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'I' \ » THURSPAY, AUGUST 20, 1931 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON. S. C. ■V'-f PAGE SEVEN f. Senator Smith Renews Suggestion To Reduce Carry-Over of Cotton And Divert Land To Other Crops Relief Of Farmer Looming As Issue Senior Democrat On Senate Committees On Agriculture and Man ufactures Would Have I’pwards of Eight Million Bales Taken Off Market At Present Prices. Producers Obligated Not To Grow Cotton In 1932 If They Participate In Plan. Expected To Become Important Business For Next Congress. Many Plans Offered. Senator Smith of South Carolina, chase price plus overhead charges. I ranking Democrat on the senate com- do not think it would take long to mittee on agriculture and forestry, as start the machinery in motion. Every well as on the senate committee on banker, not oply in the South but in manufactures, announced in Columbia this country, ought to join heartily in last Thursday a plan he had conceiv- this proposition. Of course everything for relieving the cotton situation, would depend on the signing of the by taking off the market at present contracts and the nature of the con prices eight to nine million bales. Washington, Aug. Ifi.—Troubles of Southern cotton planters. Western wheat growers and other farmers have raised farm relief from lower case t > capital letters as a prospective legi^lc.- tive issues four months before con gress convenes. As farmers harvest bountiful to sell them at the lowest pr FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 8th day ofj 'September. 1931, I will rend»*r a final WANTS for fho ame account of my acts and doing.s as Ad- poR .SALE-Pure Beardless Barley, ministrator of the estate of Marv t t -u j .i. ■ j j • .u rr- , , from wild seed or other gra n. loung, deceased, m the office of the « vi i u otn Judge of Probate of Laurens Tuunty, Phone 359, g-27.2p at ten o’clock a. m., and on the same|LO.ST — One pair of tortoi.se shell day will apply for a final discharge! g'la.sses. Return to The Chronicle »b(/ Nart ♦ crops Rhubarb Dumplings Wash and cut the rhubarb io inch pieces, and stew with little more than half its weight in sugar and just a lit- barred tie water. While it is cooking mix a i t.s in flour batter in the proportion of a pint 5 farm *’f flour, a half teaspooiiful of salt, ' Senator Smith said: “In the fall of last year I suggested a plan of removing the surplus of cot- generations, legislators and leaders are coming forward with vary- teaspoonfuls of baking jiowdi r 1 trac-t, Tbo rontra.-t should bo of f'"- "'li-’f. ' a nature as to make it absolutely bind-' The farm bmird, created ui I'JJS) ami '*5“P it by_the spoonful into the boiling aiid enforceable. It shbul^d $500,0(K),0(IO and broad frm my trust as .Administrator. Any person indebted to said estate j is notified and re(luire<i to make pay ment on or before that date; and all persons having claims against said es tate will pre.sent them on or before said date, duly proven, or he forever L. I). McCRARY, Administrator. 1931.—8-2T-4tc. cffice. Reward. Itp LOST—or strayed, one light bay mare mule, weight about 900 lbs. J. W. Donnan, Laurens, S. C. ftp LO.sT—A brown leather bill fold, con taining driver’s license. Return to Wm. Montjoy and receive rews^rd. Itc WANTED FOR SALE—Is. C. Smith real cheap. See E. H. Wilkes Furniture ("o. typewriter, Wilkes, at 8-27-2p NOTICE—All eggs from the Thom- ing late that this cotton is to be held until powers, is a center for discussion. Its .he fall of 1932. emergency proposal that one-third of the rhubarb, hot with The result is delicious, or without cream. Ei ',1 T« buy several hundred bush- ' els good sound brisht oats, at the ^ cotton crop be destroyed brought a new flow of relief di.scussion and criticism tvf its activities. Final rejection of its plan to plow ton in such a manner as to benefit the cotton grower. It was this: That the “I" Washington a few days ago T farm board purchase the surplus at <li«'ussed this plan with officials of prevailing jirices and store it on the farm board and the federal reserve' condition that the cotton pnalucers. 'TTte important question with would agree to sign legally enforce- t’nem was whether the cotton farmers able contracts that, if this cotton were would sign the contracts. I have no ■ . renlies from the IJ cover re-sold to them at the purchase price <l<mbt but what a sufficient number ;;;;!rto Uoni the sucgeltioil^^ in a year’s time with no charges ex- farmers last fall and winter would cept reasonable interest, storage and signed if the plan had been adop- ‘ ^roverncvs alreadv have insurance, they would agree not to ted n> tne ixiaid. frowned upon it. .Some submitted plant any cotton on land owned or "At the same time that 1 suggeste i ,.ounler-propo.sals. Two Democratic controlled by them. Of course the con- the plan last fall and winter, senators; Cai awav of Arkan.sas, and tract would not permit the producer and congressmen from the cotUm- Carolina, have offered or landowner to have allocated to him growing states expressed themselves designed to holster the low- by the hoard any more cotton than he heartily in favor of it, so we called a f,f ^-otton actually produced. meeting with members of the farm * , J. on wheat, corn, tobacco “The conditions now are more urgent hoard and laid the plan hetore jind fruits, in fact on practically ev- for such a plan than they were a year cimsideration. which, agricultural commodity, have stir- l^i«‘y ^ r.