Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f-) • iM • If You Don't Read : THE CHRONICLE : S ^" Yon Don't Get S : The News I * • fflltntntt Olbnintrle • Strives To Be a Clean News- S • • S paper, Complete, Newsy, • • and Reliable VOLUME XXIX CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 25,1929 NUMBER 17 HOOVER TALKS ^ OF CRIME WAVE President Appeals To Country for Obedience To Laws of All Kinds In First Public Address. NOTED SPEAKER TO APPEAR HERE Montaville Flowers To Speak At Ap> proachins Chautauqua On Vital Subject To Young People. New York, April 22. — President Hoover stated today that in many large American cities murder can ap parently be committed with impuni ty, and he appealed for obedience to laws of all kinds. Speaking at the annual luncheon of the Associated Press the president said in his first public address since his inauguration that robbery and bur glary is far more common here than in Great Britain and that even in such premeditated crimes as embezzlement and forgery our record stands no com parison with stable nations. “No part of the country, rural or :"ar‘ban; aaidv laferaTfd:. “What Young America Is Think ing,” is the subject of the challenging lecture which Montaville Flowers, brilliant publicist and educator, will deliver here at the comnig Redpath Chautauqua—a lecture devoted to the vitally interesting subject of what is going on in the intensely active minds of the young people of today. This address is the result of an un usual experiment in education. In one IODINE CONTENT FOUND TO BE HEAVY IN ALL PARTS OF STATE NEW PHYSICS HEAD NAMED Analyses of Vegetables Show All Counties Produce Foodstuffs Rich In Element Necessary. To Health. Commis sion Gives Out Impressive Figures. property are relatively more unsafe than ip any other civilized country in the world.” Prefacing his remarks with a trib ute to the late Melville E. Stone, for mer general manager of the Associ ated Press, the president began the reading of his prepared address with the statement that he considered en forcement and ’pbedience tb the laws the dominant issue before the Ameri can, people. Mr. Hoover made it plain early in his address that his concern was with all laws, with law itself, as law, and not particularly with the 18th amend ment or any single piece of legisla tion. “In order to dispel certain illusions in the public mind on the subject,” he said, “let me say at once that while violations of law have been increased by inclusion of crimes under the 18th amendment and by the vast sums that are poured into the hands of the crim inal. classes by the patronage of illicit liquor by otherwise responsible citi zens, yet this is but one segment of our problem. I have purposely cited the extent of murder, burglary, rob bery, forgery and embezzlement, for but a small percentage of these can be attributed to the 18th amendment.” The president suggested as a crime deterrent that newspaper publishers invest the acts of enforcement officers whh some of the glamor of romance andj, heroism “which our American | imaginative minds throw around those j who break the law.” i As he did in his inaugural address ' seven weeks ago, the president placed j squarely before the people their re-1 sponsibility in the matter of law ob- • servance and said the real problem i was to awaken the consciousness, the | moral sense, of the citizen and, if nec-' essary to segregate where they could I .do no„.^turtbei— harm “degenerate minis,” which have not the intelli gence and the moral instinct to obey the law as a matter of conscience. “If a law is wrong, its rigid en forcement is the surest guaranty of its repeal,” he said. “If it is right, its enforcement is the quickest method of compelling respect for it.” In his address, which was broadcast to the country over two national radio chains, Mr. Hoover warned that in the desire of the people to be merciful the pendulum had swung in favor of the , prisoner and far away from the pro tection of society that the sympathetic mind of the American people has swung too far from the family of the murdtfei to the family of the mur derer. ■ I From his own administration, the i cheif executive pledged a strengthen ing of the law enforcement agencies ; by orderly processes, week by week,, month by month, year by year, by.: steady pressure, steady weeding out ^ of incapable and negligent officials. Columbia, April 20. — Results of analyses of South Carolina vegetables and fruits for their iodine and other mineral contents, which are being transmitted to the natural resources commission in Columbia by the re search laboratory in Charleston, show that high iodine content necessary for the relief of the goiter-scourged re gions exists in a wide variety of vege tables and fi'uits in every section of the state. In order that the figures may be understood, it is only neces sary to recall that Dr. William Weston has pointed out that a