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TUB CONTO olltp (Ht|rnmrb PUBLISHED 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 - ~-^u60 Six months 75 Three months 50 Payable in advance i Foreign Advertising Representative I THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION J The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of it’s subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. Make all remittances to THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. Clinton, S. C. v CLINTON, S .C., APRIL 17, 1924 12 PAGES Don’t forget the chautauqua- three weeks off. -just building for 40,000 additional spindle space, $200,000. New school building and improve ments to the present plant, $80,000. These facts and figures tell of a big building boom, and all of it is either under construction now or certainly planned for this year. . From these figures—one gathers that Clinton is now enjoying a build ing period and will continue to grow larger and better. Her location, her educational advantages, her manufac turing industries and her enterprisa —her visioi^, of herself and her fixed purpose to make that vision come true, will bring it to pass. What is needed now is a commun ity spirit of pulling-together and a cessation of fault-finding, knocking, and political strife and prejudice—all of which does the town no good. In the meantime, if we work to gether and continue to march for ward as we have begun with the year 1924, drummers who go about will tell of Clinton to strainers and this will have a big part in bringing greater Clinton to pass. First-class drummers do not talk much of the article that It not itself first-class. This is from the Tampa Tribune: When you wish to buy something where do you look for it? In your newspaper. When you need information regard ing some event of the future where EASTER Now hope, new joy, new life—that is the significance, of Easter. Dur ing the year our material plans go astray, troubles assail us and the world seems a dark and dreary place j must you go for it? indeed. But withe the coming of Eas- To your newspaper, ter we are reminded that material Where do you obtain your knpw- things count as naught for only the j ledge of current events, science, spiritual has power and permanent j politics and the greater part of your actuality. We learn that as we cease education? to trust in the material, we are no longer made unhappy by existing From your newspaper. When your merchants need busi- Kg lions yearly the national debt. He is giving to the public, for the salary of a junior clerk, the service of one of tiie ablest business and financial minds in the United States. He should be thanked, not nagged. I REMEMBER THE MIDDLEMAN. ANOTHER ICE AGE. GOODBY, ROADSIDE SIGNS. NO TELEPATHY. FOOLISH ATTACK ON MELLON. The Senate Interstate Commerce Committee votes unanimously to give farm products the lowest possible transportation rate on railroads. It's a good idea, for farmers, and good for those that eat farm products. But what about the middleman. Cut the freight rates all you please, and that won’t help the farmer if the middleman cuts the reduction in freight from the price he pays the farmer. And it won’t help the consumer if a middleman adds to the cost of food what is saved in the freight rate. With Standard Oil setting the ex ample, fifteen great corporations have agreed to discontinue roadside ad vertising that disfigures landscapes. Manufacturers of tires, automobiles, soap, flour, motor partis, oil, yeasts and products are included among cor porations that will discontinue dis figuring the landscape with billboard advertising. This is more than a concession to public opinion and good taste; it is also good business. Roadside adver tising is wasteful advertising. vV level best to turn the light on the infamous fcoundrels high and Iqw, who arh guilty of stealing minions from the American people. The next president will be a Democrat and he could not fjnd a better, more effi cient man for attorney general than Hasel Scaife, who would notv hesitate a moment to round up the robbers and grafWrs, put them in stripes and g.-w.yirr »+»»»♦♦»»»»» DAY ANOTHER RUMMA6E SALEJON SATURD ^ The (idles announce another big Rummage sale for next Saturday afternoon. Parties desiring to con tribute articles are asked to leave same at. the Western Union office. recover some of the vast sums they have stolen from the nation. J Y T~ « Scaife the Patriot tt 8- n At a little ferry that cros/es the Hudson River opposite Kingston, N. Y., farmers were unloading magnifi cent apples in barrels. The price at which th efaxmer sold them was about 3 for a cent. At a little stand in side the ferry house a lady with a pleasant face was selling apples not so good—price 10 cents apiece. You can’t do much for that situa tion until you do something about controlling middlemen. mateiial conditions. Striving for; nesSi through what medium do they