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they had to handle mechanical appli
ances considerably, which tends to
make them practical.
But competence in driving a car
is not; a matter of mechanical skill.
Many people who are good drivers,
never handled any kind of a machine,
and are perfectly helpless if their car
breaks down. The only thing they
can do is to rush to the nearest tele
phone, and yell for some garage man
to come and pull them out of their
hole. Yet these same folks may be
very alert and self-controlled and
careful when the car is running right.
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CLINTON
AUGUST 20, 1925
SPACES
school for women automobile drivers
has been started, and the captain of
the traffic squad told the 200 women
and girls who attended that he did
not believe that women at the wheel
were a menace to the community. His
opinion is no doubt right.* Women as
a rule are more courteous than men,
and have a little more conscience.
Their natural politeness would lead
them to a draw-back from many situa
tions where many men would rush in
and get into trouble..
Our observation would be that most
women feel the responsibility of their
position as drivers, and are doing
1 their best to make good. They have
I seen so much sorrow and suffering
1 from accidents that they are very
anxious not to cause any more.
VACATION FIGURES
That sad time of the year has ar
rived which marks the return of those
who by means of vacation have sought
to escape and forget the demands of
toil, especially'duriiig the hot weather
through which we are passing. Usual
ly it i% a matter of no small moment
to again become accustomed to the
well worn groove from which vaca
tion has taken us. If we do not get
anything else out of a vacation we
acquire a new kind of tiredness which
is supposed to shield us against the
old weariness which the daily grind
has brought.
It takes a wise man to spend his
vacation as it ought 1 to be spent in-or
der to be worthy of the name, as
many exhausted and disappointed
seekers after a tireless land can tes
tify. It even takes a man of parts to
get off on a vacation every short span
of years. There are those who would
claim that we very seldom need to
get any further from work than we
constantly find ourselves to be.' In
this connection the following figures
are submitted from Farming, with no
guarantee as to their accuracy or He
braic origin:
A New* York Jew’s clerk asked him
for a raise. The Jew said Why do
you want a raise ? There art? 365
dgys in a year^ you work 8 hours
a day and that is 122 days. There
are 52 Sundays in a year and you get
them off, and that leaves 70 days;
there are 14 holidays, which leaves
you 54 days! you take an hour off for
lunch, which makes 14 days, which
leaves you 40 days; you get Saturday
afternoon off, which makes 26 days,
which leaves you 14 days, and I give
you two weeks’ vacation each year.
When in h do you work anyway
THE TYPE OF WORKMAN
A man in the real estate business
was speaking some days ago of the
high cost of building homes. Accord
ing to his idea, while the high wages
paid in these trades add much to such
costs, still more is added by the fact
that it is not possible now, at least
in the majority of places, to get the
same intelligent labor that used to be
employed.
Twenty-five 7ears ago a builder al
most anywhere in the United States
could hire an intelligent class of
young fellows. They were naturally
ingenious, and they put their wits
to work to do .juat as wqll as they
could, and their ambition And energy
kept down the coat of their labor.
Today the young men of that class
as a rule have become ambitious for
the “white collar jobs.” Or they have
gone into special lines of mechanical
work that seem more hopeful of pro
motion. We have talked to the boys
about ambition ^and making the best
of themselves, and as- a result they
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It .looks as though the highway
commission is gradually becoming a
political football.
While powdering her nose, a De
troit ' girl walked in a hole in the
street 14 feet deep and now her shin
ing days are over.
A Philadelphia man fainted three
times while being married. Just wait
brother, till the bills begin to come in.
A man was killed in Chicago the
other day because he sang, and this
should be a warning to your neigh-
borsr
It costs a great deal more to carry
goods over to the next season than it
does to advertise and sell them.
Its merely a matter of taking your
choice at the summer resorts—tip the
waiter or go hungry.
The farmer who plants his water
melon patch close to the* road is
either a public benefactor or a cheer
ful optimist.
