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' T ■ * '^T- IH- ''^';vr'^' THE t:LHj»ON C^HKLE, CMtTON, & C. *4^/ THPKSDAt. FEBBUAgY 11.1937 i 0i» (Slttitim 1*00 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Pnbliahw Publiahed Ereiy Thnnkhgr By " / THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subaeription Rate (Payable In Advance): Ono Year Six Mopths 76 centi; Three Months 50 cento Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Poet Office at Clinton, S. C. The^ Chronicle seeks the cooperation of. its subscribers and reader^—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise sug^grestions and kindly ad vice. The 'Chronicle will publish letters of general interest whin they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will hot be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. Nobody’s ftisineas By Gee McGee 3RUCE BARTON SAYS... cause the first concern for which I . The ^ew Year Brought Many Changes In Flat Rock ' - a riight smkrt of " mowing and swapping around has took place in flat rock since the coming 'Of the new year of 19 And 87. yore corry spondSnt has moved acrost the street into a 4-«ro0m^ cohnpartment for 1| I per’week less rent and 'his old home 4 has benn turned into a shoe shop. Work Moat Be Fonnd ,i America’s most important task'* is icera 3 worked hnd gone bos^: “You are very fortunate to have I had a* severe disi^pointinent while you are still young. 'Die men to bej pitied are those whose disappoint-j ments conle in mid^ life, when it isj too late for them ta start over again. . SCRinX) Antetoatk Pcndi Is Um best lt^ya|«e*ia the woriR Gs4 sm at the Chranicle PnhHahhig^Cfpany, / CLINTON, 8. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1*87 ARE PROPERTY RIGHTS GONE? The General Motors strike .contin- ue.s unsettled because of thV'action of a small minority of sit-down strik ers who are following a disgruntled leader. - I^etwis deals more in promises than in facts and his ideal is to establish a dictatorship over labor such as has never existed before. The strikers haye been ordered by cbuH To v^^ fuse to do so. re- The question that puzzles the out sider looking on is how men can “sit down” in the property of others and the owners be powerless to get them out. ' Is there no longer such a thing as property rights in this country? NO REFUGE FORj HIM Before getting through 'with the payment of the first installment in connection with the Social Security act, ybich by the way, does not make e fan the farmers and the small business man any more secure, there-comes .up for con.sideration the possibility of a gross r(*ceipts tax. This country is headed for one additional tax after ing debt brought about by an unpre cedented spending spree. The busine.ss man will in all probability have the adtk'd tax to what he buys and will then have to pay again on what he sells. The idea, of course, is to keep on passing the tax down the line un til the ultimate consumer is reached and soaked. He is the fellow who in the end must.carry the burden of the tax load, and for him there does not appear to be any refuge. measure. Opposition leaders are mo bilizing their forces, both among Democrats and R^nibticans, to block its passage. Such legislation as the president proposes Is loaded with dangerous pps-sibi-fties, and coming just at this time is certainly in bad taster Kepec- ially is this tMe since the issue was 'not injected or discussed during the recent preside ntial carnpai gn. The president proposes to reform the fed eral judicial system and add to the total number of ju-stices of the United States Supreme Court. Havfing public ly expressed his disapproval of ad- verw NRA and other rulings by thal body, his cour.se now will be inter mrs. art squxre bav moved "up stairs in the old jenkins dwelling and jriH occupy 8 jwert, h>, 4 ■n.med children .nd their f»in-1 nrmnged three imporUnt appointments for you,” my partner wired. “Best wishes. Please confirm.” ^wrk out come eoonomih vrtemty, a disnppointmeiit in youth t< merely ».rdenin, pro«».." , all the people-all the time. Lvery man -- « « . j I and woman is entitled to the glorious! friemfa Robert Upde- self-respect which comes from being< . . * • I able to say: “Thank God, I have ,a , ^ev^ grumble about your p^; place. .I am needed.” responsible for the I say this because once I left tnyj 1 family in Prance and started back^l, ^ ^ ! across the ocean alone. For a couple,!?