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L ( 4» ‘4 \ \ i t J \ PAGE FOUR THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON. 8. C THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1938 T ilfr (SUttton (ElinmtrU EsUblbkcd IfOO WILSON W. HARRIS. Editor and Publisher Published Erery Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subecription Rate (Payable In Adyaace): One Year fl.&O; Six Months 75 cents; Three Months 50 eeiiU Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Poet Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chrdnicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise surfestions and kindly ad vice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the riews or opinions of its correspondents. pleasure to fo places without haring to dodge anybody shooting out from a side road. The Pullman conductor mformed me that I could leave the upper bei^h unmade-up' for only $1.80: I had al ready paid $3.75 for the down stairs. I told him I’d let him smother roe to death for $2.00, so he had the porter* go ahead and *‘make down** the up-, per berth, for spite—1 reckon, or per- ■ Yiaps he only complied with the I.C.C. fODAy Inama f ' • I i est and least developed half of the world. The United States of America, as the most powerful and prosperous nation of this hemisphere, must be the spearhead of'any united resist- jance to aggression or penetration hy European powers. We kept out of the League of Na tions, Which has demonstrated its fu- NOTICE OF SHERIFFS SALE e 8TOC AlOO By virtue of a ‘ certain i execution against property to me directed and lodged in my offxe by John D. Davis, Clerk of Gourt Of Common Pleas for Laurens County, S. C., upon a judg ment rendered in favor of the plain tiff in an action by P. Wallace, Plain tiff, against Little River Zion Bap- Itility M an a^ncy for the preserva- tist Church, Defendant, dated April tion of pe^e. My personal idea is 14^ 1933^ recorded in Judgment thMt the Pan-American union, in RqH So. 2830 in the office of 'said law relating to **births on a train.* EUROPE — War Threats [which jtyjEQL North and South Ameri- cjerk of Court, I have levied on and Eyery one of my friends who has ^*1* nation participates, should be de- vi-ill sell at public outcry*^on Sales Day vdoped into a League of Nations of July, 1938, being Monday, the 4th ,day of said month, during.the usual The train was air-conditioned. The lately visited Europe brings back the , temperature outside was 90, but only renort that the neonle of all nations ^ ,—* — 72 Good food «« »or.od on 1!! . ‘ tk! i! Z! ^ ‘*5 ““ ^0“^ the diner at re.wn.ble prices, that is ^ Uurens, S. C.. '—when compared with a good hotel * ** coming sometime in the smaller nations m well as our,to the highest bidder for cash the that served good food. The engineer future. Nobody puts a date to it, own. If ^tociacy is victorious in the following described property, to-wit: was terribly bump with his throttle,! CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1938 __ {but all are sure-* it is coming some coming European conflict, it is as and « billy lost had nothing on him ' «rt.m a. anything in the future can when it comes to butting suddenly! The evidence is the feverish mill- »>« that the victor, will try to Uke. and abruptly. preparations which are going on over as muen of Amenca as they can. I ^ . all over Europe, and the efforts of That is why I am for a navy big If the railroads a-ere allowed to European governments to make alii- enough to protect both coasts. , [National Safety Council reports that compete in prices, they’d break up ances and negotiate treaties which up to the end of February motor fa- »ome Of this “otherwise** riding. It is will tend to avert war, or to assure WE CANT IGNORE 'THE PAST l.e^'ii*taild‘ngSr”he’*fu!lrn.'Ts’thVt't«liti<-swere-24pereent higherth.n'not at all nerve-^king to browse the n.