Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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—» PAGE FOUR m* PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY . BY ^ Typ CHRONICLE PUBLISHING 00. ' WILSON W. HARRIS V Editor md Publliher h ffotcred pt thg»glinton Post Office m ^ “matter of Second Class. Terms of Subscription: One year — ....$1.50 Six months •**• Three months 50 -Payable in advance j , Foreicn Ad»erti«nk Rcpre^nlmthr* i THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of it’s subscribers and readers—the publisher will at aril times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly, advice. Make all remittances to THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING 00. -Clinton. S. C. ' CUNTON, S. C., JULY 23. 1925 SPACES YOUTH MUST BE SERVED The Rev. Dr. Francis E. Clark, pre sident and founder of the United Society of Christian Endeavor, has re tired from his position as head of this organization. The movement wlvch he has led has been a most remark able one, with nearly 80,000 of these societies in the world. This effort'expressed the idea that the young people would do more work for the religious and moral causes j this curtailment felv and the situation is growing worse •very day. The railroads have no protection in com petition to the bus lines, yet they are heavily taxed to keep up the high ways for their competitors to use with practically na cost to them. ^ Here is where the relief and' legislation is needed? The bus people need to be heavily taxed to carry their propor tionate part of the overhead which is now placed on the railroads. They are practically taking the highways and everybody must get out of their way. in all fairness, therefore, they should be taxed in proportion to the rail roads for the maintenance of the roads as well as the original building cost. To buy an automobile and pay a small license to go jh competition with a railroad with heavy overhead is not a hard job. We feel that the railroad should be granted the request that it is making.; President Taylor is a max: who holds the confidence of all Wao know him and is asking nothing hut fair play. It should be granted, and in *he giving no town along the line is going to suf fer. Passenger travel on short routes is practically a thing of the past. Why compel railroads, or any other business for that matter, to operate at a Idss? It is claimed that girls should be taught the use of the needle, but they do not have to be shown how to use which the churches have at heart, if the jowdgntuff. ♦ « * : En Passant l * - W. W. H. t T - ; ^ W ***+++♦ Ths booster movements fine things so long as they do not boost prices. ARTHUR BRISBANE SAYS: This “humorous” paragraph is pub lished: - ’ A country editor, having worked hard for thitty years, * retired with $50,000 capital. He explained as fol lows: * “I attribute my ability to retire with $50,000 to the fact that I worked very hard and saved every cent—and io the death of an uncle who left me $49,999.50 ” : ' Ten thousand country editors could testify that there is more truth than humor in that anecdote. The most useful, underpaid ahd earnest body of men in the nation are the editors of country newspapers. The pathetic fact is that they would be highly prosperous men if business and advertisers realized the truth that the country newspaper, in proportion to its circulation, is the best advertis ing medium in the country. ScoutM of a. 3 Held On Tuesday evening a very im- mrtant Scout meeting was held.by 'roep No. 8 in charge pf Mr. Lonnie icMillian. Mr. McMilUan went out .to Yarborough's Mill, where a number of boys and girls are camped, and held initiative services, six members being added ‘ to the troop. Many pranks were played on the boys and much Un had at their expense. Those who registered are as fol- owa: Parkep* Jones, Arthur Copeland, T. J. Blalock. Joe Pitts and William llakely.^TThe troop is composed of about twenty members and much in terest in Scouting is manifested. GEORGE MOORE, Scribe. KEEPING WELL * INHERITING WEB FINGERS DR. PRSSDBRICK R. ORRB1V R4l«*r of “HRALTH" M r. In they were organized in a society of their own, than they would if they were simply merged in the church group with older members, who natur ally would take most of the manage ment and responsibility. This movement has expressed the thought that the younger crowd have their own ideas, arid that to get work out of them, they need to have scope for activities of their own. They do not take kindly to the back seat while the Old Man drives. In the words of Connie»Mack :of the Athletics, “Youth must be served.” BUILDING A TOWN Among the doctrines more often preached than practiced is that of co operation between the town and coun try. & is one of the great secrets of progress which no toWn can af ford to overlook. The bringing of new industries into a community should be encouraged, of course, but at the same time it will be an even wiser investment to do all that is pos- 'sible to promote the progress and prosperity of the enterprises which we already have, and the foremost of these is farming. In discussing the surest way to build a town, an agricultural maga zine makes the following