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This paper, is not resp6nsible for the rieih or opinions of its correspondents. a gully 24 miles west of flat rock with thedr rumble seat tore all to peaces and the car otherwise wrecked beyond recker-iittfon and a pint bottle was. ly ing by her side. .. ; the k. k, kv thinks holsum moo^ is to blame for the sail and distribution of whiskey in flat rock as 'everboddy flocks there, on satturday night and comes away in a hurry with something under their arms, so the guilty con science seems to point towards him, bol for something else would be al most like announcing to the world that we had changed our whole scheme and ideal of goiremment. OFFICES — Miles of Then ^ j Driving along Comtitution avenue— which used to bo -B” street—and back along Pennsylvania avenue, One pass es literally miles of the most magnifi-' THPBM)AY/WAT 1^6. 1935 Patronage Row Again-R^ewpd Member^ of House of Repr* tatives Stirred Once More^By Difficulty of Getting.Job6.r-^— Waslfington. Mhy II.—Harsh, saf- “theee upstarts ^wntown. who take . themselves so damn seriously." He added: ^ ' "What ye*re trying to do is Wng about fair treatment of congressmen so they i^on’t havf to spend half their time downtbwn waiting to see the ifourteenth assistant to^ the assistant secretary.” castie .remarks by two Democratic house leaders today stirred new life into the months-old argument over cent*office buildings ever constructed. The great Commerce building, the new Post Office and Interiorbuildings, are I as he can’t hold his head up in pub-(finer, more beautiful outside.and mbrej^’^^^®>^ *^*”*W^t^ration officials treat licit. * ■ '' commodious inside than anything jCongT^smen with the proper -respect Washington has ever known. , jand consideration. The new additions to the senate andi Representative Sabath or-Illlnois, house office buildings give the legis-(chairman^ of the oinofficial * house lators more ample accommodations Democratic steering committee, said CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 16. 1935 \ ' THE GRADUATES’ MONTH The month _of roses, sweet girl graduates arid other things poets rave over, is here' with the usual signs of ^s appearance. The surest evidence of May, apart from the calendar, is the ,,, breaking out of the baccalaureate ad- * dress and the annual crop of diplomas by the ybung men'and women, fifteen hundred in the colleges of the state this year, who go forth to do their bit in solving the problems of the world. May their ideals an<i enthusiasm .serve the country well, if the harder school of experience int(^ which they are en tering is destineil to take a lot of the idealism out of them. WHAT IS CITIZENSHIP Citizenship has a definite value, though many take the responsibility lightly. The value cannot be computed in dollars and cents, but it is worth fighting foi-. Citizenship grows out of ccm’munities. Wer^here no communi ties there wou^ be no citizens. We would then l^merely urH)rotected in dividuals—chtiw4y at tht‘'mercy of"all other incpxiduals who might wish ta de.'^troyCany weaker or les.s ferocious onosy^y <lwelling in communities we h^ve many advantages. Some of Us" y^hie and aiipreciate these advantages •while others .'ielfishly acce|)t the ad vantages I'ut refuse to do their sharo toward tnainLaining the ed Sunday ‘afternoon. Dr. Dudley Jones of the college, was the~speaker for the exercises. Bob Day, colored drayman, and--a familiar figure in Clinton for the past thirty-five . years, died at his home Sunday night. he has back-slid in our church; when he^’do come, he takes the seat right at the door where he pome in at. it looks like he is always in a hurry to get out and rush home after the benner-diction is announced, he used to tarry and talk to the members but not now, he acts funny for a dea con. * the k. k. k. will straighten him out either morrally or fissically, and meb- be both, .they have alredy giwen him sufficient notis, and art square incin erated the otherr day that a bucket of tar and a nice feather pillow had been bought to dress him up in at an early date .unless he mends his ways. The following faculty for the Lydia school has been announced for the coming year: Mrs. rf. Copeland, principal. Misses Margaret Copeland, Nan Copeland. Elizabeth Tribble and Helen Bailey. •* Mrs.