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t : If ¥•« Dost Rend- I THE CHRONICLE ; To« Doa’t Get • Tke News • »»••••••••••••■ THE CHRONICLE • Strires To Be s Cleon Nows- I 8 psper, Compiete. Newsy^ ^ { and ReHsUo : % VOLUME XXX . CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1930 NUMBER 27 NOTHING NEW m^PAlGN Several Gubernatorial Aspirants Continue Attack On Bond Is* sue. Smoa^ls Target of Op ponents In Home County. M’DONALD JOINS COLLEGE HERE Fcrmer Columbian Takes Up Duties At Presbyterian In Campaign and Religious Work. WEEVIL DAMAGE INCREASING IN ALL SECTIONS OF STATE Walterboro, July 1.—W^. W. Swioak, prohibition candidate for governor of South Carolina, came home today Q amid a shower of verbal brickbats and Colleton county roses. Smoak, a favorite son of Colleton j and this county’s lone representative 1 McL. McDonald has - . ... - ! been elected executive secretary of in the house of representatives for MORE PAVED ROADS IN COUNTY SOON Clemson College, June 30.—Reports prepaid at the Pee Dee experiment .T, , station at Florence from’information The R.V. M. MeU McDonaR for obtained from 90 field, in ten conn- ties throughout the state show that weevil damage is increasing in the fields in all sections of the state. Square infestation has increased in all fhe past five years secretary of the Columbia Community Chest, entered upon his duties Tuesday as executive secretary, of the Presbyterian college of this city. . The bulletin Sunday of the Arsenal Hill Presbyterian church, Columbia, carried the following reference to Mr. McDonald. sections since last week. In Florence in the Piedmont section. In Union county there were 475 weevils per j acre on one farm. Even as far west' as Clemson College the weevils are active and are beginning to infest squares. In the eastern part of the state the first'generation of new weevils is now coming out of the fallen squares and. Route 15 From' Laurens To Princeton To Be Paved Soon. Grading Con* ., tract Already Let. and Darlington counties man^ fields j a rapid increase’in infestation is to be have above 20 per cent of the squares j expected. The situation is critical, infested. One farm, in Bamberg coun-! The recommendation made last i ty, showed 48; one, in Orangeburg I week is repeated that every farmer 10 years, was given an ovation by the thousand people who gathered to hear candidates for state offices espouse their reasons for suffrage. Flowers, brought forward in baskets by Colle ton’s fairest lassies, half filled the speaking stand when Smoak had con cluded his plea for suffrage. Before the flowers, however, came brickbats in the form of charges and attacks preferred by W. H. Keith of Jf. of this departme Florence, as wet as Smoak is dry, also differed with the Colleton man on the prohibition question. Keith, after presenting “honest, de cent government” as the only plank in his platform, entered into a criti cism of Smoak and C. E. Jones of Batesburg, chairman of the state highway commission, leveling his at tack on an exchange of telegrams be tween Smoak and Jones while the for mer was attending the Methodist gen eral conference in Dallas last month. Jones had previously announced that he was considering entrance into the race for governor in order to “keep the bond issue from being murdered on the stump,” and Smoak informed him that he was an advocate and spon sor of the state’s 565,000,000 highway bond program, and that he intended running for governor and would de fend the question. “Cip Jones put Smoak's telegram in the paper,” Keith said, “and I think he did my friend Smoak a dirty trick. Of course, Smoak should have been attending'to his church business at Dallas instead of playing politics back here in South Carolina.” Keith also charged I bra C. Black wood of Spartanburg, with “changing his pextion" on tax revision .“after thinking it over four years,” and also a.sserted that the Spartanburg man had taken “ a year and a half to'make up his mind on the bond i.ssue.” In re gard to hi.s charges that liquor was used to “influence passage of the bond act, he said “they know I spoke the executive secretary Presbyterian college, Clinton, and is to take up his duties the first of July. He with three others is to raise within the next 12 months, the balance of the ’deliverance fund’ sought for P. C. in the campaign last fall. It is not the plan of the trustees, however^ that this shall be his real connection with the college, for, says Doctor MoSween, president of P. C., ‘We intend to cre ate a department of religious educa tion at Presbyterian college within a ld..wilii>a^ department.