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i I I. m KW- jyjrV- , \i rv’. PAGE FOUR THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. iiIl7P (ElirnttirU PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY ‘ ^ THE CHRONICLE PUBBISHlNG CO. WILSON W. HARRIS Editor and Publisher Entered at the Clinton Post qffice as matter of Second Class. ' Terms of Subscription: One year 1 $1.50 Six months .... .... .... 75 Three months 50 Payable in advance The Chronicle eeks the cooperation of its subscribe s and readers — the publisher will a all times appreciate wise suggestion . and kindly advice. people will "provide the needed funds when they tlearly understand the sit uation and have a sujvey and collec tion of-facts before them from experts, with the_fentire plan of procedure care- Tiinj^Nrorked out. It is further our )elief that if the improvement is un- Wlertaken, a recognized city, engineer should be employed and a contract let for the work on a competitive basis. The water question is now before us. To solve it—vision and sagacity should be duly exercised. Our people should come together in a citizen’s meeting and give serious consideration to the question. The time is here when as a community, we must interest our selves in this public improvement un less we expect to drift along and soon find ourselves helpless by a municipal water shortage. Foreign Act vert um* RrpreMatetive THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION Make: all remittances to ▼HL CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. Clinton, S. C. CLINTON. S. C. 8 PAGES OUR UNUSED ASSETS We are having considerable talk in and around Clinton about new enter prises to help our town and surround ing country. The depression period of the past few years has proven the need for such. NEW BANKING RULES The advertising columns of this pa per are carrying an annoilncement signed by the presidents of the three Clinton banks, setting forth several new rulqs and regulations governing AUGUST 4, 1927- "banking which are to become effective the first of September. Briefly, they call for a service charge on all accounts that fall below a $50.00 balance during the month, the paying by customers for the printing and binding of their check books, and deferred credit on all out-of-town checks. The new rules adopted by our banks, are, we take it, made in the interest of better banking. There is no doubt that banks are imposed upon in many ways and that this practice is continually is the element of adventure in it. ! ing the renomination and reelection of When you have committed suicide! Mr. Coolidge, ~tKe reply was, “How you have taken the step which pre cludes all further adventure and .you have extinguished the-Hamp of the sould and the light of Jife. j What may happen in the next world we do not know, but we know that in this world something is bound to hap pen tomorrow. Why not stay alive and see it? If you are feeling pretty bad, perhaps it may comfort you to think that whatever happens it cannot be worse than what has already happen ed, therefore it will probably be bet ter. j Keep 'trudging along and surely some opportunity will come to you to get away from the hated routine. could I be loyal and say anything else?” That was a fair, if not very judi cious, common-piece for the presiden tial spokesman’s observation about Hoover jn connection with the portfo lio of Istate. The analogy is made even ihore striking by the reported subse quent explanation of the secretary that he had answered the query hur riedly as he was boarding the train, and htat he regretted that his hasty answer had been published. He didn’t say, however, that he hadn’t said it. But Secretary Hoover cannot go two ways at one time. As long as he stays in the cabinet he is bound to be for Coolidge and for the re-nomination of Coolidge. He couldn’t prevent 'ft anyhow. Hoover may reflect, even if he t-ied; and he may be soothed by midsummer rumors that the president Of Presidential Statue, But Put On is going to side-step the nomination POLITICIANS SNAG HERBERT HOOVER THURSDAY^UGUSJ^MZT new something already here and ready for operation. Specific reference we are making to the potato curing house which did a good business one year but prices were so low that our farmers seemed to drop all idea of curing their potatoes. Of course for the past two yeans we have had no potatoes to cure. \ Also we have reference to the mo dern cannery located adjoining the potato house and both near the ice • factory. This concern has up-to-date equipment and is prepared to care for & large volume of business if our farm.