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VOLUME XXIX
CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 18,1929
HOOVER URGES
FA^BOARD
President Cites Views To Extra
Session of Congress On Farm
Relief, Tariff Revision, and
Immigration.
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Washington, April 16. — President
Hoover, in a message of unusuifl brev
ity and directness, recommended to
congress Tuesday the creation of a
federal farm board with authority and
resources to remedy recurring caus
es of depression in the agricultural
industry and a limited revision of the
tariff with a reorganization of the
tariff commission.
In addition he proposed in this, his
first state paper, the completion of
legislation initiated at the last session
for the suspension of the national ori
gins clause of the immgiration act;
the taking of the 1930 census and the
reapportionment of congressional rep
resentation.
While proposing broad powers for
the federal farm board, the chief exec
utive sugested no amount for the re
volving fund to be furnished by the
treasury and proposed safeguards for
the instrumentalities and activities to
be created under the farm relief act.
“There should be no fee or tax im
posed upon the farmer,” he declared,
adding that government funds should
be furnished only upon application of
the farmed-owned and controlled agen
cies and then only when other services
of credit and facilities are not avail
able at reasonable rates.
In the matter of revision of tariff
rates, Mr. Hoover declared the test
in the main was whethej^here had
been a substantial slacl^png of ac
tivity in an industry d
few years and a con
of employment due
competition in produc
try.
The president empi
discrimination against
dustry was involved in
difference in costs of
home and abroad and
that in determining changes in the
tariff account must be taken Of the
broad interests of the country as a
whole,adding that such interests in
clude American trade relations with
other countries.
In proposing a reorganization 'of
the tariff commission, Mr. Hoover said
it should be placed upon a basis of
higher salaries “in order that we may
at all times command men of the
broadest attainments.”
He asserted that sgven years of ex
perience had proved the principle of
the flexible tariff to be practical, but
that the basis upon which the com
mission makes its recommendations to
the president for administrative
charges in the rates of duty should
be made more automatic and more
comprehensive, to the end that the
time required for determinations by
the commission be greatly shortened.
Declaring the government had “a
special mandate from the recent elec
tion not oily to develop our waterways
and revise the agricultural tariff, but
also extend systematic relief in other
directions,” the chief executive said
the multiplicity of causes of agricul
tural depression could only be met by
the creation of a great instrumentali
ty clothed with sufficient authority
and resources to assist the farmers to
meet these problems, each upon its
own merit.
“The creation of such an agency,”
he added, “would at once transfer the
agricultural question from the field
of politics into the realm of economics
and woulud resulut in constructive ac
tion. The administration is pledged to
create an instrumentality that will in
vestigate the' causes, find sound reme
dies, and have the authority and re
sources to apply those remedies.
(Continued on page eight) *
A. R. P; YOUNG
PEOPLE MEET
Y. P. C. U. Convention Opens At Ab
beville On Friday. Many To At
tend From Here.
The state convention of the Y. P.
C. U. of the Associate Reformed Pres
byterian church will open in Abbeville
Friday and continue through Sabbath
evening. An acquaintance reception
will be held at the home of Judge and
Mrs. William P. Greene Friday night
after the service at the church.
_ Miss Margaret Blakely of this city,
is president of the convention and will
preside over its sessions. Several mem
bers of the local church will attend
the meeting. The program follows:
Friday, April 19th
Theme: “Why Am I Here?”
Text: Eph. 2:10—“We are His work
manship, created in Jesus Christ unto
good works.” ^
Friday8:00 P. M.
“Why Am I Here At This Conven
tion?”
Devotional service — Miss Ruth
Boggs, Anderson.
Address: “To Get a Vision of Ser
vice”—Rev. R. C. Betts, D. D., Colum
bia.
Address: “To Get a Vision of My
Relationship to Jesus Christ”—Rev.
E. N. Orr, D. D., Charlotte, N. C.
Saturday, April 20th, 10 A'. M.
“Why Am I Here A^ This Conven
tion?”
