The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, June 11, 1936, Image 4
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This ks the end of a perfect, day
that I promised myself and family
(the.night before) that I would spend
in my room at the hotel, iir bed to
rboot. It is exactly If:45 p. m. If I
iHve tnr^mdmihg TO Wake up sur
prised. Why, all of us were up and
{had-vralked 8 blocks to an Auton^.
by 7:30, daylight saving time. /Tto}
children enjoyed poking nickfle into!
the food slots and turning the knobs
so much that a meal there was more
expensive that at the Astor-Bilt.
CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY. JUNE 11, 1936
WASTING MONEY
The general assembly recently ad
journed, stayed in session almost five'
We began taxi^iig and subway-ing
and ell-ing early. We climbed up and
went down nibre stairways than the
average-town of 25,000 inhabitants;
can boast of. We saw this and that
till my he^d swam. Everything from
tl^ Al. Smith-pire building Coney'
Island passed beneath our eager reti
nas. My^ folks are the going-ist
bunch of humanity I ever saw. They
land^ of opportunity, that there are no I ^ meals today, patronized 14 so-
such chances in our capitalistic in
dustrial scheme_jof things as there
months and broke all preSnous rec-l^ere under a more primitive and
ords'. What the sfession cost, the cuulization. -
pie do not know. As soon as this in-j The plain truth, which these young
da fountains, and never skipped but
2 gum and candy vending machines.
(They were out of order).
After a late dinner-supper (6.:35),
formation can i)e obtained The Chron-1 graduates will learn soon enough, i» i J?-—
ici.- will IT for It, readers’ that there is - ready^ntade opportu-,^; Jtm
information. ' "'tv fnr anvhnnv Tfu*rp nevpr nas _ . ® u
But in addition to this long drawn
out affair, there was the extra ses
sion caPed before Christmas by Co'.’-
nity for anybody. There never has
ornor Johnston at much expense'to character, there are greater oppor
the taxpayers and which accopi- tunities than there ever were before,
plished nothing. , [Each, however, must find his own op-
Not only in'its long|vity, but in the porTunity for himself and stand on
wasting of money thei recent session'^hjs own feet.
conspicuously stands bufT j If the schools and colleges have
I developed those qualities of in-
. . u ■ ■ / • 1 Only. She would have lost business
been, under any scheme of social or-t, . r i n I
rr.,. ^ known that all of the seats
ganization. But for men and wameni . , , , , ,
» • .• • j 1. ^ . were takeiu. The old lady and chil-
of initiative, courage, industry and'. - . ^ .
|dren were given vseats by the good?
looking flapper, but she passed a rope
betwixt me and the isle just as I step
ped one foot^ forw’ard, There were
about 760 others herded up around me
1 and against me, forward^xnd afL
, I guess the show was going on. I
^ WHAT WILL THEY SAY Idustry, Courage, initiative and char-iy^ard an occasional yell, and saw
This summer in this county we will acter, then there is something badly I ^ woman's head once and a man’s
doubtless hear much from some of wrong with the schools. But even thej^ightop hat twice. They were on the
the politicians about economy. The w’orst of schools cannot stifle the am-|j,tagg about 3 blocks east of me I
emphasis needs to be puf^on funda-! bition or kill the i»pirrt of adventur-i on my right foot awhile and a
mental principles of government af-.ous youth. It is to the ambitious andj^.Qjnan stood on my left foot at the
feeling the people, rather than on a | adventurous that the w’orld has al-j^gn,^ time. I swapped feet with her
tax receipt. [ways offered its greatest opportuni-
But while we will he^ much from ties. The world today, up-side-down
candidates ! about state and county'as it is, offerSN^i>ortunitie5 tb those
economy, w’e wonder if there will ..be' w’ho take courag^^ their hands and
complete silence as to -^'ashington’s go forth Jo seek the
spending spree. * I !
The federal government is now'
Kpemding nine thousand million dol-^
lars a year. It is spending each day
ten million dollars more than it is,
colfecting. In the-i^.st threfe,yeara it! g
has collected' in taxes and borrowed
and spent $22,541,245,376 and has
Nobody's Business
By Gee McGee
occasionally. She weighed about 330;
and begging your pardon, she was the
softest woman I ever leaned up
against. Every time the crowd would
breathe, she would stretch up and
down.
The show finally ended. I .never
^.got closer than 45 feet to a seat. I
wbtil^ have paid 25 dollars for a set
of gb?
T ook hi^h and look low throughout this
> srr’ft and spirited Buick Spbcial,
rnd you’ll find only one thing about it
that’s anything but big.