^ “Columbia knows Mr. McDonald as the efficient secretary of the Com munity phest for the past five years. He resigned from the Community Chest in June, planning to take up certain post-graduate work at the University of Chicago when this call from P. C. changed his plans. “Mr. McDonald is a B. A. of David son college, an M. A. of the University of South Carolina, an alumnus of both Columbia and ynion Theological semi naries, and has also done special work at Columbia and Chicago universities in psychology. “The trustees of Presbyterian col lege in deciding to create a depart ment of religious education have set themselves on record as determined to keep thoroughly abreast of all that is worthwhile in the field of modem education, and in the selection of Mr. McDonald, they have chosen a man of lovable personality and keen logical mind, with a scholarship devoted %to God and His revealed truth. The Pres- county, 32; one, in Aiken, 44 per cent of the squares infested. In Chester county the square infestation ranged from 2 to 24 per cent. examine each of from day to day where the weevils are abundant enough to justify using poison. Even ^ fields carefully ^d dust the places The general average in all fields ex- a situation like this does not justify amined was 13 per cent infestation. Weevils are numerous in some fields indiscriminate use of calcium arsenate where there are no weevils. BURDEN THROWN ON CANDIDATES Columbia Mayor Asks Keith and Mc Mahan To Give Evidence J _ of ReA-ylry lirHptet r CoIumbi«r^uhe 30.—Mayor L. B. Owens said today no investigation of the alleged liquor parties in connec tion with the state legislature and the opening of the highway bids would be made. Changing from his announced plan to hold such an investigation, Mayor Owens threw the burden of proof on Col. W. H. Keith of Greenville, and John J. Mc.Mahan of Columbia, candi- date.s for governor, who have made charges that liquor drinking orgies ac- COUNTY TO TAKE PART IN MEETING To Re Only County In State With Delegates To Education Meeting. MIm >!lfo|Cord Gqes Air.”i Laurens, June 28.—^Laurens will be the only county unit in South Carolina to be represented at the National Ed ucation association, which opened in annual session Sunday, June 2U, at Columbus, Ohio, it was stated by Miss Kate V. Wofford, member of the board of trustees of the national or ganization. Miss Wofford left Friday night for the convention city. The delegation representing the l.Aurens County Teachers’ association left for Columbus Sunday, making the companied the passage of the $65,000,- | trip by automobile. The delegation is (K>0 highway bond bill and the $7,000,- 000 highway construction letting. In telegrams to the two candidates, the" mayor said: “I do not think we are called upon to investigate the activities of the leg islature while in Columbia. 1 have the greatest confidence in the senators and representatives, and it is not nec essary for the (’olumbia police to be interfering with them. “We are always glad when the leg islature meets and sb many outstand- . . . ^ XL o 1 iTig, high type men come to visit us. bytenans of the South may feel con- „ u . • # . . L • »If you have any accurate information regarding bootleg activities or other tident of the very bt>st in religious education under the leadership of Pro fessor McDonald. Columbians'Will U* glad to know that while he is serving the college as executive .secretary, he and his family will continue to reside ! in this city.” composed of Mrs. B.' L. Jones of the Laurens city .sAooIs; V. P. Weldon, superintendent of the ('mss Hill high school, and Miss Sarah Nash of the Hickory Tavern high school, and they are to be accompanied by B. L. Jones, former superintendent of the I.*uren8 city school system. The Laurens as sociation qualified for full represen tation at the N. E. A. meet by mak ing its membership 100 per cent in the county, state and national organi zations. Miss Wofford is on the N. E. A. ptogram for » radio address Thursday UNION SERVICES afternoon, July 3, between 2:30 and 3:.'10 o”clock. Miss Wofford’s subject for discussion will he “Better E.iu.a- I.Aurens, June 28.—'The letting this week by the stat^ highway department of the contract for grading of high way No. 15 from Laurens to Prince ton, a distance of 16.4 miles, is an im portant step in the new highway pro gram affecting I.,aurens county. This stretch of road is in the state system of highways, and was one of the first top soil roads con.strurted in the coun ty under the original system. During the past winter engineers made now surveys, running out sev eral linos, in anticipation of the pres ent highway building program. It is understood that the new grading will follow the old route in the main, but some of it will be relocated and sev eral curves eliminated, it is’ under stood. Following the heading-up of the road, it is expected that this part of No. 15 will be in line for hard- surfacing, as the department has in cluded it in its program for such dis position. ; — In connection'" with' the im'prove- ment of the Laurens-'Princeton route, designated to be surfaced it has been pointed out that it will provide a shorter route by four miles to Colum bia and a way for all traffic west of Princeton, including Honea Path, Bel ton, Ander.son, Pelzer and Piedmont, as No. l.'i connects at I>aurens with No. 2, which is now '}^aved all the way throujgh. In addition to grading and surfac ing the 16-mile project, several con- ^•rute bridges will lie put in, the most important one being at Tumbling shoals over Ii<*t>dy river. 