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/ FOUR tM^®JTON CHBONICUt|^^nJTONj^ja THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1938 (Olmtan (2lt|rontrU EstablUbMl IVOO WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subacriptioh Rate (Payable In Advance): On© Year $1.50; Six Months 75 cents; Three Montl\p 50 cents Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Poet Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of Its subscribers and read^s—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly ad vice. Tlie Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonjrmous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. and bureaucratic/ government in Washington.v ' The defeat of the bill marks the ANNOUNCEMENT chains have the'mercantile trade ini 1. John T. Yount, wi.h to nnnounce light nnd pOTor oompwiies: in fh<^| thnt lince I am now the owner of all SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE **Tbe Paper Evorbodj RaaSa* rwsaertion on the tmrt of con^s.th^ wy they-have lots of unsold.of the stock of Young Company, of iU independence of execi^ive dom-1 juke that is running over^eir dams corporation, I plan to have the 6ox- poratkm Charter cancelled in order to be relieved of certain corporation' inatien and the reassumption of its | We^ have ^li the oil inills ginner constitutional functions as^ the intend- ies that we can use. Thef'flour mill ^ reuevea oi certain corpor ed law-making body of our govern-Vusineaa ia over done aleo. I wouldn’t j t,,,, ,„<i return,. The businew willl r. . , .u «"«>">«<• “nJ'-- the .ame name. The Constitution of the Unitedi p^ri.« aa are li.^ in thia paragraph, Company, by a. owner., ^te. should be upheld. It epeeifte. | Furthermore, the inrt^lment eitu- The notice of moekholder,’ meeting! that government .hall be operaWiation is eueh that I wouldnt buy any The ] under three diatmct heads of Icgisla-: stock in finance companies. Chronicle WSA trivfan for t.hp niimo*© jChronicle was given for the purpose, ; claims that these three departments As a matter of fact, we have plenty! should be keot forever seourate and'of everything but money. Onr I the business changed to tive, judicial and executive, and pro- —^ i of having the Corporation Charter distinct, and free from each other. It j ent industries are running only on 2' private ownership, and for no other ^ill result in untold benefit to the of their 4 cylinders. New ni*<^binee if congress at last realizes the'with new technique are taking over| ^ ... ® . oung^ inee this mandate as set, most of the jobs-where manual la- *■>' <>" " Dr. Felder Smith of s DRS. SMITH & SMITH OPTOMETRISTS Specialist In Eye Examinations Oflke Hours 8 to 6 DtQj Phone 29-IP for Appointment Clinton^ S. C. importance forth in the Constitution, and puts, bor is converned. Our only chance to' an end to the rubber-stamp era on invest now is in bonds, nothing else. JOHN T. YOUNG. its part, in Washington. We are willing to put all of our money in the one (bonds) basket, and CUNTON, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 14. 1938 I hope the basket has a solid bottom. THE MEANING OF EASTER {Ike Insurance and Annuity Fund ofj Never did the world newl the essen-! State of South Carolina. Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee Lakewood, Ohio, has ranked first amqng cities of its size in the United States five times for its fire preven tion records. tial meaning and the spiritual .stimu- hi.s of Ea.ste.r more than now, when 80 many people are putting their faith in makeshift .structures and mans’ limited wi.sdom rather than the divine plan of the God-man, Many are .saying that’ religion has faiksl. South (’arolina Board of Exan\in- ers in Optometry. State Board of Pharmaceutical Ex aminers. Stale IManning Board. Board of Examiners of Public Ac countants. South Carolina Public Service Au- So all of this talk about being j ^ afraid to invest money is mostly all; || m Ulk. Think of something to build that' * * WO ' ^ ^ ^ j ain’t already over-built, I am in favor Spring Fever In Flat Rock spring fever has set in in flat rock.l there doesn’t seem to be any 8uch| beii W 'th^mTnd you Vwwtkr -ssgum. «hip to mnifP Fkhoiit I animal. We all bought so much dur-; your business. 666 is worth three or suBsn-i It is dangerous to sell a SUBSTI- of coi.serv.tivv installment buying, | .‘rV^.S; 'nobody seems able to move about as . . i > .. - ! fast a. common, holsum moore has ill "P *’ we missed one pay-day by reason of 1 * IB. as a Clmton Finance Co., bic. Auto Financing Fire Insurance Office: JACOBS & CO. BLDG. so bad he can skacely pull a fish out) that the plain, homely virtues of faith ami loving-kindness and mercy as he-lthority; o • tween men and their fellows are dead! .