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Page Four) THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, $. C. Thursday, May 11, 1944 (Til? (Elinton (E^rontrl? Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher i Published Every Thursday By , THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): | One Year $2.00 ,..L, - Six Months $1,001 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 fc/r the views or opinions of its correspondents. *..... ■ , . f ( LINTON, S. C , THURSDAY, MAY II, 1944 •my ;reatest*post-war peed is 0 1 a car. [henchmen, saying that formula and it is probable that it vyill ai be ’relgtiired unless the Presi dentirisists. bn keeping it in brder- only those things grounds that removal of government, which has governed the wages in la- wdl exchange my 2 rhules, as a which it is Vsafe” to say and r^efus-1 curbs • over the wages of this large I bar unions. Labor organizations are [down payment and move, back into j ing to reveal their stand on vital sub-^-group would encourage inflation, the carrying on a vigorous fight to scrap | flat rock, farming do not pay with, jects unt|i they consider it'the .appro-j committee stated: “inflaffio'n isaug- i the goyverment not suppdrtmg agger-; priate time from the political view- mended by overspending on the part [culture, no parrity, no farming for point. . . , of those who have more money than me.’’ y a ! Thomas Dewey, the leading Re- they need for the essentials of life, to guard against inflation. | ^ yores, trulie, j publican candidate, has never repu-. Under present conditions the .vastI Although the labor unions are holsum moore, rfd, j diated his original statement that he' majority of persons in tljp white- j s tr on giy supporting the .President, and [ r ■ . *7—7 ' .would not run, although Republican collar and fVxed-lncome. 'groups doj the War Labor board in their action Why I Like To Live in the South ; leaders all over, the ebuntrry seem'not belong in the surplus-income cat-*! a g a j n st the Montgomery Ward mail After spending 6 months in Wash-: to take it for granted that he will; egory. Granting them the ppportuhi- order house in that company’s effort • ington, I returned to my horde in President Roosevelt has so far been ty/or an adequate diet, decent cloth-j t 0 test the legality of the board’s or- Anderson (SC) on March 1st. Having unwilling to let the people know ing, medical and dental care and oth- hers, the unions are also vitally in- eaten at about three score and ten whether he will run for ^ a fourth | er bafic necessities will not encour- {ter^sted in finding out what ’’the cafes, cafeterias, hotels, hot-dog term; Wendell Willkie has apparently age inflation.” ’£ : t J courts l have to say about the author- hands, lunch coun-itus, cabarets, fish dropped out of the race but is -fu-; • ft is expected here that the com-i ity of the WLB. For if the courts The Unanimous Pepper Two staunch New Dealers, Sena- of, much are separated from their homes and loved ones, but their thoughts will turn homeward. Their seats at the tors Lister Hill of Alabama, and table will be vac<yit, but -these moth- Clnudc Pepper of Florida, were re-1 ers above all else will be thinking of cently renominated in hot political their sons, will be praying for their battlc> marked by mud-slinging and health, safety, happiness and return' A f r j pr j r v,irken dinner smearing, both by the Democrats and j back to the fireside, regardless of Republicans.', Senator Pepper is the most glaring example of a New Dealer in the United States senate. He stands by rind endorses everything the admin- houses, and what-nots, I learned all> mored to 'have something ‘‘up 'his, fnittee report will be- acted upon and! should hold that the bo^rd does not about the various and sundiy kinds; sleeve ; Eric Johnston has said he is that congress will, as soon as pos-! have the power it claims to have they of foods and feeds served in the; net interested, in'being a presidential! siblle, end the curbs on giving wage i see an opportunity to get out from Capital L ity. [candidate, although many people; increases to .the white-collar group, j under the control which the board T . ; ' , , ,, I t 'i° se to him feel that he would be ■ There is apt to be some opposition,! has been exercising over them. Uvas navited to be a guest at the very much interested it he thought, however, on the grounds that Higher _ [ REA in an adjoining county a few : he had a fair chance. . ! wages : in civilian businesses would! SUBSCRIBE TO . THE CHRONICLE .days ago ioi its annual meeting, and. So, as matters stand now, when it’ attract workers to non-essential in-l ’ 1 ■ ' after everything had been attended is time the people knew the opinions! dustries rather^than to war jobs. Be- to and a fine speech made by a good, and convictions of all candidates, we; cause of the present shortage of help’ congressman, we all went to the best i in f • . . . . , we all went to the best; are actually put in th6 dangerous po-; in most civilian businesses it is be- hotel-boarding house I ever heardjsition of not officially knowing whbjiieved that action of this