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PAGE FOUR THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. S. C. • (Eltronirk TMJBLISHED 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 $1.60 Six months .... •».» .76 Three months 60 Payable in advance i Fereiirn Ariverti»inr R<*pre«ent»tf»e I THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATTON_ 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 remittances to THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. Clinton, S. C. CLINTON, S. C., APRIL 16, 1925 8 PAGES SHOTS FOR COMMERCIAL CLUB MEMBERS The Commercial Club, b‘ginning, its new year’s work Tt oday evening, has wonderful opportunities before it to advance Clinton and this section. Such an organization is indispensable in the commercial life of the com munity in that it does for the city what the individual would like to do, only the individual does not know where or how to start. That was a fine, representative body of men that assembled for Tues day evening’s mebting. If every one of the gentlemen w. uld put their shoulders to the wheel—use their in telligence and energ>v-a great Clin ton will be Uie inevitable result. The club did only what it should have done, when it voted to the retir ing presidenl, Prof. J. H. Witherspoon, a vote of thanks and appreciation for his intelligent and untiring leadership during the year that has just closed. No one man can do it all, regardless of what his name may be, and when a public-spirited citizen assumes a public office he soon finds that its paths are not covered with roses if he discharges his duties. Prof. Witherspoon has made a success of his administration, he gave liberally of his tirfie and thought to the work and made a valuable and acceptable leader. The club voted its thanks for such service, which came not as a perfunctory kind of approval, but as a genuine expression of services well rendered. As to the new president, our good friend W. A. Moorhead—a better man for the place could not be found. Mr^ Moorhead has always identified him self with the interests of the com munity and is a citizen than can al ways he counted upon to do his part. Furthermore, his connection with the northern interests with which he is associated, puts him in a position to render far-reaching service to this community. The club is fortunate, in drafting such a man to head its acti vities. Capable, useful, and depend able, he can always be counted on to give his influence to those things that are worth-while, whether it be in the commercial, industrial, educational or religious life of the community. Let every member of the club stand back of our npw leader. The possibilities of the club are un limited. There is the danger, how ever, that too many of its members look upon their membership as a mere meal ticket proposition. The organi zation is not a lunch counter, and if our reasons for belonging to it are no higher than that, better that we get out. A commercial organization is a thing. It is a force. It creates an atmosphere of enterprise and es tablishes confidence in each other and in the future of the community. Con fidence is the foundation upon which all business is built. acknowledged agency that gives such recreation. We should boost and sup port it—everybody. The dfevelopment proposition called to the club’s attention through Mr. Jacobs is a practical and needed move ment. It will 'require hard work to formulate the plans and get the peo ple into tjie country as small, con tented farmers, but it is imperative that something be done in this direct- »»n. The country is in a deplorable condition through this immediate sec tion. Unless some such plan as out lined is adopted and put into execu tion we may expect conditions to be come still worse. Here is an oppor tunity for some intelligent leadership and service on the part of representa tive citizens, especially our large land owners and wealthy men. Let’s adopt for our slogan for the year the word “THINK.” A commer- c : a! organization, or any other busi ness for that matter, must have brains if it succeeds. The business of the Commercial Club is to make the com munity “think” and to quietly interest and educate our people to the city’s needs and possibilities. The club should be an open forum, so to speak, where questions may be opened up and considered for the benefit of all. At all of its meetings there is always plenty'&f talk and it should be crystal lized into definite action. This lat ter service—this transformation of discussion into action—this “getting a move on”—is the distinction between a . live and dead organization. We want to # guard against the ''lab be coming a “resolutin’ body’’—we want to make it a body of action, the dyna mic force that makes the wheels go round. We want it to “THINK”— then “ACT!” Abraham Lincoln said: “I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man