four-ounce South Carolina potato contains Buffi 's MONTAVILLE FLOWERS year Mr. Flow’ers addressed over 100,- 000 high school students in fourteen states, delivering a message which brought out the mental attitudes of American youth on basic life subjects. Nothing like this experiment had ever been tried before, and Mr. Flow ers’ investigations brought him into unusual prominence. Articles by him have appeared in such magazines as World’s Work; and the Reader’s Di gest has printed many of these arti cles in shorter form. Newspaper edi torials and reviews have conveyed his ideas to a tremendous reader public. His work has secured the enthusiastic endorsement of the educators of the nation. Mr. Flowers’ lecture appeals equally to young and old. VETERANS MEET EARLY IN MAY prevent goiter, and that the technical laboratory figures for South Carolina Irish potatoes, averaging a large num ber of samples from different counties, are 211 parts per billion, while Horry cabbage goes up to 644, and in anoth er corner of the state, up in Green ville, cabbage runs even higher than the average for Irish potatoes; Rich land peaches run to 285; turnip tops in Union go to 518 and in Greenville to 551. South Carolina asparagus ranges from 117 to 185 as against 17 for Cali fornia, and South Carolina lettuce goes to 754. Laurens onions go to 136; Kershaw peanuts run high and ripe peas in Edgefield reach 192. ” The tests show that the iodine con tent is not affected by^ cooking or pickling. Cucumbers are very high in iodine content, when grown in South Carolina soil, and the dill pickles made from these cucumbers show the same reaction. Pecans grown in Fair- field have been tested; blue berries from Horry; broccoli grown in Char leston goes above 1,600; beets, carrots, collards, Laurens oats, Hampton sweet peppers, Williamsburg cucumbers, Richland dill pickles, Dorchester squash running to 752; sweet pota toes in the state averaging 100; beets averaging nearly 300, and butter go ing five times as high as the highest analysis for butter from the goiter regions. It may be noted that Oregon peaches show 11 as against the 285 shown by Richland peaches. South Carolina tomatoes are run ning from 84 to 273 as against Cali fornia’s analysis of 17 by Doctor Mc Clendon, professor* of physiological chemistry, University of Minnesota. In the meanwhile, in a publication entitled “Build Wisconsin,” recently sponsored by the agricultural commit tee of the Wisconsin Bankers’ associ ation, 26 community building adver tisements are suggested to be run in local >iewspapersj^and^^ui^e_^igges^ occurs this sentence wLich will per; i^haps be news to most people in South I Carolina: “With the exception of chickens, all animals also require io dine to prevent goiter and hairless pigs.” An average of the figures for 13 towns in Minnesota shows 71 per jeent of the high school girls affected with goiter, the percentage in St. Paul I of high school girls affected being 73. The average for high school girls in Houghton county Michigan, is 71. Doctor Weston is in close personal touch with the medical authorities of the country with regard to this high iodine content of South Carolina vege- 1 tables and fruits, and through the I natural resources commission the message is being carried to the goiter- stricken areas. Raymond J. Seeger of Yale, Elected Member of Presbyterian College Faculty for Coming Year. Raymond J. Seeger, Rutgers, ’26, has been secured to head the physics department of Pre^srterian college next year, according to an announce ment made by President MeSween dur ing the past week. Mr. Seeger, since receiving his diploma at Rutgers, has been working toward the doctor’s de gree in the physics department at Yale university. He has achieve hon or in'every course he has taken, and is in line for the Ph.D. degree this spring. While a student at Rutgers, Mr. Seeger was prominent in student af fairs as a member of the dramatic club and of the varsity debating team. He graduated with honor. His bril- as instructor in physics at both Rut gers and Yale inaicate that he is well prepared to take over the department at P. C. At present Mr. Seeger is holding the Loomis fellowship in physics. This fellowship, with a stipend of $1500 is awarded annually to that candidate for the degree of doctor of philosophy who passes the best competitive ex amination in physics (descriptive, mathematical, and laboratory prac tice). This would seem to indicate that he is the best prepared man who is studying physics at Yale. President MeSween mentioned in his announcement that the search for a man to fill this positiol^, made vacant by the death of Prof. Fant, had cov ered the entire country from Califor- The wide interest which has been aroused among the people who will demand South Carolina food products is already being reflected by the press of those sections and of the entire country. Latest reports from the Charleston laboratory, received by the natural re- i sources commission Saturday, showed i the following figures for South Caro lina asparagus grown in Aiken, Clar endon and Barnwell counties: Aiken, 185; Clarendon, 160;’(white samples); Barnwell, 172 (green samples). PAVING PROJECT HELD UP AGAIN PENSION MONEY IS RECEIVED borhood of twenty applications were received from students of fifteen lead ing graduate schools. Mr. Seeger has assisted in physics HOUSES ARGUE FARM RELIEF Debenture Plan Brings On Warm Controversy. McNary Looks ” for Veto By Hoover Unless Chahges Are Made. Washington, April 23.