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^•'1 A \ ■ FACE FOUE THE dJWlON cHiwn^di,a. cuwyii W, 8.C / - THUH8DAY. APGUOT 22. 1S8S / // itff (dlintiitt (filfrftttirlr WILSON W. EABItB, l4lior aad PubUtW PiMiilMd Etmt nivradajJly THE CHBONICLE PUBLISHINO COMPANY / Sabscription Bate (Payabte In Adyaaca)^- Or.e year |i.6p; Six Ifontlii 76 eajnte; TliffM Montlu 60 cante Entered as Second Clasi Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, 8. C. rha Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its stibicHbart and raadei^tba poblisbe.' will at all times appreciate wise suggattions and Undly ad- rice. The Chronicle will pablish letters of general interest whan they are not of a defamatory natora. Anonymons eommnnicationa will not ba noticed. This paper is not responsible for the flairs or opinions of Its ebrrespondante. ' ’ " ^ and lose oar farms, and noboddy would be hoi>e anny except the ex- poiters. plese make yore next estermate read as followers: ^‘1935 eott<m crop will b«/ 9,876^125 bailes, counting round ba^et^ only once and square/ bailes viWy carefully, the carry-over is 6,482,234, as linters was counted a few ^ays ago-" yote corry snondent’s only in- »n bi trust in this cotton bizness is to see the farmer live off lof hisself ^instead of the gowinmenti^and he can’t do I that unless he geterover 10c for his cotton. , CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1935 i GAIN IN INCOME Here are some interesting figures just released. They come from the Bu reau of Economic Research of the*-De- partment of Commie and are cited as one of the reasHins now pointing to an improvement in business. The re port states that the national income— which means the total income of ev- jcrybody who received any incbme at all—rose in 1934 by 11 per cent, over 1933. In fibres, the natfonal income was'|49,440,000,000 in 1934, as against 144 ,431,000,000 in 1933. A large part of this of course, was. due to the dis tribution throughout the nation of re lief funds. These paymentt^. however, amounted to only about a tnird of the increase. The rest came from the gen eral higher turnover in private busi ness. These facts bring encouragement— hope for improved conditions ahead. FOOLING THE PEOPLE One who reads or otherwise informs himself these days realises that the country is inflicted with a big crop of demagogues in national, state and county politics. The success of so many demagogues in politics is rooted in the same trait of human nji^ure as admiration for the outlaw. Folk who don’t care or can’t think very deeply or reason things out for them.selves, admire the man who shouts the loudest defiance to the ex isting order of things and makes the most glittering promises of what he is going to do for the common j>eople if he is elected. " It makes little difference to many o'us person^ility, and no bluffer. In *one of the most convincing speeches he ever made he told the unions, and the whole world, over the radio, that a guarantee' of six months work at 393.50 a month figured out more than the average income of building trades workers, even at their high hourly rates, and in flush times. - r - Washington backed up General Jo>hnspn’s declaration that the man who goes on strike on a works-relief project .forfeits his right to go back on straight relief. That, it ^seems to us, is precisely as it should be. One of the most important tasks the federal government has to do is to impress upon tho.se who have been cared for under the generous dole of the relief administration^that they cannot go on forever living at public expense. If they refuse work that they are able to do, or quit work voluntarily with the idea of getting back on relief, they should find a powerful public senti ment lined up against their efforts to' get local or state relief agencies to support them, after the federal gov ernment has given them their chance to earn a living by honest work, and they have thrown that chance away. for the sum represented by 12H eentg. In my J}yohood it usedi t^be callpd. a ’’York ghilling,” and not many jr^rs ago 1 still heard rtiral residents of New York calculating in tenns ‘of Millings—eight to the dollar. Our ’’New England shilling,” on the other hand, was a sixth of a dollar—16 2-3 cents. * ' . ■ v*. In the South, as far nortA 4ui Vir ginia,! nse3 to hear 12 H cents called a “levy.” I do not know 'whether the term is still in use or not. But I bear Western friends refer to a quarter as “two bits.” I can remember when no actual coin smaller than a five-cent piece circulat- as fast as the axemen could cut them do.wm , V "'( / Noble Tbmer tells me that the &ost |>rofitable of all crops is ^4ree^. He owns several thousand acres dT moun tain pines, and gets a comfortable in come with little, labor. I don’t owp any pine land. I wish I did!