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J ■.;■'■ >r..- A f *••«•••••••••••••«•••••«••••••••• 5 THE CHRONICLE • • Strives To Be a Clean News* • • paper. Complete, Newsy, • • and Reliable. • 4 . ' ‘ • * 3II|r (HUttlon Qlljrnmrlr VOLUME XXXI : If You Don’t Read : THE CHRONICLE I You Don’t Get • The News. • « CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1931 CITY SCHOOLS NOr PRESENTING INTERESTING CLOSING PORGRAM High School Graduating Exercises Tomorrow Eveniflg With’ Ad^ dress By Dr. Bennett of Greenwood. Class Program and Two- Act Operetta To Be Given. Baccalaureate Sermon Heard Sun day Night By Large Union Congregation. NUMBER 21 Our Political I etcrinaries DLsa^rcc liy AUxrt T. Reid SME*S G0TTHE YeR OCAO WRONG. She’s DC?WN WARD65T It’s the SherKAN With tariff COLIC. VE uw EPIZOOTIC.' GOTTA KEOUCE THAT’S PLAJH. TMATSmUMO. Pip. that’s Got HER AU Stoppep up Thirty-two graduates will receive the coveted sheepskin^ at the annual Clinton high school commencement ex ercises to be held Friday evening at 8:30 o’clock in the Florida Street school auditorium. Dr. R. H. Bennett, president of Lan der college, Greenwood, will deliver I V VJ x X'VII w v.nm* V% lil I V ri j -- .--x .. . .v. .n v ’ . i i v iicaii the literary address, after which position, education. But the«e ploma.s will be presented to the grad-‘ •“ *' ’ be forgotten. They belong to the past. There is no need to dwell upon those! pa.st injuries and slights and things of like kind. This is true enough. Paul, however, does not mean just this here. He is .saying that he is not relying up on tho.se thing.s of the past for the time in which he is living. He had YouVe crazy, 1 THIMK. IT I s SHE*s Filled 'overproductiH With Foreign pevea with Dumping Undercohsumi^^ SCAfLOOZiS.' TEkDEHC|E$. IILIOOICITUP. uating class. Following is the program for the closing exercises: Processional Invocation Rev. C. W. ,\llen Salutatory Doris .Abrams Song Introduction of Speaker, are not sufficient in themselves, H< cannot re.st or rely upon these past laurels. He is not looking back over I hi.s shoulder nor into the grandstands. His punio.se is .so irWense that h<' has no time for this. The race could be lost by such an atiitudc. You are soon to reeeive your diplomas. That doesn’t „ ^ mean that you have conquered the world. It means that you have only Dr. R. H Song Bennett begun to conijuer the world. The di- Paul Todd ‘*^^^*^* upon. It ‘' *[ h**neiiit I 'haapd •pa’^^^stf^V'Vnp o ' i ^ work, but it should Ik* regardesi only Sunt. .T. Harvev Witherspoon . , , , v ('1 ss Roll incentive to future work, i ou cannot rely upon it and what it indi- The list of this vear s senior class. . .. - . . , . . ■ ■ , 1 .1- , cgtes tor vour futi;; including nineteen girls and thirteen hoys, follows: Girls Doris Abrams. Kmmie Adair. Madelyne .Adair, Mary Klla B;uley, Mary Pauline l,awson. .lamie I.ittle, Paul u-es a pi. tun s<|ue expression, ‘Ib-achirg forth unto those things which are Indore.' His face is forward. •No glancing backward is here. M's KH7 i*K‘th Milling. *’'*<*>’ pitched foi\var<l. H<' is stre’.-h- Evelvn ('hambers! '-^V: vvery muscle to win. He is put- Frances Tn'ld, Mary Workman. Sadie ^'"8 his whole b.Mng into the race (’handler, Krnestim' ('haney.. ('ollette with vigor n a translation of Davis. Annie la-e .Jackson. Beatrice ^his exuie.-su n. It is nmre, M never High.sTmth. Virginia Kellers. Lydie think that have iloiie enough. 