The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, July 09, 1936, Image 4
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ThB gjNTON CHBONKLE, OOITON. 8. C
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loud, heavy iTpplause, alUo. 4 eggs and
Qs.ciabbajfes). ^ ^
ever since the conetertution vNW
sillied, it has benn in chi^ge of the
now
suppreme coart, and mrw they will
not let con^rSM do nothing: without
their consent ansoforth. it makes ev>
Clinton Wins Frcmi
the largest assembly that Clinton hat
seen for tennis since Wilmer Allison
^va-sui- exhibition match here, last
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The Clinton Tennis club defeated
the Union Tennis club in a series of
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.rbo<ki,«qu»lwitK.pM'i.l priVYil«»«l^‘ "““J?" i!**
(to none nnlen the, ere memben of;?***
the, libberty league, and are agrainSt
the poor farmer - and the laboring
man.
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the flood ligrhts, 5 to 0.
A largpe number of fans from the
city attended the matches, foi^min^
THP88DAY. JULT^J9^:
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^Despite the large mar^n of victory
for Clinton, the matches were unus
ually exciting, long voBies featuring
the play of b^h clubs. ' ' X
tSumntary^ Singles, J. F. Jacobs,
Clinton, (Meated H. Richardson, Un
ion, 5-2, 6-3; T. Martin, Clinton de-
featedvT. Estes, Union, 6-3, 6-2; G.
Beatty, CHnton, defeated W^i WaMcer, ^
Union, 10-8, 6-3.
Qpublea, J. jP*. Jacobs and A., Copefl-
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land, Clinton, defeat^ H. Richardson
and McNeil, Union, 1^1, 8-10, 6-3; G.
Beatty and T. Martin, Clinton, defeat
ed W. Walker and T. Estes, Union,
6-3, 6-3. *
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Why' not keep jonr money at
by giving year anbacriptissm either
new or renewal—to
JAMES W. CALDWELL T.
Political Insin'nations
pollitics are getting verry hot in'
flat rock and vicinnity. some mud has!
ben slung in the remote parts ..of ourj
county, ten big questipns are being
put to the candy-dates, as followers:
I 1. are you for collecting the furrln
•detts OF not? . —.^4
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CLINTON, S. C.; THURSDAY. JULY 9, 1936
2. are you for 5-cent‘cotton or ros-
eyvelt?
3. are you for 40-cent wheat or the
present add-ministration ?
4. are you 'in favvor of the sup-
A ^OOD PLATFORM [farmer, usually operating on a one-
A candidate for the house of rep- crop basis, whose Situation is com-| preme coart or landon or both?
5. do you want to go back to hoo-
Tesentatives in an adjoining county,
parable more to that of a business
has the following planks in his plat-i'’''^^, , ^
fom: riMifton. The
man than/to the typical farmer of
economic distress
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“I advocate transacting the state’s!class of farmers is far open ansoforth?
verism ?
6. do you want yore banks to stay
.^ness -in 40 days and going home, j being typical of farmers gen
‘^Njidvocate making up the county j®*'* ^* affects probably- less than
a quarter of all American farmers.
I will oppo.se voting member^ of The typical American farmer oper-
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«upplyi)ill early in the session,
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the legTshatui^ tnto salaried • poaitiOt^s* -ates- -the “fam i ly type’’ farm; -He
which they themselves have created.
for the most part been neither a
Here are three good planks that I claimant for nor a beneficiary of po-
should be demanded this summer of | litical ■ efforts to “do something for
all legislative candidates by the vot
ers of every county in the state.
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THE OLD DAYS ANdVoW
It may be the ascending footsteps
of citizenship can l>e traced by thVad-
ditional financial burdens that men
and women are now able to bear.
the farmer.” With him farming is a
mode of living rather than an effort
to enrich himself. And most of the
new population reported on the farms
falls into this class. ^
7. do you chaw tobacco, if so, why?
will you work to untax it?
8. isxfood givvon to the hungry a
waist of monney?
■4h ^^e^or-lhe Itbberiy leege,—md
watch it take yore libberty.
10. if you are a dinimercratr why are
you fighting sam€?''\
local pollitics are allso biiing. yore
corry .spondent, mr. mike Clark, rfd,
is in the race for kurriner to the fin-j
ish. he has the support of the farm-i
labor.vote, allso the stoar clerks and'
ladies fn all department stoars; hej
will carry the direct -relief ballots
about 05 percents, and he will like-'
THE MAJOR ISSyE
In the legislative races this summer
There wa.s-a time when we did nothin this county and others, there will
include in our expense'account such
services as are rendered by tele
phones, picture .shows, automobiles.
doubtless be a number of issues* rais-l wise get the support of the bonnus
ed, some of importance and others of
minor concern. Much will be heard
radid^s? beajpity parlors, and so on. We ^ about roads (the subject always be
have moved a Jong way front the j comes quite popular on the eve of an
simple fife of the old days, and life j election in which candidates are seek-
may be wider and happier and shal-ji^ng re-election), the highway depart-
lower, but it is very much to J^jment and governor, and lower taxes,
doubted whether the standard of citi- which in the process of readjustment
zenship has been improved.
