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r-- j. y 'V,: ■ page fogh THR CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON. S. C. M .i< 'M Clinton ClprontrU IMt WILSON W. HARRIS. Editor and PabHabOT Pnbliab«d Erory lliursday By / THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY —— ' —? ' , * ' SubaeriptioB RaU (Payabfe In AdTuict): ^ ^Or.e y€-ar $1.50; Six teontba 75 centa; Three Mentha $0 eenta Entercd^as Second Claaa Mail Matter at the Pott Office at Clintoa, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers mhI readers—the publisher wiH at all times appreciate wise surcestiona and kindly ail- ^ vice, ^rhe Chronicle will publish letters of ireneral interest when they not of s defamatory nature. Anonymous commuaications will not are be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the Views or opiniona of its correspondents. - . j ^ / THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1933 [they will |lake In iifor, monn,y in 30 Nobody’s Business, | ‘.'".'"rT ‘"J jin dp years, and they ^ill out jless m(^y in 100 years than france jjind Italy and bellgrum will (pay on By Gee McGee C. BjTium^ Betts of Clinton. _ ^ The n^t conference will' be held here on April 4, whek.the Rev. S. P. Bowles and the. Rev. j. H.yBuzhardt will lehd a discussion of thenta^ject, “Our Church Evjinffelizinjt.” >, 7 I Those attendiiig: the meetinjr in ad- so. mr. pressident, sjet off the sroldl^ik^o" ^ Doctor Woods and Mr. Bett.s .standard and onto the slot machfhei I their war detts from now on. And Then I went To Work | , After I ifot too biff to go to school 1 landed a job as assistant depot agent ^at a semi-flag station in a little to>vn » j j j • . j , i a .bout the .iM of your double fiete. I! y»“ '<®| , had reached the eighth grade in school and that was plenty education for a *" oi h.yse«r like me. eo that's why I decid- »"<• led to slow down on intellectual effort. highest bidder fpr cash, at the Blue Bird Ice Cream S^re at Clinton, S. €., at three o’clock P. M., on March 20, 1933, all of the furniture, fixtures and equipment belonging to the Ward- Garrison Company, doing business in said store under the name of the Blue Bird Ice epeam Store. f $ .«o, you will hafter enlai-ge the trea.s-i Abbeville; Dr. Janies P, Pressly were: The Reverends W. C. Kerr, M.j The right to reject any and all bi^s DuRant and .George M. Telford, I is reserved, and the sale shall be sub- and I iect to thei confirmation of the Court. CLINTON. S. C.. THURSDAY. MARCH !«. I9S3 My teacher taught me lots oT things in school, hut I was so dumb I didn’t learn much. I could .spell' fairly well, read to .some extent, do a little cypher ing if you’d keep me out of f' actions, and was just getting ready for Latin wdien that .Vdollars-a-month and hoard job showed up, and I made a dive for it and got it. . that the govverment will have con- j troll and own' all slot machines of whatsoever kind or condition or de nomination from Ic on up. try it o*it. vores trulie, mike Clark, rfd, corry spondent. Ministers Discuss Program For Year Dr. E. B. Kennedy, Due West; Dr. L. Ross tynn and the Rev. S. P. Bowle.s, Clinton; the Rev. R. M. Honeyman. executive secretary of the Montrose Bible conference, Montrose. Penr..; the Reverends W. L. Pressiy, T. H. rv.’-i .•srt, J. R. Hooten, A. G. .Anderson and Dr. Roswell C, Long, Greenwood; the ReV. A. F. Doty, Calhoun F'alls; the I Rev. J. H. Buzhardt, Troy; the Rev.: I Fred T. McGill, Cross Hill; the Rev. ! R. I). White, Ware J^hoals, and the! jRov. W.*S. Porter, Ninety-Six. Itc. F. H. CAINE, Receiver. My dulie.s were as follows: NOTICE‘ibr SALE running and there will come as a result ^an in-< the dejiot, post office, weighing cot ton, trucking freight, meeting 2 trains to note every day, .selling 2 or 3 tickets a Greenwood, March 9.