Devotional service—Rev. P. L. Grier,
Laurens.
Address: “To Learn My Denomina
tion’s Part in the Kingdom”—Rev.
G. G. Parkinson, D. D., Due West.
Address: “To Learn the Value of
Putting First Things First”—Rev. E.
N. Orr, D. D.
Saturday, 2:30 P. M.
Devotional service—^Miss Margaret
Maloney.
Business session.
Saturday, 8:00 P. M.*^
Devotional service — Graham Reid,
Due West.
Address: “To Get Enthusiasm By
Contact”—Rev. J. H. Buzhardt, Troy.
Address: “To Learn the Oneness of
the Kingdom”—Rev. R. C. Grier, D. D.,
Due West.
Sabbath, 11:15 A. M.
Convention sermon: “Supremacies
of Life”—Rev. R. C. Betts, D. D., Co
lumbia.
Sabbath, 3:00 P. M.
Communion service — Rev. R. L.
Robinson, D. D., Due West.
Sabbath, 8:00 P. M.
Devotional service — Miss Gladys
Stilwell.
Address: “To Find God’s Plan for
My Life”—Rev. R. C. Betts, D. D.
HERRICK SLEEPS
' IN CLEVELAND
/s
Simple and Impressive Service Held.
Cathedral FiUed With Many
Friends of Ambassador.
Field Meeting At
Z. Cooper’s Farm
There will be a field meeting at the
home of Z. B. Cooper, near Fountain
Inn, Bethany School section, at 2:00
o’clock today, Thursday, April 18th.
R. W. Hamilton, the assistant director
of South Carolina extension work,
and who is a soil fertility specialist,
i is expected to be present at this meet-
J ing and give a talk on the value of
i winter and summer cover crops. Mr.
Hamilton is an authority on this sub
ject.
Mr. Cooper is a prominent farmer
of his community, a farmer who is
interested in better agricultural con
ditions. He has a demonstration in the
use of Austrian winter field peas. He
I has 18 acres growing these peas at
present. This is the first year he has
I grown the Austrian winter pea, sow-
jing 700 pounds last fall. The average
j^owth at present is from 6 to 18
i inches. He also has 12 acres of crim-
I son clover. This will be a good time
■ to see the comparison of the two
I crops. A good representation of farm-
' ers is expected to be present today.
Cleveland, Ohio, April 15.—While
taps sounded softly through a dismal
drizzle that enshrouded Lake View
cemetery, the body of Myron T. Her
rick was laid to rest today in the city
which knew him first as a humble
clerk and then as a statesman beloved
by two nations.
The services at Trinity Episcopal
cathedral for the American ambassa
dor to France, who died two weeks
ago yesterday at the embassy in Paris,
were impressive and stately as bene-
fitted the rank of one of the nation’s
best known diplomats and yet they
were simple and unostentatious with
the modesty and democratic manner
of his life.
Attendance of representatives of
President Hoover, the French govern
ment, Governor Myers Y. Cooper, Col
onel Charles A. Lindbergh and Other
dignitaries gave the rites an official
impressiveness. The cathedral was
filled with many who knew the am
bassador intimately and thousands
more stood in silent tribute in the rain
outside the church.
The casket was at the foot of the
chancel, with the Tri-Color of France
and the Stars and Stripes draped over
it. At the head was placed the French
legion of honor medal and at the foot
a silver palm, another gift of the
French government. Only three
wi^aths—sent by President Hoover,
Governor Cooper' and Secretary of
State Stimson—were there.
In the mourners' pew were Parmely
Herrick, son of the statesman; Mrs.
Parmely Herrick; Parmely Herrick,
brother of the ambassador; jGoI. Lind
bergh, who benefitted by the diplo
matic guidance of Mr. Herrick when
he ended his trans-Atlantic flight at
Paris. /
Parmely Herrick was visibly over
come with grief. His wife, who was at
the ambassador’s death bed, was
dressed in deep mourning. Colonel
Lindbergh, his face reddened by Mexi
can suns and towering above those
nearby, looked straight ahead through
out the services, his face showing trac
es of deep regret. He entered unobtru
sively through a side door.
