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Page Four THi, CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. Thursday, April 12, 1945 iTb? CCltntim (Dirontrle Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS,* Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY One Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): Year $2.Q0 : ..J... 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. i idea was created in italy. mebbe we they were in 1900. There may be a; can win the wan without the help of lot of reasons for this increase, buti^ certain men who don’t care to obey j whatever the reasons are the figures l o ,the laws of the land, slim chance,- make it clear that the medical pro-|^ 1921-1945 jr., says the name of “little flower” i fession has not yet found an ade- has benn changed to “jim^on weed” quate answer for dealing with them. . . . but it is possible, as laguardia ;_i ♦ /—, says, that new yofk is a. different' country, boused on politics. yores trulie, holsum moored rfd. WITH THE PRESS Editorial Comment From Various Papers. SUICIDE—Reasons 3 3 With so many magazine stories and \ [ novels built around tragedies, where suicide is often cpnsidered, it was j J > interesting to me to read the statis-1 1 fical, unemotional record of the con-I k dhtions under which people find life! < * sohuhbearable that they prefer self-1 \ J inflicted death. io Hugh L Eichelberger NEW YORK LIFE MAN 24, Years Experience Professional Insurance Information Furnished Free Member—The National Association: of Life Underwriters CLINTON, S. C , THURSDAY, APRIL 12. 1945 Gi Bill Of Where Do We Stand? I - One day , last week James F. ; Byrnes, as Assistant President, urged ' Congress to pass the manpower bill, i which seems to be headed for the restaurants, hotels, in street cars junkyard 0n the samfe day he re _ ! find the same la6k of decent manners I in are: a nd in taxicabs and other public! that'victory was already j ■ ••^1 ■ ^ i i V.i y O X X XXOXXX^, VX X W* V V X "W* V\#X> J V T is too much J places. Naturally, it isn t universal. | just around the C9rner> While we with getting, Americans are by nature the most | know he has earne d a rest, why i cording to the story books has been j According to the record, about j 13,000 people in our couhtry take 1 their own lives each year. The chjief ! reason given for suicide among men ; is poor health, 40 per cent of those j attempting it doing so for that rea son. Among women, however, do mestic difficulties are the chief cause, 50 per cent of women who commit suicide doing it because of intolerable home conditions. As for unrequited love, which ac- Discharged veterans complaining that'there red tape in connection loans under the GI Bill of Rights, ['friendly and well-mannered people, i shcmid he quit. when'*he* was "urging | forages The^primary "reasOTr'foT "sui- Business- of all kinds is suffering, but such - scenes -as cited —— - - - 1 0 ' ■ ^ occur so | . , , — , , , , that everv man between 18 and 45 bejclde, the^figures prove that to be a nom an over-dose of red tape, regu-i frequently these days that one won-| held to hfe job? f - I minor roacon Onlv 15! -d awons and restrictions which the ders if it is a nervous reaction fromi Jiverage bu.'iness man is uftable to the war, or whether we are develop-i understand. i ing a new technique in salesmanship. | The Gl has-been set up by govern-• There are two .sides to every ques 1 mem to help everv soldier -or sailor I tion, always. All of the blame can n at least six months service to not ,be laid upon salespeople, for row' to buy a home to be repaid; some' must go to impatient, unrea- installments over a period as long 1 Sonable, v in Comparatively minor reason. Only 12 It has beenvsteadily preached that 1 per cent Of women and 4 per cent of our great navy could handle Japan'men who .attempted to kill them- and that land armies in the Pacific I selves, gave, love affairs as a reason. • would be impractical. Now they say j And of those who did give that rea- ! air the millions in Europe must go, son, practically all of the women and ito the Pacific. Time Magazine re-j 90 per cent of the men saw to it that l ports reconversioif already under way! Suicide often reveals, more than ; in Englapd so that England can be j anything else, the struggle that life first in the export trade. There is no is for some people, but even suicide, mention of sending England’s army 1 when