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PAGE EIGHT THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CUNTON, S. C. ■‘GIFTS THAT LAST J. B. FRONTIS JEWELER CLINTON, 8. C ATTENTION — SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS AND MEMBERS OF BIBLE CLASSES! I am getting subscriptions for the S. S. Times which is the best of its kind, $2.00 a year, or $1.50 in clubs of five or more. Am now raising a club. See me or call 243 at 12:30. JAMES W. CALDWELL Magazines—Newspapers 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 be added, and after February 28th seven per cent will be added until the 16th 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 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 $1.00, 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 $5 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 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% mills Past Indebtedness % mill Statewide School (6-0-1) .... 4 mills Weak Schools ^4 mill Constitutional School 3 mills THE DOCTOR BILL. $3,000,000 FOR CARS. WALL STREET ALWAYS TAKES. “3 IN 1” HUSBANDS. It is suggested that income tax payers be allowed to deduct from tax able income what they have to pay doctors. If a man makes his income by us ing machinery he is allowed to deduct from income whatever he has to spend to keep the machinery in order. The machinery used by a lawyer, merchant or mechanic is his own body and brain. If he has to spend money to keep that machinery in order and fit to earn revenue, of course he sheuld be allowed to charge that to “repairs” and deduct it from income tax. And also he should be allowed to deduct*for each year of wear and tear a fair charge for depletion. A coal mijie owner charges off “de pletion,” because his mine is worth less each year. What about the man whose mine is his brain? That also is worth less each year. Fashion can do what other things can’t do. For instance, the fashion in short skirts has made fashionable restaurants and night dancing resorts in London, cut down the ^height of tables and chairs. It is impossible for women with skirts up to their knees to sit gracefully, not to say modestly, at the regulation high table. So the table legs are cut off. Last year this country paid out three billion dollars for automobiles. That’s a large sum, but no money was better spent. To economize on automobiles would mean to economize on fresh air, health, happiness, and it would mean waste of time more than offsetting the saving in money. Jesus,” Dr. Fcfedick continued. “I believe the great things concerning Him. But the centre of my religion is in the Gospels, not the theologi ans; in the Master’s way of living,* not in what men have said about Him. “That same thing is happening in the church which is happening all over the country on Washington’s birthday. How many orators will in dulge in sounding praise of Washing ton. They have a patriotism about ^Washington. But the patriotism of r Washington—that is another matter, and it is not so easy to find.” Total .... v 36 mills Laurens School Districts No. 1 ....16% mills bio. 2 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... 8 ns 11 Is bio. 3 .... .... •••. .... ..., ..*. .••• 16 mills No. 4 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... 7 mills No. 5 — — 18 mills bio. 6 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... 6 mills No. 7 — 8 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 mills No. 10 22% mills Dials School Districts No. 1 8 mills No. 2 12% mills No. 3 12 mills No. 4 x. 1 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 „. .„ .... 8 mills Waterloo School Districts No. 1 .... .... .... .... .... 12 mills No. 2 .... .... .... .... .... ........ $ mills No. $ •••, .••• .... .... .... .... 19 mills bio. 4 .•.. ..•• ........ ........ ........ 14 mills No. 5 .». 8 mills No. 6 .... 12 mills No, 7 .... .... .... .... .... .... 15 mills No. 14 8 Cross Hill School Districts No. 1 .... 4 mills No. 2 8 mirlls ffo. 3 ........ .... .... ........ ■•.. a... 6 mills No. 13 15 mills Hunter School Districts bio. 3 •••. .— .... .... .... .... .... 6 mills No. 4 8 mills No. 5 26 mills No. 6 ...; 4 mills No. 7 .... .... .... $ 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 jmd give the township of each, as the Treasurer is very busj during the month of December. ROSS IX YOUNG, 1 Ccemtf Treasurer. Europe, poorer and less efficient than the United States, suffers for lack of cars. Some of the millions we spent for trucks, to be used car rying freight. That was educational. Enough trucks competing with rail roads and cutting railroad freight prices will make some of the old- fashioned railroad men think. Mere ly relying on the Interstate Com merce Commiseion to raise your rates, when you need more money, is not scientific railroading. “Tom” Lawson, author of “Fren zied Finance” and an active figure in much friepzied finance of his own, was buried last week