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mmm / PAGE FOUR THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, 8. C. THURSDAY* OCTOBER 30* 1924 ult|p Olljrmtirle PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHT.OJnCLE PUBLISHING 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 75 i Three months 50 Payable in advance , Fonci«n Advnrtmng Rrpretentmtive I THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION J S 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., S. C. CLINTON. S. C., OCT. 30. 1924 *12 PAGES REMEMBER THE BALLOT The people of the United BOX Stages per standard there is no ne£d ta com plain of shorter periods of work. The following interesting facts in regard to loafing were presented in a recent editorial in the Atlanta Geor gians “A writer in the American Mercuty for October contributes an amusing sketch, ‘The King of Loafers,’ de voted to analyzing the time ^per.t on amusement a id recreation by the American business man. “It is pointed out that during the last twenty-five years 2,500 golf courses have been laid cut, the ma jority of them since 1910. California has 25,000 club members, 5,000 mu nicipal golfers and 10,000 occasional players.' In the Los Angeles district alone the courses occupy more than 5,000 acres. Texas had 12 courses only two years ago; now it has fiity- three. “The author is worried by the time which the American business man spends not only on golf courses but on conventions and club luncheons. The Kiwanis club, he finds, has 1,350 chapters in the -United States and Carada, and a total membership of 95 000. Rivaling it in size are the Rotary, Lions, Exchange, Mercator and Civitan clubs. Then there are the Advertising and City clubs, at 'east a thousand. “While the American business, man thus amuses and deports himself, he is represented as complaining, at the Rotary club, that ‘the workingman his forgotten what a full day’s work his that has it, but his that enjoys ed than man. Her evolution is longer,, it.". Misers usually forget that money more intricate, is only a means to an end. Anatole France dies, calling for his 'Earle Poling, of Akson, Ohio* says mother. The great French writer had that “seventy-five per cent of all cus- : lived 80 years, achieved fame, a great name. All that seemed small in the last minute of the 80 years. The memory of his mother stood out above all the rest. < At the beginning and at the end, the mother comes first. In between, others have their turn. tomers are open to suggestion—that if you sell ’em, they’ll buy." This business truth we pass on to sales men and salesladies who really strive for efficiency and increased sales in their daily jobs. Mr. Poling evident ly applies this principle to his busi ness and sells, incidentally, five hun dred dollars worth of phonograph needles a month. A salesman is one thing—a storekeeper another. Entire ly too many of the latter, accounts in * gas bag can leave a large measure for the slowness of, Monday morning and many firms’ business Regardless of party, because the custom is general, yet more prevalent with jhe Republicans, the expenditur es matV? for the conduct of our nation al elections have reached the propor tion of public disgrace as is being re vealed in the probing of charges and counter charges of huge sums that are being raised to back certain can didates and interests. It is little less than shameful when millions on top have become so careless about voting is. at the time of the national election that it has become questionable as tc whether thi ; is a government of, by and for the people. Next Tuesday brings another general election which should not he overlooked and men and woir^en everywhere should go to the poll* and discharge their obligation with patriotism and intelligence. The following statements regarding the country as a whole in. the matter of ballot slackers, are taken from a folder compiled from the United States census report: Twenty-seven million people stayed away from the polls in 1920. • Twenty-six million people—a min ority of all the voters—elected a pre sident in 1920. Were you one of the twenty-seven million who failed to perform their full duty as citizens; ur one of the twenty-six million who properly ful • filled their obligations? Whatever the answer, register a promise row that you will go to the] polls on Election Day and swell the ranks of the i twenty-six million so they will cast a vote truly representa tive of the will of all the eligible voters of the country. Vote as you please—but—VOTE! The Fathers of our Constitution, by Divine inspiration, gave you equality before all men; made you a partici pating stockholder in the greatest corporation in. the world—the United States of America—and gave you the privilege of personal representa tion in the conduct of its affairs. More than this: to insure your full patriotic performance in behalf of your fellow-citizens, they placed upon you an obligation to serve, to take an hetive part in governing this great organization. That obligation is the obligation to . vote. Within the last decade there has been a retrogression of civic cnsci- ousness; a failure on the part of a large number of otherwise good citi zens to perform their duty to their country; to fulfill ’.heir obligation t.i vote. Give serious thought to the follow ing figures: In 1896, 80 per cent of the eligible voters of the country went to the. polls and voted. In 1900, 73 per cent cast their bal lots. In 1908, 66 per cent. In 1912, 62 per cent. In 1920, less than 50 per cent of those eligible to vote, went, to the polls! No more eloquent indictment for these statistics. It is an indictment against all of us, from the lowest to the highest—laborers, skilled work ers, executives, employers, profes sional men and clergy. The figures clearly demonstrate that the great danger to the Nation is not the attacks of radicals and