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f 'i % . ti \.i: / V ^ f .'/ 4-f' . ■■3. PAGE EIGHT THE CLINTON'CHRONICLE 1 THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1932^ ‘U — ^u<:: il I I' % 1 I ^*L ?• t. i ■V We Don*t Really Vote For President (Written for The C^hronicle by Caleb]went coolraYy to thel Johnson Through AutiJtaster , * Service). On the Tuesday after the first Mon- y day in Noveml>er, which this year will jwsy would be forever out No6ody would tru.«t tliem parties that ^ politics, ahi more. And the type of men usually noh»inat- ed in state conventions as pre$idenH^ , , . electors are a high-minded, honorablejs fall, on November 8th, the qualified, altogether unlikely to go voters of the United States will go to | contrai y to the clearly ex,pressed their respective polling places and •mandated of the voters at the polls. If vote foi^-rW'hat? \ janyt^iing of the sort ever should hap- For president and \nce-pr^dent, | pen, it would be more likely to occur 'enlw , ' in some of the states with a smaller jmay not be enough mercjiry in the world, to enable everj^body who wants to use it in engines to do so. The largest production in a single year in the whole world was in 1929 when ■ ieas“ than 6.000 tons were extracted. i what other,'peop!e t^ink abnut him.' ANNUAL MEETING, JOANNA COTTON MILLS’ for Here’s another chance ture and wealth, Hustle around the odd comers of the world and find a cinnabor mine! N MOVIES J v/'ti the resources within themselves one who Uves so that he not care, to enable them to .face th|e world with out money. They knew no other way*, of life except by buying whatever they thought might contribute to their happiness. adven- In Mr, Eastpijah’s case it was not lack of money btit the feeling that he had finished his life’s work and would be happier dead^than ill, but in al most every other recent suicide the reason has been fear of poverty. i • , , ^1 act such other business as' may legal- The tmnual meeting of this Com pany will be held at Office in Gold-^ ville, on the ^d day of May, 1932, for the election of directors and to trans- The world has largely discarded the “Thrillers,’ mystery plays, i .{j'7 ^ ly come before said meeting. , slapstick comedies;"®*’®/ J’’ form of^punwmment be-i F L. DURGIN you’ll replye J'^’othing of tbe kind. The next jrresi^^l^elpFesentation in the electoral college. reeLs, travel films and animated by the^ majority dent and vice-president of the United States will not be elected until the second Wednesday in F^ruary, 1933. Voters will cast their ballots on No vember 8th for members of congre.ss, one in each congressional district of the entire nation. They vill vote for United States Senators — at lea.st in thirty-*wo states there will be s<*na- torial elections. They^ will vote for members of legislatures and for local officials, but nobody will have th. privilege ^of voting for the pre.«idc*i t or rtie vice-president. • N, All that anyone of th^ 72,000,0(M» qualified voters of the United State.* , can do next November will Ibe to vote for a list of presidential electors |foi [ of the popular vote. Mr. Wilson had Arizona, Helawaie, ^evada. New Mexico end Wyoming have only three oUctoral votes each Idaho Montana, New Hampshire, Utah and V’ermomt have only four each. Tw'o or three el( .tors in any one of these states ir cht kick over the traces and change '{• entire result of the presidential il'ttion. It does not depend in any ' ay upon the number of popular bal- ots cast by the voters, but does de- H-nd upon the number of presidential lectors voting for a given candidate. \ president can be, and many pres idents have been, elected and seated by a minority of the popular vote. Mr. Cleveland in 1892 got only 46 per cent in mining, for hent people re<?ently asked to express' suicide iptbe past. Fear of the i.-..—i-j .v_ ; wmrld’s opinioh has be<*ome a stin\u-' his or her respective state. He can vote for a list of Republican electors, or a list-of Democratic electors7or of Socialist l.abor or Prohibitionist or -Communist or Farm-Labor, or any other that may appear on the of ficial b^ot. If he wants to he can write in g list of names of presiden tial electors that don’t appear on the printed ballot at all. Any voter who w'ant.s to can vote for a mixed ticket,, including Rept-Olican electors. Demo cratic electors, and .