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X, . h PAGE SIX E CTJN10N CHRONICLE, .■-A CLnhoN, s. c THURSDAY, 'if km fX'-' J'-V ONE BEST FRIEND EVER “AT. HOME” I PASTOR GIVES UP Dcuggist Fills IriiporUnt Place In t5re t*fe pf Every Community. Is Public Institution. ' (Atlanta Georgian) Perhaps you have noticed small items in the current newe of the. day, about a big druggists’ convention re cently concluded at Niagara Falls. No news service seemed to consider the matter of particular importance; tie meagererst reports were sent out con cerning it^j-presumably not helf the papers receiving this item printed it. And yet in a way the time was—at least to The Georgian—rather inter esting. ! For one thing, we didn’t know that druggists held conventions. It never occurred to us that drug gists had time to attend conventions. All the druggists we know always are “on the job”; everybody has a, favorite drug clerk and invariably we expect to. find him “in.” What about the druggist, anyway? He fills a peculiar place Ih our com munity life. He is more than a mer- chant, more than % business man—he is a public institution, by long-estab lished custom. We don’t know when it started, but ever since one can remember “the drug store has been the place of all conveniences,” the place which sold everything that could not be found anywhere else. The drug stbre was the place where you feould find stamps and postal cards and other things on which the only profit was the pleas ure of helping somebody. And then the drug store is unique in its indispensableness. ,It is a first relief station for 'everything from frivilous infection to major accident. There’s where you f ind what the emergency demands, and many the life tha\ has been saved because the local druggist had the thing which was imperative and immediately needed. That gentleman standing behind the prescription case holds the lives of the community in his hands, for as he compounds prescriptions he must not give way to the absent-minded ness of you and me, or he would end his customer’s life. He must be or ganized in his brain and he must not adjourn his brain till his prescription is done. Vou and I Know'nothing about the drugs; we must trust to the druggist’s honor all through life. A few of us can tell cotton from wool and a few of us can t^ll calfskin from alligator, but none of us know whether thtf more important merchandise—the merchan dise that goes into our bodies to fight disease—is pure or impure. We leave that to. the druggist and never think about it. To do this work safely this man behind the prescription case has taken a professional course; he is a grad uate pharmacist—and on the side he is a sort of universal consulting medi cal adviser for all who want some thing to cure something and don’t know exactly what they want. And then this universal convenience es tablishment, the drug store, is 'open early and late and on holidays; it never rests and it never complains and it never strikes and it is entitled to a word of praise from you and me. So we should stand by this drug gist, this indispensable man around the corner, and we should not patron ize the drug peddler just because he appears to need the money or^o get rid of him. This peddler may sell us TNT for epsom saltat we wouldn’t know the difference. And if we get , into trouble, we don’t hunt a ped- ler; we hunt the druggist! DAYTON CHARGE Resigns When ft is Congregation Re fuses to Listen to Modernist From Their Pulpit. Dayton, Tenn., July 1^—Dr. How ard Gale Byrd withdrew from his pas torate of the Methodist Episqoppl churc£ (Northern) here today when a large part of hj£ebngregation pro tested agai/iSTThe proposed preaching Mrs. n Hurt 111 Car Collision ^ V The many friends- of Mrs. A* T. Wilson will learn with regret of in juries she sustained last Wednesday when her car had a head-on collision with one of the large stacks of lum ber near Chapin. Mrs. Wilson was driving to Columbia when the steer- a ditch embankment and plunged into of a sermon on evolution in the I the lumber before she could bring it iiiiiniiiiiiiiitnii ii it x r ■■ TO WIN CONGRESS DEMOCRTS’ AIM Party Already Preparing For Deter mined Drive Next Year With Much Interest Looming. Washington, July 13.