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CLINTON. S. C JANUARY 20, 1927
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THE CHRONICLE’S AMBI
TIONS FOR CLINTON
To brine more industrial payrolls to
Clinton.
To give the civic organizations of
the city adequate support in all their
activities.
To lend full support to every effort
for the development of the city’s ad
joining farm territory.
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C.
To make Clinton in all respects,
beautiful and healthy city.
that every statement here made may
be checked up by any one who may
doubt:
“R. L. Betts, Ashburn, is another
systematic cow-hog-hen farmer, whose
farm is stocked with Guernsey cattle,
pure-bred hogs and white leghorn hens
and who makes a specialty of produc
ing and marketing infertile white leg
horn eggs. The practice of the poul
try feature of his business in an inten
sive, aggressive and systematized way
dates from 1923, when Mr. Betts got
rid of the last o/ his scrub birds and
started with 150 pure bred white hens.
The same year, according to his books,
he cleared from his flock, net, approx
imately $250, and in 1924, having
doubled the size of his flock, he clear
ed $500. Between November 1, 1925,
and November 1, 1926, with 750 hens,
he netted $2,310. His poultry record
for that period shows: On the outgo
side of the ledger, feed for hens, $2,-
200; 3,000 baby chicks, $600; feed for
baby chicks, $500; brooding and inci
dental costs, $150; total expense,
$3,450. On the income side, here is
the record: 8,600 dozen eggs, $2,590;
300 hens sold, $160; 1,200 cockerels
sold, $600 ; 400 old hens sold, $250; a
total of $3,600. He has on hand now
1,000 pullets worth $1,500 and 400 hens
valued at $600; his receipts for the
year, together with the value of his
stock on hand representing a value
of $5,760, or $2,310 net above the cost
of the year’s operations. Month by
month the income from cream and his
hogs much more than pays the cost of
operating his farm, according to Mr.
Beats’ records, and of maintaining his
family. Tf anybody tries to discount
the cow-hog-hen system of farming
and tells you it does not pay, just
send him to me,’ said Mr. Betts.”
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JANUARY 20,
To connect Clinton with every sur
rounding city arid community by first-
class highways.
To provide the city with an ade
quate fire department and equipment.
To give hearty support to the edu
cational interests of the communnity.
To have a public library in keeping
w ith the intelligence and character of
our city.
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To advertise Clinton and this
tion in a way that will make others
appreciate what we have.
En Passant
W. W. H.
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The sure way to have friends is to
so live that you won’t have to call on
them for help.
The richest woman in Great Britain
has married. The groom is receiving
n.any congratulations.
It isn’t necessary to point out the
mistakes of other people. The neigh
bors can see just as well as you can.
Dr. Frank Crane Says—
CITY LIFE $OT SO ROSY!
During the past year, according to
a report made by the Department of
Agriculture, there has been a decrease
in the farm population of the United
States of nearly half a million.
The year before that it decreased
182,000.
The population of the country as a
whole is increasing, that of the rural
districts is decreasing.
The definite trend is away from the
farm to the city.
A cable from Paris tells the same
story.
The population of the country dis
tricts of France continues to flow to
the large cities in spite of all efforts
of the government to stem it.
The general census just taken,
shows a declining population in all ru
ral areas there except those adjacent
to large industrial centers.
In America the automobile and the
movie have been the two big elements
in accelerating this movement from
the farm to the city.
In olden times entertainment was
found in country affairs; now trips to
the city are substituted.
The automobile, making quick runs
to the city after supper for movies and
other entertainment possible, has giv
en young people of the farming com
munities a taste of city life in its
brightest aspect.
They see the city relaxed. They see
it in the role of play-boy. And they
like it.
The movies, shown in every cross
roads village, picture life in the big
city as one of adventure, fine clothes*
and quick wealth.
There is no hay to pitch, no mules
to curry and no meadow larks to lis
ten to before dawn.
However, the dust-filled, sardine-
can sub-ways and the high cost of liv
ing in the city are left out of the pic
ture.
‘‘The farm is where they work; the
city is where they play.”
This idea abetted by the auto and
movie has its effect in leading young
people on the farms to choos£ the city
when they grow up.
It has played a large part in the
trend toward urban life which has
been noted in recent years.
To work to re-populate the farms of
this section by bringing in new set
tlers.
