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t Page Four THE CUNTON CHRONICLE GJlip (ClrntDit (£l|rmitrlp Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY' . Subscription Rat$ (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., under Act of Congress March 3, 1879. The Chronicle seeks l le 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 ' GREATER WEEKLIES New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia SUNDAY WAS 172ND ANNIVERSARY OF U. S. INDEPENDENCE T •JLm Thursday, July 8, 1948 HONOR ROLL icles, was building for the ages. If i ‘ s symbolic of his offering unto God NEW SUBSCRIBERS the best he knew that the brazen altar that he built for the tabernacle survived until the time of Solomon “ T j j so that the great king and the as- 1 For less than 4c a. week yob catr The Declaration of Independence | sem biy G f Israel.sought unto it. have your “home” paper delivered in masterpiece of Thomas Jefferson, g learn from him tn y° ur home. It carries more local news was adopted ,72 years ago las. Sun- seclaHur bes, unto SoSl H iX »an X newspaper prtn.ed. , .small in the sight of men. it will be Welcome and thanks to those on Jefferson never made any speeches i ar g e j n ^ eyes o{ Q od M any a our Honor Roll this week: and, aside from his letters. left no Bezalel and many Oholiabs are ur- other written work of outstanding g ent i y needed in the work of the persons having claims against said estate will present them on or before said date, duly proven, or be for ever barred. J. B. SPEAtfE, F. M. BOLAND, Executors. importance. And yet. it has been ; kmgdom in ^ ent written, “no other man’s ideas have ' had anything like an equal influence upon the institutions of the country.”. McriOP B. VcrdCH The Declaration is full of Jeffer- ry A* U son’s fervent spirit and personality, At n0fT)6 and its ideals were those to which — * his life was consecrated. By the Marion B. Verden, 77, died June 23 Declaration a state for the first time at his home near here after several in history founded its life on demo- years of declining health. He was a MRS. OLIN SHEELY, JR., Clinton. MRS. BILL SOX. West Columbia. MRS. M. L. LEDBETTER. West Clinton. FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 9th day of July, 1948, we will render a final account of our acts and doings as, Executors of the estate of L. W. C.i 10 | o’clock a.nt., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from ( LINTON. S ( . THURSDAY, JULY 8. 1948 through the members of congress. nuf ^ RT - Look at the judicial branch. The 275 ern America <^an scarcely be over- church cemetery. e '..an 300 retail liquor stores j u. S. judges of all kinds have about stated, for the ideas he advocated 1— nave been issued licenses 3,000 people working under them, have become the very foundations — — . no'a year beginning July 1., Then in the executive branch of gov-, of American republicanism. . ' ' ’ 0 *‘ x on liquor was raised; ernmen t there are hundreds of vari- His frank and earnest address, A as Predicted, that .there ous .departments and agencies. Here his quick sympathy, his. vivacious, ’ •' substantial decrease in , s where the next presidedt of the varied, informing talk, gave him an stores. The opposite United States and congress need to engaging charm. Beneath a quiet mere are more today dci some house-cleaning. In this surface he was aglow with intense branch employees number 2.048,000 convictions and an emotional tem- everywhere, in Washington, the rest perament. of the country and overseas. Of that When he became president of the total we are told 92 per cent, or United States, Jefferson rejected all 1,884.1.60 are civil service employees, the pomp and ceremony of his high The rest. 163,840 are non-civil ser- office. vice and have been appointed to their His dress was of "plain cloth” on j > >s through political pull. Here is a the .day of his inauguration. Instead > m field for some broom-work, of opening Congress with a s^ieech to Many of the .civil service jobs are which a formal reply was expected. cratic idealism.”’ member of the A. R. P. church and , Jefferson had unlimited faith in* was a native of Arkansas, but had “l a ‘ oc k in tbe office of the Judge of the honesty of the people; a large made his home in Laurens county Probate of Laurens County, at faith in their common sense; be- most of his life. lieved that all is to be won by ap-j He is survived by his wife, Mrs., pealing to the reason of the -voters; Mary A. Verden, and eight step-chil- our * IUS ^ 33 Executors, that by education their ignorance dren. Any person indebted to said estate can be eliminated; that human na- Funeral services were held Thurs- vis notified and 1 required to make pay-I tore is indefinitely pertertible; that day afternoon at Hurricane Baptist ment oh or before that date; and ajl majorities rule, therefore, not only c h U rch, with Dr. C. B. Betts in by virture of force, but of right. I charge, assisted by the Rev. Hugh ARROW Stapling Machines — the i His importance as a maker of mod-j Hazel. Interment follow*ed in the 1 handy little office time-saver. | ' Chronicle Publishing Co. PUBLIC HAUIJNG —ANYWHERE —ANYTHING We are now licensed for public hauling in Laurens County. Good Truck Equipment All Insured Prompt, Careful Service CHARLIE NABORS West Main Street Clinton, S. C. v cv bo.!u:*c—- there is big money t r.qu busi: ness for manufae- -. j .bbc - and retailers. So - taxes ‘ \ sh )u i-ld be high, exhoi> r A i’.h'i S IV. * t , . n t he hqa >r nusiness v . ; . t- . t ■nue. it is not eon- -• >«* ‘u.m; iivanee. X > effort deerease sale.s or • ': -I i ‘; 10 U i > ntrary the present i -I L‘ > h ) th I,:qu >r money i nir publie schools, * *.r n 'is. heard, even • u pul: N >ne is heard from < 'ti.aiu i teachers. Cities ■ 'Ai\are m the “pot" {'or ■ 1 »i. t> •: the l.quor tax''diStri- overlapping and unnecessary, ;u’d be wiped out if congress stop appropriating money for and c woulc so many departments. Too many peb- titles as “Excellency,” pie are epiployed by government at he sent in a written message He would not have his birthday celebrated by state balls. Even such ■Honorable.” a a: e nng n. •g.s.dture tor .larger alioca- m tins huge fund. New li- c.' a: e being opened in many vns and communities in de- : .expressed opposition ot sen' A- a result, the liquor .s growing with crime, de- a+ui ..mm irality inc responding rate. Thou men and women are becom- “Mr." were distasteful to him Diplomatic graded were ignored i;> . Time for housecleaning is long past precedence, a*id foreign rela- eacn _session due. It is bound to come—it is inevi- lions were seriously, compromised by o strong drink and being table that the country get back on a ain ner-taDle complications. , Orse sound fiscal basis and that waste and raini ster who appeared in gold lace icckless spending ot the people’s 1 and dj '« ss ^ord for hU iiht official money be stopped. ca ii ^ president, was received ‘ ‘ ♦ by Jefferson in negligent and slippers Inrpnf-ivp Ic dmvn ^ 1116 heel I ifv.cII(IVc lb Next tn the Declaration of Ende- I pendena\_ Jefferson's most famous , service tc* his country is ti e Louisiana le so-vallea u w’orid reas ng Life's Mainspring jusands p r i or t he birth ot tr capitalistic system the . t . , gressed but slowly from a material ™^ md mothers sit. ls . i£ startcl poin t . For the most part if ^ ^ St f es ^ U l iana t „ Mlss ^ n ’ purchase. The Looisjana Purchase, gace the Anne miners •rpiacentiy; apparently blind to • Hole conditions that are daily = :: im bad .worse, and do ’ •- ,ve these conditions. ^ could c nothing good that can be i h behalf of the liquor industry— .ted' crime, lawlessness and mur- tandpoint. ror tne most pam tl . , , . „ was divided’into static classes-as in ^ India even today - artd while oneOklahoma,' as- might outshine’ others ot his own u ‘ Kansas, Coloiado,, class, he could never hope to nse yoming.dWiuit^ and Minaesota- much above the position to which, he a total - cotit of four rwUs an was born. ’ „, . -k and .produces broken hearts and ji^a^b^Iimp'Sr on Jelte?