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« tl / PAGE FOUR THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1925 ull|p ftljnmirle PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE 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 Three months .60 Payable in advance the new current now available, we would infer that a new scale, cover ing both water and light rates, will soon be announced and made effect ive. For 9 number of years The Chroni cle has pointed out the need of addi tional power facilities as would be af forded by the coming into our midst of the great Duke hydro-electrifc in terests. Their coming will prove a great public improvement and worthy of the enthusiastic support and ap proval of the public interested in the greater growth of Clinton. A NNUAL SUPPLY BILL I DARWIN THEORY FOR STATE INTRODUCED STIRS TARHEELS (Continued from Page One) Attorney general’s office, $15,- ' 693.25. The adjutant general’s office, $59,- 547.50. Charlotte Divine Speaks In Favor of Poole Bill Before North Caro lina Lawmakers. I<uv . e Charlotte, N. C., Feb. 15.—Legisla- University of South Carolina, $391,- tion the only method by which the . FT, Uko.. 4.V.J J l Foreign Advertiaint R^pre»«ntati»e I THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION 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 remittance* to THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. Clinton. S. C. CLINTON, S. C., FEB. 19, 1925 ^8 PAGES THE TAX PUZZLE Senator McDonald, of Oconee coun ty, writing in The Keowee Courier, tells his constitutents that during the past ten years-his constituents have paid in federal, state, county, munici pal taxes a little more than eight million dollars. To give an idea of just what this means, he says: “Put it in one-dollar bills, pin the little sheets together and stretch them out, and they would reach 2,286 miles, or from Walhalla to New York city, and thence to San Francisco, Calif., then to Houston, Texas, and then some; or would take about seventy thousand bales of cotton at 25 cents a pound to pay them. That includes all taxes—taxes on medicine, feed stuff, tobacco, dog, hunting, poll, gas, automobile, fertilizer, documentary stamps, inheritance, excess profits and property tax—and of course the ulti mate consumer absorbs all this tax. No wonder the fanners’ troubles look Ikie a crcss-word puzzle.” What is true of Oconee county, is likewise true of the other forty-five counties ill the state. The cost of operating our government, national, state, county and municipal, is in creasing in leaps and bounds. Pro gress is desirable, and should not be obstructed, yet the time is here when we need to face the facts and to understand that when we spend we have to pay. ‘'Our tax money needs to be judici ously spent, waste and extravagance should be cut out, useless commissions and bureaus abolished, and the pnin- ing knife put to the state's pay roll. With the gene-ral dullness of business that is being felt everywhere, we need to hold and watch the purse-strings for a halt must be called some where. Certainly, until business conditions show improvement over the present, we must be satisfied with slower de velopment. Taxes are becoming bur densome on the people. There is only one remedy—retrenchment. | En Passant * ♦ W. W. H. ♦ A smoker in London has 5360 pipes. His wife can’t hide that many. / A comforting thought—the legisla ture will only be in session a few weeks longer. Some one inquires, “What is eter nity?” Ask the fellow who has bought something on the installment plan. It’s the little things that count. Fleischmann, the yeast magnate, left an estate the other day of $60,000,000, J all Accumulated through penny busi-^ 209.00 Catawba Indians, $9,375.00. 765.00. The Citadel, $152,009.36. Clemson College, $88,250.35. Winthrop College, $465,550.00. State Medical College, $123,750.00. Confederate Home College, $5,000. State Colored College, $106,625.00. John de la Howe Industrial School, $46,003.32. 1 | School for the Deaf and Blind, $101,200.00.. Superintendent of education’s office, $641,555.37. Historical commission, $7,623.00. State library, $4,575.00. Confederate museum, $100.00. State relic room, $2,360.00. South Carolina state hospital, $809,- 576.20. State penitentiary, $138,680.00. Board of public welfare, $35,322.42. Board of pardons, $400.00. Training School for Feeble-Minded, $125,888.00. . Industrial school for boys, $87, 019.90. Industrial school for girls, $25,- 950.00. Reformatory idr negro boys, $43,- ness. A fellow in Chicago whipped seven men in one day. To show her appre ciation, his wife whipped him that night. - A girl named Esther Howland start ed this Valentine business away back in 1819 and.the girls won’t let it stop. You can’t ever tell where Cupid will hit. A woman married Jack Dempsey thfc other day. The world is getting better—there are over U)00 church members in Lau rens. A man in St. Louis stole four dol lars from a blind man. Instead of being put in the penitentiary, he will be made a hero. We are told that in Egypt 85 to 90 per cent of the total population are tillers of the soil. How different from this country. The average life of a dollar bill is given as six months. Few of us ever knew that before. Old George Washington couldn’t tell a lie, but succeeding generations are trying to make up for his failure. Those prophets who predicted the end of the world this month must have The bulk of the world’s automobiles are