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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
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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. * ' .
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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
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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.
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(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
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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: . .
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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. C.,
will be held on the 5th day of Sep
tember, 1936, at 4:00 P. M. in the of
fice of B. H. Boyd, Sec’y ft Treas.,
Room No. 6, Natlonsd Bank Building.
B. H. BOYD, Sec’y ft Treas.
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We are equipped ia every aiodera
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