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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. 8. C THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1930 . •S* ' V k. #■/. .. 'wif (Utir dltnton (El^onirU BsUbHaM IfN WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and PubliilMr Published Erery Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Adrance): 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- ▼ict. The Chronicle will publish letters oj^general interest when they arc not of- a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. innards back into ray Ikzie where they belong. .yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd'. Why Not?^ There is a movement on foot to change the name of Sunday to “Golf- day,*’ but another faction has sprung up that insists that “Ride-day” would be far more appropriate. Voters Hear Same Issues (Continued from page one) court house today to hear the three United States senatorial candidates outline their platforms. Solicitor Leon W. Harris of Ander son, contfnued his bombardment of Senator Cole L. Blease’s six-year ten- Deacon Brown made a birdie last, ure of office at Washington, while the Sunday while a layman was Uking up junior senator emphasized the “large jthe collection in his place. He says^imiount of constructive work” he has 'that he believes in a broad religion:|^.o-jinpliahed at the national capitol. I the kind that leaves him free to exer-1 James F. Byrnes of Spartanburg, cise his own prerogative. He inherited; again confined his speech to a disous- his prerogative from his daddy who gion of sute and national political and sition and then invited listeners to in-1 nominee, once he was nominated he vestigate Biease’s record as to how j worked hard and spoke many times in many relatives were on his payroll or' behalf of the Democratic ticket, he % positions. named fif-! said. holding teen. Senator*^lease, speaking calmly, told of the “ccMistructive work” he had accomplished for the state. While he opposed (5ov. Alfred E. Smith in the Democratic convention when he sought In pressing his claims for re-elec tion, Senator Blease referred to^the prestige his former service would af ford him and the state. He referred to the time when he was chief magis trate of the state and said “when I nomination as Democratic presidential | was governor, I was governor.’ CLINTON. S. C.. JULY 17. 1930 Look at a grouch and you won’t I another generation to provide and en- biame him for being grouchy. 'joy them. And yet there are many who I are still worried about the project and Married men who.se wives can cook | going at it with hammer and tongs, live longer than single men. | This road program is a step that is definitely forward and destined to put didn’t believe in any religion at all if it interferred with his drinking. Thoughtful parents are those who j South Carolina in the front rank be- try very hard to live up to their chil-i fore many years have passed. Those dren. who are fighting it lose sight of the fact that not a dollar of property is The Lrnite<l States ships .shoe polish ! mortgaged by the act—that the entire to Africa. Bel they use cream. It Candidate Byrnes says the country has heard too riiuch about “liqu ir and the nigger.” Anti the farmers say they have l>4<en over-fed <m farm relief. What a pity we all haven’t enough love and loyalty and umsidfishness in •«»r t>wn lives'to enable us to recog nise these characteristics in others. By all means, you ought to remem- her this—the home merchant is your neighbor—your friend—-your helper in time of need. for cold I ^^‘venue for the maintenance of the ! state system of road-s is derived from { the gasoline tax and from licenses of motor vebiales. In other words, pur chasers and users of automobiles are paying all the cost. There is nothing compulflory about it. The man who doesn’t want to- help pay the tax can drive his cao' In the shed and it won’t cost him a nickel. We''have heard, and’ftTfl hear, much criticism of the state’s indirect tax, commonly termed •the nuisarice lax. But it is one of the fairest laws ever enacted in that It compels the masses to help support the government as they Should. It is not a compuleory law either, refrain from the dope. Elder Smith had a wreck up in the mountains last Sunday while his preacher' was leading the choir for him hack home. He thinks that Sun day was made for man and not man for Sunday. Before he got his pres ent installment plan, it made him mad to see a fellow drive by the church and not stop. No, it’s not a Ford. (Hospitals appreciate Sundays.) Sundy is a big help to most people. Many lawns would not be mowed, nor hedges trimmed, nor gardens .J * worked were it not for a Sunday school to stay away from. Just about the time ma and the younguns get dolled up ready to ride, pa grabs his hat and hurries out into the back yard to fix something, or turns over in bed and says: “Oh, me, my, mo mum. I am so tired and worn out till I can scarcely speak above a whisper, —^ni go next Sunday.”