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I * S a * » * • • »••• • *?, iihsti',-^4.> - •' x v PAGE FOUR THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. S. C. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 2, 1M4 QUiranirtp PUPUSHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. WILBON W. HARRIS Editor and Pfrblishor ’I ‘ . t>' : Entered at the Clinton Post Office as matter of Second Class- Terms of Subscription: One year $1.50 Six months 75 Three months .50 Payable in advance « En Passant ♦ ♦ ♦ W. W. H. almost unsought to those who wel come any form of service without consideration of the question of per sonal advantage. Foraacn AdvortiaiMt R*« 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 all remittances to THE CHRONICLE PUBUSHINO CO. Clinton, S. C. CLINTON, S. C., OCTOBER 2, 1924 12PAGES VISION IS NEEDED What is your vision of the Clin ton of the future? If you live in Clinton you should believe in Clinton and have a vision of Clinton’s future. “Where there is no vision the peo ple perish.” Another trouble 'with the country today is the late rising generation. You can’t always tell—sometimes she loves him, sometimes its for con venience, and then again he’s thrust upon her. ^ The man with the smallest voca bulary uses the most swear words Punctuating your conversation with oaths is merely advertising your ignorance. Another advantage about the porch swing is that it consumes very little gasoline and doesn’t need new tires every now and then. It isn’t necessary to point out the mistakes of other people. Yottr neighbors can see just as well as you can. The big job before us all is to keep moving if we ever expect to get any where. A NICE COURTESY That was a nice courtesy the Wal ter L. Main circUs extended the chil dren of the Thornwell Orphanage on Tuesday - when the “whole family” was admitted complimentary to the afternoon performance of the show. The invitation was not asked for and coming as it did vountarily, makes it all the more appreciated by the chil dren, the management of the institu tion and its hundreds of friends in the city. Circus day in the lives of these 375 boys and girls will always be a “red letter” day and will not soon be for gotten. It was a kind and courteous act on the part of the show owners for which they are to be commended. What could be finer than the throw ing of a big day of happiness and sunshine into the lives of this family of bright and promising orphan boys and girls? —FaHenciT'is""5onI5lhIhg WB att-fieed a surplus supply of to meet the heavy and continual demand for its practice in our daily lives. Life’s difficulties and. ups-and- downs must beAaccepted, but there’s no need of uncomprehending resigna tion on our part. Thirty-four candidates have al ready been mentioned for governor two years hence. Will we never be delivered fror4 politics and politi- 7 cians If you want to make the average man tell a lie, ask him how many miles he gets out of a gallon of gaso line. Whatever else automobiles may or may not have done, it cannot be de nied that they have added much to the prosperity of the undertaker. Another race of men which is al most extinct is composed of those who used to hold their cotton in the hope of an advance in price. A local optimist was heard to re mark recently that one advantage of a severe case of toothache was that it turned your thoughts into more cheerful channels than those afford ed by politics and the boll weevil. A “back to the church” movement has been started by a New York min ister in which all creeds are asked to unite. When one reflects upon the large percentage of people that have j either never started, or quit regular attendance, and absolved %emselves of obligation to the House of Wor ship, the fact forcibly stands out that 1 a concerted drive must be made if the absentees are ever rounded up. V INTRODUCE WILL IN BIGHAM CASE Politicians, sometimes, are not good business men and even when they are there is danger of a lapse of judgement in the seeking of funds for a particular institution or a particu lar section of the state in which the politician is jespecially* interested. The following contaihs good advice for those who have the duty of rais ing money to be expended for the public: “Common sense was common sense 150 years ago, just as it is to day. In the Constitution of Pennsyl vania, adopted in 1776, this sentence