1 au - , IS saving. What a le«son for t<Klav; lycake. • ' Frances Virgihia .Milam, Sprat t. Boys—('arl .Johnson. Garrard .John son, Morri.se League. Paul Todd. Hen saying ..This is a day in which so many seem to tie trying to s<‘e how little they can rv 'Dinar.!. Cil... Bain.y, (V.il liar..- inrlaa.l „f trying to «... h...v much. h'ar.H, William Uavia. Donal.l Dv.l. .is, ‘hay can .lo. f.,r th.. aork (,,..1. James Hatton, James .leanes, Kay, “ I press toward the mark.’ Me may; Pitts, Russel Kay, tie weary. He may be suffering pain.| (’lass l)av Exercises |but he presses forward. That Has HEARING SET ONEmAPAY Others Now I’arties To “Expen'se Money” Action Before Su preme Court. Hearing June 8. ("olumbia. May 18.- Notice was served tialay on “per.sons having an interest in the determination of the is sues invoKed" in the fight to halt payment of "expense mon<*v" to iiieni- liers of the genera! assemblv. In an amended netition to the .su- i preme court to permanently restrain i State Trea.stirer .1. H. .Sc.'irboroiigh , from paying (he $‘dd'i the !egi.-;lators ivoteii themselves. .\. W. Ho'man. Ce- iliimbia attorney, representing the jie- ititioner, .lames B. Scroggie. name.! the I following as,‘‘interested parties.’’ Lefare -P.ate.s, Rfchland countv rep resentative; .lames H. Hamir.ind. Richland county senator; .lefferson Hotel corporatum, and the ('ireenvill. <’omniunity chest. The naming of this group is in s •- cordaiue with an order of the supreme.. court held the netition .'■■houh) have it hided three other classe-:. .Scr.ergie • s said in the nelitien to hr nnkitlir the petition “on hehaif of himself a*'-! every other ci'ien and taxpa i-r in ‘he '■late . . . whose nreperty rights are 'alsmt to he jet jiardiy.. d a;ui onlawf'al- Iv confiscated unle < t)|,. relief herein Ipr.iyed for is granted." ’ Ucpiesi'iitative Bites in the ';rs‘ g'roup memliers i f 'he general, a-i- semhly who received the "expen- money" and are in favor ef ‘h .■ ’ .‘ - , ■ Ilf ionalily of the appii-ur' Senator Hamnion.l non ’• !>ei'.s of the g'eiier.il a 'eini.';. to the a|iiir(i)iriation. The .i(>fferson Ihitel corporatiin o'’ (’olumbia, and the Greenville torn- ——— -niiinitv chest are to r<-present the County “Dips” Estimate Raised Senator Smith ; ' - i'" - " - ‘Ion. I|l. yrli Youngsters Get Cotton Ginning Kiwanians Hear • •• — - — I otherwise' holders of said warrants or 0^ Kn,iay .. s:o in .Hc'mcanin, t., y..u,jvh„ ,,u. .ii-iurn■ Worlds‘riirr;:.,., h.irh .oh,...l au<l.t.,ri.nn. tt... era.l.mt. Pl'’"''"- ■" !.»“■■ han.l« lour n.-..!, si reel, school, Mon.lny ev.-niny... when .,n cUon pr.iducDon has raise 1 - ,''_lil'l»!‘'''o«nsumilhon Inl.l that tin,,.. ,l,c si,,,,. ,nK .■lasaw.ll present ,ls annual Uass not f.m,sh,.,l ,n th„ hour, lafo l,,.,-:.., ,,.,,1, f,.,,,,, fi„„, fj ,1, „„ i„„i „ ■ l^.■l(lu■r 'I'hiin (lnTlirodllction. "’'''■"■'I l"•l■^ .i!' .r,. Dav exereise.s a.H follows: .ihead.n ou are to continue (o exeiv ive' Wadsworth Iwmir Urur.r.ia i-u n lonov i i'"m im v-oe,, Hymn. W'elcome Lydie Lreake, President of the cla.ss of 19.31 S.'.ng Senior (’lass History of S.'hool Ili.ste.ry of the Class of Ith'Il, ing of that far goal which lies beyoml mmei that there is w'ork ahead for . , ..T ninn* 1 n<n) 1 tificates. <-Mrs. W’. R, .Andersiin, .Ir.. announced on Alarch‘20. The linul fJg- the immediate presen’t. That means^ p,.