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I X a / It / (Sllntiin (Etiranirir \ EsUMished 1900 ■/ f- / :> WILSON W. Mi I HARRIS, EJditor and Pubjl^l* M . . Published Every .Thursday By . THE Chronicle publishing company Subscription Rate (Payable In Advifhce); One Year ^1.50; Six Months 75 cents; Three Months 50 cents Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly ad vice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not‘of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not bo noticed. This! paper is not responsible* for the~vieWS or opinions of its correspondents. * ^ ' . . TBS CUMTON t’,' \i S.C: -X ■4 immsDAjjf. JANtj^y le, ites for the common good of the coun^. Tuesday evening's meeting,clearly I / \ new year, so far. Yo?^ corry spondent,’ mr. mike Clark,'^ rfd, has benn think- ^idenced that such a spirit not ohlyjing of starting up a* bank with the exists, but is steadily gjoyring and en- i c(ippeHration of the goyverment, It's a«fi^ i( Telephone comphns^^Xffice by Mrs. Hamp Btone. ' ' , ; 1 Mr.'^nd Mrs. JT. I. Coleman left Sun- the doo^and when he got bSck, the cash gone.' t^t simply means that Jlx will newQr be. saw again and i the furriii missions mought as yr«ll <I*iy Brade^n, Ela., where they' as jthey have so much ffed tape/to lo6k elsewhere for relief at!'this time. |will make their jKwne. i. idea to know and under-! satne, he is afeared that he wouldf be i everboddy’s eyes is on his aen who l Friends of M3(\Xy. B; Owens, Sr« stand yeur neighbors, to cOme togeth-j tod old to-run same by'the time'they .et all day, suckers and shot fife-crack-' win regret t6 know_'^ continues criti- er, to rub elbows and discuss as one,]got their preferred stock- • the common an^ ihiportant problems!so he wilbdrop it. • that lie ahead seeking solution by! ^ ^^ prescribed, ters the fdllowering monday and tues-ically .ill at his home here. X Tday. X I ^^y' Galloway has^* / ‘ ^ . yores trulie, ithe Bingham school a commercial organizations of this type, j ^ nice candy-pulling and* square These get-together occasions "there- dance was*hell ai the ho^e of hon. fpro.have a part to play and should imoore and his /Wife friday be encouraged. They brin|^,a^ut bet- night and everboddy s^ms to of en ter unclerstandings,' more sympathetic joyed it. lots of candy was pulled al- attitiides, closer friendships, and fur-! nfio.st a yard long, yore corry spondent nish an opportunity for a united ef-J ^r. mike Clark, got .some of it fort for the interests of all without ;ti,ngled up in hr^ wh'skers, and had 1 petty jealousies or^ prejudices which to. a^pertate / large hank of same, I should be forever di.scaided. ; bJt they will/soon grpw ou|‘again, he mike' Clark, rfd, corry* spondent. returned to at Asheville where he is a student, i Fxiends of Mr. O. A. Sowers will re- j gret to learn that he had the misfor tune Sunday of having an arm broken. It Cl a s o ) '^ears Ago InicTcct From The Chronicle o. .!an-uarj 14, 1926. It was a fine.group that came dowp I aijHO calle(Kthe aX'pi aye I from Laiiren.s, Their visit i.s"'appre-; fiddle and juice harp, ciated, and will do us good for years ^ to come. CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1936 WE CAN'T TAKE IT IN ' [an honest effort should be made Where is the money to come froin' through an aroused public sentiment to meet the wild .‘ipencHng spree go ing .en at Wa.'hington? Thi.s question to enforce the pre.sent law. There is no ground or reasoning to I is being a.Xed daily by thousands of! justify wide-open gambling as it now I }»eopIe who u.ader.stood that a federal,exists at fair.s. There is just as much Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee * j the/collection which w^s took for I the/furrin mission bored at rehober !ch/ich last Sunday -was left in the I bag betwixt the sermont arid the time / he was telling eyerborl ly gor,.'!-bya :it Miss Elizabeth Young left this week I for Lanca.ster where she has accepted ’a teaching position id the city sdhools. Honor roll members of tfce first grade at Florida Street school for Der, I cember were: L. L Copfeland, Bill Mrs. Arthur Jqckson cf Fayette- ’^’ade, Marian Adair, Evelyn Fleming, viile, Gp.‘, i.s the gue*st of her sister,. Catherine Hogan, .Mary Jane Stur- :>j .s. W. B. Owens, Sr. jr^^a, Rebecca Speake; D. J. Austin of Darlington, is “ *" ; ’ VIS iting his niece, Mrs', F. C. Pinson. , Miss Lucy Epps has returned to her | oir,^ in N/wber.'