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There is agitation
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in Columbia for
building of a new penitentiary,
ifh a few more governors like Mc-
00 it won’t b^ heeded.
To do everything to atimulate di
versification in agriculture as the on
ly hope for the farmers.
To work to increase our population
and encourage every wage earner and
salaried man to own his own home.
To get together, stay together, and
work together in harmony.
COW-HOG-HEN FARMING
In one of his famous addresses, the
late William Jennings Bryan stated
that if the cities were destroyed they
would soon be rebuilt by the industry
of the farms, but that if the fanqs
were destroyed grass would soon be
growing on the streets of the cities.
A great man thus indicated the im
portance of the success of the farms.
The farmer must at last be his own
financial redeemer through the crops
that he raises and the methods that
he employs. The sooner he wakes up
to this truth, the better off he will be.
Others, however, who feel how vital
farming is to all other industries are
glad to point out methods whereby
success has come to the farming in
dustry, and in our efforts to help en
courage diversification, The Chronicle
is printing below a portion of an ar
ticle along this line which appeared in
the las’t issue of a Georgia paper, The
W’eek:
WTiy worry about conditions in Chi
na when you can find so many things
to worry about right here in our own
town?
MILLER, PARHAM.
POOLE, ENTER PEN
Trio Convicted At Spartnburg For
Banking Law Violations and Tak
ing Spartanburg County Funds.
Columbia, Jan. 16.—F. J.^Parham,
L. G. Miller and Claude Poole, convict
ed of violating the banking laws and
conspiring to defraud Spartanburg
county of public funds, entered the
state penitentiary here this afternoon
in charge of Constable W. R. White.
_ Miller, former treasurer of Spar
tanburg county, president of the de
funct Bank of Duncan and a stock
holder in the Carolina Remedies com
pany, previously pleaded guilty to
charges of violation of the state bank
ing laws in connection with the closing
of the Bank of Duncan and is serv
ing a two-year sentence in the peni
tentiary on that charge. He faces
charges of embezzlement and conspir
acy to defraud also, these growing out
of the alleged shortage of $800,000 in
his accounts as county treasurer. He
was taken to Spartanburg to testify
against Poole and Parham.
Parham consented to plead guilty
to a charge of conspiracy to defraud
Saturday afternoon after his trial had
been under way for two days in the
court of general sessions and was sen
tenced to serve three to six years by
Judge W. H. Townsend. Poole had
also consented to a verdict of guilty
on a charge of conspiracy the week
before, though tried under a different
indictment from the one against Par
ham.
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Colds, Grippe, Flue, Dengue,
Bilious Fever and Malaria.
It kills the germs.
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GROCERIES
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order will be on its way practically at once. We*H
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LYCEUM NUMBER
COMING SOON
Another advantage about a porch
swing is that it consumes very little
gasoline and doesn’t need new tires
every now and then.
The man with the smallest vocab
ulary uses the most swear words.
Punctuating your conversation with
oaths is merely advertising your ig
norance.
Another trouble with business is
that we haVe too many storekeepers 1
and not enough real merchants.
Why cuss the city and railroads
about crossings. If folks observe the
law in regard to speeding, these acci
dents will not occur.
It is a long lane that has no turn
ing. Be optimistic and quit talking
hard times.
Let’s bring the Danes over. They
will show “Uncle Ira Boland” how to
run a real Lutheran church.
This is a pretty evenly divided
world, after all . The gasoline tax hits
the motorist, and he in turn hits the
pedestrian.
“In Georgia today there is not one
all-cotton farmer—the farmer who de
pends for his livlihood and the sup
port of his family exclusively or in
large part upon cotton—who is not
worried and in distress.
“On the other hand, there is not
today in Georgia a farmer who has
consistently and intelligently practic
ed the cow-hog-hen system who is not
happy, at least moderately prosper
ous, going about his business day by
day ‘in the stimulation of a lively
hope.'
“This is not a loose statement, pred
icated merely upon a superficial opin-
it is a statement of fact justi-
Prof. Huntington of Yale, declares
the weather costs the world half a bil
lion dollars a year. But just think of
the material for conversation we get
out of it.
Here’s something to worry about—
the latest monarch to tumble is King
Cotton.
More schools for salesmen are be
ing established. One of the troubles
today 'is that they sell us too much
stuff now.
