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. «■ ,^- 0. ^ I .r. • *: •••••#••••#•#••••••••••• If Toa Don’t Bend ^THE CHRONICLE Ton Don’t Get . The News m I ®b ••••••••••••*•••••*•••••«•••••••• I THE CHRONICLE I StHven To Be n Clean Newa* per. Complete, Newiy, nbin - — VOLUME XXX CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 24,1930 NUMBER 17 $ PROHIBITION AND WHISKEY DRINKING From The Baptist Courier In the current discussion on pro hibition the only evils that^ro rectiv- ing attention are those of enforce- mant. Tbe enemies of the cause mag nify and exaggerate these. This is now pretty well known; and it might be thought thnt such exaggeration will do them more injury than it will prohibition. This ^ould be the natural e^ect. But what the enemies of pro hibition have succeded in doing is thfi: They have tdken the mind of the country from the evils of whiskey drinking ’ and fixed all attention on the evils of enforcement. Exaggera tion will not injure their evil cause very greatly if they continue to suc ceed in keeping the battle along this line. Prohibition came to this country primarily because the people were convinced that the drinking'of whis key. was producing evils that were threatening bur^vi^iT i1vWaak‘^db;"and^«iIimgs in this way are not good judg- prohibition will remain only so long as we believe that it is needed to curb drinking. But what has happened ^ that attention has been called on from these evils aifd all that we hear anything about are the multiplied dif- fjcultie.s, blunders, corruptions, inef ficiencies and failures of enforce- p)ent. There those who even talk as if the drinking of whiskey was a very minor matter; and that all this ‘curse’ of prohibijbion is an effort of fanatics to stop a most innocent thing. It is high time that we were coming back to primary things: » 1. The evils that we are dgaling -with in prohibttitm are the evihr'that come from drinking of whiskey. Our people know what these evils are. sort of doubt do bring on themselves, their wives, their children and their busings irretrievable ruin, and their nuntbers increase with the full op portunity to get whiskey. Now there are no evils connected with 'the enforcement of prohibition that are comparable to the evils that come from the drinking of whiskey. This is true even if we take the ex aggerations of the enemies of prohi bition. We know that there are men who stand in horror when a rum-run ner is killed by a prohibition officer; and who also think it an insignificant matter to see a man and a family brought to ruin and disgrace by the drinking of whiskey. A thousand such instances of ruin do not make as much impression on them as one unfortu nate killing by an officer of the pro hibition law, But men who look at es of right and wrong, of what is great and what is minor. The fearful wholesale ruin that the drinking of whiskey; causes was an evil so gigan tic that this country had to take dras tic measures to prevent it. We are simply foolish to forget all these evils and try to be horrified ever the diffi culties we are now having in stopping them. 2. The return of the legal sale of whiskey in this ^untry means prac tically the return of the saloon. W’e know that every one now who is fight ing the eighteenth amendment is very careful to tell us that he does not fa vor the return of the saloon, that he is decidedly opposed to it. We do not wish to question the sincerity of any They are such as ruin body, mind and j one. We rejoice that they all now con- soul. They are the great enemies^ of, demn that institution. It thows that the family, the children of the family the temperance fight has made pro- and the busiiness of the ffmily. It -is gress with our people. As a matter of nonsense to tell us that all who drink fact, these men ^ho are now clamor- do not come into all this ruin; that ing against the prohibition amend- to take a drink is not a sin. It is a. ment, were all once saloon advocates, sufficient reply to this to say that And the arguments which now move vast numbers who drink without any hem were the identical arguments they used to make against those ear- tution that ever corrupted melt. 3. W'hiritey bualneos is incurably lawless. It is lawless how. We all know that. Some are trying to make themselves believe its lawlessness is caused by the rigidity of the law and that we can cure this feature of the business by ‘liberalising’ the law. They tell us that if we will make it lawful for men to sell and buy we can keep the business within the bounds of law. We are hearing much of this. One might reply that if we would do away with all law we would cure all lawlessness: but we do not make this reply. No one contemplates doing away with all the law—even all the laws to control whiskey. It is a business that has to be put under the control of law. We have recognised this now for near one hundred years. What we are emphasising is that whatever the method of control, this business is lawless. It has always been so. The old saloon, under license, high or low, was under rules to regu late its hours, its days of ^ sale, its sale to minors and drunkards—and the old saloon broke ahd ceaslessly broke every law that was passed to control^ it.. This same-* business was lawless-under local option, under* the state