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) --/I Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON. S. C. Thursday, October 26, 1944 ah? (Clinton (ChrnnirU Fstablished 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 at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers— the publisher will at all tunos, afipreciatfi wise suggestions and kindly advice. Th<* Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when rney 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. stuffy life of a country 1 a w y e r; specs on. bert should have the dub-1 tie sympathy now and then for the | half in tWo in an effort to get at the palled on him and he welcomed theibie cross as soon as congress com- readers by pot requiring so many'items printed. Yankee newspapers opportunity to get out of it and into mences to put them out. the armed forces. | — When the war is ended, that young hon. holsum moore says it takes ; page without hunting and grumbling. 1 page about everything that’s in the man, having escaped the dull routine boys like bert skinner, jr., to win| y ; paper, and by the time you turn back he never enjoyed, is not going back wars, he ain’t afeared of danger and to that law office and settle down newer was. nothing cpuld hold him for life. back when pearT harhor was bumped, , Take the yo info turn overs.” It’s nice to pick up, ] frequently do such things, too. They say the Digest, and read page after have a few catch words on the front |1 1 There’s another thing that gripes an d forth, the paper is not fit for a , some °* us ’ namely: we frequently 1 waste P a P er drive. oung army officer who not even h£ wife and 2 childrens! | had gone info school work because he is 6 foot 2 and every inch of himi^i^ you t ^ e m, that have the he thought it would be a most satis- spells fight, he whipped 5 fellers from ^ f , ncu ' t0 lo °^ np a factory life to teach young people the cedar lane enduring 1941 with hisl|L„ Ho _ scl ^ s ® rs ur ' c ^° the reading wonderful things he had found in bear fists while they had brass nucks, ll 11 or mac and ieai the page.s education. Alas, he was disillusioned rocks and 2 baseball bats, more pow- after a few years. He found that the er to him! ( LINTON. S. €.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1944 GUEST EDITORIALS By Roe Fulkerson. Editorial Writer, The Kiwanis International j ijtyfnt w yores trulie, holsum moore, rfd, corry spondent. Why and How Come get powerful vexed while read- certain magazines. I become We Do All Kinds of PRINTING Except “Bad” CHRONICLE PUBUSHING CO. arc le>< hurt by i>th( r big patten A\jr . ndustrie.- can ly tv ■nvert^d »'to t! tm milhofis of th thr v ca:-->wept wo Wo: h i pi w e:’ fir. o \v. 11 ^: m.ikt our tw. ;ni;‘ rtiii'i* -!i thu v ivir.i..!'. :ov \ tin w.:\ ■ \ (**hr: na* US ; M v.v a!tii a 11 W ■ wpac.’y \\. iu ua’i v >mpa or m P: ’ *■:. V ” 1 Wf. A .vfifi be even < }<^c i : the u’ar 11 f T (. . because ot t. IrS 1! i chemistry i fuctunng methods w ii r A t 'I K. Th at .the>e wfi! iind the United i.nd iniluence ;n \v a i \voi;ld cannot thesi conditions ^ rid. This economic ugh manufacturing a nations the most corid. and thus we twenty years after can compare with mimpaired produc- other nation for a re with us in skill if consumer goods. better off at the than we were be ne many discover- md in new manu- ; developed in our bring to Canada States new power iiaping the post- be doubted. That ill *bnng to us a new prosperity which will inevitably accompany our new production from our new methods is equally sure. Millions of men now in uniform will be absorbed by industry, and boys were much more interested in football than in calculus, and the girls more interested in jitterbugging than in Latin. vNot only was this true, but he woke up to the fact that the world I has little interest in its schools. De- mg spite the fact that* the teacher has deeply " interested in a stpry and charge of guiding the life'of the child r each the bottom or middle or some during the all-important formative' oth er part of the page, where it says period of its existence, our school “Continued on page 64.” Well, I hunt teachers are the poorest paid edu-, through about ’steen pages that are cated people in the land, and certain- n °t numbered; go from one “ad” to ly the least appreciated. ’ j another, and finally find the balance ’ THe school teacher, like the law- the story. By then I have forgot than any all the little luxuries of merchandise yer, welcomed the chance to get what the conection was, and have to Bworld. Our and service. He must be disappointed away, from his poorly paid, under- turn back to where I choked down, j d will be quick- j n many things to which he had valued grind and join the armed And then I lose the place again. manufacture of j grown so accustomed that he looked forces. When he gets home, he will - , ' needed by all ( upon them as rights instead of privi- take a job digging ditches before he In the process of trying to read leges. • will go back to the school house. and hunt the various pages where the| But he can be made happy or can What to do about it? This great stuff is printed, I generally drop the 1 Magazine here they! LOOKING AHEAD i customers to the p Canada and| the United States are were badly spoiled, the blessed