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CLINTON, S. C. t JUNE 26, 1924
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FROM A NEW YORK FRIEND
The news came a day or two ago
from far-away New York of a gift
of five thousand dollars for the
Thomwell Orphanage. The contri
bution is contained in the will of the
late Miss Kate B. Blackwood of that
city, who left more than fifty thous
and dollars to educational and chari
table schools in the South.
It is gratifying to all friends of
the institution to learn of these gifts
that are being made to it from time
to time. It shows that in the hearts
of the people it holds s warm and
tender place not measured by terri
torial lines. Its noble history of the
past forty-nine years has drawn to
it thousands of friends, many of
whom, like the New York lady, are
constantly remembering it in their
wills.
Nowhere, could the deceased friend
have invested her money where big
ger dividends would have been yield
ed than in this groat institution. Not
dividends in dollars and cents, but in
Christian character and education.
Gist, was written in regard to na
tional elections, but it is just as ap
plicable to our primary, which in
reality is our election:
“Actual figures show that some
thing over 25,000,000 voters of the
country did not vote at the last gen
eral election. And the record was
broken then, in that the largest num
ber of votes were cast, we believe,
proportionately speaking. The pri
mary system has been flayed. Some
say that fewer good men are elected
to office by this system than under
the old method. If this is true, is it
the fault of the system, or the stay-
at-home voter who refuses to exercise
the elective franchise?
“Ballots are bullets. They are am
munition for fighting the forces of
wrong. They are quivers for carry
ing the reformer's arrows. They are
celestial forces that make for better
homos, purer lives, greater prosper
ity, progress worthy of the name.
“He who will not vote destroys the
precious privileges and sacred rights
for which our fathers fought.
“The citizen who does not vote has
no right to blame officials for the
way the government is managed.
“The stay-at-homer on election day
does hot mean it very much when he
sings, ‘America’ and ‘The Star Span
gled Banner.' There would be no
America and no Old Glory if all peo
ple were like that.
“It is doubtful how much protec
tion the State ought to give that one’s
property, life, and all other indivi
dual interests if that one does noth
ing to make possible the existence of
the State.
“Democracy is only an experiment,
as Lowell said. America is still in
the experimental stage. It may yet
'ail, and if it does, the responsibility
will be upon the men and women who
xaven’t interest, religion, and,patriot
ism enough to go to the polls and
vote. The failure, if it does come,
will be the result of this apathy; will
be the result of Democracy’s own
citizenship committing political sui
cide.”
PLANTING TIME OF HONESTY
Not long ago Dr. Edgar J.. Swift
interrogated more than a hundred
business and professional men as to
the lawless acts of their boyhood. He
sought to get from their opinion as
to the best way cf dealing with such
Infractions of right and justice. The
unanimous opinion was that reason
ing proved the most effective means
of steering the youthful along
straigtforward lines.
This revelation is interesting par
ticularly at this time when the coun
try is seething with politics, when al
most every lip bends in scorn when
the moral fibre of our politicians is
considered.
Evidently if we would obtain hon
esty in government we must start
further back than the primaries. We
must implant a more complete under
standing of what actual honesty con
sists. In our school if a child fails
to grasp the principles of an arithme
tical problem we drill until the prin
ciple is firmly embedded in the mind.
In morals we announce the princi
ple but once and expect the standard
to be reached instanter and main
tained. ^
Until we implant a better standard
of hondsty in the walks of everyday
life it is difficult to see how from
the ranks of such loose morality we
can recruit governmental officials
to reach that standard of integrity
for which the country seems to cry
in vain.
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Governor McLeod
Named Chairman
SHENANDOAH PASSES.
TOO FEW OWN HOMES.
A LADY VICE-PRESIDENT.
THE PEOPLE'S INDEPENDENCE.
The airship Shenandoah, sailing to
ward Albany, above the Hudson, last
week passed the Twentieth Century,
the fastest New York Central train,
coming from Chicago. The airship
carried 120 human beings, the express
train many more. The passengers on
th| fast train bent their necks look
ing upward, and thought how strange
it was traveling up there in the air.
In a few years that well-appointed
express train* will be out of date as
the stage coach is now.
The young Vanderbilt boys and
George F. Baker, real boss of the
New York Central, would do well to
begin planning now for transporta
tion through-the aif; They have the
terminals, can raise money and should
see* the warning written in the sky by
smoke from the exhaust of the big
flying ship.
President Coolidge tells real estate
men he wants to see this country a
home-owning nation. That’s better
than Henry Navarre’s wish that every
Frenchman should have a chicken
cooking on the stove. La Poule, au
poto.