«o on. But he can not vote direct for president or vice- president. Perhaps that sounds like school-; hook .stuff, that every child who has | 12 per cent of the popular vote in 1912 and 49 per cent of it in 1916, But those candidates carried the larger slates, with the largest number of electoral votes, and what elects the president is a majority pf the total number of electors. The electors of each state meet their state capitals on the first Wed- ne.sday in January and record their votes, which aic taken by mesjKmger^ to Washington and counted by the house of represt ntatives, which then declare s tljje candidatt^ having receiv ed the largest number of electoral votes to be elected president. If no candidate has a maloiity of .MitN(NG ^There is still mon^y.^in mining, for the man who Has the Knowledge, the strength and the; courage/tok^ckle it single-handed. For that mattetsTthere itors, merchants,' authors and scien- has always been money in minin^^nd tisbs were among those who txpiessed always will be whenever the cost of, them.selves. labor and supplies is less than the There aren’t enough of that sort of vi|lue of the oi4. "'' mihds, howeve*?, to provide the audi- Loeffler Palmer is running the ences'''necessary to the success of the “Rube” gold mine single-handed io motion ple^ure industry. Dr. Hendrick Utah. He bought compressor, a Willem Van J^on put his finger on tractor to run it^ and some compress- the spot when he Wrote: “Ninety per ed-air drills and started alone to op- cent of all people everywhere and at erate this abandoned working. From all times will never grow older, men- a depth of 180 feet he got out three tally speaking, than twelve years, and care of ore in four months last year will never be able to appreciate what and .shipped to the smelter, net- the other ten per cent Will like.” ting him $13,4^.29 for his work. { It’s the child-minded jiinety pee cent There are pl^ty of other one-man i for w'hoin nio't of the world’s com- l cartoons are preferred j the grave. Fear pf eternal dam-« iqqo ity of a group of promi- l^ds undoubtedly been a deter-L ^ ‘ ^ Secretary. their motiop picture preferences. Col-. t*-. : — \ lege'professors, hanks presidents, ed-M’’® to si^tde. The happiest man is the | SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICUB and mines in the West, too smal| for the big companies to bother with, but cap able of earning good pay for the men who work them. “Big business” hasn’t gobbled all the opportunities yet! modities, a.s well aj its entertainment, are produced, after all. SUGAR If you vi'ant to lay up your founda- .— ] tions, wa’ls and chitnne>’i^ in a mortar QUICKSILVER jthat will standTTorever and get The metal which everybody now; ago; mix a little sugar calls mercury was generally spoken of with the lime and sand. That’s what Dr. Gerald .1. Cox of the Mellon In stitute of Industria' Researen told the to seie how this mysteriou.s licjuid met al,* heavier than lead, was regarded as “live silver.” got as far as the study of .the Consti- j the electoral votes, however, the hou/e Man has used mercury for centur- tution of the United States knows al- of representatives itself then has the for the hacks of piirrors, a shorter u... : .. . to elect the preside:.t, and it time for the “stuffing” of theimome- in my boyhood as “quicksilver,” Re mendwring that “quick” in old-fash ioned Kngli.