kind by the! ich less et at. | the candidates are. ' 'government would lead most com-i i frpeh ' 11 there chance that this panics to compete for help by offer-! m-incr heme nine Hired beets c f mpaign wlli be the , ^ ind Mr - John ‘ ing higher wages- and would quickly! stung beans, plus , diced beets, plus | s ton proposes, it wmuld seem that the force white-collar pay up to the iiTim of ark txrrmlrJ Ko fear* : . how humble the home may be. ■ , hot biscuits and butter, plus rice and. first immediate step would be'for alli maximum permitted by law Lsn t. it a pleasant, though a little chicken gravy, plus macaroni pie, ( candidates wfho are going to run to P y ' thing, to know that we commemorate : pilis coffee, sugar and Mother's Day by wearing a flower,-1 p| us: cornbread muffin^, w. 6 by going to church, by remembering! table salad .and plus a few other ^ ^ ^ i-ate. prfis coffee, sugar and pure cream,' ii ft their hats off the fence and throw wer, : j plus’; cornbread muffins, plus vege-; them squarely into the middle of the is {ration propose tv. He never turns her with a gift, by doing and think- ; things, was served. That whole meal ring. his back on the White House., It | ing kindly things. For Mother, | cost “(somebody) only $1. MExcuse would seem that in all fairness should j whether she is still with, us or gone,! nie, I forgot to mention the'dessert [is-still and w'iH always b.e the em-; big helping oL-sftaw'berry shortcake.*) 'President '’Roosevelt not offer for re election. Pepper’ should -be "the ad-j bodiment j)f Christian faith, purity, j ——*■——— ministration candidate since he ranksl courage, moral strength, paftence, af-j A “feed” like the one just' men- -.is its most unanimous stahvart. j lection, sacrifice, gentle kindness, un-) t-ipned would cost not less than $6.44,; Men like Pepper -can be .used to derstanding, simplicity and supreme j plus a 10c tip, in Washington, that is; Special to The Chronicle. 11 As Washington Sees It ‘ INE NATIONAL SCENE great advantage by the New Deal ; love, machifte. He is a “yes” man and that j ’ pet us not forget those immortal served at means he ;s valuable in Washington words by Rudyard Kipling: when close contests are being fought., If j were hanged on the highest hill, This means, of course, that power-! j know whose love would follow me ful support was given by the admin-; s tm ; istratron to Senator Pepper. In such! .Mother o’ mine, contests in recent years the power) of the United States treasury has; If I, were drowned in the deepest sea, been used and that is what re-elected 1 know whose tears would come down to. me: : Mother o’ mines If I were damned of’body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole: Mother o*. mine, if such a dinner could have been th e F! orida sen: rtor, though he got; in by ; i very ?m: ill margin. The most xj: icctac ■ular i acto r in the outcome of hi s rue e wax the freeing of the Gandy I / ‘ 1 bn ;ge wh :eh connects Tampa and S ; . I\ L 0 TS 1.) v& i s' . This master stroke ( ; nre j list nr 1 [hi ■ /.ne of the election V.' hen the b) •Kig( n was seized by the. t i (k in; Sove: ■ 11 n? i mt on orders;'of Sec- r c bury lekbs “a s a war. measure,” F Mr id: i. pe@! ) 1 O' are asking if Iekes ■(’: epeef < an “inv asion" in that area. w ’hen the go s agnal was given to u ’lease ■ the toll bridge the governor o) f the state gav e Pepper the credit 17This chicken plate alone | would have stood a fellow $2.40’. The ! string beans, cooked without grease, or seasoning- would have, been 25c. The butter on our table, in cutting reach of all, would have caused eith- j er a dozen -faints or a cbuple of | fights in Washington. I wondered it I they knew there was an OPA and .A —Washington, May 9. — An’ urgent demand for the. removal of all gov ernment control, over wages and sal aries of people earning undqr $200 a] month, in order to safeguard the It is also unlikely that congress will act on behalf .of the white col lar , vyorkers, during this election year, 'without also taking some action to break the Little Steel formula, WE PAY CASH For Good USED CARS TIMMERMAN MOTOR CO. ' Carolina Service Station CLINTON, S. C. health and decent living'standards of; 20,000,000 white-collar workers, has been made to the senate by a com mittee studying wages and living costs. The committee, .analyzed all (( - Initiative Destroyed A-news report in The Laurens Ad vertiser last week stated that G. B. i Sheppard, a member Of the Laurens | Chambe: 1 of Commerce, flayed the’, present tendency to seek out “The I Great White Father" in .Washington because of his closenes^toMhe Uresi- when we want to do anything for in dent and this swaye(r‘m!my votes. It dustrial promotion. In speaking of is-said. that the 9,000 state employees | the proposed airport to serve Laurens I! Wtku/cmd TxhnoVunL) by Don Robinson where does so much good food and | phases of this subject, but its report such fine cooking come from nohow? j is concerned chiefly with the plight When it com.es; to eating, I’ll choose of the white-collar group Which is Pickens, S. C. . forced, by the War Stabilization act, to exist in wartime bn prewar wages. The