owned in the United States and this accounts for the hard times we hear so much about. Speaking of happiness, you find it usually wherever you look for it. Some folks get theirs by sitting tight and waiting like a spider, but who wants to be a spider. AMPLE CHEAP POWER The completion of the Southern Power Company’s great trunk line into Clinton during the past week is an event of more than ordinary signi ficance. In our opinion, it is one of the biggest public improvements in the history of the city and should prove a great factor in the future development of the community, parti cularly from an industrial and manu facturing standpoint. The linking up of Clinton with the great Duke inter ests means that the city is now suffi ciently supplied with power for years to come, and that one of the essentials to growth, which we are expecting in unmistakable form during the years that lie ahead, has been adequately metv * , Manufacturing plants, or small en terprises of various kinds, in settling upon locations, always look for a com munity that can furnish ample cheap power. The high rates the city has maintained have made developments along this line piohibitive, and this has resulted in the driving away of new capital and enterprise rather than their encouragement. A contemplated cotton mill in this-section, with power facilities lacking, would never be a reality. The “turning on” ‘of the Southern Power Company’s lines re moves this difficulty and clears the way for greater future growth, aug mented by the fact that the city has just provided ample water facilities. We have many tangible foundations Cfyon which can be assuredly built the hope that we are to grow as never before—ample power and water stand ing out conspicuously among our present indispensable assets. With the power question now set tled and the “juice”' turned on, the city is in a position to offer a very low and attractive rate to power con sumers. The city’s maximum contract of 1 1-2 cents per kilowat, puts the city council in a position to make a considerable decrease in the present rates which are unusually high and rivaled by only a few towns. The advantages to be derived from the Southern Power Company's entering the city should be passed on to the people in order that the consumption of additional power may be encourag ed. The city is not in the power busi ness to make money but to furnish Its citizens this public utility at as reawnabltf a cost at possible. With W’e keep building school houses, we tax the people for their maintenance, yet we leave it optional as to whether the children attend them, all of which means we are not getting full return for our money. Committe on deaf and blind chil dren, $300.00. k Law enforcement department, $49,- 361.00. Board of health, $239,047.24. Tax commission, $196,151.00. Tax board of review, $550.00. Insurance commissioner’s office, $19,111.25. Bank examiner’s office, $43,726.00. Railroad commission, $38,928.33. Chief game warden’s office, $17,- 505.00. Budget commission, $7,065.00. Board of medical examiners, $3,- 000.00. Board of pharmaceutical examin ers, $2,420.00. Board of lator examiners, $450.00^ Board of fisheries, $22,726.00. Board of conciliation, $500.00. Joint committee on printing, $58,- 576.00. Commissioner of agriculture’s of fice, $105,061.80. Clemson College (public service) $243,862.85. Warehouse commissioner’s office, $61,570.00. Highway department, $186,614.00. Electricians’ and engineers’ office, $25,125.00. Sinking fund comfcnission, $10,- 772.50. Confederate infirmary, $30,495.00. Confederate Veterans’ association, $1,500.00. Commission on state house and grounds, $8,890.00: State contingent fund commission, $75,000.00 State fair society, $10,000.00. State colored fair, $1,500.00. 1 Association for the blind, $4,000.00. Fairwold Industrial school, $2,- 000.00. Miscellaneous, $2,562.90. Grand total, $6,493,746.30. GOLDVILLE GETS ELECTRIC POWER Styles used to be a medium to de termining what you should put on, but now thsy are merely an indica tion of how much may be left qff. An old darkey preacher started off his services by calling on the congre gation to sing hymn number 101, and “if there be not so many,” said he, “sing as many as there be.” This seems to be the legislature’s idea, to dump everything together and tax 101 things, if possible. The weight of government cost now being put on the people is going to cause serious trouble. We are not a prophet, but this is our prediction. Watch and see if it doesn’t come true. Effective last Thursday afternoon, the Joanna Cotton Mill of Goldville, is now being operated with “juice” from the Southern Power Company’s line which has recently been erected from Newberry to Clinton via Gold ville. \ base teaching of the unproved theories of evolution” ejan be prevent ed in the public school, the Rev. Lu ther Little, pastor of the First Bap tist church of Charlotte, declared'to night in a sermon on “The Poole Bill and the Bible.” He quoted a number of educators and religious editors dur ing his sermon. The Rev. Mr. Little was prompted to take up the question from the pul pit by the hearing in the general as sembly at Raleigh on the Poole bill, which would forbid the teaching in state supported schools of the Dar winian theory of the origin of man. “The right of free speech and the liberty to teach whatever one wills is always a qualified proposition,” he said. “During the war the rights of individuals to criticise and reflect upon our government were prohibited and even in peace time this is an abridged right. Why then should teachers or any one else have the unqualified right under the protection of the laws of the state or country to adversely criticise and constantly throw suspicion upon the whole ques tion of the authority of the sacred Scriptures and ‘ the whole Christian system? We are not asking the leg islature to give the schools a right to teach religion or any doctrine of the Bible, henc^we anp only asking them not to support any system or teaching that will destroy the Bible. This is the very heart o£ the question of church and state.” .j WHEN YOU THINK OF S Groceries s E S n a ■ a 18 8 8 8 Norfolk, Va., Feb. 15.