Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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.\ THURSDAY. APRIL 20. mz Ollye (fllintan (UlyrnnirU EvUbliahcd IfM WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publi»ber Published Every Thursday By TR?: CHRONICLE PUBiLISHING COMPANY, Subscription Bate (Payable In Advance): Ore year $1.60; Six Months 76 cenU; Tliree Months 60 cents Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Pwit Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle .-ieck-s the'cooperation of its subscribers and readers—the publisher will at aJtl tim^s appreciate wise sugjrestions and Irindly ad vice. The Chronicle will pubfish 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. - ' 1 building in the near future, the fol^i their bpows and nearly, all of them j low’ing officers having be^n electe^to i have as much as the guy who is^ not [head the project: B. H. Boyd, pr^,i-| being fed at that trough, but is work- denyi J. T, Robertson, rice-president;) ing at some bread and meat job. W./H. Simpson, treasurer; Dr. S. C. j ^ " Hay.s, secretary, We can’t de|>ehd on human efforts • and promises to overcame dur trou- Mi.sses Mar>' Lizzie Owens, Essie jbles. The Good'Lord mu^ send us too ijH, would you be willing to swap it fdr railroad or factory stock then worth $10,000? If so, you will have no troubite in finding a trader. Men who have sti-ong arms,' fifty or a hundred acres, and are willing to of their other luxuries dig food out of them are about the only class who are comparatively 'Hiere is fear in South Carolina, but it is not that people wdll .starve. The fear of the people is that they will not be as rich as they were, that they may have tb give up their cars and If our people were in a really dread- Bell Hunter, Iva Adair,'.May Owens. I much rain, plenty boll weevils billions vunip^iaHve^ul condition, pestilence would stalk. Mo,-., p r weevils, □mionst^j.gp anxiety in this countrV. always does when a country is in Helen 'Bailey, Mary Ruth 'Copeland,.,-of com borers and wheat pests, mshi^Uo r * u- ui i rm-#* i Frunces fpn«nipl. Rpth RUkplv. Cnl- Wotn I the LepslAbarc taxes them too highly,| <^^verty. 1 whose'Legislature is it? It is com Frances O’Daniel,.,Beth Blakely, Col lette Griffin and Emily Phillips left i'the past week for Winthrop college. j ' Arthur Copeland left Saturday for , an Asheri.llc, N. C., .sanitariumv where he will spend several months. potato bugs iby tHe carload, rice worms by the ton, ticks, in droves to keep COW’S from giving milk, and other i blessings in the disguise of calamities. Man is an animal, so rny old gram-1 mar used to say, and he will keep onj posed of their representatives. In a democracy governn^ent will be no better jthan the people make. They make it. Rx. the average been lower The plain truth .is that of health has .scarcely than usual the la.st four years. If. the whole population, white and black, 1,768,765 men, women and children, could he placed on the scales. making the same mistakes so long as 1 Mi'-s Mercer Vance left Tuesday for Athens to enter Lucy Cobb^'col- lege. rt.lje lives. To th^ South Carolinians is gues.s i.s that they would^ weigh as. ger of famine or widesaread d st'rs.s. 1 pounds as in 1523. J CUNTON. S. THI RSDAY, APRIL 2fl, 19;« I Mis, W. G: from a stay of Montreat. 1 y i^rier) bout t ‘ FOOii FOR JHOrG (Editorial in The New.s and , . Crack-'brained fooks talk Neville has returned j “redistribution of w-ealch.” What several m^th.s mj “wealth”? Where is the /‘gang” that ' j could make a living out of a factory if it were given them ? 