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^ 1 f / / • Poge Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursdoy, August 9, 1945 01l|p (Clinton (Clfrontrlr Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursd THE CHRONICLE PUBLISH!: J By COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable tn Advance): One Year $2.00 Six Months 1 $1.00 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle>$eeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers— the publisher'will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The ^Chronicle .prill 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. t. wher ] ness, what crops to plant, where we can work, and heaven knows what else. We are a regimented people. Morgenthau's retirement as sec retary of the treasury brings a rays! of hdpe. Like the late President '- Roosevelt, a million or billion dol-1 lars meant little to him, either for ] Special to The Chronicle. war purposes or nonessentials. The Washington, Aug. 7.—The state de- As Washington Sees It.. THE NATIONAL SCENE see some refrigerators, washing ma-1 chines, lawn mowers, and a lot Of | smaller items. Tires, it is predicted, will probably be available to A card holders around the beginning of 1946. * * * * Thirty dollars a week, or 75 cents an hour for a 40-hour week, is apt to become the ^legal minimum pay j new secretary; Judge Vinson, is a partment continues to be busy deny- conservative, a man who does not, ing peace rumors, but the rumors approve a continuation of unprece- continue. Most persistent of them is Rented spending. President Truman one that Premier Stalin wentJ^Pots- *will move also in this direction. They dam with the terms which the^^pa- musj.know that with the European nese were willing to accept. ^ war behind us and war spending The Japanese may o? may not have i for l he first y ear > 75 cents for a 42 " thei^’.decreased by every Tule of launched “p eace feelers” but anyone ; hour week fo f' th e second year, and H arithmetic, that nattonaljncome is w v 10 takes anv stork in thpse un- 75 cents for a 40hoCir week after that. within two years. Bills have been introduced into both hpuses of con gress to amend the fair labor stan dards act of 1938 to provide for this. The bills seek to s‘et the minimum at i65 cents an hour for a 44-hour week TYPEWRITERS AND ADDING MACHINES Sales and Sendee CLEANING A SPECIALTY Reasonable Charges KENNETH N.BAKER Phone 306 who takes any stock in these un bound <«■ t>e less. founded reports should . remember As taxpayers scan the nation’s bal- the similar rumors about Germany ance sheet they are unable to grasp which were rampant during the Afri C LINTON. S. C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 9. 1945 WE CANT AFFORD TO GIVE UP JOANNA The present act provides for a 40- cents an hour minimum wage. Thus, if tVie new legislation goes through^ the figures. The public debt of the.can phase, of the war in 1942. Our| w ^* c ^ seems Quite likely, minimum wages will be almost double whatj they were in 1938. ! United States as of July 6 was $260,-' government has made it clear that 1470,476,349.84. To put it another way, no terms other than unconditional 'have prepared and saved their cans, 0 ur debt is a quarter of a trillion, surrender will be accepted—but that only to see them wasted by lack of plus 10,000 millions. We can’t com- this will not mean enslavement of ; collection facilities. They were never prehend what this means—neither'the Japanese people. Since we know ... . « ' called * or ’ and the same is true as! can you. It represents more money: our government will accept no other v. As this communit> is aware, a ^ - re g arc j s ^e salvage, of paper, another owed (borrowed and spent) than is “terms,” any that may be offered scarce commodify/" owed by all the other nations of the,are worthless. Housewives^ ar£ ready to cooper- 1 world. To apply the breaks, to put. Military leaders here do not ex- ifampaign to help an end to this wild orgy of spending, pect the Japanese to surrender until rfe templated move by the Joanna Tex tile Mills company, (loldville. Ls be ing considered by \\ II Regnery, of ate j n the sdlvt C hicago. III . president of the cor- meet our war heeds. But their co-! is poration Should his final decision operation wiir aftlount to little un he in the affirmative it would mean the closing down of the plant and CHECK BOOKS — Phone us when you need a check book with name of business imprinted, either M. S. Bailey & Son, Bankers, or Commer cial Depository. Chronicle Pub. Co. I We Have