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— i I 1 v ■' r PAGK SIX* THE CUNTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1927 WANTS All aboard for Gray’s fifth annual vacation tour through seven states. It leaves Clinton August 17th. For par ticulars write W. L. Gray, Jr., Lau rens, S. C. - ,, WANTED—To buy cattle. See J. Hamp Stone, Clinton, S. C. 9-l-4itc PIANOS TUNED and repaired by H. J. Tomkinson, factory expert, with O’Daniel and Reid, Clinton. 8-25-4tc For only ’$129.25 Clintonians can go to Niagara, Canada. New York, Phila delphia. etc. Train leaves here over Seaboard, Aug. 17, 5:30 P. Don’t miss it. Write W. L. Gray, Jr., Lau rens, S. C., for particulars. W r ANTED—Man with car to sell com plete line quality Auto Tires and Tubes. Exclusive territory. Experi ence not necessary.- Salary’ $300.00 per month. Milestone Rubber Co., East Liverpool, Ohio. > Ups STRAYED — One black hound dog with white feet. T. J. Leake. Up A SUCCESS TALK FOR BOYS * t - DOES IT PAY TO START “TAKING A DRINK?” (By CLARENCE POE, Editor The Progressive Farmer) Gray’s trips are great. Leaves Clin ton 5:30 o'clock, S. A. L., Aug. 17th, and returns Aug. 28th. The cost is low, the vacation wonderful. Write W. L. Gray, Jr., for particulars, Lau rens, S. C. NOTICE—Dr. J. A. Fulmer, formerly of Fountain Inn, S. C., wishes to an nounce to his friends and former pa tients that he is now located in the Exchange Bank building, third floor, rooms 311-312, Newberry, S. C. 8-18-4p Spend your vacation on a tour to Niagara Falls. Join the party of de lightful folks. Write or call W. L. Gray, Jr., at Laurens, for reservation. CANNING NOTICE—We will open Friday until noon for canning to matoes only. On Monday, W’ednesday and Friday next week, we will can anything desired. Clinton Cannery. 1c Gray’s tour goes through seven states, covering 2,200 miles. Only' costs $129.25 from Clinton. Put your 1 name on the reservation list. For par ticulars communicate with W. L. Gray, Jr., Laurens, S. C. FOR SALE — Charleston Wakefield, cabbage plants, 20c a hundred. Mrs. j R. H. Hatton, phone 211. Up A trip of scenic grandeur, historic interest and great educational value. To miss it you’ll regret it. Ask W. L. Gray, Jr., Laurens, S. C., about it. He’s the conductor and at' your ser- j vice. FOR SALE 1 pair used 1000-lb. platform scales $12.50 1 used Cole Cotton Planter 7.50 1 used farm forge 6.60 1 used Greene Bone Cutter with balance wheel on stand 10.60 1 used No. 3 Oliver Typewriter with case, in good condition 25.00 1 used Roll Top Oak Desk and Swivel Chair 25.00 1 slightly used Cole 3-row grain dril, price 15.00 1 used show case, 26 in. by 36 in. 6.00 1 used 3-horsepower Johnson motor .? 25.00 1 Pea Dropper ... 1.60 1 New Perfection Oil Stove, slightly used, four burners .... 25.00 1 used cooking stove 10.00 1 used General Electric 9-inch oscillating fan .... 8.75 4 used Counters, from 12 to 22 feet long $1.00 per foot 1 No. 2 used pea huller, hand power .... .. $25.00 J. A. BAILEY Clinton, S. C. My Dear Boy: For sometime I have thought that I’d like for us to have a little talk — a little friendly, brotherly talk — about whether it pays to start “tak ing a drink.” U ought not to be necessary for anybody anywhere in America to talk on this subject either to boys or men, but unfortunately it is. We have our prohibition law, but we also have men who violate that law and from whom one can get whiskey.' Consequently, I know that sometime or other you are going to find yourself face to face with the big question I now wish tfl discuss wtih you—the question as to whether you will or will not keep ab solutely free from liquor. N. w I am not going to lecture you, and 1 am not going to say a word about drinking being an “awful sin” or anything of the sort. We are just going to talk about it as a business matter and find out whether it pays. That’s all. I Now my conviction from a good deal of observation and study is that it doesn’t pay, and I am going to tell you the reason why. If your drinking were simply a boyish prank I should | not have a thing to say about it, be cause I know that while you may play rough practical jokes and may take