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• THE CHRONICLE • • Strives To Be » Clean News- • • paper. Complete, Newsy, • and Reliable. • , \ (Hbr Olltntnn • • If You Don’t Read • • • • THE CHRONICLE • • • • • You Don’t Get : • • • • The News. • • • • • : VOLUME XXXI CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY JO, 1981 NUMBER 31 FANT PRAISES STATE BANKS Local Clubs Hear Cheraw Citizen Mr, Cityman (hmes to Fairyland By Albert T. Reid Institutions In Vastly Improved Shape With High Cash Re serves. Condition “Gratifying and Conservative.” He Says. R. E.JHanna Talks To Kiwanians 1 and Rotarians of Agricultural Conditions In Denmark. j A joint meetinff of the Clinton Ki- ; wanis-Rotary clubs was held last Fri- Fant.iday evening- at Hotel Clinton, at which Columbia, July 28.—Albert S .«tate bank examiner, reported today j time an address was heard from R. E. that actual cash on hand in state | Hanna of Cheraw, managinfr director banks in South Carolina, together'of the South Carolina Council. Mr. with marketable stocks and bonds,'Hanna spoke on vocation and rehabili- amounts to 47 per cent of the depasits tation and weiit into an interesting in the banks. {discussion of conditions in Denmark He announced the consolidattd visited fveqiuntly and .statements of lO'J state banks, one private and 74 June 30. The call for statement “reveals a surprisingly , made an extensive study of farm con- branch banks as „f :ditions, education and g-overnment. Mr. hlanra said in part: of condition! ® vocation, I would say that the gratifying i method of procedure when at- a* I tempting to analyze a substance is not to take a hogshead full of the sub stance, but to take a test tube. statement,*’ Mr. b'ant said. The statement he characterized “well balanced and conservative.” ! The consolidated figures ihow that I I>enmark is one of the smallest the banks haa liabilities and re.sourc-1 Vhe fact is, one of the few es of $102,526,675.12 on the date of {‘‘^’"aining Wngdoms, with an area the call; that $H3,153/>53.89 was on i half a» big as SouthCarolina, la^y I in bills payable and notes rediscount- vocation can first be mentioned in con ed were listed by the banks. nectKm with that country. If a boy in “Using June 30, 1020, as a basis for Denmark is not normal or a half-wit, comparison,” the examiner said, “loans i^hen they make of him a law-yer, baiik- outstanding at that time were $ir>6,-|«^r, college president, or such like. If rS'<,o«i6.63 and on June 30. 1031, they he is a sturdy, upstanding, red-blood- were reduced to $.'>3,060,641 .IHl, show- **'1. normal boy, then they make of ing a reduction of $102,608,455.57. • him the only thing that is proper—a Hills payable have decreased during a, farmer. At the receptions the fellow like period from $22,407,638.62 to $1,- with the frock coat and high topped 781 ,«f.53.80. Overdrafts have likewise 1 hat and the flower in his button hole | de»'reased 02 per cent since June 30,!>» not the banker or manufacturer, but ! 1020 to June 30, 1031, while deposits! he is the farmer, as the farmer is thej covering the same }H‘riod have de-jhig man. creased only 47 percent.” > emphasize that we prate 1 “Congratulating” the bankers of the about agriculture* InMiig fundamental! state for their “almost su|>er-human ’ in this country, but there is seriously effort” to place their institutions in j lacking an esprit de corps with the one the “best possible liquid condition.” who engages in agriculture. Fant, after reviewing the agricultur- “Now let us consider rehabilitation, al prospects and those of certain in- This can Ik* applied to the indiviilual dustries, said the state has a bright or it can be applied to mass of the immediate future. .p<>ople. Let us apply it to the mass “Taking all in all, we have every I of the people from a mental hygiene reason to believe that conditions Vill standjMiint and go again to Denmark, gradually improve,” he slatwl. 