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«— y ‘ " i >■ <1 v- ■ ^ W ■ ■■m : t THE CHRONICLE Strives To He a Clean Neva- paper, Conpleta, Newsy J and Reliable, ——■■ . Ogam ... ir ' If Too Don't Read THE CHRONICLE Yon Don’t Get rs. . . * . volume xxyn CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 25,1927 NUMBER 34 START WORK ON NEW DAMSOON Officers of Contracting Com- _ pany and Engineers Leave New York for Dam Site. Colombia, Aug. 21.—Joseph J. Hock, president of the Arundel Cor poration of Baltimore, who will build the mammoth dam on Saluda river near here for the Lexington Water Power company; Henry Flood, Jr., of New York, ofthe firm of Murray and Flood, engineers for the development, and other officials are expected in Co lumbia this week to begin preparations for the initiation of construction woife olina in an even more important po sition than she holds today in the elec tric power world. Mr. Flood is leaving New York to day, according to private advices re ceived here. He will consult, on his arrival, with A. P. Campbell, chief consulting engineer of the Barstow Management association, who is now in Columbia. Mr. Flood or Mr. Camp bell will be here, one of them, until f the development is completed. The contract with the Arundel 'corpora tion calls for completion of the plant by the end of 1930. ,Work is to start around September 1, and approximately 1,100 men will be employed at all times, it is stated. Mr. Campbell stated that the con tract with the Arundel company is for approximately $7,000,000. This is just about one-third of the program, how ever, the total cost to be about $20,- 000,000. In about a year the Barstow asso ciation will start work on the power plant, at the lower base of the big dam. It will have an initial output of 200,000 horse power. This &an later be increased, by the. installation of two additional units, to 240,000 horse power. At first there .will be four units of 32,500 kilowatts each. About half of the power the darm COUNTY SCHOOLS SOON TO OPEN All Nine Month Schools To Open Sept. Mont ! Business and Politics 5. Seven and Eight Month Schools Open October 3. Undfr a program recommended by a committee from the Laurens County Teachers association, all the schools of the county will follow a similar school calendar for the year, stated Miss Kate V. Wofford, county superintend ent of Education. All nine month schools, she said, will operi*on Septem- ber 5 and all seven and eight month schools will open on October 3. The nine month schools will close on May 18, the seven month schools on April 27, and the eight month schools on May 18. By ROGER W. RABSON Babson Park, Mass. ,Aug. 24.—Now Longworth, Lowden, or some other that the smoke has cleared away from' good man will be nominated. On the the bomb shell which President Cool-J other hand, if there is a deadlock, he idge fired a few weeks ago, Roger W. has not closed the doors so that he on the big hydroelectric program* which is expected to put South Car-* ^ following schools come under the nine months classification: Lanford, Laurens, Cross Hill, Wa terloo, Hurricane, Mountville, Hick ory Tavern, Friendship, Trinity-Ridge, New Prospect, Bailey, Fleming, Cen tral, Gray Court - Owings, Poplar Springs, Oakville, Wadsworth, Rock Bridge, Clinton, Goldville, Shady Grove, Renno, Sandy Springs, Watts Mills, Copeland. The following schools come under the eight month classification: Ora, Barksdale-Namie, Oak Grove, Warrior Creek, Shiloh, Princeton, Brewerton, Mt. Gallagher, Center Point, Mt. Pleasant, O’Dell’s Bethany, Grays, Youngs, Greenpond, Eden, Merna, Mt. Bethel, Bethel Grove, Ekom, Mt. Olive, Garlington, Long Branch. The committee while it was in ses sion also recommended a calendar of 'holidays and this recommendation will likely be followed throughout the county, said Miss Wofford. Three sep arate holiday periods are provided for as follows: Nov. 25 and 26, Thanks giving; Dec. 23 to January 1, inclu sive, Christmas holidays; Thursday and Friday in March during meeting cf S. C. Teachers association, provided 'teachers attend. Adoption of a calendar of holidays, thinks Miss Wofford, will tend to re- Babson was today willing to discuss the relation ofi the political situation to business: Mr. Babson -fully recog nizes that psychologically politics have a decided effect upon business, byt he believes that their real importance is largely over-estimated. “The impor tant factor," says Mr. Babson, “is the motives, purposes and