The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, October 26, 1933, Image 6
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N CHRONICLE. CLINTON
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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
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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.
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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—
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frame of mind, for we offer real quality merchandise at
prices lower than you' thought possible.
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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
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