The simple rites of the Protestant
Episcopal church were used. Three
hymns—“Lead Kindly Light,” ’’Abide
With Me,” and “Nearer My God to
Thee” were sung. The services were in
charge of the Rt. Rev. William A.
Leonard, bishop of the Episcopal Dio
cese of Ohio; Rt. Rev. Warren L.
Rodgers, bishop coadjutor; and very
Rev. Frances S. White, dean of the
cathedral.
URBAN LIFE
ATTRACTS MANY
Two Millions Now Leaving the Farm
Annually. Peril of Bankruptcy
Said To Be the Blame. '
EXTRA SESSION
CONGRESS OPENS
New York, April 15.—Two million
people are deserting the farms for the
cities of the United States each year,
and in many regions the shift is so
rapid that farm populations have
changed completely within the past
seven years.
Ross L. Holman, farmer economist,
presenting these estimates, supported
by federal statistics, in the current is
sue of The North American Review,
adds the opinion that it is not the lure
of easier work and better pay in the
cities so much as utter inability to
make farming pay that is devitalizing
agriculture.
Mr. Holman lays the blame for the
farmer’s plight on the middleman and
the distribution system which, he
claims, are taking the farmer’s right
ful share of profits and leaving him in
a position where he has mortgaged
practically all the mortgagable value
of his lands. Since farm lands are not
mortgagable at more than ohe-half of
their appraised value, and since mort
gages now outstanding represent one-
third of that value, the farm owner
today has only a margain of. one-
sixth of his property on which to ob
tain further badly needed loans, he
points out.
“Agriculture in 1928 was in a more
distressing condition than it was in
1921; farm indebtedness is greater
today than ever before,” he asserts.
“To find a farm free of debt, even in
our better agricultural sections, is the
exception and not the pile.” Many
farmers are hanging on simply be
cause they cannot sell them to others,
ht says, while others are being begged
by the mortgage-holders to remain
and pay what they can on their debts.”
Longworth Again Named Speaker of
House. Farm Measure
To Front.
CLINTON SCHOOL
WINS DEBATE
CITIZENS OPENS
A NEW SERIES
Well Known Building and Loan Asso
ciation Now Offering Stock To
Prospective Shareholders.
Series “W” of the Citizens Building
and Loan association, opened Monday,
April 15th, with a large list of ad
vance subscribers. The series will re
main open for a few days to give all
prospective stockholders an opportu
nity to subscribe for the number of
shares desired. *
The Citizens association is the old
est in the city and enjoys an enviable
reputation. It has matured thirteen
series in the past and all have reached
maturity either on or before the al
lotted time. The association has never
lost a dollar to its stockholders since
its organization and offers an attrac
tive plan to prospective home build
ers. It is headed by Prof. A. V. Mar
tin as president, with B. H. Boyd, well
known banker and building and loan
promoter, as directing secretary and
treasurer.
Local Pupils Triumph In Both Sides
of District Meet Held In Lau
rens Last Friday.
Clinton high school teams won both
the affirmative and negative finals in
the debating tournament of the Third
district, high school league, held in the
Laurens city school auditorium last
Friday night.
The query for the debates was, “Re
solved, That South Carolina Should
Discontinue Scholarships in Institu
tions of Higher Learning.”
Teams from Abbeville, Clinton,
Greer, Laurens and Piedmont entered
the preliminaries which were held dur
ing the afternoon. In the finals, be
ginning at 8 o’clock. Miss Mary B.
Madden and John D. Martin of Lau
rens, spoke for the affirmative side of
the question, with Miss Azile Haw
kins and Miss Evangeline Hames of
Greer, upholding the negative. In the
second round, Abbeville’s affirmative
team, represented by Miss Frances
Blun and Miss Rebecca Stevenson, was
matched with the Clinton negative
team. Miss Medora Browning and
Bothwell Graham.
