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■< > V . — . ' ... 11 1 * PAGE FOUR THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1925 (Htj? (St|runtrb )NIGLE PUBLISECENO OO. PUBLISHED 15VERY THURSDAY M BY T^c&bo: I WILSON W. HARRIS Editor and Publisher ered 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 1 Foreign Advertieing R«pre«en*eltrr, THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of it’s subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions mat kindly advice. Make all remittances to tttr CHRONICLE PUBLISHING OO. Clinton, S. C. CLINTON, r*. C.. JANUARY 15, 1925 io SENATOR DIAL SPEAKS OUT Regardless of what may be said about it, the speech Senator Dial made in the Senate a few days ago contained a big bundle of truth. Nat urally, it brought wrath and bitter denunciatioa from some of his col leagues and was termed by them as ill-graced from a senator who hs«’ been defeated for re-election; for in his indictment many of the so-called “prominent" leaders were included. If Senator Dial felt as he did about it, he is to be commended for having the courage to speak out and to put his finger on some of the sore spots that are clearly apparent and that must be healed if the Democratic party is to survive. The mistake the senator made was in retracting what he had said, even though it did not sound pleasing to some of the entrenched leaders whose chief aim is office-hold- change in some of the policies that are now being followed and that are more and more working a hardship upon the taxpayers. THE YOUNG BUSINESS MAN One of the most interesting prob lems of modern days is the young business man. An elderly gentleman stated some time ago that when he came to Rich mond some fifty-odd years ago to go into business, every position of im portance was held by old men. “Even the clerks in the stores and the banka had reached that dependable age at which the men of today begin to think seriously of retiring from busi ness. But today everything is chang ed. It isn’t that I am so old that middle-aged men seem young to me. It ia literally that younger and young er men are holding more and more responsible positions and holding them responsibly.’’ Otto Kohn considers the young business man sufficiently important to have made him the subject of in teresting address before the Harvard Club in New York some weeks ago. His talk was so interesting that some ol it will bear repetition. In advising the young man in busi ness to eliminate the word “perfunc tory” from his vocabulary, to give as much attention to seemingly un important details'as he ^ -more mg. Senator Dial did not criticise the Democratic party but attacked the methods of its leaders, especially in Congress. He said that the party had fallen into shifty opportunism, seiz ing every fad of the moment, yielding 1 to every pressure from lobbies and galleries, veering to every wind that seemed to promise popularity, regard less of the direction from which it came. Continuing, he charged that the Democrats have committed them selves to dangerous and strange com panionships and associations, to co partnership with representatives of weighty things he reminded his audi ence that his own first promotion came /rom licking stamps and stick ing them on circulars so accurately aifd rapidly that the boss, who was standing near, concluded he was worthy of better things and promoted him. Reputation comes next on his ad vice list, and this, he thinks is a mat ter which can be and must be acquir ed because the most indispensable re quisition of the young business man 1s character. For the third and fourth requisites he advises him to think, exercising the springs of his brain as he exer cises the muscles of his body; and to use his imagination, keeping it under careful control. His next point is that every young business man should be prepared and ready for his next step up in business. “Keep a sharp lookout for opportunities, but hide your time and know how to wait.” Be hard-headed, he advises, but not hard-boiled. Don’t think you can raise jrourself by thrusting others down. There are plenty of oppor tunities in America for every one who can take advantage of them. “Throw overboard envy, jealousy, and ill will. They are worse than useless ballast.” His seventh commandment is one which most young men find it excep tionally hard to accept: “Don't be an eight-hour-a-day man,” tho he also adds, “Don’t permit yourself to be come a machine.” Keep your ideals Don’t scoff. Don’t lose faith. It ia mote from American democracy. In short, the senator said that our poli tical leaders have bean obstructing everything and constructing nothing. The indictment of the senator should be a warning to the Demo cratic party. Overwhelmingly de feated in the past two elections, with all the odds in -the party’s favor, shows clearly that there’s something wrong and that there must be a tightening up all along the lines if the party is to continue to exist. There must be devolped a broad and constructive statesmanship that will deserve and win the renewed confi dence of the people. With so brilliant a standard bearer as John W. Davis in the past election, opposing a rotten and corrupt Repub lican administration, the verdict was an overwhelming defeat. The time has come to gird about the party strength and weapons. In this way, and only this, will we be able to re sist those who would destroy a party with a long and