dare-devil risks now and then, that’s just the boy in you, and you are go ing to come out all right. What I want to say about this drinking business, however, is that it is a very different matter from these' pranks and feats and jokes in which a boy may naturally and healthfully 1 “let off steam.” They may not leave you any the worse, but drinking and immorality will. A great danger is tj»at if you begin' drinking at all, you can’t keep from drinking immoderately. You ar^ young yet, but you have seen enough to know that. “I can abstain,” said old Samuel Johnson, “but I can’t be tem perate.” Start drinking at all and there are all kinds of chances that you will wind up as a common, bloat ed, worthless drunkard—the sort of man, as Uncle Remus says, who is “not fitten to stop a gully with.” But what I should especially like for you to remember is that even if you should be able to drink only mod erately, you will not live so long, you will not be so healthy, nor will you be so happy, as you will be if you don’t drink at all. heard Capt Richmond Pearson Hob son, the famous Spanish-American war hero, give the results of our American statistics. Among other things he pointed out that if you don’t drink, the prospect of life when you are twenty years old is for forty-four more years of living, while the aver age drinking man aged twenty may expect only thirty-one years more of life. This shows that drinking reduc es the average “expectancy of life” by thirteen years besides making even the shortened life more miserable and less useful than it would otherwise have been. Or take the. evidence of Mr. Ed ward A. Wood, a practical insurance manager of Pittsburgh, Pa., who some years ago summarized statistics about the men who have such diseased bo dies, weakened nerves, etc., that they can’t get life insurance at all. The figures show, he reported, that of the men rejected by insurance companies- as “dangerous risks,” 40 per cent— near half—are “for causes connected! with alcohol.” IV There is one more very important reason why I hope you will not drink. That is because it is against the law. We need to develop and encourage among all our people more, serious re gard and respect for law. Every man in this country before he casts a ballot takes an oath that he will obey, observe and maintain the laws of his state and nation. To a man of conscience, that oath is sa cred. He may wish the law were dif ferent, and he may even use every ounce of his influence to get the law changed. That is a privilege every American citizen possesses. Never theless, so long as it is the law, he is in honor bound to observe it. Many a straight, clean, worthy boy has thought, “Oh, well, I can have a little sport by taking a drink illegal ly, but it will stop right there”—and the next scene has found him in a court-room polluting his very soul by swearing to a lie in order to “protect” the lawbreakers with whom he had dealings. And the same boy perhaps finds himself led on and on until he becomes one of a desperate gang that goes the way of drunkenness, fighting and robbery itself, down to the very doors of a prison-house. I shudder and shrink from even using these words in talking to as fine a boy as I know you are today. Still I am only show- \ August Farm Calendar F^o Agronomy odder pulling is a nuisance as well as unprofitable. Use the mower and make hay. Cleaning terraces and ditch banks now will save fighting weeds and grass next spring. Alfalfa is a paying crop on many South Carolina farms. Now is the tmie to make plans for planting. Repair wagons and harness for hea vy fall hauling. , The air is full of nitrogen. Plant legumes and gather your share of this valuable plant food. To become a better farmer, attend Farmers’ Week. Horticulture Cut out all dead and weak branches from peach and plum tre£s and burn them to lessen danger from the bark beetle. Prepare orchard land far cover crops—rye and vetch on poor land and crimson clover on better land. Sow kale, carrots, lettuce, radishes, turnips, spinach and onion seeds in early September, to mature-before heavy winter weather. , Me ' e plans now for planting fruit trees and grape