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\ PAGE FOTTR L ■r-i f ■/r; THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CUNTON, S. C. \ THURSDAY, AFRO. >!» VM (Slinton ^Ii^ontrU Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publishes Published Every 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 Post Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers— the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. 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 views or opinions of its correspondents. ' tPDAV REB LANTERNS ON ST. MICHAELS. 'By Thomwell Jacobs. Riustrated. E. P. Dutton. New York. Thik is a very Jrteresting historical And Birthdays COMMUNISM System We use the vroni Communism now- CLINTON. S. C.. THURSDAY. APRIL 11, 1940 THE CENSl S COUNT wars, settled nothing. Nobody won i literal sense o«f equal or common own Robert Cummings, son of Major novel, with an excellent plot, we^ i and Mrs. Alexander H. Cummings, I worked out. T|ie genius of the author I'ad a birthday Sunday, April 7. ' is shotw’n in the skillful weaving to-1 Pal Merrit, manager of the Home '• gether of the philosophy of American SStore, celebrated a birthday Satur- I hi<«tory and politics, Indian legend, day, April 6. i the legend of Mai^hail iNpy, the rp- Sunday,. Apt*!! 14, is the birthday I mance of the he^ Perry—a noWe of Mrs. Clieo^ W. Cox and Miss Jo- t'ellow who illustrates the old saying ^ephine Copeland. . . ..*• ^ ^ “Wood will tell”—^in his double Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Dunlap ob- aday.s to niean a system « ^'qmance with two lovely heroines of served their wedding .anniversary ^vernment whnrh J»s ^n adopted ^he com- April 5. 'we tTimr^to oonv^rt^^^^'rf'th^ plication is unexpectedly solved with-) EdmQnd Lawrence Young, son of are tryi^^ to of tlw heartbreak. The minor characters,; Mr. and Mrs. f. C. Young, is cele- in Annette, Miss- Meffy, General brating his fourth birthday today, j . economK j Creston, Colonel .Masters and others, Martha niihips MoMillian, daugh- j order from Uiat to whidh we are ac-: pj^^y p^,.^ The villain, I ter of Mr. and Mrs, Lonnie S. Me-,, .custemed. The Russian system js ^-'Mack Conover, Jr., is villainous'Millian, was one year old Tuesday,! ’ I tidily not one of Communism in the'^^^^, but not as villainous, as one ! April 9. SINGERS TO MKET There will be a singing'convention at the Pentacostal HoUness church on Jacl^n street Sunday, April 14, at 2 o’clock. A number of tingers of note are expected and the public it cordially invited to attend. • E. fe. Davis, President. J. T. Pack, Vlce-Presklent COUGHS, COLDS V Plieiia^L Rifective Vapor Treitmeiif. Httile Friii Sjse tear Drafglirt. ' expects. April 16 is the birthday of Mrs. Tlie big census count of the United ^y the brutal mi ssacre. No nation.; ership of all property. On Russia ev-. ^ ^ characters are intensely in-1 Jack W. Anderson. Jean Layton, and State.s is now underway, which is! regardless of the outcome, e^r tri-jeirthing including the Jivos and li^ terestang and we live with them day'Ann Barnett. , estimated to show a population ofi^^Phs !" by day as we read. The hiatoric facte^ Mr. and Mrs. Ryland’Sumerel will r32,000.000. Harry Hopkins, of WPA| grow s ^gam in the Sj^nish e^th wi^ by a sn^l minority call^^ together to suit the pur- o^rve their wedding anhiversary W^JLBENJASON SERVICE STATION Standard Producte Cars Washed and Greased Your Businese Appredatml t amo, and for a short while Primed j a ^ t^t ^ really belter begin its; the Commun^ party. Its mend>ership; writer, are trusterorthy. lor the presidency on the Democratic return. is limited. Whenever the party gete ,tate historian practically guar- 9/wk rrtovixr wtxxm d sia lAo.clAMa IrtH - A FALSE TEACHING Wednesday, Aprfl 17. J. P. Carr, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. too many memte-. the leaden, kill off, ;f„“,;ee;YhemrT^e** ®“"- ;or exile a te« tl»ua^, ao aa to keep ^ to'‘‘“Zj,''?:',' e- ^ 'Brannon wiUi anniversary, Sunday, April 14 , , „ . , , George C. Adair has a birthday dious page in the 6<0 of the volume. being well uniieci stales as ii our wnoie nation-’ • Of couree, w'e could give a aket^ done bv the enumerators, Mr. Hop- ial structure were on the verge of col-, abut why do to? Get it kins .states, and he predicts that with' lapse. Such talk is all ballyhoo for iHKlbllANllY—comnuiusm | ^nd read it by all means. It is fully Its completion the nation w’ill have' political effect. Not only is that not At various