^^'»nth Carolina Public Service Com- aml inoperative. To such an attitude I,, trf mind Ka.<ter comes as a /hining ‘^tate Hoard of Public Welfare, and a beautiful refutation, as'an an- •'^<’^•>"1 Textbook Commission, y^-.^-4.y.t,|.i.H,. who are in sorkow ■ Staii‘.Jiyral EU-ctrificatiun.AjithQr- around a tomb. of the watter when it bites his hook., a Fourth of July shut-down. In other to I u I words, the bubble bu.sted. There s the poleesman has it verry bad allso:l , ^ , ' swing* P**^”*'^ money, but it doesn t belong, ,'to the fellows w‘ho buy something to * eat and wear every day; it is evident-^ art square has benn mistook for a Jy held in the accounts of the guys, it seems difficult for him his billie to do any good. mummy or a statute while setting onj who want to buy .something that will his Wlfe'-H front pi-azza all day long;r©am ibterest rather than- oomething- Ea.stef i.’< nut. to hi* itbscrved merely a.'' the eommeinoi ation of a triumph i ,, . , ., ( ommission over the giave, a violory over death,' Sinking Fund Commission. except betwixt 12 ami I p.m., when! to eat or drink or smoke. Thank you Stale Soil Con.servation Committee.' he goes to the table and does an eat-, for letting me talk on a subject that on .State nineteen eeiiiuries ago. II .stands foi l • • the gbiiy and the |)ow<*r of a resur-j ns linn here and now of a r(‘birth| day, of the siiringiu^j of new life in this glad hour and a confident future' hibpe for inankiiid. Its meaning can-1 not all tie told in music or in flowers,' or in the mosit eloquent sermons. It is | . . not all in the glow of the hour of, Tax Board of Review. .South Carolina Tax Commi.ssion. South Carolina Unemployment Commission. Vi’terans’ .State Service Bureau. Board of Veterinary Examiners. South Carolina Intra-(’oastal W'a- Jlousc and marathon, he sets and sets and I ! sets, and rarely ever l>ats a eye. he a1>out, : has the spring mallwiy verry bad, and know absolutely nothing at all / i.s not able to «lo a hand’.s turn' about! the house. i I prayer and jiiaise and .song. It goes, . far ileeiier than words can utter; it I This large li.st, some of which the reaches the deepest of the truths we I has probably never heard, know, at the very'heart of our human'shows how the practice of .netting up lives, in their ilaily need of that whichbureaus has Ikhui growing in re- is liigher than ourselves, and in their years at the expense of Uxpay- aspiratiori toward that which is true *•'♦ ^ei^ probable that not more »*l«*rmilly i ^h»o dozen of this group are essen- The significance of Easter is the^'‘il to can-y on the affairs of the hope and jiromise which the rosurri’c-1 ■‘'^“te. Fo^this condition the general lion of our l<ord holds for everyom*, Hi'f'ombly is responsible yore corry sjKindeht, hon, mike Ixark, rfd, is sick otherwise, and not 'lazy like the other flat rockites. he is not able to do no mannual labor, but he •washes his own face and puts on his own shoes and handles his own knife and fork as well as ever, he ^ thinks he runs a fever ever day, es-j ^ecially when his wife wants him toj fetch in some stove-wood or help her hang out the wash, it must be si- attica, he .says. 15 Years Ago : Items of Interest From The Chronicle' April 12, 1923 I Miss Willie Putnam will represent the local high school at the state «vf e ternal life fur the hu;nan .soul and ^piiit. .Ju.st us the revturii of the sun fntm its winter hibeniution in the south has brought to all peoples in k) get themselves all times pixmiise ami evidemce that life doe’S not end wlu>n grasses with- With its con veiling each year some member or memh»*rs have pet scheme.s or ideas lh«‘y w’ish to put across and then in electtnl to dr. hubbert green has it too. instid of making calls as in the pa.st, he sends a jirescription by someboddy made out of bicarbonate of sody and idain chalk, he makes most of his pa- recitation contest in Ckilumbia on Fri day. j Miss Tensie Blakely and Mrs. B. E. Wilson are attending an A. R. P. Woman’s Missionary mecling in Troy. George^ H. Reid and sister. Miss Elizabeth Reid of Los Angeles, Cal., are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. O’Daniel. Rev, L. E. Wiggins, Messrs. H, D,; Henry, B. L. King and J. M. Pitts are! attending the Greenville district Con-, tience come tx) his office, he do not show the husitlc and hustle that he j ference of the Methodist church. us(sl to show w-hen cotton was ITvc a cr and trees shed their foliage