glorious heritage. Senator Dial has sounded a timely warning. theories amHoetrfnes amLpolieiea re- ^ t o pick up an ideal which baa tho barber shop after a lady had va cated the chair. Sixteen persona were killed on the roads of South Carolina during De cember, which shows how much safer it ia to walk than to ride. The average girl can make fudge and mayonnaise, but young married people can’t live on those two things alone. A fine way to get your past, pres ent and future, is to run for an of fice. , . You may not believe it but there was once a time in this country when children went to bed right after sup per instead of to the movies. It is said that hanging on the front gate produces rheumatism, but you will never make some girls believe it. COUNTY TREASURER'S NOTICE ' 1924 Hie books of the County Treasurer will be open for the collection of Taxes for the fiscal year, 1924, at the Treasurer’s office from October 15th to December Slat; 1924. After De cember Slat one per cent will be ad ded. After January 31st two per cent will be added, and after February 28th seven per cent will be added until the 15th day of March, 1925, when th« books will be closed, v AD persons owning property in more than one township are request ed to call for receipts in each of the several townships in which the pro perty is located. This ia important, as additional cost and penalty may be attached. All able-bodied, male citizens be tween the ages of twenty-one (21) and sixty (60) years of age are liable to pay a poll tax of $1.00, except old soldiers, who are exempt at fifty (50) years of age. Commutation Road Tax $1.50 in lieu of road duty. All able- A woman s idea of frankness is to bodied men between the ages of 21 have some other woman say nice aiu j 55 are liable to road duty except things about her. I those in military service, school trua- tees, school teachers, ministers, and Leap Year is gone but that doesn 11 students. Dog Tax $1.25, which must Ml! No Matter What Your Taste Calls For — You’ll find everything you need in plan ning tasty, tempting, enjoyable meals in our assorted.quality stock. The best of everything awaits you here in great variety. Join our list of custom ers and judge for yourself whether it will pay to continue. keep the women from going right be paid not later than January 31st, ahead and proposing if they want to. j 1924. Proper attention will be given those, It is stated ^that ^ $25,000,000 was J who wish to payjjhfiir. taxes through. ~~ ^^^chwk-,moneyOTder,~ etc. j for autos. - No wonder the poor gro- The Ux levy ia as follows: cer has such a hard time. | State Tax .... .... ,...6 mills' Ordinary County Tax .... .... SM mills! There are 593 auto dealers in South I Road and Bridge 4 mills Carolina. There are not enough fig- Railroad Bond 1 mill ures to count the filling stations. | Jail Bonds % mill Road Bonds 8% mills LITTLE S DENSON 50—Two£!hones»*-54 Clinton, S. C. 't&SBSSf&Bi It is unlucky to be bom rich, but Past Indebtedness if you want to tackle the hardest job Statewide School (6-0-1) you ever struck, try to convince a I Weak Schools young man that this true. •V Constitutional School % mill 4 mills hi mill 3 mills Last year the people of the United States spent $390,000,000 for candy, | an average of $1,000,000 a day, and yet there are still millions of sour j folks in the world. Total Laurens Don’t be discouraged—a Boston j man has written a book on “How to| Get Rich.” 36 mills School Districts 16H mills 8 mills X —•V" 16 mills . 7 mills 13 mills . 6 mills . 8 mills 22 mills No. 4 .... No. 5 .... No. 7 .... No. 8 .... No. 3B . 8 mills ....20^ mills 8 mills 12 mills .... 24 mills The former Kaiser says nobody cares what has become of him. “Ain’t it the truth?” A Russian says he doesn’t believe in heaven, which is natural. Folks seldom believe in the things they know nothing about. A manufacturer advertises an in destructible phonograph. What a pity] This much can be said of the wo man who married eight husbands, at least, she had. a lot of curiosity. No. 11 Youngs School Districts I - — 3 mills No. 2 g mills 3 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... 8 mills No. 4 :. 18 mills No. 5 .... 17 milU No. 6 11 m iH s No. 7 17 mills No. 8 13 mills No. 10 22 * mills Dials School Districts No. 1 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... 8 mills No. 2 12% mills No. 3 12 mills Sullivan School Districts No. 1 17 mills No. 2 8 mills No. 3 20 mills No. 7 — .... 16 mills No. 17 16 mills Railroad Tax 3 mills Waterloo School Districts No. 1 12 mills No. 2 9 mills No. 3 ,... 19 mills No. 4 14 mills No. 5 8 mills No. 6 ! 12 mills No. 7 , .... 15 mills No. 14 8 mills Cross Hill School Districts No. 1 4 mills No. 2 ; 8 mirlls No. 3 — — 6 mills No. 13 16 mills Hunter School Districts * No. 3 6 mills No. 4 8 mills No. 5 ^ ...- 26 mills No. 6 4 mills No. 7 .... «... .... .... 5 mills No. K9 8 mills No. R42 13 mills No. 16 15% mills Jacks School Districts No. 2 ;. 7 mills No. 3 .... 16 mills No. 4 ,.... 