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PAGE FOUR SlK ffilfronirlc |ji • ur M J ( f PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 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. it- Terms of Subscription: One year - $1.50 Six months .t. 75 Three months 50 Payable in advance THE CLINTON CHRONI YOU NEED NOT FAIL Uncle JtrHftl i Foreign Advortiwn* Rrpreoentotnr* I THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of it’s subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. Make ail remittances to THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. Clinton, S. C. CLINTON, S. C., MAY 29, 1924 8 PAGES Good-bye, seniors. The best wishes of their friends will follow the college boys to their homes for the summer. The Chronicle hopes that you will have a pleasant vacation and that the fall will find you all back at P. C. for another year. • ^ By Artiwr FLORIDA—GREAT EMPIRE TO BE. TWO POLITICAL QUESTIONS.* DEEP PLOWING PAYS. DRESS UP, GIRLS, DRESS UP. The stock of the Atlantic Coast Line in Florida reaches a “new high.” Big profits are made, and the stock holders exult. If Florida interests you, or railroad profits, find out what S. Davies Warfield, president of the Seaboard Air Line, is doing with his new railroad in Florida. When he finishes the short cut from the West Coast of Florida across to Palm Beach and other points, establishing direct connection between New York and Southeast Florida, over his own rails, there will be an active fight for business and profits. ANOTHER CONFERENCE HERE The Young People’s Conference of the Synod of South Carolina, an an nual event of interest to the outstand ing Presbyterian boys and .girls in the State, will be held in our city next month. These conferences have been held here for the past three years and always attract state-wide Interest, the enrollment last year having pass ed the record mark of two hundred’. Indications point this year to a fine conference. Dr. R. F. Kirkpatrick, the manager, stated a few days ago. The coming of this body of Christ ian young people into our community places a responsibility upon us. We should give .them a whole-hearted welcome while here and extend every possible courtesy. ' Social attentions as heretofore, should be paid the young people to make of their qtay in our midst a pleasant one. Such cour tesies on the part of Clinton folks will be profitable advertising for the city, and at the same time will con tribute in a large measure to the pleasure of our guests. There will be plenty of business for both roads, however. No imagination can foresee what the prosperity of Florida is to be. That State, which, as the Jackson ville Journal tells you, Jefferson could once have bought for five cients an afrre, and ultimately did buy for fifteen cents an acre, is apt one day to be in several different ways the greatest State in the Union. Two questions that interest politi cians are these: Can the Democrats be persuaded to give up the rule that compels a man to get two-thirds of all the dele- ; gates before he can be nominated ? And will the Democrats put in their national platform a plank denouncing the Ku Klux Klan, and thus outlaw ing many Southern States on whom the Democrats must depend to win ? It is a delicate question and may be solved by some vague generaliza tion concerning all secret societies. Great fortunes are sometimes made in snyUl towns and in strange ways. In Good Ground, L. L, an old fashion ed hamlet with a couple of streets arid a half dozen stores where motor ing tourists stop for gas, or crackers and cheese, and then speed on to more pretentious villages, lives Walter King, known all over the world as an unusual designer of women’s hats. Not so many years ago when other boys went clam-hunting or fishing. King would hurry home from his father’s small general store and de sign hats from the wires taken from bales of hay, covering the frames with calico snipped from bright colored bolts, or with tea matting “swiped” from tea boxes. His family was poor in those days and they had a educate Walter. The crisis in an industry, like dig- gin* coal, ye know—gives rise to ap prehensions of the winter with its snow,—and the crisis in the meat- supply, or grain that makes our, bread, keeps the average consumer in a constant state of dread And—it sends the prices skyward; every time the crisis frowns,—when the life preserver’s out of reach, of course the sailor drowns. . . . While the wreckin’ crew is patchin’ up more economic laws, the panic devil tears us with his unrelentin’ claws. ... I have watched the operation through so many gloomy days, that I harbor my suspicions of the feller that it pays. There’s A reason at the bottom of each economic mess,—and when a trouble’s chronic, it is hard to cure I guess. . . . Ain’t i( time for changin’ hard time of it to j doctors—when the treatment seems to His education ended; fail ? Can small-pox treat itself with- BISHOP CANDLER FOR SEPARATION when he graduated from the locakj out the drugs a-growin* stale ? We’ll high school. The great problem of never find the remedy ip self-inflict eaming a-living was partly solved ed laws, while the pestilence is spread- when a year after graduation he left in’ under treatment by its cause! home to become a window dresser in [ a Southern city. A lover of beauty with inherent instinct for color combi nations he was able to hold his job which in those days was a triumph, but the pay was barely enough to buy the necessaries of life, and totally insufficient to “help out” at home. On the threshold of manhood his father’s