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1' 4 / Page Four THE CUNTON CHRONICLE Stjr (Clinton (CbrontrU Established IfOO WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $2.06 Entered as Second Class Mail lil f att^at Six Months $1.00 the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. The* Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers— the publisher will at all limps 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 j •vif . "~7 . , entitled to enough money to live on 1.014,000 acres—6 per cent less than i whether they work or don’t work, last year and the smallest acfeage And part of it is undoubtedly that since 1876 Thursdoy, September T3, 1945 much-publicized figure abount 10,- The increased yield is 317 pounds 000,000 unemployed by Christmas, j of lint per acre which compares with After reading about that, even a man, the record yield of 384 pounds last ambitious to get out and find a new;year and the ten-year (1934-43) av- open, dry weather is badly needed, job might think he wars* an unfortu- erage of 280 pounds per acre. Prospects vary sharply Detween lo-'ned in the state prior to September 1, calities and even fields, ranging from which compares with 63,416 bales good to very poor, largely in accord- last year and 15,754 to the same ance with the manner and amount date in 1940. of rainfall. Recent conditions have production in the United States is been rather poor for picking and: placed at, 10,026,000 bales of 500 4 4 ‘pounds gross weight, which is 18 per - i| Ginning is the slowest of the past ^ 6 , . , n . t . nate victim of circumstances who. Generally, the crop is best in the! three years, the bureau of the census cent below production in 1944 and might as well sit down and give up p ie dmont and poorest in the Pee Oee. I reporting 19,511 running bales gin-1 the 10-year average, until things got back to normal. A 1 ' dangerous ^psychology. ( LINTON. S. C.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 13. 1945 Victory Over # Insects DDT, the ' famous used extensively in the available to the public. j President Truman must have the as a necessary or permanent part The stories which have been built 'same idea. In his message last w^eek the adjustment to peacetime living 1 up about ttye powers of this drug ggj^gd congress to continue the There is no prospect at present, of seem fantastic, yet the facts indicate draft of men 18 to 25 for periods of supply ol manpower exceeding that most of them are true. I tw r o years, which with no war on ^he demand for manpower. Look at J It may rid our country of flies and sounds funny- He further recom- actual employment conditions and; mosquitoes and other germ-carrying mendcd that congress adopt legisla- be misled b - v government prop-' insects It may be used to get rid of jj on providing for universal training 1 aganda. ^ garden pest- and at the same UroCjfyj. youth when the selective service 1 not destro\ necessary bugs and i n "| a ct finally lapses. When the Presi-] sei t'. Perhaps it will get rid ot ter-, den ^ and high army officials say they mitt ' It it conquers household pests,| need 50,000 new draftees each month, what a joy it will prove to house-j and war j s over —it doesn't make! wive.'. _ good sense to fathers and mothers 17 " _ : * with sons in the service. A Bio Problem Why such a proposal? It has the Tht majority of Americans think semblance of politics. The Chronicle the atomic bomb was a very worth- j has said before that the draft law while If throiigh a combination of lazi ness, government propaganda and interference with the normal func tioning of free enterprise, 10,000,000 men should be unemployed, in j one yfcar it could mean a loss of 6ver $20,000,000,000 in our consuming purchasing power. That would be enoOgh To-knock our dreams of pros perity into* {^cocked hat. , What we "want to talk about and ( 'encourage ijo’w is business expansion* throughout the campaign. President t0 produce jobs and quit talking throughout the campaign. President l o muii lauv.ws lCtS Roosevelt said that the boys Would ab °ut unemployment and insurance, insect-killer, be jin ;he army t0 aV oid unem-j benefits - There 15 no reason for war, is now pii oyr nem ) |American to accept unemployment; r TV,.™,,,, ronct hovo fh^as a necessary or permanent part of; 670,000 Bales Cotton Forecast For State This Year t A wet August was generally un- Him estment, even though its should be abolished without delay by, favorable for cotton and the South perfection cost in the neighborhood I congress. Draft boards are pulling Carolina crop is now estimated at oi two billion dollars. The important young men and boys from schools; ^-q ^qq |j a j es 500 pounds gross thing to us was that it Stopped the and ■employment and sending them from conditions on Septem- war that it saved hundreds of thou-jfo training camps for what? Are we ber j This is 50,000 bales, or 7 per cent below tfie. August forecast. v.mcls ot American lives. Something. expecting another war while Secre- that does that can t be measured in tary Byrnes and other officials are wb j cb compares with 864,000 bales dollar value—it’s worth anything we meeting in London to consider deti- made i as j year and would be the can pay. ’ ' |nite peace treaties’ third