'I'he town of Princeton, in the west ern part of this county, is to b<> high ly favored in the matter of paved roads, as contractors are now prepar ing to hard surface the connecting link of highway No. 25 between that point and Ware Shoals. Another paving pro^ct Affecting lAurens county is the Ora-Enorce link of highway No. 10, the construction of which is about to get under way. CENTRAL FARM BOA^URGED Chairman Legge Declares Pro ducers Can Wield Greater Power By One Agricultural Orgranization. ARE ARRANGED City To Have law breaking in our city, we will he glad to make cases on your evidence.” The mayor .Saturday askwj the chief tinnal Opportunities for the Childreh,” j *’*<'h«‘dule Given for July and August of police to begin at once an investi-: and the address will be put on the air In ('ify (’hurcheH With Local gallon of the charges the guheriia-1 by the Columbia Broadcasting ser-1 I’asforK Speaking, torial candidates were making. At the , vice, with a national hook-up for the' Following a custom of long stand-1 an unutrain»*(l group (*f farmers, he same time he asked Colonel Keith and j time indicated. | ing, the churches of the city will unite i-^aid, can market collectively to belter Mr. McMahan to furnish additional in-: Washington, June 28. — Striking a new note in agricultural cooperation. Chairman Legge of the farm board suggested bringing all national farm organizations “under the same roof.” in an address hrnadca.l today from Washington. He admitted a natural difference of opinion sometimes existed between the different groups but collectively they could accomplish results much more quickly and to better effect. The chairman’s address .stressed the view that as the end of the first year’s operation of the farm board approached it became mole and more apparent that organization is the fun damental step in the solution of the agricultural problem. “With farmers organized,” he said, “the adju&tm«mL.ol.production.and ef- fi^vF"marketing orafricUltural pro ducts would he comparatively easy. Unity of action is neede<l through ev ery stage from planning and planting to marketing. The difficulty comes in getting producers to cooperaU*, chief ly because there is still a great differ ence of opinion as to just how to or ganize farmers so that they may jirop- erly deal with their problems in hand ling particular crops in this and that community.” The chairman insisted there is really no rea.son why farmer.s .should not go further in collective marketing thafn orguiiizalions of any juivately operated Hidu.stry. "That privilege.” he said, “is in the farmers' own hanifs. Laws have l>een written in recent years to free farm ers from the restrictions of anti-trust regulations. In fact, under exi.sting laws the organization of farmers is permitted to an extent that probably nexer could be accorded to private agencies. There is no limit to the quantity of farm products that may be handled by groups of farmers who grow the crop.s and hold the full right lo sell them.” The great advantage that comes to faimers who mass large units of pro ducts. he said, is the l>etter bargain ing power thus attained than when ..hey come to market by the thous ands, each selling his own crop and '•onipeting with their indivi<iuals. Fveir I during July and August in evening Quiet Fourth ^ 1 < olor Keith i«,„e„ « METHODIST MEET off day” to-1 ‘let'laring he was “glad j TO OPEN JULY 1 ^ ; to know tnat Mayor Owens is liecom- ■ - advantage than the private agency . . . .... , Clinton will take an truth about that hquor drmkmg ba«:-i i„aepea-,. , dence Day ! enforcement of Full I’rogram Ik Arranged for Annual With all stores, banks, postoffice, i It ycrtainly , AKHemhIy At lake Junaluska. the cotton mills here and at Goldville time someone m Columbia was closed, there will be a general cessa-{ \ ■ i 4k tion from business, and many citizens **', ® rize< e will seek recreation and amusement investigation as a ness. McMahan lost no time in beginning an attack on Smoak. He said he knew “s^ven reason why Smoak thought people should vote for him for gover nor,” among which he declared were that he was “delegated one of the five by Cip Jones to defend the highway out of the city. In the city proper, no celebration commiMion; Ik never voted again.lL , Cotton an appropriation, and he was on a commission to expend some of these appropriations.” lie went into what he said was “Smoak’s expense account” for