so live that his place will be proud of him. Be honest, but hate no one; overturn a man’s wrong doing, but do not over turn him unless it be done in the over turning of wrong. Stand with any body that stands right. Stand with him while he is right, and part with him while he is wrong.” Ask yourself this question, “Is Clin ton proud of me? Am I proud of Clinton?” Are you doing anything for the community to make it proud of you? With the beginning of the new year, the time for action is here. Let every member work to command the respect and admiration of the community. Wheg yoii are called to perform a duty, respond gladly and quickly. Offer to be of service—such members are the kind that the club needs. There are a number of business men in Clinton that are not represented in the Commercial Club. These should be singled out and an effort made to enlist them. Every business man ought to know without being told, that the only chance for his business to grow is for the town to grow. A ,own in which an individual makes his living is certainly worth boosting and working for. Many of us who are in msiness open our doors daily, invite and expect people to come into our )laces of business and spend their money, yet we are unwilling to affi- iate ourselves with the city’s organi zations and do our part in advancing the community’s interests. The busi ness man who puts the most in the community is the one who should get the most out. And usually, he does. : En Passant * ♦ W. W. H. ♦ Well, you can’t ever tell, it took the egislature thirteen weeks to adjourn. Sometimes the, bride assists him— then again she is always insisting him. It is reported that the number of church-goers in steadily increasing— in England. With automobiles and radios to be bought, what chance has the grocery- man around the comer to get his ? Some folks get so worried over the religion of their neighbors that they haven’t time to acquire any for them selves. The farmers of the Hopewell sec tion are a fine bunch of fellows. They have waited long, exercising the pati ence of Job, to obtain a passable road in their section and at last they are seeing their ambition realized. You couldn’t find a finer bunch of fellows in Laurens county than the farmers right through that section. They are dependable citizens, interested always in progress and development. That their road is no longer a dream is a fact of which we are all proud. Had they received their dues, long ago they would have been lifted out of the mud and given the highway. JT There are great possibilities ahead of the club. We need to remember t that it is a commercial organization and that its work covers a definite field which no other agency can fill. Politics should be kept out of it if it is to live and be an agency of useful ness. . The chautauqua was called to the club’s attention. We know of no finer effort the club could make than to help put this proposition across suc cessfully. Clean entertainment is de sirable, in fact, is essential in every community, and the chautauqua is an Another trouble with the country is that most of the’pants wear out in the seat first. The fellow who says two can live as cheap as one can always start an argument. If you want the truth, ask the June bride of last year. Our doctors are poor advertisers. They state that 25,000,000 cases of ill ness occur every year. A Georgia man fell dead the other day while working his gairfen. The Woipen might as well get their hoes and overalls. Where there’s determination there is usually a way. An Alabama woman kidnapped p husband the other day at the point of a pistoL The legislautre broke all records for the length of its session. It might be added it about broke the people also. L 150 men in Laurens are holding a daily prayer-meeting service. That many Clinton men don’t get to psayer- meeting once a month. The politicians all say they are the V ■ ’ • ▼ THUMDAY^APMLIiyMS poor man’s friend, but you would never gather it from the supply bill. The modern youth may not get into the hall of fame, but he hopes to see his name eventually in the batting or der. The world is getting better. 