro(essed and There will be tremendous prob-! lems to be worked out to avoid the Piling Up Profits possibility of future wars, but if the, We are told thgt the three _ cent ders will get together on a tom- $ta m become a thing of the! 1 "^ 1 ““ r in QHHiHWn I l ived the religion he professed and n basis and the people oi our pggt The pC)stoffice department has s ^ nation L-.u become! was an example of the words “True w countries wul follow them in ask house postofTice committee J® Golfer n f the materials used i n i Christian.” He was not ashamed of to consider legislation making the' tn ® ^P p !. ier of the matenals used in . the Gospel of Christ and was always various divisions of the department I incmsl y - j willing on any occasion to testify to self-sustaining. A member of the| Automobile manutacturers haven t the g 00 dness of God and of the Sav in spite of the great differences in cornm jtt e e stated the proposal would y et revealed just which of a wide ing Grace o{ the Christ he followed, political philosophy which exist be- involve lowering first-class rates choice of materials they will use m ; He j ovec j Q od an{ j j ove d his fellow tween the people of our country and frorn three to two cents, and raising I postwar cars, but there is every ex rnan whether that person was lowly; the people ot Russia, we cannot help parcel post rates a few cents. | pectation that Mr. Ford’s prophecy or 0 f t h e highest rank, and he showed! but have grent respect for the Rus- From p 0stofTice department figures wiU come tru f \ n very short order , this love in his devotion to the cause | sums when we read about the amaz- f .q,, ti . sound an di after war P roductlon ends. 1 0 f Christ and his Church. K jng job they are doing and the sacri- • , ' The D f, blic will suffer in Bodies of cars — at least some of J whereas, we all loved Bro. Blakely ! flees which they are making. We are , down on innrn thern are apt to be made of plastics. as a me mber and teacher of our class, „«■ „,„h of victory in Ger- Confess For th^y^arf'-'- 5 are «»d. fr«n . & now and much credit for what just ended the department showed i * cod i J^nni nf rnm o^ as been accomplished must go to a , 7fi o ft9 o nnH ' have a body made out of corn, or of We Have Tires and Tubes BATTERIES and ACCESSORIES Have your battery charged while you wait. , Clinton Service Station Phone 96 Clinton, S. C. Gulf Products GALL BLADDER SUFFERERSsk&K DUI {TO LACK OF HIALTHY BILK Suf era-i Rejoice M RemarkoMo F" Brian Pint Real Reealn. Raahed Hew relief for zaUbladdor eufferm boelthy bile ia eeen today in annotn of a wonderful preparation which acta remarkable effect on liier aad bile. Sufferen with ayoniAr ptomach and ga lib ladder ml of healthy bile new tell reeulta after ualag thia medicine which the aataiing power to etimulate ah Hrar and increaao flow of healthy GALLUSIN is a very expensive medicinev hoi cooiiderlng reeulta, the ft.00 it aoeta In a n few penxtea par doee. GALLUSIH Is witt full monqr bock guana tee Iff SMITH’S PHARMACY Mail Orders Accepted ttig colic misery duo to latt tell of rwarkehfc rhleh hM ahigglw tty hila DR. FELDER SMITH OPTOMETRIST SPECIALIST IN EYE EXAMINATIONS Office Hours: 9:00 to 6:00 Examinations: 4:30 to 6:00 P. M. Phone 29 for Appointment CLINTON, S. C. in close many ha these fighting Russian armies. And while we do not subscribe to the Rus religiou why, when the war is over, we can not continue to respect and admire the Russians as a people. So long as a profit of $37,768,028, and estimates, , ... that its 1945 surplus will run to | co ^ n ’ or °f m ! 