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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, SOimt CAROLINA
THURSDAY, MAY I,
COME ON ALL YOU
REFORMERS, CRIES
CONVERSE GIRL
Senior of Converse Defies Critics In
Treatise On Bobbed Hair. “Down
With Hairnets, Rats, Hair
pins, and Spanish Combs,”
She Says. ,
Miss Mary Shipp, a Converse sen
ior, editor-in-chief of the Converse
Concept, and winner last year of the
prize offered by the College Press
Association of the state fpr the best
short story, has prepared a defense
of the bobbed haired girl, which ap
peared in The Spartanburg Herald a
few days ago. The subject being one
of interest to the women throughout
the country, The Chronicle is repro
ducing the article. Under the cap
tion, “Is Bobbed Hair An Indication
•f Frivolity?” Miss Shipp writes as
follows:
“It is with hesitation, nay trepida
tion that I pick up a stub of a pencil
and twenty-five sheets of brilliantly
yellow paper to begin my disserta
tion on the defense of bobbed hair in
sofar a£ it relates to mind. It is not
at all my convictions are wavering or
hesitating—no, not at all—far from
that. I am as sure of myself and
my subject and my conclusions as^
Napoleon was when he went forth to
conquer Wellington at Waterloo. I
shall not suffer Napoleon’s defeat—
ho, indeed. My Wellington, like the
critics of short locks, is going to find
that a modern Waterloo is quite
'another thing; it has conviction,
truth and universality to combat the
foe. The Waterloo of bobbed hair is
Girls had seen the ease and conveni
ence and sensibleness of short hair,
and style for once couldn’t mould it
long again. Bobbed hair, out again
as a style and 9 mad fad. It’s an
American institution now.
“Friend Philosopher says: ‘Bobbed
hair will soon go out.’ You’re wrong;
you’re suffering under a terrible de
lusion. It’s no longer a moral ques
tion, but one of preference. Take
your vaudeville girl; true, she has
bobbed hair; she bobbed it first. She
gave the credit where credit’s due.
Take your ten-cent-store candy clerk;
her’s is shingled. Take your movie
star; her’s is frazzled. Take your
fast girl; her’s is clipped. But—take
your college girl; her’s is short. Take
your M. A.; her’s is cut. Take your
debutante and your young school
teacher and the librarian and the pro
fessor’s wife—and the cook. Their
hair is bobbed. You can’t tell a
thing any more about bobbed hair;
you certainly can’t. If you’re using
bobbed hair as the indicator of a
girl’s personality and mental make
up, you’re dead wrong—and several
years behind the time.
“There’s Caroline; she’s a little,
saucy, curly, bobbed hair girl and she
looks like a French doll baby, with
spice and pep and a touch of the
‘diable’ about her. Then there’* Annie
May. She’s a tall, regal girl, with
swirls of coal black hair that she
couldn’t be persuaded to cut for ten
million dollars worth of diamonds set
in platinum. Why not? Because she
considers bobbed hair a moral ques
tion? No, indeed; because it would
n’t be becoming. She knows her as
sets, and she isn’t going to make a
going to be a victor. Ergo! Why liability out of her hair,
should I hesitate? The answer is
simple: I am a bobbed haired girl.
“Now, that’s off my chest. In the
first place to roll up my sleeves and
begin. Be it stated here to whom it
may concern: namely to gray-haired
opponents of brief locks, to preachers,
college professors and deans; to doc
tors who refuse to hire bobbed hair
ed nurses; to school superintendents
who object to shingled teachers; to
mothers, fathers and great uncles; to.
aid maids, and last but not least, to
girls who don’t bob their hair on
moral grounds—that bobbed hair does
not now, regardless of a past rating,
and will not in the future, indicate
a certain type of girl or a certain
type of mind. To prove it:
“The'bobbed-lutired girls of five,
six or seven years ago were pioneers.
