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/: ■/ J y ; THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1933 ^ * THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLiNTON, S. C. A' /.r :1 jL PAGE SEVEN IODAV <ind frank PARKER STOCKBRIDeE !old to fiitht^Urted work' on this hujje first consideration in' startinjf or rua- iPaintin)' while the war was still sro-jninjr any -bank. Real banker* lie inp on. It was shown to miflions in a awake hiffhts/worryinK whether they I special building- in Paris for years af-jousrht to lend money to Tom, Dick or ter the armistice, and has been i Harry, and whether the Widov Jones' irought to Chicago fo!* moce millions (deposit is safe. We need fewer banks I and more real bankers. . , - I hope that everybody who goes to i ——— ^ >1 the Chicago fair will make it a point I USHER \T WHITE HOUSE to sec this magnificent jiicture. And I %. . i . «», .. r. My congratulatjons to ‘ Ike Hoover, I hope e^-erybody who reads this will go ’ to (’hicago this summer. I know of no 'wny of spending a vac.ation more in- I Lcrestirigly and more, usefully. THHtTEFNTH INSTALLMENT The story so far: Joyce Ashton, fmnr^rrr.ographer. Tn a skidding taxi cab accident in Chicago, suffered loss of merw.ii y. Two years later she woke one nio-.-mog after a fall from her horse to f;nd herself, under the name of F'riiis. married to Noil Packard, rich California fruit packer. She de- lennine*! to tell nobody of her predica ment but set about learning what she could of her life in the interval. From tnd c -nvoiy^ation of her friends and iettt r.^ in her desk she gathered that yhe had Veen a heartless, pleasure-1 ov- the previous evening. Joyce had been curioip ‘Abbott, the one woTiTah i'Jett seenVed {tion did not weaken. s to see Joyce Her thoughts swung rour»iV Neil. “What was she gr>;ng to to like, and the meeting with her had continue indefinitely living in come two days after her conversation with Ethel about the dinner for Rhoda Maitland. It was nearly five o’clock and Joyce, dressed in riding clothes, was waiting for Neil to come- home and take a ride with her before dinner. She had just left^he mirror in the living-room when she heard a motor and looking out saw a small, shiny black road.ster drive up to the door. The girl who got out was dressed in' white linen with a white felt same house with him as they had been irnilossible. She- had 'not i.'oing was TAXES ___ The state of New York has abolish-, RECri VTION eil a:] personal property taxe.. That, There is going to'be a lot of contm .»is a stf p in-the right diroctioT; Kl>0'le versy ov To this unfair tax. and industry. I am one of the the i I call it unfair because it presses op '»b!-fa.'-hionod Americans who believe the poor more than on the rich. Tlie the less the government has to tax assessor can count the farmer’s''**’ "’**^*’ busines.s th^-better. I think chief usher of the White Hou.se, who h.as ju.st finished his forty-second year of service there. His real name is Ir ving H. Hoover, and when Benjamin Harrison, yras president he was a young* electrician. Mr. Harrison had the first electric paab^buttons in.stall- .er the PXQtKLJals-^tbe^TTivr-li^^ House. Young Hoover to regulate all kinds of busi-j did the job. They got'out of order so known what she was undertaking cattle < and hogs, his horses and his liig vt/ung woman. One letter that 1""iin a white telt sport troubed her was from a woman sign-i and white buckskin oxfords. She ing herself Sophie, blaming Frills for was certainly rather pretty, with- her not giving a home to a baby Sophie i ■'*’”»** features. when she made that decision “I sujipose I .