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7 '• THE CLINTON CHEONICLR CLINTON. 8. C. dim / L , f Pnbli«h«d Eyery Thurs^y By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY 71; .. -{ i" SubicriptioB Rate (Payable In Adrance): Ore year $1.50; Six Month* 75 cents; Three Months 50 cents Entei^ as Second Class Mail "Matter at the Post O^ice at Clinton,'. S. C. ^^^ J ‘Tj 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 wiii publish letters of general interest when they arc not of a defamatory > nature. Anonymous communications will not C- I be noticed. This paper is not’ responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. , ^ of'theirs. This is plain short-sight^- ness, for every large tovTi in South Carolina dfains^ ^rom selreral sur rounding counties^ profits from the buying power of thy farmers within a radius of fifty to one hundred miles. It is difficult to see how ^outh THURSDAY. JANUARY 21, M Mrs. J. C. Templeton of Rock Hill, was' aT reccTvt guest of Mr. and Mrs. 0. M. Templeton and Mr. and Mrs. Carolina is going to profit from a rel- frank Templeton.. , ativeiy small economy which cripples j Mr.'and Mrs. Jack Hunnicutt and the organisation which is most help- j lijitle son spent the wc^k-end in Nine- ful to its largest and ‘most needy ty-Six. I A.’.Moorhead and A. D. Barron I made a business trip to li^ssissippi ard Lewis, Mary Ellen Bi^on, Doro thy Clark, Mary Agnes Cirowder, Au drey Frady. * High School ^ . Hugh Holman, J. L. Abr^^ms, ,Hayne B. Workman, Modeene FirintyT S*dre Attaway, Harold Murphy. FINAL SETTLEMENT V 1 Probate of Laurens county, at 10 o’clock a.i m.f and on the same day will apply for a ^nal discharge from my trust as Exjwutrix. ^ Any person indited to said estate is notified f and required to make pay ment on or before that date; and all per.sons having claims against said estate, win present them on or btfore Nobody’s Business By Get McGee last week. Friends of Mr. John CJodfrey will i be sorry to know that he is ill at his j ihcme on Milton road and wish for him a speedy recovery. Mr.i'a'nd Mrs. L. E. Pi^ater.and fam-i T.k, notice th.t on the. 23rd d.y!«>-i Of Feb., 1932, I will render a final _ pE.r.Tir w \TXFP PcAtFR count of my acts and doings as Exe- j MRS. EFFIE W- - * . cutrix of the estate of W. S. Porter,i - o if 4* deceased) in the office of the Judge of j Ian.'13, 1932 2-114 4 CLINTON, S. C.. JANUARY 21, ltB2 Science hasn’t' yet produced a loud speaker that can lieat a self-,made man. 'V Most of uS learn by experience. Wise men are those who learn by the ■experience of others. And a fool is one who keeps on making tjje same mistakes. it is a laiborahiry course. Stop- look, listen—arid laugh. And if you can laugh, or^ if you can at least senile— then the battle is half won. Ravings of a Voter The Republican party is bounded on ily visited relatives in Bate.sburg on the north by breadlines, on the east last Sunday. ' by mergers, on the south by poverty, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Harbin and Mr. and on the west by bankruptcy. It is' and Mrs. Floyd Conwell of Green- lovingly called the ‘‘G. 0. P.”e-which, wood, were recent guests of Mr. and Bmcw Aacomobflts w* Built. Bnick Will Build Tb^-Product of General Moton meani^Great On Promising.”^ WORTHY OF SI PI^ORT While it is hard to get the average man. to .realize it, there is no fact )r that contributes so much to the ad vancement of a city as a live c imnier- vi»l organizaion. Included in the mem- itership of .su< h a club should' he every " BOOMERANG ECONOMY The Australian boomerang, n use ful and .vet formidable weapon, if cor rectly thrown return.s to the hands of he thrower; and if the thrower is not on the watch, the weapon may slip up and deal him a knock-out hlhw. Just I so, economy is both useful arid dan gerous-useful i<f intelligently admin istered— dangerous if applied indis-' crimin^ely to necessities as well as Mrs. E. H. Hunnicutt. Friends of E. L. Thomas will be i The Republican party, like all Gall.lgUid to know that he is able to be is divided into 3 parts, viz: the Hoov- back on the job after being ill for the I ^r left wing,, the wet right wing, and [past week. \ | the corrupt middle, and is surrounded) Mrs. Jl'A. Addison and son, James, by the Democrats, enmeshed with j visited Mr. and Mrs. Callie Temple-' i Wall street, and governed by big bus-j ton in Ninety-Six last Suivday. i.ness. