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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
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' 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
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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
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(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. He
constructed many houses anid apart
ment buildings in the city and was
widely known in real estaite circles.
Mr. Hamm is survived by his wife;
two daughters, Mrs- W. C. Briant and
Miss Nell Hamm, of Atlanta; a sister,
Mrs. klugehe Hitt, of Clinton, S. C.,
and two brothers, Minor and Will
Hamm, both of Clinton.
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