work in connection with the iodine content food promotion program, amounting to “$3,400 for expenses and per diem." “I must commend Capt. Smoak for his thrift and wisdom,” McMahan “whitewash” and added that “the government, city as well as state, is too deeply involved to be qualified to render an impartial verdict.” Mills there will be a field day pro gram with athletic events for men, women, hoys and girls, prizes being I MiSSiOUarieS HcrC offered in the various contests by lo cal merchants. Baseball by the mill teams of this section is expected to draw large crowds. A number of Clintonians leave to day for the mountains and beach. The From Brazil union .services beginning next Sunday which has no control over th(> flow of evening. The services will rotate with j the commodity but take.s the iiroduct the pastors filling the respe|tive en-' as it comes. gagements as adopted by the local j “It has been cb*urly demonstrated ministerial union. The schedule fol-lin this country,” he continued, "that lows: I producers of farm creeps lan so regu- ContinueH Through Aug. 2U. <>- North Broad Street Metho-1 late the marketing of their products Lake Jurtaluska, N. C., June 28.—, dist church. Rev. <1. Bynum Betts. collectively that they never have a With a full program of conferences, —I'irst Presbyterian church, glut. If there is any surplus, they can .... .... . . Glorious Fourth will be quiet, yet an uid. iwt Wn d«troy.(i, with the entire or impeired by hi, relif<on and P™-, ,„terin* into it, ob«rv- hibition.” Smoak, who followed his attackers j to the .pe.ker . rtond. ,« *«•*•<*' p„rOtt OffCrS with an outburst of applause. “1 think my people have giviin,|ini* pie answet* to the remarks just made concerning me.” he said, “and this is the only reference I shall make to them.” Pot Re-election The Rev. William G. Neville, Mrs. Neville and two children, arrived on the 23rd on the S. S. Biboco from Bra zil, South America, and while on fur lough are making their headquarters in Augusta with Mrs. Neville’s pat ients, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Tennant. Mrs. Neville was Miss Mary Lindsay Tennant before her marriage. ^ Mr. and Mr*. Neville are now..visit ing in the city as the guc^^sts of rela tives, and from here will go to Mon treat where they will spend part of „ . . ..u . P**" re-elaction to the house of H. r.»..w.d th. ««»npl..hm«.t.'„ .ppr«chin, for KtrPropoM t»w.rd ting rid of direct taxation” since he J. B. Parott, local electrician, an nounces his candidacy in today’s pa- [ the summer. Mr. Neville is a graduate of Pres byterian college, and Columbia Theo logical seminary. He is a son of Mrs. U* u.rrv. ..nee nc. hj, term as one of the county’s w G Neville and the late Dr William has been m the legislature «nd called upon candidates who are attacking those in high places in the state gov ernment who are not here to answer for themselves” to bring their evi dence or stop their destructive activi ties.” “I am known as the pre^ibition can didate,” Smoak said, “and I am proud representatives and is no stranger in the county. At the past session of the legislature he served on the commit tee assignments of account, banking G. Neville, former president of the college here. He and Mrs. Neville are both missionaries to Garahuns, Per nambuco, Brazil, and are sent out by and insurance, education, privileges j Greene Street Presbyterian and elections, roads, bridges and fer- j church of Augusta. They are promi- I nently identified with the work of the Mr. Parrott is asking re-election on 1 Southern Presbyterian church in their his past record. He is well and favor- of th. d.,irn.t.on. Th, wo™n throughout th. .hildiwu hen ^.y or. th. b„t »n>- ^y m.ny fri,i.d. who will b. w« 1 an Pomt to „p|y to th, | i„t.r..ud in th, «.nounc«n.nt that that prohibition do«n’t pro- ,, t„ ,h, rao, again. hiDit. H. citod mformation which h.!j^ AsSlStant said “came from Columbia which section of Brazil and apon their first furlough "^after seven years’ absence, are being most cordially received in the States where they have many friends. purported to show better order than existed before prohB>it!M and that there it less liquor than in former yearn. He deplored what he termed the “pn^mgiUMla of a wet preaa and advocates of* 1%ht winas beer.” be condemned KiiHi and Olin D. Johnston of ^ Spartaabarft anti-bond highway comnisslon and dselarsd (Centiausd sn pifs is«) At Local OflSce W. D. Peay of Chester, assumed his duties Tuesday at the local postof fice as assistant postmaster, succeed- hif B. £. Wilson. Mr. Peay has been conneeted with the Chester postoffice for twsnfy-two years and was recent- candidate, for their sttacki on thai ly promoted to his new position here. He eiq»sets to move his family to the dty at an early date. Chamber Meets Next Tuesday The July meeting of the Chamber of Commerce will be held next