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TOE CXJNTON CHRONICLE
THURSDAY. MAY 19. 19»2
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Nobbdy’s Business
By Gte McGee
plantingj^ime have got it, <
roses WTOh it com» tb looks.
Stamps, Clinton; Freeman Parker, Elr^ith, Reeder, Yearout, Wald-op,
Macon, Ga.; Bothwell Graham, Clin-j Camthers'Underwood, Patton,
ton, and Bob Lynn, Clinto^.
f' ■ i
no homei' Is complete without flow-!
I ers and a radio, when you see a house* following were awarded letters
that is umbW and ramshackled, it it baseball: H. A. Copeland (cap-
McDuffie, Jordan, Oliver, McCaskill.
Everybody’s UasinesK i. ^ i
i I wish folks would let my thing.s'^** flowers in the front piazza, even ‘ Clinton; Charles Barre't, Bar-
alonc*. I tried to shave thi.s morning,’" planted in tomato cans-bouriviUe^W. Va.; H. J. Montgomery,
and .somebody had put a tube of tooth-' buckets, you <;an just p.ut it down BishopvilF; W. J. MoCutchen, St. j
paste where I always kept my tube fbat happiness rules suppreme within ^X^^Jiarles; A. W. Williams, Fayette-i
of fhaving cream—and before I knew||^® faithful to,yj|]g^ C.; .Archie Cheatham, Abbe-,
l it, 1 was completely lathered with-iviile; Leroy Keehle, LaGrange. Ga.;i
'tourhimj^te. •,“771 ♦ * u -Tohn Odiorne, Manning; J. C. Fkm-'
the prettiest not flower IS the tetch-,. . . ;
• ing. New Z’on; Carl Adams. Charles-
E. .\lo4id Smith, U. D
Felder. Smith. O. D.
DRS. SMITH & SMITH
Optometrists
.And just .3 nights before, I wenti
me-not, next comes th^ morning
.glory and -the two-lips but for raill^®’’’ LaGrange, Ga.; H.;
SPRCIALISTS
Intu that same bathroom and thouzhty.^tfulness, picso ghe me plenty Bissett, Tampa, Fla., and H .L. *>■« Eiamined
I 1^.14 t:4lr nc7 n /wkC4> nt . . ... . * ^ I «« . • ««» .
I w.« taking a dose of j dalyers and chrisantheum.s. the nicest' Nettles, Florence.
,t took mo 1., mmutes to get that Oldlfj^,^^ buttonhole is, K,e,hma ,numeral, were
Dutch ( leanser out of rny mouth, nose,, ,-.1 ^'<^'>nma.. numcrai> were
4:—^.:i„ e I the pea-tuniei, but hllies of the \al- fnilnwino'! r’larL- Pt*
anywh^es.
ty'^as w’ell as
; when tWy
15 West Main Street
eyes, ears, throat and tonsils, Soine-;i
body else had be< n meddling.
ley-r hsive not gone anywht
flowers is all.so prett
for chickens to eat
sup-i
good I
shed
rec(fiv2d
by the following: Clark, Perrin, .Mc-|
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Clinton, 8. C.
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CLINTON. S. C., MAY 19. 1932
laots of times I put my razor on the| j.jjgjj. seeds.
little shelf: W'hen 1 get.ready for it,|
it ain’t on the shelf. What will w’omeiil . .
do next? The baby had my tooth-\ '* "'"'r?
bee would be out of a job. he sucks
.All; roads
Tnencement.
load
i'brus^) ye.sterday combing the cat’s
Some men are wise, y.ou have
ticed, some otherwise.
w'e
peak for everyt,.^ of our read-' ' blosaoms
i his nectar fmm the violets and peach
this week to com-1 we ran only ray that we_know that, ^ .
blossoms and cotton blooms and
hmk hi.x mother gave me. There are '’“"'S’ 't into the honey connb and
plenty toothbrushes, but only *hen you rob the gum. there a yore
htmey. we would not live without
' flowers ansoforth which we ' send to
the sick when they are well and to
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no-
?rs in trying inadequately to express
our heartfelt sympathy. We know
I th»it they will bear up bravely, for
)oth of them have proved that they
But if we could all do as we please, ai -’ of the stuff of which heroes are
who would wash the dif^bes? I made. It vs the very irony of fate that
•My typewriter chair is iriway.s lean
,‘,the dead when they die, allsn to#ved-
And Jet the
weevil WORRY
Here is a fiJ’e motto: don’t look for happ'riess,
wider fields until you cultivate tho.se
you haye,.^
to them,' who merited nothing but ugaiiist the rad.ator w.th thin^ 1 dings and other sad missions.
