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Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by (Jee McGee, Copyright, POT SOUP .. Her? is the prayer of the average politician: "Oh, Lx>rd, please help the government to cut everybody's salary except mjne and my wife's and my son*' and their wives', us 64 and no more," . . Home of our congressmen can't see any further than t^eir own front door. They don't realize that it is necessary to acknowledge that we have been and are possibly yet facing an emergency, and that more is at stake than Vieir office. i ^ ..Our railroad commission directed the telephone company to cut its rates about 60 days ago. So far the subscribers have saved $0.00, and if they continue these new low rates, the public will save $0.00 during the next 12 month*. Since the war the government-controlled interests have reduced their rates and assessments in the sum of $0.00, thus permitting a total, saving of $0.00, for which we are not unmindful. ..This good old country of ours ha* swallowed millions of misrepresentations from the higher-ups. New York City has l>eeri a veritable nest of bunk and bunco-steerers. The big boys have had peddiers galore dishing out their worthless stocks and bonds .... w hich i> only another polite way to stea!. That's what i> wrong with us. We've been robbed, snagged, ami-!uggid and der ived by ourl lenderfur 1<> or 12 years and now i ....we leu-' -tart all over again and (lea! w.th honor.iMe people instead of fraudulent shy-icis. '1 hey got me for $! 2.00. Tn.ey were letting Zangara write a his to: y of his life. Who cures anything about his history. Here's how it sh uid b< written: "Zangara, a nothing, a bunch of scum, an imbecile, a .bo]shovist, a rat, a scalawag, an undesirable, a skunk, a murderer, was electrocuted 42 years too late last Friday by the sheriff in Miami, Florida." (i L E S T I O N N A I R E Q. Who is the government? A. The people. Q. Who is your state? _ A. The people. Q. Who is your city ? A. The people. Q. Who furnishes the money for federal aid? A. The people. Q. Who supplies cash to the grafters 7 A, The people. Q. Who owns the government? A. The people. Q. Who will pay the money the R. F. C. spends ? A. The people. g. Who raises the money that politicians waste ? A, The people. g. Who pay* the naiades of useleas job-holder* ? A. The people. g. Who pays for school bua trans* portatio*)? A. The people. g. Who is tire<l of public extravagance and high-handed spending ? A. The people. g. Who elected our politicians to office ? A. The people. g. Instead of pleasing themselves and their kinfolks, whom must they please from now on ? A. The people. Q. If they don't mend their ways, who will denial a.change? A. The people. g. Who is doing 99 per of the suffering todfcy, the people or the men and women who hold public jobs? A. The people. g, If taxes are not reduced at once, who will stop paying taxes? A. The people. g. Who is easy to satisfy if they get anything like justice? A. - The people. g. Who thinks crooked politics got us in our present mess? A. The people. g. After all, who foots every bill for roads, schools, farm relief, Boulder dams, graft mail contracts, unnecessary public building.*, useless bureaus, worthless experiments and everything else? A. The people. g. Well, what are you going to do about it, Mr. People? , A. Nothing at all, thank you. ,Ju help yourself. EYOI.l TION OF TllK PAY ENVELOPE AFTER BEER ARRIVES Bill Smith is an average citizen. He has always liked a little toddy. He makes a fair living for himself and family. His weekly bills \yill possibly run about as follows after beer makes her debut into polke society : June 1 10 loaves of bread, 2 pounds of butter, 1 sack of Hour, 4 pounds of steak, 2 pounds of ham, 1 bottle of beer. June 7 8 loaves of bread, r pound of butter, 1 peck of corn meal, 2 pounds of steak, 1 pound oT ham, 3 bottles of beer. - ' - ? + June 14 C, loaves of bread, pound of butter, 1 gallon of com meal, 1 pound of rump roast, U2 pound of ham, 6 bottles of beer. June 21 3 loaves of bread, v2 gallon of corn meal, 1 soup bone, 1 pound fat back meat, 12 bottles of beer. June 28 2 loaves of bread, 1 quart of corn meal, '-a pound of baloney, 15 bottles of beer. July 6 1 loaf of broad, 1 pint of corn meal, 2 meat skins, , 24 bottles of beer. July 12 I loaf of bread, j 32 bottles of beer. | July 19 j 48 bottles of beer, 1 poor house. Palmetto Highways Are Longest. Statistics prove that the people of South Caroliua now enjoy an unexcelled system of hard-surfaced high. ways, Louis A Soarsor., accountant, said in reporting the annual highway department audit. South t arohna and North Carolina each had approximately 90 }n*r cent, of nil state-maintained roads in the ">urfa.