ambitions of the people. If these are lacking, as in China; or are wrong, as in Russia; or are indifferent, as in Spain; then there is no progress and business is at # standstill. As long, however, as the American people are fired by their present Christian spirit, politics are not much of a factor in the long rim. Bad legislation may temporarily re- could not save the situation even though he dreads the jab. His state ment was worded -exactly right. To have used any other language would not have been in the interests of the country as a whole. '‘During the Wilson administration the leading businees interests of the country became discouraged. They claimed that a group of theorists—r mostly college- professors—were in charge of the government who knew how to do only one thing and that was to spend money. The banking inter ests were disturbed at the rapid growth of organized labor under the able i leadership of Samuel Gompers; while the farmers and the small bus tard business, as a dam may tempo- iness men were disturbed by the ris ing taxes. As a result, the country was ready for a change and no power on earth could have stopped the elec tion of a Republican president ip 1920. The day after Harding and Coolidge were elected, captains of industry be gan to take heart again and make 'plans for new construction. It took Will Ask Congress To Authorize Ship Construction At Meeting In December. Rapid City, S. D., Aug. 20.—Presi dent Coolidge will recommend author ization for additional cruisers and sub marines at the December session pf congress, it was announced today at the summer white house. <• It was made clear that the execu tive has no plan for a specific num ber of new surface and under-sea He will merely lay down a general policy and permit congress to Treasury Head Charged With Wet!work out the solution. Views. Failure of Enforcement Is Mr. Coolidge, however, will not fa- Lmid On Prendient and Aide. vor immediate appropriations for Winona Lake, Ind., Aug. 21.—Gif- new ship construction at the next ses- ford Pinchot, former governor of' sion. He does not believe in the policy GIFFORD PINCHOT ASSAILS MELLON fships NEW CRUISERS COOLIDGE AIM will produce has already been sold to j m oye a great deal of confusion as to the Southern Power company.^. holiday periods and aid in the school The big dam which will be built will j wor k- be a mile and a‘half long, 200 feet high, 1105 feet thick at the base and 26 feet thick at the top, a roadway running along the top. The lake to be impounded will be 32 miles long and 14 miles wide. It will take six months fqr the Saluda river to fill it. The Arundel company iyill first build railroads. Miles and miles of trackagp will be used to transport dirt from the hillsides to the site of the dam, and dumped for the making of the mammoth mountain across the valley. . • Pennsylvania, addressing the Con gress of the World League Against Alcoholism, tonight assailed Andrew W. Mellon, secretary of the treasury, as being the “chief obstacle to com- whereby congress would authorize construction of the vessels and then immediately appropriate the money. He wants the authorization passed at the next session and appropriations plete enforcement of federal prohibi- made later through the budget bureau tion in the United States.” ! in the regular way. "Back of him and, therefore, chief-1 The reason for this policy, it was ly responsible, is President Coolidge,” explained, is that the president does the speaker declared. Much of the former governor’s address was devot ed to a resumption of his attack on Secretary Mellon, whom he charged with refusing to have the prohibition law enforced. rarily hold back a stream of water; but the dam does not destroy the wa- tet. Some /day it’s going over the dam just the same!” Mr. Babson’s com plete statement is as follows: Recent Political History “The general impression is that presidents determine business condi tions ; but economic and political his-1 some time to get these plans into ac- tory shows that business conditions ■ tion, but they were very effective. Ow- determine who shall be president. The j > n 8 to the suppression of all zuilding force underlying political action in a during the war, there was a great democracy is that the ‘outs’ are al-1 housing shortage when Harding came ways trying to get ‘in’ and hence are; into power. Hence a building boom constantly calling for-a change. When inevitable. The automobile indus- STORM TOLL HEAVY DURING PAST YEAR More