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I K If, THE CHRONICLE StriTM To Be a Clean New*- paper, Complete, Newsy sod Reliable. VOLUME XXVII ’V ^ . ' ■ . » %*• N ; / • ■;um . - r If Too Don’t Bead THE CHRONICLE Ton Don’t Get The News. , CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1927 NUMBER 18 ■ € *■ 7 * N REDPATH CHAUTAUQUA TO OPEN HERE THIS AFTERNOON Annual Engagement of Popular Seven-Day En tertainment In Tent Auditoij|im On North Broad Street POWER QUESTION BEFORE COUNCIL r. The biff yellow Chautauqua tent ar rived yesterday and is now set .up on North Broad street all ready for the opening attraction this afternoon at four o’clock. At the same time a spec- ail car of scenery and stage equipment arrived and the stage this year is as complete as many of the theatres throughout the country. The Chicago Hale Quartet, rollick* ing singers and entertainers, will be the opening attraction this afternoon. Tonight R. B. Andrews, electrical wiz ard will give a thrillingly interesting demonstration - entertainment. Mr. Ambrose calls this “The Science Sto ry,” preferring not to have it consid ered under the broad title of a lecture. Of popular interest to all is the re turn of Bohumir Kryl and his band in two grand concerts on the fifth day, HOOVER PAINTS FLOOD PICTURE Commerce Secretary Addresses Coun try Over Radio. SH^OO Homeless and $200,000,000 Damage. Memphis, April 80.—The desolation wrought by the “most dangerous flood our country has ever known in its his tory” was pieutred for the nation to night in a radio address by Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce, who just had completed a week’s survey of the swollen Mississippi river from Memphis to New Orleans as the per sonal representative of President Cool- idge. Before he faced the microphone over r Rates for Cooking and Heating Pur poses Are Reduced. Other Matters Up for Consideration. SUNDAY IS MOTHERS’ DAY LET US NOT FORGET HER which he painted the dreary picture, Secretary Hoover joined with Maj. Kryl himself conducting at both. Many: Gen. Edgar Jadwin, chief of the dr- fine bands have appeared on the Chau- my’s engineers, in a statement that tauqua program here but none have! stronger, wider and higher levees af- met with the enthusiastic reception j forded the only hope for relief from fu- which always greets the picturesque | ture floods. Reforestation, flood con- Kryl j trol works in the upper reaches of the Among the speaker, on the coming T interest in controlling the “father of Waters were held unfeasible. program creating great interest is Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, who no doubt is the leading woman speaker on the American platform today. Mrs. Owen, who is the daughter of the late Wil liam Jennings Bryan and the wife of Major Owen of the British army, was with her husband in the campaign of General Allenby in the East and her “Modern Arabian Knights” is a pictur esque travelogue of the Holy Land. In addition to Kryl and his band as outstanding entertainment features are the two metropolitan comedy suc cesses, “The Goose Hangs High” and “The Patsy.” These two plays are re plete with rollicking fun and each con tains a delightful romance. The casts have been carefully chosen and prom ise to maintain the exceptionally high standard patrons have learned to look forward to in any Redpath produc tion. ' y r ' ' ' '' ' ' • • An innovation in the building of this year’s program that is making a great appeal to the boys and girls of Clinton is found in the presentation of the afternoon programs, built es pecially with the younger people-in mind an yet of such quality as to be decidedly popular with the older pat rons, by their appeal to the universal spirit of youth that is in all of us. The complete program for the sev en days follows: 4 FIRST DAY Thursday Afternoon Introductory exercises. Popular concert — Chicago Male Quartet. Thursday Night Concert—Chicago Male Quartet. Lecture-Demonstration—“The Sci ence Story”—R. B. Ambrose. SECOND DAY Friday Afternoon Folk Songs and Dances from Many Lands—Ellenor Cook Company. Friday Night Prelude—Ellenor Cook Company. Dramatic entertainment—Edwin M. Whitney. THIRD DAY Saturday Afternoon Concert—The Faubel Entertainers. Lecture—“Girls of Today”—Flor ence Heintx. Saturday Night ‘The Goose Hangs High,” a spark Ruin to 200,000 persons, 6,000,000 acres flooded, $200,000,000 damage, thousands still clinging to their homes where upper floors remain dry, more thousands needing to be removed in boats and established in great camps on higher grounds, and yet other thousands camped upon broken levees, was the view of the disaster given by Mr. Hoover over the radio. “In the miles of river below Vicks burg, which has not yet been reached by the crest of the flood, the battle to control from breaks in the levees is still on,” he said. “The question in the mind of every man in these districts tonight is “Will the levees hold against the approach ing crest?’ ” He pictured thousands of men “strung mile upon mile working ini higher and higher,” and added that while important levees have been held against the water enemy, “what the result of the fight may be no one knows.” “But if uor engineers should fail in the fight at any section to hold the lines, the forces of relief are tonight mobilized for instant action at every point,” he said. “I am confdent that we shall have little loss of life even if the worst comes, yet we would have much des titution and suffering if breaks comes. He listed these homeless: Three thousand each in Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee; 20,000 or 30,000 in Missouri; 150,000 flooded in Mississippi and 160,000 in Arkansas. “Six millions of acres of land have already been flooded,” he continued as he brushed in the lines of the forbid ding picture. “Over $200,000,000 of damage has already been done. The cattle and the mules have been drowned by the thousands, and the seed has been swept away. “The land in the flooded districts will be under water for a month or six weeks. The campus mu$t be main tained for that time. Immediately af ter the land is drained planting must be done again.” Secretary Hoover, speaking with the desperate scene still fresh in his T-4- MOTHER MINE God must have smiled to frame a thought So perfect and divine. As that of making loving hearts Like yours, 0, Mother Mine! He must have touched your patient brow To make your life so fair, And looked into your tender eyes To place the lovelight there; Then breathed His wisdom in your soul To make your love divine— God must have smiled to frame the thought Of you, O, Mother Mine! MEMORIAL DAY TO BE OBSERVED [.oral U. D. C. Chapter Plan Exercises In Chautauqua Tent With Address By Cong. J. J. McSwain. Memorial day—May 10th, will be ling comedy-drama with a’New York*'eye, appealed to the nation for help for the stricken Mississippi vol ley. “Even if the flood is not extended by the breaking of more levees the cast. FOURTH DAY Monday Afternoon Grand concert—Colonial Quintet. Monday Night Prohide—Colonial Quintet. Lecture—“Modern Arabian Knights —Rath Bryan Owen. / FIFTH DAY Afternoon Grand concert—Kryl and his band. |Bohumir Kryl conducting.) Tuesday Night Grand concert—Kryl and his band. tBekumir Kryl conducting.) SIXTH DAY Wednesday Afternoon Hqiginal musical production, “Steph en Foster”—DuMond Concert Com- paay. Wednesday Night Concert — DuMond Concert Corn- Lecture—“With Mussolini and the Blackshirts”—Tom Skeyhill. SEVENTH DAY Thursday Afternoon “A Trif^to Magic Land”—The Great Laurant. Thursday Night •The Patsy”—great American com edy, with New York cast. calamity is an appalling one. These hundreds of thousands must not alone receive food, clothing, shelter and medical atention but they must be re started in life again. Houses, furni ture, implements, seed, food for ani mals must be found after the crisis is passed. (Continued On Page Four) Now Fll Ask One 1. Who was commander-in-chief of the U. S. army and navy during 1918 ? 2. In what land are white ele phants sacred. 3. What is the name of the Presi dent’s yacht? 4. Where was the recent Eucahris- tic Congress held? 5. Has any state in the union a woman governor at the present time? 6. Who is known as the most pes simistic philosopher? 7. What country jy referred to as “John Bull”?- 8. What is the hardest known sub stance? 9. What is the national anthem of France? 