recorded in cold statistics, loses its tragic glamour. their gesture of suicide— probably made for dramatic purposes—didn’t FINAL SETTLEMENT and oftentimes rude, cus as 20 years'on real estate. Such loans j tomers. be u r 4 per cent interest with the gov- ' The truth of the matter probably i rnment ciu anteeing one-half of'is that in any community there is a ito the , Pacific . The South African the amount maned. No. part of tne: certain percentage of just naturally; mier sa hi men will not g0 t0 loan is a grant or gift but the vet- ill-mannered, people,’ and a certain j;[ he p acific . what has become of the ( urn assumes to repay the entire ob-: percentage of this element is able to Aus trali an ’ army? Has it no longer | result in death uc.na n and cos. of obtaining the get jobs during times like the pies-, a ^at its home shores are safe? 1 : ’ 7 “ loan. Th:s is as it should be. This is ent when there is such. a severe: ^ is ra ti 0 ning being made a ;:ne opport mity for young men in- shortage of the better element of help! str j cter [ n the United States when 1 Take notice that on the 3rd day of terested in becoming home owners, j in all branches of business, large and j - t is almost abandoned in Canada? j Ma y* 1945 - I will render a final ac- , and who can qualify. 'small. ' j Why did President Roosevelt make! count of my acts and doings as Ad-j But the day of judgment is draw- 1 secret agreements at Yalta which : ministrator the estate of Maryj Img near, and when the war is overiggeaa to embarrass now they have I-tt^tiey Montjoy in the office of the| j and thousands of deserving men and leaked out? j Judge of Probate of Laurens County,; The country is confronted with a I women begin to look for jobs, the | VE-Day has been preached as the a t 10 o’clock a.m., and on the same serious housing shortage,. Especially; down-trodden employer will be able bay to spend all those saved up warily W U1 apply for a final discharge 1.- this true .n small towns and com- to assert himself and there will fol-, bonds. There is a spectre of 11,000,- j f rom niy trust as Administrator, munities.; - . low house-cleaning of employees ^ 000 veterans looking for jobs and Any person indebted to said estate In Clinton it is practically impos- who have been driving away cus-j factories shutting down with eancel- sible for newcomers to secure living tomers.,. And the merchant or other i lation of war orders, quarters. This is due largely to gov- type of business men will need cus-j Where do we stand? u eminent building restrictions of the tomers. People then won’t be beg- j - Well, perhaps that’s—what Hon. past four years which put an end to ging for merchandise. ; James Byrnes thought when hej 33 ^ date, duly proven, or be forever residential construction. This is Business, because of the war, is (handed in his‘papers for a rest on' barred.. The House Shortage ■is notified and required to make pay meftt on or before that date; and all persons having claims against said estate will present them oh or before all resmenuai construcuon. mis is Business, because of the war, one of the serious problems this com- cluttered up with incompetent help munity must face after the war and or misfits. It will be- a happy day the Chamber of Commerce will do when one can walk into a shop witti- well to intelligently plan and work out fear of running into these spirit-ito help remedy the situation. dampeners, or can ask the bus driver: A building boom in this country is a civil question with no danger of j expect eft after the. war-bat this will getting barked at. depend in a large extent upon the] ■ • pieces of building material; especially: the sidelines. And remember, Jesse 1 Jones got the same kind of flowery! tearful farewell that the Boss gave (April 2, 1945. Byrnes. ' l~ —The Easley Progress. ! L. O. MONTJOY, Administrator. —26-4cw. NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McQEE lumber, and labor, which make building--now almost prohibitive. A report comes from Washington that the Administration through iend-lease plans* to manufacture mnd give to England several hundred thousand, pre-fabricated houses after the war with Germany is over. Al- , . . ready thirty thousand such houses seqker-terry of aggerculture have been promised and the total number to be made here and shipped to England runs as high as seven hundred and fifty thousand, accOrd- Information, Please Grandpa Throws Away His Ear