vines next fall. Do not neglect to spray apple trees for bitter rot. Remember that grape vines should be sprayed after the fruit has been harvested to insure better fruit next season. i To become a better gardner or fruit grower, attend Farmers’ Week. ; — Entomology Keep terraces and ditch banks clean and free of poke weeds and other red J spider food plants. Destroy plants on small red spider infested areas. Keep close watch of cotton fields for boll weevil and start dusting when the infestation warrants it. Spray with nicotine sulphate or dust with nicotine dust all plants infested with plant lice. Clean up and burn all dead and dy ing limbs in the orchard to prevent the shot hole borer. Keep the tomatoes sprayed with Bordeaux arsenical for flea beetle and tomato fruit worm, and dust with cal cium arsenate for potato-beetle. Ventilate hives where bees are clus tered on the outside, f To learn to fight insects and dis-, eases successfully, attend Farmers’ Week. Animal Husbandry Provide shade, fresh water, and salt for all*classes of livestock. Save feed by using forage crops and permanent pastures. Turn hogs on soybeans for grazing when they the about 12 inches high. Provide supplement for the failing pastures. Breed ewes not bred in July. Allow 80, ewes to one ram. Treat sheep for stomach worms and grubs. Carefully fit the show herds. ' To become a better livestock man, attend Farmers’ Week. Dairying 1,- Mow the pastures to prevent seed ing of weeds. Qive cows on late summer and fall pastures a little grain supplement. Select the animal? for exhibit this fall at the fairs. Use great care always to keep the milk clean and cool. Heat and dirt are the cause of sour milk. To become a better dairyman, at tend Farmers’ Week. Poultry Remove and seR the molters from the flock. Don’t, maintain a summer resort for cull hens. 1 Keep the pullets growing. Feed "lib erally of grain and mash. Undersized, immature birds will not be good fall and winter producers. Lice and mites may be getting your profits. Destroy these pests. Cut and supply green feed to the flock and the growing pullets if it is not available in the yards. 1 Smart Summer Are handled here with more care than you would take yourself. They must go back to you looking ✓ fresh and clean. Dainty clothing is our specialty. Let BUCK’S show you what they can do with your clothes. Give us a trial order to day! Buchanan’s “Kleaners Who Klean” Phone No. 28 ing you what many a once noble lad II has found at the end of this road. k In other words, no matter whether, My purpose is to beg you not to drinking is a sin or not, you want to start on that road at all. The boy j live out a good long life, and you who shuns its beginnings will never want a healthy body, a steady nerve, have cause to shudder at its ending, and a clear brain; and you can’t ex-1 V pect these if you drink even moder- There’s no use for me to discuss ately. * ' this subject further with you. The. Take the matter of length of life.*whole story is that I want you and | The life insurance companies have every other farm boy to live out a been keeping cartful recoils of thous- long, healthy, happy life; and I want ands and tkousands of men (begin- yo uto be a success as a farmer or a ning away back years and years be- business man or a professional man, fore you were born) to find out just whichever you become, and I know the ■ how drinking affects a mans health chances are against your having eith- and length of life. It concerns their er a long life or a successful life if business, you know. Well, when they you drink. You want to stay in the began these records, they started out class of sober, healthy, successful with the idea that a man was actually young men. If you want to buy a If AlfT? If you want to sell a |i|f|y|r If you want to rent a * viiaaj Qaa GEO. H. ELLIS Real Estate and Insurance helped by using some whiskey—that j Of course, it'will take some spunk was the belief a long time agt^—and it to keep you in this class sometimes: w’as on this theory_ in England some,ou may get caught in a fix now and sixty years ago .that they tried to then when other boys are drinking make a man