-rs and gardners would supply the fruit and vegetables. The Thomwell orphanage had an oversupply of beans last week. The in stitution was not prepared to do the work and made arrangements with >Ir. Spratt to take the beans to the can- nerv Fridav afternoon. In a short But in looking afar for something we may overlook and neglect ^ g row i n g. There is the other side to the question, however, that banks are public servants, not organized and op erated solely as money-making ma chines, but that they have responsi bilities to discharge and a service to render without which no community can properly develope. They cannot, however, expect to receive remunera tion for everything they do^any more so than a merchant, doctor, law’yer, newspaper or other individual or in stitution. We do not believe for a moment that our banks are prompted in their action by purely selfish motives. They know and can see the many banking defects and haniships that now exist and they are attempting to eliminate these defects as far as possible. The public should receive their new ruling in such a spirit and cooperate as fully and cheerfully as possible. With all the wild-cat banking we while Mr. Lynn and his farm boys had i have had in our state in the past few put up 745 number three cans. Num ber ten cans should have been used but they could not bp secured in time. One of the neighbors came along about that time and saw the work going on so he had gathered and strung a small quantity of beans from his garden. They gave him seventeen cans and otherwise his beans in all probability would have been lost. Dr. Cornwell tells in his famous lec ture, “Acres of Diamonds,” of looking ! institutions. years, the numerous bank failures and corruption that has been exposed in many instances, one can clearly ap preciate the fact that the successful operation of a bank today is more dif ficult than ever before. The banks are under obligation to do their part in their respective communities, and in turn the public is due them fair and honest treatment ami should be check ed in its custom of imposing on these afar for diamonds when often are lying at one’s very feet. they THE ENGINEERS’ REPORT The report of J. E. Sirrine & com pany, Greenville engineers, after a preliminary survey of the city’s pres ent water supply, substantiates the before expressed opinion that we are now faoiwg a water shortage that is liable ‘to- become serious at any time. The ; r repbrt published in today’s pa per. states that the Beard fork stream is entirely too small for the city’s present and rapidly increasing require ments and carries the subsequent rec ommendation that the line be extended to Duncan’s creek in order to solve the problem and to put at the city’s dis posal an abundant water supply, not only for present needs, but built in an- ticpiation of the city’s requirements and growth for years to come. The re port should be carefully read and se riously considered by our people who are soon to be called upon to act upon the issue in a bond election. As The Chronicle has before stated, this water problem is of paramount importance just at this time and calls No community can get very far without well organized and managed banks, able and willing to provide for the needs of their communities and Treadmill. Is Prodigious Worker, But Lacks Political Instinct. Washington, Aug. 1.—Consider the case of Herbert Hoover. It is one of the outstanding ironies of contempo rary politics. For more than a decade this notable American has been “working his head off” in the public service, much of the time without any pay at all and al ways at a financial sacrifice, and with such brilliant efficiency that he has long been a world figure. Hoover has never failed at any bus iness or administrative task he has undertaken—and he has undertaken some of the biggest in history. He takes care of small matters in ipulti- tudinous number with the same relia^ hie industry and efficiency. His range of information and application is mar velous. He is personally agreeable to deal with and sets up organizations that operate with a minimum of fric tion. But Mr. Hoover simehow does not make political headway. He is very obviously inspired by a strong and en tirely creditable ambition to be presi dent. Millions of his fellow country men and women would be glad to vote for him for that exalted position if he could get himself properly placed be fore them as a candidate. But he lacks the political instinct and training. Ma chine politicians naturally do not like to see such a man in supreme control of an administration with which they are identified. From their viewpoint he might easily be a Frankenstein. However, the politicians who are “in” are always afraid to leave such a force as Hoover lying around loose. They fear htat some of the reckless “outs” might pick him up to help them break in. So, their ideal disposition of such a man is to get him on a nice, busy administration treadmill. And that is just where the Republican pol iticians have put Mr. Hoover. They have