at the'expensive se.s seats on the new commi.ssions. This _ . ■ , ■ , practice is largely res|Hinsil)le for the; Pt>und. he is axlvising his filends over .: the foam to take sulfur and castor oil sums. If there i.s to he a new commis-' case of illness. ailvent of winter, hut continu»*s to he will see them mariife.st it.self afresh in new forms,j treated, the paramount, ^ _ .so the KesurrecUon of Christ is question is who will form its person-, mayer do not come down town C* 1 ■ pl(“dge to every faithful iH'liever in '’***♦ while the ducks are put days, except satturdays. Mini, that they, too, shall not perish j row there is delay and waste of but Khali hav*t- everlasting life. Ka.stcr i.s the freedom and light, the upspringing joy of the einancipation of the .soul of man. It is a time^for aerious lookiiu and thinking and act ing heyoiid ami away from ourselves. time, and an addcnl bill for taxpayers. It would seem from such a list that the .state is top hi-avy in the matter of commissions and imards. There is FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 2{5th day of April, 1938, I will render a final ac count of my acts and doings a.s Ad ministrator of the estate of James Allen Coleman, deceasinl, in the office of the Jmlge of Probate of Ijaurens when he exprt'ta bo get his jwiy, but j county, at 11 o’clock a. m., and on don’t onner count of the empty tre«8-|the same day will apply for a final .sure, he lie.s in bed and reads when • discharge from my trust as Admiii- someboddy will hand him a paper, he istrator. Any person indebtcsl to said estate is notified and required to make oay- / COM.MISSIONS AND BOARDS An alert newspaper re|><)Pter in Co- lunvhia ha.s digging up infonua- lion p<‘rtaiiiing to the mimln’r of .state, , , . . c«»mmission.s ami boards in existence.' for us in Washington. He di.scoveied in his investigation' GOES DOWN IN DEFEAT that theie are fifty-three such agcM-| of representatives in the , , ., . , , . ibas the fipruig fever ever spring amL room for consolidation and abolition! • ^^m- of bureaus, but you .seldom iwer hear, vacation and that’s why he rests of one being eliminated. When such,spring, so he say«. pro|H)sals come there is always or-| ^ ganizisl opimsition and an active and our wimmen folks do not seem to effes’tive fight to block any such have this dissease. they are able tolj^|.|.pj 'movement. We are following the ex-1 cook, wa.sh, iron, send the kids to ment on or before that date; and al! persons having claims against said estate will present them on or before said date, duly proven, or be forever W. A. COLEMAN, Administrator. YOUR SAVINGS INSURED cies, some eh‘ct»sl by the general as- United States Capitol vote«l during semhly, and other appointed by the stho week to recommit President governor. Many of these commissions 'Roosevelt’s reorganization 'bill which while some' draw liKMativi’ salaries, are advisory grouj)s. Here is a list «>f the fifty-three commissions and t>oards now in ex ist em’e: Aeronautics cotnmission. .State Hoard of .Archilivtural exam iners. ' Boanl of Bank t'ontrol. Builgel Conunis'iion of .South ('aro- lina. had previously passed the senate by a narrow four-vote margin. The bill, if passed, would have giv en the president sweeping authority to rearrange and contnil exi'cutive agencie.s and bureaus. Opponents in their concerted fight against the nu'asure charginl that there wa.s the scholl ,cut the woml, hoe the Ka’^lih'g,! ^.2l-4tcw arid do everthing else except all of the! sleeping and loafering. except for this F’INAL SETTLEMENT spring trubble, eyerboddy is getting | Take notice that on the 2()th day of along very well, i thank you. oh, hc-;^\p,ii^ 1938, I will render a final ac- ha-ho-hum. i got to take a nap. i will count of my acts and doings as finnish this tomorrow. “N yores trulie, mike Ijirk, rfd, corry spondent. Guardian of the estate of May Bell .Sellers, Barnes and Claude Sellers, decoa.sed, in the office of the Judge of Probate of I.,aurens county, at 10 o’clock a. m., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from You Said It I keep on hearing about folks who n,y {rust as Guardian, are afraid to invest their money oni person indebted to said estate account of taxes and more taxes, and notified and required to make pay danger of a dictatorship in vesting^^e Democrats. I have no money to,n^ent on or before that date; and all such unlimited power in the chief ex invest, but if I had any, I wouldn’t know where to invest it—regardless of taxes and the administration. ivutive. Building Council of South Carolina.! From all sections of the nation tel- .StHte Bouid of Chiropinly Examin-1 egrams and letter-s of protest again.st ♦‘r’''- * the bill poured in, telegraph compan*! It looks like we have more cotton State Board of Chiropractic Exam-! ies reiKirting that they handlinl 333,- mills than we are able to keep incM'.s. State Board of Claims. Licensing Board for Contractors. State Board of Cosmetic Art Ex aminers. 