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L I ’ i a A r »«(>{• THE CLINTON CHRONICLE J tHURSDAY, JULY 7, IdS (Clinton (Ct^onirir fftibBtlnd IfM ILSON W. HARRIS. Editor and PublisiMr Pnblithad Every "niunKUy By CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY TT SabskrHption Rate (Payable In Advance): Ore year |1.50; Six Months 75 cenU; Three" Months 50 centi Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post-Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—^the publisher wiH at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly ad vice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. — „ the tail, he had a.long peddigree and was mostly bird with possibly a sprinkling of shej^rd. a good deal of censure is being talked aganist mr. brown for running over the said dog, and he may be took to law. and taints the judicial ermine. It de- j grades the citizep, debases the legis lator, dishonors the statesman and disarms the patriot. It brings shame, 'not honor; misery, not safety; despair, not hope; sorrow, -not happiness, and ! with the malevolence of a fiend , it the drug stoar has put in a large calmly surveys its frightful desola- radio and plays some pretty tunes‘tion and unsatiated havoc. It p<)isons while his customers are drinking soda felicity, kills peace, ruins morals, water at the fountain, he got cuby blights confidence, slays reputation, on it last night, but noboddy under-j and w’ipes out national honor, then st(M)d what w’as on the program, as he curses the world spoke only the cubian language. ! ruin. It does all miss jenhie veeve smith went out'* murd Cr<^ Prospects In die County Reported Above The-'Average County Agent C. B. Cannon Thinks ^is Year’s Crops of All Kinds Compare Favorably With 'TTiose of Past Yeare. Boll Weevil Only Menace. -- 1 riding again with the stove peddler] villannies, the father of all crimes, 'on mondrf^’ oight' and got in rather .and mother of all abominations, the j late, the scholl bored is watching her'devil’s best friend, and God's worst 'steps with intere.st. they can’t find'enemy.”—^^Rutherfordton News. I out what is going on, but she is a j I good teecher. — our pasture at ' rehober basan-j _ , . _ . mgrr x 'wTT^wTr* . nounced his texx for his sermont next j JOAWI^I A iyl.jLLALi NEWS Sunday which as followers: “be ware| ^ m ^ i ^ ^ 11^.^ unless yore sins find you out, as a “The crop prosjiect in Laurens coun- for cattle and livestock. At no time ty, taken as a whole, is as good if not in the histdrj’ of the extension ser- and laughs at its better than 1 have ever seen it at vice, perhaps, has there been-more . It dws all that and more. It this time of the year,” stated C. B.j success attending >he poultry busi- der.H the soul. It is the sum of all. Cannon, county agent, in an inter- ness in this section. Not that prices view last week on the agricultural 1 are better for poultry produces, but situation. With a cotton acreage as j the supply of eggs and fowls of utili- large as any previous season in thejty ages is more abundant. ' history of the county, Mr. Cannon , Altogether, the situation a? to the said the crop is extra good, well cul-' crop outlook and the generous returns tivated and in excellent condition. 1 already harvested from field and gar- The only'thing that promises a check; den is cause for gratification on the CLINTON, S. C., JULY 7, 1932 : man reaps what he sows, and if 4ie | £pent last week ' SOW'S to the wind he will reap a cy-jj^y Murphy. If you make it a rule to pay as you go, you will stay at home more. TTie way to keep business from l>e- ing slow is to push- it. 'clone." all come with an offering for It. least of all the hoy missions. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd, corry spondent. As we understand it now. normalcy means less inc<»me for everybody. No matter how brightly th(* sun shines, a man can get under a cloud if he isn’t careful. Ib>n’i worry about a poor start. It give.s you ju.st that much more to brag about if you succeed. much about himself. The small l>oy isn’t old enough to; under.'land the troubles that worry] hi.s eiders. He hasn’t had enough ex-^ perience to rx'alize that life, for most people, betw'een the ages of fifteen and, say, sixty, is a succession of more ; or less tragic emergencies. .School, of | course, is an awful nuisance, and i keeps him from being completely hap-! py nine or ten months in the year. ' If we were asked to point out the] happiest individual in the world we’d j pick almost any country hoy of twelve' or thiiteen, in the summer. ; on the crop prospect now is the even' part of all the j>eople. di.'tfibiition of the boll weevil which —> Miss PN'elyn Murphy of Cross Keys, appears to be getting in very good ^ ^ ^ w'itb Mr, and Mrs., work; Poisoning has been applied ef- I fectively by about the usual number, but a large per cent of the farmers are not using the exterminating methods Hurricane News Mi.