University of South Carolina Libraries
f ■ ( 1- ; i #4 <§L ■V *. yet'* II Jr ■'rr-r I* ■n PAGE FOUR •* * l - . iv • • . . -b 1 ■ " 11 ■; , - THE CUNTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1927 <T1|P 011|routrip ' situation from another viewpoint, that an honest effbrt is being made by our police department to enforce the law PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY , an d to apply the deserved punishment BY to all apprehended violators. These THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. j officers in their effort to enforce the law, have a difficult task, a far hard er job than the average layman real WILSON W. HARRIS Editor and Publisher izes. They are entitled to the encour- to see that plant, which, of all plants, looks most like a miniature tree. > “A stout-hearted plant — a tree dwarfed, but losing not its dignity. “Then, one morning, with t)ie earli est sunrise and born of it, there emerges from the scalloped seashell of the bough an exquisite, pendulous, cream-white blossom, clasping in Its Entered at the Clinton Post Office as j agement and the commendation of our center a golden yellow star, pinked people in every effort they make in the intetest of,law enforcement, and the making of our town into a better and cleaner place in which to live. Likewise, as we have before stated, Recorder Blakely deserves the com mendation of the citizens of this com munity who really stand for law en forcement. He is waging a fearless and determined fight against viola matter of Second Class. Terms of Subscription: One year $1.60 Six months v *75 Three months 50 Payable in advance The Chronicle eeks the cooperation of its subscribe s and readers— the publisher will &■ all times appreciate wise suggestion . and kindly advice. Foreign Adveniaing Representative ■ THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION Make all remittances to^ THL CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. Clinton, S. C. CLINTON. S. C„ AUGUST 11, 1927 8 PAGES COTTON GOES UP The government’s first forecast Monday on this year’s cotton crop, placed at a million bales short of ex pectations, had the effect of giving the cotton market a big boost and brought about excited bidding that carried the staple up ten dollars per bale. The outstanding factor in the unexpected situation this year is the boll weevil menace for it is said that the infestation in the cotton belt is three times as heavy as it was a year ago. The result is an estimated crop of four and one-half million bales less than last year’s crop. The marked advance in the pr.ee of cotton comes as an important factor through this Piedmont territory. We have experienced almost crop failures through this section for the past two years and the result has been a gen eral depression and dullness in busi ness that has become distressing. A good crop this fall at a good price, will help conditions wonderfully and prove a strong business stimulant Just now the outlook is bright anu we should all feel encouraged. Gloom needs to be cast aside, and we should all smile, even if it hurts. Talking hard times doesn’t get us anywhere. Let’s bury the habit and instead, catch the spirit of optimism. Hard work will help turn the trick, and regardless of what our job may be, we should be diligent and do our part to help make this fall a satisfactory business peri od. All faces to the future—let’s go forward. ishment that will help break up these conditions, rather than prove a mere joke^r wink at the law. The present day tendency toward lawlessness must he aggressively fought against day and night, if dissi- with dawn points of light, and, set ting high up under its sky of milk- white petals flanked with yellow stars, it seems to the nestling field wrens born beneath it -to be the miniature arch of daybreak, ere the great eye of the morning star closes. Seaboard To Portray South In Pictures Following the promise made by S. Davies Warfield, president of the Sea board Air Line railway, the last of February, in an address at St. Peters burg, Fla., the Seaboard Air Line rail way will start on August 9, three teams of lecturers with motion pic ture yutfits, who will visit the middle Wpst, NeW England states, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Mary land, on an illustrated lecture tour, to show through graphic pictures and lectures what the South has to offer and the inducements this territory holds out to those vrtio desire to avail I^ater, when the sun rises and the skjf above grows pink and purple, it, too, changes its colors from pink to | themselves of the unusual opportuni- tors and is appplying fines and pun- purple, copying the sky from zone to ties afforded agricultural and other zone, from blue to deeper blue, until,! pursuits therein. late evening the young nestlings may look up and say in their bird language: ‘It is twilight.’ “What other flowers among them can thus copy nature, the great mas- pation and intemperance are to be ter ? checked. The boys and young men and women of our community need to be safeguarded from the blight of gam bling dens, bootlegging and illegal re sorts of other kinds. Such conditions should not be permitted to fester and grow in our community. The lot of Under every sky is a sphere, and under this sky picture, when night falls and closes it, a sphere is born. And in that sphere is all of earth. “Its oils and its minerals are there, and one day, becoming too full of richness, it bursts and throws open a the criminal should be made as hard five-roomed granary stored with rich- as justice will allow. Punishment for the criminal means protection for the public. TOBACCO FACTS Here are a few facts about tobacco that it is safe to say only a very small majority of people know. How many of them did you know before? Only four states out of sixteen pro duce more tobacco annually than South Carolina. In 1900 the entire crop in South Car olina sold for $1,297,293, and in 1926 the crop in this state sold for $13,400,- 000, approximately 1000 per cent in- crease, while the increase in value j the spider’s were ropes of sand and throughout the country was less than i the board frost’s but clumsy icicles er fabrics than ever came from the shuttles of Fez and holding globes of oil such as the. olives of Hebron dreamed not of. “And in this fabric is the world clothed. , “Oh, little bloom of the cotton plant, poet that can show us the sky, paint er that paints it, artisan that reaches out, and, from the skein of sunbeam, the loom of the air and the white of its own soul, weaves the cloth that clothes the world! “From dawn and darkness building a loom. From sunlight and shadow weaving threads of such fineness that Motion and still pictures have been arranged to show the progress, devel opment, and prosperity that has fol lowed the development of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, North and South Carolina, and Virginia, throughout the territory traversed by the Seaboard Air Line railway. The three lecturers accompanying these teams will state facts and fig ures as to development of this terri tory. The opportunity afforded at stale and county fairs will be utilized it" this work. Halls will be used at other points. Invitations issued to public officials, members of agricul tural societies, and grange associa tions, that the opportunities offered by the South shall be understood. As the Seaboard Air Line railway has been the^ pioneer in Florida and other parts of the South in opening up ter»itory, so does it now becoftie the pioneer of the first campaign through out the country, presenting incontro vertible facts, with figures of the in numerable products of the Southern country. The development department of the Seaboard will answer questions and give assistance to those interested in what they see and hear. Tobacco Sales Pass Million —r (Continued From Page One) isfied with prices. Kingstree—Million pounds sales ex pected, after 350,000-pounds start. Lake City—One hundred and twen ty-five thousand dollars put into farm ers’ hands by sales first day. Dillon-Forty thousand dollars more put into circulation.. Business boom ing. » Mullins—Town’s population doubled as farmers and buyers arrive. Pros perity’s wave rolling in. Timmonsville—Half million pounds sold at twenty cents average price. Olanta—Record in sales. They were the largest in ten years. Sumter—One hundred and thirty- five thousand pounds sold first day; as much more will go Joday. Hartsville—Two hundred tlyiusand pounds moved at this new leaf tobac co market. ^ Florence—Sales at 200,000 mark. Lower grades selling better than last year, f half this percentage. Since 1900 the acreage planted to tobacco in the entire country has in creased about 30 per cent, while, in South Carolina the increase has been more than 300 per cent. In South Carolina in 1925 there were planted in cotton 2,746,000 acres, which yielded $82,250,000, w'hile in the same year 96,000 acres of tobacco yielded $12,077,000. One acre of to bacco made what it took four acres to make in cotton in a good cotton year. Dr. Frank Crane Says— Announcement I wish to announce that I have bought the interest of John W. Little in the firm of Little & Denson, and that in the future the business will be continued under the firm name of the Den son Grocery Company with W. S. Denson as