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Poge Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. Thursday, April 27, 1944 ali|f (Elintan (Ftirnnirlp Established 1900 WILSON W.„ HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Thursday By l r . ' THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance):* . „ One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 " , Entered as Second Class Mail Mattefad the Post Office at Clintop, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation Of its subscribers and'readers— the publisher will at all times appreciate jwise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are noCof a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. / , Son to exist. This is .prosperity in ,re- j verse. Agriculture is flat broke. Tod ! much rain, no labor, the draft, low: | prices of what the farmer sells and i ; high prices for what he "has to buy, ! ihave brought- about a pitiful situ- ; . at ion on most far'ms. If you don’t' believe this, ask the farmers them f , "selves. i COMPLETES TRAINING As Washington Sees It THE NATIONAL SCENE Special to The Chronicle. Washington, April 25. — The man power muddle, resulting from rapid-, .ire orders, counter-orders and con flicting. statistics regarding selective service ( LINTON. S. C„ THURSDAY. APRIL 27. 1944 The Same Dream Always t In ajj ages fhe dream of the Bol- sfievist has bern- (he same — to be able to quit work’ withovit severing ■his connectioh with' the payroll. Women To the Front ^ Since the women' are assuming so many o! the responsibilities which cnee rested entirely upon th,e men, we are won for the armed forces and ’ drafting of men for war jobs, hasi undoubtedly reached the point ofi greatest confusion since the war be-! ' create a new food-, problem w ? hich must be met—and principally by our gan. t ' . , ' nation. . .: ..-. There are innumerable reasons This. ei'nphasi'sesl 'fHe 'seripuSo.jreed giveh for this situation, but so far for increased food prodtiction. Food! there"Ts little indication^ that, the is as essential to winning the war as'problem will be . straightened out. armaments. Every garden nr small j Some analysts of ^conditions, here patch utilized means more vegetables blame it entirely on the fact that FINAL SETTLEMENT I estate will present them on or be- , ffore said date, duly proven, or be ior- Take notice that on the 22nd day, ever )y arrec j > of May,,1944, I will render a final; , tr • „ account of my acts and doings as! K anmn g. Executrix of the estate of John C.,^P ri1 Dominick in the office of the Judge | JJJcecutnx. of Probate of Laurens County, at 3| o’clock p.m., and on the same day will apply ior a final discharge from ! my trust as Executrix; i i Any person indebted to said estate | is notified and required to make pay ment on or before that date; and all I persohs having claims against” said * USE 666 TABLETS. SALVE. NOSE DROPS na entirely upon the ienng if it will come to r biwhand of a Wave or 'iw.ve a gov^rnm«nt■ al- j and will help win the w r ar. -r.-t-""’ ' ' ■■■ ^ Still They Strike Strikers recently tied up five big Portland. Oregon, sawmills, -while the workers went into - a . special there are “too many cooks’kwho have not beejn told clearly whefe their au thority begins and ends. Others say. that the President yields to pressure • groups, , first of military leaders and j then, of war Reduction off icials. j still on PVT. ELIZABETH J. RUSS has finished her training at Fort Ogle thorpe, Ga. Pvt. Russ joined the WAC February 17. She will be sta tioned at Fort ties Moines, Iowa. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Russ of this community. meeti ng" to dis •eus s wage demands. Such is . not the unusual, the public! Faith 1 -ff / reads almost d; lily ©f such incidents.-! a: k > be «n unusual ' AVh at ironv! If union officials or .Vy if" ‘ iiaii uns . he the i men had arii ,* interest in- the . -' Milan ires i:\ b lp any Aimer ica.r i,soldi ers • at the front wait- j ut if,the ing 1 'off siipplii they would have : - . v.nd m t hem- govern- : held, the: .r mee Ung ,s- to discuss wage : • iff ! ' (' m a! (j j () ir honor, Mem a nds It 11 €’ Jf wt irkffng hours,. and not be ■' tTtey woy lid ha\ V e. s t:ayed**at their jobs : •1 ;prodi tc in; g luml ) e r / just ffs our armed — -— — force: i a:: •e stay ■ing at the front and Propaganda Machines : ; norn . : / ;nm ;hv: >: whfifh 51 r. a. lot of no : gantic wt-ii news and p been known Of iaet on "a thing ha\e iether Goebbers .10 wo. Id s -big- ; due today. Both sd" We do know : 'ar Information er ; o>- in a their lives iimorder that work- homOimay draw high wages, enmy i'ami-fy life, and enjoy the right to strike. Men 'sanctioning ' such work stop pages should be' ashamed to show their faces in public. But strikes lead.