Thin Fifty Disasters Destroyed IJfe and Property, Says Report By Red Cross. Floods Lead. the country is enjoying prosperity, the party out of office talks about “cap italistic control,’ a ‘Wall Street ad ministration,’ etc., and eventually try was also at a point where it was ready to expand to great proportions. Immigration legislation has placed a tariff on labor. The Federal Reserve dumps out the reigning administra-1 System was just beginning to function tion. This is what happened following, efficiently. All these combined, served the good times which we had in the to make the past few years very pros- early part of this century under Me-' perous. Kinley and Roosevelt. When the coun try is in a business depression, the party that is out capitalizes the un employment and other unfortunate East Vs West “The only fly in the ointment has been the strained relations between the East and the West. Unfortunate- situations and ultimately gets in pow- ly the farming sections of the Conn er on a ‘full dinner-pail’ platform, try in the West do not have their cap- Since Germany declared war on the,tains of industa^ and great leaders, rest of the world in 1%}4, this program Farming is carried on by several rail- has been interrupted, but it rather lion small farmers, while over 95 per j Lo looks as if it was about ready again fcolcent «f ell the goo^ made in thejcul Wilson United" Stalest turtlW ‘4«w*%y Washington.—More than half a hun dred storms which have swept the United States, the gulf coast of Mex ico and the West Indies in the last twelve months have killed approxi mately 550 persons, injured 7,000, left homeless about 625,000 and destroyed 5,000 buildings, the American Red Cross reports. The orecs ef nature, unusually ac tive in the year ended July 1, unleash ed 21 floods, 14 tornadoes, 9 hurri canes and 5 cyclones of marked inten sity. In addition one of the worst hail storms in history visited Fort Bend, Texas, leaving in its wake a path of destruction. Several thousand persons v/ere left Homeless and a survey of the damage following the storm showed that 2,005 buildings were destroyed. One person was killed and a number injured. As a result of floods and various kinds of wind storms the Red Cross has furnished assistance to about 400,- 00 persons. This is exclusive of mis cellaneous catastrophes, such as epi demics, wrecks, explosions, mine dis asters, fire and shipwrecks. The period from July, 1926 to July, 1927, showed a marked increase in what are classed as major disasters. In the previous 12-month period there were 14 tornadoes, as many as in 1926- 27. But in 1925-26 there were only ten floods, few of them as destructive as those of the last 12 months. The .two outstanding catastrophes in the United States for 1926-27 were the Florida hurricane and the Missis sippi valley floods. In the former 327 persons were killed and 6,327 injured. Property loss ran into millions, but it was small compared to that of the Mississippi floods. The flood extended down the Miss issippi valley for nearly 1,000 miles, from Cairo, 111., almost to the Gulf of Mexico. Twenty thousand square miles were inundated in the seven states of Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana, and more than 3,600,000 cultivated acres of land were covered come into action. President ^ ^ -water-' Tl» fk»oded.Vould once said to me, ‘Babson, it some-[than 50,000 manufacturers. As a re-[equal the combined cultivated acreage times seems as if the Republicans are suit it is easy to organize these manu-. of the New England states with the all brains and no heart, and the Dem- 1 facturers. They know what they want exception of Vermont, ocrats all heart and no brains—why 1 and work unitedly to get it. Labor is cannot there be a proper mixture of gradually learning and adopting the the two?’ Whether or not this is true, j capitalistic methods, but the farmers it does seem as if the Republicans' are still mere infants in this line of en- synchronized their campaigns with deavor. As a result, the business in business conditions. jterests of the East were quick to seize “It may be accidental or pre-ar- and capitalize the Coolidge adminis- ranged, but the Republican party cer-1 tration. While the farmers, were taily got off on the right foot so as standing about arguing among them- to capitalize each period of prosperity 1 selves the manufacturers of the East by coming into power just at a time Were busy sawnng wood. As a result, when a period of prosperity was due. the East, including labor of all kinds, The Democrats on the other hand, un- has greatly prospered under the Cool- fortunately have come into power just idge administration, while the farmers as a period of depression has been due.' of *the West have been waiting for |ber 17, Bahama islands, 7 killed; Sep- Hence it is generally believed that the something to turn up to help them out.: tember 18, h lorida, 327 killed, 6,327 In short, the Eastern manufacturers' injured; September 25, Vera Cruz Fifty thousand head of live stock were drowned, and in the three states of Mississipppi, Arkansas and Louis iana 7,668 houses were destroyed and thousands of others damaged. But de spite the size of the catastrophe only six lives were lost, it was stated. Some of the worst disasters from Natural causes which have occurred in the past 12 months in the United FACULTY FOR CITYSCH00LS Teachers To Instruct Youth of Clinton Announced. New Ses sion Begins Sept. 5th. The Clinton city schools will open their 1327-28 year on Monday, Sept S, according to an announcement recent ly made by J. Harvey Witherspoon, superintendent. . The corps of teachers, grades they are to teach, and colleges of which they are graduates, follows: J. Harvey Witherspoon, A. B., Da vidson college; M. A. and L. L. B., University of S. C.; M. A., Columbia university; superintendent; History. High School J. F. Bozard, Cameron, S. C., A. B., Furman university; graduate student, University of Va.j principal. E. M. Shannon, Blackstock, S. C., A. B., Erskine college, Science. Miss Robbie Parks, Augusta, Ga., A. B., Winthrop college, Science. Miss Olive Tuck, Spartanburg, S. C., A. B., Columbia college, English. Miss Asile Livingston, Prosperity, S. C., A. B., Newberry college, Math ematics. - 1 i Miss Bertha Gray Galltnan, New berry, S. C., A. B., Chicora college, Latin. Miss Margaret Boozer, Silverstreet, S. C., A. B., Newberry college, French. Miss Lillian Hunt, Greenville, S. C., A. B., Winthrop college, History. Miss Gladys Stilwell, Silverstreet, S. G* A. B. Newberry college, Math ematics. • * -1 5 Florida Street School Miss Margie Seawright, Hodges, S. C M A. B., Due West Woman’s college; graduate student, Peabody; principal, second grade. Mrs. Raymond J. Pitts, Clinton, S. C., A. B., Winthrop college, first grade. Miss Nancy Owens, Clinton, S. C., A. B., Winthrop college, third grade. Miss Bonita Boozer, Newberry, S. C., A. B., Newberry college, fourth grade. •, . Mrs. Felder Smith, Clinton, S. C., A. B., Chicora college, fifth grade. Miss Evelyn Botts, Abbeville, S. C., A. B., Erskine college, sixth, grade. : Miss Paul Vane Elrod, Memphis, Tfexas, B. S., Columbia college, sixth grade. * Mrs. W. R. Anderson, Clinton. S. C., A. B., Brenau college, seventh grade. Miss Anna Bell Hudson, A. B. Win throp college, seventh grade. Academy Street School Miss Alline Newsom, Hartsville, S. C., B. S., Coker college, principal, sev enth grade. Miss Ethel Jones, Mountville, S. C., A. B., Due West Woman’s college, sixth grade. Mrs. William B. Bailey, Clinton, S. Slates, the West Indies and along the | C-* A. B., Winthrop college, fifth f no flTTI Gulf of Mexico are as follows In 1926, hurricanes: August 27, southern Ixmisiano, 25 killed; Septem- Republicans bring on good times and the Democrats bring on bad times. Of course, this is a good deal like discus- realized that ,the war was over and they immediately adjusted themselves Mexico, 24 killed; October 20, Santa Clara, Cuba, 3,000 injured, 600 build ings destroyed; October 20, Havana, Cuba and Isle of Pines, 17 killed, 65 injured, 526 buildings destroyed. Cy- “For many reasons, Secretary Mel lon is utterly unfit to have charge of the enforcement of the 18th amend ment,” Mr. Pinchot declared. “First, he is‘wet. When appointed secretary of the treasury, Mellon was, if not the largest, one of the largest makers of whiskey in America. Both because of his personal views and his business interests, he was just the wrong man to enforce the law. The result has proved it. “The trouble with the Coolidge ad ministration is that it has talked in favor of the drys but acted in fayor of the wets. President Coolidge per sonally obeys the law. He had, it is true, said in messages to congress that the law ougkt to be observed and ought to be enforced. He did, it is true, call a conference of governors on law enforcement, the result of which was utterly nothing. I was there and I know. “Undejr the Qpolidge administration there has been