The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, April 24, 1924, Image 4
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ATTEND THE MEETING
The Democratic clubs of the coun
ty have all been called to meet next
Saturday afternoon by Chairman C.
A. Power for the purpose of re-or
ganizing, electing delegates to the
county convention, arranging for the
opening of books of enrollment, etc.
The Clinton city club will meet at
the appointed hour of three o’clock.
The meeting is open to both men
and women and should be attended.
The public’s attention is hereby call
ed to the hour.
has not made sufficient effort to fit
himself for promotion. This is the
secret of the lives of those who have
remained in the treadmill of duties
which have not broadened as the years
have gone.
Whatever our work may be, we
should qngage ourselves in the help
ful task of gaining a broader vision
of it. The majroity of us do not im
prove because we ara too lasy to
exert oursfclves in the right direct
ion. We read for amusement rather
than profit, or else give our spare
time to such recreations as bring us
no improvement at all.
A man is lagging behind the world
unless he makes some progress each
year. In every tine there are new
discoveries, new methods as well as
new adaptations of the old. This is
true of medicine, law, education,
farming, banking, merchandising,
manufacturing, and all lines of en
deavor. If we fail to get anywhere
it is because we have not prepared
the way by using such opportunities
&s we may have of securing greater
information concerning the work that
we perform. In this matter there
are very few ‘*f us who are not at
fault and as a background to all our
failures there is carelessness or lazi •
ness which has brought about a lack
vf study and of effort.
. A BIG JOB AHEAD
The selling of the required number
of chautauqua tickets, undertaken
this year by the ladies of the Civic
Association, is a big job and one that
will never be accomplished without a
community spirit of cooperation. The
ladies have set next Tuesday aside
as “ticket day” and this means that
the town will be canvassed^horough-
ly in an effort to put the "drive”
over successfully in short order. It
should be done that way, there is no
need to put off or postpone the ladies.
Talk the matter over with the fam
ily, decide what you are going to do
and be ready to aesiat them in their
work when they call.
The chautauqua celebration each
Spring is good for the coigmunity.
It is a gloom-chaser and helps us to
forget our tre&bles and see things in
a happy, cheerfhl manner. A week
of entertainment and enjoyment as
it affords will refresh us all and in
spire hope and confidence for the fu
ture.
The ladies have a big job on their
hands. To succeed—they need the
encouragement and support of the
entire community.
THE MAJORITY WILL RULE
The majority will rule. To do oth
erwise is inevitable. The American
government was established upon the
principle of the rule of the majority.
This is so well understood that it
would seem that the minority would
always be willing to bow to the will
of the majority.
But this is not always the case. It
has happened more than once that the
majority has been compelled to use
stern means in order to put its will
into effect. It may be necessary to
do this again.
Take our national prohibition law,
for instance. The law was passed by
a majority of the people, who believed
that the suppression of the manufac
ture and sale of strong drink would
be best for the country.
But a minority of the people, in
nearly every state, seem determined
to set the law at naught. In many
sections it is being openly violated,
and when this is done the government
of the country is defied.
But this suituation will not continue
always. Sooner or later the majority
HANGMAN RETIRES.
LINCOLN’S POEM.
STRONG WOMEN.
NATURES WONDERS.
John Ellis, England's hangman, re
tires from business, giving no rea
son. He hanged Roger Casement and
Edith Thompson, the last woman
hanged in Great Britain.
Ellis was paid fifty shillings, about
$12.50, each time he hanged a human
being. That was for the hanging.
They paid him fifty shillings more
"for good conduct.”
“Good conduct” meant that he must
stay out of drinking saloons at the
place of execution before and after
the hanging. This made him lose
money; in the old days public houses
wouficUpay the hangman to stand at
their bar.
The more he drank the more the
hangman talked, the more he talk
ed, the more terrible became his
stories of the groaning, begging,
pleading or “game indifference” of
the men around whose necks he fas
tened the rope.
If you think hanging or other capi
tal punishment necessary “to frigh
ten criminals,” devote a moment’s
though to Ellis, the British hangman.
If a crowd rushed to see him, buy
him free drinks, and listened to his
tales of horror, do you think hanging
really prevents crime?
It dees not, on the contrary, it
stimulates crime, by stimulating ad
miration for the criminal.
state in March reports 124 killed by
automobilea. Everybody says “That
is terrible, we must do something
about it”
In a year 200,000 mothers die in
childbirth, because they are neglect
ed. Nobody gets much excited about
that.
Cancer and tuberculosis kill their
tens of thousands. All that we take
for granted.
