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r ft.' 4 PAGE FOUR / /. \J THE CLINTON CHRONICLE; CLINTO:^?;^^: C. 1^ all|r (Elintan (E^rotitrU BMabHaM 190f WILSON W. HAiRRIS. Editor and Publuhar PublMhod Et«t Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBIJSHING COMPANY Sabscription RaU (Payable la Adrance): Ore year Sii Monthe 76 cenU; Three Moatha 60 ceate I 1 Entered a» Second Class Mail Matter at the Poet Office at Cliatoa, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise auftreitiont and kindly ad- rice. 'fhe Chronicle will publish letters of jreaeral interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the riews or opinions of its correspondents. f marriage Saturday at r noon at the horhe of her parent.^, Dr. and Mrs.^J., D. Austin. The ceremony per formed by Rev. Edward Lx)ng. ’ (From files of The Chronicle for July 12, 1923). ' Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee -— I IDDi^^nd low ■ FRANK PARKER STOCKBRIDOE b ■ nited States; now there are more than 25,00.0,000. High speed has been encouraged; the fastest road speed allowed b^ law in 1920 was 25 miles an hour;^now there is no limit on modern open highways. The automobile reached Its pre.sent stage of development in a period dur ing which liobriety was the rule. It is perfect nonsense tp say, as the “;wets” have contended that there was more drinking under prohibition than be fore. Everybody who thinks straight THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1934 - I A Homely Experience ! MONSTER—His Foot Prints l^no^s that is not Arue. But there is a I i came home from the office the^ Five-sixths of the earth’s surface number of motorists who have Mother evening with a friend and a ter-’ lieS^xUnder water. Man has not yet learn that even legal booze and rible headache. I made up my mind on plorMKall the dry land; so it is not to • dont mix. New Jersey the way up that I would undress and,be wonofer^ed at that we do not know more driving li go to bed imjn^iately upon arrival— all about what lies beneath the seas. just after taking a dose of medicine i Not long ago I mentioned a “sear that I knew would cure a headache. I j serpent” which \Vas said to have been cen.ses for driving while intoxicated in the pa.st month, thai» in several years. The-only way a motor-car can be j promised myself not to eat a bite till .sebn in Vancouver ^ound. Now a Scot-< with complete^ safety to the I— :— 1 , iHriv^iT' the occupants of the car and (4JNTGN, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1934 my cranium eased up its pain, sibly 6 meals distant. pos- tish lake turns up witji another tale of a sea monster. Many persons claim ,to have seen the beast or Lpeh Ness, My wife told me that perhaps my which is estimated to Ship, and to keep our people from came from an empty stom- 'long, with four feet about eight ^h\ch-, ' I ach and that I should eat some dinner es across, and four toes on each fo^^ driver, any others who happen to be on the ijqcn Ness ^ driver who has not ha- be fH^ feet I drink of liquor for the past Iweniy four hours. ing sw(',/t oft their feet by the | (supper, as the .sun had gone down),'to judge by marks on the shore whenX -v ROADS—Of the Future ment of easy money or the too lightly I taking of their obligations. ia54i she prevailed as usual. Some of the creature has tried to gel out of Gradually we are learning how to South Carolina, as well as all other her kinfolks were visiting us and nat-1 the water. urally a nice spread was spread before, build ntmtor roads for high-speed ti-.-if- storing and transmitting ownership of wealth. If any man has the capacity To create wealth, he is entitled to what he creates. But if he has to call on others to direct his energies into prof itable channel-S, to risk thejr wealth in the effort to help him create more, then, they, too, are entitled to*'their share. v I have lived more than 60 years; and I have never observed that any really competent man did not get all of the wealth to which his competence en titled him, nor have I seen any incom petent man benefit by well-meant '.rhemes to make everj'body rich. Kere’s What The New Year M^ans New Deal For 1934 Finds Re newal of NR A, Bank Insur ance, and Other Reforms. <•>1 ' Waiihington. Jan. 1.