—L. A. Barrow of Columbia, is visiting her sisters, Mrs^ Hubert Pitts and Mrs. Rhett Adair. it seems that he is .selling bottle in bam .stuff, as it has a stamp acrost the bottle nake which reaches over the top of .same for 2$. that is too high, and the pubjick can’t afford to pay it. it tastes fairly good, but smells like it is adulterated. - yores trulie, mike Clarrk, rfd, ' corry spondent. than any other parliament in the world enjoys. There is no objection to that, that I can see; this is a great country and the men who run it ought to be well provided for. I couldn’t escape the he would, discuss the situation with President Roosevelt next week. Repreifientative O’Connor of Now York, chairman of the rules cofhmit- tee, declared that it was “fvery man for himself’ on the question of pat feeling, though, as I looked over these 1 ronage—getting jobs for constituents. palaces the other day —anywhere in Europe that is what they would call them, "palaces” — that ’Some of their occupants must rattle around inside of them like a dried-up peanut in its % 91 sneiu _ .X. . E. Mood Smith, O. D. Felder Smith. Drs. Sniilh & Smiffi optometrists SPECIALISTS Eyea Examined, Glasses Prescribed Laboratory for Prompt Repair Sorriest. ^ Phoas 101 fsr Appsiatmvft CLINTON, a C Loui? LaMotte-,' Columbia Theologi cal se"4iinary .student, filled the pnlpit of the^irst* Presbyterian church Sun day twening. R. F. Blakely attended a meeting of the .A. R. P. Presbytery held last week at Troy. Mrs. \V. I. Bailey is a.'patient in the Providence hospital in Washington, d; cv There are laws to compel us to pay taxes, hut no laws which compel us to .show ovir ai)preciation of t-he benefits ^Ictived from living in a coi<imunity. Whether we supjmrt Jioine enterprises L. M. Maclx'more of Vidalia^ Ga., anno':nc-j ihe engagement of his sis- coinmunHy.jArlta Corinne, to Felder Smith of lODAY FPANk I'ARKf R SlOtKBRlDOt BEAUTY — NaUon’s Heart For sheer beauty, so far a.s the work of man can produce beauty^ T know ot nothing more satisfying and inspir ing than the, vi»ta by nw^bnlight as one comes into Washington from the South over the Memorial bridge. I parked car for a^ minute on4 and institutions, whether we ^lend our support and encouragement to worth while efforts in~the community, de- teririine in a large mea.suro the kind of citizens wo are. If there is a town anywhere that netsis to learn this les- ^cn more than ours, we haven’t heard •of it. Clinton, the wedding during the summer. to take place Nobody’s Business By Gee McGecT - - THE LIQUOR BILL By tbe gieat constituency that con fessedly elected him, or made hi.s ele^ tion i)ossible, Gttvernor-JohnstO'n miss? ed his big o;)porlunity in not. vetoing the litiuor bill. -tfo-wuht have vetoed if on the] gi’iumd that it is not a “reasonable” liquor bill of which he has rojHiatedly Ken talking. He had promised his con stituency to .sign only a “reasonable” bill. He coiihrhave vetoed the bilf on the furtheV ground that this legislature did not act under a mandate—the vote by law was to he only indicatory. He could have justified himself in Vetoing R tttolor the Atigttst voteHfor two reasons. This vote was a violation of a gentleman’s agieement when the referendum of 1933 was submitted and both sidt‘s were to abide by the rosult The Big Question The big question of today is not Huey Ixmg and his impossible ges tures, nor^-bis wild promises, nor his misrepresentations, nor his ambitions, nor his misleading statements. Neither is Rev. Coughlin’s antics the big question. What he says and does and thinks will die and pass away like so much Texas dust when the thinking public, gets enough of hi.s wind-jam ming, idotic tirades, and foolish ideas. - And the big question ain’t Gov. Talmadge and his “pulled-too-green” secretary of agriculture, Linder, t guy with the seceding proclivities and gy-rating imaginations; as soon as he gets back Khind a 1-mule plow his greatness (?) wHl subside . . . No, it’s not them. WA.SHINflTON — City Beauty I novel go to Washington without getting a new thrill out of the devel opment of our cai)ital city, from the malarial swamj) it was when I first knew it, 54 years years ago, into what is, I am convinced, the most beautiful world. other great cities have city in the Only two ever been pTahned deliberately before a single house was built, a single^ street cut through. More than two- hundred years ago Peter the Great, Czar of lall the Russias, decreed a great capital city oh the banks* of the Neva, and the magnificent