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J * r |f V V ' A ' i 7 > ■ .3. ■ . - • , ; > a : Page Four ../ /■ THE CLINTON CHRONICLE '■■ / J Thursday, August 28, 1947 K,V' ^ • I. , 3lif (Clinton (Eljmntrlf 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 iHre 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 GREATER WEEKLIES New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia j if he ever saw an envelope from the j employment agency in the mail. art dxawed rocking-chair monney for 16 weeks, but it is a thing of the i past now. he does not believe in ! the employment agency, he says a i of the two more recent years: 338 pounds in 1944 and only 260 pounds | in 1943. There were 20,800 bales pro- * duced in the county in 1943, while 23,900 were produced in 1944. Acre age in cultivation, however, in 1943 and 1944 by-passe^ the two more ! man ought to be allowed to seek a previous years. In 1943, 38,400 acres 'job for hisself if he wants one. his we re in cultivation, and in 1944 wife is sick and tired of him lying there were 38,900. , around the house, he wont even I —— J — > ! cut stove wood for her. HOUSE 1 | Belt Line Road ; if the employment agency finds, To Serve Clinton a job for him, dr. hubbert green says ♦ it had better break the news gently I Columbia, Aug. 27. — (Special to to him or he mought have a hart;The Chronicle).—The state highway attack, if there is anything in this commission at its monthly meeting world that art does not want it is a held in Columbia last week author- job. he complains some of a weak ized the addition of a belt line road t back, but unless loafing causes backs; in Laurens county to the state high-1 to get weak, his complaint is a mys-! way system. The belt line road is tery ansoforth. I approximately .8 of a mile long, and • j is in the city of Clinton, consisting I Was a Baby-Sitter, Walker and j of East Maple street from So^ith Runner j Broad street (route 72) to South Hol- It fell my lot to mind the baby a j land street and South Holland street few hours the other day. He is a j from East Maple street to East Caro- sweet, energetic little thing, and is a;lina avenue (U. S. route 76). i mighty power considering his age. l| The commission also authorized the ; first put him on his sand pile. Be- j revision of a construction program to »* .• A I oan hniH nowpr * ore 1 could stop him, he had eaten include route 308 in Laurens county WHot We Owe l g P /. f„ii OWTr .~ n ’f or a Drotracted :two han dsful of sand. I scraped his; from U. S. route 221 near Ora to The U. S. treasury report as of ov , ., h t Hriftins tn 'mouth out the best I could with a; route 30; a length of 2.4 miles at an August .8 shows a total national debt wh.", has rag and teaspoon. estimated cos. of *37.000. uf $259,889,110,062.51 (if you can- H CONDUIT INSTALLATIONS SHOP AND FACTORY MAINTENANCE ALL KINDS OF ELECTRICAL REPAIRS ESTIMATES GLADLY GIVEN ON ANY JOB . iA CLINTON. S. C.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 28. 1947 Xj /, Wallace Electric Co. LAURENS, S. C. Phone 3571 Collect / .■ k » , , . . , . happened in Russia and Germany, read such figures). Maybe it is because time builds up And yet President Truman, and ■ ever increasing resistance to certain t in South Carolina senators and con-1 pQjjpjgg party in power and NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS The annual meeting of Stockhold- While I was reading a few lines in The newspaper, he pulled two! , , dresser drawers dut and they landedjtf 5 the Clinton Bonded Warehouse! on his head. He then ambled off into ^°, n ? p ^ ny Clinton, S. C., will be gressmen vote against tax reduction., compels that party t(J r e Sort finally,^* V ^ t'i^e'm! held Au « ust 30 . 1947, at 4 o’clock,! * ' to force in order to maintain those j ^ ” P.M.,_ in the office of Commercial' Peak Employment Still policies Maybe it is simply an UI ^' | refdgerator^motor.^While I was get- There are more people employed 1 a t era e rai y o e uman rac • j ^ n g a ^rink of f cold water, he yanked Depository, to elect directors for en- j suing year, and to transact such bus- • •oday than ever in the history of the J During the administration of Presi-1 ^g tablecloth off the table and bust-i ^ ness as ma y come before the meet- country and at the highest wages.! dent Roosevelt the trend toward ec j a t) 0U t $7 worth of chinaware. Peak employment is now over 60 state control became stronger and | <•> million where it has itood several'stronger as time went on. The war; 1 thought I could do better with months. This indicates no sign of augmented this condition and his sue-j him out in the yard. He had to have weakness yet. and only a complete cessor, President Truman, inherited i the water turned on and before I mg. 4-2c Joe L. Davidson, President. H. D. Henry, Sec.