®^ ^5”®..™* ^^® of days I was depressed. Everything I think <I am Imving a; I cared for was behind me. Then one ‘™® ^ jobs with ilies will live down stairs in 2 more sweets, it is a verry rdbmy house and was built for boarders endur ing the' ihflation of commodities of 1920. they saved, all together, 3| per week. the peeples store has moved into the back-dhd of *'his son's fill ing .station orjJ^mai^ street, but will sell for cash' in the future instead of on creddick as at the old loca tion. his friends mougfit night broke him, .so he says, he will cut out Inraiediately came a feeling of ra- lief and cheer. “I have work to go back to,” I exclaimed. “Work is wait ing to keep me alert, a little worried and on my toes.” 1 waa relating the incident to the chairman of the board of a large cor- he said. “I’ve organized our company so well that H’ve almost organi / ne Fdder Smith of nits. SMITH & SMITH 'OPTOMETBISTS Specialist In Eye Examinations Office Hours 8 to 6 Daily Phone 29rW for Appointment Clinton, S. C. no worries carry small pay. It^s be cause I iuve larger troubles that li draw a larg^ income. j None of t^ee three fridnds prob-j ably - 4pai^l his -remaric'^ a second thought./But I have never forgotten them. And I now pass them along. Ninef^nine out of every hundred re T^ll pay no attention. But day, fifteen years frolli now, pfcration. "I know >ust how you felt,” yours a long-time ago, a^j t mebody may say: “I read some- myself out of a job. But every/now chui^ging, collecting, delivering, Probleny^ome, ing and book-keeping, everboddy i •>»'«; '>»ve to^nd for who owe, him now trade, with the!'"*- * ‘J!/"/ 3eir«TK’5-e,v- - tpeeentfyr and I had it gave me a fresh idea.” That’s the! ma'rvelous thing about working with! words. SUBSCRIBE TO TH3 CHRONICLE “The Paper Everybody Reads” j Gray . — Funeral Home Clinton, S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS #w# 'Rn^i ### EMBALMERS . J Ambulance Senrice Phones 41 and 399-J L. RUSSELL GRAY aM V. PARKS ADAIR, GeiL Mgn. % ^aTns7 for cash only. the all-nite calf on west-end ave nue has swapped locations with the beauty parlor and they are both no-w set up and reddy for bizness at the new locations, the new beauty preted by million!* as one of resent-j peeping-toms can’t look thru the ment, and whether right or wrong, as an attempt to secure the court’s ap proval of his planned Now Deal poll cies through a change in Jhe person nel of the bench, ft looks like an at tempt to “pack ^ the court,” to make this high tribunal, through Congress, subservient to the presidency. We are opposed to President Roosevelt, or any other president who may follow, having personal consol of the entire government by dominating the su- ' parlor is so arranged that men and winders and see the wimmens hair hanging down and twisted up and poked into the electric dis-pans. from having to twist their nakes around when a boarder comes in or ^ „ a fuss of any kind is made over -in ord^ to^meet ito ataggw^ Court. It smacks -dictator 44hoie. the old way of setting down THE ART OF TAXATION -Ari.stotle is creilited with having nr.ide the statement that taxation is the art of plucking from the goose ship which, if allowed to continue, may bring this country to the plight of seve’*nl others now crushed and op pressed under dictatorial forms of government. ' __ The Chronicle ha.s' repeatedly ex pressed itself as opposed to the con centration of power in Washington. The tendency is growing by leaps and bounds and it is entirely possible that it may gain such proportions as we now see in -certain other nations. The disease is contagious. We see its head raised daily in Congress, in the stat6 capital.'i-.and-counties. We have seen it in this county in recent years. peeeatdy^' aad 1 bad -id for Cbi* f * cago on an hour’s notice. All the way {i on the train my spirit was singing: “Somebody wants me. I have work do.” ’The book,^f Genesis presents work as a curse inflicted on humanity fpr . its. sins. We know in these times of unemployment how- faulty that con ception is. To wake up^in the morn-i ing and wonder: “Wherd shall I go I today? shall'I do?” That is the HAMPSHIRE are making a special price on chicks hatching: February 3 and 10 if called for at the hatchery. Our oyvn breeding:, U. S. approved and U. S. pullorum t^ted. latching each Wednesday. ^ the-4. loafers benches, at the citty hair have benn turned around to