- is .spending have become the order of the day. but the scene has changed a But one logical explanation is that lot since we hit the beachhead 70 the administration is doing its best! days ago. I’m not talking about the to continue to yield to public opinion: houses which have been blown off -uch incidents^ t>nd that orders are revised when it -the landscape. "This time it’s about is found that they stir up too much; the weather. Every third' day is; public, resentment. Those who hold; spring now. In between time we get; to this theory point to the drafting i our rain. And how it rains! But, of fathers as a glowing example, thanks to those regularly appearing' They believe that the change from days of sunshine, the water level isj drafting all fathers under 38 not do- gradually going down . . I can-tell, ing essential work, to drafting only, by the carefully counted number of; those under 2d and including many helmets full of water 1 bail out of, who arc in essential work, resulted my hole every morning, primarily from the reaction of the; We are getting few of the good people. An aroused public refused to; things in life now. The dp-nut factory resign itself to the idea that homes -is bigger and I got three sinkers last ; should be broken up when thousands Week to dunk in my coffee. Also the of young men, many without fami-,PX came through and since my last. lies, : were deferred' because of war; letter I’ve. had four bars of candy production work. | and several cigars. It doesn’t sound; Although the War Manpower com-; like much on paper, but this is one ?y -aid has the most" gi- Their leaders know how they .have 1 mission’s plan for drafting men for ; spot where even “not much” counts ! for the distribution of ,^ e eo pampered in recent years by ■ paganda that has ever : the New Deal administration. in this country, i- course we mi bat all phases vastly larger p re van jsly kn many times s. much i more ast recognize the ; of this w&r.arei scale than 'any-; own. If we didn't the number of powerful and ex- NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE war jobs has not been discussed muchi a lot. recently, it is still likely that it fnayj That’s all for this one. Keep your! ! be put into force at any time. Ac- eye on the map and stick a pin along' cording to Paul McNutt, head of the j the Italian coast about 25 miles south! WMC, manpower shortages are cans-j of Rome. That’s our* piece of land. , ing less damage to war production 1 But make sure to have a box full of' than at any time during the last 12- extra pins handy, because one of] | months. But he warned that serious j these days our little piece of land ' ! difficulties ate in the offing if work- is going to start to grow. Then just! ^ iSfip^ 'A Keep That Home In Good Repair! Springtime is repair-time! If your home needs re- roofing ot- other necessary repair work, don’t delay, do the work now! Don’t let the lack of funds worry you. See us and we’ll discuss the details of a loan gladly. You can repay in small monthly payments, just like rent. Each Account Insured Up To $5,000 pensive guns and more and-stronger; —^ ships than we ever had before, Qer-; many would probably have won the : , Wedding Bells W’ill Toll In Flat war by now. And this may well be: Rock After the W T ar carried into the propaganda field. ! miss annie moore made her debut We have no sympathy, with any use ‘ n ^ 0 rock society last thursday that might be made of the Office of afternoon betwixt 6 and 11 p.m. It War Information for distributing po- was hell at the palatial home of her litical propaganda in this country or § rammaw on eas t anc * en d ave - this for broadcasting any information feet was the biggest party that has ^ which is not important to the win-.benn pulled off in flat rock since her J lobs back horn- ning of the war. A great deal of this i sister , sue married the book agent is being done, we think, with Roose-f enduring 1934, ^ velt fourth terrh propaganda includ-i. * 1 ed in a