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p * V \ \ f.M THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Cleon Newspaper, Complete . Newsy and Reliable If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume XLIX Clinton, S. C, Thursday, July 28, 1949 Number 29 Canadian Heads World's Lions Clubs bricklayer does today than he did 30 years ago. It is a miracle that some of them are now employed at all! Unemployment Insurance Is unemployment insurance for good or evil? I don’t know; but I be- .lieve that many are now leaving their jobs for vacations this summer and are takjng their $25 per week “un employment” insurance. I am sure that such insurance encourages un employment and increases the un employment figures. Once each month your state publishes what it paid out the previous month to the so-called “unemployed”. Much of .this money is being taken unfairly, ■but the people say: “Everyone else | is getting it, so why shouldn’t I?” | Over half of the unemployed money j which is being distributed every : week in your community comes out J of the rest of us. It is one of the chief J causes for present high taxes. It is teaching people to be dishonest; and it is leading to great abuse and cor ruption the same as did prohibjtion. I recently heard of a city where over 100 clerks are busy every day! just writing unemployment checks It is not just the money pa,d out , Canad ia lhe new presidcnt s to the unemployed; but the huge Th( . Internationa , Association ot § cost ot .ooktng up the evidence and Uon! clubs. He was elected by unan- | keeping the book, I am told that .t , vote at the 32nd annual cun . it costs over 20 centesfor clerk-hire in, ion he , d las , w „ k at Madison 4 S2? ° FL 0U ‘ S? Square Carden. New York. Fisher 1 KHLL ATHLETES FOOT “TE-OL BEST SELLER” SAYS McGEE’S DRUG STORE HERE’S THE REASON. The germ grows deeply. You must REACH it to KILL it. TE-OL, containing 90 percent alcohol, PENETRATES. Reaches more, germs. Your 40c back from any druggist if not pleased IN ONE HOUR. Dr. Felder Smith Optometrist Laurens, S. C. 126 EAST MAIN STREET Sooth Side PobUe Square HOURS FOR ETV EXAMINATIONS: 9 #0 to 5:3t Wednesdays 9:00 to 12:30 Phone 794 for Appointment CALL 74 — For your office needs Chronicle Publishing Co. oo oo oo ♦♦ ♦♦ #o ♦♦’♦oVo ♦oWoo'oo oo ^ PRESIDENT FISHER Walter C. Fisher, Queenston, On- § :.s 3 THREE DOLLAR DAYS THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY in CLINTON there will be a big political scandal relative to unemployment insurance Such insurance has a legitimate use in a real business depression, but no such depression exists today when people drive in shinny new auto mobiles to collect their insurance on - tne;r way to the beach. Unemployment Outlook The question is often asked me as to h<jw bad unemployment will become and when it will be at its worst. I have not yet collected suf ficient data to give an opinion now. But Doctor Joseph L. Snider, one of the country's greatest authorities •> succeeds Dr. Eugene S. Briggs, Enid, g Oklahoma. 3 •> Fisher, in accepting me presiden cy. said: “During the past few years, we have become more fully aware ol the international implications the old truth that man cannot live g unto himself, and that security :: H of £ foj S i the individual is impossible as long as there is national or international insecurity anywhere in the whole S world. To that end we have raised » our sights seemingly higher with h each succeeding year until we now S include in our Lions program the jj: DOLLAR DAYS SPECIALS Morrison Furniture Co. Serving Trays S1.25 Large Trays—with flower design Serving Trays S1.00 Medium Trays—with flower design Cleaning Polish SI.00 Two for the Price of One Premier Vacuum Cleaner ... S34.50 $49.95 Value Assorted Vanity Lamps SI.00 S1.00 Off On Any Table, Floor Lamp or Electric Fan in the Store on business economics has some ideas in t ernational problems confronting PEOPLE DRIVE UP IN SHINV NEW MODEL CARS TO GET INSURANCE Unemployment Benefits Cost Huge Sum, Bobson Soys After Survey. By ROGER BABSON Babson Park, Mass., July course, someday this country will suf fer from a bad dose of unemploy- think these are too large. Well,, when I was Assistant Secretary of Labor in 1917-1919. normal unemployment was then officially stated as 2.500, 000. This included the sick and those even temporarily laid off. Yet, in those years the total business of the 15 of country was less than half what it is today. The above facts show that until 5.000.000 are reported as “unemploy ment; but this time has not come we have nothing to worry about, yet and it will not come during 1949. Rememb€r th at since 1917 the total The present unemployment score number of employed has jumped which certain labor union officials f rom 25,000,000 to 60.000,000 people, are starting has no justification. Remember that five times as many Let us assume that the official fi-1 women are enployed today as before gures issued last week of 3,7&8,000 World War I. Remember how much unemployed are correct, although I less work a carpenter, painter or a on this question. He is reported to have estimated that the Industrial Index of the Fe deral Reserve board will go off about 25 percent below the peak of 1948 and that about eight to ten percent of this decline has already taken place leaving only about 15 percent oi more to go. Let us hope he is cor rect as other authorities believe this | Industrial Index will go off 50 per cent which means we may have 40 percent more to decline. How To Look Let us look forward instead of backward; upward instead of down ward; outward instead of inward. Think of the great unfilled orders today for more