claims: “Agriculture, says Hegbert Hoover, is a better town builder than in dustry. This remark says the Em poria Gazette, is one that deserves more than passing notice. The Cham bers of commerce in nine out of even- ten towns in the United States should have this very fact drilled into their systems. The majority of the Ameri can towns which now are straining their suspenders in an effort to pull factories in their direction will make more healthful progress if they for get the factories and extend a co operative hand to the farmer. “Agriculture is the backbone of the average small town, but the town boosters are inclined to forget this Ifect. They labor under the mistaken notion that a good town means a big ger towji and that a bunch of factor ies will solve their problem. Tlje | , ood-will and whole-hearted support of. the farmers in that town’s trade territory are vastly more desirable Hum factories for the average town. This good-wijl and this support will not come unsought and uninvited. The boosting of a community’s agriculture . wjll he bread cast upon the waters. The town will progress without belch- ipg §moke stacks. A PAIR REQUEST The advertisement of the Columbia, Newberry & Laurens Railway appear ing in today’s paper, gives food for thought on the part of every Yair- minded citizen. It sets forth a num ber of facts and figures in substantia tion of their repeated requests to the The business world loves go-getters, but sit-down-and-waiters seem to be more common. It used to be that help went to the cornfield armed only with a hoe, but now they take along a fan-so as not to get too much “het up.” There are still a considerable num ber of reluctant bachelors who would consent to get married, if they could find some woman who would support them. BRYAN doesn’t believe In evo lution. If Mr. Bryan would study comparative embryology, he wopld learn that each individual living thing, in its growth, passes in a few- weeks or months through all the forms which Its race has passed through In hun dreds of thousands of^years. Each animal body, whether a frog, a bird, a Hon or a man,,'Is for a short time in Its growth like all the other and lower forms fr^pa which It has come. Man has developed or evolved from {• a prescription for MalMlA. • taasr and Fever, Dengue or Bilious Fever. It kills the germs. *rnl«v 1 After running over a man, the speed fiends should at least stop long enough to ask how he lik^s it. The monkeys may not be very creditable ancestors, but anyway they did not spend all their mone^ on hootch while their families were ask ing for bread and butter. Some newspaper reporters speak of brides as being led up to the altar, but usually they are the ones that are doing the leading. Governor McLeod in a public state ment, calls for the erection of a new and larger state penitentiary. We didn’t know it was needed the way he has been granting pardons. One hears much on the streets now about municipal resignations. As a solution, how about electing a woman mayor and six women councihnen ana see if they don’t improve oh the men. Ever notice that some folks who can’t attend church during the hot weather can sit out on sunny bleach er seats at the ball game. This is a funny world. Half of the time we must listen to the spoutings of the optimist, the other half to the lamentations of the pessimist. Cal Cooli^ge should not allow his arm -to become sore from too punch handshaking. He’ll need it when don gress convenes to write veto sages. We are told that we must Work to gether. The trouble is that many do not want to work, either together or separately. and each has left Its marks on him These haVe generally been lost or cov ered up but sometimes, for some strange reasons, these marks of our lowly origin remain. They are what comparative anatomist* call “vestigial remnants.” —= One of these strange occasional sur vivals la a webbing of the fingers and toes. The fish have fins, broad fiat paddles by which they can force their way through the water. Frogs have distinct toes, but they are Jolned| to gether by skin so as to form a broad propeller. Ducks, like all water fowl, have webbed feet. Bat when man got away from the sea and became a land animal he lost his webs on pis hands and feet. He needed fingers and toes more than he did swimming apparatus, so they be came separate and ununited down to the base of the third joint. The hu-^ man hand Is ip wonderful piece of ma chinery, more useful than the paw of any animal and It is the human hand that has made man superior to and more powerful than all beasts. Occasionally an Individual “throws back” to his sea-born ancestors and Is born with webbed fingers or toes. Why nobody knows. An. unusual series of such cases Is reported by Dr. Douglas P. Murphy in a recent Issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. In five generations of a family in a mountain community, fourteen cases were found The first member, a mountaineer, had the second and third toes on hla right foot webbed. Although this is the first case which Doctor Murphy saw it was evidently considered a family mark frince the mountaineer threatened to disown his first child If It did not have sr: this defect. Fortunately