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Nobody’s Business
By Gee McGm
With the Press
. News and Views From Flat Rock
the mafrfdge cerrimony which was
to have benn hell in-rehober church Jwt
loting a ton or more of alloy steel,
at high speed through a congested
city street.
Amateur drivers, however, are not
the sole cause of niotor accidents, for
back of the sO-cailed experienced
last satturday p. ,m. was called off ‘''^^•ited
j indefinite onner count of the groom
! not showing up '‘after a wait of 3
(hours, watch thiis collum^ for future
developments ansoforth.
Mock Reverence
W'e have to discount all "of that; ^ : .. „
mushy t,Jk on in WMhiu». i„ ndMdi.1 hislot'
week
It to
no
of the so^alled
experienced drivec,<«
mppe.r th.t • thoj h.d „„ j j .
SO much reverence for the memory of|^ff=„ * u j i. i
Senator Robinson that they would not Up--
pu,h thi, or th.t particular political '*'*'*“
scheme until the dead .Senator ' ‘
put away in the ground.
the serious wreck on the main high
way betwixt flat rock and cedar lane, thinking their plans even if they! r , , j - •
was caused by too much booze, so I were hot publicly announcing them,i. u driving messages may
said the kurriner who inquested thejand one was about as bad as the » more conscientious drivers
boddy of the stranger, a quart was)other..„• Published accounts indicate'
allso found outside of his remains i that some of them were pushing their I;/®.n' however, there should be na-
which did not break-wrhen hfr fordi-ptans~openly and equally openly j
are potentially
Tw ♦ ♦u „ / .u .dangerous on our high-speed high-
The truth is that all of them were ways. ^
CLINTON, p. C.. 'DIURSbAT, AUGUST 5, 1937
A WIDE FIELD YET |
Having handled the supreme court!
situation to-the satfsTaction of a ma
'contacted the truck in the rear.
I rev. will waite, our local pasture,
(has asked for a 3-weelw vacation, he
' wa.s. gladly givven same, as the con-
by its record of- paying a fifty per Ire r gat ion needed a vacation worwr
cent dividend to depo.sitors exactly j he did. he has preached on noth-
six months from the <iate it cease.l''f’lf for nearly 4 months, and,
the former members seem to of gotten'
nying it.
The mock reverence of one politi
cian for another sometimes has amus
ing results, as it did the time that
N. B. Dial was elected United States,
.senator. The so-called friends of Sen-|
ator Tillman are not through gnash-,
Ing their teeth yet over what hap-|
pened on that occasion. They refused;
supervision that would reach every
motorist.—‘Motor Service Magazine.
ON CAMPING TRIP
J. L. Cochrane and about twenty-
five^of the agricultural class of the
local high school, are spending the
‘Week at Tamassee on a camping trip.
APPLE” DANCE
^ AT COUNTRY CLUB
The entertainment committee of (he
Lakeside country club has announced
a social night and script dance to be
hehi at the club house next Mond.iy
evening. A feature of the evening is
expected to be a demonstration of the
“Big Apple” dance by a group of col
legians and others who have leaimed
the new dance. Cards and conversa
tion will furnish, amusement for oth
ers who may not care to dance. All
members of the club >nd those en-
titletl to its privileges are invited to
attend, it is sUted. ’ .
to enter the lists
“Pitchfork” Ben,
against dear old
then in feeble
will do soMudhing a!)OUt bai-
dnring the budget and ruling lawless-
ne^i.-i out of the labor situation, and
countty .iri general.
* health, so he could "die' in -harness.”
, , , - , , 'to “operate. And so to — . . , . , . ,
j..rity of thi- popl.., .lur nati.m.l li-ir- n.ipidat.iiK ‘"'■"I l'<‘ann>[ such tnvual matters.
