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va; .*AGE SIX THE CUNTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON. SOUTH CAROLINA M’ADOO-SMITH COMBINATION CANNOTWIN By C. L. VAUGHN, County Agent Growth of Club Work in County A message to the mothers and fath ers of farm boys and farm girls in Laurens county: If you are interest ed in your children and wish them to be successful in life, it will pay you to read the following article on the growth of club work. It will also pay you to see to it that your boys especially are enrolled in clubs in 1925. In 1922 there were only about 18 members of the boys clubs in Lau rens county. In 1923, 62 boys and girls were enrolled in club work. The club work was tried on a new basis in 1923. The following schools were organized with 10 or more club mem bers to each school. This was done in order to have monthly meetings with the boys and girls to help them with their club demonstrations. The fire schools organized in 1923 were Youngs, Eden, Ora, Central and Barksdale. The club work for 1924 grown to such an extent that it is taking a great deal of my time for club meetings and giving the boys and'girls assistance in their work. At the present time we have 163 members in all, nine girls and 154 boys. The following ten community schools are organized: Shiloh, Wadsworth, Pop- lyar Springs, Barksdale, Mt. Galla gher, Ora, Merna, Hickory Tavern. We have a few members in the fol lowing schools: Eden, Lanford and Central. These schools have not enough members to justify monthly club meetings. Club Meetings Planned Mr. B. O. Williams, state club lead er, of Clemson College, will be in the county the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th of June for meetings of all the organized chibs during those days. On Satur day, June 7th, there will be a meeting of the 30 officers of the 10 organized clubs and all of the community 1 club leaders in Laurens at 11 o’clock. The purpose of this meeting will be to plan club work for the year an^ also decide on a place of encampment. We have four places mentioned for the three days’ encampment, Harris Springs, Musgrove Mill on the Eno- ree river, Country Club, and Clemson College. It will be fully decided on June 7th which place we will go. Plans are being perfected now for the camp to be held at Clemson College the latter part of July. Each boy in the county will have the privilege of attending this camp. Oconee Coun ty, Anderson county, Greenville coun ty and Pickens county boys are ex pecting to meet at the same time at Clemson College, if we decide to‘ go there. From these four counties there wOl be approximately l^MM) boys at tending camp. These boys will have a chance to see the work going on at Clemson College. They will have competitive games of all kinds, and will have access to the college swim ming pool and the college campus, as well as instructions mixed with the play. Encouragement for Young Club Workers The club members are encouraged to do good work this year for the boys will have a chance to win one of the four one week free scholarships to Clemson next summer. The girls will have a chance of five ten day scholarships to Winthrop College next summer. Prizes will be given at the county club show this fall. They will have a chance to compete for State prises as well as the State Fair prizes for South Carolina club members. Mr. Boy Manley of Ware Shoals, S. C., has offered a pen (four hens and a cockerel) of his best breed White Leg horns to the boy or girl doing the best club work in Laurens county. Mr. B. R. Todd, of Barksdale, S. C., has offered a fine White Leghorn cockerel to the boy or girl doing the second best poultry work. He is also offering a setting of mated White Leghorn eggs for the third best poul try club work done. In the Mt. Gal lagher section Mr. D. C. Emereson has offered one bushel of corn to each dub member that grows more corn on one acre this year than he does. Many other prizes will be given this year to club boys and elnb girls. When club work was organized in Laurens county this year, we did not oiganize on the prize basis but we organized on the basis of education to the boys and girls. The prinptry luitjpbac of club work is to make agri culture more efficient in Laurens It will be good for the boys they will follow agriculture or wot, for doing club work they learn to use sewutific methods, keep records also to make reports. They also to depress themselves in meet- offidate at meetings, and the This Is Growing Conviction Among Democratic Loaders. Washington, May 31.—That group of Democrats who are “last ditchers” neither for McAdoo nor for Governor A1 Smith are casting about for a ticket on which they hope to concen trate their forces in the New York convention. They persist in contend ing that neither McAdoo nor Smith can possibly be nominated and that when these two great forces inevit ably destroy each other for their re spective candidates, there then must be offered to the convention a combi nation of names for president and vice president that will sweep the convenflon with a gale. Many names are being suggested for this hoped-for psychological mo ment but the most frequently heard combination in the last day or so is that of John W. Davis of West Vir ginia and New York, and Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana. Some times Walsh’s name comes first but more often Davis’ name. The Davis- Walsh boomers see in this combina tion a harmonizing of many of the antagonistic elements existing be tween the McAdoo and Smith camps. They profess to believe that the Davis-Walsh ticket would remove two or three of the strongest objections that have been urged against either McAdoo or Smith. Mr. Davis, it is pointed out, is in tellectually the ablest of all the men whose names have been mentioned for the nomination for president. His conception