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•>A6E FOUR 4' $ % I i ■ ♦>; \ I ’ Va I ♦ [ ^ ‘rf i f (EljrnntrU PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAy BY THE CHRONICLE PUBUSHING CO. WILSON W. HARRIS Editor and Publisher THE CLINTON chronicle; CLINTON, 8. C rabisDAY, JULY is. 1929 Entered at the Clinton Post Office as matter of Second Class. Terms of Subscription: One year J1.50 jj^ontlis .... .... .... .... .... .7b ^^Ixree months .... .... .... .... .... .... .bO Payable in advance The Chronicle f.eeks the booperati m of its subscribe’s and readers — the publisher will at. all times appreciate wise suggrestion t and kindlv advim CLINTON, S. C., JULY 25, 1929 8 PAGES A THOUGHT There are two worlds—the world we can measure with line and rule, and the worli that we feel with our hearts and imagination.—Hunt. A THURSDAY PASTIME Those who do not care to brave the strenuosity of fishing on Thursday afternoons, might seek a shady place on their lawns and wrestle .with this problem: Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee A COURAGEOUS ACT Much has been made of the fact that Alexander Legge gave up a $100,- 000 a year position as the president of the International Harvester company in order to become the chairman of the federal farm board* recently ap pointed by President Hoover at a salary of »12,000 This vn. a very ^ , pubhc-spinted act as ereryoae He was ^ ' readily admit, and for such a self- sacrificing and courageous spirit Mr. Legge is entitled to the thanks of the nation. This willingness of competent and w'ealthy men to subjugate their pri vate interests to the interests of the nation at large, exemplifies a fine pa triotism. Mr. Legge who now heads the board created for the purpose of bringing about farm relief, started life in a humble way on the farm. The story of Uncle Joe’s Sammie was so green in school, they used him for shrub- t steps on sp turned back" so many times in the first reader, all the pages up to “Can the bird sing?” were worn entirely out. Every time he sneezed, a pint of sawdust came forth. DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK? Library Adds New Books It took Sammie exactly 9 weeks to learn how to cross a “t,” and he never did decide whether an “i” should be dotted on the left side or the right. He continued to spell cat with a “k” until he finished the third grade. He thought Bonapart was prime ribs for v,;» !» loJ^K time. He didn’t know the dif- his successful career, is an interesting' ** , r... one as will be seen from the following^ I'’'"'* sketch: *^!Fonrlh of July. . Who is Mr. Legge? How ddd he x . j a av i. j ^ frv Sammie never stood at the head of come to be the president of the Inter- ... ,ai.ai. j national Harvast..r romn.nv^ class but once, and that happened national Harvester company? How did he come to be chosen as the head of the vitally important new agricul tural body? The story goes'back to 1891—to the time when Alexander Legge started his business career in the Council when the rest of the kids had to stay at home with, the measles. He could not keep Stonewall Jackson out of the battle of Bunker Hill to save his life. He thought General Lee wak the name of a new cigarette, and never did find Bluffs, lows, branch of the old Me- the Mississippi river did not Cormick Harvester company. He was bom on a farm in Dane County, Wis„ in 1866, moved to Ne braska in 18S1, and worked on a farm A man caught a fisht The head of until the time he entered the employ the fish weighted six pounds. The tail weighed as much as the head and one half of the body. The body weighed of the harvester company During the war he was Bernard Ba ruch’s vice chairman of the War In-i a? 