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f . I' •• If Yoo Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don’t Get ' The News . • f . ... OlUnlnn Olbrnttirle •••••« f : THE CHRONICLE • • Striees To Be a Clean News* ; • • I paper. Complete, Newsy, S • and Reliable I VOLUME XXIX CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1929 NUMBER 21 CLINTON^S COLLEGE CAMPAIGN MAKES ENTHUSIASTIC START Initial Day’s Canvass Raises $20,000 On Set Goal With Work In complete. Drive To Be Pushed With Full Steam To Successful Conclusion. The drive for ^0,000 from Clinton and community for Pres byterian college was put on with a remarkable show of spontan eous enthusiasm on Tuesday and resulted in 193 contributions for the total sum of $20,267.60 before the close of the day’s drive. There are many contributions which will come in later and many of the citizens of Clinton were but of town and could not be seen on the day of the cam];Mign. The drive started with a luncheon given to the workers at the Mary Musgrove tea room which was attended by eighty men and women who gave the whole day to the campaign, going out in groups from the luncheon. It is confidently expected that the goal which has been set will be well approximated by the latter returns, as the campaign will be vigorously prosecuted until completed. One of the most re markable, features of the campaign was the universal interest displayed and the large number of contributions. A complete list of these will be pubished at a later date in The Chronicle. The results of the campaign are most gratifying to the sup porters of Presbyterian college, and show the large place which the college occupies in the heart of Clinton. It is felt that th6 re sult of this campaign will play a large part in stimulating the rest of the state representing the constituency of the college, and that the campaign so well begun in Clinton will be carried to a successful completion in the state before the year is past. This will mean that the college will be free of debt and that gifts of $148,000 will be made for the permanent endowment and equip ment of the college. FINE SHOWS AT YELLOW TENT Redpath Week Continue!^ Through Next Monday With Two Per formances Daily. Clinton’s annual Redpath Chautau qua opening Monday afternoon, got off to a good start in spite of the in clement weather, with the Filipino Collegians as the initial offering for the week’s program. The five talented members of the organization played numerous instruments, including the mandolin, ’cello, violin, steel guitar, banjo and piano, and proved them selves to be a versatile group in their two programs of great vim, life and color. At night following The Collegians’ prelude, Montaville Flowers discussed “What Young America Is 'Thinking.” “Youth btrt -expresses its naive com ment upon what it sees its elders say and do,” said Mr. Flowers. “Youth is the true mirror of the times, receiving and reflecting the mental and spirit ual content of the social structure it is in. Responsibility for what youth thinks lies wholly upon their elders; and there the changes must be wrought, if changes are desired.” In these sentences, Montaville Flowers gave a challenge to the grown-ups of America. Tuesday afternoon Mardoni & Com pany presented a clever program of magic and mystery...Mardoni escaped from a strait-jacket tightly laced about him and gave the usual round of sleight-of-hand tricks with a num ber of new variations in a well worth while performance. Tuesday night, “Sun-Up,” a drama of Carolina mountain life, brought to the large audience heart throbs and pathos unequalled since the days of “Smilin’ Through.” As the Widow Cagle, Miss Pavey revealed with realistic simplicity the effect of the World war upon the taci turn tenants of mountain cabins, sym pathetically interpreting emotions dif ficult for plainsmen to ken. Those who saw “Sun U,p” with Miss Pavey as the sun, could easily realize how this tal ented young woman held her own as a star in William Brady’s unsurpass ed “Little W’oman” which recently played to packed houses on Broadway for many weeks. Yesterday afternoon a lecture re cital on “Every Day Poetry” by Anne Campbell and a concert by the Jack- son Concert Artists were the attrac tions. Last nights’s program was regarded as the highest class that has yet been given. Lorna Doone Jackson, dramatic soprano, Florence Rosheger, violinist, and Allan Coe, pianist, charmed the large audience. Miss Jackson comes to Chautauqua fresh from metropoli tan operatic success. She is an Amer ican artist. She was born in southern -Illinois and spent her girlhood in In dianapolis. When she was six years old Miss Jackson heard Madame Calve sing the title role in “Carmen” and she then and there determined to sing Carmen (Continued on page five) WOMAN GOVERNOR SPEAKS TONIGHT Hon. Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, To Be Attraction At Chau tauqua Tent. Hon. Nellie Tayloe Ross, first wo man ever to be inaugurated governor of an American commonwealth, will deliver an address in the Chautauqua @ Harris A Swing. HON NELLIE TAYLOE ROSS LOCAL COTTON WIDELY USED Grade and Staple Report Given. Figures Show. Clinton Leads State and Nation In Tender- able Cotton. The Clinton Cotton Oil company, co operating with the South Carolina Experiment Station and the U. S. De partment of Agriculture, has gathered and now makes public the following statistics and copparisons of cotton grades and staples. These figures should be of vital interest to local farmers, as they show that locally grown cotton is to a large extent the staple most widely used in American mills. According to the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture, the bulk of the cotton consumed by American mills last year was 7^8, 16-16, and 1 inch cotton in about equal proportions. It is of interest to local farmers to know that 96 per cent of locally grown cot ton las year fell in these classes as be ing most suitable for American mills. 73.per cent of the total South Carolina cotton (upland) fell in this class, as compared with 77 per cent for all the cotton growing states. Another item worthy of note is that of all cotton grown in the U. S., 17 per cent is untenderable; 9 per cent of all grown in South Carolina is un tenderable, while less than 1 per cent of Clinton grown cotton falls in this class. The grade of cotton from this sec tion was somewhat different from that of the rest of the state, in that there was very little tinged and stain ed cotton, but quite a bit of spotted cotton was ginned locally. Half the local cotton was white, while practi cally all th^ rest was spotted. This section had 26 per cent white strict middling as compared with 26 per cent for the whole state, and 34 per cent for the United States. Staple Lengths of Upland Cotton For For For ^ Clinton S. C. U. S. Staple in inches Pet. 13-16 and under 86 7-8 60.94 15-16 24.25 1 and 1:1-32 11.02 1:1-16 and 1:3.32.... 2.08 1:1-8 and 1:5-32 .'... .73 1:3-16 and 1:7-32 06 1 :l-4 and over 06 Untenderable 1.04 Pet. 7.01 54.64 19.38 9.20 4.69 3.33 1.39 .36 9.00 Pet. 14.35 41.68 22.73 11.25 5.36 3.13 1.11 .19 17.79 High Graduates Guests of Club tent tonight at 8 o’clock. She will use as her subject, “The Governor Speaks.” Mrs. Ross is a magnetic, compell ing speaker and her lecture here will j be of outstanding interest. She return ed to this country from a tour of Eu rope just prior to the opening of the Chautauqua season this spring. There is nothing of the strident feminist about Mrs. Ross. She is es sentially charming and womanly. “To the eye,” says a noted writer, “she is everything a woman politician should not be,^ according to popular conviction. She is pretty, stylish and above all feminine. S^he is slight in stature and no weight worries have as yet assailed her.” But she has convictions and the courage of them, and as governor of Wyoming she hung up a record which will always be an inspiration to her sex. Her ability was not only recog nized in her oW state, but she achiev ed nation-wide recognition. So much so that Chauncey Depew, in •The New York Press, said, “In the light of the efficiency, and ability displayed by Gov. Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, I see no reason why a woman should not make a good president.” Mrs. Ross is a popular contributor to leading magazines. No woman in the country is better qualified to dis cuss the place that M(omen may and should take in the affairs of the na tion. The Kiwanis club had as its guests last Thursday evening, the boys of the Clinton high and Thornwell or phanage graduating class, together with the school principals and board of trustees. The young Americans were most cordially welcomed by President W. D. Copeland, after which John Mc- Sween made a most helpful and in spirational address to the young graduates, touching the great prob lems of life and character building. A hand primary indicated that almost the entire two classes are to matricu late at Presbyterian college this fall, and President MeSween asswed each one a most cordial welcome to the campus and class rooms of this insti tution. A. E. Dyson, well know local ma gician, entertained the