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h" ’ ‘ft THE CLINTON CHBONICLE. CUWTOW. 8. C THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1930 k §l|e (ilUntan (ElirntttrU Established 190d WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor,and Publisher 'Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY 4 • Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance)*: Ono year $1.60; Six Months 76 cents; Three Months 60 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 bf a defamatory nature. ° Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. needs, and badly needs, all the cheer that we con give. Nobody’s Business ors in the popularity contest with the breakfast room. Nothing seems to bother me much when I write. Noise and chatter do not interfere with me. It takes me from 15 to 20 minutes to write an article.. But— Change In Seaboard Schedule By Gee McGee Drink Jake and Ake flat rock, s. C,, Apull 16, 1930. deer mr. editor: as here seatns to be a right smart of jake parallisis around over thej country caused from drinking jamak-j er ginger'anseforth and as i have had; considerable expreients with this dis- sease onner count of my wife^s cuzzin sam who has it nearly every week, i thought it a \ good idea to rite up a peace to tell others how to treat same. CLINTON, 8. C., APRIL 17, 1930 THINGS ARE NOT SO BAD It is human nature to think of one’s TPwn condition as being worse than the other fellow’s. If you are unhappy, you naturally think that you arc more unhappy than anyone else in the world. If you are “up against it,’’ you think that n.. one in the history of the world' has been so up against it a1 you. * prohibition has notj been th'> decided success that the drys would have us think it. At the same time, the fact that one-third of the vote is for con tinued “enforcement” indicates that either prohibition has not been 'll to tal failurj^or that, some people are fooling themselves in favor of a prin ciple. It is inevitable that sooner nr later the question wMI have to come up as the first, symptoms of jake pargl- lisis is the patient spiu on the Ytig and sets it afir oer spits on some dryl^j^: ^ ^ grass out in the yard and it ketches I g pj^^ pins, 3 bottle afire therefrom, then it is best to jend If you think you are in a bad way, . . just pick up any New York paper and ^ national issue. It will have to be ree what the condilim is up' there. In not a straw ballot next New York there are thousands of Job- t>'UP» but a real one. The wets will W-ss-thousand.s who are walking .the not remain silent until something is streets looking for jolis-v-r thousands* done—and the drys know it. Further- who are wondering just where .the next meal is going to come from. There are thousands who do not knpw wbeTher or not"there Ingoing to be a next meal—'who probably wouldn’t eunsider the prospects good enough to bet on, even if they had anything to bet. One church in \’ew York is handing out meal tickets t.o about two thous and peraiSns. -These people are not worthless dead-beats but real, ambi tious, living, breathing men who want more, the dry clement is now realizing that their position, once, thought .so secure, is in danger of bei.ng usurped. The clamor of'tlie ipasf f5w months is not simply the howling of the wind. It is high time for thinking citizens to be opening their eyes to this pow erful liquor evil and its attendant disasters. The "matter may no long er be “pooh-poohed” and put off. It is time for thinking citizens to be gin to weigh, seriously, the evidence of both sides (or of all three sides in this case). The drys, the damps, for a doctor, a vetinerry doctor is the one who treated sam and he drenched him wi(h some castor oil and added a tetch of sody-bicarb (that’s what he called it but i notised that it came out of the box of plain sody in the kitch en), and put him to bed an i hell him there. WTiat I started out to tell you about is my desk. Tonight when I decided that I was ^pieces behind, and real ized that Saturday, night called for a bath ansoforth, I immediately got busy. I found the following things on my desk—and most of them had to be moved away before I had enough el bow-room to bank a typewriter: 1 half-eaten orange, 1 machine oil can, '2 of my own collars, 1 vase, 2 blank check books, 3 quids of chewing gum, 5 school books, 3 other books, 9 crochet books, 2 balls twines 1 hair brush, 4 pieces crayon, 1 kitten, <2 lip sticks, 3 sweet crackers, 4 magazines, 2 newspapers, 3 silk stockings, 2 mar- foun- medi- cine, 1 wash rag, 3 wrapi^d bundles, I pair specks, 9 hair pins, 1 pin cush ion, 1 pair ?cc*!?zxs?. 101 unpaid bills, and 1 bunged-up typewriter. A change in the schedule of the Sea board Air Line is announced, effec tive next Sunday, for the train No. 207, southbound, and No. 20S, north bound. No. 207 will leave Clinton at 3; >0 a. m., and No. 208 will lea a: 12:57 a. m. No change will be made in other schedules. BOND FLOWER SHOP FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS 157 W. Main St. Phone ZH WHAT DO P. S. JENES DO? TTIOl? Jl. a ap Clinton Girl Gets Winthrop Honor this Spring at * ___ ... Big Savings... be sure to tie the patient’s fe;'t to gether so’s he won't kick the foot of I It will be a matter of much interest to the many friends of-Miss Janet I I-eqke, a student at Winthrop college, the bed down when the ginger in the , that at the annual election jake he has been drinking heats upj„f officers of the Young Woman’s his innards and the parallisis is most Christian as-sociation held last week., Remember when yon are driring faat you’re no safer than your *iirea.' Better be on the beat! Good year offers in ita latest 1930 types the finest tirea ever produced. Complete range of low Spring pricea. genrally in .the upper extremities of the sed patient and while it causes a good Tleal of .squirming at first, a few< shdls. frdm^a Tifper dermic will pul him to sleep for awhile, rub his legs with a hot brick if the smoothing iron is handy befoar meals and don’t let him smoke. to work and can t find anything to , ^ , -I'm. snd the wets, are martialling their do. There are, of course, dead-oeats ; ' , i . r,. . among them — but the majority of j them are fine, normally hSrd-working people who have been thrown out of their jobs by the recent financial and business depression. There are not many of us who do not know that we will continue to get three inekls a day and a place to sleep. When we can’t go to a show, or when we can’t dress as well as the movie vrtsirs—th^i we aiY* prone to think our- aelves poor. . Next time you begin to pity your- eelf, just think of those people in New York, right here in o;ur own nation 4the richest nation in-the world), who atre really in an alarming position. ITien think of what things may be like in some of the poorer nations. Then ♦ome'liacir to yourself, and see if you ■don’t feel devoutly thankful that you are as lucky as you are. The chances are you are a long way from the bot tom. Think for a moment of those un fortunate ones who have their feet firmly planted right on the rock bot tom of fortune. You aren’t in a bad candition. You are lucky. THE PROHIBITION POLL N4tiun-wide interest has been aroused by the Literary Digest pro hibition poll. For ten years prohibi- ' lion has been given a trial. The pro hibitionists say that it has been a great success—the anti-prohibitionists claim that it has been a dismal fail ure, The Literary Digest has taken the question to'the people df the na tion in an effort to determine wheth- 'cr or not America is satisfied with things as they are today. Even after returns have been pub lished, nothing will have been decided. Already the public is divided into two camps. The drys claim that votes in favor of modification to permit light wines and t>eer, are votes for the dry cau e -for the reason that they are Votes in favor of the retention of the eighteenth amendment. The wets claim these same votes for their cause, for the reason that they favor a certain amount of liquor—and liquor is dis tinctly “wet.” What is needed now is a referee to decide what a man means bv his vote. forces for combat. Ihe time is not far distant when voters will have to-line themselves with one‘faction ir another. “Hring back the saloon?” cry the drys. “Never!” “Continue this farce that is increas ing crime?” cry the wets? “No!” Which cry is the one which con vinces you? Where do you stand? Do you think the present situation is ten able?—Has drinking been stopped, or is it as general as ever? Do you pre fer speakeasies and rum-running to the saloon? Do you think modifica tion is a half-way course that will solve things? These are specific questions which everyone should ask himself. More ‘tharr- that.'they^'ltrr “qxi«1T6nr"wHr^^^ everyone must ask of himself—they are questions which everyone must answer one way or another. Sooner or later you wlil have to make your an- ;»wer on a real badlot. Don’t wait and try to decide off-hand. Think about it. Read about it. Weigh all the evidence and thim try to decide as justly as you can. That is the only course open to the man or woman who would con sider himself a true citizen of the nation. , if the patient shows a high tem perature and a dry mouth, feed him on cracked ice and cold, slaw and if his lips begin to crack open, rub same with tallow or skimmings from the dishwater and if he talks out of his head, just let the wimmin go out of the room so’s he can finish his con versation—as it won’t amount to noth ing much except most likely some cussing and hollering for a nuther bottle of jake from his grocer. she was unanimously elected president of the association for the approaching Miss Leake is the attractive daugh ter of Mr, and Mrs. J, W'ill Leake of this city and is a rising senior at Winthrop .where she has been promi nently identified with all college ac tivities. She is at present a college marshal and has held besides a num ber of distinguished places of honor. Get our Special Proposition on Neiv QocK^eart All AtouimP! w McDaniel Vulcanizing Works DRS. SMITH & SMITH -Optometrists Value Extraordinary! jake paralli.sis is not dangerous un less the patient dize with it befoar he gets started to improving and in that case, it is best to send for the under faker, hut if it is treatted In (me as above suggested, 5 out of ten recover and are o. k. except they limp a little in they left leg and always walk bent over about 46 degress where the ginger burnt th«m out and their eyes wobble about, and in some cases lhj?.,.nQafi„funix.Juiiler.black*-(uwf=^4d-- - itor, plese rite or 'fbara me if you think further inflamation of this sub ject will help the folks who have ever done the jake bottle.) yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. SPECIALISTS