dispensary, under the country dispensary and under stj^te prohibi tion. It is a capital mistake to think that its lawlessness comirrenced with the eighteenth amendment or would be cured by any system of regulation that could be devised. As a simple matter of fact, we are not suffering from its lawlessness now as much as | we did under other methods of con trol. We are simply advertising our present lawlessness more than we did that of other days. 4. Prohibition is the only remedy for the evils of whiskey. If we are suffering now it is not because of pro hibition but because of whiskey. I’ro- hibition is not responsible for a sin gle evil that afflicts us. If we did away with prohibition, it would only give the thing that is injuring us a freer opportunity to do greater evil. If prohibition cannot cure the evils which whiskey causes, a man would ■be an idiot to think that the legal Sale of whiskey would help this fea ture of our trou'ldes. As to other fea tures, lawlessness for example, the legal sale would not produce a better situation. We would have the same unfortunate may be about to happen. “One-fourth of life is intelligible,” said Mark Rutherford, “the other three-fourths unintelligible darkness; and ouf earliest duty is to cultivate the habit of not looking around the comer.” ^ • Those of us who do not look are likely to get an unexpected bump oc- cajiionally, but how much faster we travel! And what a lot more fun we have because of the imaginary bumps that we miss! Fraud Makes Market For G>tton Seed Oil CLEMSON COLLEGE Scholarship Examinations Competitive examinations for the award of vacant scholarships in Clem- son college will be held on Friday, July 11th, 1930, beginning at 9 A. M., by each County Superintendent of Education. These scholarships will be open to young men sixteen years of age or over, who desire to pursue courses in Agriculture and Textiles. Scholarships are awarded by the State Board of Education on the recommen dation of the State Board of Public Welfare., . Persoiwhintere^ited-should yvrite -thc Registrar for information and appli-. cation blanks before the time of the examinations. Succes.sful applicants must meet fully the requirements for admission. • i Each, scholarship is worth $100.00 and free tuition, which”is $40.00 ad ditional. For further information write— The Registrar Clemson College, S. C. Just 23 Days Till Mother’s Day Why not show your appreciation of her hy giving her a year’s subscrip tion to her favorite magazine. She will receive a card announcing the gift. Jas. W, Caldwell Call 213 at 1 o’clock P. M. The widespread use of cottonseed oil as a table and cooking delicacy throughou'^ the world is due to the at tempt of the Marseilles merchant to defraud his customers, according to Arthur Coleman in the current issue of Holland’.*!, The Magazine of the South. Under the caption of “Cotton— From Waste to Wealth,” Mr. Coleman gives the following incident. "Cottonseed oil found an eager re cipient in the person of one Marseilles oil merchant who saw no particular or immediate harm in mixing a small portion of it with a large batch of olive oil, for the South American market. Not bothering to make new labels he stuck his regular ‘pure olive’ labels on the mixture and ship ped it. Somewhat apprehensively, he waited for complaints. None came. So he increased the proportion of cotton seed ail in the next shipment, and from which he purchased the cotton oil, he to furnish the ‘pure olive’ la-, bels and packages from Marseilles, and the mill to do the packing and ex porting!” Coleman also says that the Chinese burned cottonseed oil in lamps as far back as the year of 1600; that in 1857 Mississippi fined gin owners and farmers $200 for dumping cottonseed in waterways and imposed another fine for allowing them to accumulate near town. Cottonseed today enters into the making of 1.50 commodities, ranging from roofing and explosives to cosmetics and phonograph records. in again waited for objections. Still none came. ^ > ** “To be brief, none ever did come. In stead the demand increased with the proportion of cottonseed oil, until the merchant finally proposed outright a partnership with the New Orleans mill FLOOR OIL For Spring: Cleaning. Odorless, Colorless and not sticky. . 25c per quart. SAQLER-OWENS PHARMACY AT UNION STATION Phones 377 and 400 ALL PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED BY LICENSED PHARMACISTS CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED PROMPTLY SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY “At Union Station” Phones 377 and 400 Phones 377 and 400 Cake— That Will Compete With Home Bread. CUUSSEN’S ^Since 1841—South’s Favorite’ li&L^mPXeffi?nl5J;.o-Pvprlhro\K_.tlic_aa:^j4ew Iwwlessnetwi • ami .