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THE CUNTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1927
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' situation from another viewpoint, that
an honest effbrt is being made by our
police department to enforce the law
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THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. j officers in their effort to enforce the
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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.
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CLINTON. S. C„ AUGUST 11, 1927
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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
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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,
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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.
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Denson Grocery
Company
W. S. DENSON. Prop.
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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.
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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.
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• 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.”
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