000 telegrams, more than ever sent a-going. Our numerous automobile to Washington on a«y previous issue, manufaeturers can make twice as Uncounted letters of protest were many cars as they can sell. Our hos- also received by congressmen. Theliery mills run about half the time persons having claims against said estate will present them on or before said date, duly proven, or be forever ' ban ed. I F. C. PINSON, Guardian. I March 23rd, 1938.—4-14-4cp. NOTICE Application will be made by the undersigned to the Secretary of State avalanche of protests put the con-* and are on a vstrike the other half, of South Casolina on the 18th day of Board for Distribution of Dead Hu-|gfossmen on the spot and resulteil in [yet everybo<1y seems to be able to; April, 1938, or as soon thereafter as man Btnlie.s. ' arousing foes of the bill to show their' get plenty of socks and stockings. I possible, for a charter for Forum State Board of Dental Examiners. strength by sending the measure back' wouldn’t want to put any cash in; Foundation, an eleemosynary corpor- State Board of Education. to the committee, which means its! either of these at present. j ation for educational, religious and i>tate Board of Embalmers. death for the present at least. The! , ^ . > charitable purposes, as more fully ex- SUte Board of Engineering Exam- vote was the worst blow the presi-L "J®" ^ n^ any moi^ roilroads. Declaration and Peti- I dent has yet receivetl and showtxl that, ^ Incorporation, pursuant to Sute Finance Committee. | a large proiwrtion of house mimibers' ones we are trying to run. They are authority of the members thereof. State Board of Fi.sherii>«. /have reacheil the point where they opinion that is, the railed ^ required by the laws of the South Carolina Commission of Foixl are no longer willing to be mere rub-1 is—that they don t have South Carolina. Re.search. Wr atampa for tho administration, i ^ ™oet competition and they di>n t —^ j South Carolina State Forestry The bill should have been killed for re<liKe their minimum carlot JACOBS, Carolina State Commission. the "reason that’ it" concentrated too''"'**^^ r^uirements and that they State Game and Fksh Commission, much jiower in the hands of one man entitled to the business fiom a State Board of Health. There are few men in positions of au-' loyalty-Ux-paying point of view. Sute Highway Commission. 'thority who can use unlimited power therefore running but few Historical Commission of South ■without abuse. Take a look at the ^*'^*'** most of them are em Carolina. ^ world’s dictators today if you doubt,“"I State Board of Housing. the truth of the statement. ‘ ' ‘ South Carolina Industrial Commi.s-'" To meet the existing emergency back in 1933, unprecedented peace- • South Carolina Commission on In- time powers were given to the chief; ^ all ^other business lersUte X^peration, " y Itc Incorporators. are not hauling rather than on what they are hauling. I couldn’t invest anything in railroads; they are oper- State Board of Law Examiners. Committee on Literacy. Commissioners for Promotion of Uniformity of Legiilation in the Unit ed States. State Board of Medical Examiners. executive. This was done to meet a if.*’ being competitive in their crisis and certainly with all that has! activity. But wed like to help occurred in the past five years, we cannot still contend that the same emergency exists. If that be true, then the future is hopeless. There has been a growing, wide- keep our railroads in business—^that if we knew how. ^ 18, South Carolina Memorial Commis-1 spread belief (which we share) that siona (one each in aeven distrieka). i too many powers, and too great pow- Soath Carolina Board of Natii^n-; Ars, hav© ah-gsHy been vested in We dont need any more stores: the palMe Examiners. State Board of Examination and Befiatfation of Nuraea. 6Ut« Board of Pardona. «f Commiaakmera of the Po- offke of the president. Such proced-j ora, aa hiatory reveala, ia dangeroua' to our Deoiocraiic form of govern ment We have had, and etill have, tetirely too much of eentraliiation W. J. BENJAMIN SERVICE STATION Standard Products Cara Washed and Greased Tear Baaiaaaa Appreciated D. E. Tribble Co. 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