The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, May 19, 1927, Image 4
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8 PAGES
THE POWER OF THRIFT
One trouble about economy is that
it takes so many people a long time to
realize its value and possibilities with
the result that the realization comes
after habits of reckless spending have
become so fixed that it is not easy to
change or even too late to do much
good. We live in an age when the pa
rents do not set an example of thrift
and thus whatever words they may
speak concemih*Mts virtues are dis
counted. We strive too much to live
up to standards set by others rather
than to live down to a level on which
we can afford to move financially.
This takes away many opportunities
of independence, ^entails unnecessary
labor and brings up the young in an
atmosphere which tends toward indus
trial slavery to wasteful methods.
came out/ A glance at the grow
ing vegetation shows how it re- 1
sponds to this kind of treatment.
He has some of the finest straw
berries in these parts this season
and they command a premium
price in Cheraw, where he does
most of his marketing.
So with his poultry. He breeds
White Wyandottes mostly, using
trap nests and keeps a record of
every egg a hen lays. Unproduc*-
tive stock are sold. He also breeds
mahogany red Russi&n Orloffs, a
rare breed in this country. That
he gives his birds frequent per
sonal attention is shown by the
fact that he can walk among them
and pick them up at will without
creating any uneasiness.
IT’S GREAT TO BE AN EDITOR
An editor is just naturally up
against it.
If he publishes cigarette advertise
ments he is accused of debauching the
youth of the land.
If he says he doesn’t like coca-cola
he is liable to lose an advertising con
tract. If he says it is a fine drink
he is suspected of being subsidized.
If he denounces liquor and advo
cates prohibition people say he is a
fanatic and a reformer. If he keeps
silent on the subject they say he is
afraid to talk out and intimate he
is a licker-head.
If he contends for what he thinks
is right and his ideas don’t happen to
coincide with the opinions of those in
high places, he is denounced for show
ing disrespect to contituted authority.
If^he doesn’t have anything at all
,o say on his editorial page the other
papers won’t exchange with him.
If he proposes public movements
somebody on the outskirts casually
suggests that the editor is after some
graft.
If he endorses one man for public
office he makes all the other candi
dates mad.
If he doesn’t endorse anybody he is
told he hasn’t any backbone.
If he doesn’t pay his bills when they
KFWANIS
KORNER
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Edited
*>y
Clinton
“WE BUILD**
Publicity Committee
of
Kiwanls Club.
Visiting Kiwanians Always Welcome.
The opportunities still remain for.
those who are willing to walk in the < are presented his^ credit rating ^goe .
pathway of the. thrifty. Only those
who rise above the restrictions of the
circles in which they move ever ac
complish much. However small the
opportunity may appear to be it is
there. What can be done by those who
have the will is illustrated by the fol-
lowiru
W. Straus in
age of 21
example used recently by S.
a talk on thrift: At the
a certain young man and
his bride moved to a farm where he
received $2-^0 a year, a house to live
in, a ga v dc-n plot and free milk. The
first year they saved $150. For seven
years the couple remained on the farm,
adding steadily to their savings. Then
they moved to a nearby city where he
secured employment in a factory. In
due time his thrift and industry
brougtiL him to the special attenticn
of his employers, greater responsibil
ities were placed on his shouldei’s, and
he began to move up. Today he is at
the head of one of America’s greatest
businesses.
Such a story refers to exceptional
men and not to exceptional opportun
ity. Many others could accomplish
as much if they would. It has been
pointed out that we should save not
only for the rainy days which we fear
but also for the days of sunshine when
some unusual advantage in the way of
investment is offered to those who
have the money. Hard work and sav
ing are more often the explanation of
a man’s financial success than any ele
ment of what is called luck or any
form of personal advantage.
We are all living at too fast a pace,
ami many are even living beyond our
means. It is not the high cost of liv
ing, but high living that is l*eep-
ing many of our faces turned toward
industrial slavery'. r s-s
down to zero in five minutes. If he
tries to collect the money owing him,
he is told to come back next week.
If he stops the paper of a subscrib-
•• who c-v.es him for five years back
;e makes an enemy. If he doesn’t stop
. he loses that much every week.
if Si Perkins comes to town to sell
wo and a half dozen eggs and the pa-
;er doesn’t say that Mr. Perkins made
\ business trip to the city last w’eek
he editor is charged with being “stuck
:p.”
~ if the town needs improvements.and
ha editor says so he makes big tax
payers mad. If he sleeps over the sub-
h s snbsciil>ers say he is afraid
to^tell the tru'.h.