times throughout his- illustrated by woodcuts produced at ticket, was pushed back in the pic ture when transfo-ied to the RoOvSe- . . , , : . ■ -- sNieramP jiniounL or rtrimrcm wvorK do . - ; \elt cabinet as commeice secretary.; It is now quite the popular thing.jj^ ^ small and weM-disciplined ^ KU ninfd»niAl« TV» Mrs. C. C. Mr. HopTims. In this capacity, heads for many people, most of them high i wedding the census undertaking, and states in public office and supported by} Russian system therefore, is imo«.:nation there is not a drv or te la that during the first five days of the taxpayers money to talk continuous-Communism, but a tyrannical *« taking a quarter u! the work was ac- ly about present day edndUions in the^ ^ minority i^le. complished. The job is being well United States as if our whole nation-' .A ng-* I ol ofni/>f 1 ir*o ii,»<xr*o f^n thA v'ArcJA r»f — ('HRISTIANITY—Comnunism the finest current picture of its peo- true, but it is hardly likely that the tory the idea ha.s taken root of true the time of the events, as we under- ple and resources in its lifetime. remedies proposed by some of the Cximmunis'm, in which no one had any' stand. This is a valuable feature. Seven billion questions are to be politicians who talk the longest and advantage over any other in material The author is a poet in his own asked in the census. A staff of 120.000 pull us back from the' possessions, but all contributed to a right, and to the present writer, at Monday, April 15. Yesterday, April 10, was the birth day of S. A. Tinunons. NOTICE Notice is hereby given thatv I will render final accounting of my acts and doings as Administratrix of the estate of John T. Little, deceased, to Enumerators With books, pen and'ink i>*-ink of the precipice if that were common store of wealth, which was at least, the fioetic desenptions introduc-i Ibe Probate Court for Laurens Coun- j are engaged in taking the sixteenth actually w’here wc were standing. . disposal of every member of the ing the flowers and birds and land- ^ MMiday, May' ilecennial federal count. F^or every These persons, well-meaning, we community. | scapes are delicious, althot^h one i*e- 3* 1940, at ten (10) o clock ajm., and name recorded they are to get 4 suppose, who insist that instead of That was the principle under which' viewer we have read twits the author ceni.v. The cost of counting alone will being the best-housed, best-fed, tarly Christian communities and with these, governed doubtless by un- rcach mure than $5,250,000, When all wealthiest and in general the bappi-^ lived. They took this' der4ying prejudice. It is refreshing to '*«*_ of the questions have been asked and est people of any nation of the world,form of Communism to be the, fiml .some good description in the the final answers tabulated two years we citizens of the Uni^ States are jjj,.ggj teaching of Christ. Brother-! cataract of literature pouring from hence, the bill for the job will prob- under-nourished and altogether in a literally that all | the press nowadays, much of it crude uemiz^ andon or hefor.k ^ ably amount to $50,000,000, govern- set of economic misery and despair brothers and all should raw and disirustinir How refresh- u ment officials have estimated It is —may believe what they say. But we'Oiotncrs and all srvouiai ^ law and disgustmg. How rerr^ti- said date or be forever barred. will at the same time apply to the Court for a final discharge frenn my i duties as Administratrix of said^es-j All persons having claims against' said estate wUl file the same duly j interesting to note that the, first cen- doubt it. It seems more probable that ® i ‘Red Lanterns On St. Mich- This got them into trouble with^ael’s” to one who recently -read LYDE MILAM LITTLE, Administratrix of the Estate of John T. Little, deceased. rust ANY of JimaHiblDt v<m*t do nl' a pindL Nike sufc of your policy. /BTNA-IZB ( population of'3.929.214 names that our diversified population in-' tnesjn which tihey lived. It prevent-,TuAirtt bath—severafl ctf them4 iNOriCE—We will T«t K- f family heads, in their words, eludes, as it always has included, and ed the politicmns from taxing them,: Atlanta ihae Shown herself justly i ®e responsible ‘ and slave. always will—a large portion of peo- because if nobody owned anything he proud of her Margaret Mitchell; She! * puronase of any kind for su'- l)v Uncle Sam was taken in 1790 they have only just found out during . . .r , , . by 650 enumerators who traveled the so-called New Deal years, what; <>beir non-O^stian neig^ra, and grapes of wrath an^elt^t ^ ^d j afoot and on horseback. They classi- everybody else has always known, jwitb the I»litaca^ powers^ of the ^ cess^ ^ needed a|2^4cw fied a only of that the P*** never will be | couldn’t pay taxes. j may al.ro well be proud of her* Dr. j irmterials oi suppties, ohaittged | Ccipauie ul earning more than a bare Since people existed dhiefly to pro- Jacobs so long a citixen of that me- ^ employees <m our road | project beginning at the city (limits A w^V Thm Sonty Coaspa^ al Hartfardt Gaaa., caa b* wrinaa^apao^KCyoa against avary inauwnla riac ol While the public is told work of classifying the censu.