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■ I- ' /- '"•t .6E FOim (- r 2 THE auNTwt cMwag-s cuamwJ s. c. THtiTOPAY. FEMWAHY 18.19S7 ■■'-I 4^ ^ i '■ (Sltntim <Ei|rantrU, Bi«ablislMd im WILSON W. JiARRIS. Editor ana~ Pu&IMmt lO.Yoan Ago (tote ft luiumt Vnm Thi ClirMkk V FebrMTjr 17, 1927 ' ’Ft RiblUhed Etery Tbanday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable Iii Advuice): ,One Year |1.60; Six Montba 7^ cents; Three Moptha 60 centa Entered as' Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subMriben and readers—the publisher wiH at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly ad vice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they i>are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications wi|l not ^ noticed. This paper is not rMponsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. 1 .! Constitution of the land ^hich he swore to vphold and defend. V * , Perhaps to no other character in' history is ilike homage given. In the lengthy annals of England there is no natoe held in , reverence by the' English a* the iwme of j^aahington Is revered by Americains. The French people and /the Geiroans .'have no such hero'. ~ ' In America long ago this Wash- Inyton be<^e iiKOmparabk. W, have had other great men of course, ,b« Ve_^mk <rf none of them » of, Washmirton. He w« above party, i j, ,h<. ( of her ,unt, M™. 1 No man now would think of saying,!^ g Vance "lir«hington the foanaer orj g .MeCormiok, ha» leader of my p^y,” but every on account of fhe| zen has the right to thnll at the 6. H. Boyd is in Columbia attend ing a meeting of the Board of Public Welfare. P. B. Feri^on has returned to Renno after being_ connected for HAMPSHIRE CHICKS f Wc aresmalchiR a special price on'^chi^ iuttchiiig February 3)and 10 if called format the hatchery: Our 1 . own breeding, U. S. approved and U. puBorgin tested. Hatching, each We8iM^dy> k, ^Farm CLINTOK, s. c. Poiilii^ fc \ thought, ‘‘Washington was the father of my country.” ' George Washington. There is no heroic figure in our national hall of I fame Whose memory transcends the Valley Forge commander. Mrs. ^LINTON. S. C., THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 18, 19S7 WHY THE SECRECY? A Clinton taxpayer inquires of The Chronicle: “Why is it that the taxpayers are given no information pertain- nig to the finances oT the city? Are we not entitled to thisjnfor- mation?” ' — The Chixmicle cannot answer this production of all cars. The subse quent announcement followed that 100,000 idle employees of the na-, , ■ *u it -a Hon', lnree.t motor cr Drodueer'C”; "L"-™ are returning to their work this NATION’S EYES ON SUPREME COURT The nine judges who sit on the su preme bench are the most talked week. - Lewis who directecj the strike, and who is a labor dictator and trouble maker, issued a statement after the truce was signed saying that “the au- timely question, but passes it on to workers had won ‘ .1 , . 1 Liiiimum; vvuiivfia iiau wuii a major i ... . . . „.u_ „the city administration. For_.^e |of these mem^iers past seventy who today duf to President Roosevelt's reoi^anization proposal of the court. Six of the gentlemen have passed the j Yowng. 70-yeaf mark, and if the president’s ! serious illness of his mother, Mary E. Gwens. .Miss Sunshine Bailey is a patient ;in Or. Tyler’s hospital in Greenville for several weeks. Mias Kathenn^ Day of Frostburg, Mdl, bait arrived in the city to again bead the millftiery department «f B. L. King A Son. , Dr. and Mrs. Bolling Jones of Pet ersburg-, Va., are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Jacobs, Sr. Mrs. J. X. Davidson^ of. Chester,^ is th» guest of her f is ter, Mrs. J, Lee I am stUI buying PEAS, large or small lots. You don’t have to ship them collect. I have the cash ready for you when deliv- er(^ in CLINTON. You 1^ if you don’t SM me before you sblL J. ELLISON Glinion, S. C. R. At EDison'g Store '-lEgyj.”' '■!??