The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, January 29, 1925, Image 4
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1925
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CLINTON, S. C., JANUARY 29, 1925
General Assembly
functions of the various departments little Work Done By
of my Government and to spread the ^
knowledge of the same among my
fellow citizens in order that they may
enjoy to the fullest extent the ad
vantages offered by the Government,
and may more fully realize the Gov-
erntment as a means of service to the
people.
“1. To encourage good men to en
ter public service and remain therein
by commending the faithful perform
ance of their duties and by refrain
ing from criticism except such as is
founded on a knowledge of facts.
“12. To seek to promote good feel
ing between all groups of my fellow
citizens and to resist as inimical to
public-welfare all partisan efforts to
excite race, religious, class and sec
tional prejudice.
“13. Not to think alone of what my
Government can do for me but more
about what I can do for it.
“14. To inform myself with respect
to the problems which confront my
country in its foreign relations and
to support policies which safeguard
its legitimate interests abroad and
which recognize the responsibilities of
the United States as a member of
international society.” ‘ *
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THE CROSS-WORD PUZZLERS
If you introduce some mental test
at an evening party, some people will
groan audibly, reluctant to set their
indolent minds to work. Yet many of
these same folks have been recently
poking their heads into dictionaries
with eager inquiry, trying to fill those
tantalizing cross-word squares with
which our intelligence is tested.
Some people assert that such men
tal exercise has little educational
value. Knowledge of words is of lit
tle use, they insist, until one learns
how to handle them well. Others have
so much admiration for words as
civilization’s most finished and power
ful tool, that they'like to see people
working over them.
Take the simplest word, and ask
how that particular combination of
vocal sounds and letters ever came to
mean certain ideas? Who decided
that the four letters, d-e-a-r, stand
for sounds meaning affection, while
those letters and sounds rearranged
spell “read,” an- entirely different
idea ?
Who created the 100,000 and more
words with which our great diction
aries are bulging? The more you
study words, the more you respect
them, the more you want to see them
kindly handled, and not jostled and
bruised by wrong pronunciations and
applications.
When a boy is given a fine set of
mechanical tools, he first admires and
plays with them as if they were mere
toys. Thereby he is incited to learn
their uses according to the several
purposes for which they were intend
ed, until he can cut, hammer, and
finish with them with skillful touch.
So perhaps it may be with many of
our cross-word puzzlers. After they
have played out their littie game,
they may feel incited to go on and
learn more about these wonderful
tools of the higher civilization, so as
to use them more deftly for their own
advancement and for community pro
gress.
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j En Passant;
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Another optimist is the fellow who
eats hash away from home.
(Continued from Page One)
Gov. Thomas G* McLeod’s recom
mendation in his inaugural message,
delivered Tuesday, that banks holding
state funds be required to deposit col
lateral to secure such state funds ap
pears to have m£t with general ap
proval and measures carrying out the
recommendations have been introduc
ed in both houses, in the senate by T.
B. Greneker of Edgefield, and in the
house by A. F. McKjssick and W. H.
Keith of Greenville, C. W. Pritchford
of Oconee, and A. P. Coleman of New
berry. Similar measures to safeguard
county and school district funds have
also been introduced, all to be refer
red to appropriate committees.
R. H. McAdams of Abbeville, would
on the other hand require the stale
sinking fund commission to guarantee
deposits in all state banks and has
introduced a bill to put such a plan
into effect. To finance the program
Mr. McAdams would require the
banks to pay an annual fee of one-
tenth of a mill on their total resour
ces, the sinking fund commission be
ing liable in case of any bank’s fail
ure only up to the amount of the capi
The world may be getting better
but some of our writers are showing
little signs of improvement.
It’s strange, but true, some folks
never learn that it takes hard work to
get on Easy Street.
Only those who seek salvation are
benefitted at a religious revival, as
a rule. Same way with a business
revival. Merchants who advertise are
the ones who obtain the greatest
blessings.
You can’t tell. It may be that
young George Washington knew that
the old man had seen him with the
hatchet at the cherry tree.
When trouble comes to a family,
one neighbor will call to express sym
pathy while ten others will call mere
ly to get the details.
A ( REED FOR GOOD CITIZENS
The classes in Virginia Government
and Citizenship of the Marshall-Wythe
School of Go-ernment and Citizen
ship of the College of William and
Mary at Williamsburg, Virginia, re
cently adopted a creed cf citizenship
for which the college authorities say
there has been active demand.' The
creed is worth reproducing and we are
passing it on to our readers:
“1. To acquaint myself with those
fundamental principles embodied in
our constitutions and laws which ex
perience has shown are essential to
the preservation of our liberties and
the promotion of good government,
and to defend these principles against
all attacks.