IT AFFECTS US A|-L
There are few more natural disas
trous conditions than that produced! principle in which the
is only the natural result that had to
come out of the depression. Much
ballyhoo will Tie heard on taxation,
which while important, is not the
by a prolonged drouth. The farmer i should be interested,
faces at such times the fading of his! main issue which should not
hopes, meager returns for his labor permitted to W obscured, is wheth-
and the prospect of dire need before country is to be governed by
another crop can be planted and har- elected by the people for
sevveral polliticians thipk that the
hole state ought to be dedded to the
highway department in fee siraple;
- they own and control it both-political-
vested. The man in other walks of P^*'P<^*®» 91.financially, immorally, fissically,
life is confronted with higher costs *hall continue to be governed by a
for what he eats and what he wears'‘^‘^^^ifation that has arrogated power
and a diminishing prospect of tradeiTo itself not given by the pjeople s con-
'from those wbo have prospered on'^t’^ution and made itself into an ad-
thc farm. ministrative Irnard with supervision
■ - ■■ I over the. varied affairs of th#? county
(schools'included). Read your county
! supply bill Mjith its ‘'thou shall” and
thou shall nots” and its $12,000 con-
HAS NOTHING TO SAY
When Senator Byrnes returned to
the campaign this week he did noti.. . i . u i *1.
.. ' , . . II * ^ 4.U..I to be spent under the
mention the protest walk-out at the , ... - i i
t>i. I J I u I . u:.. sole supervision of the county de e-
Philadelphia national convention. His._.. • * , # .u • . >
f . ... , •. ... gation inste4d of the supervisors of-
opponents twitted him about the in- f , 7 . i
, , , t- ex. .; fice where it belongs.
The voters should find out definite-
cidefit and asked him if he approved
the recognizing of Negroes and be- , , . ee ■ e
. ■ *• , u .... ‘.V fiom every aspirant offering for
Ktowing UenuKTatic party honors i «
(for the first time) upon them in the
convention. But he eva'ded the issue.
boys, as he worked for same 15 yr.
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the biggest disspute in our state
today is whether the leggislature i«
allso the govvemor, or do .the high
way department own the leggislature
and the eennate, or vicy-versy. the
new candy-date for the gen. asaem-
bly have promised the voters that
they will give the govvemor back hds
job, and will try to work hand in hand
with the 2 houses, the upper and the
lower.
and mentally, if arirTjrr' the idea of
merging the state asylum and the leg
gislature and the highway department
ha.s benn abandoned by the “wring”
at the' .state house ansoforth.
the general assembly if he under
stands w’hat are the duties Of a leg-
Ilf has not yot .said whflhfr,he
rented or approved what happened. ; i. * i rr ' * if**
v, . ,, , -I * „ whether they know the difference be-
Naturallv the .senator is silent on . ..u i • i i i • • .
.. . ,, --.J- , - - tween the legislative and administra-
the iiuestion. He .wUnS reporfed from .. , , ,
TV, 1 1 1 u I • r *1. I tive branches of our/government as
J’hiladelphia as being one of the. pro- ^
, f 4.U *• T-u V -set-up in the constitution.'
gram makers for the convention. That
some mud-slinging will be indulged
in enduring the country’s campanes.
if al Smith decides to take a walk,
there ain’t no telling where he will
set down at the end of his journey,
but possibly in the republican camp,
or mebbe the socialist headquarters,
at pressent, allso for 3 years, he has
proved to be a verry unsattisfactory
dimmercrat. ^
yores trulie,
mike Clark, rfd,
, . \\ . cor^ spondent.
being true, he must have had knowl
edge in advance of what wa.s to hap-
inn. He surely 'knew the political
game Mr. Farley had planned to play
in a desperat^effort to catch the
Negro vote. " v -
N obody’s Business
By Gcc McGee
LIQUOR AND SCHOOLS
We are told from Colun^bia that
cur schools are now prospering
through liquor sales.
The comptroller general reports
that the s^te collected $5,100,165 for
achool aid for the 1935-36 year end
ing July fir-st. Of this amount liquor
taxes yielded the sum of $1,409,274,
more than twice the amount obtained
The law provides that the-/State’s
chare of alcoholic beverage levies
KT Y^ars Ago
Items of Interest From The Chronicle
of July 8. 1936
The Fourth Was Celebrated In
Flat Rock
th§ fourth of july passed off verry!ton, D. C
quiet in flat rock, but was cellerbrat-j the city,
ed tb some extent as usual, no fire
works were shot onnre count of the
peeples ?toar sold out all they had for
last christmus, and none could be
found at the county seat.
Misses Xucy and Florence Bailey
have gone to Camp Illahee, Brevard,
for the summer.
