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THE CLUirON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. 3. C.
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THURSDAY. AUGUST 29, 1»29
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Nobody’s Business
By Gee McGee
cotton, plese rite the farm bored to
send us some monney or rasliions at
once, and foam me if you can give me
a job ansoforth.
yores trulie.
mik Celark, rfd.
Uncle Joe says he has a friend who
lives in another state who knows how
.to make whiskey and how to sell whis-
jkep and possible how to drink whis
key. And from what Uncle Joe says, I
: believe Uncle Joe knows about as
I much as his friend knows about the
j subject now up and before us. It seems
that this “friend” suggests the fol
lowing plan:
CLINTON, S. C., AUGUST 29, 1929
1. Pick out a nice little stream and
jthen follow it far enough to get out
I of sight of the public road till you
jcome to a place where bushes grow
thick and the water shows some speed,-
and then your still-sight troubles are
over.
Athens, Ga., Aug. 23, 1923.
Dear Mc(^e:-| ,
Crops ^ingl back fast account dry
weather and will probably prove a
great disappointment to Mr. Ford and
Mr. Chevvylay. Corn is way off and
gardens simply ain’t. Government es
timate at lease 2,450,000 too high.
Yours truly,
I. M. Ruint.
DEMOCRATS PLAN
FIGHT ON TARIFF
A THOUGHT
My little children, let us not love
in word, neithet- in tongue; but in deed
and truth.—I John 3:18.
Al’efction can withstand very se
vere storms of rigor, but not a long
polar frost of downright indifference.
Love will subsist on wonierfully little
hope, but not altogether without it.—
Walter Scott.
Faint praise never won fair lady,
cither.
.All the world doesn’t love the lover'
who decides to park in the exact mid- *
die of a side road.
Above all, he will begin to learn
the essentials of democracy for there
is no society in the world in which
school and class lines are less conspic
uous than among children. He will be
popular because of his own worth, not
because of the fact that he is the son
of his father. ^
The first day at school is a great
day in the nation’s history. Tomor
row’s president, senators, judges and
plain citizens have gone into training.
The hope of tomorrow is in the hands
of the children' today. America of
tomorrow is in the making as the
school belis Sound.
2. Next you must hunt up the pro-
i hibition enforcement offisers and tell
them where your still is so’s they
won’t ever find it by accWent or oth
erwise. (N. B. The sum of $25.00 and
i a quart a week will fix some of the
boys so that they can’t see out of but
one eye, and $50.00 and 2 quarts a
week will put a great many of them
stone blind.)
Signs of Raw Battle In Senate Grow
As Minority Arranges Its Camp.
. Senator Harrison Speaks.
Washington, Aug. 24. — Increasing
signs of a spirited contest in the sen-
late over the party-old issue of tariff
I were apparent at the capitol today as
j Democrats revealed plans to broaden
j the attack to be made against the bill
as revised by republican me-nbers of
the final committee.
Ibis is true always, the fellow who
has a little money to invest never has
any trouble finding friends.
Not many folks blow out the gas
any longer, but a good many are buy
ing bootleg stuff that is just as dan
gerous.
WITH THE PRESS
Originally, man was the head of the
house, later the woman assumed that
position, and just now it seems to be
held by the kids.
It is claimed that buusiness needs
more .salesmanship. It also needs to
have a great many people stop talking
so much and go to work.
V.’hen the automobile driver runs
into a tree, the fault of course, was
due to the tree for being in the way.
The present age is said to have a
mania for speed, but you would never
know it when watching many people
work.
The vacation season is about over
for the children. They had a good time
while it lasted, and now the back to
books call is in the air. Life never
stands still. The children of today will
soon be the controlling, achieving cit
izens of later years. _
THE LURE OF TOMORROW
So long as there is work to be done
and the will and strengrth to do it, men
must be choosing what master they
-will serve. They may prefer to pay al
legiance to the past, where old stand
ards, old beliefs, old ideals ask their
loyalty and service, or they may heed
the lure of the future, where all that
is new and strange and changed lies
waiting.
Men are of these two sorts: Those
who look backward for security and
assurance and those who w'ill gladly
give yesterday ta oblivion and trust
their fate and fortune to tomorrow.
Men are grown old when tomorrow
loses its lure and the past begins to
4iraw them back from dreams and de
sires for the unknown future. Yet he
who wishes to hold on to youth need
never lose it altogether, since any
day that is still to come may prove
richer and more fruitful than a year
that is gone.
Hidden treasure lies beyond the
borizon of every new day. All that a
man has done and known and experi-
■«nced is but a little compared to what
.awaits him in the treasure-chest of
Time. He who keeps his courage will
mot be content with past rewards while
the future is so rich in promise and
fiossibiJity.
Getting Rich Today By Drawing
Next Year’s Wages
(From Fountain Inn Tribune)
Sing the song of American pros
perity.