'much as the head and tail. \\’Tiat i dustries board and was manager of was the weight of the fish ? j the Allied Purchasing commission. ! i When Harold F. McCormick became j manager of the Council Bluffs branch TsHF NEW MONEY ^ , ,1’^ 1S92. he asked Dr. Ronald MacRae, j Tacrc bs. i-cc:, qu-.lc a demand on physician: ! thcbankstoa.iu.rcsmncofthcnew, ..j,„ unfamUia:-. :,;;rac:,yc curren The .wound here worth pushing to the tep tieasui.v is i,;cp:ired to n;eet the dc- comnanv?” mand onl.v t.i a ;::n:teJ extent it is j_egge,” Stated, because ol the big problem of answer. dis.rihution. Hr. MacRae first befriended Legge So if yon have not any of these new hil.3 ye., dont be worned. Twelve, nior.ths from now the old bills will be a curiosity, not the new ones. The new ones, by the way, are ex pected to save the government about .?1,.’)00,000 a year, due to their smaller size. The new bills are more conven- When Sammie got up to make a speech every Friday afternoon, he couldn’t do a thing but grin, and the furthest he*ever got with one was: “Up hill, down hill: Oh, such,” and after that-—he stood so still for 10 i minutes the teacher thought he was pulling a trance. After Sammie had been in school 3 years, he didn’t know the difference between a map and a blackboard. And he forgot several times, and licked his desk, thinking it was his slate. By Edson R. Waite That many a city has grown back ward instead of forward because of the lack of pep on the part of the ma jority of its citizens. That they had too many citizens who felt that the other fellow^ should do the work, and the other fellows didn’t work. “• That opportunity is knocking at the door of every city. That opportunity bids every city that is worthy of the name of a wide- ayrake city to ceme forth, and take a more prominent place-in the world. That never was opportunity more insistent than right now; never was there a better chance for city build ers than right new! That the boosters may have a good knowledge of their city and have full confidence in their ability to meet all I conditions that may arise, but if they have not the whole-hearted support I of all the citizenship there is some-! ' thing lacking, and that something; i makes its^ doubly hard for them. 1 That co-operation on the part of all i is what is needed. It must be had in ; order to secure the best results. j That enthusiasm is needed in help-1 ing all to w’ork longer, harder and i more intelligently. j A city full of citizens bubbling over! with enthusiasm is the city that meets with progress and prosperity. The Clinton public library has added during the sbmmer, a number ot new children’s book. Announcement is made also that Evelyn Scott’s “The Wave,” has just been received hy the library. This novel sets a high mark and was re cently v^ry favorably reviewed in The State by Henry Bellamann. NOTICE OF INCORPORATION Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned will on Monday, July 29t^, apply to Hon. W. P. Blackwell, Sec retary of State, for a Charter for the Spratt Poultry Farm, a Corpor^on to have, its principal office and place of business at CHnton, Laurene County, S. C., and the purpose of which will be to rai^, buy, sell and deal in poul try. JOHN SPRATT. FRANK K. SPRATT. J. F. Bolt 111 Tlic teacher asked Sammie once to bound New York, and he told her he didn’t have no string. He thought twice 2 was 3, anl 5 plus 4 was 6 up to his 12th birthday. He believed grammar was something to eat until , , .'the teficher proved by 3 hours work Legge rapidly b«ame manager of should be read from tbe the Council Bluffe branch, then mana-1 j^e back. He aeked John- ger for the Nebraska * and Council Bluffs territory. In 1913 the McCormick Harvester nie Brown once what would have hap pened to the United States if John Bull had not of stabbed Caesar. ^ , company was merged with the Inter- lent in every -way, making counter-! Harvester company. feiting more difficult and are more i Legrg-ewasappointedgeneralmana- durable than the old bills, which will)becoming vice-president.^ improve the sanitary condition of the * i name the day after commence- Gosh, Sammie was green. He dis- ; covered that there were two “m’s” in Laurens, July 21.—John F. Bolt, ! former clerk of court and one of Lau rens county’s best known citizens, suf- fered a slight stroke of paralysis while he and Mrs. Bolt were at Dunbarton, visiting their son-in-law and daugh ter, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Owens. Friday afternoon Mr. Bolt was able to be brought to -his home here, Capt. W. R. Richey, Jr.,, another son-in-law, going tor him in a car. Mr. Bolt’s left si-de is affected, and he does not have free use of his leg and foot. Otherwise, he is not much inconvenienced so far by the stroke, although he is confined to his bedroom. ORS. SMITH & SMITH Optometrists money we handle—if we have any. . Harold F. McCormick resigned the j presidency in 1922, and told the board of directors: ‘The man you need irf Alex Legge.