-. classification m 1930 S?-ar-or. r-p?.rted. This included hardsurfaced :.nd top soiled. Ce.-.rgia At the same date had about 55 per cent of its -late mads surfac "ed. Virginia had 75 per cent, Alabama "u per cent, Ki?>ridn and Tenne-.-ec ^ about f,o per cent. Senrson said. South Carolina's expenditures f?>i ' roa<is that year exceede<i every ot.'nei 1 stale in the union with the exceptior of Massachusetts and New Jersey or [ the basis of tAtal mileage in then , systems, he added. ' I "This fact, together with subse que.nt progress, leads to the conclu . .sion that the Rtate now maintains r l position of leadership in highway det velopment," Searson concluded. George Thomas I>ixon, 83, who** . h<?bby was the giving of organs tc , needy churches, is dead in New York Plane Crashes House Twelve People Killed Oak It* ml. Calif., Mar. 26.?^-KainHAornia, causing poor visibility, wer# blamed today by Varney Speed linea official* for the craah of their transport which took 12 lives, injured two persons and reduced two dwelling8 to smoking ruins. A triple investigation of the craoh was undertaken by federal, state and county authorities. The plane, piloted by Noel Kvane, former war flier, and carrying aa passengers Herman il^Brown, Hollywood builder, and Miaa Lavele Miller, of Los Angeles, hurtled out of a rainstorm near here la?t nig'ht, carried away the tops of two house# and crashed into the dwelling of Mr. and Mre. Joseph Arise, with an explosion that was heard for miles. The AriSa home ami an adjoining dwelling, sprayed with burning gasoline, roared into (lames, trapping Mrs. Arisa, her four children, and four friends, all of whom died. Joseph Arisa, the father, plunged through a window, *o critically burned he was expected to die. Victims, besides occupants of the plane, were Mrs. Arisa, her children, Anna, 10; Joseph, Jr., six; Michael, four; and Juanita, one year, six months; and four neighbors, T^py Serrano, 20; Joseph Serrano, 18;^pis brother, George Jeannott, 18; and Flo res Fuentes, 17. In the home of Joseph Jordan, nexti door to the Arisas, a dinner party, was breaking up as the ship plunged j from the sky. Mrs. Tony Toohero, a; visitor, was struck on the head by j a falling timber as the house collapsed. Flames and pieces of ftiselage shot: in all directions. The motor of the j plane ripped loose and tore a hole j through a tree in a neighboring orchard. Crowds gathered as skyrock-: eting flames'illuminated the sparsely! settled district, plunged into the dark-1 ness when the plane caromed through electric transmission wires as it fell. All available fire fighting nppara-j tus was sent from Shn I^eandro and Hay ward, but the firemen were helpless. There were no fire hydrants in j the unincorporated district and chemicals proved almost unavailing. The single motored, low wing mon-; oplane was enroute from I?s Angeles to the San Francisco Bay airdrome at Alameda. Evans, the pilot, with hundreds of hours of army flying to his credit, recently moved here from Los Angeles. He formerly was chief pilot of the Old West Const air mail line, operating between San Francisco and Seattle. His widow survive?. Miss Miller, formerly a music writer in motion picture studios in Hollywood, had been unemployed recently. Demand Heavy For Crotalaria During the past several days farmers from all over Kershaw county have placed with the county agent orders for varying amounts of, crotalaria seed. In fact these orders have run from 6 pounds to 3,000 pounds each. Everyone who will probably need some of these seed and who have not yet placed orders for same are requested to notify the county agent as soon aa possible stating the approximate number of pounds they will want. It is hoped that Kershaw county may take the lend in this valuable legume crop and if this can be accomplished making Kershaw county the leading crotalaria county in 'South Carolina,' our farmers should make some profit from selling crotalaria seed to other counties in this state. However, if Kershaw county is to become the leading crotalaria county of South Carolina, it is necessary that wo establish ourselves well in the | business this year. This is an opporj tunity for us to cash-in in another 1 side-line crop, states Henry D. Green, j county agent. iMore Yellow Corn ;! Should Be Planted I tine of the be -1 things that farmers J of Kcivhaw county <-..n do is plant at lea.