The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, April 16, 1925, Image 4
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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