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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON. S. C.
Thursdoy, Morch 15/ 1945
£hp OIltnt0it (ChrontrU
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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