... htinirincr tku/*Lf nf it tr\ M v»
should have occurred a
hanging on the back of it to dry. My
eraser i.s harder to keep up with thhn!
Halley’s comet. I. simply have to keep|,
at Ica.'t 4 hats handy or spend the 1
Ab(
a hobby
for the job.
)Ut the only differenci between
by and a job i- that .Nt)u gel paid
.lagedy .so av,ful that for the rest of
their lives they must live in its shad
ow. Theie is, perhaps, a small meas-, . u 4 wu .
«• I 4;.,« ...x kU-.F day at home hunting my hat that one
OK* ot consolation in the ntw.s that .... ... . '
signed,
mike Clark, rfd,
auther and ritf*:-.
JWKS like H mighty bad weevil year. We had
the liltle rraclle will nol long be emp-lj'f 'he kidx ix either wearing in "'''iStudentS Gct
l>, Fnl ,he memorj. nf their n.uidered i '’“''k .'tt' d nr xitting tn elsewhere. VlCl
Women mav look iK*ttoi tb.in mco,
but a mail (ioosSi'i ha've to .stay at
home after In wash(*s <h > head.
•IUhl let me leave my .specs an the i
dresser a few minutes: they are re-;
Block Letters
mi-ssing immediately, and when Ccllege Council Makes Award To
get thep, again, they have jS Varsity Athletes. Fresh-
A.’.so Get .Numerals.
uni powder, facial creme, mur-l
fir^t-boin will tug forever at their
heartstrings.
but there is an aspect to this crime
'vbitfh toiiche.s ntd the Lindbergh fam- 7*1-
^ i!y alone, but every one of us in these j ^ •'
^ . 1 riled States of America. This mur-1
.y (iKK.yr man I'ASShS .-urn,h,n,nv and.ba.,- all ever them.'
If grnat mnn viun thn rulv. and ,f l.winxsnnsr. nf unpun-{ ' I’'*" "" «"<* '’ntc-hex
insignificant men were, the exceptnm, reckle.ss crime which has'night, our little girl wears both of. At a meeting of the .Athletic coun-
tlK-re wduld be no point, in comment- «wd6ping over our country in sleeoy—and she’s ^ cil Wednesday afternoon, letter.s were
ing on the death t^f a great man. .it has'^*’^’ them in tbr* same neigh-awarded in track and ba.seball, and j
.Nuch is not the case. Once or twice in public indignation to a pitcii] the same night. freshman numerals awarded in track,j
to which it has never been befo-e' ' ! FifU'en track award-s, thirteen base-
‘‘.antu-e-l, and we hop^jjiat this great . hardest time at all ‘ hall letter.s and fourteem freshman
outpouiing of public indignation ma./1'''th niy^ghV shirt ^nurneral.s for track were pass«.d upon
find concrete expression m a stern d,-,d on/he Door near the bed, but, . ‘’J*’ upon
t.rmination to put an end once and tb«‘ 'maul hangs it in the pmk-room > <ountu.
for all to wholesale lawlessness and
a generation a soul of tituntic diincti-
,<>10118 lifts it.seif abi»ve the level ttf the
a.verage lifts it.-elf so far above that
level that it .'orves the generations
that follow a.s a landmark by which
Ihe^’ made guide their lives. These
landmarks are only too few; hi.story
saves them for us in the re-or ls of
<teeds, of dreams, and ■>“ i. co:n;)ii.-h
inents; it is to them that w< turn foi
and
m> way out of our trou-
i^spirat 1)11
'■eeni' t * bt
bb s.
But history has bei 11 known to
ov« rb)ok men vvh ) a.e ir ilv 'rent—
10(11 who have nf)t made nution.s mir
won battles with, c innoM.- roaitiig;
but who have :'.eve|the!:‘'S lifted
themselves far enough a!)ove the com
monplace for a few to ."ee, to admire,
to revere, to follow. I'erhaps they
will not be remembered as long as the
immunity for criminals.
it i a s.mple stiteinent of fact that
tne iciponsibility for the kidnaping .
murder of the Lindlx^rgh baJiy knows|very well that I have only one
I.. Hrigman, ba.se-
closet on Monda.v and Friday, in thei^®^^ manager, and B. H. Boyd, track
linen closet on Tuesday and Sunday, j received manager’.^ letters.
and she thrt»ws it ill the wash (laun-|
dry) thf other nights — when she
and
..trvrgth whvi. thervl
h:i,s i)ci:nilted, without protc.st, the
c! initial element to defy the law, to
coirupt public officials charged
night shirt a week.