11 " mir 1Qsn rar ant < ( t more than SI 17,000,000—and its 1946' TJ 16 paird on . nnholste^v ssian form of government, or us wiU hit $265> oo 0 ,000. Th 1S| to be a SOyb T t P ,rpri’p,ri of P p^ s beliefs, there is no reason that tho Ho „ artm<lnt hQC may be manufactured out of case n a by-product of milk, cotton will be shows that the department has be come a gold mine. The war has been a great financial ^ed in the updo ^ r i y ^f t 1 p n ®’ ^ beCOme m ° r ! de u Voted to OUr claSS dye in the paints and upholstery will anc j j 0 our church. Whereas, we consider his life worthy as an example for all of us to follow, Therefore, be it resolved by the Men’s Class of Broad Street Metho dist Church that we strive to follow his example as a Christian man and NEED CASH MONEY? AUTO LOANS AND FINANCING « Contact: SERVICE LOAN AND FINANCE CO. ^ * CLINTON, S. C. LYNN COOPER TOM ADDISON Phone 7-J Phone 99 mitht •r country ti oes to i: mpose its Thi or'. es o! government on the other. thi'/e should nevei be any reason to feur any conflict between our two gri ut nation^. Wht >n and if either of the n; mions attemp ts to dominate the ot nor - then trou ble may be ex- ptn tc( i. eluded, of course, is the postoffice department as the quoted figures re veal. package-mailing have been respon sible for this unprecedented boom in mail service, plus increased rates that became effective a few years ago. Offices all over the country are showing substantial monthly increas es in volume of business because of James Caesar £etnllo is Czar No. 1 the war. who defies the PresiTSua><md Con- The department needs to stay out 1 ‘7, 1I ' £ ’ 1 —i u... . able to perhaps be made from peanuts, your Resolved, further, that we devote car may be insulated with a peanut a p a g e in our class records to the i increased letter-writing^* and " hel1 , P roduct ’ ^e ; varnish °n the ! memory of - h is life of service among woodwork is apt to be a soybean us product and your synthetic tires will Resolved, also, that we send a copy! 8 be made of any of a number of vege- 0 f |he resolutions to his bereaved H. D. HENRY 1898-1945 F. M. BOLAND tables. j family and also submit a copy for What the engines will be made of i publication. ' 1 Petrillo, The Czar gress and does as he pleases. He lev- of the red, of course, but not to be , jes an excise on phonograph records converted into a huge profit-making aI manufactured in this country and agency. It should give an enlarged I don't know, but it seems/juite pos sible that a 1950 farmer, by grow ing a selected group of products used | in manufacturing will actually be automobile say that his is an G. W. HOLLINGSWORTH, JULIAN W. COLEMAN, W. H. SIMPSON, Committee, ij sold to the American people. Manu- and improved service whenever nec- facturers of records are also afraid essary, both in city and rural areas, ol this dictator—So Petrilla levies his Its goal always should be a first-class MOUTHS—Machines To the farmer, this new trend of using more and more farm products private tax and goes a step further {service for the public and not the Jhou^^mve 1 ^ Tifeiaving ^evelop- and requires the manufacturers to (Piling up of millions in bank bal-j; * P collect it for him, which they do. jances. And he pay's no income tax on it be- ; * cause unions do not pay income taxes. He is master of the funds, DllflMCff which are said to amount to about > Nil qMIJ Y \ IJM\|Nf\\ four million a year. Now comes the crowning insult to 1 American intelligence. The National | Music Camp at Interlochen, Mich., By GEE McGEE ment. There are plenty of shortsighted people who have worried a good deal about possible overproduction on farms following the war. They ask: if farmers can break all-time produc tion records under wartime handi caps, as they have done, how will they dispose of all the food they will be able to produce in the post-war era? We can get people to eat more— TYPEWRITERS AND ADDING MACHINES Sales and Service CLEANING A SPECIALTY Reasonable Charfes KENNETH N. BAKER Phone 306 H. D. HENRY & COMPANY INSURANCE STOCKS — BONDS — REAL ESTATE Federal Loans Negotiated On Real Estate Telephone 121 h f k bc ™ l»«W «" «» :' unfai r «j»"! A Bis Event Is In the Oftint of the American Federation of Mu-, thr-i tn- Petrillo’s organization to 1 a big boss show will be hell on the stnu the school of its faculty Such scho11 grounds i n fiat rock enduring but there is certainly a limit on the ‘ , P e y ' the month of mav 1945 everboddv amoun ^ 130,000,000 mouths can con- a drastic move is of course a serious i ine monm oi may everooaay > > , , c r -1 who hris hoss0s thst thpv to SLimG. W0 esn try to foccl the peoples threat to the furtherance of musical ^ .nas nosses^ tnat mey want } 0 \ w T„Vw>n th™* education. uj i 1 install in this show will plese take ! war-swept nations, but when those How long before Congress and the >°tis that,the followering rules must ^} io f K S fl £ e ^ Q a J k „i.