—This is what ‘he start of the new yc.ar means in the “new deal”: Insu'^ancc of deposits up to $2,500 for 97 per cent of all nev-sbns in the country having Vrark, necount.s and de- * «, gw^l 1934 re.sol.uLion tor the hou:'iew:v'es- pa.ss up the door-to- door peddler. (Jood in', -ntions are all right, but (hey are nut negotiable for cash. Your neighbors can't bridle your tongue, so you had U'tter take ca?:e of it. baby a.sked it. stat4*s will do well to heed what Kena-l“‘“V*’ “ Some of those who say they have fic. The>e isn’t any question that the 'or Kvrnes and manv others have said, ^ fnend to a.sk thei seen this thing describe it as like an best road material is concrete; iis ^ - -r ^ ' ‘ ' blessing, but he shook his head, .so our j overgrown water-newt, and few scien-i higher first cost is more than repaid pcsit insurance for nearly 99 per cent ;,L tific men have the temerity to deny by the lower ebst of annual mainte- all banks in the nation. the possibility of its existence. Noth- nance, if the road is, properly built. | Renewal of the president’s re-em- ing but a complete specimen, however, Roads wide enoujrii for two cars ployment ngreemen|.. Employe-s not ther, my “help-meat” had prepared ' will convii.ee skeptitvs who do not be- to pass u.sed to be thought sufficient; yet under permanent codes may con. me a nice oyster stew, I thought Mieve in anything they have not .seen, but a single slow car would hold display their blue eagles al- ^ , j traffic for miles, so the three-car road though they have the right to remove , . , ^ ^ . KRAkEN^ThXWhirlirool was tried,' the middle channel for^blasl-. hours ter and beK to be excused; but when ^he Rood Birhop Pontop pidan of^ er car.s to pass the slower ones. I’iling up debt will not bring lasting prosperity, whether the horl^ower be an individual, state, or nation. There must always be a day of reckoning. And the taxpayers are the ones who must meet the piper. or- Knowing that I was under the wea- I'olk.s are hani to satisfy , in this world, reottio in reasonable' cireum- vtances have vi.si()n.s of the poor house, while the rich grumble that they can’t get rjch fas'kCr, rOMIHJLSORY HONKSTY From the beginning of time, ganized society has concerned ^ with the effort to proU*ct the weak against the strong. Away back in the iH'ginning of human relations there were honest men, easily exploited, and di.shone.st men, who found ways of taking their property away from the honest. would show my manners, and intend-, ed-4^take just 3 spoonfuls and 1-oys-^ itself t Norway, in 17.50, described a huge sea-! however, » road-hogs. , r i i . r And my ncdd still &ch^d. Thu hsrn! wVir^ ncn/i tViAx chRiT" onp*n3lf cent lodurD.! ^Hsolinc my neau sb.ii acneu inv nam j “kvakcn.’ (count^-bured) was pa.sscd and I took ^ad it on the authority of s:iilor- a small slice, and some red gravy. j ^ i around, and when it sank beneath the Removal of one-*third of the one and tax, with a saving to gasoline users is es- other than the aforementioned things' I ate only With the .New Year, new difficul- . • , waves it caused a whirljiool. Well, a little cheese sandwich,. whir.lpool off the N'orvegian 2deviled egg.s, and I remember pinch- mg off a slice of cake, and nibbling i .