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v FOUR V^. €ltr WILSON W. HARRIS, L rag CMWTON CHBONICUS. CUNTON. 8. C raU^DAY, FEBRUARY 4. m2 PobliRhed Every Thursu* THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance^). Ore year $1.50; Six" Months 75 cents; Three Months Jk bu-siness . interesta Uie nvotive po^eryf Uurenr or any other South Carolina ^he presidential nomination appear “wetness” by bein? elected ge\^r- locotn-1 cbunty>” - ^ .1 nrchibitionist. ‘ , nor of New York on a “ j which is necessary for the aocotn-{ I plishment cf any worthwhile project\ | * FIRE-WORKS IN THE EAST prchibitio^nist. ' j nor of New York on a “wbt” ticket, by The solifHor’s-^position wajs stron{r-| “Roosevelt will not do for the dry signing “wet’* yhills passed by the cpposied by the defense le^al staff, I South,'*’ rhe said. “Southern states • jSvfiich included O. L.^LonR, Jaihes H.* will send dry delegations to the Dem- Since the armistice of''1918 th#! Sullivan and Ralph^T. Wil^wn. The de- ncratic convention in Chicago i world has been crying P^ace! Peace! , fense attorneys argued that no magis-! politicians succeed in thoroughly trate had a right to issue an order ing the Southerner^ and there is no peice. If it has not been: Balkan upmings, it has been would'^trapscend.that cf a highei:.,t'rb7» ‘sfu*h is ms Hrv «- ” something else. ^The League of Na- j^ouil. ' ' i' Ine Sc.Uvh is as dr> as e\er. unless fool- about Rooeevelt. •tatj legislature, and indirectly tbjcough the recent statement of May or Anton Cermak of Chicago that ^ Roosevelt is v:et enough for me.’* Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, I. y( The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its sub.Hcribers^and readers—the publisher will at all times appreciate wi.se suggestians and kindly ad vice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous commrunications will not be noticed. This paper is' not respi-r.^ible for the views or opinions of it's correspondents. tions^ has raised feeble protests, ha's called conferences, and issued state ments; but there has been no cessation f warlike activities. And now we are watching while Oriental fireworks f ast a lurid glow on-our. front pages ard warm, the hearts of editors apd The habeas corpus htaring'at which the Jthree men were granted bond was held at Greenville before .Associate •Justice Thomas P. Cothran, cf the state supreme court. I After -the habeas crrpiis hea^'ing Henry Ra.sor, Eugene and Lathan Ciisp ah arranged brmd. A few weeks She asserted Roosevelt has proved • .^'UBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLB ■'1 I ( I.INTON, S. (:.. THlTiSDAY. FEBRUARY 4. 19.12 ciri-alations' manager.- the world over. We are sitting f n the edge, of a boiling cauldron, poised over a red- a-o* however, bond men for Eugene hot mixtuie which hubbies near our<‘-withdrew h^s h-nd surren- toes and exhales the ga.-e-s of trouble ^^red him to the sheriff. He is now and more trouble. Ix*t us beware, for jai! arwl tbe other two are at llo- ii single slip, whether on our part or under their bends. >n the part cf .Japan or China, may The preliminary herring today was l?;ig us into an .th**r hor.dile conflict the first major legal engagement in -a conflict di'void of glory — a con- what apparently will, be ore of the BOY SCOUTS’ ANlfrV ERSAUY greater number have been paid littie fraught with maihred , bcdie.s, most senration^order tnal,-in Lau- notable birthday h*** Clothing since last September. Now ^f^een graves and white crosse-s, y(th- rens county tfircuit court in many , erless children, horror stars to hrng years. The next term rf court will Among Fel>ruar>'’s .. . , »nniv«renviU.s ie nf +Vw» Rnv ^ SCcm.S that they HTe gOIHg to haVC ! ' Scouts of America who are celebrat- i ‘iiffivulty collecting for a f w month.s. i windows ih the- place of ruddy open two weeks from today ing their-twentv-skond anniversary'. Ishould be pai^; thgie is i^o ex- '^^ 1 .Solicitor Blackwell wa.s assi.sted at It wa's on P'tbruarv 8 I'llO that the for coriditions in Co!u(mbia.jljeingl stage is set at any morneiu, today’s hearing by R. E. Babb- and Scouts received their ’ chart’er bv an, to reach their present st'^lux, the sigijal may l>e given. Then the ^ur-j Phil D. Huff, of Lauren.s. wl of conirre».s a distinction shared!