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Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE t Thursday, June 12,1947 (Elintnn €tfwmirlp Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS. Editor and Publisher HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant Published Every Thursday By * THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.25 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 times 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. / MEMBER: . SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION Exclusive National Advertising Representative l GREATER WEEKLIES New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia busted, she is hoping for the best, but suffering terrible. • ^ mrs. slim, chance .lost a fti^cow, fresh in, a few days ago when she) tried to jump a fence and broke herj nake. her milk and butter will be badly missed andsoforth. she is in the market for a new cow, rite or| foam her direct if you have one for sail or rent. : dr. hubbert green is taking a post gradurate coarse in new york. he’ is learning how to operate on gart-. ers and pedple’s nakes. sevveral of his patience have them and he hopes! to.make enough monney out of the; first two he removes to pay his new york expenses, he' will buy some opperating tools while up there. How To Beat The High Cost of Living 1— Buy everything you can get on 1 credit. j 2— If you can’t buy on credit, go without. 3— If you can’t go without, go to the poorhouse. 4— If they won’t take you at the - j • i j poorhouse, hit some body over the Put Freedom First OOO.OOO are dr.nkmg, H is estimated jhead an(J , 0 Jai , | The basic strength of this country ^ 5-1 f the jail is full, try something! ;:c< in its philosophy of life and gov-! er ’ ’ ' else that won’t cost anything, eminent—not in its natural resources Liquor advertising has become au- g—If you get hungry and your and its industries and its wealth, dacious. In bygone years the trade' cupboard j s bare, go a-visiting. These last, as vital as they are. are! wou,fl not dare picture the American! 7 _ If there’s no one tp visit, try but the consequence of the first, i a ^ quor §^ ass in her han d-1 borrowing some money. They are the natural development o£|T 0 d a y this has becqme commonplace. ; g—If you can’t borrow any money, a svstem which places maximum j M° re § irls are drinking. For the 1 w jthout security, get on the Welfare, freedom for the individual above all bo y s . lic j uor is associated in adver- 1 9_ If they won’t accept you on' other considerations. ^ Rising with men of distinction. 'Welfare because you are too young,! Othei nations have great resources The “pleasure” of drink is played why, just wait. e iter in some particulars, than U P b y hquor advertising. Such ad- 10—If you are single, and busted ( c own' Russ a is a case in point. 1 ver ^ s ‘ n S Is seductive, deceptive, and get married and live off of love.; Bu* other nations have not been idle, i dishonest. It always takes care to Two can live as cheap as one—on/ ct- to grandiose “five-year plans”! omit the other side of the picture, love, so they say. d <:mila schemes, to "put *them'to ' tbe broken homes,rheartaches, crime 11—If you fail, in every : u<e :or the benefit of the ueoole. ! an d ruin that result. ' j along the lines stated above, piling of 3,200 tons of sand for re treatment. Eight projects of the highway de partment are now in progress in the county. One is the grading and bitu minous surfacing of 6.7 miles from Gray Court on route 101 towards Princeton to . the intersection with the county road near the Greenville county line. The second is the con struction of a 120-foot reinforced concrete bridge over North Rabun creek on route 101 and also a 150- foot reinforced concrete bridge over South Rabun creek. The third project is the grading and bituminous surfacing of 6.9 mile? from route 72 in Clinton on route 308 to route 30. The fourth and fifth are road work on route 562 and bituminous surfacing of 1.4 miles of route 396 from route 30 to from a point 0.8 mile east tsfe UB 76 route 7,2 in Mountville, and 5.8 miles Of. route 560 from the intersection with route 56 approximately ten miles south of Clinton to the inter section with US 76 in Kinards. to Hurricane church and from route 72 to Duncan Creek church on road 57. The sixth, the last project in Lau rens county alone, is the re-flooring ' on road 51 of the present bridge over Indian creek. A project in Laurens and Spartan burg counties is the construction on| route 30 of a 260-foot reinforced con crete bridge over Warrior Creek and a 410-foot reinforced concrete and [I steel bridge over Enoree river be- f tween Laurens and Cross Anchor. The Anal project, in Laurens and | Newberry counties, is the grading MAJESTIC RADIO Mighty Monarch of the Air COPELAND'S Hardware Supply Co. Phone 15 CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1947 mr-governmt nt, 11—If you fail, in every effort the benefit of the people, j an< ^ ruin that result. which robs the! Government would reduce con-., 12 Why, try getting a job and go- md-vidual