—A congre gation that overflowed the Park Ave nue Baptist church tonight heard the pastor, the Rev. Floyd T. Holland, D. D., preach on “Man or Monkey,” in which he used a live monkey to illus trate his argument against the the ory of evolution. The climax came late in the sermon when the mon key, borrowed from a local zoo find tethered a few feet from the pulpit during the minister’s discourse, was held aloft in the pulpit as Dr. Holland pointed to the. simian and challenged any one to stand up and acknowledge common ancestry with the animal. There was no response. In announcing his subject, Dr. Hol land said he jvas not actuated by sen sationalism, but had chosen the par ticular theme because of t^e intro duction of a measure in the North Carolina legislature designed to pro hibit the teaching in state supported schools of the Darwinian theory of the THINK OF US j ' r . We Offer: QUALITY SERVICE SATISFACTION > • You can expect no more—we ask you to accept no less. ' • LITTLE 8 DENSON 50—Two Phones—54 Clinton, S. C. m a origin of man. He based his conten tions largely on the book of Genesis and declared that a belief in evolution precluded a belief in the Bible. “The Bible must stand or fall on its relia bility as the inspired Word of God and if we can not believe in the state ments of the Bible we can not believe in religion,” he added. . The minister pointed out what he said were dis crepancies between calculations of scientists as to the origin of man, characterized them as guessers and bitterly scored the teaching of any such doctrine in the schools and col leges of the country. NOTICE OF MEETING WINNERS IN HAPPIWORK PACKAGE CONTEST Jeans Book Store is glad to an nounce the winners of the Happiwork Package contest which ended last week. These young folks can get their prizes this week from our store. The prize winners are: Butler Wilson Black, 700 words. Julia Bailey, 646 words. Thad C. Johnson, 585 words. Lydie Leake, 553 words. Lola May Edwards, 543 words. 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 such other business as may properly come before the meeting, will be held at the office of the corporation at Goldville, South Carolina, on the third day of March, 1925, at three o’clock in the afternoon. AND FURTHER NOTICE is given 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. 'olds Cause Grip and influenza , AXA.IVE BROMO QUININE Tablets remove - j cause. There is only one “Bromo Quinine. N * ROVE’S signature on box. 30c. I CITY NOW SERVED BY SOUTHERN POWER With the completion of the South ern Power Company’s hydro-electric lines into Clinton, the city was con nected during the past week and is now being served by this company instead of the municipal steam plant as heretofore. Unde Jahn We love to harbor ideas if they’re ! easy to defend—when we set to mak- I in’ figgers on the value of a friend,— i but, the sum of any harvest holds ! the element of doubt, till you reap yer crop of theories, and, later thresh ’em out. Facts is—we find that friendship comes in. several different grades, when we meet .the mixed varieties that’s common to the trades. If you I try to curb expenses When yer love is runnin’ short,—well, there’s nothin’ cheapern’t friendship—when you price the flimsy sort. But, the everlastin’ article that’s needed in our arts, is the only kind of friendship that’s a balm fer hu man hearts,—in fact, the stuff is priceless—in results that correspond, from Devotion’s faithful cellar, where we bottle it—in bond! THURSDAY and FRIDAY — at the — Casino Theatre “AMERICA” HISTORICAL! EDUCATIONAL! Don’t Miss Seeing It! WHAT DO p. a JEANS DP? RENT A CAR Drive Yourself OPEN AND CLOSED CARS DAY PHONE 357 NIGHT PHbNE 156 Ellis Auto Livery Dr. E. Mood Smith Dr. Felder Smith MODERN SERVICE OPTOMETRISTS Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted 15 West Main Street ‘ Phone 101 CLINTON, S. C. V Furniture Prices Did you know that you can buy a Bed Room Suite consisting of vanity dresser, chest of drawers, and bow-foot bed for one hundred dollars—-mahogany or walnut finish? / Did you know that we can make up a Bed Room of the pieces you want in any finish and that the price of the whole will be surprisingly low—say a bed, dresser and chiff for $70.00? ' Did you know that a little more than a hundred dol lars will buy a three-piece Cane Living Room Suite with velour upholstering—Nachman spring units in the cushions—the new Corsican Walnut Wood finish? \ / > You can buy a two-tone Fiber Living Room Suite, consisting otsetee, large chair and rocker at a price that any one can afford to buy. You cannot appreciate how low the price is until you have, seen them, however. ' t Give‘Us a Look. See the Prices FULLER - SIMPSON FURNITURE COMPANY “The Home Makers” Clinton, S. C. f