named Robert Warren and beg you to drink and it will take pay a higher premium, a higher rate more genuine spunk for you to be per year on his life insurance, just man enough to say “No” than it takes because he was a teetotaler, bo War-: to ride a bucking horse or swim a rag- ren started a society which has kept ing river. track of thousands and thousands of But if you will make up your mind, English insurance cases for over for- dead sure, that you are going to ty years; and what do you suppose “stick to your stickums" and shake the results show? They show that hands with me on this proposition, I the death rate is over a third higher am sure I can trust you to show a real for moderate drinkers than for total man’s spunk and moral courage—the abstainers. j highest sort ' of courage—when you In other words, in any given year, need it. four men die among the drinkers for i Sincerely your friend, every three who die among an equal | CLARENCE POE. number of abstainers. Of 100 drink- EXCURSION CUNTON, S. C. TO Atlanta, Ga. Birmingham, Ala. AND J 10.50 — RICHMOND. VA. — $10.50 $11.00—PORTSMOUTH, VA,—$11.00 ,, , .. ... . $11.50 - VA. BEACH, VA. - $11-50 era , . hat t " C llf * com P a “'« from Clinton, S. C„ and return, on sale Aug. 20th only, limited Aug. 25th, via SEABOARD _...8-18-2t The annual loss from destruction and damage by moths amounts to hun dreds of millions of dollars. Yet it is so easy to prevent such loss. Fly- Tox kills the moth, the eggs and the larva. Insist on Fly-Tox. Fly-Tox is the scientific insecticide developed at Mellon Institute of Industrial Research by Rex Fellowship. Simple instruc tions on each bottle (blue label) for killing ALL household insects. Fly- Tox is safe, stainless, fragrant, sure. Every bottle guaranteed. SWEET DREAMS for MOSQUITOES 50c per bottle They run from it SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY AT UNION STATION Phones 377 A 400 Phones 377 & 400 As To Pensions count on as provable deaths in a year, 94 of the 100 come right up to the scratch and die—only 6 per cent dis- Pensioners still holding checks will appoint probabilities by living on. But! please cash them at once. Pension of every 100 expected deaths in a year among: people who don’t drink at all, only 7f\ of the 100 teetotalers actu ally dieVhile 29 keep on living. Sev enty-one o^aths among abstainers to ninety-four afnong drinkers! That’s the record. Again, it has been proved that of every 100 persons thirty years old who drink, only 44 of the 100 will live to be seventy; but if you take 100 thirty-year-old persons who don’t drink, 55 of the 100 will live to be seventy. Isn’t it worth something to you (even if drinking paid in other ways, as it doesn’t) to h$ve a 25 per cent better chance to live out your “three scofe years and ten?” And the rec ords show that you have this 25 per cent better chance by not drinking. Ill These figures are based on English experience, but the figures for Ameri ca sound the same sort of warning. In a public address sometime ago I funds held in our banks will be re turned to state treasury in a very short while. O. G. THOMPSON, LITTLE DIAMOND SHOE SHOP Moved To Wall Street Rear of I. C. Boland's Store I shall be glad to have my cus tomers patronize me in my new location, where every effort will be made to please you. Good work at reasonable prices. UTTLE DIAMOND SHOE SHOP JOHN LITTLE, Proprietor WHAT IX) P. S. JEANS DO? Chattanooga, Tenn. AND RETURN VIA SEABOARD FROM CLINTON, S. C. TO ATLANTA, GA. BIRMINGHAM, ALA CHATTANOOGA, TENN. $4.00 $6.00 $6.qe Tuesday, August 16,1927 FINAL LIMIT: Tickets to Atlanta limited to Au gust 20th.. Tickets to Birmingham and Chatta nooga limited to August 22nd. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL OR WRITE: W. H. SHANDS, Agent CLINTON, S. C. FRED GEISSLER, A. P. T. M. ATLANTA, GA. C. G. LaHATTE, T. P. A. ATLANTA, GA. S > iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiii BEGIN SAVING NOWI-FOR THE FUTURE OUR EASY PAY INSTALLMENT STOCK ACCUMULATES RAPIDLY—“BUILDS A NEST EGG BEFORE YOU KNOW IT” SERIES SIX NOW OPEN—CLINTON BUILDING & LOAN ASSN.-STOCK ISSUE NOWOVER HALF MILUON—SEE W. P. JACOBS, Se^Treas.