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v -, PAGE TWELVE ' ■ V. ■■ ■,. . ' _ ‘ ; , s ' :'' ^ . ■' , • r * . . ' . ^ THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C ' THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1930* :>■ > >mi€ “Therewith To Be Content** I tan aefbss this jwnqnvph in UmH—A yoof over W* head. It will be a BAKER George F. Baker celebrated his ninetieth birthday the other day. He is still the active head of the First National bank of New York, one of the world’s freatest financial insti tutions, in which he owns a control ling interest. George Baker was a country boy on Cape Cod whfen he heard his uncle tell a^ut lending money out at inter est. It struck the boy as a new idea ttat you could make your money work | _ IcJ you. He resolved then to go into the business of making money ear money. He has never been a speculator, a promoter or anything but a banket. Every other banker in New York looks up to him and relies upon his judg ment. He never made a speech. He says that most of'the talking people do is unnecessary. But when he says “no” to a man who wants to borrow money from him it is as convincing a.s if he had talked for an hour. note-books of Samuel Butler: “I imagine that life can give noth ing much better or much worse than what I have myself experienced. I should say I have proved pretty well the extremes of mental pleasure and pain; and so I believe, each in his own way, does almost ,yvery man.” Charles M. Schwab, at last reports, had more money than I— but just what can he buy with it ? Three meafls a day. They will cost more to serve than my three, but if Charley enjoys them more he is go ing some. wider and steeper roof than mine, and more,rain will run off; but the rain that runs off mine wil W just as wet, and underneath I shall be just as dry. A gdbd night’s sleep—if he’s lucky. He can own more of the world’s surface than I. But, try as he may, he can not breathe up any more of its air; he cannot albsoib any more of its sunshine; he can not bribe the ocean to give him any more invigorating bath; nor the evening stars te shine any brighter over his estate. The world is full of pleasant sights and sounds and smells, and his ears and nose and eyes do not bring him j at hand are the elements that go into any sensation a particle more sweet j It. than mine bring to me. Compared with the blessings we have in common, the few blesungs which he has and I have not are in sign if icant^ The habit of contentment is formed, not from without, but from within. "There is no duty we so much un derestimate,” says Stevenson, “as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon tiw world which remain unknown even to. ourselves; or, when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so mnch as the bene factor. A happy man or woman it a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of good will, and their entrance into a room is as thottgh another candle had been Hghted.” It- is strange that contentment should not be more wide-spread, con sidering how very common and close Work is one big ingredient. Simple tastes—^the power of finding great satisfaction in little things — Is an* other. ’The power to take things as they ccme, and enjoy them to the limit is another. St. Paul, tor insance, did a good-sized job, and left a shining rec ord. He was forever ‘^pressing forward to his goal.” Yet is was he also who wrote: “For I havb learned, in whatswver state I am, therewith to be content.” SVTB8CSIBE TO THE CHRONICLB H. D. HBNBT P. M. BOLAND ' < H. D. Henry & Company INSURANCE s *- grOCKS - BONDS* • REAL ESTATE LOANS NBGOnA’TBD "HICKS” I went to a movie theatre the other night and saw a “comedy” which made me boil. ' It was h "talkir'” taken direyt from the vaudevine jiUiigtujaa4Ui:4?a??:«^k ed the people of a country t()wn in caricature of contume.s which might have iteen worn forty years ago, and with manners, dialect and habits which prevail nowhere in the United States today. — 1 live a good part of the time and vote at every election in a country town of u few hundred inhabitants. It is distinctly, rural, yet its people are as upt(;<late in their clothes and a.s correct in their manners and speech as well-bred people in any city; much more so that the general run of .New Yorkers. Yet New York and the other cities get their impression of small towns from such movies as this one. No wonder they call village folk "hicks.” They forget that the men who head the business entetrprises of their cities—New York, ('hicago and all the rest nine times out of ten grew up in these country villages and have proved themselves better than city-ltr(‘<l folks in the competitive game of life. MOYIKS According to Will H. ident of th(‘ Association 'T’li’'Difc' f^ oJTuTTTvr'TTic ii.g to clean They cv Hays, pres- of Motion inovies an* go- theiiiselves up again, are going U> eliminate, iudecxuw. anil suggestiveness, incentives to vice and crum* and about e.i rylhing else that censors have objected to. Thai is all very gmd as far as it goes, but it doesn’t go far enough. What the movi«*.s nee»l more than any thing «‘ise is some relation to real life. Their real danger to the young is the false impression they give of the way in which people of (fifferent kin<ls and classe.s act and live. lilmer Rice has written a book, "A Vo,age to Pill ilia,” in which he satir izes the movie standards of truth, morals and ethii'i?. It is a book whiih everyone concerned with the training of children ought to read and profit by. HOUSING The Iftritish government proposes to rebuild all of the unsanitary dwell ings in the British Isles. The pro gram will take.forty years. Owners can lie compelled, under this plan, to tear down old houses and rebuild them. We rebuild everything every forty years. That is the average life of a building in .America. Many dwellings are much older than that; I live in winter in one that was built in New Y’ork about 100 yean ago and in sum mer in a farmhouse that is 144 years old. But ideas of construction, sanita tion and the utilization of space change so rap.idly than moat people want a new house every twenty years or so. - DIET Members of congress are eating a new diet, recommended by Dr. J. W. Calver, the physician to the house of representatives, as being the best food for brain-workers in warm weather. One of the popular new diet dishes is served on a single plate in the house restaurant and consists of raw carrots and raw cabbage, chop ped small and served in tomato jelly, rye toast, Philadelphia cream cheese, a baked apple and either tea, coffee, milk or buttermilk. The tea is served witht lemon and one lump of sugar, the coffee ia half milk. The realization that people who fkt no exercise should not fill them- sclvea with starches and meat is be coming general. 666 -A TABLETS ReHeeee m HeadbdM or NeeraigUi ia M BiiaafeB, checks a CM the first aai ckerka Malaria ia three laye. 666 alio im UqaM THE NEW FOMD COUPE A hmmtiful dottd emr, di^nguUhsd by its $mbttmmUd groee of liiie mnd eomtomr* A pmrtUmlmHr good ear for pky$ieimm$9 hasInoM execatiees mmd setesmen hecoaie of Ui comfort rntd reftefrifiir. 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