It is nof fn!e that the girls spend
all their time looking in the mirrors,
for they spend some looking at the
fashion plates.
The college graduates in their new
jobs, may know more than the boss*
but it is at least prudent to keep the
fact concealed.
have, become dissatisfied with jobs
Kicking the book agent off the
porch may be too emphatic, but it is
often,the only way to show how a
fellow feels.
August is the month of family re
unions and family ties seem very
near and dear if the women folks cook
a good meal.
Welcome signs along the roads are
all right, but filling up the holes
which the motorists must jolt over is
better.
Well, why should a kid take care of
his shoes when Dad #ill give him a
new pair. " ! ‘
Many Others Badly Injured Wh<
Boilers Blow Up On Excursion
Steamer Mackinac.
Newport, R. I., Aug. 19.—The death
list of the Mackinac disaster suddenly
mounted to 23 this morning with the
report from the Newport naval sta
tion That the number had been inden-
tified. The explosion of the boilers
of the excursion steamer last even
ing caused injuries to more than 100
passengers and members of the crew
but earlier reports had placed the
total dead at four with 14 in a dan
gerous condition^
The naval hospital authorities re
ported that most of the known dead
died shortly after midnight, up to
which time only four deaths had been
reported. The Newport general hos
pital reported IT injured were being
attended there.
The number of dead swelled to 21
at 1:30 o’clock, *when the naval
authorities reported three, more
deaths. ,
Physicians and nurses still were
working over the injured through the
early hours of the morning.
A number of children, separated
from their parents in the panic that
followed the explosion, were being
held at various hospitals.
Most of the injured were suffering
extreme pain from scalds of the live
steam which poured upward through
the vessel from the shattered boiler.
At 2 a. m. physicians at the naval
hospital said that ten more would die
before daybreak. »*» -
But four of the 23 victims died be*-
fore midnight. The others passed a-
way during the next hour. Physicians
at the naval hospital explained that it
took several hours for the live steam
which victims inhaled to cause death.
Early today state inspector of hulls,
Robert R. Clarke and George Kelley,
general manager of the Blackstone
Transportation company, owners of
the Mackinac, arrived in Newport to
participate in the investgation of the
disaster.
The boilers of the vessel which
carried 677 excursion passengers,
burst when it was opposite the naval
training station in Narragansett
Sound. It was said that a patch
placed on the boilers last night had
blown off.
The steamer was headed for the
shore and a distress call was sent to
all battleships and destroyers in the
■harbor. , .—-———
Boat loads of injured were taken
to the naval hospital.
An early check up showed that
about 90 persons were at the naval
hospital and nine more at the New
port hospital. Three firemen of the
ship are missing and are believed to
have been Killed instantly.
Naval medical officers and every
physician in the vicinity, were called
upon to assist in caring for the in
jured.
The usual excursion crowd consist
ed for the most part of women and
children. Panic among those who es
caped injury in the explosion is be-
IMved to have added to the casualty
list. *
The explosion tore the entire mid
dle section of the boat apart and
scalded passengers and officers who
were near the engine room. Nearly
all the passengers came from Paw
tucket. Among them were ten police
men all of whom were reported in
jured. , v_
The feir-craxed crowd on the ex
cursion steamer became frantic and
men jumped into the water. Two
County Preparing For Agrkaltaral
Rally To Bo Hold Friday In
La arena.
Laurens, Aug. 17.—Farmers from
all over the Piedinont section of
South Carolina are expected in Lau
runs Friday for the great agricultural
rally at which addresses will "be made
by United States Senator J. Thomas
Heflin of Alabama, and Senator E. D.
Smith of South Carolina. The ac
ceptance of Senator Smith was re
ceived by the local committee on ar
rangements today.
The meeting will be held in the
court house Friday - morning at 11
o'clock and former United States Sen
ator Nat B. Dial will preside. Im
mediately after the speaking a bar
becue hash dinner will be served.