■slatur, w.ll swina back a itreat deal . ; , . *
more in-to the e-steem of the public if' , , . , m i ^ , i mis.s jtnnit \etve srniin, our am
, ,11 .. tali credit IS due for the enviable and sut-1 • , uphdll nrin<'it>Ip has irone on a
they will do something about bal- . ,, . . i .u , u. . i.... u. principle, na.s. gone on a a n- , n j a .
iisfactoiy lecoiii that ba.t iK‘eri rnadt. ■ summer uutiing, she selected not Dial, He and two others put
The closing-of two of the city’sl^j^^. .sea coast, ihi.s time and took her ^heir cards on the table with facesi
banking in<liluti<>r'is was a blow to with her, she has a uncle ^^t^ring the race with the ivowed
(this cornnninity from Vvhich it has | I,I purpo.se of wdtinirig. Before the, elec-
PUU'h>h TO (iO IIIOIIKK ne\er reoveifd. Jii \aried stay'with him a week for'caffle off, .Senator Tillman diedi
l*riee.s «f .everything am.gtujig-iip, [ .ftful, Ijie >‘JlU4Hifrrc.d a...vissito.'-., and Dial was elected. Tho.se who^
That is true not only in America hyl! •» fitijXher a little hit tight, stayed out of the race are still out.
H. D. HENRY
1898-1937
F. M. BOLAND
H. D. HENRY & COMPANY
INSURANCE
^ STOCKS — BONDS —, REAL ESTATE
LOANS NEGOTIATED
Telephone 121
.National j
not only
all ovei' the wurld. Krarice followei
England and .America, not long ago, ,
in (leprecialing its ciitrcncy and aban-
»lon n^ lhi‘ golif .'taiidard iii internal
1 rail.-actlull'. .Now .la|tan has followed
su.’, increasing tin; price of golii^y
in por cent and thus reilucuig the Inly
ing po'wer t'»f tlTe yen ill inteniatlonal
niaikots.
(Inco this proif'S is cariied to its
log.cal end. Ue will find that tin- na-J _
lions of the world a're 1>ack on the; "Xnie'o two baliks, there 'Iflnibl come
same equality of immeUny values as the formation of a new bank. 1 here
they were hefore tlie devaluation of.i^ ample room and-need here for two
conditions. With the oid
liank now jia-t history, there isj
souild reason to believe that in due
tinn; tin- cliissnl Commercial bank will
like-.sl'i- lie\a!)le to pay its depositors'
in full. If this lecbrd (-an In- attained
n* will nn-aii fliat of tin- three bank.s
that have Ci-a-t-l to (Tjn-i iite. in Clih-i
ton, Hot a dolhi’- to a di-positm- hasl-lian.som
in-ell lot.
onner coirnl/that she ha.s gained 21
she bought it in 11*23.
liel herself thi.s fall.
poll
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to
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a
figlit
ell
Icct
(ii-
f..r
f lie
car
ct
(iiipanj
r 0
ook(-il
sued In-twixl the col-
“ride-while-you-iiay”
f the county-.'cat and'
nfoore of flat • rock, (who
ik(- he was going to ride while
Genuine re.sjiect for the dead is
much to be admired. We w-fiuld like
to .see more of it, but, unfortunatel>\
much that you read' about does not
exist.—The I.atjrens .-Xdvertiser.
«■ Recreatitmai-
“The Public Works .^dfhin'i.'
ri-ported tonight that it’had e
the athletic and r<‘Cieational
rom
w mill
ng up-(X-tile uffairs In- diddeii t pay), when he undertook ■(imtion by construction of
ration
Iriched
life of
niore
to ((‘possess
than . l.POO gymnasiums, swinam
innd.s and other recreational proje
.So reads a War^hington di.spatcn.
