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^7 -TXre Newspapers Needed? lierchnnt who says that everynows his place of business, and ht doesn't have to advertise, can land in Gaffney and in every community in this country. it merchant also says that CU8rs come to him when in need of f, so why should he waste his >y in advertising? Answer to question has been madd by a paper whose advertising man no t stumbled into places of busiwhere the oweer possessed that ic of mind. is newspaper answered the ques"Why Should I Advertise?" as . - ... l., . y'l'tihiififi - . . - - . follows: "Of course, the newspaper man might say in rebuttal, 'Everyone in this community knows all that happens here, so what's the use of reporting the news; what's the use of printing a newspaper?' "If the community can get along without a newspaper, it can get along without a number of other things. The adults are educated and can teach the children, thus doing away with the need of schools. The parents, being religious, can train the younger ones in the creeds, thus doing away with mimsteV* and churches. People can loan their money;, to one another and thereby eliminate banks. They can swap their old clothes or learn how to make home-spuns, thereby greatly reducing expenses and actually putting the clothing merchants out of business. "All trade is based upon a desire for goods. Necessity is, mostly but an augmented desire. Advertising has the function of reminding people of their requirements, but its greatest function?a prime factor in all progress and prosperity?is the creating of new desires; thereby stimulating trade and production and making for the greatest possible degree of employment.?Gaffney Ledger. Law Blanks at Chronicle Office. ? ' -J- I IX III If.. I luL. Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by Gee MeGee, Copyright, 192b. V-a-e-a-t-i-o-n Summer time is here at lest. The poor folks ?rc a!! poking up end preparing to move to their slimmer homes in the mountains and on the seashore, while the well-to-do families are putting up awnings and buy-J iiig ice books, and planning to stay, ut home and pay their debts and keep a-Working. 1 think vacation time is the most won.lerfullest time at all. A feller can go away from home for two or three weeks, and nary an installment agent, and nary a bill collector, and nar\ a nothing will bother him. He can just forget all about his grocery account and the notes his friends have endorsed for him, and he can sljeep all day if he wants to or sit up all night if he wants to. Gosh, doing that is tine business. Uncle Joe's boy, Sammie, went to the mountains last summer for a whole month. Sammie clerked in the Cashdown and Shutup grocery stoi^, but when he got back home another boy had taken his place. It seems Sammie promised to come back in a week, but he was off 4 weeks. Sammie swears that there ain't no justice in the way merchants treat their clerks. (He had to give up his car on account of losing his job after he had already made 2 payments). A man can rent a nie4 little 2room bungalow on Cat's Hack mountain for only 400 dollars for the season, and the bungalow is furnished, too. It has a 1-burner oil stove and a wash pan and a tin bucket and 2 cots and a slop jar and a milk bottle and a spring about 200 yards from the house and everything. It's fiiV tfo be able to rent a mountain house furnished like that. 1 know a man who rents a house up there for his wife and her gramma and grampa and ii n 'J kids of thcir'n, and he stays down home and 'tends to everything and plays cards at night and drinks licker and goes out at night nnsoforth, and it looks like He's having a better time down here sweating it out than his wife is having up the re a-keeping cool, but mebbe he ain't. (She may be flapping for all he knows). Everybody ought to take a vacation though if he can possibly borrow the money to do so on. Some folks Agger different ways to vacate. If a guy will not pay his milkman and his butter-man and his preacher-man and his groceryman for only 2 or 3 months, he can ?pve tip enough money that way to have the biggest time up in the mountains ever was. and he could "catch up" those behind bill3 in a short while after he gets back. But the only vacations a lot of henpecked husbands get is when their wives go off "summers," and they most in generally enjoy the freedom thus extended. I know, (Mr. Jones told, me so). . Life Insurance Uncle Joe took out some life insurance about 2 months ago, and he's already complaining about "everything going and nothing coming in." He took a 10-cents-a-week policy, and he says that it looks like the collectors always call on him for their money when he hasn't got a cent. $o far, he has pai(T 20 cents on this investment. He is trying now to get the collectors t* come only once a month and he promises them that he will save up 40 cents for them, but Aunt Minervy told me that Uncles Joe told her that if he lived a month -without dyin?