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\ A ■ THE CLINTON CHRONICLE/CUNTON. S. C. THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1933 (Elinton (Ei^ontrU IfM ■r WILSON W. HABRIS, Editor and PobUshar Published Ebrery llrars^y By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In AdTance): Ore year $1.50; Six Months 75 cents{ Three Months 60 cents 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 susr^estions'and kindly ad vice. The Chroniple will'publish letters of i^neral interesi when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications wiB not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. " - lAiends. Mrs. Jas. R. Copeland, Mrs.]down to this fine breakfa.st and I ainitim of 1 avv wn 1 aa-* v • • i * « «... ... W. Ferjfuson and Mi.ss Jessie Dil- j always glad to be here and wish you ^lard directed the games and other | much joy. I am sorry—ei f amur emcnts. / jl left my wife at home and I ' " 7 I make a talk for you this week.” (From Tiles of The Chronicle for but can’t a novel hold-up trick which cost him $50 in cash.- Here is how The Piedmont de.scribed the trick: ^ ^ .-v [SepL ii, 1919). 4Nobody’8 Business By Gee’McGee v asked them for a receipt but they said none' was necessary as the case was dropped. I tried to tell them I kne-w nothing of the young man, but they were larger'than I am and appeared almost ready to jump on me. I just ^ paid the $50 and they dashed off. I A I couldn’t get their number for they I couian i Dreathe a wmk thru my eyes, [case m his hand. Mr. Simpson stop-L «« it"’ I felt mint for life. My Circulation had I opH tk.. North Carolina license on it. As Mr. Simpson was leaving Green- ' ] viHc -last Friday afternoon he was Then everything ^went dark to me.{flagged down near the foot of North coddnt see above a whispCr. I j street by a young man with a suit- * life. My Circulation had j ped and picked up the young hiker. About midway betweon Greenville J and I was too numb to be of agy use. ' Nobody threw anything at me, but 3 land Maiidin Mr. Simpson noticed the young hikei holding out his hand, as if to signal to someone. In a moment a large car containing three ner. dashed by and blocked the hichway '' in front of Mr. S'impson. At that in-' j our littfc-town was made sad last' actually came up to me af Ifriday night when a truck run over’^®** ^ over and said, mr.s. simkins favorite poodle dog and “^^e, old boy, we enjoyed that won- killed hi.m so dead that he had to be address.” If I h^.d to make my . druir off in S coal sk^. .vhe will be J" P“‘>lic, I’d die a ^ t^e hiker alijthted and ran ieav- missed as mrs. simkins wont have natural death before morning. ^ ' ir.g his I nothing to toTtf around in her arms. I j ^ar t^eenie i SimpSOD Victim Of The three — Try — COPELAND CAFE PLATE LUNCH — 25c € si’itcase in Mr. Simp.'.on’s the large car CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY. APRIL 27. 1933 Bright men, you know, •oh the dark side of things, ,.her nair.? was ir.e inrt-e men in y y I 1 f T ^ 1 .came back, told Mr. Simoson they Jri0lcl"ljp Scncnic^''^*^ officers and insisted that his car , ^ d- I mu.st be searchtKi. He offei-ed no ob- J jections knowing (or rather helmvingi Clyde .Simpson, larmer and florist there was no whiskey in his car. The ^ near Gray Court, and a cousin of | men spied the suitca.se, opened it and , af'd his wife and his 12 ^iss Lou Henderson of this City, hasjfound a gallon jue filled with whis- 1 1 i ^^vernmental action, ^ejchilluns and his wife’s ma and hisM/arned that being nice to strangers | key or some other,imitation. Thev told, never look applaii^-Mr. Roo.sevelt s vigorous at- wife’s —! dope nof ..o,. „„„—j:__ a. _ ’ .. . . . Y ep, the legislatur’e is still in .ses- j to remedy the outsta^di^ff evils of our siorr. But we don’t know why. i economic situation,^ so far as that can j some bad boys clum up jn C'.vi * .steeple to rehober church and tied a around the bell’s tung and it) could not ring for preeching .sun^.iy and nobody much wms pres.sent buti ! tack^ iipon the problems which aunt ada and his wife’s alw:iys pay, according