«ons participating »f help- 15 YeSTS AffO WO Tnj»v the traditions ‘he .same period last year. The open around in a nice Pullman car. There when and if war comes. | ^ ^ iwinter in the EMt accoiinta for T«Mwt'afe SO many things a fellow doesn't! All the rest of Europe is afraid of Items of Interest From The Chronicle heritages of the past. June 14, 1923 iwinter in the EMt acoounba for n>oat'*rc a® many things . / lof this increase in motor murders, have to think about, fur-instance: how'Germany. Hitler’s government has Under the stress of enthu.sia«m roads, more kill- much gas he’s gxA; where's the nexC given them ample cause for alarm. If m w ^ ^ ^ ^ m a ntw idea, a plan, a rausc, it is - filling sUtion; that foil took two-lthe apparent ambition of Germany to Igewia Bailev son of Dr and Jfxa. B.“”ut“w’e f*”l ll>i» .laughter going to'third. of the road; |,M>ky-he bent my,control all of jntral and ei^rw Eu-'t. L. W. Bail’ey. i. at home from ■ «rIiTng .hr™ and 'rad^qS^ How can it be .topped? How “"<1 ,bu.-l. too crowded to rope i, realized an .utocimtK goi^ he graduated ia.t have appeartHl in the existing system,'many Americans must be killed suit me. All that parcel or ^ of land, with Church Building thereon known as Little River Zion Bap tist Church, situate, lying and being about ten miles south of Clinton, S. C., on the west aide of the .Jacobs Highway, contain ing one and one-half (IH) acres, more or less, and being bounded by Jacobs Highway, lands of Stella Cannon, Church Cemetery and possibly others. This lot in. eluded all of Church lot with the ei^ieptlon of that poison oaed for a cemetery. The above property levieu on and before outraged public sentiment ris-' we are likely to com*ct them in a » • ■ manner that will iH*t only do away.®* point of indignation and with what is bad, but wHh what is forces action by the constituted au- pharmacy at the SUte Medi- be sola as the property of Little - ♦ . ... others and opposed in principle to all ^.^1 college. Sooner or l*ter small trains will be concepts of free nations will stand River Zion Baptist Church. run on big railroads. Instead of hav- ^ consUnt threat to world peace,' A.n*el Godfrey has gone to Pitts- purchaser to pay for papers i ^ s Sa. .11 ^ ^ * v\ 11 W m a W W am a aa a mm a A J ' good as well ing a locomotivv and 10 Pullman cars j„ , j, „„ dictate to ''' *”''1'“^, and sump. thoriticsT -A hundnsi nr ^ group, .^^„.^.Hng a weight of ■.•*50.000 AnH nrflrAmzA±i£uiA Havii onvitMT— - — iLav-UX XAirujw m tix iraar tJa-i^a a^JaIa This is eispecially applicable at thisorgamxattona have been -giving pound* To "hautT say, W persons who time. (Jriat changes have been made intensive study for years to the caus- ajfjfiejfgte a weight of 9,000 pounds,'*u„ of the . ^ 1 gl u o rv>4 aaroara ♦ ... .... VllaT 1 I ITCIJUIII v4 LllaT in <.ur form of government and are ®* motor acoi<lent.s and ways to still unden/k’ay. Tin* mtentions of. prevent thewf. They” fitt agree that e«iuipment. tho^e who are ln^hind them are prob-^^® goilt lio* th<* doors of irre- ably of the best. It is the desire to sppnsible, careless, “take-a-chance’’ saft guard against potential de|)n*s-jThe solution lii's in tighten- fj()nr|(.thing skins of the future —as well a.s to 'njC the restrictions u|M)n drivers of bring Ibadly ne»sled recovery now. VVe c*™ a'nl punishing severely every are seeking a iM-rmanent, balancfsl motorist whose recklessness, incompe- siKial and economic order that will tence or drunkenness causes an acci- provide greater opjxuiunities for tho'‘^®JJ[^- masses of the people. u u A.I • .1 uw C. W. WIER, commerce and AJ*"* »nd daughter, sheriff of Uurens County, S. C. seas. And Ger- * Uated the llth day of June, 1938. Vh!