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CLINTON. S. C„ FEB. 12. 1925
SPACES
DRAMATIZING DANGERS
* The newspapers for the past week
have been carrying two “human inter
est stories.” They have been featured
on the front pages as the world’s most
important news and have been read
by millions of people with more than
ordinary interest.
One story told of the rush, with
dog sleds, over hundreds of miles of
Alaskan ice, to carry diphtheria se
rum to the village of Nome, Alaska.
^The other told of the struggle to save
the life of a cave explorer in Ken
tucky, imprisoned by a fallen boulder
in a small underground passage, shut
off from communication.
In each case, the news judgement of
the editors was doubtless right and
the response of the reading public
was human and natural. The appeal
of those sick children in Nome, and of
the tbrrific effort made to reach and
save them, touched every sympathetic
heart and roused instinctive admira
tion for heroic deeds. What a movie
that would have made! At Cave City
there has been equal heroism on the
part of the rescuers to save Floyd
Collins, the workers toiling until ex
hausted in close darkness of what
threatened to be a living grave, and
equal pity for the victim. Within the
next few hours it is hoped that entry
will be made in the victim’s cavern,
and the whole world awaits with hope
and sympathetic interest whether
Collins is alive or dead.
And yet there were but a few doz
en cases of diphtheria at Nome, and
only a half dozen had died. There are
always ten of thousands of American
children greviously sick from avoid
able disease, and hundreds of thous
ands engaged in killing toil, and hard
ly anybody ever gets the least excited
about it. Every year there are scores
and scores of men killed in the stifling
darkness of mines, and everybody
takes it just as a matter of course.
If we only had imagination enough
to dramatize every-day dangers by
wholesale instead of dramatizing an
occasional, isolated, individual danger,
it wouldn’t be long to clean up the
world’s plagues and plague-spots and
preventable perils.
istrative influence. It develops,
too, into a source of patronage
corrupting to the body politic.
Such a group is developing in
South Carolina and it ought to be
checked before it geCs out of
bounds. The difference between
a bureaucracy and a civil •ser
vice,” says Wickham Steed, for
mer editor of the London Times,
in his reminiscenses of conditions
Austria-Hungary under the
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Hapsburg, “is that the former
knows it is the government,
whereas the latter admits to it
self, in the last resort, that its
function is to serve the public
through the state. A community
that allows officials to tyrannize
over it abdicates its right to live.’
The bureaucrats, yet inconspicu
ous, increasing steadily in this
state, are assuming more and
more an air of proprietorship of
the government, which may grow
into something like a tyranny.
Tax gathering, especially if it
involve inquisition; as in the com
putation of the income tax, may
become seriously oppressive and
exceedingly hateful. Every safe
guard against sueh a develop
ment should be raised and the
best way to insure against it is
to simplify methods and keep
down the number of agents em
ployed. The fixing of the state
income tax at a ratio with the
federal tax would tend toward au
tomatic collection of the state’s
post. It is a plan which should
be adopted now.”
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W. W. H.
Wedding bells are constantly ring
ing, but some of us can’t distinguish
them from dumbbells.
Not merely do ?olds keep many
workers away from thefr jobs, but
cold feet spoil many hopeful enter
prises.
Laymen’s Conference To Be Held At
First Presbyterian Church On
February 19.
Two pon/erences on Christian Stew
ardship are to be held in South Caro
lina Presbytery this month. The first
one is announced for Abbeville on
February 17, while the second will be
held in this city with the Finst Pres
byteriaii church on the afternoon of
February 19, beginning at 2:30 p. m.
The object of the conference is for
a general discussion of church benevo
lences, and the Every-Member canvass
in particular. The program calls for
no set speeches but the meeting will
be thrown open for short addresses
by laymen and deacons affecting the
various phases of church work.
Representatives from all Presbyter
ian churches in Laurens and New
berry counties are invited and urged
to attend the Clinton conference. The
work is headed by C. R. Calhoun of
Greenwood, and he is sending out an
appeal asking for a large and repre
sentative attendance.
CLINTON MAYOR
AT GREENWOOD
The fellow who is constantly com
plaining about the cold weather can
get warm by splitting cord wood.
J. F. Jacobs Addresses Chamber of
Commerce on Benefits of South
ern Expoeition.