Little did they know when they
blithely cut their tresses and were
initiated into the mysteries of elec
tric curling irons.that they were to
become emancipators, of young wom
anhood from hairpins, hair nets, rats
and Spanish combs. Then, indeed
may it have been said— and I grant
you, justly, that the girl who bobbed
her hair had a frivolous or an adven
turous mind—a desire to attract at
tention and to be different.
“Mothers tore their hair, brothers
ccowled, fathers fussed, sweethearts
raved, old maids’ eyes grew envious
“The other night Caroline and An
nie May were on the train coming
back to school from spring vacation.
Two men, who evidently didn’t think
much of what Mr. Volstead dictated
to America, remarked that they’d
heard that 90 per cent of C girls
smoked and most of them were bob
bed haired ones. (C was the
alma mater of both girls.) Annie
May merely smiled knowingly behind
her breezy fiction, but Caroline drop
ped the Saturday Evening Post she
was reading and ‘told them where to
get off’ with ‘nobody’s going to talk
about my college around me,’ and
when she ‘got through with those two
men,’ they didn’t think that 90 per
cent of C’s girls smoked. They’d
changed their opinion of one short-
locked lady at least. By the way,
Annie May, bored at the discussion,
had slipped out to the dining room,
purchased a pack of Camels from the
porter and was smoking merrily away
while Caroline argued.
“I am not saying that people don’t
suppose bobbed hair indicates a type.
I merely say, it doesn’t. It is no
more an indication of frivolity of
mind than long hair was an indica
tion of brains a few years ago. It it
were, Heaven help the feminine youth
of America today. The majority, by
far, then are frivolous minded.
“Serious minded girls are bobbing
As they criticised the vain cries of their hair, brainy girls are bobbing
‘a craze,’ ‘a fad,’ ‘a vulgar thing,’, it, fine girls are bobbing it, and nice
woman’s hair is her beauty . ! . her; girls are bobbing it. It’s a perilous
crowning glory,’ filled the air. Emi- j thing to strike you. A serious girl
nent psychnlogiata predicted the ‘end, with long hair will state definantly:
of the farce’ with the ‘passing of the j T never intend to bob my hair; I
flapper’—and, lo, the flapper has wouldn’t cut it for the world,’ as she
pasaod, and left bobbed hafir Trnhihd. ‘ flnliliaa up her psychology paper
Last year, yes, a great ‘back to long about 12 o’clock at night. On the way
hair’ movement, instigated by public! upstairs she meets a girl with a pair
•pinion, long skirts, frantic hairnets * of scissors. ... In the morning she’s
manufacturers, wnd heralded by Van- j in the bobbed hair class. But can
ity Fair and the newspapers and her brains be changed by the scis-
‘whey say’ was begun. The styliah *ors cutting off her hair? We are
bobbed heads were stricken. They supposing that mental content and
must be in style. They began to grow not hair is the basis of the brain,
•ut again. The reformers licked their j “I am not defending the aesthetic
eheps—too soon. A revulsion swept aspects of short hair. I disclaim that
the country almost immediately, intention. Yes, verily. Candor for-
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Dr. McCain Is Right |
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‘ Much over a century ago the most
famous school for boys in the South
was the academy at Willington, South
Carolina, conducted by Dr. Moses
Waddell. Some of the lads he train
ed who rose to greatness were John
C. Calhoun, George McDuffie, Judge
A. B. Longstreet, and J. L. M.
Curry.
Doctor Waddell insisted that his
boys should be not only good scholars
but also good speakers. The com
mencement exercises of his school
were celebrated for the speeches made
by the most promising youngsters.
The academy was located in a forest
in Abbeville county and thither flock
ed great crowds from numerous
places in South Carolina «nd Georgia
when the institution had its brilliant
commencements. The multitude sat
on log benches under the trees and
listened raptly to the young orators.
Among those who often attended
were John C. CalhoUn and George
McDuffie. They made it a point to
encourage the youthful speakers and
to urge them further to cultivate and
develop their gifts for public utter
ance.