of his /freedom, likewise' sumption if such advertising filled * n § t° wor ^- Lots of folks will have :.bs him of his ingenuity and his with falsehoods, was banned. Canada i0 So to work before long. Its later ambition. The individual is simply did this during the war when it ban-;^ ban y° u fhmk. tine tool of the state. He is denied jned liquor advertising. In this coun- rrmeh and often most of the fruits of try we encouraged it and drinking They Dry-Cleaned Us his labors. Results are gained by in training camps during the war i e ver y p ubbc servant (?) mass action, by driving and terror- The Capper bill, which will be fought ha f,^ a< * k er ,f3l ary r aise( L ,^11 icing the people. But the individual, with millions, would put an end t 0 ! P u ' blic iristlt utions hafve been taken save the man in the saddle, never liquor advertising in the United car , e * iere *? t " is > help-yourself- oenefits. i States. It would help improve de-’ The egis ators themselves This country grew great under the plorable conditions growing ^-worse have been givea What they asked j Constitutional idea of a government; It would help _c: limited powers — a government which maintained the army and navy, (he courts and other essential services, and acted as an arbiter in tne economic, affairs of the country but neveF etS 1 aijcompeti^or or par- the slaughter on our highways—a large percentage of which is caused by drinking and drunken drivers. for. streaming tlCi Ire m this fundamental principle dur- Speak for Clark’s Hill.” His mission mg the past fifteen years. Govern- was to testify before a congressional ment now has its hands in business committee in favor of dishing out of all sorts. We will have to get back millions in federal funds for con- to the point where we tsarted before struction of the proposed Clark’s Hill our economic system is placed on a hydroelectric project on the Savan- sound, normal basis. This is the kind, na fi river, which is unnecessary. This and the only kind, of government i s the same gigantic expenditure Ed- under which the rights and freedom g ar Brown of Barnwell has been of the people can be preserved, and seeking, which, if built at taxpayers’ About 20 years ago, I headlines in our newspapers raved: j over the fact that our state had ap- ’ A - . .. , — cl ' propriated for all purposes the huge ( socialized rower scheme sum of $1,000,000.00, (one minion A newspaper headline yesterday ’ dollars). This year’s appropriation pant. We have gotten far away rea d t ‘Thurmond Flies to Capital to! is in excess of $98,000,000.00, (nin there is danger that it will be under mined here unless we have a general house-cleaning in- Washington. expense, may be expected to rival the monter kilowat-political Santee Cooper. D . . A j i.* • Clark’s Hill is to be built it DOIl Liquor Advertising should be by private companies Senator Capper of Kansas has arj through free enterprise rather than anti-liquor advertising bill In con- government. Governor Thurmond is gress that should pass. Hearings on for perpetual spending, as well as the bill in Washington reveal an the state legislature and our con- ety-eight million dollars.) It would appear that money grows on trees, and that our state is heav ily timbered with money trees. As necessary as whiskey is, the state is going to tax .it out of our reach and giv^ us prohibition. Many other things are likewise taxed to death. But here we go blindfolded and maniacal in our new race toward goodness only knows where. SIX-INCH SERMON By REV. ROBERT B. HARPER JUDAH’S LAST DAYS Lesson (for June 15: Jeremiah 36: aroused public sentiment to demand, gressmen and senators. He is wrong ,2-3, 28-31; II Kings 24:1-4. the aid of constitutional government in such agitation, we think. I Memory Selection: Proverbs 10:27. to curb arrogant liquor lawlessness Government has no business in the and extravagant sales solicitation, power business, or any other busi- The opponents to liquor advertising ness in competition to private enter- are united on three points: (1) that p r i se There is a vast difference be lt demoralizing social morale and ^een private power development promoting delinquency and dissipa-; an( i socialized power development, tion; (2) that it is being intensified •pfi e second, like Santee-Cooper, as by the trade not only with complete an example, robs state and local indifference to public sentiment, but governments of great tax resources in direct defiance of all State proteo _«veh as it robs the nation of the live legislation against the liquor fruits of individual initiative which trarijc, thereby violating the spirit; has made it great. It places a heavy, and intent of the little-advertised 1 di r e C t, and unnecessary burden on second clause of the twenty-first ( every taxpayer. Private develop- amendment; and (3) that the liquorjment, as now sought in the Clark’s trade is bo a stii>g of inflated profits; Hill case, in contrast, creates great and sinister editorial influence due; new taxable assets as it grows, and to their expanding public relations | bears a large part of the