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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, 8. C.
THURSDAY* OCTOBER 30* 1924
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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
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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
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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. , «
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;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.
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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.”
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Liquor drinking is steadily decreas
ing. Few people can stand the kind
of stuff the bootleggers are now sell
ing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How about an extra Dresser, Wash Stand,
Rockers, Chairs, Bedsteads, Springs, Mat
tresses, Pillows, Table, Art Square, Rug,
Trunk, Phonograph, Stove or Range
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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.
There is meaning in all this petty
puzzling feminie nonsense. Olympais,
mother jol Alexander, doing wild
dances with snakes wrapped around
her, no other clothing, and your great;
grandmother with her hoop skirt
trailing on the ground and smelling
progress • in
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clothes. If he had read Poor Rich- L*alt», both represent
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io long as that U kept up to the pro- ] would have sfeen this: “Wealth ia not | Woman i* a being more complicate- 4 1
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