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J THUKSDAY,-.NOVEMBER 30. 1939 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. ’Twas.a Month Befoo^Xmas And the Iste-Dr. Poteftt! Hundreds of men and leotnen in tomis and in the rural districts are the real builders of tomorrow. They are underpaid in dollars, I know; but can we say that of the majority? Only because a sort of vanity and educational pretension on our part mak^ us wish to appear in South Carolina we have that prob lem. Many counties have readjusted The g’eneral style of progrram, whkdi proved so successful last season, is themselves and their senators tell 1 offered this year. Uncle Natchet, Son about it with just pride; why cantj^iy ®nd the young folks go for a Sun- aotneone feel responsible for the J da y^ ramble in the woods. Old time ^tate? I songs are followed by an Uncle I submit that 25% can be cut offiNatchel story, dramatizihg an his- and all our services be brought to a .torical incident of the old South, very “progressive,”, in all the loosejhigher state of efficiency, I don’t be-jThrough the half-hour program. Un acceptation nowadays of that term. gin by reducing salaries; let us. rath- , xt , . , j u- i. i i I submit, i, where we canirr, eliminate tLte .aalariea. l''" ' bring about our saving. Stiuiy, inves-• The .great temptation of democracy * natchel’ philosophy, jtigate, examirre, survey apprise—or is to 'make the public payroll the 'call it what you like —every' public'refuge of lame ducks, friends, synco- t service and Io{) off dead wood, green phants and hang<‘rs-on. wood and unuepeaMry limbs, branches m and twigs. ’“UNCLE NATCHEL” Ask yourself this question: Do we RETURNS TO AIR need such-and-such an institution? If' • ^ iao, <lowt.mn^^achoneof t(K.branch-' ^ ^ |es? .\re we building according to any' PAGE ELEVEN TYPEWRITERS Authorized Underwood Dealer. Cleaning and repairing all aukua, reasonable charges^’ Kenneth NlSaker Phone 306 jplan;-or are we throwing things to-i characters w'ho have won friends gt^ther ? .\re these things in a fair' throughout the South, as the featured relation to the earnings of our pco-'character in the Ohilean Nitrate of |V>le? .\ic we so organized and so!Soda advertising, i-eturned to radio j geared that we can get the maximum Satui-day arid Sunday, November 25 'results from our efforts? Are w'e-de- and 20. voting our major study to the earner j The new series of programs marks and owmer who must pay the. taxes, ithe fourth consecutive year that or to the s{)ender wdio shows us the | Uncle Natchel and Sonny have enU‘r-. prirmistni land? tainoii over the air. Dramatic stories, j Every sort of business..from rail- highlights of Southern j i-oading to retail bread-selling, has i pix'sented by a cast of i studied itself intensively and *worke<l actors headtHl by b rank Wilson, for- . out plans for doing ifiore for less “tnven Pastures,’ and [money except gt>vernment. In state Ihirgy, who has played the role of [and county and municipal government > ^ Satchel for the i>ast four j'ears. WHO WORKS WHERE? MILLING GROCERY CO. A. J. Milling, Prop. G. R. Simpson Albert S. Johnson This firm employs 3 Frirty-seven previoiLsIy re ported firms employed .371 Total .374 It Pays To Trade IN CLINTON COMMUNITY UNERAL HOME Clinton, S. C. FOR COLORED PEOPLE ONLY Phone 319 Rev. H. W. Walker, Manager REAL ESTATE FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE LOANS FINANCED ON REAL ESTATE B. H. BOYD Telephone No. 6 Clinton, S. C. T hinking ahead never hurt any body—and what Christmas gift could be more eye-catching and appf'tite-teasiiig than glasses of homemade Jelly, all dr( .^sed up In red ribbons and sprigs of holly? Good things to eat please every body on the shopping list, snd holi day budpets beam with joy at the Inexpcnalveness of making these delicious spreads. Cinnamon candy Jelly and spiced prune Jam are two foolproof recipes to try today. The spreads are An- ‘ ished Just fifteen minntes after preparing fruit, you get two-thirds more glasses, and both Jelly and jam have marvelous flavor. Only one waniiug necessary — make extra glasses for the family, or you might And the gift shelf empty by Christmas Eve! CINNAMON CANDY JELLY (Makft about 4 medium glanei) 2 >4 cups sugar cups water \ ;;..JDd red cinnamon candies bottle fruit pectin Measure sugar, water, and cinna mon candies into saucepan and mix. Bring to a boll over hottest lire ind If ince tdd xifMed fmU pectin. stirring constantly. Then bring to a full rolling boil and boil hard H minnte. Remove from Are, aklm, pour quickly. ParaiSn hot jelly at once. SPICED PRUNE JAM (Makes about 11 medium glasses) 4 cups prepared fruit 7 cups sugar 1 bottle fruit pectin To prepare fruit, add iM cups water to 1 pound prunes, cover and let stand 4 hours or overnight. Bring to a boil and simmer, covered, 3fi minutes. Drain fruit; pit. grind or chop fine, and mix with juice. Add one teaspoon each cinnamon, cloves and allspice, or any desired combination of spices, to prepared prunes. Add juice of one medium lemon. Measure sugar and prepared fruit into large kettle. Ailing up last cup w'Hh water If necessary Mix well Bring to a full rolling boil over hotteat fire. Stir constantly before and while boiling. Bo'l hard 1 minute. Remove from tire ' ' bot tled fruit pectin, F 5-k- ly. Paraffin hot COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SpecUtor If Dr. rharles E, Burts had done'close Winthnrp? Would you turn out] nothing rise but labor again.'