-Treas. collapse of the purrent high export i an incipient totalitarianism. But the knew it, he and I both wer^ soak- levels could redube present all-high 1 war has been over two years. J ed with the hose. He managed to push employment. And coupled with this. Perhaps President Truman intends! a large flower pot off the piazza be- s < or heavy- domestic demand at I to decrease to national requirements fore I could stop him. He got his tin- nome. , v ! the enlarged bureaucracy through ger caught in the mower while I Any able-bodied man of woman the^continuance of which we might j looked the other way about a second, who wants to work ckn find employ-.be reduced to a condition of state 1 ' " ment. There is no such thing as un- 1 control. But he has not satisfied the! I was examining a pecan tree while employment. And so long as there is public demand Tor bureaucratic win-j I though he was lookirig: Somehow ample work a business slump will be nowing and easing of government or other, he had managed to get into postponed indefinitely. ; controls, and his seeming hesitancy, -w- , or unwillingness to do so—has done 2 AfVT nnfl | M nothing to allay the consciousness of ,400,000 In College Iear w s hich ha ; stead „ becn Colleges and universities all over ing in the minds of those whQ under _ FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 22nd day of September, 1947, we will render a final account of our acts and doings as Administrators of the estate of Mary Maude Pearson in the office of' the Judge of Probate of Laurens I County, at 10 o’clock a.m., and on! the same day will apply for a final I discharge from our trust as Admin- j istraTors. Any person indebted to said dstale the garbage can. It took me 50 min utes to bathe and re-di'ess him. He . ^ . wasn't still a minute and neither 15 not,fle<i an ‘ l required to make pay. i was I. I perspired bombs of sweat,! ment on „ or betore , thal date; and al M and from now on, I'm going to dig t ;? vm8 cla ”! s a « a,nst said the land will be re-opening during s , and and appreciale llbert ditches 'P u " fodder ' or trim the hed8e Uo!e sa M ^^“^01, Zr hi me next few days. More than 2,400,- , - 0 r do anything else in the world ex-1 0re Said . ate > proven, or be 000 students — about 63 per rent of The Question ,s. do we prefer to;” “'^^Iforev® barred. 'them veterans—will start classes to a ' e oreaucrats in ashington ^ on -; w j 1 ji e •• j never knew so much “go” n np , v . itinue ad .infinitum to. tell us how, Vr. a " ever Kn f w 50 rnucn . ga wi^ira nniouix ' “ y . ! much we can eaffi and’how miibh we;^ e grown int0 a Person in 10 August 22, 1947.—18-4cw. We are witnessing one of the great-, can charge Qr for everythipg we I months. «st periods of change in the history make or use? T. Y. HARRIS, EMMA HARRIS, and WILLIE BRYSON PERRY. I can charge or paj W£ say no. We think! <*t American education. The G. L bill^ best that we go through a spell of County Cotton CrOD has made it possible for millions o| temporar y high price d discomfort; p ro( l uces 353 p oun d s veterans to attend college with most' which will end unexpectedly some! !, r0a !: i CeS r0UnaS of their expenses paid. Officials say morning _ in order tQ regain Qur free J p er Planted Acre that about 6,000,000 veterans, almost, dom of action It is this that ha hall 01 ah \eter^ns, have applied for nrigde our country great. education under the G. I. bill. | ■ " m VVith all the moneyjoeing spent for| education we ought to have some, educated people in this country in; ^i PENCIL SHARPENERS — A few at last. Phone 74. Chronicle Pub. 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Such an enrollment means that :he new year's work will .begin under a most auspicious outlook. Chilton welcomes the return each September of the college student body. The presence of these more than 400 young men coming from a number of states gives the town a renewed flavor. The college is an in valuable asset of this community and ha< been ,s:nce it was founded, en- riching as'it does, the moral, cultural, social and business life of the city. Tne Chronicle is happy to know that the prospects are bright for a splen did opening. All Clintonians should leel the same way. Leaving the Farm Si uth Carolina! farm population has declined’ steadily since 1920, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics said yesterday. The bureau said NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE Columbia, Aug. 27. — (Special to The Chronicle).