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rage Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLt ■v Thursdoy, Jonuory 15, 1948 (Flip (Elintmt QH^ronirlp Established 1900 WII^SON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher HARRY C LAYTON, Assistant Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): / ' One Year $2.00 ....... Six Months $1.25 filtered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton,’S. C., under Act of Congress March 3, 1879. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers— ;he 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'naturer Anrmymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions vj? its correspondents. * "—• MEMBER: SOUTH CAROUNA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION - Exclusive National Advertising Representative GREATER WEEKLIES New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia /T T LIQUOR REVENUE AND MORALS • drinking 'would also | Thus was an evil thinf^imposed i drunkenness, or /or crimes growing rden upon other reve-' upon t he people‘of the state, and : out of drunkenness? CLINTON. S C.. THL'RSDAY, JANUARY 15. 1548 up th* deficit. * // without roads,” but" who could say on,e person in seven in the city’s [ Any decrease in police fine^result- that we will do without schools’* | population is* jailed in a year for ■ ing from less \J r\ j - increase the burden upon other - reve-j U p 0n the people f_ (Editorial in Anderson Daily Mail nu ® sources. 'thus it was continued year after year..; Isn’t a three arid ope4ialf mill tax by Wilton Hall. Editor of Anderson And so in Anderson and in South But,, after aM,' are not we selling | a terrific price to ptijf for the social : Independent and Mail, Former Pfes-! Carolina ^ijreat many people, inelud- our birthright for a mess of porridge? ,.decay and moraJ decadence that is ident of South Carolina Press As- ing majority of T)ur lawmakers,j We may, in Anderson, be reefucing gnawing away at, the vitals of our sociation. and ffirmer United Staie^dmve come to regard licensed liquo'r the tax levy by a few mills, by per- society through the continuing and Senator From South Carolina by ap- ^alts as S necessary requirement in Emitting the sale of liquor, but aren't unlimited use of liquor, especially by pointment.) - l* ie financial operation of city, county we paying a terrible, price fcpMhose the young men and young "women of j This week a routine r’ews^siory and state governments: paltry thousands when an average'bf^ur community? report^ that'the city treasurer nnd This state'of mind on the part ot 1 ' ' K ' : :— ; received over $6,000/£s' the city’s Irwmakers and a great many private share of the^currejWwine, beer, and citizens has been actively promoted liquor tax, 'y/'. __ by those interested in. thq liquor busi- The county also receives a portion ness, of this revenue, but the largest ft was hot" a mere accident "that’ is reserved for the state, wh: h eaT- revenue from the beverage tax marks the money for the operation of was originally ‘ eaimarked” for ISaLtth...Cai2lina-pubIic schools. • | schools. Our public schools, of ’ v. year the city received $16,- course, claim first place in public 700 as It^part of the wine, beer, and support. liquor tax. - | I«f the tax^ had been pledged to , But that is not all. < the building or roads, for instance.. Each year police arrest about 3,- ( jt would have been easy for thosei 000 persons on the .charge of drunk- opposing it to have said: We will do enness, driving cars under the in- fluence of liquor or for drunkenness • and disorderly conduct. | ( Fines imposed in these cases ag- v HOTPOINT APPLIANCES SELLING Q^UTY HOME APPLIANCES IS OUR BUSINESS, NOT A SIDELINE HOME SUPPLY CO. CLINTON’S EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR HOTPOINT AND CROSLEY - WMirim A. Moorhead This c nmunity ,w^s shocked aad gregate some $33,000 which brings intended moving here to spend his the city's direct or indirect revenue last years. ^ ^ from alcoholic beverages to approxi-. The writer in all his association mately $50,000 per year. • ... . early Tuesday morning hy mcn has known no one possess- Since the city government annual- xicath of William A. Moodiead j ing a more unselfish heart than'Mr., ly'takes in some $400,01)0....from all .ii., ' .lane crash near Washington. Moorhead. No more public spirited sources, liquor accounts for about •A:..:e enroll to t» New York on a bus- fl! izcn has livod }» community. ; one-eighth of the total income. n for his firm the Joanna tft ’ ncj ' oslty ai ^ hel l ) for oth ^ rs U the revenue from liquor taxes ' ''v corn-piny He was Gold- "^ n{,toworth y- U was a sweet sa- were removed, the 'city might there- - c • The Hash of the' v,)red fJ«^bros|ty. as we well know, j forei be fo: red to increase its prop- ’i^ brought genuine regret j^ one in secret without ostenta^, erty tax levy by^three mills to make '* ‘ < ^ ma uyT was a successful manufacturer Holidoy Accidcflts Low In County ' ;* 4 :r * .7 a • er y instinct through and through, 'ilvr- Columbia, • Jan. 14. — (Special to- i . ij- regarded textile exeeutive. _; mogt rfevoted and affeetj^atg head ! The Chronicle.)