1 fl)o laboratory. “The actual cash now on hand, to- “After ten trips across the Atlantic gether with marketiible stocks and' and repeated study in the farm homes j j [nlv 25—D Rov i r’^i k ii t i bonds shows that there is 47 per cent! and folk schools of Denmark, 1 would! ’ ' ' * i <• ' • ^ ^ ^^‘‘oima, Jul> ^4. l>pi(al s ..n- immedialelv available with Jhich to *ay that conditions are so different > assuming his ,nier weather prevailed for the week r., d,p».,U>r.. to ..y of tho .njh. ;o„„l of and hoaou,,. of ,,.avi„. „,„a, „.,.,io,.s of l<leiay in the arrival of his commission, I dh. and low counties in ne«“d of HEAT TAKES HEAVY TOLL iSixty-Three Deaths Recorded In ! West As Result of Rise In Temperature. Population Leav ing To Escape Sun’s Rays. like- •cury de- New Treasurer Cotton Makes Princeton Road Enters Office Fine Progress Paving Started Hroken in only a few sjiots, a heat wave of i;;Veat intensity continued last night to roll across the continent, cau.sing more than 60 deaths and hun dreds of jirostrations. In New York a severe electrical storm caused immediate recession of the temperature from 0.3 to 00 <le- grees. In western Canada a high wi.ad- storm laid waste an area near Wdnn'- peg, ending three days of ex.-essi\e temperature and producing an aver age in the region of 60 degrees. North Dakota and Minnes<)ta wise reporte<l drops in the me after storms. In Iowa, Des .Moines had IP; grees, the highest ri-ading of the year. -Cxuatofl. .had ■ J OL^duspreea... uad Uatuha.*^- al^'i'-p.'- liC tioth: nFtr ■rS*-'* ords for lOtll. Lincoln, Ni-b., reported 104 degrees. Elsewhere throughoul the country, however, an all but urquece dented heat wave rolled onward, taking its toll of lives and causing hundre l.s of lirostrations east, west ami south. In the West 6.3 deaths niarke 1 th.' rise in the men ury and the wi-ather forecasters saw little relief in sight in the neirt few hours. Fort\ of tho heat deaths (K-curred in the Impvrial vjTiley, where the popuplaticn ycS’ter- <lay was in exodus and reduc:*-! to those few who must remain :i tho fertile subsea level area. During Monday night torrential rains deluged Southern (’alifirnia mountain areas around .San (lorgonio mountain, which remained snowcap ped. The 25-day temperature average in the Imperial valley had been 108 Simpson Took Formal Typical Summer Wealher Pre- Remaining Eleven FharKe of County Office Tues-i vails To Aid Staple D. Roy vails To Aid Staple. Other day. Succeeds Ross 1). Younif. Crops In (iood Condition. c|uire Several Months Work. In I’hoenix. .Ariz., ,Nee<lles, ('a!., Taft, (’al., ahd Las Vegas. Nev.. there were 17 deaths from th<“ heat. The others were widely scattered. .\.-edl»s on lai^t Thursfiay attained a temper- he large amount of quick assets in form (if commercial paper which can Ik- im- van mediately t-opvt*rted into cash and this country for which will materially add to the 47, United States. {>cr cent of cash now on hand.” “Listen to thi.> Turning to agriculture. (d “Sou’h ( arolina gives it may be that learned and brought luick to use in the Southern forniallv took over the rain. though; .At thi he assert-1 tht‘ transcontinental raiiro; <ls e\erv evi-! com])lt*ted our grain flouJ«*d ‘lu tinu* were mar- dence t.f a bountiful yield of cotton, ket.s of the world, as Kus-ia’v grain i.> c rn and tohac«/>. as well as food stuff: now doing. Denmark was totally de-^ geueially. and with the greatest small pendtnl upon it.s grain crop. When thej grain crop ev«‘r harvesti'd in the n'arket state’s history shows that our agricul-! people tural interests have nut forth fheir bcil efforts to make South Carolina at least '^elf-sustaining." office Tues day and is now in charge of the coun ty’s financial affairs. Mr. Simpson had been in lhi“ office* for over a week checking iii) with the retiring treas urer, Ross I). Young, an I familiariz ing liimself with his duties. .Mr. Young, a native of Clinton, had was destroyed, the j fhe county as treasurer fur No use to fight jUventy years and six months, thus es- against such odds, with no natural re-u re< ord for tenure in this sources, bad climatic conditions, and''*fDce. Mis <'onduct of the office has everything against them. So they quit .f the V. S. Wi ath er for grain gave up. Weevils