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PAGE FOUR THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CUNTON. 8. C. DAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1937 / (Uifp (Slit&n dlirattirU EaUUbhed IfOO WILSON W. HARRIS. Editor and Pobliaber Publiabed Ercry Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year |1.50; Six Months 75 cents; Three Months 50 cents Entered as Second Class Mail” Matter at the Poet Office at CJintqr n, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subacribers and readers—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly ad vice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonsrmous communicatiom will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspbndente. youf^elves: ‘*That fence was never made for me, I could climb the man's fence easily enough; but thank God, I have a conscience which I have never yet climbed over, and never will.” With the Press 10 Years Ago j (teas of latereat Froa The Chnwide November 10, 1927 GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS (From the New York Times) There is no reason to believe that; h. Copeland has gone to Nashville, sober-minded business men are look-i Arl^., where he was called on account ing to the government for an act of I of the illness of his J)rother, John A. oriinipotenee or the performance of a | Copeland. _ ^ ^ ^ ^ IP - ^ I I -I j fpRt of magic. What business really; Mrs. Edw'ard Long was in Green- ; needs, as it attempts to check the i wood yesterday for an executive com- a right smart amount of argument, w'hich is now ••• Nobod3r*s Business By Gee McGee has benn going on in flat rock about a recent speech a feller by the new kind of unexpec^d. in progress, j mittee meeting of the state W..M.U. Report of Ondition of M. S. BAILEY & SON, Bankers of Cliaton, in tho State of S. C At Cl^ of Boaineaa on October 28, 1937. ASSETS Cash, balances with other banks, and cash items in process of collection $303,197.70 Corporate stocks .... 237,106.00 Loans and discounts 726,600.23 of alfy landon made ov«^ the raddioi^iT - - r—^ * uiumu u I lather a lifting of unneces.sary handi-; the w«»pk a week or so ago. art .square says he.* u i j weeK-ena • *1. u J * W’hich government has already i.s the man who tned to run against i j., ! rosey-velt for pre.ssident last year, but_ holsum moore differs with him. hol.sum says that alf Miss, Martha Davidson, who teach-1 Overdrafts .... .... .... ~ iTr,-g. ^^:7 war at home for ] R(ter estate bw^ed .7“.... , Other assets Dt. George R. W'ilkinson of Green- 3,486.98 • , . ' I ‘-'r. vjwrge n. w iiKinson of Ureen-1 '' 'Tn.. oHEeL- handicaps are to “d “-TOTAL ASSETS ,M«,%6.52 at the Chamber | ticks. ■ uj-w wiin nirn.i* "v* . . Bailey Tuesday and w*as i., out of I wias;.* unc I- n®3nocr have overshot the mark of protecting) of OmmerCe “ladies night” banquet, the public interest and become essen-' tom head claims that the genter- tially Mr. and Mrs. Russell Gray have CUNTON. S. (\. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 11, 1937 iman who run on the republican tick-i are THE DE LA HOWE LOSS Friends all over the state of the'burning zeal for peace? I)e Ja Howe .school and superintend ent E. F. Gftty.s, will sympathize with them over the disastrous fire Sun<lay night which completely de-l strnyed the main building of their pfant. At the same time all will feel a sense of relief and satisfaction that the 1JM> children. fH'cupying the build ing all escaped without injury in an'anything, orderly manner. The fact that the fire occurred early at night served to lessen the hazard and resulted in no live.s being lost. As head of l)e la Howe, .Mr. Gettys ha.s rendeiifl a service of love and unselfishnes.' to the more than 20U children of the school since he be came its superintendent several years ago. lie succee.b'il th»‘ late Rev, .1. H. llianeli, who for a number of years was an official of Thornwell orphan age here. To the (ii>tie.Hs appeal now going Au4-v-foi\-,lhmv,AiP-(iU;tl}rmtt*.,b<iys and girls, ihcie. should be a - prompt awl liberal response on the part of friends of tho sfriekeri institution. et versus the new deal was named -— — —— jlundon and he lived in maine and [those who w’ent through it there i.s a Vermont, .so this guy who was trying' j a.M THE RED CROSS 'bMrr,ino- ? j to tell the dimmcrcraU how to run I ^he following tribute by Edward y punitive in character. Others i returned from their wedding trip and to be found in the c ’u.shing weight ^ are making their home wtih Mrs. W. - I ■ "VJ of taxation under which business is jj. Workman, now forced to work its way uphill. ; w. A Galloway wa.s abb to return to* hfs ho.me in Abbeville yesterday after being a patient at the local hos- and is “dedicated to the loyal and un tiring men and women enrolled under the banner of the Red Cross, who JOIN THE RED CROSS Ki^ctignizing the American 19 YEARS AGO And yirt today, only nineteen years Jeverthmg and what is wrong with Barrett appears in the Oc-!