appears.” “The purpose for which any tax is to be raised ought to ap pear clearly to the legislature to be , “lHorer"S5PWce‘ to the* cbIHmunity than the money could be, if not col lected.” Taxpayers in 1924 will do well to refer this bit of wisdom of our forefathers to our members of the legislature and congress. YOU NEED NOT FAIL SMALL TOWN OPPORTUNITY Opportunity knocks at the door or every man regardless of his home. It is very seldom that our success de pends upon our locality and we most frequently fail because we do not see or will not grasp the opportunity which is present. The matter of lo cality and opportunity is strikingly dealt with in the following editorial from the Cambridge Springs (Pa) Enterprise-News: ‘ “Sometimes we think the smal town buries the young man. “Father told me when 1 came to Cambridge Springs that the small town would get me if I did not watch out. ‘You will let your heard grow fur a week,’ he said, ‘and you will never wear out your trousers with a flat-iron.’ === “Father was wrong. “Here is one thing you can write in your derby. The man who is buried in a small town would be buried in New Yprk City. But he would be buried sooner in New York. “Uf the hundreds of young men in my graduating class at Cornell, 1 find those who settled in small towns easiest to keep track of. Only yes- tercay a nationally circulated maga zine carried an article written by a fraternity brother who lives in the little town of Cooperatown, N. Y The magazine also printed his pic ture. He isn t wearing a beard any more than I am. “Buried? Listen. Here ia what was in this morning’s mail which came to my desk. “A newspaper owner in one of the best cities on the main line of the Eria railroad wrote that a lot of wise, high-geared city newspaper experts have almost wrecked his property. He offered me a half interest in a $150,000 proposition for $30,000 if I would come on and run the works. The time of the year has arrived when men begin to look around fur tively to discover if they are the only ones wearing straw hats, and the ladies are carefully their sunfmer furs. storing away One trouble about public speaking is that there are always some people who think that they have something to say. It would not be so bad if they didn’t say it. That places the audience in the situation of those who must be amused rather than in formed. Mrs. A. G. Andrews of Brighton, Eng., is to receive $10,000 from a motorcyclist who struck and killed her husband, a jury having fixed his value at that amount. Some wives have husbands that are not worth killing. A headline reads, “Winthrop Girls Hit the Hay Early.” Their retiring hour has been changed to 10 o’clock instead of 11 as last season. These hours do not refer to their vacation periods at home. All of the girls can’t be sunflower beauties like Miss Ramona Trees of Winfield, Kansas. She has won 182 contests as the prettiest girl in Kan sas. She is to represent her state in an approaching Missouri Valley pag eant at Tulsa, Okla. Capital punishment should never be abolished. The law was intendei to be a terror to the evil doer rather than a means of reformation, am there are many for whom confine ment in prison holds no great amoun: of terror. The question is as to whether we are to protect society or the murderer who preys upon it. We read yesterday of a young man j who is advertising for a wife. That I may be one of the ways employed by “The publicity director of Chautau- the little fellow with the wings and qua wrute to ask if I would give him bow and arrow or it may be tha 1 some suggestions on the general marriages are made in heaven even problem of ^getting his news letter to through the employment of printer’ local guarantors read. Poor fellow, ink. We’ll bet he gets a wife—ad I feel sorry for him. His news let- vertising always pays, ters certainly are not read. They' Ideas change, people change, andjr with each change comes opportunity. Some of us capitalize opportunity and grow ricb. Others are blind to oppor tunity and remain in the rut. One night in 1917 while he was eating dinner in a cheap restaurant on the Barbary Coast, San Francisco, Paul Whiteman resolved to rise from poverty to wealth and to make his name famous throughout the world. At that time he was a violist in a cheap cafe orchestra—a part time violist at part time pay. As he ate, an outlaw quintet entered the restau rant and began