—For Laurens county K>ni soon spread mer lhc lirf his faroily Those who knew i the traffic accident tota‘1 was low- ’| UT1 , u i , '' y wlie ”‘ - year3 ; “Dick” Moorhead had explicit -confi- • during the Christmas and New Year ■ ha a been spent in * er '^: d crx . e j n hi s character and integrity. 1 holida y season^ with no* injuries or comjnun:;/ and em * i Therefore the ; tragic end of his busy,! dea f h 'S resulting, according to records e^s v< . m o i axyrvs • ■ wn’ , < is o! - regret from people in, . ... .. ... f 1 f K , 1, r, ‘ and wn th it a sincere friend, a noble- Irfe who knew him asa, . . ... . , , , „ .,hearted citizen, a gentleman in - ev- •st-rate citizen and a most ^ i ,»u ix " .1 icrina i >1: ii.; J:! v. tri - mill. 1 useful life brings keenest grief and : of the motor vehicle division of the .M-. Moorhead was a part of this- a profound sense of loss. The writer State Highway Department. ^ , j t , * , I r\ ^ 1 * r, 11^. . . in ms going feels he has lost a true Im.* and then Clinton and Laurens rwnty. As a young man just out of college he accepted a position in 1907 with the then Banna Manufacturing friend and helpful adviser through the years, akin to the ties of a fathe^ It’s hard to reulize he has gone fri*n us and we will miss his cheery One accident was reported m the county during the period from De, cemiber 21 to January 3, with this; one occurring in the New Year holi day week, from December 28 to Jan- W. G. King Sons j *:• f ' Announces A Complete New Floor Covering Department ASPHALT, RUBBER, AND CORK TILE in oil gouges ‘ - • , HEAVY AND STANDARD LINOLEUM LINOWALL — LINOTILE Also METAL VENETIAN BLINDS Estimates Furnished Free Call 438 Armstrong Products Armstrong Products *• jtnpuny at Goldville and here hej and kindly greeting and warm hand-' urar y 3. Four drivers licenses were *p.r.t h.s life in .unselfish service foj 1 . shake. i suspended in the entire period. -St people he loved, and who in t url ( His presence, his friendship and! —The stale accident total, unlike i»'veci him. I rxler several changes inspiration will be missed every day; that o’ Laurens county, was highest’ * eragerr.t nt and ownership. Mr.L n njany vvays. He leaves-Goldville! duri/ig the Christmas holidays. Al'j- Vtoofm-ad. in recognition of tus rec-j anc i Clinton, and his many other • 4 ime . 15 persons were killed and i irii and ability as a manufacturer,; scattered far and wide — a 121 injured in the 128 accidents; "errainvd at the head of the corpor-; memory. His going away, which cx-curred in South Carolina. 1 He saw lus conxpany grow from, hj-ifjjtj, anc | mov i n g grief to This contrasts with the seven deaths . small 5,000 ipindle plant to more, ^ u$anc j s Q f f r i enc j s j n a n wa iks of and 4 1 injuries .resulting from 87 ac- -"•..■•n lot,COO spindles, recognized to-, life, and’^orrow to" the community cidents in the week of the N*ew Year _Uay as one of the most modern and - he loveti and ser%*ed sp well holiday, progressive mill iximmumties in the/ - -He was a man, take him for all ; in all”—and we shall not soon look! assonated ! upon like again,— •entire South. .Jio.- -beart —-eiosely •Gnd rest Ttm? HI., since his purchase of the proper-; ' ‘ n „ R Zr ne 7 S*7r in * So Few People Think »5«s*lci>. and Mr. Moorhead beeon.-J p raotK , all d , he , asl the ooMions he held at the th ' ° r tW0 ’ the world has beer ‘ . h:s death » i,:.! rt 'S a,ed Wlth stones of bloody strikes jgvr •une i ' * -| an “ ar >' ia France and Italy. These strikes mnvpany celebrated “Forty Years .of, are j and d .-h'-ig-ess, the (evasion being one ut, .u-p. y . . . ■ . ..... . Communist parties of those coun- Crcat pr:de ;uid satisfaction to Mr.!. ■ . ^ ^ .. , , . . . , * .• . i tries for the sole purpose of so dis- Moorhead, who presided at the inter-1 k ^ ^ . , i rupting the national economy that exercises as master of cere- .vT: , , 1 the people, in desperation, will suc- - . ‘ cunvb to the brutal.ideology of slav-. Mr Moorhead had a successiul I e ry by which these creatures hope I «IMmi8KMRKHJCKXIM»«g:iU8»*:MIW career as a-textile manufiwUirer and t 0 p U ji themselves from the gutter was so recognized by the industry, • ’id as a ir.i’n of sound business judg- tieh: Likewise he was an unselfish, i.-cful citizen, always ready to do estiOg .T.or.ier Funeral Home Clinton, S. C. FUNER4L DIRECTORS ...and... EMBALMERS AMBULANCE SERVICE rhones 41 and 399-J L. RUSSELL GRAY ana V. PARKS ADAIR. Gen. M*r» DiximaiD’ Cr i- 1 CHOCOLATE NUT , ICE CRpAM to mastery over their fellow country- men. , We see growing misery in France: he strikers have ‘ brought toT ...