“The Old Homestead” Is First Attrac
tion On Winter Schedule. In Flor
ida St. Auditorium, Feb. 3.
The junior class of the Presbyterian
college has signed for a number of
lyceum attractions which are to ap
pear during the next few months.
“The Old Homestead,” with all its
fascinating “trimmings,” including the
old farm male quartet, is to appear
here on the evening of February 3rd,
at the Florida Street school auditori
um. It is a play human to the very,
core, with pathos, sentiment and
laughs galore; a play that will never
die—the comedy drama of all time.
Denman Thompson’s classic of New
England life was first produced in
1886. It has held the board uninter
ruptedly since that time, never losing
its grip upon the emotions of the mil
lions of people who have seen it time
and time again. “The Old Homestead”
is a* comedy drama. It has to do with
"Josh” Whitcomb and the folks down
“Swanzee” way. It is a play that will
endure forever because of its whole-
somness and charm. It has been spok
en of as the “Heart Throb of a Na
tion.” It is the story of New England
life that is deep rooted in its truth
ful adherence to human nature.
You will laugh and you will cry.
You will be thrilled, shaken and stir
red, and at the final curtain you will
go home rejoicing that such a play as
“The Old Homestead” exists, with is j
cheerful, optimistic note, and a mes- f
sage that sends a shaft of sunlight 1
right into the heart of every mem
ber of the audience. '
For those who have seen it before,
it still holds its perennial personal
charm and allure. It is distinctively
a truly American institution. Millions I
have seen the play and millions will |
continue to enjoy it in the decades to I
come. It has outreached all otherp 1
and its drawing power is as great to
day as it was 25 years ago. It is old,
yet ever new and is absolutely true to
the New England country life which
it represents.
; GIFTS THAT LAST
J. B. FRONTIS
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fied by conditions that actually exist
and one that can be verified by any^ thousand dollars on chickens as a
s 'de line, and yet our farmers persist
in losing money trying to raise cotton.
This country used 17 per cent more
chewing gum last year, but was still
able to devote the usual amount of
time to chewing the rag.
A Greenwood farmer cleared over
open-minded citizen who may care te
investigate for himself. *
“Recently a thorough and compre
hensive survey of economic conditions
was made by F. H. Abbott, secretary
of the Georgia Association; Channing
Cope, of the Utilities Information
Committee of Georgia, assisted by,
prominent business men and construc
tive citizens, in Turner county and
elsewhere in Georgia where the live
stock, ‘bi-weekly pay-day' system of
farming has been put to an actual,
practical test.
• “In this issue of The Week only a
few of many concrete instances in
wbich the modem diversified farming
plan has been vindicated will be giv
en, together with the names and ad-
s of the individual farmers
experiences are cited, in order
The fad of trying to reduce seems
to have captivated our women. They
might follow the example of Mrs. Roy
Kellrfy, of Center, Ala., who picked an
average of 423 pounds of cotton a day
for 13 days.
JACKSON HEADS
BLUE STOCKING
Iva Student Get» Unanimous Vote of
Student Body. Associate
Staff Named.
Louis W. Jackson of Iva, climbed
up a notch higher on the flag of col
lege achievement last Thursday, when
the student body, without a dissent
ing vote, awarded him the honor of
being the next editor-in-chief of The
Blue Stocking, the weekly publication
of Presbyterian college. At the same
time two young men from the battle
grounds of Chattanooga were recog
nized for their merits, and chosen to
be managing editor and business man
ager. They were H. P. J. L'heureux
and John Bright. * '
— ; j The new staff assumes the ir.anage-
The following have made 90 and I m *Et of this week’s paper. All of
abovd for the month beginning Nov. t the young editors and their associates
29 and ending Dec. 23: [are well qualified for the work to
First grade: Evelynn Nabors, Viv-1 which they have been chosen, and it is
ian Nabors, Ruby Klutz. |a decided compliment to them that
Eighth gra^e: Wilbur Workman. | they were unanimously chosen by their
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Roll Is Announced
Ninth graded Harold Johnson. - ^ fellow students.
LOGS
We will want logs sawed in lengths
from ten to sixteen feet delivered on
our planer mill yard at Clinton, after
January 24th. We will buy and pay
CASH for all logs delivered.
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