-; tigures " j "■'j'' •’ 1 e-e*- ------ ^ ..... , n. ^ ^ in Washington will continue tor ^ large and growing pro-' vide revenue for their political rulere,, tropoJis. But Chnton also nmy loe years announcement of the total those who won’t work at'this early form of Christianity was! proud to place a wreath his brow, [Kipulation is expected by autumn. ing. Such has always been true dred the UTOPIA — Real With the big nose count on, a popu- . ' ' ' ' ”” ju*eu years Christians ^ve up lar pastime now is predicting what’ T^iis is not a pleasant condition to atru^le and accepted the existing the population of this or that city is nothing new It is as j political system, will be, with many boasts of antici-'"*^ very mation itself^lder, pated increases heard. Charlotte is already predicting that it will bave!^^^ the'tncomc«tenf neve^rthe hundred years agol I SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE an official population of at least 100,- the inco.ni^tent, net eithe Thomas More recentlv elevated ^ heart; for as XJone — - 00(, "hen .he t.gu're is announced-. iZ went' i " ‘l-e Wi«l- gkrtfies AtUnU, What will Clintons population b®> ahead - and built a nation on the!“hurch, wrote a book about an imagi- partly educated in our little burg. Doiditless here he read and learned to love and admire Horace, whom he TO often refers to and qiiotes in this i bocdc. of Clinton, S. C., extending io miles | on iRoute 56 tosvaTdq CStappells, un- less orders are signed by R. W. CIow- dus or W. R. Carson. Signed, iBate^urg Construction Company, 2-4c W. iR. Carson, Pre«. S. W. Sl/MEREL AetnR-ixer Phone 80 Clinton, S. C. ‘Red Lanterns On St. Michael’s” glo- premise of equal opportunity, and 1 nary country which he called “Uto many are asking. In 1930 it was 5.643; m 1920, 3.767; m 1910, 3,272.asking and expecting"hand-'pia.” It was adWription of a -whale .nil? Inc"J ?? .o?i Iww?’ outs from the public treasurjiu!* ‘nation living happy, and ooateqted When members in congress, cl^-h'ves under a Communistic system in oring for increased relief appropri-' wthich wealth was shared, everybody ations as a permanent need, start out 1 «>ntributed his lahtw to the common WHAT HAPPENED IN SPAIN vvith the false preface that “never (welfare and everyone’s needs wete in 1880. 465, and in 1870, 200 Now make your guess for 1940. “The Paper Everybedjr Reads” Surely when three-quarters of a before in history" has a situation ex million human beings have poured isted such as faces America today, out their lives in bringing about a its members either attempt to mis- certain result, the world may be par- lead the nation, or conspicuously dis- doned an inquiry as to just what was i play their ignorance. TTie world did that result, jnot begin when the present gener- It is not quite one- year ago that ation was born. The distress cry of General Franco of Spain mounted the theorists of the past seven years steps of Santa Barbara Cathedral in' (champion spenders of other prople's Madrid and handed his sword To Car- money) is not confirmed by history- dinal Gomay Tomas. He was master I Just the contrary is true. These self-} of Spain. The dead were dead, great labeled reformers ought to study his- piles Of them. The civil war was Tory and inform themselves of the ended. ’ life and struggles and accomplish- Thc republic, with all its dissen- ments of the peoples of this nation tions, its {xilitical turmoil,. its dis- for the past one hundred and sixty- orders, was dead. F'ranco was free to four years, begin establishing his state. j ^ year has pa.ssed. Here are the leading accomplishment.s} we are |C told, in that peruxl; I o There is order. More than a half million adherents or« suspected adherents of the repub- j lit are in prison. j ^ j Much reconstruchon of war’s rav- Mr. and Mrs. J. I.' Coleman and} ages has been