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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, June 10,1054
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Establkhe4 19M
WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher
HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant
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March 3, 1879
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CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1954
Church History Articles
The Chronicle this week is beginning
a series of historical articles on churches
of the community that will appear at in
tervals.
The first of the series appearing today
is on historic Duncan’s Creek Presbyterian
church locatd six miles from the city on
the Clinton-Whitmire h i g h w r a y. The
church survives today after 190 years and
in its early pioneer years was the “moth
er” church of other churches of this sec
tion of the county. These church sketch
es will be of interest to ouh readers, and
specially to many people who are descend
ants of sons who fought in the Revolution
ary flnd Confederate Wars.
Our Election Returns
The Chronicle, ably assistd by several
friends, worked hard Tuesday night to
give the public the county election re
turns. The vote came in fast as could be
expected with 44 precinct votes to be tab
ulated. Shortly after ten o’clock the re
sults with the exception of two small un
reported boxes were announced. The com
plete tabulation appears in today’s paper.
All of the races except the House of
Representatives were decided, with the
third and fourth standing candidates in
this contest running over two weeks
hence.
There was considerable delay in get
ting the Clinton city vote counted, it com
ing in almost at the end of the tabulation.
With the large enrollment of this box a
change should be made to expedite the
count. There should be six boxes as . in
Laurens city this week for the first time to
eliminate the late in the morning hours of
getting the result to the voters. The City
Democratic club two years hence should
lecommnd to the County Democratic club
that more boxes be provided here, a box
for each war® in order to make a tabula
tion by wards for alderman and mayer-
which is now impossible? -
We are indebted first to Rowland’s Ra
dio Shop of this city for the use of a splen
did loud-speaking system over which the
announcements were made. And to R. L.
Plaxico and Tom Plaxico w’e are indebt
ed for a fine job they did in tabulating the
precinct results as they cam into the office
from Laurens where a trained member of
our staff was on duty to transmit the re
sults by phone at intervals to our office.
We express our public thanks and appre
ciation to the two Mr. Plaxicos for their
assistance. The complete county and
state vote appears in today’s paper.
In the meantime may we repeat—“If
You Don’t Read The Chronicle, You Don’t
Get The News.”
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Slow Down And Live
A three-month campaign is now un
derway to get motorists everywhere to
“Slow Down and Live”, the safety warn
ing being sounded by the state highway
patrol. Twenty-four states from Maine
to Texas will join in the campaign from
now until Labor Day.
It has been statistically proved, patrol
officers report, that nine out of ten acci
dents result from the action of drivers af
flicted with the “in a hurry” complex and
the “me first” attitude. On the highways
this is expressed by thousands daily in
traffic violations involving speed, includ
ing too fast for conditions, following too
closely, failing to yield the right of Way,
improper passing, and plain impoliteness,
lack of consideration for others, and plain
excessive speed. Throughout the 24 states
including our own, the emphasis will be
put on “Slow Down and Live,” with wide
publicity through press, radio and televis
ion ‘gntfen especially during the peak pe
riod of summer traffic. It is a campaign
that deserves and should have the support
and cooperation of every driver who gets
under a steering wheel.
It is encouraging to note that traffic
deaths in our state are down by 83 as com
pared with the same period last year, and
that’s a good sign. This decline becomes
more significant when one takes into con
sideration the fact that there are more
trucks and automobiles using
ways today than there were
Normally, such an increase
would lead to an increase in
rate. As of May 29 there had
fatalities this year against 305 in 1953. If
the present ratio of reduction can be con
tinued. South Carolina may set some kind
of a safety record in 1954.
This figure shows that by far and
large, drivers are becoming more safety-
our high-
last year,
in traffjci
the death
been 222
conscious. Y’ou don’t hear fool drivers of
ten bragging, as they used to do frequent
ly—about hitting 80 or 90. The safe, sen
sible driver i& the fellow who says with
pride, “I never drive over 55-60.”
To stop the carnage on the highways
is the responsibility of every automobile
and truck driver. Human life is so cheap
that it is not altogether safe to venture
out on the highways. Our effort should
be to reduce our accident rate. Consid
eration for others and obeyance of the
highway laws means more people who
drive will live.