It’s big in its inches, length and breadth—
big in the ample, stretchout space it sup
plies to driver and passengers alike.
It’s big in its power—it hasn’t found a hill
i couldn’t easily master, oi* ^ driver it.
couldn’t thrill by the fervor of its quick
response, the smoothness of its stride.
ft’sbiginthe measure of its quality, seen and ^
unseen—every nut and bolt and stmt and
part is eloquent testimony to Buick’s insist- ■
ence that the best alone will do.
th'sn mere ♦r'^r'^'^or^ation requires.
Wooden legs. I was ruint
Ten Days Vacation Without Pay it. I^Was para-
It’s big in the pleasure it
gqp bring yn
run behind $11,306,8H1,1.")H. Nearly half of my pre.-«cribed va-
It will be interesting in the ap- cation is over. The doctor told me
lyzed frrim my^hips down. I would
have left -the sh^wv if I could have
turned around. I wks never so dis-
untled, anTlxdevastated.
hen the distre?«mig act
tnat comes from handling
0 sparkling and superior-
performer —pleasure
that’s yours from owning
a car so obviously better
It’s big in the satisfactions it yields —
from the smartness of its valid stream
line stylepfrom the surety of its comfort,
and your knowledge that the family
couldn’t be safer in a car. _
It’s big in every way, until you reach for the
tag that names the price—then you find that
it’s only a short step up from the lowest-
priced field to the Buick of your dreams.
^65* and up, list at Flint, the price tag on
tlye; Buick Special. Series 40, reads, and
the terms are within anyone’s reach.
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BUICK tmwUm fm H hmr CUm McCarthy cad
B4wi. C. HiH rha lOUIS-SOWaiNG nCHT
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A OINilAl MOTORS PRODUa*
whether they will altogether ignore
such facts.
New York, but I had never attempted
If economy should be practiced at
I before to "take
home, why not away from honie7.
GOBBLING UP OFFICES
The recent general assembly ran
wife and 2 children along.
After bargaining for an interest
in a good up-town hotel, and getting
true to form -when it came to filling stuff properly put, we decided to ^
offiees and creating new jobs for a ' I wanted to borrow j
able to get very many things off:
We got a taxi to roll up right close
to^ 4he- cttrfe; With tJ-polTcemenV as"-“
sistance I got inside. Everybody
thought I was drunk, I suppose, ex
cept a few i>ebple nearby. . , . who
thought I was a corpse. I was car
ried to my room by my faithful wife
and childi-en who undre.ssed theniv
THOMASON MOTOR CO.
EAST MAIN STREET
LAURENS, S. C.
large number of its meittbers. Long "less-than-one-per-cent-
ago the legislatui’e’ became a "closed IH*r-annum money. . . . that I had
.«hop,’’ not offering the slightest about. The old banker
chance to those on the outside (re-;"'^om I knew very well, said: ‘‘Yes—' health! Ouch")
gardless of qualifications) to get on have some 3 percenl, money that
the inside and i«rticipate in the dis-i<»«J ’Jffular customers can borrow, _ FINAL SETTLE.MENT
it didn’t matter. I knew I’d be dead
by morning anyhow. (And me on a
tribution of the prize jilums. The law’- "llh Liberty bonds as collateral, plusi Take notice that on the 10th day of
makers took twenty-fiTur state offices ^ percent balance. (If I had Lib^July,^ 1936, I will render final ac-
for then\selves during the session just bonds, I wouldn t need any mo.n
ended, a number of them carrj’ing
handsome salaries. . j
The general assembly is now’ used We visited the cotton exchange
by many of the members as a step-' where outsiders used to gamble or
ping stone to land jobs. If there is not speculate with the insiders (and lost,
one in sight the practice! has grow’n' of course). That place is tamer than
of creating new commissions, offices, a game of checkers. The S. E. C. has
committees, or .something else. The put operations of the king on the B.
-recent, session w’as an outstandingTu. M. No suckers w’ere biting this,
example of such tactics. . I morning, and the man said very lit- ment on or before that date; and all
There are "rumors” that certain j tie nibbling had been going on for | Persons having claims against said
lawyers in this section are holding i the past year or so. The folks in that I estate w’ill present them on or before
counting of my acts and doings as
Administrator of the estate of D. M.
Wadsw’orth, deceased, in the office of
the Judge of Probatjp of Laurens
County, at 10 o’clock a: m., and on the
same day will apply for a final dis
charge from my, trust as Administra
tor.
