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This paper is not responsible for the riews or opinions'of Its correspondents. * • A , ^ hubyrented to^holsum ntoore, jr., who plans to run the “all-nite-long*’ caff for the benefit of the night-riders/late Bell Street Choir traweler.s,<^love-birds, and Ahe polecs- till man, who stays‘on duty till nearly 9^ m. he has'alreddy ordered his hot. do^.and mustard. am 'n-v j ,mr. winski plans to use the-vault toi j sleep in by hisself, as he is not mar^-1 •ried at pfessent, and the shelfs where j bank's customers kept their lib- j Groyp of Local Nefcro Singers Give Program At Y. M.p. A. Meeting At College. <From The Blue Stocking) The Bell Street choir (colored). [erty banU,.private papers, and other , 1®*^ Thursday sang before a large , collatrey, will be were sung not only reverently butf also entertainingly and were received "by Ahe group sHfh much appreciatoin and aj^lause. ^ The quartet -opened their program vit^i “Kneel and Pray,” and “Keep! Me From Sinking D^wn.” The double-^ mixed quartet then sang “My Lord Is^ Waiting All the rfme.'.^iFhe old farnil- far thoughts of “Rock^of Ages” were brought to the audience in a solo by Eugene Gary, was follov^Efd ’Don*t Last /Always.” A^ter the male quartet' had iung “Kentucky Babe,” the octette" concluded the program with two spirituals, “Down by th^ Riverside”. and “Swing Low Sweet Chariot,’^-- " The meeting was presided over by C. M. Hudsqn, who read the Sefiptare and introduced the. ^ visitors. Hudson [ expressed the Y’s appreciation to their colored friends and deemed it a privi- > Tl^ was folloi^ by [lege to have them present. Mims ac- 4 -■ » - three song, from the fem«te,qu.rtet,.K-nowledjed the introductory remnrkni _ icolitt V M r / Pf“‘>5'“"*"|"Trnm Around,".“Poor Widow in Bar:land. deciar«i it a pleaaur. for, hia candy,‘seegars, and othef small no-]CO“«are r.- M. rel” and Itions, which he will have in .stock with!, J- T, Mims, i^ho. acted as spokes-i fruit. “He Got AWay to Heaven.” man, had a 'w;ii"'<hTxra'‘ .“d’^H^d i C'”'* Trouble presenting in t^e group to appear befdre the college or-^- gaoization. \ program. order' the cashers'cage will be used for^^^amed: a male quartet (in which our ^ hanging up bunches of %annannas;Own “Gene" and “Cblumbus” were] which do not happen to be ripe enough; very much ip evidence), a double-' to sell and eat. the precedent’s offis is,mixed quartet, a female quartet, and’ where mr. winski wiil do his cooking! I'vo solos. The hymns and spirituals; and eating, as he is an old batchaIor, J — Land has no one to hire a cosk to cook CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1934 for him. . i WHAT IS POPULARITY? Many folks, particularly young peo ple of reserved nature.s, do not under stand why they do nqt readily make friends or are not populkr as:the term is generally used. Many people, of Su perior intellect look down on popular ity. They say it .shows a tod easy going natuie. The latter hold that if a person Is to live sincerely and do hw duty, he must"’often antagonize others, or rub them the wrong way, and make himself unpopular. rests, were directly attributable to whiskey does not come as a sur prise. The truth is, with prohibition repealed, and the approval put on le- Newspapers'Caryy Bulk of Advertising:; the boek-keepei*s room (where turned-down checks were added up) will be mr. Winski's ward-robe to j New York, Oct. 26.—Approximate- hang his coat up in while he is atjly 90 per cent of the advertising ex-1 galized liquor, drinking is steadily in-1 workT,and allso for keeping his fly- pendi^|! of chain stores goes toi creasing, as statistics from police swatter and his extry aprons. , the|newspapers, a survey by the Bureau' adding machine tables will serve as j of Advertising, A. N. P. A., of a rep- fruit stands ansoforth. t-resentative group of chains shpwedj ::— .! today. courts show. Liquor has always been a crime producer. The people of this nation have been struggling with this the ipeceiver will continue to wind; New.spaper advertising volume had' up the affairs of the bank in an or-j risen—Trom $137,00,060—in 1900 to problem for 150 years and it is yet unsolved. Not only the United States .