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bad as my owii faults, but it takes a
mighty dose sMteh to find very much
in them that is very baA
I think all of us shoulA take atoek
of our surroundings at least once a
year. Well discover that we have fine
schools, efficient teachers; beautiful
churches and excellent preachers;
first-class .merchants and faithful
to principal. However, this new meth
od of bookkeeping is intensely popu
lar 'with many mayors ^hnd many gov
ernors, since it ^nabl^s thSm to bal
ance thdr onm budgets more easily,
nte
and sinte thei whole process can be
made to appear, in the credulous eyes
of the locab taxpayer, as a clear case
of getting something‘for nothing.
There are-sound reasons for desir-
clerks; capable, worthy public offi-ji„^ through
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Qironicle
The Thomwell diphanage, and
Presbyterian college are bequested
$48,000 under the terms of the
of the late Miss Mary Carmichae! of
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cers; pr^ girls, amart, handsome 11,;; 'estoTation of* a greate? si^nw of! — '
boys; nice homes, elegant streets; j re's^nsfciUty'in‘the ‘matter of ^ McCrary, 82, died Friday af
good government, and a satisfied ciri-1 other "wayr as ^iffaiw i
zenship, plus plenty, to eat and
CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 2?. 19S7
^ A LAWLESS AGE
We appear to b^living-in an age
when lawlesaneis is on^ the Jteady iii=
crea.se. If you doubt this*^ruth, read
the newspaper.s and'look about you at
condition.s both stat'e and national.
The disregard of con.stituted authorr
ity reaches from the home to the
laws of the highc.st tribunals of the
■government. The worst forms of law-
le.s.sness are manifested in racketeer
ing, robbery in its various form.s, in
creased drunkenness, rape and mur
der. The causes of sUch conditions
freiiuently begin in the home and
range on through immigration and
the sentimentalism of those who
would delay or lighten the penalties
of crime. - _
Not the least condition contribu-*
tory to the alarming growth and
vspicad of crime' is the practice of sob-
: aisterlsm in.„the treat,rat‘Ot,.,of crimi
nals with pleas for leniency jind the
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implication of doubt where no college stydents con
.stantial ground for doubt exists. The
main curb for crime-i.s to make pen
alties adequate, sure and speedy. It is
our only hope if the pendulum is to
swing back and a proper respect for
law enforcement is to be obtained.
IT IS ALL SILLY TALK
Running through all of the talk
many instances with no destination
or^ purpose before them .other than
obtaining free transportation. Some
of tbem have turned out to be dan
gerous persons, robbers and mur
derers, Oftentimes they get right out
in the highways in the path of traf
fic, making it neces.sary for (Cars to
slow down and thereby increase th^
danger hazard caused by passing ve
hicles at rapid speed. The law has an
excellent purpose and if enforced,
should make human' life safer and
help to reduce and avert the multi
plied accidents thafoccur daily.
After th'e amended traffic code was
signed by Governor Johnston, it was
pointed out that it would work a
hardship on college boys who line up
the highways over the week-ends to
secure fiee rides to their homes. This
opposition exjiressed to the new mca?^-
ure, the governor immediately./dis*
played bi.f pacification and promised
, hoW stand, can the expenses" of the
federal government be reduced sub
stantially, at the point where they
.1"?.: berton, G... .re tHe ruesW of rela-
J. McCrary. . j
Mr. and Mrs. Neill Turnpr of El
I checked up om my neighbors'not
I * A J -.1. .L u itives in the city.
•re Urgest. And w. hout ,uch . re- „ g h-
duction there .is little reason to be-
long .go . . . t^ing to find one thatof AtUnta, i. visiting her mother,
» mean tny “open fonrni en-jj,- b,„„ght into rear balrniefat an
Mrs. W. L. .Ferguson.
lighteners would have me believe, but
not a single one deserved to be
thought ill of. In other words, all of
the terrible,"rascally, insolent,* money-
grabbers, dead-beats, thieves, rogues,
oppressors, communists, and . para
sites evidently moved out of my town
before I moved in. Such demons as
we write and' talk/ibout are all more
dr~Te3S“^JT6Stures of qur own mental
creation.
e^rly date. ,
But this is not-the only consider
ation of importance. Candor compels
us to recognize that responsibility
goes hand in hand with power, and
that by failing to perform. their du-
ties the states are inviting a further
curtailment of their rights. It Ts no:.^
Misses Irene Dillard of Columbia,
and Lila Dillard of Piai Rock, N.. C^
Dr. Felder
of
DRS. skrra a smith -
OFTOBIETBISTS
Specialist In i
Eye .^Examinations.
