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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CUNTON. S. C THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1930 ullfr (Elintdn (EtirnnirU Extahli>hc<) 19U0 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publishar Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One year fl.50; Six Months 76 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* vice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communication! will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. I has been prepared to answer no bet- j stalks, yard violets, and sweet peas. It are being harvested and shipped to * tunity to get fruit for canning pur- I ter than the man in the street. For'would be wise for every farmer to. Northern points. The grade and quali- poses at the various packing sheds, j in some respects- “this man Harris’* is j keep close watch on polk stalks and [ ty of the peaches is rather satisfac-: These peaches are very good for can- unusual. It is currently reported that violets in order to keep down .the tory. The outlook is for a shipment of * ^ing ami pickiing purposes, and if you he has been conducting a personal spider. j 75 cars. A few cars ire being sold . _ . „ campaign for the senate for a fuM j There are several methods of con- f. o. b. track. ^ yeur, and that within that time he has \ trolling the red spider if it breaks | At this season of the year each haiwesting spoken to more people in South Caro- ■ out in a cotton field. One of the best j housewife in the towns, especially of | »e*»on will last about 10 days or two lina than mos^people speak to in a life is a hard blowing rain which will, this county, has a wonderful oppor-1 weeks. time, but so far as we know he has break the web and wash off and i «■ i ■■■■■■ i , nui——— — ■S', never asked editors or other supposed* drown same. Another method is to FINANHAL STATEMENT Of the Trustees of Hunter School District No. 5 CLINTON PUBUC SCHOOLS From July 1, 1929 to June 30, 1930 CLINTON, 8. C., JULY 81, 19.80 ly “influential” men for their support. I dust with super-fine sulphur dust; So the writer has never heard from u.se this dust when the temperature ’ Mr. Harris, nor did he'set eyes upon j is about 76 degrees and air is still.; him until the ex-high private came to i .Another method is to spray the .infest- I the American Legion convention in;ed spot with a mixture of one gallon C.lun.bi, thi. week. ^ of lime euiphur eolution mixed with | Receipts and Disbuntements as made by the County Treasurer So far as we know, he has no “liU 100 gallon! of water, spraying thor-. j u a-u o -1 j a ^ i/j er,ture,” no or*.ni«tion. end h..iou*hly both .ide. of the leeve, and the CouHty Superintendent of Educhtion made no pledges beyond the promise j stem. Another method is to use one: RECEIPTS: — - ' that If elected to the United States | pound of cooking flour mixed with Balance With Countv Treasurer on July 1, 1929 I 5,158.04 senate he would bring no shame or i one gallon of water, boiling for a few 1 Tuition * 1 (Ul 00 At—»xi;a cx.,.*u r—.minutes, then diluting with nine gal- Snpci«l Tnv Ions of water and SDravirrv the nlant f a.!? ' * ^ And this is still true—one half of the world doesn’t know how the other half lives. discredit upon South Carolina. Physically, Leon Harris is one of the best looking specimens of man hood to tread a political speakers’ platform in South Carolina in a gen- of us know not the meanirjg of grati tude. For this reason, if you have any jcration. And he has that type of “clear money to invest, invest it in Clinton. j Wue eye” which suggests truth, de- This is a good rule to follow—be. It is safer at home than it is any | termmation and courage, careful about what you sUrt while-place else. Keep out of the clutches trying to stop something. ot the oily-tongued stock salesman j wly) comes from a distance and wants . !■/ if your money to invest in an enterprise. It 8 a great life if you don t be- ' **' ^ l- u ■ ♦KirxU the merit of which you know nothing lieve everything you see, hear, think * ^ _ or know. Farm Demonstration Notes save what is told you by the nyan or j C. B. Cannon, County Agent men seeking to “separate you from : your coin.”