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let's Attend Our Own Business Received a letter from a minister, ling lie dJii not uppreciate articles pearinfc 1" T,le Enquirer favorable 'Russell ism." Id passing I ?hall ,?&y that The Enter's columns are always open to ^ who want to express their views L ihls subject and that, personally, I'm not concerned about Dsselllstn " I gather In reading his Uff that he did not believe in hell ^ and eternal damnation for the ?at majority of the human race, and Uch has proved a very comfortin' ought to many persons who have pe broke, on relief, or headed for | * poor house in this world of sin id sorrow Jo my way of thinking one is haptr who attends to his own affairs ill of the time and let's the other flow alone the other half.?Monroe iquirer. In the elections of Tuesday the city | Philadelphia elected a Republican pjor. In New York and New Jersey i Republicans gained control of the itolatures Kentucky elected a Demnitic governor. Numbers of cities in Mo. including Cleveland and. Springid. Republican mayors were re-elecid. The New Deal was an Issue In tonsylvania. New York and New Jer TAX NOTICE Tax books for the collection of ate. County and School Taxes for ?year 1935 will open September 16, fc, and will remain open until Deleter 31. 1935, inclusive without ulty. Please state school district which you live or own property to inquiring about taxes, lie following is a list of total levItor each School District for School, mty and State Taxes: DeKalb Township Mills itrict No. 1 42 %. ttrict No. 2 35% Wet No. 4 38% Srict No. 6 .-. 40% Wet No. 25 24% Wet No. 43 24% Buffalo Township Wet No. 3 38% Wet No. 5 22% Wet No. 7 . . .. ' 31% Wet No. 15 . . 22% Wet No. 20 28% Wet No. 22 .. 40% Wet Nq 23 . . 28% Wet No. 27 33% Wet No. 28 22%. Wet No. 31 30% Wet No 40 42% Wet No. 42 22% Flat Rock Township Wet No. 8 33% Wet No. 9 33% Wet No 10 26% Wet No 13 25% Wet No 19 33% Wet No. 30 . . . 22% Wet No. 33 33% Wet No. 37 . . . . .* 33% Wet No 41 33% ****** N<> 16 26% Wet No 47 ; . . 22% Wateree Township Wet No. li 25% Wet No. 12 ' .Cv.. ! . 36 Wet No. 16 V . .. 25% pet No. 29 .. 28% pet No. 38 22% Wet No 39 27% Vours respectfully, J. OUTLAW, Treasurer _ Kershaw County, 8. C. A MIGHTY 8EVERE WINTER" Some other states claim to have the equivalent of our Dutch Weather Prophet. Regarding? relative mer<>f these forecasters we are as yet, unable to form un opiulon, but will present bore for the benefit of the Interested a letter from Cobus Kwuub of Bluepoint, New York, to the Springfield Republican: My friends out here around Grout South buy uro once more acoming to me for the official winter forecuBt, which I have been rendering fishermen, oysterinen and shore folks for over half a century. What 1 am telliug them, sadly but true, is this: "We are surely going to have a mighty severe winter." 1 here is no doubt about this. The signs this year are beyond man's argument. ' 1 have put in "three score and almost 10" on T^ong Island waters, learning to read all of nature's symbols of weather, climate, coming temperature, etc. "How come this year's prediction? Because the oysters out here are bedding deep, they are getting ready to hibernate early. They are fat and when they get fat and go to sleep early it s a sure sign of a blustery cold winter; a long one, too. The oysters spawned early, got plenty of food and are ready." It should be pointed out that Mr. Kwaak has claims to distinction aside from his qualifications as weatherforecaster. He has succeeded in interpreting the silent language of the unusually uncommunicative oyster.? The State. Mark Twain Said Never A Just War Here's what Mark Twain said about wars, and how they start: There lias never been a just one, never an honorable one?one the part of the instigator of the war. I can see a million years ahead and this rule will never change in so many as a half dozen instances. The loud little handful?as usual?will shout for war. The pulpit will, warily and cautiously object at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub IRT sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war and will say, earnestly and Indignantly, "It Is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it." Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against, the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded; bu,t it will not last long; those others will out-shout them, and presently the anti-war audiences will thin out and lose popularity. Before long you will see the curious thing; the speakers stoned from the platform and free speech strangled by hordes of furlous> men who in their secret hearts aire still at one with those 'speakers?as earlier?but do not care to say so. And now the whole nation?pulpit and all?will take up the war cry,'and shout itself ifoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to reopen his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open. Next the statesmen will invent lies, putting the blame ilpon the nation that is attacked and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and \yill diligently ritudy them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.? Chester News. To buy or sell, use a Chronicle Want Ad. The cost is small! "AND SUDDEN DEATH" A trooper described such uii accldent ftvt> cars in out).. ugis*, seven killed on the spot, tfc'o dead on (ho way to the hospital, two more dead in the long run. lie remembered it far more vividly thun he wanted to?the quick way the doctor turned away from a dead man to check up on a woman with a broken back; the three bodies out of one cur so soaked with oil from the crunkcaae that they looked like wet brown clears and not human ut all; a man, walking? around and babbling to himself, oblivious of the dead and dying, even oblivious of the dagger like sliver of steel that stuck out of his streaming wrist; a pretty girl with Iter forehead laid open, trying hopelessly to crawl out of a ditch in sfrfte or her smashed hip A first-class massacre of that sort is only a question of scale and numbers -seven corpses are 110 deader than one. Each shuttered man, woman or child who went to make up the 3tJ,U0U corpses chalked up last year had to die a personal doath. A car careening and rolling down a bank, battering and smashing Its occupants every inch or the way. can wrap itself so thoroughly around a tree that front and rear bumpers interlock, requiring an acetylene torch to cut them upart. In a recent case of that sort they found the old lady, who had been sitting in back, lying across the lap of her daughter, why was in front, each soaked In her own and the other's blood indistlngulshably, each so shattered and broken that there was no point whatever in an autopsy to determine whether it wuh broken neck or ruptured heart that caused death. Overturning cars specialize In certain injuries. Cracked pelvis, for instance, guaranteeing agonizing months in bed, motionless, perhaps crippled for life broken spine resulting from sheer sfdewise twist?the minor details of smushed knees and splinteied shoulder blades caused by crashing Into the side of the car as she goes over with J,he swirl of an Insane roller coaster?and the lethal consequences of broken ribs, which puncture hearts and lungs with their raw ends. The consequent Internal hemorrhage is no less dangerous because it is the pleural instead of the abdominal cavity that Is lining with blood. Flying glass?safety glass is by 110 means universal yet?contributes much more than its share to the spectacular sid? of accidents. It doesn't merely cut?the fragments are driven in as if a cannon loaded with broken bottles had been fired in your face, and a sliver in the eye. traveling with force, means certain blindness. A leg or arm stuck through the winshield will cut clean to the bone through vein, artery and muscle like a piece of beef under the butcher's knife, and it takes little time to lose a fatal amount of blood under such circumstances. Even safety glass may not be wholly safe when the car crashes something at high speed. You hear picturesque tales of how a flying pitman body will make a neat hole in the stuff with its head?the shoulders stick?the glass holds?and the raw, keen edge of the hole decapitates the body as neatly as a guillotine. Or, to continue with the decapitation inotif, going off the road into a post-and-rail fence can put you beyond worrying about other injuries immediately when a rail comes through the windshield and tears off your head with its splintery end? not as neat a job, but thoroughly efficient. Bodies are often found with their shoes off and their feet all broken out of shape. The shoes are back 011 the lloor of the car, empty and with their laces still neatly tied. That is the kind of impact produced by modern speeds. But all that is