OfBce Hours 8 to 6 Daily
Phone 29'W for Appointment
Clinton, S. C.
A Prominent Fiat Rock Citizen Sev
ers His Relations With the
deer. mr. edditor:—
i have pitched my crop for 1937. i
got tired, .waiting on the govverment
for aid. it mought be that they turned
down my applercation for a seed loan
of 75$ oaner count of my being
against the coart plan, i will paddle
my own canoe if i cap^get a paddle
were the week-end guests of their
sister, Mrs. Reese Young.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Pitts are the
guests of friends in Greeleyville.
CARD OF. THANKS
We wish to thank our friends for
accident that a period which has wit- i their gifts and the many acts of kind-
nessed^ the “^ymeht of j^gahtic fed-|^?*® when we recently lost
eral subsidies has witnessed also the home and furnishings by, fire.
victed of violating the anti-hitch-hik-
ing law.” These students/he said, can
stilli thumb for rides but they must
guard to keep their feet off the
paved highways when they are flag
ging down passers-by for a lift. Such
reasoning from a chief executive
and a canoe elsewhere.
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i will work th,u..3 akers i plowed up
in^lP34 in cotton and raise aK i can.
rrfy familey can hoe it and i feel sure
my nabors will see that it is plowed
endur^g my spring roomy-tism, it
always come.s back on me uhout may
the 1, and after it arriyes, i can hard
ly hodd-a-fishing pole.
i will use verry little fertylize, but
have bought on ci'pddick a -turn of
phosphoric accid which i will put on
rny cotton and side-dress with other
ammonies. i am trying to get holt to
aggrandizement of federal authority,
and a vast, unhealthy^ "OVfercent'raliza-
tion of power in Washington. ‘
It is important to resist this ten
dency, if the essehfiaT pattern of our
system of checks and balances is to
be preserved. T’he states are intended
to stand as a bulwark-^-of local inde
pendence, in a country so large and
.so diverse that no one government
can wisely be trusted to rule without
some reservation of power. As Mr.
lloosovelt once stated the Lssue, when
governor of New -York, we can hope
to enjoy our traditional American i
liberties “just so long as the indi-i
vidual home-rule of the^atates is pre-i
■served, and fought for whenever it-
-seems in, danger;” ~ The New _Yprk
Times.
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Jackson.
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charged wjth upholding all law, is
unjustifiable and cannot be defended.
some fish .scrap-s and bone meal for
about the need of greater tax rev-!,D new hitch-hiking law in the
V
enue to balance the federal budget
is the .suggestion insistently urged,
that the present tax base should be
broadened. The idea of lowering the
exemptions on income taxes, so that
interest of public safety is desirable
and i.s to remain on the statute books
it should be enforced impartiatty upon
all alike. If it is to be just another
farce law applicable only in certain
eryom* earning, say »"week or it i^ublbe repealed and wip^
more, would have to pay a direct
tax to the federal government, seems
out of existence right now. That is
the only fair, honest attitude to as-
to be gaining adherents. The main
objs'ction seems to be the fear of
politicians that if the mass of voters
•re told so bluntly that they are
thKreal taxpayers, tbey would throw
out\f office th.e men who voted to
sunve._We can’t have one interpreta
tion of the law for one class, and
anotht*r applicable to another group.