bolshevists from without, but the dwindling of civic performance with in. It is a menace to our institutions and our government. The situation is one that should arouse every thinking person to the necessity of performing his obliga tion. You an help to remedy this situa tion and it is your duty to do so. Go to the polls yourself, talk to ynur friends, associates and neighbors and line up a great army of voters on November 4. Vote as you please, but VOTE! properly before the publid candidates who ask their suffrage. It can mean only one' thing, that the candidate must be half, if not wholly, ham strung before he enters ti^e race. Our present system is an outrage on de cency and should be bfought to an end, yet we don’t suppose it will ever happen. The big Zepplin ZR-3 started for America to the tune of “Deutschland ueber Alles.” If that big, unwieldly Germany on a I land in Lake- hurst, four thousand miles away, on the following Wednesday morning, how long do you think it will take high-powered, heavier-than-air ma chines to cross the Pacific or the At lantic with TNT and poison gas, a few years from now? Big bankers, thousands of them, gathered in Chicago recently, quite happy. They sang songs waiting for the speaking to start, and told each i i BUYING GROCERIES . FROM THIS STORE IS A PLEASANT ECONOMY Hi I E other, “Business is fine.’’ But one of millions must be spent to present little crumpled rose leaf is in the soft “Well, the workingman has forgot ten what a full day’s work is, in the 1 sense of fifty years ago. Hours of j \\ c herewith ascribe • place on the labor have dropped from fourteen to honor roll to Mr. P. A. Childs of For- twelve to ten to eight. Wages have | syth, Ga. A few days ago he walked risen to the same time. The working- j n to the office of The Monroe Adver- man has more, leisure to enjoy the tiser, one of Georgia’s best weekly good things of life, and more money papers, (and by the way, its owned by with which to enjoy them. j a former Thornwell Orphanage boy, “Just so the American business {j. Clarke) and paid his 40th subscription to the paper which financial mattress. “There is among the bankers uncertainty over social unrest.” ' - Sorry to disturb bankers, but that uncertainty is, a good thing. It makes bankers and other important men think, it always has made them think, and it’s about the only thing that. DOES make them think—about the little people. Who notices a mule that doesn’t kick? By pleasant economy, we mean that you are always assured the utmost in quality at the lowest possible prices. Buying supplies for your table because the price is low is not always economy. But buying Quality Groceries from this store, where the margin of profit is always low, is a real saving, for there is no waste to what you get. Remember at all times that we guarantee the qual ity to be up to your measure of satisfaction. LITTLE S DENSON ’ 0 • SO-.-Two Phones—§4 Clinton, S. C.. i * a man. His standard of living has like wise risen. He has learned the pleas ure and the co-operation with his fel- lowmen. He has learned how to play. “It’s all to the good, both what speaks well for the paper as well as the loyalty and interest of this fellow townsman. But this is not the only unusual record Mr. Childs holds. He Theve was much uncertainty among the “better element” in the days of the Gracchi before Christ was born. There has been mojje or less of that uncertainty ever since. And where the uncertainty has been LACKING there has been trouble. ihe worried author finds true of the i 8 gajd to be one of Monroe county's American business man and what the farmers who has practiced diversifi- American busires man finds is true cation for many years, and upon re- of the workingman.” : newing his 40th subscription last* — —— | week, stated to the editor that he had not bought a sack of flour in eighteen years, having raised all the wheat he needed on his farm, as well as corn and other products. ‘ Certainly Mr. Childs’ unusual records place him on the honor roll. If the country was full of his kind, there would’ve more money in the banks, and newspaper men would not be so closely akin to poverty. , « 0 , ♦ ;En Passant: ♦ W. W. H. ♦ Riding a hobby is alright, unless you expect to get somewhere. You can’t change anything in this world suddenly. You can’t even change a caterpillar into a butterfly in five minutes. Arguing with a caterpillar, begging him to be “class conscious,” won’t do it. Setting a match to one end of the cocoon may ruin that cocoon, but it won’t bring out the butterfly. FOR QUICK SALE—THE J. T. ROBERTSON DWELLING. Also. 5 adjoining lots on Main and Sloan streets. See E. J. Adair. Convenient terms. T. G. Robertson, Executor of J. T. Robertson Estate. tfc The fellow who is still paying his last year's Christmas bills will have to hurry to make the grade. V\ HAT DO P. S. JEANS Ml DIAL OPTIMISTIC OF PARTY’S Trusts La FoIIette To Split Republi cans. Says Democrats Will Win Congress. Washington, Oct. 28.—Senator N. B. Dial, although in an atmosphere made unnatural by Republican propa ganda, writes himself today as an op-fpublican vote timistic Democrat. He bases his hope on the fact that Senator La FoIIette will split the Republican vote and the other fact that the people are dis- satisfeid as result of their oppres sion. The South Carolina senator declares himself reasonably certain that the Democrats will win congress, or “at Ifeast one house of congress,” but at the same time he is cautious to the extent ■ of - reminding his constituents that there are normally more Republi cans than Democrats. In part, the senator said: “I have been in close touch with the national Democratic committee for the last month. The reports at headquarters are exceedingly encouraging. We Democrats should not deceive our selves, however, because as much as we dislike to admit it, there are prob- who ordinarily vote the