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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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