accomplished; many of j Frank Giles left y^terday for Miami,) the 12,000 destroyed Madrid build- Fla., where they will make their fu-j mgs have been replaced. Iture home The grandees have their lands Items of Interest from The Chronicle April 9, 1925 met out of the common store of wealth. Recently it has been learned-that Sir Thomas had heard from a sailor had been shipwrecked on the coast of Peru, an account of the still mysterious kingdom of the Incas, Itmg before the conquest of_ Peru by the Spanish. The treasure of the Incas was stolen by the conquerors, its lead ers were slain and the people reduced ■ to slavery. But sudh authentic- records as still exist indicate that this strange peo ple, whose oi-igin is unknown, lived for thousands of years in the nearest approach to the perfect state that has ever been achieved by humanity. They were able to make Commun ism work because they were com pletely self-sustaining and shut off from envious neighbors by high mountains and impassabde rivers. (> '► (► 1 > < ► i > ' I ► < f rifles Charleston. We have long had a warm »pot in our Heart for Charles ton, ^’ow .it js in, a gkw,, olooded Southerner,'wmo. will love and treasure both these books, should, if he has never done so, get and read Father Ryan. Maybe the right will yet prevail. The brutal barbarity and fiendish *^8ohreok^ichkeit” of modem war, which appals us so, had its be- ginning.ln.the -war of '61-*66, and it is not amias to turn back occasionally and review what ow people went through. And it gives us an uplifting thrill to thdnk how Atlanta and Charleston and Columbia could rise from the dust aiid ashes and blood and starvation of such dreadful havoc as was wrought by a ruthless foe. We wondeir If Dr. Jacobs has thought of writing a sequel to “Red > ] [ Lanterns,” covering the Tragic E5ra between^ ’65 and We hope he will. —D. J. BRIIMM. Clinton, S. C., April 3, 1940f T;'e.*dohHSoifi Plumbing, Heating and Contracts OVER 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE CLINTON, S; C. PHONE 381 ii biick. the Jesuits have been returned, mother in Columbus, Ga. to their former position. The tradi-1 Miss Emmit Pitts of Columbia col- tional religion of Spain has been re- | lege, is visiting her parents, Mr. and stored to its ancient place. 1 Mrs. J. M. Pitts. A British credit of $10,000,000 and ; Mr. and Mrs. Gary Dillard are the 250,000 bales of American cotton on' guests of relatives in Salters, credit are helping to restore business,' The ladies’ auxiliary of the First though food is scarce and prices are Presbyterian church has elected the high. following officers to serve the coming Business is under complete cpntrol year; Mrs. J.i I. Copeland, president; of the government. No factory may j Mrs, John Spratt, vice-president; build an addition, not a peseta’s, Mrs. T. J. Peake, secretary; Mrs. J. | worth of goods may be imported. Will Dillard, treasurer, without government permits. Prices I Mrs. R, B. .Vance was hostess to are fixed by the government. the Actaean club on Thursday after- The Falange, Fascist organization noon, behind Franco, has instituted a re- j ' Op Thursday evening Mr. and Mrs. gime which throughout is very like!William Bailey Owens and Dr. and that of Italy, including dreams of)Mrs. S. C. Hays entertained a num- empire. Even in the far Philippines,' ber of their friends with a Bridge tea. , there is evidence of this ^ort toj X lovely party given by Mrs. W. propagate the Falangist system. A. Moorhead on Friday afternoon an- How long it will take Spain to get nounced the engagement of Miss its broken transport system, its shat- Maude EJlis to Marion Ashton Du- tered economics, back to where they Rant of Alcolu. were four years ago, it is hard to, . ^ say. The less tangible results of the; bitter civil war will be considered i gains by some, losses by others. As! Americans, it is almc^t impossible; lor us to judge. What comes to the American mind is not so much “Is this good?” as “Was ^is really neces- I’EKFECTION — Experiments The ward “Utopia” has become a common noun meaning an ideal and Mrs. T. J. Peake is visiting her NOTES FROM Cl HEALTH DEPAR CITIf TMEl NT Rabin Tacci&atiou Beginning Monday, April IS, and continuing thri>ugh the week, dogs will be vaccinated against rabies. What we should learn from all this |'Those having dogs w^ich have not is a lesson against intolerance. Be- been vaccinated during ^ year, or sary?” cause two opposing factions in J since May 1, 1939, should bring the Spain’s life