■ plan Ls approved by congress it will give him authority to appoint an ad- dffiona!J judge to the bench for each that the taxpayers know nothing of the city’s finances ami oiveiation, only the members of rity'^eo^mcil are re- spon.sible. jThey have the power to supply this information. Why they writhhobrit, the public* would like to jenow, rublit* officials, whether they are handling county, inunicipa! or .sehcKil ^ affairs, should be made to understand by ttu‘ taxpayers (who must foot the bill) that they have a right to know, and exiicH't to he infoniic'd haw their money is Spt>nt. While it is the duty of these officials to transact the peo- p]e’.s business,the people, in turn, should be infornjed how the varied activities of “their” city .government ' are being cariied on. When no finan cial reports are furnished the taxpay ers (it baa been nearly five years " since they have been given such a ' “sXalc* ni ent), wberT audiTs'are made at wide intervals and then pigeon-holed ation, at dagger points with Lewis, refuses to resign. Since the court fight instigated by came forth with a pi-ompt reply that! , , u *• i i v*,- • u J 1 ku- 1 u I the pre.sident has stirred ami divided “f.c‘wis had gained nothing and had L, ' . -,.1/:. i u .u , f , , I 0 I the nation, with the people both con- b<*en forced to .surremler, ’ ' ' The truth i.s, neither the automo- LQSES HER BROTHER demning and endorsing the plan, the 41ut\stion is natui-ally being asked, Friends in the city of Mrs. Eugene j B. Pinson will sjrmpathize with her in I th« death-of her-brother,-Earl -A.i Hart, 34, which occurred at his home' , in Greenwood Monday afternoon. Fu^ j ncTal .services were held yesterday morning at Thanquil church, with in terment following in the adjoining c(“mc^tery. He had been sick only ten ^4/A nous accomplish ? What did the strike What did it cost? It threw*' 13.7,000 ipcn out of work who desired employment, for a peViod of, 43 days. • It cost the strikers $882,000 a day, or a grand total of $37,9^6,000. It cost General Motors millions of dol lars and directly and imlirectly, brought disruption ami loswes to all business.^ The trouble is not over, we fear. Lewis ha.s already publicly hoaated that the .steel industi-y and coal mines bile inu.stry or the sit-downers won.,,,,,, --.r -’..v.. There fs-never a victory irra strike.' -^ i* ^ i days, his condition becoming ser Both sides always l,kse ! legal body. Are they all Kepuhlicans. a,,^ iiiquiies an enthusiastic Democrat [. deceased A chcvc*k-up of the personnel oLthe,;^ survived hv his widow and three court shows that It con-sists of four j ^ Democrats and five Republicans, ivtrs. W. S. Hart of Greenwood, a sec- of Its members coming from the .j^ter, Mrs. R. J, Bell. tw8 broth- er cities, as would he expj^ted Mr. Butler, Mr. McReynolds, Mr. Bran- Greenwood deis and ’Mr. (’ardozo are the Demo- % without passing their infoimatiou on to the taxpayers, they naturally re main ignorant as to the co.st of the city government. They are unable to say with any degret' of accuracy whether it Ls being efficiently or in efficiently opcratiMl, whether there is -^he practice of sound busine.ss ineth- ^:^X)r A'xtravagance and useless af'en^ng, ot whether they are entitled to a Veduction in the tax levy which they have not Inam given. There should hr :he fullest publicity of city affairs •With detailed audits made at the clo.se T)f each two-year adminiitratioCL in order that tax{»ayers may have an intelligent knowledge of how* their money is lieing spent. Banks, cotton miils, corpoi-ations, institutions fur nish their stockholders and trustees such information. Why not a munici- The ('hronicle is opposed to' evei7- ihing private in public affairs. * .