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PAGE FOUR tuk ubimuiw CLINTON, S. a ©Iff ©hrontrk PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY $ rv BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHINQ CO. WILSON W. HARRIS Editor and Publisher Entered at the Clinton Post Office as matter of Second Class. Terms of Subscription: One year $1.50 Six months 76 Three months 50 Payable in advance , Foreign AdvortUinc RrprnrentBtfre 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 all remittances to THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. Clinton, 8. 0. CLINTON, S. C., JULY ■3, 1924 The world may not be growing bet ter, but it certainly can’t grow any worse. Still, the theory of evolution is about the only way of explaining the origin of some people. Money isn’t everything, of course, but if you have it you don’t worry so much about other things. him. The water we drink and the air we breathe are filled with millions of germs, and' to resist these microbes a certain resisting power is neces sary, and this power of resistance is the thing which marks the line of distinction between health and dis ease. We are constantly weighed down and handicapped in the race of life by our own frivolities and inconsisten cies. The man who lives up to his possibilities, who actually reaches out to take advantage of the things that wait for him is the man who is con stantly increasing his resisting pow er, who is constantly extending the boundary lines of his individuality, the man who each day extends the sky line of his mental conception of things beyond what it was yester day. If you climb up to the top of a high mountain peak, you can see aw&y into the distance, overlook other mountains, see across hills and val leys, and, down below, you watch other people going about engaged at their daily work or in pursuit of pleasure.— Your mental horizon or your men tal viewpoint can be much the same as yoar- ^ew^ from the mountain- peak. If you establish a certain limi tation beyond which you say you can not travel,, then you have establish ed a line beyond which it will be im possible for you to advance. You have established your own limita tions. You have admitted your own weaknesses, or rather you have set up the weaknesses within you and have given them free reign. The greatest enemy of individual ity, the most common handicap which decreases our speed and slows the average man down to mediocrity, is fear, and fear exists only within our selves. If you admit there is not a future, for you at a certain thing, in a certain institution or in a certain business, then there can be none. You have said there is no future, and in saying, you have made it so. Nothing is impossible. Nothing is beyond the reach of the individual. NOT JUST A DAY Are we to spend another Indepen dence day recognizing only the sym bol of the fire cracker and listening to the vaporings oi our ever present political opportunist, or are we to sense the deeper message of the day of all days in this land of opportun- * ty _’ , . , . , You have only to look about you to ■'‘‘\YbM , e seems to be men who do not j i* • j 4. * j . , . , , find proof to this. It is demonstrated know the difference between July the Fourth and Henry the Eighth. The day is brushed aside as one of mile stones in our national journey, at which we must halt because it is the custom. Your blase New Yorker thinks of it as a bore—the same old story. There must be the usual ex- Bf ArtMy Unde John OUR NATIONAL PRIDE. WONDERFUL BABY CROP. WOMEN WITH BLACK NOSES. 157 POUND HOLSTEIN CALF. You’ve heard of England’^ patriotic exhibition, at Wembley, planned to boom the British Empire and arouse British patriotism. The best imperial exhibit shows a m?.p of the world of gigantic size, with the oceans, seas * and bigger lakes made of real water. Britishers walking around that map see all parts of the earth’s surface owned by them lighted up by red lights from below. They see thous- anda of British shimumpying * through the water on the great world’s trade routes. Signs tell them ‘that the British flag flies over one- quarfer of all the land on earth. When the visitor from Canada, Australia, South Africa, sees that he says to himself, “Partnership ip the British Empire is a pretty good thing.” And other nations including ours are bound to give the Britishers cre dit for governing ability. You saw the other day a statement by the British Labor Prime Minister Mac Donald, that the wholq, army of the British Empire is smaller than the army of Holland or Spain. That