For the third and last round of the
series, Miss Ruth Todd and Lawson
Abrams of Clinton, concluded for the
affirmative side of the debate, and
Miss Mary Brennan and Miss Frances
Wosmansky of Abbeville, closed for
..he opposition.
The exercises were presided over by
W. M. Albergotti of the Greer, school
faculty. Mrs. M. L. Copeland, R. R.
i Nickles and Albert C. Todd, all of
I Laurens, served as the committee of
! judges for the contests.
NAME OFFICERS
FOR NEW YEAR
Local Pupils Win
In Greenville
C„ K. Wright Again Heads County
Teachers’ Association. Visitor
Speaks At Meeting.
Laurens, April 13.—The Laurens
County Teachers’ association at its
meeting today, reelected officers for
another year, and heard an interest
ing and informative address by Mrs.
Katherine M. Cook, who is visiting
the Laurens schools for a few days.
C. K. Wright was re-elected as pres
ident of the association; Mrs. George
Evart Taylor, principal of the Prince
ton school, was elected vice-presi
dent; Miss Kate V. Wofford, was re
elected secretary, and S. C. Gambrell
of Gray Court, was continued as
treasurer.
^ Mrs. Cook, as head of the rural
school bureau, department of educa-
tionn, Washington, brought greetings
to the Laurens teachers, and discussed
rural school problems. .She is making
a study of systems now in effect in
various sections of the coxintry, and
the Laurens county consolidated school
plan has been given attention on her
visit here. —* •
On last Tuesday in Greenville, the
declamation and reading ton^esffor
District No. 3 was held to select rep
resentatives to the state contest in Co
lumbia on April 25 and 26th.
In the boys’ contest, flames McDuf
fie of the Thornwell orphanage
schools, won first place, and Lawson
Abrams of Clinton Hi, came second.
Margaret Hunter of Gray Court-Ow-
ings, won first place in the girls’ meet.
High School Class
Officers Are Named
Lawson Abrams
Wins U. D. C. Medal
I Mrs. D. Boyd spent the past week-
1 end with her son in Kinards.
“Man Wants—
but little here below—nor wants
that little long” — especially if
he advertises for it in our Clas
sified Section. Give your quar
ter a trial and see what it can
do for you!
On Thursday morning the eighth,
i ninth and tenth grades elected their
i officers for the year, the eleventh
' grade having named their’s earlier
iin the session. Following are.the ones
I elected for the respective classes:
Tenth grade:
President, Will Davis.
Vice-President, Ella Little McCrary.
Secretary-Treasurer, Joe Pitts.
Ninth grade:
President, Drummond Bailey,
j Vice-President, Wallace Franks.
I Secretary-Treasurer, Frances > Mi-
;
! Eighth grade:
’^resident ’’ nnie Sue Adair.
Vice-Pres t, Darrel Franks.
Secretar asurer: Dillard Milam.
The local chapter of the U. D. C.
offers each year to the pupil of the
eleventh grade who submits the best
' examination paper on the War Be
tween the States, a medal. Lawson
I Abrams was given 1st place, James
i Horten, second, Bothwell Graham,
• third, and Ruth Carter, fourth.
This year the questions were pre-
' pared by Miss Margaret Austin of
the Laurens high school faculty, and
i the papers were graded by Miss Anne
Hamiter of the Thornwell orphanage
I school faculty.
Washington, April 15.—The seventy-
first congress assembled today and
quickly but ceremoniously organized
for the extraordinary session called by
President Hoover to consider a limit
ed program of farm relief and tariff
revision.
Crowded galleries looked down as
the victors of the November election
took thier places but with the routine
formalities out of the way adjourn
ment was taken to await the first
message of President Hoover to be
read tomorrow.
Elected to his third term as ispei^er
of the house, Nicholas Longworth of
Ohio, sounded the key-note of the Re
publican majority with a plea for en
actment within a month of the farm
relief, tariff and re-apportionment
bills. That legislation is enough at
this time, he said.