Tires and Tubes BATTERIES and ACCESSORIES Have your battery charged while you vjrait. Clinton Service Station Phone 96 Clinton, S. C, Gulf Products >~V' the stupendous task before the, sometime next year — perhaps not new Secretary Vinson. He will need until 1947. They feel certain that a less some organization in the com- to exercise ability, business judg-1 full invasion will be necessary to munity makes a city-wide collection ment, courage and real fearlessness bring the Japs to their knees, of the salvageXThe Chamber of Com- as he knuckles down to this job.' | * * * * moving of its valuable ner .y' merce> representative of the commu- We can’t go on at the rate we have With the announcements of recon-; and equpiment to the ( hieago area nd y, should do,, the job. which is been traveling the past ^twelve years version to some civilian production! where the Regnerys have large man- important. s [without . inevitable disaster and.; in many large manufacturing plants,! ufarturing interests, notably t h e bankruptcy. And without tax relief; the OPA is working to set up a plan Western Shade Cloth company. The 'Super' Liberals vate mmistry. NOBODY'S BUSINESS The Chronicle will not go into a U. S. Senator Olin Johnston of this discussion of the pros and eons that; state belongs to the New Deal spend- must be considered in such a far- ers - Ne is uha. might be termed a mrhinjt pr»p^l That decision "«W« Dealer"-certainly this . , describes him as a candidate when he must be made by Mr. Regner>. The ran ^ j ast time ^ oth for g overnor Chronicle has xaid more than once and the senate ' r rrkArUC recently that a sound business policy Several self-styled liberal senators, By vjtt MCvjtt i> needed in this state* and that our headed by the No. 1 of the New Deal chief concern should be to protect regime — Pepper of Florida, now and hold w hat we already hav e. come forward with an enlar S ed New Deal program. Johnston is listed as a we will’ be disappointed if we look for pricing new products so that for d jeV’ival and expansion of pri- manufacturers will get a fair .profit I and consumers won’t have to pay too much. Most industies intend to seek higher than pre-war prices and have notified the OPA of that intention. With automobiles, for example, it is estimated that labor costs are now 25 per cent higher than they were ini 1941, and that additional costs will! i be passed on to the consumer. According to the part of the recon- j version price plane which already has been worked out, manufacturers will 1 H. D. HENRY 1898-1945 F. M. BOLAND 4 H. a HENRY & COMPANY INSURANCE STOCKS — BONDS — REAL ESTATE “ , • _ \ Federal Loans Negotiated On Real Estate Telephone 121 Keeping Clean Is Not A Habit we already have, 1 *''*•■“*"*' ”*»*• -*•*“* ► VI . _ .... . . .. Deal program. Johnston is listed as a 01 iWine which is more important than new: f ,, „ _ . ^ . , ... ,. — . , . ^ v „ ntlir(Mi supporter of the program in a news I am trying to wear white linen su bmit data on increased costs to the nuMiiess mures release. Points include speeding of suits this summer, a carry-over from OPA and get a new ceiling price set The magnificent Joanna mill is a reconversion, continued price j con- 1940. Due to the high cost of clean- within a few days. The increases valuable and appreciated asset of trol, unemployment compensation, ing and pressing, and slow returns permitted will be based on formulas this community. The original com- raise minimum wages, expand na- from the laundry. I have endeavored worked out by OPA. panv was organized in the early ti° na l housing, health programs, so- to make one white suit last me a Stating the confidence of the OPA 1900 s as a small locally owned spin- !cial securit y* federal aid to schools, week. I change every Sabbath morn-, that its pIan will p ro vide the basis! nine mill Early in the IS-O’s it was and many ° ther expensive points. ing, and sort of dress up like. for a fair profit to industry,'James F. g , . in tne is-u s it was j t al ] adds up t0 a con t inU ation of • Brownlee deoutv administratnr fnr purchased by the Hartshorn window government in .business, centralized Last Sabbath was not so hard on p r j ce 0 f fh e 0|>a said - “At the same shade interests of New York head- bureaucracy in Washington and mil- my suit. I had only 4 distinct spots timCi this pi 4 0 gr am maintains our ed by the late II \V Hack Ten years lions more added to our national by 'Monday noon. Then trouble set guard against the inflation of prices ago the property was bought bv the debt. Taxpayers only hope