crowd with magic and mystery and many mysti fying stunts. Two new members, J. B. Hart of Goldville, and Gus Hollingsworth of this city, were received and cordially welcomed into the club by the Kiwan- ians. CITY SCHOOLS CLOSE FRIDAY His^h School Graduating Exer cises Tomorrow Evening With Address By Dr. R. C. Grier of Erskine College. Thirty-six studenta will receive di plomas at the annual Clinton High school commencement exercises to be held Friday evening at eight o’clock in the Florida Street school audito rium. Dr. R. C. Grier, president of Erskine college, will deliver the literary ad dress on graduating night. Dr. Grier is well known in the educational cir cles of the state and the school au thorities are pleased that he was able to accept the invitation extended him. The closing program will include the usual awarding of diplomas, prizes and other features of interest. Tomor row morning at 8:46, class day exer cises will be heW in the liigh school auditorium by the members of the graduating class. There are 23 girls and 13 hoys in the senior class, the complete list ap pearing in last week’s paper. With the graduating exercises con- clu led, the benediction tomorrow even ing will bring to a close a successful year’s work for the schools and the vacation period, terminating the first of September, will begin. The Clinton Hi cbmmencement sea son opened last Sunday evening in the First Presbyterian church when the baccalaureate sermon was preached by the Rev. M. R. Wingard, pastor of St. John’s Lutheran^ church. The usual evening, servicfs in the churches of the city had been withdrawn in honor of the occasion and the large auditori um was filled with parents, friends and relatives of the young graduates. Thd members of the graduating class and their instructors marched in im pressive manner to the church and oc cupied reserved seats in the front of the auditorium. The pastors of the city were seated on the rostrum and took part in the exercises. Mr. Wingard Heard The baccalaureate sermon by Mr. BACCAUUREATE SERMON TO OPEH COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT Rev. J. Sprole Lyons, D. D., To Deliver Sermon Before Graduating Class. Literary Address By J. Lyles Glenn On Tuesday. Fifty- Four Young Men To Receive Diplomas. Clinton Boy Is First Honor Man. The forty-ninth annual commence ment exercises of the Presbyterian College of South Carolina will he in- augurated next Sunday morning at 11:16 in the First Presbyterian church of this city. At that hour the baccal aureate'~sermon will be preached by the Rev. J. Sprole Lyons, D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Atlanta, Ga., and one of the outstand ing preachers in the Southern Presby terian church. Following an establish ed custom, the morning services in the churches of the city will be with drawn in order that the community may join in this special occasion. Dr. Lyons will also preach in the evening. Sunday afternoon at 4:30 there will be a sacred concert by the military band of the college on the plaza. This is an added'feature of commencement week to which the public is cordially invited. On Monday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock, a reception will be griven by the College Dames on the campus plaza in honor of the graudating class and their guests. Monday evening at 8:00 in the col lege auditorium, the annual declama tion and oratorical contest will be held. There will be six speakers, T. G. Ellis, B. H. Dickson and W. H. Jackson as orators, with R. H. Gillespie, L. B. Stephenson and M. T. Murphy com peting'in the declaimers meet. Two gold medals are given annually to the winners in these contestz. The commencement day exercises proper will be held in the college au- ^ Roy Sanders Barnwell; ClintoB. Jo^ Rhinehart Blue, Romney, W. Va. Eli DuRant Brunson, Sumter. Timothy Rogers Campbell, Hamer. Adger McCrorey Carter, Charlotte, N. C. Thomas Jefferson Cole, Wellford. J. McDonald Davis, Waxhaw, N. C. Thompson Eld^r Davis, Summer ville, Ga. Preston Alford Drake, Columbia. Joseph Witherspoon Dunlap, Rock Hill. Lonnie Lingle Dunlap, Clinton. Spencer Rice Elliott, Winnsboro. " Alexander Faplkner Fewell, Rock Hill. Robert McKenzie Fraser, Florence. James Ansel Gaston, Woodruff. John Newton Gaston, Jr., Edgemoor. Francis Montague Hart, Anderson. Roy Arnold Hogrefe, Augusta, Ga. Louis Stribling Holleman, Seneca. Walker Kelsey Huggins, Chester. Robert Wallace Johnston, Winns boro. Lambert Whitfield Jordan, Union. John Theodore Kissen Keels, Col'jm- bia. Hugh Marshall Kolb, Sumter. Robert Stephen Latimer, Jr., Page- land. Andrew