^y^j^yj (dangerous to shipping and There is no means of legislating, awhile on a handful of chee.se straws j ^y^j^y^ ^^^ilors call the kraken. Bat al- (ieveloped, who used the middle nel continuou.sly, preventing cars in . , „ the other direction from making timated at $b-,000, 00 annually. puivl. Xow no hiKhwav in connidcrod f •’ I"''' '"X non J » • I u dividends calculated to net $<0,000,000 leuily modern unless it is wide enough v• w,v/uw,x/v/ for four car.s abreast without crow’d-'*^ on crookednes.s out of a crcwik. The de lilx’ratply dishonest will find loop holes through which to crawl, no mat ter w'hat .sort of laws are passed, i cream,'sliced bananas and gelatine. Also, there is no way of making men and 4 small stalks of celery, I jy^ing for exaggeratfons, there may sure that 1 took only one piece of egg y^^ something in the old Bishop’s site w'ay„by a wide parked spi custard^ and J'helpings of whipped j huge sea-monsters. tween the two. It will be built i ing. The ideal motor road of the future w’ill keep the tiaffic in one direction eparate from that going the oppo- space be- of con- I The opening of a n<‘w investment seal to banks in which the reconstruc tion corporation owns preferred stock through a new offering of two and a quarter, per cent R. F. tk debentures guaranteed by the United States as ties, new problems face u.s. Our ex perieni-e!-, of tjie pa.st year should help ^^ay <jut of the=^rut- as we .entex upon another mile.stune. . honest, by law', into careful men. The fundamental weakness of the honest man, which makes him an easy victim for the dish(»h<W TfT'lfral he~credits^'^ For instance, Newfoundland fisher men caught an octopus a week or two ago, in their herring-net, which llapiy New Year. What a blessed phrase. .‘s;H‘:-ik/it from the heart, and then strive to make every One's"New Year a happy one an<l yours will be happy indeed. ' Altogi'the the ,N»‘W' i.s an Year emiilem (d opportunity, ll givt s u.s a chatK'e to wfite a belter page into.ou/ history and to profit by the mistakes ( very’'<'d.v else with being as honest headache and ended in what you see.” as he is himself. ThcTTcrookXon ^he | Doctor: “W’hat did you eat for din- other „hand, assumes that everybody per (meaning supper).” else will take advantage of him unless i “j think I drank a small glass he fakes advantagP of the other fel-fof milk.” low first. ' j She: “And a bowl of oyster soup Fortunately, most men are honest. 1^^,] some f)ie.’.’ If that wei-e not true, there would bo! Doctor: “Is that all?” no such thing a.s credit, upon which j jvjo; “About.” -r practically all busines.s is liased. But! Her: "About all Except 5 pimento- many are honest because it is the Ix’st cheese sandwiche.s and all of''my ceU policy, rather than inherently honest | Four Hours I>ater Doctor; Well, old boy what .seems | pounds and was twenty ^ ;feet long from its Jt**'! fo th^ end of its longest tentacTeT Not^ big efibu^ Crete on deep rock foundations, each side, of it will be wide enough for tw’o or possibly three cars. and interest and principal. to he'wrong?’ : “Doc, ft starte<f with H'terriblr, YV^EALFH^Anil the , , .1 X XThe current talk of “a more eciual to drajf a ahi„ down, a.x the <'Cto|>ux • of fable was said to do, but such a creature could certainly swamp a good-sized boat. 'There is no reason to doubt, but every reason to Ixdieve that where this one came from 'there are more and larger ones. made in the past. It gives m time and • the idea of doing i :^n oppotiunity for tin ought lo tio good that I injustice to anyone, even when it I Ihx'tor; “Well- 44 1 BOOZE—And Automo'dles Before prohibition there were only about 2,000,000 automobiles in the 1 me. ('ommunists talk as if wealth were static, as if there were only so much of it. so that to give the poof more m«aivt taking from the rich. They fo ge* that a hundred years arro we were all p6or, and got rich not by robbery but by creating more wealth .Monev is not wealth, neither is raw land. Wi'alth i,s the product of labor a|)plie(I to land and its produc's;mon ey i.s merely a convenient form of E. .Mood Smith, O. D. Felder Smith, O. D. Drs; Smith & Smith OI*TOMEl RISTS SDEt I M.ISTS F^yes Examintxl. ('•lasses Prescribed l.nhoratory for Prompt Repair Service. l.’