*’ Since then Legge has been president . . . , *0 # T * *• 1 o 1 I from home, and he spent 2 weeks of the International Harvester com-^ ^ *1. „ a#*... J u • J X IT X looking for the registrar. After the pany, and when President Hoover cast * about for recommendations fox the juu J# 11**- sent him home by freight. But an ed- farm board, he heard from all snes . ,. ’’ ® X J 1. ucation am t everything. Sammie now the oft-repeated phrase: “The man you need is Alex Legge.” CROP OUTLOOK GOOD It is a source, of gratification to know that general crop conditions throughout our state at present are exceedingly bright. In the Piedmont, the Pee Dee, and practically every sec- iton, weather conditions have been fa vorable for the development of cotton and marked improvement has been shown in the past two weeks. Dusting i BHnk6r Bcid against boll weevil ravages is being 1 1 1? 1 17 4 /'i actively pushed, while the farmer who j III HlSC llilli]*3^ 1^2186 fails to take this precaution is headed for- the rocks and bound to collapse. With favorable weather throughout August, we have just cause to turn grand jury in Federal court here j our faces to the sun and feel optimis- charging William Godfrey, former tic and profoundly thankful. In our president of the National Bank of own immediate section, prospects are Cheraw, with making false entries and excellent and our farmers are -liligent- j misappropriating for his own use ly at work. The master farmer of one ! funds on deposit ment. Uncle Joe decided to make a legislator out of him after he looked over his examination papers. Sammie j was sent to college in a town 14 miles professors interviewed Sammie, they everything, has a job with the highway commis sion at $350.00 per month. He is time keeper for the 2 boys that keep the weeds cut down between Punktown and Podunk. SPECIALIS'TS "ilyes Examined Glasses Prescribed '6 West Main Street Phone 101 (.aborstory for Prompt Repair Service Clinton, S. C. FACTS THAT SPEAK LOUDER THAN CLAIMS i 1928 was not only the ereatest year in Goodyear sales IT WAS THE THIRTEENTH SUCCESSIVE YEAR IN WHICH MORE PEOPLE RODE ON GOODYEAR TIRES THAN ON ANY OTHER KIND! Sometimes you see a company come to the front for a year or so, but it doesn’t hold its lead. So, when you see a comnanv rise to leadership in tire sales as Goodyear did in 19^—AND THEN HOLD AND INCREASE THAT LEADERSHIP EVERY YEAR THEREAFTER— You know that they’re gcod. Isn’t that evidence enough to show you why we have picked GoodyeiJr Tires and why you get the best buy of your life when you put them on? Millions More People Ride On Goodyears Than On Any Other Kind McDANIEL j Vulcanizing Works R. P. CHAPMAN, Manager Telephone No. 2 West Main Street f: of the most prosperous counties in the lower section of the state, informed us yesterday that “the crop outlook in his county is the best it has been in ten years.” Let us all take courage and work. There is no need for discouragement and whining. Bright prospects that lie ahead shotild encourage us all and . , I am not a diagnostician of laws Columbia, July 2^. A true bill was j bills, but so far as I have been returned early thja afternoon by the *q learn, the new Farm Relief measure which our recent congress gave birth to amounts to this, to the average farmer: 1. He must grow a crop. 2. He must join some reliable mar keting association. 3. He must place that crop in the warehouse of the marketing associ ation. 4. He can then borrow up to 80 per cent of the value of the crops deliver ed and pledged. There were 11 counts in the indict ment and the total amount of money involved was $29,767. Local Talent Play In August Andrew Jackson Johnson Brown, will be pre-|Owmed a house in Bakerstown, our part. It is time for optimism at the bat. Gloom and pessimism should be knocked to the four corners of the earth. A brighter day lies ahead for which we should all be deeply grate ful. “Miss Blue Bonnett stimulate us to move ahead and dojsented in Clinton on Monday evening,' He bought a car for to get about, X Tx X * X _x August 12th. This entertainment willjxhp house is gone and the car’s worn be coached and costumed by the i out. * Wayne P. Sewell Producing company! of Atlanta, and promises to be a very, There