Increase At Alarming Rate trying. “And then what hajijiened? .Along comes a man- not a king, not a phi- '^anthropist with plenty of nnmey, but a nobody you might say — a mere I school teacher. Did he have a book ?! ■No. Any building? .No. Nothing but i been of a high order and merited thi* apjiroval of his sujierior officers. •Mr. Young, it is understood, will re- rhain in the office in an unofficial ca pacity f'lr a short period -issisling Mr Simpson and winding up a few details that might come up. .Mrs. 1‘earle .Ma- chen, who has la'cn a.ssisting .Mr. the local office bureau rejiorts. “Colton has made gmid progress generally and blooming and fruit ing freely, although Ihere is sonic complaint of drought,” the la _ adds. • “Co'im oil uitlands and in sandy soils shows the effect of insufficient mois ture, but the l(,w'land crop looks green and healthv, is of good si-/.e silking freely. “Tobacco, truck, gardens, and jiastuics have improved good showi rs have occurred. Old swe<>t potatoes are doing fairly well; plant ing of the late crop has practically ended. Laun'tis, July 26.—Work on the re-| eently awarded contract by the state j ature of 120. At Taft it was llh. highway department ty R. 13. Tyler| Utah had one death. In the Nirfh- and company, of Loui.svillc, for hilii-iwcsl it was coider yestoday, vic^l;a!- minoiis treatment of the iinpaved por-!ly tin* only region aTorded iepef. Fhc heat wave rolled across the Ri’ky mountains on to the olairis, hut K iti- sas (’ity's forecast g:i\'(' h *) (■ if r - I tion of the Laurens-I’rine(*t(in high way, is getting under way. The roai was relocated and graded last fall at a cost of alioul .$75,000. During the winter and soring, five miles of the 16 mile route were oaved from the '"it city limits to tile Charlie .M. Willing ham place. Now the remaining II miles will he ton soiled and surface treated by the use O'f tin* bituminous tyfie of highway improvement. It is estimated that the work of top soil-i gtneral, with ing the project will re<tuirc alniut t wo: exeeof ing in j \M e ; nort !.ei’ I Vi a ami IS lief. Lst night shower- for lep| * In 1II .M i os.n’ r and .\»*l)raska. In .New Kiiglaiii' ’’o teiepc-a'iire went to :i7 and one deatli n -ult 1. Dr the .Midijle .Aflantie states .iinl vs's*- ward to the .Mlssis^ij,|;i i tie hea* .v:i ; '■'lit e :‘ahli..toi i; (.' • ir.U I few eeiitt [S. forage wliere Andi^^i^*'tr for several years, is to continue f,d-,her dutie^s, it was the Mr. Simp.son. said yesterday by ('lemson College, July 27. — (’otton i.s growing and fruiting rapidly in all he called the Living Word, sect ons of South Carolina, but the here is what Gruntvig told his weevils are increasing at a greater pbw countrymen (1 am putting rate than the sijuares and bolls, says'wordr in his mouth, as I doubt if ne { Auditor .S. R. iHrrok and Sufit. of H. W. Barre of the experiment sta- knew the American slang which was j Education C. K. Brooks havg also re- tion, and adds that damage in many|thtn nractically nor-existent): jceived their commissions and have fields is already .serious. “ ‘Everything is against you, you j formally enterevl upon their new Examinations made by the station have given up, conditions too hard for teims. n H3 fie*ld.“ in eight coun’ies show in- you, whipped. Do you realize w’hat , festations ranging from ‘wo p<*r cent of blond you have in you? Your to 82 per cent, ai\ average of 16 per immediate forefathers, w'hen they cent infested squares in Bamberg wanted, to go my where, would get county. Union county averaging ten '^to r Vioj^t ne bigger than a postage per cent, and the other courules rang- itamp. If they wanted to cross one ir.g between these two extremes. TO (LEAN ( KMKTKUY .An all-day cleaning of the .Sardis montk,«. After it ha.s settled for a pe- In Canada, U'.im pe"- reii rti-l la.<t riod of two months, the surface treat-' night that a high windsto'-i'i, ram meiil can be apolied at the rate of a and eoid weather had consoii'l to mile a day. route the heat ua\e uhit h in hrec Th(* camf) of eorit raelors is located , days caused many farmers H.se^ near Hickory Tavern. The road equip-1 reaching thou'-arids of <|(dlais. merit consi.sts of about 10 ear loads ’riu* gale roar.d in from .Ni.ifii |)a- of machinery and so on. 