Any person indebted to said estate
is notified and required to make pay-
their seats in the legislature in the j exchange reminded me of a bunch of
hope of landing a judge’s job when a j unemployed or W. P. A. workers. . , .
vacancy occurs.
The legi.slature has largely become
a "gobbling up” game. IBs members
grab every job they can for jthem-
selves. The goveniOr likewriae craves
power to make appointments and
place his crowd in ofhee. It ie a dis-
gracfeul practice and one that the
Uibl MUot box ajiould put
To an end. 1
YOUTH AND LIFE
'Commencement season has come, to
- close. From the nation’s universi
ties, cottegea-AJid- high Ichools hdn-
-dieds of thousands of boys and girls
“"“Y»ave poured out this montkr te se«^
their placet in the world of reality.
Their formal education is finished.
Their real education is just' begin-
mag.’ They have, if they have been
idiHg^t and receptive students, leam-
that had choked down. Mebbe we
need such institutions: it’s powerful
dull without some kind of uncertain
trading.
A vacation ain’t no time to talk-
-and-nose-afound about politics, Sut
I felt the pulse of big and little busi
ness ^ somewhat sympahetically and
advisedly. The"blgT)rokers and bank
ers are about 80 j^r’cent against tke
-said ^ate, duly proven, or be forever
barred.
CLINTON * H. WADS-WORTH,
Administrator.
June l()th, 1936.—7-2-4tc.
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tn fact. Wall Street ahi^
I’t so strong for the "ins;*
Nevr Deal,
vicinity ain
that i^—the bosses of the firms. The
golf courses are crowded with anti-
administration-ites, and so are the
best night-idubs. But thie eastside
and the west-side (some on relief,
many off) are still aboqt 98 per cent
strong for the democcats. (Whoop
ee!).
«d a great deal i^ut most of the fun- Roosevelt won’t ^rry over 33 per
damental principles of life. Now they cent of the supreme court vote, and
me about to try their hands at the
practical application of those prin
ciples to the problems of life itself.
The first thing these young men
and women are going to learn is that
there is no easy or'safe road to suc
cess in Hfe- Many of them, because
they have diplomas, may have got the
impression that the world owes them
a living. They are dead wrong. They
are due to discover very soon that
tha obligation is the other way
aroond. They have to prove them-
Mlves u^ul members of aonaty be
fore they can claim oonaideration for
thamadves. Tltere are. too many peo-
irfa in the worid already looking for
aomhthing for nothing and expecting
Santa" Glana every day.
Iliere Ife a school of thought which
that 4t k the duty.of the eoeial
to provide opportunRiaa for all
of
dltS. SMITH tt SMITH
- - . OEEfflIEnUSTS
__ Specialist In
Eye Examinations
OflBce Hours 8 to 6 Daily
Phone 101 for Appointmeiit
Clinton, S. C.
even the large railroads’ don’t like
him; they hate trucks and busses, too.
The Reds are on the fence; the blacks
are about 65-36 for the present crowd
. . ./. while we know that all of the
Blue will go G. 0. P. Tha south is
gettin^accused of being in the best
shape/she has ever been in; in other
wor^, Northerners and some West-
erners believe the South has hogg^
everything except the tax-,paying
privileges. *
Well, after seeing many old and
new sights, we returned to our ho
tel 'I am so tired, so worn out, so
weak, and so limp, I don’t think I’ll
ever get rested again, and me on
vacation. My feet are sore, my head
aches, my blood pressure is doing
the shimmy, and that pain in my chist
has returned. If somebodr calls
has retume^ If somebody
ybnag paofkH Ukoaa ihk trip a.va^on, a convict eertain.
ImM tlMit view art prena to da- ly ought to anjoy life, But I*m not
lea k BO lottgar tha (oing: to bodge over 3 blocka from
Watch Your
Kidneys/
with a motor so oig
or—the bebiod l»-
will h»»«
power
trnhe Notfe mswt
-"ebes them
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NOME 0M6INATED 30 OF THE
MOn IMFORTAirr FEATMES in
MODERN REFRIOEIUHOa
.^XHE JROiltAT^K cgld-aiking
mcrtianiim int^uccdig 192^
~PSDEinilT?UM^^^ in 19H.
COMMXTELY SCALED ICE COHPARTMENT^
imrodoced in 192<Sw
And 27 ochar OBomodliig features. Norge
sec the pace in the past. Norge sets the pace
today. Norge wiH set the pace in the httare.
Cheqie Noife br its kapiovtd Piem Aefion
Latilaleb * Inpioved Aeloaimc Rood Light
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alahlts crisp e AdMmMnf Porcelain Lia-
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