• par. Hz possessed a heart of gold their own country. No wonder so \\..o kn?w him intimately • m any French people are committing :o: , A busy man, he always s u:cide / The struggle to live is al- i ;.:i.v to give his support and most too'great to cqpe with. The ) civic, educational and s.mie condidon exi'sts also in Italy - Mia.i-s. There was no trace| But Latins are not slkvs. And the • Jiltlcncs.- or meanness about the Latin reac’ion in k.:.a!.n s. zvna , to rough treatment is Kctr.er i spirit of fairness and. not particularly noted for gentlen— 1 ••if iess- out. r m. wai always characteristic j Today they feel a bit down and ouC or they would not stand by and .per- Casting his lot with GokJville early mit their internal enemies and po ll i.fe, his imprint can be seen there | tential destroyers to openly attempt everywhere one looks. In many ways, to starve them into submission by at contributed to the progress and | strikes and by opposition to the help happiness «f the people of that com-(which the United Slates—under the mumly. lit ibvod Goldville and its | Marshall plan — is trying to give people Often he has told us, “I put (them. When will the worm turn, if T.y people first, they have been loyal ( ever? v me and :n return the greatest joyj We are suffering in the' wnrld to- • hd .-•atisfaction that comes to me isj day from dictators and minority con- ht lp:ng them.” That was the man. trol in government, polities and what- rhe < was nothing aloft about him, 1 not. Why do thinking" people allow in’ pat himself on a level with his j these striking creatures to exist oatrrpany's employees and they in among tnem? Why do the freedom- return respected and trusted him. He Cloving French and the independent was their friend, his ofTice r dgor was j Italian* permit their enemies to harry always wide open to <dak to them them? Why do we Americans allow Dr. Felder Smith Optometrist Laurens, S. C. 126 EAST MAIN STREET South Side Public Square HOURS FOR EYE EXAMINATIONS: 9:00 to 5:30 Wednesdays 9:00 In 12:30 PhoR< 794 for Appointment about 'their problems, and the many who came through the long years al ways knew they would- receive a courteous and friendly reception. He rejoiced with his people in their suc cesses and happiness, he mourned wfth them in their sorrows. The names Joanna, Moorhead and Gold- these fiends to carry on in our coun try to its detriment—and conceivab ly—to its destruction? The answer is simple. The people don’t care, they won't bother to communicate with their congressmen and senators and instruct them to adopt stern meas ures with these dangerous enemies. fidelity and influence. The Joanna peufile do not need to be reminded ay us, or Anyone else, that they have ost a close fit end. Mr Moorhead was always inter ested m the progress of his state, county and community, and held many positions of public trust in which hu rendered unselfish, con- Aructive service. He was always in- ville' are inseparable, and always;The people are too complacent, in will be. That community is a menu-1 different, or iif you please—just don’t ment to his faith, his initiative, his care what happens. Most people are too unconcerned to go to the voting polls, or too lazy to write letters of protest. So by allowing Stalin, Molo tov, et al, 'to do all the thinking, we avoid the me -al effort required to foresee the gf ustiy results. • It’s a tragedy, but true—mort peo ple thLxl^ for themselves ho longer. All. .O Y Ft- pbng Machines — the . , .. , , barmy little office time-;aver jr«ied m Clinton ^.ita buMea.,chronicle Publishing.Co. educational and religious life, rrre ; jpective of denomination. His influ ence was always on the right side on •all moral questions. Clinton, like Goldville, has lost a good friend, one who has meant much to our commu nity in many ways. Several times he bold us that upon his retirement irom his heavy business responsibilities he i*#- 1 *"'' " ' '• • •• Backache quick coafortlDf halp for Buckucbo. i. now tin Up HifbU, xtrous BheumftUo nuna, ■joudy urtaix terttAtba^ to , Leg Paine, twolltn anUM, Aaa Kldnar aa4 : gaaraataaO. Ask for CyMaa today. DO YOU GO IN FOR SPORTS? Skating, skiing, yes even bowling can result in seri ous and expensive acci dents. An i£tna Accident Policy pays hospital and medical expense, ocher benefits for all types of accidents. WE LEND MONEY ON AUTOMOBILES S. W. SUMEREL, Agent OI IN"f\)? T , S C. Jz.cots Building—Tele. 80 Repraefldng The *Ccna Casualty and Surety Company of Hartford. Conn. UJ Urisp, tree-ripened nuts blended with delicious chocolate ice cream that’s DiximaiD’s January Special. Enjoy this tempting, Satisfying treat today. 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