close to the magnificent estate that he once own ed. Wall Street gave it to him. And Wall Street took it away from him. When he was sixteen he made $40,000 in Wall Street. In twenty years of Wall Street life he made forty millions of dollars, and Wall Street took it all back. The old crouper at Monte Carlo’s gambling house said to this writer long ago: “We don’t have to worry about profits. While they have money, the strangers stay and gam ble or spend it in our hotels. When they haven’t any more money, they go. The money stays with us.” So with Wall Street, if you gam ble. Mrs. Tennal, lady editor of the Sabetha Herald, in Kansas, tells Kan sas editors at Topeka that every woman needs three husbands—one for society, one to make money, one to look after the housekeeping. “Pres ent-day husbands are satisfactory, as far as they go,” she says, but they do not go far enough. FOSDICK PREDICTS SPUT IN CHURCH Says New Religious Reformation Will Be Cause In. Farewell Sermon. Leaving New York Church. New York, Feb. 22.—The Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, whose ser vices as special speaker at the First Presbyterian church end on March 1 by order of the New York Presby tery, declared today in his fare well sermon that a new religious reformation was on its way which might possibly have to “split away from the evangelical churches as the Lutheran reformation had to split from the old church.” Dr. Fosdick, who as a Baptist min ister holding a Presbyterian pulpit, was the subject of much controversy in the di&pdte between the Fundamen talists and Modernists, said in his sermon today that multitudes of Christians “have not the religion of Jesus,” but only the “religion about Jesus,” and that “the religion about Jesus tends to crowd out and destroy the religion of Jesus.” “A religious reformation is afoot.” Dr. Fosdick said, “and at heart it is the endeavor to recover for our mod ern life the religion of Jdsus as against the vast, intricate, largely inadequate, and often positively false, religion about Jesus Christ. Christ ianity today has largely left the reli gion which He preached, taught and lived, and has substituted^ another kind of religion altogether. “If Jesus should come back now, hear the mythologies built upon and around Him, see the creedalism, de- nominationalism, sacramentalism car ried on in His name, He would cer tainly say: ‘If this is Christianity, I am not a Christian.’ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, H*C vmmiim PIIIIMHINIMM “I, too, have religion about :thejedge’s josh • New Title For Jerry Seth: “Good ol’ Jerry Simpkins. He’s certainly a man of parts.” Duke: “What do you mean?” Seth: “Didn’t you hear? He tried to beat the express to a grade cross* ing in his ‘Silly Six’” Blonde Beas Opines “I may be an egoitft as the boss says, but I know a man who is so egotistical that he has started taking harp lessons here on earth.” Coupla Cynics Big: “Well, Jack Dempsey has re signed his title, quit fighting, and has married.” Bigger: “Yep, that’s right to a cer tain extent. He’s resigned his title and married. As for the rest—well, you’re married aren’t you? So am I.” Help! Help!! Managing Editor: “Have you read ‘The Lost Manuscript’?” Cub Reporter: “No, sir, how could I if it’s lost?” Ed Purdy’s Philos “Ho-hum—Spring is near. The Christmas jewelry is turning green.” The learned Mrs. Tennal knows that palyandry, meaning several hus bands, was once the rule among many nations. It still prevails among cer tain semi-barbarous people. And the husbands manage to get along fairly well. Polyandry, however, will not solve the problem. The husband must mul tiply his accomplishments, while in creasing his tendency to fidelity. The American husband makes money, but does not know how to pay compli ments. Many European men pay mar velous compliments, but can’t make money. The combinatipn, or “thrqe*in-one,” husband will appear in the course of evolution. PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION WASHINGTON, D. C. MARCH 4, 1925. Seaboard announces fare and one- half for round trip, open to the public For information or Pullman reserva' tions, call on nearest Seaboard Ticket Agent or write C. G. LaHatte, TPA, BAL Ry., At- lanta, Ga. Fred Geisaler, Asst. Pass’r. Traffic Manager, Atlanta, Ga. And in June Father entered the door. He heard sounds of joy and glee in the parlor. Slowly he removed his hat and coat. He was a tired business man. Mother came through the parlor door to greet him, a smile on her face.” “What’s the matter?” asked father. “Diamond Jubilee,” said mother, squeezing his arm. * “Iflgosh,” said father, “have we been married that long?” “Oh, it’s no tus,” said mother. “It’s Grace and her young man friend. He’s just got together enough money for the first payment on a diamond ring.” If Yon Get What We Mean Cynic: *“Gee gosh—what are our women coming to?” Broadminded: “Aw, say. 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