But behind the quiet of the opening
day in the senate loomed the prospect
of limitless debate for the limited ad
ministration program and leaders of
both parties were short on forecasts.
The senate sanctions no restrictions
on debate and the ever present prohi
bition problem, immgiration, the fi
nancial disput beetween the Federal
Reserve board and Wall street are
among the subjects listed for discus
sion, if not for investigation, looking
to new legislation, in that chamber.
So, while Republican leaders were
standing firm tonight for the restrict
ed Hoover program, none were pre
dicting what the session ultimately
would develop and how far into the
sweltering summer of Washington it
would continue.
The floors of both chambers were
the scenes of happy reunions before
ahd after the sessions, but a meeting
of the Democratic steering committee
in the senate detained the leaders of
the minority party until just after the
actual opening of the session there.
The senate committees, although! or
ganized, were not active but a call
was issued for the judiciary commit
tee to convene Wednesday to consider
the McKellar resolution asking a re
port on the right of Andrew W. Mel
lon to continue as secretary of the
treasury without re-confirmation and
also whether his property holdings
barred him from holding the office
under existing law.
The senate had finished its day’s
work within 26 minutes, after Vice-
President Curtis rapped fqr order at
noon and the Rev. Joseph R. Sizoo,
pastor of the New York Avenue Pres
byterian church, offered prayer in the
absence of the regular chaplain, the
Rev. Z. B. Phillips. The house chap
lain, the Rev. James Shera Montgom
ery, offered prayer in that chamber
after William Tyler Page, clerk of the
house, had called the session to order
and presided until the election of the
speaker.
Each body named a conunittee to
! await on the president and inform him
j that congress was in session and this
joint committee, including the leaders
I of the.two parties in each house, Sen
ators Watson of Indiana, and Robin-
j son of Arkansas, and Representatives
Tilson of Connecticut, and Garner of
I Texas, late in the day called at the
j White House. i-—
The heavy Republican majorities in
■each branch hardly were installed to-
, :ay before the administration machin
ery which has been grinding away
here for a month had put the new
$500,000,000 farm relief measure be-
I lore the house.
Before the end of the week, both
the senate and house expect to be at
work on this controversial agricultural
problem which balked solution in the
Coolidge administration and still is
loaded with trouble.
In another week the complex tariff
bill which has been under the scrutiny
of the house ways and means commit
tee for days will be brought forth.
While the house is working over this.
Senator Watson of Indiana, the new
Republican leader, expects the senate
to dispose of farm relief and the
measure for reapportionment of the
house hanging over from last session.
KING SEEKS
VENUEOIANGE
Counsel for Sharon Man Serves
Petition On Solicitor. Charged
With Murder of Wife.
A’n’END ROTARY MEET
The Chronicle
Classified Dept.
“The Paper Everybody Reads*
Bamie Parrott and A. J. Swansen
returned Tuesday night from Orange
burg where the y attended Ihe tlistrict
Rotary convention of the Carolinas as
delegates from the Clinton club.
Recovers From
Recent Injuries
The friends of Miss Mary Ellen
Workman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Hayne B. Workman, were delighted to
I see her in town Saturday after a con
finement of several months due to
injuries she received last December
while riding in an automobile. For
more than three months Miss Work
man has been a patient in a Green
ville hospital until she was recently
returned to her home. The news that
she •‘'has recovered from her illness
will be a source of interest to her
many friends and acquaintances, and
those of her parents.
Make Good Show
In State Meet
■ Placing in seven out of ten events,
the Clinton girls’ track team won
third place in the State track meet
held on Winthrop college athletic field,
last Saturday.
j The local girls won places in the
' fr ;)wing events: Discus throw, Dor
is .\ughtry; 65-yard hurdles. Ruth
I Carier; shot put, Doris Aughtry, and
th" relay race. The relay team was
( posed of Clyde Ray, Ruth Carter,
li -y Sorrels and Mable Tucker.