(.,^idt,d over th<‘''I'xercises, introduced ures for equivalent .'lOO-iiound bales is tV»X» *1 * Seni:>r Cla..i Clas.s Poem Soffg Prophecy Cla.'s Will Song S hool .Song. The higiiii,'^. hool cnnimencenient .'Rea son opi'ncxl last Sunday ev«*ning in N' rth Broad .Street .Methodi.st church when the baccalaureate jireached by the Rev. H. O. Chambers, yuatjjhe sjH'aker of tlu* ('vmiing, and ex- Id,931,597 or bales more than many a hard fought battle, many* a plained the juirpose of eounty-wide the March announcement. ('ecil Barnhardt *>iH’ni9K de.sert with its bh.sti'ring (.xamiiuitiuns. Misses Anna B<dl Hud- K.vports of codon (luring April (o- sand, many a rugged pathway to .j,,d (.’olette Griffin had charge of|taled dt»‘2,000 bal(>.s, a sharp sea'^omil the music. The following program was'i^.ss fnmi March exiiorts which ttifah il •iOfi.OOO hales. Virginia Kellers ‘‘limb, many a weary mile to go, butt Evelyn (’haniln'rs only *hu.s can ymu reach thi' g ial. SerTior (’lass Sadie Chandler Collette Davi.s 11endered: Invocation ‘The heights hy great nun reach ed and ke it ' • "■ .'lu'ii. 'I h,. d(*part ment of coMimerce an Were not obtained by sudden i Wvlcome Nannie Sue .Ad-i'r, presi- nounei'd, bowi'ver, that the Apr'! ex ' ,dent junior ( lass, Clinton high school, ports were l‘J,()(M) haies more than in But they while their companionsj Ro-ponse Elizabeth Dobbins, (lold-1 April, 19.19. slept IEor the nine month.' of the codon Toiled upward through the night.’I Awake! .•Ari'-ie! (iradmit- season, extending from .Augu.st to ‘The set-ond item in sucees.s is ai'^'8' • lass. .April, iiu'lusive, exports atnount((l to sermon was worthy goal. The world st.'ps a.sid ; ^ Address Prof. Marshall W. Brown, r,.9(H;.()()(> liales against C.lJi.ooo Imles for men v^’ho kn(>w where thev are go-,^ it^sbyter^an college. exp(jjtgd..iluniig -ihtr-pix'ceding- s('asou.- reister nf the ehiir-h The usual even-fi^g. Re sure Tlial you know where you "fretTs of fh(; Sm'V’ Ciiadu- The departmeirt attributed the rediu- ine service-s in the churches of the arc going if you want to hasten sU(-i^''''K ' - Hion to smaller shipment.s to Grea c tv had lieen withdrawn in honor of' ’t-ss. Too many have the spirit of ‘1; Board | Untuin and Central Europe, Fiance the occasion and the large auditori- 1 ‘ .. quanti -.1 C?*.-. 1 . I .1 - ‘ ' XI O X* ’ In <1 ♦ te» S.wvl,.* •> . r. ^^nd•,v sT-hool dciia it'lien t was'on mv wav.’ What is a worthy ^foal ? v ^ .^warding of (’ertifieate- C. F.' ties, urn and Sunday s< hool depait.1 a. , . _ .... . . ., | Brooks, county .sujienntendi nt of edu- filled to capacity with parents, friends 'It worth while to succeed profession. But success in any field C ai ion. Till' regular Kiwahis meeting last Thur.sday evening wa- an unusually enoyable (icVa'slufl. I ii TuTdittdn to fi»1 alnio.st perfect attend.ince :i[ion th*' part of (he memliers there were quio a iiumlier of invited guests, with the publicity committee in clmrc of ;h - meeting. The chill had as its gae..; of h o’ u'. I'nid'd Sdites Senator FllCon li Smith of l.yiii hliurg, who bear. *h( (list iiiet ion of ha ing held tlii'- offi'o longer than a’ly •(her icpiv cntiti'.t from South <'jiff.iin.'t .Si'iiator .Smith •vc; - .( Mi i-ight ful ijiscus.Mon of the present w ir];l economic trou'le. due, he stated, to iindi I r on uimption .r.tlher than ovi'r- piodiiction. He aiiiilyzed the c iiin'ry’s new nlane (rf Hvtng and shawed the ■ vieat progress made in t riiiisport it- thiM, commimication, machinery, and iwhat not. This is an automobile age. .fL’Cd. SeV(;raI o'f the legislator-; a ve •a .! to hiiv(‘ assigned their “exia n-e n ;.ey’’ to the^Gieenvllle -Cuiuniunit :■ i chest. number ca-ilKt'd t.la ir ( ..