—Twenty Pres- Please take nptice. that : byterian ministers from four adjoin- j authority contained i ing counties met at the First Presby- signed by the Hon. T. S. THE REA I, PROBLEM The trouble now is not ovcr-produc-jert ased public conridence. tion. which does not api>ear possible’ The Chronicle is plea.sfd ^ i.cKvts a ♦ i . with so many unemployed, hut the • that .roT»gre.s.srnan J. J. .MeSwain, of i ^i^ k nicking cotton when railroad: a di.scus- trouble i.s under-con.sumption which . tni.s di.stnct, voted to uphold President work got dull, helping to do “tum.s” Rouse elt ;n h’s economy program. about the hou.se, and attending pray- —— ——■i—. I er meetings w'hercver one wa.s held within 10 or 15 miles of onr place. We iif V ' ha.s i*e«Ti h:t»ught about by the inabil ity of both employed and unernployed, to nml-e purchases. The whole pTXkh- lem thus comes back to the necessity of making it possible for people to gel back to work at a living wage. i sion of the ministers’ program for the new church year. The program w'as led by Dr. I). J. Woods and the Rew ursuant to an Order Sea.'ie, Cir-i cuit Judge, on February 10, 1933, m the case of V. 0. Garrison, et al, against Ward-Garrison Company, et al, I will sell at public auction to the NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY, Several residences in town. Several farm% prices at tractive. i • Houses for rent, Broad St., Owens Hill and College View. Clinton Realty & Insurance Co. B. H. BOYD UrSINKSS HANDICAPS .Meichants and bu.siness men are ■ adopting themselves to new conditions' and tnung to reach a common level of deflation. Staples are close to that point now. and as they were the first to drop, should be the first to rise, j But thon‘ ha«i been no sirpilar de- ftatinn If tht# -could be ac ■ romnlished, recovery would be hast ened. Political uncertainty always dolay.s recovery. Bu.sine.ss men feaV* new form.s of Ic'gislation and taxation that' may he enacted. One of this nation's greatest han ii-, raps today is too many law-making machineN—state legislatures and a^ Federal Coe'ri*'S that are j>ersistent-1 ly piling up public expense out of ail proportion to the aJiility of business, indu.stry ami the individual to pay the' tax ro7t from normal income of er n- ings.' BACK TO THE FARM We have heard a m^aSt deal of talk about the ^back to the |farm" move ment and we have been somewhat skeptical about a gcK>d deal of it But .some actual facts disclosed by the re port of the President’s Research'Tom- mitlee on Social* Trends show that there has been a very definite move ment of population from the towns and cities back to the farm since the pre.sent depression began. Investigators report that the farm' p??puIatfon of the United aricKl day as great a.s it evrr waa. It hadi ' boys were strong for prayer meeting.s i —where we’d usually cut up too much. The population of this station was 23 till the Mitchells moved aw^j’ and then it fell to 11. When that -family left, our school was almost broke up. We had a 1-teacher school with a house full of boys and girls. He got ^.5.00 per month, that is, ke w'as promised that. It was stylish to w'hip disobedient pupils hack there. reached its peak in 1910 and then be gan to decline, but has been increas ing steadily in the past three y^rs. More than ten thousand men who have gone back to the farm from the cities and large towns in the past two y<^ars were asked why they made the move, .'sixteen p<T cent of them said they could save m'»"e r-to-Tcy on the farm, 14 per cent feJt that city work was too uncertain and too hard, 10 per ent liked the independence of farm life, 20 per cent disliked the city, 20 [>er cent said the city was not a Tit place in which to rear children and that they had returned to the farm fur the sake of health and better all Tt 1 Our town con.sisted of 1 store, guano house, 1 church. 1 depot, preacher, and 6 whittlers. We had the champion whittler of t^e world in that town. Yo^i’ve seen whittlers that would whittle little things like tooth picks. watch-charms, walking sticks, etc., but Bid) Botkins was not that kind of whittler. He whittled with a vim. It took 2 or 3 good-sized white pine dry goods t>oxes to keep him in material for 1 hour. .MR. B.tlLEY HONOKEi) t'linton people are highly pleased that W. I. Hailey, local manufact irer around living conditions. Naturally. mfMt of the families who leave the cities for the farm are those and hanker, has been placed on the governor's advi.sury committee of hank control now working in Colum- hia day and night tiTbring about as soon as possible, the re-oi>ening of .South Carolina banks now closed by a sj>ecial holiday proclamation. .\s a business man Mr. Hailey has demon.strated ability, remarkable judgment aad clear vision in directing whji. wee brought up in the country, t'ity folks without any rural back ground are likely to have a pretty hard time of it in making a living at farming. But. nearly 13 per cent of those who have migrated to the land lately were city people without any previous farm experience, and many Bob whittled like he was fighting fire all the time. .Some of his shavings were 2 feet in length. 