If an end could be put to so much
hitch-hiking on the part of students,
it would hav« beneficial results for
tax them. Politicians of ail pariioajthem, their parents, nn4 the colleges,
have .s\ long been preaching the'It would save many parents the ex-
false doctrine that only the rich pay
taxes, thatN^hey are not inclined to
Te'ca hi; wM^’ef " go VCTfin^iniVs
nee<Ts may l>^to meet its unprec-
jperience and sadness of having a
hitch-hiking son brought home? hurt
?) r 'kttl'ed as of ten times hap peTS a. "It
dented -Spending
It is, indeed, .s'Nly to talk about
“bioadeiimg the ta^^d)ase,” when it ligious* activities at all colleges. Wo-v^hip-s. hurrah for hoover7'infid 2 hnr-
uiready is so broad umt it includes
class preparation, and an jncrease<l
intereflt and attendanet- in Sunday re-
everybody who spend.s' »- nickel any
where, for anything. iK^oiAd be
more to the jpoint and hoimrable to
uncover the tax base, bring live vast
have never understootj^^why the ne-
ce.ssity of students going home, or
going somewhere else every week-
enil, as a la\;ge percentage of them
do. Tht?' growing practice could be
accumulation of hidden taxes\ out; .stopped if all colleges would pass sim-
into the A)i)en, so that everybmiy
would realize that he is Ipeing a
sessed,~probaly at a higher rate than
most of the so-called “rich,’' for the
exjienses of government. That would
be .painful, too, to the politicians
who prefer to fool the voters by talk-r
ing about “.soaking the rich,” but
sooner or later it in inevitable that
the general run of voters will gain
their senses arid wake up to the fact
that the taxes come, in the long run,
out of their own personal prpckets.
The most important sources of
%• revenue which the federal govern-
. merit bas is- the indir'.ect taxes, which
are, to be sure, pajd_in the first in
stance by protiucers, but which are
added to the cost of their products
and passed on to the consumer as
part of the purchase price he payes.
The same is true of state and local
taxes. Nearly a quarter of the ave
rage citizen’s rent money goes to
pay his landlord’s real. estate taxes.
The price of a loaf of bread' at th^
groc(?ry includes part of the grocer’s
taxes, and those of the baker, the
-miller and the farmer who grew the
j_^wheat. 7 / _
iF'ederal excise taxes in additioi} af
fect the price of matches, ch^ing
gum, toothpaste, cosmetics, cameras,,
•radio Isets, jewelry, automobiles,
phonograph record^'^tolopbone
s'ages, telegramsi, theatre tickets,
playing cards, and almost all other
conceivable everyday commodities.
If every item of merchandise carried
with it a notice of the amount of
the federal tax which is included
in tho, retail price,_^here would be
' a great deal more interest in govern
ment finances, and a greatef urge
and likelihood of governmental econ
omy. The people should not allow
ilar regulations requiring their stu
dent bodies to remain on. their cam-
usc^» except at certain specified in-
There a^ a number of objections
and sbrious dangers, -to hitch-hiking
and theXpractice. of* picking up un
known pefxpns. One of the*~foremost
objections isMbe implanting into the
minds especiaRY of young people, the
wrong idea of getting something for
nothing—an idea CTbtt the government
has wid^y spread Ml this country
with the result that thohsands of peo
ple have lost their selfXespect and
sense of obligation and respqnsibili'ty.
my 2 akers of corn, but this mate
rial seems verry skace.
i intend to show the govverment
that i can get along without their aid.
befbar i ever ployed up annythiiTg, i
made a fair livying, anti i can do it
again, of coarse, their .monney come
m verry-handy ior-private use, but if
they have let me down at this time,
i will be with hoover in 1940.
i will work feed crops aliso this
year and have cut one-haff of the
cow pastor off to be planted in lester-
pedeza, that is—if i can find the seed,
i will plant goobers in the patch be
twixt the barn and the old simmon
tree, they will not require verry much
fertylize, if anny.
i hate to have to break with the
(11 m me re ra t s, bu t i f tb e y w ahl lo f u rii
would mean morejitudying and betterl^^^n rny ^eed loan just becau.se of
The closing program of Bell Street
.school (colored), headed by J. f. W.
Mims as principal, began Monday eve
ning with a play by the elementary
grades.
The commencement exercises will
continue as follow.s:
Friday, April 30, 8:00 p.m.—Voca
tional night (free). Play, “Brain Stuf-
fers”; Informal Tea.
Saturday, May 1, 6:00 p.m.—May
Day exercises (free)^. "" ‘
Monday, May 3, 8:00 p.m.—Decla-
'mation contest, tenth grade.