‘hould have gone awa; in the first place,” .she thought fis- couragedly; “I can’t rcali7.e in.side cf me that I’m married to Neil Packard and I keen having the feeling that there’s something all wrong about liv ing with a man so intimately and yet not so intimately. I’ll ne»or lose that feeling of uncomfortable shyness ana .strangeness, I know, until . . . unless —oh, dear!” ;hat the less the do with busines.s that more of our business trouble is due to too much governmental regula- maohinery, but what the rich man has, in his safe-deposit box it^ stocks bnd ithe pa^t than to too little. But bonrW is'out of sight .afuf he cart/and ' ^ am afraid I am one of a small- mi- am afraid I-am iieos lie about it. ' hority just now. Revision of all our old tax-methods ^ Thei-e are some things, however, is ip the aiiV I thTik it is a mistake Uvhich properly. should be regulated, for a state to Ibipose a retail sales Those are line.s of busme.s.s which in tax. as so many have done lately. I ’theia nature are more efficient as mo- in the sales tax, because it /hopolies .than in competition. That bcliev^ often that the president thought there ought to be an electrician on the job all the time. He picked “Ike” and H >over has been there since. “Ike” is responsible for all the his toric relics in the presidential man sion, for the management' of the do mestic staff and the supen'isibn of all formal social functions.*"He receives all distinguished visitors and escorts them to the president. And he is pretty nearly the most |>opular man in Washington. wa.s caring for. Could it be her baby Theie might be among them a few She also found her- herself to the ordeaK of meet- congenial spirits but she did not feel ing another stranger who was not a I any too hopeful. Yet after all, what stranger. ^ ! did it matter? She reproved herself “Sorry to bother you.'Frills. but I’m alb'wing the standaixls T>f out on business this afternoon,” began .-Xinsworfh to influence her. rt .\!n.-’.vi)r*h, a poet whose work she | the girl, smiling in a half-apologetic, lb* was nothing to her, she told her- a~dmfr^. Wh«n Jdyc^w-1 hBtL-dfiftsm'YaHhinnr‘*and:^yo«r the list T Had beai's^ equally on everyone according^would include railroads. telegi*aph and- to how much he sjiends; 'out I think it i telephone lines, electric lighting and I a state power systems—everything which de- i i pends upon a public franchise. Then j ought to be a federal and not tax WAN T S Frills wondered! .<elf inv 'lved in an affair with a man riiir.e i Maitland. In San Fianci.sco, where -^lie went while her husband was aw ay on business, she met Rob- prodUcts -as are irre- ♦a., I t at neiT !;ome.~ sHe decided to be pleas unter t. this l:t. was patheta-ally anxious to w in back j camp up in the Sierras and so^ the I'rills’ ./-.e. * committee is planning a big fair and IS on the list 1 had given'Hie to call than Frills had been. Button. We want to rai.se a lot piore money .A was dangerous, too, for Neil I this^ year for the Orphans’ V'acatiorj^ was .she startled (N v\ tio On With the .Story). 4 Far ;r the hills Joyce had found a 1 Itle group of pines on the edge of a towering redwood grove. When she lay down on her back (n the warm ^unshine and looked up through tV < pines at tlu- blue sky, she felt as if siie w.M-e floating in space. .'-^he lay thinking.of Neil, and with ii little thi-ill of satisfai-tion she de- <-ide<l that he show'ed no evidence of missing tlu* old P’rills. She bad now met practically every one w ho moved in their circle in .Man- zjinita and had found «>iit enoiigb of sat there motionless, she to see a “man appear. With a little gasp of astonishment Joyce recognized Robert Ainsworth, entertainment. We want to find out j “Do yiui temembei me ?” asked what you’ll do for it. Will you enter , Joyce. the horse show and take on one of the “Oh Lord, how like a woman! Of 'act.s in the evening?” i course I remember you, worse luck!” INFLATION inquiring^iend writes to ask ^ me how it will benefit the country to have the Feileral Reserve banks issue (three billion dollars of new- money to 4 take np l^vemment bptfdyi The I swer is that these bonds are now- held I Vy bunks which are handicapped j liaving so much of their deposits tied j up in these “frozen assets.” If the; / I banks can turn them over for new sMC,bf natural placable, like oil,, coal and minerals, should not be left-to whoever wants to grab them off, but placed under governnignt restriction or .stimulation of production, as circumstances' de- z. ' - Hut that is about as far as FOR RF^NT—(i-room house on .