-'s Ethel Jame.s of Ninetv-Six, spent last w’eek-end with her aunt, Mis.s Luna Grant, Miss Hattie Edwards has returned j from a visit to relatives in Athens,! and the crop is ver>* even and promis- Ga. . I ing. Early varieties are pntnding Mr. and INGERSOL ON WHISKEY spent Robert Ingersol, the famous think er and infidel, had the following to .say about whiskey. If an infidel thinks the following what should the (’hri.stian think and do? Mr. and Mrs. James Dendy the week-end in Asheville. P'riends of Mr. Earl Holsonback will • .Mrs. Lewis Simpson were 0 ; the Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. There is an increased corn aert^age j m. Simpson. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Cromer spent a few days last w'eek wdth Mrs. Cro mer’s mother, Mrs. I, 0. Rav. M rs. Douglas Davis and little son, •>1 'The fellow who tries to Iwat the poker game doe.sn’t deserve any syni- * pathy, but his family often d(H‘s. j Nobody’s Business By (iee McGee Another obstacle to thrift is that wf always fee'l richest while sjH'nd- if‘C- None of us understand the full ifie'aning of perfection. Hut we may all set our hands and brains and hearts It- its attainment. .Where Are You (ioing? Lhave been trying to analyze .sev eral kinds of j>eople here of late, and I 1 have come to the conclusion that j two-thirds of us are crazy about cer tain things. I can not find many |)eo-j pie that are contented with their lot. j If they have much, they want more;| if they have nothing thev waut an automobile, and if they gt‘t ui auto mobile, they (apparently) are fied—for the lime l>eing. green corn for home use and local market purposes. The grain crop, with an increase of Marion, of Laurens, spent a few days be glad to know that he is Improving i acteage, has turned out the largest last week w’ith her parents, Mr. and after an operation. i average yield in many seasons. Mr. Mr^. G. C. Nabors. Little Miss P'rances Craft sfK'nt last ^ Cannon has found. Tbe crop is now*' Mr. and Mrs. James Shannon and week with her sisters in Newberry, j being threshed and numerous out-j children of Newberry, spent the week- 0. M. Templeton, Clisby Templeton,; standing acreage yields are expected' end with Mr, and Mrs. Mace Y^ourtg. Miss Avanelle Templeton and Ro.v | to be reported. The oat crop likewise Johnson l^uncan of Charlotte, N. C., as the land could pro- spent Sunday with his i sister, Mrs. the result that the farm- Rex Y’oung. abundant feed crop saved. Mr. and .Mrs. J. W. Hr)rt()n and chil- until ouuua.v iii v,mun. i \egctable gardens have received dien spent Sunday with their daugh- rf?ath di ! of f^liolon. more attention Ihia seaaon than ha. tor, Mrs. Andy You,,?. ( nip lo. no ^ ^ » spoilt^ last wook-ond with Miss Chry.,- boon the ca-so in many years, .Mr. Can- J Mrs. C, C. Younjc is s|M*ndinjr thi i tell Craig. , , non finds, and as a result the people week in Newberry with her son and Mr. and .Mr.s. John DuHois and son# in towms and villages and rural com-1 daughter-in-law, .Mr, and .Mrs. Ralph hoiifjr and crime, it demoralizes every- b(Hly that touches it. 'u— “i do not believe anybody can con- , 1 ♦ 4U \ i Kfino-Tir<» ' Ibinald, are spending their vacation niunitv alike are well supplie<l with I Y'oung. template the oh,)e';t without being pre- • naviL-otr,, v v, r u 4 ui i j i*- imliced avainst the liuuor crime. All "‘Ir relative.s in O.swego N. Y .| fresh vegetables. In addition canning Mr. My idea of hell- need be nothing more nor less than ai paviKi ■ THE NOMINEES .Smith and Garner — chosen as the InnuK-ratic standard bearers at the (’hicago convention la.'^t week, -will prove a popular ticket th':;- f ill siir.e both are held in high estimation throughout the country. Al .Smith, who ha.s displayed one of the worst] fine place, with wonderful :\pi‘s of ingratitude ever known in roads, beautiful fields rational politics, set out to block Roosevelt's nomination but he was whipjied in short order and left the I onvcntion. The breaking un of the -Smith-Raskob combination will tbere- foie |>rove a great boost and opnefit *.o the party. The Democrat.' have an unu.sually hT ,od opportunity for victory at the NovemlKT j)oHs with Roosevi’lt and Darner as their leaders, and with a nlatfoiin founded on sound principles i.hei than jiolitival exi>t‘diency. j There’s another class of tieople that . lean be punished without having to iudiced against the liquor we have to do, gentlemen, is to think of the wreck.s on either bank of the .