face the boarding-house acrost the street, thik wiU save curse. Words and Their Influence Words are mysterious and re- i caused a great manny cricks rye nakes amongst the setters. and the followering bizn^s have bu:^t- ed, ''closed up, moved away, and skipped out: bhe ^y-purring bear- ber shop;, the /pay-while-you-sleep bed compariny; /the rent-a-ford com pany; (the la^feller failed to fetch the ford hackbut is still being sceked aifiter); th^ford emporium; the cor- rect-waiT^coal and fuel companny, and thg bovine ice-cream stoar. ev- erbo^y .seems better satisfied with their changes except the credditors of/the firms who qdlt and left. inspiring. We shoot them into th^air, everboddy I gj^hgp j,y tongue or pen, and mnt of them perish. But now and th^ some stray .sentence drops into a piind that remembers it, and is infl for many years. Many Books, many sermons, many speech^ have run inj and out of my brain leaving little' tracev Yet here aretliree quite casual remarks that I r^ember: 1. Said the Igte Talcott Williams, in a talk whi^ I had with him im mediately a^r nty graduation from college: Thomwell Orphanage Poultry Farm CLINTON.^S. C. “Neve^orget the old saying of the Jesuftsy^A great deal of good can be doneJm the world if one is not tooj carqful who gets the credit’.” j Said a prominent business man men I was blue and discouraged be- I am stnn&uylng PEAS, large or small lots. You don’t have to ship them collect I have the cash ready for you when deliv ered in CLINTON. You lose if you don’t see me before you sell R.J. ELLISON At Ellisoit^ Store Ginton, S. C. the large,.!-amount of feathers withl^^ly '•®ad » ‘'.‘'Port of^ the leasts amount uf. squawk. . Wjth. many f>eople the feathers have be come so scare that it i.s practically imiKtssiblo to eliminate the squawk. Theie i.. ground for debate as to wliT'ttrer outright socialism is not To" be preferred to that which steadily but surely creeps upon -us by,, way of the, installment plan through forms of taxation. Most of the new forms of taxation which are now being lev ied against business and individuals, are no<thing more than the govern ment taking from one citizen what is given to another with the idea that the other fellow needs %t worse. t:-' r. / \ - "IIOY SCOUTS WEEK" This is “National Boy Scouts Week” •with the event being ob.served in .scout councils throU^out j^erica. The scout movement was launched fri Washington 27 years ago under' the leaderehip of William Boyce of Chicago. From that small ^ginning the organization has grown, both in usefulness and membership, and h^ ju.rt closed the most successful year in its history. The chief scout execu tive states that more than 1,300,000 pei-sons have been connected with the movement, and more than 7,000,000 boys'have been members since it was first incorporated rn 1910. A sobut janlboree has been ar- rangedd to^ take place in Washington next-June 30th tO”J4rfy 9th. It is ex pected that 25,000 .scouts and leaders will gather in the capital from every .section of the United States to ta a bill introduced by a delegation fro t 'coyrity of tMk state tftKlTTg fn a court bou.se official the to employ a janitor for the building, and arrogating that po^^-er to its/ff. And so the tendency goes—front the vil lage to the • capital. on ^e part of many public officials who are ob- se.ssed with a desiire t6 hold and ex ercise more power, arid authority oVer the people. A brajzen example i.s the so-called child labor amendment now advocated..by. Congress and the presi dent, to put over fifty million chil dren in the United States under the age of 18 under the bureaucratic con trol of a federal government depart^ ment, a deliberate invasion of the home and jeopardizing of states’ right's. , The president’s proposal now fore Congress, if approved, wil^give him unlimited power, will ^power him to appoint until the tot^ number of justices re«ched fifteew; one new justice for each mem^ who has reached the age of s^nty,,and who has not resigned within six months of his (birthday. Six of the present Flat Rock Is Having Busin;! TrottMes our little town has benn/afflict- ed with 22 different king!^f„agents and peddlers enduring ytne pia.sit 2 weeks which mought b^called to the attention of mr. hoov^ to prove that the depression i.s ovt everthing front pills to padlock.s is being offered/ we allso have trav eling eye ^tors, and roving lung and throt^specialists with medisons that wil^cure a busted larnix or a set of /Sore tonsils. woman was in town last week .s/iiing maggy-zines so’s she can work ler way thru colledge; she was old enough to be a granmiaw. this corry spondent asked her if .