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PAGE FOTO THE CUNTON ss (Eijnmtrli PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBUSHINO 00. WILSON W. HARRIS Editor and Publisher Entered at the Clinton Post Office a* matter of Second Class. Terms of Subscription: One year -- ....$1.50 Six months — — — «75 Three months '.... ~.. Payable in advance .50 Foreign AdvoftMing R^P^refnlBtivc \ THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION The Chronicle seeks the cooperation •f it’s subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all timea appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. Make all remittaneaa to THE CHRONICLE PUBUSHINO CO. Clinton, S. C. Clinton, S. C., July 31, 1924 Well, if you didn't get enrolled, don’t cuss anybody but yourself. THANKS TO OUR FRIENDS Some one has said that a “friend indeed, is a friend in need.” Another has said, “that a friend you can’t use, isn’t worth having." Truth in both statements. Today’s paper would not reach our big family of readers on time and in its usual style, were it not for the help of friends outside of our regular force. The illness of Mr. Flanagan, our linotype operator, upset the regu lar run of the shop, but help was found to meet the emergency. Our good friend, Mr. F. M. Stutts, fore man of the orphanage printing office, was just beginning his annual vaca tion, but he kindly consented to post pone his plans and help us in our hour of need. He put today’s paper into trpe. One of his “amateurs,” John Klassett, also kindly offered to aid us, and with their assistance, and our own faithful force, today’s paper is in your hands on time. All of which leads us to thank them and to publicly express our apprecia tion. How would we ever exist in this world, anyway, without friends— true friends who are kind and depend able, without deceit and camouflage ? HOMES AND AUTOMOBILES The real explanation of hard times may be fbund not so much in the amount of money which the people have to spend as in the way in which the money i» spent. People may be come intemperate and get on a spree in the matter of spending as well i in the more noted instances of drink ing and it is probably unfortunate that a man may break the laws of economy without being considered a criminal. The following quotation re veals a startling fact in this connec tion: “The United States has expen ded more money on automobiles in the last three and one-half years, ac cording to statistician Babson, than on the erection of homes in the last one hundred and fifty years. The styles in homes do not change sa rapidly as in homes do not change so rapidly as hundred and fifty years ago is as good as the best, hut how many automo biles of three years ago are already in the discard?” We can do without homes—we can’t rent automobiles. A TOWN BUILDER The announcement in today’s paper of the formation of another Building A Loan Association in Clinton, is one of more than passing interest. It has organized on a long-term basis and! doubtless will prove attractive and beneficial to young men and wo men of moderate salaries desiring become home-owners. j ’Mr? City already has two excellent Building & Loan Associations that are rendering valuable service in the com munity. The addition of a third just perfected, will provide the community with ample facilities in this direc- tion. • .v Building A Loan associations arS town- builders. They provide excel lent means of savings for young men, apd to the prospective home-owner, they afford a plan that insures a wrthmkt embarrassment with heavy financial They play an important part in the of any community. . downs” of trade and commerce which as cycles, come and go like summer and winter, and to meet these prob lems with no loss of warranted op timism. Let’s not talk about “poor business," let’s plead for “better business.” When the monthly sales report shows a low er level, turn on more steam, mix ag gressiveness with your initiative. Spend more time “trying” than “alibi ing” afid you will be a bigger asset to your business, to your community, and to yourself. THE COUNTRY PRESS SCORES The first meeting of the new Demo cratic National Committee under the guidance of Lem Shaver, who has suc ceeded Cordell Hull as head of the organization, demonstrates clearly that the Democratic party has seen the last of the two-thirds rule and also the end of the unit rule. More than a substantial majority of the members of the committee, one way and another, have expressed them selves as unalterably opposed to the system which made the New York convention the most notable deadlock in the history of American politics. The decision to abrogate the two- thirds rule and the unit