3 mills No. 6 8 mills No. 7 3 mills No. 15 6 mills Scuffletown School Districts No. 1 8 mills No. 2 8 mills No. 3 3 mills No. 4 4 mills No. 12 H% mills Persons sending in lists of names to be taken off are requested to send them early and give the township of each, as the Treasurer is very busy during the month of December; ROSS D. YOUNG, County Treasurer. WHAT DO P. S. JEANS DO? THE AUTO LICENSE LAW There is considerable talk and com plaint about the doubling of the auto mobile license this year, and especial ly as regards the tacking on of a dol lar for the recording of a title. This dollar added strikes us as unnecessary and is worth practically nothing to the owners. Moreover, the roads will get very little, if any, benefit from this tax. The State Highway Depart ment has a complete record of every car in the State from the tax records that owners are required to make, and there is no necessity of making still another record. The doubling of the automobile tax will go largely to the main highways and will be of 1 ttle benefit to the rural sections and its farming population, where the need is imperative for an improvement in the public roads. The continual adding on in Colum bia of special fees and increasing present taxes and assessments is be coming a nuisance. But these things have to go on to make jobs for office- seekers and clerks in Columbia. With the convening of the legislature each year there is a scramble for jobs, for the creation of new committed^ and commissions, clerks, etc., resulting in the establishment of useless offices and expenditures to make jobs for clerks and provide for office overhead expenses. The taxpayers, of course, must foot the bills and they can’t help themselves. This.policy is due to a concentra tion ol too much power and authority in Columbia, a policy that the nation al government has adopted and that many of the state* are following. The people are helpless now, but some day they trill wake up and demand a once been thrown overboard. Young business men should, he says, take an interest and a due share in public affairs. “Don’t be reaction ary, but put your intelligence and ex perience to use ... to advance social justice and to promote the common welfare.” And again: don’t go through life filled with suspicion and distrust. Meet your fellow-men with confidence, unless you have a good reason for suspicion. Be helpful, courteous and conciliatory. Success is not a gift. Like every thing else really worth having in life, it has got to be paid for. Make \t a point not only to be approach able, as you go up the ladder, but to seek and welcome contact with the workaday world so as to remain part and parcel of it.” And as a parting apology for so much good advice, he adds, “My son is about to enter business. I greatly desire him to succeed, but I am giv ing him no message in any way dif ferent from the one I have given you.”—Gaily Ryland in Richmond News. If you think it is easy-to write a j column of this sort of stuff, you jpst [ try it sometime. czm err i ) err- 1 i I—'i cbui Trte Twenty-eight men at Princeton [ [m they have never kissed a girl.] others >tell the truth. When Senator Dial made his speech | in the senate the other day, he told a bundle of truth. That’s the reason some of the politicians are making such a noise bver what he said. The Aim You can’t down women, and a sensi ble man never tries. In England they have started an agitation for smok ing compartments on trains for the exclusive use of women, which means that they will have them. Every farmer in this section should have heard Mr. Coker’s address here last Wednesday. Summed up, he said, j “If the farmer doesn’t conquer the | boll weevil, he will be conquered by the boll weevil and turned over to the I sheriff.” of This Bank An editor and a merchant were dis- ] cussing the virtue of billboard adver-1 tising. The merchant contended that; more people read the billboard than the newspaper. After a lengthy con- Towards depositors new and old, may be summed up in just four words, viz— 1 a a a a a 0 1 1 0 0 1 n 0 0 0 ♦ ♦***'****»*4* ''VtMtUbnr Whltlfn e 1 ther "man 'woul : En Passant • ♦ W. W. H. ♦ The way of the law-breaker is hard —occasionally. A man’s mind is what he thinketh until his wife changes it. * Ever notice, that the fellow who has plenty of p.:sh never needs any pull. Are you facing the New Year with courage? Much is offered for the strong-hearted. give in, the men parted. The next week the merchant came tearing down the street to know why j the obituary of his wife’s mother was not in the paper, especially after he] had seen that a copy was taken to the newspaper office. “Well,” said the editor, “I know you wanted the obituary read by the I people, so I took it out and nailed it! up on/your billboard.” Courtesy Assistance Security Service We don’t know where this cross- word puzzle came from, but it has about set everybody crazy. Charity is a good thing, but it should be practiced at home before it goes a-visiting. Dr. E. Mood Smith Dr. Felder Smith OPTOMETRISTS If without a strong banking connection, be sure and talk with us at once. MODERN SERVICE Sometimes a woman makes a fool of a man, but more often he attends to the job himself. Sometimes a man works in his of fice at night, and then again that is what he tells his wife. If taxes keep soaring, It^Sfill al most become a capital offense for a man to have money. A married man in town had an aw ful time last night. His wife found a hair on his shoulder hut he Anally convinced her that he picked it up ia Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted FOR SALE—Two beau- tif ul lots situated in the heart of Clinton’s nicest residential property. See J. L. Wright l-22-3tc Service Plus Safety Is Our Bid For Your Account What Does C. A. OWENS The First National Bank MOVES HOUSES “CLINTON’S STRONGEST BANK” I 1 V \ 'a W \