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' "r;r- ■ * ..■vw . ■ • 'vVT V-W •'..i.V-'.- (■ 5f K H — •• , *;* ' ' •<■■ ■ ’jcr-i; Vlr. iHV s': 'v PAGE FOURTEEN \ THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON7 8. C THURSDAY, Week The Chronicle does not necessarily endorse or commend all of Mr. Bris bane’s views and conclusions. His ed itorials are published as expressions of opinions of the world’s highest sal aried editor. ANOTHER BRYAN WANTED SCIENCE NO MENACE 170,000 AND TOO CHEAP BEWARE OF EMPATHY The Iowa State chairman stya the Democratic party ought to find # a man like W. J. Bryan—somethnig hard to do. Bryan had one great quality, and you could say, as it is said of another, “That man believes every word he aays. Such men are dangerous.’ There is a tremendous power in sin cerity, and, right or wrong, on gold, silver or prohibition, Bryari had that power. Dr. Lorenz, “bloodless surgeon of Vienna,’’ says science is injuring hu manity by keeping the unfit alive. Nature tries to wipe out those not fit to perpetuate the species. Science prolongs their lives and adds unfit children to the population. Red Indians used to kill babies that did not seem vigorous, and killed all children born deformed. That didn’t make a great conquering race of the Indians. Some of the most useful men, Voltaire for instance, would have died in infancy but for extraordinary scientific care. Pope, who wrote the “Essay on Man” and other things, worth while, would have been killed had he lived among the Indians. He had to be sewed up in a canvas jacket each day that he might sit up and write. And consider the good moral effect that helping the unfit has upon the abler types. What we call charity is largely a philanthropic gymnasium for the prosperous. A Stock Exchange seat sells for $170,000, the highest price on record, but a great deal too low. In these booming times, and with the prosper ity that is ahead, every able broker ought to earn the price of a seat in m year. The value of Exchange seats shows that it is -better to buy and sell things than to make them. You know how cotton growers feel just now. In some places cotton isn’t worth picking. Yesterday in New York a seat on the Cotton Exchange sold for $2,000 more than the last previous sale. Whether cotton stocks sell high or low, the intelligent broker makes his profit. ^ Rabindranath Tagore (fine, old poet of Bombay) joins Europe’s hymn of American hate. He won’t come here again; did not like us last time. We the “too aggressively anti-Asiatic and selfish.” We are not “aggressively anti-Asi atic,” but we notice that India in five thousand years has done nothing but turn from slavery under the rajahs to slavery under Britain and rajahs com bined. We, on the other hand, have done several things, steamboat, fly ing machine, automobile, telephone, phonograph, radio, in much less than fiive thousand years. We don’£ believe that Asia and America would go in harness any bet ter thim a yak and a submarine. Nev ertheless, we like Asia, all but the ra jahs, caste, suttee and child marriage —and Britain is attending to them. W V- Santa Bm Are you inclined to empathy? It’s the new word of psychologists, and ex plains stories of witnesses, describing’ saw what we never saw. 3 T HAD always been such a nice, deceptive way in which to speak of specially delicious and delect able sweets—sugar plums. Her grandmother had called candies and candled fruits and luscious bon bons “sugar plums.” And she had always, because she liked candled fruits so particularly, called them "sugar plums.’' It had been seventeen years since Rose had first remembered hearing of "sugar plums.” She had been three then, and her grandmothai' had said ac ross Had Bssn Vory Busy Getting Ready for Christmas. First we think about a thing with sympathy. Then we get mixed, in ject ourselves into the sffsir, in our imflginatjons, and soon are ready to swear, with perfect sincerity, that we aay what we never saw. Dreams lead to empathy. You dream you saw s friend in a certain place, think about it, and in a week you believe that you dreamed of him and then saw him, just where you had dreamed of him. And you tell your friends how your dream came true, whsn it did nothing of the kind. Beware of empathy. The world is full of it. ' Professors Fryer and Shaw, of New York University, invented or discov- it ; ' •' ■ i • . >AOT. NOTICE-1*0 STOCKHOLDERS Tbs arm ual meeting of the stock holders of the First National Bank of Clmtoa, S. C., will be held in the Di rectors’ room of the Bank at Clinton, • g. Ct on Tuesday, January 11, 1927, «t three o'clock