> West .Main Street Phone 101 ( I.INTON, S. C. Her: “My company didn't get any!.— ide.s.sert at all.’'’- ' jtu their own benefit “ ) I The main purpose of the recent laws | “()h, my poor head, stummick, i \ \1 .\.STFRPIE(’E igoveniing the practiepof banking, the chest, gall-hladder, ansoforth.” *! The < hronicle is today rejiroducing. offering, of securtiies for sale, the' Her: '*0. K. Doctor; send it right a ma>tei piec.<' editorial from 1 he j ,.^,yryij|Hon of bu.siness and industry, is yp j^q,} box,of mustard, a hot J .'stat-e, entitled water bottle, a thermometer, 3 dozen ! ‘ Mercy, the .Murderer.’’ rnake it more profitalde to be hon- I hi’i e IS not a word that we would at-l^.^^^ than dishonest. 1 hat is what i^P"! oranges and some iixx*ac. tempt* to add to it. only .suggest if j peals to everybody, whether he is a] you haven’t ? ‘ad at, do oiu. icrook or an honest num. iv ■ Three Davs Later Th«’ governoT' of South ('arolina | ■ • ‘ * *1 shoulil not ovculook it. SrOP — THI.NK If the .New Year, which is now with us, .served no other purpose than to give the hujtian race a biH‘athing spell and tune to stop and think, it would be Worth while. Truth i.s—-only a very small percentage of When a year ends cial life come almost to a halt and it is a fine tune to cut out errors and extraVaganci's, follies, deceit, had methods, and give light a trial. What have you Inxm doing with your.self? Ha.e yoa wiekiei well and faith-i fully? Have yon done your duly? Did you know 'hat :here-i.. sm h a thing a.s (iu;\ ? Have yon used unclean meth ods III im-uiess? Havi‘ y III iiei n a ^o xi eitf/.en you li'.e<l;, ael< (i and liioiiglit Ha.e yo . lieen.alivi to 'he fart that you owe s nnething heyond the mere honest man. It is believ ed, and by many, that the sysUun i from the office, very hungry, which i.s now being over au ei pu for supper; orange juice, premium on dishonesty. Many ^‘UstPd 1 breakfast; spin- krh and cornbread for dinner. men have gone to the bad—some, are in exile, some in prison, some are exe crated and cut off from the respect and confidence of their fellow-men. AH that law can do in this matter 'of honesty is to close some of the Mike Makea Some New Year I Rcsolutiona resolved: that i will not chaw no i more tobacker in the parlor room, nor [ the .sofy I 934 • • 11 I o”" "“"VI IliVOvv.ljri «•! people think. | loopholes through which some o . ^ asleep on . busine.ss and so-| crawled in the past It looking befoar.i set. X ! rx'nnl in.sure that a new crop of crooks ^ not in.sure that a new crop will not find new nietluxls of dishon- . - I You cannot legislate honesty into men. With Knee-Action Wheels resolved: that i will not rite no more j peaces in my column about my wife’s , kinfolks without-letting htu- read same, and approve of w’hat i say lH*foar let- ' ting it go to pre.ss ansoforth. . , . . the Greatest Advance in Riding Ever Accomplished 10 Years Ago ? Ha.e right ? resolved: that i will ileed my lizzie' the tax commission and the high- Henis of Interest F'rom The ( hronicle way department and hire it from them JJJ2;} ■ ' ever time i want to make a trip, i will !save montiey hy^so dmng, as they sim- (ply eat it up ever yr. .Mis. -.f.-F, Jacoh..^, Sr., and Mrs. W.i H. Shands have returned from a stayj residved: that i won’t eat no more! ....Ot .tU yoaoi- ta-vf.’x to your cily. 'uf saveraJ. at (ilennJipnngs. liyyer jiuddin and chittlings and crack-| state an<i nation? ' ’ Suppore with the New Year that you slop and take time to lind where you are. If you an* going forward, up, thought will gne you new courage and ins|»i'avion. Y’ou w ill w ant to fight all the harder. If you are going <iown, perhaps a review of your past mistakt's will briiig a .splash of red blood Lo_ your face and sting you to make the most of the body and brain that only await .mts, inteilig-ent direction and use. to make you a success. Another New - Year. It’s time to wake up. Many do not know what they can do for they have