'The proportion of pepnle suf fering is smaller, smaller by far. than it was forty years ago. It is the belief of The If we were all as honest as we think others ought tft^ffTivhut a wondeiful world this would he. ' ' Herman Hunter .left Tuesday for Clenison college. ' The amount of inom*y in the. pay envelopi' is not so imp^»rlant as the ability of the. mar to make it last from one |*ay day to the next. - 4 Don’t blame the peanut politician. Blame l.he people who vole fur the peanut politician. . BEER TAX FOR SCHOOLS One of the great arguments in Co lumbia for the pHiisage of the beer bill was that its .sale will rai.se reve- , , , ■, , ‘to Columbia to enter Chicora college. \\c are told that beer consumption. ^ In the last four years there has been in this country the mightie.st “redistribution of wealth” that ha.s taken place .since Columbu.s made hi.s If anyone be skeptical high abundance of land in a ibles-^^d cli- j mate, ate bleating and bellowing like will pixive a big help to our .schools, .since forty per cent of the revenpe Mis.sfs Agnes Henry, Sara Frances j Glenn and Elizabeth Young have gone | discovery about it, let him vealT the figures oT^a decrease in income taxes. A.S for you farmers, if you had land I from this source is to be applied to .slate school aid. ' | I -'Xnd so, we have the speetalile of | j educating our children with beer I money, to be followed later, if and vi-hen the lhth amendment is repealed, by a further increased revenue from liquor sales. In other words, we are Mis.s Louise Pitt.s left Tuesday for Columbia to resume her studies at Co- luihbia college. worth $10,000 in 11^20 and .still News and a: Courier that before the 5’enr e-'ds “times w'ill be better.” That i.s not .saying that we shall have the living of a dozen years Here and there ir .‘^outh Carolira {■sj calves and ibulls. a\man with family who is “doling well.” In the forty-six counties are some thousands of them. They are at work and their heads’are cool. If one,able-bodied man can support family in South Carolina in those time.< .so can 400,000—and t’ne num ber of families is not much larger than that. We call ourseive.s a “Chri.stian peo ple.” How’ much faith have we?i We are murmuring much as the Children of Israel murmured when Moses Was away on the mount. We, a healthy, strong people with .—Try — COPELAND CAFE PLATE LUNCH — 25c SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRO.NICLE “The Paper Everybody Reads’* IDLE VOl NG PEOPI.K General Robert E. Lee, the great (.onfederate chieftain, legarded idle-,j jj^^ools with the beer ness a.s a jHisitive vice. He is quoted , business when it is a recognized, un- as aaykig, A young man .is__ fact that alcohol is the child’s greatest enemy. It makes little chil doing something; if not good, then Mr.«. B. H. Boyd enteilained Friday afternoon in honor of Mrs. George White of Sa Savannah, Ga. (From files of The Chronicle September 18, 1919). ! — 4„ harm to himself and others. \ dren orphans, oftentimes paupers and his, and , beggars. Thcie is u great tru it applies to old men and young men i vV'e are .saying to our people in sul>- i and old women and young women I stance, drink beer, keep on drinking j alike, and even to children. ' . beer, . for the more you drink, the i There is really no such thing as ! greater amount of money we will have idlene.ss. We are all doing .something<< to apply to the education of our chil- all the time. And those of us who have dren. j reached the years of discretion and j Get the picture. .As parents we plead i resjionsibility' should make sure that that alcohol he kept from our sons: we do good rather than harm. and daughters. In the next hroath w’e Nobcsly’s Bnsinear- By Gee McGee Mike Regaina His Health flat rock, s. C. apull 17, 1933. the well-quick medison co, new york, n. j. deer sirs: i seat myself to rite you a recker- mendation for yore wonderful “yerb and root juice” of which i took only 9 bottles and it l'RE.SIDKNT ( RAIG The election of E. 1^. Craig as presi dent of the ChaniiJer of < ommeice for the coming yeai will meet the general approval of its meimhership. He suc- ci-eds G. R. Blakely, who has served the o> gan.y.ation the pa; t yeai' m an "tiF?T+ (say educate these boy> and w itlC 9 bottles and it made a new man out I alcohol ipvenlie. j of me and my wife allso gained 12 * Alciholic beverages breed crime jiound.s, and her blood pre.ssurt* went W ould it not be more approjiriate to i down ,7 notches, allocate this beer tax money ko the: ——^ The Chcise penitentiary or somewhere er than to our .schools? ise, ruth- ' Out of X S-p-lt, rnTTt;iT<’‘’ :?fg du^ng such a trying period, aiivuncenient and betterment unselfish he could to thi of the city. „ Mr. Craig is an adopted Clintonian, coming here six year.