- b; t \e:n homes. Look at the court cal- JyTSk af ? ^ tomb ' ^ ch,-ce, it en,..!.'. ask law enforcement officers warc j 'as for larle^rewid. Thi^us^' reH<lH Simply ’ “ flere ^ bune LTho- 1 y -u are biind or unconcerned as v’ 11 ' ’. a ^* S f h t » r not be ignored. I. .vas noted that the states liquor t- were closed on Monday (a le- ■’ o liday), by the order of the The law of nature—not of man. It can a mas Jefferson, aulhor of the Drclara l tion. of American. liaciependense r of It is said by many of the capdal- ; of for religious .’stpm tht thp ' f ‘7“ lam ’ and fa5hex: ^ tbe Um\ «rsity ai Virginia. istic system that the “Ikws&s receive in * infinitely more pay per person than erm The same applies to certain ^ manual laborert and ^ m this! Td. ■espect. resembles the uld system, Wna* does this admiU It is an ad- undeV"which thT“ruling class" de- tneir - product is so degrad ing that* they need to be closed on SIX-INCH SERMON Sr Rev. Roftnrt HL Harper h >!:days v.olation to decrease drinking, and traffic fatalities. rived most of-the benefits which the worker created. True, he must earm! avv that enviable position today, not jiist I... , .. , , , , be born to it..Truth is, there are few ’ J . ,iy bbsinej 5 that will industrial leaders in. our wmntry who' f. ■ olerated 011 bol,d|ys be al- dld not nse from the rankSi and ^11; II Oironicles 0:5.. ( .' Vf ' •" ieA'ij... an f ouiisn on they pass on their places are cm-' Memury Selection: B:cLesiaste. c -5t-• '‘ :ne . d “ y .t • and sensibl ! stantly being refilled by men ivhoilfl. .ha. _will not be answered start as i aborers ‘..fit! oy licenses or the legislature. BEZALEL, TUB CRAFTSMAN Lesson for Julyv 11L Exodus 31;.lr or ih some tiny op- Not. by accidei t. Uie name of .Sir , _ eration of their own. Chrisio’phier Wren is- 'jvtll knowic in m r .This is as it should be. Every man t English history. U you would sefe Put the BrOOm to Work wbo bas brains, stamina and ambi—jhis memorial, lo<ik upon St. Paul's 't 1-(C Ha-y Byrd Democrat of tlon sbould bave the ri 3bt to rise, to■ CatlredraL tn Lomton V.: - n.a.’.s our' choice for president tde ,!; 0p : But 35 Uie result " Principally, in. United States because a busi- ° f the tampering of impractical New .t" man uf his calibre, sound think- l .vul tearlessness is needed to head Deal theories, the 'non-union woiker can become a Henry Ford, while the Likewise the rame Bezalel. of the tribe of Judah, has a great place in Sebre?*' history. Put in charge of omstrapting the tabernacle, the •)U ■je m :n. i d r ..-i ’ the<e uncertain and union worker is not now granted, an unique suhtuary «if the wilderress, -mei He would be a '“reat eqaaI °PP ortunit y-for no matter bow | he <iesei"res fame, as -ani? who canT-, may i-“ec ■ated genius and. training to the me L" t - m r . we iwer, think, over Tru- or Douglas, wjio smart and ambitious the latter be, he must, generally 1(1.! te i P 1 ) speaking, 1 Lo tt’s service. w "keep in line” behind someone with i God also calle-i . a sirperior man.of • t /'‘wm the Democratic’^: or less bis qualifications. i lha tribe: of Dan (Jb^b. to be Be-] . ., H , j ,, <(l0vV next Unions are said to be essential m.zalals helper. His example unto f:- pn _ our economic setup. Tliey may be—i us is tbit of diang well what men; , . i. 1 J* . >t is debatable. But the law of sen- esteem a humbkt. work. Verse S, of / a .':;; , ’ 1 ; a ".’ ena : iority, and the rules vdiieh for'iid a the first passage of the lessofr. in- 1 'll - . ^ ‘ L ' ' ' 11130 do do rnQre work, than his fel-' dicates that many of the congrega- ‘ p I . , ( low-members, are uneconomic, dan- ti m wt^re also devoted to the vork. . ^ ; eA .|gerous and destructiue. Destructive j Itere, then, is a fine picture oU men , .u pas. six een j because they tend to make aiiiuma- , and women cooperating in the. holy! ' 1 " tons of potential leaders who might'task setting up a tabernacle of' ' ‘ ua t iu '\‘ otherwise become important wgs in worship—all working in harmiv.ty un- ,4.i!i wa.'LC ana iecK- the sys t e m, destructive to thn spirit der Bezalel and his faithful helper.! . > money. Q j norma u y am kitiuus iuiman. i Bezilei. as appears from II Chron- t c-m.ni! number of employ- The much . abused Ta{t . H arUey law! ,-a on government payrolls ; _ if th would orl recogmze it _ — . rme Truman has been the ; i5 lhe ^ decent break ^ union I H .peaun.me spender m his.ory. | WOJ . ker has 1 had sioce the boe-sided^ ■■umoei na^been greatei nepias bisciimina-tory - -unfair— W agner mTrr—rr-TTF war enffed Than wa5{^ rTiade him CQattpletely -ue .-. u -: we were in the middle ,.. bossism ;. And {ar worsft stl ii_ the ' That such as outrageous tenlia i victim of Red .^ nion kiji . exists is due to pull and ^pers.’' I - every one not a moron i ncentive is life > s mainsprin g. .a ». 1 Jfc a 11 ' h.u.'t .!• condit it is destroyed by government and unionism—mam has UttL* left. kno A' 11 ad .ve had a sufficient num ber <.: Byrds in the senate we would r »t be loaded down today with such rg debt Neither would your. SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRON1CLI w.- -in H.ng tax be so big. Jhe’Vir- ~ “The Paper Everybody'ReacU” g.n.«n n as taught if or a general;,— «=_ • - - leaning” and only lost be- • g,urv .; the minority when lined up aga.:!.-’' tne spenders and squander- e: s' i .your money. 1 * ' 4 It .encouraging to note that Go'v- • • |-,| 'j . e. Dewey, the Repub- i D .;<an mesidential nominee, stands on •ne same sound ground-as Senator Byrd. It I am elected president,” Mr. Dewey said after his landslide nomination, 1, “there’ll be the finest house- leaning Washington ever saw.” the broom should have been at work long ago. .1 Take congress as an example. Without counting the members of the house and senate, all of ’whom are elected by the people, it has< about 4,000 employees. They 1 diold their jobs] COMMERCIAL HOUSEHOLD WIRING Electrical Appliance Repairing and Electrical Construction Work Floor Plugs A Specialty ARNOLD M. CANNON 29 S. Owens 'St. Tel. 245-J luring your doctor's pre scriptions here with com plete assurance of accura cy, purity and promptness. YOUNG’S PHARMACY Walgreen Agency Phone 19 We Deliver A&P ha; bumper crops of summer crops Come pick your favorites from the wide _ variety of peak-of-season offerings hi the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Department ot your AAd* Food Store. The festive array of ripe, colorful fruits and young, tender vegetables will really delight yout What’s more .everything’s harvested fresh, delivered fresh, and sold fresh. Result? Naturally, everything tastes better. Visit your friendly A&P Food Store today for your share of inviUng valves. LUSCIOUS RIPE PEACHES Lb. LARGE LEMONS, dozen 37c CARROTS, 2 bnchs . 19c STRING BEANS, 2 lbs. 29c NORTH CAROLINA CORN, 6 ears ... 29c LETTUCE, 2 for . . . 34c PEPPERS, lb. 15c CABBAGE, 2 lbs. 8c CELERY, stalk 15c CALIFORNIA—LONG POTATOES, 5 lbs. . 33c CANTALOUPES ... 23c SQUASH, 2 lbs 25c YELLOW TOMATOES, 2 ctns. 35c Kellogg’s Coes SUPER VALUES EVERY DAY FINE GRANULATED SUGAR IONA TOMATO JUICE SUNNYFIEL FLOUR 10 Lb. 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