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r ■■ 'fy • ■ \ ’ "'' f 'vrjf» PAGE FOUR THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON. 8. a THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1929 Clinton (EtironirlF Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One year $1.50; Six Months 75 cents; Three Months 50 cents Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly ad vice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not le noticed. This paper is not re^pcnsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents*. . Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee your own risk, and if your bust is nev er set up in the Hall of Fame, blame it on your stubbornness. I have done my part to sweep the cobwebs offen your brains, that is—if you have got Prontis Jewelry Store Clinton, S. C. Special This Week any. flat rock news deer mr. editor: miss judie smith, yore regular cor- j ry spondent from flat rock, et too much ice cream at the pound party last night and has asked me to rite N. C. Electrocutioner Resigns His Job Raleigh, Aug. 4.—Haunted and dog- the dots from here again for her, and i memory of the more than will do so. A fine lot of Mesh Bags, latest style and colors— $4.00 each Dr. Frank F. Hicks DENTIST Clinton, Sootli Carolina Office National Bank Bnildiaf Dr. Smith's’Former Locatioa. Phone 15S 15 men he has electrocuted during the four years he has been one of the state’s official executioners, J. E. the helth of the community is good except a gi^eat manny people are sick from watter millions and other stum-1 Thomas, has resigned mick trouble, but the doctor says she I will be 0. k. by next week. CLINTON, S. C., AUGUST 8, 1929 , mr. and mrs. judge martin dinnered I with mr. and mrs. John martin last [week and they came home and sup- pered with them and then chewylaid A THOUGHT I the system of taking from the poor back to their home in the fork friday. Deliver me not over into the hands land giving to the rich, the main bene-1 of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen against me. and such as breathe out cruelty.—Psalms 27:12. Cruelty, like every other vice, re quires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. — Qeorge Eliot. A little manicure, now and then, is manned bv the richest men. ficiaries of our tariff laws being those, some mighty fine fish was ketched who are engaged in manufacturing en-1 yestiddy in the crick back of our terprises. ' * There may have been a time when American industries needed consider-1 morning insted of gravy and bred. Never again will he pull the switch that sends the electric current hurtling through the bodies of those whom the courts of the state have condemned to death, jerking them into eternity. “I was a fool ever to accept the job in the first place,” Thomas told news papermen. “I am through with it for good.” When asked if he was sure he was house by yore humbull scribe and his family, all lof which wass enjoyed this going to stick by his determination to able protection but it was not con- i templated by early tariff advocates ■ mr. sammie Clark and 9 of his that the infancy of such industries | younguns spent the Ihst week end with would be so prolonged. To those who yore humbull scribe and i have been believe in the merits of open compe- trying to get my chickens and pigs tition and that each nation and each and billie goat tame enuff to come section of the world should Have con- back home ever ssince they left, my The politicians are still discussing | ditions and abilities peculiar to itself taxation, but none of them ever do : which would make for preeminence in wife is still in bed from the shock. an>*thing about it. The verdict of a coroner’s jury nev er furnishes any consolation to the subject of the inquest. A soft answer may turn away wrath, but you had better give it be fore the blow has been started. certain forms of industry, the need for a tariff has never made any ap- crops is looking fine. mr. fed land- bank’scAjotton is so low, however, the peal. The tariff system has not won boll weevils hafter stoop down when CARS AND CREDIT A business writer says that retail merchants have been deterred from stocking up as usual “by their kaowl edge of the obligations that many of their best customers have assumed in order to buy the automobiles that they for itself a warmer place in the hevrts of the people by what it has accom plished in recent years, since the pro tection gained hy the manufacturer has in most cases been offset by the burdens placed on the producer and the consumer. A new angle on the tariff situation is, stressed in the following article from the Wall Street Journal: they crawl under it, but they did not furnish no fertilizer for same, the in surance companies ain’t working but 14 of their farms in this section this yr. 1 believe mr. mike Clark, rfd, has the flnest com so far, and all 3 of the stalks has 4 ears apeace on them. yore humhull scribe and part of his fambly worshipped at bethel last sun- “It is not often that The Wall Street i collection and use. Buying cars on time has been en couraged so much that it has become a general practice. The number pur chased for cash is now almost negli gible. And once in posSes.sion of a car, the average owner will deprive him self of almost anything else rathei than give up his car. The clothier, the grocer, the furniture man, the doctor or whatnot, can wait, but the car pay ment must be met. It is a curious situation. Hero is one great reason why the automobile in dustry has made so fine a record