\cade- my street. .Apply to J. A, Bailey. Ic W.ANTKD—To buy 20 usetl radios and used parts. (Jash waiting. Special price.s on Fdectric.-F'ans. For radio re-^ pairing try the Radio Exchange. 2p - -- ZFOR SALl^—Htn'e^Pfrland-China pigs,^ ,^ or will exchange for field peas. W’. bv I bke to go in govjfrnmental control of; or J. Henry, Jr. 6-29-5tp FOR RENT—.My brick store and fill ing station in fi-ont of State Train ing school. .A nice location on main LA.MONT cash, tlu'y can use the money to lend ' “'Tom” I.umont, partner in J. P. foi- productive enterprises. And there and company, / international' fuived h^hwuy. See me at once. J. L. is ju.st as much behind the new cur-, bankers, is proud of the faCt that he Wright. ‘ Up i-ency as behind the bonds that is., was a newspaper reporter before he circumstances so by safely in mo.st their bisliuy and that she-could get i uses. p 'Hi.* 'oontli \yas nbt yet up but Joyc*', '.‘fninarizing her imjiressions T.nd tiv* .nowiedge she had gather* l,j IVlt fnuT .-1* had given Ikm- envir(*n- ment a ftu-- study and was enlith-d to *lraw i'« i- c*r,clusions an*! plan h*'i- fii- t ur*.* .-mil--i without furtlu’i- lesearch. Kir-’, -i- to .Neil. She had riiade a numb‘1 i f enlightening and cheering | <ii.seov. rx-'s eonceiming hini. He was I • U'votc I 'o golf but dill-not care forj ilancing; lie liked li<iuor but never' *irank to j-xcess, and he disliked risque stories luorq than most of his ac- quaintaiic,Vues.se«l. He believed in taking one’.s part in the life of the commun.ty but he would have been happy t^'n'tay at home four evenings! «tut of A week to enjoy the quiet pleas ures of i»i-i'.ate life. On h* ; .eturn from' San F'rancisco - the g**\-ernment’s credit. w-as a banker. Lately he has been tell ing the world what’s wrong w-itm PAINtlNO—WORLD’S LARGEST i banks The laigest picture ever painted on, We have the worst banking I' eanvas will Ih> one of the star attrao-j'n the world, Tom Lamont Wright. WHAT DO P. S. Jeanes I- (ions on the .Midway at the Chicago I (Vnturv of Progress exposition. It is '* '(>2 feet long and 1-') feet higji and de pict.'.. against a background that show,' all the famous battlefields of -■i''rance, six thousand individual heroes f of the Worhl war.* Every one is" a per- fiit portrait, (treat Fnuu-h says, ar.d lie ought-to know. He a*lvocates bring- , ing all^ the commercial hanks of the nation into the F'ederal Reserve sys-! teiu, under governmental contr*)!. | 1 do not see how anyone exeept some' little man who wants to pose as a big lii ui by i-untiitrg a bank on his (twn. to | ■gratify hlk vanity, can olfjeet t*) tliat.' DO’ A Laxative that costs only or less a dose .NE.XT .TIME yoUi*^need medicine to uf't on. ihe bowels, try Thed- ai-tists who wei'*> ‘Do you^remember me?” anked Joyce. too .SuMie crooks might, hut there aren’t' — - :o many crooks in the banking busi- knew he wa.' in ihuuHy earnest. | nc'S as some fidky< think, and they “S«.iu*‘m-** s-.ispendi‘(r!” she gia\*dy lue gifting v.ee*li]M out. ' i(‘torti‘d. Their *‘y*‘s imd with mutual The main cau.s*> *d" o'ur system <>f/ln- a moment, and then depi-ndt-nt, tlu* con\ersatu)»Z.-i so’t of ^Imtuu'v of (n\j»|tvo\al foi I -loj .-e lightly t urned it*i tht* woihl of hooks uiiall, W-eak hank.