had him there ever since the time —when identified with a Democratic administration and having a Demo cratic presidential nomination within his grasp—he was so foolish as to de- clar ehimself a Republican. This was in 1920. The G. O. P. Old and throw his influence behind Hoov er. Of course, few seasoned Republi can politicians see anything to the Re publican situation at this time except Coolidge wanting the nomination and gettingg it, and the controlling powers in the Republican party wanting him to have it. In the second place, it is altogether unlikely that Coolidge could throw his mantle to Hoover. Coolidge could not even throw the vice-presi dential mantle to Hoover in 1924. Dawes got it because he had the po litical instinct; and Dawes would prob ably get the presidential nomination if Coolidge were to refuse it in 1928. Hoover thought in 1920 that the way to get the presidency was to proclaim himself a Republican when he was really standing in the Democratic sun shine. Then he advised Republicans favoring our entrance into ‘he League of Nations that the royal road to that goal was to elect the Republican v ick- et. His judgment seems to have been about equally wrong in each instance. Normal human blood ia too thick to be drawn through the mosquitoe’s small piercing tube. They must first inject a thinning fluid. In that way disease germs are set afloat in tjie blood stream—bacteria of burning fe ver and crippling disease. There is also danger of streptococcic infection (blood poisoning) from scratching the bite. Mosquitoes must be killed. Health authorities advocate Fly-Tox. Simple instructions on each bottle (blpe label) for killing ALL house hold insects. Insist on Fly-Tox. Fly- Tox is easy to use. Safe, stainless, fra grant, sure. Renew Your Health by Purification Any physician will tell you that “Perfect Purification is Nature's Foundation Health.” Why not rid chronic ailments that are undermin ing your vitality? Purify your en tire system by taking a thorough course of Calotabs,—once or twice’ a week for several weeks—and see how Nature rewards you with- health. Calotabs are the greatest of all system purifiers. Get a fanu y pack age, coiitaining full directions. Only 35 cts. At any drug store. (Adv.) /If iuV* v/Ao/e hum todwi'H Mays a • , Site* for-gUnnur ' ‘My husband says the meat we get at Little & Denson’s is his idea of good pure food/’ one friend tells an other. , ieu you mat of the System f ■ ■. ■ ■ a “ Little Denson 50—Tm nones—54 t * GIFTS THAT HAST TbTfro™ JEWELER CLINTON. S. U DRS. SMITH & SMITH OPTOMETRISTS ALL PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED BY LICENSED PHARMACISTS CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED PROMPTLY SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY “At Union Station” Phones 377 and 400 Phones 377 and 400 SPECIALISTS Eyes Examined -:- Glasses Prescribed | 15 West Main Street Fhcne 101 CUNTON. S. C. Laboratory for Prompt Repair Service H. D. HENRY F. M. BOLAND H. D. Henry & Company insurance * STOCKS BONDS REAL ESTATE LOANS NEGOTIATED The Clinton Chronicle—$1.50 a Year ^ holding in a large measure the confi- Guard poker players who had tricked dence of their patrons. Clinton is in deed fortunate in the character of her three banks and the personnel behind them. They are successfully and safe ly managed and are rendering an in dispensable service to our community. As they attempt to put into practice improved and essential banking meth ods and further strengthen themselves for increased usefulness—they are en titled to our whole-hearted support and cooperation. Dr. Frank Crane Says— Hoover into the blunder chortled with glee. No longer fearing his nomina tion by the Democrats they went to work and nominated Harding them selves and fixed up a first-class sec ond fiddle for Hoover. He took it—in the circumstances it was that or noth ing; and he has been playing the fid dle assiduously for more than six years. He is probably very tired of the performance and to some extent aware o#what it means; but he simply hasn’t the political nerve? to drop it. Hoover had a fine opportunity to free himself a short time ago when the late lamented “presidential spokes man” remarked that Secretary of State Kellogg wasn’t going to resign, ! but that if he did. Hoover would not THINGS WILL TAKE A TURN “I would rather be dead than a fail-; ure,” said Belle Anderson, a thirty-‘'“TVt year-old post-graduate student at the University of California.hospital the other day. Faux pas or not, this was generally regarded as a Coolidge snub to Hoov- So she mixed herself a death potion er ‘ '^ le P rea |dent laboriously explain- which her own knowledge as a chem ist had taught her to make and com- for ,.mediate and intelligent cons.d- n , itt( . d aukiie out „„ a |onc| road , i(1< . ♦ration on the part of our people