Eyes Examined -:- Glasses Prescribed 15 West Main Street Phone 101 Laboratory for Prompt Repair Service Clinton, S. C. .fhUiOmieti Fall Oversize Balioous Big Orersise Coeds 29x4.40 31x6.25 29x4.50 .. $5.83 $10.20 , $6.65 30x3H '$6.10 32x4 $9.C0 33x4 ... $10.20 Full OTersize 30x4.50 $6.65 AN EASTER THOUGHT Never did the world need the essen tial meaning and the spiritual stimu lus of Easter more than in this year of grace. On every hand are those whom the state of the world dis heartens. We are' told, if we listen to their lamentation, that religion has failed, that t)ie plain, homely virtues of faith and loving kindness and mer cy as between men and their fellows are 'dead or inoperative, To such an attitude of mind Easter comes as a shining and a beautiful refutation, as an angel seen by those who are in sorrow round a tomb. East er is not to be observed merely as the commemoration of a triumph over the grave, a victory over death, nine teen centuries ago. It stands for the glory and the power of a resurrectiort here ,and now—^.of a rebirth day, of the springing of new life in this glad IJterary Impedimenta I have 1 wife and 2 children. My baby girl is 7 years of age. She has been in school 5 months. I write the majority of my “Nobody’s Business” in the rear sitting room. This room contaias 3 rockers, a davenport, a clock, a radio, a baby chair, a dress ing tatble and my typewriter desk. Of course there are rugs on the floor and pictures on the wall. (I have no den). hour and a confident future hc^e. Its ■Cto'the'baTlo't seni there were three possible vote.s -for This sitting-room is mighty handy. When any courting is going on in the front parlor everybody sits back here with us. The said room is therefore headquarters for everything'iirid ev erybody and all work. In fact, this room is home and it shares equal hon- H strict enforcement of the law as it row stands—for modification to per- , . rail Ih, Mle of light aino, an.l boor “ e”" or in flowers or in the wings and fire of the., most eloquent of sermons. It is not all in the glow of hte hour of -for ropoal of tho oigMeeMh . '''‘'‘P';'' « raent. As the returns have come in, the ^ eepest of the truths we three groups are astonishingly close together. The country is neiti.er over whelmingly wet, decidedly dry, rr uni versally damp. . If a damp vote (modification) right fully belongs to the wets, then the country is wet by a‘ two-:hirJs ma jority, if the Digest • poll is a true CT08S-«ection of public opinion. If a -damp vote rightfully belongs'to the drys, then the coutftry is dry by ap proximately the same score. The three groups of votes repre sent three, types of persons—each cf which is very positive and unrelcnt- Si«- It is hardly to be imagined that i .the drys will consent to either modi- / :ncat.ion or repeal'^or is it imagin- le that the wets wiU doff their hsts a smile to continued onforce- it, although they would probably modification if they could get it. damps are MinaUy as positive, want neither continued enforce- }r reped. iIppipBesa. fact that tfn^ MKii an even tion of odB|rt.l^eatos that know, at the very heart of our human lives, in their daily need of that which is higher than ourselves, and in their a.spiration toward that which is true eternally. It is each man’s resurre-ttion and not that of Christ alone on which this day insists forever. Easter is the freedom and light, the upspringing joy of the elnancipation of the soul of man. Least of all the festivals is it a time for selfish introspection, for the backward look and the unprofit able resemblance of failure and dis aster. It is, instead, the time for the looking and thinking and acting be yond and away from ourselves. As in the solemn and beautiful East er jubilee we consider the lilies, and hear the music, and feel the inspira tion of the occasion, let us take thought how we may impart to other lives and bring to other hearts the joy we feel, knowing that as we arc ministered unto it is our duty to min ister ind to spread abroad the mee- iiife of the Beirtertide to a worid that t •9 ¥nien A CLEANSING MEDICINE Is Needed 1 HAVB taken Black-Draught all my life, when ever in need of a medicine for con stipation," 8a3ra M«. Q. C. Bums, of Buna, Texas. "My mother and &ther used it in their home for years, and 1 was raised to thinlr of it as the flret tidng if 1 had a headache or was oon- etipated. "At one time Ihad iadigae* tion real'bad. I wee ell out of sorts; my skin wee sallow, and I had gaa pains. After a course of Bla^-Drenidit, 1 got all right I have given Blw^-Drani^ to my cihikl- reo, whenever they needed n EASTER GREETINGS New Lsid EGGS E^h Efg Dol 27c Inepeded —cnndled* S o'clock Cottoo 9- 25< HAMS Kingaii*e lUBidJe AnBoar*s Ffacod FInwer It 27c N. B. C. ,RoImiir Rings Apricot Torts Hi. OLD DUTCH Cleonssg 2 cans 26c FibGMAP S'l^R Washing PO^ER OCTAGON Soap or Powder ' 7 for 25c Bon Ami cake lOc Brillo pkg. 10c Super Suds 3 pkgt. 25c CORN Tender No. 2 Crwhod Can lOC MILK White Home m .Tall Eyaporated ^ 25c U BEANS Scans23c rh 4* 4* H* Paas HOUSE CLEANING AIDS SWEEP ^ BROOMS each 25c GOLDDU8T 6 Pk^ 256 LUK Flakes 2 pkgs. 19c LAVA SOAP cake 5c A&P Ammonia 10 oz. size 1 Ic Wright's Silver Polish can 25c Mule Team Borax {deg. 15c Red Devil Lsre 2 cam 25c Brandi SmzSe Cigarettes CARTON (1# Ice. kc>.) aKeKV CUC9UOT CLUB SEC 9Si%0 ^ Kohi fjfA p i*