-; ago from Lan caster to enter business. He has been ^. a lOyal member of the Chamber of i ( ommerce, always willing to do his part as a progressive citizen. No bet ter selection could have been made by the club. hefoar i begun to take yore fine medisoii, dark spots would come be- ' : —, - — 'lour my i*yes when i was told to do a ■»v .M i tTuroN WKFK“ of work around the house, my riie third . annual ohservance ol head sv. um nrarly all the ApMUC jukI National Cotton Week will take plaee,'>iy livver complaint was .something on May L7th to 20th inclusive, with awful, but after the third bottle, my|^ "Everybody Uses Cotton” as the na-j bead i^topped short of a-swimming. tion's slogan. Indications are that the observance will he of wider .scope than previous years, I “National Cotton Week” is u move- ' ment to place cotton fabrics of all [kinds their im|)ortance, value and if you could raise the alcohall con tent in his medison from ‘25 per cent o 50 per, cent, it would .sell a heap | taster as it already tastes verry’much | like bayium. my chist pained me for! DON’T BE FOOLED The Slate of .South Carolina before the summer is over, will have received: and spent lapproximately two million , utility-—actively in the public mind of|«i years prior to yore medison and so the nation during this week, the fun-[did my feet and they would swell up dumental idea being to stimulate bus-* powerful if i tried to work in the field, iness through the sale of merchandise' but i was always careful not to try to made of cotton. | work anny when my wife was up and This is no patriotic movement. It is, about, lased on sound economics and good dollars in cash from the Reconstruc-j business sense, C^^ton fabrics are tion Einance <’ori>oration for relief i stylish—perhaps \he most stylish of .work. Much of this moiu'y has been^^anj^fahrics at the present time. They arenrrinminrbie in price Kpenl to advantage, of course, in per manent and worth-while public im provenH*nt.'>, while much of it has been -they are fast in colors — wonderfully designed and woven—they are washable wear after i hud taken 4 bottles, i got so’s i could carry waiter to the field where my wife was working and could set in the shade qf a tree till nearly night and i got able to walk to town and loaf all day after the fifth bottle, .the asted on jirojects of little or no real : able and appealing in every Mi nse. | ketch i useter have in my back dis- value.. But the thing to be remembered is (hat this money must bt* paid back by “National Colton Week” is there fore a most constructive undertaking from the standpoint of raw ci'tton and ap|)eared after the sixth bottle and so did them bump.s on my back, but it has not hope my back-ake verry much. the state. And we have an idea that j cotton textiles. With the American the harve.st will be a lot of headaches | staple .selling at the lowest price le\ei for the taxpayers^ who must foot all i since 1916-, and lower relative to the the bills. ' i general cost of living than during any Boi row ing has become a crize that i extended period of time in thirty but you did not say it would. has swept the country off its feet ' years, surtdy cotton is in a position The big fundamental trouble afflict-! to go into much larger consumption mg the people of the United States, under an aggressive merchsmli.sing today is debt. us this BEER AD\KKTISLNG Yesterday’s mail brought <luestionaire from an advertising jigemy—"Will your papeC accept beer advertising for breweries ?” A merchant friend oVuie stilts a few hours later asked — “Is The going to run beer adver- Oironicle Using?” To both questions answers NO. ‘The present owner of this newa- The Chronicle campaign in the field of cotton goods. .Such a campaign will doiriitless do, a great deal to capitalize the splendid I work done in the past few years in the : development of. new uses for cottor^ the present high favor with which cotton fabrics are regarded from a gress made by our mills in the South in creating and meeting public de mand for high quality and artistic cotton goods. This movement will impress on the country the courage and „determina tion of our business leaders, and it is hoped may have great result i in help- i will sing the praises Of yore val- luble yerb and root juice as long as i Hive and want all of my friends as well as the republicans to begin tak ing this life everlasting medison. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. .A Bird’s Eye View of Political Activities 1 happen to be in the wholesale gro-i eery business, but of course I don’t blame anybody for that. What I start- and the great pn>-!ed put to say is thisl.we have the fol- arTd fedferaPagehts ]»aper ha.N never accepted ap inch of a<fvertising from breweries or liquor | bring trade and industry hack establishments^ This unliroken policy , n^^mal state. In short, it means will continue to hold regardless of the fact that the unrestricted sale of beer is now permissible in the state by the legis lalure’s action; regardless of the fhetr that the whole country has ap- business stimulation. CHnton, along with the whole na tion, is asked to join in the celebra tion of ’’National Cotton Week.” The | inspector. Chronicle will lend its support to the„ 1 federal lowing state inspectors calling upon us every few days: 1 state tax investigator. 1 state tobacco tax inspector. 1 state weight and measures inspec tor. 1 state feed inspector. 1 state income tax agent, x 1 state cotton wai-ehouse inspector. I state insurance inspector. l.fi^eral income tax agent. 1 federal perishable commodities parently gone crazy on the si^ject of; movement by issuing a ’’special edi-itor. heer; and at the same time mindful | month built aroundj the theme—“Everybody Uses Cotton.” cotton warehouse inspec- that this policy will doiibtless deprive us of considerable advertising reve nue. Anyone, unless suffering from de fects in hnental perception, can under stand thet the sale of beer now legal- tted back in this country can only be interpreted as a forerunner to a con- eerted effort for the reestablishinent ef the whole liquor business. In our ewn state, lordly had the beer bill been enthusiastically signed by the goeernor before we were told that victory won, the legislature will turn tp enacting legislation for 9 fcpcal rs^rend^^ the return «# Mqoor. Beer and liquor and the •ninec have always run- together. ICo, The Chronicle will not accept beer sKhrertUiqg aodr; or liquor iuiver- tistn^ Inter, baeaute ere stand for pro hibition both in ptactiee and theory. If this paper ean^ exiat erithout fill- hif its columns with beer or liqjior then it has no right to 13 Years Ago Items ef latercat Pram The Chreaide af lilt Miss Froi^e Kennedy has accepted a position as deap of women at Trin ity college, Durham, N. C. 4amcNi Pitts, Leeris Barrow, Glenn Fu^er, TlMmas Stokes, Allen Stokes and l^ias Bailey 4^ Yuesday Tor Spartanburg to enter’Wofford Fitting school. The capital stock of the First Na tional bank has been increased from $60,000 to $100,000 to help take caro of the increased business of this in stitution. All of these state and federal agents and inspectors remind me of 12 wo men trying to fit a 10-eent cap on a baby’s head. Two men could do the work of a dozen, but 1 am not in favor of aayhady turning anybody^ off as Mmt ersates uaemfdoynient and worhs the R. P. C. hard. As to “getting back on our feet,** common sense, not polities, will have to turn the trick. ’XIm law of natural adjustment will begin to function pretty soon unless a financial miracle takes place—meaning that commodity pricaa^aad wages will advanp, and put the folks who srant to wo^ on the job. lis, Mebbe I ought not to say this, I believe it’s true: millions of people are pround of the depression. With the aid of the R. F. C., Red Crota,~'8idva^ tion Army and other charity agma^ies, many people get along all right with- aww$i'ti Advertising benefits the man who buys as well as the man who sells. It is part of the Gold en Rule of Business and it works both ways. Don’t miss the advertisements in this news- paper. Many of them are interesting just be cause of their x^ews and educational value alone. But more than that: Advertisemmits take the chase out of puichase and make every penny do its full duty. This last statement is one particul2U'ly to be remembered when common-sense economy is necessity. s DONT MISS THE ADVERTISEMENTS i d f « •* 4 y- “The Paper Everybody \ Reads’ \ ..-.A.'. . ... / iV:-