1 have seen him' practically buried in his own shavings many a-time. Once, his pile of shavings caughf on fire and he al most got burrtt to death before he was pulled away. He whittled on his way to town, he whittled while in town, and he whittled on the way back home. He alway.s carried several boards home with him so’s he could whittle till he‘ got back. for years one of the largest cotton of the.se are re|>orted to be doing very I mills in this .section and a hanking institution that has stood unshaken during years of pro.sp'erity, storm and stre.s.s since IKKC. In his business ca reer that has spanned almost.a half century of Clinton’s existence and de- yelojiment. he has been* remarkably We had many other interesting men there, none of whom ever work ed. Elbert Jones always kept his arm broke or something. Sam Green had W^ll ^ • I W, h.v,. alw.,, b,li«v^ tfc.1 th, "y'"* ‘“ K" somrthinit out only real .stability for the average citizen is in having his own land un der his feet, that the only people who are reasonably sure of a living, re.- gardless of general economic condi- -*yuceeVsful aH^I^liva as a copujiunity those who get their own liv builder. Mr. Bailey is well equipped for the responsible position of public service he has bi-en calle<l to fill in the pres ent emergency, and his counsel and advice will he a distinct contribution to the hanking committee in its diffi cult and extremely important task. The Chronicle. Along with the ctun-' munity. is pleased to learn of h'l* *'vc- l■gnltion. :ng from the 8oiI.~~But “ wlieh goodi times come again, watch the young sters rush from the farm.s to the cities and factories? 1 • I of his eye all the time. Bert Keener told us Civil war stories. We checked up on him once: the war lasted 34 years and he was in 497 different bat tles, hut he never got a scratch.^,^oth-^ ing ever happened in this town vfhije I w-as there 3 years except the schooD house burnt down. 13 Years Ago Itejns of Interest Pi of 1919 j > The Way Out J ;deer mr. editor-: want to go on -record as In'ing in or of congress taking over the slot machines and run them for fhe gov verment ' and that is the only way uncle .sam will ever be able to ballance his budget. U - t. HARD FIGHT AHEAD The legislature now ha.s before it the prehlem of mapping out a plan for electing the state conventfon which IS to n Jri-'ter the state’s .senti ment as to whether or not the Eight- ♦•^■nth Amendim'Tif shall he re}>ealed. I* n ov ait])ears thaT we will have a un.i plan with the convention c'iMi «»s: d of delegates- elected from each xuiir y. the number from each county being equal to its members tn the General .Assembly. 1 he 'eferendum to l)e held this sum mer. means a fight between the drys and the wet.s. The drys need to real ize the,danger tjtat lies ahead by those '■eekii^ to repeal the F.ighteenth ..Xn.enilment and should exercise their influence and jiower to nominate, dry .»elcg::u-s to the Columbia convention. Tbo ejif us « ho are. interested in fore stalling the return of legalized .liquor and posuhly the, »iW-tiiue dumnuhle bawHim. should get ready now to get in the fight t'b p-.event the wets from tak ng control of county and stale contentions in this state. Friend.'' of prohibition need tt» >)e- The hand.Home new dining room and kitchen at the ThornwrI! orphanage is now nearing completion. _ The latest addition to the mercan tile business of the city is the firm of .\dair-McMiIIan 4'lothing com|tany. with V. Parks Adair and Pressie Mc- .Millun as proprietors. nearly everboddy with a nickle in his |M>cket will play a slot machine and 9'.i out of eVer 100 of such play-, ers b<*lieves that he will win either the first time he turns the crank or the secont time or the third time a^dj bn down till his last cent in g»>ne. the u. s^ will get on hdr feet in fi jinont.hs if >he will put a slot machine j The I aurens County Sumtay ScIkio? ; «n evei- corner ami 5 or 0 betwixt ever assi>ciation will hold its annual meet-1 corner, it will he understood befoar ing at the Hurricane church hear here I and after/that every soventv-fifth on .Augu.st 13th. li i nickle'will win a dime, and that is tall Mis.s Lila Dillard is on a ten days'* tup to New York. \V. J. Hailey_is at • home f'XHn three weeks’ .stay at Saratoga. N. Y .Mr. Hoover’s I92S flatforin was '“2 chicki'ns in every garrage and an a j autoniobcer sold on""cre(idick