\nd we know there are hundreds of tax payers in this community whiTToel the same way. are next to have attention. His iliivC will he to organize all tbo tion’s mass production imlustries into one big-man union headed by himself as chief. . Jf such .strikes Ciintihue to' occur the (luestign will keep bobbing up as it did in the dispute, just settled— whether or rvdt the right of trespass' Taft went shall be substituted in America for the. right of property? A most se rious, far-reaching question this i.s. crats. Mr. Hughes, M-r. Roberts, Mr. Sutherland, Mr, Van Devanter and Mr. ^.Stone belong to fhe Republican group. The only Southerner on the court is Justice McReynolds, who comes TronT^Te n nesseeT ah<r~was.. a ppoi hied by President WWson. Two members NOW IN 3 OILICIOUS VARIfTIES M* 24 SCRIPTO Automatic Pencil is the best 10c value in the world. Get one at the Chronicle Publishing Cbmpanj. -s CHOCOLATE CAKE ^ -draSStitt oan maii it! oif the court aro of Jewish faith, JU.S- tices Caixlozo and Brandeis. There have been eleven chief jus tices of the United States and sixty-{ O V A JUIMIE SPEAKS Juilge M. M. Mann in general ses- aions court in Anderson a few days ago in declaring himself for states’ rights, said: “The federal government takes many times over as much as it gives. I am in favor of states’ rights-but about the only one-^ we have left an' what the federal government doesn’t ,j\'ant." / Continuing, he said: ./ “We aro still permitted to lig/ht a iire in the stove in the m^rii- ing, and put it out'at night/We can still legally feed the /mules three'Cimes a'day. But ^e day may come when the federal gov ernment will tell us wither or not we are permitted to take-a avrith to an offemiing child.” There are thousands of people in South (Carolina who feel like Judge Mann and who whole-heartedly en dorse the sentiment be has expressed. More and moro/there has been, and atill, a strong concentration of IS PQwer in Wi further e n which means Hi chment of the federal upon the individual 4Povermnent atates. Comgress has assumed a dicU; iorial attiture by which the American jpeople are being regimented. The Bill of Rights, upon which human rights and Rberty are based, has almost been deployed. Should the federal child la- amendment pushed by TOngrets ah? the president be ap proved by the necessary number of states, it will be still another far- reaching and drastic step toward con- jcentration of power and placing our children below eighteen years of age afafar a dire^ and despotic control oC the federal government. South Carolina needs thousands of puhlk officials and private citizens who'will proclaim from the house tops, the language that Judge Mann wpta^ AN UNSOUND POLICY If the' federal debt wa? divided equally tomorrow betweert all the individuals of- the nation,- each fndVi, woman ami child would he' called upon to put up $267.36./ The nation’s debt pow stands at thirty-four thousand/ five hundred millions .of dollars/ or thirty-four and a half billions/ Few, if any, take this in, the figures are too^ staggering. This rapid climb ha.^ been going on since 1930 until noy according to the fed eral troasurv' ledgers, it i« $8,000,- 000,000 ovei/the 1919 war-time high. There is np indication of a balanced budget.- IjJow the politicians in Wash ington ^e talking about spending five t^usand millions on “public work.s./ Most every day brings forth/a new spending proposal. T^ere are million.s of people who endorse rfuch an unprecedented spending spree, holding to the theory mat spending and wasting make for prosperity. We have never belonged to this group. To the contrary, we hold the oppoaite view. No business, Jarge or small, can continue on a'sound basis with its outgo exceeding iU income. For a while one may pursue such a pol icy and get by with it, but the in evitable result is. disaster. The business er individual^ that borrow? and spends more than he makes is headed for trouble when finally he must meet Mr. Pay Day. We know a number of successful business firms .and in^viduals in Clinton that we might "mention by name, who have succeeded by pur suing just the opposite business methods to those of the federal gov ernment. Should they adopt the lat ter—it’s a safe bet that their good landing in Bradstreet would soon dnFpK'to a low rating.and financial embarrassment would be their fate. THB STRIKE 8BTTLBD1 The aeeeptance of peace terms doling the week ended th^- most atrike ever to pamlyae the Amerkan aaUM»>bile''~in<hiitz7. KoldHq» lasted fpr/. foe^-feor dgrs hetbre tlM ait-iloim strikere pritfple! ynpEkrij N* Metora oMperallea ef ifa bsore GEORGE WASHINGTON ..The whole nation on* next Monday will joib in celebrating the birthay pf_G^Ege-_Waaluiigton^--w haa achieved immortality. He not only is ‘‘first” in the hearts of his coun trymen, he is enshrined there. It nine a!