- K^^onomy is all right. How about a/tain will go up^ on a pageant as hor-j . , ‘ • * .u little bumanitv’ Cut salaries, if vou as the four-act drama of death fcy only two other organizations, the r.umamiy . i.ut salaries, ” you .hocked the world a^de^ade am- American Red Cross and the Ameri-,‘h'sire, for this is a day when a salary! which shocked d he world a am one for!is no longer am in.sult; but don’t; ^ half ago. lucture the situation catfi lA-gion. The occasic-n i.s ron.ralul.tion. The Boy .Vout move- "OUT. You want to rut: •'“P'"' harassinr a eily whirh rontains ment i.. one of the Kreat social sue-- “'e whole educational ay.=tem of consular asrenta of all the Rreat cesses of the.-e times, stable, vigorous ^he state, do you? Of course not t4i^ v'AiifsuiAi call vii^ I nations of the earth—bombs, any one South To Fight Roosevelt, Is Siu^i; Then why cut out the meal-tieket of •''hkh may, by some accident of President cf W. C. T. l-I De- the Uiacher? judgment, fall on a foreign consulate, are scattered by Japanese airmen— China frightened until its metropoli- IHE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE In the earlier days of civilization it "'‘^hs may do almost anything—^ for himstlf. There * Britain and .America standing dares Southerners Will Not Support Wet. and stimulating, ; Scout literature reveals the sco})e | and variety 9/ the boys’ activities, j Here i.s a gre-^t boy’s school of prac-ij tical training as well as of character I building founded on the principle of every man pood sportsmansliip. It make.s the 1 "*’’** c(jmmunities no schools 1 j -r j ' no Fwlice—no fire departments. If one i‘•a'"’ Today we are nervous, niati injurtd another or killed another, ipeace. Temorrew the thing may'I>n Ib RcosevolU ( f N.-w ork as a I tu o-> ♦u A u ^it was all riirht If a mar's home '**’ —ui* it may have us by the, predicts the South \\:.l qppore In their 22 > ears the American Boy^" i .4 I f! throaY ' His preddential aspii .oti >ns “unle- nrullment 01 Truly it la a lima to pray that the I P»I't| -iPn.- surteed m fuolin^ the most of the munline.-’s that is in every ncnraal hoy. Chicago .Ian. 10. — .Mr^. Ella ^ t ;‘by with guns primed, steamed up, and i)re>i«lert of the \\ . C. chara:t(*ri7.ing Governor F'ranl;- T. i;.. - * mans .Scouts have had an e more than three million. Scouting'is ^ now e.stablitthed in almost every city. ''’JJ of another. villape ami hamlet in the Unitedj modern civilization all .States, the pre.sent total of active ^^Hi-s ha.s In-en changed. T.iday pvo;»!e Ihoys and leaders being nearly a inil-jHRnd themselves together i"t.j rom- Ikm. It is estimated that there are, munit ies, towns and cities in onler to still more than eight million .American^ benefit hy the advantage-* of cooi);*!’- koys outside the ranks. ati( n and division of labor. Man has This organization has come to oc-1 that by working with his i i fi ^ n r 4-piece Bedroom Suite and Bench leaders of our nation — the men in whom we have entrusted our lives and )ur welfare — may be endowed with the wi.sdcm that comes frpm G<i.d. Sf utherners." Returning from a tour f)f the South she declared (‘fforts were being made in every .Southern state to make the cupy a prominent place in jhe social; neighbor he may build schools lor the ertler of the da.v. The p.irtnt.s of due.'.'.on of his ihildr»-n. ro.tds tor E. .M<M»d Smith. O. I) Felder Smith. O. I). American hoy^j should be the only re- < rutting officers xoeedetb to keej) the enrollment at full sti-ength. RAY F(iR TEA( HERS S-mth* (’aifdina’s attitude toward aking his iwoducts to mirktt, and durable houses to shelter him.self and I all that may he his. He has learne<l that workin-g with his n<‘i‘'h!)or.s he may jirovide against the Uondng of “hTs" huu.se, and 'the destruction of hi.s; Without a wisdom and a sense of' Democratic candidate judgment greater than our own— ' without a guiding Rrovidern-e to care for us arx(i' protect us—without su- j)reine trust and faith in that guiding providence—we may not hoi>e. In time of peace we trust'in our- .'■elves. In time of trouble the proudest and most arrogarU of us must—-must turn to (whI. Every loyal citizen of the United States should offer a silent for - Imagine heiriK able to buy thi.s .splendid bedroom suite at tins priev*! Sjt con.si.'