Well, I g Is it’.s all right. If I can j
with’keep my ft- ntain pen and watch and’i
the enforcement of law, and to mock
: t .he law-abiding. It lies at the dror
of <<very lawyer who has connived to
my teeth, I 1 - ome out f in* in the end,]
but what ' me i.s which end.j
Why. 2 or .7 d'f'crent j):*ople check!
■ Itan the acquittal of a known cri!n-:'»M i».v hank accou^lT^nd 1 know bet-1 KU.-ta. Ga.; .1.
rial. It Te.s at the door of every judge' ter’n to kick about it too, but consid-' B. Copeland,
who has given convicted offenders 1 ei ing ever.vthing, I gue.ss 1 -have the! Pinson. Greenville; Powell Freeman,,
light sentences or has suspended s<‘ii-j fine-t tamil.v in the world. They are i (’oiuji-.hia; Ralph Kainpey, Clinton;
it tices altogether. It lies at the doarj inightj >weel to ine ^a.s long as ' Geoj jfe Kwing, Waycro.ss, (Ja.; .1. IL
of e'eiv sheriff, every constable, ev- ' ’* ‘ "■
Nominations Were also made for
next year’s mariager.s. These names
will be voted on by the .student body
sometime in the near futur<‘, t'
Tho.se leeeiving track letters are as
follow.s: \N'. K. Sent<*r (captai/i), ('hat-
tanooga, Teiin.; John Osnusn, Brazil,
Indiana; Hob Gillespi<*, Decatur, Ga.;|
I). F. Brown. Laurens*; Bill Zealy, Au-
O. Woods, (’hester; .1.
Spartanburg; Furmaoi
two bone-dry summers in 1930 and 1931 and
arc about due for a wet one now. Owing to mild
weather, weevils had a picnic all winter and,they
are just waiting for the squares to form.
It is going to be a race between the cotton
and the weevils. Cotton sure is going t^ have a
job keepirg ahead of the weevils without a little
help from you. Not muc^, if any, fertilizer under
it, the crop is almost sure to be slow and sickly
by June. Just the way the weevils want it.
VThat they do to your crop depends largely
on what you do fbr your crop! '
Sidc-dres"! Chilean Nitrate, 100 pounds per
acre (200 pounds would be much better) will set
the crop early, ahead of the weevil. Then you are
reasonably safe. But be sure you get Chilean^
Nothing takes its place for side-dressing cotton.
Your dealer has it or can get it on a moment’s
notice. See him now!
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200 LB. BAGS
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•hvci.' ain’t turnt*d down—and that |
kings, the statesmen, the ptiets, the
prophet.'^ but they are nevertheless ery iioiire officer who has (alien short! hasn’t happened yet, but it mought. |
leir lives j,,’ Hiitv of relentless uursuit o‘'| f.*;;T77i=
worthy of our resi>ect, for the
have 1 een based on the idealism, the
hone-sty. the strenkth. the unfaltering
euurage, which should le* our own cri
teria. "
Among such was Kol>ert Dollar, the
Grand Old Man of the Pacific Coast,
his duty of relentless pursuit
Cl iiniuals and suppression of crime j Monroe, N. C.., May 17, lUd2.
No more terrific indictment of an Mi. Alike C lark, RID,
Care of McGee Syndicate,
.Anderson, S. C,
Dear Mike:
I read your essay on Spring last
entire nation can be drawn than our
indictment 'by the rest of the civtliz-'d
world, which today looks upon the
United States of America as the pa*-a-
who died during thaipasl week. This (,f th*. criminal and U|K»n our ^ week and enjo/ed jt. 1 teach a coun-j
mau. eighty-nine years of age. i.s as p^xypi,. as the most cowardlv i||id ?iu- try sihool and I frequently read your
tfwiy a .synvb<4_of the-.«4aki«g of..tba| m 4Ai—.pupils and they Jikaf >--■
Pacific seaboard as Henry Ford is a lavviei-.sness, to be found Upon the face them. The larger boys and girls have j ^
symbol of the automolrile industry, j jhr- globe. I ■ j asked me to ask you to write a com-1
Through his etturage, vision, and in-j w^. hope that^ut of the death of a position on flowers ana let itfappear i
dornitable will, one of the greatest of! little child may spring a’flaming spir-
world shipping-systems was built upljt which will fire the American people,
— a system that served every market; ^ot to vt ngcance tout to relentless de-
of the world, stirred the dewp blue of
the aewp
every body of trading-water.