smallest crop since 1922, ac- How to control this death weapon There should be an immediate end cord j n g t 0 Frank O. Black, agricul- for the future is now the big prob- to drafting boys 18 and 19 years of ^ ura ] statistician. lem. It cannot be kept a secret from age- Boys in their early teens in the Acreage for harvest is placed at other nations, large or small. Nor service should also be released. De- does America have a monopoly on mobilization of men in higher group scientific brains. a § es should be speeded up. Why hold; If this all-powerful atomic energy millions of men in service sitting is not used as a peace tool rather around doing nothing? than a war killer — it is altogether The young men in the ser\ ice ,.q j g-jj 0 j fpght s " provides possible that it may wipe out civili- drawing $50 a month ai^ not the ones tj ene fit s f or unemployed veterans of zation. "[h 0 want to stay in. They are be 8~ ^Vorld War II and also for thbse who iging to get out. But it is the high are se if_ em pi 0 y ed an d earn less than Benefits Allowed For Self-Employed Veterans ~ ~ , are seii-emuiuveu anu cam ms wan Travel Donaer Increases i rating brass bat of nccis with good S100 dur j n g any ca i e ndar month 1 ravei i/anycr iiiiicuscs iJobs who want t0 stay in and c i aim ,— | Oalclne r a t ,oSng cu, down high-^ w^h i way travel and greatly reduced acci- overseas records should be held ‘ n j fll ^ a y nd a rr P mhig claims The amole suddIv of unrationed ^' 1 ^' the local u - s - Employment Service -1 nnw "lv ulable means more trav- 11 is time for action by congress - office but, thus far, only two self- r; more fast reckless driving more’ No wonder congressmen and sena- emp i oyed veterans have filed claims ,k,1 nktmg t^e highways We m" tors are flooded with letters ? nd P r °- There may be other local self-em- t vn in , hid vesterdav and almost tests from the back home - ployed veterans who could receive h id tn *-,ke to i field to avoid a col- Public sentiment should force these benefits and who are neglecting filing Th'V- thr!; ^r“,nVme, PUbUc official, .0 put .0 ^speedy end thelr cla , ms . Veteran* engaged ,n oc.,'.- in tin- state in July as the re- d su.: : trail..- accidents. The figure pi . A ..gust, n »t yet released, is prob ably larger. , , , , . ... While there is plenty of gas, the Doocri'f Mnto monthly oasis, fa.t -hoi,Id be recognized that most: U ° eSn f M ° ke :>CnSe Manager D. R Shands gave as an t;r C s are worn out. others recapped,; We don’t know what government illustration, a veteran who is a larm- still Others are synthetics with long propagandist invented the figure er who may have little or no net in- wcar because of the war. They add! 10 .000,000 out of work by Ch/ist- come from the farm during several to the cx-rcme danger of fast driv- mas.” but whoever it was ought to months, but may have a large income be sent back to school to laarn a other months when he sells his mon-i the w ar the state high- little psychology or take a(^unacy cy crop or crops. If such is the case. an unnecessary and unjustifiable! f armm g activities as renters, share | croppers, partners or owners may be ! classed as self-employed farmers. Unemployment Talk Claims for self-employment are .filed me. iu-e o reduced, test. Either this, or he shbbld be he can file claims for the months that| V.Vh t.irmcr employees of thi- law investigated for plotting to substi- he earns less than $100 and skip the 1 C r ’a cm cm* agency being released tute government regimentation !: < :n the service they should be re- Jobs for free enterprise. In other words, each month stands of months during which his net income; i amounts to more than that amount.! turned a- quickly as possible to the There is the other political slogan , , . , , , lon e for a constant and vigilant pa- used by President Roosevelt in the. by ,tM ; f ; i 0 „! and a last campaign, “jobs for 60,000.000 truM.ng of the public highway it icnfle-- tight against reckless driv- It is still being shouted by Henry mg. .- p e e d i n g , carelessness and Wallace and other rabid New Deal- dr., nr. c mu >.- in order to protect hu- ers. This is a sort of gesture, for sta- man life Violators of traffic regula- tistics show there are not that many tion.- are due sure and adequate pun- people in the country who desire em- ishment. Those who have no respect ’ ployment. far the rights and lives of others on Getting back to the alarmist re- the highways should be caught and furred to above, there is no reason 1 their licenses revoked. ji n the world why 10,000,000 men, or ; 'even 1,000,000 men. should be out of, Truman To Conaress ‘ work by ^ end of this year if goVw ^ m ernment will get out of the w r ay and Last Thursday President Truman g| ve t, us j ness and industry full free- presented to congress a 16,000rword dom Here we are with the greatest message the longest Presidential back j 0 g de mand for goods in the his- message since Theodore Roosevelt ( ^ 0 ry of our country, the greatest presented his position on the nation s | S p end j n g p 0wer j n the hands of the problems after he assumed the of-|p e0 pi e> thousands of new inventions flee on McKinleys assassination. .ready to be produced, materials The President s message w r as a re-. a vailable in record quantities, the na- port on the state of the nation. Somej lon f ac i n g a serious housing short- members of congress liked it, somel £ g e j n every community, millions of | didn t, as would be expected. It cov- small businesses understaffed — and ered many subjects including contro- our government talking about ‘‘in- versial issues. He came out strongly evitable unemployment.” for a prosperous American economy . n u * F ' , , . * Naturally, when w'ar contracts after reconversion and endurmg na-! sud / e ^ ly cance i, e d on a huge .onal prosper,ty. He recommended a i ho us!nds of men lost their, tax reduc .on, wh.ch the American wh «e ^ r .