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■■( PAGE SIX N CHRONICLE. CLINTON . S C.f THURSDAY, OClV)BER 26.4 933 CROSSING THE SEA (By Herman B. Henderson)' .As -we embark upon life’s sea. From the, emerald isle of time, In a shaded barjre of mystery .y' Who1»e pilot is sublime. It seems that' we are wont to sail Cpon the stormy' deep And battle with the fearful jzrale That evermore would swe$p Our barge from off her course. We will not fail if our ‘eyes Upon the morning star we keep. e GROSS RUF RIGS DISTRESSED IN 120 DISASeS \ Across the murmuring waves We have heard our pilot's voice, And thousrh life’s stormy billow raves It makes our hearts rejoice; And though the angry breakers roar' A signal to the sea To seize and engulf for evermore The immortal part of we. They are stilled by a voice from the oppo.site shore That makes humanity free. Above time’s shadowed mam Huge billbwsrfise and falj. But He who'through the long eternal years shall reign ^ Alone can hush them ^11. '’Ami of all that is for which 1 crave It is the spirit of peace. That we each one our souls might save. That our lives might l>e *at ease, When the angry demons are wont to rave ’ . ' Upon life’s threatening seas. Adrift on the transient time. We see a radiant sight, ' And catch tr-g|.impsp-of the sublime, l^ aunful and-bright. .And on the far-off golden strands, 1 (learning o’er life’s sea that rolls, Eternal in (Jod’s heaven stands The lighthouse bright for human: souls. ^ i ;\To guide them clear'of sinking sands, 1 - To stth'r them past the hidden; ^ shoals. Acr»»ss the In-^piring waves ^ Of the luautiful .lasper sea. There is a jiower that ever saves .Such pliant souls as we. For all »uir life it seems that God Hu' spoken hi*re and there Of h'lW Hts blessr-d son has trod This emerald wmld so fair, .\n«i how He idse from out tTTe sod hdernal power to share.'' " Help Given in Fires, Floods, Earlh- quak,e and Epidenrics Part of Year’s Task I Wa.shington, Oct. 16.—If it were not I for a few' other little things which The American Red Cross has reached 1 happen to be occupying the public’s 'attention at the moment, the situation wiiich i.s rapidly developing as state after state records its ratification of the repeal amendment would make fir.st-;»age hea/dlires in all the news- they Vere as sober as anyone else in mainly distilled from' molasses, ah<(; their day. But the only way they could:“bootleg” it for less than the tax,i !get their grain to market, profitably, |would nojt only deprive the ^Goverh-* before there were railroads and ca- ;mfnt of much of the expected^'^eVe-! 'nals, or even highwaySj^.4^ the sc.i- nue, as well as depriving the grow-} coa.st towns, wa.s by converting it ers of rye, barley and corn of the into whiskey, and they were afraid | whiskey market for their products, i 'a tax on whiskey would cut down.but also would call for as large a; I the price of grain and reduce its'policing force as was ever in use fori consumption. • ^ jthe enforcement of prohibition^ j Ever since Washington’s adminis. | And Smugglers Too tration the Government has had a j same logic applies to the ‘ques- • farm problem and a liquor problem tion of the tariff on imported liquor, on its hands, neither of them everiXhe effort is to try to fix it enough settled satisfactorily; and the whis key distilling business has continued Into the homes of six million famlllei In the past year with unemployment and disaster relief, Chairman John Bar* to Pajme announced. "As the year closed the organization con'inued in readiness to serve In the f . thcoming winter at the point of jf' atost need and to adjust its service t") meet the calls of the emergency of 1 -employment and dlFSaster,” Chairman Payne stated. , In a year of greatest economic dis tress In the nation’s history, in which the Tied Cross abJy discharged a relief task In distributing flour and clothing to