to play a medley of ; azz from the African jungle. To hiin :t seemed that jazz was merely a state of mind, a mood, which appeal ed to human beings seeking to relax, le believed that jazz music, properly introduced, would become popular and le determined to make it so. A week later he resigned and fonn- d a dance orchestra with fifteen pieces. His musicians were fired with his enthusiasm and agreed to work without pay for a time. In ad dition to his horns, piano and drum le added two violins, a cello and a saxaphone and proceeded to hold pub ic concerts ofT*street corners and in parks. Great crowds gathered to watch his antics and so popujar di he become tEat his fame swept East ward. A year later he was offered the position of orchestra leader in the new Ambassador Hotel at Atlantic City. He was given a four-year con tract at a fabulous salary. During the following year the management of the Palais Royal, in New York, got the jazz fever and Paul White- man was engaged. His salary was double that Qf the seaside resort. Today, at the age of 34, Whiteman is one of the most .popular orchestra leaders in America and Europe. Last year, while in London, he played be fore the King and Queen of England, and a week later the British metro polis “took on” American jazz. Paul Whiteman’s wealth today is said to be in six figures. He was bom in Denver in 1890. (Continued from Page One) understood that A. L. King, of the defense counsel in the pretent case, had acted for the estate in making settlement. Attorney Arrowsmith stated that the will of Mrs. Black made on the Saturday preceding the Saturday of the killings was relevant in that it showed the connection of the ex changes of deeds and property with the case of the prosecution. The state has contended that Edihund Bigham killed the other members of the family in order to come into pos session of the Bigham property. Edmund D. Bigham is the solo sur viving heir of Mrs. Bigham, whoso whereabouts is known, both of hia brothers-in-law testified. The other heirs were the two witnesses and the 9-year-old son of Cain, besides Dr. Cleveland Bigham, who, it was said, had never received his portion of the estate. Cain said on the stand that the deeds torn from the record book of the Florence * county clerk of court, were those that conveyed the bulk of the Bigham property to his wife. The mutilation of the records fqf which Clerk of Court E. M. Single tary in his testimony blamed Smiley, occurred shortly after Mrs. Cain’s death, the witness testified, and he added that the missing records were later found under the Bigham home. A dramatic scene was precipitated by Judge Mendel L. Smith, of de fense counsel, in cross examining Mc Cracken. Taking up the statement of the witness that he was “supposed to be the father” of the two murder ed boys, and that “there might be some doubt about it,” Judge Smith demanded: “Don’t you know yov are not the father of the two boys?” “No, sir,” replied McCracken. Calling the name of a man in the audience and asking him to stand up, WE WANT OUR STORE TO MEAN MORE THAN JUST A GROCERY STORE TO YOU —We try to conduct our store in such a fashion as to prove most helpful to the housewive. —Everything we sell is of unquestioned quality, freshness and purity, and priced as low as such goods permit. —W r e are anxious to serve you in such manner as to prove most helpful and invite you to give Us a trial if you are not already included in our family of satisfied customers. LITTLE S DENSON — 50.^0 Phones—54 Clinton, S. C. Orphanage Gets Two Legacies Friends at Jefferson, Ga^ and Abbe ville, Make Contributions To Local Institution. Dr. L. Ross Lynn, president of the Thornwell Orphanage, has just been notified of two legacies that have . _ been left the institution amounting to the attorney demanded of McCrack- $2,500. ,1. * .u , .1 The first contribution comes thru r frUw ot thow two the will of a,, i ata M rJ . Woodie ^, y „ *" d d ' dn ‘ you »*“' w.f. Bunl , o( Jefferson, Ga„ and will 1*“J* tl”* W " VT b £ y * Dd amount to approximately »1,600. Mrs. ™ Ji‘ to lr be . bo ™r I Burn, is a sister of the late Mrs. M. Jlo, sir, McCracken rephed. | A . x^r, who , f , w ago gave $10,000 on the Turner Building. At a recent meeting of the senior class of the Clinton high school, Miss Ellen Copeland was elected president; William Adair, vice-president, and -Odyss McIntosh, secretary-treasurer. The