dry talk—enough to keep the drys contented—most of them —but not enough action to .keep the j - wets from getting all the drink they I , united.” —u— -—s theran not believe any emergency Exists for immediate ’ ship construction, despite the outcome of the Geneva disarma- ; ment conference and the apparent plan of Great Britain to increase further her light cruiser strength. Mr. Coolidge is displeased, it was said, at the manner in which congress rushed at the last session to appro priate immediate funds for three new cruisers. He would like to have had congress authorize construction of ten cruisers. At the same time, Mr. Coolidge made known that he intends to rec ommend dispositions of the American merchant marine to private interests ' immediately. He does not believe there is a ship on the seas operated by the federal government which is not operated at a loss of revenue. The government merchant marine was con structed at a cost of $3,500,000,000, and $3,000,000,000 has been lost, he maintains. Any method of turning the ships over to private operators which, at the same time, will carry sufficient guarantees that they will be kept in operation, will be favored by him, it was indicated. , sing which came first the hen or the to peace conditions, egg; but all economists would admit) “The farmers of the West are only that this country would have had i now beginning to realize that the war about the same periods of prosperity j is over. They are still hoping for a re-'clones and tornadoes: November 9, and depression if either paAy had i turn of the good old days when the i La Plata and Cedarville, Md., 18 kill- been in continuous power during the' Democrats and insurgent Republicans ed, 25 injured, 80 buildings wrecked; • am .a .a *• • _ .1 ^ _ — V • _ A. ▲ L __ ^. a L. 1 A ^aaa 1 a a*.-, V. ^>aa O K A am n am #) Y Y tofwitaaai grade. Mrs. Hugh B. Workman, Clinton, S. C., Columbia college, Greenville Wo man's college, fourth grade. Miss Coilefte Griffin, Clinton, S. C., A. B„ W’inthrop college, third grade. Mrs. Lee Add Blakely, Clinton, S. C., graduate Georgia Normal, second grade. Mrs. L. B. Dillard, Clinton, S. C., A. B., Winthrop college, second grade. Miss Lilly Yarborough, Cross An chor, S. C., A. B., Lander college, first grade.' joined forces and put through legisla tion which pegged the price of wheat ana corn at an abnormally high fig ure. Moreover, these farmers fail to. past hundred years. On the other hand, students of history are agreed that this country would not be so well off today with such a continuous one party program. A certain amount of competition is as necessary in gov- emment as in trade, in order to keep up standards. The two party system j Europe who were under arms during is fundamentally right and business conditions are moije nearly normal when these two parties are most even ly balanced. Furthermore, we are all best off in the end with normal bus iness conditions. Too great prosperity and too easy money are as harmful as depressions and unemployment. Coolidge Prosperity “The present period of prosperity started with the election of Harding and Coolidge, and from a stock mar ket point of view has been the most spectacular of any which this country has ever witnessed. The average of 20 industrials has risen from a low November 25, Arkansas and Missouri, I Mrs. John W. Little, A.^B., Win- 51 killed. 300 injured, 526 buildings destroyed. Cyclones: November 25, Mer Rouge, La., 11 killed, 33 injured, throp college, first grade. Providence School Mrs. H. A. Copeland, Clinton. S. C., realize that it is impossible to increase ; 10 buildnigs wrecked. Floods: Sep-, k - L’^** n ^ ro P co ^ eKe * P r * n riP a ^ fiW 1 the consumption of wheat and corn, j tember 25, Illinois river valley, 2 kill- ^ r ^. e ‘ In the meantime, millions of men in ed, 2,000 buildings destroyed. J ** lss '' lar fc aret Blakely, Clinton, S. In 1927 .tornadoes: February 17, ^ B " Wi " thrc P *»“«*> the war have returned to agriculture.' s a bine parish, La., 17 killed, 41 in-, 8 ’™ A p. . 0 „ With the price of wheat for the entire j ured; March 17, Saline, Ark., 12 kill-! . *1 * Da 1 V S ’ ^ world, made in Liverpool the farmers edj 3l injured; 84 buildings wrecked;' A \? ’ e ? le,re ' t !j! r J gra ^ e - of our West must compete with thei Apr il 5, Rock Springs, Texas, 67 kill- 1 . , H ; Sm, P son - GhntcM J’ S - G - farmers of every other country. As a ] 58 injured. 