Williams McDavid, Pelzer. F. G. McHugh, Jr., Union. George Marmen Mcllwaine, Jr., Hodges. William Massey Meinnis, Red Springs, N. C. Luther Latimer McKenzie, Honea ditorium on next Tuesday morning at j Path. 10:00. The literary address before the William Harlan McQuiston, Clinton. graduating class will be delivered by J. Lyles Glenn of Chester, former so licitor of the Sixth judicial circuit and recently appointed by President Hoov er to a seat on the Federal bench. The valedictory address will be delivered by William D. Adair of this city, first W mgard was practical and filled with , , ,, . x- i , , r , J i iu J , honor man of the graduating class, helpful admonition to the young grad- , , , uates. He selected as his text, Acts 22:10: “What shall I do. Lord.” Mr. Wingard said in part: “These words were spoken by St. Paul at his conversion. It was the morning of a new day in his life; he was ready to take a new step—to of fer his life in service to God. So he asks, “What shall I do, Lord?” “This is your commencement. It is the time of your- graduation. The word “graduate” is derived from the Latin, “gradus,” meaning a step. In your graduation you are taking one of the important steps in life. “In the sense in which we speak, life is divided into a number of periods. who has earned many high scholastic honors during his four years in col lege. The approaching exorcises will be presided over by Rev. John MeSween who has assumed the presidency of the institution since its last com mencement. To all of the exercises. President MeSween extends a most cordial welcome to the jiublic to at tend. Fifty-four young men will be given their diplomas Tuesday morning. Their names, together with their home addresses, follow: • William David Adair, Clintcn. James Lewis Anderson, Laurens. Joe Shirley Anderson, Honea Path. Arnold Friedleine Marshall, Rock Hill. Edward Barnett Martin, Clinton. J. R. Bruce Martin, Sandy Springes. Olivius Curry Martin, Flemington, Ga. Paul Robert Milus, Concord, N. H. Henry DuBose Montgomery, Sum ter. James Addison Neighbors, Clinton. John Wiley O’Neal, Jr., Rock Hill. Frank McLeod Pearce, Florence. William Hoyt Pruitt, Anderson. James Campbell Reid', Rwk Hill. P’rank Bradley Roper, Laurens. James I^ewis Russell, Sharon. Bartow Solomon Shaw, Sumter. James Carlisle Smith, Clinton. William Knight Thompson, Tampa, Fla. Lewis A. Wallace, Kinards. William • Heathley Weldon, St. Charles. Richard Hawthorne Woods, Chester. William Wilkie Woodward, Jr., Mat- tituck, N. Y. First, there is the period of infancy. In this period the course of your life ' |7’'VC’'R 1>T A V is marked out by your parents. In a r 1 few years you take another step. You enter school. The next step is from the grammar school into high school. Some failed to take this step, but you have labored through to your gradu ation. Now , you have come to your commencement. Each of you should ask yourselves the question of the COMES TONIGHT Academy Street School Pupils To Pre sent the “Kitchen Clock” As Their Commencement Entertainment. This evening at eight o’clock Acade my Street school presents the “Kitch- YOUNGSTERS GET COUNTY “DIPS” en Clock,” a musical make believe by text. In choosing your life’s course, in Plorence Crocker. ' deciding upon your life’s work, in Three Hundred and P'ifty Grammar Grade Pupils Awarded Promotion Certificates To High School. Laurens, May 18.—The third annual county-wide school commencement was held in the Laurens city school audi torium Friday night when upwards of 350 grammar grade pupils from the MID-STATE CIRCUIT Bozard.To Join Furman Faculty J. p\ Bozard. for the past year su perintendent of the Cross Hill school, will join the faculty of Furman uni versity this fall as assistant profes sor of English. Mr. Bozard was for merly principal of the Clinton high school during which time he made many fdiends here who will learn with interest of his promotion. Mr. Bozard married >riss Elise Henry of this city, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Henry. [Newberry 4 1 .800 Monarch 4 1 , .800 1 Laurens 4 1 .800 ; Mollohon .... .... 3 2 .600 Clinton .. .... .♦.. 