- i Human nature, we know, has not, I Boll Weevil (’onditiona In the much changed. Our loves and hates,! over-and then invest it ini County our hopes and fears, are much like Every resident of our city I year’s work in boll weevil con- i ought to be a booster for Clinton and i f**"* has been one of the most Clinton enterprises. Owning real es-standing the use of sweet poi- tate will go a long way toward mak ing all citizens boosters for the home town. Build or buy a home—and grow thoroughly. All precautions should be used in not scattering the spider to other sec tions of the field by walking through the inflated area and getting the. in- sects on your clothes and scattering them as you walk through other por- Agriculture tions of the field Peach Crop [..aurens county commercial peaches 3- Mni Tax 4,474.74 4- Mill Tax 7421.40 Night Schools 196.00 6-0-1 15,754.00 Polls : 629.00 . 62.00 1,350.00 : State Sinking Fund 55.35 those of old. Money isn’t everything, some one remarks, but it is the thing that every bill collector is after. , ' . ^with Clinton, and enjoy to the full all Ihj. much ha.v€. ob.,j^^ .^ljyj^^ of beio* . Ctotou-hOiii DRS. SMITH & SMITH Optometrists aerved, to find fault than ft is to find a remedy. owner. Apparently, there is one thing over I which there is no dispute these days— the weather. W ITH ITIE PKE.SS When you find civic pride and com munity spirit in the small town you know it is the real thing, not the syn thetic product of hired boosters. Murder In South Carolina (From The News and Courier) We can have no safety in South Carolina as long as we listen with pa tience to babblings about the “higher taw,” the “unwritten law." They are A corrupt politician never wanU anarchy, the laws of the the voters to recognize the true fa^'ts | ^he people will not he safe if and issues. He would confound ^^‘^'they concede the right to kill in re- unwary to his own personal advan- ae^tment of in.sult, in resentment of a ^age. I blow. Wherever lynching is confloned, ! there is safety for no man and for no son. I have been in close touch with hull weevil conditions in the couiHy since June 30. Assisting me in‘this work, I have had J. W. Talbert, a C'lemson college student, Who ia work ing through the summer with various county agents and whose headquarters I i.s with the Planterts Produce and (.Storage company, Florence. We have I checked hundreds of acres of cotton j and have sufficient proof to state that ; where we have found sweet poison used the weevil is under control. I wish you would study the following data very closely as it is based on ac-1 tual calculations with no estimates: The average infestation of weevils where the cotton was poisoned three times with sweet poison is .-17 per cent. Where poisoned twice, a'l average infestation of 1..5 jier cent. Where poisoned only once, an aver- SPECIALISTS Eyes Examined Glasses Prescribed 15 West Main Street Phone 101 Laboratory for Prompt Repair Service Clinton, S. C. , EXPENDITURES Salaries $61,489.14 Furniture and Apparatus 1,009.72 Fuel and Incidentals .* 4,420.83 Libraries 401.76 Transportation 855.00 Grounds, Buildings, etc 2,867.38 Bonds and Interest 9,555.37 $77,638.93 51 70,599.20 Balance with County Treasurer^on "July 7,039J3 (When all taxes ace collected in full).' .Americans do not repeal constitu- woman. The mob is always wrong, for'„™,. infontation nf ? 7 n^r rnnt tionnl amendments. All of this talk tha moh alwava mnrdpra thi. law an,l ‘ • P about abolishing prohibition i.s bunk. .M Ik is the moat ideal food for a human being, especially for those in infancy. Inability to provide it by many parents, is responsible for the great army of under-nourished chil dren that are now prevalent every where. 1IMK FOU OiniMISM —conditions in this section, as wt’’ as throughout the state, are now exct edingly bright. While no one can | f™" the mob always murders the law, and once the right of action is conceded to it, it ia about as likely that its brut- ishness will be visited upon the inno cent as upon the guilty, upon a woman or a child as upon a man. So the sum of all discussion is that no matter what law or lack of law we shall have in relation to the whiskey traffic or any other traffic, we shall have murder and assassintaion until we shall deal with them as crimes. So they are dealt with in England, in Scotland, in Canada, in all really ,MV.::ct the future with certainty, we, j, comparatively safe from mur- .should turn our faces forward with > .jp^ers and assassins. opt.mism, realizing that the economic! • distress