-y. She ' is succeeded, ■ •mar.::ger of the local Soutliern Bell IF IT’S A MAGAZINE YOU WANT. ' • — See.«^ ... / . ‘JAMES W. CALDWELL"'- Call 38 Flat Rock-ites Seem To Be Satisfied SaUs all govverment • checks from lastj .vear.'s farming intrusts under the' received. <lebt (»f lliw-ty-four billion dollars ju.stifjcation for the opeiation of panKhead Dill nave Denn' means a debt X $272, for 'oarh Ttian, yamhling games in The Chronicle of-ij^p^^f forgot, evverbondy is look bunkhead bill have ben govverment ajd has dbne a right woman and chihl in the United States, i ficy or any other busine.ss concern in.ijj^jj forwards to the* .spi;rng check.s for' As everyone -mu.st know, taxes are ^ thi.^ community as there is for gamb-jiherage cuts, ^ Irish potatoes levied only against things that proni-; I'og at fairs w carnivals that are al-<M)ldiers bonnus. i^e' return.^. This means that sooner I lowed to exhibit in the state. , •' ]' ' X or later taxes will have to be asscs.sed ! The announcement from Columbia] to pay this enormous hill. j will be one of interest. It is high _ ,y 7^ i It is stated from Washington that I that a cle^ning-up should start, in a little more than two years, thei — —— LET YOUR / r ftderal government has sjamt or loan- .ed •.$ltl^()0(l,0()(),000. A Southern Con- gies.^man, disturbed l»y this statement t Court in declaring the AAA unconsti- (f'^.v of them are), got his pencil out' tutionaj, has put that high tribunal and began vDme frgtmng. He' found | in the limelight and brought forth that at the pieseiit rate, the sjH-nding niany expressions throughout the na- ran to nearly $2.")0 a second. This tion, both of criticism and commenda- niean.'/he stated, that every time thcjticn on its ruling. —4 clerk tickfti, I’ncle Sam iiaid out $!2.50. toward/^ re-habillitating the tcitizonship ofTrat rock, holsum moore, -Xs not the m*^n he was before the f.K.a. ()l K HKiHKSI ( OURT ; kept him from getting dumped into! The recent deci.sion of the Supreme j stri'ets. Aoni head i'^ved his .small : faim onner count of thb f.l.b. exten-j sion, and now he won’t lose it again for 1 yr, ~ ' ' everboddy seems to of benn hope | . by one thing or another, the e.e.r. i)ufi Who constitute.s the nation .s high- |jfg ^ large covey of our Jo-' One can’t take in such startling fig-1 e.st legal body, many began to a.sk fob folks who had run out of ires. But people are asking, and.h.wing Its far-rcaching decision. Are gygrthing including work clothes is n.ono- to ,hey ,11 Republicans, in,,WreS another | X rSL/rvHfe, .7,! a ,700 to eet this huge bill, enthusiastic Democrat. jijyg, sorafi.of them are on their feet nr< lightly .•^o-^where come from to mee Mow is the piper to be paid (he must] A check-up on the personnel of the _^ai^™fgff of unc'ie’sam’s'roHs'an- • be). Ji he answer is cleai. It must be ^ court shows that it consists of four' . paid by the man who makes less than-o-Democrets and five Repuhlicams, ’ ^$.‘),0()0_a year. This group in 1931 had-;viost of its members coming from the incomes of $7,500,000,000, more than' larger cities as would be expected, twice the incomes made by those'Mr. Butler, .Mr. .McReynOlds, Mr. oui/«{>asture of rehol>er church, rev. j will waite, i.s being ivaid part of hisi monthly wedges ever 3 months now earning from $5,000 to $2.'» 000. Don't Itrandeis, and Mr.-^^ardozo are the I of .^yer 12 months (perhaps) ff)0 tax your'seif that bill re- the, A IIK/I'RORI.KM The matter of unemployment iTiain.'i u paramount problem in United.,.Stat<‘.s. It is eVnlent many statements «>ne read.-^ frt»m.va- riou.'^ sources'that nobody ha.'' the rich pay the DemoerMs. Mr. Hughes, Mr. Rob-j„, ^^e pa.st? yore humble corry' lefts, .Mr; Sutherland, Mr. Van IXvant-,ypo^dent, mr. mike Clark,, rfd, is liv-' to the Ro-lyinjr a verry inderpendent life onner pii ).ican-giou|). *count of the compensation to his sons I he only Southerner on the court is .lustice .McKcynolds who 0DDiehJ,j.^oar l om Tennessee and wa.s appointed by! Woodrow W'ilson. .lustice Hrandois any 'd' Boston, was also named by I’resi- nuniTTei' of dent \\ ibon.'tlTFse" tunTTg”The IS creddick at tVn* peeples cash i ■ exact information of tTTe employable persons still unemployed members of the group .selected during in this country. That is, the number^u Deinoeratic administiation. who would take jobs if they were' •lu'^tice Cardo/.o of .