****^*^ weeks, later, we see the specUcle of a world j erbo<ldy but him must be a stranger Courier i again either at war or on the verge! in the u. s. ' ’’ of war. We talkcni, back in those j ♦ ' day.s, of a “war to end war.” Howl considering what he had to run on, f^li,h that «.unda now! All the lil>ert7ie'.jR.e. yore under.i^ed corry^^^^ ^ nfiee of human lives has not Uusht.twkrt and everthinit, includiny the^^^ „ the nations yet that war never settled i sppndent, hon, mike Lark, rfd, thinks i candy-date landon done mighty well I r *u n i /-• u . oaa I • ^he Red Cross, born of a to carry 2 states, vizzly: maine andi,.^,. i v i i l l I . ^ . . I, . o a. ' thou.sand disasters. I shed light where I new hampshire, he allso got 2 votes .. r l. i. # i , ... a 1 u there was no light before. I create Redjin flat r<x:k which were casted by our' ('ro.ss a.s America’s most notable in-'2 tycoons who hate taxes of all^inds. LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL Deposits of individuals, partnerships, and cor- porat.ions: (a) Demand deposits $1,158,689.49 (b) Time deposits evi denced by savings pass books ....j NONE (c) Other t^me deposits 186312.24 State, county,"and ‘munici pal deposits .... Certified and officers’ check.s, letters of credit 44,586.94 The following letter to the late and traveler, eheeks 50 d .Mr,. John C. Davi, from Ouss Young of thh city, wae written -at thej . T front’* on NSVember 13. 1918. two Bills payable, rediscounts, and other liabilities for 4,113.90 days after the signing of the ramis- tice, and was published in The Chron icle at that time.: stitution for the effective adminis tratiun of relief, The (’hronicle is IN.STALI.MENT BUYING GROWS The busiiie.M.s of the worb^ is‘done •111 cenfidence plu.s crtnlit. This being .true to a larger extent'than ever be fore, con.siderable concern is express- e<l over the increasing use of crcslit liy such a large proportion of the .\meiicHM peofile. Men are niortgag- it>g their fiiture.s, these critics say, by buying so uiaiiy things on the installment jilan. That, in the minds of old-school economists, is all wrong. What if cverylMwiy who ha.s pledged part of his income should lose his ■job? How couhi he keep up his pay ments? One an.swcr is that if everybody lost thi'ir jobs at the same time it -wouldn’t make any difference, for the there i.s some talk by our postmast-jj behind me joy. Where ye.ster glad U. call to it. readers’ attention 1 ;‘r that ex-f.re.», hoover nn,ught be,,, , the annual Roll Call drive for mem-1 "'■>" « 7" "" iKTshiu, to Iwgin throughout the; '.‘■k*’* 7' l•re»5.d.■nt he hell the of. eouotrv today and continue Ihniugh; “» long as the depreasn... would Thanksgiving dav. The date for Clin-1''S him. and hl» traonn* as a pui.ek , , Nov. 13, 1918a gladness where once was gloom. | j c. Davis- I unite Jew and Gentile. Protestant' and (.'atholic. Where once was sadness borrowed money .. Other liabilities NONE NONE ^ w ■ - ■ day was a bare fbKir. I leave a rug and chairs and a hearth-fire glowing. I invade the undisturbed heart.s of i the wealthy and open them to the The ImiWf ■’.rf tht- R«l Ctto**; .kvk. js^not iK) potmlar. red cro.s.s on a whiU* field, has been | hubhert greel says it would not a|»tly termed ( ivilizatiosi s SyrnrH)!. i First usisl as a warning flag in war, it has bwonie the e which the arrhies of peace are enlist ed in the nevet-ending warfare on disease and disaster in civilji'life. It is a banner under which every citizen is asked, and should, enroll. To display the Red Cross emblem in the window is evidence that tho.sC who dwell in that hou.se do not live for themselves alone, but are sharing the bunleii of caring for the afflicted. The record of the Red Cross comes as near to InMiig a n*cord of unselfish humaniturianism as can be- found. Whether it be emergency created by a major disaster, such as fire, flo»Ki, shipwreck or tornado, or the more prosaic work of safeguarding public