were more people killed dur- fclever and well rendered local Ulentring 19 and 28 by automobiles than RELIEF FOR THE FARMER The Hawley tariff bill as passed by the national house of representatives, has been a subject of discussion, both pro and con, throughout the country as to its aims and ends. It has many “farm relieP’ features which doubtless will receive the endorsement and high praise of the advocates of the pro tective tariff, especially in the Repub lican party. Here are just a few sam- j pies as pointed out by a well known newspaper: . An increase of 50 per cent in the duty on the alarm clocks which get the farmer up at 4:30 in the morn ing. - A new duty on the shingles which ‘ keep the rain and snow off the farm er. A 20 per cent tariff on the shoes in which the plowman homeward plods his weary way. A 10 per cent tariff on the cement with which the farmer builds his po tato cellar and with which are built play. It will be staged for the benefit ^'ere killed at the battle of Gettys- of the high school athletic association.: burg. If the Confederates could have owned a few Fords and Chevrolets, and loaned them to the Yankees to be jused among themselves, they would have won the war. A 6-pound shell don’t amount to nothing compared to London, July 22.—-King George’s;a bare-headed nut in his daddy’s car progress continued satisfactory today, [ and a flapper almost in his lap—with King George Continues To Show Improvement Use the “Iodine Label” On Your Letter Heads It is Interesting It is Attractive It Shows a Cooperative Spirit It is to Your Advantage / it was stated officiallly at Bucking ham palace. His majesty’s doctor’s ipaid their usual morning calls. TO CLEAN CEMETERY the throttle wide open. All interested parties are asked to come to Hurricane cemetery on Thurs day morning, August Ist, with neces sary implements to give the cemetery a thorough cleaning. School Notice ^ The Clinton public schools will re open .for the session of 1929-30 on Monday,. Sept. 2. Those failing on their work during the past year who wish to be proVnoted will take reexam- the roads for which the farmer’s taxes j inations on Saturday, Aug. Slat, at help pay. • .9:00 o’clock a. m. It will be necessary An increased price, through textile ox-der to be advanc^ into tariffs, for the overalls in which the | ® -e, as it is impossible to farmer farms, and the Sunday coat in | pupils in work they are not pre- whkh, if he. is able to have one, the We are very anxious that farmer at church praises God—or is it the tariff—from whom all blessings ‘flow? An increase of a cent a pound, mak ing 3 cents tax altogether, on the "^'sugar for th* farmer’s coffee and ip which his wife puts up her winter’s lit pupils advance but we are unwilling to try to teach them work they are hot capable of carrying. J. Harvey Witherspoon, Supt. WHAT DO P. S. JEANES DO? A certain man was elected to the legislature from a certain county in a xrertain state last year. When the time came for that honorable body to ae- semb’.e, this cexrtain duly elected legis lator heard about it, so he went and borrowed 5 dollars and paid his way Jo the capital of his state, and he ar rived at his destination in due course. The conductor showed him how to get off the train. The legislator walked in to the depot, thinking it was where the legislature met. He thought the ticket agent was the governor, and he decided that the train crier was the speaker of the house. He sat in that depot 3 days and nights waiting on the other members to come, and he nearly starved to death. He is now on the Ways and Means committee, and is as smart and wise as ever. He’s a lawmaker. He helps managb our tax system. He tells how our money should be spent. He is ]^opular. He is soft. Lobbyists dearly love him. J. B, Frontis, Jeweler CRntoa, S. C. Just received another lot of combina- -tion JHanging Baskets and Jardhieres. ' Special—50c The label is attractively liHiographed in four colors and will be erf interest to readers of your letters. The design real ly makes a letter head more pleasing in appearance. Its use will help to adver tise South Carolina. t Our Printing Department will be glad to receive the order for your letter heads. Prices on request PUBUSHERS — PRINTERS — STATIONERS CLINTON, S. C. PHONE 74 , '■/'V ........iliF.