\evv Y(»rk, was avadalrle (i vei yl)ody without employ—mimed in 1932 by-I’t esident Hoover tlu‘,wh(* also a|)|)ointeil in I ■ Chief .lustice inent dt^'sn’t want work). T( claim of labor leaders that tliere are Hughes in 193(1. President Coolidge .<till <‘leven million industi ial workers named .fustices Roberts nf 'Philadel-i fiu ,|on’t wort v nbmit (hem un..,n,.l,.y.',l. llu- ,v|.ly has ri.«.ntly I'hia, ami .SI,,,,,, of NVw Yolk. Just-, we are all for..the pressent dimmer- _ erats, and they will have to do some-! “riiyXhing besides feed us and give us light' of work to get turned agarinst sapie. a f('W disgruntled polliticians are raising sVind here and there about “too much extravagance, too manny brain trusters, and too much power ilanis Udng .built,’’ but the rank and I ; been made, based on government .'ita- j hh‘s Bdtler of Minmisota, and Suther- \ tisties, that at no time, even at thelbind .of W'yoming.-^re Harding nom- ^peak of nrosDtwitv. «lid industry ever.inees, and .Justice Van 1 )eyaokiii-uf more than nine million per-fUtah, dean (>f tin* eoihd in service, ind ui_tliere are now moie than was named in 1911 by f’rt'sident Taft. s« von, million on industrial payrolls, •'Pwo. members of the eourt are,of .h*w- the urh^mi)Ioyment in that field can- e>nplt>y soni<, ar not amopnt to m(»re than two million. In yne\ense, of course, all of the poisons on Xiief aie unemployed. Hut ish faith, .lustices Cai'tio^fo and Brand- eis., Jbere have been eleven chief just ice's of the United States and sixlj^- ll d.H>s not follow that'all of them'U'ne associates appointed during the w/je emnloveiU before they went on j 14(5 years of-the courU To President ivlief. In the best <»f times there have'*Taft went the distinction of having inore influence than any other chief a way^s been" five or six million per sons without jobs, either^'lH'cause they piofei ied not to wi>rk pr were unable for \;ii ious lea.s.ons, To\attach them selves to payi'olis. A large propoition 'ing.. Washii of these huve\alway!(. been recipients ' fbe personm 01 charitable relief, a’nd always will be. i than any 0(1 We need not eXjject a situation in: the first thi which there will not be a very large I Rutledge an. number of peojile who will depend for sociates. ' subsistence upon the -generosity of I 'Franklin 1-.dano Roosevelt who be- jqstice. He nominated a chief and five associate justices and later was himself named chief justice by Hard- ton had more to do with of 'the highest court - president. He named chief justices—Jay, Ellsworth, and nine as- piiblic or privat# relief organizations. In the meanwhile, however, more peo ple are going back to work (whether jt is to be i)ermanent employment, no body knows) and It is to be hoi>ed that the time is not far distant when there will be a job for everybody who is willing and able to work. - GAMBLING AT FAIRS The state fair, as well as other fairs conducted by several counties in the •state, have largely become gambling. eVents in recent years. The idea has grouTi up and now seems to be preva lent, that in oixler to succeed and draw crowds, a fair -must have at-j came president thirty-four months ago, has nqt appointed a member of the highest bench for the rea.son that no vacancy has occurred since he as sumed office. The fact remains, how ever, that though he has had nothing to do w’ith' the selection of its person nel, the i>olicies and measures he has sponsored through ^Congtess have clashed with the court'* 'interpreta tions more than those of any recent executive. Noteworthy are the NRA, the AAA, and the BanAhead and Ten nessee V'alley Acts now pNcnding, up on which decislolpa are expected nex| week. ' ■ i' . tached to it these carnival gambling devices and concessions that swindle thousands of people who are so stupid as to attempty to beat their prefes- WE-ARE NEIGHBORS /, Congratulations are i^ order to President H^ustess of th^ Chamber of Commerce, and thoa^ who assisted .sional operators. Most of these added j him, in arranging ihe splendid joint attractions are nothing more than I meeting here Tuesday evening of the carnivals, always degrading, demoralr i local Chamber of Commerce-and Uu- izing and undesirable. Many towns injrens Business League, the .state (Clinton is not included) i The chamber had as its honored have put the ban on such shows and'guests, a representative group of will not tolerate their operation in' tl>irty-five .bu.siness and professional their midst. linen of Laurens, and to each of the It is a hopeful promise that recent-! yi.sitors, a most cordial and sincere