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H i K- 1 <!*■ I ■ ■ / ] . J ■/. 7 ■ Page Two g THE CLINTON GHRONIGLEf^CLINTON f S. C. Thursday, September 14 # 1944 NEWS OF . . . MEN IN THE SERVICE .JOHN HENRY NABORS, seaman ti!>; Ouss. has completed his course , i p ;, 1 ,mnit in the a\’iation ordnonce sch old. at the naval air technical tram ins center. Memphis. Term. He and Mrs. G % .' C. PROMOTED TO SGT. THE SMALL TOWN MUST SINK ON SWIM By H. C. TATE, in Kiwanis International Magazine ! lie on N. f Air. d.dville, ,ff fflN SP RATT. fireman first class, tliu n ,1 vv . visite d his parents. Mr. : a i,. ^ J,,; hn Spr att. last week. This i h ;s vi isi; home in 15 Hr • v ' J ^ ;h a destroyer es- 1 * "i ■ A-A: r ’■ itii,' fleet. '.VILLI A .! ALi .XANDER- CUM- ! N G S ■ ui.' : 'ft :: p r omoted to private , ^ ' U,.: up Gruber. -Okla. L . * IT ,i son of Col. and A A \. : '.dr:' 1 1. Cummings, and ‘ -til U‘ famous "Rainbow munity was supported before the war and he will say:-“By the WPA."' re-act i valeo Ask the barber or the gasoline sta-| from city and -towm or fade out of tion operator of almost any of the the picture in the world now being more tjian 13.000 small “rural" towns born. ' in the United States how his com- Some of them realize that, too, and are frantically trying to buy indus tries. All the sad experience along Ask him how it is being supported that line seems not to have discour- today and he will say: “By the war." I aged small towns in their hope of He will mean, of course, the jobs in becoming big towns. First thing the war industries,’ increased farm in- average citizen ,thinks of when one come, benefit payments, from men mentions post-war planning is the and women in service and so on. addition of some .industry. It’s a cost- Ask him how his community will ly and highly unprofitable enterprise. He .could overcome the handicap of be supported when the war ends and “A factory that comes tp yourr vo i ume building up his trade. That can be done because it is be ing done. Farmer City, Illinois, is an example. Farmer City is almost exactly the same distance between stores, elevators, hatcheries, schools, churches and libraries. These have probably a better chance to serve the farmers than the best big city in the country. The same roads that lead customers out, of small towns can lead them in. It all depends upon the citizens and the business firms. The small town merchant has all States.. They are going to trade somewhere. They will trade with their own small' town merchants if they can get what they want, the service they like at prices they are willing to pay. No matter how good you or the storekeeper or anyone else thinks service to farmers is, if the farmers the advantage over a big city store | themselves don’t like it, if the farm- in winning the good will of his cus tomer. He should know him by name and be able to ask about the chil dren. He has all the advantage in overhead operating costs. He has all; merchants could heed. Haw many__aL ers go elsewhere, or if the farmers think a change is needed, then one is needed, says the bureau. That is advice many small town H. McCvury -;ng lour •. .< or vice.. ; AH Y nylo urncti i half ;y. .h; A: ROBERT \V. WILBURN has been promoted to the grade of MafY sergeant. He has been in the service since January, 1940, and has served two years and three months in the Pacific area. He is now in France. Sgt. Wilburn is the son of Air. and Airs. A. J, Wilburn. who live near here. of the Ninth Air force, with mup received commendations Lt ' Gen. Lewi-' H. Breretoh, commanding general of the Air f tree, and from Lt. Gen. H Bradlev. then commanding : rom then Ninth Omar goneral ce of ne the if the First army, for close mpport to troops cm D-day invasion. Capt. Cobb, wear- Air Medal with 15 clusters. CLARY, cade has been recommended for for action in which he de the DEC d roved ; .V;B(>S nas mid. sen of been Mass.. heavy < been In vanee. Capt. John R. nity. ha mission.- ;un emplacement which dcLng up an American had ad- !. Y A. Fla. He left for i:ter spendi ng sev- ~ mot'ner. ♦ < iSB< )RXE. ol the a.' arri\ - ed in San Cobb, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cobb, of the 5 Lydia commu- - flown more than 95 combat . His squadron is the first air force unit French soil. to be operational on LT. J. \V. MILAM of the navy, who has recently returned to the States, has reported to Wildwood, months service N. J.. where he has been assigned. Nt nmy irea. Cl i Mr- '.