Frenchmen, seven millions of them,
own the soil of France, thanks to
the revolution.
That’s what helped them to hold
Verdun.
ENROLL—EVERYBODY
Again The Chronicle urges all vot
ers, men and women, both in city
and country, to enroll in their respect
ive clubs in order to participate in
the primary election in August. While
the books have been opened several
weeks, only a small per cent of the
voters have signed their names to the
rolla. This must be done, and the
man or woman failing to register, is
disqualified. The books will remain
open for another month giving all an
epportunity to enroll.
A great many people confuse a pri
mary and general election and never
knwo what is necessary either to en
roll or to vote. Qualifications to vote
in the primary, briefly stated, are as
Delegates To Convention Are Having
Fine Time. Plenty Entertain
ment Provided.
New York, June 2-3.—At a caucus
of the South Carolina delegation to
the national convention today the
delegation organized as follows:
chairman, Governor Thomas G. Mc
Leod; vice chairman, Claud N. Sapp;
secretary of the delegation. Miss Yar
borough, who is secretary to Govern
or McLeod; vice president of the con
vention for South Carolina, Mrs. W
D. Melton, of Columbia; to represent
the state on the committee on rules
Congressman F. H. Dominick, of
Newberry; on the committee on cre
dentials, Mrs. LeRoy Springs, of
Lancaster; on the committee on plat
form and resolutions, Col. E. A.
Brown, of Barnwell; on the commit
tee on permanent organization, Tom
B. Pearce.
The delegation unanimously repu
diated a report printed in one of the
New York papers this morning that
two members of the delegation had
been attempting to make plans for
breaking their instructions for Mc-
Adoo. This statement said that these
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two members, whose names were not
given, had consulted Senator Glass,
of Virginia, on the subject. No veri
fication of the report could be ob
tained in any quarter and it looks
as if it is one of the many wildcat
stories which are' being freely circu
lated here.
Senator Glass is not talking to dele
gates as to how they may break in
structions. He is himself for Mc-
Adoo, though the delegation of which
he is a member is instructed (or
Glass.
A committee of prominent New
Yorkers from South Carolina, head
ed by former Attorney General W. A
Barber, is maintaining a handsome
suite of welcoming headquarters for
the delegation in the McAlpin hole
and is showing the delegation all pos
sible attention and courtesy. Among
the twenty-five Or thirty members o
this committee are W. Gibbs Whaley
forlherly of Charleston; Huger W
Jervey, dean of the Columbia Univer
sity School of Law; William Mason
Smith, L. D. Childs, Lee Trenholm,
Dr. Douglas Bissell, Dr. C. H. Wylie,
Dr. Marcus B. Hyman, and Julian
B. Beaty.
Mrs. Barber will entertain the
South Caroline delegation at her resi
dence here tomorrow. Bernard M.
The peasants own Sweden. That
enabled Charles XII to march with
only 12,000 of them through Peter’s
great armies.
Too few own their homes and the
and, in this country.
The Agricultural Department re
ports the worst crop in many years,
'ffiat’s bad news for those who eat
the crops, but may mean better prices
r or farmers not able to make a liv
ing recently.
The Chicago Board of Trade ex
pects higher prices for grain, and
with the wheat crop cut mere than
forty million bushels something ought
to happen.
Federal District Judges Carpenter
and Wilkerson set aside President
Coolidge’s pardon of Philip Grossman
in Chicago, denying the president’s
power in civil cases and adding: M To
allow such power to the executive is
to strike a death blow at the inde
pendence of the judiciary.”
Tom Rankin was born in the har
ness room of a stable on Monroe
street, in the heart of the -Chicago
stockyards, forty-nine years ago. His
father, “Bull” Rankin, was a black
smith, town bully, off-and-on prize
fighter and a drunkard. His mother
was an outcast. He was reared in
filth, disease and ignorance and at
11 became a “killer’s assistant” in
the steer pens of the stockyards. Be
cause he didn’t kill fast enough his
boss stabbed him and Tom was taken
to a nearby hospital. Stubborn, bru
tal of instinct, dull of mind, he was
nevertheless touched by the sweet
appeals of a visiting social worker
and upon release was “presented” to
the worker by his father. The work
er arranged to send him to a farm in
Montpelier, Vermont, and he was
“taken in” as a green farm hand by
a family named Taylor. He rose be
fore dawn and worked until after
dusk at a monthly stipend of $12 and
“keep,” but his life was made mel
low and soft and sweet by the kindly
treatment of the Tfcylore, especially
Mrs. Taylor. Encouraged to save,
praised for his work, watched over
and educated by the farmer’s wife,
young Rankin grew to manhood.
