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gg=sgg=1 ? i1 ' The utilities of a city are combined J in your motor car v | YOUR automobile in ?om&> thing like a miniature city. There is an electric light and power system, a water system, a fuel system. In the new Ford, you will find each of these systems of the latest design and best materiuls. Every part l|as been made to serve you faithfully and well ut a minimum of trouble und expense. Take, for example, the generator?~one of the most . important parts of the electrical system which supplies the current for lighting and for engine ignition. In the new Ford, the generator is of the p Cwer-housc type and is distinctive in many features. It lius been specially designed to prevent most forms of trouble. Oiling is necessury only once a year.. About the only thing you need do is to huve the churging rate changed as the seasons cliunge. Closely allied to the electrical system is the ignition system. It, too, is of new mechanical design in the new Ford. There but one high tension cable und that connects the coil with the distributor. Even cables from the distributor to tho spark plugs have been eliminated. Special care lias also been taken 'to make the distributor water-proof, thus preventing short circuits from rain, etc. The entire electrical and ignition systems of the new Ford are so simple in design and so carefully made that they will give you surprisingly little trouble. Yet that doesn't mean they should be neglected. Certain little attentions are needed from time to time. The storage battery should be given water and the connections kept cleun. The generator charging rate should l>e changed as indicated. Spark plugs should be cleaned at regular intervals. Distributor points should also he kept clean and the distributor cam given a light film of vaseline every 2000 miles. These are just little things, but they mean a great deal to your car. You can have them looked after at very small cost by the Ford dealer when you take the car in for oiling and greusing. A thorough checking-up at regular intervals will lengthen the life of your car * and give you many thousands of miles of carefree, economical motoring. Ford Motor Company Flying Duck Hunters Jailed Amarillu, Texas, Dec. 10. ?A campaign against airplane duck hunters began here this week, and has resulted in the arrest of two and the j issuance of warrants for a socer or' more fliers from all sections of the ! state. Airplane hunters have been div- , ing toward flocks of ducks, then zooming upward as the flier in the rear cockpit opens Are. Ranchers are incensed, because the fliers excite their cattle, and in some instances causng stampedes. That policemen intend to rid Chicago of robbers is evidenced by the fact that they have kiled ten ofbbers since August 1st. This ex- ( ;eeds the nflmber killed during six- ( :oen months prior to the date nentioned above. j Four Possums in One Tree liock Hill, Doc. 6.?Most fishermen's tales hereabouts are pale beside the story told by J. H. Drennan and Sam Pursloy, who hied themselves to the woods a few days ago in search of squirrels and came home loaded with 'possums. Spying what appeared to be a den tree, Mr. Drennan climbed it to investigate. Poking around in the hollow he drew out one after another, four 'possums with an average weight of four pounds each. Eunice, four year old daughter of T. H. Free, a Union County, N. C., farmer died in a hospital Friday of burns received when her clothing caught Are from an open grate. The child was playing in front of the ftro when her clothing caught. pNobody'g .Business .Written for The Chronicle by Qm McGee, Copyright, 1928. The Folk* 1 Uve I love the guy who takes his finger end write* his name and his girl's name in the dust on my new automobile (Heaven bless him.) vfl Likewise my hearty goes out to the smart Aleek whoJUrts by me and turns irfto his boarding house not 60 feet ahead, (The worms deserve his carcass soonly.) , And my ejections for the pimp who gets behind me in a jam and toota and toots his horn can not be measured in words. (It would take a hand-stick.) Sweet are the words of the flapper who incessantly expostulates? "I'll tell the world." (May a spider get in her dumplins ere long.) I am especially fond of the man who parks his car behind me, and leaves it there till it suits him to either buy the pair of shoes or tell the clerk he will be back tomorrow. (Death, where is thy sting?) But the dearest thing in the world is the cake-eater who sits behind me in the picture show and pats his foot on my seat, that is? the seat I'm sitting in. (Oh, for a leg-less generation of vipers.) I certainly love the friend(?) who stunds so close to me