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\ r rAGBSlX i - / . I ■) ( : f i t.... THE CWNTON CHRONICLE. CUTITON. 8. C ^ / ' ■ . TPltePAY, JlAY 9, 1985 -1 "'•T pman Ne^ Station Chapman’s Servitfa Siatio^, headed tqr R. P. Chapman ais proprietor, will «|>en its attractive'new home on West Main street within the next few days. ^Iie station recently completed, is one «f the most invitinf, well-arranged and well equipped in this section, and is prepared to mder a complete mo torist service in this community. The celebrated Sinclair products will be liandled exclusively, together with tires and accessories. ' Mr. Chapman recently resigned his position as manager of the McDaniel VulcanizingJWorks which he had held the past twelve years to operate the new Sinclair station for himself. He is one^of the well known and popular filling station men of the city, pos sessing a wide circle of friends who will wish for him success in his new business venture. . UONS AT LAKE MURRAY A group of about l5_members of the Clinton Lions club attended the group meeting of clubs from Newbeiyy, Mc Cormick, Greenwood and Clinton. Sev eral others were present from Bates-. burg-Lcesville and Columbia. The meeting was held at the Nfw- berry Lions club house. M. B. Camack, Biqierintendent of the Ware) Sh<^ls schools was the speaker. He told many •tories and^ave some of the original ▼erses, for which he is well-known, to the assembled company of about sev enty-five men. > TT DID YOU KNOW... That thia is the most completely equipped shop in the city, and we are prepared to give you up-40- date, modern service. Stowers Garage phone 196 T HH^ofall the things that have been deliv ered to your home since your Fire Insurance Policy was issued. A good many are still there and they to 1^ protected. MOTORS — New Fads What may tuih out to be the most significant news of recent years is the announcement from - Germany that means heen developed for driv ing motor cars with illuminating gas and wood. * One type of truck now widely used, it in reported, uses gas distilled from wood. It carries wood in a rear com partment, and is said to cost 30 per cent less to operate tha^ if drived by (rasoline. Other cars have been quick ly and cheaply adapted to use illumi nating gas instead of gasoline, a tapk of gas being carried in place of the gasoline tank. Also there have been developed new types of steam-propell ed automobiles, using a variety of fuels, while a new stationary motor for farm use can be operated on coal dust, vegetable dust, dried leaves or pulverized corncobs. There never has been any question in my mind that the problem of the future supply of* petroleum was fio real problem at all. The time will come, whenever it is economical to do so, when we will agpin g^t our power from vegetable products. |l hear from other sources that avi ators^ have not abandoned the idea of steam engines instead of internal combustion motors for stratosphere flights. I may not live to see it, but some day, I believe, men will fly around the world between sun and sun, with steam-engines propelling their-planes at a height of ten miles. j And while^g^ing around ... if you see Collie Anderson . . . ask him if he likes "pig foot" stepr. Understand that Pope man is to operate the new Sin clair station on West Main St. A word to you merchants . . . and a word to the wise is suffi cient ... our next meeting is Monday night. May 13th . . . and IM'PpIRTANT . . . Supper to be served . . . ny extra cost - . . time and place wlil be an nounced later . . . Afternoon closing will be voted on~. . . but the real issue^ is the LIFE or DEATH of the Association ... Are you interested? ... If so, come . . . Remember—it’s up^to you—either DO or DONT. CODDLING r- All Wrong One of the troubles with modern youth, as I have often remarked be fore, is that they have too much done for them and are not thrown on their own resources early enough or em phatically enough. They grow up ex pecting society to provide a soft cra dle for them to ease their way thruogh life. That is why I applaud the refusal of ^e New York State Commissioner of-f^ucation to order a school bus to makje a half-mile detour to piclt up one ihirteen-year-old boy. Any boy of thirteen who is not a cripple or an in valid ought to be able to walk a half mile to the bus stop, remarked Com missioner Graves. The first school I ever attended was more than half a mile from our house. I was under five"when I began to walk to and from school. In ‘ my grade school days it was a mile walk each way; when I went to high school it was a three-mile walk. Nobody had ev^r thought of providing free and easy transportation for school children ih those days, We didn't get even free school books. And we gre'w up with a pretty clear idea that anything we got out of the world had to be paid for, with money or -with labor. 'Around ThOiSquare’ This is the Bulletin of the Rrtail Merchanta’ Aaaodatiota. - Read it every week. TIGERS SWAMP FIELD OF SEVEN Oemson Amasses 7i 5*6 Points To Lead Sewing In Annual Contests Here Saturday. Four New Records Set. See ns about briaging your covers age up to the proper amount with a policy iuued by the depeodable Automobile Insurance Company' Hartford, Cono. S. W. SUMEREL Aetna-izer Next Door to Western Union Phone 80 \ “Roberta” THAT GREATEST OP GREAT MUSICALS ...with... Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers Irme Dunne MOST BEAUTIFUL DANCING EVER SEEN ON THE SCREEN. Mtmday • and Tuesday iMay 13 and M Capitol Theatre Laiirehs, S. C INQUIRY — To All I w’ould like to heai^ from anybody who knows of an actual instance of anybody who has received money from the federal government for not grow ing tobacco or cott()n~or corn or hogs jir wheat, who had not pi-eviously been in the business of growing those things. Every Hjttle while somebody tells or prints a ^ory of some man getting a check front Uncle Sam who has never been engaj^ in the line of agricul ture for the control of which the mon ey-was paid. Those have always seem ed like fairy tales, to me. I can believe almost anything about the stupidity or carelessness of government employ- ees^this or any other government, hut these yarns have strained my credul ity*. They have come to the front ag^iu by a statement made in all seriousness by an eminent historian, James Trus- low Adams, who told Of three such iBsUnceaC Chester Davis, the AAA administrator, came out with a prompt denial. I have no' doubt both men be lieve they are right. It would he a real public service to get at the fact^. I would like to hear from any read er of this column who can furnish the name, date, place and amount of any such ^yment to any individual who was not entitled to it under the law; FOOD — Sky High Costs to city folk of the principal articles food have gone up 34 per cent in the year ending last month', the department of commerce reports. Eggs are up 80 pe rcent, meats 41 percent, dairy products 29 per cent, and so on. I don't know how much of .this in crease has filtered back to the farm ers who produce the foodstuffs, and how much has heen ab8oi4>ed by mid dlemen on the way^from farm to con sumer, but I feel ceHain that city peo ple won’t tolerate niuch higher prices. Salaries and wages for the general run of txty dwellers have not increas ed in anything like that ratio, many not ar all. If government would turn its atten tion to the cost of distribuion of food products the cost of living might not' rise so fast. Clemson College leaped to an early lead in the varsity finals to pile up 71 5-6 points and easily outdistance Presbyterian, runner-up with 39 points, in the eleventh South Carolina inter-collegiate track and field meet held here Saturday.*"' ^ The Tigers captured 6 first places, broke £wo of the four state records which toppled, and broke the record held by P. C. for the highest Clumber of points amassed in a state meet. Carter, Clemson hurdle and high jump ace, was high scorer with 13 points. King, Furman, was second with 10 1-3, and Clark, P. C., and Ford, Clem son, tied for third honors with 10 points each. The remaining teams entered trail ed in the scoring list in the following order: Furman, 17 1-3; Carolina, 15; Newberry, 7; Wofford, 6; and Citadel, 4 5-6. In the trials Friday, Presbyterian’s Clark sprinted the 440-yard dash in 50.2 seconds to better his own record set last year by .3 of a second. Then in the^finals Saturday Clark easily Won the quarter in 50.9 seconds and out-ran Green, Clemson, on the home stretch of the 880 for a time of 2 minutes flat. The phenomenal last lap sprint of Neal Robertson of Woffoiyd proved too much for Blue Hose Colin .jludson in one of the most spectacular races of tl^e afternoon, the gruelling two mile. Robertson allowed Hudson to set the pace for seven laps and then ran the last 300 yards in one of the finest bursts of speed ever seen on the local track. The time for the event, 10 minutes, 27 second's, wasj however, far shbrt of a state record. Blackwell, of Clemson, heaved the javelin j84|feet, 9Vi inches, to smash the old I record held by Freeman, of PresbyUrian, by ^ inches. Another Clemson! man. Carter, covered the 120 yard flight of high hurdles ih .1 of a second under the state mark. King, of Furman, threw the discus 1-16 of an inch over the state record, for the fourth record-toppling p^ormance of the meet. / . Ford, of Clemson, won both the 100- and 220-yard dashes, barely nos ing out Bradley in the former and Yearout in the latter. Ford’s time of 9.8 seconds is within .1 of a second of the record set last year by Bryan Hutt, of Carolina, for the century dis tance. The most disappointing event of fhe afternoon, from the P. C. standpoint, was the mile relay. As neither Year- out nor Clark, numbers two and four of the state record team, were in the running, only Bradley and Winget of the 3 minutes, 27 seconds team were in the competition. Bradley passed Herlong, of Clemson, on the stretch and gave Forehand a substantial lead over Green, which he increased on the liack stretch. Winget took the baton and led Wall all,the way around, although the lead was slightly diminished. Bill -Thompson, Hose anchor man, had a four to five- yard edge over Robinson, of Clemsbn, for the final lap, hut was unable to hold the place. Robinson spurted the last stretch to contribute his bit to the third defeat of a P. C. relay team in the past seven years. ENCOURAGEMENT—To' Capital 1 think the most encouraging n«ws of the past fortnight has been the an nouncement that two great corpor ations, Swift 4 Company and the Pa cific Gas 4 Electric Company, are about to offer to inv^tors more than $100,000,000 of new Purities, to pro vide additional capital and retire higher-cost bond issues. This is a clear sign that some, at least,of the big industrialists have got over some of their fear of the future. If these new issues are readily sold, it will indicate that capital is beginning to come oiit of hiding. If that sets in motion a general movement of capi tal into industry, then it will be safe to say that the backbone of the de pression has been broKen. It takes more money than the gov ernment can raise to set the wheels of industry running and keep them oiled. Once money is assured of a chance of fair profits, It will go to work. Sub^ribe for Tbe Chronicle The Paper Bverylady Reada” y. - I^TS ALL PARTICIPATE IN THIS NATIONAL EVENT! The farmer.. the merchant.. Ae banker .. the manufacturer... and EVERYONE is vital ly interested in Cotton.. directely or indirectly. Too, we are interested in the growth and pros perity of our coimty, South Carolina, and our nation. One way to achieve that cum is to_use more COTTON. - i • ^ Cotton is the backbone of the welfare of South Carolina the year ctfound.. you enjoy greater returns from your expenditures whm you WEAR COTTON.. you’re surer of redp; rocaUon. Usje Cotton 6oo^ Cotton -A VISIT CLINTON MERCHANTS DURING NATIONAL COTTON WEEK — Join in the. Celebratkm—Let Tbem Supply Your Cotton Needs. * , The CHRONICU: "The Paper Everybody Reads'*