“AFTER SIX DAYS” TO BE
SHOWN AT PASTIME
“After Six Days,” a magnificent
picturization of the world’s greatest
story, the Old Testament, will be
presented at the Pastime Theatre on
Wednesday and Thursday, April 30-
May 1. The picture carries the spec
tator through a swiftly moving nar
rative, beginning with Adam and Eve
in the Garden of Eden and ending
with the immortal Songs of Solo
Reliable Groceries the year 'round. You
will always* find great satisfaction in
selecting your Groceries from our high
grade stocks.
Likewise, we give you our unexcelled de
livery service and store attention.
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R. C. COLLINS THROWS
HIS HAT IN THE RING
Today’s paper carries the announce
ment of R. C. Collins as a candidate
for alderman from ward five in the
approaching primary. Mr. Collins is
overseer of the weaving room of the
Clinton Cotton Mills, and since com
ing to Clinton several years ago has
made & number of friends who will
be interested in his first political ven
ture.
YOUR BUSINESS APPRECIATED
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C. C. BAILEY ANNOUNCES
FOR RE-ELECTION
R. J. McCRARY WITHDRAWS
FROM ALDERMEN’S RACE
C. C. Bailey, well known citizen
^and business man, announces his can
didacy for re-election as alderman in
today’s paper. Mr. Bailey has served
from ward one for the past two years
as a member of city council and his
friends are glad to know that he is
standing for re-election.
51AKE IT A REAL CAMPAIGN
Next week, the period April 28-
May 3, has been designated as
“Clean-Up Week” for the community
and all are asked to join in and give
city and premises a good Spring
cleaning.
The idea is to set this period aside
to cleanliness and attractiveness*.
The mere cleaning is transient and
futile without public commitment on
the part of all, so that in its new
dress, of grass, or shrubbery, a thrift
garden, or paint, the city will so in
spire the respect of everybody that
it will not be permitted to revert
back to unhealthy and unattractive
conditions.
That’s tbe basic essential of a real
“Clean-Up Week” for lasting bene
fit to the community. ^
Don’t let’s call it a “day” nor a
“week.” A “day” is merely pathetic
and a “week” is hardly long enough
to make even a fair start Let’s have
a real campaign! And keep it up
as long as may be necessary to do
a real job; then renew it on the same
basis in the fall.
To “Get the Habit” is the thing,
and that never can be done in the
annual bath of a “day” or a “week.”
The campaign should be made
more than a “lick and a promise.
/ WHY WE GET IN THE RUT
Every man, regardless of what his
Business or profession may be, should
spend part «f his span time in fit
ting himself for his work. An un
willingness to do this is the cause
of much of the incompetency in the
world today—or, if you please, just
plain laziness on the part of many
who become perfectly satisfied and
chow no inclination or make no ef
fort to improve themselves and to
broaden their knowledge.
Knowledge must precede progress
along any Use, and in no greater de-
j gree is there power in knowledge
than in its application to the tasks
which make up the activities of our
fUlves. The man who stays in a rat
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the people will insist upon mess
res that will put their will into ef
fect.
The bootleggers and moonshiners
will be put out of business. Liquor
drinking will become a thing of file
past, entirely unfashionable wad
■corned upon by the business world.
This will not happen in a day -or
week or year—but ultimately. No
set of men in this country can be
strong enough to defy the majority
of the people, and the majority of the
people want a prohibition law and
want it rigidly enforced.
Presbyterians Win
From Wofford
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Exhibition Game at Laurens Won By
Spectacular Work of P. C.
Outfielders.
Laurens, April 21.—In an exhibi
tion game this afternoon the Pres
byterian College baseball contingent
defeated the Wofford Terriers by a
2-1 score. By mutual agreement, the
game was to be a purely exhibition
affair, and the result of the contest
has no bearing on the race for state
championship. The Terriers outplay
ed the Blue Stockings but stellar
work on the part of the Presbyterian
outfielders saved the (|ay ' for the
Presbyterians..
The Presbyterians scored in the
first inning on singles by Hannah and
Moore and two infield hits. Again in
the seventh, the Blue Stockings regis
tered on hits by Miller and Hunter,
an infield out, and a sacrifice hit.
The Terriers threatened to score at
several stages during the game but
did not cross the platter until the
ninth frame rolled around. Crawford
doubled to left, stole third and count
ed on a sacrifce fly.
Jimmie Bailey twirled a good game
for the Wofford nine and deserves
much praise for his work. He fanned
six Presbyterian batsmen and yield
ed but-five hits. Failure to hit in the
pinches by his teammates cost him
file victory.