in recent years—its lavish extension of credit. An obvious recourse of the makers and sellers of other forms of merchandise is to give more credit themselves. But that is a very dubious solution. SABBATH OBSERVANCE The question of Sabbath observance is a far-reaching one on which there are many varied views. More and more over the country, the tendency to commercialize the day is growing, especially in the larger cities. But this attitu^ is not confined to the •great cities, it is prevalent in the smaller communities as well, and when the subject is discussed one can easily tell how little a great many people care for Sunday by the bitterness with which they oppose its proper observ ance. Right now the question is up in the community and our city authorities have taken steps to try to improve conditions and adopt uniform regula- Joumal finds itself in sympathy with Senator Wheeler of Montana whose dca of legislation seems to be “wher ever you see a corporation head, hit ■t.’ When, however, he says that the industries demanding ever higher and higher tariff must prove their claim by their books, he is on firm ground. One of the evils of protection is that it’" tends to become a substitute for ?fficiency. “For reasons of climate we have never been able to build up a linen in dustry in this country to compare with those of the west of Scotland, Belfast or even Saxony. No industry has re ceived higher protection than the man ufacturer of woolen goods and yet people of only moderate means wear Scotch tweeds, west of England cloths, Bradford serges, cheviots and the like, because the quality is worth the dif ference in price, both in wear and ap- l>earaiice. The idea of making people ‘clothes conscious’ hy wearing two suits of inferior quality, at superior prices, in place of one which would look good to the last, has not ‘caught on.’ moved to clean off the grave yard and all who have loved ones and mother- in-laws hurried there will please come next week at 4 o’clock wiht well filled baskets, as we expect to eat dinner on the ground, and have a good time gen erally. well, mr. editor, if this don’t land in the waist basket, plese rite or foam me, and i hope miss smith will be sick gaain ansoforth so’s i can give you the news from here. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. resign, or whether he might reconsid er, Thomas said: “Reconsider nothing! I have already quit and I am going to stick.” Until recently Thomas lived in Louisburg, where he was a deputy sheriff. Recently he accepted a job as a guard in the state prison here. And it is largely because of this fact that he decided to give up his job as exe cutioner, 'he states. Prison officials, however, believe that he has been un able to stand the mental strain, and ' that he has “seen the ghosts walking” as the prisoners say. Thomas at present is sick in bed, with a malady which Dr. J. H. Norman is not able to entirely diagnose. For several weeks Thomas had been com plaining, and in the last ten days or so he has lost some 40 pounds. He is 45 years old and normally weighs more than 200 pounds, with an impres sive physique. DRS. SMITH & SMITH Optometrists SPECIALISTS Eyes Examined -:- Glasses Prescribed 16 West Main Street Phone 101 Laboratory for Prompt Repair Service ClintoQ, S. C. Pick Your' Tires the Way You Select a Car! You buy a car according to the price you wish to pay, the length of time you want to keep it, and the miles you expect to travel. Did it ever occur to you to buy your tires on the same sensible plan—according to your actual motoring needs? By ^'taking your measure** for tires, we help you to save money. No use getting the most expensive kind if you won’t need them. So we analyze your requirements and give our prescription, based on experience. We have Goodyears in all types—all sizes—and at all prices. That’s why we can do this for you. When a very low priced Goodyear will last al! right for the way you drive, we advise it. Wq don’t try to “work off’ some thing better just because we know you c<iuld easily afford the best. If this sort of square-shooting appeals to you, try us on your next tire purchase. McDaniel Vulcanizing Works R. P. CHAPMAN, Manager Telephone No. 2 I West Main Street The Hen and the Egg There has "been much talk and pa- j laver by the lawmen and the ignorant generally concerning that all impor tant question, vizzly: which came first, the hen or the egg,_ and this is the first time, so far as I know, that an eminent scientist has undertaken to enlighten the world at large on this subject. Well, to gebin with, we know that the hen lays the egg and then the Our cotton goods manufacturers I comes from the said egg lays have received higher protection every ; " e8r8> *nd thus, you we, perpetual time the Republican party has engin-1 bas Wn _^ought a^ut, but eered a tariff advance in ^cknowl-1*^®” ^ be bas to be PRINTING that is ■ A edgement of favors received. In spite of the substantial increases of 1922 that industry in New England has scarcely been paying its way. The al ternative seems to have been resort to cheap labor in the Southern cotton mills. It seems a decidedly un-Ameri can expedient and hardly bears out the contention that the protective tar iff is good for the worker. “What seems to be needed in the reckoned with in this all-important matter, for without the rooster there would be no hen and without the hen, there would be no egg and without the egg and the hen, there would be no rooster, consequently the hen and the rooster and the egg are dependent up on one another. If the