<tieam of death, of the-suicides, of the in^anity, of the ignorance, of the destitution, of the little children tug ging at the faded and withered breast of weeping and despairing mothers, raTi's-i'^^ wives asking for bread, of the men I of genius it ha.s wrecked, the men i -struggling with imaginary serpents,.! i produced by this devlish thing; and when and Mrs. for some folks - of the aims hou.'es, of the asylums, of the , , prisons, of the scaffolds upon either s, oeautilul lields and forests, that every I lovely landscapes, and thousands of ^^oughtful man is prejudiced against ,ni]ty automobiles parked here and this damned stuff called ‘alcohol.’ there and everywhere, theirs for the, ..iptempciance cuts down youth in asking, with no “down” payment re- <|iiire<l—but not a drop of gasoline to Ik‘ had. .No punishment could be great er than that for about half of our population—and heaven won’t be hea ven to many souls unless there are automobiles and pbmly of filling sta tions there. A GOOD IDEA • )iie of the sanest ideas to qirevent projKT manipulation of stock ex- hanges seems to be that voietd lie- ■f ' re a senate committee the ether ilay \ Prof,. William Ripley of Harvard, w no .suggested that the big co 'por- '• jniblic inspection. Although this may seem, on the 'urfa.-e, a radical suggestion, its value /HX’omes afiparent when you stvip to '.nink of the way unscruimlous I'^^gers O’ the market+an and do <‘oi'i\ .-^tock values up or down In'cause )t inside >.formation on a lompany’s financial c 'ndition. Till' gentle custom of unloading on swim about in a lake of fire ami brim stone: Think of a “hereafter” with palaces of gold and streets of silver, and ivory-toip card tables, arul .seoring cards a-plenty, and a crowd of anx- its vigor, manhood in its strength, old 1 age in its weakness. It breaks the' father’s heart, lH*reaves the doting! mother, extinguishes natural affec- [ lion, era.ses conjugal love, blots out] filial attachment, blights parental; hopes, brings down mourning age in 'soii«>w to the grave. . “It produces w'eakne.ss, not' strength; sickness, not health; death,! not life. It makes wives widows, chil-i dren orphans, fathers fiends; and all | of them jiaupers and beggar.s. j “It feeds rheuinatiLin, invite.s chol era, imports pestilence, and embraces ! consumption. It covers the land with misery’ and crime John Shannon and Mr. and Mr.s. FL L. Smith spept last is now under way and all the surplus daughter, Faye, and Mr. and Mrs. week-end with Mr. and ,Mr'v, James from garden and field will lie saved C, H. Shannon and Mr. and Mrs. Griffin in Newberry. ' ' and stored for winter. This is one of i "Bill” MiU-hell and little son, Billy, Mr. and Mrs. L, A. McCurry and j the oasis spots in the economic .“^itu- weie the Sunday guests of Mr, and little daughter. Novella, spent the ation- of today, opines the county Mrs, Mace Young, week-end in Hodges. I agent, and he is gratified to find that Mr. and Mrs. Whitman Neal and B. Bullard o'/ Bristol, Va., visiUdisuch general response has been made' children of Charlotte, N. C., spent tho Mrs. J. E. Hamm and family last to tKe call for “larger and better gar- week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Supday. dens,” and also to the popular idea Nabors. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Sample and of canning and drying and storing ail ——, r. and Mrs. C. E, Boland j fruits and vegetables possible during .spent Sunday with relatives in Bates- the season. burg. j Xhe home and commercial peach or- jjiss .Sarah Denny is sp^-nding sev-'ohards are going to make fair returns, edai weeks with relatives in Green- the county agent has found. The prospect is that a 7.') per cent pi^ach crtip will be made by the commercial orchardists this sea.son. Home or- j chards, where they received attention. Hie producing excellent fruit and some individuals are now .selling the wood. - f E. Mood Smith, u. D Felder Smith. O. D. DBS. SMITH & SMITH Optometrists , A I I Take advantuKe of! the I o H' summer prices and erder your winter’s supply of coal now. See— Farmers Exchange l*tione 157 : <M‘op. The stubble land, to a great extent, SPECIALISTS Eyes Examined Glasses Prescribad 15 West Main Street Phone tOl has been sown to peas and cane, thus I laboratory for Prompt Repair ServiM increasing the prospect for feedstuff 1 Clinton, S. C. ious, hopeful, laughing auction bridge mi.sery and crime. It fills players and nut a deck of cards to be yuur almshouse, | , u ^ horiMbu^.^^^^j dema'ntlTyouFlisylunisi It engen f situation Wouldn’t it be terrible for millions of our men and women to land at a place in the “great beyond” where no cigarettes could 1h‘ had? ('an you think of anything half so bad as .stop ping at a joint, where you mu.st .spend eternity, without so mueh a.s one ean i Infamy. It defames ‘)1 suuff or one pjug of tobacco or one I,l^,v^s,.orns virtue,. tne suckers a big block of stm’k m a drop of whiskey to satisfy your long-!jj,,^j slanders innocence. It incites the! .Domerly prosperous concern which is for such things? That Wiiuld be | butcher his helpless off-* a:,out to j,as.s a dividend would be a bad. 