Streets and highways alive with au
tomobiles—all of them “used cars”
worth 25 per cent less than the pur
chase price the day after they left the
show room—most of the new models
mortgaged for more than the'r pres
ent worth.
New cars leaving the factory as
water pours from a faucet; dealers re
quired to accept ten more each month
under threat of losing their agency;
car owners cajoled and shamed into
buying new models before they have
finished paying for old ones.
Electric refrigerators, phonographs,
vacuum cleaners and radios in every
home—and a vast army of collectors
waiting to get their share of the week
ly pay check.
Machines producing luxuries at
greater and greater speed; warehous
es overflowing; magazines filled with
advertisements that plead, threaten
and arouse the fears of the gullible
in a frenzied effort to force pufchase
of ever-increasing surpluws.
High-pressure salesmanship; a
dollar down; everybody living on next
year’s income.
Keep up with the Joneses.
The doctor, the merchant, the preach
er, the shoe-black—all buying stocks
on margin in the hope of getting rich
without effort. Corporations sending
their surpluses to Wall Street to be
loaned to gamblers at 12 or 15 per
cent. The price of stocks bid higher
and higher, each purchaser hoping to
unload on another, until the paper
value of shares is so high the legiti
mate investor can’t hope to get 2 per
cent dividends.
Statisticians telling u? the country
is a billion dollars richer because the
paper value of stocks has increased a
billion dollars.
Farmers making bumper crops and
dumping them on the market because
they must have money to meet their
notes; farm products selling for less
than the cost of production; farm
mortgages reluctantly renewed by the
banks because the land wouldn’t sell
for enough to pay the loans.
Garment makers, miners and textile
workers in the South earning just
enough to provide food and clothing.
Rich cream at the top; thin milk at
the bottom.
‘ 3. Select a drizzly dark night to
fetch down your still and worm and
barrels. Most any of your friends who
like a tiny snip now and then after
prayer-meeting will assist you in this
work, only don’t let nobody know that
they helped you. You’ll need a few
empty barrels and a long trough, and
when you get these things properly
fixed, you are all set for business.
4, Take 4 buushels of corn meal
and 100 pounds of sugar and 6 cans
of Red Devil lye and 4 wheel barrow
fuls of dry stable manure and 10 box
es of sulphuT" matches, and as many
old beef bones as you can get and
place them in the aforementioned
trough and cover everything with
water. Let it set for 4 or 5 days, but
come back and skim off the small
house flies every few hours, but don’t
bother the big blue flies that get
drowned in the mash: they add a kind
of bead to the brew.
5. As soon as your concoctment
has turned to beer, notify all of the
officers that you will be busy for a
day or so, then take the contents of
your trough and strain out all solid
! matter and pour the fluid into your
still and fire up. You ought to get at
I least 75 gallons of “spit-fire” from the
j first run, not counting backings. It
, will be no trouble to peddle it out in
I your community. But to keep things in
I apple pie order all the time, it is a
good idea for ^he officers to find your
still and cut it up every few weeks. Of
jcourse, you must ascertain from the
; officers what night they are coming
I so’s you can tako your worm home
i with you, as the worm is valuable and
j the still ain’t. Now that’s they way
I they do in Uncle Joe’s friend’s com
munity in another state, so says
Uncle Joe.
Crop Estimates
The government’s cotton crop esti
mate for the current year was just
about what the speculators knew it
would be. In fact, they had already
found out how many bales the South
would make: the private estimators
had told them. You see, it’s this way:
The government gets a few opinions
from Tom, Dick and Harry, but the
j private guessers do just the reverse:
I They get a few opinions from Harry,
Dick and Tom, and thus come forth
the so-calleJ estimates.
And a middle class reveling in lux
ury that will be paid for next month.
“A little service please.” Paying 50
cents for a 10-cent article’ and 40
cents’ worth of service.
THE FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL
In counting the gi;eat days of a
man’s life do not forget that one on
which he starts to school.
Frcm tens of thousands of homes
the babies will soon be going forth,
never to come back. A transformation
soon occurs. We send our babies to
school.but boys and girls come home!
to us. • I
And the lad’s great adventure has j
ibegun. Elbert Hubbard once’’ said,1
Sing the song of American prosper
ity.
Eat, driitk and - be merry. Your
credit is good.
School Notice
“Send your son to college and the boys
will educate him.”
Today the little one has measured
liimself, perhaps for the first time,
alongside of others. He has entered
into competition with them, matched
wits, made his demands' and taken
what he could get. His insistent will
‘ has come into conflict with other wills
as against his own.
He will be getting his education
jpretty rapidly from now on. He will
foe learning how to get along witb
ToOc —an accomplishment more im- j
porlant than art, literature ‘or music.
