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I 1 4 Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S- C. Thursdoy / October 19, 1944 (Clinton (Cbrontrlp Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office ai Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle, seeks the cooperation of its subscrihSprs and, readers— the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when tney 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. r—— As Washington Sees It THE NATIONAL SCENE ’ I laws and institutions which the party , has created. j “We shall eradicate the German ! militarism which has so often dis- 1 rupted the peace of the world. Mili-! Special to The Chronicle. ! U, J a " d part)r le “ d ' r \ tt,e and others suspected of crimes and! \V ashington, Oct. 11. There is a atrocities will be tried and, if guilty, growing feeling here that it would punished as they deserve.” hasten the end of the war in Europe; General Eisenlwwer went oo to if Roosevelt. Churchill and stalin: ex P lain K tha t the Military government ;, . _ , set up by the Alices m the territory would give the German people a they conquer expect absolute clear definition of what they mean obedience' and will take all authority by “unconditional surrender.” On the away from Germans as - long as it is assumption that many Germans necessary* But the general did not .. ' .... .. give the Germans any hint as to W’hat would lather not go through another they coul( j expec t after they surren- winter of war when they are begin- j ( i er except in the use of the one ning tp feel that defeat is inevitable phrase that the Allies are not coming CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19. 1944 as oppressors. The President’s three-man cabinet v committee, appointed to work with ly if we made it clear that they him on a pi an t o deal with Germany anyway, it is believed by many ex perts that they would give up quick- An Opportunity To Give—Not Lend General Eisenhower put | is pressing- down now. -acute. We can’t let them would be as well off under our terms it during the period of occupation, is said to have reached no agreement. The committee includes Secretary of; the Treasuary Morgenthau, Secretary ,of “unconditional surrender” as they The job isn t o\^jj|F yet—but we are are un d er wartime conditions, this anx * ous 1° see 11 over as soon as German propaganda machine TK ,,i,. thin0 nnnHnri far-us 1 possibIe ' That ’ s why we are being has made the Germans fe«l that their;of State Hul1 and Secretary of War: me oni> ,mng neeaea un us as k ed to g ive a g ain this vea - r _to give sufferin'’ is nothing comoared with ; Stimson - The committee is under-; &' "■ ■n V rr n f™„,'ir a «o mure <»a» «•« before. Witt we do wh at " w„uW be Tr/ove up.!«»«<* '» have become cool to Mr.; nom me irom imt our part as individuals to help raise Recently it made good use of Secre-' Mor g enthau s P lan to make Germany to do his or the ciinton-Goldville quota? It is a tar y Morgenthau's suggestion that;’ an agricultural nation, although this- privilege and responsibility we Germany* be transformed from an P Ian is kn own to have met with con- One duty we mtve is to* keep up ^ should alMUblp shouldbr. industrial to an agricultural nation! siderable favor in En 8 land - Those on the world-w.de force oj American; Remember—we are - asked to give warn the people again of the dire !tbe committee are understood to g(.m'ro>!ty—a weapon foirHrctory and generously—not to Jend. i consequences of defeat. 