Score by innings:
Presbyterian ..... 010 001 000—2 5 0
Wofford .... .... ....*000 000 001—1 7 0
T. J. BLALOCK TO
RUN FOR ALDERMAN
T. J. Blalock throws his hat in the
‘ring in today’s paper as a candidate
for alderman from ward two in the
approaching election. Mr. Blalock
is well known in the city and his
friends will learn with interest of his
’having entered the aldermanic field,
WHAT DO
P. & JEANS
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The J. Pierpont Morgan collection
of valuable mss. exhibited to the pub-
Mc include a poem, “The Bear Hunt,”
by Abraham Lincoln, and this is how
it begins:
, A wild bear chase didst never see?
Then hast thou lived in vain—
Thy richest bump of glorious glee,
Lies desert in thy brain.
Here you learn that it is possible
to be a great man and a very bad
poet.
ENTERTAINMENT AT
HURRICANE SCHOOL
I wish to announce to my friends
"that I have withdrawn from the race
for alderman in ward five in the ap
proaching election. I wish to fur
ther thank my friends for their in
terest and support and to assure one
and all that this interest was deep
ly appreciated.
r. j. McCrary.
Clinton Red Men
Honored At Pelzer
This is a prosperous country, worth
defending. Last week 1,500,000 stock
holders received little envelopes con
taining dividends amounting to more
than $250,000,000. If you ddn’t get
any of the dividend envelopes don’t
waste time envying or hating those
that got them. Save your money, in
vest it, and you can get dividends
also. Except for the very unfortunate
there is no need to stay really poor
in this country.
Mr. Albee, who collects , strang?
things and shows them, brings from
Italy the strongest woman in the
world. She can sustain the weight
of a two-ton elephant, and allow men
on horseback to ride over ** bridgS
of which the weight rests upon her,
In old days such a lady would
have been courted by many.
She might have been that Amazon
queen, who told Alexander .the Great
that she would like to be the mother
of his children, a message followed
by an interesting meeting.—Alexan
der having sent the only reply that a
polite man could send—being a bache
lor at the time.
What became of the result of that
meeting? Who knows but that this
powerful Italian woman may be the
descendant of Alexander the Great?
Now, however, a child moving an
electric switch could raise a thous
and times the weight of that two-ton
elephant. Mere muscle doesn’t count
any more. But strong women, not
able to lift elephants, but with good
strong bodies free from nicotine, al
cohol, late hours and general foolish
ness, are as important as ever they
were.
Uppn them depends the brain of
the next generation and future civ
ilization.
Nature is “wonderful.” There are
birds like animals, animals like birds.
The strangeness of creation is in
exhaustible. The University of Penn
sylvania sends an expedition to catch
a hoazin, bird that breaks stones with
its beak, swims like a duck, flies like
a bat. The same expedition will look
also for a “Bellbird.’ Instead of sing
ing it tinkles like s bell.
There are snakes that swallow their
young to protect them, then let them
out again. There is s lady tosti that
lays her eggs on the back ef her
husband, .who hops around cheerful
ly in the sunlight, hatching the load.
Nature really is wonderful.
A clever entertainment, followed by
an ice cream supper, is announced for
Friday night at Hurricane school-
house. The exercises will begin at
eight o’clock and all patrons and
friends of the school are cordially in>
vited. The program will include a
number of selections as well as a
negro minstrel act. This will be fol
lowed by an ice cream supper and a
pleasant evening ip promised all who
attend.
Niagara Tribe Imperial Order Red
Men was represented at the Great
Council meeting which was held at
Pelzer last week by J. B. Yarborough,
Charlie Lankford, and G. W. Mea
dows. These men became members
of the Great Council, which is an
honor that any man should be proud
of and one which not easily attain
ed.
Niagara was especially honored in
having one of its members chosen to
a chieftancy in the Great Council, J.
B. Yarborough being elected a mem
ber of the Great By-Law Committee
for South Carolina, a position of hon
or, trust and influence. Out of all
the tribes in the state we know of no
better man than J. B. Yarborough
for this position, having been a mem
ber of the order for thirty years
and being familiar with all the laws
and usages of the order, places him
in a postion to be of great help to
the various branches of the order over
the state, especially to Niagara,
which is one of the leading tribes in
the state.
“MINEWAWA.”
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
All persons holding claims against
the estate of Dr. Jas. R. Copeland,
deceased, are hereby notified and re
quired to present them, duly proven,
to the undersigned, at Clinton, S. C.,
on or before the 16th day of May,
1924, or be forever barred. '
MRS. MAMYE L. COPELAND,
Apr. 24* 1924—8t Executrix.
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