rule is a marked victory for the country press, which months before the National Convention met in Madison Square Hard pry gonprally p/yjntavrl was likely to happen unless these “checks and balances” were "done away with and the delegates permitted to express themselves unhampered by the fetters of unsound political ma chinery. Two or three times iti New York there were indications that the fight for the abolition of the two-thirds rule would be carried vigorously to the floor, but the line-up was such that while McAdoo would have been pleased to see the two-thirds rule ab rogated and the unit rule maintained, the Smith followers were just as an xious to see the unit rule set aside and the two-thirds rule maintained. It i» now pretty well recognized that the welfare of the party rises superior to the aspirations of candi dates. Before the next Democratic National Convention is called the party will have shaken off the shack les of this un-American procedure. For the renaissance of freedom the thanks of the country are due to the country newspapers. United the country newspapers form a command ing force that cannot be ignored. The finer things of life, after all are the thinga that mean most. Our personalities count most through con tact and friendships. To render ser vice every day should each individual’s aim. None of us should be satisfied to run in grooves. WHAT A PAPER MUST STAND FOR In speaking of the newspaper and its mission, Editor Rice of the Union Times compares it to the “pack-horse of service” in the community. He very tersely tells some of the functions of a paper, in this editorial paragraph: “There are cerfain 'principles for which the newspaper must stand, if it fills its mission. Law enforcement is one of these great objectives. The newspaper must aid in forming pub lic opinion on the vital questions of the day. It must stand for business integrity, old-fashioned honesty in business. Itmust set a high standard for its own guidance and should in culcate a like high standard for others. It must be essentially clean morally, and behave decently. When there is no high standard, when there is the lack of moral conviction, there is sure to be the lack of courage and the con sequent manifestation of a cowardly spirit.” ===== 1 En Passant \ ♦ W. W. H. ♦ Jt’s not always the fellow who talk*! most that attains the highest rounds the ladder of life. Many a mar jY 31 on gets a reputation for .wisdom by leav things unsaid. There was an old printer named Mess Who made all his prices by guess He did work so cheap He had no place to sleep Except on the bed of his press. The power to entertain is a gift to be coveted. People with happy, at tractive dispoaitions are gloom-chas ers. What you say, and how you say it, means a great deal. Some people are pleasant to talk to—but disagree able to listen to. A headline in an advertismeht reads. de&TMg wftlT 6hr patrons we ob serve the Golden Rule”. More And more this spirit is dominating the business world. The application of it’s principles in business, civic and social life is placing business on a high plane of service to humanity and more and more business men are find ing their opportunities for altruistic service. A census survey announced a few days ago, give New York a popula tion of 6,005,504 Chicago came second with 2,939,605, and Philadelphia third with 1,951,076. Our great cities are being multiplied in population to the detriment, of the small towns and rur al districts. This is not a healthy condition but how are we going to help it with the thousands of opportu nities and attractions of the big citie? to allure our young men and women. The new Oxford dictionary defines 425,000 different wdrds. It is estima ted that the average American busi ness man carries on his correspon dence with a vocabulary of only 400 words. A stenographer, whether she be intelligent, attractive or otherwise, if she can spell these 400 words, has a safe claim on her job. Most of us are too lazy to do very much think ing or to exert ourselves in widening our knowledge. The reason is, slang has the day, there’s plenty of it, and it’s being generally used as the prevalent shorthand talk. With life’s ups and downs and dis appointments, it’s hard not to worry, hut on sober thought, what’s the use ? We never get anywhere by carrying our troubles around in our arms and unloading them on other people. They have their own and don’t care to be bothered wth ours. Whatever the closet skeleton may be, we need to front it bravely and try to adjust our selves to it. Worry is fear in its sub tle disguises, but it is something from which few of us are free. YE ED BACKS DOWN . A Kansas editor got gay and made * or caustic