If he doesn’t charge less for job
mnting tnan the out-of-town printer
-ie loses the order. If he does charge
'ess and gets the order he fails to
make any profit.
If he calls names he is liable to get
all beat up. If he doesn’t they say he
s a coward.
If he lives at all he is lucky. If he
doesn’t they say it served him right.
Gee, it’s great to be an editor.
A ONE-ACRE FARMER
The Pee Dee Advocate tells of one
farmer in Marlboro county, the soil of
which is the most productive for cot
ton raising in the state, who is not
concerned over the price of cotton for
the vlty reason that he doesn’t raise
it, and yet he makes a good living for
himself and wife on the farm.
This fartper is named John Pronn-
egg, and ‘he and his wife came to
South Carolina from Pennsylvania.
They are pursuing a different system
of farming to that prevailing in Marl
boro and other counties, an interesting
glimpse of which is gi\en by The Ad
vocate as follows:
A casual observer passing aljng
• the highway would know that Mr.
and Mrs. Pronnegg'are different.
The little place, which was for
merly an ordinary tenant shack,
is surrounded with flowers of
many varieties, and shrubbery,
while on what used to be the back
porch is a regular little conserva
tory.
On well-prepared beds near the
hous.e is growing almost every
variety of vegetable that one
could imagine. Here again one
sees that Pronnegg is\ different.
No “scratchftig*’ around on top of
the soil with a one-horse plow for
him. He hasn’t a horse or a plow
on the pl&ce. He says ground for
' vegetables should be spaded deep
so that it will receive and hold
moisture. He prepares it in beds
•bout six feet wide with trenches
* between. This keeps the soil from
washing away and holds rain wa
ter in the trenches until it is «b-
* sorbed in the earth.
. Another thing about moisture:
A stump takes it from the soil
and feed* it into the air by cap-
' Uary attraction, thereby robbing
the growing crops. So all stumps
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Dr. Frank Crane Says—
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT-4S
WRONG
“The question of capital punishment
is opposed to because nobody is will
ing to kill a man. Killing certainly
does the man no good. It doesn’t re
form him, and he doubts whether it
does society any good,” says a well-
kno^yvn public man.
W’hen a man reaches the point
where he wants to kill another man he
doesn’t care whether he himself gets
killed.
This thing of inflicting the extreme
penalty upon a man is a practical one.
It is not based upon consideration for
he man, but upon regard for society.
It is supposed to deter others from se
rious crimes.
Opponents of capital punishment
say that as a matter of deterrent it
does no good. They bring statistics to
support this argument and claim that
che more severe punishments are the
Most heartily does the Korner thank
Prof. A. T. Fant for coming to the
rescue of Bynum Betts’ program last
Friday evening. It w.as stated that
Bynum was out of towm attending a
convention of Psalm singers in Fay
etteville, Tenn., but some one sug^
gested that probably he w’as also at
tending to other “business” while
away. Bynum heads the program
committee and is continually endea
voring to give us some good enter
tainment. Sometime soon he is to
compose the program himself and talk
to the siub on “Some attractions of
interest about Statesville.”
The club enthusiastically received
the acceptance of Hayne B. Workman
into its membership, this substantial
Hopewell farmer taking the classifi
cation made vacant by the death of
Kiwanian Geo. W\ Young. Sam Gary
Dillard, manager of the Joanna Mer
cantile Company of Goldville, was an
nounced as a new member and this
news was cordially received by the Ki
wanians.
The report for the last semester of
Nancy Perry, the Thomwell girl being
educated at Chicora college by our
club, was reqd by the secretary. It
showed, that unlike many other col
lege students. Miss Nancy is not
thrrwing away or wasting her time, |
but continues to specialize in A’s and
AA’s. Her reports fqx^the year havd
t4Kn excellent .and the Ki\yanians are
pt' ud of her and the record she is
making.
Our club had as its guest Prof. A.
T. Fant of the Presbyterian college
faulty, who gave a highly interesting
al c cn “Astronomy,” and in non-tech-
H language the beauty of the s.ar-
cy neaVtns was presented. I he math-
id: of measurement used *by astrono
mers was explained and proved quite
'Rt,‘resting, although it was above the
he Js of most of us. Hugh Simpson
wro is good at figures, and spends
in: t of his time figuring installment
payments, wore out a pencil trying to
figure out how far it is from his fur
niture store to our old friend Nep
tune. while Jack Anderson was busy
trying to ascertain the speed limit, at
wh ch light travels.* He got it up to
180,330 miles per second and then got
tired and quit. Prof. Kant convinced
his hearers that he has a thorough
knowledge cf astronomy and his talk
is calculated to in^prove in. a small
measure at least, the intelligence test
of the members. He was cordially re
ceived by the club and thanked for
his valuable information touching up
on the vastness of unfathomable space.
