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CoA^C^ Campaign
Highdit^hi History
Btfwe ra
iditu^M of
FinpU Reports
Reyeal Eipendit
$13.000.(H)0.
Election
Over
nearly eve^ kind of normal amuse
ment and /provided punishment for
people whd daoed do anything on Sun
day except go to church or sit in sol
emn cpntemplation. We wonder at
the stupidity of folks who could per
mit tibe enactment of . such laws or
submit to their enforcement, yek
these were the sturdy forefathers who
conquered the wilderness and started
this country on its way.
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CilNTON. S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1936
FOOTBALL AND BOOZE
William E. Dodds, - president- of
Princeton university, recently sent a
notice to everybody who bought tick-
"ils~ for the Princeton-Navy football
a trapeze pole and hung between a
filing cabinet and my safe and many
fine stunts were done on it
Washington, Oct. 31.—Expenditures
of more than 113,000,000 had beeh re
corded by today in America’s costliest 1 These Are Hard, Hard Years
pre,ldei.tl«I campiripi, a. the Eepub.\A wotnai. went back to the 8»th k-
lican national committee’, final
port hetore'election.,howed it ha<i!f"“»^* •“<* *>“” "“<•* •
Spent almost |7,6oO,o6o. • |
Listing disbursements of 11,802,086 i
orts
larg^ ttendance and so a fine lot of
middle^ affcd women, some of them
in“h;“^;‘d,~;d 'r**
for a I Visit since they were college
the younger made, not courageously,
but gladly, with the sure conviction
that it was worthwhile. /
PLAY AT LYDIA
8CRIPTQ.,Aijtsiartf Psadl is tha
bast lOe rah» fai the warld. Gi4|«M
at the fliiraialflt Faldlahlij
To usher in the observance of Na
tional Education week, a play will be
given at the Lydia Mill school on Sat
urday night at 8 o’clock. The cast isj
composea of men and women of the >
community; directed by the teachers
of the school. TTie play, “Two Days |
Tc Ms^,” is full of fun and ludi-|
crous situati^. The public is invited
to attend the entertainment, the pro^
ceeds to be used in purchasing new
Looks for .the school library.
Republican committee disclosed that: . , , ,. , j.. . i
it Ld ,p«nt w.988.663 ,ince J.«a.ry *1^, locking through «»«-tm»d
1. AddiSon.1 .ponding bp congrM-t
idon.1 .nd .«r.tori.l committee.! ney I«bh.^ . litUe b«k which
boo.ted the party'. toUl to *7.488,-!?«'' contributed . brief hiogr^ihy.
„,Q . jOne woman took her copy home had
718.
The combined outlay of thaNtwolj'"”'?? “
major partiea climbed close to "ho rwd it «.d paaied rt
000,000 a. di.bur.em.nt, by Demo- ,^cjno,her^th an excla^
game requesting them not to drink or
get drunk- at the game. Those accus
tomed to drinking at such events
didn’t like what he had to say, of
course, bttt we think that' ever y bodyr
everywhere, who is Seriously interest
ed in the preservation of public de
cency and good, order approved that
re<|uest. The report came after the
gam^ that most of the 51,000 fans
present were on their good behaviour
and for once an important intercol
legiate footbad game was played in
the pre.sence of a crowd that Was
practically sober. .
Reports in oik state this fall indi
cate that there has been an improve
ment in the-manners and behaviour
of footbxll crowd.s. The state fair
crowd for the big classic was report
ed to show less drmking in evidence.'
Drinking on the part of many, has
become all to common at gridiron
contests, neither has it all been con-
fincil to men. In a game in this state
last year we saw two young women
so drunk they could not stand alone,
and had to be led out of the grand
stands by their escorts, a most dis
gusting sight
using now is a rented machine. The . ..
hat and coat-rack was converted into^iajitie-organizations increased today | dism^, d^l lives
to8M30.494. The Democtetic n.tien-!h.ve brnT." .he
.1 committee .p«it *3,406,601 of thi.‘
j sum, while the rest was paid out by ’
I I congressional and senatorial commit-
My 3 letter-baskets that I kept on j tees,
my desk were used for baseball masks
and my paper-weights were being
used fov-bidls. My blood pressure, was
already up to 186 when the boys
came in; when they wehl out, it had
reached about 260 in the shade. Of
oil the messes I ever saw, my office
and the 2adjoining offices were “it”
after that very pleasant visit. If they
ever stop outside of my place again,
I’ll shoot them on sight: the law will
certainly vindicate me, and possibly
rive me a reward.