business began to wane, and his mother was stricken with an in curable disease. Walter was ordered to return home and assume the work of the store. This he did, but rising before dawn and working late into the night he began to design hats as a profession < and shortly afterwards when placed on display in the little store they caused so much furore in the town that their fame became nation-wide. A few years later Wal-. ter King became the most sought af ter King became the most sought after milliner in the East. Today King has an international reputation and is called a rich man. S Eat Vegetables They Are Healthy We have a full supply of Fresh Vege tables. Nothing healthier or makes a more enjoyable menu. Phone for whatever you want—fresh ar rivals every day. FRESH WATER TROUT EVERY FRIDAY. LITTLE S DENSON • 50—Two Phones—54 Clinton, S. C. ers have openly avowed and persist ently followed for over fifty years.” The two churches, “after living to gether with much strife and conten tion from 1784 to 1844, sixty years, Opposes Unification of Two Churches. Says Let Well Enough Alone. Atlanta, May 24. Bishop Warren have lived as separate churches from A. Candler, senior bishop of the 1844 to 1924-eighty years. They have Methodist Episcopal Church, South, | ij ve{ j apparently apart twenty years regards the proposed plan of unifica-1 \ ongeT than they lived together, and tion of the Northern and Southern during those eighty years of separa- Methodist churches as “dangerous and j tion t h ey have constantly diverged in hurstful to both,” and “if adopted it wh polity and spirit, more and more would hurt most the Methodist Epis-! every year.” In Baltimore, a farmer named Mey- erly is said to be plowing up a good wheat fields with a sub-soil plow, hav ing been told there is gold in his land. He won’t find gold, but if he plows deeply enough, and plows his wheat under, he will improve his soil, and increase his farm’s value. TWO VIEWS OF LIFE Very few of us are philosophers, but whether we know it or not each man has some philosophy of life and this philosophy moulds his conduct. Men may thus be classified in accord ance with the philosophy of life which they practice. In a general way it may be aaid that a man’s view of life is worked out in connection with the use he makes of the present. There is one class which lives for the present only. They are content to eat, drink and be merry and to give but slight consid eration to the years which are yet to be. They live upon a kind of safety first plan, deeming it best to get all they can by way of enjoyment and self-indulgence out of the passing mo ment and not being willing to defer until tomorrow that which they may not be left to enjoy. Such people are usually thriftless. They do not accumulate and are prone to place upon others the blame for their poverty when they come to an age of need. This is a form of philosophy which may be employed with comparative safety in the time of youth and health and strength. It In the second part of Faust, Goethe tells of the farmer plowing deep be cause under the Emperor’s law he was allowed to keep all buried treas ure, “turned over by the plow.” That was probably an ingenious scheme to make the farmer plow deeper, make his soil richer, and thus be able to pay heavier taxes. Convention Strong For W. G. McAdoo copal Church, South,” according to a statement he made public here - to night. “It is not strange,” the state ment declared, “that the General Con ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, adopted the joint plan with such haste and unanimity. The plan gives them so great ar> advant age over our church that most nfitur- “The Northern Church constantly Officers Capture Liquor Outfit Still and Snpply of Paraphernalia of Two Negroes Found Near Here. H. Grist and Anthony Kingsbury, two negroes, were arrested Friday night by Rural Policemen Owens and Chandler, assisted by Magistrate M. A. Cannon, and carried to the coun ty jail charged with violation of the ,,, ... .... , .. „ ., prohibition laws. According to re meddles with political matters, the . . ... * . . ^ P° rt8 of the P° 1,ce officers, the two statement continued, “as the South ern Church does not and ought not to do.” “During their General Conference of this year, 1924, three committees have been sent to Washington on political missions, and all sorts of The State of Kentucky killed three men by electricity, two white, one colored, one white man seventy years old. Forty-six minutes after they be gan walking to the death chair, one after the other, all were dead. Only one spoke, as he was strapped into the chair. It was Frank Thomas, white man, who said, as the light was shut out from his eyes forever by the electrocution mask, “Good night, I’m going home.” Wouldn’t it be interesting to know where, how, in what home those three men will awake—if at all. Will the black man still be black, when he comes to and dimly remembers how he died? Will the gray-haired mur derer still be seventy years old, or be gin again as a new baby’ Interest ing questions. ' College young ladies of the Young Women’s Christian Association, tell * gets a great deal out of life so long | working girls to dress “plainly and as these conditions last, but there j demurely” for their souls’ sake and nearly always comes a time when a j to impress possible husbands with man needs some form of surplus their good qualities. Sensible Helen which was laid in store during better days and at such times this philoso phy fails. The men who fail thus are themselves to blame, having neglected during better days