and where her bod WM found an hour eity goyernmen Fortunately, we have |ater b a , on( . ttamster not suffered this summer from a » # *1. < ( ui drought and for this reson the 81tua * I wortunot* «ion has not fully been appreciated by . ' 0 n..a au- a:J_ u— I "hy hurry- ed that no disparagement of the sec retary of commerce had been intended, and the official spokesman was.sunk without trace. Though unquestionab ly pained and humiliated, Hoover “ac cepted the apology” and went on play ing his second fiddle. There has not been the former cor- Jhe public. l ,ut tht time has now i no ^ wa jt and see what itme will diality between the president and the eotm*, regardless of what we think of L1 * u „a 3ond issues and • do ? Time solves more problems than secretary of commerce since that me morable incident. The state of affairs was ilustrated in the circumstances of their meeting at the summer White House in South Dakota ^he other day, after Hoover had scored one of the most conspicuous successes of his ca reer as the president’s special erais- high taxes, #vhen i ,, , . x 1 J * ^ i a l' our wit. something must be done, for we can-, w t * . . . , ^ , * j , I Most of us who have reached nper not nope as a town to develop or even , , . . u . ' j . . V, a , ... y , years can look back over our lives and ^.exist without an unfailing water sup-, ^ ,, x * u Jr . ...... . & r :see that the best things that ever hap- 'W ply adaptable to future expansion. , . ‘ , r ’ 1 ! pened to us were the frustrations of As the water shortage is now faced, ;our desires oftentimes. the problem must be solved bv the ' . j ^ .u- i _n' * . -r. , | ' *. e wanted something badly. We; ,, property owner.,. They are the rnily , for „ and slrov(1 for jt ^ an . aary to Ihe flood-stricken region, of the Mississippi valley. It is repoprted that the president met the secretary at the railroad station in advance of the | „ x xl- . i . nwespaper men, but without a smile But something else came along af-: a „ d r , rcsumabls ; with the under|yjri(f i purpose of making sure that Hoover j should not talk extra session to the i press representatives. When the sec- ! retary was leaving and was asked if he had been correctly quoted as predict-! omi* who have the power of ordering ./ . .. . . • m. xi_ . .. x- rrn. • i other got the coveted prize. Then the an election on the question. The in-' , , „ . , , ' r*L . . 40a question stallation of the line and plant to r Dun- ran’s creek if such a course is decided upon, will probably call for the ex penditure of from $75,000 to $100,000. Funds for the work are not available as every one well knows, and this means that a bond issue to provide the necessary funds the only solution. In other words, ir\tiie city wants an adequate water supply, for the present .and future, funds must be provided with which to make this expansion. It is therefore incumbent upon city <owrcil, and extremely important, that /etailed facts and information be gj^thered and given the public and ev ery precaution taken to avoid mistakes •r make an unwise move. There should be no guess work but a thorough and accurate presentation made of the sit uation in order that our people may and understand what our prob- and how it should be satisfac- i mii JmVv* It Is The Chronicle’s opinion that the world all went dark and we were ready to give up. ter a while and further experience and wisdom showed us that it would have been very bad for us to have succeed ed in getting the thing we wanted. When we get to Heaven, if we ever do, I think that in looking lack over our earthly career we will value our kicks more than our kisses. We will be able to truly say that, “with our jjtripes we were healed.” Because things do not come your way do not lose heart. Wait. Some thing beter is probably just around the corner. It is this attitude of cbnstant hope that keeps the soul lighted up. It does not do to act Rashly. No one can tell what tomorrow may bring forth. x ; Tomorrow is the great adventure. About all that keeps life worth living DESSERT j Let us supply it these hot; days. Five or six kinds of ice cream on hand at all times. Phone us the MINUTE you need it. SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY AT UNION STATION Phones 377 A 400 Phones 377 A 400 < Looking Into the Future When you spend a dollar for advertis>- ing, do you look into the future to see what far reaching results, what won derful possibilities are opened up in the future? We want our advertisers to get immediate results, of course, but imme diate results from advertising are nev er so satisfying as are the results ob tained through the use of CONSIST ENT ADVERTISING over a long pe riod. : > - It is the constant growth of ' good will that makes advertis ing a good investment in your business. r “The Paper Everybody Reads” JjK/ •m A, A y V