“ P a P . r l V f. ■' r‘" ,P the production hue has been tern. any calendar month must be filed by the 20th of the month following Goodyear Tires and Tubes BATTERIES AND ACCESSORIES McMillan Service Station Sinclair Products Phone No. 2' I J The message must be interpreted as showing a real left turn and a continuation of a socialized state. Itj revealed the President as porarily stopped while reconversion; to peacetime manufacturing takes ^ place, the men may not get back to ^ , , a ’ work for a few months. In other Dealer with many of his recommen-1 words the ■. Qf reconversion dations reflecting the shadow of the ... * P . f .. . , a „ .. it- „ will be very short for those who are late President Roosevelt. Hu, recom-1 ki jobs instea(J 0 , unem , oy . mendations as a whole ,f adopted by m durance which wlU ^ en . congress, will mean the continuation ; loa „ lhe mment of a large, central,red. expensive fed-.^. g0 ‘ g , 0 giv ‘ , man $25 a weck ‘ ‘ n ^ n ‘ . to sit down in one place and do noth- President Truman is now expected h is „ ol ^ to an0 , her place by Democra s and Republicans to Jo 6 look (or w *. k 6 ; stand for reelection in 1948. His mes-, t . I sage is probably the kick-off for that, What doesn t make sense is for any race. The “honeymoon” is over. i° f these men formerly employed on m war contract jobs (at high pay) to ^ cl i J A a k.1 -think of themselves as having to be Congress bnould Act Now out ot a job just because the particu- There is nation-wide criticism, and Mar job they had during the war has justly so we think, over the present been discontinued. Look at the “help, slow discharge system for the armed wanted” section of any city newspa- j forces and the lack of speeding up; per and it is apparent that thousands the return of several million over- of employers are crying for help. The; seas service men Jo civilian life. 'trouble is that many of this large It will be remembered last fall group want to draw the same high that Draft Director Hershey made pay they hav? been receiving from IT MIGHT COME IN HANDY Before your son or daugh ter goes away to school or college, make sure that he or she has the protec tion of an ./Etna Student’s Accident Insurance Pol icy. Pays hospital, medical and surgical expense in case of accident. S. W. SUMEREL, Agent Jacobs Building—Phone St CLINTON. 8. C. the remark that “it was cheaper to ke£p men in the arrpy than to let them out at a faster rate than the country could absorb them.” Gover nor Dewey, Republican candidate, government which, with the war over, is now impossible. We are suffering now from the New Deal doctrine of recent years which has educated a large part of pounced upon that statement^the people to. think that they are YOUNG WOMEN We Are Planning A Considerable Expansion of Our Production And Plant in Clinton I We can employ immediately a large number of women who are interested in steady, pleas ant employment at which they may earn good pay. We need people who are willing and able to work daily and who want a permanent job. r Apply at Our Office on Davidson Street *7Ae Hallmark Mfg. Corp. Clinton, S. C. F. E. Myers & Bro. Company Have Assigned To Us the Distribution of Their Pumps, Water Systems and Sprayers In the Following Western South Carolina Counties: SPARTANBURG GREENVILLE CHEROKEE PICKENS OCONEE ANDERSON LAURENS UNION NEWBERRY GREENWOOD ABBEVILLE McCORMICK EDGEFIELD SALUDA LEXINGTON AIKEN Where there is already acceptable representation, we want to make contact with such concerns and sign up a working agreement. Where there is not sufficient repre sentation, we want to establish dealers to handle this popular line. WE BEUEVE... 1. That every dealer should have a full-time service man to maintain and install Pumps and Water Systems. 2. That every dealer should carry a sufficient stock of Pumps, Water Systems and Repairs, when available, to adequately represent the Myers line in his vicinity, based upon demand. / 3. That every dealer should handle exclusively the Myers line and give it his undi vided attention. 4. That every dealer should have at least one man specialized and well trained to sell the Myers line. 7 '■ 5. That every dealer should do a certain amount of advertising direct by, mail, ra dio or newspapers on the Myers line. 6. That every dealer should maintain the manufacturer’s published prices. 7. That every dealer should confine his efforts oh the Myers line to an easily acces sible territory surrounding his home town. If interested, write now, giving fall particulars HALL & COMPANY, Inc. 189 E. Charles St, Spartanburg, S. C. W. G. Martin, Mgr. Pump Dept., Phone 1161