—In Laurens county during 1946 there were 353 pounds of lint cotton produced p>er planted . acre: 32,300 acres were in cultivation 1 and 23,800 ^OO-pound bales were pro duced, according to a report released by Frank O. Black, statistician with , g the United State departmenf'of agri- I? seeker-terry of the treassure Washington, d. deer sir: I culture. c. what are yore plans after the unit- ( 24,800, than in 19)46. The n The ’report also compared thfe^j three previous years. In 1945, more' jjjp 500-pound bales, were _ produced,; !•$ nqmber of ft ed states has given away and leant! acres in cultivation wfes slightly less,! {•: all of its monney and asset^ to fur- t 30,3()0, but th^ yield per planted; g rin countries? will we ’have to! acre was higher, 392 pounds start air over again from the scratch like the pilgrims done at Plymouth rock or do you expect russia to take us over? The yield for the years 1943 and 1944 were lower than that for either at the pressent rate of disposing of our wealth in monney and ma- j terials by handing it out to coun-; tries that wont work because they! don’t have to, it is possible that we; wont go busted for 2 more years. : the reason p>oor people are just ex- J ■sting is because everything is so high, they cpn’t buy their need-ces- \ sities. we now have a labor ^ovverment but some of us don’t seem to realize 1 it. the poleesman told this riter that he bought a turn of coal the other day (1750 lbs) for 15.00$, and it w-as one part fclate, one payti dirt, one 1.075,000 persons lived on farms in part rocks.-and the bwhfme; 4qoked this state m 1920, but that by 19457 l ‘ke- coal. -why does l^ hav^ to ^ay the population was down to 723,000. | ! wo an d one half times too much ifor Over a five-year period between 1940 coal? ancer him direct. GOING AWAY TO COLLEGE OR TO TEACH? and 1945 farms in the state lost an, 77?^” average of 35,000 persons a year. ! more we loan (?) and the more This downward trend is, not sur- we g ive awa y’ the more we have 40 prising, as farmers full well Rnow.|P a y ^ or things w ® have to have. People have flocked from farms to' when we rai s e labor 15 per cent, the towns and large cities, and ^P^es automatically go up 25 per will be a hard job to ever get thenij cent- ^ I s high time for you all to back, this means that agricultural! tighten U P on y° re P urse strings and labor, now a serious problem, is'l earn 1° have a little regard for your likely to become even more serious. The farmer cannot compete with high wages offered in cities, and es pecially in the large industrial cen ters where short hours and high wages is the order of .the day. The farmer in the future must use scientific method^, intell^ent man agement, and improved imachinery. The mechanized farm is the only answer to the labor problem. Thet/Trend To Control To Americans, who are more inter ested in their country’s welfare than they are in party politics, the report of \he majority leader of the House, on the accomplishments of the 80th congress recently closed, should be reassuring.' Attempts for hundreds oJ years at governing have proved one fact be- own people who live in the united states by the sweat of their brows ansoforth. yores trulie, holsum moore, rfd, corry spondent. Not Wanted: A Job 1 , >•. • * \ , ' . mr. art square, jr., worries hisself put nigt to death all of the time, he has benn out of a job for 10 weeks, hjs wife made him go to the county-seat last month and reg ister with the employment bureau for a position, he seems afraid that they will find work ifor him. every time the foam rings, he jumps up and remains- nervous till he knows it is not the employment agency telling him that they have placed him. he allso watches the mail like a hawk and the poleesman yond any question of doubt—that no'says that he believes art would faipt L' It If you want the Clinton news —have THE CHRONICLE fol low you. Its weekly visits will be “like a letter from home.” Student’s and teacher's rate of $1.50 for nine months. List your subscription today. THE CHRONICLE “The Paper Everybody Reads • Yes, we maintain the high est Ethical standards—not merely because it is "good business” but because we have no alternative. 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