lands. Commercially we Today the # consumer goes without CONTRACTING GOODYEAR TIRES BUILDING MATERIAL t P & G — PITTSBURGH PAINTS JOHN DEERE TRACTORS AND IMPLEMENTS THAT WORK t J. R. CRAWFORD PHONE 10 CLINTON, S. C. the war in the be offended by these failures on the part of the retailer — depending on how he is refusccU—The retailer who realizes that now is the time to make or break his. postwar business will see to it that the* customer is made to understand that he is.doing the best Tie can, that he is anxious to serve and that he is more sorry he cannot group of misplaced, dissatisfied men ‘magazine from 3 to 11 times. It’s got dist whose vocatiohs were disappointing to the place where it’s not much; or badly selected, are going to use pleasure ,to try to learn anything. tRT? revolutionary upset in their lives But worse than stories and so forth i to place themselves in more congen- is the quiz junk. You never find the ial occupations. ' answers to a quiz on the same page Men whose lives before the war where the quiz is. We’d like to know were spent in our small towns are what good it does to quiz going to want the excitement of the zes on page 14 and the^nswees on 108. sypply his customers’ needs than the - reat cities - from Jhe big cities page- customer is that-he cannot obtain have developed a longing for the soil. ! It is going to take a world of pa-1 There are a few magazines and pe- re _ jtience and sympathy to get them all riodicals that print what they have «*■ the .goods. This man will be pleasantly settled down h i , mqmbered in the postwar period. The businses man who allows his em- ployers to ask customers if they don’t know there is a war going on, who RIICIMFCC allows them to brush the customer PIvDV/L/I J DUjIPILJJ aside, is going-to be remembered un- k i pleasantly long after the war is over.; oy GEE McGEE The custcmer is not going to come back to that establishment again if j i to say on pages as they come to ; them. “There ought to be h law” r#- quiring'the magazines to show a lit he can help it. , Thousands of physicians, dentists, Another Reason Why We Are Winning optometrists, lawyers and other pro-j .mr. bert skinner had a letter from fur them and for both our nations fessional men have gone into the his boy who is fighting in jappan and there will be a decade of prosperity armed service, which means that an I >f he was twins, all the rest of the which will increase our home demand immense additional amount of work arm y could come home, bert said for the products of farm, factory and has been thrown on the shoulders ofisammie took after 25 jappernees and laboratory. * ; the professional men who remain at (slabbed 3 of them to death, then he Out of all evil must come some home Here again is a golden oppor- knocked 4 of them down so hard good. Economic prosperity will never tunity to retain in postwar days the they newer moved again, after that,i compen.'-ate for the glorious young patronage of these clients and pa- livcs lost and the strong young men tients — if the professional man has inu.neu m this war. but it is some- been careful in his manner of hand- kira and jumped into the oceaft and thing to salvage from all the blood, ling the people who are dependent. drowned, sweat and tears. on him, | ^ bert, jr., was always a fighter of much note, when he played secont he shot 5 of them with his carbeen. | the other 12 of them committed hira- 1 ' BUREAUCRACY Any client or patient can be made No EngUsh.-*peaking man doubts to feel that the professional man is mudeats he al I for a moment that we will win this doing all in his power to serve him ( ! war. It may be sooner than we think, under the circumstances. He can be “f/.^'P; , or it may be longer than we fear made to feel that ttfs with real P‘"S ,hc bmP'm and the oaptmg of i! gret that he is not given immediate ' he °' her <aam than he did Retching, a war we professional attention. But brusque, hlgh flles and scorchers, he is now' If ASPIRIN UPSETS f Salicon Tablets HOTH/HC SAFER. , NO bicarbonate OF SODA needed- Dr. Felder Smith I Dr. Duncan S. Felder 8 OPTOMETRISTS *. Specialists In Eye Examinations Office Hours: Dr. Smith, Daily, 4:15 to 6 Dr. Felder, Daily, 9 to 6 Phone 29 for Appointment CLINTON, S. C. I! y B 1' but win it we will. Because of the kind of a war we professional attention. But . , . „ are fighting, we have had to change, impatient, careless treatment of these' *. y hP^n" fPtTh l democracy to something like- dicta- wartime patrons will be remembered jappernees trooWes ^ his torship. This is a war necessity we in the days after the war when the of J a PPernees trophies for his WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUYAHOME FOR YOUR FAMILY IT — or — RE-FINANCE AN EXISTING MORTGAGE ON MORE FAVORABLE TERMS! We can help you. Come in and talk over your plans and needs with one of our officers. Full details cheerfully rendered. No obligation. CONSULT US REGULARLY FOR YOUR WAR BOND PURCHASES IN ANY QUANTITY , , I ' Each Account Insured Up To $5,000 AND LOAN ASSOCIATION Telephone No. 6 A Clinton Institution Serving Clinton People Since 1909 _ , folks recognize. We have to fight the devil field is crowded with professional. ‘ , rot only with fire, but tight him with men eager to please. j , says ^ com p an y w jn his^ particular kind of fire. ! When the war ends, the market is'soon land in chinna, and if they do I Big devils spawn little devils. The going to be flooded with consumer they win martch right int o asio and' big devil ot dictatorship breeds bu- goods. Shelves will be loaded and p 0ss jbiy yengyang, now hell by the reaucrats in countless numbers. They retailers will strive with advertise- 1 japs, he says the japs can run faster fasten them.