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■'.jr' / . f-- J 7 t- •', THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON, S. C. 1 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1932 v a..:' Donocratic Chances Grow Brighter Daily f’ . fe;. 'Was^hington ,Sept. 17.—RighU now the chances of a Bemocratic victory in November ^eem brighter to most po- ' litical obsen’^r» than at any time this year. _ The Maine elections are tu> infallible barometer, but they do represent as definite aii indicator as any one thus[ far has to go on. Democratic success there astonished l^ders in both par ties and just about wiped out the, growth of hope that had been appfir- ent among Republicans in the preced ing two or three months. It can be argued plausibly i THE PRODIGAi, SON - - ) The /stojry 6f the prodigal son Jcomes j I nearest funding the depths of tne !heart/ of God and offering to mankind the one hope of peace and plenty at ; the end of a perilous journey into the i far-off country of self-indulgence of! i all the, stories ever told. Almost two! thousand, years of modern master | ' story-tellers have passed with thous-, j ands years of great literature back j of it, ^v^t it remains to this day thei finest conception of the fatherhood of j God and the return of a penitent sin-j REVIVAL AT LAVRENS ♦’ • -airltts of "TH STER EXECUTIVE^ A teh-day series'of* revi val services will be held in the First Baptist , church of Laurens, beginnir.p Oct. 17/ tand cnntydinic through the 2fHh. Dr. I John R. Vester,' pastor ,ot the Fir,st \ Baptist church o’^Winston-Salem, N. i C., will conduct tne>m«e43hg, accord- ; ing to an announcement by the pastor, \ ReAf. W. D. Spinx. A MAN COMES OUT I Magnify this temptation scene .as;. i— —— The days of Jesus’ doubt are set j greatly as you will; say that God NOTICE down as forty in number. It is'easy j spoke more clearly to Jesus than to: Lau^^ns County Registration Boar J I • ' • Supply!^ a w«rleto-wcck impintioii for ibe heavy •burd«ned who wjM hnd t\trr humu tml paraJkkd itnkc cxpencnces of “The Man Nobcaiy Knows." ner. . T-Tt; It I • good trade-among people f I^h.nK 1. more natural than the,,„^„ and-trustod hira^Tnd i apeaks; there r tKa toy* AAttanr«*\7 Ira orw... ' FUNDAMENTALS .journey into the far country. Its ap-U^j. To become a wandering I met an old friend the other day inif^^j^® i talking to folks w'ho never heard of him? And wKaf'whs he to ‘ la little New England village. The last IParent*, prohibition and lh*Mtime I had seen him he was earning!ts offer of boon com- Ihero really hasn’t been any essentia/5 ^ year—and spending it_in Pa'^^onship, and the return on the in- change in the element.s ol the politi- ! Chicago. The slumo broke him; he iof life out beyond the hori- cal situation since the election of IbJO. j,, . his job, his home, everything but, home. , ' which put, the I>emorrats in control rtf w hat little could raise as a loan on |. The story assures us of the failure the house—a development often taken I h /lif/ insurance. of the life thus invested. Freedom to to imagine that lonely struggle. He; any who has ever lived. It is true. Friday Sept ‘^3 from 9 a. VMie* th^giew J- , p p ria^1dS(!Tl*5 store IS no great leadership purpose of registering voters, where there is not a mystic. -Nothing • d^i^ng certificates may obtain splendid has ever been achieved ex-' cept by those who dared believe that, something inside themselves was su perior to circumstanceaf. To choose the sure thing is treason to the soul. i NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNTING as presaging a presidential victory for the party Two" yearF later: Over many, long months the mo.«t common observation among politici- “I’ve bought a little farm up here,” do as one desires leads to the most irt»'TbTa~me: "Tm the luBkiest man w ( galling ilaverv, boon companions pil- the world, because my wife has .sound fer the stranger while he consorts talk about? How, with his lack of ex perience, should he find words for his message? Where should he begin*’ Who would listen ? Would they listen ? Hadn’t he perhap.'