A man in St. Louis stole four dollars
trom a blind man. Instead of being put in
jail he will likely be made a hero.
* * * * * •
Old George Washington couldn’t tell a
lie, but succeeding generations are trying
to make up for his failure.
Speaking of happiness, you find it us
ually wherever you look for it.
The way to keep business from going
slow is to push it.
Spring is here. The boys have started
playing marbles which is a sure sign.
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- This news item we saw in a paper f
“Four men on a railroad track. One had a
jug. Four widows sitting at home.”
BABSON—
Speaks To
Employers
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass., June 10.—Some of my
young friends feel that a recent pessimistic col
umn of mine will handicap them in getting a good
position. 'Hence, they wish me to tell the optimis
tic side of the story. There, js much-newspaper
talk about the delinquency of juveniles, the care
lessness of youth, and the lowering of school and
college standards.
Of course, the destruction of school or any
property should be given the severest criticism;
but some feel these crunes are only a natural re
action from the moral letdown that always has ac
companied periods of great wars. So much has
been written by me regarding the pessimistic side
of the •“modem youth” problem that I really
should pass along some optimistic words, espec
ially now at graduation time.
Hours and Wages
Stores are having some trouble from stealing
by employees; but this has been due partly to the
store’s carelessness. When it comes to the indus
try, initiative and loyalty of the honest ones, I
may possess some bood traits to a greater extent
than any previous generation. Modem youth
must admit that the high school graduates today
may wish to work fewer hours; but with tele
phones, calculating machines and dictaphones,
they may accomplish more in a 40-hour week
than I did when working 50 hours per week. They
claim five times as much!
Now as to wages: On the wall of a store ad
joining my Wellesley office is a tin sign dated
1904 reading:
"The Boston Herald. Pries One Cent
One of the leading newspapers of New Eng
land, THE BOSTON HERALD, now sells for five
centa We employers are disturbed at the wages
which ‘‘modem youth” ask; but are these wages
more than five times what we paid high school
graduates fifty years ago?
What Is Paleontology?
Paleontology is the science of ancient life. Re
cently Doctor Bamum Brown, Curator Emeritus
of the American Museum of Natural History, a
leading paleontologist, told me that the facts
prove conclusively every normal generation is
abler than its predecessor. The new generation
may do things which we oldsters do not like; but
it has other qualities which more than offset our
objections. This improvement, he claims, is due
to many factors—one of which is the better diet
which each generation has—more protein, more
fruits and vegetables, and especially a greater
variety of food.
When I attended high school, I despised such
subjects as Latin, Greek and certain higher math
ematics. When I would tell the teacher that I
would never use these subjects, the teacher would
reply, “These are taught to help you develop your
brain.” Yet, today, psychologists tell me that driv
ing automobiles through traffic does far more to
develop the brains of modem youth than did any
of those high school subjects which were taught
us. In fact, it may be that automobiles are today
doing more to sharpen high school brains than
many of the textbooks which I studied.
AulomobilM As Tsachsrs
I am scared stiff when riding with one of my
grandchildren. The way he drives “in and out” of
traffic astonishes mei Yet, he never has an acci
dent. The automobile may make the present gen
eration superior to the prelauto generation to
which I belonged. Furthermore, instead of urg
ing youth to drive slower we should perhaps be
content to urge “careful driving.” The best brains
ere said to be developed by alert, careful driving.
Therefore, I should say that 1954 graduates—
who avoid liquor and excessive smoking—-may be
the best we have ever had an opportunity to hire.
Perhaps, we employers may well (dace them in
jobs of us oldsters who cannot think as fast or vis
ualize as quickly as we once could. In fact, one
of the best tests which an employment fanenager
can use on applicants may be to ask for the appli
cant’s auto record. It may teH more than high
school marks. I do not know.
THE WORLDS MOST WIDELY USED DEVOTIONAL CUIDE
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O TMt UPffR ROOM NASMVIUt TfNNfSKi
And 1st us not b# wsary in wsll doing: for in due
season we shall reap, if w# faint not. (Galatians 6:9.)