spiritual happiness we gain joy and obtain it? peace, and material difficulties mira- Your newspaper, culously disappear. Christ, in over- When the community and the coming the greatest obstacles the churches, schools, civic and welfare world has ever known, set an ex- organizations of the community need ample for us. ( And though the way com munity action and co-operation, to may often seem difficult, yet each . what do they appeal, year at Easter time, we gain new - Ypur newspaper. * strength and courage, knowing thatj These are some of the reasons why the Resurrection has as vital a mean- the neW8pJl p er ia Y OUR newspaper ing for us today as it did for the and why communities are only as people nineteen centuries ago. BtTong and propregsjye a8 their news- ' ■ " , papers. There may have been in- A GREATER CLINTON j 8 tances where a live newspaper was We were talking with a gentleman una ble to resuscitate a dead to4n, m the lobby of a hotel the other day but there is no man who has been —he was what they call a commmer- a mourner ' at a funeral where a live citl salesman theee days. They were newspaper has been the undertaker known as drummers in other days,, ^ a dead town. If there is one and somehow, we like that jiame for 1 qujcfc cure f or community somnolence drummers meaa much to business it » a wide-awake newspaper. even as the drummer means nfach to the music of the brass band. He said, “Clinton struck him as a good town and he believed it had a fine opportunity to go forward if it would measure up to it.” Now our drummer was not from Clinton, but he visits here occasioa- Scientists fear the approach of another Ice Age. The last one lasted 1,000 years, long enough to make human beings forget almost all they had learned. It would be hard on business, real estate and prosperity generally, if we should have two or three years of Winter, with no Summer between, and then ice gradually creeping down from the Pole, covering the continent, as far South as San Francisco, or Santa Barbara. The first duty of a newspaper is to transmit to its readers the thoughts and activities of humanity at home and abroad, but the value of that other department of the news paper—advertising—should be over looked by none. The public antici pates its shopping by scanning the ally, and he has a clear head and a ^vertisementa in the newspapers and vision. He doesn’t go around Hk« the merchants anticinate their busi- lots of folks—asleep. Enlarging upon his statement, we are ready to second his belief,with the emphasis on the latter part of what he said. But it all depends on what we do, whether we boost and plan and work for the future, or whether we just drift along in a seif- complacent and satisfied manner. The gentleman we quoted, knew Clinton. He said some things that led us to think he likewise has a speaking acquaintance with some other places. But that is neither what we started out to say, nor Qur business. Our main concern is .with the things that concern Clinton, and more especially with the things that concern Clinton for gpod. It is surprising, as well as pleas ing—what Clinton is and what she has. Building operations are in pro gress today on an unprecedented scale, and everywhere one goes or the merchants anticipate their busi ness by newspaper advertising. Ad vertising is a mutual proposition be tween all concerned. Before the rise of present inten sive newspaper advertising the public was powerless to plan its buying. Money, time and unsatisfaction was the price paid. At the same time the merchants had to be content to wait for business and the most of it came Saturday afternoon and evening, sel dom on Monday and never in the morning. Newspapers and the uni versal employment and appreciation of« newspaper advertising permits the public to plan its shopping and has made business for every week-day. After all is said and done a city’s newspaper is a public service institu tion—without which there is no pro gress and ahead of which the city will not run. Its development is a community’s concert. The better the newspaper, the larger its circulation, But perhaps it won’t happen, or science might handle the situation with artificial heating, ^nyhow, it would not disturb old earth. She ^has still several hundred million yean to live. We are only 12,000 yean from the Stone Age. It matters little to 'Mother Earth whether we become civilised now or forget our lore and postpone civilization 100,000 yean more. Nature is not in a hurry. There are living animals whose evo lution represents ten million yean, the whale, for instance, that used to live on land and was smaller than a gray squirrel. Colonel Bryan need not believe that, if he doesn’t want to. It’s only what scientists say. (Greenville Piedmont) Everyone wh§ knows Capt. H. L. Scaife, native' of Union, S. C., will back up what Senator Dial * said in defense of him on the floor of the senate last week. For some time Captain