sort of concealed way in the decorations were johnny quills ers continue to listen to rumors that “the bottom is about to fall out of war production and that it behooves them to get settled quickly in a safe peacetime job before the general scramble begins.” Mr. ^ McNutt reported instances j ENGRAVED Calling Cards for Stroy where,...when 50 men were laid off; and navy officers. An ideal, useful watch the newspapers and the tracks we make in the mud. —SGT. JAMES L. BROWN, It was Goldville, S. C, ’ Now it’s a foxhole in Italy. because of production adjustments, as many as 500 men had quit their many of the machine releases.. gift for father, husband, brother or friend. Ask to see samples. Chronicle Publishing Co.,Phone 74. m federal Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION Saying that maxi mum production ^strength will be needed during the invasion, and that SAY, “I SAW IT IN THE CHRON the “war is in the bag” attitude is ! IQLE.”' THANK YOU extremely dangerous, he declared i ' - that “we must hold on to the needed Telephone No. 6 A Clinton Institutipn Serving Clinton People Since 1909 and forget them knots from cedar lane which were furnished by the ■ workers in vital and essential indusxj J groom-to-be’s ma who ancers to the tries.” His talk indicated that if men! did not stay on these jobs voluntarily! it would be necessary to employ the! Another Henry Ford 'name of mesdame sallie sue simp- Htnry Ford, at 8U, has prepared to kins, a decendant from the famous pass the control, -of hrs 'vast indus-! siftipkins of bull run arid gettysbugg.' labor draft, trial empire to his 26-year-old grand-j he is in the army, meaning—her son,} At the same time, t|pe Office^of son, Henry .Ford II. thereby assuring pfc. j rimes dock simpkins of the air; War Information has stated that it the luture o! the company as a strict-[corps now located An ne-vv gipney is necessary for at least 2,000,000 ly Ford family affair. As executive near europe. i.more women to go to work, particu- vict -president, the young man will' ' " *** j larly on farms or in food processing succeed F 'rd. " his father, the late 1 fhis nev wr is pe porti ed ; a few days ' \ r i i bv one v (V t he y Are ser vices—just ci r: iOte <'ti a chi mge in p iers on del. But 1 ( njj 1 lion g o f Ar nerican. s farhiliar. w.; a the r ;.- e i. if, Henry Fc ird ■ I from ci _ l ) ’ oi' boy t (' ^ 13 eing. one of the richest ur.c. i most j jo we rfui men - in the coun tiy ■ giving emi )!oyment to thousands ol people at g' ood wag es, this news iter n illust: rates one of the things we Edsel this happy cupple intended to of ; plants where the manpower shortages! married befoar he went acrost, but | are becoming increasingly great. In addition, the army is continuing to seek hundreds of thousands more] women for the WACc and. there is! some consideration being given to . lowering the age minimum for WACs I from 20 to 18. It is estimated that! the total number of WACs now in| Uniform is about 148,000. | art fighting this war to preserve. Not only do we want to continue to have started towards flat rock and newer found it till it was too , late to make anny bridle arrangements with hers the proposed bride-groom was for merly engaged in the coffee bizness 'with '“the last drop is ok” firm, mak ing house to house vissits ansoforth. A SOLDIER WRITES sevveral of the famous., guesses fetched pressents along fbr the com ing bride, -but none of them - seemed the k ind of freedom of opportunity j to cost 15c. her pa says-she did not which makes it possible for a man [clear expenses on her debut, she was with brains and determination to! dressed in lounge-around-the-house climb to the top of the ladder, but! green dress trimmed with pink rib- we want him to be able to build se-' bon of ■ pre-war^ make and it was curdy for his children and his chil-' verry -soft and velvety, after some tea dren's children. land a few wafers were et and drunk, Henry II is having opportunity the party broke up. ‘ - ^ handed to him on a silver platter,! ' - ' —-—♦ but that’s all right. That’s one of the I Wonder things that kept his grandfather: a lady who ought to know says striving. He has no easy-job: He is' tlyaf it makes her sick to hear folks being handed an empire at the age, who are in the monney say that the j ; when his grandfather was struggling, cost of. living has risen but very lit- I th d g st of the Kraut - The heat for existence. He must now face the; tie' during the past two years. She difficult task of proving himself;said further that she tried to buy a worthy of d.'