egg had come before the hen, what would have hatched the rooster? ^ , That would have ended the chicken .. • « . V, »nd right ere, it might be tions. Their efforts, however, will, tjon but reorganization with an axe. Satisfactory amount to little, unless public senti ment is on their side. As they attempt to improve conditions, to create a deeper spirit of reverence for the Sab bath, especially for the sake of the youth, and to bring about as far as together with an improvement in quality, both in the product and in the conditions of the worker. Other in dustries have proved that good wages possible, a cessation from business on ^ in quantity and quality. Long ago, the Lord’s day, they will have the en- j when other motor car manufacturers eouragement and approval of every wise to say that if the hen came first, where did she come from if an egg was not her mother and if an egg evoluted from some jelly lying around ' ^ J - 11 on the ground, how was she hatched; ~ >>>• whom, where, and when? An»-! = wer me that. improve the per capita output, both man and woman in the community , It is reasonable to think that the without Ford’s vision proposed to re- from the eagle, who duce wages to below two dollars a ^ „|d eagle = who honestly wishes to see the Sab- day. Ford raised his minimum to five , ' = bath ooserved as a auiet jav of rest dollars and took the market away , 1 = bath observed as a quiet day of rest and worship. It was never intended that the ob servance of the Sabbath should rest solely on the enforcem<‘nt of civil laws, yet the responsibility is upon those in authority to enforce these laws. There . . . and eons ago, and when she saw how from them. ro ec ion is per aps been, she became so 8o«iething of a necessary evil but ^f herself, she drew up into Our printing: plant is equipped to do almost any kind of printing and our^workmen are all skilled mechanics, men who know how to do satisfactory printing — the kind you want. ✓ Accuracy is also a necessary adjunct for satis factory printing and that is one of the guarantees our customers are assured when they bring their work here. tection as substitute for efficiency be comes less tolerable every day. a small wad and thus became a hen. ‘To take only one group all textile manufacturers have shown congress is land has been one to this day. If such is a distinction between church and!that protection has failed to teach state, it is true, at the same time the [ them their business.” two overlap and are inseparable. The Sabbath is a religious institution and a merely formal and forced observ ance of the day will be of no great benefit to men. The laws concerning it have already been clearly defined by the Lord, they are not man’s “blue laws” bat divine laws which will pro mote man’s happiness if they are giv en a fair trial. In the final analysis, the whole law of the Sabbath is not a set of man made rules, but is comprised in the saying that it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day. If a man is not do ing that which will benefit himself or others on that day, he is breaking the Sabbath. Orphanage Dairy Gets High Rating There was recently organized a dairy testing association with a view to improving the business. Twenty was the case, she escaped the pullet age, which must of been mighty nice in those days, as pullets have a hard j S time having to do their own scratch ing, Of course, we men who are pos sessed of so much knowledge are aware of the fact that the rooster does the scratching for the female bird af- S ter she has reached the neighborhood of the cackling age. It makes no difference to us what kind of print ing you want — it may be a simple ticket or it may be a fancy program or booklet, a letter head, envel ope, office blank or a large advertising circular, it will be given the same careful attention. But if the egg came first, the hen herds have been listed from Laurems, had to be there simuhaneonaly in er- Newberry, Greenwood and McCormick der that she might be hatched out of counties, witJh Mr. Ayers, a dairy spec ialist in charge of the work of test ing. THE EFFECT OF THE TARIFF The tariff system in this country, in actual practice, stands for the oppo site of socialism. While socialism is generally understood to stand for the theory of taking from the rich and »gr?ing to the poor, our present tariff seem to have put into practice | fat. the Thornwell orphanagre herd of this city, holds second place. Ware Shoals has a herd of registered Gumseys and the said egg, as it is barely possible that any incubators were handy. It would have been an unfortunate thing On his first round his tests showed for the cafes if the egg in question had been scrambled prior to being hatched. If such had taken place, then cafes wouldn’t have anything to serve Holsteins. They made a selection of 18 cows from this herd for the pur pose of the test. On the other hand, the entire orphanage herd was tested. | Ware Shoals had an average of| to a customer except bread and but- COMMERCIAL PRINTING OUR SPECIALTY ter, and ham would not have a run ning mate as it enjoys at present. I hope I have made myself plain 739 pounds of milk and an average of' and decided this perplexing question 31 pounds of butter fat. Thornwell had an average of 656 pounds of milk and an average of 29.2 pounds of butter PUBLISHERS — PRINTERS — STATIONERS CLINTON, S. C. PHONE 74 = 'tl to the satisfaction of all parties con- cerned. However, if you think the hen came first and then came the egg, | ^ — don’t forget that you are doing so atiTJ ••■iiiiiiiir; tm