—Both sec tions of congress devoted themselves today to the task ef passing a farm relief bill and the disputed export de benture plan was the vehicle for the principal controversy. In the senate the agriculture com mittee’s bill containing the debenture section was reported by Chairman Mc Nary with the statement that unless this provision was removed. President Hoover would veto the legislation. In the house. Democratic advocates of the debenture plan twitted former Republican supporters of the equaliza- nia to the East, and from Illinois to Texas. It is learned that in the neighs.similar to those advanced by in- and contended that this was done “for political expediency.” Representatives Bankhead of Ala bama, Wingo of .Arkansas, Jones of Texas, and Rankin of Mississippi, made these charges. Presenting the senate farm bill, which ,except for the debenture plan, is similar in general scope to the house measure, Senator McNary de clared he would vote against the de benture section because he felt it was a subsidy and because he considered it certain that Mr. Hoover would dis- » approve any bill which contained it. Senator Caraway of Arkansas,, an other of the Democrats who took a leading part in writing the debenture plan into the senate bill, contended that the arguments set forth by the president in opposition to the plan terests which in the past have desired to fatten “off the sweat of agricul ture.” The house farm bill, which, it is un instruction at both Rutgers and Yale, j (jg|.g^ood by its proponents to have the Concerning his teaching. Dr. Zeleny, I gndorsement of the president, was de chairman of the department of phys ics at Yale, has said, “Mr. Seeger is an exceptionally good lecturer with a scribed by Representative Rankin, Democrat, Mississippi, as “a denatur- good voice. He not only .expresses him self clearly, but entertainingly.” Mr. Seeger’s home is in Elizabeth, ed substitute” for the old McNary- Haugen bill, “which even Secretary .Mellon would sign.” Representative Dickinson of Iowa, N. J. His pre.sent address is Sloan | one of the Republicans childed for Laboratories, Yale University, New'dropping the equalization fee, con- Haven, Connecticut, ^e will arrive j tgnded that the present bill contained here in the late summer to enter upon ; three or four of the principal points his work for the coming year. by promotion and recognitio^ for^ those who do their duty, and It the_ most rigid scrutiny of the records and ' mental attituudes of all persons sug gested by appointment to official posts in the law enforcement machin-, erv: Leaders Named For College Activities At the annual student body elections held the past week at Presbyteitian college, the following officers hnd managers were elected for 'the year 1929-30: President of the student body—?. A. Robei’ts. Vice-president—I. M. Keels. Secretary—J. B. Green. Student councilmen— J. .A. Babb, T. M. Johnston. B. R. A'oung,- R. H. Gillespie, .A. Cheatham. President of Y. M. C. .A.—Billy Bar ron. Editor.of PaC-.SaC—F. H. Thornley. Manager of PaC-SaC—R. S. Craw ford. I Adv. Manager of PaC-SaC—1. M. Keels. Editor of Collegian—L. R. William son. ■ J "" Manager of Collegian—A. 0. Jack- son. Adv. Manager of Collegian—AJ. A. I Babb. ' Newberry To Be Host To .Annual State Reunion Next Month. 600 Visitors Expected. Newberry, .April 23. — Homes in which veterans, sponsors and maids will'be entertained during the annual state reunion of (’onfedejate veter ans here May 8-9-10 are being liste'd Ly groups working under the direc tion of the central committee, of which John .M. Kinai\'i is chairman. .Around GOO visitors are expected in Newberry for this annual event which, owing to the advanced age of many of the veterans, will probably recur only a few more years. It has been report ed that the general reunion in Char lotte, X. C., next month will be the last South-wide gathering of the sol diers of the sixties. Committees are busy making all necessary arrangements for one of the most elaborate reuniops yet held in the state. Invitations have been ex tended to all veterans through the va rious camps in the state and a large delegation of Sops of Veterans is ex pected here the last day of the reun ion. The program will be completed this week—and given wide publicity. The spirit with w'hich Newberry people, residing in both city and coun ty, have entered into the enterprise is veiy gratifying to Mr. Kinard, the general chairman. “We have every reason Jo conclude from the willing response made thus far that the re union here will be a pronounced suc cess,” Mr. Kinard said today. “For 40 years we sought the honor of enter taining the residue of what was once a numerous host. Last year it was voted us at Bennettsvillei We shall leave nothing undone that will, in our judgment contribute to the success of the Reunion.” Legal Technicalities Holding Up Sale of Clinton-Kinards Bonds and .Money Is Not Forthcoming. Laurens. .April 19.