—^ ,; . little 14-ounce ■ ~ ■ -ipy b The Chronicle is in receipt of the following appreciated letter from Sgt. James L. Brown, a Goldville boy in a foxhole in Italy: Anzio Beachhead, April 2, 1944. Editor The Chronicle: Just a few lines to lef you know that, in spite of all thos^- news com mentators who had us marching into Rome a couple of months' agd7 we’re still here oh the beachhead—much to The Need For Food cotton petticoat (all cotton, mind you) without trimming's and the price" was %2.98. The farmer j got 20c, and she wondered who got! The surveys of the department of the balance, .$2.78. •- V ' kyuM agriculture show that over 40, per., ^„ I—., ” ... j cent of the fresh" vegetables which Famiers sold their sweet potatoes; the American people consumed in ; for around'2c a lb. They are retailing J 1943 was raised in Victory gardens. f or io c a lb. or 3 lb: for 30c. And' Nearly half 54 all the health-giving w ho got that-8c? A good steak is as . licsh vegetables we ate. [scarce as: low prices. Yon might pay There isn’f^much difference be- 60c a lb. for steak and if you don’t] tween scarcity and plenty. Maybe^ m j nc |, you’ll^ bust your plate when! about 20 per -cent. Americans eat y 0U try to eat it.,A half-pound.tough X amount off fresh vegetables. If thje.steak can be had'at some fairly good; country raises X plus H) per cent— eating places for $1.75, including a we will have plenty here and plenty glass of water, * to ship overseas. If it raises X minus ——♦— 10 per cent the result will be very The manufacturer says it serious. A bank, or a business of any Labor says it’s- the manufacturer,! kind, is prosperous or goes broke when it comes to clothing, etc. Furiny over that same 20 per cent. ; thing \vho is getting hurt. Why, our With our war operations being en-'banks are not benefitting by reason larged daily^ we can all understand [•Qf the fact that there’s too much that we will need more food in 1944; money. The producer is suffering, than in 1943. Wp will have more of The fixed salary crowd is gradually our men to feed abroad and have growing weaker. The fellow who de- more Europeans who must either be pends.on rent income (if he lives out- fed or grow up as weaklings, an easy!side of a defense ared) is in a pitiful px'ey for some future. Hitler with a j condition, world conquering complex. Every; j square mile of land which the Allied! armies take away from Germanyfceivihg in one way or another-about We Have Tires and Tubes BATTERIES and ACCESSORIES Have your battery charged while you wait. Ar- — Clinton—- • Service Station Phone 96 Clinton, S. C. Gulf Products ... in climate...And climate is impor- of the South pays substan- tant, as history will shows. No other factor rial dividends. Its mild climate has exercised so much influence upon the daily lives and habits of people. The out come of wars and the rise and fall of nations have turned on weather conditions. ' Nature blessed the South with a mild requires less expensive factory construction, and temperate, weather contributes to lower operating- and main tenance costs. During the past two decades industry in will be unproductive for a year at least. If w<f liberate only half of France this year it will obviously subsists on what it takes to subsist The manufacturer sa_ys it’s laboh! BENJAMIN & - SONS PLUMBING •••and*- HEATING SERVICE Telephone 117 WE ARE HUNTING Trouble About 10% of the people are re- 85 % of all the money, call it income or anything you please. The 90% climate. Days of abundant sunshine, long South "lias grown faster than in any growing seasons and tainfall well distrib- other part of America. The Seaboard uted throughout the year have given the Reihvay, a key railroad serving the South, region an importance in agriculture not has played an important part in this onward exceeded by any other area on earth. Climate likewise has a most important bearing on industrial production. Manufac- march of progress. In the future change over from war to peace-time economy, the Seaboard will continue to plan and work for a greater and richer Southland. turers know by experience that the climate Seaboard Railway, Norfolk 10, Virginia. 1 RAILWAY THROUGH THE HEART OF THE SOUTH Buy Jiff or* WAR BONDS