ly came from the sUte fair authori- welcome was extended. The Laurens well, mr. odditor: plese keep us posted thru yore coluums aXut anny daws- t hnt tnought—be - i ntrrriuced' to hurt the farmer and the rest of the down-trod, including the working mens, an<l we will rite or foam our congressman and ask him if he wants to be re-eleckted, or do he exi>ect to stay at home, we will all be on the firing lines in this .section. VariUuH and Sundry liappenings In Flat Rock^ flat rock welcomes her frietnl, juhn huckston, back to her buzzom after 6 months in jail, nobodd^ ever consid ered him guilty of the crime he com mitted, uttering a verry bad check and doing away with what he bought with same therefoar—he ^11 not be looked down on by our citizon.sihip. \ as soon as the ground that’s out some, the wife of yore corry spondent, mr. mike Clark, rfd, will plant a irish potatoe patch, mr. .wallis, the seeker- terry of agger-culture, notwithstand ing. she has benn doing this for 40 yr. and do not intend to quit now. she], will allso sell the extra haff bushel she makes over our needs ansoforth, if they turn out ok. 'X. the fight which bnsued at the party last night turned out to be a verry bod affair onner count of the feller who was taking up for miss jennie veeve smith got cut on the throte and lost some blood and 2$, which dr. green charged him tn IaWp 6 stitches. it was all uncallsd for, aind lie was drinking and cAtewing tpbacker. the argument started about whether or not she paints her cheeks and jaws and face: she do. no new enterprises have showed up in flat rock enduring ^e pressent 'HERE.Tvas a time whefl the pi ice tag told the main' story about a car’s quality. Loty price, low quality — high price, high quality. But Buick has changed that. For example, the sleek Buick Speckd at $765* factory list has the 6ame basic Buick quality as the lordly Limited at more than twice the price 1' It has the same more efficient type of valve>in-head straight-eight ^igine. The same smooth, lash-free torque-tube drive. The same tiptoe hydraulics, solid ste^ “Turret Top” roof, “Knee-Action” gliding ride. The difference is in size and capedty and finish. All Buicks are big in power and ability, beaudtul^side and out, Buicka to the innermost fibrg.^. Bring your pocketbook here and let it choose* from four cars thaV rangi^ price from $765 factory list to $1945*. Thgn look upon the best buy monef can produce. Whatever Buick you pick you’ll get longer life, more tasteful style, deeper oomT^tTa more satisfying eartooivn. •YOU CAN AFPONO TNg NIW BUICr ^^^1^ (0 litMarc lift prioM at Miok., »%tbj0ettoehai^f$wwuiUnotio9,SUmdard mnd tpteial acesMtorie$ groups on aU modd$ at cctro eoit. AU B%nek prioot iitclud* gloM ihr<mgh<mt<u9Uimdard9iiuipm0tU. Ctmvonwnt OMAC 0% TIMIfUAVMfllT FLAN The new GMAG 6% Time Payment Plan brings down the cost of buying on time. You'll be surprised at how little per moolh lets you own a .Buick. Come in and let us show you how you can use this saving to get a b^etter car than you've been driving. X tics that there is to be a “house clean-,gentlemen in turn, expressed their • ... ....... * ing _ this year, with only “legitimate limes’’ permitted and the so-called money wheels not allowed on the appreciation of the inviution and graciously expressed their intention in the near future of having the Clinton! grounds. This announced policy from ! group come over for a return visit Columbia should be adopted by all I A helpful spirft of goqd-wilLand county fairs. , good fellowship was in 'evidence The state of South Ckirolina having i throughout the meeting. This is ex- gone in the liquor business, one would not be surpris^ to sef that action fol lowed by the passage of a bill legal- iaing gambling as another 'means 'of actly as it should be, and at no time should'any other spirit be allowed to exist as regards the relation of the two towns which make up a very im- l^ising revenue (which would give thei portant part of the county. Compe iBgialatura added fuada-to-spfnd). But; titive—competition -in tnwr^a has—its"" .-♦ii .J.., jj, essential, but underlyinf always there should be a sympathetic until gambling is legalized with tlw atete*8 approval (which then would 'KQ. liiake it light its Icjgaiiaing tfie li- busiaeei did hot make it ^ht) mid „ coop ora ti^e spirit r. w’]rngn(:$5 to work together, to give 4 -f . X WNeN BETTER MITOMOnLES ME BWLT BUICK mu. BUILD THEM Thomasoh Motor Company Xaurens, & C.