proprietor. The business will be conducted on the same policies as in the past, and it shall be our constant effort to serve the grocery needs of our customers in « satisfac tory manner. We invite a con tinuance of your patronage and good will and pledge our best efforts to please always. I Denson Grocery Company W. S. DENSON. Prop. 50—Two Phones—54 4 f THE WATER QUESTION FIRST From tijne to time there is agita tion up on the question, of the erec tion of a municipal building to care for the various interests of the city. There is the proposal to build a city hall on the town’s property on North Broad street, and there is also a prop osition now pending to sell the Ferguson building on West Main street and convert it into a city building. There is argument in favor of and against both propositions, and those familiar with the city’s present facil ities and the disadvantages and ex pense under which its work is carried on, readily agree that a municipal building is needed. Whether now is an expedient time to tackle the prop osition is debatable. We are rather of the opinion that it is not. But the question of paramount im portance just now is the city’s water shortage. It conies ahead of city hall, paving or any other public .improve ment. These other things we can do without, but we cannot exist without a water service that is abundant, ex cellent and dependable. The matter of providing the city with a water sup ply sufficient for present needs, as well as for years to come, is the real issue. It should be put first. The ques tion should be given a thorough and intelligent study and the enthusiastic support and approval of an interested public. The enlargement of the city's pres ent inadequate water facilities will in volve a bond issue to be authorized by a vote of the freeholders. But what the public wants is information, facts and figures gathered by water experts. The building of a water plant is not a hit and guess proposition but it calls for engineering skill and every pre caution needs to be taken to avoid' mistakes. We are facing a water shortage that may become distressing at any mo ment. This is the problem that our people need to be thinking about. It should take precedence over every thing else. NOT A BAD PLACE—THE MID-WEST The man from the mid-west-is us ually the 'goat-^kf all the intellectuals. The mid-west is supposed to be the home of banality. This region ts in habited, according to Mencken, Sin clair Lewis and others, almost predom inantly by morons. They are the peo ple who form the favorite butt of al most all kinds of ridicule. They are the hayseeds of the world. The mid-west has chautauqua cir cuits, fitting descendants of former camp meetings. The inhabitants are low brows' who come in for the con tempt of all the emancipated and ad vanced Europeans and easterners. Did they not put across prohibition ? Did not their wives and daughters even go to prayer meetings? What could be commoner! When the world war came, however, those boys from the mid-west, Kansas and thereabouts, did a pretty good job at Belleau Wood and in the Argonrie. They fought well and the heroes of Ballaklava and Thermopylae had to move aside and make room for them in tjhe Hall of Fame “Weaving — weaving — weaving them. And the delicately patterned tapestry of ever-changing clouds forming patterns of a fabric, white as the snow of the centuries, determined that since it has to make the garments of men it will make them unsullied. “Oh, little plant, poet, painter, mas ter artisan. “It is true to nature to the last. The summer wanes and the winter comes, and when the cotton sphere bursts, ’tis a ball of snow, but a dazzling, white, spidery snow, which warms and does not chill, brings comfort and not care, wealth and the rich warm blood, and not the pinches of poverty. “There are those who cannot hear God’s voice unless He speaks to them in the thunders of Sinai, nor see Him unless he flares before them in the bonfires of a burning bush. .They grumble because His Messenger came to a tribe in the hill countries of long ago. They wish to see the miracle of the dead rising. They see not the mir acle of life around them. Death from life is more strange to them than life from death. “ ’Tis the silent voice that speaks the loudest. Did Sinai speak louder than this? Hear it: “ ‘I am a bloom, and yet I reflect the sky from the morning’s star to the midnight’s. I am a flower, yet I show you the heaven from the dawn of its birth to the twilight of its death. I am a boll, and yet a miniature earth stored with sillif, oils of the olives, minerals of all lands. And when I am ripe I throw open my five-roomed granary, each fitted to the finger and thumb of the human hand, with a depth between, equaled only by the palm.’ “O, voice of the cotton plant, do we need to go to oracles or listen for a diviner voice than yours when thus you tell us: Pluck?” J. B. FR0NT1S JEWELER CLINTON. 8. C. DRS. SMITH & SMITH OPTOMETRISTS ALL PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED BY LICENSED PHARMACISTS CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED PROMPTLY SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY “At Union Phones 377 and 400 Phones 377 and 400 S / H. D. HENRY F. M. BOLAND SPECIALISTS Eyes Examined Glasses Prescribed 15 West Main Street Pfcone 101 CUNTON. S. C. Laboratory for Prompt Repair Service H. D. Henry & Company insurance STOCKS BONDS REAL ESTATE LOANS NEGOTIATED WHAT DO P. S. J E A DO? The Clinton Chronicle—$1.50 a Year Loses His Mother A Missouri boy named Pershing and a couple of Illinois men named Grant and Lincoln demonstrated that some- T. M. Littlefield thing worth while could come from Nazareth. ‘ And now another mid-westerner, a “dom” Swede, has startled the world. He took his life in hand, shoved a tooth brush in his pocket and flew un aided across the perilous Atlantic. Personally, I think it makes no dif ference what country a man comes from. A Japanese, a Mexican or a Ne braskan is quite as liable to horn in and monopolize the (front page as a noble Roman or distinguished British er. Man is man and you can’t tell w'hat part of the human race is going to develop a remarkable shoot. Mr. Babbitt’s country, with its chau- tauquas and rotarian clubs and prayer meetings is not such a bad place after all. Into the Future ■ m s' • DISREGARD FOR LAW Clinton’s police docket for the month of July showed 31 cases, which is an average of one arrest per day for vio lation of city ordinances. This is not an exception, for an analysis of £he past six months will show an average as large or even larger, than that of the past month. What does this mean? What pro gress are we making in law enforce ment ? It means in the first place that there is a determination on the part of many to push aside and disregard the law, or in plain words, to do as they please, considerable liquor selling, liquor drinking, stealing, gambling, etc., go ing on right here in Clinton—a record of which we should be ashamed. It likewise means, looking at the Friends in the city of T. M. Little field will regret to learn of the death of his mother which occurred a few days ago at her home in Inman. The following account of her death is tak en from the Inman paper: “Mrs. R. A. Littlefield, highly es teemed and one of the oldest citizens of Inman, passed away at her home Thursday morning at 10:20 o’clock. Mrs. Littlefield had been* in declining health for a number of years but her illness became more serious a few weeks ago. ~ ^ “Mrs. Littlefield was a charter mem ber of the First Methodist church. She was a woman of a beautiful char acter and she will be greatly missed, not only by her family but by her nu- merous friends. While cotton i, far from „ popular] " she leeuryWed byher hu.bandand as it once was, the following from the t „ hr « ! ' h ,' dr *"> Uttlef'eld ot The Cotton Blossom pen of John^ Trotwood Moore may prove interesting as a vivid word pic ture of past history: “The cotton blossom is the only flower that is born in the shuttle of a sunbeam and dies in a loom. “It is the most beautiful flower that grows and needs only to become rare to be priceless—only to die to be idealized. “For the world worships that which it hopes to attain, and our ideals are those things just out of our reach. “Satiety has ten points and posses sion is one of them. “If, in early August, the delicately It means that there is green leaves of this most aristocratic of all plants, instead of covering acres of southland shimmering under a throbbing sun, peeped daintily oat from among the well-kept beds of Campobello, T. M. Littlefield of Clin ton, and Mrs. R. L. James of Sumter. She is also survived by three grand children and two brothers, L. A Crisp of Shnpsonville, and D. J.* Crisp of Mason, Tenn. “Funeral services were held at the residence Friday afternoon at four o’clock. Interment was in Mt. Cal vary.” , ■■■ — KODAKS, FILMS, DEVELOPING We give 48, hour service on developing. SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY / AT UNION STATION' h k 1 % 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 Jong pe lt is the constant growth of good will that makes advertis ing a good investment in your business. The Chronicle “The Paper Everybody Reads” some noble garden men would flock Phones $77 A 400 Phones $77 A 400 n 1 r Y. k .. f sasssfei ' V ^ ' kM'