Trumpet If you are temporarily deafened, 'bot hered by ringing, buzzing head noises due to hardened or coagulated wax (cerumen), try the Ourine Home Method test that so n iy say has enabled them to hear well again. You must hear better after making this simple home test or you will get! your money back at once. Ask about Ourine Ear Drops today at 4t- SMITH’S PHARMACY f ‘The Rexall Store” 111 s 1 .me repori to England Washington, d. c. : FACTS : de ersir: i Less than 1 per cent of women who' at a meeting of the farmers which attempt to comrpit suicide because j was’hell at loafering - headquarters; of an unhappy love affair actually without being called last satturday, i kill themselves. The rest are either; Hi oil W t - h ;n mu arm v Why give these . , , ■ . ; , . , „ , . when thousands some verr y important subjects arose poor shots or just taking. are begging for homes? » England enough al- y ■ ways. and navy, of course, , . , ... ,. .... ,, , I jj ,j lumber' ° om S 50 >• ana you will kindly ancer ] taller than were boys ot 14 in 1892. prosecution of the war. for discussion, and it was voted to 1 Young men of today average - two-1 rite or foam you and ask you • how thirds of an inch taller than their • the crop insurance, will work this ('fathers. . year, and the undersigned is. heeby | Boys 14 years old are 3Vi inches! by .mail at once? should not be de- UTibcr yards emptied our people who tor been allowed prac- •r b 1- and The death rate from pneumonia has been reduced by more than 80 if a farmer plants his cotton: per cent since 1900. it fails to come'up, how much! Over 500 children are killed each 1 building and The army and hority on the e no plans do the govverment pay him per aker year .by accidents with firearms. for it not coming up? j ***** I The abov§ tidbits of knowledge 2—if his cotton do come up and cu u ec | from reports of the/statisti- he can’t get noboddy to chop it out] ciansrof the Metropolitan Life Insur- CAMPBELL LODGE NO. 44, A. F. M. REGULAR COMMUNICATIONS Third Tuesday Night of Each Month at 8:00. STERLIN YOUNG, W. M. V. P. ADAIR, Sec. Royal -Arch Masons first Thurs day of each month at 8:00 P. M. ber needed in anc ? the grass eats it up, how much j anee company, are just samples of j. ,v be furnished f* 0 he receive for the crop he does-: the thousands' -of statistical .■ facts not grow per lb? A: ! C . t . (. n 1 ilk d i VSe upon uetern mrces? ic re.>t Could, which are gathered together each j 1 year by men assigned to the job of I bn rough lend-leas- lined to give away _ „ u . , , , . .. We cannot feed 1 3 ~ lf a fellcr ha ^ a tennant ancJ he I keeping score, of the world. And cho P s out hls cotton and mQves off i There is something fascinating we should not be 1 co t ton m hl as usual, will the ^0^ these figures which boil down to do w order to help other people. ■ithoMt at K nm p'.govverment pay the insurance to him j if the boll weevil eats it up after the j landlord has taken it over? or do the ! landlord get same? Another Day Coming Scene—Tobacco counter. Customer; “Have you a package of j ■j (/kies? Clerk: Lit kage n,iId' us 4—if hail and hoppers and dry weather ruins a farmer’s crop in may, can he collect from the gov- “Listcn, mister: If I had a of any kind of smokes I t' it myself and not be hand le people who ask silly verment in june to live on? if not, when and why? all of our problems, our tragedies, our heartbreaks and our successes into digits. It makes you realize how little an individual matters in the overall scheme of things. It creates a feeling of insignificance to realize that the death of any one of us, to these statisticians, merely means a change on the national scoreboard whereby the figure for “Deaths by Pneumonia, 1945”, say, may simply INSURANCE Fire - Tornado - Automo bile - Surety Bonds - All Forms of Property Insurance. SOUND PROTECTION AT LOWEST COST. REAL ESTATE B. H. BOYD Clinton, S. C. 5 do you all wait until the crop be j ncreasec j f r0 m 61,048 to 61,049. is destroyed (or don t come up) be- A" Seine- Stocking, counter.