The farmers of the Piedmont sec
tion will have a rare opportunity in
being able to hear on the same plat
form on the same day two of the
greatest exponents of agriculture in
the country, both -members of the
United States senate.
|B. F. McLeod, general manager of
the South Carolina Cotton Growers’
Cooperative association, will also be
present at the meeting. This will be
Mr. McLeod’s first vsiit to Laurens in
his official capacity.
Laurens is expecting a great crowd •
of farmers for the day and it is ex- 1
pected that there will be hundreds ofj
farm women here also, since they i
have been extended a cordial invita
tion to Tie - present also.
AY, AUGUST to, i»a»
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Clinton, S. C.
Wholesale prices of commodities in
jermany are now about 50 per cent
ugher than before the war.
Dr. E. Mood Smith
Dr. Felder Smith
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The fellow who dashes over the
road at fifty miles sn hour is not the
one who is hurrying to the relief of
a sick person. n~-
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where the chances to rise do not look
good to them.
1ft. some places this type of fellows
are reported to be turning back to
these plain mechanical jobs, feeling
that the “white collar” occupations
l)ave become too crowded. But the
average builder would probably say
(hat he finds it harder than formerly
to obtain intelligent help, andv those
be can get do not as a rule accomplish
tne resets that a builder would have
expected 20. or even 10 years ago. -
* Rrobably thpse tendencies will turn
*fter a while, an<J the boys will dis
cover that they can’t all be bosses and
salesmen, and will settle back to learn
the old mechanical trades. What the
qommur^ty needs is to find some way
to put more ambition into the work
ers who up to ’now have not seemed
V> accomplish much. They need to be
aroused to see that they will never
get anywhere unless they wake up
and show initiative and energy.
A good way* to 'help kill and dis
courage the harmful propaganda now
going around is to promote* a move
ment for larger waste baskets.
Some people have funny ideas—
they think that the farther away a
bargain is from home, the better it is.
* Clinton is soon to be paved,
which will make it easier for the fel
low who loves the bottle to get home
at night.
Its hard to make some folks see it,
but there’s a great difference between
workin’ to live and livin’ id work.
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We might not be far from wrong to
divide our country into tyro parts—the
law-abiding and the law-breaking.
yachts reported picking up men.
SWEET DREAMS
For Mosquitoes
35c the bottle
SADLER-0 WENS
PHARMACY
vr UNION STATION TEL. 400
Ellis Auto Livery
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.
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WOMEN DRIVERS
Girls with pretty arms believe in
advertising—they have quit wealing
gloves as they used to do.
“E^sy to make, easy to break,”
seems to be the motto of the country
as far as laws are concerned.
The question is often discussed as CLINTON MILL NINE
to whether women drive automobiles' W ,NS OVER WATTS TEAM
as well as men or better. Some men ~
are a good deal prejudiced against 1
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BILIOUSNESS
Retired Minister Tells How
He Keeps in Good Form.
The Rev. Lewis Evans, a well-
known retired minister, past 80,
living at West Qraham, va., says:
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with my liver. Sometime* the
pain would be very intense and
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Black-Draught was the first thing
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‘My liver has always been slug-
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1 have suffered a lot with
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. Clinton Mills defeated Watts Mills
women as operators, and feel that by the score of 9 to 6 on last Satur-
ttar inexperience end l.ck of Inmi- day . The {Mtllre of flle WM
Benty with mechanical tool, make the pitchinK of Trammell for clin .
them awkard «t n »teenn» wheel. j ton with 12 atrike . outSi aI)d th( , hit _
It is no doubt trqp that the average ting of Howard and Trammell, who
woman has not handled ordinary tools secured four hits each out of five
OPd machines as much as the average trips tp the bat. Batteries: Clinton:
man. A large part of the nten haie Trammell and Fuller; Watts: Spoon
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from liver trouble. A dose or two
now and then keep* me in good
keep* me in good
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