Republican HOPESfticket than ours. It is any one’s guess, however, this year on account of the uncertainty that the third party ticket injects. “Furthermore there is so much dis content, dissatisfaction and unrest prevailing throughout the country whicn will decrease the ordinary Re in times of poor busi ness the people naturally want a change and they knock the ones who are in power. If does seem to me that it is time for a large majority of the voters to see how unjustly they are treated by so high a tariff as ob tains today. I feel cheerful and hope ful that we will win the presidency and I am very confident that we will win one if not both houses in con gress.” WHAT DO — P. S. JEANS DO? 666 Liquor drinking is steadily decreas ing. Few people can stand the kind of stuff the bootleggers are now sell ing. Y Man was put here to work, but you will never make some people believe it. a prescription for Malaria, Chills and Fever, Dengue or Bil- ably more people in the United States ’ Uous Fever. It kills the germs. A woman’s head trouble is not al ways neuralgia—oftentimes its a new hat. The cheerful man draws people to him—the grouch repels all but his own. An Indiana school teacher paid $6,000 the other day for an automo bile. It happened in this way—her rich uncle died and left her a for tune. Another chap we never see any more is the one who used to blacn his shoes on the Sunday morning. front porch eveyy You have noticed, of course, that the man who brags about his honesty has to put up collateral when he gets money from the bank the same as the rest of ua. LOAFING AS A FINE ART It must be admitted that there is gbme lack of work at times when we consider how the theatres dre’ filled and how thousands attend baseball and football games which oqcur dur ing what are generally considered working hours. The so called loafer, may however, argue the benefit of recreation upon our physical condi tion and it may also be argued that this is an era of machinery and there Is no longer thd neee4sity of a man being subjected to the toil which was customary in the past during so many hqors of the day. Production Is what the world is interested In at last and Leviahenshaw Gorrcll, 104 years old, is the oldest living Mason. He is a resident of the Kansas Masonic Home, and says he feels better today than ever before. He attributes his longevity due to a total abstinence from tobacco and alcohol. A fine les son for the youth of the land. FREE AIR,” SAYS COOLIDGE. WHAT AILS THE CHURCH? UNCERTAIN, COY, AS USUAL. MOTHER, FIRST, LAST. THE BANKERS SING. President Coolidge notifies the world in general, including would-be monopolists of radio privileges, that nobody will be “allowed to monopo lize the air.” That’s welcome. Ordinary monopo lies the people recognize as national American institutions—electric light, railroads and other things. But they would like the air to remain free, if possible. Even in front of gasoline stations you see the sign, “Free Air.” The President should be congratulated on having put that sign up outside the White House. Don’t frown at the office boy for the position carries with it possibili ties and opportunities. Henry Ev ans, late president of the Continental Insurance Company, left $1,200,000 to charity. He started life as a poor, insignificant office boy, all of which shows the advantage of being an of-. n ifj C ently fice boy. What . is the matter with the Church? Many old-fashioned preach ers ask that question. Clergymen, secure in their pulpits, like the dis tinguished Dean Inge, of St. Paul’s, in London, calmly tells you that one of the great Apostles was not in spired; he only had epileptic fits. Ali this isn’t new. —Ifci—lJTZIHJ i—_J I r*4 f~— 1 (r—^ fr - — 1 1 r-—^ 11——* 1fr—^ 1 it—^ 11 1 r=ir=jr=ir=Jnl Money is not e’ erything with some people, particularly is this true in re gard to Miss Louise McDonnell, 21, San Francisco shop girl. She-recent ly inherited $85,000, but she says she will keep, on Working at the depart ment fdore glove counter where she has been employed for several years. She states that half of the money will be given to her mother and some of the remainder will be used to educate her younger brothers and sisters. Thomas Baldwin, 94-year-old Long Island hermit, was recently found dead in his cottage. He died in filth and rags, although he had 25 good suits of clothes hanging about the walls. The old man probably got great satisfaction out of contemplat ing all those suits and knowing that he would never want for good Clergymen are making every effort to restore religious enthusiasm. In New York’s Catnedral of St. John the Divine, sixty Bishops, mag- robed in brilliant, colors, accompanied by “Honorary Canons,” the clergy of the cathedral, the choir, etc., recently paraded through a building that cost millions of dollars. That was most impressive. But perhaps half a dozen fisher men, sitting in a rowboat that cost less than $20, discussing religion earnestly, might do more for faith than any ten-million-dollar cathedral. a a a a ’nl a a a a Hi I i nii a a We are in ample shape to take care of your wants in our line—Furniture, Stoves, Floor Covering’s, Trunks, etc. We have been receiv ing almost daily for the past few weeks large shipments of the goods you want. Especially are we prepared to take care of those who want odd or extra pieces for the home. • How about an extra Dresser, Wash Stand, Rockers, Chairs, Bedsteads, Springs, Mat tresses, Pillows, Table, Art Square, Rug, Trunk, Phonograph, Stove or Range ' ■ J V % If you want a complete outfit for the Din ing-Room, Bed Room, Living Room or Kitchen, see us before you decide about it. Woman, in her hour of ease, con tinues to be coy and uncertain. In Paris, she is ... having her shoulders rouged. In Lotulon, artists paint artificial freckle! on women’s faces, necks and arms. 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