is that,in. I dropped a slice of apple pie a la, and operating costs which ultimate- Kegnerv interests President Truman and a majority of mode in my lap at lunch, and sat ly led to the deitruction of so many congress will defeat this fantastic down on a lip-stick a few minutes t> us j nesses and jobs after the last It is time for conservatism later. Some person, possibly me, left war and de i ayed successful recon- td “nolitical” liberalism to the ink-pad open op my desk: one version for two years ” arm was blue shortly thereafter from ; By the end of this year there The result has teen con- — the cuff to the shoulder. ; should be a sizable amount of mer- tinued progress, heavy investments food Shortage Acute T tHpH tn fin mv fnnntain npn 'fhandise on the market which hasn’t and large expansion programs dur- Said a groceryman to us yesterday, Wednesday it back fired and squirt- ^ een s ^ en since the war started. Au-j ing the past twenty years. The local “Food is really scarce now. I have e d purple ink aU the way down my tomob ‘les will, by the end of the management has been in the capable never seen anything like it.” two y ear . P r °bably be available only by The “story” of the Goldville in- 1 program. dustry has been one of faith, initia- ra th er than tive. and progressiveness by the ca t c h votes, owners. „ „ coat from the collar to the southern 1 ■ hands of W. A. Moorhead, a mill Meats, lard, bacon, fatback, cheese, , j ght _ hand t jp j hands with a homo oniiinmpnt ct;n k ^ anv oniric an^i nnm r . _. . ... . . nome equipment may still be hard and other needed heavy we can expect soon to ! attractive i.. the st.mih ih* ,^ni^ increasin ^ difficulties now facing Somebody had been working on it attracme in the .south, the people farmerS) food distributors and con- Bv Thursday, I are industrious and law-abiding, sumer^. His philosophy, which is 100 with high ideaL held before them by the management, and religious op portunities afforded all Such a com- munitv cannot be appraised in dol lars and cents executive of recognized abilitv, a many canned goods and other com- pi urn b e r on Thursday and then let „ t h t four-square citizen, and a gentleman. ™ diti <; s t are al ™*t non-existent, the said hand rest in my lap . when __ 8 every inch'of him The investment 7oon ‘naproxement expected j removed it, 1 had a perfect fingej- otherwise dressed up the place in aj there is estimated at S4.000.000. em- The new secretary of agriculture, p""} and T^hSmb-pdnL ^ 3 ^ ^ great wa y- P a y s to be an qwnfr).; ploy men t is provided for 1100 peo- Clinton Anderson, named by Presi- « . pie with an annual payroll of $2,000,- dent Truman, is tackling our per- j leaned against the wall of the 000 The village—a complete mo- ^ ex 'ng food problems in the hope e i eva t or and go t enough grease on dern little city—is one of the most ° f find ‘ ng a J lasting so!ution to the my back to make a pound of TNT. now Somebody had t was unfit for open- air service. I looked like I had been | per cent sound, is founded on the j n a fox-hole backwards for a week, principle of abundance—that farm- The situation at home was so seri- ers be encoucaged to produce every ous< f h ad to wear two different pound of food possible—that no mat- vvhite suits that week and ruined ter how* much we produce there will both of them. always be plenty of mouths to con- I he ( hronicle, lor varied reasons, sume it all. He has called for the re- Ow nership Brought About A would regret exceedingly to see the moval of all curbs on food produc- Great Change Joanna property moved elsewhere, tion. That makes sense, and will help Mi - , and Mrs. J. R. Workson were We hci>e Mr Regnery’s final decision redeve distress around the world, neighbors of ours once. They rented will end all likelihood of withdrawal Tbere won ’ t be any baby pigs killed, a house near our home at $20.00 per and put an end to unrest and uncer- COtt ° n P lowed A up \ or milk P oured in month. They were typical. They did tainty. And we hope also that the ! ri ^ rs dunng Anderson s admmistra- no t mow the lawn very often, rftver . „ . . . , ,, llon - clipped the hedge, sunned their fea- company s finishing factory will be We need to get back to the funda- t her bed on the front porch, paid no brought to (iold\ille as a big concen- mental law of supply and demand, attention t6 the premises, a few win- tration point And when we stop unnecessary OPA dow panes stayed broken out all the 1 It would be disastrous to lose Jo- ex P er imentation and regimentation time—and there were no