Read Coloeeisns 3:20-25.
Stricken in her early forties with an incurable eye disease, it was
a terrible blow to my mother. She was faced with the fact that her
numerous activities in the home, community, and church would be
greatly hampered. Serving God and helping others were her great
est aims in life.
As she lay in the hospital with bandaged eyes, after her first ope
ration, not knowing whether she would ever see again, she com
posed the words and music to a hymn. Created out of the depths of
uncertainty and despair, it was truly a beautiful song.
That experience was the beginning of what has proved to be for
her a successful hobby. By means of it she has been able to in
spire and help many more people than would have been possible
jpirough limited personal contact. At 82, she is still writing.
How marvelously God uses His bruised reAJs!
PRAYER
Daar Father, help us to understand the meaning of
“Thy will be done in earth." Help us to bear illness and
misfortune without loss of faith in Thao. In the name
of our Master, who teaches us as He taught the twelve
disciples to pray. "Our Father who are in heaven . . .
Amen."
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
“A bruised reed shall he not break.’’
Bertha P. Boone. Homemaker. (Miaaouri)
New Telephone
Directory Issued
Local Subscribers
Approximately 2625 1 new tele
phone directories have just been
delivered to Clintan and Joanna
subscribers, according to C. W.
Underwood, manager for South
ern Bell Telephone and Tele
graph company. Mr. Underwood
said that “the old green color
ed directory should now be dis
posed of and only the new gray
colored directory used.”
This new directory contains
many new listings as well as
numerous other changes of tele
phone numbers brought about
by the extension of more tele
phone service into many new
areas of Clinton and Joanna, and
also into the rural areas, Mr.
Underwood pointed out.
In addition to subscribers’ list
ings, the new directory contains
much helpful telephone infor
mation as well as a classified or
“yellow page” section which has.
the listings for business teler
phone subscribers under head
ings alphabetized according to
their businesses dr professionc.
“This variety of classifications in
the yellow pages describing
products, services, professions,
and businesses provides a con
venient ready reference guide
when you want to locate a firm
or individual,’’ Mr. Underwood
said.
Looking up the desired num
ber in the new directory helps
to avoid the possibility of getting
wrong numbers and saves time,
inasmuch as many of the calls to
the “information” operator are
for numbers appearing in the di
rectory Mr. Underwood re
quests that “information” be
called only after it has been as
certained that the desired num
ber is not listed.
Subscribers who have not re
ceived their copy of the new di
rectory should notify the busi
ness offee of the company with
out delay.
ICE CREAM FAVORITES
Vanilla, chocolate, end straw
berry ate America’s favorite ice
HICCOUGHS
Take a long breath and hold
it for several seconds, or take
ten swallows of water slowly,
without Intermission, and with
out drawing the breath. „
30 Epileptic Attacks Daily, —
Condition Corrected At The Hart Clinic
“Dr. Hart, my husband has'
been having thirty or more
epileptic attacks every day.
This situation has been going
on for about a month. Yester
day I was advised to send him
to Columbia. I am on my way
to the Probate Judge’s office to
arrange the necessary papers,
but decided to stop in and see
what you can do.”
“I do not want to send him
away, and if you think you can
help him, I will bring him to
you for treatment.” said this
very worried and anxious
wife.
The patient was carried to
the Hart Clinic and his trouble
was found and corrected. The
patient slept soundly, woke up
and went to the breakfast ta
ble for the first time in 30
days.
After a few more treatments
at the Hart Clnic he is able, to
go where he pleases.
Head Condition
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"Dr. Hart, it certainly is
wonderful to be relived of
this awful condition in my
heed... -1 have been under a
head specialist's care for
months and now after a few
adjustments I feel like a new
person," said this patient.
You, too. can feel like a dif
ferent pprson. You, too. may
be relieved of your trobule at
the Hart Clinic. Telephone
22501. Laurens, for an ap
pointment, or go by the Hart
Clinic located at 205 Church
Street in Laurens.
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Friday, June 11
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