to guard against those reverses which are the common experience of the race. This attitude toward life carried many astray dur ing the recent boom times and dur ing all seasons there may be found individuals who practice this danger ous philosophy. Others cultivate the habit of using the present as the servant of the fu ture. They are willing to deny them- adves now in order that they may be able to look forward to a more cloud less future, and not be at the mercy of curcumstances during later years. It may be that .they find as much joy in the prompt i payment of debts and in the contemplation of future inde- nce as any other man can find spending all that he has for what present can give him. A few of men may fall into the fault of liness, but on the whole they Gwynne, retiring president of the Y. W. C. A., who is a factory worker, and has presided over an assembly of 30,000 factory girls, tells these girls to dress as conspicuously as they can, “even flashily.” ’ The rich girl, says Miss Gwynne can afford to dress plainly. That sets her off in her luxurious sur roundings. But the working girl, in her plain home, must dress as well as she can, by way of contrast with her surroundings, if she wants to marry. Sensible Miss Gwynne. An automobile smash-up with Jesse James hurt reveals the fact that the son of the great highwayman now works as a patrol to prevent highway men holding up automobiles: Everywhere you see verified Four ier’s saying “Contrast in character between father and son.” South Carolina’s National Delegates Instructed To Vote As a Unit For Former Secretary. Columbia, May 21.—South Caro lina’s 18 votes in the national Demo cratic convention at New York next month were definitely placed in the McAdoo column today. By a vote of 198 to 128, the state convention in session here instructed its delegates to vote for the former secretary of the treasury for the Democratic pre sidential nomination as long as his name is before the convention, and bound the delegation to vote as a unit Delegates at large elected were Governor McLeod, Edgar A. Brown of Barnwell, Senator T. B. Pearce of Columbia, and Leroy Springs of Lan caster. Women delegates chosen were Mrs. W. E. Duncan of Aiken, Mrs. Nellie C. Ellerbe of Marion, Mrs. L. H. Jennings of Bishopville, and Mrs. W. D. Melton of Columbia. Delegates from the various dis tricts, were elected as follows: First: N. B. Barnwell, Charleston; V, C. Badham, Dorchester. Second: P. F. Henderson, Aiken; W. F. Lightsey, Hampton. Third: Albert Fant, Anderson; Fred H. Dominick, Newberry. Fourth: C. D. Nance, Laurens; L. W. Perrin, Spartanburg. Fifth: John T. Stevens, Kershaw; R. B. Caldwell, Chester. Sixth: J. S. Mclnnis, Darlington; J. W. Johnson, Marion. Seventh: Claud N. Sapp, Richland; A .H. Marchant, Orangeburg. Judge Mendel L. Smith was made temporary chairman and Senator S^ H. McGhee, of Greenwood, permanent chairman. Former Governor John Gary Evans, of Spartanburg, and Mrs. Leroy Springs, of Lancaster, were re-elect ed national executive committeeman and committeewoman, respectively, without opposition. I sasaooiviio y CSSSVft Mia 0v/1 IsO V/A ally they leaped to seize the prize resolutions concerning political mat- which they thought they saw in sight, 1^8 have been brought forward, in- apparently ^forgetting all other con- eluding one about what is called the siderations.” j D yer anti-lynching bill, which is an “It is not untrue or unkind,” Bish-: unjust and unconstitutional bill, aim- op Candler continued, “to say that ed particularly at the South.” the plan furthers the policy of thatj The College of Bishops of the church with reference to ‘the disin- Southern Church at a recent meeting tegration and abeorption’ of our held in Nashville, Tenn., voted to call church, which a number of their lead- a special General Conference of the I darkies were surprised in the act of operating a still on the W. W. Davis farm near Clinton. The still had been previously located by Officer Chand ler, who with the other two officers, kept a vigil for several nights before they were able to make the arrests. The still, a fifty gallon affair, with a quantity of^ other paraphernalia wai captured. Southern Church on July 2 to act on the question of unification. The com mittee on arrangements are to meet in Chattanooga, Jqne 28, to decide upon the meeting place. THE CORNER STORE Closing Mi all of mr Mob’s Straw .to bo th* butaraurko of | aa- B*** jjjfti- 1 fr ®« Joanna Superintendent On Inspection Trip T. N. Crocker, superintendent of the Joanna Cotton Mill; of Goldville, left Saturday afternoon for New York where he will spend a week inspecting the mill of the Oswego Shade Cloth Company and familiarizing himself with the grades of cloth used in their manufacturing plant. The Goldville property was recently purchased by this New York concern. WHAT DO P. 8. JBANS In this age the woman dresses herself and her home with equal regard for fashion. She realizes that just as the clothes her grandmother wore are now impos sible, so is a great deal of the furniture she used out of the question. It is true—and fortunate—that furni ture fashions are not so short-lived as costume fash ions, but they are quite as definite, quite as necessary to the well appointed, modern home as are today’s clothes to the well turned out modem woman. Do yourself good by looking through our showings in Living Rpom, Dining Room, Bed Room and Kitchen Fufniture. Always up to date and prices always lower than in larger cities. I \ Fuller-Simpson Furniture Company - “THE HOME MAKERS" , CLINTON, - - ■ . . SOUTH CAROLINA l