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Fulmer and' ■ ■ ’ Mrs. C. B. Tew spent Sunday with The said par^* is afflicted with a'relatives in Newberry. Farm board* bunion, a Muscle Shoals* Mrs. J. W. Satterfield of Clinton, cow-bunkle. a World Court ingrowing' spent the paFt week with her daugh- nail, a Moratorium cancer, a Young-j ter, Mrs. Pruitt Oakley. Dawes-plan kidney stone, a Repara-, Mrs. Leo Adams children of lions high-blood pressure, and a Tar iff complex. , . , • . I luxuries. It is not economy 'to refij'ain. bnairless and professional man in* the, buying food, even in times of community, working'to promote ^ hardship-it is suicide, interests of. the community in which) Newberry, spent Sunday-with .Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Adams. LittleMargaret Stroud spent last SUPREME RECORD OF VALUE-GIVING ...AND AMERICA’S GREAT RESPONSEI J I I I J L (Toar-Doot S.^ta witk SmlcbtlislM aagiaa lfi» mai •«) A--' The big men of this G. 0. P. organ-j week-rwrith her grarnlmother in Uuion Prtffs ikawm im tbh chmrt mrt /. a. i. flint, Nlkk. Misses7Ruth Adams, Maxell Tur tie is making <his Jiving. The C*hamber of Con'mer.e ’s ask- izatlon are little men witj^ a spyglatis. The little men know as well which ner and IJllian Phfllips visited Miss I way to turn as do the big men —and Ruby I^ee Wallace in Clinton on last This rather elementary fact (a fact j both types are unable to advise eacti Sunday. which should be evident in itself) iiig for an enlar.iretl inierest and :.eeds to have escapi'd some of the it badly. It is the local org.inizatioo legislators in Columbia. After ^ \ - s* 1*1 %* -Jl ..'1 J that we should line un behi.ul and laid cold and heavy hands on other.^They are blindfold^ a* i arel ^ December Honor Roll running around in a circle. I First grade: Catherine Campbell, i Ix'tha Craj ps, Vivian Crowder, Mil- ,nve our undivided suppoK. For, tho!^^‘'‘ Strings of education « ’ W’* A\ _i: /ai ..k.* in larger its membership, the greater Carolina (the strings are al- ■will be the .service performed and the' *‘‘’^dy so tight that many teachers lesults obtained for Uie comttion ;;o(»d i obliged to teach untH Mayj <if us all. TO LE(;AL1/E GAMBLlNi; News comes out of Columbia again that another effort is to be made at this session of the legislature to pass The policy of the Republican party dred Hayes, .Margaret Hughes, .lohn- is to borrow anil bu^ld, borrow and nle Jenkins, C halmers Johnson,* Cal- pay back, bi rrow and move forward,| houn Morgan, Margaret Redden, borrow and loan, borrow and tear;Gla*lys NVilling’ham. down borrow am: employ, borrow and Second grade; Hazel Adams. Jack feed bonoiv and raise taxe.s. and bor- Craft, Maurice Davenport. Wendell row and e.xpand -all of which leads to Hair, Guy Prater, .\’e.«bitt Strbud. the same ^end—trouble. ‘ Ruby Sligh, Dorothy Sulton, Ella Mae ' ' Sulton, Bernice Wlrelchel. The Republican parly is like unto a Third grade: Thelma Conwell, Jea- thin^ in tlw nnturo uf an nduoatinnal j baby with an all-day aucknr: it k.n.p»,.