and depression we are now experiencing cannot last always. .It is a temporary adjustment period that had ,0 come and be met, before we can feel the jiulsations of returning business activity. Business, after all, is regulated by public psychology. We need boosters and optimistic business leaders rather than calamity howlers. Then, we (fan contribute our part to the creation of more satisfactory conditions for all. It is our opinion that only a few nn nths lie between Us and better tinies. The Umelifht That Burns Black (From 'The State) Twice within thirty days South Carolina “news" has broken Into the Northern and Western newspapers. The first occasion was the report of the campaign meeting at Union, i .scene of a recent lynching, when a United States senator from South Carolina declared, “To hell with the Where no poison was u.sed at all, an average infestation of 11 per cent, with some fields running as high as 50 per cent. I l)elieve I am safe in saying that 75 per cent of I-aurens county farm ers have poisoned their cotton for weevil control. In my opinion Laurens county faces one of the most pros perous outlooks for a cotton crop, from the standpoint of production, in five years. ~~ I trust with the above information, which is so plainly demonstrated in the control of the weevil, that not a single farmtT will let his cotton be come heavily infested with boll wee vils. 1 would suggest that you dust your cotton if you have an average infestation of 8 to 10 per cent; I do not recommend poisoning if infesta tion is less than this. We cannot afford to neglect or permit the weevil to de stroy our cotton. There have been several .serious out breaks of red spider on cotton in this county. The dry, hot weather is fa- Constitution,” when it stands between j vorable in spreading red spider. A the mob and a man charged with a certain crime. The .second was the account of the UHsas.sination of a state senator at .Moncks .(’roner as an incident of an IM'S I >1ASI hit BI..\KEI.\ alleged whi.skey ring feud. I The a|»pointmen't and confirmation The engineering maguzine.s may! of R ilph U. Blakely f(»r the local post-j contain descriptions of the great Sa-1 ir.;'.'«'.er.sh'p will be rt'ceived with .satis-j liida power development; the .scien-{ faction by the j)ublic. Mr. Blakely hasitific and medical periodicals may ' real number of farmers have mis- aken red spider for rust. Red spider is an insect that sucks the leaves of plants; ru.st is the effect of lack of potash in the plant food. Ri*d spider generally starts on or near polk been serving as acting postmaster for, point to the discovery of an abnormal- ....liu'past two months, and now that he; !y large ameunt of iodine in South h.i.s been |)ei manently given the ap-jl arolina products; .scores of citizens pointment. the matter which has been and many newspapers nmy be labor- o:'e of much speculation, comes to a :ng incessantly for the material up- clo-e. , lift of South Carolina, but how diffi- The new postmaster is one of thej'^^^ ''** attract the sympathetic cltj's successful young business n\en attention of the millions elsewjhere. qi soupd character, unostentatious, but; * Reeau.se power development or 50 Years* Use of Black-Draught "About fifty years ago,” says Mr. Lewis G. O'Shiulds, of Port- ^ ersville, Ala., "my mother gave me the I -«lways^ drtrcTidahlc.T*; KoBer i» not meVirs, ion will insure a cour- ^ press associations do not handle meh matter. But sensational utterances or acts command attention. When a United States senator says, “To hell with the Constitution,” that .saying is flashed over the wires to every newspaper in the United States. Likewise when a state senator ia assassinated in a feud in which “liquor politics” plays the Jl’s administration teous consideration for the public. And. that’s what the public is inter- e-sted in—efficient and courteous ser vice. INVEST AT HO.VIE The Chronicle believes in Clinton and its future. It believes that Clin- ton i, do»tlnod to bo . muoh ltro.tor:,...,,i„j city n foturo jo.r, th.n ,t „ today ^nd in the public', mind a black' It believe, that the great majority of|„„,|. ,, ^ first dosa of Bli X Dnraglit, and I liavna ^ taken it ever since, when I needed a modicine for consti pation. I have used this remedy all my married life, in rais ing my children. I the people living in Clinton have an abiding faith in the city’s future and in the Clinton of today in spite of the pessimists and knockers who stand around on the street corners and pro claim that starvation is just ahead. •This Man Harris" (From The State) ‘Who is this man Harris?’ ‘What Harris?" X- J X II « 4< ii- oi‘ “This I^eon Harris, who is running No one need Ulk of “putting Chn-.f^r the senate’” * too on the mnp." For .11 the world: ,„„tlon or ,ue,tion, of ,imi- know,. Clmton i. rir».dy on the m.p;j;„ It hn, hmf . eon,plcuou, pl.ee there, n,..,, „ ,hou,.nd time, in for many year,. And it i, going to re- :s„„th Carolina during the l.,t forty mam there. i Answers, doubtless, have been Clinton is a g^od place in which to i varied, but if any unprejudiced person live. If one were to look all around has suggested anything derogatory the world, none better could be found,(to the character, personal habits or When everything is considered and mode of life of Solicitor Harris we conparisons are made with similar ijv it there is much for which we have not heard of it. Those questions have been asked ahould be thankful even though some The State, many times, but The State T have uaed Black-Draught for heartburn, as I have had epella of this kind, off and on, for years. I’his follows indigee- tion, and indigestion comes close on constipation. "I have found that the best way to head off trouUe is to begin taking Black-Draught in time. It relieves me of dizzi* neas, tightneaa in the chest and backache. "By getting rid of impuritiee, Black-Fraught htrips to keep the system in good or^. I always keep it in the home, and have recommended it to many peo ple, in my time." THEDF011D*S BLACK-DRAUGHT For CONSTIPATION, % INDIGESTION. BILIOUSNESS WOMKN who nei'd a tonic should take v Cardui. Used over 50 years. ^§^eeting the ^eeds of ^lillions of Veople Thm loW‘pri€^ nttomohHm hm$ kromght grwmtmr Opporfawley •od mdded hours of recrcfdlon to mtilUons of men and woman. B IECAUSE the automobile is such an im portant factor in the lives and pros perity of so many people, the purpose of the Ford ,Motor Company is something more than the mere manufacture of a motor ear. There is no service in simply setting up a machine or a plant and letting it turn out goods. The serv ice extends into evei7 detail of the business — design, production, the wages paid and the sell ing price. All are a part of the plan. The Ford Motor Company looks upon Jt^lf^jM charged with making an auto- ihdhile that “Will "inee^the“Ttieids cHT millions of people and to provide it at n low price. That is its mission. That is its duty and its obligation to the public. The search for better ways of doing things is nevei>ending. Tliere is cease less, untiring effort to find new methods and new machines that will save steps and time in manufacturing. The Ford plants are, in reality, a great mechanical uni- ▼wsity, dedicated to the advancement of industry. Many manufacturers come to see and share the progress made. The greatest progress comes by never standing stilL Today’s methods, however successful, can never be taken as wholly right. They represent simply the best efforts of the moment. To morrow must bring an improve ment in the methods of the day before. Hard work usually finds the way. Once it was thought impossible to cast gray iron by the endless chain method. All precedent was against it and every previous ex|>eriment had failed. .But fair prices to the public demanded that waste ful methods be eliminated. Finally the way was found. Abetter way of making axle shafts saved t£irty-8ix million dollars in four years. A new method of cutting crankcases re duced the cost by $500,000 a year. The perfection of a new machine saveik n similar amount on such a little thing as one bolt. Then electric welding was de veloped to make many bolts unnecessary and to increase structural strength. Just a little wltlle ago, an endless chain conveyor almost four miles long was in stalled at the Ronge plant. This conveyor has a daily capacity of 300,000 parts weighing more than 2,000,000 pounds. By substituting the tireless, unvarying machine for tasks formerly done by hand, it has made the day’s work easier for thousands of workers and saved time and money in the mraufacture of the car. An of these things are done in the interest of the public-—so that the benefits reliable, eccmomieal transportation may be placed within tbe means of every one. FORD company \ I.