The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, April 17, 1924, Image 4
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CLINTON, S .C., APRIL 17, 1924
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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-
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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*
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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. .
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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
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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
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to Lydia Oatfeon Mills
&. J. McCRARY TO
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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.
No longer a young man, over-work
ed, with gigantic interests of his own
that needed his attention and that
nobody else could attend to, he drop
ped his own business and took up the
financial affain of the United States.
He did this at a time when, as
everybody knows, the best brain in
the country was needed to manage
United States finance*.
He has managed finances well, has
In taxation,
down by hundreds of mil-
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