to a con-1 old maid sisters who lives with them.!story Tuesday afternoon, in tfronted him when he took office. WrjUioy have not benn ketched up to now Garrison’^s column in The and w'hupped. he preeched on “samp- ^ Greenville Piedmont. According to The A CONFFSSION [agree that the banking situation was Tho.sv who have given us the beer! thoroughly bad and that it needs com- bill now .state that it was passed priljPh'te ovrehauling and rnuch tighter marilv as a monev-raising measure. K^ntrol, in the* interest of depositors. So. from this confession, it was not;''^ that governmental ex,Kmses enacted to promote temperance and righteousness in the state. » Honesty i.s alwaysf the best policy. son & goliar.’ for A holiday has been suggested the schools of the state. Why single out the schools ? Why not let the state highway department. ' ‘ ‘ ■ on itK‘ Piedmont, .Mr. Simp.son was the vic- Mr. Simpson they would either take his car or he must pay $50 and the case w'ould be dropped. "I looked both ways and didn’t see a soul,” Mr. Simpson said. “I finally E. .Mood Smith, O. D. Felder Smith, O.'D. Drs. Smith & Smith OPTOMETRISTS SPECIALISTS Eyes Examined, Glasses Prescribed Laboratory for l*rompt Re^ir , Service. 1.1 West Main Street Phone 101 CLINTON. S. C. for instance, take a holiday toad building program and a T^duc-1 tion of its maiittennnee expense? I Why should thi heavy revenue fiori’i the gasoline tax be sjient only on i roads? Are our roads more important than the education and training of ■our children? J 1 . , UNFAIR TO MERCHANTS The ninrch on Colunrhia Tuesday • \ >!ee thnusaml-inei-fhants from all. Iiurts of the state tyjprotest the |)as.s- of the su-ealled sales tax was t|P needed paring and are cheered by the j newj< that the new administration has cut a thousand million dollars off the budget. W’e would be the last to quar- ia*l with any intelligent effort to re- lieve Tarmer.s of their distress to lighten the load upon mortgage debt ors, to put men back to work in indus- ry, to keep the railroads running and insurance companies out of bank- \ ruptcy. ■Ve are somewhat concerned, h»»w- ever, as to the means projtosed to bring these things aJboul. do°not see how it is going to be possible for the federal government, fo^^example to go into vast schemes of reclama tion. to make huge grants of funds for doles to the out of work, to spend money on great programs of public of a show in i on tuesday vigor a snake charmer hell front of the drug stoar night and sold 25 bottle cf hair ^ f to make hair grow- on ball heads and | he charmetl 3 snakes betw’ixt his .sell-' ing spasms and they hung around hi.s 1 nake and did not bite him onner count i being of being hipnertized and charmed*^ yore eorry spondent, mr. mike Clark,;" rfd, bought 3 bottles but so far his hail aint showed up, yet a new goober pareher has benn opened uj) on the corner of main street and it will be called “the can-1 d>’ popper.” he will handle popcorn | and molasses will be poored on samet and he will increase his goobers to a| quart for 5c or 2 quarts for l()c, and j if a feler will buy as manny as 5' quarts he will let him have them for| ~tc. he was run out of cedar lane, so ag* unp'cccuented sirhl in the (••'.pi* i' am (h nonslrated tlu- temper of i le a\‘ pe'-i-.s of .South <’arolina. This armv <»f ruelehauls, teruuul by one the sp>*aket,' as already a "body of tax cdll* (■'I'rs"' fui’ the I'tate, let !t he k now n t h^ t he\^ a re rtrnngly oo-posed proposed lax which is unju-d and di.senmiualory, both to me chant i.i! i cori' iiMier, and calculaied to drive the men bants out of business if en- ;o icd. _ ^ . Tht‘ ptopo,'('d tax earindl he ab sorbed by the merchant without'put- ting him m liankruptcy. Neither is the consume! alile to hear it if it could he passed on l>y the merchant, but this is impossible. How in the name of com mon sen.