alleged father of the children stood silently for a few moments and then resumed his seat. Judge Smith then called for a young woman to stand up and he asked McCracken: “Isn’t that the wife you deserted when you stole this other man’s wife and child?” McCracken again replied in the ne gative. The late Mr. Haddon, of Abbeville, made provision in his will for a gift to the Thornwell Orphanage and .the institution expects to receive $1,000 from this legacy. GOES TO GREENVILLE J. P. Caldwell, formerly connected . with J. K. Hatton, left yesterday for Perhaps one of the most adorable Greenville where he has accepted a features of “The Flapper Grand- position in the parts department of mother” ia the children. There will the Greenville-Franklin Co. Mr. be 25 in all, dreased in costume of Caldwell has many friends in the city rag dolls, door knobs and little grand-. whose best wishes will follow him to ver y artistic and clever. jhis new residence. MISS ELLEN COPELAND HEADS HER CLAfcS CITATION FOR LETTERS OF AD MINISTRATION The State of South Carolina, Laureas County. By O. G. Thompson, Probate Judge: WHEREAS, Mrs. Susie S. Blakely made suit to me, to grant her Let ters of Administration of the Estate and effects of H. M. Blakely; THESE ARE THEREFORE, to cite and admonish all and singular the Kindred and Creditors of the said H. M. Blakely, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Laurens Court House, Laurens, S. C., on the 15th day of October, next, after pub lication hereof, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should jnot be granted. GIVEN under my hand this 29th day of Sept., A. D., 1924. O. G. THOMPSON (Seal) 10-9-2tc J. P. L. C. WEEK Undo John We have to use the proper bait in fishin’ for a whale, and unless we fish in earnest, we are mighty apt to fail. Unless a feller prides his self in knowin’ more’n the fish, he may seat hisself at supper-time, be side an empty dish. While some may laze along the crick, and never land a thing, there’ll be others waddle by ’em, with a dozen on their string! There’s only one condition that compels the perch to bite, and they’ll yank the bobber under, if yer hook is baited right. There’s tragedy in fishin’ same as any other art,—due need thumb sketches, humorous or. “His word was as good as his otherwise, and shorter reading lines. ! bond.” This phrase is frequently "“’"TTu “The secretary of the Illinois Press used in referring to the death of an . mnd * lothfulne8 s. which Association wrote to say that, he is individual. Few higher tributes can will face a latter ’ G--11TH 1 . But—the chap sending a copy of the Blinoia Pu£ hTpi^'any* one,"Tor^the*‘maT who - ** V ?P r Usher, a magazine, and to ask'that I deals fair and square with his fel-1 f H h K h '*1* th * give him an experience article for the lowmen is always a man who is well ^ ^ b , y ^“ 8 8,de ’. , benefit of his members. thought of and trusted. We cannot ’ ^ he V 80 ‘ emr ! . P"**? 1 * “The editor of the largest trade buy honesty—neither can anyone be-[ “ d ^ 8 ?° rt ’7 h,Ch 18 ai! 8t paper for newspaper men in the queathe it to us. It is something enterprise of any other United States, wrote that he is ask- that a man acquires for himself. ing country publishers to contribute - p to a symposium. I am asked to write Selfishness is one of the greatest Why I think the public should sab- of the destroyers of happiness. When ^ a acribe to the Enterprise-News. That’s self becomes : the center of , our ^ Wv , _ j thought and activities we travel upon! J? ea^T “That’s juat one mail. the wrong road in the search after “There is inspiration—not conceit contentment This is true of those ^ —in this if you’re big enough to-get whose mind is fixed upon their per-i pp ^ uraeamateer. jfcij ■ " 1 vr• /!. |Sonal appearance, upon their social Ttt sOrely if a grand joke—this be- advancement, upon the reputation buried in a amall town. which they hope tq maintain, or a*y the joke is on tike rest of other form of the promotion of self. We will observe National Con- golenm Week as advertised for next week and will sellCong- oleum rugs as long as our stock lasts at the advertised prices. See the page advertisements in the Columbia State and Green ville News next week. 1 K Furniture Go. MAKERS” * SOUTH CAROLINA world." On the other hand, happim _ two young men. comes O’DanieL 4te y “THE HOME CLINTON, .... ' ' '' u ' l " ‘ ' ^ ' : ’ EE .<$