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THE CLINTON'CHRONICLE
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THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1932^
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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.
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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!
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MOVIES
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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.”
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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
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friend. 'Then why doesn't the railway com
pany reimve the engine and let the train travel
on its own momentum?”^ asked Mr. Wrigley. -
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8. G. DlIXARD, SeciwtJiry
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