when he tells me the same old stale joke over and over?he spits in my face. ^I have recommended a damper for his loudspeaker without favorable results.) But of aU the darlings in this widfct, wide world, none are cuter than the boneheads who jump up and stand ug> right in front of you at the footbaC game every time a play is mad*. (Come on, World war; we are ready.) My devotion runs rampant whep the girl that I have been fairly nice ' to "makes up" to me and pats me gently on the shoulder and fingers 1 the buttons on my vest in the presence of my wife. (Oh, lightning! Do thy stuff.) : But of all the adorable people that ' I ever met, are th,. folks who use my telephone for long-distance pur- ( poses, and forget to pay the tolls or 1 have the message sent colleJL 1 (Where's my pistol?) t 1 ha'hithC'r Ar? WC 1>,,ftinK? 1 no longer want any land. It's .,11 because a fellow can't ride in a farm. :?nd folks have got to ride, you know. What this country needs today is *"imj nice little farms on wheels with gasoline tanks and steering wheels ansoforth attached. 1 ho- average automobile costs just about what 40 acres of good farm ' land would cost on the present , market. Land will last a lifetime without very much depreciation'^ wear and tear, but an automobile depreciates at the rate of at least 2 dollars a day, and it costs about *8 . dollars a day to keep it running all the time so's it will depreciate faster. It becomes junk in 2 years, or at the first real wreck that overtakes it. There is a great deal of complaint about the high taxes on real estate, all of which is a bogy; The cost of a license .plate alone, usable for twelve months, will pay all state and county taxes on 50 acres of first-class farm land, and the property tax oa san\e automobile is at least twice the " tax on the farm used for comparison purposes. The road tax on the gasoline the average man buys in a year will pay all the taxes assessed on a 90-acre tract of land. Now, my dear deluded bankrupts: don't get me wrong. I think every man ought to own an automobile if he can possibly do so and remain honest. But the day is coming when we shall all see the need of owning something besides automobiles. When ft country anends fnr non na sentials than it produces, something Is bound to happen?just aa sukiyTt something happens to the family that apands more than it earn*. ^ ' r r i ,4 f. Abopt 96 pareent of everything we buy, with the exception of cotton foods ? which practically taboo*' thanks to the advent of silk and rayon, Is manufactured up north. We have to send our money out of the South to get our luxuries arid other requirements. We even buy Now York state eggs, and Iowa butter, and California peaches, and Maryland tomatoes, and Nebraska wheat, and Kansas oats, and Missouri beef. I simply don't see how we can do it on and on, and keep new automobiles and plenty gasoline within the environs of our families. ? '' " i* *' T - ' r. fry-,' -r We are alt living from "hand to mouth. Wo ave forgotten what! economy means. "We think it's a sin to try to save anything for a rainy day. But we are all keeping up ap-l pearances, and many of us are perasiting in order to do so. What we need most, homes, farms, barns, live-stock, is absolutely worthless? from our own viewpoint, and that*3l the trouble today. We are riding sol fast we dont take time to think. KOCK OF THE SOUTH ________ South (Vrolina Always Dependable iii Politic* , $ In what now aeemi the long alio the elate bf South Carolina had to secede from the .6nion in orjler to uphold wh4t ihe frit were her beliefs and ideals. In this good year of 1928 she has had to do what amounted to jfry\same thing. On this oc^len South Carolina's "accession"'w*s A much less importing step than it Was in I860. Nevertheless, it was significant. Almost alone in the South she clung to what Mr. Mencken called "the apex of normalcy." Once that phrase used of Maryland. But Maryland has inverted the apex and jnade it ifito a dent . in "normalcy." To Alfred Emmanuel Smith South Carolina gave it large and perfectly safe majority, without any internal wrenchings and strains. Not once did the Republicans even try to claim it. She simply remained Democratic, while Texas and Virginia and Florida and her sister state forgot all about traditions and renaissance; while other sections of the deep South were having to strug gle desperately to keep in the Smith column. It isn't that South Carolina is a state to which the rigors of turbulent history are unknown. She has in her time had abundant strife?wars with the Indians, Yemassee and Cherokee; wars with the Spanish; wars with pirates; wars with the French; wars with the slaves. In colonial times she indulged in a rebellion