means good management. on every hand, by the telephone, the street car, the radio invention, the airplane, by a thousand successes here and there and everywhere, ac complished by men who simply reach ed out to take advantage of existing opportunities, men who permitted . . . . L ,. j ■ themselves to expand, men who realiz- plosion, and the customary public ad- ! , ^ , ... , . ed that life is a matter of expression dresses any one of which would an- , • .. - .. * It. • .. j* . . , and that it is the function of the mdi- sjver year after year Without change. Mother fears for the safety of her young. Father—often hard worked, —looks upon it as a day of the clam bake, the baseball game or the chow der party. Will the time come when men on this almost sacred day will rededicate themselves to the service of Indepen dence; to a determination to play their part in the shaping of the des tinies of America; to put steam be hind the natural and God-given de- sire for Independence; that kind of Independence which means freedom in vidual to expand, to grow, just as it is the function of the flower to blos som. Success in a large measure, comes through sacrifice. This lesson every individual needs to learn. LAURENS AND BASEBALL Our sister town, Laurens, is to be congratulated upon the splendid showing its baseball team has made since the opening of the Carolina league. The team is perched in first place and unless we read the signs rs, m religion/ m life, with ^ong, it is going to *be hard to re- breadth of vision and a regard for move it from its present footing, the rights of others? I Not only is the team to be con Liberty, Independence and Free- gratulated, but also the big following dom, like Justice, Mercy and Love, are loyal fans. They are the men am simply qualities to be catalogued and filed away for future reference. They are living, breathing things—part of th« life of yesterday, and of today,,| and of tomorrow. It is that part of life most worth preserving. Unless we translate the qualities of which we boast into actualities then our vapprings are as tinkling symbals meaningless before the world. As was recently said,—what the country most needs is a Paul Revere. SUCCESS COMES THROUGH SACRIFICE When you say a thing cannot be done—you make it so. The man who succeeds at a cer tain thing, the man who is success ful, is the man who dominates the situation, the man who takes possess ion of certain powers within his reach, the man who says, “This one thing I intend to do.” If a man is willing to sacrifice enough of the trivial, unimportant, unnecessary and irrelevant things of life to accom plish a given purpoae, there is noth ing which he may not do. We see about us everywhere forms ef life, forms of energy, being changed into other forma. The mater ial itself is not destroyed—all things are in a state of constant change, a state of constant transformation from one thing to another. The intelligent man knows that there is nothing eternal or fixed, but change; that there is no such thing as establishing ft business and leaving it to take care «f itself. Life is largely a matter of reaist- Success in business or success ly game of life is largely a mat- f resistance. Our greatest fight keep the rats out of the pantry isement, the cobwebs out of the jwz and the dost away from our Every individual is beset on sMee with tendencies end women who make the great pastime possible; they are the ones who pay the fiddler, and financing a ball team is no little job nowadays. Then the fans are to be complimented upon their behavior. It is a compliment to the town, the spirit that makes for clean sports, whether we win or lose. The Carolina pennant should stay in our own county.. Laurens has our best wishes—we hope you’ll win the championship. WHEREFORE OF FLIVVER The great Everett Cotton Mills oi Lawrence, Massachusetts, have closed. “No demand for colored cotton goods.” And England is shipping millions of yards of colored cotton cloth into this country. The stores discover that goods sell more easily when labelled “Made in England.” Old Silas Perdue is a sociable fel- ler, and favorably known as a good story-teller On festive occa sions he’s sure to - attend, and cer tainly gives ’em as good as they send. He’ll pick out Hie feller that’s glum as an owl, and tell him a yarn that will set up a howl,—There’s many a by-word that snaps from his tongue— the minnit he sees ye, his greetin’ is sprung—ft humorous hit, calkilated to stir ye,—for instance he’ll ast, “Is it hot enough fer ye?” In the long, summer months, when she’s heated an’ dry, beginnin’ well say, with tip Fourth o’ July—an’ lastin’ well into the shank of the fall, old Silas ain’t grouchy ner crabbish at all He may sweat like a Sambo, or blister his neck, but hell keep all he neighbors a-smilin’ by Heck! “Is it hot enough fer ye?” hftH ast every maN and use his bandanner the same fan. . . . Sim Weatherby sez fKat tiieyll hear itln hell the minnit 3i lands, but—we never can tell! PURE, WHOtESOME From a Spotlessly Clean Store Make Meals More Enjoyable. 