Mayor J. F. Jacobs of this city, state
chairman of the Southern Exposition
for South Carolina, was the guest of
honor at a meeting of the Greenwood
Chamber of Commerce last Friday
night The following account of his
address in that city appeared in The
Index-Journal of Saturday:
“Mr. J. F. Jacobs of Clinton made a
most interesting and instructive talk
at the Community Hall last night on
the beneficial publicity South Caro
lina and Greenwood will derive from
the Southern Exposition which will
be held in New York City in May. He
cited illustrations of the advantages
of advertising, pointed out that the old
reference to the man and his best
mouse trap would not succeed in this
day when nothing succeeds unless it
u given proper publicity.
“New York is the logical place for
such an exposition, Mr. Jacobs show
Families with treasured cherry
trees and active kids will be glad to
get by Washington’s birthday safely.
A church in New York has a man
93 years old as its chief usher. They
usually quit about twenty.
ed, becaused the Metropolis is the No . 3 g mills
money market and trade market of the n 0 . 4 16 mills
world and a proper showing made to No. 5 ! 17 mills*
its teeming millions will touch all No. 6 ' H mills
A pint of whiskey has gotten many
a man info a peck of trouble.
TOO MANY BUREAUS
The continual creation of bureaus
and commissions in South Carolina
means the creation of political mach
ines besides piling great excessive
taxation burdens upon the people. In
time these agencies, multiplying each
year in number, will dominate and
control the government of South Caro
lina. The old state dispensary sys
tem “story” is still remembered and
should be a warning.
There are too many people working
for South Carolina. This does not
mean that there is too much work be
ing done. It only means that there
are too many workers. The list
should be cut down.
Take the income tax business. Too
much money is spent to collect this
tax.
The recent establishmtent of the
title registration law meant first of
all the creation of new and more jobs.
A statement was made that already
fifty thousand dollars had been spent
It is no disgrace to fail; the dis
grace is in not getting up and start
ing again. '.
You can’t always tell. Some folks
who live on the fat of the land are
below the average in weight.
There is nothing new in this talk
of trial marriages. Some marriages
have always been trials.
They are having some big debates
in the legislature, but nobody seems
to be paying any attention to them.
A small boy can carry almost as
many foolish things in his pocket as
a woman can carry in her handbag.
A horse may not be as fast as an
automobile, but you don’t have to pour
boiling water into a horse o*n a cold
morning.
The trouble with this bootleg booze
according to a fellow who has trie<
it, is that you have to be drunk before
you can drink the stuff.
No matter how mad a man may get
at his wife, he always admires her
judgement in having married him.
Ever notice how some folks put on
They even go so fax as to pretenc
they enjoy' high-brow music.
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 Slat, 1924. After De
cember 31st 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 the
books will be closed.
All persons owning property in
more than one township are request
ed to call for *receipta in each of the
several township] 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 $1.00, except old
soldiers, who are exempt at fifty (50)
years of age. Commutation Road Tax
$1.50 in lieu of road duty. All able-
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.
Proper attention will be given those
who wish to pay their taxc;s 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% mills
Past Indebtedness
Statewide School (6-0-1)
Weak Schools
Constitutional School ....
mill
4 mills
K mill
3 mills
36 mills
Total .... .... «... .... ....
Laurens School Districts
No. 1 16 H mills
No. 2 8 mills
No. 3 16 mills
hio. 4 .... .... .... .... .... .... 7 mills
No. 5 18 mills
No. 6 6 mills
^lo. 7 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... 8 mills
No. 11 22 mills
Youngs School Districts
No. 1 .... .... .... .... .... .... 3 mills
No. 2 8 mills
classes of citizens on account of its
cosmopolitan citizenship.
, “Mr. Jacobs used Miami, Fla., as an
illustration of a city that has made its
success through advertising. It is the
No. 7 17 mills
No. 8 13 mills
No. 10 22% mills
Dials School Districts
No. 1
fastest-growing city in the country " -• J*
because its climate and advantages ^ ^ m “| 8
are heralded to the world through' mi “*
publicity. The natural advantages
here, he added, should be advertised
and he declared that Greenwood, fur-
nishing. as it does ideal sites for man
ufacturing concerns and backed up
by a splendid agricultural country, is
adopting a suicidal policy in not let
ting the world know about her at
tractions.