“2. To inform myself on all public
issues, and on the character, record
and platform of all candidates for of
fice, and to exert actively my influ
ence in favor of men and measures in
which I believe.
“3. To vote in every election, pri
mary and general, never using my
vote for personal or private ends, but
only for the public good, placing the
Everywhere one tries to get across
the streets now-a-days he finds a
ford. Different from the old days.
The trouble with this domestic sci
ence stuff is that it teaches girls to
cook everything except the things that
a man really Hfeefri—
If you want to get rich, -start a
laundry that will keep the shirt but
tons sewed on.
We had a $1 check come back from
the bank yesterday marked “insuffi
cient funds.” It does seem that al
most any bank would have enough
money to pay a $1 check.
Not many city folks are willing to
be dirt farmers, but their children are
all willing to be real dirt kids.
President Coolidge is. noted for his
silence, the commendable habit of
keeping his mouth shut. But he has
to open it three times a day, break
fast, dinner, and supper.
The girls who look as if they work
ed in a flour mill may simply have
been using the powderpuff.
This is a hard old- world and that
is the reason there is such a scramble
for the soft jobs.
The more brain a man has the less
prejudice he is able to carry in his
head.
You can’t always tell. A grocer
sent some storage eggs out in the
country and then hauled them back
and sold them as "eggs from the
country.”
is in the hands of the judiciary com
mittee. .
Bills providing for the acceptance
of the Fletcher Memorial gift and the
creation of a state junior college in
Marlboro county have been proposed
by Marlboro members in both houses.
The two measures, identical in con
tent, have been referred to the senate
and house committees on education
The week also witnessed the intro
duction by Olin D. Sawyer of George
town, in the lower house of a bill pro
viding for the ratification of the Co
lumbia canal settlement. The meas
ure is identical with the bill previously
introduced in the senate. Both meas
ures are in the’hands of committees.
Clemson college and its recent stu
dent “strike” has been the center of
attention in both houses. Wednesday
there was introduced in the lower
house by R. G. Blackburn of Marion, a
resolution providing for the appoint
ment of a joint committee to confer
with the Clemson heirs as to terms
under which the state might acquire
complete control of the college. The
resolution was not acted upon in the
lower house, except on motion of John
B. Duffie of Sumter, to be referred to
the judiciary committee. A similar
measure, fathered by Senator J. How
ard Moore, of Abbeville, was passed
by the senate Thursday only to be re
called from the lower house Friday.
A second resolution requesting oth
er institutions of higher learning to
receive the expelled Clemson students,
was introduced in the lower house by
C. D. Lee of Darlington and was pass
ed unanimously. The senate has yet
to act upon the proposal, immediate
consideration of the measure having
been prevented by the objection of
Senator Alan Johnstone of Newberry,
president of the Clemson board of
trustees.
On Third Reading
On the house calendar for consider
ation on third reading are only two
state-wide measures, a bill of J. O.
Williams reducing the capitation dog
tax to $1, and a bill of R. H. McAdams
of Abbeville cutting the legal rate of
interest to 6 per cent and 7 per cent
by agreement instead of 7 per cent
and 8 per cent by agreement. Both
measures were given the house’s ap
proval Friday.
Also set for consideration by the
house—this as a second reading bill
are: the measure of John W. Jen
nings of Richland county, proposing
the abolition of the “fee systenl” as
the basis of county officers’ salaries
and the constitutional convention reso
lution, introduced by 16 members of
the house. The constitution conven
tion measure was given a majority
favorable report by the judiciary com
mittee; the Jennings bill, which is of
state-wide effect, a majority unfavor
able report
COUNTY TREASURER’S NOTICE
1924
The 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 31st, 1924. After De
cember 31st one per cent will be ad
ded. After January 31st two per cent
will he added, and after February 28th
seven per cent will be added until the
15th day of March, 1925,, when the
books will he closed.
All 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 is 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.Q0, except old
soldiers, who are exempt at fifty (50)
years of age. Commutation Road Tax
$1.50 in lieu of road duty. All able-
bodied men between the ages of 21
and 55 are liable to road duty except
those in military service, school trus
tees, school teachers, ministers, and
students. Dog Tax $1.25, which must
be paid not later than January 31st,
1924.
•rvbper a
ntrem ■m
who wish to pay their taxes through
the mail by check, money order, etc.