p. Please be pres ent er forward your proxy. B. H. BOYD, President. In the wise, wise way that grandmoth er always had of knowing what was what, “Yes, only Sants Claus knows how to get the choicest of sugar plums,” Rosfe was very busy getting ready for Christmas. . It was a busy time In the family. There were mince pies to be made and plum puddings, and almonds to salt, and fudge to make, and wreaths to make, and bells to fix, and fresh candles to put In the candle-sticks—red candles at this time of the year. It was a time for general cheer, and from Rose’s family a great share of this cheer went forth. It was not that they were wealthy. They were. In fact, the opposite. But it was their greet satisfaction , that by hard work and great energy 1 of spirit they could do a great deal in a small way for every one with whom they came In contact at this season of the year. Every present, no matter bow sim ple, was prettily wrapped. There was no condescension In their giving. To them it was a big part of their Christ mas delight that they knew so many people with wfihra they could share their Christmas sacrifices and the re sult of the late hours they kept for weeks before Christmas in their Innu merable small preparations. Saving was always such fun throughout the early autumn. - Of what fun was sav ing It it were all to be foraver hid den? There were two presents awaiting Christmas morning for Rose to un wrap. They were for her and she had taken them in when they had arrived, but she had not opened them. She was curious about these pree- She knew they would be finite but one waa from Billy and one waa frqra Joe, and both Billy and .loe had lately been running • race, as it were, for Rose’s acceptance of engagements, for her favors. She liked Billy much better than she did Joe. She knew that Billy liked her. She knew that Joe liked her, too. She felt that Joe would al ways .make her very comfortable, Vrould always be very kind, very duti ful, and that she would always have to be dutiful, too. , Of course, that was all right But she felt that with Billy She would want to make him §o very happy, and with Joe, that It would be so much more of a duty. Yet Joe was more reliable, he was less Irresponsible, less spontaneous, and so much more exact But Billy was such a dear I She could label all Joe's good points. Billy’s were less tangible, but they were there, all right, even If she couldn't name them. She helped her mother with the last Christmas Eve touches, covered the fire • over with asheu, put out the lights and finally went to bed. The next morning she opened Joe’s present first Somehow she wanted to keep Billy’s to the last the way she had done with things when she was s child. There was a little note with Joe’s present telling her what she knew be had been wanting to tell her for a long time—how much he thought of her, what a good wife he knew she would be—of that he said, he was confident And he hoped she would be of the same opinion about him. He would make her, he was quite sure, a good husband. Then there was a word about the present. He had not known what to give her this year; he knew she had all of those things which, as their positions now were, were t£e only things be could give her, but bis moth er had suggested a very complete sew ing-box. There was no note with Billy’s pres ent Just a card upon which he had written: _ “I think you like these 'sugar plum’ things. Merry Christmas.” It was a wholly unreasonably large box of candled fruit. Later Billy himself came around. Wit t s dear be was! Oh, yes, BlUy. “Crazy "V- Prosont I Gave You,” Billy Was Saying. was s dear. And. they had mistletoe, too, and Billy was grabbing her and was saying: “Crazy present I gave you, but I know you like sugar plums; ktad, any way, I had in mind a diamond ring, but just thought I’d speak to you about it first.” - Billy had "his own ideas. “Sugar plums.” Joe had consulted his moth er and there had been a sewing box. Oh, she couldn’t tell .Just why^jer- haps, hot she did love Bitty and she didn’t love Joe. Perhaps It was be cause BlUy was, just a dear. "The ‘sugar flams' win,” she said, and I’d love the diamond ring." Billy didn't finite understand the first part of her sentence, hut be did the tkst—and, after all, that , was Ml that was naceaaaryl (Sk SMS. Wasters Nawapapar Uatas.) //, $ A >: w* The Holiday Season is Hie rime When Good Food is in Demand— \ Choice, varied meals are a Yuletide necessity. When the Christmas spirit lives in the heart of mankind there’s a natu ral craving for choice delicacies. 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