“Mr. Jacobs is greatly interested in
the Southerh Exposition and he came
here upon the invitation of President
Marvin S. Chipley and Secretary Geo.
T. Barnes, who are promoting Green
wood’s exhibit at the exposition.”
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No. 5 20% mills
No. 7 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... 8 mills
No. 8 .... .••• .••• •••. .... .... .... 12 mills
No. 3B 24 mills
Sullivan School Districts
No. 1 17 mills
hio. 2 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... 8 mills
No. 3 20 mills
No. 7 16 mills
No. 17 16 mills
Railroad Tax 3 milh
Waterloo School Districts
No. 1 A „ 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 15 mills
Hunter School Districts
No. 3 6 mills
No. 4 8 mills
No. 5 26 mills
.... 8 mills No. 6 4 milk
No. 7 —. .... .... .... .... .... 5 mills
No. K9 8 mills
No. R42 is mills
No. 16 15 % mills
Jacks School Districts
No. 2 7 mills
16 mills
. 3 mills
...8 mills
. 3 mills
. 6 mills
^1 .... .... .... .... ....
^lO. 4 .... .... a... .... ...
No. 6
No. 7 ! ...
No. 15
Scuffletown School Districts
No. 1 8 mills
No. 2 8 mills
No. 3 3 mills
No. 4 4 mills
No. 12 11 Vi 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?
A VALENTINE PARTY
The ladies of the Lydia Mills vil
lage will give a Valentine party in
the school auditorium on Saturday j
night. The admission will be ten and
fifteen cents. Free refreshments will
be served and interesting games play-1
ed.
NOTICE OF MEETING
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Some people never think about re
penting until they get in a tight place
and are afraid of getting caught.
Carelessness is usually at the back
ground of our failures, or just plain
laziness if you don’t like the first
word.
The United States has about 25,000
1 miles of concrete road. This informa-
for the setting up of the machinery ti on j s given for the benefit of the
of the law. It was estimated that it
would bring in two hundred thousand
dollars, so the cost of collecting has
already, amounted to one-fourth of the
total revenue. This is all out of pro
portion. Too many people are tied to
the machine—too many folks are hold
ing fat jobs at the expense of the tax
payers.
These are but samples of the waste.
Such conditions as these constantly
call for luxury taxes, indirect taxes,
and all other kinds of schemes that
are being put forth to raise mofe
revenue by gouging the taxpayers.
President Coolidge said, “We need
more work but fewer workers.” The
South Carolina legislature needs to
adopt this slogan.
TTie Charleston Evening Post has
a very timely warning on the dan
gers of the tendency of more bureaus
and commissions in this extract from,
an editorial headed, “Taxes and Bu
reaus”: -
“The growth of a bureaucracy
is Always to be deplored in a gov- *
ernment. An army of employes,
especially in a revenue branch,
soon comes to be a solid mass and
a voting *bloc/ subject to admin-
Jacks Township folks.
The world is improving after all.
Men no longer wear rings on their
thumbs as they once did.
NOTICE is hereby given that the
annual meeting of the stockholders of
Joann aCotton Mills, a corporation or
ganized and existing under the laws
of the State of South Carolina, for)
the election of directors for the en
suing year and for the transaction of I
such other business as may properly
come before the meeting, will be held I
at the office of the corporation at
Goldville, South Carolina, on the third
day of March, 1925, at three o’clock j
in the afternoon.
AND FURTHER NOTICE is given I
that at said meeting a proposal to in
crease the authorized capital stock of
said corporation from $750,000 to
$2,000,000 will be submitted for con
sideration and action by the stock-'
holders.
By order of the Board of Directors. |
Dated January 21, 1925.
EDWARD L. DURGIN,
2-26-4tc Secretary.
A mother asks, “What shall we do
with our children?” Meanwhile the
children are deciding what they will
do with their parents.
You can’t always tell. Some times
a fellow may “go back to the coun
try” because the city rent hasn’t been
paid.
Once upon a time children obeyed
orders. Now they lay them on the
table for further debate.
In the last election, 472 out of every
1000 failed to vote. So far as is
known, none of them forgot to draw
their monthly pay.
Some one asks what is the proper
thing to wear after 10 p. m. Well,
that depends entirely upon where you
are.
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OPEN AND CLOSED CARS
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NIGHT PHONE 156
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These are as well built Kitchen Cabinets as any
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