I The following girls made the trip
with the coach. Miss Polly Elrod:
Ruth Carter, manager, Clyde Ray,
' Doris Aughtry, Carrie Lou Ross, Ma
ble Tucker and Henry Sorrela.
York, April 16.—Supported by 71
affidavits, a copy of the petition to
the court for a change of venue for
the trial of Rafe King of Sharon, in
dicted here yesterday for the murder
of his wife, Faye Wilson King, was
served by his counsel today on Solici
tor J. Lyles Glenn and associate at
torneys for the state. The state will
waive the legal four days notice and
^ile a return tomorrow morning. This
will clear the way for arguments on
the motion for a change of venue,
which will begin at 10 o’clock tomor
row.
King, who is in the Chester county
jail, will be brought here for the hear
ing unless his presence is waived.
Along with the copy of the petition
for a change of venue, a specimen of
the affidavit that will be used in sup
port of the motion was submitted. This
specimen affidavit sets forth that in
the opinion of the deponent. King can
not obtain a fair and impartial trial
in York county because of the over
whelming public sentiment against
him.
One of the reasons given in the af
fidavit for the alleged hostile state of
public opinion toward King is that
newspapers of the county and nearby
cities have published sensational ru
mors about ^e case.
The names are givga, of the 71 sign
ers of the affidavits, (jf this number,
37 are listed from Rock Hill, 15 from
Hickory Grove, 11 from Fort Mill,
seven from York and near York, and
one from Bethany.
The state will counter at the hear
ing on the change of venue motion
tomorrow morning by submitting a
large number of affidavits in which
the deponents affirm that in their
opinion King can obtain a fair trial in
York county and that they do not be
lieve that there is any prejudice or
bias against him here. These affida
vits will also state as one of the rea
sons for believing that King can ob
tain a fair trial here that Faye King
was practically a stranger in YorY
county and Rafe King stands in exact
ly the same relationship.
Sensational and biased newspaper
publicity and the activities and state
ments of Sheriff F. E. Quinn, Rural
Policeman John H. Davison and Chief
of Police J. Frank Faulkner of York,
are among the principal reasons given
in the petition to account for the al
leged inflamed sentiment in York
county against King. Attention is also
given some statements in the news-
,papers attributed to Solicitor J. Lyles
Glenn.
Headlines over stories about the
King case appearing in many of the
newspapers are reproduced and ex
cerpts from the articles given. Ref
erence is made to a scrapbook of the
clippings in the hands of King’s coun
sel, which will be produced at the
hearing and the number of the pages
given on which some of the newspaper
stories appear. Several rumors, al
leged to have been circulated about
the case are mentioned, among these
that one of Kings attorney’s had be
come convinced of King’s guilt and
had withdrawn from the case and that
King was going to enter a hospital for
the insane, and are branded as entire
ly without foundation.
Alleged light on the dtate of public
opinion in York county as gathered
by North Carolinians is given in the
following paragraph:
“Rafe King fuurther deposes and
says that he has seen numerous trav
eling salesmen who live in North Car
olina, who have called upon the trade
in York county and visited In the ho
tels, restaurants, barber shops, drug
stores, stopped at filling stations and
other public places, who haveAtajked
with a great numb<^r of people in York
county, that the said traveling sales
men have reported to him and to his
immediate relatives and friends in
Shelby that the sentiment in York
county is unreasonably hostile toward
him, that they have warned him to
stay out of York county for fear of
lynching him. that the people gener
ally were unreasonable in their pre
conceived notions as to this affiant’s
guilt, that the said traveling sales
men expressed the conviction that the
people of York county were not open
to reason or argument, that they could
not argue the case without a show of
temper and indulugence of your pe
titioner.”
It is further said of King “that pre
judice against him has been worked
up and incited and propagated over
the entire county in the manner and
by the means hereinbefore set out and
for this reason he earnestly petitions
for a change of venue where he may
answer to the indictment against him
in an atmosphere not saturated with
prejudice against him as he believes
it to be in York county, but in a place
■where he can obtain a fair trial.”