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\ cdittitoti EsUblislied 4900 WILSON W. HARRIS. Editor and Pu blwhOr • Publiahed Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY -J Subscription Ra^^H(Payable In Advance): Oho Year 11.50; Sir Months 75 cents; Three Months 50 cents Entered as Second Class Mail Slatter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers^and rea<fers—the vfce. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not’ be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opiiiions ef its correspondents. - , green capsules at jellyj^ss. purple doaes inW About the fifth day, the drug 8jK>re sent up some very large pills, about I the sise of nMirblM,^ pfjce 10 cents ] each. I managed to swallow one of I them' after wearing, it nearly* out {gargling it up and down my throat; II Jiyad in the beet bed in the house, ! but my back hurt and my ribs burnt and my legs ached and my neck cricked. My mouth stayed so dry all Lawmakers Face Probfem Loohib of Badge! Bal- ancing As 19th Week of Se^ sion Begins. ^ Columbia, May 18.—A delicate task of budget balancing confronted the l^slature Tuesday when it opened I the time, I was afraid my tongue and jits 19th week, tonsils ^ould catch on fire. j One of its biggest remaining jobs is \ - — - the enadtment of an annual appro- I hewn to count the years of ipyi’priation bill for 1936-37 that will ■ uriron ' ‘ next week “if the free conference uses, dili|^ee and cam.y ' Senator SlS. ^wrd of town,* chairman the^ fjinance committee, called upon the fonfere^ to conclude their work as rapidly as ;^«!^ble. j A proposal of Senator H. K. Purdy Jasper, one of > the conferees, t^t the committee work during the wedc- end was not carried out but-it agreed to meet before the legislature* recon venes at noon Tuesday. •. SCHOOL NOTICE GIFT FOR LIBRARY ”^4n order that plans for the fait aea- sion of the city schools may go for-|^ wjard at* once, announcement has been made from the office of Superintend ent W. E. Monts that pupils who ex pect to enter the first grade next year will register May 22 at their re- sp^tive schools. Children, w^o will be six years old on or before November 15 will be accepted for registration.' Registration will be at Providence school at 10 4;>'clock, Academy Street sojourn ^ this old earth on the mom- keep within state revenue. lTl|rbT thr~f(mTth~’d»y~ <rf~my in4>^ ness. I realized that rheumatism and possibly paralysis . were liable,, to strike a guy at my attained age, and —i~ J CLINTON, S. C., THUliSDAY, MAY 14, 1936 then I began to hurt in^my hips *nd| 550000 I felt my left side (the side my heart, * . .... , . . U on).g«tnumboDeni,llt.bui l D*v- , er got beyond being iileNto >" ««- toesv I kept them wigglintsmll the I Dr. D. 0. Rhanie> Jr., well known local physician and surgeon, recently!at 12 o’clock, and Florida Street at , .Lpresenited. the high_.schppl_ library a [^'45. IF'ree conferees planned to get toh^^ge framed copy'of the U: work to reconcile a 18,143,441 house]^ j^^ool is quite proud bill with a senate measure actually j-^e gift and wishes to express its entailing expenditures of about $8,- appreciation to Dr. Rhame for tlie presentation. THE COST TOO HIGH One person out of eveigr ten of those employed in the United States draw.s his or her pay from some gov ernment unit, according to ■ a recent report of the 5iational Civil Service hard world filled with both opportuni-1 ties and obstacles. In facing its chanc-j es~and opportunities the great mis take many of them-will make will be' to attempt to start at the top. It can’t- be done, and the sooner theses my time for safety. new items of expense Reform U*ague. More than 3,000,000 i young people realize this and ^re persons 'are. on fe<l«ral, state and local! to begin from the bottom and payrolls, and 38 per cent of air the' up-the better off they will; be. tax revenue collected in the United States goes to pay their salaries. The total cost of $4,000,000,000 a year for the administration of public affairs Is neafl’y 7 per cent of our estimated national income at present. Seven cents out of every dollar earned by] productive workers goes to pay the non-productive. Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee AII-Day Singing At Flat Rock first all-day singing of the The number of these government I •’ell at rehober employees iK increasing instead of de- churcK\]ast Sunday enduring a most creasing. One single new permanent] perfect day of sunshine and shadows, agency of the federal government, the everboddjX was happy in, their thin Social Security Board, has announced summer cl^hes. of which; they have that it will employ 11,675 persons^ not wore in, recent months onner during the next year, and that is only* count of the la^e spring." a beginning. . ‘ ^ 1 ’ ' This is my seventh ^ay. I am sit ting up, or riither—sitting dawn in a chair but of bed. Food tastes' very ^ood this momjng, thank you. My :cr„orbe7ng^“.*b!e‘p7iiiir/oSTH.rb;c.m;u; .TiS throat has healed upi ,as far as the* . *,«. j • doctor can see and tell.* My liver is hitting on all 4, my heart is piddling have been enacted or partially ap proved since it was written. It provided $35,000 for a permanent state bf bank control, provid ed by law after It was drafted. An act established a a|ate rental textbook sy^m with a staff to be SPECIAL Literary Digest—29° weeks—tl.90. See me for other special offers. JAMES W. CALDWELL , MEN’S WASH PANTS » Up to size 44 89c You’ll bay four pair. ELLISON’S ♦♦♦♦♦999999999999999999999999999999999999999O9OO9O099 along at about 82, my bloo^ pressure is only 165 over 95^ and my Imnk bal ance Ss down to $0.05. found that out yesterday missed me to3ay.' It’s mighty fine to be well again. ^ " - Gee McGee. Our whole political p^rty system is based upon putting party workers on the church orj^ of the bilding and' was TOOved out )iaced on a flat the public payrolls. All efforts toifoj.j|^ under the bi^ ^k tree near the eliminate the number of tax-eaters, j-^re door, and when mVs Jennie veeve fall in the face of the desire of poli-; smith, our organi.st, preyed her pret- ticians in power to strengthen their !ty fingers on the ivories'jyid mashed local, state or national party organ!-j the peddlers with her dainty feet, zations. The politician who stands thefsweet peels of music. wer\ wafted best chance of being re-elected to any * a(.r.of;t hill and dale to the plVassare officeTs"ttie one who can put the larg-jof aH concerned. . ost niMpber of- his fottowers on: bnbst 1 *. —:;:rT--. — at the taxpayers’ exi>ense. Compe 10 Yem*8 Ago Items of Interest From The Chro^clc of May 20, 1926 A $40,000 administrative appropria tion on a senate unemploymeht com-| pensation bill and allowances for a; state department of labor\Uiuier a The doctor 1 bill—both on final riding— j and dis wipe out the senate revenue margin. ’ 7»- * \ The senate had before it,an amend ment to abolish the state industrial commission, saving its tentative ap propriation of $40,000 and to develop its compensation law administration on the new labor department. A sharp fight appeared likely over the move^ however, which both houses would have to approve to make effec tive. The senate finance committee intro duced a supplementary appropriation bill for 1935-36 to authorize expendi tures .of ^149,000 for state depart- James Pitts is at home from Jarries- town where' he taught the* past year. I^andon Holland has gone to Hen- de^onvillv. where he . has legislative session. position Guy L Copeland, attended com mencement exercises this week at Chicora college. His daughter, Mi^s Mary, was a member of the gradu ating cla.Hs. Mr. and Mrs, L. V’. Pinson and at 'the propper time, yore corr spondent, inir. mike Clark, rfd, quire leader of rehober church,, step- Mr^^--W4W -W«*. -ktegate* t®te„smKTScar jrSar. While it would not drain revenue I directly from the prospective income i.