-nwre^ai i^tofisigJEigfgfarajzjHjafiJzizigmarafafgjafBigfEfgrajgrajgfzjzfEfgfziafHraiHJEf^^ loon. But they have experienced some ‘conversion,’ and so let us be glad. I Th^ old saloon was the worst insti tution that ever cursed this country. We rejfjice that we have a generation of young.men who never saw the in side of one. That old saloon was the hetulquarft rs of every^ evil that af- : flirted humanity. If was the produc ing cause of many of these evils and 'the fostering mother of all of them, i There the gamblers came, as well as ' the drunkard and all who were on the road to drunkenness. It was the ren dezvous of all reckless, godless, evil and filthy spirits. Prostitution there found a protection and promoter. Law lessness was its vital breath; and for ' this reason it had to control the poli tics of its town, county and state. Its greatest business was to catch boys , and it developed a successful method. Its evil influence in business was pro found, and its opposition to all com munity righteousneu was instinc tive. It was a source and means of temptation, of debauchery, of moral filth, profanity, vulgarity, corruption, crime, gambling, and lawlessness. Ail manner of evil gathered to it, as flies, maggots, dogs and vultures gather about a dead carcass. For more than one hundred years it was a disgrace in American life, and every man who freer whiskey. Our remedy i.s not le.'!.'! prohiliition hut better prohibition. The prohibition law does give us a chartt-e; to stop the evils of whiskey. The world has never-f+niml au easy and sure way»of handling the whiskey bus iness. Hut, notwithstanding its many difficulties, prohibtiion has so far proved the best that has been tried; and is the only plan that has the pos sibility of stopping the curse that conies from whiskey drinking. ■.S- „ : WORRYING DOESN’T PAY On his way back to a college reun ion, one of my friends stopped off in a little town where he had spent his boyhood. “How is business?” he asked a lo cal merchant. “Awful bad,” was the reply. “And what's more, I don’t like the outlook.” “Why not?” “Well, there’s elements in the situ- tioan that might develop a lot of trou ble. At least that’s the way it looks to in€. My friend lighted a cigar, and leaned over the counter. “George,” said he familiarly, “those are almost exactly the same words I used to hear from the storekeepers when I was a kid here twenty-five years ago. I’ve been a subscriber to engaged in it was looked on as a social j the local paper ever since I left, and and business outcast. His wife andln»o»t of those old storekeepers have 6RBBNWOOD COCA-COLA BOTTLING Oa liii Gf'twtwafif S» C* . children were disgraced and felt it. The old saloon can now find no one to advocate its return. But what was it that made the old saloon such a shame that even the Devil himself now professes to be op posed to its return ? It was the drink ing of whiskey. It sold whiskey and prai^cally nothing else. It advertised nothing else but whiskey. There were other evils, it is true, that were in the old saloon. But it was whiskey selling and whiskey drinking that not ojj^ly made it a source of debauchery for drunkenness but a foster mother to every evH that battened on society and corrupted business, municipal and political life. If its whiskey selling and whiskey drinking had been taken from it, the old saloon would have been impotent for all its other mani fold evils and corruptions. • Men are not now clamoring for the retaim of the saloon. Oh, no! All they ask is the return of the legal sale of whiskey. Yes; for that identical thing, which wore than all else combined, made the saloon what it was. If we bring back the cause we will bring back the effseta. When we once re establish tbe litgal sale of -whiskey and protect those who sell to drink ers, it midces no (tifference what name the system foes by, we will take the esaential step in brmfinf bafk on OUT country the most danmalde insti V- died. I have taken special notice of the size of their estates. How much mon ey do you think they left? Beween a hundred and two hundred thousand t dollars each. And here’s the funny thing—every penny was made out of businesses which were always bad and always on the verge of getting so much worse.” I suppose that if gravestones told the real truth, nine out of ten of them would bear a line to this effect: “This man’s life was shortened sev eral years by the fear of bad develop ments, most of which never occurred.” Even very wise men, a* their years have increased, have suffered from the evil habit of fearing the worst. The Rev. Dr. Ckitton Mather, who died two hundred in Boston, was the most (^^inerivlpiduate of Har vard and 'virtually the’founder of Yale. He had couvS^ and a wonder ful mind. Yet in his old Age he viewed the fu ture disconsolately. He concluded that God had brought the Pilgrims across the ocean to /a New England desert” for a very special purpose, but that this purp^ had obviously been ac- complishM and that tbe whole colony would ”sMn come to naught.” The ccHony shows no sign of coming to naus^, but there are doubtless a miUiay men in it today who are los ing ^ fun of tbeir current success beeaiM of the dread that something Congratulations Clinton i A Remarkable Record A Growth of 1876 50% In 10 Years We are proud that we are operating in such a progress ive city. We are even more proud that during the period covert by the census WE HAVE FINANCED OVER 75 HOMFJS HOUSING OVER 400 PEOPLE OF THE 1876 gained by Clinton in 10 years, and have thus contributed much toward the city’s growth. Growth in population assures Building and Loan activity; activity means profits and profits mean safety. That is why our shares are so popular. ' I NEWSERIES JUSTOPENED. YOU ARE INVITED. mSTALLMENT.OR FULLY PAID STOCK LONG OR SHORT. 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