-t a pa:t of their corn in yellow '.com. It is r.ow a well-established fact that yellow corn has certain adj vantages over white corn. It contains i . ,ta:r.:n> that wnite corn does not {cntain. It is also stronger for feedling value for livestock. In fact it ' {<}.not require as much yellow corn to feed a mule as white corn, also livestock fed on yellow corn will npt hau' blind staggers ns is often the ca-e when uorkstock is fed <ypslus?Vef 1 y on white corn. There uMaa 11 y a 1 i g'-od demand for surplus yellow corn. If y^_ tia \e not been planting in yellow corn. I recommend that you plant at least a fourth of your corn , crop in yellow corn, says Henry IX Green, county agent. Tryon All Set For Annual Horse Show Work on the many details incident to "putting on" Tryon'* eighth annual horse show, April lldth, is well under way and present indications are that the coming show will surpass any of the previous shows both in entries and attendance. A meeting of the chairmen of the various committees was held in the Fox and Hounds room at Fine Greet Inn Tuesday evening. All reports were most encouraging. Twenty-ftve parking spaces and fourteen boxes have been sold to date. The out-oftown box holders include: Mrs. Richard W. Austin, Mr. and Mrs. U. G. Speed, Miss Zella Williams, all of Biltmore 'Forest. Among the exhibitors are: Sergeant Daniels of the machine gun troop of the 109th cavalry, IStatesville, N. C.; Capt. Lyda, Troop "K," Asheville; Mr. M. R. Bissell, Jr., Grand Rapids, Mich.; ?J. H. Adams, Greensboro, N. C.; Bon Gilford, Greenville, S. C.; R. H. Johnston, Charlotte, N. C.; A. D. L. Barksdale, Charlotte; Harry C. Stuart, Elk Garden, Va. The Hon. Dirk Van Ingen, New York, will act as judge for the hunters and jumpers. The Hon. Claude L. Pemberton, Elizabeth, Ky>> will judge the gaited classes. The Hon. Samuel L. Wooldridge, Lexington, Ky., will judge the hound show. The committees are hard at work on the various activities connected with the show. The grounds committee is busily engaged in getting the show ring in good condition. New j grass has been sown and a beautiful j solid green turf in assured. The; hedges and boxes are also being trimmed and the boxes repaired. The large number of northerners in Tryon at this time, many of whom will have entries In the ring, are) lending their interest and support to j' the show and other Riding and Hunt Club activities. The club's regular; season program of drag hunts, .trail rides and picnic rides is well under way with several events taking place each week. Publicity concerning the show is being carried on in seventeen north- , ern and southern papers weekly. Barn Full of Corn ? Factor In Farming It is . very important that farmers of Kershaw county become self-sustaining as far as practical and as soon as possible. One of the main factors in making a farmer independent and self-supporting is a barn full of corn. I strongly recommend and urge that farmers of Kershaw county plant a few extra acres this year in addition to what they had intended to plant and that this corn be adequately fertilized and worked. Concerning farmers on light or sandy type soil I recommend a liberal amount of potash for their corn. Many of our farmers side-dress corn too late. Corn should be side-dressed when about knee high. It has been shown by experiments that side-dressing as applied aft<jj the corn is knee high, most of the value of the side-dressing goes into the production of t&sselling and not in the production of corn on the cob. Farmers who are planting corn this year after Austrian peas have been turned under will need very little ammonia. For those farmers who desire to build up a special plot of ground for a high yield of com, I recommend they plant this plot to Crotalaria this spring, turning this under planting Austrian peas this fall. These will be turned under in the spring followed by corn and this com crop should be very successful. If every farmer in Kershaw county will plant three extra acres of com I per plow, he will receive very bene> ficial results this winter, advises i Henry I). Green, county agent, j Depression House Is Carried Away i , 1 ? Abbeville, Apr. .1.?The depression' is responsible for many stories which have gone their rounds over the town ami country. A prominent citizen teiN this one. Several years ago he. bought a house and. lot of several acres, near t'he city and when caught( in th?