^ economic conditions. Discussing farm relief, Byrnes re- ■marked that the only relief farmers have received was being relieved of their farms. A crisis confronts the na tion, he said; agriculture is paralyzed and industry is crippled. More than two hundred hanks have ck)sed their doors in South Carolina in the last five years, he said, adding that farm mortgages have been foreclosed and families driven from farms where they have spent their lives and where rest the bodies of their ancestors. Harris stated that Blease introduc ed a resolution in congress to prohibit more than one person from the ..same family from holding a government po- BOND FLOWER SHOP The good farmer puts everything! cigarette nr cigar, and it doesn’t cost Wk into the .sod that* he can. Like-1 you a penny. It is a fair, sensible, in- wise, the go »d citizen should put all, di«P<*n.sihle law that should stay on he can into his own community. the statute books. NO (’ vrsK FO!{ v;o:cKV The bond issue act is just as fair. It let.H the au.omi.hiie owners get the , , .td vantages now of enjoving good There l.s aiways more <»r le.s.s worry , ... , .. ' ,, .. .... ,1 roads while we pay for them. Why all this hot air against it? There’s noth- ng to it blit a big noise. connected ■ witht money. Those of us who di» not have it worry about get- i , tong it, and tho-te of us who have it are often jhil to a great <leal of worry in hanging i n to it. In addition to this no little worry is hnmgiit on hy tlH* desire to make a jitney grow whc'f only a penny grew hefiire. In more re<-ent times there has conu to us the warning that money carries ger.ns. (Jerm exports even went .so far a.s I > deinon.strute that a Irank clerk’s occupation wh.-* particularly hazard ous because he handles .so much mon ey. But now thi.s dread ha.s been di.s- The only way to tell in some big cities when it is Sunday is either'to ask somehialy who knows or watch the crowd with the bathing suits on. The Pilgrim fathers, as well as the Pilgrim mothers, would not let their off-spring giggle much less laugh out loud, but the descendants from that accumulation of piety don’t stop at i laughing out loud: Some of them ac-1 tally chew chewing gum and ride hi-' c.veles and crochet. 'FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS 157 W. Mxin St. Phone'395 H. D. HBNRT P. M. BOLAND H. D. Henry & Company INSURANCE STOCKS • BONDS - REAL ESTATE LOANS NBCHmATED t < 1 ALL PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED BY UCENSED PHARMACISTS CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED PROMPTLY SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY ^ “At Union Station" Phones 377 and 400 Phones 877 and 400 ■ I” Reliability Economy 1 Nobody’s Business By Gee McG*- How To Fix Your (’ar Hy Mail flat nnk, s, (1. Julie the U, lli^lO, (leer mf. editor; i want to say a few w(>rds in iM’haff of the mechannick cour.se which i took veiled. After exhau.stive investigatiim ^^’-'’ my dipploma 2 weeks on the subject nf in .nev as germ car- Trers n\(. IHinnS u-iTversity ex|.ert.s you can print .same if you want assure ns that this danger has been thus help others to avoid the greatly exaggerated. It seems that the metals from whi('h coins arc made act as destroyers of bacteria. relieves us of the worry con nected with the handling of money. same thing that i got into an.soforth. The worst things we ever (I'd on .Sunday when 1 was a hoy were we had an occasional all-day ainging or a frc(|uent water-melon eatin't, and poH.sihly .slipped off somewhere and went in a-washing, and on .me or two (M'casions, we hunted bee tn'cs and picked sweet-gum. A few grammaw.s .selected the prettiest Sundays to look long-faced on. and talk about their ancestors who had gone on before to -the lieautiful beyond where no pain or .sorrow or sickne.ss or .sadnes.s or blues are known. I can almost hear ol(P .\ijnt Dinah Sprawls mumble amidst her bountiful tears how good Umde .Jerry .Mire was until lightning struck him In'twixt the bam and the smoke-house. after i got my dipploma and went to town and got a frame for same and hung it up in our parler room, i went The next thing lor s. me exiiert to «i >'"'y is to tell u.s bow we may h.