naming '
ijWls.” j
the secont-hand car he
bought from them about 4 months
ago. hansom had forgot all of the
euiieiu-ies began. The only d if fere nee J'>'"'lit banking, institutions,' eachj pi‘ym»‘iit^ except the down one. both'jyiy 0,^. uoultj see from the win-i
Will h(‘ that all commmlities whose; clientele, and each|'d them got hui't about the eyes and j ^^f a car in South'Carolina thatj
pi i(-es are fixed in world Miai'kets. | i'>i*king a valuable contribution to the j no>*‘ and face, but no stitches were | ^ame day a swimming pool near a
.'iR h as wheat and cotton, will be j busines.s develoimient and iirogress of | took, he got the car though with a village that must fiave cost ^ plumn
•r prices! thi.' community. .-Xnij^ judging from I »'i‘t'<bimmus paj»er^ ^,i,n of money, hut no one was .swim-
the condition "Tinkanks in adjoining
o! paper curixmey. .towns and (‘Isewhete, such an eiiter-
That will work to the advantage of I Pnse would prove a profitable in-
Ihe producer of world commodities, [ vestment for it.s stockholders. • *
but that 'it will lieiiefit
pegged at |)ermanently higher pri
in terms of each nation's domestic
consumers
-+uoportionalety is doubtful. Debtors
will benefit, sinci* the doljar value of
oid d(-l)ts remains unchanged, but the
commodity value of the dollar goc'S
,d■‘vvn as prices go up, and a bushel of
w heat will pay a debt vvliich 1 «‘I're-, whi're a
'erit(-d two or thre(‘ bushels before) with fina
,';ie price rise l>(‘gan. Hut cri'ditors
w'n -uffer. Their new dollars are
w. ith far Ic's than the dollars they
'elit. ”
r () r k-
'leaiiwhih’, we will have to p.'i.t a
la gei propoitmii of oUr incomes Au'
lilt. U(-ccs'itles.of life, ev(‘rything vve'
e.(-. wear an.I use.
( RAVING .MORE I'OWER
With the wages and hours
dr. hubbert green ha.s henn coni-
ijilaining about noboddy getting sick
I here of lirte.^ he says that if flat rock
I keeps up her refcord for good health
I he niought as well move to'a''more
I unsanniterry nalHirhiArd. he
">•12 i-al
s last vv(‘ek, and neither
pa'sed by the senat(‘ tollovving heated. j 1^.,,, paid him annything. mrs
debate, llu
measuM'
dubborn battle vvil
had only
me of
tom
fight for and against the |„.a,l hud a epper-Uwtic fit and fell,
now shitts to the house) jjj,,, sipiare s-uffered a nose-bUM'd, and
(•nsue, lidf,. niiney more jumped out of a
of the biill pre-iq,,.,. and sprung her [eg,
dieted. ' .
The measure vvhich carries the ad-. News I-rom Mat Rock
ministiation emiors(‘mt‘Ht, has these' t^'"’n of flat lock is toin as-
th'e creation of count of the new dog
principal provisions \,tH‘ creation o
a lab()i- standards hoatd and th*‘ !*odieiice vvtiicli was passet
II at its fir.■^t
1 bv the
granting of power to the lioarit t(,», lix.j
wag(‘s and liour standard' and mini-:
j mum wage' not less tlian forty (-ents
» t.iv.. I* n |0M hour and a maximum work week
MORE .sl*hNDIN(. F \( IS x . . * .1 •- . i
, ' ot not more than lortv hour.-. 1
'*AluI*- It IS a waste td time to re- __ , j
it the figures, it is iu‘Vert hel(‘ss cu^ation ol 'Ucli a powerful
mfonuatioii Uixpayers should know'i" Washington, means another!
the federal
I I'I month
ming in it. No one would rejoice to!
swim in it. It was not inviting water, j
It had a hot and slimy look. Why)
does not the W. P. A, maintain the
s-vunming jiools in good conditional
.^onie of them already are going to
ruin.
H. .S. The same day one saw a roa 1
l|*adirig to an airport and it i.s a fine
airport, must have cost about .5111'*,-
000, hut airplanes come to it only!
once in a while. Why does not the^
WI’.A provide the airjiorts tha*: -it|
builds with airplanes? Is not som«-
thing wrong with' an airport tha* en-j
tertains an airplane once a week?-
The governmentOught to hire pimple'
to enjoy more of its re(-reationa! pro-!
Jei'ts or it should <]Uit "piojicking. " —'
couns«‘ii at Its ^lr.■^t session in June
this new act reiiuires alTdog owners
to wear license |tlate.s'on tlieir collars! rht‘ .Nt‘VV' and ('ouri<‘i
vv !iert‘ the inds'csman can see it, no | ♦
matter hovv fast the dog is running. ' .-Xccidenls — Wh) .Not?