«*oci»tes appointtnl difring the 150 years of the court. Tu PiXMiidentr went the distinction of having' more influence than any other chief executive. He nominated a chief and five aa«ociate» justices and later was himself name<l chief justice by Hard ing. G«K)rge Washington had more to do with the personnel of the highest court than any other president. He named the first three chief juatkesr—/ Jay, Rutledge and Ellsworth, anri nine associate.^. There has been ms vacancy during the four years Presi dent Roosevelt has been in office anif for this reason he has not made air appointment to the bench. ' Harlan F. Stone, 64 years old, wat appointed in 1925 by President Cool- idge. He is a Republican and/native of New Hampshire. James Clark McReynolds, 74, Dem(» ciwl, wa.s appointed by President Wi'l son in 1914. He is a native of Ter* nessee. Charles Evans Hughes, 74, Repuls lican, wa^appointed an associate ju^^• tice in 1910 by Pro.s.ident Taft. He nr- signetl in 1916 on becoming the Re publican presidential nominee, and was ap|K>inted chief justice in 1930 l>ir President Hoover. He is a son of New York state! 0^^’en J. Roberta, 61 years old, was appointed in . 1930 by President Hoof'- er. He is a R<^publican, a native ef Pennsylvania. liOuis Dembitz Brandeis, 80 years old, isla Democrat. He comes frerm Kentucky and was appointed in 19t6 by President Wilson. Pierce Butler, 70 years old, was ap pointed by President Harding in 19t2. He is a native of .Minnesota andi a Democrat. WiNU Van Devanta^r, 77 y^ra oid, waa appointed in 1910 by PraddaiA Taft. He is a native of Indiana and a member of the Republican paitya ^ George Sutherland, 74 years aid, Republican, waa bom in Buckinghamr shire, Eng&nd. He was appoinied. by President Harding in 1922. Benjamin N^ Cardoso, 66 years laid, is a New Yorker and D^ocrat, Fkee- ident Hoover appointed him to the bench in 1932. X)r. Felder Smith of DRS. SMITH 8t SMITH OPTOMETRISTS — Specialist In Eye Examinations Ofl^e Hours 8 to 6 Daily Phone 29-W for Appointment Clinton, S.'C. /I New, yea kMcse fte dwtee el 3 DirncaniT vaaimn el CUivtaar*s CHOCOLATI CADI Thettli JlilA. oeket eliooolale Adnally. Iheve't a ■nrladel Mode ei ■e akUHally. yea'I o«tee Like Tea Bake At HeeM.** Order ledoyl *T T*** *«•<>»'• ClauSSenS HLVER UBEl CAKES 3 A K. I T 0 U • rake Thomwell Chapter To Meet Monday The Clinton-Laurens chapter. of Thomwell alumni wiH meet at the will be many years before any other p*®"*® •’'d Mrs. L. R. Lym at great* American aoldHH* or stateeman*'^*^® o’clock Monday evening. Mrs. becomes such a figure of national Charlton Benjanun, newly-elaeted honor. Indeed,--we doubt whether, even after the lapse of ages, oar na-*^ tion wjll ever have produced anoth er character commianding such uni versal respect and esteem. ' Mjrth and tradition have concealed mixA of the true Washington. But tha* people^ millions of them, know WaaUnj^n as 4kay want to know him. They attribute to him those qualities w^h they Maalixa as tbfoac of a fraat and good man. He eoiAd not tell a Ka; ha would not be king; ha kvad tte tell;' he -loved paaea; ht loved Gpd; ha Reared an* tending mlliaiioM; ha hated tyran ha deprecated faettaifaKaai; ha priaad Om chqpla Ufa hhova tfea ^onp president of the chapter will preside It is planned to have a towri ahbw- er for one of the homes on the cam pus, and everyone is asked to bring a towel. An interesting program has been arranged for the meeting. te «t^{af bitkki poMoa. Ha loved 4 \ -L- To Every Printing Problem There is a I't- Sensible Answer! WE MAKE IT OUR BUSINESS TO KNOW THAT ANSWER WITH ... —Design, copy and layout assistance —Skilled and trained craftsmen —^Modern, eflBdent equipmeiit 4 —Attractive and effective disiday —Originality in printthg ideas —ExclufflV^lllustration service ~ / BETTEK PiHNTING THAT COST8^ NO MORE. k a** ...