> relieved Iskipping and of our present worries in’trving to get ‘ hold of It while the country is cn-!Glarka in georgy in Dr. Frank F. Hicks DENTIST Office National Hank Buildinf Dr. Smith'a Former Location Phone l.t3 wrapped in Hoover prosperity. ' rnartch and never got quite enuff to I eat (inner count of all ancestors fetch- THK Ml KDER WAVE Ten persons out of every iOO.OOO are victims of murderers every year in the I'nittvl States. That is an ap palling record. Nothing like that num- lier of nnrrders occurs in any other civil;nnl country. ing the'r chillun along. DRS. SMITH & SMITH Optometrists i was glad to be able to do my owm garrage work, as i had paid out so mui'h monney to the boys to tighten up things for me, so i commenced on my car at the front end. i took off the rady ator so’s i could fix one of the Human life grows cheaper each ^ which got bent by a pig day. Vtv do not need to go to ( hicago road and while i had that off, i from which we hear more news of j thought i would work on the cobby murder:, and murderers than from any retter and t(H>k it off. s»lh«‘r pla e in .America. Right here'in ^ our own stale this spirit of lawless-j i»es.s IS rainiiant and the daily head- ItneH tell of murder cases in increas ing numbers \Ve hear much in the pr««rnt political campaigns about farm relief, the bond issue and other SPECIALISTS Kyes ExRinined GiuHses Prescribed 15 West Main Street Phone lOI l.ahoratory for Prompt Repair Service Clinton, S. C. Good Performance TMB NEW rOBM TUMOR 8MAN then i decided to over hall the ford I from beginning to end, and i begin to I take everything off and pile them over I in 4.he wa.sh tub. i found the drive I shaft loose and the pistom rods on ... , , 1 same too tight, so i .screwed them off Ihin,. tl,al a,-, of minor ,m|>ort.nco. | Tho pm amount nood m South Caro-1 out tho univoraal jinta and then hn. halay ,» ,,r ahould be. law en-ji f«r«.„nt ami the admmistrat.on of I t 1 • 4- {by that tinte (h# tub w»s full, and i deyeUij^l m America a| comm8noed on the wash pot and filled enramai element which is almost de- ionqnoooauMOOootj;MQ Constipation Troubles fixtot in iu attitude toward the auto- tkoritias of the law. 'These men do not faar the law, because they have found so many ways of evading the poniahment which is due them for their crimes. The basic trouble is with ««r courts and with the public senti ment which permits travesties on jus tice to gn unheeded and unchecked. it. WHY FIGHT it: A great hullaballoo is being made » the governor’s race. The charges of fiquor, graft and women, have i found a battry in the car, but as i I had benn cranking it all the time, i |diddent know it had one, but it was i (led. i took the spark plugs out of the muffler and cleaned them and while I i had the muffler off, i got the carbon I out of the syllables to stop her from i knocking, i pulled a hand full of little wires loose on the dash board as they wassent doing no good that i could tell. Av-i . . today is saddaf. i commenced to put ^n flying in tJhe air, the legislature, j my ford back together last raonday, Mfhway commission and its chairman • 2 weeks ago, and i can’t find haff the r"* put in the limelight and severe- j places for the parts that is in the wash IP anticised. Prohibition has been [ tub, muuch less that pile in the wash " as ‘»»ue. As every one ■ pot, and the radium rod won’t fit un- prohjbition IS a federal law, j less I insUll in backkards, and the is about as much likelihood j cog wheels i got out of the back axel af It b«ng repealed as there is of cot-, Won’t fit nowhere except in the front ion l^ing to forty cents. The road driving shaft, i am thru with courses ><md IS being cussed daily. 'This issue j by mail, and you will plese rite or ikevnse,^ haS\ been settled by the foam me if you can get somebody with «i«tB and as foreign to the campaign, | some sense to come down and put the "I BAVI used Black* Draught aa a ftunily medidna for a good many yeara,” aaya Mra,8ama T amghrun, of Huntdale, N. C. *1 bava found it an ax- oallent ramedy for oooatipation and tha troublaa that follow it I have aufforad frequently from gaa pai^ and when I em bothered that way I begin at once to take Black-Drau^t Relief follows quickly. *T give Black-Dreu^t to the ehildren when they are oonr etipated, and it it not kmc until th^ axe runninf aroamd again.** Thouaanda of otham have m ported good reaulta from the nae of thia purdy vetatahla You are buying proved performance when you buy a Ford. You know it lias bcH*n built for many thousands of miles of satisfactory, economical service. medicina. Inaiat on tha oina Thedford’a road actHs a forward step and win five the entire state a compre- iMfinve program W road building. It wiB afford us an opportunity to en- Jpf good roads noi^ not to wait for WHAT DO P. S. 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