palaces erected for the royal family and the. nobility at St. Petersburg still make it one of the most magnificent^.cities in the world. The other pre-plamied capital is Can berra, in the Commonwealth of Aus tralia. I’ve never seen it; it isn’t yet completed as it will K in time, but tho.se who have been there say it bids fair to rival ^yashington in another century. In Washington dozens of splendid buildings that Were planned and begun right after the war are now finished or nearly so, and the whole City has been transformed. the exact ^xis that runs from the Cap itol through the Washington monu- menyrto the center of the Lincoln Me- mofial. On my left was the great mar- nle colonnade of the memorial, with* the heroic figure of Lincoln glowing in the floodlights. On my right was the long reflecting pool’of still water in which the great spire of the Wa.sh- ington monument was mirrored in the moonlight. The mass of the monument it.self blotted put the view of the Cap itol, but a.s I drove a few feet farther on, the glittering white dome appeared ifrom behind the marble shaft. f locked from Lincoln to the Monu ment to the Capitol and felt a great I'eiTfottonal surge. This was the heart iof my country, these the symbols of rts greatness, the niemdrials of the men who had made it great. I do not see how any man can havo-That ex perience and not come away feeling, somehow, that he has received a bene- diciton of patriotism, somehow been rededicate(f-to the love and service of "his country. Atlanta Journal Publisher Dies Nor is the mooted questtofs” the $5,000,000,000.00 relief fund. That will be gone as soon as we can shovel it out. Nor is it the Dionne quin tuplets: they will grow up and scatter The real (jncstion is not Japan and Germany' . . . with their war prepa- we want-to-fight-.some- it ain’t Russia, with her 5-year starvation plan.s and cdnvict practices. Nor is it the boozers and anti-boozers; they have both forgot ten their differences and opinions. and the <lrys won under a protecte4Lto the 4 winds ere long, and possibly _aDd safeguarde<l ballot. The legisla-'be forgot, ture in 1934, ordering the Augu.st vote, violated thi.s agreement. And then, the ballot used last year w;as misleading, many drys King deceived by it and j rations and , many believe the true expression of | body” spirit. tlM> p<-ople pi'eventtHl. Under the “HhthI law” and its ex^ \ peejed consequences, the drys may ex- '^)ect many allies in their ranks. ' The law as a whole may be regard ed another triumph of the liquor lobby fn its never-ending attack upon the fnor^s of America. The ofhcial vote on the liquor ques tion of the nu'mbers of the legislature ha.s been giveh^to the i>eople. It should be kept fiesh ihi” mind for next sum mer’s primaries tV^all'nten and. women who are oppoStnl t^the legalizing of the liquor business lU tlyis state, re gardless of the plam-Wler w’hich it operates. Nor is it the NRA or the CCC or the AAA; these things have been at tended to with i>08tcripts. It is not 15-cent cotton and l-dollar wheat. Nor is the processing ta^es the big ques tion of today. Mussolini has no part in the real issue, and he, wMth others of his type, are too tinjLto be classed in the issue. 10 Years Items of Interest From The Chronia of May It, 1925. " The city .sehools will close Friday. The commencement sermon will be preached Sund^V evening " in the Thomwell Memorial church by Rev. E. E. Strong of Erskine college. The address before the graduating class .will be delivered on the evening of the 22nd by Dr. George B. Cromer of Newberry. The valedictorian of this year’s class is Mtirgaret Finley. ' Tile big question today ... the real question . . . the migrhty question . . . is not ony j)f the things enumerated above . . . but.don’t guess .it goes deeper and further than the casual things referred to . . . THE REAL QUESTION OF THE ** DAY AND HOUR AND MINUTE IS . . . PARK- NG SPACE. K. K. K. Is Again Active In' Flat Rock - it lories Jike the k. k. k. is reoger- nizing inC flat 'roc^. seweral bed- sheets was\;wn moving about in the darkness in front of holsuht moore’s last friday nign^ and -he hi’s benn a- Teared to poke hi^ head out of the door. not The^Bedpath Chautauqua will re turn to Clinton next year, the contract alined hf one hundr^ citizens having baen eompleted the past week. GaoTM C. Hopkins died at his home CMdaffia Sunday aftatr being in for aarerkl months. holsum