automobiles, more rbads, more houses, more bathrooms and especially more household elec trical appliances. This latter demand is especially evident from the bud gets which the public utility systems have for the next few years. The electric power companies alone tell me that, unless some catastrophe like war should happen, their output will double during the next ten years. This of itself will require new great power units as well as new wire, poles and millions of new motors and appliances of all kinds. Certainly, this is no time for those of good char acter and education to worry about unemployment. Such persons can, if necessary, create new jobs for themselves. all nations, particularly those intim- a ately related to the maintenance and S preservation of world peace. "Our S responsibilities, as Lions, are heav- S ier and more complex than ever. If Yon oon't Read THE CHRONICLE Yon Don't Get the New» :: a FREE! FREE! Table Lamp! Regular S10 Value! All you have to do to get this beautiful lamp is rome in our store and register during Dollar Davt. It costs you nothing. Drawing will take place SATl RDAY. JULY 70. at 4:00 P. M. You Do Not Have To Be Present XXXXXRRRXXXRRaXWOB MKXXKXXXXXXXBXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXBXXXKKKXXXKXKXXXXXKXX 8 :: 42ND YEAR OF DILLARD S STORE SERVING THE PEOPLE OF CLINTON DOLLAR DAY SPECIALS! i i i Laurens Visit Recalls Tragedy 40 Years Ago Special Men’s Tropical Suits $34.50 Suits, now $24.50 $31.50 Suits, now $21.50 ALL STRAW HATS i/z-Price Panama Hats 1*3 Off $1.50 Wembley Ties Now $1.00 One lot $1.00 Ties, 2 for $1 m off On Entire Regular Stock of Merchandise DRESS SHIRTS Citadel and Lord Ashley makes. Broken lots . V2-Price DRESS SOCKS 50c Socks, now— 3 Pr. for $1.00 All Two-Tone, Platted and Ventilated SUMMER OXFORDS 20| Off T-Shirts 65c T-Shirts, 2 for ... $1.00 $1.00 T-Shirts, 3 for $2.00 $1.50 T-Shirts, now $1.00 L. B. DILLARD MEN AND BOYS’ FURNISHINGS Tailor-Made Clothing a Specialty I ■-L^„ rcrm .^.^HBBBaeaaaeionnnneiBnacgBaagMaacga8ii{»ga«««a (From The Laurens Advertiser.) A short visit here yesterday of Mr. end Mrs. Ross H. Wilson, Ptovident Bank building. Cincinnatti. Ohio, re tailed an event in this city 40 years ago which claimed the sympathy of the entire town. In the middle of May 1909, J. Ross Wilson, a member of the Demorest Comedy Company, was killed in his dressing room by the accidental dis charge of a pistol. The victim of the tragedy was the father of Mr. Wil son who stopped in the city yester day. He said that he was a boy in school in Stint Anne, Illinois, at the time of the accidental death of his father and that this was the first time that he had been able to visit the town that had such a sad memory for him. At his request, the files of The Ad vertiser of that year were produced and he read the account of the ac cident which evidently stirred the, town to its depths. He failed to see | the eulogy paid the dead actor by the then editor, S. E. Boney, on the ed itorial page. Mr. Wilson is now in the advertis ing business and was passing through Laurens on his way to see a client. He wondered if there were any mem bers of the 9th Infantry Division around here. In World War II he was a lieutenant colonel in that division and also served in World War I. Some of his people are still in show business, he said. His only sister, Lois, mentioned in The Advertiser at the time of the accident, is in Holly wood and is the wife of Milne Kib- bee, brother of Guy Kibbee. His own ! daughter “Pat” is at Ohio State Un- j iversity where she is active in dra matics. , I DOLLAR PAY SPECIALS! THREE BIG DAYS! THURS. - FRI. - SAT.-JULY 28, 29, 30 One Group Summer Dresses $3.00- Cottons, rayons and crepes, in junior and regular sizes. Values up to $14.95. Over 100 Dresses - $5.00 Sizes 7 to 15, 10 to 52. In cluded in this group are spring and summer dress es, values up to $19.95. Entire Stock All Other Summer Dresses At Reduced Prices Cottons, rayons, crepes and silks, in junior and regular sizes. $7.95 to $10.95 .... $2.00 oft $12.95 to $16.95 .. $5.00 off $19.95 and up $8.00 off All Skirts Vz Price New styles in cotton, crepe, taffeta and failles. Colorful solids, stripes and prints, in junior and regular sizes. Entire Stock Bathing Suits SHORTS and T-SHIRTS Complete range of styles, colors and sizes. Now at— 20! Off Entire Stock Summer Hats S2.00 These are straws, beautiful styles and colors. Values up to $7.50. ALL STRAW BEANIES $1.00 11 — * » Close-Out ALL ST-YLECRAFT Brassieres SI.00 in white and tearose, sizes 32 to 42, cotton and i^tyon, assorted styles, values up to $3.50. Entire Stock Summer Flowers 50c Beautiful assortment of colors, values up to $2.50. All Alba Nylon Hose - $1.50 Pr. 51 and 54 gauge. 15 and 20 denier, sizes 8 1 * to lO 1 *, 29 to 36 inch lertgth, in ten leading summer and fall shades. . Entire Stock Batiste Gowns, Pajamas Values up to $4.95, in sizes 32 to 44. Now at— $2.95 Over 100 New Cotton Blouses in sizes 9 to 15, 32 to 38. Summer styles, assorted colors. Values up to $5.95— $2.00 ( lose-Out All Cosmetics Vz-PHce Two good lines, Joncaire and Henry Rosenfeld, in-, perfumes, lipstick, rouge, powder, creams. Special Group Haynes Panties 2 Pr. $1.00 Sizes: small, medium and large. Colors: white and tearose. Values 89c, $1.00. One (iroup Slips - $3.00 All new styles, sizes 32 to 52. Colors: white, black and tearose. Values up $5.00. Entire Stock Summer Bags $2.00 in straws, plastic and lea ther., assorted styles and colors. Values up to $6.00. plus tax. NO EXCHANGES ALL SALES FINAL NO REFUNDS Chaney’s Dress Shoppe CLINTON. S. C. s :: • * :: •# :: :: :: • • :: :« !i :: s ! ;• H • * | :: • • • • • • :: • •