of the office and its duties is so lofty that he has refused to seek it actively as a candidate. It is further pointed out that Mr. Mc Adoo and his adherents can find no reasonable excuse to object to Mr. Davis as a Wall street attorney of J. P. Morgan, when Mr. McAdoo him self is *on record as having accepted a fee from a branch of the United States steel trust and also as having received a large fee from E. L. Doh- eny, the oil king. Mr. McAdoo’s strongest claim on his party is that he Is its only out standing progressive candidate, hut Mr. Davis’ friends assert that in sane essentials he is every whit as pro gressive and that he could stand with Woodrow Wilson on any platform the latter would be willing to stand upon were he now living. They contend that Mr. Davis has all the Wilson virtues and few or none of the Wil son shortcomings. Although a Wall street attorney -he is a practical ideal ist and that once in the White House, Wall street would look as tsiqpU to him as Maia street, Keokuk. Senator Walsh, even on the tail of the ticket, some Democrats are claim ing, would tend to pacify that large Catholic element in the Democratic party that has taken umbrage at the ^ opposition to Smith because he is a j Catholic. The nomination of Walsh, it is believed, would to a great ex tent eliminate the religious prejudice that has kprung up between ants and Catholics on account of Smith candidacy, Smith also being wet, while Walsh is dry. Senator Walsh, it is now felt, lias a great claim in the nation. If he were not a Catholic and not from a sparsely populated western atate, it is believed that he would now be outstanding candidate of bis party for president. The work of this Mon tana. senator before the oil commit tee of the senate has not only made it possible for the American people to behold the saturnalia of corrupt ion that has been practiced in their government at Washington but has furnished them with many facts on which to base a moral reform of their public servants. Democrats sre saying that the laramount issue in the campaign is clean, honest government and the work of Thomas J. Walsh has incar nated that issue but the public mind :is still confused in its ides of his monumental achievement. There is not another man in the congress or in the entire government, it is declar ed by competent observers, who could have conducted the oil investigation with the skill and achieved Hie re sults that are now credited to the Montana senator. Some of his divina tions in that investigation are as un- canrty as anything in fiction. But the Davis and Walsh ticket like a number of others tHat are be ing proposed, is only a trial balloon sent up in an effort to find some common ground between the clashing forces of the two leading candidates. is a • Can You Tell It All In Less Than Ten Words? Money For You If Can Tell It THE CHRONICLE WANTS A TITLE FOR THE PICTURE BELOW AND WILL AWARD CASH PRIZES FOR THE BEST SUGGESTIONS. $25.00 TO 'rtffi WRITER OF THE BEST LINE OR TITLE. $10.00 TO THE WRITER OF THE SECOND BEST LINE OR TITLE. (Writ* Your Title Here) Your Name. Address. The picture above was drawn by Meyer R. Wolfe, New York Artist and Illustrator. It is an unnamed picture. It never has had a title. Nobody in the world knows what the winning line will be. If you can think of a title in ten or less words which best tells the story in the picture you will win FIRST prize. The contest is open to every- S All you ji*ve to jdo is to look at the picture—then in a few simple words write a line dr title to ito with the = sss picture—a line which in your opinion tells the story COMPLETE. < - EE writer of the best line or title will receive a cash prize of $25.00. The second best title will receive $10.00. It is easy money. Maybe by studying the picture for ten or fifteen minutes you can think of a line or title which will be the winner. Why don’t you try—RIGHT NOW. Five well known and prominent Clinton citizens will be the judges. They will judge the lines or titles without knowing who wrote them. When they have decided which is best—hte identity of the writer will be learned by comparing the number on the judging slips with the original line you have turned in—and wnjfch will be kept under lock and key. • . Get busy right now. The closing date of the contest will be announced later. Get your title line in early—to this office. In case of two title-lines being the same the first received in this office will win. A Chance Given On Every Renewal Or New Subscription to The Chronicle at $1.50 Per Year. * In order to send in a title to the picture, it must be accompanied by $1.50 for a renew al or new subscription to The Chronicle.. You will be allowed a chance at the cash prizes. No limit put upon the number of titles you may submit whether they stand a chance of win ning a prize or not. They should also ancourage them and give them a lit tle lima to attend each and every w , — monthly chafe meeting. thing that ia liking in agrcultw* The following nttnber of demon- atoations and the kind of demonstra tion that dob hoys are carrying out this year, are as follows: Poultry 56, pig club breeding 22, pig club fatten- ning 8, sow and litter 4, cotton 81, corn 32, peanut 14, Irish potato 5. Get busy this minute and write a title for the picture. What has happened in that = home? What is happening there? What is going to happen? A few simple words will explain it all—and win the prize. Just a few minutes of thinking may win for you.—Try it MAIL OR BRING IN YOUR TITLE-LINE WITH SUBSCRIPTION AT ONCE. The Clinton “The Paper Hie People Read” they learn is CO-OPERATION. Qf course the prises are offered to ste their interest but the par ed the boys and girls doing club should encourage their children ipMt out their record books Clinton, ( ir I f . \ i'm. r'■Ul *>. ■ 'V* » \ V : ^ V "if • ' .. \. V: % ■. \ ' . as^l&y!