coidd not, or would not, j animals and avoid later embarrass- adjust themselves to one another ini ment by having the dog killed be- a workable manner on a give and cause he docs not have a tag show- take basis, 750,000 men and women I ing he was treated of phlloHophers have 'written books tailing haw universal contentment might be aOhieved, and thousands of attempts to work it out on e more or limited scale have been made. All but one or two of these attempts (have failed utterly, and the ones tbst sur vive have done so by abandoning most of their original Gommunlstic prin ciples. Nearly ail of these experiments have been tried in the Unit^ States, begnining with the settlement oi the PHgrims at PlymoutJn, where every thing 'was owned in common. After seven years Comimmism was aban doned because the younger men re belled at wosklng to support other men’s families. The Mormona have eooceeded bet ter than any other group in budding a community Hfe in whidh, though 'all are not hqual, none ia a^wed to starve. The Mormon empire bee bami built on Hie foundation of rigid ra- hgiout control of the lives of its members. That is aleo true of the only other surviving eiqieriment of the smt, ttte Oneida oommnnity. Both the Oneida Perfeetkmiats and the Mormon Ghtmeh of Jecue Christ of latter Dky Saints had to sdmndon some of their original pruwiples in order to vive. WILLARD Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Willard of the Vlusgrove community, announce the jirth of a daughter, Frances Eliza beth, on April 1, at Hays hospital. terprises of a century ago. Brook farm in Massachusetts, that their venture was anything in whidi gov ernment was or oug^t to be concern ed. The most eminent inteHectual and religious leaders of the time joined in the Brook farm experiment, or gave it their support, beeause''Thiey saw no other 'way to demonstrate the ideal way of life which they had vis ualized. Brook farm failed because its peo ple failed to recogni^ inequelities m,, talent and sdidlity between mdividaale,|! | and were so coi^etely cmnmitted to’ the kteala of democracy and inMvlduai liberty that they 'mmdd not mAject any mendber of their ookny to dbKi- pline, either rdigious or p^tical. are dead. And die long, painful effort back toward a lite of peace, toler- atkm and security^ ginning, with a long to be eUo^ed. The ^Mmish. civil all is just be lying ahead war, like all Cost of the treatment is only fifty cents for a' year; and jn additiem a vaccination reee4^ relieves owners of dog tax. The place (pr trfitpniwt is city hall, “ totoSTto from the 19Ch inclusiva. INDBPENDBNCB^Bfferts All of the early efforts in this ootm- try to estMdisih aometMag Mite the communal system of the early tians were made by groupe of kaBhrid- uals aetkig hideperidently of any Rea- ermaent It did iM>t afaor to tha itmidin ef the meet famaua ef the , Lemon Juice Recipe Checks Rkeumatic Pain Quiddy . H you snffer'front itenmatk, arth ritis or naurlfls pain, try Ods simple inexpensive home r^pe that thou sands are. using. Gct .a package of Ru-Ex Compou^ today. Mix it with a <iuart of water, edd the Juice of 4 lemons. It’s eaey. No trouble at all and pleasant. You need only 2 talkie- spoo^ls two tiroes. a day. (ktoi withto 48 hours — sometlmas over night—eplendid results are obtaioad. if the pains do not quickly leave and if you do not feM, better, Ru-Ex will cost you nothihg to try as it is told by your druggist under an alMK>)ute noney-ha^t fuaranta^ Bu-lbt Cam- pound is ^ salt ana rceemnendad h7 SADLS^WtENS PKARMACT, |wB txf AULipitt tr miirnd This. Is A Home-Owned Institution 'nSSE MEN ARE OUR DIRECTORS . . elected bjC the votes of those who borrow and save with MS . ... dedicated to the s^vice of Your Family In stitution . . . serving without pay, so that more Clinton neighbors can sav<e money and finance their homes, co operatively, with greater economy and satisfaction. B. H. BOYD, Secty-Treas. Citizens Federal Savings and Loan Association ' ' U'. A. MOORHEAD, Local Manager, Joanna Cottim Mills ‘ W. W. HARRIS, Publisher of The CHnton Chronide D. C. HEU8TBS3, CHy Clerk of Cttnion Aetna—^Inaiiraiice T. D, COPkLAND * Merchani THOMAS HEATH COPELAND Menjiuuit M. .J. MeFADDEN ^DeRtfBt J. P. PRATHER Mahngsr Spratt Gfeb^ CUnton These men arh sur idBcera . . . elected hy aor direc tors . . . servlnc yen with a minlmam of rsd tepe . . . ready at all times to he id; help. Dr. M. J. l|eFad^ President J- P. Pnther Vice-Pr«iitot B. H. Bpyd B. Hubert Boyd AftsL 1^“'' I*