-e will a luerchant pass on a tax on a nickel, dime or quarter sale? The merchant is already doing a prof- itles.s 'business and this new scheme to raise revenue wil' only add further 1 to his loKSCiK. ! Now is no time for the addition of | « sales tax, or any other type of tax-j ation. To the contrary, it is a time for' let'enrhment, for reducing expendi-; tures if our people are to be saved i from falling further down the chasm j of despair. The sales lax should he killed works, w’ithout increasing, instead, : his compet itor says, fqr. selling licker ; lightening, the burden ujKin the taX-ljjj|<,^j they wtuTt .speak, he says his [payers. We do not think the adiiiinis-|j^^jj^j^ ^uint. f rat ion ci’n tern plates anything so fonl-j ,,sh as to u.se the revived crcc'lit of thei ^own a igoveiriment. brought about by ‘he j balancing of the budget, as a means i. . ... ..... I of plunging the .believe.'^ theV are sjiies. he nation still deeperpeJping into the into debt.,But we Imrdly see how thei the ketched O'ne ■ firy de|>art-'l monney enterpri.ses which we read ahnu. ,, m the dispatches from V'-‘‘‘^h.ng’on, . can U' undertaken without doing just, | ‘h'd. thing while he is on the other end ofi We have a I way.s regardiui it as th< sounci American principle t.ha* g>v- lernment should content iLselT with the protection of the 'weak'- aiid the incom petent against exploitation by*' the strong and the unscrupulous, and not undertake to guarantee to any man or interest anything moh? than a si]uare deal. We do not think the United State.s has reached the stage where only a paternalistic federal power can save us from the conse-! quentes of our own folly, but we can not escape reading that implication into .some of the projects now unier consideration in Wa.shingtor. town asleep in the eitty hall with thc;' night watchman, he i:T carrying 2 pis tols instead of only a billie as Jiereto- foar. 13 Years Ago Items of Interest From TW Chraaicle of 1919 TIME FOR FOOL HEUIS •At the in< inent good news concern- »ng business is outweighing the had. P’jn and Hradsf eel for the past week, report the fourth eonsecutiye rjse in i the index of husiiicSs activity through-i blit the coim^ry. There has been a steady advaiW 1*11 tie price of farm, products, st " ..s, !'opd and other com ■ j moditie^. and a general fe< ling of op timism IS again permcHting the na tion. All eyiG'' ate focused ahead, look ing f ir. expecting a brighier day Hut-right now we need to keep o'lr henijs cuoi and ncives stiadv for thj.- Harvey Layton, who has been con nected with M. i5. Bailey & Son, Bank ers, for the past two years as book keeper. left Saturday for Charlotte, where he has accepted a clerical |>o- sition with the^ Southern Bell Tele phone company. He is succeed<^^ at the hank by Goyne Simpson. well. mr. editor, our govverment at Washington seems to. be verry bizzy and we are looking for better times, but w^e don’t want them to stop r. f. c. too quick, as lots of us wil hafter go to work for a living, if they cut off bud’s bonnus (he’s my war son, but he diddent go over) that will be bad enough and when they move the r. f. c. i and niy folks will be compelled j to seek employment for my wife and chtUuns. ” --j=s=j±==!=x. _ yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd, corry spondent. Speech!! Speech! A few weeks ago I attended a ban- qpet with a friend of mine; I was his gnest. I knew very Tew of the men and women, present. It was a sort of “ladies night,” but I didn’t know till I got there. Mi.ss Kmmie Young left on Mo’kM/ for Gainesville, Ga., to I'esume liei studies at Hrenau. 1 was given a seat up amongst the elite. There was no .shortage of food or conversation. Smokes and smoke were plentiful. Everybody was having a good lime regardless of the depres- siiin which w’as .tust a^'o'jiui the cor ner on its way off. Mrs. ^John gf hnme Spratt and children arc Several fine wr*t"ky-|'bemg a speaker-trr or even a talker or- a talks were made. Not a-son (T-a tqieoker, up” in impnivement •we iiave been hoiiing for . ,, ' ■ . . Montreal IS no*, coming overnight. I he turn of j pr<>sperity must of neci^'isity, he a’ slow process and we might as well , ,, . . . - . . n . ; ^— * forHfto»nofcer"V*;7 wlwre she T»-«"stu=' urgke^'ar'spggrtT’;- but a^Hrinds- of folKa-t, + j public, 1 Had no “slander idea anybody there Miss Sarah Hunter left on Tuesaiay had little enough sense to ask me to minds ' dent at Hollins college. make uf> our that it, is not going c()me purely through legislation that will put us l>ack on/fl( wt^ry beds. ,A Revival of busine^ always follows a period of •'lajrtialion, but in this fight as, indi viduals we must do something to help ‘w“jf conditions m general shoving'„ “** «Cns of improvement, there is the. ‘"f "’•'"I.'»'»"