routine in every American community. To be remembered individually by doctors and policeman, you have to do something as grotesque as the lady who burst the windshield with her head, splashing splinters all over- the other occupants of the car, and then, as the car rolled over, rolled with it down the edge of the windshield frame and cut her throat from ear to ear. Or park on the pavement too near a curve at night and stand in front, of the tail light as you take off the spare tire? which will Immortalize you in somebody's memory as the fellow who was mashed three feet broad and two inches thick by the impact of a heavy duty truck against the rear of his own car. Or be as original as the pair of youths who were thrown out of an open ..roadster .litis spring? thrown clear?but each broke a windshield post with his head in passing and the whole top of each skull, down to the eyebrows, was missing. Or snap off a nine-inch tree and get yourself Impaled by a ragged branch. None of all that is scare-fiction; It is Just the horrible raw material of the year's statistics as seen in the ordinary course of duty by policemen and doctors, picked at random. The surprising thing is that there is so little dissimilarity in the stories they iell. r ?ft** hard To And ttBurvlVlfig ACCident victim who can bear to talk. After you come to, the gnawing, tear New Check-Cashing Plan Miu on, (la.?Hotel meu bore com plained uhout a new chock cashing racket %| Horn's the way It works: A stranger (lushes Into u hotel, asks the clork if u Mr. So ami So has registered, is informed he Isn't and then announces that the So and So family has boon in u serious accident at some other city und to Inform the hus6und und father, please on his arrival. The stranger loaves and later Mr. So and So appears In person only to he told the bad news. He is desolated and unfortunately out of funds so he must get a check cashed to hurry to his family. Sympathy gelsv the chuck cashed? but it turns out to be no good. lug pain throughout your body is accounted for by learning that you have both collarbones smashed, both shoulder blades splintered, your right arm broken in three places and three ribs crucked, withevery chance of bad internal ruptures. But the pain can't distruct you, us the shock begins to weur off, from realizing that you arc probably on your way out. Y6u can't forget thut, not oven when they shift you from the ground to the stretcher and your broken ribs bite into your lu^igs and the sharp ends of your collarbones slide over to stab deep Into each side of your screaming throat. When you've stopped screaming, it all comes buck--you're dying and you hate yourself for it. That isn't fiction either it's what it tactually feels like to be one of that 36,000. And every time you pass on a blind curve, every time you hit It up on a slippery road, every time you step on It harder than your reflexes will safely take, every time you drive with your reactions slowed down by a drink or two, every time you follow the man ahead too closely, you're gambling a few seconds against this kind of blood and agony and sudden death. Take a look at yourself as the man In- the white jacket shakes his head over you, tells the boys with the stretcher not to bother and turns away to somebody else who isn't quite dead yet. And then take it easy. Ever Play With June Buga? Columbia, Nov. 19.?Did you over tie a string to a June Bug's tall and let him fly? Thin custom has come down to us from the children of ancient Home, who used to play with beetles in the same manner, according to Ira Smith Irby, in his thesis, "Ancient Games of the Greeks and Romans," submitted to the University of South Carolina In partial fulfillments of the requirements for the M. A. degree. A blessed companion 1h a book, a book that fitly chosen is a life-long friend. LEMON8 GO TO WAR Thero Is little danger that our gov* eminent will declare an embargo on lemons, but the war in Africa h&H boomed the lemon business lu this country. It Is so hot In those parts II I)lice"8 troops require lots of lemonade to quench their thirst. Thus Italy 1b conserving all of her lemons to ship to the troops In Ethiopia. And as a result of this American lemons, i>roduced largely In Florida and California, are taking the place of Italiun leinons in the markets and shops In France and other European countries. ?The Pathfinder. Beware The Cough From a common cold [ That Hangs On k"? matter how many medicines you tnod for your cough* chest cola fwonchial irritation, you can get re* now with Creomulsion. Creomulnot only contains the soothing common to many remedies; Syrup of White Pine Comwith Tar, fluid extract or Root, fluid extract of Ipecac [its powerful phlegm loosening fluid extract of Cascara for its "J laxative effect and, most impor5 of all Beechwood Oreoaote la Xftfr blended with all of these to g*the source of the trouble fromthe J: Creomulsion can be taken freely and continuously by adults and 55?1 wltJl remarkable result*. of duuturt vm oifuuitg, V2_their own families as well as ?