<t tin* convicts and shirt dow’n the peni- legal .siale of liquors he would kmrwn as a flaming evangelist tentiaiy?" And ht»w wise they look ^ whvn Ihs-y a.sk about those si*rvices! Turn aboirt is fair play, isn’t it? prohibition. For forty years Ur. Burts what is saucs* for the goose is said to went from one end of South Carolina !,auoe for the gamier; so l^t’s try to the otlwr arousing the |)eople sjime knockout question method, i againsd alcoholic liquors. In spite of “('an we continue, year, that dauntless devotion he was not vear, incTeaair>g a|>prapriations thought of as narrow or one-sid^l. regard to the earning power' for his was a full life aiKl hw minis- people?” Hold him right there,, try cotnbinH not only the denunci- ^ straight yea or no.; ation of evil, hut the love of ^»d in income of the! all its amplit^e arxl pow-er. Thou^ people is not ewn considered. The | his commanding presence, his rich, pniyailing ick*a is to have and to do,’ tieep voice and his treatment m top- earnings of the citizens are ks drow crowds to his church, he was considered •"'I helpful P«^r. , I.r. Burw wa. for~ f^ J ^ uapeyen,. T.xe. «h.eve™»nt .n all the pa.Wrate. "f altraeti.e that moie his mirustry and in all the otheo- phaa- es of his broad and heififul service. people would pay. That’s business and ,, ur ^ J that 8 how buairteaa makes profits. If He was a preacher of the t\ord and t- j . j a -a n au . J # aj. 11' _j c .... a . Ford tried to got all the money pos- he was a doer ef the N^ord. bpecUtor, . car he would sell fewer has paid tribute to the good Doctor’ -ii / aw.. i ♦ -ki ^ * u- cara, ao he sells for the least possible on other occasions for his practical , . ' , ... ... , , .1 and makes money on the volume. b.naf^r«* and hi. ardent intellwent and pro- of great CIVIC canjM..Noj»n of Ca ina ov i* mo make money and the taxe«-wiH awell; atrove more valiantly to enneh her , All the foregoing is my tribute aS| one citizen to another. Yet in my I but strangle it i root si heart there is a irreparable loss. profound sense of Any man of vision can see that we need more taxpaiyers in our state.] Then why do we not use plain buai-' 1 was a teacher in old Edgefieldines* sense to get them? A hundred two years during the great ministry dollars brought into this of Dr. Burts. In very truth he was,»t*te would help distribute the Ux the bishop of Eklgefield county, ease the strain. Well, why leader in all good work, a lover of'not- The answer is that we are so maidcind, an unawervirtg preacher oflofiff^*" to get all the eggs today that righteousness. I know him intimately j won’t leave anything for a set-' in his Columbia pastorate, • in his'ting tomorrow. We farmers are sow- leadership of the denominaition, in hisj'ng oata (pretty late at that) but we prohibition effort.s and as a genial'ane sowing oats we saved; we don t 'feed all the oats and expect Provj- Dr. Burts spent his means and he d«n<» to give us a volunteer crop, spent himself for the public good;! I venture a statement based upon a he laid up for himself treasures whei-e neither moth nor ru.st can cor rupt. 'considerable experience in puMic ad ministration. We can conserve all the! pubik services for considerably lessi money. By cutting salaries? Sonve-I The sute of Pennsylvania‘jwfvertTst. body wiB rush in and pull his hair,' es that it has cut the cost of adminis-jexclahning “don’t cut the teach«'8;l tration 17%. That is putting business don’t cut the poor,clerks; <^n’t harry into government. Why can’t we d*‘,the spirit of the professors. Even so. something like that? CouliJ we do it?!And they are right and wrong at the Dh, yes! , time. If the legislature would 'adopt a '^"hen you see some public services 17% cut and direct the budget coro-.(»nd some private services, too), pay mission to apportion necessary sums incompetent girls, or giria of the moat to each service it could be done. The [ restricted intellectual output, more legislature might say to each service,.'money Chan is paid a girl dedicated “Submit a imwram of unimpaired, to Che nerve-lashing business of ‘Submit a sei-vke, or program oi unimpai ” Result’ Unim-'teaching it makes you boil over. But paired aervice. »'■<• ■*" or • n>»iority. There is a number of fine citizens so competent that, apart from style who fear to touch any public service.’ and beauty and sweetness, they regis- They act as though something sacred ter heavily as social contributors, about public office makes it mis- You answer that. cbievous even to suekcst that we re- We have in the profesional Kroup strain the exuberance of the golden some men of transcendent ability a-s spenders. They meet us economisW teachers. They like common srtoo with a question which they think is a teachers of that type are l^yond all real knockout. “What would you cut;price. No man can evalu^ the worth out?" they ask. “Would you atop the of Dr. Carlisle or Henry N. Snyder. public acbcmls? Would you close the | Who J*’'"J hospital for the insane! Would youjJohn G. CTinkseales or D. W. Daniel. 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