• great danger that we will allow our.j'.'’''’' worked into a fever of Miss Maude Pearson has returned The C!heise Out of Advertising benefits the man who buys as well'as the man who selb. It is part of the Gold en Rule of Business and it works both ways. Don’t miss the advertisements in this news- e paper. of them are interesting just be cause of their news and educational value alone. But more than that: Advertisements take the chase out of purchase and make every penny do its full duty. Miss Frances Burgess left Tuesday fer Columbia to become a metnbfr oT Ithc faculty of music of Columbia col*' liege. . H» go to “ladies nights.” I had begun to feel like one of-th»^*i‘owd WHEN- be jielves to imeculatibn and over-devefopment. 'Time* are beginning to .get better. And while we all long for a revival of business, we want* it to come on, a jT^ual, sound, stabilized basis rather than through an era of wild specula tion andean effort to again get rich •ofsrr-night.. We are coming out of the depres-j ak>n, but it is going to be a painful, Ktep-by-step process. There is a long way yet to go and we must face.the ftAarc with courage, hope, confidence sound business sense. from a two months ville, N. C. stay’at Waynes- Miss Luda Copeland left Friday for Columbia to enter Chicora college. E. C. Young has gone to Elbertoo, Ga., to accept a toachiag Miss Pearl Blakely has returned to work in Washington, O. iC., after a visit to Mr. and Mra. C. P. ■son ind J. Wilson Blakely. WHERE ARE WE GOLNG We confess'to a good deal df Arnublg im figuring out just whiit’djSection the iSkip of State is heading these days. We have a great deal of confidence in On Thursday evening Rhett Adair, Hubert Pitts neth Burdette entortai Ken- Miss Lillian Barrow. ijte pilot, who has demonstrate that- Dillard invited ^thirty-five 'tittle mouth opened a lit^ bit wider and be understands the art of navigation, iKit a(vw<Hild jike a little mere infor- aaatioii about the port toward which wat are going. ^ Like almost everybody else, we «fe tbefoughly in aceor^ 'with the eifojrt / i Saturday afternoon JHary Howae Out of a clear sky. somebody arose at the other end of the room and said: “Friends, we are fortunate in having Gee McGee with us tonight and he will now address us.” When I came I was two-thirds dead from fear to. and fright. Four fellows helped me to my feet and 3 fellows were l^uired to hold me erect. Everybody was'hol lering "Speech! Speech!” n The banquet hall began to go round and round carrying everybody with it. My mouth was so dry I couldn’t open it over a quarter of an inch. My chest began to heave to and fro and my ■Immirii grew very weak all of .sud* den and 1 felt nausea creeping over me. To tell the truth, I thought I was going to fall d^d. : r This lam statement is one particularly to be remembered when common-seAliie economy is not only a national duty,~ t.. • necessity. { »K.ii I1^——ipiMimini iwimiM |i i«i« 1’iw-^fae"— y--— 1 1 -|—nriri~TT'—i->i i ■!■■■ i ii_ DQNTMISS THE ADVERTISEMENTS Unconsciously I turned both of my coat pockets out and when a friend caught my hand, I had already ^un buttoned one of my suspenders and m gtgw of iced tea over on my britches. I became very dizzy and I thought niy nose was bleeding, but it wasn’t blood at ah l-fjnally got my friends to a pa^ijiy fourth birthday. celvbraiing her began to give vent to utterances. ‘The Paper Everybody Reads Monday afternoon Carol And here’s what I think I said: White 1"Friends_and Ladies, I am glad you Copeland celebrated his sixth birthday I saw me. I hope you are the same, party for a nunibar of little—er—'-er—jfeel like—er—er — sitting a $ si I an; ■1