%he was going to an old-age pesion scholI and .she got mad, shot up her little satchel and scrammed away. our stoar-keepers think that agents and peddlers should have to buy a citty and county and state licents plate befoar trying' to dispose of ^ ^ ^ wares ansoforth. in flat rock where nine juatncM seventy. 60 tjiat part in this event. The boys will together for ten day.s along tomac river on 350 acres of f^rally- own(*d land loaned by Congress for the occasion. While the country top-heavy wiA organizations, many over-lait. ping each other and^ certain instan ces of little service or benefit, here is one that is/different. The Boy Scouts moVenum is one of the great social success of these'^times. Scout ing teach^ to the4bousands of boys if air pereist^ in holding their of fices as pnmded under the Consti tution, the/eburt would increase im- mediatelyrto (its fifteen member maxi mum. This would approve and estab lish ^precedent which will make Mr. RopMveit or any president who may flow, the master of the supreme urt by merely exercising his power of enlargring that body. The Chronicle is oppofsed to tam pering with the courta, either federal or state. There should never br an over-lapping or mixture of the execu tive and judicial departments of our form of government m set forth in !he Constitution. This is the fimda- the homefolks who keep our schools and poleesman a-going. a man who was selling insect powders allso got mad at yore corry spondent for asking him to try it on hisself. he kept on twisting and spuirming and scratching enduring the time he was trying to sell his .product, so it. looked like charrity ought to 'have begun at home. included/in its membership—respect for Im^ resourcefulness and the way of b^lth. It makes for the building of/character, useful habits and clean iving. It makes the most of the man liness that is in every normal boy, and is an organization which parents should encourage their boyjj/lo af filiate with. The coormunity. is proud of its Boy Scouts troop and extends hearty* con gratulations to Its members upon be ing part of this splendid national body. mental conception of a free govern ment. The courts are the people’s greatest protection. They^are a safe ty-valve, so to speak, and furnish the checks and 'balances upon our form of government by which the rightful Hberties^of the American people have been respected and prfeerved.' "The a nice genterman called at the un- dersigmed’s place of aboard and sold him a nice chaise of dog medison for^ flew, distemne^nd other maVa-. dies ' common to the caneen family, he was rally doing a service, as a good manny dogs have dide using the local drug stoar patient dose in our midst. the town counsell has asked the poleesman to fetch all miss-creanto befoar them 'Who' dre ketched ped- , , ^ , dling stuff without a permit from people sUnd on dangerous ground ! the bored of heaJth and-the sahra- when nullification or interference isjtion army and the town counsell it- threatened or possiWe, of independent self, aHao the chamber of commeroe.^ I* : action of the courts', justices and judges. The issue before us today is wheth er we are to have a government of law or a government of men. And the time for the people of America ^ to honestly face this ques tion is, fight now, before it is too late. A DANGEROUS PROPOSAL .Congress now faces a terr^ and what promises to be a bitter battle - peer I^ident Koosavelt’a plan to re- biganize the federal eoturto. His gHaaeli aides, who are ahraya rkady XB&ter-f tampan to approra" what- Bo proposal, are prediifting auf- atrenilth ta insure the paeeage aad dras^ Household hint: With patent leath er so fashionable this apring, hert’e a timely tip. If you nd> your patent accessories ooeaeionally sHth a ^- cerine-dipped doth, it will leather from drying and cniddng. SUBSCRIB8 TO THB CHRONICLB “The Papwr Eraryhody Baadaf* this sounds like a good rule to pro tect our own citisOns who have to live hefe and Work for a sub-slstance ansoforth. i remain— mike Clark, rfd, yore corry spondent. FOR THE NEW YEAR OFHCE SUmjES CHBONICLB PUB. GO. To Every Printing Problem There is a Sensible Answer! 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