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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
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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.
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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!
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ir honor,
Mem a
nds
It 11 €’ Jf
wt
irkffng hours,. and
not be
■' tTtey
woy
lid ha\
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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!
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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
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i bv one
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Are
ser
vices—just
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in p
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’ 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.
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RAILWAY
THROUGH THE HEART OF THE SOUTH
Buy Jiff or* WAR BONDS