‘ [for the 1936-37 bill it was expected I to reduce the balance of state funds ! to be carried over June 30 for appli- t-cation to,..disbursements during the tence counts for less and political^ usefulness for more under such condi-| tion.s. Wemustjhave government, but beyond doubt we are paying too highL ^ .stiUness stole over ever- a price for it. I thing, and he announced: “friends • ■— f"- ;and feller-citizons: we w'ill now sing WHAT IS COMMENCEMENT? the Lutheran conference this week ini Spartanburg. Mrs. W. D, Copeland is the guest of, Mrs. A. M. Redfern in Charlotte. esdames J. M. Pitts, J. F. Jacobs,- T. b(. Copeland and Misses Clara Duck^ and Maude Pearson MTbre in .Seneca yesterday.to attend the U.D.C. district ^ference. ^ George ^^bo is at home from Louisville, IC3(., where he tvas a stu- yore corry spondent, mr. mike dent the past\vear at the Southern a^ wiii'be holding tiieiT closing ex-1 ble.ssed with Baptist Th^o#*^ awnmary. - ercises. Boys and girls will receive! 10-keynote voice, he'can'sing 5 dif-, Alfred BrowniW won first place their certificates and diplomats—and' f^rent tones in one 'stanza, he 'can 'n the Florida school story- but the 3hout-^a‘‘t off the verse With base, drift to ^telltng contest held ^during the paat The commencement season, alw’ays one of unusual interest in our com munity, has come around again. Soon our high school, college and orphapt —‘shall we gather at the riverside’ ip ‘a* miner to th^ accbinpahimeht of miss Jennie veeve on the instrument. contralto, shift to suppram>, ooze into solo, and end w’ith a very keen tenor. week. Miss Kate V. Wofford announces then it will all be over ing. With the coming of May each year, commencement speakers are forever reminding us that commencement is _ . i 4- ■ 4 , . pot ap ending but a l>eginni.ng. They training except at the hands of miss ucation in today s ;>aper/ are forever reminding u.s we say, yetli'^^"*^ vepre who newer took nothing we forget from year to year. Folks | herself, wiir always look on commencement I ■ as the completion of tasks — a goal l after a series of about 4U songs, in- attained; but it isn’t. Commencement'.<-’ldding duets, quintetts, quardrup-|~ Ls the bugle- note that calls the horses l*^ts, solos, congtx?gation, onsombles, I ^ — - quires, ansoforth, time was called out! The Cross Hill,.^hool completed its en everboddy marbles at his wonderful! her candidacy for re-ele^on to the gift of song, yet he has nevv’er took j office of county superintendent of ed- Cross Hill Schoo Closes Sessiok to the pole for the start of the race, that is all. To be sui-e, it is the com pletion of something — but it is no more than a completion that opens a door to something new. Students think of it as a doorway that opens l>efore them, not as one that closes behind them. Listen to their conversation at this season of -the year. Do you hear them ask one another, “What have you done in school ?’’ or “What are-you going to <k> next year?” Try listening to them just once to .see what they say. It will fthow you that they think a diploma is simply a ticket fQj;^.a longer ride or a bigger and much more fascinat ing show. Commencement, very appropriately, comes at the spring of the year. The •tfeee-are sending out th^ir* beautiful leaves, and flo-wers are unfolding _their joyely^.bloaaonis^ It ia a.-fitting time of the year as our children are going out for newer opportunities and finer achievements^It is the time of birth—birth of neilnthings in nature ; —birth of ideas aha\. ideals in youth. \ FSblball Wm^ ank baseblH games ahd track meets and bridge parties come and go without arching inter est-\but just bring, on a commence ment and you bring on a crowd. Audi toriums are always packed when it ^ comes tin^ to gfive out rewards for for dinner which wa.s spread on the j year’s work last week. On Thursday ground, a crowd of younguns from j evening the graduating exercises cedar lane, who can’t sing and newer 1 were held with the following jiro- wiU, et nearly everthing up while'gram: our pasture, rev. will waite, was ask ing the blessing. manny happy retums of this day were wished ui>on yore corry spond ent, mr. mike Clark, rfd. the leader of everthing. About 30 more songs were sung in yie p.m. fiddles and git- tars and floota and bugles and trom bones were brought on the flatform for the final songs and tunes.' they were handled with much agility by the performers and mannv H. Shealy. lywj V’aledictory-^B. L Mitchell. tears flowed when they play< “where is my wanderring boy' to night.’