Tues day evening in the club rooms with President J. F. Jacobs, Sr., presiding. The usual dinner will be served at 7:80, after which the business session will be held ami all members are urged to be present. young people’s camps, schools and en tertainment features, the 11130 season of the Methodist assembly at lake Junaluska will open officially on July 1. The first event on the program will be the meeting of the board of tem perance and social service of the Methodist Episcopal church. South, with Bishop James Cannon, Jr., pre siding. . The summer program will run through August 20 and will close with sn old-fashioned camp meeting to be held from August 20 to 31 with Bishop Arthur J. Moore, one of the newly ap pointed bishops, as the principal preacher. Bishop Edwin D. Mouzon, Bishop Cannon and other members of the Southern Methodist Episcopate Rev. Edward lang. July 20—First Baptist church, Rev. M. R. Wingard. July 27—Associate Reformed I’res- byterian church, Dr. L. R. Lynn. Aug. 3—St. John’s Lutheran church, Rev. Bynum Betts. Aug. 10—North Broad Street Meth- byterian church. Dr. D. J. Woods. Aug. 17—First Bapti.st church. Rev. Samuel P. Bowles. -Aug. 24—First Presbyterian church. Dr. L. R. Lynn. Aug. 31 — Thornwell church, Rev. 0. M. Abney. keep it at h<»me and save freight.” Mr. I>egge initiated the idea of con solidating the national farm organi zations more as a “wish” on his part than as a probability. “As you know,” he said, “there are several of the so-called general farm organizations in this country which might some day lie brought under the same roof. Imagine what power these organizations could generate if the'r fdrees were all mobilizezd into one 'unit and put to work organizing farm- To Pave Lank On Calhoun Highway Memorial; ers to improve conditions for agricul ture.” While he admitted that the hope of bringing them all into one general or ganization may be a long time in ma terializing, he said the farm board is j trying to help work put the market- are scheduled for, sermons and "ad-] Announcement has been made thru] 'P*^ problem by aiding in the estab- dresses throughout the assembly. [j, VV. Barnett, chairman of the Geor-1 large commodity selling The board of Christian education, ’ gia State Highway department, in a ®*‘Kanization8 in which the members into which the Sunday school, Ep- i summary of the work to be done in 1 present national worth league and education boards that state, that the highway from! groups can participate, were recently merged, will hold its j Danielsville, Ga., to the Abbeville! initial meeting July 8 with Bishop ' county line by way of Elberton, will ■ p p Mouzon presiding. J. M. Albergotti,,of vbe paved in 1931. This means that the - * Is Decorated T. F. Brigman, men^ber of the Pres- Orangeburg, and the Rev. W. I. Her- i Colhoun highway ffrom Abbeville to* bert, of Bishopville, are South Caro-. Atlanta will be a hard surface route Una’s represenUtives on the assembly I and that the entire route from Colum- board of trustees. j bia to Atlanta will be paved. The pav-! byterian college student body, was on Arthur L. Brock, Atlanta; L. W.'ing program of the South Carolina [ last Friday decorated at Fort .Moul- Burkhard, Macon; the Rev. J. A. Har- commission includes the paving of the trie by the camp commander for ex- mon, Sandersville, and the RevjJ. M. I Calhoun highway from Abbeville to cellent work. Trainee Brigman was Hawkins, Decatur, are Georgia’s rep-' the >Savannah river within the near' selected by the commander of Corn- resentatives. | future. North Carolina’s representatives are ' Dr. W. P. Few, Durham; Dr. A. W. Plyler, Greensboro, and the Rev. H. C. Smith, Rockingham. PRESBYTERIANS TO HOLD i COMMUNION SERVICE The Sacrament of the"Lord’s Sup- j per will be administered at the First,| Presbyterian church next Sunday morning. This is the regular quarterly communion service and the entire membership is urged by the pastor to be present. The services of the con gregation are now being held in the high school auditorium on Hampton avenue. 17 DAYS REMAIN TO EN ROLL WITH CLUBS Enroll at once. Don’t put it off. Books close July 22. Registration certificate not necessary. Tax' receipt not necessary. All that is necessary for yon to vote in the primary is for yon to put your name mi the dab book. ! pany F as the best second year man in j that organization and sent before a ' iKiard of examiners to compete with j the best Red Cour.se men from other I companies. In this test the young Presbyterian student proved himself ' the best trainee in the C. M. T. C. bat- I talion and during the recent review ; was publicly decorated by Maj. Shields Warren, camp commander 8th infan- .try, U. S. A. IN CHICAGO THIS WEEK Dr. F. L. Webb -left Saturday for Atlantic City, N. J., where he is at tending the International Kiwaiiis con vention. V , v: —ssr’ a - ' f. ■ J .e J Jl'u