^^t.s of full-siz^d bed, .'<})acious dresser, roomy chest of drawers, and 'bench. Made of walnut with arti.stically designed carving lending each piece unusual beauty. A most unusual value at this special price. DRS. SMITH & SiVlITH Optometrists C’hoice of Hollywood V’anity or This .Regular Dre-s.^^er. r army of public school teachej's i.s .siticere prayer to God as each life and property. In short, he hasj'^»y or*’"'*- ‘’“*H day closes: a 'catv.ed that one man to himself mav ourseKes, for our nation, Eyw Examined SPECIALISTS - (Hasses Prescribed Prather-Simpson Furniture Co. ent (if th()>c thing.s,which seems « lit- accomplish little—that a community 15 M'est Main Street Phone 10! t.c difficult to understand. Even the. of me for the jH-ace of the w'orld. for the ,;;>oVinBr' tlHirkrenU and V;"-' prvvrvalion uf humanit.v and oivMiia- j caimel, who is able to g i long p.-riod-i source.s, may accomplish a great deal.p'^^ ^Hc adxanvement of the without walei, mu.st every now and This i.s the basis of ■our civilization i Ring Ioiti of God. I CTlinton, S, C. ii;;a;n have a drink; yet public school fciiday. *Tre Home-.Makers’ >♦♦♦♦♦♦ 1; f Hitt Tells Of MiirderiPlot (Continued from page one) tcAchcrs, though not famous for hav-j The (’hamtH*i‘'‘<)f Commen*e is the ivig secret bi.i k acct-iints on which | organizatiin through which .such co- t.oey might fall back in a time of trou-1 uperatioti luuat he br'ought about. It hie, are expected to g*>vftr unlimited is ha.sed on the well recognized prin- f*4*riod.s cf time, w ith neither financial | ciple that more can be accomplished water nor financial hnoe. Just how'j by working together for a common' prownlee was opened hy Solicitor Ho- tr.ese strange animals exist is one of j pu'poae than by individual effort. TheBlackwell, who read warrants in the myateiies of our civilization of . steady development of the idea and vvhich Henry Rasor and the ('risp id<*al • indicate its potentialities foFj brothers were charged with both mur- service. With this plan of enlarge- der and with being accessories before ment in view, a cgmmittee from this after the fad. - organization will wage a campaign' Solicitor Blackwell urged the three within the next few days for the pur-^len he committed .to jail without po^ of enlargirijif'niiie present metn-lLnd. He said Hitt’s testimony indi- bership, for the larger the meinher-plated “one of the foulest murders in ship and the TmahdaT resources at its — — — command, the ^greater the service i>er- f( 1 med and the results attained. It 1 - t >day. Do we look on education a.^ luxury? Such a view might have been excu.s- ahle or even quite cotumon hack ’.n the days of our gix-at-grandfathers, but it should he obvious to, all of -us of tl»e twentieth century that tsiucatiun :■< iMit a luxury but che of our most ur- ge4it necessities. Yet we treat our ed'i- cational system as we treht luxuriis: ■we treat it a.s if it is something i should lie entirely practicable to dou-■ can do without; we tivat it as if wc'hle tie piesent meml^rship, espe<'ial- would lie content to see our chi!<li ib ly in view of the substantial reduction with no “background’’—no culture—made this year in the membership INSURANCE REAL ESTATE no “world-mimledncss.’’ Education is not a ■aague term that due:' However, the All Kinds of Insurance and Real Estate. _ City Dwellings and Business Ghainher of t'om- ene either ha< or ha.sn’t. It d h*s not rneice alone, cannot do it all. The com- I*roper(y, descend out of the heavens on the' munity itself, down to the la.st man Also Several Farms, heads of unsuspecting people, .and it ami woman, must 'help. A.s citizens, does not unexjc tedly sjirout up from jwe shi uld all take an inten‘st in the the ground and t hoke the wnn-ds of activities of this body, and give our ignorance. Iviucatioii i» something encouragement and support to all new ^ that must le paid f o, ju.st^as it is (pd progressive movements which it k^linton Realty & Insurance Co. something winch e' r nt-ially pays for, .suggest or spon''or. It is soimdhing worth thinking itself in ihcrcHM'iJ i a jiaclty. ThetT'ased^ U'^efuhu'ss, and-improved citizenship. No, knowledge does not enU*r the unattentive «;,r w hile that ear is asleep and Ih.