- ha.s Ueeii local prid**. .Safety (d’ the depositors (*ught to be th* ■tt-Hu'k-Dt-aiight. TT Itrings “luii-k relief and rs {uiced witblu rraih ol‘ all. Black-Draught is one''of the least «‘xi»e'usive laxa* tiv's tliat yon cart find. A Lbasamt |i;n Ka-ge eoiit-rins J~> or more dose.s. BelH'shin.g r**li*“f frvuu coii.stipa- (ioa t rouhlfs for only a cent or 1 . J dose that’s why tbon.'ands ol nil n and women piefer Tbed- ford’s r.'lack l >iaught. Joyce li.stened* to mixe.l emotions. w'ay and smiling pleasantly as .'he had liiiee more been forced tor face 1-spokt^, “but I’m not riding any more this appeal wdth'he added w-ith such [irofound gloom jthal .loyce giggled. “Yiiu’re my pub-* “Of course. I’m . . . Tm interested >'*'** know!” He looked at her ” began Joyce slowly, feeling her i^nd bioke into a ijmde. Here i! 0 0 n irzdlr=ir. Notice m It, -V she* -Pb'a***’ turn her horse and !em of hei relations with j in shows and I’d rather not take part He had telejihoned and call-1 in any entertainment, but I’m . . . I’d the jiio' Maitlan! ed ae-.e -al times the first day while , like to help in any other way.” she wu' out, and on the second morn-1 Her acquie.scence was received with ing, just a- .she was ready for a ride j Jfi'»t^fully effusive thanks. The girl »)n Ro'.ia, he ha*l appeared and ! then rose, hesitated for a moment and ! lead Rosita away. caught 1:-I loyce let her thoughts ! ■'<aid, with a little wistful aii- whichlunch myself tlwell d.eamily for a moment on .Mait-| Joyce felt instinctively was ijol whol- jjjake good coffee land and iii.stinctively she found her-|ly genuine. “I wish we might Ik- l(‘t me take youi- into the corrul.” j “But ... I w-a,s ju.st thinking w hat | a nice jilace this was to eat my lunch,”, said Joyce doubtfully. j “Dh. but wait till you have tasteil] my coffee,” he protested, starting to' “I’m just going to | and I really cun > . > f .self comparing him with .-corn to two men — Robert .Ainsworth and Neil i'ackard. .Measu’-e*! by Ainsworth’s FtBiraard?. Maitland had no chance at all--it was .dmost unfair even to coni- I>are them. Maitland h^d once or twice attempt ed to reoiv. ;i the subject of their love, but Joy**.* hud continued to treat him with such unmi.stakahlc* coldness that he w U' mifled and finally let her alone | Joyce, how are In hei- thoughts she no'w Came liack.j'^haking hund.s w ith a i|i;icbenihg of he* pulses, to the problem <>J' her relati»»n.' with Neil. frieiul.s. I ilo so like to be friend.s" with every one. If there’.s anything I can do . . . I’m .so .sorry,” Who was this girl anyhow? won- *lered Joyce, .slightly exasperat*‘d by her meek manner. There had evident ly been some unpleasantness between Frill.s and her. But before she h-ud to speak she w-as saved by the anival of Neil. “Well, look w'ho’s here! Hullo, you?” hi cordially He w’us back in a sui prisingly short ' lime and said, “I never eat anything **\cept bread an*l butter and fi uit an*i I j coffee for lunch but l' have plenty *)f i truck in the shack' and I can make y anything you .like. Orders taken until two-thii-tv.”^ “Oh, plea.se *ion’t think of getting 'anything for me except coffee,” pr*)- itesteil J«)yce tjuickly, “I have my [sandwiehes which I really must eat or' exclaimed, 1^9’'^’*’’*'* Icejings would be hurl.” with her. “W*dl, the i-offee will he done'in a loyce Abbott, of course! j Tew minute^. .Sjt down or standiip or “Well, why not sit down? What’s'do whatever you f*T*l like doirg. Ju.st h * me pi- ♦J They, hil l gone out together the eve- your hurry?” went on .Neil in his nir.g ’ efoie, and cooked a Camp supper j heartiest manner, “what do you high up.*m a Ijill.-^ide overlooking the'know? How's the car working?” valley. They lingered until it was “Oh, it’s just fine! but I must run dark, watching ihv^tars creep out uiong niovv. I just came to ask Frilbs into their places. loyc-e, hugging her if, she’*l help’on the affair lor the Or- knees. .-lit an«l breathcrl'tn-the peace phan.s Vacation caHvpir J/ood-jye and and quiet, while Neil stretched out-' thanks ever so much.” clo.se to her, smoked a pipe and play-^ “Oood-’iye,” said Joyce., She spoke TlTir^cnrir w-ith Dickie’s- eicra. .-,Zi.ullly.. uyoi:ie,,bi^a.yjiC*_jih..e_cp_uld not Su.htenly Neil had rolled over, to- Hhink of anything to .say than because ward Joyce, and. putting his abms -he wished to be di.sagreeable. Neil ac- a-ound her wai.st, laid his-head *)n her companieil the caller out to her road- thought a man’.s necktie should match lap. Joyce leaned back restinu her step. Joyce, watching surreptitiously, hi.