'spring, help.s the husband to massacre I .tile harder to accomplish if this pro- ^he ‘ Hell would be terrifjing and tor-j jjxe. It burns up men, con-, tuous to thousands of our men and detests life, curses God, women, if it were a place with fine j d*., pisus Heaven. It suborns witnesses, goif courses, excellent golf clubs,j ,HM-jury^ defiles the jury box' lovely club house.s, with ca^ijies. aDj • 1. ders controversies, fosters quarrels,! and cherishes riots. It crowd.'* our pen-, itenliaiies. and furnishes victims for your scaffold.-. It is the life blood of the gambler, the element of the burg-1 the prop of the highwayman, and support of Uhe midnight blasphemer. It violates obligation, reverences i- ^ed jdan could U* adojited. IT AFFEt TS ALL Neu life insurance sales, it apjwars, r.ave legun to fall off. During the first couple of years of the depres- ‘lon these sales held up remarkably well, all things consblered, but now the pressure , of hard times is being ft It sbaiply. Thb^Ts not to be wonderetf-atT-eou -.dering the extent of unemployment and the way other businesses have suffered. Indeed, the depression has] shown that the ordinary citizen is | pi’etly well sold, now, on the benefits cf life insurance. , , In the main, he has kept up with his insurance, continuing his old poli- c:es and buying new ones, long after he has had to economize in «>ther field.s. The fact that life insurance sales have at la.'t shown a marked re duction only proves the great severity of the depression. ways ready tt) go but not a golf ball in all the region thereabouts. .And: think what it would mean if all the highway patrols and .-peed cops that most assuredly will in* down ttrere-f -can’t- find anybody' arrest, and have ’em fine ten dollars. But meblH' we won’t take our hab-' its and our short-comings away with] us. Perhajis we won’t Ih* able to think! what ha.s been. It is possibk^'We- wiiii-r''' not have to do without the things up! there or down yonder that we craved | so much hei*e, But, to make a short . tory .shorter-:;-it surely couldn’t lie, much worse in the “wrong place” than' the present depression — with .Y-i'entj . cotton, 30-<xmt wheat, millions out of jobs, hungry mothers, naked childi'en^ — and a Republican administration | wasting fortunes every day on useless' undertakings. Well, this may l)e “it”] DAYS OF HAJ»I»INESS —FOR SOME Everywhere in the United States, (low for all I know. it's sumn>er now. School is qut, andj —^ the small boy comes into his own. | news from flat rock It there any such complete, irre-j a woman from the county seat vis- sponsible happiness anywhere in the. ited us a few' weeks ago and placed world as that of the schoolboy bn the sotne little boxes mr oar dinliig'-Tooiif lon|r summer vacation? We can’t re-j tables where we eat and asked us to member that we ever were completely inaugerate the “penny-a-njieal" pro- happy except in those two or three gram to help the poor, she tame back years each side of twelve, when we had nothing much to do, askie from a few chores around the place, from June to September. How many things a hoy of that age finds to do in the summer, swimming, fishing, berry- picking, baseball, or just loafing around in the fields and woods with his dog. The country hoy has it all and collected the proceeds today and^ got 18c, but over half of the boxes! was missing and possibly stole, she! says she diddent near clear expenses j ansoforth. • began tak ing Cardul when in a weakened, nih-ddwxT condition,” writes Mrs. F. 8. Perrlt, of Wesson, Miss. took one bat tle, and I seemed to im prove so much that I sent for six bottles. Af ter I had taken the six bottles, I seemed entire ly welL **Before I took Car- dui, I was nervous, rest less, blue and out of heart I felt depressed All the Urn®, After 1 took Cardut aU this disappeared. gave my daughter Cardul and it helped to relieve Irregular . • .** n ns It’s Always GOOD BUSINESS To Use Thla MMdlciii* haa kCM uaad by womMi for oror <• yoara. over hit city couains in summer. He dog and throwed a bad axident was hell on mainj street sadday aftcimoon when mr. berry brown run his ford over a nice ^ Taki wtfe out and. can go barefoot without losing caste;, he doesn’t have to comb his hair and put on a clean collar every little vrkiie. and if there’s a hole in his U* br^hehes nobody worries broke betwixt 7 apd4i ribs in her, and 2 collar bones in the baby, the dog was killed, h? >ves loved by ail who knew him. he was drug a^good piece! ifl Helps Women to Health i GOOD PRINTING by the fender whivh ketched him by Taka Tbadfard's BU<di-I>raufht lar Constipation. IndtsaMioB, an<t Billoosaess. -■D We Do AU Kinds “EXCEPT BAD” S CtiFonide Publishing Company Publishers — Printors — Stationers 1