What would vou think if vou read
Iku
ill the, nevvs'paper thaf the IVnnsyl-
vahia . I.imited or the Burlington,
they' art‘ further ret|uired to fetch
tli»‘ir dogs to the town" hall and 1h*
irovernment ended ">l"■au(•racy. more meddling and m-j vaxmated by a vetter-nerry surgeon ... . ■
)f l'.*27-2S (.Inly) l’'ivate industry and; who will !.«> there from the county
with a grOss deficit of .$/l‘.*',2S 4, l()r».'.>2, i ***'*''*’Pt''*^ tu ham'tiing
'with
1 In
compared vvitli a gros' deficit of
TT’jit.7!2i .K:Tt:>‘>s 111 .ruiy r.*2(t. ^
I’he national debt a.' td' thi' datt
leached a new "lugh’’ am! is
inevitable hurt and d
business: seat ev.‘rv friday and .satturday at $1 h IC.-year ohi high-.school girl
etriment;t..r each dog. him to furnish the virus; 1 ‘‘f /he signalling sys-
.o-callcal^M^ AlH* h4lilyii:ii^Ml.-thmi.glr--a^^
little ft‘iiovv. 2'he Lord know' ttiel vided it l.ears a govvermeiit jf^rran-' j
country is already harass(‘d to d(*atlrtei‘, then the v«‘‘tter-nerry will charge '‘ertainly think that somebody in the
mounting upward liv leap' and'")'**' taxt". ceiitrali/ed federal agen-,unly Toc^for his s<iuirl gun use.
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Phone No. 6
Clinton, S. C.
social
This i.s a v«‘fT;i|£ Tmp^ ac-
$2('..7ir..*5Hr).T02. This I.s $2.2l.-..t>(UM»t)0'^‘‘'''"''*y «"<* multiplied reports that
must be filed involving adiied work i'**rdiMg to our mayer. our childivn
enormous cxi»ense upon business.
i>V( i that of a year ago. and $10,111.-
i.uu.u(i0 ovt‘i- the wai-time high in'""‘*
IPI'.*. .Since the fiscal vear 1020, the
Such a board as this bill contemplates
la't ii(‘riod in which governimuit in-j/.' **'4' uf St*nator I onnally of
V(Mne matched spending, the debt has| DimuK'iat, would have moie
iricicased $20.r, 12.000.000. For the fis-1 than fiye Euro|H*an monarchs |
with purple robtw of office.” inoore sayiv one child is more impor-
Senatois Smith and Byrnes are!*'"'* .**""1 “ dozen dogs, so help save
cannot run at large on ou-r streets
while (logs are not vaxinated again.st
rabbits as set forth in the state law
which concurs with the Town coun-
*0’' bill ansoforth. hon. holsum
cal year ll)2(>-'27, federal revenue to
taled $.7,21*4,000,000, vvhich svas $2,-
7o7.(K*O,OO0 less than the required
amomrt ts+ Tueet Mtshursenvents. Ih'uv
long could a private busine.ss conduct
ed on such I'rinciples exist,, with its
outgo far iji excess of income? Put
another way, this means that with
the “emergency’^ over, with the de-
pre.ssion a thing of the i>ast, as we
are told from Washington, the sptmd;.
mg orgy goes on unchtK'ked, the ptm-
ple’s substance is being wasted and
unprecederU(*d deld piled up that ev
ery man. woman and child in this
coi/mi Y will be 'c'i1'U‘d 4){mui to help
pay. This Ideedmg process means a
continued and increasing .'vuaking of
taxpayers, there is no other smirce
from which to get fhe money. You
may not lie aware of it—but you will
pay this d(dtt in taxes. When you are
t(9ld that it will be met by “soaking
the rich” you are being fed on mi.s-
livading {Hvlitical ballyhoo. For the un
disputed fact renvains, that upon the
masses, known as ultimate consum
ers, are proportionately levied the
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right in opposing the measure'which i childtx*n.
even subh a radical as General Hugh
.lohnson, head of the old NR.^, re
cently said “would...sell the South
down the river to economic slavery,"
The bill unquestionably will cripple
the industrial development of the
South. When Senator Smith in his
attack on the projvosal charged that
the Democratic party wa.s tuniing
against the South he said what many
our qHvleesman . shot Jit a tagless*
dog. last week and kilUnl a caff be
longing to art square who wb.s graz
ing on main street, the officer of the
law first decided that it was a ca.se
of self-defense, or rather—an axci-
dent, byt rather than be took to law
by her owner he paid for her (2$)
and dressed her while she was still
,, . u • 1 and sold her ta the saniterry
Sm,h..m IVmocrat, hav.. Ion* ..,nce -claarinK 2» on
known.