or two. In Revolutionary times she did her part in being overrun by the British and in producing Nathaniel Greene to run over the British. In civil war times she fired on Sumter ahd ca;ne ultimately to make the acquaintance of Sherman. In Reconstruction times she was a field for both "an orgy of crime and corruption," and for night riders. Decidedly a state with a fighting past and a great deal of experiertce. But in politics she remains "calm and imperturbable. While her companions fail and the "Solid South" is riddled and all the old familiar faces are making curious grimaces, South Carolina goes on doing what she always did before. In a world so full of change and uncertainty it is ' cheering to find one thing so sure and so definite. It may be a small .omfort to anyone, but it is a note- 1 worthy thing. From present indications, when even the last soul rises :o be judged. South Carolina still will be going Democratic, without any jutstion about the size of the maHonor Roll Blaney School Grade 1.?Lever Braziel, Thelma Mae Hornsby, Moses Braziel, William Maddox. Donald Watson, Jr., Helen Rabon, Lois Ross, Jewel Rose. Grade 2.?Ernestine Bailey, Elbert Cook, Lois Dixon, Edward Hinson, Gaynelle Hornsby, Mildred Motley, Talmadge Motley, Bertha Nelson. Grade 3.?Martha Branham, Edward Braziel, Inez Branham, Susie Mae Miles, Mary Rabon, Cleo RoSs. Grade 4.? Carlos Green Bailey, Viola Miles, Nina Rose, Minnie Grace Watson. Grade 5.? Reed Bailey, Juanita Peak, Mattle Rabon, Edwin Sessions. Grade 6.?Pauline Kirkland, Lois Mason, Clyde Peak, Jessie Mae Rabon, Beulah Spradley. Grade 7.?Charlotte Hawkins, Nell Hilton, Sara Maud Miles, Ernestine Nelson, Valdora Perry, Annie Belle Price. Grade 8.?Lillie Edens, Vearl Price. - Grade 9.?Thomas Miles, Susie Campbell. Grade 10.?Alan Edens, William Lee Sanders, Harvey Nelson. Grade 11.?Mae Belle Moore, Mary Rose. The manager of the Western Union Jblegraph Company at Greenville, S, C., has announced that telephotography and photogram machines have been ordered for the Greenville office and are expected to arrive at an early date. This means that picture ft?of objects and?persons?may bg" from the Greenville office lo "aoch othir cities as are equipped with 'fisachinea) In the same manner pictures may be sent to Greenville. It possible to send languages written in'Greek, Hebrew, code or any other foreign language with these machines r , Honor Roll Bethune School Grade 1.?Ju&nita Railey, Minnie Edna McLeod, Helen Hester, Myrtis Mungo, Virginia Chuch, Margaret Yarbrough, S. E. Askins, Douglas Mays, Jr., Oran Baker, Alton Elliott, Lout Hinson, Margie Jon'es. I Grade 2.?Lorene Blackmon, Grace Horton, Katherine Foster, Jolyi Dan( McLaurin, Margaret McLaurin, Hugh , Redrick, Dorothy Horton, Gerry Davis, Bobby , Griffin, Rowena Holland, Iris' McCaskill. Grade 3.?Cleo Elliott, Nell AsklnsL Clelia, Derrick, Herbert Hester, Robbie Newton Marion, Ellis Padgett, Juanita Pate, Aileen Hilton, Margaret Hasty, Lewis Lee Neal, T. B. Barnes, Mildred Fields, Lavern Jones Mangum, Ava Shaw, Alene Tyner. Grade 4.?iSarah Parrott, Lillie Mae Horton, Rosalee Hinson, Mary Askins, Elizabeth Brannon, Ray Gardner, Richard McLaurin, Mary Alice Catoe, Leonard Hasty. Grade 5.?Evelyn Elliott, Nannie Ruth Hilton, Ruby Davis, Nancy Tompkins, Arlene Wagers, Elmore Elliott, Price Baker, Dorothy Elliott, Ethel Amerson, Sara Brannon, Frances Bethune, Ruby Campbell, Virginia Derrick, Oneida Outlaw, Annie Ruth Ratcliff, Clarence Heustiss* Grade 6.?Frances Gardner, jfl Ruth McKinnon, Mary Ellen Laurin, Ruth Raley, Keith Myrtle Horton, Myrtle King, D? McLeod, Doris Shaw. Grade 7:?Lottie Outlaw, Ida A law, Thelma Davis, Marnfl Foster, Gladys Joyner, Laurence! Laurin. Grade 8.-?Ruth Jones, Mary! Radcliffe, Leo RacDcliffe, Edith I burn, Harold Capeland, Forbis M gan, Josephine Smith, Jake Smitfl Grad*. 9.?Lev/is Black^on, fl chill McLaurin. Mary Brnnnnn, KM both Raley, Margaret Trues! Philip Brannon, Oary Gardner, M rtie Eddins McKinnon, Mildred M son, Elizabeth Stogner, Dorothy ifl rick, Mittie Davis, Topsy McDoul Elizabeth Baker, Eldon Smith Grade 10.?-Edna Stokes, Mam Parrott, Lawson. Ilorton, Edl Gresham, Lola Grace Catoe, Jam King, Bernice Fields, Clifton Sew anC0 fl Grade 11.?-Eva Baker, Essie li ton, Myrtle Radclfffe, Emily Blafl mon, A Horn- King. One- way to be rememberw^l posterity is to'be a cityA>f final? sign the bonds.?Buffalo Eve? News. ' THE CLOISTER Sea Island Beach Saint Simons. Island (Just across the Causeway-st Brunswick, Ga.) A New and Delightful Hotel ** Every room with bath, service and cuisine unexcelled American plan, reasonable rates, Music, Dancing, Entertainment every evening. 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