- banks and depression he re. solved to let it stand until bettertimes. The feeling of renewed confid* nee which is said to be on hand made him co out to look at his prop-; erty only to find that the house had been taken down and literally moved away. Only the chimneys were left standing. Traces have revealed the fact that the house has been rebuilt. The owner says that it is the first' , time he has ever had'6" stY'rwem house stolen from him. The oldest inhab-S itant is asked to testify and it is be-; yond him. j I Charles A. Lindbergh is said to be j planning a trip to Paris thia summer. Famous Show Rony Gets Life on Farm Cuba, one of the most noted ponies in the world, with a record 0 longer than any in his class, has retiree! from active work and will spend the rest of IjSfc days in green pastures and comfortable quarters on the place of Mr. T. C. Dunlap in the perfect climate of York county. Cuba is a small pony and is 24 years old. He was bom at Ames, Iowa, a great center of all kinds of agricultural activities, and even m his youth he took blue ribbons at horse shows. At two years of age, he jofned the show business, and for the last 22 years Cuba has been a trouper known all over the United States and part of Canada. In later life he has been with'the Barnett Brothers show which has winter quarters here in Yorkville. He was originally trained by W. Bums, of Terne Haute, Indiana, the father of Tommy Bums, the animal trainer with the Barnett Brothers show, and he soon became famous for his intelligence. He was the first pony to answer yes and no to questions by nods or shakes of his head, and the first one to pick out colors called for by persons in the audience. In his early youth, he was good at arithmetic a^d nosed the numbers which were the correct answers to problems ghgjfl Cuba worked long and well until? the close of the season last yar,? which ended here late last fall, really? in the early winter. He is as keen** ever to go when his cue is blared rata by the circus band, and Tommy? Burns says he really did his bdta work.es an artist last season. So, he has earned retirement, audi there is no place for retirement more pleasant than where Cuba is goinf, on the place of Mr. Dunlap, in Yoitfl county, South Carolina.?Yorkvilk? Enquirer. .Jfl Death of Mr. Stuckey *' The community was saddened by? the sudden death of WilLie J. Stuckey,? 61, of Bishopville, Tuesday morninf? at 9 o'clock. He had been ill short time. 9 Mr. Stuckey was a member of 9 prominent family of this place. He? was a lifelong member of the Metbo-.? dist church. He is survived by Ml)? widow, whb was Creoia Barrett, of fl Bishopville; the followipg childree:? Mrs. W. B. Shirer, Sumter; Mrs. J..&? Fox worth and Miss Mary Stuckey? Bishopville; R. C. Stuckey, Mitljfl Fla.; M. H. Stuckey, Lexington, N. W. R. Stuckey, Hartsville; two grawi 1 children, Billie Ray Stuckey, Jr., John E. Foxworth, Jr.; two brothert? and one sister also survive.?Bishop-? ville Messenger. r I < J. C. MENDENHALL 28,499 Days Old Today Manufacturer of MENDENHALL'S MALARIA CHILL and FEVER TONIC For Colds and Coughs due to Colds Cut this ad. out and mail it to J. C. Mendenhnll, I'. O. Box 687, Evansville, Ind., and receive a 6?e bottle free by mail. Sold at W. Robin Zemp'a Drug Store City Drug Company Camden, 8. C. How Doctors Treat Colds and Coughs T > I !; ;p a <- !?! overnight and reV.\" *! > jp-ti-in that i::a\ rt yoi <..igh, thousands of physicians are now r commend.r.g Calotabs, the nnusealesi ; '! compound tablets that fire joi! 1 ; effects (if calomel and *a!t? without the unpleasant rffecfK of either. One or two Calotabs at bedtime with * glass of uweet mi.? or water. Next m'-m 4ng jour cold has vanished, your syaterr it thoroughly purified and you are feelinj flee with a hearty appetite for breakfast at -what you wlab,?no danger. 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