Flea the Wrath To Come
The wife’s cousin, Mrs^ Hammer-
stein-Crittendon, is a very high-falut-
in'^lady. She jiarried into a social
circle that has very wi^e lines; he,
the Xubby, is an Englishman with”a
title. never learned what the title
was" to:\house, lot, or farm. But he
wears a monocle over hi.s right eye.
Well, to gek down to the story:
Cousin Sue (thaCs her real name)
and her”“title” c^e to see us not
, . . , long ago. They hSd, just finished
- There havo-been many criticisms Europe and Ni^York nnd all
intercollegiate football in the P®sf}thc way down the coasi^^our house,
few years, particularly that it has, married oWy 6 years,
largley become a commercial enter- have 31 dogs, vizzly: 1 poodle, 1
pri.se rather than an amateur sport, and 1 fiste, but no oth^chiL
Minor ■ pi|rties and independent
groups—such as the American Liber
ty league, the United Mine Workera,-!
the National Union for Social Justice,
and the Good Neighbor league—have
listed disbursements of well over
$2,000,000 in their reports to _the
clerk of the house of representatives.
Spending by individual candidates
and local organizations raised the
“Do you think your father and I
have had ,a dull life,’’ her mother
asked.
I “Oh, no,’’ the young lady exclaim-
!ed.
‘^’We TTave had' Tt _aH,’’ the mother
continued. “All that really matters.
Not much money; not fame, but we
fell in love on a June evening; we
married; we had all the tSrill of find
ing a tiny apartment; of picking out
qur furniture and buying it piece by
piece. There came a great day when
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campaign total still higher. ,, ^
Expenditure, of both mbjor p.rtie. '““M «ra^ together enough^for
in the entire 11)32 campaign were » hand car, and three
only *4,378,000, while *11,608,000 waa'f“‘ »"<* S'"'"'
spent in the 1928. election, the most
expensive on record up to now.
The Republican national committee
rwt
and brother arrived.’’
^ The woman said that three things
recorded contributions of $6,933,232
for the year, including- $1,198,279
since October 19. Collections bj^other
committees brought thd party’s total
income to $7,444,395.
Donations since Oct. 19 included
$15,000 each from Raymond S. Pruitt
of Chicago, and L. A. Young of De
troit, and $r0,000 each from Julius
Forstmann and Harris Dunn, both of
New York city,-and William Randolph
Hearst, publisher.
-The Massachusetts finance com
mittee turned over $65,000 to national
mates after so many years.’’ “Most
lives are hard,’’ she said. “Much
harder than youth, thank God,' can
ever anticipate.’’ In any college class
only a handful are fortunate; for the
i-est a daily struggle. But there was
a spiritual look in the eyes of those
classmates and this was the second
impressive thing. They had found
something they did not have as girls.
Something that seems to come only
with struggle.
' The third impressive fact wxs that
almost every one of her classmates
Solves flour
INK PROBLEMS
A SMART CARTER CUBE
niLED NmH finest foun
tain PEN INK .
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headquarters, while .contributions the income, is sending
There his been toq^much of the ele
ment of gambling, on the other hand,
•with charges made of free board and
tuition and even money payments to
students, who nad nothing to recom
mend them except that they were
good football players. Some of the
investigations on such practices, ha\;e
been nothing short of an open scan-
<lal.
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But the most disgraceful thing
about college football in recent years
has been the apparent determination
of a large number of alumni and oth
ers attending the games thit-'the oc
casion was 6ne for a Jrunken prgy; It
ceiiainly has not been an edifying
spectacle to .see ten.s of thousands of
men all over the country, old enough
dren.