** practice knowlngb^<J**^ go aids nature to soothe the ln? *1 membranes and heal the ten tated tissues as the germ-laden phlegm Is loosened and expelled. Druggists also know the effectiveness of Beechwood Creosote and they rank Creomulslon top for coughs because you get a real dose of Creosote In Creomulslon, emulsified so that it is palatable, digestible and potent for going to the very seat of the trouble. Creomulsion Is guaranteed satisfactory in the treatment of coughs, chest colds and bronchial Irritations and especially those stubborn ones that start with a common oold and hang on for dreadful days and nights thereafter. Even if other remedies have failed, your druggist la authorised to guarantee Creomulsion and to refund every cent uf juui money it yett are net sstlafisg with results from the verr first bottle. Dont worry through another sleepless night?ohone or go get a bottfe of Creomulsion right now. (AdO ^^ fjKE?AUTQMOBILE?BURGLARY?BONDS ? ReKALB INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE CO | "INSURANCE HEADQUARTERS" < I CROCKER BUILDING?TELEPHONE 7 * G. MULLER ELIZABETH CLARKE, M(r. jE f ALU?FORMS?OF?INSURANCE O V/ CO rnmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, i i ii.iiii|n i i in i linSSi DRAYAGE 1; AND STOR A GE R. CURETON Telephone 233-J I ! STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE MERCHANTS ANI) FARMERS BANK LOCATED AT HETIICNE. S. C.. AT THE ^LOSK OF HC8INE8S NOV KM HKK 1. 11)35 ASSETS Loans and Discounts $18,018.61)^ Overdrafts Secured by Cotton \ 4,276.63 Honda and Stocks owned by Hunk 6,272.60 Furniture and Fixtures 1,979.00 Hanking House 1,068.75 Other Heal Estate Owned 8,928.84 Cash on Hand ami Due from Hanks > 20,871.49 Checks and Cash Items ' 443.13 Other Assets: Stock Account ' 90.00 Fertilizer Account 20.49 Collection Account 8,071.89 TOTAL $64,636.22 LIABILITIES Capital Stock Hald in $20,000.00 * Surplus ., \ ? 000.00 Undivided Profits Less Expenses and 'l uxes 4,018.78 Deposits: Demand .' $18,466.16 Time 10,189.21 Cashier's and Certified Checks : 3,762.35 Total Deposits 32.397.72 Due to Hanks 119.(2 TOTAL \ $64,636.22 State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. Hefore me cgine O. 13. Mclvlnnon. Cashier of the above named bank, who, upon being duly sworn, says that the above is u true statement of the condition of said hank, as shown by the books of the bank. G. 13. McKinnon Sworn to and subscribed before me this 14th day of November, 1936. Correct Attest: Loring Davis T. M. Clyburn Notary Public for South Carolina luring Davis W. M. Stevens Directors. V-8 LEADEBSHIP 4*h ; mm. t?*may jvm [ t?%?ug ?r oct no. ??c rr^r-;g 1,000,000 /Xv/^i-AwXv.w^X ;v^i; |||?<M>0<>. .* 0O6,O<>O:rs On October 31 of lost year, Henry Ford announced his intention to build a million Ford V-8s in 1935. We are pleased to report that this goal was reached in exactly ten months instead of a full year. One million cars and trucks is^m impressive total. But figures by themselves mean nothing. It is what they represent that counts. Selling a V-8 at a low price has brought a new kind of automobile within reach of the people. Producing it has provided steady work for hundreds of thousands of men in the Ford plants, in associated industries and on the farm. These million Ford V-8 cars and trucks have helped to make things better all around. In the first ten months of 1935 the Ford Motor Company paid out. in the United States alone. $140,119,326.00 in wages and $523,111,389.00 for materials. FORD MOTOR COMPANY ~ BUILDER OF FORD. LINCOLN AND LINCOLN - ZEPHYR MOTOR CARS THE NEW FORD V-8 FOR 1936 IS NOW ON DISPLAY. THE CAR THAT LED ALL OTHERS IN 1935 HAS BEEN MADE STILL BETTER FOR THE NEW YEAR REDFEARN MOTOR COMPANY ~ I -Ford Dealer? ? L Camden, South Carolina ^ ? |