criticism of the practice of bobbing hair. The poor editor soon found his patronage gone and himself scorned by the women of the town. In hunger and despair, the editor tried to regain the patronage and good will of the women by apologiz ing and this is what he said: “We like bobbed hair. Bobbed hair is sanitary. Bobbed hair looks cute. Bobbed hair makes business good for the barbers, and we love the bar bers. Bobbed hair makes old women look older, giving them that good, girlish, grandmother appearance. Bis cuits with hair in them are not as numerous as they were before the bobbed hair craze. If there are any they are shorter and easier to get out. Therefore, we apologize for what we have said in the past about bobbed hair.” j! LET’S QUIT ALIBI ING The “panicky” business man is ever with us—a slight depression and hd immediately climbs to the house top and shouts that the country is going the eternal bow-wows. He is not eesfedt to meet the situation cour ageously by adopting such policies that conform with trade conditions, but instead moans to his fellow trades men the “seriousness” of what he in terprets as an approaching calamity. He surrounds himself with an atmos- phere of doubt and anxiety; he he-| t jj an any other synod in the southern comes a destroyer of business morale, 1 assembly, destructive to the end of his unfound- , ^ R nsiness ^today not only'calls for', Nptice is hereby given that the unr faith in the future of our dersigned will, on or after August 4, - fai th in the industry 1924, apply to the Secretary of State £^olLt>«ly represent—men who fo,,ch«ty tor ft. Clinton INiMio, do not only have a true vision of the & Loan Association ... th. will | ’ Presbyterian Pastor -v. At York Resigns York, July 20. —The Rev. E. E. Gil lespie, D.D., for the past 19 years pas tor of the First Presbyterian church of York, yesterday tendered his res ignation, to become effective Aug ust 31. T)t. Gillespie has two calls under consideration; one to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian church of Orlando, Fla., the other to the su perintendency of synodical missions for the state of North Carolina, with headquarters in Greensboro, and has not decided which of these offers he will accept. The field at Orlando is most inviting, the church there being one of the strongest and most rapidly growing in Florida, while the mis sion field in North Carolina also of fers great opportunities for service, the work there being on a larger scale More and more every day, we are having impressed upon us the cheap ness of human life. Greed and ava- rice are in evidence on all sides, and [j the love of a few dollars, men consoire and kill one another in the 1 hope of dodging the law. The cap ture of the fugative is almost certain, regardless of what the crime may be But his punishment is not so certain. There are too many loop-holes with which to tamper the law and delay justice. A large percentage of people never go to church. There are too many other things that interest them and the toll of the church bells fail to win their attention. To get people out to church now-a-days is a groat problem, and it’s becoming necessary more than ever before to advertise the churches since they are in direct com petition with the world and the devil, both of when never cease to set forth their allurements. A Des Moines, Iowa, pastor has sized up the situation. He had the following notice posted in front of his church last Sunday: “A hearse is a poor vehicle to come to church in. Why wait?” The Seaboard is busy at this sea son hauling the Georgia peach crop to the Northen markets. Clinton be ing on the main line, solid fruit trains are seen passing through here every few hours in the day with an average of from thirty-five to forty cars, and a capacity of 600 crates of peaches in each car. Occasionally a few cars of watermelons come through and as soon as the negroes standing nearby see this sight, they break forth in a smile of satisfaction. Uncle JoHa My niece has bought a “bathin’ suit—I think she calls it that—which is jest about as hefty as the band a- round my hat . < . She set it’s plenty big enough-—hut really—t’other day, 1 didn’t know she had it on, and —looked the other way! Most anything can ketch my eye, that’s innocent and cute—and, Teeny's shore a stunner in her little bathin' suit. . . . While affordin’ some pro jection, I would call it rather slight, but the little darlin’ likes it, so—I reckon she is right! But, Teeny’s Ma—Lord bless her— now,-I hope she don’t aspire to ab-jj breviated bath-suits that the fasion might require. ... If 1 was her, I wouldn’t try to imitate my daughter —but if I did, Fd fool the crowd— by stayin’ under, water! ! j BANKERS STEER CLEAR OF POLITICAL PHASE Send Father Here For Groceries He will be able to get a big basketful of the choicest Groceries you’ve ever had and the total cost will surprise you with its lowness. We solicit your business. J. P. Morgan Gives Out Statemeat on Eve of Departure for Europe ~ n|fh" S*lo ©rXernUiTBon^ Ney York, July 25.