° f a r P ® ace r ;^ e t ^r c ourts will Curb a monopoly which ( be obe y ed and stuck tp: today has total power over the right ♦ of an individual to earn his living,' 1—no hoss over 15 yr. old will be tus, they may prefer to raise their own food, not to import it from us. Rather than worry about foreign markets, it seems a lot more sound for the farmer to cultivate this new home market—to supply ample food even to the extent of assessing him , admitted regardless of pedigree or for politic al purposes contrary to his previous record of servitude. tuning 11 chiIdreT off the au^in 'a 1 2-each hoss o^er must bring his f°r our own people and then feed m’j'ic i 1 program ’ Why call this free own food, both for hisself and the' the sur P lus , the indu ^ tnal machlnes Arne a when we to^ a e suS; other hoss. (onner count of the o.p.a. whose appetities may become almost , 4 r .. .. ! n o food will hp cprvpri nn thp insatiable. So long as ou^ machines, h:gn-hand«! destruction of individ- ; non food will be served on the ^ uat liberty? If this move goes un- grounasj. . i ^ challenged by our lawmakers, what will be the next step? We w-ill see fyletUlde THIS IS WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY- CITIZENS FEDERAL LOANS ARE FLEXIBLE’ quantities of food there will be no i 3 — 00113 and other'young bosses | need for the farmers to worry about labor^di'ctators controlling govern- wiU be ort special display, but the i overproduction, ment as completely as they now con-‘ nwn ‘ >r,s m,lct ^ v ' aUorc crt ’ cl trol the individual. We are witness ing a disgraceful spectacle—a greedy money-collector usurping the exelu- owners must wear good halters so’s they won't break loose and run over anyboddy. ^ \/p Urn turn nf •! snineless Coneress- 4—blue ribbins will bt^-givven for ^ • Ft rrv m> tw Vfwith it ' ’ the nicest bosses, red ribbins’ for the undreamed of prosperity. Just as the SMi d ay' a next nicest) and a bushel of oats to industrialist made great finaridal PROMISE—Yield Because of this big new outlet for farm products, it is anticipated that the farmer may enter a period of How To Create Jobs Out of.Washington Come promises from politicians of jobs for...60,000,- (XX) after the war, but these prom- i.oners have no more, idea than a jack rabbit how to create and main tain that many jobs. They say if in dustry doesn't do it, government WIND CAN OUTDO FIRE' Property owners along the Atlantic and in other sections have learned, the bard way, that wind sometimes does more damage than fire. For only a little more than you are pay ing for fire insurance d/oae, you can have protection against fire, wind, explosion ' and numerous other hazards. r the third winner. L 5— races Will be hell on the Ipase- ball diamont and prizes will be given, ail bets to pass thru the corpmittee who gets a rake-off to buy the said prizes with. . ^ 1 6— the ladies aid will sell soft strides through mass production, sp can the farmef expect to prosper when the business of farming be- coitgXentirely mechanized and elec- trifl Fjr?rlning, even in the eyes of the prfxlucers of the newest type of farm machines, probably will never reach the stage wherp a crop of potatoes H' S. W. SUMEREL, Agent Jacobs Building—PJione 80 CLINTON,,S. C. We mean that the needs, circumstances and income of the borrower govern the terms of his loan. Monthly payments are fixed to fit into his budget, to the end that retirement of his debt will be sure and systematic, yet add no burden to his living co$ts. Other features com bine to make home buying a satisfying and simple affair, no more complicated than paying rent. If .you contemplate buying, geft our figures on a loan . specially designed for you. Or, if yeu are already buying a home, review your present mortgage. If it is contpli- cating or adding hardships to your ownership program, v a flexible Citizens Federal Loan can help you. Each Account Insured Up To $5,( mm. EDERAL5AVING& AND LOAN ASSOCIATION Telephone No. 6 A Clinton Institution Serving Clinton People Sinfe 1909