The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, October 17, 1929, Image 4
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CUNTON. S. C.
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514? QUinton CEl|rnmrlF
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it ough{ to be invsetigated, I say for
get it, and start all over again. If your
political friends are not honest, you
are simply out of luck. I do not believe,
however, the statement that over 26
per cent of the taxpayers’ money is
either stolen or wasted or squandered:
I think it is nearer 24 per cent.
CLINTON, S. C. OCTOBER 17, 1929
WH.\T A FRIEND IS i
The true meaning of “w'hat a friend:
A THOUGHT
The Charge to Keep.—Watch and
piay,“that ye enter not into tempta- recently expressed very splen-
tion; the spirit indeed is wijling, but (jjfjjy these words by the Thomas-
the flesh is weak.—Matthew 26:41. 'ton, Ga., Times:
Economy
I am a strong believer in sensible
economy. Aunt Minervy is the most
economical woman I ever saw. She
bought a family toothbrush in 19 and
20 (when cotton was selling at 43
cents), and it is in pretty good shape
to this day. She says Uncle Joe is
rougher with it than any other mem
ber of the household, but as he uses
it only on each third Sabbath when he
is dressing, to go to church, he has
bit out only about 2 bunches of the
bristles. The cook uses it some also,
but she is careful with it. All of the
children brush their teech with it
since they started to school and took
up the study of health and sanitation.
'where she could get 3 ten-cent rolling
I pins for a quarter (not for "biffing
j purposes, as some of you have already
thought), and she took them.'The one
her Cousin Bill gave us years and
years ago when we married is all
! right yet, but just think of how much
she saved in that purchase. It figgers
about 33 per cent. She is also strong
on, buying whole bolts of lace if the
girl in Woohvorth’s will cut the price
one-tenth of 1 per cent per yard, Not
long ago, she subscribed for a maga
zine for 15 years because she was
promised p years free by the boy who
was working his way through college.
(Confidentially, she has never yet
heard from the college boy or the
magazine).
him from his birthday in March till
Thanksgiving, when somebody, offers
him another stick. I have an aunt who
has the same 3 hair-pins she started
to keeping house on in 18 and 99. She
took her 3 bustles about that time and
mad6 a nice.sofa pillow from sam^and
it is still 0. K., thank you.
any of the Actors said. But speaking of
the luxury tax, ain’t motor oil high
though ?
I’rayer
Help us daily, Lord, to watch and
pray and keep busy striving to help
others.
More lives are lost by stepping on
the gas than by blowing it out.
Step lively. The time for Christmas
shopping is beginning to dwindle.
You can’t always tell. A man often
gets callouses on his hand by playing
golf.
Be slow to borrow trouble or to take
offense, if you would have happiness
and length of days. ‘
.A.nd speaking about stable business
conditions, you don’t hear much about
complain from the garage men.
Yes, a girl can be pretty with a drug
store complexion, but think how much
happier she would be w'ithout it.
A noted Chinese statesman is quot
ed a.s saying: “We want a sound gov
ernment to be run by the people and
not by the politicians.’’ Well, it does
ho harm to w'ant a government of
that kind.
Today is what you have. It’s also
what ycu are. .\nd again. Today is
what you do. .\nd if you haven’t any
thing and .aren’t anybody, and do noth
ing—why, then, for you there is no
Tcday. Yesterday is no problem—for
it is past. Tomorrow is no problem—
f r it isn’t here. Today is supremacy.
“He never investigates you.
“He likes you just as you are; he
does not alter you.
“He likes your moods, and enjoys
ynur pessimism as much as your'op
timism,
“He likes your sucess, and your fail
ure endears him more,
“He is better than a lover, because
he is never jealous.
“He wants nothing from you, except
that you be yourself.
“He is the one being with whom you
can feel safe. With him you can utter
your heart, its badness and its good
ness. You do not have to be careful,
“In his presence you can be indis
creet, which means you can rest.
“There are many faithful wives and
husbands; there are few friends.
“Friendship is the most admirable,
amazing and rare article found among
human beings.
“Anybody stands by you when ycu
are right; a friend stands by you
when you are wrong.
“Like the shade of a great tree in
the noon-day heat, is a friend.
“Like the home port, with your
country’s flag flying after long jour
neys, is a friend.
“He is the antidote to despair, the
elixir of hope, the tonic for depression
and the medicine to secure against
suicide.
“It is he that keeps alive your, faith
in human nature, that makes you be
lieve in a good universe.’’
