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PAGE FOUR THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CUNTON, 8. C (HiircmrU PUBUSHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. WILSON W. HARRIS Editor and Publisher Entered at the Clinton Post Office as matter of Second Class. Terms of Subscription: One year 51.50 n^ontlis .... .... .... ..m .... ..m .75 lliree months — .60 Payable in advance The Chronicle (.eeks the cooperat: > i of its subscribe’s and readers — the publisher will ai. all times appreciate wise sugrgrcstion i and kindly advice. and the fact that the world is filled with good people; do not be misled. Life is all right. Folks, for the most part, are all right. But you are talk> ing to a blind man. Have a look at yourself, too, and your own emotions and conclusions. When you are discouraged, when you find yourself cynical, when you doubt understand, but judging from their lo cal freight rates, ‘*long hauls" are made oh short-distance pulls. I am just like Hoover in many re spects. I can’t sleep late ia the morn ing, and I enjoy fishing a great deal. I believe in enforcing the laws of the land, and also like waffles. We differ the eternal verities, make sure that a little in the matter of income. His you are not becoming a bfind man. I salary is 75 thousand dollars a year. For the blind man in the stoi;y said | while nfine is 75 dollars a month. Our that there were no such things. We I hats are the same size, and there’s acquaint ourselves with the like of him and we find he has no eyes to see. killed him, but the gas had cut his lungs and robbed him of vitality and he had no strength left for a Hght. He was another victim of war, and no war ever claimed a lad of finer honor, cleaner mind or more whole some ' character. I lift my hat to you, Clarence. THIS MAX BE the TURNING POINT. (From The I>illon>Herald) The high iodine content in South Dr. Frank F. Hicks DENTIST Clinton, South Carolina Office National Bank Bnilding Dr. Smith’s Former Location. Phone 153 What Do P. S. JEANES How about ourselves? Are you a blind man? Am I? May we all have enough of love and loyalty and unselfishness in our own lives to enable us to recognize it in others. only 4 sizes difference between our | Carolina vegeUblcs is attracting the shoes, (I wear a 6.) Mr. Hoover ought! attention of men in high places. Dr. to appreciate the adtual relativity that apparently exists between us CLINTON, S. C., JULY 18, 1929 SPACES A THOUGHT Man and His Fellow Mortal. — A righteous man regardeth the life of his bea^t; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.—Prov. 12:10. Prayer.—May Thy mercy extended to us, our Father, be shown by us to all Thy creatures. Too many crooks follow their nat ural bent. Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee FREE ADVICE 1. 2. 3. 4. The American dollar is the only successful universal language. Thete must be a big surplus of un cut dress-goods stored somewhere. The great need is not a gas that won’t burst into flames, but preju dices that won’t. It would suit many of us if we could dodge responsibility like w’e do automobiles. The average man worries a lot more over being wrong if he discov ers he has lost some money. How to Kill a Boll Weevil Catch her. Lay her on her back. Pull left leg off. Fill hyperdermic. 5. '••With calcium arsenate. 6. Insert hyperdermic. In leg wound. Sheet 2 sheets. Remove needle. Step on boll weevil. Call a spider—(ambulance). The end. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. I asked Uncle Joe once if he had laid up anything for a rainy day and he said that he got along very well on rainy days, and when he needed money the worst was when the sun was shining-—so’s he could get out and spend it. He is an habitual cigar smoker. He bought a cigar in 19 and 20. He chews 0. P. (Other Peoples) tobacco, and anything from Brown’s Mule to Navy is satisfactory: it’s gen erally a case of “What have you?’’ At times, nearly all of us are afflicted with Uncle Joe’s sponging malady. Do? A new shipment of the famous Buck’s stoves and ranges. Come in and see one of the Buck’s enameled in colors. They are just a little higher in price, BUT— PRATHER-SIMPSON FURNITURE CO. THE WIFE AND THE KIDS That tenier regard which the nor mal man has for his wife and children is the corner stone of modem civili zation. Men have stolen for home and chil dren, but only when face to face with starvation. Men have killed in defense of the hearthstone. From time imme morial men have waged wars to safe guard the homeland and the helpless inhabitants thereof. On the other hand, men have robbed and killed when inflamed by drink, or beside themselves with anger, or caught in the gjip of avarice. But a man has never thought of his mate and his children with that tender af fection which is well-nigh universal ■without becoming himself a better character for it, and adding another brick to the building of a better world for them to live in. Look inside the real American home, with its many attractions and its hap py family, and know that it stands as a monument to man’s truest devotion to the wife and the kids. Visit the modem development of the little red schoolhouse and realize that our democracy and tranquility are due in no small part to this system of free education, and put down another mn to the credit of the influence of the wife and the kids. So with the church, the playground, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. HOW TO BE HAPPY Don’t lend. DorVt borroW. Don’t buy on credit. Don’t sell on credit. Keep sober. Marry. Raise children. Work. Play. Pray. Be punctual. Don’t break a promise. HOW TO BE MISERABLE Drink booze—to excess. Borrow what you want. Buy what you need On credit. Dodge your creditors. Earn SO dollars a week. Spend 40 dollars a week. Don’t marry. Loaf half the time. Stay away from church. Disappoint everybody. Knock your town. Wait for business to open up. HOW TO LIVE ON 10 DOLLARS A WEEK Give 1 dollar to charity. Realize that you have 9 dollars left. Be honest. And live within your 9 dollars. 