“i^ut every nation in the world derly manner and mr. winski will let |'$S(iO,000,OCO._yearly in 1929, the bu is trying to find a solution to the] him set at a table in the comer with re«u added. * . problem. .All over the world alcohol I his books and out-of-date notes, and | “It'is’'estimated that chain stores Popularity comes^ in dinerent j defies every effort to regulate it. It, will help him to wind up everything} spend some $200,000,000 yearly in the ll. Uie ol^ d,y« <rf fr«. liquor a lot lawlenanriia, it oor- p«,pl* acquired PoPol-rity by tllc ^ and politicians, freruioin with which they P«»«<1 at the police, and make, a joke around the bottle. traveling| salesmen would carry a flask with them as they called bn merchants the hope of landing orders. With few at an*early date. yores, trulie, mike Clark, rfd, corry spondent. '•“i.-s EXPERT CLEANING Fifteen years of Pry Cleaning .experience* assures you of looking-Your best and stiU save money if you put your winter wardrobe in the dependable liands of .CT CLFN'i’ON’S “Old reliable” expert CLEANERS CALL US TODAY! Buchanan’S DRY CLEANERS AND LAUNDRY “THBl OLD RELfABLE” L Phone 28 newspaper advertising columns/’ the survey concluded, “6r probably half the tortai retail expenditure in news papers ” .linked with the criminal elenient,^ 'alway.s has been so, and always will. exceptions, such tactics followed in the business world today would be re- , . ..u t. *u ox«.xrxuB and mean the lo„ of bueinCT, P condition, confront- for the aolicitor,. Thi. wa, al,o, the, ^ remember, which many politicians yot' * '* , / 1 Should you be walking down ^the Get the picture as portrayed by this I street, and suddenly espy your gro- faithful sheriff who has courageously [cer coming up the street, you must immediately imagine that you have business on the other side of the street c basis on their start. They were always ready to line up theii* friends and support- ersTn-front of the brass rail and have several cocktails at their expense. To day many people win popularity by free spending, by Living extravagantly and attempting to put others under obligation to them, There are other people, .iu«^t the op posite to those described above, who acquire popularity by devoting them- that when repeal was advocated we werb told that it would clean-up and iniprove conditions that it would eliminate, liquor lawlessness and crime. How easy it is to. fool th# people. Our officials whose duty it is to the law should like Sheriff SmitJ’ take a-t-firm. fearleqs, uncom promising stand against the spread of crime and lawlessness over the state. uphold selves to some worth-while public'And they should not place too much c.ir.sc. Many acqujj’e popularity by ■giving a great deal of effort to public servic^ Many acquire popularity by the friendly interest they show every- boily, hy a winsome smile and cordial manner. * People who live selfish, self-cen tered, self-absorbed lives are never! popular. Nobody admires the selfish j man or woman, the one whose sole | thought^ or oohsideration is self, the one absorbed with the idea of always getting and never willing to give. But any person, mart or"^ woman, boy or girl, can make and keep friends and ^acfpJiro a certain amount of popu- confidence in the honesty and good intentions of the liquorhnterests. Past history unmrstakabljr shows that they are not to be trusted. Liquor and crime are inseparable. and jay-walk over, being careful .to let on like you never «aw him a-ta!l. (You’re not trading with him now of course.) _ ~ , 2 While out riding on a beautiful Sabbath aiftemoon, you .see your doc tor coming down the road—the doc tor—that attended you (hiring your last pneumonia, or your wife with! something worse, as he approaches j you and you approach him, you should | lean over.and make-like you ire ad-i justing your universal ioint near yourj right foot;, don’t let him catch your eye. That’s the way I do. . ! PHILCO Radios & Tubes Smith’s Pharmacy 10 Years Ago Items of Interest From The ’Chronicle of October 30, 1024 F. Luther Riddle of 'this city, has been named by Sheriff-elect Columbus L. Owings as deputy sheriff of the larity by*nianifesting interest and do- county. ing helpful things for others—by per forming service for his fellow men. A SHERIFF SPEAKS In Sheriff B. B. Smith, Greensville Mrs. J. A. Bailey is attending has a man-of the highest infegrit3r[syno(ii,caI meeting in Charleston, ard an officer who-is waging an un compromising fight against lawless ness” and* crime in that community. His task is a most difficult, trying Mrs, R. E. Ferguson has gone to New York where she was called on account of the death of her father.' 