* made a mikake? Satan, says the narrative, tempted him, saying: “You are hungry; here are stones. Make them into bread”— them at this time. J. C. McMILLAN. If this was not the meaning of the! AND DISCHARGE common sense. It was her idea for us ans, including quite a few Reputili- to get back to the soil and live on next cans, was that “if the election were held tc*day Hoover would Ih' licked." There is as much justification for that assertion now as there ever w^s, pos- to nothing until things get better. “We’re rai.sing a lot of our food, wearing out our old clothes, working from sun-up to dark—and the funny sibly a little more. Political predic-*! part of it is that we like it. The chil- tion is far from an exact spence, but 1think it’s wonderful. Our health when more .signs poinl one way than M*^ better than ever, we don t owe a the other no one can be blamed for i and while were not laying up indulging in it. ' ; anything .vet, and haven’t any luxur- Election whether th with them; play-* and pleasure prove effective opiates while his condition becomes more and more beyond his strength for recovery. forty days in the wilderness, i£«Je<us " ——— (fid not have a real temptation which Notice is hereby given that we will might have ended in his going back to render a final atcounting of our acts . the bench at Nazareth, then the forty ^nd doings as Executors of the Estate the temptation of material .success. It j (jays’ struggle has no real significance of Mrs. Sara Eirzalreth Copeland, de- was entirely unnecessary for him to.^Q temptation w’as rt-a/^ ceased, to C."A, Power, Prolate Judge be hungry ever. He had a good trade;l^nd he conquered. 'for Laurens County, S. C., al Lau- he knew well enough that his organ-, ^ ^ § q ^ Thursday, 'September ijine abilil) was batter than Jo.seph’8.1 *'!<> had been a carpen He could build up a far more success, i w>l<l«nie}3, a man Sad, indeed, the story had the Mas-v ^P ^ . came out Not the full-fledeed master «PPb' tathe Court for a final dis- fnri^u business and acquire comfort and J 1 f ^ ! rharo-e from the duties of our trust the farj ‘ who* wtfhin the shadow of the cross;auiies oi our irusi, ,. . les, we ve got all the fundamental.s of,.^, . ’ ... .. - ,, Kp vours if v results are concrete signs,! ' e„i, a. ‘the storv the most optimistic in all yours, ii y at , I comfortable existence. And what elsei,.. . r~. , ,, _ „ * mise ” He couk ev point accurately or not. , , , i literature. The young fellow comes cuun • * • . tint*9. anvhnnv* n**#*fi ^ wu.. ...4 They are likely to be reliable. And the results of state and both regular and j sptK'ial congres.Nional elections during Mr. Hoover’s term of office have giv en great comfort to the DenuKTats and none to tht* Kepiihlicans. The party in power has leaned very heavily on the possibility of a busi ness upturn. Many political experts have believed that onlv a .substantial does anybody need ? That man has the world hv the bru-h; and we had thought he went'^o distinction. He could do good IM>(>KS A publisher friend sent me the oth er day, twelve' hoyks. “I’m getting the.se out to sell for fifteen cents a copy," he wrote. “I’ve got an idea that millions f>f people have never had a chance to read the great works of the pick-up could save the Hoover admin-writers, and J’m going to try istration from the effects of a nation’s supply them." half-blind ’oitternes.s in time (.f eco-j ^ Whether-he makes a business suc- nomic di.stress. , cess or not, he is doing a valuable ser- uway in his right mind. We had con-j” demned him and said: “Serves him^* .jin that way, and have the satisfaction f success as well. right; he should have known better,” i Or he might enter the public ser- ahout. / 9-22-2tc. , But Jesus says he is not himself. Just ■ vice, and .>eek political leadership/! like a m(»ther who says to an irate”! There was plenty of di.scontent to lx*’ father in the act of chastising an ob-J capitalized, and he knew the farmer durate hoy: “Stop, father, he h'as not a>'<l the labon'r; he was one of them; been himself todav.” And so the prodi- ' they would listen t > him. ; gal son was not himse-lf when he went h’or forty days and nights the in- awav. Be careful, then, O Church o’f ’' e.s.sant fight went on, biit once, .set-f Godl how you condemn and chastise tied, it was .settled forever. In the calm I o a prodigal. IK*al with him a.s you of that wilderness there came the ma- would with the sick and the diseaseil. j conviction which is the very Lately there have been some smaU^vice. He has shown good judgment "Z" " v'jtuHp the!s“ul Of leader.ship-the faflh that his encouraging improvements, but elec-j selecting the hooks to reprint. -r linked wit^ the eternal, tion t;me has drawn very near and Way of All Hesh” is, I think, ^^e lounger or ! that God had sent him into the world the nearer it has come the le.ss has greatest novel ever written in the, **1 a o _ ® work which no one else could been the likelihood that the election i English language. And the li.