'Fhe contract k(»ta and c ut a 25-ini!e swath, jp-oat bid was about $.58,000. The handsome | ing trees, batter ing building- and reniforced concrete bridge over Reedy qiouring hail iqion crojis. river at Tumbling shoals located on i The t'.wri of .Mowlnay, in .Manitoba, cemetery has been announced for .Aug.,(hj, Laurens-I’rineeton road, has la-en was cut off from the world bv ‘he made ready for the steel srian and it wrecking of telc|)hone‘and t<degriph is expected that the jeh wlil l>e com- ei]uipmeiit. Y'esterday I’icr-on, .'vl;'ni- 4th. .All interested are reriuested to l>ear the date in mind and conn* early with tools, prepared to help in tin* work. wa in many fields, the cotton is large enough to shade the ground thus pro tecting weevils that are developing .in the fallen scjuares. and under such con ditions the weevils are expected to in crease rapidly, then beginning general migration in the central and eastern counties within two or three weeks. Now is the time calcium arsenate these counties. Two or three applica-* these counites. Tw'o or htree applica tions at four-day intervals will protect the younger bolls during the next two weeks ocean they would do it, two oceans oi | ten oceans. When they got to where, they wished to go, if there were one- half dozen men to try to keep them from landing, they liked it and beat the dickens out of them; if there wen* (Continued on page eight) Auditor Ordered To Assess 5 Mills Laurens, July 24.—The tax levy for Five pounds of calcium arse-! state purposes will be five mills, ac-' nate per acre should be the rrtu^imum cording to a letter of instruction re-, amount per application, but four ceived Tuesday by Auditor S. R. Dor- pounds if applied properly is better, jroh from Comptroller General Beat- • tie. Mr. Dorroh announced the con-: I'LAY AT .MOUNTY’ILLE tents of the letter ye.«terday. NEXT TUESDAY NHiHTi Mr. Dorroh stated that he had re- iceived a letter from the comptroller “Here Comes Arabella,” a three-act'general earlier in ifhe year advising; ■musical comedy, will be presented | him to hold up fixing the levy for' next Tuesday night, Aug. 4th, at the state purposes until the situation as school auditorium at 8:30. and will in- to the special power license tax was' elude a well selected cast, snappy-: cleared up. In that letter, said the au- looking chorus girls and other fea-'ditor, attention was called to the pro- tures. The play is sponsored by the;visions of the state revenue bill by Ladies Improvement association of which the five mill levy, hitherto in Mountville, and is staged by the ^ force, might be reduced by the income | Wayne P. Sewell Producing company from the-power tax. In the last letter, of Atlanta, directed by Miss Frances;Mr. Dorroh said, the comptroller gen-i Teague. Admission will be 15c andjcral said that the suit instituted by | 25c. some of the power comnanies to test I the constituionality of the levy would Mrs. J. M, Pitts and Miss Emmie at least delay collection of the power Pitts were the week-end guests of the tax for some time and that therefore former’s daughter, Mrs. S. E. Evans.jit would not be advisable to count on in Laurinburg, N. C. jit for ths year’s income. ARE YOU SELLING GOODS OR JUST LETTING PEOPLE BUY “Of course we the new.s- jiapers.” That is the an.‘-wer which the majority of live merchants give when they are questioned regard ing advertising policy. Of course they use the newspapers, They may or may not use other pub licity methods, but newspapers are fundamental. There is a reason for this, of course. Newspaper reading is a daily habit in every home. And there is no guess work regarding the number of people you reach. There is no expense in maintain ing a mailing list. The cost per family reached is lower than any other form of advertising. The -subject of newspaper ad- verti.sing is particularly import ant right now. You want more business—yes, sir, you certainly do want to sell more gocKJs and there is a big difference between selling goods and letting people buy go<)ds. When public psychology is highly optimistic, sometimes they buy goods without .sale.smanship. When the public feeling is not (juitf* .so (>[)tini'stic, people need to le j'ersuaded. Th(*n it is neces- .