-Ifs' with the .lefferson h 'tid before !■ ing. ;r. - Protests Against Insurance Bill Altdnu'vs lUfori* (i»;vf*rn.'i >.i\ N( w Tax Mv .kSiH'p ‘iaiproja r- ly I’assod. Injunctiin Minlvi. Columbia, M ly !'re mi urn tax wa-; Religious Survey and udatives of the young graduates. , - — — The members of the graduating cla.ss not success unaccompanied hy Mie and their instructors occupied re- gt»al of life. Paul had a wortiiv served .“^eats in the front of the auJi-.itoai. He was not thinking of lieing torium and the pastors of the city ' the greatest figure but one in history. wt*«e seated on the rostrum and took, H had never entered his mind that h i part in the exercises. A spex-ial music-! was to he the greati*st writer in the I al program wa- an added feature of New Testament. No, he had one goal j A religious survey of the city will the service. and to this he held, and all other j be made on n(‘X*t .Sunday afternoon, it .Mr. Chambers Heard thing.s came to him as a result. There .has Iwen announced by the local minYs- The bacx’alaureate sermon bv Mr. arv many things which are worth |terial union. Workers will assenibh Chambers was filled with helpful ad- while. Here is the poet: monition to the young graduates. He “ ‘AAhat is the real good?’ I ask in a musing mood. -oi to .speak, li(‘ said, and many of us • 1 h(‘ vabn it the .Aiiril expirls wa.- ipottirig along wi.h a slow horc fixed at :?2‘2,7()(>,d(M( against .$,bi,7ld,- and an old vvorn-oul buggy. 'I’hese ddo in .March, and .'^dd,H 19,(I(M) in April,7i(iv, (hanged conditions under whi h last year, hor the nine months period we a'c living re()uire modern thing-, •' th(‘ aggregaM' value was fixed at hut (he ((ue.stiori is h(iW to m -e* th"' ^^lll J30 kd7.i.dl 7,<)(K> again-t $tidK,9Xl ,()dd. iHew and trying condilions. ' .Senator .Smith went int i a liscu.;- ioM of the nece.ssitv of having an County Jurors For Anderson Court Is. T>,,. i'.. at ‘ .-'.rJcf (1 ‘rdav hear;ng_..jH,‘rijre Gx-i uu*!-' CK'HAr*r— I on the grounds it w.is i|!(-e-a!ly pa-'c.b ■Aha .M. Lumiikin. ' olumiuii a“o-- jiiey. reuresentinv ‘Tifreig-n” '.nsuraivt- Icompanies, chargul the sena'.o had v'- lated its own rule-; coii'-iilerinj 'U(>asui(' wliich iiicri'a'( ,i ‘he b pio'Diiume from two :o tl,i(e pe’’ He as.-erted the seiia'e had r, to [la-s the hill liy a v ite of 1'i and that ten days la’er, wi'h n . tion lo re"ons'(|er, h ul ;c'.c -ed and iia '."ed t he bill. ‘I’M i;,. !' -Af’cr the henrine- 'odav, CoW" .ad(()uate circulating medium, for for- Blackwood said he would re-en' mer conditions have been rocked to:until he r(*tun':( i! from He selected a.s his text, Phil. 3:13-14: "This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reach ing forth unto those things which aie before, I nre.ss toward the mark for, the prize of the high calling in Christ, Jesus.” In addressing the graduating clasr, llifr. Chambers said: “In each cif your homes there are ■pictures of you when you were a child, j That is how you used to look. Prab- ‘ ahdy you have pictures of you made I recently. That is how you look now. ' Each of you have mental pictures of the future. That is how you hope to look and hone to be. In every one i.f) pictures we visualize hebj hi -t V,'■ c(imra' ‘Order,’ said the law court; ‘Knowledge,’ said the school; ‘Truth.’ said the wise man; ‘Pleasure,’ said the fool; ‘Love,’ said the maiden; ‘Beauty,’ said the page; ‘Freedom,’ said the dreamer; ‘Home,’ said the sege^ ‘Fame,’ said the soldier; ‘Equity,’ said the seer; Spoke my heart sadly, 'The answer is not here. ' Then within my bosom Soiftly this I heard. Each heart holds the secret. Kindness is the word.’ But even the poet missed it. None 1 those mental i ——- ourselves as being .successful. Every!of these things give us the one su- one of us desires to succeed. There' preme goal. Ekitication is not suffi- are many rules for success. In this cient. Great crimes are committed by passage which is selected ftrr the text there is a rule which includes many others. Paul teaches us that to suc ceed one should have intensity of pur pose. Severail items of the text direct our attention to this truth. “He says, ‘This one thing I do.’ This fixes one central purpose for his life. their very founduticn. '1 he (rime of , (leftafTiAr' hroiight (in hy the govern- FoY the sessi(»n of federal court, merit was emphasized and erilicisi.d opening at Ander'^on .May ‘2(i, Lauren.s by the .■-peaki'r, .so wa.-; Ihe protective county citizens who have hei'n drawn taiiff e-itahli.-hed for the la-nefit of to serve a-- jurors are: ‘hi- invisitde f( w. Grand jury \V. M. Turner of Gray I Discussing agricultural eond'Mon-, (lourt. Senator Smith said that the < h iige Petit jurors, first week .1. A.jof overproducton has been made while renproeiiy lav.s, whi. h - Crawford, Ware ShoaD, K. F. 1).; C. i th(,u-ands of farmers are begging at impose, levying a tax e(ija! ‘ , B. Owings, Owings .Station; G-lenn H. the doors of the Cniled States treas- imposed bv the honu -‘ate o: tb .Any (Confederate veteran, son or Bull, Clinton; ('. K. .Mitchell, .Mount- ury for enough to save the home, and eomiianv- oIodjxI d f.i. • i«t« *»*• .jr-- 'at ‘2:30 n. m. at the First Baptist church where they will be a.-;signeii [territory and the city-wide canvass begun. It is expected that the entire j city will be covered in two hours by j those who have volunteered to do the work. 1 ! NOTICE TO VETERAN.S York. A hearing wa,-; which ‘‘domestic’^ their jirote-;t, asserting the virtually (lriv(* them out o‘ although Ihe.v ar(‘ e\( iupt Carolina. Commenting on th':-. Mr. said the rei iproeity lavs, whi. h .'IX V. ii:i-' ■ in S !.:r on ^ - , ...ii.-ii, ..k./iiiii- ui.v 1..I «-iiwugii lo save me nome, and (-(jinpanv, placed a iie’'a! daughter of Confederate veteran whnjville; R. ./. I.ang.ston and H. D. Gray, to keep their wives and children finm conipanies expects to attend the reunion at Mont-i I..aurens. star ving. He cited the contradiction of |j(* said if th(* governor -i'Tie 1 th gomery, Ala., June 2, may get certifi-j Second week — Allen Bobo, Gray 0,000,000 people being without <'«!- act, he would he passing iegislation 'n cate.s to .secure reduced rate.s by call-[Court; W. H. Bagwell, Barksdale, and ployment with approximately 20,(KK),- states in which a .South (’a ■ ing on C. A, Power Probate Judge, jp. B. Adair, Clinton. ,000 dependents, and yet a surplus of mpany does business' ' ^ •m , 200,000,000 bushels of wheat; the Red (Continued from page four) Lydia School Faculty Named NATIONAL COnON WEEK June 1-6 Is Winning Nation-Wide Support Because 122,775,046 People Use Cotton. — ^ w» » V w VI V ^"reinTnRiered. Life would lose some!session has been made in the faculty. «/ if- Wf •wit.hnnt the rememberinff i The faculties nf the eitv’. etUe.. of its best without the remembering of the past. We gladly recall some V* wasv.' ^ things passed. But some things should early date. The faculties of the city’s other three schools will be announced at an This is a movement that should appeal to the grower, the shipper, the merchant, the manufacturer and most important of all, the con sumer. CKnton is urged to join in the celebration of “National Oitton Week.” All merchants are asked to co-operate through their news- V,.... — The faculty of the Providence (Ly- AU else must be subordinate. This in-fdia) school for the 1931-32 session wa* ^ . dicates that whatever else there is in 1 announced as follows yesterday by the if nlnlr “I® co-operate through their news- ♦ tiw'world that is worth while there is [board of trustees: Mrs. H. A Cope-'t ^ ^ through their xrindow displays, and through special Z one important thing to be done. He (land, principal and fifth grad^ Miss IX arrangement of their stores. Everyone who sells cot- I is putting first things first. [Margaret Blakely, fourth grade; Miss ^ “His intensity of purpose is reflected j Melda Von Hollen, third grade; Mrs in the expression, ‘forgetting those iW. H. Simpson, second grade; Mrs S things which are past.’ Let us not mis- j W. Sumerel, first grade. No change in understand Paul. Seme things should jthe teaching staff over the* present ton in any form, suCh as tires, rope, mops, furniture, house furnish ings, home necessities, or any commodity using cotton in its construc tion is urged to call attention to these facts, and emphasize the im portance of increased cotton consumption. I .Nat Turner, Golumbia attorne\-. ar- ,(:ro?.s making appeals fur clothingE^ued that the legislature .-huuhJ Ix^ Tor the needy and yet great quantities,^iven a chance to na.ss if next year .of reserve cotton in stock. But in spite^in "proper form” if it still (iesin^ ‘ i of these unfavorable and trying condi-do 3,,. He as.serted it is a "tax for tions, Senator Smith pleaded for a eternity.” [united effort and a resolve on the part Intimation was made by attorneys of the people to face the new condi-,that the bill might be attacked in the j tions and build for a stronger founda- Ition (for the future. “Ijct’s have faith jin each other,” he said. courts on the ground that it was “im properly passed.” It was hinted that [should the govrtmor .sign the bill ef- Senator Smith was greeted with' forts would be made to secure an in- iwarm applause and his fervent and | junction restraining collection of the [thought^rovoking address was fol-[ tax until a hearing could be had on an lowed with the closest attention. He attempt to secure a permancmt iniunc- was heartily thanked for his visit to}tion. Clinton and the timely message j brought to local Kiwanian.s, MEET IN GREENVILLE GET HALF HOLIDAY The city letter mail carriers, follow- The Chronicle Will Issue a Special Edition Next Week In the Interest of “National Cotton Week.** I The Greenville district conference j ing a custom of the pa.st few years, of the .Methodfist church met in Bun-1 began taking thoir summer half-hoJi- comb Street church in Greenville on [days on last Thursday afternoon. Tuesday. The folk^wing representa-i From now until the first of Septem- *U„ D U C-.-x -L . -11 • • tives from the Broad Street churc-b of this city, were in attendance: Rev. H. O. Chambers, ‘H. D. Henry, W. H. Simpson and J. M, Pitts. - 'a — ■■■• ber, only the morning delivery will be made each Thursday to give the car riers a little vacation period during the hot summer months.