10. Name—In what game is the beauty of the day and the nobility of the cause of the men which it com memorates. A program of interest wilLbe presented under the auspices of the local chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, to which the pub lic is cordially invited. The exercises will open at 10 o’clock when the veterans, daughters, friends and school children will assemble at the monument and after placing love ly flowers upon it, the procession will march to the cemetery where the graves of all Confederates will like wise be strewn with wreaths and flow ers. At the conclusion of the exercises at the cemetery, the audience will go to the large Chautauqua tent on North Broad street where Cong. J. J. Mc Swain of Greenville, will deliver the address of. the day. The ladies of the local chapter will circulate a petition asking all business houses in the city to close for one hour next Tuesday from 11 to 12 o’clock to attend the exercises in the tent and to hear and welcome Cong CINDER MEN TO GATHER HERE Annual Track Meet of State Colleges To Draw Many Entries At P. C. Saturday. The colleges of South Carolina will hold their annual track meet at the Presbyterian college on next Saturday afternoon, beginning at two o’clock. There will likely be entries from Clemson, Furman, Wofford, Carolina, Citadel and P. C., all of these having entered the contests last year. Fur man won the meet last year with Clemson second and P. C- third. The Presbyterians returned Tuesday from Atlanta where they won from the Emory university tracksters by a margin of several points. The boys are all in fine condition and aft ex pecting to carry off first honors in the coming meet. Coach Johnson has sent out letters to all coaches in the state asking for their entries. It is expected that there will be 50 or 60 visiting cinder men. For the third consecutive year the Presbyterians are acting as hosts to the Carolina colleges' in this meet. The starter for the meet here Satur day will be J. H. Crouch, coach of the Greenville high school, who has acted in this capacity for the past two years. The meet will be held, as has already been stated, on the P. C. cinder path The regular monthly meeting of city council was held Tuesday evening at which time routine matters were up for consideration. Several complaints were heard on various questions which will be acted upon by council after an investigation has been made. The re port of the police department for April showed 44 cases on the docket with fines imposed and collected of $720.50. The financial statement for the month showed an income of $4,- 940.03, with disbursements of $4,874.- 34. Council ordered that Geo. R. Hol land, now acting chief-of-police, be paid the salary of the office, $150.00 per month. The matter of finances was before council for consideration. A note for $30,000 held by New York interests, falls due on May 8th, while the city is without funds with which to meet it. A request by the mayor for a re newal-of the note had been made dur ing the past few days and it was granted, the rate of interest to be de cided upon between now and the time the note becomes due. It was also pointed out to council that $15,000 must be secured by the city between now' and the first of August for the retiring of paving bonds and the pay ment of interest accounts. The city is without such funds and it was stat ed by council that it would be neces sary to borrow this amount to retire the bonds. - Alderman W. W. Harris brought be fore council the question of the^res- ent power rates and expressed the opinion that they should be lowered. He cited the scale of rates charged in several adjoining towns served by the Southern Power company and said that the city should sell its power to its citizens at the lowest possible cost and that the plant should not be op erated ?s a money-making machine. He pointed out the need of bringing manufacturing enterprises and addi tional pay-rolls to the city, and the importance of cheap power to attract such developments. Figures cited by him, covering the past three months’ operation of the water and light plant, showed a profit of $4,333.69, which figured on a yearly basis would ex ceed $17,000 profits. Further discussing the cooking and heating electric current rates, he said that here are only a hand-full of elec tric ranges in operation in the city and that the present high rates are re sponsible for this condition. Clinton should easily have one hundred elec tric ranges in operation and this ex pansion will gradually come if the rates are put in line with other fuels. He said that the rates should be low ered and that the city should put on a campaign urging