distressed fartillle#; in all but eix of higher than the dome.stic tax to pro tect the American distillers', but not to be centered along the Ohio River hi^h enough to encourage smuggling, and its tributaries. iiiKn tfnuuxn lu tsneoura^r^ smu^^iing:. | I Epgland has never had prohibition,], ibut the smuggling of liquor is a baf-| papers. For repeal presents problems which the Federal Government will have to face with little delay, and only a comparatively few of those who are running the Government today have given much attention to it. The few w'ho are .studying the situ ation are faced with problems to which only Congre.ss can give the final answer, and nobody can predict what the nation’s 3,098 counties, the organ!- ingress will do. ration also was called into action In 120 disaeters, of which 96 were within the borders of the United States. Earthquake, floods, hurricanes, flres and other cataclysms visited death and destruction upon the live« and homes of thousands of jieople. Red Cross sta tist it^s showefl that in the 120 disasters The new liquor probji^ms might be li.sted .somew’hat like this: _ _ 1. What shall be" the tax on hard liqubr di.stilled in the United .States? 2. What shall be the tariff duty on imported liquors? Whab means shall be used to pre vent the shipment of liquor Trom About Liquor Taxes. ; As TO the present whiskey prob- problem still on that island, jlems, Lrst, there doesn’t .seem to be'^®*^® thirty foreign syndicates are re- a chance that the present tax^pn aL ported to be in operation for the pur- cohol diverted for Jbeverage purpose.s P®*® .smuggling whiskey into the„j {will be continued. That tax is $6.50^^^'ted States from England, Scot- a gallon. The pre-v.’ar tax wa.s Canada. They will 'a gallon. Under that tax rate, even t’ind it easier to sell their goods af-1 with half the states officially “dr>%” ter repeal than they do now—if the! {the revenue to the Federal Govern- tax is high enough to make it worth, ment ran upward* of $150,000,000 a to continue their operations. So j year. Beside.s the tax on whiskey the Coast Guard has got an appropri.| 'cense fee.s, and heav’y one!R, for dis- ation of $125,000,000 for new high- 1 produced, there were Federal li- revenue cutters with which to !tillers, wholesalers and retailers. Ev. cqtfth smugglers, and a commission eryone who sold liquor, whether le-i^’^anced by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., gaily or illegally, had a .Federal the study of the new liquor prob-, Iicen.se which co.st $25 a year. They recommend.s a rather low tax {might violate state law.s with impun- oh both domestic and imported li- {ity, but they were in whole.«ome ter- ouors key to supply the expected demand, ^nd’it will have to be stretched by the admixture of raw alcohoU and prune juice. It will be a long time before the * liquor question is again settled. Also a long time before any real straight whiskey will be available. WANTS LpST—Between high school and Col lege View, pair of glasses in case and fountain pen. Will pay reward to finder. Mrs. B. O. Whitten. ' ^ Itc r^iCE TO FARMERS—If you want a wagon, we have it. We trade or s?!!. J. I. Copeland & Bro., Hafd- ware, tf for farm- FEDERAL LOANS ^ ers. See Clyde T. Franks, agent for Farm Loan Commissioner and, Federal Land Bank, Laurens, S. C. ld;.19-4c ror of Uncle Sam’s "revenuers,” who Undoubtedly many states will re- W.ANTED—All farmers to know that we are authorized International Harvester Co. dealers. It is harvest time-^see " our new line of mowers. I.«t us furnish your repairs for mow ers, rakes, 'tractors, harrows, or any other farm machinery. J. 1. Copeland & Bro., Hardware. tf Piedmont Dress Shiiis Pre-shrunk ... $1.00 Murett- voic<* \Vf hem , “SoT nfrrh It. -fe ak^ • • Us so terufeily la acl nt.' .-weet and cl(‘ar. TTia; 'Vr art* lost in the boundless love Of Him who guides the soul. To those far hapjiier realms above When- i.