^ you ought to of-ibenn with mr. edditor. .yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd, * qtrire-rater. Invocation—Rev'. J. H. Byrd. Song—Senior class. Salutatory—Catherine Smith. • Class History—Inez Jones. Class Prophecy—Lyl Walker. Poem—Cqlie Reagan. Class Will—Wilma Davis. Class Statistics—Mary MeSwain. Hratoriatr—Wittiam Hipp. (ilass Epitaph—Edna Smith. . Address—Dr. E. N. Sherrill. Presentation of Diplomas—Supt. J. J'arewell Song—Senior class. . HONOR ROLL FOR RNWEfcfc-SeHOOLS Casa Dismissed During my short (?) life, I have run a steam engineTcutting all of the wood to fire it myself; rSive pulled fodder in August; I have toted lum ber and slabs away from a saw mill; I have ditched in mud knee-deep; I have pulled a cross-cut saw all day, and done many other laborious tasks, ■ y\ , „ , 4 — J uune mmny utner lauunous lasKS, labor. Ma ah^ Pa and Aunt Het and, 5^^ none of them are as' tough as ly- I Uncle John aii<^all the grandpas and grandmas and brothers and sisters ✓ihake the moth balls out of their very best summer bibs^^nd tuckers and riick down their hair or frizzle it up, depending on whether are of the sB^ or the frizzly sex.\ It is all very exciting. Liwe Johnny hesitates in the middle of hik “piece” and scratches- the calf of his 1^ wittr Uie toe'of the other shoe, whH^ a roomful of hearts stop beating, ai)d immediate relatives cease, for a m<> ment, to exist. But it’s nothing to worry about Even if he forgets, it’s all right, “Johnny is young and will do better th4 next time.” Yes, it’s al ways “Next year—^next year.” We are an optimistic people by nature, apd it’s good that we are. We are always looking forward. Just as graduating atudents are always locking forward. * And yet, they think of commence- wu&Bt m an ending than a beginning. ^.. These graduates are to,^coaih<Mit a ing in bed sick day after day. I lay in bed and counted the spots on the window curtains (my- wife calls them draperies^; I chased imag inary rivers up and down the plas tered walls and ceilings. I thought of everybody who owed me ... in 3 hours . . . and then in 6 minutes, I thought over everybody I owed . . . and couldn’t pay either. To make worse matters bidder,. ^ doctor galled twice a day, but he never did sa^ what for. \ .' Second gr^e: Robeirt Grube. Third grade: Margaret Peters, Charles McCown. ' - Fourth grade: Sam Marse, Carolyn Fifth-grade: Chestnut Whitaker, Jerrell Davis. Seventh grade: Harry Whitaker, Louise McCown.'' Ninth grade: Blary Jones. Tenth grade: Bessie Fortner, Eliz abeth Tucker, Wilheltnina Durden, Mary Beth Ayers. Eleventh grade: James Terrell, Margaret Wilson. Subscribe Ta THE CHRONICLE “The Paper Bverybedy Reads” Chairman Neville Bennett of the ways and means committee comment ed that he felt the appropriation bill could be kept within revenue and re ported out late this week or early HOME LOANS 6 Per Cent Interest • A X, CONTACT R. W. WAD^ or ROBERT S. OWENS, ^ATTORNEYS, AND FILE YOUR ^ APPLICATION \ Newberry Federal Savings & Loan Association *^overiimcnt Supervig^.*’ John F. darken. Pres. C. Weeks, Vice-Pres. J. K. Willinghain, Secretary-Treasurer. / ^ot€ P&jc h4Htie \\ cah. HUDSON 0 * against any other Eight in ymr own driving test!” Hudson speak for STRETCm-You above Hudson’s pri in sizbv (w all-aro^i ton and This isn’t a ’’chip-on-the-ohouider” challenge, but t triendly invitatioau Make this test with a Hudson ... over any route you pick. Make it \ with any other Eight, regardicaa of i^rice. And let the best car win! LppKI—Let the -styh ot .thi* 1936 ion speak for itself. 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