flowers WE PAY CASH For Good USED CARS TIMMERMAN MOTOR CO. Carolina Service Station CLINTON, S. C. Don't Pay Rent WE ARE READY TO HELP YOU OWN A HOME It is almost impossible to build a home now ... so, if you want a home and caii find a suitable one ready built, find out how much it will cost and come to see us. We’ll be glad to help you finance it on a low' monthly payment plan, which quickly reduces principal and interest. De tails given without obligation. Each Account Insured Up To $5,000 1.1 I I / Federal iAVINGS 8 AND LOAN ASSOCIATION Telephone No. 6 A Clinton Institution Serving Clinton People Since 1909 anna We hope no change in owner- in creating scarcities, there will be *.hin ...in k am P* e food. The emphasis should be After having lived in that house ' . on an Sundance of everything for two years, the Worksons bought made In>tead it would be gratifying produced and sold at a fair profit for the place. They paid $2,000 for it, to see the previously contemplated the growers. We need surpluses, not half cash, balance later. Within two plan cf expansion materialize. .scarcities, for a hungry world and months thereafter, you wouldn’t have For the management and people to re Pl er >ish grocers' shelves. More known the old place—it had changed of the Joanna community, and f 0r ^ laxation of government control will so. The window panes were put back the feather bed disappeared from the front piazza, flowr boxes appeared The lawn was kept neat and trim, all around. ~1Vtr Regnery. the president, and his ^ r a " g ci i ;.- ll C a I ° S i i r f ’ e Step by Step ’ t0 nor *!*’ the house reived a coat of paint, associates, The Chronicle holds the' m highest regard and a sense of appre- Qur Incredible Debt elation. When Mr Regnery’s decis- “ ion is reached we hope it w ill be to non nn'n nnn , ! £ * t remain at Goldville We can’t afford ^eek for the'fiLal*year ig^A re^'™ 6 ° dl hedg<? W3S d ° ne 3Way With t 0 C ive un Ioanna i i u mn wTr ar 1946 ‘ A rec I ; and a pretty picket fence was built to gne up Joanna. ,ord-break.ng 100 billions w'ere spent t0 take \ u lace Shrubs were lant . n fiscal 1945. The huge amount is ed an dtra P nsplanted in every nook for waging the war in the Pacific and and corner w P here a shrub was de . Vetoes Harbor Bill President Truman has vetoed sired. The front steps that had rotted were replaced with cement. non-war expenditures. $4,614,000 house bill, including S2,-! K„ W ‘ U Li:;:H 0 Ll h , e a W “ r „ 0 r^ i, „ WOuld <iown 730,000 for a project to improve a ,JJ“ ! draperies were at all front window!, navigation of the Savannah, harbor. The President said the W ? U,d be J be , war and they even had three sets of ve ’jwith the Japs must be pushed to a ti blind<; . speedy conclusion, we all agree. But . spending scheme was not essential . . Tj to the war effort. money not be wasted even Mr workson hurrid home every This proposal, backed by several| f0 ^ n ar ’^ h '^*?, b ® in ^ d ?? e / , evening and piddled around the place members of congress from the South tic-.llv't ut T g n Sh ^ dr t a f’ with hammer - saw - s P ade - hoe - rake Carolina-Georgia area, was no doubt ‘ S n0 , f ° r 11 t0 a "d other tools. He did not loaf any the groundwork for another (politi- f appr0 ‘ more around the drug store or the. cal) monster akin to Santee-Cooper, P ™ * g a nH , S °^ ° f • * own hal1- He away the old in which the public has little confi-' redurt ^ n " d P ^5[^’ a tre ^ dous hammock that he formerly used to dead £ V t P osslble - But 1 so ldng as i doze in while at home. Mrs. Work- ashirigton bureaucrats have their son re .p a j n ted all her furniture, and ^ way m unlimited spending, so long . j , , :a& the people are subjected to auto- I 111 jCrap iNeeded (cratic government, so long as these An urgertt nation-wide appeal is ] power-crazed groups spend and dence. right. President Truman is being renewed for the collection of s P e od, and work to perpetuate them-, tin cans. We are informed that the selve in office and seek to hold war end of hostilities in Europe has in- emergency power in the post-war creased the need for tin because even period—taxpayers may expect no re- j more types of equipment v and food be f These bureaucrats must be must be packed in cans for the Pa- swept out of office. If it requires a cific battle. We are further told that brand new congress to get results unless there is an ample supply of tin, the reconversion of factories to produce automobiles and other peace time commodities will be halted. 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