.-V bill of this type, hastily devised
and ill considered under driving or
ders, w’ill place labor and industry at
the mercy of Washington. The effect
of its operation would be to dislocate
industry and incn‘ase unemployment
and \V1*.A ex|Hm.se. labor will shift
to where the highe.st wage scale pre
vails,'- conMHdling all employers to
heaviest taxes.
♦ '— [ ev(>n more difficult than now’ to sk*
AN EXCELLENT RECORD
The liquidation record of the First
National bank of this city which is accepted as an emergimcy
for the depression pt‘rio<l.
his shot, mr. square now believes he
shot her on a purpoaa.
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only 2 hydry-phoby dogs have pass-
etl thru flat rock this summer, one
of them bit .sevveral domestic anni-
mals and snapped at 2 wimm^n who
were walking down the street with
shorts, enroute to a tennis coart, to
sit and watch the players who can
meet the scale or shut down, thereby i play, play a few rounds, the said
leaving these employvH's without j girls do not know how to, pllay their-
work. It will work its severest hard- selves, but they look fine in shorts;
1 ship uiion the farmers, increasing the they tote a racket with them, though.
1 price of all they 'buy, and making it
. iilroad bu.sines.H should be put in the
"dippy hou.se" for allowing any .such
Thing tcT happen. Arid yet, we read
similar fashion of a young high-!
.school girl, untrained, untried and re-:
(lulling nothing but a car to climb
into, having an almost equally disas-'
trous ex|>erience, in trying to show |
off what a good driver she w’as. !
Ill the case of the. railroad, the per- [
sonnel of those who operate the trains
is carefully checked, the indlv.iduals
are examinevl physically and mental
ly and are then traineef for their |
jobs. In the case'of automobiles, how-';
ever, it is only necessary for someone
to be able to climb into a car, sit be
hind the wheel, and step on the gas.
U makes them a driver. They don’t
even have to own the car if they j
have some friend silly enough to let
them use it, while the owner, himself,
only needs a down payment to qualify
as an “expert traffic operator” in pi-
country.
this week of a 15 per cent dividend
as announced in tovlay’s paper, brings
the •total to 105 per cent* returned to
deposi<U)rs since the bank’s liquida
tion began in 1931. While the wind‘
ing-up of its affairs has brought in
convenience to depositors, the final
this is the last’notis for dog licents
cure farm labor for their opeiation.'. j P*"***^’ whoever fails to heed same
When we had the old NRA it was'wiH "hot on sight, in other words,
measure 1 no collar with licents, no dog.rlKhts)
In~ spite' —rock, the Towm - needs thg
of the abolition of conditions thatjfetch yore dogs in
how a TTos^ chapter, has been
equalled or excelled by few banks in . -
the country. The final distribution then existed, we now have a determ-! **4^ licents and for being vaxinated
for
dividend now being distributed means
tl;iat not a dollar has been lost by ajmenting theorists, to further enact
im*d effort to force federal regula
tion over employers and employees as
.a permanent policy. There was noth
ing in the'Democratic platform ^^de
manding such legislation, or making
any pledge to this or any «uch like ac-
.tion. The proposal must therefore be
accepted as a bold attempt by experi-
depositor in the bank
The record is one deserving of com
mendation, and speaks well for the
prwideot and management of the
baiA at the time of its unfortunate
't‘iOttni'.'’'4t-'‘ftirther reveads /hat there
WM never a plausible rnasra for the
closing of the bank as wareVidenced
and hold govermental
busine.ss.
power over
NOTICE
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Why not keep your money at home
by giving your magazine sabscrip-
tioos to—
JAMES W. CALDWELL
this, is the fourth time that the time
to be licensed has benn put off, but
this is po.ssitively the finnal chance,
vt means either a license, a bullet or
the law. ^
yores trulie,
mike Lark, rfd,
town treassure.
W. J. BENJAMIN
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IRTH POLE
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The camp of Russian Aviators
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