* Lightning TakM Its Toll In Flat Rockigfj the'Pacific coast or in the deep •pandy-monium rained last night in'south. Newspapers all sold for a nick ^ MULES -. War Steeds The preparations for war in Edit Africa have sent up the price of Amer ican mules! Even in these days, of mechanized transport, you can’t gsi men, guns and suppl^ across African deserts and ^mountains without the aid ofthe mole. the home of sparge simkins when lightning struck his house, it come so sudden, spurge swallowed a verry large chaw Of ^acco and die darter, lucle lou, throwed her cigarette onto the over-stuff sofy and burnt a large hole in same which ev^boddy thought the lightning had done. el, and all the store prices were in multiples of five cents. A San Fran- ciMO merchant nearly caused a riot by bringing in few tons pf^pehnles and marking goc^ in odd-cent prices. it come down the chimbly, and knocked 25 the built-in mantle-peace, busted flower vaaes, and scorched the notes of her pianna. the wall paper was blis tered and tattered, and the rocking cheer and the center table were left in splinters, the rest of the familey escaped dammages except for a few m inner bumped heads and skint legs from dodging. COINS — Propoaed The treasury is proposing to issue setting-rohm.!”^ kinds of money. Half-cent pieces, bricks off of wd one mill-^-tehth of a the lightning struck out^ of a* small dark cloud which come frdm the east and was mowing towards the south, some rain fell and leaked thru his house and spoiled sew^l hundred dollars worth of fine clothes and tap pestry ansoforth. he is making up his claim on his insurance agent for $450, and if he gets same, he will refurnish his house with verry nice stuff, so he says. Messrs. George W. Baile/, Ned An derson and R. F, Sumerel are in Balti more and New York, purchasing fall people whether their popular hero ever [goods. 10 Years - (terns of Interest From The Chroniclo of August 20, 1925. thks mought have benn a serious case, f the building had ketched and burnt up the familey and everthing, it would of benn the last of this genner- ranon, as he had no boys out of a bunch of 9 younguns, all of whom turned out to be girls with 2 sets of twins amongst them, he has no reg- gular employment, but is figgering with the govverment on/h job count ing hogs out westi ^ a house-warming will be hell ral soon to rai^ some monney and cloth ing for this unfortunate lightning- struck familey, and a right smart of help is expected to be located in that manm*rj,but the insurance monney it- cent — coins of alumin^, may soon come into use. The nWl for these coins arises from the sales taxes in many states. The suggestion of the new coins takes me back to boyhood. When many coins were common which have long since vanished.' The big coppef half- cents were dften seen, but commoner was the two-cent piece, made of bronze and somewhat larger than the one-cent piece. Tl^n we had two kinds of three-cent pieces, one of nickel, about the size of a dime, and one very much smaller, made of silver. Silver five-cent pieces' were in common use in the 1870’s. We also used to see twenty-cent silver coins, about the size of a nickel It seems to me that the one new coin that is most needed is a 2M cent piece. It w^ld find a variety of uses, especially in buying items now sold “two for a quarter.” [ill I learib- from So Mussolini, 1 leaqv who has been busy buying souri’s most famous livestock is colp^iag nijiles-from all wo^ld. I remember in the last impiortaDt African war, beti^n the British and the Boers, another friend who madb a comfortable fortune by sending sev eral shiploads of Missouri males to South Africa and selling te~ the British army. ;fWar anywhen hi world a all the rest of the If Yott Dent / THE CHROIRCLB Ton DewT Get the NBWB * Tlcndly D. E. TRIBBLE CO. Give freely of your experience. When you improve your friend you are improving the world. Little kindnesses do more for social progress than large philan thropies and great inventions. FORESTRY — Up Onr Way Early the other morning I heard the sound of woodsmen’s axes, followed by the crashing of a falling tree. In the clear mountain air the sounds car ried for a long distance. What I heard was an echo, reflected from the steep side of Stockbridge mountain. The choppers were at wprk two miles away, in one of -Nole Turner’s pine lots, on the slope of Tom B/ill moun tain. Next morning I heard: the strident song of a buzz-saw. Will Seeley had set up his portable sawmill and*was The same complete, well-ap pointed, unobtrusive service is rendered to all, however m(^iar=. ate the expense. .TwbbU Cq.Imc Funeral Directom Day Pkmi«.f4 Night Phoeca 24, 253. 255 CLINTON, S. C. delivers whltff'.he has promi.sed. It is es.«ential for hin\, however, to keep on I Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Langston of Dar- hollering. Once he shuts his mouth hisjlington, are guests of Mrs. S.^. Phil- followers turn to some other s(ellow son who will tell them what they wah< to hear. Peop^' like to l)e fooled—they are not .satisf^'d unless tljjey ire. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Young and self is what everboddy is counting on slicing the pines into boards almost to turn the trick. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd, cotton estermator, AhRAM VKNAm.E MARTIN When Piof. A. V. Martin fell asleep early .Monday mSl*ning after weeks of intense suffering, i gentle and lovable spirif .slii)ped its earthly moorings, and Miss Myra Raleigh. Leaman are visiting in M,rs. Ehrma Glenn of Spartanburg, is the guest- of Mrs. Emma Little. G. A> ,Blacl^'i^ s at home from a the community is sensibly the poorer by its leaving. Prof. Martin as a young man came, to Clinton in IKWd as a member of th« Prt'sbyterian college faculty. Thirty- nine of his sixty-six years were s|)ent hc'Te as head of the mathematics de- l>artmeht at this institution,' recog- niz<d always as distinguished in his chosen field. He lo>ved his work and college students, ami w'hen his physi- can informed him a few months ago 'month’s stay in Miami, Fla. Mrs. Hubert Pitts was called to Rackmart, Ga., yesterday on account of the illness of her father. Ed Owens of Milwaukee, Wis., is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Owens. Frank LaMotte has returned from Atlanta, where he attended the wed- that his health demanded the laying of his brother. aside of his books juid the meeting of flas.«es, it came ah il great disappoint ment to him. ^ • Not only at the college was he high ly regarded, bUl in the community as well, where he~w’as recognized as an excellent cittten who never shirked his duty. He possessed a charming courtesy and personality. A man of great kindnes.s, with a big heart, he was un.selfish and considerate of oth ers, seeking nothing for himself. He was never happier than in doing sim ple, t^)ughtful kindnesses or services to. make those about him comfortable and happy. As one of his intimate friends expressed it yesterday, “There was never such a neighbor as Prof. Martin.” Prof. Martin was a man of convic tions, fearles.s and uncompromising. Whether you agreed with his opinions or not, you—respected and admired Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee Mike Asks For a Few Corrections hon. h^ry wallis, seeker-terry of the agger-culture, Washington, d. C., deer sir: . . V ^ / go^ver- i have decided that yore ment cotton estermate of 2 i^’eeks hence was entirely too high, i^d i am riting to ask that you correct same on yore next report on the dollowering basis, to wit—vizzly: / ^ aksrage abandoned » too low. scudd and dudd Clark ai^ art square have all give up thoir^^'erops in this com munity endurii^ the past few diiys and have fell /(m the direct relief for a livving. otoers all over the belt have gdm possibly geme and did likewise, that him. He was no jelly-fish t^pe of in dividual. _ / Prof. Martin was a Christian gentle- 557 999 ^ao. No higher tribute can be paid any man. God rest him.! it- looks like you counted round bailte as square bailee and allso in- A SENSIBLE RULING A “slum-clearahce” project is unde/ way in New York City. With the^d 'of federal funds, a block of model apartments is being built. It/is one of the “work-relief” proj^s that comes under the juris<Ucti<m of the Works Progress Admlnijrt/stion. The workers are men who liere formerly on direct rellief. The/maximum pay for akill^ labor ^nder W.P.A. is $93.50 a month, tor 120 hoqrs work a month. That fi^es out at 77 V cents an hour. / Hie building trades unionw in New York City have;'a minimum scale of $1.76 an.4our. They threatened to call all unjon workers off the job, if they were not paid! the full union scale. “Very well,” eaid.the relief adminis- ^tor in New York, “go ahead and /strike, if you want to, but if you do, • you cant ever go back on relief.” The Bum w4io atid that was GeneraT Hugh Johftna, who was the head pf N.R.A. aad ia bow Naw Torfc’a relief admin- is a vif^r- ^ded some hay and alfalfa, it takes tiea rly 3 round bailes to make 2 square bailes, and it is possible that yore stenographer overlooked this when she was getting holt to a total, kindly correct this by lopping of 455,777 more bailesy , since august the 1, it looks like the boll weevils have et up 555,987 bailu, and the army wirm and Ihe red spider and the sharp-shooting bug has mint 423387 bailee, and If govverment aid keeps up, and cotton goes below 10c per lb., at least 1,544333 bailees will be left in the field unpicked and un- tetched by hand of labor anso forth. we, farmers do not worry about the procesting tax, m it comes to us, and we don’t wear manny clothes nohow, but it is about 3c per lb. too high for the cotton mills, it would be better for us newer to export a-nober baile of cotUm to jappan or other furm coun tries if we farmers hate to grow tame ^ P»r lb.,*a8 wa would all starve TODAY And FPANK PARKER STOCK Bill Dot IDEALS — The Approach I find no essential d)fference be tween the avowed objec^ive.s of all the different group*-whi<^ are striving to put their ideas into e^ffect, all over the world. All are actuated by the same ideal/that of repiaking the social and economic ord^ so that life will be easier, or at/least more bearable, for everybody./ I am cc^rtain, however, that not all of the ^iethods by which natiems are strivipk to reach that goal can be' riglit. Leaving personal and party am bitions, jealpusies and hatreds out of the question, some of the plans must e wrong. My feeling is that every plan to make the world over will fail unless and until it is approached as a spir itual problem. *Politic8 cannot instil the spirit of fair, play and tolerance; still less can war make for brotherly love. But social justice and economic security Will be idle words, signifying nothing, until those spiritual ideals ruFe the world. MONEY — ChangM Money and customs concerning moriey are constantly changing. I don’t know how many local names there are ^NOTICE The regular annual nieeting of the stockholders of the Citizene Building & Loan Aseociation, of Clinton, S. 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