1. 2. 3. 4. flat rock, S. C. julie 16, 1929. mr. henry ford, detroit, mitch. deer sir:— i have been thinking for some time of buying one of yore cars, but up to now, am still shy 755 of the down pay ment ansoforth. i like yore sedams 0. k., but why in the name of common sense don’t you put a apittoom in them? do you expect a fellow to stop and get out every time be wants to spit? if you do, i would be out on side of the road nearly all the time, as , j j j j brown s mule sure is juicy, nte or the park, and a hundred and one other , , , , , ' . , L it... foam and let me know if you can put fine agencies for happy community living. All of them are practical work ings out of man’s thought and regard for the wife and the little ones. on the attachment referred to. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. COTTON LETTER New York, July 17.—Somebody said it was raining in Texas this morning. BLIND MEN In the “Buddhist Philosophy Life”'you will find this sentence: , , , i u i op • ^ xu “There was a man born blind and ,“"^ ^ broke 25 pomta, then aome- he said: ‘I do not believe in the world of light and color. There is no sun, noj-'t “"'S' moon, no stars. No one has ever seen P'!"'*'’. sw<>«P^ ■!<>«" »» Wf - Cur- tVino-s’” ■ |tailment and boll weevil infestation * ^ ‘ had a weakening effect on bed spreads, yet the shorts seemed long (faced) near the close. The farm re- All about us today there are men j ^ho say: There is no such thing as There is no such thing as loyal ty- There is no such thyig as unsel fishness. There is no such thing as ■virtue. All these things are but dreams ain-l •visions TO JACK ANDERSON AND HIS * GALLANT CREW! (From The Laurens Advertiser) . The Advertiser has been approached bjr numerous citizens, among them city officials, suggesting that we say “something nice’’ about the tine work performed Friday night by the Clin ton tire department when it gave such valuable aid to this city’s own fighting force in putting down the disastrous conflagration which ap peared imminent. This paper has not nice enough words at its command to express fitting what ought to be said about the Clinton fire laddies, but when we pass it on to them that an appreciative sentiment is unanimous in the city they will know that the la bor that they performed up here and the spirit in which they performed it were not spent in vain. While our folks are not lacking in appreciation of the magnificent work done by the home boys, they recognize that the aid rendered by the Clinton fire lad dies with their splendid equipment was gallantly performed and deserves our thanks and plaudits. We here with present them! Royal S. Copeland, junior senator from New York and national! known writer on health topics, speaks in glowing terms of the food value of our vegetables, and now we are told that John J. Raskob, the multimillion aire chairman of the Democratic par ty, is forming a big syndicate to es tablish canneries in this state. This is good news, if true. Maybe the discov ery of the high iodine content in South Carolina vegetables marks the turning point in the rehabilitation of the agricultural industry of the state. When a descending object hits bottom it either rebounds or lies dormant, and since the coming of the boll weevils there is no denying the fact that agri culture in South C^olina has hit bot tom. The price of land has almost touched the low point of the nineties when cotton was selling at from three to five cents a pound and the nation was in the throes of a money and in dustrial panic. But in those happy days one could buy bacon for five cents a pound, a suit of clothes for $10 or a good hat for $3, and it is probable that the economic condition of the country was much sounder than than it is today. There is not much hope of general prosperity until land values become normal again, and it is idle to think of .land values returning to normal until the earning power of land is increased to the point that it will show a substantial profit. There is no profit in a yield of 150 pounds of lint cotton to the acre, and it is be ginning to look as if we must pin our faith to the high content of the South Carolina vegetable. DRS. SMITH & SMITH Optometrists LEFT ONLY $4,500 (From The Spartanburg Herald) General Bramwell Booth, command er of the Salvation Army, who recent ly died, left an estate valued at $4,500. That within itself is a true in dex to the character of the man, who went about doing good. Poor in ma terial wealth and things, he was rich in character and service to mankind. Unlike some in high rank in the forces classified as those of morality and righteousness who seek the ways