committee reports that the av erage weekly income of 4,500,000 white-collar workers is now $28.69 as compared with $23.64 in 1940, an increase of 21.4 per cent, but points but that without considering the in creased cost of living all of this extra iricome is now being deducted from wages. The committee gives figures to show that deductions among' thif group for-income tax, social'security, war bonds and company retirement funds averages 22 per cent. \ “Their standards of dress, ahd nu trition, their continued education, their health safeguards and such modest security as they have been able to set up against future needs are being foregone,” the report stat WORDS—Barrage . , ...... Tt is discouraging to contemplate took this, as their cue to vote for and Clinton, Mr. Sheppard asked if, the barrage' of high-sounding but Pepper instead-of his opponent. ! the organization he was addressing! meaningless words which will soon This shows how far Washington: is going to be’ content to be a “sup- | j am the airways and crowd the daily will go’ to- hold in office those sena-! per club” or is it going to-do some~hte W spap e rs as the presidential elec tors and congressmen who go down' things besides sending “delegations to: tion of 1944 gets under way. the line for the present administra-; MaVbank” to get.the •airport-built. i-| :j n connection with "the primaries “M 77“^ Y‘ c tion. It is an unjustifiable and dis-7 Mr. Sheppard was speaking of the? there wa*s plenty of oratorical warm- . ’ , aesperaie auempt to meet graceful spectacle — using taxpayers’! prevailing policy in Laurens, Clinton; j n g up, but-that was nothing corp- money to help re-elect certain of-i and’ everywhere else, of running to.; p ared udt h the deulge which is to ficials. i Washington seeking federal aid for, come a nd which will push’everything In tbi' Mate a few years ago San- , ad sorts ui projects. The habit grew : but the most momentous war events tee-Cooper, a big political- monster,' up 9 ver night-with-the coming of the|i nto the background was born over-night with the bless- T'tv. Deal and has resulted in placing, jj-j wartime it seems almost saeri- ings of Wa.'hington. It was said then billions'of dollars of- indebtedness on i legious that the men who run or hope that the project involving millions ' tbe shoulders of taxpayer h id -is one of its ohipctives the re- kllled community initiative and lead electing of Byrnes and the election' ershi P rit has made of such or San’i of Maybank as governor. The 'out- zad Q m ’ ’ a Ui uc ss«* run our country should spend It has; to months of their valuable time pre paring and delivering campaign zations a band of beggars falling at; speeches—but it is-extremely doubt pouring of the treasury helped them tbe de 7 l: Dt congressmen, and senators,: t'ul, unless the people show, genuine both to win. The Meaning Of Mother's Day -\ mother ■ said t 0 „ J aer son as 1 1- hurn’e: Son, it lakes’ c oiir age for you n serve y ur c ountry on the i eh l / n (1 1 .isint,! i t 't a kes courage nr me to d;i my 1 Dit' on the home ron;: w h y-i r eve p we art r, what- I'm:' WO '! nay he do ing, you are r^hting it :>r me Q nd I J am fight- ng tor y ou': : oi a a 'Ci aura ge must state legislatures and county (telega- j resentment, that the candidates, who lions, asking for funds. And when; ever they are. will let a mere war they succeed, a congressman or sena- ; interfere with the fanfare which has tor will loudly proclaim, “See what: accompanied .every election since\ the I got you, as though they \yere foot- , beginning 6f our democracy. j ing the bill. ■ ; It is vitally -important to all of us 1 the demands of . the moment.” Foreseeing opposition on the CITATION FOR LETTERS ADMINISTRATION The State of South Carolina, County of.Laurens. . By J. ‘Hewlette Wasson, Probate Judge: Whereas W. B. Tribble made suit to nfe to grant him Letters of Ad ministration of the estate and effects of Warren A, Blakely. » . ’ These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all find singular the kin dred and creditors of the said War ren A. Blakhly, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the As a result, in spite-of. the fact that; that we become thoroughly familiar ( 7 f --n' t of Piobate, to be held at Lau- the banks are loaded down w.ith ; with the aims, the abilities, and the 1 Court House, Laurens, S. C., on not , it ei money,- one seldom hears of an ef- philosophies of the various candidates ; tort to finance a project or industry [— : and to .that extent a r certain amount by .the business'men and interests of j of- speech-making is essential—but if a community. It i7 a condition against the ballyhoo could somehow be \\^ieh The Chronicle has often i squeezed out ".of'the .coming-- campaign |.spoken. j it would be a. blessing to our nation j We belie\£/in free enterprise and ; and a decided contribution to the war | individual irfitiative. When we look program, j to Santa Claus for everything- in i ' ♦ What an inspiring mother's mes-; grants or gifts we are destroying• this -age for Mother’s Day which will be) spirit of self-help. REASON—Plan In a recent talk before