'agree with the President that ,the a powerful influence forJthp peace— —» I Few peop ] e in this CO untry have 1 treatment °f a11 the German people way: to. w all the way the remotest hamlet her full duty." ce needed now to win the vie tory and prepare for the peace to .mlinw. For our own men. nothing else as- mro them quite so well that the folk- back home are back of them all the way. For our allies, nothing else tells them in quite the same way that the statesmanship of the American peo- NOBODY’S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE people in this country much idea as to what plans the Al- j should be har ^ enough to make lied administrators do have for the ' bcrn have no stomach for future Germans. The first inkling of a plan iifep and tb at the plan should also was given recently to the German! delude total disarmament of the people and the Ameri^^p people at German nation. It is expected, however, that the cabinet cbmmittee will soon reach an n$0P the same time when Cfeneral Eisen hower, in a proclamation to the Ger mans, said the Allied armies were coming “as conquerors but not as Social Items of More or Less f Interest From Flat Rock mesdame moore and hon. holsum ^^shall dverthrow the Nazi agreement on some plan which will then be discussed with the leaders of the other Allied nations. Since con-, gress will be recessing until after the pie is still the friendly ,and construe ^ „ :.ve influence that has built for us moore dinnered and suppei ed at the General Eisenhower said, “dis-! election, it probably won’t have much everywhere those reservoirs of good- allmte catTe in flat rock last Sunday. so j ve t!ie Nazj p ar t y an d abolish the ! to say about tentative plans which whiGi have symbolized these their cook went do detroit on a visit cruel> oppressive and discriminatory! are offered. • I Unitvd State.' a> a nation everyone and wont return back, they have i an respect and trust. 1 benn being fed at the boarding house. The Nattional War Fund offers op- but got wore out with thfe sameness 'portunity to the American people to of stuff there, for our own and for NOTICE OF COUNTY TREASURER 1944 BOOKS OPEN OCTOBER 15 give—not lend- our Allies. dr. hubbert green has received a The books of the County Treasurer show the following tax levies lor For our own. it’means: The USO, new set of operating tools from the the year of 1944. After December 31 one per cent will be added. After | a home away from home, for the men w.p.b. it is rumored'that he is going January 31, two per cent will be added. After February 28, three per cent! and women of our armed forces in deeper into things from now on. he will be added, and aftew March 31 seven per cent will be added and the: their off-duty hours; USO - Camp will soon begin givving penny-cillen books closed. <how« which "keeps them laughing; if he can get holt of anny of it, pro- All persons owning property in more than one school district are re-j United Seamen s Service which pro- vided his victims pay him ca^h in quested to call for receipts in each of the several school districts in which vide', recreation and serves the needs advance therefor like he has to do. the property is located. This is important, as additional cost and penalty of our seamen in ports all over the globe; War Prisoners aid for thou- may be attached. mis* lenme veeve smith wore her AU abl e- b odied male citizens between the ages of twenty-one (21) and! , , , u m S nl er VT v. e u i » a a sixty (60) years of age are liable to pay a poll tax of $1.00. sands who languish in prison camps big fall hat to church last Sunday and Dog 0wners! Y our dog tax is on the tax books. You are entitled to and whose lives are bounded by noboddy could see anything about a b a t e ment of dog tax by reason of rabies treatment. But it is necessary! barbed wire. . her except her hat while she played that you present iflfcculation certificate to the county treasurer at the 1 1 t our Allies it means: Care and the organ, nearly everboddy won- fime of tax payment or before. Unless presented then, tax cannot be abated.; rehabilitation for child war victims; dered all the way thru rock of ages Proper attention will be given those who wdsh to pay their taxes! food for those whose lands were and beulah land and the doxology through the mail by check, money, etc., giving names of township and stripped by the Axis hordes; medical who she was, and was supprised to- number of school district. ‘ aid for the undernourished and ill; see that it her when she turned The tax levy is as follows: shelter for many victims of ruin and around, pillage: clothing for those whose- nomes and