2 3 * .400 Lydia 1 4 .200 I Goldville 1 4 .200 Watts 1 4 .200 SATURDAY’S RESULTS Laurens 11, Goldville 0. Mollohon 4, Watts 0, Monarch 4, Lydia 2.. Newberry 10, Clinton U Mrs. Anna Parkson, head of the art j department at Columbia college, spent I the past week-end with Mrs. Bothwell I Graham. SPECIAL “COLLEGE EDITION” PLEASES PRESIDENT M’SWEEN In the prologue the “Night Lady,” planning your further education, this; Ruby Woodruff, weaves dreams for 133 schools of the county were given is an important question the answer the “Sleeping Children” and tells ' promotion certificates to high school. them the story of the night, promising The examinations were completed a to show them strange sights when : £3^ weeks ago, and every school had a they are asleep, j class present for the commencement nave a ueimiie purpuoc m me. oci oi Contrary to expectation, she willed ] pxejx'ises. Teachers and parents made definite goal before you. Direct all j her magic spell over Kitchen Utensils ^ up tlie rest of the large assemblage, your efforts toward that goal. Plan and selects a dimly lighted kitchen class groups the children sat in a ' for her place of mischief, j Here the “Kitchen Clock” (Paul 1 Wpljjtlock), is discontented with his jlife and complains bitterly oyer his constant work. The “Tea-Kettle” and to which you should seek. “Let me emphasize the importance of aim in life. 'To succeed you must have a definite purpose in life. Set a (Continued on page two) The Chronicle has received the following communication from President MeSween of Presbyterian College: “The recent College issue of THE CLINTON CHRONI CLE has demonstrated in a very clear and forceful way the wonderful unanimity of spirit in Clinton in regard to the Presbyterian College, and we desire to express, first, our congratulations to THE CHRONICLE on the very fine work that was done by that paper, an expression of the wonderful spirit of cooperation manifested by the publish ers and printers; then too, we wish to express to every single one who had a part in the making of this very fine edition the expression of sincere appreciation which we fee). Our hearts have been made glad and our spirits greatly encouraged in working out the problems which are before us at the College in the renewed knowledge of the whole hearted loyalty which is behind us in this' great little city. “Whatever may be the outcome of the campaign which we are now launching, we thank God and take courage be cause of the manifestations of interest and loyalty which have been made and which found expression in so many wavs in the most creditable issue of last week’s CHRONI CLE. ^ — ' “Sincerely yours, ' , “JOHN MeSWEEN, President.’’ body occupying the middle tier of seats in the spacious auditorium. Dr. Sutton Spt‘ak.s Dr. W. A. Sutton, superintendent of some of his friends undertake to givei^^ Atlanta city schools and one of the him a good time. notably successful schoolmen of the Meanwhile the cook loses the key , delivered the address of the I and neglects winding the clock, who ■ being introuuced by Miss (narrowly escapes being taken to Rick- kate V. Woftord, county superintend- iety Row by the “Rag-Tag Man” (Gra- education, w’no expressed prido idy Whitmi^-e). The clock is finally was hers in pre- ' saved by his friends, “The Tea Kettle (Nellie Codgill), The Stew Kettle,” I (Sam Owens), “The Broom,” (Mavis I Chestine),“The Feather Duster, (Flor- ience Howard), “The Dust Pan,” (Jas. senting as .speaker an educator wholly and sympathetically devoted to the training^-of youth. Using as his central theme the pu"- poses of education, Doctor Sutton Seay), who find the key and wind him stressed five important thinys that just in time and the Clock is very glad should be laid upon the hearts and to go hack to work. minds of the hoys and girls, namely, ; discovery, development, direction, per- * J J U ; fection and the use of it all for the yV.p3.riin0ni House betterment of mankind and the glory Fully Occupied > On behalf of the city schools, Super- i The attractive new" Hays-Martin intendent Wright gave welcome to the I apartment house on the corner of j::reat gathering of children and their j Woodrow street and Hampton avenue, parents, referring to the signif:cance 1 has been completed and all apartments the occarirn and the happiness of iare -now rented and occupied. The oc- ^he Laurens schools in havmg them as I cupants, eight in number, are: Mr. Itat^sts for the evening, and Mrs. Geo, H. Cornleson, Dr. and .A.s the class members filed on the ; Mrs, Felder Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Joo rostrum to receive their certificates, L. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Tov applause greeted an announce ne''t by i send, Mr. and Mrs. Wade Sperry, Mr Miss Wofford when she detnine;! Uc- and Mrs. E. B. Pinson, and Mr. and becca Chancy long enou.gh ti stn.e Mrs. A. J. Swansen. The remaining that the little girl had pijckily fin- vacant apartment will be occup'od on ished her seventh grade work in a hoo- f r;t by Dr. and Mrs. F. F. Hicks, pital.