—J. P. Morgan, in an offical statement issued tonight on the eve of his departure for a va cation trip in Europe, stated that American bankers had no desire “to make any political suggestions, much less to attemp to enforce any political views,”in connection with the dis cussions for a German loan now un- Jer way in LondoYi. LITTLE S 50—Two Phones—54 Clinton, S.X. ditions of the American investment markets can be met. “It goes without skying that as bank- w . , , - . 4 ers we should not ask the American He reiterated that his trip had noth-: investor to buy German goods unless ng to do with the London conference but indicated that if the loan was ar ranged and his advice as to terms sought, he would be glad to make sug gestions for the sale of the bonds in this country. The statement, in full, follows: “I am sailing for my annual holi day in accordance with plans made months ago. My trip has nothing to do with the London conference. Our po sition with reference to the matters now being discussed at that conference is very simple. We have been request ed by the allied governments to advise as to what in our opinion are the xjpe- essary bases for the sale of German bonds to American investors. In re sponse to that request, we have given our advice. We have no desire, nor is it within our province, to make any political suggestions, much loss to at tempt to enforce any political views. We addressed ourselves solely to the question asked us, and it is for the allied governments to determine whether what we believe to be the con- and until the allies have in their own time, in their own way and for their own reasons, determined upon a policy which will, in our opinion, give se curity to the bankholders. If this very simple and obvious fact is borne in mind, it will, I think, be found that most of the questions now under dis cussion answer themselves.” Mr. Morgan, who is camera shy, asked the 30 newspaper men who call ed at his office for the statement to use their influence with their employ ers in seeing that he was not bothered with reporters and photographers on board the Minnewaska on which he sails tomorrow. For Sala—Big bargain in practically new L. C. Smith Typewrite!. Ip- ply at this office. WHAT DO P. 8. JEANS DO? GREENWOOD ELECTRICIAN^ JOINS CLINTON CONCERN Mr. J. R. Underwood, formerly em ployed by the City of Greenwood, has moved to Clinton and accepted a po sition with Parrott-Electric as elec trician. Mr. Underwood is well equip ped in his line of work and will prove a valuable addition to the concern with which he is now affiliated. WHAT DO P. S. JEANS DO? 666 is a prescription tor LLuaria, Chills and Fever, Dengue or JBil- fioos Fever. It kills the gefnti. f '■ 1 * Swim In UKE THOMAS 'ONffO m a k,i .r« r Tl (5 ' *•* • ''UNO OM'O I. SHINQ LINOLEUM VARNISH Keep your printed linoleum or printed linoleum rug and oil cloth in good condition by varnishing it. A protec tive coating of varnish not only takes the wear off the printed design itself, but affords a smoother, and there fore easier surface to clean as well. SHINO LINOLEUM VARNISH is a VERY TOUGH and elastic Varnish, made from the very-best gums and oils, : which are especially compounded for use on Linoleum or Oil Cloth, and have a particular affinity for ingredi- . ents used in the manufacture of Linoleum and Oil Cloth. SHINO LINOLEUM VARNISH is transparent so as not to discolor the pattern; quick drying; water-proof so as not to turn white when water is spilled or used on it- tough, to insure against chipping or cracking under traffic; and alkali resistant to prevent harmful effects of strong soaps. ft$uro but the “up* *nd E. B. SLOAN.’ Did you ever stop to think—That Clinton can boast of as modern and attractive a hospital as will be found anywhere in a town this size? Drop ping in there frequently during the past few days, we have been impressed with its orderly appearance, cleanli ness and efficient management. The place has a quiet, dignified and sym-j pathetic air. Mrs. Hays anc( the nuraes are always courteous and at- 1 tentive, and the patients are spien-' didly ckred for. Operated as it la by its directing heads, the hospital is an indispensable asset to the com munity and deserves and should have the hearty and sympathetic interest of all our people. Furniture Co. CLINTON, “THE HOMEMAKERS’’ *•••*, SOUTH CAROLINA