*i„wili have . nice,Jight-weighLj^ „ 80-3eo- train weighing abt>ut 50,000 pounds ^ | Prof. A. V. Martin left this week- that will haul 1.50 passengers that ENGLAND Armaaienta (for a two months’ stay in San Fran-^ weigh about 22..500 pound.s. There’s The English are the most practical wrong about railroad g-reat nation in the world. Their di- Corinne Bailey left Tuesday When you think of it ... a great liig cumb<‘rsome, lumbering train rushing <k>wn the tracks at (possiblyI There are limits beyond which the 45 miles per hour, j'ou likewise think Th«* danger, and a giave one lies eights of the individual cea-se and the of how ridiculous it would Umk if a in the p<»ssibility that in seeking this,) right of society to proUK-t itself takes man were trying to use a telegraph « to Waynesville, N. C., for the the American traflition of individual-' ®<>mmand. We no lunger tolerate, in pole for a toothpick. On the same' P i.-.m and fre«*<|oni is being destroyisl. most American communities, what (basis, a h*»d-carrier should feel over- plomacy is always based on a'hat is Philadelphia^ and from there she to F'ngland’s best interest.*. England F.ngland and Europe,^ is preparing for war on a gigantic '''^®re she will spend the summer. . ,scale, and at the .same time making * M*** Mattie Holland left Monday, friends of potential enemie.s. The Columbia where she has accepted British government has just increased • position. taxes to the highest rates since the Mrs. J. D. Jeans and Jack have Hipp & Chandler Clothes for Men and Boys Your Business Appreciated cha.se of abroad to enough foodstuffs from enable the nation to live cut plan laiiguiKhing. ®*’ r**s|>onsibIe if he hit any- There can be gn>ai progress wkhin Now th«* automobile has dis. the fabric of the American tradition place<l the revolver as the universal — th»* pa.st i.s the very b»*st witm*ss American weapon of homicide. It is to that. Change that forgets or ig summer. M iss Marion l^eake is attending! summer school at ^lemson college. - -Mr. and .Mrs. E. G. Fuller left Sun-1 day for an extended stay at Nevada, .Mo., where Mr. Fuller goes for his health. nere^ that tradition will easily do harm to the common welfare. giave CLOCK-M ATClIKKS It was sound advice to youth seek ing it.s op|M»rt unity which K. K. S«ar!e, su|M*nnteink*nt of the Henry loni tra«le M‘h«»«d, gave r»*cently at iht "career coiifereiR'e" bald in New Yolk. .<kiM. personality an<i imagina- tieii count for mon* than "luck" and time we restrictetl it.s us«* to those who can lx* trusteii not to abuse it. Driving a itir shouM lx* nicardtsl as a privilege granted U* a seU>cte<l few, not a right which «'veryb<xly is free to exercise without restriction. alliance I with France, whereby an immense ^ volume of war supplies, bought by __ •A*** l^ng^l*nd. will lie stored in France,,. , ..... Wage-Hour Bill -i'l »«• "•■•y »'<«> >»«■ O When that comes, British Sloan Deplores .According to a news dispatch the Nobody’s Business By Gee McCiee ^ war starts (ieneral MotOTH Head Says the armies, navies and atr as . - u’tii » 12 forces will act as one unit from the Measure Will l>eiiaUie Group h,a freiwh It Im Supponed to Help. general will command the land f«»rres, ~ I ^ . . * .... the British will oixTate the combineil .New lork, June 12. .Alfre<i P. , , V, ... , •.. 1 u e .L .. . forces and a British admiral will .Sloan, Jr..-chairman of the General ^ i .u l . , command the loinl navie.