^t m- himself he will return to his hath s,^^^ which—if he neglected it — would would he decided by an important 1 eludes many others which are as in-1 house like a doming pigeon. His reso-j I teresting the second or the tenth time Motion to return will enable him to meet everv difficulty along the long, j—— — — re„.,o„ is i.in. ps,,i .0 tb. whether the mass <»f anti-Hoover vot-1 ’ See Our New Trench Coats Officers and Civilians Special Price — $3.45 L. B. DILLARD .Next To Picture Show change for the better. Uonsequentlv. more and more at-;1 L \^,7r „uwi “Alice in Wonderland, ‘Tom Saw-1 long "“Under the Greenwood Tree, er.s among the submerged elecorate is great enough to assure a Roos<'velt- ‘Trea.«ure Island" and the New Test- There is ho^ie in the story for all. y— anu*nt, to name but a few. , Moreover, this journey into the far ^ ,y ■ . Tu . * u 1 Good hooks were never cheaper oor! «/.i|ntrv the waste of hi.s sohstanre' — (larner victory. The recent stock mar-1 ... i n .iT 1 , J .u <• VII 1 'more widely available than they are j^ riotous living and the .servitude to'ss ket rise and other favorable develop-/ , . .. . . .. ;living an., v.iv n,,.nts hav,. ■ bn.-..uaK,Il l(..„ubli.an,,. ” "" ''"''■•■r | whi.h h<. is reduv«l ,1„ m.t .-hanK. b.S| = T.mVot u. anvthbTK lik.. a pnlT.t „f ;bn..n.. so^d^urre .'U ur^. relati»nship- l|s is ret th. son of a = cnrulon. ..nlhusiasm, i '■"‘>''''’•***•"1 rich fatter who has .nouirt and to ^ . , .than a great book. .spare. W'hat a bountiful God! He Had = P'ol'ahly would bare stayod , IthouKht that a journoy andtan al,a..-.= -lv-piAh<afl4Mui-4teJj.Miioi rals i|oi had; -iimiv utiI.I. POI’EI.AH h.,., „f this sort would bankrupt li.a-i g .Mayor Walker’s resignation under[ven^ Not so. When th^ yoUhgman I he wet is.sue to help them. But .Maine IS an old prohibition state and an old Ke})uhlicaii .slate and her Keiiuhliians stayed dry hecauM* they thought that was the way to win their territory. On the other hand, the results do fire has not affected his popularity a,.„se and returned he found/that it with the average New Yorker. Newi^.^,, jf h,, had remained with his York people take a eynieal -view of father; for all that he ha.s is his. He = political graft. The man in the street! heir and his home-coming i.-. the honestly believes that every public of- j^-c-asion of a fea.'t with song.s and or- fi»m the jiresident down is <ianeing. It matters little state against Hoover. Some of Ah polities to make money for him.-elf, -^.^^ brother has never had ^ I ,. Business Forms Smith’s frie'uls won't vote for Koo.«e-, and the di.selosures of huge ^uriis paid. \elt and if Hoover can run as well as' xhv mayor of .New York just makes | hi.s ticket he Of cours(‘. uight to hold Maine. the fai t that the .Maine pn*tty smart guy. the average voter think that he is a defeat is a had omen for the Kepubli- ean.s doesn’t mean that they might a.- well fold up and begin to think about electing a president in 1930. The re- suff seems more ../indicative of the elec- I is probable that Mayor Walker will run f(»r re-election, and'my belief at the ]>resent time is that if he does he will he re-elected. New York is full of people who.se suppre.-swl desire is a dinner of fatted calf; the father is not to blame, for the I'alf has been in the stall through all the years and ^ the butcher at hand. What i.s a fatted calf, a feast, an orchestra and dancing = when the resources of a prince are at one’s command? ^E .So f r all of us, there is the loving, S and watching Father whose ^ All Kinds tion of a Democratic congress this > to be an irresponsible playboy of j . u- i a year than of a Democratic president. , Broadway, and they may envy and gjJ-i infinite resources match His boun - The resentment A1 .Smith’s friends Siiire “Jimmy" because he plays that! It'ss love; whose heart is not turned in certain Eastern >tates hold for role .so successfully. ajfain.st the vilest sinner; and who re- Koos<'veIt is still a very real factor! It is all very well to talk about get- j<»ices in the return of His children and it may make just the differejue' ting rid of undesirable public officials' from the far, far country of sin. .Mr. hetweiuv vTiTon- Pitting gona men JJLJ)XUat^nui,Spurgtyn ^u in some of those states but in the elec-1 the rank and file of the voting popu-' spair of any person, community or na- oral college. The Republicans have that fact to comfoil them — and others, such as that Roosevelt hasn’t aroused any enormous enthusia.sm for himself, that the country is still relatively conser vative and its business element rela- lation has to he reckoned with, and' tion because the “blood of Jesu.s," hej^S the rank and file is never greatly in-1 said, “is omnipotent.’’ Bear with the S terested in the reform government. prodigal. He will come to himself and'^S Printing that tells a con vincing story and creates an attractive a{H>earance. / return to his Father’s home when he 3— EXILE realizes his ingratitude and the good- 55; In a little cottage on North Island ih the East river, dear New York,| lively loyal to Kcpuldicanism and That lives a w’oman in her sixtie.s who is any economic improvement helps the (kept in seclusion because she is a men- cause jttst--so 4£-4t-. ian’t ace to the public health. sShe herself ness of God.—Christian Index. ss ‘ty- large enough in itself to turn the tide, is in perfect health, but fche is a phoid carrier.” ' 6U;iSCKlBE TO THE CHRONICLE “Typhoid Mary," as the woman isj A K Schaeffw Life Time Pens The makers of Schaeffer Pens are precise in every detail, f Everv pen must measure up to a standard that is unquestionable not for just a few months, but for a life time. Their per- fected^methods a^res ^iT of this service, yet the cost is low considering this fea* ture. Guaranteed for life against the slightest defect. Designs and points to meet your 'individual require- nenta. OthcTr Pens are carried, priced I known, was a cook. Wherever she ' worked, people who ate the food she, handled chme dow'n with typhoid ! fever. FifLy-aevgn-caae!!, some of them fatal, were traced dirgctly to her! j Individualists who think nobody j ^ should be restrained for any cause sometimes protest against the isola tion of “Typhoid Mary." She objected,' iat first, but now is reconciled to liv ing the rest of her days in comfort at public expense. Her case illustrates | I the fact that the good of the whole! cscH-ial organization is more important Quality and Service Are GIFTS Visit Us Emphasized In Our Plant. I - Importtxi Ginger- -7.5c jar. .Ming Yea in attract ice contain- __er!^$1.00: ) than the liberty of the individual. jQYfitSlS^ $1.00 .up CHRONICLE PUB.CO. StuUosery Dept. Oyster farmers are expecting a big-| ger and better crop than ever this' year. The oyster of the Atlantic coast is always a surprise ta the visitor I from the Pacific, who is familiar only j with the -small native oysters out I there. It is also a source of amuse- ’ ment to European visitors, who have nothing like it. It is related of William M. Thack-^ ery, the famoiia..^^lish author, that! on his first and only visit to America! he was served -with oyaters on the 'half shell and didn’tjiiknow what to do , with them. He asked his host how to. ! eat' them and was told that they I should be swallofved whole. “I feel as if 1 had swallowed a live babj,” he said, after he had gulped the first on# down. French hand • made Handker- -rhiefn—40c to $1.00. Hand • painted .Metal HoMer»—$1.2.5 pair. Candle Carsed Wood Boxes—$2.00. Novelty M'icker Trays—$1..50. We will deem it a pleasure to supply all your printing n^eds. i 22, 1932, and We w’ill also on the same ter left the young man in xne Tar^-— rr‘V,V,". ’ ' who^ country engaged in the most despic-'• I could cry, “I have overcome the Executors of said ei'tate. able servitude ever contemplated by! Satan comes in again, according to' orld." He had still much growth toi All persoYis having claims against one of his countrymen. But, at this I the narrative, taking him up into a I progress in vision and the estate of the said .Mrs. .Sara Eliz- point begins the revelation of the high mountain and shov ing^ him the self-confidence. But the beginnings; abeth Copeland will file the same, y-. . , • , , • 1 L'insv/lnmQ nf urrerl/l ‘ All thOSC Catt ‘ • I . fatherhood of God, which has made j j^ioK^loms of the worlrl. • ah inese can i verified, on or liefore ou will only compro- yy^^ authority of said date or be forever barred. .. .. I 4 *u j one w'ho ha.s put his spiritual house in j J. C.'COPELAND, Executor. himself. What a divine .stroke of the | ^’'^^*'^^h(*j)nesth(md;^that was^ a sure i knows clearly/what he isj MRS. LANA C. YOUNG, Executrix. 1 A I t Wood Carved Trays—$5.00. Imitation Gold !.eaf ’Frames — $1.00 up. Popular Sheet .Music—2^c. I THE BOOK STORE Chronicle Cmnpany J Some kind-hearted ladies are trying to get oyster dealers'to use anesthet- not to give the oyster pam. That, it teems to me, is carrying sentimental ity a. litjtle beyond the bounds of com mon sense. ^^All Kinds of Printing Except Bad’' ^JTHE CHRONICLE