« .socks, I’ve had to warn casual vi.s- weight on her hands behind her and was again amu.sed to see the interest itors not to a.sk him question.s.” did^not touch him. She had lately* with which Neil listened and the ap-, ‘•Well, I’m glad he isn’t around be- avoided every slightest demonstration j pealing little glances Joyce Abbott cau.se I want to ask—” ^ of affection toward him, for she had'threw at him from her expressive blue^ “Dh, I know. You want to ask^how come to the disconcerting conclusionieyes. I hapjien to be here. You,want to more than once that Neil was finding' “I’ve got her nilmber,” thought how extraordinaiy it is that we shoul^j! || lent ym with the key.' to t he city." H** I mi the cof-Cfe pot on a.s lie 'poke and .loyce a.'ki**!, “Do the key.' «*f the city include p**rmission to ask questions?” '“On all free admis.sion daysT ye.s. Excejit, of course, when (^'laiid .Alficd is aiouud. He’.', ju.st a little hit qiieer that. way E'-er—aince he threw the mother of fivi^ children into the brook because she a.iked him whether he I I 0 0 0 I 0 0 0 0 0 I Stockholders it harder and harder to keep hi* feel-j Joyce,- “she’s the ultrafeminine sort; nieet here, after meeting in an equally ings in check. I clings and 'makes the men feel j extraordinary manner in San Fran- She could not help realizing that it ( big and strong and masculine.” ci.sco. You want to get personal was both unwise and unkind for herj You are perfectly charming, Joyce .Alston, i H and I’m terrified of you. If 1 sdeni to 3 be talking a lot and at random you’ve' II to slip her hand in his, to smooth back I Thinking over the past month, his hair, to do any one of the dozens (Joyce was conscious of a baffled feel- of little caressing things which she j ing of dissatisfaction when it came only yourself to blame. My well-known found herself, in her liking and pity to her knowledge,of Frills’own past, ipoi.se is shattered.—” for him, involuntarily and quite inno-( In another direction also Joyce felt He broke off aliruptly, and Joyce cently inclined to do. | herself checked. She was no nearer; (jropped,limply into a chair. Nothing The slightest motion of this sortlaccomplishing her purpose*of getting could have surpri.sed her more than sent a flame of hope leaping into i back her baby than she had been when _ to hear Robert Ainsworth talking to Neil’s eyes.\ \ ■'’be received the first letter from So-i her in this manner. How long'could this go on? It was phie. A .second letter had arrived that “Well, go ahead and tighten the |a. becoming more and more difficult for morning—exasperatingly vague, very (clamps',” he continued. “You’ve heaped^ || them both. Joyce trembled a little to shoct and again minus an address, coals of fiie on my head by your sun-' rwall the tenseness with which Neil .Joyce townehted herself trylrrg to ny acceptance of everything — haul Fad finailv released his hold on her solve the problem, but her dcteraiina- me over them’.” He smiled but Joyce ***** !■ Ml I I Mil ' I I •IIII.I- IIIII'I^ ■ I -r--r- ■ i i i i li rr ■ iiirr TTI'' — 0 i y 0 0 0 0 7 In accordance with the by-laws, fines will-be charged on all delinquent payments oh stock installments and interest. Fines will be imposed if payment is* hot made on or before the fif teenth of each month; and in the event that the Association has to pay the insurance or taxes for any stockholder, to protect. Joans made by the Association, a charge will be made for this service. All stockholders are requested toTnake their payments to the Associations on their due date, as well as pay their insurance and taxes prompt ly, so as to avoid these fines which will be strict ly enforced. u Gitizeiis Building Clinton Building Liberty Building 8 Loan Ass’n. 1 fp II Ii'nfr4—3 (f ■■ l".i gli=iiaa«xB "I ,. A- u-,'- A .1' -Vi-a V -