'Mrs. E. B. S. Warren of Washing-
is the guest of friends in
yore, corry vspondent, mr. mike
Clark, rfd, jpitde the^. fdUawing patri-
ottic speech in the scholl audytorium
to a verry large audience who went
ishall be used to finance th^ schools, there to hear sen. jud skinner, but he
all of which that tKe state is did not show up onner count^ Tie
in the liquor business a^ a means of
revenue to- help educate- its children.
The more liquor we, buy and drink,
the more money we will have with
which to operate our schools. That in
eubstance is what^the state is saying
ginee it went hrthe liquor business.
To raise revenue for the state rov-
thought' yesterday was tomorrow in
stead of today, and he wired the un
dersigned, to pintch-hit for him, as
followecs:..;..
‘‘feller-dtizehs7~gefttermens and la
dies: Tb^was srTrot day on july the
forth when geo. Washington and tom
ernment on the vices of the people is [ jefferson and john hancock rote” the
an immorah thing. We are taking a declaration of inderpendence of the
course that leads to ruin. As parents u. s. and signed it in fily-delphy, and
Miss Josephine Brodie has returned
to her home at Leesville after visiting
Mrs.v S. G. Dillard.
Herman Hunter of College Park,
Maryland, is visiting his mother, Mrs.
Myrtle Hunter. _, .
Mrs. F. ’C. Pinson is Tt^guest of
iisrktives in MuflmjT*”
Miss Mai^ Pinson is the guest of
relatives in Monroe, N. C.
Miss Helen Clasrton of Central, is
the guest oT her sister, Mrs. Pringle
Copeland.
Miss Aldeh Bailey is spending sev
eral weeks at Highland, N. C. .
Miss Alice Benjamin is the guest
of relfdives in Richmond, Va., and
Greensboro, N. C.
Mrs. B. Mv Tench of Gainesville,
Fla., was honored by her sister, Mrs.
J. Harvey Witherspo(Mi, with a lovely
party on W’ednesday morning.
, * u J 1 1--1 V 1 J- V . Mason was honored on
« .tny« to teKh >nd j^rd our chil-1 .t reiMin^ dimmercrattic (or a few: Tuesday iKoraing when Mrs. John W.
dren from the evils of the hnuor traf- pressidents, and then the repubhenns I Ljtt,, entertained in her honor with
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Jfic. In the next breath we are sanc
tioning the business and boasting of
the revenue being derived therefrom
to help educate these same children.
We are a hypocritical people.
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FARM POPULA'nON GROWS
More Americans are living on
farms today than ever before in the
nation’s history, according td a recent
report made public by The United
States Bureau of Census. There were
v31JfiO,907 in the farm population of
llanuaxy 1, 1935. lliat is 1,356,557
a<»*a thaa on April 1, 1930, when the
last previous farm census was taken.
This increase in the famr popula
tion may eeem, at first gianCe, aome-
wbai difficult Uh fcoouat for in view
«f wideepread talk abov^t diatress
and atarvation Maoag’ Carmen ci
•boat T9iml Anatin kaowa
«m 4«PO Idads ef lanDera.
took it over, but it was recowered
ever few years and re-civvihzed,
a bridge party.
it W’as recowered agrain in 193$ by
the dimmercrats, but it was almost
AMERICAN LEGIOS MEE’HNG
too late, as the u, s. was ruint by big! There will be an important meet-
bizness, and givving the furriners a.ing of the American Legion in the
mory-toriura on their war detts, I Masonic hall Friday night, July 10,
w.hich, being translated into english
means—that they have benn cancel
at 8 o’clock. We want a good attend
ance is we will elect delegates to the
led,, but july the forth means a big'state convention at Charleston, and
thing to us as the constertution was**l»o want to plan a free fish stew
rote on that day after the rewerlu-
tionary war.
we cellebrate this great day be
cause we cut loose from grate brit-
tan who had us by the nakes with
high taxes on tea and everthing, hut
now as wont pay us the 8,000,-
000,pp0.00$ with intrust, which she
owes, ahe baa got us by the
ai^n, and tajcse are higher than ever
with the new deaL hurrah for the
forth and all it steads for.** (lsaf»
for members of the Legion.
Please come and bring a member^
or prospective member with you. We
now have over ninety members. We
went 100, so help us get them. Dofi’t
forget the meetiQj|. ^ .
T. J. Peake, Commander.
Cavltoa F. Winn,. Adjutant.
WHAT DO
P. S.JEANBS
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THE SEASON’S GREATEST SAVJNGS!
Midsummer Storewide
CLEARANCE
Beginning Friday
July 10th.
This final house^ cleaning before we begin a new sea
son brings you wonder values in every sort of merchan
dise. In many departments of the store $1.00 spent now
will bring you values up to $5.00 or $6.00. Come and see
the savings offered on Silk, Cotton and Linen Dresses,
Millinery and Smart Footwear ... 89c for Shoes that
sold from $3.00 to $5.00 and equally interesting offer
ings in Millinery, Undergarments, Qlpyes, Handbags and
other accessories. Real money saving sale prices on Silks,
Cottons and all other piece goods, as vilell as towels,
sheets, drapery fabrics, and other household needfuls.
Come early for the best selection.-
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