The Club’s single contingent was then
admonished by the president to do
more star-gazing by night and t°
more and more enlist the assistance
and inspiration of the mdbn to help
them solve their problems.
The next meeting of the club is
May 26th, 7:30. Every member in his
seat is the Korner’s slogan.
descent on all jidea-gf his family. H
was a great-great-grandson of George
Walton, a signer of the Declaration of
Independence and colonial governor of o
Georgia. He was fitted for West Point
but at the outbreak of the Confederate ‘
war he entered the army with his.
father and-three uncles, who were iat- j
er made generals, and he served until;
the end. He was an able historian and :
retained a most remarkable memory j
until the end. He wap loyal to his'
friends, but never hesitated to de
nounce a wrong.
Mr. Bray was married in 1869' to
Miss*Annie Peay, youngest daughter
of Col. N. A. Peay of Longtown, whom
he met during the war as she refu-1
geed to Georgia with her undo, C J.'
Robert Lamar, when Sherman was on '
his march to Columbia. They had liv-!
ed happily together for 57 years, most!
of the time being spent in Fairfield
bounty, where he always followed the
pursuit of his ancestors, that of plant
ing.
Besides his widow. Mr. Bray is sur
vived by the following children:
George Bray of Brockton, R. V. Bray,
Jr., mayqr of Beaufort, T. P. Bray of
Clinton, W. C. Bray of Jacksonville,
Fla., N. P. Bray of Charlotte ‘ and a
daughter, Mrs. J. R. Carson of Ches
ter. /
Mr. Bray was an elder of the Mt.
Zion Presbyterian church. The active
pallbearers being his five sons and
one son-in-law, and the honorary pall
bearers, the officers of the church.
Presbytery To
Meet Here Today
■
A called meeting of South Carolina
Presbytery will be held here this af-!
ternoon at three o’clock in the Thorn- j
well Memorial church. The meeting I
is being held for the special purpose
of examining Mathew Lynn, recently^
graduated from Union Theological '
seminary of Richmond, with a view to i 1
licenseship to preach.
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RICHARD V. BRAY
DIES AT CHESTER
Confederate Veteran, Historian, Scion
of Distinguished Family. Fath
er of T. P. Bray of This City.
Chester, May 16.—Richard Van
Bray, Sr., 80, one of Chester’s most
highly esteemed citizens and a veteran
of the Confederate war, died as he
slept early this morning at the home
of his son-fn-law and daughter, Mr.
and Mrs. J. R. Carson, here on West
End, with who'm he had made his home
the past seven years, coming from
Winnsboro after his health failed.
The funeral services were held at
Winnsboro at the Mount Zion Presby-
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wider the spread of crime. Those in- terian church at 11:30 Monday mbrn-
fav«)r of capital punishment deny this.
About the worst thing that could
happen to. most men is to lose life.
People who are afraid of nothing else
[fear death.
; In its effort to protect human life,
society uses the old argument of fear
and claims that people will be pre
vented from killing others best of all
by being in danger of being killed
themselves.
It is all a piece with the whole fear
argument. Time was when men were
supposed to be made better by the
fear of hell and youth is suppposed to
be kept in check by the feaF of their
evil deeds in later life.
A man will risk his life wheret he
will not risk his property.
If we want to stop crime the thing
to do is to remedy the conditions that
make crime and not merely indulge in
the vengeance of killing.
Killing is vengeance only. It U not
punishment.
The argument against imprison
ment for life has its chief support in
the fact that by and by the prisoner
wll be pardoned by the governor. Take
this pardoning power away from the
governor for the present and lodge
it in a board selected by the courts.
Have all pardons issued by this board
and relieve the governor of the pres-
sure that is brought on him to issue will be made surer and one will
pardons. not reerive » pnrdon wUm* h* pn>p-
In this way imprisonment for life arly entitled to R.
ing and the burial was male in the
graveyard of the church. (
Mr. Bray was born at White Sul
phur Spring^, Ga., February 10, 1847,
being the eldest son of the late Capt.
and Mrs. W. C. Bray. He was a wor
thy scion of a long line xif distinguish
ed ancestry, and was of Revolutionary
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