never tried. Right now--,5. on the thre.shold is a good time to register a vow to dig Mrs. Edward Ixmg and .Mrs. T. L. VV. Bailey attemled the aiummie con ference of I.imestone college on Tues day in Laurens. nil bread for supiier, and that i wdll be' sure that i need a doctor and a plumber’heftiar i send for Same. Miss Marie V’aughp of Belton, resolved: that i will stop sending anny chrisinus jires.sents till i receive is the ones i will get myself, (p. s. i lost the guest of Mrs. George \V. Young. Ilk' by sending pressents out 3 days iH'foar chrismus arrived in L933). Mrs. Eugene Bethea of Winston- Salem, N.' (’., is the guest of her par- Mr. ami Mrs. J. Rhett t'opeland. Miss Sara Hunter is the guest of -Mrs. A. Daniel in Ilendersoiiville, N. ('. resolved; that i will not talk hack to niy wife just after her biskets have burnt or the cow kicked over the milk bucket or the dogs tromp thru her house with muddy feet or her shoes fit too tight. I N«w Vacuum-Power Brukm A OENEtAl MOTOtS SILVEt ANNIVEISAIY MODEL Dr. and Mrs. children are on B. a O. Whitten and! resolved: that i will do my levvel, in your toes start. Stop —f think. for a fresh and deep I’awley’s Island. vacation trip to best to git along without asking the Gomplot* Autooiattc Starting r.f.c. or the salvation army or my I wife’s uncle jinks .for hep of anny kind Mrs. IJ. 0. Rhame is the guest the republic»D party gets back relatives in Sumter. A SOUND WARNING Senator Byrnes was in Charleston recently to speak to the New England colony. I In his address, the Senator en^pha. sized that money borrowed from the Mrs. William Moorhead entertained Tuesday afternoon in honor of Mis. Jeter of Ninety-Six. On Friday evening Mr. and Mi-s. into power.* (jink^ has not spoke to me I since i borrowed $5 from him in 1925:1 now, friends—is that nice?) ’ i federal government "for public works'Arthur Jackson of Lafayette, Ga., miiet be repaid. He observed that be i were gueats of honoh at a delightful hiwl never borrowed money unless with j tea by Miss Sallie Wright. the intention of repaying it, that bet ■ “did not wish his inunicipality, county I On Tuesday afternoon Mrs. G. A or state to do that which he. would beXkrpeland entertained in honor of Mrs. unwillinir to do.”" „ . Geoi^ White of Savannah, Ga., and That warning has been sounded be- Mrs. Harvey Brannon of Statesboro, fore by The Chronicle and othen and should be heralded into every part of Skmih Carolina to save misunder- itanding, embarragsment and hard- resolved: that i will try to pay my preecher something eVer now and then and if i make $3 a week i won’t spend $4 a week as heretofoar, and if a man sndtes me on the left cheek, i will turn my other one, but he^had better let it alone. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd, corry spondent. As a climax to its thirty years of fine car building, further fulfillment of its pled(^,- “When better automobiles are built, Buick will build them,” Buick now offers for your consideration its finest achievement—the new Buick for 1934. This new Buick brings you the biggest improvement in riding smoothness and^ steadiness ever accomplished—resnl ting from Knee-Actiem Wheels, Balanced Weight and Springing, The Ride Stabilizer and Ak-Cushkn Tires. It provides the un matched safety of Vacuum-Power Brakes. It brings you Complete Automatic Starting. Also exquisite new Bodies by Fisher in 19 beautiful models, with advanced Wind- Stream Styling and improved Pisher No Draft Ventilation. ^ We cordially invite you to come to our showroom today, and examine and rtde j'n this new Buick motor car. Your own judg ment will tell you that again there is a better automobile,- and again Buick is building it. Os. MIm Edith Austin and A. S. Dar- gsn of Darlington, were united in WHAT DO P. S. Jeanes DO? THOMASON MOTOR CO. tAST MAIN STREET bAPRENS, S. €. /- WHEN * BiTTH * AUTOMOBllES ■ AKE • SUIIT • fUlCK • V/?ll • BUIID • THEM .J \ \ \ J