The tax levy is as follows:
State Tax .... ; . .... ....6 mills
Ordinary County Tax 8% mills
Road and Bridge '.... 4 mills
Railroad Bond 1 mill
Jail Bonds ^ mill
Road Bonds 8 Mi mills
Past Indebtedness % mill
Statewide School (6-0-1) .... 4 mills
Weak Schools ,. % mill
Constitutional School 3 mills
Total ; 36 mills
Laurens School Districts
No. 1 16% mills
No. 2 8 mills
No. 3 16 mills
No. 4 7 mills
No. 5 13 mills
No. 6 6 mills
No. 7 g mills
No. 11 22 mills
Youngs School Districts
No. 1 3 mills
No. 2 8 mills
No. 3 : ......... .... 8 mills
No. 4 16 mills
No. 5 17 mills
No. 6 .... .... 11 mills
No. 7 17 mills
No. 8 .... 13 m iii s
No. 10 22% mills
Dials School Districts
No. 1 8 miils
No. 2 12% mills
No. 3 12 mills
Meat He Will Eat
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Your skill as a cook is fully exemplified and
rewarded when you use it to prepare one of our
delicious roasts for your table.
Let us send you one for dinner today,
FRESH FISH AND OYSTERS EVERY FRIDAY.
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Clinton, S. C.
A British explorer is now on his
way to British Honduras to study the
pyramids there.
Sometimes the best salesmanship
consists in letting a customer go out
of the store without making a pur
chase. If you persuade hi up to take
A $3,000 Home For
$35.00 Per Month
ALL YOUR OWN
what he doesn’t want he may- not
welfare of my country above that of corne again,
my party, if the interests of the two
THROUGH
No. 4 8 mills
No. 5 20% mills
No. 7 8 mills
No. 8 12 mills
No. 3B .... 24 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. 6 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 15 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 11% 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 monjh of December.
ROSS D. YOUNG,
County Treasurer.
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BUCK’S STOVES AND RANGES
BUCK’S-
BUCK’S-
-the old reliable factory in business for 77 years and the leader in
quality.
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-the kind with the wide shallow fire-box and the top oven plate de
signed after years of experimenting.
BUCK’S-
should ever conflict.
“4. To connect myself with the poli
tical party which most nearly repre
sents my views on public questions,
and to exert my influence within the
party to bring about the nomination
of good men for office and the in
dorsement of measures for the public
weal.
“5. To have the courage to perform
my* duties as a citizen regardless of
the effect upon me financially or so
cially, remembering that a cowardly
citizen is as.useless to his country in
time of peafce as a cowardly soldier
is in time of war.
“6. To stand for honest election
laws impartially administered.
“7. To obey all laws whether I
deem them wise or not, and to uphold
the officers in the enforcement of the
law.
“8. To make full and honest return
of all my property and income for
taxation.
“9. To be ever ready to serve my
country in war and in peace, espec-
ially in such inconspicuous capacities
as juror and election official.
CIO. To acquaint myself with the
Chauffeurs have a poor opinion of
great many pedestrians judging
from the way they are constantly run
ning them down.
Series Two
Clinton B. & L. Assn.
NOW OPEN
Here it is almost February and
many of us haven’t learned to write
it 1925.
Some people seem to be willing to
do almost anything rather than set
tle down and pay up their debts.
Many parents turn their children
over to the schools with a sigh of re
lief, to have their heads filled with
knowledge as they turn them over
to the dentist to have their teeth fill
ed with gold. But this won’t work.
Education calls for ambition on the
part of pupils, and the homes have
to help create and keep alive that
sentiment.
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Hair Curlers, $1.00 Par
rott-Electric.
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Drive Yourself
OPEN AND CLOSED'CARS
DAY PHONE 357
NIGHT PHONE 156
Ellis Auto Livery
CLINTON, S. C.
Dr. E. Mood Smith
Dr. Felder Smith
MODERN
SERVICE
OPTOMETRISTS
Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted
15 West Main Street Phone 101
CLINTOIf, S. C.
BUCK’S-
BUCK’S
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-the factory with no scrap iron in its shops or yards—absolutely all
new pig iron of the best quality used.
-the. stove with all body joints cemented perfectly air tight, no cold
air in flues. .
•the stove with the air-tight clean-out door, the deep hearth pit, large
flues and uniform thickness of top oven plate and oven bottom.
-the kind this store has been selling for many years and the one many
^ of your neighbors have been using for a long time—fuel saving-
quick heating—long lasting.
BUCK^S Prices are considerably less tlian for many years—very little higher
than an ordinary stove.
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A Good Allowance for Your Old Stove or Range
Fuller-Simpson Furniture Co,
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