* i^wnei of the ear is snoring. Erro-A'ledge conres to us through books, and through the help of people who know about hooks and Prices Attractive. B. H. Boyd, Agent tealty & Insui Phone No. 6 IS .about. Ulinton is nothing more than the sum cf the people in it it’eannot he inyre than that. If our people ai'e' wi(le-aw-ake,- the town will he wide awake; if we sleep, it cannot do rnorej than slumber on. If everyone puts a shoulder to the load, the load must can help us understami them; it comes I niove—amd if the load doesn’t move iti to us^ through ibservation, and means only that there are shoulders; ^rthtough people who know how to di-lthat are not doing their share, rev t, explain and tiain this observa-, We have otre of the best towns in tion; in short, it c<>me.s through- the 1 the state, and yet it can easily go', itiedia of life and hocks, as made di- backward or die within the next ten gestible to us through the agent of—| years-unless we take a forward-look-1 Next the teacher. -ling viewpoint and unite and- jnlelli-' After all, thi.s pay question-ds one j gently work to prefnote its ihte’-ests. 1 over which most of us shrug our shoulders. It is a battle of the ele ments, we sav. One vague quantity which "“is khow'n as- !‘the' state’’ owes another vague quantity knoviv as “the teachers" (wb.oever they are) the trifling sum uf a million-odd dollars. Let the elements fight it out. We rtiould -worry. That is our whole trouble — right there. Unless we look at it slotiigiit— •nlcas we realize that the people who are teaching our cdiildren are not get ting any money for it—unleat we real- l»e tl»t “the state" is made up of ourselves and many others similar to ourselves, we are going to wake up > ooe day and find that tHare isn't any educational system in the state at nil. 'The state is ourselves. If we say aocnethhig M>oat this state of affairs, something will have to be don^. Don’t prate of-Meonomy. The teach- «rs can't economize ^iow the. zero Hne. They were hired In good* faith-^ tbouMitds of them — and they are working in good faith — have been g working on nothing but good faith : $0T aoma time. Many teachers hkve jMt been paid foil salaries since the of the I$J30-1981 session. A In other wo>rds, the future of Clinton*' is ih the hands of its businessr, men. If they go to sleep there will be more' merchandi.se on shelves and less mon-! ey in the cash drawer, more empty, store rooms and residences, more idle and unemployed. We will be pushed I aside by other hustling towns and cities in this section and we will soonj he out of the march of progress. In' clrmata, soil, paupla, sontiroeut, public | improvements, educational advantag-i es, railroad facilities, business activi-< ties, culture, (refinement, and perhaps I in many other ways not recalled ati time yoQ axe out of.fut' aa the result of ir> regular or faulty bowd movement, try Thedfoid'a BUu^*Draught for the ie> freshing relief it gives thousands of people who taks it. Bir. E. W. Cecil, a oonstraction sapor* intendent in Pulaski, Va, says: ''Whsalgat the moment as this article is being; written, Clinton is in ian enviable' class. 'The city must build well andl wisely now for the day of her greater j opportunities, and now during these trying times through which we are: passing, the need for such an organi-l zation is all the greater. j Our business and professional men' should solidly lirw up behind the| Chamber of Commerce without the.*" slightest urge or coercion. It is a duty ‘ that we owe ,our city. This organize-' tion iirjreality if the city’s civic clear-j mg house—a civic dynamo furnishing' thiough the cooperation of all of itsi I atipated, my haad have that dull, tired •at mymi ta faal hungry and I need aomathing to ■yatmn. to I taka Bbck-Dnr^kt Wa hava fcund Ik a Sold In SS^ctni I ■or ThadFordk WoifBK whr fer every montly itieaH du), Used for over $♦ ream BLACK' DRAUGHT 4 You Need Them^Now for Sure Success! Commanding Smartness Now C^sts No More ^ V at Benn^s! tl»ere*$ no toolc duie (U,s likt.;W doibes. You're a neir W • • • <» confidtna when you'ic s ifka. ren# I ^ oonhdima ^ in distinguished wylc. Sounds expensive ... bin k ically isn’t thU^m at Pennejr’s. Come m and see the bu^ iob fw You;|l be convinced by the ooSlm Wwia . .. the sbllful tailoring ... die becoming lines! Herts value to ^ipease the sbrewdex . . ibe mosr aitkall ^ PENNEY CO. INC ■j