-•<“ Customer ( who has waited 15 min utes while salesgirls have been-gos siping): “Excuse me, Miss, but could, I buy three pairs of rayons size 9V^?”j Salesgirl (haughtily — furious at having been interrupted by insig nificant customer during vitally im portant discussion on what to wear at jam session that night): “Say, lady, where do you think you are— in pre-waCParis?” Scene—Meat counter. . Customer (gently): “Have ..you a few lamb chops today?” fore you pay for loss, and damage? yores trulie, holsum moore, rfd. Mayor LaGuardia Called A Strike, 'Italienne Style deer mr. edditor: < i see by the papers where a fellow by the name of benito laguardia of new york citty has become a dickta- tor of his citty and has taken over the curfew law unto hisself. mr. slim chance says he useter think that roseyvelt was the biggest man in the world, but he will now have to take MEDICINE—1900 In these numerical pictures of life,: as presented by the statisticians, there are some rather thrilling chap ters—such as the figures indicating the progress which has been made in medicine during the 20th century. To anyone who gets pneumonia, for ex ample, it must b$ reassuring to know that so few die of that dreaded sick ness these days. If mortality from various ailments was at the same rate today as it was in 1900,. the statistics show that 2,281,621 would have died in 1942 from the leading causes of death. But 1 a back seat. Butcher (disdainfully): “All these; -—— years and you still don't know there’s! pro f. petrillo is not going to like actually, only 1,209,944 did die from a war on' Do you want the boys at; that fellow laguardia: he has no (those causes in 1942. the front to go hungry just so you (right to take all of the spot-light, it I For, example: at the 1900 rate, 243,- cun gorge yourself ondamb chops?” jwoulddent surprise us atall if pe-(367 would have died from tubercu- Scene—Milk counter. ; trillo should make up his mind not to : losis, but because of increased medi- Customer: “A quart of ‘m i 1 k ,' f urn i s h musick. for the night clubs I; cal knowledge and care, only 41,306 | please.” | enduring his after-midnight curfew did die from that cause. Typhoid Clerk (raising voice): “A quart of (time, you can’t drink whiskey and! fever, which 1900 estimates indicated rum and manhattans and enjoy be ing drunk without musick. milk! So you want babies to starve to death so you and your cats can be happy!” , Customer: “I have a baby myself.” Clerk slams down a quart on coun ter and keeps his hand bn bottle un til customer has paid for it. This doesn’t soun'd like the good;spots with coal and gass. we hope!progress in overcoming serious sick- would kill 37,274 people in 1942, ac- jtually caused the death of only 504: ( Childhood diseases, which, according j if diek-tator laguardia gets too ito 1900 expectations, would have] fresh in the lime-light, he is going I caused the death of 76,363 children,! AN ACCIDENT ISN'T FUNNY it’s expensive whether it happens at home or any where else. Ask about our Housewife’s Accident In surance Policy. Pays hos pital and doctor bills, plus other benefits. Costs only a few cents a day. For— & Moving and Hauling — Call — LOUIS TRUCKING LINE We Move Anything, Anywhere Any Time Marvin Lollis, Elizabeth Street / * Phone 402-J tv to hurt john 1. ^lewises feelings, and: actually caused only 4,349 deaths he mought refuse to furnish the hot-! The picture, in general, shows vast! S. W. SUMEREL, Agent Jacobs Building—Phone 80 CLINTON, S. C. old U.S.A.—but that is exactly the locale of these scenes. And it isn’t just occasionally that your feelings are hurt and your dignity ruffled by the rudeness, or” near-rudeness, of the counter salesclerks. You often laguardia won’t change manny of the nesses. But there are several black! war edicts, what if he decides not to [spots indicated, too. For the figures! let any was shipments go thru the show that the death rate from can-; n. y. harbor to the war zones, mr. art square is wondering ff this cer, organic heart disease and dia betes has increased — that these dreaded are more out of control than SEE THE CITIZENS FIRST To Finance or Refinance Your Real Estate The CITIZENS DIRECT REDUCTION LOAN PLAN is an economical, practical and flexible method of financ ing the construction of residential property. Loans are made promptly. Red tape is at a minimum and closing costs are low. A CITIZENS LOAN does not need to be renewed. It is retired systematically through monthly rent-size payments, each payment reducing principal and paying interest to date. G I. BILL OF RIGHTS Returned servicemen desiring to buy homes are entitled to cer tain privileges under the G. I. Bill of Rights. We are glad to ex plain these features and to assist in the completion of their homes. 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