Last Friday night history repeated
itself in Abbeville county, for that
amiable gentleman and ripe scholar,
Dr. J. I. McCain, head of the depart
ment of English in Erskine College,
was so elated over the fact that one
of his students had won the State
oratorical contest at Greenwood tHat
he ran over to the dormitory in some
disarray of attire^ and joined enthus
iastically in the general jubilation
over the victory. He insisted that the
boys go back and ring the college bell
longer. In fact, in the argot of the
day, he seems to have been “the life
of the party.” A dispatch from Due
West says that, while the students
are delighted with the triumph, they
derive perhaps more genuine pleasure
from the happiness it gives Doctor
McCain for “they know that to him
little things like a baseball pennant
or a football championship are abso
lutely insignificant compared to the
achievement of ‘John’ Marion in best
ing the State’s finest college ora
tors.”
The incident reminds us of another
which is said to have happened at one
of the larger Northern universities
many years ago. A student, over
joyed at a victory won for his alma
mater, late at night rang the college
belli This was always regarded as
a signal for a big bonfire in celebra
tion of triumph. Out of the dormi-
torias poured the students and soon
there was a greet blase about which
they danced and sang for many min
utes. Finally, it occurred to them
that they didn’t know what victory
they were celebrating. They inquired
as to who rang the bell and the pale,
studious lad who was responsible
said that he had done it in order that
another victory for his alma mater
might be properly signalized. Asked
what it was, he replied, “Why, I won
the chess championship, from Yale
this afternoon.’’
Doctor McCain put emphasis in the
right place. If the colleges and uni
versities oughts to celebrate any
thing it is victory in the realm of
intellectual ability. That is what they
did in the days before the advent of
intercollegiate athletics. Yet, nowa
days most of the acclaim goes to the
victors of the arena, instead of those
of the forum. The “tumult and the
shouting” are for those who triumph
in, battle of brawn, rather than
brains.—Greenville Piedmont.
(Ms, & Stomach Trouble
Kills Negro On
Public Highway
Black Draws Goa and Fires, Bat
White Man’s Charge Takes
Effect.
York, April 27.—Bud Latta, negro,
forty years old, was shot and killed
by Bert Clinton, white, forty-three
years old, two miles south of York on
the Chester road at 7 o’clock, last
night, as the result of an old trouble
that culminated in a gun fight.
The inquest was conducted in the
courthouse this morning by Coroner
Paul G. McCorkle. According to the
evidence given, Latta was walking
along the road, when Clinton, who
was in a wagon with Jim Clinton,
relative, and Walter Benfield, a
friend, came up. ‘ Without any ex
change of words, Latta drew an au
tomatic pistol and Clinton a shotgun
and fired on each other almost
simultaneously. Latta’s bullet miss
ed, but Clinton’s load of shot took
effect in the right armpit, causing
death within a few minutes from
hemorrhage. The two combatants
were only about fifteen feet apart
when they exchanged shots.
After the killing Clinton went to
the home of a relative where he was
arrested last night and lodged in jail.
Trouble has existed between Clinton
and Latta for a long time, it is said.
Hearing that Latta wgs carrying a
pistol for use against Clinton, friends
of the latter have several times had
the negro searched, but no weapons
were ever found on him.
State of South Carolina,
County of Laurens,
Town of Clinton.