*. .Motors corporation, in a message to, , , . , . .l . . . * , .,-1 ...w.. . LL ij Knglaml has clearinl the decks by th.. c.,m„.ny, ...jekhoMer. ,i,h ..Id l,Kl.y the «W-h.ur Ul ^o« ,^.1, Klre- in c.m»ro« ...uid err.., furt^r . ,m|.loym. nt ...1 (hr very ■ ^ m, ■ group that it is suppaxied to help. *# e> \-i j* l l f . ‘p. I enemies off England s neck when I h will disturb the industrial bal- fighting begins. And it is building anee between one section of the coun->ar-ves8els at a grmter rate than txl by a machine. Don't tell us the le gitimate theatre is still kicking around! Clinton Finance Co., Inc. Auto Financinsr Fire Insurance Office: JACOBS & CO. BLDG. W. J. BENJAMIN SERVICE STATION Standard Products ('am Waaked and Gra—ad Yi "getting the breaks," he said. Luck | dogs the h«Hds qrf the ctrnipeteirt .Mike Lark .Appeals To the Secretary worker with vision anil willingm-os' of labor t«' **Rdrk. Industry is bx>kiiig for miss sallie perkins, skilltsi workers, and a place can al- secker-U*iry of the labor, ways be found for th«* earnest, ener-, Washington, d. ('. gr-tic man wh«> is willing to |>ay the deer miss stH’ker-terry; , ^ j.i iialty of extra work. | pU'-'c rite or f.«m me some infor-'|y the larger unit.s of imlustry.* ^iny' Not only .Mr. .'H«arle, but others at mation alxiut the wedges and the vkhich in general fioy the highest! the conference bixuight out the fact, | hours bill which has passtni the unit- \»-ugt>s and o|HTate the shortest hours, I which youth does ix»t always realize, ■ <*<1 states, i am in truldde up to my they are iiHlir«>ctly prejutiictHi to the at a greater rate try as com|>ared with the others," he'^ver, buying war-planes in this coun- asserterl. "The smaller business uniU try, and laying up a stock of gas will be penalixerl as against the larg- fn^jihs enough to equip every inhabi- er lines. And while it does not direct-1tant in case of an air raid by Ger-' LEGAL PAPERS CHRONICLE PUB. CO. Phone 74 thii- the men and women w’ho g*-! nake alnildy with my bizness tthrad III the world are the ones who don't know whicherway to turn, ."et out to do hard work and who do I extent that the entire economy is af- INSURANCE We think yre know the best Fire and Life Insur ance policies. We think we know how to advise the best plans for you. We think we have the best companies. Consult me. B. H. BOYD, Agent Clinton Realty & Insurance Co. . 1 > w .u • »'un • **»**‘f market and sell the n<*t siM*nd then time watching the . , . , . . 1 , .1. u-.s 40 w ptrch chops, livvers, hams, eggs, clock, ror the unambitious a 40-hour • . , . , tf 1 pou try, chickens, fishes in season, w«sk, or preferably JO, suffices, ror ; i . • !a sj , ,, , , ,, . . I lamp shops ansoforth. but since the , »in»- who would rise to a Iwtter ji>o, i , , . fere , u .u- i. r u: u i*nd mmrs bill has passtnl. i tm‘ less he thinks of his hours of ** ^ . . t i /i , n , , , I f, i.;- up » t*‘ee, and she ltH>ks like a tall laUir th«‘ more certain ami swift his * * pi emotion conie-i. I,«*Hd**rs in biisim>ss and indiistrv do not (*ome out of the one. lHM*t skinner’s 2 boy.s. rtnl ami jim. fectwl Sloan discus.stHi the measurt> for I of foreigners, but beneath the ap- fixing maximum wage rates and parently irrational air of excitement maximum hours—in cs»nference before I m which their public affairs are con- senate-hou.se group to adjust dif- ducted, there is an underlying strain nces in bills apprxtved hw the two of rt>alism which dominates all the houses—in a communication on the French people. "trend of business" distributt^l with The practical-mindeil French joined June divitiemi checks. the Is'ague of Nations at its incep- The nation's economy, he said, had turn, but at the same time enlarged SUBSCRIBE TU THE LmRONICLB FR.ANCE — laspregwable “Tke Paper Everybody Roada** Like the English, tke French are —aaa-^^^a-aaiaiaia^a—AAA«ii.AA^A— an intensely prwi'tical people. Their' ~ ,K.lit.c, .r, iH-yoml th, und,r,tAim, * rank.s 4»f "cliH'k-watchers. ’ The cx-!