has received Wweral here of late with cross ^nes skull painted with pokeberiV jtjite on same, telling him where to off. a right smart of strong dryML is be ing soIcT in his midst to/our young folks and he seems to the blame, and the law won’t taka Rs coarse. two of our fii >6y8 and girls drove by his house i bw Rights ago and fKtiafly <4marv- when nexet hisfi fwaj TEMPLE—Fitftng 1 T drove around Washington in the clear moonlight of a pleasant April evening, ending my journey in front of the great new Temple of Justice, the splendid marble structure in the pure Greek tradition which is to house the Supreme (’ourt of the United .States in the fall. It is such a temple as the Parthenon of ancient Athena nvust nave been, though only frag ments remain to tell us of the “glory that was Groece.” What improssed me most w'as the feeling. of dignity and permanence, which by rights ought to character ize the seat of the world’s greatest judicial tribunal. F^or seventy years the Supreme Court has been huddled into the rather small rx)om in the Capitol in which the senate originally sat. " . ’ Presidents come and go; senators and representatives change with thei changing, political tides. But the Su preme Court of the United States is a continuing body, charged more tha all the rest with the preservation the Constitution and of the righ^ of everybodjr under it. And no^ its house is out jir the open, opposite the Capitol, where all the lawmk^rs can see it and be reminded o^heir obli- gation.s. Atlpr*-:. lu.ir 13.—Major John San- for-l Cohe*i, C5, and editor of The Atlanta Journal and vice-chair- tnan of the Democratic national com mittee, die<l at his home here tonight. He had been ill for several months. Major Cohen had a journali.stic car reer that extende<l over half a century from galley boy to editor. His journal istic traits were-inherited from hTs grandfather. General Ambrose Wright, editor of The Augusta (Ga.) Chroh- icle, Prosident and editor of The Atlanta Journal since 1917, Major Cohen at the same time was active in politics and he had been Democratic national comthitteeman from Georgia since 1924. He was vice-ohairman of the national Democra^tic_committee since 1932. — Major Cohen was a personal friend of President Roo.sevelt and former President Woodrow WilsoWr He served Georgia as Unite<l Stat senator from April 25, 1932, to J^u ary 10, 1933, being appointed by JGov- ernor Richard B, Russ<‘l!, Jr., t^fill a vacancy left by the death- ofySenator William J. Harris, Governor' Russell later was elected to the s^/late for the unexpired term. The title .of majoryHe won during the Spanish-AmericM war when he rose from lieutenai^ to major. For his work m raising funds for the re-establishment of the school of journalism oiwinally founded by Rob ert’ E. Ivoe/at Washington and Lee university the university awarded him tbcy^norarj’ degree of doctor of laws whn G. Hamm Dies In Atlanta te^t; pot (From The Atlanta Journal) Fpneral services for John G. Hamm, prominent Atlanta contractor who died Monday at a local hospital, were conducted Wednesday- at 11 o’clock from Grant Park Methodist church, with Rev. ,B. F. Fraser officiating. Grant Park Lodge No. 604, F. an<| A. M., of which Mr. Hamm was an active member, had charge of grave side services in Oakland cemetery^ the cent©!* of the build-^Mr. Hamm, who was 56 years of age, lived at 576 Park avenue. Pre )sal Change to move the CAPITOL — There is a pro east front of the jCapitol itself 60 fKt out from its ppSsent posRion. Thc'Tir-: chitects who/ propose this say the dome isn’t ing. Thtyls because the west front of the/;apitol vras rebuilt and ex tended thirty years ago. Many archi- are up in arms against the pro change. I hope they do nothing to the old building, which has stood for close to a century and a half as- the symbol of American liberty. It is true that the wings which house the senate and house were not added until after the Civil war, when the present dome was also erected to replace the rather flat dome of the original building. But; in three quarters of a century the Capi tol, as it now stands, has become such a familiar' figure to all Americans that I am sure many would feel, as I IWUMK' UlirtO' CluCSfFtIhe ancient tfm- S. E. Coming to Atlanta in 1911, Mr. Hamm organized the Independent Plumbing company in 1916, and in 1930 founded the Fix-Zit company. 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