belongings h a v e been the fine jersey yearling of bert swept away by war; assistance and skinner which was-killed by a big aid in starting life anew for thou- truck a few weeks ago brought 94$ sand- who have escaped from the in the maggistrate’s coart today, the terrors of Axis occupation of their truck had a good lawyer but the homelands. yearling was better than him, accord- These and millions of other acts of ing to the jury, it must of benn im- kindness demonstrate to our Allies ported stock from the way they our concern and so strengthen their talked about him for the prossy- j will to win. cution. he was in the road and go Our generosity in response to the was the truck, the truck blamed it appeal of the NatiopaJ War Fund has on him and they blamed him on the i made it possible to prove the Fund truck, an appeal mought be taken by is an effective united effort, serving the truck, the purposes of economy and conser vation of manpower, with elasticity enabling it to meet needs as they arise and fairly distribute the bur den' of our individual responsibili ty'. Our generosity in 1943 was great. The National War Fund in' 1944 a.'ks every American to share in this What Folks In Flat Rock Are Talking About national pollitics are warming up in flat rock, due to the decline in cotton and the high tax put on whis key. dewey is gaining some ground, hon. holsum moore has traged dew- „ , ey's ancestors as far back as kentucky common effort to prove that those and he is satisfied that he has some on tne home front stand ready to fine blue blood in him and w i U m ake a great pressident, such as Jioover and Waterloo— sacrifice for our own and for our Allies, and 1 thus strengthen the will TandemTe.^mV.'moore, "fell out*with to wm which eventually must mean roseyve it when he turned over half tc.a. \ iCtuiy pa\ing the way for 0 f tbe govverment to john 1. lewis, i sound oeace. m - 1 'n merl '■ 1 '■ 1 ' eI C 1 ' holsum .moore says that it was just " They’ not only GIVE but they 3 »>*« about dewey’s train being j wrecked out in Washington, he thinks! ‘ ( .. , . . , ... . it was premeditated and arranged to i Before tney went into the battle of . . , . , . . ® . Tarawa the Tenth Reg,mem of M.-j rmes sen, 5300 to the National War, he^ gamed ^everaT Joe E. Brown, back from 100.000 punin 6 J'™™ ' or , dewe y in f nd miles of travel with our troops on o^nd flat roek, but there are so few, evtrv front savs- “These men make folks en g a 8 ed in labor in thls com - frtends wherever they go, and they.™™** j! he gets al1 of them U wont share their own rations with -the | be 0ver 17 ’ . hungry and starved people they are the ^conversion plan got up by r; , ,n ! i ’ . ... • ’ ‘the new deal is satisfactory to the n.e >i£says. inhabitants here, the all-nite filling A lot of our soldiers overseas are' statl0n which has been selling fifty / Gen. Levy Spec. Sch Laurens— No. 1—Trinity Ridge ...16 No. 2—Prospect 16 No. 3—Barksdale-Narnie .. 16 1 No. 4—Bailey 16 5 No. 6—Oak Grove 16 3 No. 7—Watts Mills 16 12 No. 11—Laurens City 16 11 Youngs— No. 4—Bethany 16 5 No. 5—Grays 16 No. 6—Central f No. 7 —Youngs 16 4 16 4 No. 8—Warrior Creek 16 No. 10—Lanford 16 3 Dials— No. 3B—Fountain Inn 16 24 No. 1—Greenpond : 16 No. 2—Eden 16 i - No. 5—Gray Court-Owings 16 15 Sullivan— No. 1—Princeton 16 3 No. 2—Mt. Bethel 16 5 No. 3—Poplar Springs 16 6 No. 7—Brewerton *»?...16 4 No. 17—Hickory Tavern .. 16 11 GCO 17—(Spec. School to GC 'and Bonds to S-17) 16 15 Waterloo— No. 1—Mt. Gallagher 19 8 No. 2—Bethel Grove 16 3 No. 4—Center Point 16 5 No. 5—Oakville 16 4 * No. 6—Mt. Pleasant 16 2 No. 17—Mt. Olive 16 8 No. 14—Waterloo 16 3 Cross Hill— No. 13—Cross Hill : 16 9 Hunter-# No. 3—Rock Bridge 16 No. 4—Wadsworth , 16 No. 5—Clinton 16 14 No. 6—Goldville 16 6 No. K9—Kinards 16 8 No. R42—Reederville 16 13 No. 16—Mountville 16 8 1 Jacks— No. 1—No White School .. ...16 No. 2—Shady Grove 16 5 No. 3—Renno 16 1 No. 5— 16 4 Bonds P. I. Total 11 11 12 16 4 4 fun««,ning as ona-man relief agen- flft (50 cent ker0 25 cies. The sight of hungry Italian chil dren always get them. “At