Friday, May 7, 8:00 p.m. — High
school play, “Every Youth.”
—.Friday, May 14, 8:00 p.m. — Pri
mary night play, “Ginderella’s Recep
tion.”
my feelings for the 9 verry old men,
they can go ahead and pop their
rahs for al smith and the “iibberty
leage, and if i could think of that
feller’s name wh^carrie maine and
Vermont against the new dealers last
year, i would give him a cupple of
hurrahs allso. i am thru with govver
ment relief ansoforth..
yores trulie,
mike Clark,
corry spondent.
.ASlki
With the Press
Try the Other Dow
For several ’ weeks, II have been
reading theJ’Open Forum” of a cer
tain good newspaper tKat visits my
home ever Sa'bbath. This is indeed a
liberal-minded newspaper; everybody
is given the right to speak his mind
regardless of his religion, politics, or
social standing.
The Role of the States
From both sides of the center aisle,
the senate heard last week a demand
for greater local responsibility in the
matter of relief. Senator Borah criti
cized th^ practice of “grerft states and
cities.trekking their way to Washing
ton about every fortnight” in search
of federal aid. From tlie other side of
aisle Senator Byrnes proposed
-4ocal governments be required to
at least 60 per cent of the re
lief ^ad, unloM they are in a posi
tion ^ certify that they lack both
Closing Program
For Bell Street
Clinton Rehlty
Insurance Co.
^Business and Residential ’
Property for Sale.
Good Investments and >
Splendid Opportunities
To Buy Property.
Also
INSURANCE
In Some of the Stroni^est
Companies In America.
See ■
B. H. BOYD, Agent
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BASEBALL
Major and minor league-
teams have begun their annual
•battles for the championship
pennants. Baseball authorities
estimate that' 400,000 sandlot
players will engage this year
in the greatest of American
Xpofts^'-^dSaseball.
Authorities on mortuary prac-
Xices and costs agree that our
serv’ice measures up to the
?Kv:ce
highest standards of .\merican
funerdl services.
The ebst is chosen by every
family weNserve at the time ar
rangements are made.
D.ETRI BBL£ CD
AMBULANCE SERVICE -PHONE 94
IIAIIASIIA
tails
Commencement Exercises Be
gan This Week and Will Con
tinue During Month of May.
It takes
RUN railroads;
fll II TtAlt Mil null
taoMEfiaiaaMiiiAi
Sunday, May 16, 3:30 p.m.—Annual
sermon—Rev. E. H. McGill, D.D.
Friday, May 21, 10 a.m.—Class day
eofereises (free).
8:00 p.m.—Graduation rituals. Ad-
dre.ss, President Miller F. Whittaker,
State-A. and M. college, Orangeburg.
To koop « foarttlf. Boot Llmhod
IHfaia Aowa tlM nili f-
MirB d«r-bir-4>y urafuhuM tl
oouMBdi of BOB who boa4
ALL thofr OBorcte to tkotr Bohok
ENEROY W BUN
taxes
s BAILROADfl
CLAUBKin BREAD boa bwa o
•owoe ol food EaocgT lot M ftanu
Today. CLAUBBEin HEAD to "Air'
tlOOTOll fcooi OVOM.
qolddy cootod and wrappod at pcop-
4r tomporotaro. ir'a atwATi rami
State Fertilizer
Label Act Upheld
funds and credit.
CertadnljTN^e time js overripe for
a move in this direction. There are
some states and^ some cities which
have done as muCh^in the matter of
relief as cooild fairlj^be .expected of
them. But by and lar^it is the fed
eral government that haV^urried the
major shaie of the burdenXuid that
» themselves to be longer fooled by
these heavy hidden taxes which they
,ar^ paying on everything they eat,
wear and use.
. . . X ort share, has been much nearerMS par
per cent o7 Tliive ,, •
Wa.shington, April 26. — The su
preme court today upheld the South
Carolina law requiring manufactur
ers selling fertilizer within the state
to__lal>er it with the contents pf the
formula employed in its manufacture.
'^Justice James C. McReynolds wrote
the opinion.