My wife don’t waste anything either
and she can smell a bargain plumb
acrost the street. She found a place
Nobody’s Business =
By Gee .McGee SS
A FIGHTING TEA.M
The fine showing made Friday by ^
the Presbyter.an college football team' Additional Extravagance i
ajainst Furman, ha.s brought forth ^
many complimentary exprCsE:on3 from purpose, an appendix has it on an
those who saw it, and this in spite of inve.stigating committee, especially if
the continued roughness and knock- anything to do with the
out tactics that characterized the appointment of the committee that is
game. Outweighed by several pounds, ^^e investigating. Out of 15,456,-
tiie Blue Stockings were doped to be ggy investigating committeemen who
ail easy opponent for the much talked ^een paid the sum of $876,543,- I
of Hurricane, but to the contrary, the 075.OO, irregularities in accounts of i
Faptists had then hands fulL ^ public office holders have amounted i
, Clinton IS proud of Presbyterian s ^ 75 :
team and the fine showing it is mak- |i
ing. This interest shold be given ex-: o„,y ^j,out 3 per cent of the inves-!|
pression to by supporting the team, tigatmg committees ever make a re- '
at home and away, and letting the All the others are lost in the i
boys know t’nat we are beh-nd thcm.lghuffle or are forgotten as time rolls i
Let everybody back up the team, and information from them.,;
be a booster for u j Probing for graft is like fishing for i
' whales in a stand-pipe. Really .the sub- i
PREVENT F'lRES ject is so ludicrous, it is actually very ■
Annual Fire Prevention week, which' funny. Does a bootlegger carry hisJ
has just closed, was in a way a com-1 booze around on his shoulder? No? ;
memoration of the great Chicago fire | And neither does a man enter in the i
of 1871, for it was on October 8, 1871,'general ledger or his petty cash book j:
that Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over how much his last rake-off was on j
a lantern and started a conflagration that purchase of machinery ansoforth. i
which raged two days and nights, kill - ^ «___
ing 25^0 persons and destroying $195,- Graft begins and end.? in the back i
000,000 worth of prcnerty. } room or in a hotel suite Mr. E. Z. ' \
,^ince 1926, those sponsoring Fire Mark gets elected to office and he im-' i
Prevention week disclose, there have mediately becomes a power in the j
been diminishing fire losses. Never-,world of finance and begins to buy \
the less, in the last year for which stn- stuff for his county or town or state.!;
tistics are available, 1926, ten thou.s- ivjr. 0. U. Bird meets him by appohit- :
and persons were killed and property ment where no dictaphones or ear- i
worth millions was destroyed by fires drums are in evidence They take a':
in the United Slates. drink or tw*^. Then Mr. Bird passes aj;
Most of these fires were prevent-‘few hundred or a few thousand in.;
able. It is said ninety per cent of the j beautiful gro^’!..;ic.c ? under the tabic i
deaths and destruction were avoidable, to Mr. Mark, and Mr. Mark signs on’:
It is up to every citizen to keep in the dotted lin-, and within a r. w days,,:
mird always the necessity for constant a nice bunch 12-thousanil d.-llar ''
watchfulness and care to prevent fires. ,merchandise ..r machmerv rons iiuo
The penalty of neglect in this respect Itje freight ya.J an j, the couniy or he
is very heavy indeed. town or the state forthwith sends its
check for about 15 thousand dolbirs in
.MAKING A TOWN” 1 settlement of the account, rih, mw. n.y
Every town has its advantages and'dtar Mr. T,.<’-)ay-*r, the cost cf I’-e
should make the most of them. Every |equipmenL, and not the s'" ft money is
town is peculiarly fitted for some one t?ntered on the books.
enterprise more than another, and as! jS
soon as it is ascertained what would j When a case has grown si, bad ,nat| S
be most conducive to the growth and the legislatu»*e or congre.ss appoints tn
prosperity of a town the citizens investigating comnvtt-ie, then I know
should take hold of the matter and the matter « settlfd for .nil time. The
push it for all there is in it. One man j usual work of such a committee i.s to
cannot make a town. The newspaper I white-wash “^be guy anJ his fntnas
cannot do it. But one man or a news-^ho did the s<ealing. Freiuently that
paper with the help of the wide-awake requires the v.se of n few jioliiical
mea of the town all pulling together white-wash brash 's that can be bought
can make a wide difference in a place.,for a sonj^, and another ^ rg or two [ss
Every man who succeeds in a town is;will pay for hav ng the stuff p a«kr- ^
a help to it. The more money he'ed on. An investigating committee's
makes, if he spends it, the better for never gets beyond the fly-leaf with j S
• the community. The larger business its facts and figgers. All defalcat’ons 1ES
he builds up the more he advertises, will turn up in time if books show
the more attention is called to the them, but graft is as hard to trace as S
town. A man cannot build up an hon-, a wiggle tail. f ' IS
orable business in a town without | | as
helping the surrounding country. The ^ I am not in favor of investigating. S.
interest of one is the interest of all. committees. When anything looks like ‘ '
I ain’t so bad about squandering
stuff myself. I always stop my motor
'when a red traffic light holds mo up.
It ain’t’ much trouble to get a kind
faced traffic policeman to crank her
up Tor me when green comes on. I buy
un-mated socks, b\it I have never been
as close as Deacon Blubber is. He totes
his chewing gum around in a little
tin box when he is not chewing it and
a single quid has been known to last
But the most economical folks I ever |
saw are Mr. and Mrs. Bulwinkle of j
Pinetown. They have a set of ^faho
teeth betwixt them. He owns the up-!
per plate and she has a lower plate, i
They are inter-changeable, and' be ;
makes her wait while he eats and
when he gets through, she takes the
masticators and thereby hangs a tail
But why fetch that up? I know a lady
who drove 32 miles from her home i
town because she saw an ad which told i
her that she could save 3 cents cr a I
bottle of Cod Liver oil. That proves ■
beyond a shadow of a doubt that ad-
vertising pays. A stitch in time saves [
exposure, and a girl is penny wise aneP
pound foolish if she carries a spare
for a probable run. A deaf man went
to a talkie the other night and he
wanted the ticket girl to give his mon
ey back because he didn’t hear a word
TO .MEMBERSHIP OF FIRST
* PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Our worship next Sabbath, Oct. 20,
will be in the high school auditorium
in case the temperature is low and the
heating plant not yet ih operation. So
do not absent yourself. If you find
we are not at the church, come right
over to the high school. ,
D. J. Woods, Pastor.
DRS. SMITH & SMITH
Optometrists
SPECIALISTS
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15 West Main Street Phone 101
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Clinton, S. C.
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