RirlKut l)ollar was an idealist of the
type that is so rarely seen—the ideal
termi’iation to set our house in order,
to give known criminals no quarter,
*^110 bring Wfore the bar of justice ev-
*'eiv one who has connived with cr.mi-
in Gee .McGee’s column at an early |
date. Pleu.se do this for a red-headed:
school marm.
yores trulie,
Lucile V'
ist who is not only a great dreamer pjj'is to evade and escai^e the law, and
but a great doer as well — the man
who combines thought and action.
Several times he failed, but on every
oocasioji he used failure as the mate-
so to put our country tonck into the
list of civilized nations.
flowers
flowers is the wonderfullest things!
in the world 4:nd the world wpuld not -
I l? ? *4 4 W ‘
rial for' a new success. He was down States to the most remote towrn con
but never out.
To the reader of cuiVent fiction.
j be fit to live in if it wassent for same.
We call upon our public authorities., beautiful flowers that grows
from the President of the United
Gapta.n Dollar is familiar in the fig
ure of “<'appy Ricks," the famous
< haraett rizatioli from the pen of
Peter H. Kyne. The author has given
us something, though not alL of the
soul of the man. "Gappy 7Rifles"
emerges from every'story as^ lova-
-table. to make the suppression of
crime and lawlessness the chief aim
6f their office from now on, and in
taking the most drastic means at
th'dr command, to clean the cesspools
of crime, they will have the hearty
and unhesitating support of every
good,citizen. And, *t the same time,
they should be warned that unless
down in the palter and is et up by the
cows, who don’t appreciate them, al
ways make me hippy when i drive
them to the house To be milked.
ble, inspiring fighter, in spite of & | gpe^dyevidence is given that the long
rather explosive temper. In this sense, (j,e law has not yet in Aiiieri-
Peter B. Kjrne has given us a true, power, those responsible
wild flowers are pretty as tame
floweis. in a great many cases, th
cape jesserman which trives out in
the swamps vies With the jhonny
quills in the front yard for beauty
and dogwood blossoms which always
bloom about whippt‘r-will and corn
indication of his prototype—but there, execution, who fail in their
waLB% great deal more to Captain 1^1-1 ^ill face an aroused •popular in-
x^lar—enough to make of him a lA*t>ngi which will put a speedy and
tradition to every port of the Pacific, ^ff^xetive end to their careen*.
Vixion fore, .dh^renc. to tho fin-
„ -ru,.,. I the declaration by the Preaident of
which inade ^^rt Dol ar. T^> ai-t | SUtea' that thix crime
theqoalitiex which have made near-, ^ ^ «,ver-to4m-
ly even- yre.t nmn of the world » hm- ^ „„„ ,, fc,
tory. Perhap. thix moxt Arntil thoie eriminala are implacahly
minder of the elementx ^ laaDn* ^
greatness may make aome of us hesi- . ® '
tate a monient, take off our hats to j * ’
a real man. and resolve to “go thou It will not aafrioe iMrely to find
and do likewise” in so far as we are ‘nd to punish murdereri of little
stole.
'THE LINDBERGH TRAGEDY ,«>giid Ahe aatiepation of crime, of de-
The most shocking tragedy in'fiant criminals and of organtsed
American history sHice the asaassina- crime, shall never be relaxed until
Charlie Lindbergh. The times, and the
temper of the American people, d'
mand that the pursuit of criminals
tion of President McKinley, thirty-
one years ago, is the ruthless murder
el^ the Lindbergh baby, by the fiends
who stole the infant from its crib and.
none shall dare to affront the niajesty
n(e
of the law and to drag the fair na
of America into the du^
There should be no plea for mercy
apparently, killed the little boy and^ in this case. “Inasmuch aa ye >ave
hid hii bodv In the woods when they | done i.t,unto:one <rf the least of these
found themselves pursued.
my children ye have done it unto Me.**
imagine no crime
We can
than this. Nothing could be more
shocking, nothing could to move the
worse That is the stem denunciation of die
Lindbergh murderers which hiss come
down to us through the ages. And if,
hearts of the whole world to pity Tori as a result of the indignant7public
the little one whose life had hardly' feeling which this crime has amused,
begun, to tearful sympathy with bis ^ there should be a restoration of our
beloved young parents and to stern j country to jts historic state of law
and righteous Mn^er at the perpetra-1 and order, then we may again qupte
tori of this foul dped. . j from the same inspired a'ld sacred
. fiOjjthe gallant “Lone Eagle” and-j source; t
f diD less heroic young wife, Anne,' “And a little child shaU lead them.”
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