health, pnxlucing garments for tho jsuppri.s<* him to .see hon. hugo black <i lion III ns a dark horse in tho next pres- in ) em j^pausm, that is—if mr. levitt and mr. kelly .suckceed in getting him unrobeil in the coart. if he takes off his black robe and dona a white one, he would be just as strong in the south' as he is weak in the north on the bench. plese rite or foam that feJler lan don to soikI some of his campane lit- ter-ture to the undersigned and he will scatter it around, w. p. a. work- el's ain’t yh hot for being transferrcnl to the cotton fields; that is a thorn in mr ickii*s flesh. whole country would be broke. It’sjpooi; and needy, printing books for like the question often raised, “.Are goviTumcnt .stvurities .safe?” Well, if it should ever turn out that they arc not, it won’t matter, for- every thing else in the way of invt»stments w<iuhl then Ik* gone. But the serious answer to the critics of the system of buying goods tin deferred payments IS (hat It hasjieen in operation for so many years, and has .m» ni6ch experi ence behind it, that there, are figures as exact as actuarial tables from whieh it can be predictisl just how the blind, or any of the scores of oth er helpful services w’hich the organi zation constantly renders, it must at all times he prepared to meet the calls ujMin it. It has no permanent cndow'mont or set-up. It is not a gov ernment agency. Its funds for its work must come annually from tho voluntary contributions of all the Flat Rock IH Asking The Government For a Park hon. holsu mmoore, who know’s all, sees all, and does nothing, is planning to ask the fed<ieral govverment to create a big park near flAt rock for wildlife, he silldl^ in it hiaaolf if they grant him enough w|>a monney to build a comfortable den. I am ageless, tirele.ss, unified, and my plea .for humanity cannirt be refused. 1 inflame a nation. I sweep aside petty selfishness. I am a great human whirlwind and I scatter over barren land rich seeds of tangible charity. I am a great orator, for my speech is simple, my message clear, my pur pose urgent, my zeal universal. I rebuild after fire. I care for the sick after disaster. I have a thousand hands that are busy restoring beauty and health destroyed by nature im properly conti-olkni by man. I am the great healer, and I shall not die w’hile there is .want in our land. 1 am the Red Cross. $1,394,202.57 1 (have been thinking of writing and , T t a rtt tttfcj wondered if you cared to hear from j such a boy as I am, but anyw’ay, li am well and doing as well a.s you * . ^ ACvUUNT .. could expi*ct since the war. You can Capital account: bet thsPt this war is as bad a.« J?her- Capital stock and man said it was, and I believe that capital notes and de- Germany is the w'orst. If you cOuldl turn what Sherman said war wa.s, bottom .side up you would see “Made in G<‘rmany”—and that is some bad, F thtnlc. Widl, f havebe<m aFmy coun-- ttahttittitc try’s service ever since I left and 1 have been in the front and‘done myi AND CAPITAL $1,429,966.52 bit and feel it my diity to do more if' On Oct. 28, 1937, the required le- neces.sary to keep so many of our I gal reserve against deposits of thia boysvfrom coming over and leaving'hank was $90,121.69. Assets reported^ home. - above which were eligible as legal re- I hate to hear of so many of our serve amounted to $303,197.70. boys dying, and of so many leaving Memoranda for camp^ but I think it is about (Assets deposited with State bentures $20,201.40 (b) Surplus None (c) Undivided prof its 15,562.55 35,763.95 Windsors May TsdeeTour Later February Decided llpon As Ten tative «Date of Postponed American Visit. Paris, Nov. 8,. — A source close to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor .said tiMlay the couple had decided many out of n given number «)f in* stallment Imyers will fail to meet their payim'iits. From time immemorial bouses have fsen boyght and sob! on installment pa> meiit>. Tw o-tbirds till*' >oId in the past people. yaller jav^kets, «» polee-ats, sans aroma. In giving to thi* Red Cross, one and a nice full-bliKHled caff, he gives to the service of all maiikimi. stayeil with them almost half of his Jts enihleni is ■symbolic of unselfish time enduring the crop-growing sea- service and neighborly help tv those j.son. in m*ed reganlle.ss of race, color or| ♦— creed. The Chronicle hopes that as i>'1 nearly 10 akors, the Clinton committee of eanva.s.sors! ‘he wild-life |>ark desired by mr. mr. moore