WHEREAS: A petition of the ma
jority of the freeholders of the Town
of Clinton, County of Laurens, State
of South Carolina, as shown by the
tax books, has been filed with the
Town Council of the said town pray
ing for an order for a special elect
ion in said town for the purpose of
submitting to the qualified, registered
electors of the said Town of Clin
ton, the question whether or not the
said Town of Clinton .South Carolina,
shall issue coupon bonds of the said
town in an amount not to exceed
)100,000 and that the proceeds from
saia town; ana 10 levy a tax ior me
retirement of said bonds, and said
bonds to be issued on such tortus as
may be deemed most profitable and
the water plant and system of said act as managers thereof, and
town and such other purposes as may I open the polls at said place in
be necessary in procuring, maintain-'
expedient by^ the Town Council of t^r of Laurens, State of South Caro-
said town. And,
WHEREAS: 1% appears that said
petition is in due form of law and
has been signed by the required num
ber of free-holders, as prescribed by
the Constitution and Statute Laws of
this state; and,
WHEREAS: The Town Council of
the said Town of Clinton in Council
assembled did on the 22nd day of
April, 1924, and by virtue of the
same, order, ordain and resolve that
the prayer of the said petition be
granted.
It is therefore by the Town Coun
cil of the Town of Clinton, County
of Laurens, State of South Carolina,
in Council assembled and by virtue
of the same, ordered, ordained and
resolved: That the question of the
said bond issue be submitted to the
qualified registered electors of the
said town at a > special election to be
held in said town on Tuesday, the
20th day of May, 1924, for the pur
pose as required by law of submit
ting said question to the qualified,
registered electors of saioL town.
That said bonds, if authorized by a
majority of the qualified, registered
electors of said town voting in the
election hereinafter ordered, shall be
issued by the Town Council of the
said Town of Clinton; the interest
rate on said bonds not to exceed six
(6%) per annum; said bonds to be
issued in such denominations and
maturing at such period or periods
as permitted by law regulating the
issuance of Municipal securities and
as may be determined as most expe
dient and profitable by the Town
Council of the said Town of Clin
ton. That W. D. Copeland is here
by appointed supervisor of registra
tion of. said town and he is hereby
directed to open the books of regis
tration twenty (20) days prior to
town at 8:00 o'clock in the forenoon
and close at 4:00 o’clock, in the
noon the same day, iThat the To'
Clerk shall give notice of said elect
ion by publishing the same in “The
Clinton Chronicle,” a newspaper pub
lished In the Town of Clinton, Coun-
once a week for four weeks
prior to said election and by posting
copies thereof in three public places
of said town four weeks before said
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Done, and ratified by the Town
Council of the Town of Clinton, in
council assembled this the Mtod day
of April, 1924.
W. H. SIMPSON,
Attest: Mayor.
DORCAS MASON,
Clerk of the Town Council,
Town of Clinton, S. C.
Notice of Election
Notice is hereby given that an
election upon an issue of One Hun
dred Thousand Dollars Bonds for the
purpose of improving and extending
the water system of said town and
that the proceeds from said bonds,
when issued, be used for the pur
pose of purchasing water-rights,
erecting dam, purchasing right of
way for tank line, erecting and con
structing pumping station, filtering
plant and tank line, either within or
without the corporate limits of the
said Town of Clinton, and for the
purpose of extending water mains and
sewer mains and other extensions or
improvements on the water plant and
sewerage system of said town and
such other purposes as may be neces
sary in procuring, maintaining and
supplying an adequate water supply
and sewerage system within said
town; and to levy a tax for the re
tirement of said bonds, on such
terms as may be deemed most profit
able and expedient by the Town Coun
cil of said town, will be held in the
said town on Tuesday, the 20th day
of May, 1924.
said election and keep them open for The polls will be opened at the
a period of ten (10) days for the City Station-house at eight o’clock
^ ... _ * A _ . * Al_ — .g A Ae n m
purpose of registering the names of
the qualified electors of the said
Town of Clinton and that he shall
give due notice of the time and place
of opening said books of registration.