(1 e\ Vie ne , area, and has seen .v Guinea. Guadalcanal aer i-iands in the Pa- 1. Osborne is a son of Ed Osborne, of Gold- mets to arrive home in care Or an extended i Friends of RALPH A. NABORS, seaman second class, of the navy, a son of Mrs. Jobe Nabors of this city, will regret to know he is ill and a patient in a naval hospital some where in the European area. He has been hospitalized since August 18. .he will shake his head in puzzled uncertainty: That is the problem that faces every small town in America. And each faces it almost entirely alone. Large cities have their chambers of commerce, their committees for eco nomic development, their post-war planning committees and their man ufacturers associ a I ions—Farmers have the'benevolent AAA. powerful farm organizations' such as the American Farm Buregu Federation, the Grange and the Farmers Union. They have the expert and free services of the great land grant colleges. But the small town faces the fu- “ture alone. It can get some'pointers from government agencies and bus:-, nes.- organizations. The Albert. Lea, Minnesota, plan Talready discussed in this magazine) can help, but these, do not apply directly to communi ties of 2,500 or less. They must work out'their own salvation. The small town was reeling' 1 under the blows of a changing economic -y-tem when the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor and set off a production spiral that absorbed available workers from everywhere. But the basic problem winch the small town must face when' the war is over has not chang ed. except to become more complex. Generally, the small'town was-my- the ascendancy until the turn of the century. Then it was stationary up to the 1930s. The 1940 census showed many declines and the war had add ed to ihe’depopulation of small towns in rural United Stajes. Hysterical tirades against the chain store and bitter complaint against highways are outgrowths of the re- | alization that the small town faces its own "Pearl Harbor.” But nothing much more imaginative than-a week ly drawing for a basket of groceries comes town is a factory that was a failure somewhere else," said one small town banker. Volumes of evidence could be compiled to Support him. The shopping for factories after the the advantage in closeness to the j them have rationalized themselves buyer. He has all the advantage in, out of a proposal to modernize their i knowing his customers’ requirements, store, add new and more varied stocks or install more convenient and , , war I two communities of 40,000 population is one of the things small towns can- as j s town not afford. attractive store furnishings? , But the business man cannot carry the whole load. He must have help from the schools and the churches and the citizens generally. Rural and small town schools are the victims X, a county seat. Yet the of pinch-penny economics plus a , , , , 4 i People in the Farmer City trading heavy serving of sentiment. As a re- Lun doeb not mean, of course, that : area purchased 87 per cent of their suli . there are thousands of rural Lie light, kind ol factories cannot furniture in Farmer City in 1942 as children being cheated out of their u into the small town s way ot hie,; compared with 27 per cent in town right to a good education. School ad- Lut look around you and determine X . What was the. difference? Farmer ministrative units must be enlarged how VOU! community got the thnv- city not only had a eood furniture if'these children get their due. There mg factory it has. \ou re right. Most dealer, but it had ofheY alert mer- can be no such thing as a good edu- o. were developed out of the chants who could hold up their eAd cation in a one-room school with conius^oi .your own conimunity. of the retail trade as well. two or three pupils and no equip- \\ Inn would it cost El I a so, Illinois, Farmer City sold 51 per cent'of 1 ment. .n coax a plant like the Pfister Hy- a n shopping goods purchased byj Rural churches, predominantly o:id Lorn company to that town ol people of that trading area as com-! Protestant, are as bad. A community '7 population. It was perminated pared wdth 30 per cent sold in-toWn of 2,002 will have six or eight church- und developed by Tester Pfister of x.’ | es. Denominations expend much of El Paso. I There are many other examples of , their How much would it have cost Gib- small town business enterprise that There City. Illinois, to subsidize the Central Soya'plant in that little of 2.401 population. Gibson City selected for the site oVer much son vas city was larger cities like Bloomington and Champaign because the community had better site, transportation and labor supply than its competitors. It was nearer the center of. the soybean growing area not already served by a soybean mill. Those two examples serve to point -thfe way for -industrial development of the small town: 1. Encourage ger mination of industry out of the talent of home-town people. 