7 r WE WANT YOUR JULY BUSINESS ‘ •• / i p'.i ..‘mr;’y! ■ w-p• <\ The variety of choice foods and fresh vegetables makes shopping here pleasant and our treatment of you will demonstrate that we want to please you. LITTLES IT LOOKS LIKE DIAL It may mean little or nothing—the noticeably slim attendance at every one of the senatorial campaign meet ings held thus far. But, from where we sit, it would certainly seem that something like a modearte-size crowd would surely turn out for the speaking if there were any particular interest in tbe matter of selecting a successor to Dial. Byrnes is a man of unusual magne tism, a finished campaigner, and a “mixer” par excellence. Blease has— or, up to this time, has Tong had—a devoted and enthusiastic following on which he could confidently count. Mc Mahan is an unknown ^quantity poli tically speaking; but, he does not ap pear to have made any impression— the sole reaction seeming to have been on the candidate himself who claims that the press suppresses him. I—Two Phones~-54 - Clinton, S. C. tumult and the shouting—confined almost exclusively to those who themselves seek the toga—there does not appear to hava arisen any ques tion as to the fact that for sloae on to six years Dial has represented his State in the upper house of Congress in a manner altogether acceptable. So it looks to us as though the smaller the crowds the larger will be the Dial vote.—Laurens Advertiser. ELECTRIC LIGHTS FOR GRAY COURT It wouldn’t be a bad idea to have at Washington, and in every big city, a patriotic map showing what the United States amounts to. We don’t own one-quarter of the earth’s surface. But we have got a couple of oceans, some big lakes, the Mississippi, Niagara Falls, the Rock ies, more than half of all the gold in the world, and one hundred and twelve milliona of pretty intelligent Ameri can human beings. It ought to be possible in some way to interest Americans in buying goods made in their own country. In England, if you buy goods NOT “British made,” you are looked upon with contempt. Here, if you insist on buying goods NOT American made you are considered fashionable. Yes, Bildad, the automobile has come, * and come to stay. Likewise, yrith its coming, the oldtime custom of keeping buildings painted and re paired seems to have gone, and gone for good. A lot of the blame will have to be placed at the door of ad vertising. Automobile makers buy oodles of newspaper space. Paint and building material manufacturers buy hardly any at all, hence the multitude of flivvers we see on the roads and th« number of dingy, run-down build ings past which the flivvers whiz.— Monroe County (Kan.) Appeal. A. new locomotive, just tried in the East, Interests you. It is a whole power house in itself, burns oil, changes that into electricity, and runs by the electricity. , A boy can learn to run it in ten minutes. It has great power, and you are told it uses only ten to fifteen cents worth of fuel per hour. That won’t please coal mine owners. This nation has many valuable crops running up into the billions per year. The most valuable of all, al though you couldn’t sell it for ten cents or even, give it away, is the crop of babies. In the United States last year, 1,238,000 brand new babies were born. Only 621,000 deaths occurred, leaving out immigration, a population in crease of 617,000. That is a great city added to the nation by the na tion’s mothers. LAURENS COUNTY BOYS TO CLEMSON COLLEGE How fast this country grows, even with limited immigration! Our popu lation is now more than 112,000,000 more than 7,000,000 Increase since the census of 1920. That’s good news for what we need is another 100,000,- 000 people to do work now neglected and to consume the products of farms and factories. Hustling Little Town Making Im provements On Lighting And Roads. Gray Court, June z7.