increased power con- sumpion and offering every possible inducement to popularize a more gen eral use of electricity. After a gen eral discussion, council voted to reduce TEN MILLION FUNDNEEDED Coolidge Asks That America* People Double Gifts To Flood Sufferers. * McSwain. They are asking the hearty! beginning at 2 o’clock. It is hoped cooperation of the public and cordially invite the people of Clinton and this community to join in the observance of the Suoth’s Memorial day. At the noon hour, all veterans and their wives will assemble in the Ma sonic hall, where a delightful dinner will be served them by the Daughters of the loeal c ha per. TWO GIFTS MADE TO ORPHANAGE that the Clinton public will turn out in large numbers to witness the event. Contributions of $13,000 By Late Geo. W. Young To Thornwell An nounced for First Time. In th« educational campaign for the! h i*" 0 “ Xw^f fS tv—, ^belO Darnel, Crystle Woodruff, Lil ban Browning, Charles Anderson, Hat tie Simpson, Charles Murphy. Honor Pupils Named For High School Eighth grade: Anne Glasgow, Ella Little McCrary, Margaret Jones, data Bobo, Sara Copeland, Clyde Ray, Me- dora Browning, Evelyn Ramage, Geor gia Bee Blakely, Dorsey McFadden, Carol Copeland, Lannette Duckett, Sara Speake, Eva Rice, Bobby Steer. Ninth grade: Virginia Barrow, Ruth Carter, James Horton, Virginia Rheney, Miriam Nelson. Tenth grade: George Smith, Ra- Washington, May 2. — President Coolidge issued a proclamation late today stating that a minimum of $10g» 000,000 will be needed by the Red Cross for feeding, clothing and shel tering the 200,000 Mississippi rivet flood victims, and asking that the ori ginal Red Cross quotas be doubled* The President’s first appeal called tot a relief fund of $5,000,000. Mr. Coolidge issued his preclame* tion following the report of Secretary Hoover, who returned this merninf from an inspection of the entire flood area. In conference with the Presi dent and at a meeting of the special cabinet committee, Mr. Hoover rec ommended that twice as much money as appeared necessary at first will bo required. The proclamation said: “To the people of the United States! “The situation in the Mississippi valley has developed ino a grave crisis affecting a wide area in several states. There'are now more than 200,000 flood refugees who have been driven from their homes. This number is being in creased daily as fresh breaks In the levees inundate the country on eithe* side of the river, driving the inhabi tants to points of safety. “These refugees are bieng fed, shel tered and clothed by the American Red Cross, acting as agent for the American people. The burden of their care will continue for many more weeks. “Because of the vast increase in the flooded area, the sum already -called for will prove insufficient. The num bers to be cared for have been doubled since that call, and the crest of the flood has not reached all parts. In order that these thousands of youf fellow citizens may continue to re ceive necessary care, a minimum of $10,000,000 will be needed and it is therefore desired that the quotas ori ginally assigned as a minimum to the various communities should be dou bled. “As President of the United States and as president of the American Red Cross, I am therefore urging our peo ple to give promptly and most gen erously so that sufficient funds may be received to alleviate the suffering among so many thousands. “For the purpose of coordination and effectiveness in the administra tion of the relief fund, I recommend that all contributions be forwarded to the nearest local Red Cross chapter, or to the American National Red Cross headquarters office at Washington, St. Louis or San Francisco.” The cabinet committee, composed of Secretaries Hoover, Mellon, Dwight F. Davis, Wilbur and Jardine, with the Red Cross officials and Maj. Gen. Jad win, chief of the army engineers, are the minimum cooking rate of $3.00 per ; cooperating adopted the following oth- month to $2.50, and lowered the ratejer recommendations from Secretary from 4 cents per K. W. hour to 3 cents, Hoover: effective May the first. No action was i “That continuance be authorized of taken on the light, water and manu- the services of the army, navy, treas- factoring rates, though it was shown ury> agriculture and commerce de- that they are higher here than in many adjoining towns similar to Clinton