inhart^isl « divsire for w ihilife when he was a little boy, he | Wntatively on February as a imssible owneil a pet toady frog, 3 traine<i|new date for their postponed trip to the Uniteil States. The Duke and Duchess believe that by that time “the criticism will have subsided.” making the tour possible. over. This armistice finishes this war, I think. Well, I hope that I can get back and tell you all of this little time I have been over here, and I am ready to come back any time and 86,000.00 authorities to qualify for the exercise of fiduciary or corporate powers, or pledged for other pur- purposes stay. I don’t think that nobody is no i Deposits secured by pledg- more glad that I didn’t get hurt than | ed assets pursuant to re- I am. Well, how are all the folks i quirement of law around R. B. 7 I guess they are pretty i I, R. C. Adair, Cashier of the above- -scarce by now. Well, I will close hop-,named bank, do solemnly swear that ing to see you all real soon. I the above statement is true, and that As ever, lit fully and correctly represents the At the front. GUSS. [true state of the several matters here in con*^r.ined and set forth, to the best 25,585.26 ENGRAVED VISITING CARDS jof my knowledge^and belief. Juat what every lady needs. Snmpicn; R. C. ADAIR, Cashier. for inspection. — * 1 State of South Carolina, CHRONICLB PUBLISHING CO. j County of Uurens. “ ^ "" Sworn to and subscribed before me SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLB “The Paper Everybody Reada” go forward with the drive, that they'»»‘‘ kivver the ihig swamp be of all furni-l" ill receive a .sympathetic and gon-jand judd snuthei s ouse U>U years hn-st''I'His .support from our people—that , Uv<tettM(k. cows, mules 1 < I’M movt'd on the same ba.sis. Why not, (hen, buy other iiec*‘sj>ary or use- we will not Ih> sati.sfieii in merely i h»»g.s run at large in and out of reaching our goal, but will over-sub-1nuich to the <ii.sgust of his fill g.HKl-v in the same wav. is entirely!-scrilH* by a large margin a.s thousands j rnsible reasoning on the part ofjof towns and cities do each year dur ing the annual nieiinhership campaign. pro^piK’tive buyers. (Tt'iTil can be a blessing or a curse, OftiUtimes it unfortunately pnivos the latter lu«cause of a disregard of obligations, or the assuming of in- ^lel'tidness entirely t*M> lieavy to Ih' met by the income of those contract ing such obligations. But installment buying on a conservative basis is a sound inactive and not to be con- <lemned. It gives millions of honest, hard-Working, dependable people an LKITKR TO SCHOOL ('HII)REN This is American F.ducation Week which will be observed in varitni ways all over the UnittKl States. ^ Dr. Horace Mann, who serve*! as| secretary to the superintemlent of schools of ('hautauqua county. New York. wix>te this letter to the childix'n of that county. It applies to .school | if this |Mirk is .set up, the gdvver- nienl will no doubt build a fence be twixt mrs. moore’s park land and all one of their asscK’iates said. l\>sti>onement of the tour, which \>as to have brought the Windsor.s to .America Nov, 11. was announce*! Fri day night, .At that time th**' puke .said there had been “grave mi.scon- ceptions” over his motives. The Windsors expected to remain in Paris, at least until Armistice day, w’hen the Duke may particii>ate in memorial observances “in a complete ly unofficial caimeity,” tiheir wssoef- at**s said. Disjiatches from Au.stria were that the Windsors might return W. J. BENJAMIN SERVICE STATION Standard Products Cara Wash and GreaMd Your Business Appreciated I this 4th day of Nov. 1937, and I here- jby certify that I am not an officer or 'director of this bank. ! ROBERT S. OWENS, j Notary Public. ' My commission expires at the ! pleasure of the Governor. outsiders. hon. nnxire will be the., ... . ,, , , , , , 11 it*"* Vienna or to the Fnzesfeld castle keeper of r***x'oixis and .seaLs, allsoj^^^ „ . , i t, u i . » other annimals either furrin or honie- rai.'X'd. p. s. he prefers domestic an- nimatls that won’t htxvk or butt or .scratch, and wants no liotvs and tag gers *>r elly-faiiUs ansoforth. opportunity to acquire tlesimi iu*c*‘s- sities ami comforts otn^ife wh*> would aide chiblren of every county. He said: ‘You were made to he indiistriimA, n*‘ver ,.lu to enjoy such advan tages on .a cash transaction basis. Yiill ahouUL work.