of the world to amass fortunes and fea ther their nests, Bramwell Booth spent almost the entire of his long life lifting up the fallen, giving food, sustenance, shelter and necessities to the outcast and forsaken, ministering alike to body and soul. In this world of sin, shame, suffering and sordid selfishness he found too many men, women and children destitute and suf fering and forsaken arresting his at tention to devote his talents and ener gies to money-making or building up a personal fortune. SPECIALISTS Eyes Examined Glasses Prescribed 16 West Main Street Phone 101 Laboratory for Prompt Repair Service Clinton, S. C, WHAT DO P.S. JEANES DO? WHAT TYPE OF TIRES SHOULD YOU HAVE ON YOUR CAR? You drive differently than your friends do, don’t you? Some of theln are.fast, hard drivers? Some use their cars much less than you? Some stick mostly to good roads and travel slew; some go everywhere? Is it reasonable'to suppose that the same type of tire will stand up equally well on different cars under such different sp^s,'roads, loads and distances? Very well, then, what type of tire will carry YOU safely and without trouble, the way YOU drive and until you trade in your car? Perhaps a very low price Speedway- or a Goodyear Pathfinder will doo. Or you may need a Goodyear All- Weather in the regular type. Or possibly an oversize. Or the heavy duty. Let us “take your measure” and fit you out. Depend on this: We won’t try to sell you anything better than you need just because you can afford the best. You can trust us. Millions More People Ride On Goodyears Than On Any Other Kind McDaniel Vulcanizing Works R. P. CHAPMAN, Manager Telephone No. 2 West Main Street SPECIAL! A High Grade Cast Iron Range Only *37= CLARENCE HARPER (By Robert Quillen in The Fountain Inn Tribune) Clarence Harper died last Wednes day. His life was a fine tribute to the character of Thornwell orphanage, where he spent his boyhood. He learned to set tjiie in the or phanage print shop, and when he was in his early twenties I gave him a job in the Tribune office. He lived in my home and was like a member of the family. When the great war came he was drafted. It seemed an outrage, for he i zs: wasn’t strong and was helpless with-1 ss same discount rate on advance, so walk up and take your choice. The Why do they say these things? You aptatora still think the think'that perhaps they do not dream to pve thm the yrhat they say. You think they are -W- just talking tor effect or to raise an '* therefore. •« argument. selling. We believe in shorter teddies The case is sadder than that. They I wheel-bases-through the xive voice to this belief because they are men who are blind. Perhaps they ■were born as blind men and never had a decent chance to get their eyes open. Perhaps they have become blind ■through habits of thought and action. At any rate they are like the man in the Buddhist book. They are blind and they say that there is no love, no loyalty, no virtue. They are men to be pitied because they are spiritual cripples. They have never experienced the finer, emotions of life in their own darkened lives. They Mbve not had those emotions often enough and atrong enough to believe in their re ality. You who read this may never look out of the window at night. Neverthe less the stars are very beautiful.' Be sure of that. The next time you hear a man or a woman deny life’s beauties, its spir itual achievements, its satisfactions, its deep and worthwhile ci^rienccs, summer months. The talkies* costs more and are worth less. The good old funny pic tures and interesting escapades and real worthwhile acting have been rel egated to the junk-heap, and a few screaming-squalling men and women with voice.s that sound like "a cross between a fife and a saxaphonb are on the stage singing some kind of some thing that nobody cares to hear. And furthermore, they sting you to the tune of about 50 cents for a 10-cent “talkie,” and everybody knows that an old time “read-ie” is better and lots more entertaining. And "deeti’ folks have to stay at home besides. lief board has decit&d not to charge ... , . isi the farmers and the specalators the >"* 'y' Th'y t>«<l ‘I'-'l' = queer lenses that no one else could see — through at all, and if he had lost or broken them he would have been like a blind man. Of course he was unfit for duty in the trenches, but he was taken to France and assigned to an outfit that S carried wounded men from the field. It was a nightmare of horror for a boy of his delicate sensibilities. He told me after he came home that he never gained sufficient control of him self to carry his end of a blood-soaked litter without stopping once ih a while to be sick. He was gaued during one action near the close of the war. and came home an invalid. His lungs were cut to ribbons and his nerves were shat tered. I asked him to work for me again and he came and tried it. But I was laid up at home with a case of grippe that hung on for weeks, and when left without guidance he went to pieces. His poor shattered ‘nerves couldn’t bear responsibility and he surrendered ' S to panic. I hated to part with him, for he was one of the cleanest and finest boys I ever knew and I loved him. He tried to work in other shops for a few years but finally gave up and went to a Government hospital in Florida. 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