any agpny chow line near a village or close to farms you see a few solemn and patient children with tin buckets waiting to get what is left over. One soldier s^id to me: T j just can’t bear to eat when they stand and look at me like they do. Lots of; ! per cent water, and 25 fjer cent cheap gassoline) has rote the war labor board to let him re-convert back to gassoline at once, he is afeared that he will be sued' after the war for ruining everboddy’s cars ansoforth. No. 6—O’Dells ...16 No. 7—Garlington 16 No. 15—Hurricane 16 Scuffletown— , No. 1—Long Branch 16 No. 2—Musgrove .16 No. 3—Langston <....16 No. 4—Sandy Springs . + 16 No. 12—Ora 16 the scheme to sell surplus war ma- j GENERAL LJ1VY— iimesTve' fiiiW“my'"^es7'kit "and i teri ®!f wil1 work out like it did after 3 5 3 2 5 3 16 16 17 21 19 331 38 21 161 20 20 16 19 40 22 17 42 19 2i; 22! 20! 45 i I 49 24 19 21 ,20 18 24 19 41 16 16 34 26 24 29 24 16 25 17 20 19 211 19 21 16 18 21 19 just walked over and dumped it in world war number one: a few folks their buckets and gone back to my; bought it at 2 cents on the dollar and foxhole. I wasn’t hungry.” i »°*£ ^ for 99 cents on the dollar, and I “When the GIs share their own ’ pa ‘J off the govverment of the u. s.j field rations with the civilian victims with war bonds, you mought getj of war, can the people back home do!^ 63 ^ °* P°J b tics occasionally, but Ordinary County 7 Mills Bonds 7 Mills High School 1 Mill Hospital Bonds ^ Mill Hospital Fund .Vz Mill Total ;. .1 r.;- „...16 Mills — — r— r vnil a . . . . . . , Persons sending in lists of names to be taken off are requested to send less? We all ought to think of that yo ^ car v get adead 01 b |2 m ° nne y them early and give the township and school district of each as the Treas- when we’re asked to support the Na- g ^ 3 ^’ according to slim chance tional War Fund. The need for finances by the Funcf is greater than ever this' year. More young Americans are in the services. More are abroad. These men and women need more than food and a place to sleep to the defeated candy-date of July eleck- tion day fame. NOTICE TO CREDITORS All persons holding claims against the estate of Chaney William Stone, enable them to' deceased, will present them to the with.'tand the hardship, the loneli- undersigned, duly proven, on or be- ness, and the horrors of war. The things which they receive through the affiliated agencies repre sented in this national campaign are things which Kelp sustain 'them . . . things which let them know that the people of the country are “in. there with them.” Things which tell them that they do not fight alone.. The need for aid among our Allies fore the 5th day of November, 1945, or be forever barred. (MRS.) PEARLE HAYS STONE, , Executrix. Dated Sept. 29, 1945.—19-3p. We Do AU Kinds of „ PRINTING Except “Bad” CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. urer is very busy during the month of December. T. LANE MONROE, 19-2c County Treasurer. WANTED! SEWING MACHINE OPERATORS Apply— 1 HALLMARK MFC. CO. Davidson St, Clinton, S. C. Why Not Refinance For The LAST TIME? If you have an old type mortgage — that has to be renewed every few years — that costs plenty in fees, appraisals and what not! . . . . . . Refinance that old loan with Citizens Federal. Here you get a mortgage that never has to be renewed. A loan plan with small monthly payments which pay both interest and principal and which will surely pay off the debt. THE CITIZENS WAY IS THE SURE WAY TO A DEBT-FREE HOME! MAY WE HELP YOU? ASK ABOUT OUR PLAN. Each Account Insured Up To $5,( ☆ ederal Savings jAND LOAN ASSOCIATION • Telephone No. 6 A Clinton Institution Serving Clinton People Since 1909 Greenwood FAIR! Opens Mon., Oct. 23 Selden The Man ... will appear twice daily at the Greenwood County Fair for a week beginning Monday, Oc tober 23, in a free act. The Stratosphere Man is the^only one in the world that presents a giant sway across the sky in a 300-ft. slide of death! j Hi ffi' * * You Are Invited! The Big Cetlin & Wilson Shows The Big Military Display Livestock, Poultry, Flowers, Etc.