Everywhere Cousin Sue goes, s^e
takes “Critty’’ (that’s short for her
husband),.-and the 3 dogs along. The
reason that I could guess for “Critty”
being in the crowd at all was that he
looked after the dogs.
We havq 12 rooms in our house, but
neither of them happeh|ed to be a dog
room. That surprised Cousin Sue. All
of the elite now have special rooms
in their homes-for canines, felines,
an*l monkeyines. We told her she
might use 1 of the up-stairs rooms
for the dogs. But .she said each of the
j dogs had to have a separate room, as
to kmiw Iwltef, not only drinking >
openly from Inittles in the stands, but
offering liquor to undergraduate spec
tators and to girls and young women
attending the games. There is no ex
cuse for such behaviour and it should
not be allowed.
together.
The weather was cold, but the wife
and I gave up our mom down stairs,
and the kids decided to go a-visiting:
these and the extra company room
If the Princeton university presi- near the sleeping porch furnished her
pets a place to snooze. We had to
Hx up several dainty dishes for Felix,
dent’s initiative is rigidly followed by
other universities, and colleges
throughout thejand it is possible that Skeelix and Skeezix: that’s what they
the disgusting .spectacle of a drunken
mob at football games may disappear
from the American scene.
Nobody’s Business
By Gee McGee
-CL
McGee, I’m Mighty Glad To See
You Again
Jake Allen, an old school-mate of
mine, dropped by to see me last
Thuf8ait5r'~dn liis way from south
Georgia to Richmond. He had his
three darling boys with him: Sam,
Joe, and Jake, Pr., aged 7, 9, and 12,
respectively. .
called them. I yearned for a nice
dose of. strichnine to mix with the
food, but we had none.
After they left on finishfhg tfeir
bad to
two-hour visit in my office, I
send out and get an interior deco
rator, 2 flUmbera, 3 electricians, and
n telephone trouble shooter to 'make
repaira in my office. 'Those young?
aters ought to have been sent direct
to a reformatory the day they were
born.
“Critty” bathed each of the dogg
the next morning in our bath-tub,
wiped them with jour best linen tow
els, and warmed them with my wife’s
hair-drying machine. If folks want to
come to see us, we want to put them
on notice that we do not run a dog
gery. Their visit lasted 2 days. The
hysterics the crowd gave us lasted 2
weeks. I never cared much'for dogs
before, but from now on, dog-gone
dogs.
other state organizations included
$22,342 from the New Jersey Repub
lican national finance committee,
$5,000 from the Indiana Republican
ictory league, and $100,000 from the
national and state finance committee
oL^nnsylvania.
her bpys and girls to college. The
eternal sacrifice of the older for
Men, Women—There are blR
bargfains for everyone during
the Rexall ORIGINAL Oae Cent
Sale—two^Tor the price of one,
A NEW DESK
STAND THAT FITS
yOUR FOUNTAIN
FEhTc
FEN
OR STEEL
. plus only one cent. 250 bargains
showed Na $266,523 balance on hand choOSe from
an an tncome of $58,020 from the sale
of particip^on certificates at about
$1 each. \
The America\^ Labor party, sup
porting Pre8idqnK,Roosevelt in New
York state, repdrte^isbursements of
$133,534 up to Ottobdv 27,
Its contributions \of 6112,673, col
lected chiefly from tcad^xunions, in
cluded gifts of $23,615 frohi the In
ternational Ladies’ Garment
and $11,600 from the Amalgatimted
Clothing Workers of America.
The Union party, backing the pr^
identlal candidacy, of” Representative
William Lemke, listed total expendi
tures of $55,742. In' the four-day pe
riod from October 24 to 28, Richard
W. Wolfe, of Chicago, contributed
$3,100 to the organization and. L Fra
zier, of Bismark, N. D., gaveL.$100.
Expenditures of $62,788 were re
ported by the Rqosevelt Agricultural
committee, together with receipts of
$64,182, of which $60,000 came from
the Democratic national committee.
'Hie Jefferson League for Liberty
balanced its bookf in,the amount of
$448.25.
The Communist and Socialist par
ties have listed expenditures totaling
$17,779 up to September 15. Socialist
disbursements up to October 16 were
$18,068.