> he could pos^sibly drop the- 'insurance then and save 4 payments, and if hti Wanted to carry it again, he could take it out in another company. , \ v' -y - Uncle Joe believes in life insurance to some extent, but he ain't no fool about it. He says that if he waster die, Aunt Minervy might just as like as not collect his insurance and get married again on it. He has ftggered out that if he pays regularly for 3 months the insurance company will bury him if it don't cost no more than 36 dollars and that would leave a balance of 14 dollars that would fall into Aunt Minervy's hands, Of course everybody knows that a 36-dollar funeral is a 1-horse wagon funeral, and a 2-horse wagon funeral would cost about 42 dollars, however ?wagon funerals are almost entirely a thing of the past, and nearly all corpses now ride to their last resting place in a hears* regardless of wheth-j er or not the said hearse trip is paid for. Statistics say that the undertak ers lose about 40 per cent of their storage till the coffin is paid for, but J most grave-yards would look mighty . funny with half of the "remains" aetting out on top of the ground waitng for checks to clear. Uncle Joe thinks a man ought to pick out his cemetery lot and his J tombstones before he is checked out. | He said that if he had the money right now that he could buy u tombstone that would suit him all right for 35 dollars, and the agents would hook Aunt Minervy for around 75 dollars and 50 cents for same after he had departed this life and left his vacant chair and gone on before to live forever on thtf other shore. Well, that's enough about such sad matters. Uncle Joe will be hero when a hundred good men of his age have passed out. Uncle Joe can eat hum and chitterlings right now for supper and not belch more than once before bed time and not at all after he has pulled the cover up on him. He has a wonderful appetite and a miraculous stummick. Nothing1 ever makes him sick. He swallowed a quid of Brown's Mule a few weeks ago, and he would not have known the difference if he hadn't missed it in his chawing. If he keeps up his weekly payments on his insurance longer than week after next, I will let you know. Political Dope At a recent meeting of the Ohello democratic club, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: RESOLVED: That this club go on record as expressing the belief that a lizard did not descend from a crocodile, nor a politician from a business man. RESOLVED: That we think turnip greens are more healthful than cheese straws, and that the Mississippi river empties into the Gulf of Mexico. RESOLVED: That we think that it is to the best interests of the gov ernment to appoint an investigating committee to investigate all investigating committees, and that a jaybird is in no way related to a chipmunk. RESOLVED: That one man is as good as another' and if there's any I difference, he's a derned sight better, and that Sen. Heflin iit a cross between a gas bag and a bull slinger. RESOLVED: That we deplore the present political situation, but if it takes defeat to lose Al. Smith, let's work for defeat, and that 9 persons out of 10 have halitosis and pyrorrhea. RESOLVED: That a mule is stronger than a billy goat except in the little matter of smell, and that 2 nickels make a dime and 3 times 4 are 11}. RESOLVED: That we express ourselves as law-abiding citizens that if any change at all is made in dresses that the same be made shorter rather than longer, and that an apple J a day will not keep the doctor away ;if you drink any hootch whatsoever. | RESOLVED: That we think 4' wheel brakes and installment buying have had a demoralizing effect on young married women and old married men, and that a fellow can't play , a Jew's harp on a mouth organ. RESOLVED: That necking parties be held in the parlor and sitting room rather than at parking places on side of public highways and in alleys, and that a mouse is.not an offspring of a rat. Urge Farm Day Washington, May 14.?Farm interests have asked Congress to designate a national "Agricultural Day" to encourage consideration of the basic relationship of farming and agriculture to the well-lbeing of the Nation. It is sought to establish "Agricultural Day" as a legal holiday and the Senate has already passed a resolution requesting the President to designate the first Thursday in October of each year. ?MMMMBMal i > - ' [Dairy and Poultry Feed II I WE WISH TO ANNOUNCE TO THE PUBLIC I I THAT IN ADDITION TO OUR LINE OF LARRO II I FEEDS WE HAVE TAKEN ON THE HAPPY FEED || I LINE OF POULTRY AND DAIRY FEEDS. THE I I HAPPY FEED LINE NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION I I TO CAMDEN. THE ONLY TROUBLE HAS BEEN I I IN THE PAST THAT NO STORE BOUGHT THIS I I LINE OF FEEDS IN CAR LOTS AND THEREFORE I COULD NOT GIVE THE .EIGHT PRICES OR HAVE I IT CONTINOUSLY IN STOCK. WE WILL ALWAYS I I KEEP THEIR ENTIRE LINE ON HAND. WE BUY I I IT IN SUCH LARGE QUANTITIES THAT WE CAN I I GIVE YOU THE LOWEST PRICES. 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