2. Make con ditions right for the free choice of your town by a solvent and expand °, ther * ype ,, of in ;'er prices, leads people dustrial development is a gamble, and r r small towns cannot afford t< Small towns have been i gamble self-con- energies. fighting each other, are cases where state secre- pays dividends. T. M. ^Patton,, a Lex-| taries of denominationis»have stepped ington, Illinois, insurance agent, has in and wrecked sincere-efforts of de accounts in most parts of Illinois, in-! nominations to merge. As a result , eluding a sizable business in Chicago, j the small town and rural churches The University of Illinois Bureau are J ar les s potent than they should of Economic (and Business Research, ^ e - 7 e sma ^ rural tow r n that sur- from W'hich the Farmer City figures i v * ves * n peace time is the one with were obtained, reports that a survey | coura g e enough to consolidate and reveals that “very few families who j sfrertgthen its churches so as to be lived more than 30 miles away pat-! serve. ronized the bargain basement of city 1 Approximately a third of the coun stores. Instead the people from small-' ^ es °f ^* s country still do not have ; er places usually bought better 7^ rar ' es - O ne cannot expect a rural grades of goods—in many cases bet-] co . mmun '*y to prosper in the future ter than those purchased by resi- without the cultural influence of a dents of the trading center. The con- ! o° 0< t library. ! elusion was that better quality, or Few' of the small towns have ade- lci- larger assortments, rather than low- "^ter, sewage, power and san- ^ ’ r>r r>ripp5 ipnHc npnnif* to shop in, ilotion facilities. These will cost money, but they must.be provided larger trading centers. Many a small-town merchant hasi^ th * citizens' w.ill go elsewhere. * , , maf ]p the mistake nf stnekine nn i v i 1 bey don t have to live in your town, scions about thejr size.. They have iniJae me mistaKe oi stocKing oniyi T . ho : low priced merchandise because he thinks that is all his customers want. | Chances are he is losing a lot of high class business as a result. , The small town that will thrive Th :ed :h ( :ow.ng in :he August n in Clinton boys were navy during the through the recruit- Snartanburg: ROB- S-SGT. has been stoh. La., candidate Ga. He is KI;T JAMES McCRARY, JOHNNY IRBY FULLER-. FRED GRIN BUR- art of this city. NETT. CARL STANLEY WINDSOR. -— WALTER EUGENE BARKSDALE, ami ROBERT ARTHUR WILKIE. JAMES stationed is now school at Fort a son of Mrs. R. ; and plane will be speeded up in th‘e F. BODIE, who future. Highways will be improved, at Camp Living- People will no longer be bound by attending officer geography and mechanical limita tions to trade in any one town. The small town must face competition Benning, C. Stew- CAPT. HAROLD L. COBB, com manding officer of the "Varga Boys" SGT. B. NOLAN SUDDETH has been transferred from the Topeka air base. Kan., to Herington, Kan. j PVT. ACE WORKMAN, JR., who' always hoped that they could be come big towns. Nobody has yet proved that there is virtue in size i or free movies has come out of it. for a community. The goal should be As a .result the small town faces enrichment of life. In that field the greater problems when peace comes.,small town has a marked deck. All it after the war, then, is one with co- People have learned to commute dur- needs is vision and a willingness to 0 P era tive and aggressive business ing the war. Transportation by auto pay the price. | men who realize they must deserve Those small communities not pay- ; fbe trade they get. What is their tra'd- ing the price will be like the person * n § area? left out in a game of “fruit-basket; The Bureau of Foreign and Domes- upset." There probably won’t be tic,Commerce advises small towns room for the more than 13,000 rural to “look to the countryside.” In 1941 towns in the United States of tomor- farmers were making $2,365 for la- row. But there is a bright future for bor and management. In 1943 it those that seize it. * j probably was twice that. There are There still must be service centers hundreds of such farmers around ev- for the rural areas. There must be ery small town in rural United inridge. Ky.. has joined the para troopers and is now taking his train- ing at Fort Benning. Ga. The small town that survives in the changing world, in short, is the one willing to pay the price of sur vival. It must provide and constant ly improve its retail outlet. It must encourage native industrial develop ment. It must recognize and meet competition of other communities. It must develop its homes, schools, churches, libraries, recreational fa cilities and general community well being. It must achieve a more abun dant life or perish. The small town can no longer rest on its oars.pH- must eltlfer" stream or down. go up- THE CLINTON CHRONICLE The Newspaper Everybody Reads -quadron of the "Hun Hunter" group, has been stationed aJ h Camp Breck-: grrr-r. .•r 0 FRIDAY AND SATURDAY September 15 and Hi THE BROADWAY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY’, September 15 and 16 Story oi Dr. Wassei! | M3rsha!l o} Gunsmoke * i Two-gun law rides the range — phy. i \ su; ■.iv 2 o() with V'O and love. . 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