^„p|j fy,. in yj,. btvf market, and been unltalancetl by l«x» rapid increas-, their standing army, tightened their «s'uti\e> at the Ix'ud of any bu.siness they want to fix their own hours es in wages and shortening of work rtMiuirements of universal military put in longer houiw than do jjg (y time of day, and have hell houis. .Added to that, he not«sl. was service and construct«Hl the "Maginot always put in longer houi-s than do any of their sulvordinates. ' yp fy|- 44^. hour and they "growing lai'k of confidence ami a line.” The entire length of the border Men of ex|x*rieiK'e know that so^^^.y^Y work but 4U houi's per week, I fear as to the future op|H»rtunities of between France and Germany is a well that it <K>es not always occur |j,y thtdr own w’atch, and it ain’t ever ^ .American business due to the attitude of fortifications and concealed to them that each new generation ^ ,.j^ht. it cost 9Hc and 2 coupons. of government towani business" and artillery, connected by underground m »sls to Ik* taught the eternal truth ♦ policies "penalizing" imiustnal effi-, in^Uvries. It would be practically im- Longfellow veiiie: \V eix' by sudden But which miliar "T bl and kept not attained flight, they, while slept, Weix- toiling upward in the night,” Km|>loyefs atwwy.s know which of their employees hold the best rec ords, and have them marked for pro motion ahead of those who leave all thought of work behind them when lh«- tioitimg whisle blowrs. expressed in fa-! bert wants to begin work at 9 a.m. Frenchman is a trained ciency. pivsaible for an enemy to break land quit at 4:30 p.m., except nion-j “The policy apparently is to ignore' through this line. An army of mil- heights by great men n*ached days and fridays, and then he P"- Urgvly the inherent causes of the de- lions of men can be massed under fers riot to start to work till nftor 1 prp„j,jyy •• he continuesi. "and to at- cover within its walls and tunnels, dinner, the boys claim that if (heyj^^y,p^ .j,, yff.^q them by the creation And every work a-tall on sattunlap, they willlyf further credit where there is al- »oldier. tht*ir companions j want 2 hours off cntiurinic each , ready a superabundance even to the* to loaf at the drug stt>ar. , extent that it cannot be used, and to old man ikinnerTwho do not work * program of large gov- anny since the ketchiHl the roomy-1expenditure in unproduc- tism in 1905, savs i can’t reiluct what enterprise, m.stead of eliminating the boys ivat and chew and buy on^^^ embargoes that now prevent the cr A... V. *•••« wedges due at govverment rates, ami | . J^®’’® certainly is nothit^ in ^e ^ ^ Rome has allayed the fric when it suits him. if optimisn\ so far -no ftome nw aiiayeo ^ ^nc fie boys tvat and chew and buy onj^"^ emoar^s inai now prevent the .■..Wickfrom„.yW.c.«fbit„.,,.„dl;;''"™"^^^^^^^ »“">» '"of both nation, »« i mu.! p.y him in fall .H of tho >> ' I.t.ly.nor>ti.trf ITALY — Ambition Italy is the least predictable of all the great powers of Europe. The “Rome-Berlin axis” is a loose agree ment between Hitler and Mussolini to act in concert where the ^^nterests are concerned. The accord bexrteen Lon- THE OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS OF THIS ASSOCIATION TAKE PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING A 4% DIVIDEND TO BE PAID JUNE 30, 1938, TO INVESTORS AS OF THAT DATE WE ARE GROWING RAPIDLY DURING THE MONTH OF MAY OUR Assets Increased $21,990.84 OUR ASSETS HAVE DOUBLED DURING THE PAST YEAR. MOKE MI KDERS BY MOTOR If anyone had predicteil at the be- ginn ng of this ctmtury that within less than forty years the