ever l.'i j seronts,” and that’s vfhat .got install-j j ment buyipgrrso famous, but the dim in New Dr. VV. K. Bean has returne«I from j mere rats 1 month’s visit to relatixes York. .1 mrchine iHKlk.'' slogan should l>e. to fit ever mm’s "a slot jHicket- I gin woH in earne.st. with faith. and Copeland has received discharge and is- now at home. vision and intelligence. The fight hard one, lies ahead. BEHIND ROOSEVELT 'The whole country is. behind Pcesi- «!ent RoosK'velt ami ready to support hint, in this national crisis as our leader. He has been given exLraordi-, nai'y power to combat this emergency j and the people believe that he is the ! unafraid man who is going to meet and solve these problems. His message to Congress urging economy, the cutting down of extrava gance and the elimination of mount ing deficita, has ntet with a strong iqiprovaJ from the millions who'are in' sympathy with his economy'bill. .Me'-tlames Kenneth Burdette. Hu- I’uc’a slut ivuu hine should give ou« a hen Pili.s. and Rhett .Atlair are on a picture of the farm board when mon-' vi.'Jit to ix'latives in Ruckmart. Ga.* •wy den s nut come forth, and it should! iallst) oont.'iin pictures of mrj andy mel-j his Ion, an.i mr. robt. insult of greece in eurot'e, and mr. kru.goi'. and ot'.ter famous americans who have hell the world together since the war. S.' .A. -Kern has beer di^^cl9»rg'ed from the U. S. navy and is ik»w at home. *; Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Bailey left .Monday for Baltimore and New York. .Mrs. Mary Prather from a stay of several siminee. J. 'f* has reiumed iths in Eas- r Mrs. r B. U therefoar. our only hope for gov verment stability is slot maehines. King and Miss Emma .Adams have returned froos a stay of several months in AshevilW. ] On Friday afternoon JnnelW aad The House Democrats, with the help .Marguerite Boland cekhmted their jOt a large group of Republicans, have ninth and sixth birthdays with a party woted to back the president to the for a number of their young friends, limit If the senate will now give itst - - ^ { approval to tha measure the national! (From files of The Chronicle for-' economic picture will i>ccomeJ>righter! August 14, 1919). | K. Mood Smith. O. D. - Felder Smith. ^ Drs. Smith & Smith OI^TOMETRISTS Sl^lALISTS ifyes Enmii^.vGlaasim Prescribed Labor4lor>\for Prompt Repair 'Serrice. 15 West .Main Street ' Phone 191 CLINTON. S. C RED □ CROSS GOLBENUra Celebrating -fO yean of fine bedding manufacture by the South*s oldest amd largest makers of sleep equipment i^^To assure the success of this event, the Red Cross Mat- V®/ tress Folks have designed an outstanding group of Golden Jubilee Beds, Mattresses, Springs, Studio Couches, etc., which we are able to offer our customers at amazingly low special prices. Three arc shown below. ♦♦♦♦♦♦ + ♦♦ + GOLDEN JUBILEE STUDIO COUCH Sale Trice 94V A couch that looks and rrally is a luxurious piece of living room furniture! A huge, cofllTortable lounge by day! A big, roomy dou ble bed, or separate twin beds, by night! Two Red ’Crms Quality lonerspring Mattres>e8! Three big, soft pillows! Finely uphol stered with the-new weft scant finish which eliminates tufting. All for only $34.75! ♦ ♦ RED 0 CROSS GOLDEN JUBILEE MATTRESS Sale Trice *ltK‘ The best Felt Mattress j'ou have ever seen! Containing the same wonderful and exclusive features that have made Red Cross the choice in the finest Southern homes for 50 yems! Los’ely sateen tick ings! Buttons tufted r Filled with luxurious layers of gossamer Red Cross felt! You tiiust test it to ap preciate its marvelous comfort 1 GOLDEN JUBILEE SPRING SalePrice 14V Built in die world's finest eoR spring department! Based on 50 vears’ experience with the mechan ics of better sleep-equipment! Con taining every practical improve ment that makes a spring truly comfortable and durable I Made with 140 finely tempered, resilient coils to provide the ideal founda- doo lor the Red Croat Mattrcml A ^ \ . A ■ 1 r' K _ # Other renuirkable Golden Jubilee^Spedalt include: die meet improved design in a comfortable Folding Cot Outfit, ideal for touring, camping and for borne use, priced at $8,751 The most beautiful steel beds'we have ever shown, priced'at $12.75! The famous Red Cross Suprenne Innerspring Mattress, world's finest piece of sleep equipment, priced at only $29,751 You arc urged to see them at once! ^^44, S. M. & E. 11. Wilkes & Co. CUNTON A, TWO STORES — LAURENS i 4 . 9 I e \ . /'