• The law was challenged in a fed-
eral coqrt suit brought by the Na
tional! Fertilizer Association, Inc., and
forty-one of its members doing busi-
ne.ss in the state. They .sued the South
Carolina attorney general, John M.
Daniel, and the trustees of Clemson
college, to restrain enforcement of
the law.
A three-judge federal district court
upheld the validity of the act, passed
in 1936 and kno'i^n as the “open for
mula act.” "
It was defended as an attempt to
protect farmers, almost All of whom
us^jEertUizer to produce their crops,
from un^rupulous dealers.
The manufacturers charged the law
tended to deprive-them of their prop
erty without due process of law by
compelling them; to make public se
cret formulas which they had devel
oped.
looked and longed to find most of
them become satisfied with our coun
try, our president, our God, our
churches, our state, our civilization,
our preachers and so foi^h. They are
nearly always displeased at.this or.
that or what; fault-finding seems to
duri
tribution to “home relief,” and
Ing this regijpe there wire states in
which as much as 90 per cent, 95 per
cent and even 98 per cent of the total
cost was shouldered by the national
government — a shocking example of
local neglect of a responsibility whkh
.The State of''South UaroHaa
The Public Service Cooiaiission
OolaabU
April 1$, 19$T -
NOTICE
Docket No. 1534—The appli-
Legh R. Poweli, Jr., and
Anderson, Receivers of
In
icatkm
Henry
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Ofify
Rilrlf^rotorwitii
OIL
COOLING
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b. the normal deaire of Ae-majority primarily
of our publio-pnnt throha. on the community itself.
More recently, federal- assistance
Seaboard Air Lime Railway Company,
uae
for Class D Cernficate of Public Con-
SEEKS HIGHWAY SAFETY
South Carolina now haa*a new mo
tor vehicle law, designed to promote
highway safety. One section of the
act makes it unlawful for anyone to
aolicit rides on the*Mglnrays of. the
atate and shodd help promote p^lk
oafety and discourage.,. J^iahrijiacing
Which baa kmatan. a nuiaaiiro and
frcaHy kniwiile traiMki.' Iteoy of
tbaaa '*tlraBd>erf^ are daad-baaU tot-
Jag iq> and down the highways in
. It looks like a new crowd would
spring up from somewhere and say
something that would not be con
strued as a growl or a grumble; sure
ly there’s sbme good people, go^ pol
iticians, and good government in our
great count(ry. They ought to investi
gate A little further. And endeavor to
see the better side and the satisfied
folk of our generous commonwealth.
' When I take a worm’s-^ye view of
my feliow-man, I am amased at the
large number of noble men and wo
men that live,, around me; on my
stnaip la jay town, in my county, and
in ny atete.-Possibly d fepr of them
have some faults that'afv nearly at
has switched to “w6rk relief,” and
under this plan Washington has taken
over one function aftei^uiother in the
field of local governmental enter
prise. We find the national govern
ment building local schools, pavsng
local streets, digging' local sewera,
repairing local bridges and undertak
ing a thousand and one other local
activities which were formeriy fi
nanced by means of local taxes.
There is, of course, no real sarii^ la
this practica to the average local
community, ft will pay in the long
run, through federal taxee, and the
UH may be a larger one beeanaa' a
heavy interest oha^ has barn addad
venienbe and Necessity to render mo
tor freight/service between Greets-
wood and Great Falls, S. €., via CrpAs
Hill, Mxmntville,— Clinton, Rehno,
Whitmire, Carlisle, Leeds,, and/Ches
ter, over State Highway No, 7 and*
No. 97.
Please take notice that a public
heAring in the above entitled matter
will be held in the. (Commission’s Of
fices in the State i^ice Gilding,
comer Senate an^ Sumter, Streets,
Columbia, South ^^trolini, *at 10:80
A. lI.,.Wednesd^, May 12, 1987, to
determine the r^irements of pi;^lic
comrenienee ,M necessity in • ^
premises.
^ W. Goodmai^ Director.
TVanspori I^yision.
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reftigeratoff you'oa
always wanssd. Boy a
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ways. IS aour aiodeli aB
with the sealed-lii*
steel TREtlT UNIT;
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