—With the Democrats already laying the founda tion for a determined campaign to* re gain control of congress, the 1925 con gressional elections give promise now of attracting an unusual share of na tional interest. Under the leadership of Represen tative Oldfield of Arkansas the Demo cratic congressional committee has be gun its organization work with a view to centering its efforts largely in what are generally regarded as the close districts. ^ At the same time the Republican organization is preparing to meet the attack in these centers and also to carry the fight to the enemy in La number of Democratic strongholds. church’s pulpit by Dr. Charles Potter, modernist minister of New York. Dr. Byrd, who invited Dr. Potter to occupy his pulpit,'is pointed to aS the original inspiration for the filing of charges against John T. Scopes, whose trial on an indictment alleging viola tion of state law against teaching evo lution in public schools began in this town Friday. The three regular Sunday preaching services were called off by the pastor, who announced to newspaper men at the parsonage: ^ “I have quit. I have not resigned— I have quit.” Dr. Byrd is 31 years old and has been pastor of the local cl^urch three years. Members of his congregation declared today that the church had grown more in the three, years of Dr. Byrd’s ministry and had done more religious service than in all its his tory of many decades. Dr. Foster W. Taylor, fundamental ist champion and pastor of the Cocoa- nut Grove Presbyterian church, of Miami, Fla., of which William Jen nings Bryan is a member, had been invited by Dr. Byrd to preach in the to a stand still. Friends were soon on the scene to render every possible aid. An X-Ray examination revealed no broken bones or internal injuries but she was badly bruised and shock ed from the accident. She has suf fered considerably during the past few days-but her condition is report ed as improving. Her many friends in the city unite in hoping for her a speedy and permanent recovery. Big Crowd Now ' At §tomps Spring Seven families are camping at Stomps^ Spring near Renno, and this well knowrV^spot now presents a live ly appearance. Several new huts have been erected and the party now camp ed there is enjoying a pleasant out ing. A radio has been installed at the colony, which is being enjoyed by all. The water ranks ajmong the country’s best. The road to Renno over the Calhoun highway is fine, and from there on to the springs it is fair Visitors are always incited and cor dially invited’: • v , ^3.-Jr j ♦ Service church tonight. He was informed by _ ^ the pastor early today that the ser-j Sfateilient/FrOin vices had been cancelled. Dr. Byrd told Dr. Taylor that he would explain later the cancellation of the invita tion. Dr. Taylor declined to conynent on the incident. He did not wish to say what was the subject of the ser mon he had prepared. Dr. Potter, pastor of the West Side Unitarian church, New York, Until his resignation takes effect in October, had announced “Evolution” as the subject of his sermon, which he ex- , ,, , w What I did say was that I would pected to deliver in the Methodist -resign if all other members of Coun church this morning. He was to speak at the invitation of Dr. Byrd. Dr. Byrd explained that he “quit” because he had invited Dr. Potter and intended to “stand by him.” , Learning of the protests Dr. Potter told Dr. Byrd that hb would, under the circumstances, withdraw his ac ceptance of the invitation. The New York minister then posted this notice on the window of Robin son’s drug store, where the local con troversy over the Tennessee anti-evo lution statute'started: “Dr. Potter has cancelled his evolu tion sermon, this morning at the Methodist Episcopal church, owing to threats of congregation.” Questioned as to the sigmfkance_.of the expression “threat of congrega- tifln,” Dr. Potter said: “More than half of Dr. Byrd’s con gregation called on him la^t night and told him thpt if I Were permitted to speak in cnyrch today they would wreck the church.” George W. Rappleyea, original pro secutor of the evolution chargee against Scopes, agreed-to Potter’s ex planation. Rappleyea is a Sunday school teacb&T in‘Byrd’s church and an ardent admirer of the local minis ter. LAURENS PASTOR SCORES DARROW Dr. Weston Btuner Raps Attitude of Defense Trial in Evolution Case of Tepnessee. Laurens, July'^2.—Preaching from the text as recorded in Ezekiel 21:31 and using the theme, “Skillful to De stroy,” Dr. Weston Bruner r pastor of the First Baptist church, in his moan ing sermon referred to the unusual scene iiv Tennessee, with an array of skillful lawyers, headed by “Darrow, agnostic, who wouldn’t know the truth if he were to meet it on the street,” all lined up and aided by civil liberites, Russian Reds, I. W. W.’s and what not, ostensibly to de fend a teacher of evolution, but in reality to make an onslaught against C. C. Bailey I have heard that it is being told around Clinton that I stated I would be willing to resign in response to Mr. Jacobs’ proposition to Council oq Monday night that all memoers of Counqil^ including the Mayor, resign. This rumor is partly correct but a half truth, I have always heard, is worse than a straight-out falsehood. cil, including the Mayor, would resign and each one put up cash bond of ~re thousand ($1,000.00) dollars not to run any more. This proposition is still open. ' ’ I make the above statement and the above challenge in what 1 con