cost of all program. Advertising pays, whatever the commodity. The liquor manufactur- ars know this and are spending mil lions annually. The rise in consump- government. Utilities in every section of the country will meet the present and future needs of their areas if they are freed, as they should be, of the tion between 1940 and 1945 was due specter of unfair destructive, subsi- to an increase of 35 per cent in the dized, tax-free competition. Social- number of consumers. Federal fig- ism is an expensive and useless lux- ures show that per capita consump- 1 ury—even as it is the most danger- tion of alcoholic beverages increased! ous of precedents for undermining; from 14 gallons in 1940 to 20.07 gal-| our free form of government. Ions in 1946, a slightly more than.50 Where is the business- man in per cent increase during the last six South Carolina who would purchase years. Meanwhile the trade expend- ! stock, if offered, in Mr. Jefferies’ ed more than $500,000,000 f&r alco- Santee-Cooper? hoik beverage advertising tiuring Would you, Mr. Business Man, buy thi$ period. | stock in proposed Clark’s Hill, of Many newspapers, magazines, and: wb * cb Edgar Brown, Governor Thur- in the case of beer—the radio—carry mon d, and Senator Maybank appear high-pressure false advertising about as advocates? The answer is a alcoholic beverages. The Chronicle J no - accepts no such advertising, beer or liquor, because we refuse to line up with the liquor interests to help in crease their sales. And we have too much respect for the hundreds of homes we enter to All our columns with such advertising to appeal to the youth in these homes, boys and girls, to start drinking in the false doctrine that it will make them smart and successful. Certainly everyone on the anti side realizes there is. an urgent need to check the increase pf alcoholism in this coqplry. Th^'Capper bill to stop the advertising and promotion of the use of alcohqlic beverages would prove a strung weapon in the fight. The bill provides a legal step. The use of such beverages last year set an all-time record. Some 60,- Jeremiah, native of Anathoth, a suburb of Jerusalem, through the reigns of kings tried to arrest the downward course of Judah. When his prophecy, denouncing the people for the sins of the time, was read before Jehoiakim, the king who misruled Judah, the monarch !cut ofif and burned a portion as it was read until the whole roll was consumed. Did the foolish king imagine that in burning the roll he could halt the doom prophesied? As well might one think to stay the dawn by strangling the clock. Jehoiakim did notnevfcn prevent the writing of a second roll in which Jeremiah predicted the king’s death and the nation’s ruin. This prophecy was literally fulfilled. Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, made Jehoiakim a vassal. But after three years the wretched king re belled. Bands of Chaldeans, Syri ans, Moabites, and Ammonites were sent against Judah. Some of the Jews were taken captive, as all were destined to be in time. Jehoiakim soon died. As with a nation, so will it be with an individual. One man cannot sin and long “get by.” Every man can control his destiny if he starts in time. But let him once begin a wrong course and it will be difficult for him to stop it. Like the widen ing ripples started when a boy throws a rock into a pond, an even’ course will go on and on. , Choose God now and shape your destiny for good. NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE Social Dote From Flat Bock miss jennie veeve smith spent last week end with her uncle and aunt at the county seat and enjoyed the outing a right smart, she taken in two movies and allso did some shop- pink at the 5 and IQ. mrs. holsum moore’s fine imported poodle dog is sick at this time and has benn sent to a dog hos-pittle. his remains were run over by a strip- down ford a few days ago and it is feared that his spinel collum is Eight Road Projects Under Construction In Laurens County Columbia, June 11.—Special to The The Chronicle). — Two maintenance projects in Laurens county were completed last month by the state highway department, in addition to the routine maintenance work, ac cording to J. S. Williamson, chief highway commissioner. The projects were the placing of 298 feet of 15-inch, 52 feet of 18- inch, 20 feet of 24-inch, and 100 feet of 30-inch pipe on routes 25, 72, 221, 225, 444, and roads 40, 48, 52, 53, 54, and 56, and the hauling and stock ; \ Belt’s... YOUR COMPLETE SHOPPING CENTER JUNE VALUE PARADE! . . I OUR LOWER PRICE POUCY SAVES YOU SOLLARS WHAT A VALUE! CHILDREN’S DRESSES SOc Each We are closing out a group of Children’s Cool Cotton Dress- f es. Sizes 1 to 3. (Basement). CHENILLE SPREADS $3.98 - cy ?• Just received another shipment of those lovely Chenille Spreads at a low, low price. Double bed sizes. All wanted colors. (Basement). * SPECIAL PURCHASE! LINOLEUM RUGS $2.99 6x9 size in bedroom or kitchen patterns. FATHER’S DAY - Sunday, June 15 Remember Dad with a gift from our large stock of ’Men's Wear. 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