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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE/CUNTON. S. C.
THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1933
(Elinton (Ei^ontrU
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WILSON W. HABRIS, Editor and PobUshar
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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-
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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?
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UNFAIR TO MERCHANTS
The ninrch on Colunrhia Tuesday
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>!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. {
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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
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