-elves onto the body poli- ments’and salesmanship to dispose of going than they can coming, and as tic l.ke leeches draining white the these goods. But if customers are be- t0 their bravery^-they newer show red blood of democracy. ing slighted and brushed off now, all much of same till they get hemmed' I he problem that laces us all after the advertising and salesmanship in up- they have trubble keeping their this war is ended is to rescue our the world will not bring them back. I democracy 1: jm the hands of the With the end of the war, labor will bureaucrats. be available again, and good service; a thought of criticizing the can be rendered by all of_us. But! magnificent work of the DepartfneVit this .service will not help the busi- °f Agriculture u the United States, ness man who is building up custom- it grew out ot a committee of three er ill-will now. aprx nted .oy Congress to distribute These are the days of opportunity tr(l '^ed' o.i good quality to the —the days to prove to our custom- fa; me:v .0 file country. Its rapid ers, our clients and our patients that grow in info one of the biggest de- we are doing the very best we can puriment.' ot our government is a for them under the circumstances. splendid example of what happens These are the days to build up our POSTWAR PLANNING The deeper postwar planning in vestigators go into the matteY, the greater the number of complications they discover. By far the largest problem they have to solve is thej, rehabilitation of our returned veter ans. Up-to now their efforts have been' along the line of seeing to jt that every returned soldier has his pre- ; war job still open for him. They have wasting good white 1 pl ? nned ' with ern P l °y ers to le * every moles The hip'.inh veteran return to his job, no matter whett a small body gets grafted onto postwar business. These are the days! the government when men can make or break them- Ai.t>, few of them are as benefi-; selves for the happy days when the 1 cud as the Department of Agricul- world returns to normalcy once more. ture, if we can forget the plowing under of cotton, the assassination of little pigs and other Agricultural mistakes. In. a tew years, a small bureau becomes such a pressure group that it perpetuates itself. In defiahee of democratic princi ples, it soon begins to establish regu lation of industry or agriculture, and enforces these regulations as though they were actual laws, until they be come laws m reality although not even legal. There is no use paper adding examples. The big'.job' . , « of the man who goes to the polls and . ls h ° ldin S lt - votes after' this war is over is to 1 Thls effort - has Wlthin !t the com - reseue the government from govern- j P hcatl0n of thousands of women who men! bureaus and put it back into : have been do,hg men ’ s work during the hands'of the people. The very thls war and aren,t ^terested in re essence of democracy is Vox populi i^ urn ‘ n 8 to the humdrum routine of vox Dei—the voice of the people is housework - They like riveting, weld- 1 the voice of God ing - or what do the y ! Let us as community leaders, re- A , ? ew dlfflcult y « presented by; gardless of partisan politics, and re- the thousands of men who knew I gardless of Aunt Sara who works in were square P egs in round holes U this Bureau, and Uncle Clem who before th ^ war > and have no desire, works in that Bureau, Watch care-! to re ^ urn j 0 ^ 8 unsuited to their fully this attempt on the'part of of-' J astes or talents - There is no need fice-holders to snuggle down on gov-i, an employer to hold, open a job ernment payrolls and so entrench r or a s °i d i er w fi° does not want it. themselves that they become perma-! ° f C0 V rse the g rass always looks nent burdens on the tax payers with- 1 keener in some other field, and stock oat giving value, received. 13 always inclined to jump the fence. Many of these men would do no bet- OPPORTUMTY ter, or be any happier in the new Never in the history of business field they want to jump into, but they and the professions on this continent want a chance to find out for them- has there been such a golden oppor- selves. tunity for bright men to build for Take the case of the naval officer the future. Out of all this war evil whose father was a lawyer with a will corpe great good for the intelli-j good practice, • who, finding himself Do You Suffer From Rheumatism And Muscular Aches? Few human ailments can be as painful as Arthritis and Rheumatism, but users of D. M. C. COMPOUND No. 4»—this amazing new medicine — have gotten quick relief—often within a week’s time —and praise it very highly. Get a two- weeks’ supply and follow directions, if you are not satisfied with results ob tained your money will be cheerfully refunded. D. M. C. COMPOUND No. 49 U sold by leading druggists. Price—$3.U0. 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