—Paving of the Glinton-Kinards section of highway .No. 2 may not be accomplished as ear ly as expected and, as a matter of fact, may be postponed until some thing more definite comes out of the $65,000,000 statewide bond i-ssue plan, according to opipions expre.ssei re cently around the court hou.‘-e. It will be recalled that the I.aurens county delegation in the last general assembly provided a bond issue of ap proximately $230,000 for that project, expecting to make a sale of the bonds at once and making a reimbuivsement agreement with the state highway de- pailment for immediate construction of the road. It was freely predicted at that time that actual construction would... CO m m e n ee within several months after the aljournment of the legislature. Treasurer Ross D. A’oung, in-an in formal discussion of the matter, said the whole thing was considerably tied up and that, so far as he knew, the plans for financing the project had been disrupted in several particulars and that the outcome was rather un certain. The legality of the bonds is being raised by some bopd houses, said Mr, Young, because they have not been voted on by the electors. And then, ho said, there is some question whether or not the state highway de partment would agree to take over the bonds at the interest rate which the county would have to pay. Other legal questions have bobbed up, said Mr. Young, all of which has practi cally held up the sale of the bonds for the present. Judge Thomp.son Receive.s County .Al lotment and .Makes Distribution. .About Same .\s Last Year. Pension funds for ex-Confederate veterans have been received by Pro bate Judge Thompson and are being iistributed. The amount for pension ers of this county is about the same as la.st year, the total being $25,051.50. This is to he distributed among 40 veterans and 12K \^i(lovvs, and since the pension roll has been reduced by several deaths the individual pen.sions have been correspondingly increased. In this county the pension board, as usual, has made two classes. Class A is composed of 20 veterans anj 32 widows who will each receive $104.99. On Class B iTst there are 20 veterans rand 90 widows who will receive $112 each. It has been stated that the rules for distribution of fun is are very strict and that wherever possible pension ers should call in per.son for their checks. In cases where this cannot be (lone it is best to send a written order, stating to whom the pension should j be paid. * LAURENS SCHOOL I of the .McNary-Haugen bill. He assert- !ed the last election had demonstrate 1 that the people did not desire the SOON TpXLOSE The "commiltee chaiiman contended tim; cooperative marketing had not Commencement Dates .Movedlcp To been as successful as it might have Avoid t'enflict With Chautauqua, i been in the past l)ecause when a co- Speakers .Are Named. i operative lost money the farmers Lauren.s, .Ajo-il 20. — The Laurens di opjcecMheir inemberships. Under the city school will hold its closing exer-.pit-sent hill, he declared, the govern- cises .May 10-17, instead of .May 21. as merit would un ierwrite the l< mpor- scheduled under the county-wide plan ary losses and in this way keep the now existing. The change of date for cooperatives going until systematic the school finals was made necessary, methods finally brought jirotit to theii" .’t has been explained by tlie syperin- ojicrations. tendent, becau.se of a conflict of dates, Senators on the Democrat c side with tb.e Chautauejua, which comes to Uiok the view, however, that the new Laui-ens .May IS for a week’s engage- fann bill would make cooperative mar- ment. It is thei*efore seen at a glance, keting more difficult of success than that the school authorities had vo re- under the Mc.Nary-Haugen bill. Sen- vise their plans out of deference to ator Robinson of .Arkansas, the Demo- the annual Chautauqua week. In or-, cratic leader, c ontended t.hat the meas- der to make up the time, class exer- are d'd not provide for compulsory ci.ses are being held by the school on ^ cooper ation. Instead, he said, a farm- Saturdays, • |er woul 1 become inclined to stay but In this connection, it is announce!' ^-a^tHTatives because he ^youlcl I'e- that Doctor D. W. Daniel of Clemson ’h** benefits of cooperation with- college will make the annual ad ii-eAs ^^^^essment