«tte Gaakin Marg.rat Godfrey Sy- '.UX.U Hownvnr, to tbnne who know,|un atickintr the stick after the sweet- bll Jenkins, Haloid laiwis, Kay Ked- without pay), these legislators now turri their attention to the only real aid which is offered to farmers—the j| extension service. On the surfive this organization may appear to be some- Vimost |700,1ess for a Buick Four-Door Sedan in 1932 than in 1922! And th^ Buick Four-Door Sedar. listing at $995, is a Straight Eight with Wizard Contro and scores of important advancements. Here is a rccorc if value-giving that the motor industry, represented b Buick, has actually achieved. And* here is how th< motoring public has rewarded Buick for the achievement Today, as a result of Buicic’s policy of giving greater a.ac greater value, A.merica is awarding Buick more char hree-to-one preference Overall other eights in its prici 'lass. The reason will be instantly apparent 14* yoi • ... - a bill Icgaliz.ng horsc-racing) in to those vVlio are curiou.- enough' nc^ is gone. It is ashamed to cut «x- den, Ruth Starnes, -Erne.st Wells. 4 SI vhen you note the value-lcadgrship of the new Duicl Eightfor 1932 with Wizard Cohirol. Twenty-six models priced from $935 to $2055,o. b. Flint, Miclngan. state .Such a measure passed the' bou.se* la.''t \ oar but met defeat in the £.p])er bodyS Wc-bave recently outlawed the .slot ■•f’achine gambling lievice but there must be. ill the mind-; of many, some i md of uii evil to lake its place. ili)>-<*«*-racing, therefore, with all of a tendant iriiquitie.s, l<oi.‘‘al that now’ looms to the front. Our pe.ipie .should keep their eye^ our bankis and our couiitry,’ to consult the figures involved, ap pearances are dtH-eiving in this case. I W'. W'. Smuak, of VValterbdro, <'or- mer member of the GeMeeal Assem bly, has gone to the trouble of assem bling a ft w figures in connection with recent activities of the extension ser-' Jt—meaning the said party—dic- i.s the pro- against the proposed i utes to the Federal Reserve bank— * " abolition of the organization is ad- luirably expre.'ised in a long letter in peruses- as the world might .^hink it Fourth giade: Ue Ellison, Alvin is going backwards, it squanders mon-,, Marshall. ey on useless projects—“wUh millions, Fifth grade: Floyd Abrams, John for defense but not or\^ cent to save; H. Davenport, Ethel Lyles, Ruby Me- THE NEW Sti flCSC EIGHT WITH Con fro/ Cuklough, Freda Summers, (.'larencej Turner. , 1 Sixth grade: Millie Cole. Seventh grade: Algie Abrams, which was created to save the coun- Rhetl'".Abrams, J. \V. Crowder, Rich- try in a crisis—but it has saved only ' “ " the press a few days ago. With apolo- itself and a few of its friends and a-tid ears turned tow'ard C-olumbia and 1 rt a sentiment sufficient to*pass the . "''“'‘‘J ul"' ^1?.; i the citizenship is por* E. Mood Smith, O. D Felder Smith, O. D. " ■ Co. Laurens, S.tT; I reposed bill .seems likely, there should 'lx> a strong protest and a vig- •s-fTjus fight made to kill the measure. ’llhe legislator w’ho .has no higher ...'rtbition 'during such a Urying period .iw-s. this than to inflict a horse-racing Stams’oling <le\u«* on the people, ought le b«* retired to jndvate life, and that right ijuickly. ures in support of his own cause, we offer a few quotations from this ex cellent letter. Mr, Smoak was former^ ly a supporter, in the. A.-i-sembly, of thd bill w’hieh originaMy 'provided for erty stricken, millions , are without jobs - and the balance of us fo'ks are sitting idly aside—watching ^our life-i time accumulations dwindle away. And the end is not yet. And it all DBS. SMITH & SMITH T Optometrists st:.u. ,.f thf whi.l^ ,..rvir,., Hia | ,|»i„dli.s ju..,, (h? Why intormatioii may be- t:'ken, we think,lijj pi>ljtics? as authoritative. ' ! . rhi'-d; South <-.rolma wua' , rhurrh from fl.t r.H-k .thr only vtalr in Ihr .Mni.l, that ahow.| f,.hpl,rr, put ou an ov..r SPECIALISTS E>e8 Examined Giassefc Frescribec TMKirj WEEK T)us IS National Thrift Week. The I (i an iiicreu.se in hogs froiii the lusl canvu!