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
and Saturday,
Nov. 11th, 12th, 13th, I4th.
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of November 4, 1926
^mebow or other, Jake, did not
seem to notice the-devilment his boys
were doing. The first thing that
struck ide was Sam using -my foun
tain pen ^6r a squirt-gun. He filled
it and re-filled it till he had succeed
ed in getting nice streaks of purple
ink all over me and my grey suit and
my desk and the aid^waJk and tj[>e
ceiling. , ■
8')^hile Sam was busy with his spray
ing, Jake, Jr., had pulled the tele-
plunie loose from the desk and had it
out in the ball trying to falk to Joe
through it trhile Joe was perched on
top of the cash register. Before Joe
went into the adjoining office, he had
rung both the Western Union and
Postal call buttons and I had four
messenger boys waiting outside for a
covey of telegrama.
Setween Jprks, all of the beys were
HifhM “TiuW ia the Straw” oa my
1 1^ to sOBd it back to
the HUotf dif r^aire; the one I am
Rev. L .E. Wiggins, pastor of Broad
Street Methodist church, will preach
his farewell sermon here Sunday
morning. He will go to Gaffney after
serving the local church for the past
sFix years. He will be succeeded here
by Rev. 0. M. Abney of Batesburg.
Miss Margaret Blakely has gone to
Atlanta where she will take a course
in beauty culture.
Messrs. B. L. King, W. .J. Duncan
BRUCE BARTON
SAYS...
Crasy Lawa Then—aad Now
T7h the year 1720 tbe^ritiah Par-
liament enacted a law providing that
any woman wha inveigled a man into
marriage by means of scent, paints,
cosmetic a^hes, artificial teetiv
false haijT, Spanish wool, iron stays,
high-heeM shoes or bolstered hipe
should inctir the penalty prescribed
for witchcraft. Her marriage, if she
were, convicted, would stand null and
void.
How low must have been'^the level
of public intelligence in those dayB.
Surely Englishmen then”were' yokels
and dunces devoid of humor and the
eye for beauty. But wait a minute!
J. M. Pitts and B. H. Boyd ettenided
the meeting of the Methodist confer-1^“ y***" l'^20 the people of Eng-
ence this week in Rock Hill.
Misa Mercer Vance, who is teach
ing at Fairfax, is spending the week
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. B.
Vance.
Dr. D. M. Douglas, since 1911 presi
dent of Presbyterian college, has ac
cepted the presidency of the Univer-
si^ of South Carolina and will enter
ui)on his new duties on January first.
SOME SPECIALS
Better Hemea and Gardepa — 15
montba, $1.00.
CoamopolitaB—2 yfara, $3.50^^ _ '
Americaa Btagaaiae^ yean, ISAO.
^Befera plaeiag yanr ardan far yi
favarHe mtgatfma, aa^ *
JAMBS W. CALDWELL^
land had access to the wit sod wisdom
of Shideespeara fnd izsak Walton, the
philosophy of Francis Bacon and John
Locke; the poetry of Herrick, Milton,
and Dryden.
Alive and active were Samuel
Pepys, the famous diarist; Newton,
one of the intellects of all time; Dan
iel Defoe, author of “Robinson Cru
soe;” Jonathan Swift, wit and aatir
ist who wrote ‘XJulliver’s Travels;”
Richard Steele and Joseph Addison,
brilliant essayist, and Alexander
Pope, whose “Essay on Man,” qNtrk-
les with epigrams in rhyme. The
people in auch a country could not^
be wholly benighted.
Occasionally in cur land of tba free
4n old “bhM Ikw^ la dug up and en-
folted; blue lawa that prohibited
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to attend the BIGGEST FORD
MEETING EVER HELD
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For the first time in history we Ford dealers from all
parts of the United States and Canada alre invited to
Detroit for a gigantic sales meeting. We are going to
sec the new Ford V-8 for 1937.
I am all exdted about this trip to Detroit and what
i-'t
we are going to see there. Come to our showroom
Saturday, November l4di. We'll show you the new car
jind tell you all abopi^ if* ^
RICHARDSON
CO.
dinton and Laurens
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