He will be learning to submit to au
thority—the beginning of good citi-
:asenship. He will be learning something
, 43f the marvelous dimensic^s of the
world in which he lives—the beginning
of true humility and real scholarship.
The Clinton public schools will re
open on Monday, Sept. 2, at 8:45 a. m.
Pupils will secure their books before
hand and regular work will be done
until second recess when the schools
will be dismissed for the day.
All teachers will be in their respec
tive buildings at 9:00 o’clock a. m. on
Saturday, Aug. 31, for the purpose
of conducting re-examinations and
classifying pupils. At this time the
teachers will discuss with pupils or
parents courses of study and help
them in any way they can.
It is advisable for all new pupils ^d
all pupils without promotion tickets
to consult with their teachers at this
time.
Pupils above the fifth grade in the
Providence school and above the sixth
grade in the Academy Street school,
will attend the Florida StreeTschool.
Those who do not enter the first
day will be given zero in their work.
J. Harvey Witherspoon, Supt.
The government evidently has some
extremely good guessers on its pay
roll. Some time around the first of
July, the boys assembled in meefing in
Washington, D. C., and told the world
that the United States would make
just so many bushels of wheat, but a
glutten bug began work on the golden
harvest a few days later, and it for
got to rain in Idaho and those thunder
clouds in Wyoming proved to be only
a boomerang, so Uncle Sam’s smart
guys had to meet and do all their
guessing over again. They reduced the
estimate by something like 267^65,-
876 bushels. They put wheat down 32
cents a bushel in 3 weeks and turned
around and put it up 66 cents a bushel
in 3 weeks.
I
Now, folks, we have decided to put
in a “private estimate” machine, and
we will need help from friends all
over the cotton belt. We will appreci
ate any information that a person
might decide to submit regardless of
whether he ever saw a stalk of cotton
or ever wore an outing night shirt.
W’e will assemble our information, ahd
then “let it loose” to Wall Street ev
ery few days. We feel sure the bears
will pay us something if we are not
too bullish. The following letters have
already been received,
flat rock, s. C. aug. the 22, 1929.
mr. gee msgee, private gesses,
anderson, s C.
deer sir:—
the cotton craps is off ‘/r85 in this
section, the boll weevil has bit off the
squares and the sharpshooters has
'shot off the leaves and it ain’t rained
a drap since i was a little boy. it is
so dry around here that that old beck
don’t slobber none after he has just
et up my patch of 'clover, where my
wife had hoped to get 3 bales, i and
she won’t make over 200 lbs. of seed
The minority disclosed it intended lo
[direct its drive against not only many
proposed higher levies but also against
a score of existing rates which it re
gards unduly high and need of revis
ion downward.
Amendments will be prepared on
virtually every industrial item in the
measure. Details of these and other
phases of the Democratic program
will be worked out next week at daily
meetings of the eight Democrats on
the finance committee. From the Re
publican camp word also went out dur
ing the day that the tariff would be
kept constantly before the senate un
til disposed of, with no other businesa
allowed to displace it.
In addition, from high Republican
councils, there was issued a warning
that should a filibuster develop en-
: angering passage of the proposed
legislation at the special session or
early in the regular session a move
would be made to defer action on the
tariff for another year.
Under no circumstances, it was said,
w’ould .the Republicans countenance
any effort to postpone action far into
the regular session beginning in De
cember'or until the time of the spring
primary campaign for the next con
gressional elections.
Attributing this warning to Senator
Watson of Indiana, the Republican
leader, Senator Harrison, Democrat,
Mississippi; said the move was not
surprising.
“This administration and those who
have brought forth the taidff iniquity,”
he said, “are beginning to f-icl the
aroused indignation of American
people.”
“They have retreated step by step
and nov/ are only looking for some ex
cuse to extricate themselves from the
position they have taken.”
Instead of a filibuster, Harrison
said there “is going to be orderly, rea
sonable d^fcate.” The Democrats, he
added, would “not be bludgeoned by
coercion or threats from a full and
frank discussion of every item and a
record vote on the various increases
in present duties and on amendments,
that will be offered by us on the
floor.”
“That is what the country wants,
and that is what the Democratic mi
nority will demand,” he asserted, add
ing that “the measure was indefensi
ble, that th^ Republican leadership
was beginning to see this, and that
leader W’atson’s move is the first step
in the retreat.”
ANNUAL MEETING OF
STOCKHOLDERS
The regular annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Citizens’ Building
and Loan Assocmtion of Clinton, S. C.,
will be held at tlie office of the First
National Bank of Clinton, S. C., on
Thursday, September 6, 1929^ ^t 4
o’clock P. M.
All stockholders are requested to
keep this notice in mind and attend
the meeting, as business cannot be
transacted unless a majority of the
stock is represented at the meeting.
B. H. BOYD,
Secretary and Treasurer.
August 17, 1929.—9-5-3tc
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