*’'s la<t .'sunday an 1-it 15 Weal Main Street Phono lOl cen.sim. The count y agent s .'bqqH'd co-, <)ut verry well'considering the j.ahoralorv f»r Prompt Repair Service o|Hrati\vly ‘‘ars ot h »g« in 1 1. high pric«‘of gasoleen and radio tubes, xi. a i.s a guti.i tme. and especially this mt„ the sij'.te $:i7r>,r,d<i.Sd of'the following anmunl was raised and' - ‘('Hnion, S. C. y^'Uf IhU. IS n gioMl \i*ai 111 \ihich tt) mofiey ' “Fourth, The ci unty ngnits through do a ’itt’.e thinking about thriff; . An immeii'e am unt of oui tioub.e marketing division of the exten- loday is due to the tact, tllat milli ins ' servit e marketed 'ooperatividy people f irgot all about thrift in the ,;q ,..,1-.. of pou'trv. serving If/iTd 4*00111 Neai.-* and .-pent all 01 mile farmer.-:, and bring'ng into the .state than they made; Those, on the ot^her $if)7.(t(>a-of new money,” put oil a hudjrvt; for furriii mi.'‘.iioi s for h Jiiu' M.is'iynj:, 1.40 fur pH'turc’ii -'ala:\v 4.40 missy l^atu‘ous 1.00 INSURANCE REAL ESTATE wHo Dul sonli*th 1 out of tho -•f 4 u * • j* * nioit of iho h*i(j i^rooii t*x* ^ ;.rvlpr.nt7 . " vinys uvrst , ' --h. r .t-.n.s a.e mj.ra- ^ j pay inxtiope nio a savings invisi tive of the general trend of the whole i i, 7 J; i i... V. i . • * - Ort-nt of some kind, are the ones who i}«* .,f qinnuL- o*^’*****^ ‘ ’^“*****®*^ IpFODerf V axe not comi^laiiiing of distress in Ji ‘7 , ^ a secont wife and they had to set'* ™**^"^* X7hlrd ., r ‘7“"”': ‘’flu,. housr-k«im,g .„d «thr,« I'h.m d< ■ n„l ,nruM huardinu u"",l ‘‘‘■"'""’‘"'“‘r had tu buy a Urant. piatr and othera mum.y awav >vl .,1 dor, Wdv ‘ >, lua, 7“ " "'■■•'■‘‘'■"'’I'.y 1 had to do this and others had to. do LI n .s thHft to'i,:; o, bui!-:; :u,ry dron'd"::;’. 'i^k^ 't'o rri,'«»«>- » ho.nr. or to „u, a idtir n.onry au.y ilr-' ♦very pay day for a life insurance or ,1,.,,^ and eanning activit-es ' (to over i ‘ an.oioun. - 4)W age fumi. Running into debt is not lO.OOO-). The total nrofits to farmersi *u i • * . - • iv.f'o*;. J lie unai pioiius i) laimeis the ladie.s mission nerry society has .All Kinds of Insurance and Real Estate. C'ity Dwellings and Rusines.^ Also Several Farms. Prices Attractive. B. H. Boyd, Agent Clinton Realty & Insurance Co. Phone No. 6 alvvaxs thiiftle-s bv any Jiieans pro- j,, these fields amounts to -i sum i»f j . . . l I'l • J 1 . j* *1,; r „ mist iittus amouiu.s lo a sum i>i, agreed to start a hen cltib consisting vHleu the d. l)t 1.- foi ^om-thing of ac- over .$400,000. B<*side.s these .specific. 3 hens and half intrust in a rooster tuaUvalue and not of a i^pviu.alive. ,.asei figures are quoted in connection | ^hd give ever fifth egg to the church wnix-rfain narure. 1 with, the grading o^ truck farm pro-j ,.yer tenth pullet to the, pasture’s Ik njaimiv !'ranklin was right when ducts, cotton, and tobacco. The ser- so’s she can. sooner or later lay penny vue has l>een iitst-pumental- in- encoar—-^xer oWTr'Fgga. w'assent forr the good . aging the founding of orea,meries (ofjvvimmen of our denomination, all the ^ which all of the ten now operating in j mission nerries would W on their way IIARif IIMES WITH A ..... he said.7‘A penny saved is a ♦arned.” PAINS QUIT COMING the state have lieen built in the last home now or in the poor house in decade), and in the now growing ohiner and indey and jappan. T—- AENGEANUE p In the midst Of. these, depre.'^sing movement toward dairy-farming. Aondjlitins, it is difficult to get hear- The recent establishment by the ing for the idea that mayl>e we aren’t rational t'ongress of a $.30,000,000 j the sei'ker terry of the church that sc* badly off after all; it i.s difficult seed-lpa;! funu to enable farmers who they can be counted on. they have de- the young folks have allso notified t#* harbor t.'c consoling thought that^rtie money-less to continue with their | to cut out chewing gum only on| ihejc i.s always s< mething* to be planting this spring, also necessit.ntesj and pifeher shows ever other! thankful for. i .ce maintenance of such a service in night and donate same to the cause. But down in Mississippi, less than a South Carolina, for without it our they will put on a play'next month tkousand miles away, and among peo-, fni mers. will have no means of se^ ur-'^nd I5c entitled: “how wu pie as alive, arnl as human as our- ing aid. .And ajl this leaved out a num- aelves, a great river is ravaging miles her of rclativelV smaller activities, in- «f fertile farm-lands, destroying' eluding both jikiys’ and girls’ 4-11 homes and indeed entire towns,- and ^ clubs and minor projects which have ^tjfirupting agriculture, business, and j l>een_helpful to the farmer and his traasportation. Every day fresh dis- faniilyr'"^ - •.