*- lead life’s mystic scroll; And maj we round about the eternal / jolot move Wbd* .•i4o+ritv--.4uill roll. . . almost a thousand llvi-e were lost J.48,- 340 homes were destroyfd or damaced. 13,275 persons were injured, and Red Crrts.s relief was filven to 452,879 Indl- vluiials. In giving aid in tliese disasters, In Its unemploynient relief and in handling the distribution of government wheat and cotton, tiie Red Uroeis expended from its national trea.sury the sum of lfi,Ht serious revol 11,070,284. . thority of the ne During one pcrlml of twelve weeks, 46 disasters or’ciirred in 23 states./Red CroSfi disaster workers were hard pressed in meeting all of these needs occurring at once, but everywhere mis ery was promptly relieved. Support of the Red Cross work Is through Ita annual roll call, conducted "w-et” states into "dry” states? •1. What ought the Federal (Jovehn- menl to do abour|)rotecting the drink ing public against impure or falsely labeled whiskey and other spirits? Problem Upon Us. In .short, the United States is once more facing a whiskey problem that is as old as the nation itself,, for the olt against the au- new nation was the "Whi.skey Rebellion’’ of 171*3. a ris ing of the farmers of the Ohio River 'Tfeaifwaters against the imposition of the first Federal tax on whiskey. It wasn’t that the farmers wanted ikoir liquor; so far as the record.s go were not concerned with whether !i-'main dry under their old prohibition i ■quOr sales were legal or not, but with statutes. Will the old Webh-Kenyonl Icbllectihg the”mbhey foFthe Ticeri.ses. law,”' nTaklhg^Tf Illegal to shJfniqubf"' “ j The objection to the high tax is into those dry states, be continued,. ^ ■ »» »»i ^ I that it would not put ’afrehit to boot-'^rnehded or repealed? There is going RCuCVCO OV lAKlllff CdTGlll ' legging or smuggling, but would to bo a lot qf debate on that when rather encourage them both. For it congies.s*'meets’'«gain in January, co.'ts only about 25 cents a gallon to .As foF.the purity of whiskey, old- make the best whiskey. Modern timers l^ere remember when President Chemistry ha.s made it possible to Taft, himself a good judge of whis- produce the effects of "aging in the key, took the matter into his own wood” in a few hours. Licorice, hanils and force' the .setting up of prune juice, caramel and other sub- regulations under the department of stances provide the color which gen- agriculture, requiring '“rectified”; uine old whiskey acquires <inly from whiskey to lie so labelleil. If that rule several years in charred oak barrels, still holds, practically all whiskey puh- So a tax on whiskey thot would licly offered after repeal will have make it profitable to nvanufacture t»» be labelled “blended,” for there is^ ■ it from inilustrial alcohol, which i.s not a third enough “straight” whis-| "I was weak and run-down and Fuffered quite a bit with pains In v y side,” writes Mrs. Nick Bar- ranco, of Beaumont, Texas. “I was rj'rvoiis. I did not rest w’ell at ni 'ht. and my appetite was poor. “My motlirr had used Cardui witli benelicial nsult, so I decided t'' tnUt' it. I nurely am glad I did, r .- i* r»''’>rcd tb»* pain In my side and hiilt up iiiy general health. 1 took seven bottles in all.” ; Cardui Is sold at all drug stores. by chapters In the period from Armis tice Day to Thanksgiving Day, Novem- tn Nnveiuber .^311 Evexy citizen —wIto*Toi nC the Rod Cro*« as'» meniher r aids in carrying relief to disaster vic tims and in other Red Cross services, such as preservation of life, child wel fare through the Junior Red Cross, and direct service for the public health. 4. RED CROSS CLOTHES THE NOTION'S NEEDY Union Flov/er Shop M< ml.< r !'