172-buildings destroy- A ‘ R Lexin 8^on college, second grade, result of these and other reasons, the;^. Floods: January 28. northeast Ar- j *^ rs> S- W. Sumerel, Clinton, S. C., farmers of the West are distinctly’, Kansas, 668 buildings destroyed. Minthrop college, first grade. jealous today of the East and its pros-i perity. President Coolidge and his as- 1 sociates have tried hard to explain NCW H&ruWare the situation by facts and figures, but; with little success. Farmers, like most I humans, are ruled by feelings rather! ‘ than by figures. The West is deter-! A new hardware store is soon to be Store To Open Miss Mary Lou Bell, Staunton, Va., Mary Baldwin semiriary, public school music. mined to try some of :!s theories ‘even opened by D. E. Tribble Company and _ __ „ though jmeoonoihic’ as the typical will occupy their handsome store room of 64 in 1921 to a recent figure of 177.' western politician would say. As at i n Die new telephone building erected Knowing that President Coolidge is alheart^the farmers is Republican, he^at the corner of South Broadway and LAST UNION SERVICE GETS HIS^ COMMISSION John F. Bolt, recently appointed by Gov. Richards as coroner of Laurens county, has Received his commission •ad duly been sworn into office as a •accessor to R. R. Owings. The union service next Sunday ev- ing~ will be held with St. John’s Lu- eran church at ..the usual - hour of urch at ..the usual eight o’clock. The pastor of the church, the Rev. M. R. Wingard, will occupy the pulpit. This will be the last union service of the ^summer sea son and since it Will be the first' ser vice of the kind held in the new Lu theran church, it is expected that a large congregation will be present. keen student of economicr, some*be Heve he realizes that it is not reason able to expect present good conditions to continue four years longer and he wishes to retire ‘while the going’s good.’ Of course, this may be one of several factors in causing him to choose to retire; but it was not the real cause. President Coolidge has realized since being West that the farmers were determined to try an ex Stirvivors Of Famous Company In Reunion Laurens, Aug. 21.—The annual re union of the survivors of Company F, perimental policy. ’ President Coolidge ; battle—the is not willing to he a party to this! have an opportunity of nominating policy; so he feels it is«the fair thing! another one after their own heart, like to step aside and let some one else, j Governor Lowden, or else a compro- who believes in these farm ideas, try!mise candidate like Vice-President feels that he would like a change in Gary street. The interior work is now the Republican administration rather being completed and it is hoped that 14th South Carolina Regiment, held than have a Democratic administra- th e building will be ready for occu- Friday at Langston church, eight miles tion. One thing is certain that the pancy early in September. east of the city, attracted a large gath- chances are today decided against any The new concern will be managed ering, and was the occasion of the us- representative of the Eastern interests by L. Russel Gray, an experienced ual happy reunion of the people of whether a Republican or Democrat hardware man of Lauren^, who ex- that section. J. B. Park, Greenwood being the next president. pects to move here within ’lit next attorney an^son of one of the late Future Outloqk ^ ew days. The owners state ihat it ; s members cf the famous Confederate “With the withdrawal of President their intention to carry a complete command, was the speaker of the day. Coolidge at least from the preliminary B ne hardware and builders supplies Other addresses were made by C. A. battle—tbs farmers of the West now kinds. , Power, B. Y. Culbertson and btate ! Senator O. P. Goodwin, all of whom FOR CHURCH BENEFIT are sons of veterans. Following the speaking exercises a his hand. He was absolutely honest in, Dawes. O f course, this dogs not nec- Tom Johnson’s Friday night, Aug. 26, his use of the word ‘choose’ and much essarily mean that the country as a at 8 o’clock, for the benefit of Fair- prefers not to be a candidate. He 1 whole will suffer; but it probably does view church. The public is invited to earnestly hope*, that Hoover, Dawes, | (Continued On Page Four) come. There Will be an ice cream supper at bountiful picnic dinner was served. George M. Hanna of Cross Hill, is president of the reunion association, and Niles Clark of Waterloo, is sec retary. , 4' / / •’ . V' ■. ft V . • / :i. .#.1- ■•.■4..; ASV* I j£T 1 t \ ..A ’/ l\ $&/