—Gray Court has just held an election on bonding Meanwhile Dial is sitting steady in the town to put electric lights here the boat, which does not show any ^ which carried 85 in favor of the issue outward signs of being violently rock- j with two opposing votes. This means ed; and, as there is a fairly well un- j that the town will soon have electric derstood maxim to the general effect lights on the streets and in the homes that possession means much in any which will add much to the comfort contest, the lack of interest as evi- as well as appearance of the little denced by the meagre attendance' city of Gray Court, from county to county may be taken The right of way has been secured to indicate that the voters have not, and Mr. Gross of the Enoree Power at least up to the present timejuiy company, notified to proceed with the serious intention to do otherwise than work of building the line from Fount- Woodruff to Spartanburg and will be one of the beat top-soil roads in the county. County Engineer P. F. Pat ton has been very careful in making the survey of this road to get the straightest and nearest route between Gray Court and Woodruff bridge, having moved several houses and fill ed up two wells to keep the road straight. When completed this road will carry the motor traffic from Co lumbia and the lower country to Spar tanburg and North, making it nearer and a much better road than the one now used from Clinton via Musgrove Mill. Final Settlement let well enough alone. Dial is not an expert campaigner or a pastmaster at mixing; neither is he ain Inn to Gray Court, which will fur nish power to light Owings and Gray Court. Mr. D. D. Peden, mayor of anything at all of a sensationalist.; Gray Court, has been very active in . . . But none of these is the office for putting this much needed power into which votes are to be cast in August.! these two towns and is very proud of On the contrary, it is a senator that his achievement. The town has secured and cleared) the right-a-way for the connection of the new top-soil road from Woodruff to the Laurens-Greenville highway. Work is now p Take notice that on the 14th day of July, 1924, we will render a final ac count of our acts and doings as Ad ministrators of the estate of Martha H. Me. E. Copeland, deceased, in the office of the Judge of Probate of Laurens County, at 11 o’clock a. m., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from our trust as Administrators. Any person indebted to said estate is notified and required to make pay ment on or before that date; and all persons having claims against said •state will presant than on or before said date, duly proven or be forevef is to be selected; and with all the weight of a new-born calf is between eighty and ninety pounds. If “artificial seWtinh” «nnlA rai«o 7-8-4 tc J. I. COPELAND, J. M. COPELAND, Administrators. the ‘average weight of calves to the J the incorporate limits and it will only Canadian- maximum, it would mean be a short time until the road will be i tens of millions increased profit to completed from the Laurens-Green- faimers. ville highway at Gray Court through Swim In LAKETHOMAS The following four boys, Jack Todd of Barksdale, Ryon Roper of Hickory Tavern, Columbus Owens of Youngs, and J. L. Cooper, Jr., , of Ora, won one week free scholarships last year in club work for Ciemson College this summer. These boys will be enter tained from the 7th through the 12th of July. They leave next Monday for Ciemson. WHAT DO P. S. JBANS In England women are beginning to take snuff, tired of cigarettes That won’t last for snuff makes the nose black instead of pink on the inside. Pink snuff may be invented. Nevertheless, snuff taking won’t en dure. But it illustrates the fact that women find it difficult to take their bad habits as moderately as men do. Their intense nervous system always demand more, more. That’s why they should never start anything that can be done to excess, drinking, drugs, gambling or gadding. More interesting to twenty million farmers than any other news is the birth in Canada of a calf weighing 157 pounds nt birth. The mother, of omroe, is • Holstein! Thr average The best features of sectional construction developed through more than twenty five years of manufacturing ffive to the Globe-Wernicke bookcase its acknowledged superiority. The sections are fitted with glass receding doors, that open and dose without binding, felt strips to keep out dust and all substan- tially made and handsomely fin ished to match surroundings. Globe-Wemicke Sectional Book cases are also made in period de signs adapted to any environment To really appreciate them you ihould call ana look over the line —if you can't call, send for illu* trated catalog. 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