—A11 your bones gn*t mus*‘!es wore ma*ie for w*vrk, just as miK'h as the whe*‘ls of a clock were 'made t*> g*v around; and if you do not work in some way, you are-as-worth- less as a clock made not .t*i g*>. You were made to be temperate. NINETEEN YEARS AGO Nineteen year.s ag*> t*Klay, on No vember 11, 1918, the whole world w’as fill***! with rejoicing, lb** war was! Not only in drinking, but in eating; over An .Armistice jhad been agreed land indeed, in regani to all pleas- Ix*arn the meaning of that upon between the a'lli***! and associ* j uros. ated armies and tho.sv *>f the central' important word—enough. Europ**an imwers. Four y*’ars of| ^ You were made to h bloody warfare, the most tragic and if this govverment park can be pul thru, mr moore believes that he will -i *>ceive- enough cash_ fixiiit UlMfeSMlil to pay of Ft he Gnlderal land bank’s first mortgage, and the secont mortgage to the clean-us*Kl-cav company and the tombstone agent from . who he Iwught a tombrvick for his uncle who made him his soul heir, but it turned out that he didden’t own annything when he demised but detts. p. s. it was drawed up beftiar the panic of 1920, of Baron Eugene de Rotbschild for a short stay or W spend the winter. MAGAZINEiS G(M)d Housekeeping, 2 years $4.00. After Nov.. 10. $4..50. Uosnopolitan. '2 years $3.50. After Nov. 10. $4.00. ■- be kind and g'enewus and magnanimous. If there deadly in the world’s history, had j is a l>oy in the school who has a club come to an end. More than eighty and one-half mil- ., lion young men were kilUxi in that'ia.<sign him f*H>t. don’t let him know that you ever saw it. If there is a lame boy, some part of the game ivostmaster jim farley has been ask ed to speak at the deder-cation of this wildlife park, w-e hope he won’t go into the automobeel hizness befoar it is opene*!, in that case hon. harry hopkins will be saktxl to take his JAMES W. CALDWELL At 38 great conflict. The central powers,, whi*'h does not rt*quire running if i place on the flatform. it is to be Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, 1 there is a boy w’ho is hungry, give and Turkey, -sacrificed three and a I him a part of your dinner. .L.-- J •* •' • *' dress, and -"I third million j’ouths on the altar of war. The allies, France, England, Rus sia, Italy, Japan, Romnania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal and Mon-r like in your manners. ^ tenegro, lost more than five million j Y’ou were made to learn. Be sure of their young manhood. The United*to learn something every day. If 4. -.r -.^1 j: fiii-j I You were made to be clean and neat in your person and in your gentlemanly and lady- StMtes roster of soldiers killed ran to 126,060; Germany’.s losses were the largest, 1,773,700 killed or died of wounds or disease; Ru&sia’s were next ‘ in number, 1,700,000. Add to the number killed the tre mendous number of wounded, of men reported “missing” whose fate has never Been cettain, and there is a total of more than thirty-seven mil lion of vigorpps youth whose lives were lost or their physical bodies in jured in that terrftle four years of ,war. Is it any wonder that among you were to stop eating would not iyour bodies pine and famish? If you stop learning your minds will pine and famish too. There is one door always open, it is the door of knowledge. ' You were made to |be moral and religious. If all men were honest we would need no jails nor prisons, no bolts nor locks, no criminal laws nor courts. I want all of you to feel that such things vrere not made for you. When you go by a high fence built to keep out robbers aay to hop*‘d that the libberty league an«i wall street won’t throw annything in the govvermenU’ way in getting this wildlife park ansoforth. mr.. eddHor, you must come down allao to this owning when it opens. yores trulie, , Thike Lark, rfd, Corry spondent. PASSES IN VIRGINIA Nows has been received here of the death of Mrs. Josie L. Wright, of Ashland, Va., which occurred at her home on Thursday after being in de clining health for several years past. Mrs. Wright was the mother of Geo. M. Wright of Great Falls,* a former resident of this city and manager'of the l^nha Manufacturing company. Goldville, now known as Joanna Cot ton Mills. INSURAMCE FOR ilOBLESS On January 1,1938, 11,000,000 wTokers in 21 states and the District of Columbia will be come eligible to draw unemploy ment benefits from trust funds amounting to $350,000,000. To protect the best interests of himself and family, a man carries life insunAice. 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