Scaife was an investigator attached to the de partment of justice and he soon got on the trail of much of the rotten ness, graft, theft and fraud in the federal government. Yet his super iors would not heed the evidence which he presented to them. Sena tor Dial well said of him that he was forced out of the department of justice because “he wanted the truth to come out, irrespective of whomso ever it might convict or injure.” He insisted on doing his duty without fear or favor, and, as Senator Dial pointed out, “had his advice been fol lowed at that time, many of the* guilty would today be where they be long—Jn the penitentiaries of the country—and millions of dollars would have been recovered for the treasury of the government.” More over, Captain Scaife has not hesitated to go into print and disclose the wholesale looting of the government carried on by crooks and grafters. For his exposures on the witness stand and elsewhere he has been at tacked by a former official of the department of justice. Captain Scaife Is as clean as a hound’s tooth. He learned' his les sons of fearless adherence to duty from his father ^rho was a gallant Confederate artilleryman from the Palmetto state. He himself, although far over age, served as a soldier in the World war. He has done his Time for a Ni* We have the famous CHAIN BATTERIES * , Edwards Auto Service [ Our Quick Delivery is \ for Your Convenience William Ferree, war veteran, has had two-thirds of his stomach re moved and has gained thirty-five pounds in weight.' He is now able to work and enjoy life. Nature and science combined work wonders, and will take care of us, if we give them half x chance. Many a man with his stomach whole would be better off with half of it if he learned to take care of what he liaji left. If men, occasionally, jtould throw into a pail what they throw, half chewed, into their stomachs, and then look at the pail, they would know why so many die too soon. . S s 1 Every day we receive words of praise from our Telephone customers—people who seldom bother coming to the store, but just telephone their order, knowing they will get the same quality and the same service they would receive in person. Fresh Fish Friday and Saturday LITTLE S DENSON 50—Two Phones—54 ' Clinton, S. C. looks, the sound of the hummer and i the tor the colnlnercUI saw is heard, telling a story of growth. These figures, while not en tirely complete, tell of the construct- the city in which it is published. In this day and time it is essentially , , , a business enterprise, on the one .on now under way or drawing to a g, depeDd>nt up<(n iu eompetion. ..... resources and its resources upon com- . New poatoff.ee bmldin* on North j munity Jupport And it ia an enter . Broadway, costing, $55,000. prising and right thinking commun* Calhoun Highway construction un- itJr thllt 3eek , firet the boildi o( der way through tM* section, with . trong newjp , p<!rs . The V(!ry nature an expenditure o $ 8,500. j 0 f the business abaorba financial ox- New dormitory at the Presbytenan j p^urc. far in excess of public College costing $100,000. ^ | conception and until they are long Athletic gymnasium at Presbyter- j in center8 of more than ian College costing approximately 25,000 population it is a matter of $125,000. The erection of thirteen new bun- investment without returns. It ia the „ _ Bl process of building, building, build- galowa at the Clinton Cotton “iU» i ing._Spartanburg Herald, costing $20,000. ^ Two new brick dormitories at the State Training School to be erected at a cost of $60,000. v A number of residences, stores, and f improvements to property at ap proximately $75,000. New Baby Cottage to be erected at Thornwell Orphanage at coat of f80,000. Construction of Southern Power into aod out of tfto si to Lydia Oatfeon Mills &. J. McCRARY TO 'V RUN FOR ALDERMAN Friends in ward five announce R. J. McCrary in today’s paper as a candidate for alderman from his ward in the coming primary. Mr. Me- McCeary is head of the Clinton Mer« cantile Company, a former member of city council, and ia well known hers where he has resided foci her of years. Learned Harvard gentlemen—who might be more usefully employed— will undertake thought transmission, or telepathy, from Harvard to Paris, across the Atlantic Ocean. It’s a harmless pastime, and if the gentle men on both sides have enough ima gination they will believe that they have accomplished something. Meanwhilp it is fortunate for the human rac* that slowly, through the ages, men have leaded with the spoken and printed word, that they can transfer thought from one brain to another aatisfactorily. There never will be any such thing as tele pathy on this United planet. Most foolish activity is the at tack made on Mr. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury. Those that attack him should thank him for his service to the Government. 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