-h meant “alive” and not. j American Chemical soe'Icty the other as it./niean.s now, Vspeedy,” it is easy I The secret of the durability of the old Romah'Walls and aqueducts, which ready. But there is a possibility that this year it may not be merely school book stuff. For that reason, it is in- tere.sting to examine the method by whkh we choose our president and vice-president. " In thwry, presidential electors are l>ound to vote for the candidates of .hich have .stotKl for more than two thous- doesn’t have to choose from among the party nominees, hut can go out side of them and elect anybody who is qualifie<). That, too, has never hap pened. On the two or three occasions euily in our History when the election was thrown into the ,house of rt‘pre- their re.spective partie.s nominated in i sentatives, the leaping ^artv candi- the national conventions which are to , date wasvthe one eventually chosen. be h^ld during the coming summer. T’he Ii.st of Repi»blican candidates for presidential electors will be headed on the ballotw'ith the names of the nom inees of the Republican national con vention, and .so likewise will the Dem ocratic list carry the names of the Democratic nominees, end 8<,* on. And, of course, there is a moral obligation on the part of each presidential elec tor to vote for the candidate’s name at the head of the list on which his name appears. But no elector is un der any legal obligation to vote for any presidential or vice-presi<k*r.tial nominee. ^ In theory, the electors are Indepvn- ar.d yea,rs, is that they put sugar mto theii sand-lime mortar, making it 60 per cent s-tronger than “unsweetened” ters and barometers, for re<-overing; becoming harder with time, gold fniin its ore and for “silver” fil-] Five or six pounds of granulated cane lings in teeth. Its newest use, instead j to 100 pounds of liine the of water in steam boilers, promises ^^® result is a mortar that Thousands of Mothers * are waiting each week for this hour... create an unheard-of demand for mer cury. Experiments with a 6,(M)0-horse- power nrereury vapor boiler and-^ur- bine mafie hy W. L. R, Kmmett, dem onstrated a saving of about $1,000 a day over the use of water. Now a plant twice a.s large is being built, in which 125 tons of mercury will be va porized to produce “steam,” then con densed and used over .and over again. One, re.sult has been to raise the price of mercury from .$1 a pound t' is ea.sier to work than cement or gyp sum plaster and stronger than either. But 4 might Iwppim. Judge J. M. Hanley of North Da kota, has started a movement for in dependent electoral tickets in as many states as possible, in the belief that there is a great mass of voters who under no circumiitanccs want to support Democratic nominees and who will be opposed to the re-election of 1-2; another, to start a “mercury fiish” Mr. Hoover, who seems certain to be^n Arkansas, where beds of cinnabar, the Republkan nominee. If such inde- the ore from which mercury is re pendent lists of electors can be set up fined, have been discovered. There in a few strategically located states, and should be electc*d, there might be a sufficient number of independent electors, so chosen, to prevent either SUICIDE - Within the past ^.few weeks the, world has been shocked by the sui- h cides of two outstanding figures,' George Kastman and Ivor Kruger. Only two or three years ago Alfred l.,owen8tein, another great financier, jumped out of his airplane as it was crossing the British channel. Literally thousands of other men who had been more or lesjk prominent in business and indu.rtrial affaire have killed themselves in the past few years because they were not equipped It’s the hour when son or daughter or old friends visit her each wedt from some distant place by tdephone. How happily she looks forward to this hour. Thousands of families are doing this each wedt . .. enjoy ing a ihdrt, inexpensive voice visit by telqshone with mother or ocher members of the family^ living in ocher cities. Because your voice is you over the tde^ phone, such visijbi sre just u personal as though you were in thing to do. Try it toni^t and the same room. sec for yourself. It*s surprwng Visiting loved ones at regu- how little it costs lar intervals by long distance to talk with dts- telephone is a nwst pleasing tant friends. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company ( INCOIPOSATSD ) IIIIIHI of the major party candidates from dent and entitled to use their indepen-1 getting a majority in the electoral^t___ -dent individual judgments. In .New* j coI|ege. .Knd that is wHat Judge ^ork .state, for example,, there are ley and a group of anti-Hoover Re-i^K forty-five presidential electors to be | publicans are aiming at, 'They want toI^S chosen. It has never happened, hut it throw* the election of 1932 into the' SS house of representatives. That’s another thing that isn’t likc-;^^ ly to happen, but also it is romelhlngj^S party tickets, might decide to vote for that might happen. jag the candidates on one of the olheFj ■— , n —^ SS tickets, or for an independent candi- wv C* a date. If the Democrats, for examnle, i INCW tSllI iasXdliptS elected their entire li.-t of presiden-j ^11 D tial electors, and twenty-three of the A t r I might happen, that one or two or three or any numbe,r of th'ew forty- five, although eleit^ on one of the foity-f’ve decided beftveen elecl’on day in Noveintwr and the fir.st Wesl- ne.sday in January that they prefer red the Republican candidates or the Prohi()ition candidates, they could turn oyer the vote of New York state Frees From Taxation For Five Years Bequests To Orphanag es and CtdIeRes. to the'other party, regardless of hoV I ^ * saving to large a majority of individual voters ii*reri)yterian college of approximate^ I)ur- had « xpressed them.selve3 for u ticular candidate. “ - «i( Ncthing like that'has over hapiH'n- ly $500 annually in state taxes has been pa.-<sed.by the South Caroina leg islature. The bill was sponsored by and nothing like that is at alH j)j._ John MciSween, president of the! sag likely to happen. The electors ^*|college. and I>r. R. C. Grier, president Kiskine college. The new law exj ADVERTISING -iS Tv I of v- At Tho Change lempts from taxation_real estate o\m-[^s led by en^winent funds and i^TI mein^ la saving of approximately $5,000 an- WILLIAM WRIGLEY, the chewing gum mag- 1 A .Critical Time In Every Woman*! Ufe. "During a critical time In my life I took Cardul for'several months. I had hot flashes. I would sud denly get dizzy and teem blind. I would get faint and have no strength. Ify nervep were on edge. I would not sleep at night. "Cardul did won dert for me. I ree* ommend it to all women who are pass ing through the crltl- eal period of change. I have found It a fide medicine. WelMe Paptar Mtpff, jTa. OMdills a pomlj vif^ j nually to various orphanages and ed ucational institutions in the state. * .Announcement was muijk* some ^•eeks ago that Jit, MeSween and Dr.lSSS Greer were making an effort to have | SS i such a bill pas.sed, but not until .March 17, when the senate passed on'zm it, did the bill become a reality. It SS I passed the senate on second reading after Senator Nash, of Sumter, had'^S .offered an amendment to include or- Iphanages in the bill. The document, s as it originally rt‘ad, exempted from,SS taxation certain real estate belonging ttp churches, religious societies. and'^s educational institutions. Senator|S=: Nash’s amendment added orphanages I to this list. j ^2 , The bill reads as follows: “Real es-^ Itate acquired by gift derised or un-’S der proceedings for the foreclosurt of ; ^5 mortgages .securing loans made hy'^s orphanages or e<lucsticnal linstitut’ons SS as an investment of their dndowmgnt s or other trust funds is« exempted' SS from taxation for a period of five SS years, or until the property can be’S : disposed of in the meantime.” •t STOCKHOLDERS NOTICE S Notice it hereby given that the an-^as nual meeting of the stockholders of '^S the Joanna Mercantile Company,'S Goldville^ S. C., will be held at the,S otftece o#*the company on Wednesday,'^* May 4, IDSt, at 11 oVlocfc a. “^be transactsoo of aueh bi^ineas as may come before the meeting for con-'SS nate, whH died recently, amassed a great for tune, and he zittributed^iis success to advertis- 1^. While traveling on aTast train some thne ago, a friend asked Wrigley why he continued to spend millions of dollars for advertising. "Your gum is now known the world over and the people have the habit; why don’t you save^ the millions you are spending on advertiung?” asked the friend. Wrigley thought for a mo ment, then adeed: "How fast is this train go-' ing?” "About sixty miles an hour,” replied the x , friend. 'Then why doesn't the railway com pany reimve the engine and let the train travel on its own momentum?”^ asked Mr. Wrigley. - I 8. G. DlIXARD, SeciwtJiry 4-28-8tc. e \ \ \ \