PAGE FOUR THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CUNTON. S. C. v; '■, ■ 514? QUinton CEl|rnmrlF Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One year $1.50; Six Months 75 cents; Three Months 50 cents Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly ad- \icc-. 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. it ough{ to be invsetigated, I say for get it, and start all over again. If your political friends are not honest, you are simply out of luck. I do not believe, however, the statement that over 26 per cent of the taxpayers’ money is either stolen or wasted or squandered: I think it is nearer 24 per cent. CLINTON, S. C. OCTOBER 17, 1929 WH.\T A FRIEND IS i The true meaning of “w'hat a friend: A THOUGHT The Charge to Keep.—Watch and piay,“that ye enter not into tempta- recently expressed very splen- tion; the spirit indeed is wijling, but (jjfjjy these words by the Thomas- the flesh is weak.—Matthew 26:41. 'ton, Ga., Times: Economy I am a strong believer in sensible economy. Aunt Minervy is the most economical woman I ever saw. She bought a family toothbrush in 19 and 20 (when cotton was selling at 43 cents), and it is in pretty good shape to this day. She says Uncle Joe is rougher with it than any other mem ber of the household, but as he uses it only on each third Sabbath when he is dressing, to go to church, he has bit out only about 2 bunches of the bristles. The cook uses it some also, but she is careful with it. All of the children brush their teech with it since they started to school and took up the study of health and sanitation. 'where she could get 3 ten-cent rolling I pins for a quarter (not for "biffing j purposes, as some of you have already thought), and she took them.'The one her Cousin Bill gave us years and years ago when we married is all ! right yet, but just think of how much she saved in that purchase. It figgers about 33 per cent. She is also strong on, buying whole bolts of lace if the girl in Woohvorth’s will cut the price one-tenth of 1 per cent per yard, Not long ago, she subscribed for a maga zine for 15 years because she was promised p years free by the boy who was working his way through college. (Confidentially, she has never yet heard from the college boy or the magazine). him from his birthday in March till Thanksgiving, when somebody, offers him another stick. I have an aunt who has the same 3 hair-pins she started to keeping house on in 18 and 99. She took her 3 bustles about that time and mad6 a nice.sofa pillow from sam^and it is still 0. K., thank you. any of the Actors said. But speaking of the luxury tax, ain’t motor oil high though ? I’rayer Help us daily, Lord, to watch and pray and keep busy striving to help others. More lives are lost by stepping on the gas than by blowing it out. Step lively. The time for Christmas shopping is beginning to dwindle. You can’t always tell. A man often gets callouses on his hand by playing golf. Be slow to borrow trouble or to take offense, if you would have happiness and length of days. ‘ .A.nd speaking about stable business conditions, you don’t hear much about complain from the garage men. Yes, a girl can be pretty with a drug store complexion, but think how much happier she would be w'ithout it. A noted Chinese statesman is quot ed a.s saying: “We want a sound gov ernment to be run by the people and not by the politicians.’’ Well, it does ho harm to w'ant a government of that kind. Today is what you have. It’s also what ycu are. .\nd again. Today is what you do. .\nd if you haven’t any thing and .aren’t anybody, and do noth ing—why, then, for you there is no Tcday. Yesterday is no problem—for it is past. Tomorrow is no problem— f r it isn’t here. Today is supremacy. “He never investigates you. “He likes you just as you are; he does not alter you. “He likes your moods, and enjoys ynur pessimism as much as your'op timism, “He likes your sucess, and your fail ure endears him more, “He is better than a lover, because he is never jealous. “He wants nothing from you, except that you be yourself. “He is the one being with whom you can feel safe. With him you can utter your heart, its badness and its good ness. You do not have to be careful, “In his presence you can be indis creet, which means you can rest. “There are many faithful wives and husbands; there are few friends. “Friendship is the most admirable, amazing and rare article found among human beings. “Anybody stands by you when ycu are right; a friend stands by you when you are wrong. “Like the shade of a great tree in the noon-day heat, is a friend. “Like the home port, with your country’s flag flying after long jour neys, is a friend. “He is the antidote to despair, the elixir of hope, the tonic for depression and the medicine to secure against suicide. “It is he that keeps alive your, faith in human nature, that makes you be lieve in a good universe.’’ My wife don’t waste anything either and she can smell a bargain plumb acrost the street. She found a place Nobody’s Business = By Gee .McGee SS A FIGHTING TEA.M The fine showing made Friday by ^ the Presbyter.an college football team' Additional Extravagance i ajainst Furman, ha.s brought forth ^ many complimentary exprCsE:on3 from purpose, an appendix has it on an those who saw it, and this in spite of inve.stigating committee, especially if the continued roughness and knock- anything to do with the out tactics that characterized the appointment of the committee that is game. Outweighed by several pounds, ^^e investigating. Out of 15,456,- tiie Blue Stockings were doped to be ggy investigating committeemen who ail easy opponent for the much talked ^een paid the sum of $876,543,- I of Hurricane, but to the contrary, the 075.OO, irregularities in accounts of i Faptists had then hands fulL ^ public office holders have amounted i , Clinton IS proud of Presbyterian s ^ 75 : team and the fine showing it is mak- |i ing. This interest shold be given ex-: o„,y ^j,out 3 per cent of the inves-!| pression to by supporting the team, tigatmg committees ever make a re- ' at home and away, and letting the All the others are lost in the i boys know t’nat we are beh-nd thcm.lghuffle or are forgotten as time rolls i Let everybody back up the team, and information from them.,; be a booster for u j Probing for graft is like fishing for i ' whales in a stand-pipe. Really .the sub- i PREVENT F'lRES ject is so ludicrous, it is actually very ■ Annual Fire Prevention week, which' funny. Does a bootlegger carry hisJ has just closed, was in a way a com-1 booze around on his shoulder? No? ; memoration of the great Chicago fire | And neither does a man enter in the i of 1871, for it was on October 8, 1871,'general ledger or his petty cash book j: that Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over how much his last rake-off was on j a lantern and started a conflagration that purchase of machinery ansoforth. i which raged two days and nights, kill - ^ «___ ing 25^0 persons and destroying $195,- Graft begins and end.? in the back i 000,000 worth of prcnerty. } room or in a hotel suite Mr. E. Z. ' \ ,^ince 1926, those sponsoring Fire Mark gets elected to office and he im-' i Prevention week disclose, there have mediately becomes a power in the j been diminishing fire losses. Never-,world of finance and begins to buy \ the less, in the last year for which stn- stuff for his county or town or state.!; tistics are available, 1926, ten thou.s- ivjr. 0. U. Bird meets him by appohit- : and persons were killed and property ment where no dictaphones or ear- i worth millions was destroyed by fires drums are in evidence They take a': in the United Slates. drink or tw*^. Then Mr. Bird passes aj; Most of these fires were prevent-‘few hundred or a few thousand in.; able. It is said ninety per cent of the j beautiful gro^’!..;ic.c ? under the tabic i deaths and destruction were avoidable, to Mr. Mark, and Mr. Mark signs on’: It is up to every citizen to keep in the dotted lin-, and within a r. w days,,: mird always the necessity for constant a nice bunch 12-thousanil d.-llar '' watchfulness and care to prevent fires. ,merchandise ..r machmerv rons iiuo The penalty of neglect in this respect Itje freight ya.J an j, the couniy or he is very heavy indeed. town or the state forthwith sends its check for about 15 thousand dolbirs in .MAKING A TOWN” 1 settlement of the account, rih, mw. n.y Every town has its advantages and'dtar Mr. T,.<’-)ay-*r, the cost cf I’-e should make the most of them. Every |equipmenL, and not the s'" ft money is town is peculiarly fitted for some one t?ntered on the books. enterprise more than another, and as! jS soon as it is ascertained what would j When a case has grown si, bad ,nat| S be most conducive to the growth and the legislatu»*e or congre.ss appoints tn prosperity of a town the citizens investigating comnvtt-ie, then I know should take hold of the matter and the matter « settlfd for .nil time. The push it for all there is in it. One man j usual work of such a committee i.s to cannot make a town. The newspaper I white-wash “^be guy anJ his fntnas cannot do it. But one man or a news-^ho did the s