DEATH CLAIMS partments through delegation of per sonnel and supplies, with view to de ficiency appropriations from Congress to,cover such outlays. “That (he banking committee, na- ruruurvr inat ’■ ne DanK,n K com miu««, n*- •* I-'-IVrvllv ivlliv 1 Hilt | tional and local, should in cooperatioit Eleventh grade: Isaac Copeland, Jeanette Crawford, Blanche Crisp, T. J. Blalock. Presbyterian college and Thornwell orphanage conducted a few years ago, the late Geo. W. Young of this city, gave $6,000 to the orphanage. At the same time he placed in the orphanage endowment, the sum of $6,922.00 on which the institution was to pay him an annual interest during his life and then to Mrs. Young, after whose death this amount reverts fee simple to the institution.. In deference to Mr. Young’s ex pressed wish that no publicity be given his action, and in view of his unassum ing manner and unusual modesty, no public announcement has been made before by the board of trustees of the two substantial gifts he made to the institution, aggregating $12,922.00. |J nnnr f^ll |^ nr Since Mr. Young’s death H is entirely r or proper that the friends of the institu tion should know of his gifts, and that he always manifested a sympathetic and helpful attitude towards the or phanage. Prominent Merchant and Planter of Laurens Passes After a Year’s Illness. Laurens, May 2.—Edward Perrin Mintcr, prominent merchant and farm er of Laurens, died at his home to- night after an illness of ten months. * Jadwin will return to the flooded area, Mr. Minter suffered an attack of para- leaving Washington at 2:50 a. m., lysis while at prayer meeting one Thursday morning, night last July and had never recov-1 Secretary Hoover's decision to mak® another trip is taken to indicate that with the government institutions, or ganize some agency by which produc tion loans to farmers, advances tit merchants and to the flooded har,lr * can be mobilized at once.” Secretary Hoover, Acting Chairman Fieser of the Red Cross and Maj. Gen* ered from the stroke.. Mr. Minter, who was 48 years old, President Coolidge does not intend to was a graduate of the Univresity of go personally to the scene of the dia- South Carolina, finishing in the class [ a*.ter, but will leave Secretary Hoovvf of 1900, and upon his graduation mov- j n charge, ed to Laurens where he has been a Commercial Club Meeting Postponed The May meeting of the Commer cial club, scheduled to be held next Tuesday night, has been postponed un til the evening of May 17th. The 1 1 change was necessary to avoid a con- 1 flict with the chautauqua. successful merchant and farmer for 27 years. He was a son of the late Capt. John R. Minter, prominent planter of Union county. Funeral services were held at 4 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, conduct ed by he Rev. E. D. Patton. Mr. Minter married Miss Lillian Gelder of Denver, Col., who with two FACULTY FOR LYDIA SCHOOL J. F. Jacobs, Sr., left Saturday for a ten days* Northers basisess trip. Providence School First grade: James Patterson, Lo- ree Golightly, Bernice McCravy, Sta cey Lee Ramfy. Second grade: Eleanor Cauble, Ruth Lipe. i _ Fifth grade: Leora Goff. ;t- > ... / List of Teachers Given for 1927-28 Session ^4 Providence School. Several Changes Made. The faculty for the Providence (Ljr* children, Gelder Minter, 22, and Mar- dia) school for the new session begin- jorie Minter, 14, survives him. Two ning next September, has been an- brothers, the Rev. W. R. Minter of nounced by the trustees. The school Austin, Texas, and James E. Minter j is fcgain headed by Mr^. H. A. Cope- ot Laurens,also survive as does a sis-i land as principal, whileseveral of the ter, Mrs. N. B. Dial. past year’s teachers did not ask for Mr. Minter was a devoted member re-election, of the First Presbyterian church, of i The faculty of the school will be a* which he was an officer. He was a follows: Shriner and a Rotarian and in his 1 ' Principal and fifth grader Mrs. & death Laurens loses one of her most A. Copeland, prominent citizens. His modest, sin- First grade: Mrs. S. W. Sumewl. cere traits of character made him Weed. * »d respected b, ell who kee. him. X” d n * de ' " “• t X* Mr. Minter wee president and owner T,urd M;m ***•« Of Minter A company, formerly J. R. Fourth grade: Miss Margaret Bfak®* Minter A Son. lg. y . J: M, \ * ft* < AabiX 42STO4'-’ IPS <