150,- 000 people went to church during the Ham meeting in Laurens. President Coolidge, it is reported, will study during the summer vaca tion, but no fear need be felt that his example will become contagious. The legislature has tried almost everything. How would it do for it to pass a law requesting that the rail road trains stop at every crossing and wait until the automobiles have pass ed? A bank advertisement proceeds to tell why it was organized. We fel lows who borrow can tell in a few words. Cal Coolidge us a wonder. In the name of economy, he has sent his old spring hat to the cleaner’s to be reno vated. This same Cal just a few weeks ago. signed a bill substantially increasing th^pay of all membAs of congress in the name of—politics. Old Doc Cook goes to Leavenworth. It will take him longer to get back from there than it did from the North Pole* An honest taxicab driver was found the other day in New York. Wonder how he ever got way up there ? ECONOMY, MR. COOLIDGE? AIR TRAVEL, l CENT PER MILE. SEC’Y. WILBUR WANTS REPORT. THE LAST CHAPTER. Speaking of economy, Mr. Presi dent, what is gained by sending the American army polo players to com pete with Great Britain’s array play ers across the ocean? Six army players, with twenty-five ponies and thirteen grooms, sailed on the Atlantic transport liner Minne- tonka last week. — Are those grooms American sol diers ? Did they enlist to be used as private servants for gentlemen play ing polo? Does it make the army more effi cient, in these days of tanks and fly ing machines to have officers knock ing little white balls along the grass? Who authorizes the expedition ? How do you think it'will strike the average farmer? Thirteen grooms for twenty-five ponies will seem a good many to him. He and his hired man take care of ten horses and cows, besides plowihg. They don’t manicure their horses hoofs. A lady at Spokane demands a di vorce because her husband, at break fast, milked a goat directly into his cup of coffee. He keeps the goat in the house. The lady declares that such “table manners” could not be en dured by any person of refinement. “Other times, other manners.” Eve would have thought it very clever had Adam done exactly the same thing. News from Paris will interest rail road men of the kind that think. For the cheapest airplane trip from Paris to Rouen, a distance of eighty miles, a 50,000 franc prize was offered. Drouhin, a French flier, made the trip at a total cost of eighty cents, one cent a mile foi* gas and oil. And he won the prize. Up in the air there are no road beds or rails to be kept up, no friction or bumping, wearing out rolling stock. Before the Fords get through with their airplane building they will carry ten passengers from Detroit to California, or_Florida, for one-quartet of the present fare, in one third of today’s running time. ter idea would be to build about four' thousand fast, fighting airplanes. What do you think half a dozen bombing airships would have done to those eleven warships while they were shooting off their Comic opera anti aircraft guns? Warships are obselete. Battleships are merely big hulks, easy targets for aerial bombs. ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ incf B In the World War, John Lennroth had his back broken, both legs man gled, and is not discouraged, in spite j_ of the fact that he has just under-: ■ gone his eighty-eighth surgical opera-1 ■ tion. With both legs cut off at the, S stumps, he manages an automobile, j especially Constructed, and drove alone j from California to Walla Walla,! Washington, on the way to operation j No. 88. k i That is a tribute to a brave man’s' courage, and the fact that he still lives is a tribute to surgical skill aind science. In old days, before surgeons understood gdrms and infection, the chances against living through eighty- eight operations would have been mil lions to one. DON’T FORGET MOTHER’S DAY MAY 10TH SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY AT UNION STATION Everything Good i . ‘ QUALITY is a paramount issue at this ^ store when it comes to a question of Price and Quality. We believe the best is the cheapest—that is why we offer to the community's housekeepers only the best always. COURTEOUS STORE SERVICE PROMPT PHONE-ORDER SERVICE ■ Si s ! LITTLE 8 DENSON i 50—Two Phones—54 ’ Clinton, S. C. ill TEL. 400 Dr. E. Mood Smith Dr. Felder Smith OPTOMETRISTS MODERN SERVICE SPECIALISTS Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted 15 West Main Street Phone 101 CLINTON. C. 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Our Living Room Suites are built for a life-time of service, as well as for their beauty and comfort. Construction Young men that perhaps envied and admired young Wood, son of General Wood, when he was gambling and win ning in Wall Street, and envied and wondered more as the'y read the usual' lies about his tremendous gambling profits in Europe, should not n iss the last chapter of the story. It came with young Wood’s return to this country, in reply to a report er’s question. • “Yes,” said Wood, “I made it in speculation; but what a jackass I was to go«and lose it.all!” That’s the kind of jackass that gambling usually pro duces.- Take warning; against stocks, horse races, cards or get-rich-quick schemes. . - • Secretary Wilbur, according to a 1 dispatch to the New York Times, is j worried. It seems tha’t eleven war ships, with.all their anti-craft guns, blazing away to the limit at an air craft target, were unable to score even one single hit. 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