nation would bt* criss-crx>ssed with •trt-ets along which let him pay me at all. the skinner boys wassen’t worth much to me befoar the wedges and a.s the immeiliate future of imlustry is concerned, or to establish any con- tion between England and Italy. Eng land recognizes Italian sovereignty in of our difficulties." wide, j)ayed j,ours bill was passed, now they are} Discussing the motor industry, automobiles ^ publick new.sance. they work so Sloan pointeil out employment in au- would scoot at speetls up to eighty mu af cared tomobile factories usually declines miles an hour, most people, if they^^ijnj snail will run over them and sesmonally at this time. fi,l.nce to .n inMliiront rolution P’’*®*'** *!?' '“'S' to krop it, hands off Egypt and not to interfere with British access to the Suez canal. But where Italy wroqld stand in a general doubt. None European war is still in listenad to the prophet at all, would them badly and then they will! “This year," he went on, “there' , my have said he was crazy. And if he 'i.^ f^r letting snails run loose I will be added to the seasonal inHu- Bad added that practically anyone, „„ ^^y premises ansoforth. bizness |ence the eXfect of declining businessI'Y ^ child or ancient, sound or crippled, i ^^i ^ jet nw* knowUnd the effect of the latter on the f.V Muasolini drank or sober, would, be permitted i should commit suicide or} inventary of finished cars in the field’!*. ^ ^™“y“ to drive an automobile at such apemis, turn the beef market over to the which must be reduced at a greater intelUfcnt lisUners would have so’s they will have to work P*te than normally, in accoidance'^* 2*^*^**^. **“**’^ * ** oi Austria. Mussolini had his eye on could not possibly be allowed. It fMNdd be too dangarom to put such anginee into iixeapoiwible hands. Why, a lot of people would be killed. We all know that this is just what law h^ipened. Lmst year we killed nearly 37,000 people on our highways, moot of them not the drivers of the cart, but their passengers, people in other ears, pedeotrians and children. This year, so far, the death toll is nearly a quarter as Jarge again. The 60 hours per week to make a liwing out of it for tbeirselves. mike LarK rfd, beef market runner. with the declining trend of sales. I*ve Been Riding On a Railroad I took another ride on a train the. other day. It was a limited train, so the time tsble said, possibly limited to 40 m. p. m. The cmduetor and oth er employes were nice and pleasant ‘Therefo how the a immediate thing to the hational economy way of increasing employment . , If the doxrntrend condnaes. part, if not all, of Austria. Now it it is difficult to see, vu_j ♦ W2 i»oUt. indotry In “k. ’Ttn^ ' an rontribnt. wiy-1 ^ '“ tinii.1 K»'P**y» Germany. by he said, the motor industry's business next season, starting November 1, may approximaU the 1932 low and “the amount of empkyment would and considerate, and it was a real'have to be established aocontingly.'* AMERICA—Wcateni Headaphere With the nations of the entire East ern hemisphere res^ to fly at eadi other's throats, the only part of the world which can reasonably expect continued peace is Asserka. TW Western hemiaphere'ls still the new- We Offer Two Plans of Savings- LUMP SUM AND MONTHLY PAYMENTS. Each Account Insured Up To $5,000 and Subject To Withdrawal. We Want Good Loans SECURED BY MORTGAGE OF REAL ESTATE EDERAL Savings ^ -^AND loan A$tOCIATION PHONE NO. 6 CLINTON, S. C. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS M. J. McFadden, President B. H. Boyd. Secretary-Tressorer J. P. Prather, Vice-President Robbie Henderson,'AasL Sec’y. M. J. McFadden. B. H, Boyd, S. W. Suaerel, J. P. Prather. W. W. Hank, W. A. Maorhead, W. J. Duncan, D. C. Heaatesa, T. D.