. T. l>. I’h.dip ;i.T Radios, Repairing and Tubes I r>t Radio Exchange T4-II1V . I Crn«s i^idertiVf'k ami 'festton sm Goodyear AH-Weother Sifpertuist €Utrd Titet •nd up lev*, tnule-in al- lowmiM'r frMT your old tirtx 77% SAFER Than Smooth Old Tiresi G Tc.s t s on .si i ppery pavcinent show that new (ioodycnir -All-Weathersstop Cars 7791 quicker than smooth, old Hres and quicker than any other new tires. . .Take no unnecessary chances on slip pery fall and win ter road? put on safe-gripping new Guodyeirs now . .Most sizes still priced lower than last fall. Tire ^4bulltin|t. We rlean riiiia them lo prevent rim. properly ■pply (u(ic« anti tires. Liperieiiced lire men Oo jrour uorL .lerc. , M'DANIEL me. WORjES Ffoor, Bread, Clothing Reach Into More Than Five Million Homes of Jobless The grcatcT^t task ever nndertak''n by a n*li< f agency in the liistory of privati* cliarily iri drawing to a < lo;-o with lilt* final distribution of cotton cloiAiIng to morn than live nii’.lion families by U’*' 'mt ’ican Rial rnrss. At the dir oi cf the ('ori.grexs. be ginning eJ-Tlitf, 11 months ago. the’Rod of'k tnrcotivert the wheat lurp’uf-es of tlie Fa m Boarfl into food ami clothing for the uhemploycd and needy, lu the con- flequeiit operatfon. this r< lief ag ner entered upmi a colTi'mereial enterprise greater than any single commoreW flrqi has ever undertaken in the satne p«*ri()d of time. In the ensuing months the Rad Cros« converted 85,000,000 bushels of wheat into fbvur amlMifcad and gave it to 5.so:!.ooo families. The distribution was through 3,700 Red Cross chapters and hundreds of other charitable agen cies. During the severe northweetegn drought of 1931 the Red Cross also gave wheat in the form of fotwl for live stock to 184488 families. „ The clotliing — dresses, underwear, overalls, jumpers, sweaters and stock ings for men, women and chlldr,en, and evfm htankets and 4fs^ tributed to 6,465,410 families. More than 54,000.000 ready-made garments and 92,000,000 yards of cotton cloth were given to the needy. This clothing came from 844,000 bales of oeftton. The^wheat d^trlbution was conclud ed in June, 1933, and final distidbutiori of cotton clothing Is occurring in the fall months. In handling these tasks voted to It by Congress, the Red Cross will ex pend from Its own treasury $735,000. At the .same time the organization car ried on |t8 regular program of disaster relief; of service to the veterans of all our wars; of educational and welfare werk through the Junior Red Cross; of health education and public health nursing and of life saving and first aid. Funds for this work come from the memb'^rship roll call the ' Red Crosr chapters conduct from Armistice Day to Thanksgiving Day. when every one is invited to join the Rod Croee auil a!d In this vital relief w’ork. i BUY FALL and WINTER MERCHANDISE NOW Get cm tile IJaHtfTvagxonV ptte TnTo tl4e fainiT>'^ BusT ifet on a train or come on the run—but don't fail to be Johny- on-the-spot for Buv Now Da vs. ' • The Clinton merchants listed below have a&i^ihbled many special bargains for BUY NOW DAYS . ;. present' injf'the greatest spectacle of bargains this city has ever known. Come, take advantage of the extremely low prices— you can help build for prosperity and do yourself a tre mendous favor at the same time. Get into the buying frame of mind, for we offer real quality merchandise at prices lower than you' thought possible. SHARE IN THE BARGAINS WE OFFER! Seven hundred thousand wo’^^n voh • UEteers umler Iho Red Cross banner tewed for the nfeedy last yc-r am. many thousands still are mrtk’^’g cot ton garments for their Red chaptere. » i “BUY NOW!”-You ft ■ , J. C. PENNEY CO. /ELLISON’S T BAILEY’^ STpi^ THE LEADER, INC. Pay More Later ‘ r' CLINTON MOTOR CO. PLYMOITH CARS PRATHER-SIMPSON FURNITURE CO. SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE -The Paper EveryIwidy I^eads” WHAT DO P. S. Jeanes The RcM Cross has 3,701 cUar’^raL and lO.'ioO brancl;c3 ol chapt i Thus it can bo mobiUzi d iiationv '''.a in a great n.'Mcf task within 24 ho-.i . * . .., —, i WE WELCOME YOU TO OUR STORES \ DO?