agamst him such at the closing school exercises, and ^';«''^lhave been made by the cciual- Doctor D. J. Blocker, of rurnian uni- ization fee. Schools To Stage Big Carnival Change Made In Closing Speaker Thornwell Duke Gift Is $7,558.27 The board of trustees of the Duke endowmient has forwarded the Thornwell orphanage of this city within the past week, a check for $7,558.27 as its share as one of the beneficiaries of the $80,000,000 endownient set aside by the late James B. Duke. There are 26 North Carolina orphanages and 18 in South ^Car- olina^^who are benefitting from this perpetital fund? TKOmwell’s quota this j^ear is considerably less than in 1928, the check then amounting to $8,825. On account of a conflict in engage ments, the Rev. C. Bynum Betts will not deliver the commencement ser mon next month before the high school graduating class as previously an nounced. The Rev. M. 'R. Wingard, pa.stor of St. John’s Lutheran church, has been aski*(l and consented to take Mr. Betts’ place on the program. The sermon next year view of the change that has been male, will be preached l^y Mr, Betts. i .A big carnival, enlivened with twen ty snappy side shows, will be staged in ('opeland’s hall on Tuesday night. .April 3()th. The curtain rises proinp - ly at eight o’clock and a crowd that will pack the house is expected. The carnival is, being given under the auspices of the city schools with several of,the teachers in charge of the event.. In addition to the ‘'big show” and the Broa iway sidelights, there will be confetti, pop corn, can l\ peanuts, red lemonade and an honest- to-goqdness cake walk. Everybody is cordially invited and the whole family if brought to the frog pond is assured a “croaking” good time. The geneial admission will be IDc, the proceeds to be usei for school purposes. ver.sity, will preach the annual ser mon. Doctor Daniel has on former oc casions spoken at the final exerci.^es of the Laurens schools, and he is al ways heard with rapt attention. Doc tor Blocker has manv friends here Tax Penalty Goes On May 1st Pro])erty owners wh'- have not yet also, having supplied as pastor of the First Baptist church :f‘or several months pr'.r to the coming of Rev. W. D. Spinx. :he Elliott Hall Joins Charlotte Concern are reminded that they ha.e only one nioi,- week in which to “come across” before a penalty of 7 per cent will l»o r'duired. The annual pn)perty tax levy raises approximately $2,100,000. Of * this amount $1..500,000 has already been received by the state eomptroller, and collections bewteen new and May 1 are expeete 1 to exempt another $250.- Mr. and .Mr.s. E. H. Hall, Jr.. left Satur lay for Charlotte where Mr. Hall (,()„ the penalty })rovision. The has MPCpntpd elerical wit’n . ...ii. ...... Young MeSween Wins , In School Contest has accepted a clerical position with the News Printing company. I’or the past five years .Mr. Hall has been connected with the office force of Jacr.b.s &. Company of this city, during which time he has n'.a ie a wide circle of friends. .As he and Mrs. Hall go to their new home, thoy will carry’ the best wishes of all w'ho know’ and admire them. amuun:i upon wliich penalties are ually as.'^essed each year is approxi- nmtely 10 {)er cent of the total, ac cording to .Mr. Bx'attie. Over a fivo- ■ oar i)eri<ui colleit’ans have averaged . p; r cent of the assessment.-* madb. The tiim* for payment of the prop erty tax,without penak.y*was extend ed liui i?ig the session of the general as.-einbh bv the cuini'treiller. ON CHit'OKA HONOR ROLL The honor roll of Chicora college for the third quarter just completed, includes the names of the following Cliriton girls: Misses Ellen Copeland, Marian Copeland, Rosalie Jones, Alva Wilson, Benet Godfrey, Nancy Perry, Fredna Shockley, and Cleon Pitts. The FloriJa-^treet school story tell ing contest was held on-.last...liJ’e(lnes- day w'ith a representative from each grade of the school participating. The , $2.50 gold piece given ar.nually by ' the Mother’s club wa.s won by William MeSween of the sixth grade, son of Rev. and Mrs. John MeSween. Honor able mention was given Clois Gaskill «of the seventh, and Bill Wade of the fourth grade. The stories were read by Mrs. J. D. Woods, with Misses Stilwell, Harby and Boozer of the I high school faculty acting as judges. “Man Wants but little here below—nor wants that little long” — especially if he advertises for it in our ('las- sified Section, (Jive your quar ter a trial and see what it can do for you! The Chronicle Classified Dept. ‘The Paper Everybody Reads’ Local Boys Stand Well At Clemson .A chocR of the records of ^ho Clem son college freshman class, shows that not a student admitted from the Clin ton high school failed on any subject the first seme.ster. This information was forwarded .Snnt. Witherspoon vithin the past week by Jhe 'Clemson registrar and the local students w’cre commended for their satisfactory work. \ S ‘ 1^.' ^