* asters are reported. News reels bring i The proposed action of the Asaem- os pictures of inundated homes—de-! bly ij^not acttially to abolish the ser- oerted shops—ruined merchandise. ; vice, but to give responsibility hack to And have i’ou noticed this—that the the counties. This is practical'y the j chahg and Ting wung kelched the tar- ripen-’’ all members'itid other sinners are invited to cQine and be present and go on the inside—and not stand outside and listen as heretofoar. people are nearly always cheerful aMNnetimes laughing7^1 cannot be be cause they are callous, or because they do not care—that is untHfnkable Wc can only conclude that they have bowed to the past and hsrve resolved to look at tomorrow—a tomorrow de- woid hope—%ith'strength, and per- —wrance, and a amile. Look at pic- koann of them the jext time you have same thing foi some coinmun’ties, for tke raone elaas has tnereaaoi from 3 to 11 sin^e we quit.taking up„collec- tions, and as soon as this ihformation gets scattered abroad in the church folds, we look for manhy' more achol without a central organization, and jars, the janitor who sweeps out the without a sharing of expense by. ri^' church run off last month and took and poor regions, the serVice^ cam, tho broom with him,,;;but bro. simkins scarcely continue to render its inval uable aid. says that he left about even, as wc had not paid him annything since julie We must remember, always, that I d. and they say he lost that quarter South Carolina is predominantly an | shooting craps. .Ml....!- r.i-*- .L .-*.* 1 "Whm I was a girl, I Buf fered periodically with ter rible pains In my back and •ides. Often I would bend almost double i^th the In tense pain. This would last tar hours and I opuld get no reUef. , *Z triad alinost eveiT- thing that was rseom- mended to me, but found jiothing that would help until I began taking CarduL Ujr mother thought tt would be good for me. ao she got a bottle of Oardid ' And started me taking tt. I aocm improved. Ttie bed epeUg^tfutt coming. I was a^ in normal heattL" —Ifra Jawal Harrtat Wlnasbor<v Taxaei J. A *' • GRANDMOTHER’S CAKES ISc LAYER ■ , POUND RAISIN Cake Quaker Maid Baked BEANS 5 16-oz. Cant 25c A TQl TP Quaker Maid M-oa. 1 Tomato’ BoUle Golden Bantam CORN No. 2 Can I2V2C RED CIRCLE At Special Price$ This Week The Coffee Trio It 23c BOKAR CXlFk'EE 1b. SGPREMB -ttn 27c 8 o’clock 3 K 50c Th« largciit aeliiut hlgb grade coBee in the world EAGLE MILK FLOUR Iona 24 lb can 18c bag S5c Sannyfleld—Klndle^a Sliced BACON LUX FLAKES wi. 25c 2*1®. 19c.l''1oir3 cite 19c SUGAR Finest Granulated Bag bag ‘4.75 At AM POTATOES, U. S. No. J, 10 lbs.;. . 19c CARROTS, large bunch ..r. lOc ■^4 aj^icultursl state. Much of the politi cal power of the state lies in yities,"! ehmnee. Then perhaps you will feel i andln rich counties where the propor snore inclined to go home and smile at jrpur own dejection, for yoiir con- dHaea cannot 4^t be imrpeasurlibly Mter tlaanvUieirs. not e lecture on optimism | njIVici tion of rural population is small.The city people, with a greater number of taxable people, naturally prefer to take care of their own extension ser- yores trtilfee, mike Clark, rfd, seeker terry. Hi ice and let the neighbors take care GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 3 Years lar JAMBS W. CALUWELL The Magadne Man H SPINACH, fresh, firm, lb. CAULIFLOWER, trimmed, lb. LETTUCE, firm head, each 10c 10c . —— " I ThiSreit AtUmtic Gt Pndfic Tn Cs .-«dr . / "U- V. t L jii'iiili ■*' "I A. ' >