sider the interests o,f the public. C. C. BAILEY. ( 4 A %■ * y , • w W E HAVE heard so much about I v! Returning today from organization meetings in Missouri and Indiana, Representative Oldfield announced that he^would leave soon for a swing through the West on a similar Jn^is- sion. He will speak at gatherings of State Democratic leaders at Omaha, Denver, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Spokane and Seattle. “Educate, organize, fight,” /is the message Mr. Oldfield will take to- these meetings, and he will call for the perfection of. the organization from state committees dbwn to pre cinct bodies. Moreover, he will urge the Democrats to nominate the big gest Democrats that caw be found in the districts, declaring that “no hian is too big to run for congress.” Many life insurance companies have more than doubled the amount of their loans on forms in this country in the last five years. One banker in North Dakota is financing the purchase of radio set? to keep boys on the forms. to construct or build up is the mean ing and intent, the speaker said, and gave it as his opinion that the tax payers of Tennessee had the right to say who should teach and what should be taught in their schools.^ The speaker praised Bryan and his unimpeached attitude in standing for right and truth. The so-called Scopes case has been made the occasion of much absurd newspaper and magazine writing, with special reference to attempted inter pretation of the scriptures, asserted Dr. Bruner, who in conclusion declared the forces of ignorance constitute a real menace to Christianity. rltamines that everybody knows, In a general way. that they are sub stances in food which are necessary for growth and healtn snd that our food should be so varied and regu lated that we will each of us get a sufficient amount of eauh one to keep strong and well. When McCollum began his feed ings experiments on animals only three vitamines w’ere known. It is now gen erally agreed among food authorltlea that there are at least five. They are called vitamines A, B, C, D, and X. Vifaraine A is found in milk and •ggs. in fresh meat, especiully in gland tissues, In animal fats and oils and In leafy vegetables. It is generally found dissolved in either animal or vegetable fat. It plays an Important part In the growth of'the young. Com plete absence of it In food causes a peculiar disease of the eye called xerophthalmia, In which the conjunc tiva or covering of the eyeball be comes hard and dry and white like the skin. Vitamins B Is found In the coat •r bran 9f grains and seeds. In vege tables, fruits and animal foods. Its absence causes berl-beti In human be fogs, as among Chinese and Japanese fed entirely on polished rice. With out it, young animals cease to grow and finally die. Hi fowls. It causes s peculiar disease called polyneuritis. Vltamlne C la found in fruits, fresh vegetables especially raw potatoes and In fresh,milk. Absence of this sub- = , « \ We are prepared Wi to serve our cus tomers better * the divinely given word of God, the Holy Bible. “Skillful to Destroy”, notf itance causes scurvy, formerly, so Clinton Fiddlers To Invade Ninety-Six common on sailing vessels on long voy ages when the pallors were fed for months on salt meat and dry biscuits. Over a hundred years ago, It . was found that lime Juice, if taken regv- larly, would prevent or cure'it, so the British shipping laws compelled all sailing vessels to carry lime Juice and serve It te,the sailors. As a re sult, these ships. In sailor slang, were called “lime Jftlcers.” Orange Juice, tomatoes, - raw cabbages or potatoes, or fresh fruit of any kind are equally effective. Vltamlne D Is very much like vlta mlne A, being found In cod liver oil, yolk of eggs, alfalfa gnd spinach. Little la known about vltamlne. X. It Is the-“dark horse” as yet In this field. While definite knowledge of these literally life giving substances ip food is a matter of the last ten years. than ever before w * / i r ■t ,±. !. *< A u ,• i.- • ! the diseases caused by the absence An old-time fiddlers convention is j or ingufflcient amount of them have Pub. Co. 4 Publishers—Printers—Stationers •di THE CHRONICLE to be presented in the W. O. W. hall he^n known for centuriea. The old at Nmety- Six on the evening of July ^ 8curvy> although they ^25th. The program will be presented didn’t know what caused it by the Clinton String Orchestra' but j it will not enter for the offered prizes wjiich are open to all other string musicians. A big evening is anticipated for all who attend with The human bo^ la a living ma chine It needs living food to keep It healthy.' See that yon get every day sofnethlng fresh, green and raw. The old provdrb about an apple keep- plenty of fun, singing, daficing apd the doctor awayv waa the result old-time music. 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