That at said election, only qualified,
registered electors of the Town 01
Clinton shall be entitled to vote; that
the books shall be open at 8:00
o’clock in the forenoon and close at
4:00 o’clock in the afternoon; that
there shall be printed two ballots
and a sufficient supply of each and
on one ballot shall be printed the
word “Yes” and on the other ballot
shall be printed the word “No.” The
the sale of said bonds when issued electors voting against the issue of
be used for the purpose of purchas
ing water-right, erecting dam, pur
chasing right of way for tank line,
erecting and constructing pumping
station, filtering plant and tank line,
either within or without the city
limits of the said Town of Clinton,
and for the purpose of extending
water mains and sewer mains and
other extensions or improvements on
bonds shall vote the ballot contain
ing the word “No”; and the electors
voting for the issue of said bonds
shall vote the ballot containing the
word “Yes.” That said election shall
be held at the City Station-house in
front of Bailey's Bank in the Town
of Clinton, S. C., and that at said
election T. F. Milam and J. Calvin
Templeton and J, H. Donnan shall
A. M., and remain open until four
o’clock P. _M., T. F. Milam, and J.
Calvin Templeton and J. H. Donnan
have been duly appointed managers
of said election. -
No person shall be entitled to vote
at said election who shall not have
registered his name with W. D. Cope
land, Supervisor of Registration, for
the said Town of Clinton.
' The said W. D. Copeland will have
his office open- for the purpose of
registering voters from 9 o’clock A.
M. to 4 o’clock P. M. at the office
of the store of J. I. Copeland A Bro.,
in the Town of Clinton, on each day
except Sundays from the 29th day
of April to 12 o’clock noon on the
10th day of May, 1924.
By order of the Town Council of
the Town of Clinton, S. C., this the
22nd day of April, 1924.
W. H. SIMPSON,
Attest: Mayor.
DORCAS MASON,
Clerk and Treasurer.
beinf
Black-Draught liver med
icine since he and Mrs.
Smith began keeping
house, mrny years ago.
"When we have chills.” 1
says Mr. Smith, "Black-
Draught is what we use
and we find it just splen
did. I had a bad case of
stomach trouble. I couldn’t
hat enough and was very
weak. Everything I ate
hurt me, formed gas and I
spit up mv food. I would
feel stupid or staggery. I
didn’t feel like
work. I knew what
Draught had done in colds
and I began taking small
R.N. A. SMITH, of
Shaw, Miss., says
he can’t remember
without Thedford’s
any
doses. I certainly got re
lief. It did me lots of good.
‘When I go to town, I
look first to see how near
out of Black-Draught we
are, and then get more.
We are a good way from
the doctor and keep our
home remedies and the
main one * is Black-
Draught*’
In hundreds of thousands of
homes, housekeepers keep
constipation,
remedy to n
biliousness,
indi-
Drsught costs only pne cent.
it may save pea a big bill
medicine lateioa. Keep it
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store.
Get a package today.
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BIACK-DKAlKifr
A Purely Vetfetible Urer Medicine
cea me to that course. Bobbed hair
dm be the ugliest, most unbecoming,
most miserable looking, most comical,
most pitiful looking thing in the
world—except some long hair. Some
bobbed hair is pretty, some is hide
ous. Some long coiffures are pretty,
some biscuit knots or figure eights.
It’s a fifty-fifty. When girls wore
horrible,jmffs and rats and things
the world criticized. Now, that we
have bobbed these off, the world still
criticises and says that we are frivo
lous and indicative of a ‘certain type
of girl.’
“And do let me say by way of
parenthesis before I close that this
article refers to young girls with
bobbed hair—not old married and
grandmotherish women. Sobbed hair
is youth’s privilege. On age it indi
cates worse than frivolity of mind.
(Here, take that, O. Reformer.)
“In conclusion, I, a bobbed hair
girl, have written this defense, not
only of my brain, but of all bobbdil
haired girls’ brains. There are, I
grant, frivolous bobbed haired ones,
but, come out of hiding, O, frivolous
long-haired ones. And now, 0. con
quered at Waterloo, as the price of
peace, I demand that you stop judg
ing a girl by her hair or her lack of
it. As for those of^us who possess
a lack of it and a lack of frivolity of
mind, we can only quote:
“They say——
What do they say?
Let them say.”
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