3 Always cIo.se your ipyes in slum ber at church while the collection plate is being shimmied under your nose. Salvation is free, you know— and the preacher doesn’t eat or wear anything except salvation. If you want to dodge chipping in some other way, why, er, just stay At home and cuss the pi'e^her and the'hypocrites who go to church regujarl5ff I use the former method. E. Mood Smith, O. D, Felder Smith, O. D. Drs. Smith & Smith OPTOMETRISTS SPECIALISTS * Eye.s Examined, Classes Prescribed Laboratory-for- Prompt Repair Service. 1.3 W'est Main Street Phone 151 CLINTON,-& C. Notice for Payment of City Taxes Notice is hereby given that Town Taxes for the Town of Clinton will be due and collectable between October 16th and November 30th, for the year 1934. The Tax Books will be opened for the collection of taxes at the office of the Town Clerk on October 15th, and will re main open each day thereafter, Sunday excepted, up to and through November 30th. 4 penalty of ten (10) per cent will accrue on all taxes not paid on or before Friday, November 80th, which pen alty will be in force through Monday, December 3l8t, after which an additional five (5) per cent will accrue. The levy for current* fiscal year is thirty-seven (37) miUs; twelve (12) mills for current operating expenses ana twenty-five (25) nhlls fbr interest and sinking fund on various Bond Issues outstanding. , ^The foregoing notice 14 given pursuant to Ordinance passed'by the Town Council, October 1, 1934. Dated Oct. 1, 1934. D. C. HEUSTESS, > Town Clerk. f the .4 Or, if your dry cleaner, or your - -newspaper delivery- boyv-presents you with a bill, face to face, before you have a chance to give, him the .slipi, as sure him that you have already paid the said bill twice, or that he will catch you again. Playing off “deef” one, for stalistic.s revegl that Green-j ville is the third worst county in the I Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Steer of Barhes- ville, Ohio, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Steer. mtg^it-help you out of the-dilemma; it has hojH? n)e out of a great jnany close places like that. Dr. and Mrs. George R. White of Uniti!(i-States from the standpoint of t Savannah, were the gue.sts this week of Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Copeland. Miss Saraih visiting' her Hunter. Hunter of Columbia, is mother, Mrs. Myrtle crifae. ^ The other.day Sheriff Smith-was invited to address one of the service Rev. John MeSw-een and family of clubs of Greenville on crime condi-jcjenison college, were visitors in the "tions in that county. What he had to'city Saturday, say not only profoundly impressed his’ hearers and caused them to open their eyes, we ar^ told, but his challenging words }<hould be read by every citizen in South Carolina. In the course of his addre^ the Sheriff told the members of the club that last year he and^ his deputies ma^e 2,622 arrests, and of those he could trace more than 1,400 directly to whiskey. According to his report, for the 8*me period 39 murders occurred in bis county, and thus far this year 41 Twve occurred, but to date not on$ - - - . . Miss Emmie Pitts has retunwd to Columbia c<(flege after visiting her i parents,. 5 The toughe.st guY in all the world to hide from or keep out of the way of is your filling station operaltor. I’ve used every kind of sluething to shake him off, but--he simply won’t shake. When i''^cros.s the stiiet, he crosses too;-when I bend over to fix some thing in the bottom of the car, he eets me head-on, and T have to stop; |ip=il=aF=ii=ii=n=ai=jB=li=li=ln=l!^i=l.=l MEN’S NEW Slashed In Prices me when I tell him that Ive paid that bill, he tells me I am lying. (N. B., he usu ally weighs betwixt 210 and 250 in the shade.) Nope, you might as well pay for part of your gas; you’ll have to do so sooner or later. Ralph Blakely has returned from NortiHem markets where he purchased fail goods for the new Blakely Bros, ■tore. person has been senieiWed/ pT dMth WeddbeHay" afternoon Hlu A for any of .these killings in 19313 or thiis year. “Since I have been sheriff of your county,!’ Said Sheriff Smith, “we have had^some murders as cold blooded as a|iy people ever saw, yet not one murderer has been accorded cmpVtal ptrnrehmfent for the crime. I am going'to stand before the people of Greenville county as- long as I Am an officer and teli them on every oc casion that presents itself, as long as I am physically able, of the outrag eous injustices going on in Greenville county.” What, a fearless statement. It rings dear, just the kind of talk that is , needed all over South Carolina today. Conditions he speaks of in his c<nuity Clara Duckett entertained her bridge club with a lovely Hallowe’en party. L 1 A- > J are found in every oounty in the state, eertaiin crimes going unchecked, crim- . inala unpunished, and the law defeated by kwp-hotes and technicalities. And thMi this telling statement from' Sheriff Smith: “When we do convict et criminal, St is not 90 da|ys until tome one ap- proaehes me WKh" a petition to sign aafcSng the gavemor to pardon or pa- mlf- Oh, we need education all right, hot even more we need lass maudlin aantiment in behalf of . those who tres- paaa against society.” x Such challenges ua Sheriff Smit^i (ponndt Aottld heatir and A^use our f$aop]a to give thdr influence and sup- •mii to the obaervanca fjad^ enforce-' — ^ ; "" His «Ut«i|»eift that out of 2,622 ar- alwaya met to jpass on loans) has bean On" “Friday afternoon Mm. E. J. Adair entertained a number of friends at a lovely party. In a clever rhyme the engagement of Miss Emmie Rob ertson and John Ballenger of Seneca, yas announced, the wedding to take place in December. ^ 6. Landlords also pretty Imrd to avoid. Playing off sick will get you out occasionally, not being at home will stall him off once or (twice, but you can’t always prolong hit agony, as he has a first, second and third lien on the installment fui!!^- tore and stuff 4n-yottr ■ house. Nos^ when it comes to getting out of paying your water bill or your light bill or your, p^one bill or your gas bill^'that’s the impossible. They not only have the law and judges (>n their side, they, have the monkey-wrenches, plye^, and fuse blowers. The only frilow that ever skipped one of these bills died before the lOth of the month. < 5^ Nobody’s Business' By G«(» McGas 'AT Flat Rack News > dsfunst Hat lack bank; the dsfunst Hat lack bank; wiiiah defuncted in 1924, haa*behn opened by izzi winski, a furriner from new york, with a big line of bannannas, turnip greens, fruit and oranges, he will oc cupy all of the fiont.of ^ rented i. the mr. winski has rented the entire bank bHding from the receiver of tiie said bank who has padd the followiag diverdends since he was installed 10 yetLT ago, viMl]|: Atockholders, liarbil- ity, 2 per cent in 1928; from sale of land owned by the hanky 1 cent in 1930; from general collections; 3 per cent in 1933, ballanoe due, leas salksr- ies,' 94 per cent, X r Boy Scouts Name Leaders Every Suit must go — brand new stock, guaranteed quality, smartest styles, in choice patterns and colors — single and double breasted; j $22.50 suns. Cut to S17.95 $19.95 SUITS, Cut to. . 514.95 $12J») SUITS, Cut to.... . 110.95 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 HI I 0 S19.95 Hats $1.95 to $2.95 The Florida Street Boy Scout troop held its fourth weekly meeting on Monday nlgbt and «f)acted the follow- fag effloers: PrstuW, Sppe Davie; scribe, Charles Yaiboroogh; secretary and treasurer; Zugene Pinson; doer- keeper, Rufus SuHivan. !%• troop is composed of three full platoons, with Epps Davis, Chariee Yarborough and Lee Andersoa ae pla*’ toon leaders. ^ Plans are oa foot for hikee and out^ Inge of other kinds in the near futura The scout work at Florida Street school is under the direction of W. T. Henerey, one oT the seventh grade teachem. WHAT DO * ' P. S. Jssines Der ^N*S OXFORDS, $3 95 ^ Other good grade SIL^ HOSE— 48^ HEN’S WORK PANTS, Qfi* ' PIEDMONT SHIRTS!^ '1.00-’1.25-'t.35-‘150 (SOX, 509( Wool, Ilic first QMlity, 19 * ^ i SWEATERS— *1.95-*150-»19S LADIES’ FULL FASHION AAe SILK HOSE, pair .uST 3 pak . .$1.00 MEN’S WOOL^ JACKETS. ^ |«4|! 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