«ary to do more than merely list an item and to give its price. M'S i.s necessary to add a few chosen words which make the item seem more than attractive more de sirable. Good newspaper alvertiis- ing ha.s a sense of .s<;ll. If you ever rode a hicy: le in the old days, you know that when ever you came to a hill the only way to g( t iin that hill was to pump a little harder. Nowadays some of us have to pump a little harder in our advertising to make the business speed we want—but , it is certain that if you are will- inig to put forth the sales effort merchandise can be moved from the shelves. And newspaper advertising pulls just as well as it ever did. Don’t let anyone ever tell you anything differently. But adver tising must reserphle .salesman ship in that it must Ik* really per suasive and convincing. Of course you want new'spaper advertising as an ally which will help you hold up your sales vol ume. Let’s talk over the details. THE CHRONICLE “The Paper Everybody Reads” Ifilctcd early in .ScnU'mber, The cost I toiba, fcgisl«Tc<i |(i| flcprais, Caiiiia of this bridge project was about $41,-i hottc.-t spot. In .-omc section- •'!* (MHI. 'I'hc Laurcns-Hrnccton road is. the average. 'state highway No. 15, and intersects' jat I’rinccton with the Greenville-Ware ' .Shoals (Irccnwo(,d highway. School Head Goes To Utah Negro Drowns In Freshet Hole by ■ft yc.s- I'tah, Dr. B. O. Whitten. a:‘cumi)anic< his daughter, Miss .Mildred, i( terday for .Am(*riean Fork, where they will snend the next months. Dr. Wh itten. who has held the po-jhour sitiori of .‘■unerintendent of the State i man SIX c l/aureiis, .lulv 27. .1. W. Thim : -in, 1 l-year-(dd .Negro boy. wa< (irovied this morning while -^winiiniiig in ,i n- eenfly washed out hole. >'x or -.-ven feet deep, in a sticain aliout hi'*' :i mile west of the I.akewood el.■!tl',• 111), on th(* Lauren.s-( linion h;g’W'i’.'. The body of the lad was iceover,* 1 a*; later by W’illie Y oung. N ■•gr'i of the eommunitv. v ho ha; irir- : Training school of this city, sinei* its j establishment, has been granted a ried to the scene of the trag<-iiv v. h-n he heard the cries of the three ■ ur.- special leave of ahsenee by the State | panions of the Thomp.-:on boy, a- they Board of Huhlie Welfare at the recjuest helplessly witries.se<l the Ik'v .-‘-ug- |(,f officials (»f Utah to direct the or-'gk* and go down in the murky vv I'er ganization and e.sta'blishment of a sim- Th-* dei'p pond, located al a cu ei- ilar .school in that state. The request thn ugh which the flow of the Itrin h comes as a comiiliment to Dr. Whit- pas.sed, had been washed out by ‘hi- ten,,and hi.s friend.*- hi‘re wish for liiin swollen waters of Sunday nig'it. a most enjoyable stay while away for lowing heavy rainfall in the .se •’ >r. the remainder of the year. Dr. Douglas Here Next Sunday { Tho pulpit of the Kir-'t Pre.shyterian church will be (tceupied next .Sunviay' .According to the three l;:t:e wfu) were with Thumps in, fhc I was the only one of the uiiartiC .sessing a bathing stiit, and he eir the deep water alone, while the .>• played aroutul in *.he shallow -‘i nearby. >ys ter P ‘Ti**! ler- •am {morning by Dr. 1). M. Douglas of ('o- lumbia, former president of the Pres byterian college of this city. Dr. ; Douglas has many friends here who I will hear him with interest as he re- Union Service At First Presbyterian I The city union service next Sunday {turns for a visit to his former home. 1 evening will be held in the First Pres- Dr. D. J. Woods, pastor of the j byterian church. The pulpit w ill be ck-- chureh, is away on a month’.s vacation Icupied by the Rev. S. IL Bowles. A cor and his pulpit will be filled during!dial invitation is extended ail congre- thi.s period by ^isiting ministers. 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