When he was 35 years old he had
$1,200 in the bank. During that year
the Taylors died of diphtheria and
the small farm they had left to him
he sold for $2,200. ^ With $3,000 he
moved to Burlington^ Vermont, a city
of 19,000 inhabintants, and there
bought a small chicken farm in the
outskirts where he began specializ
ing in white and black Leghorn hens
and eggs. Five years later he own
ed 1,500 such hens, seven Jersey cows
and a few prize-winning hogs. He
had developed a butter, cheese and
egg trade not only in Burlington but
in Boston, that netted him $10,000 a
year. Four years ago when he was
forty-five he was said to be worth
close on to $100,000, the proceeds of
the sale of his busiifess to a large
syndicate milk concern.
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right prices.
Only the Best is Good Enough for our
Customers.
Your phone calls here bring surprising
ly prompt and accurate service.
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orders his army fliers to use
against locusts and field mice.
We could use it here, a heavy vari
ety, to destrop prarie dog colonies,
snakes in the breeding places, and
rats in city sewers.
No shadder of excuae to make—
sobbin* as if yer heart would break,
sobbed out yer woes in her dear lap
—a mighty contrite little chap. . . .
That dirty face against her breast,
a thousand vagrancies confessed ....
What soothin’ power in that tone,—
“There, there, dear heart—it’s all— 1
all gone!”
She patted ye with 90ft caress, and
quieted yer child-distress,—and, rock
ed ye back an’ forth the while, and
fed ye with her heavenly smile. . . .
O, how yer little heart would turn
an’ nestle near that heart of her’n!
All frettin’ ceased. . . ., forgiveness
won,—-“There, there, dear child, it’s
all—all gone!”
So, when in after years ye erred,—
when unkind fate or weakness led to
dire disaster,—hope transferred by
dread despair that racked yer head,—
then—then, sad heart, is when you
learn the solace of them words of
Lewis A. Culbertson
Dies At Laurens
Laurens, June 23.—Lewis A. Cul
bertson, 16 year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. Bee Culbertson of the Trinity
Ridge section, died Saturday at the
local hospital, after a week’s illness
from an attack of acute appendicitis,
followed by peritonitis.
Funeral services for the young man
were held today from Chestnut Ridge
Baptist church, with a large con
course of friends and relatives at
tending. The services were led by
the Rev. Weston Bruner, D. D., pas
tor of the First Baptist church of
Laurens.
Young Culbertson, the eldest son of
his parents, was a noble, exemplary
youth, whose death is peculiarly sad
to the community in which he lived.
He was a member of Chestnut Ridge
church, was secretary of the B. Y.
P. U., a member of the Royal Ambas
sador, and assistant teacher of a Sun
day school class in the same church.
hern’n,—Vou seemed to hear 'em
through the tears,—though she’s been
gone these many years!
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That’s a good saying .and coura
geous. All federal judges depend
on the President for appointment and
promotion.
Its also a saying for the people to
remember in case they happen, some
day, to get rulers that represent them,
and nobody else.
At present our system “Allows such
power to the judiciary as to endanger
the independence of the people.” You
see it when the casting of one single
appointed Supreme Court vote* in the
majority, hal power .to over-rule an
elected Congress. And when Con
gress is ruled by a bare majority, in
court*beyond the people’s control,
that is not Democracy.
If there exists any power greater
than the people’s power, then what
we call self-government is a joke,
as when a fanner lets his baby “drive
the horses,” the farmer, however,
holding the reins, while the baby only
thinks he is driving.
Well thought out power to recall
every one of their public servants,
whether elected or> appointed by an
elected official, is what the people
will have eventually. That will come
when they really take an interest in
their government and thus prove
their fitness to govern themselves.
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nominated for vice-president.* It isn’t
necessary to say what old politicians
think of that. Nevertheless, young
politicians will live to see things in
politics more surprising.
The time hasn’t come yet, however,
for, strange)y enough, at this moment
more women than men would be
shocked at the idea of a woman on
the presidential ticket.
follows:
“The applicant for membership, or' ® aruc ^ host to the delegation
voter, shall be 21 years of age, or f* a theatre party Wednesday even-
■hall become so before the succeeding ( * n K an< * Mrs. Baruch will hold a re
general election and be a white Demo-1 c ©ption for the delegation at her New
crat. He shall be a citizen of the York residence Thursday afternoon.
United States and of this state. No j 80 man y courtesies are being
person shall belong to any club or ( shown the delegation that it is simply
vote in any primary unless he has impossible to keep up with the pro
in the state two years and in 1 New York seems determined
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^strict sixty days prior to ths,
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