for hla do mestic happiness, hla first son had all hlf fingers and toes webbed. The eon had ten children, three of wbldf had webbed fingers or toes. In ths next two generations, nine of the^hil- dren had this family mark. What Is the cans# of this peculiar ity? No one knows. It occurred tel beys ns often as In girls. In this fam ily, It was found in one-third of alt the children. It only occurred Jn the children of web-fingered p irents. Neither the children nor grandchil dren of normal /members showed this deAsrmlty. ' , l*at. Wwtanr N«wn*P«r Uatoa.) NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT Of Guardianship of William H. Roberta Take notice that on August 19th., 925 at ten o’clock a. m., I will make a final settlement of the guardian ship of William H. Rpberts^before the 'rebate Court for the County of ^aurens in said State and apply for ’inal discharge of my duties as guar- ian. All persons indebted to said estate are required to make immediate payment and all persons holding claims against said estate are notified to present and prove “the same on or jefore said date or be forever barred, j Mrs. Fenella B. Milam As guardian of the estate of William H. Roberts. 8-13-6c LITTLE S DENSON 8 * 50—Two Phones—54 g Clinton, S. C. ■ 1 ■ ■uuuManiunMuuunHMiunuMMi 6 6 6 Dr. E. Mood Smith Dr. Felder. Smith OPTOMETRISTS MODERN 15 West M SERVICE #TS > "Glasses Fitted V • Phone 101 S. C. LAKE THOMAS Will get any Piano we sell during July and August under our special arrangement Uprights $295.00 up , Players $450.00 up O'Daniel & Reid Clinton, S. C. BANKING In All Its Phases! In spite of the warm weather we are having, the famous infidel Dar- row has received a cool reception down South. . * Rural free delivery is exemplified when the pretty country teacher finds all the men of the community glad to drive her to the achoolhouse. A bank advertisement advises Hie ^^^^Ipeople to save and salt dewm fheur rdilroad commission to allow the dis-| money> but it will take something continuation of the morning and even ing passenger trains which are being operated at a heavy loss. The state ment should be read thoughtfully by eyaxy one. “ ' ’ Several weeks ago when, the peti tion for the discontinuing of the trains came before the railroad commission inyiew of the facts that were present ed, we stated that in all fairness we that their request should be granted. It is an unsound and unsafe policy to require any business to con tinue to operate at a.loss. Neither is * fair to require a corporation to hear expenses which its\revenue does not justify for the mere reason that the law can be held over their heads to make them do. This seems to be the situation relative to the railroad in question, and cannot be justified on any basis of fairness. Everyone readily understands that with the large number of privately owned automobiles and motor busses, travel on all railroads has been af fected. Especially on short lines is heavier than salt to hold it down. It is claimed that Americans, lack the power of conversation. You would never know it at an afternoon meeting of the Aid Society. Who’s Your Electrician? Here’s a Bank that covers the field like the proverbial blanket! ^ * i < • No matter what your needs may be in the way of money matters we have a department ..for every possible requirement , The old songs are said to go right to the heart, while many of the new ones sipiply make you feel sick in the middle. ,An Atlanta pastor and a New York actress married the other day. Well bet she makes him dance. There’s no hope for the country The politicians have gond to writing and speaking on Religion and the Bible. * now. —“The Origin of Species,” is the epoch-making book that started the evolution theory, hut the majority of our citizens are more interested in the origin of specie in the form of gold and silver.dollani. j * SMOTHERING Texas Lady Tells How She Got Rid of Her TioiiUes. a way"says 7 . D. 5, Troup, "The first time I took Cardut, 1 as ie an awful bad wai Mrs. OraCariile, R.F. Texas. **1 was afflicted with awful smothering spells. My mother had tome Cardul in the house that she was taking, so she immediately be- Mvr™- lo ‘ ,ewdays ^’Last SU 1 got nm-down in health. 1 was weak and puny and 1 began to suffer with... 1 would getso 1 could hardly walk. Having fakeb Cardul before, 1 sent to the store for a bottle of it . “Almost from the first dose I could feel the improvement.. .1 am much better now. “Cardul has helped me a lot and 1 am glad to recommend It. 1 don’t feel like the same woman 1 was last fall. “My appetite is good now, and I’m sure it’s Cardtu that’s made it pick up, for In the fall I had bo relish for food at all. while now I’m hungry for my meals.” At all drug stores. c-s * • For those who save for an ultimate goal; for those who seek to put their savings in invest ments; for those interested in checking ac counts; for those who wish to keep their money and valuables in safe keeping; for the business o * $'• man and for the farmer, this Bank has a ser- * I ' \ % « vice-that is friendly, efficient and certain. We invite you to share these services with - >*' ' us! • .o “OUR SERVICE MAKES FRIENDS” Bank “CLINTON’S STRONGEST BANK”