a thousand As Toe kauiens Advertiser 50 well p U bii s h er s. of daily newspapers, Eric ° > l of val^blej Johnston, “president of the United observed next Sunday in millions *®f homes, churches and .Sunday’ schools. ' t remarks, the builders On this, “her day, we are asked to 1 business enterprises in this county, j Q4ptpt: (~'hamber nf Commerce offered weiir white flowers for mothers who I giving employment to several thou-’! blueprints for the kind of an elec- have gone on to their reward, and smrd people,, went down, in their ■ rjon which, it seems to me, we should red flowers for living mothers. j pockets to provide the capital. They j a j m ^ have this year. He'said: I ne oea'uti:ul -thought of Mother s Midn t run to Washington they had; “W’e should make this a camoaign a.y; was born 3,3 years ago in the confldehce in themselves and the cor-^ ^"reason rather than blin/pre of Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia,-i PQration mar and became, almost universally ob-i sti'.cd. In. 1918 the idea 1 had grown? to Mich national proportions that the! pouch less President Woodrow ’Wilson I issued a proclamation . declaring - that j the second Sunday in May should, be; ob.-erv'qd-ax Mother's Day. That made the day official* Jnd ever since-then . it has been observed in practically j ali churches and in'■millions of homes-( as a happy family day. - Some mu they set out to build.- May 29, 1944, next, after publication hereof, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. . V Given under my hand 1 this 27th day of April, A. D„ 1944. J. HEWLETTE WASSON, H-2cw , J. P. L. C. NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE 1 judifce, a^campaign of high | princi- ! pies, rather than hollow slogans. The stake's - are too high, the-decisions are ; too vital, to be endangered bj^ smear- | words and bitterness and unscrupu- i lous vote-grabbing. ’?. ' , , ? r , | “Mind you, I am not asking for the ^ j surface unanfinify all too familiar under the totalitarian .dispensation. Post-War Planning The last thing I would recommend a few of-flat rock’s leading citizens is a namby-pamby, punch-pulling •have been polled in respects to their! campaign that reveals nothing and has .said that every day j pos t- war - plans, and interviews with j decides nothing. Honest men must be should be mother'sjday,^and literally lhem elicited the followering state- forthright and unafraid in.defending ■n..,* ,, im *"• ■" " their convictions and principled opin- WE WILL PAY YOU CASH FOR YOUR USED CARS Call us or bring your car for a grease, wash and lubrication job. Billy McMillan Sinclair Service Station West Main Street Phone No. 2 * that is true. But humanity .is so prone >rnen t ;s . to. take things for granted there is a j ■ 7 r ^ reai need for a special day to be set mr . art square deposes and says: a. ide on which we may all halt tou'well, i haven’t thought of what 1 ions. But we can live up to the best tradition of American sports —the code of the baseball diamond —the must be no appreciate the truth “that the Chris- ! ought to do after the'war, it ain’t : football field. There ^ tianfly of mothers' is the power that; benr* winned yeh but i plan to sell i wounds oj sores of class struggle left has, and, always will, sustain our both of my bonds ($18.75 each) and to fester after the election.” world. As this awful war rages there t make a down payment on a ford, rhy are millions of distressed mothers walking days. Will 1 be over by and bowed daily on their knees in prayer by_» J and supplication to God that this ter- ; ' rible conflict will soon be ended and 1 m r . tom head said: “ i am 'saving their loved ones returned safely ; up f 0 r a rainy day after the war, but home. These fervent prayers from > will have to have a car first of all. devout hearts will be a force in/ am weak in my ankles and can’t bringing to up the victory we all long stand on- my feet, the dowft payment for, and the return of. loved ones, j should not be so high with roseyvelt Certainly, every day we should pay still in offis.” homage to heroism, self-sacrifice wisdom, purity, faithfulness and love. On “her” day let us grasp them all in tribute to their dearest incarna tion—Mother. \ Throughout the world on ' this Mother’s Day there will be millions of sons in the army, navy, marines and other branches of service. They mr. bert skinner said: “my tubes are burnt out and i might get a new 6-tube, but a car comes first, i Will swap my old one in and give my war stamps to boot and as a down pay ment.” mr. slim chance spoke as followers: Mr. Johnston, who has himself been mentioned as a candidate for the presidency, may be over-optimis tic in imagining that such an election as he outlines could/ be carried bn in this country. Certainly the only way it is possible is if the people' raise their voices now to make it glear to all politicians that this is the only kind of election they will tolerate in 1 944. , ,p ’ > • . . EVASION—PoUticians The preliminaries to the 1944 cam paign are not too promising of its being a clean-cut, above-the-board contest. 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