-.l ofw intcri-st in fiiniHTs' ills ill take eight or nine million, bale.s of ac-s “Suh.sequent to thi^ I was jitvited. b.v j tual spot cotton off the market at ^ olumhia Broadcasting system tq present prices provided the producers )*tate my plans over the radio and as would sign contracts legally enforce- » result from all over the , United able that they will not plant next year, States I rweived letters of indorse- the situation would be at once reliev- nient and within the past several ed. According to statisticians, we have weeks many letters have reached me practically a two-year supply of urging that every effort be made to American cotton on hand now an I in l lace the plan in operation. If the sight. If this surplus is thrown on the F>lan were carried into operation it market now it not only ruins the price Beet and Rhubarb Jelly , This is a fine relish to serve with ‘ the meat course. Take tHjual parts ( f young beets, boiled tender, and rhu- umler every third row of standing cot- sliced without pt'eling. ( 00k to- ton ar-jiarently faces the hoard a'< it gether until very tender, put through a sieve, then through a jelly hag. .Mea.suie the juice, an;l to a pint al low a jiound uf sugar. Heat the sugar in the oven, atid to the hot ju-e and cook five minutes longer. Tiini into heated glasses and cover when cold with para fin. riifhl price. Also several bushels of ffood wheat. Get our best prices on quality rscratch Feed, I^ayinR Mash, Dai ry Feeds, Cotton Seed Meal and Hulls. “Clinton’s Feed Store” I.O.ST A puppy bird dog, about 4 months old, white with yellow spots. Any informttion as to its whereabouts will he greatly appreciated. Phone 123-.I. Bill Abrams. FARMERS EXCHANGE LOST A black hand hag. between ('linton and barbecue stand on l..au- lens road. R{‘war(i. Return to Wm. .1. Henry, Jr., ('linton, or .Seneca Jour nal, Setu’ca. Itc I ■5 I Rhubarb and Orange I'ut the rhubarb in sh irt lengths an cuver with sugar for an hour before cooking. Then cook in a double-lioiler, with the juice one orange stiueezed over it, and tio water. When tender T. J. Blalock, Mjjr. Clinton, S, C. not only ruins the price 'would automatically dispose of the as it has done for this year, hut will surplus within a year, give t.Ue cotton leave a surplus destructive of cotton pHslucers year of diversified farm- discussion of the 'e«pializa- tio.n fix* and the export debenture plans came last, week through an nouncement that the American . Farm Bureau F<*deration ac'^ain would throw its weight behind hte fee principal of mestic relief on fhe grouiul that present farm 11* legislation is inadequate. There also have he«*n .suggestions for a rium’’ on farm debts. Sardines You have no idea how many varie ties of sardines are to he had at the large gnveery stores. There are do- sardines from (’alifornia, sanlines with and without bones. .Sardines that are both skin- morato- and boneless, sardines in oil and sardines in tomato sauce, sardines in FOR RF.NT- F'ist flo(»r aoartment on .South Broad street. Five rooms, bath, breakfast roi ni, garage an 1 large ganlen. Also thia-e-rooni apart ment on second floor. Occupancy .Sept first. Phene 373-W. .Mrs. 'w. H. Smith. tf We wish to announce to the people of ( linton and vicinity that we have been very fortu nate in securing: the services of Mr. Al^ie Bobo as our represen- FOR RENT OR SALE — Ten-room dwelling hoii.-^e on ,Musgro\e street, HCiw,, frmii Avalon, formei lv occu- plwFfiV■ wmitri l»ed rooms, living rotim, parlor, din ing rodiYi, kitchen', two bath rooms, two halls, ample eloset and pantry .space, front and ba’k [loivh, poultr.v house. Fully screened, in gixxl state of repair, recently remodel.d. Rental ^ Senator Reed. Republican, of Penn- ti'i in and sanlines in wine sylvunia. has ailvocated almlition of from France. Then there are , .the farm board. Indication that the t^ardines from Portugal ami .sardines . . prices for many years to come; but if mg without cotton and an opportunity (],.ange will urge adopti.in of from Noi-way, and for sandwiches and and dry cleaning, dTcinjf, etc. the farm hoard or a holding company ‘>f recouping some (»f the los.ses that ,i,.iH.ntiire |)lan and ttie favorable appetiz<-rs there is sardine jiasle lha, can take this cotton on the agreement are now inevitid)le.’’ nttitu<l(> of sunie Western Repu'.ilican ct'incs in glas.s jars and in tubes. Our prices are the low’est con- that it will not be duplicated and tht I $3,").0(1, payable in advance. .Sale price $■1,300.0(1. financed on easy install- i merits if desired. Wm. P. laeivbs. teb*- (ative, and will be Rlad to have phones 23h or 222. < lintmi. s. ('. tf yen call him for your laundrv; pro<lucers Ik* given the equity in it a.s above indicated it will be eijuivalent to the produ<*er making a crop or hav ing a crop already made and in the warehouse without the cost of produc tion and with no costs except the pur- )().\NN.\ MILL NEWS t. 1 .,1 Th;' Mrs. Y. T. I’hillips and son week-eml in (luntersville. Renew Your Health Purification Craft spent by Any physician will tell you that “Perfect Purification of the System is Nature’s Foundation of Perfect Health.” Why not rid yourself of chronic ailment.s that are undermin- ■Mr. and spent last Ala. Mr. and Mrs. (b-orge last week in Greenwood. Mjs. Hattie .M^d’ullough and ehildren visited friends ip ('linton last week. .Misses Jeanette and Elise Dickey visited relatives in Blackstock last w«*<*k. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Tboma.s and Wil liam Thomas visited relatives in ('hes- ter and (’harlotte during the past attitu<i(‘ of Sana* Ws'sK'iai Repu'.ilican congressmen towani it may mean an airing of the whide farm reliid ques- the next congress. 1 farm board may comy iiialer direit attai’k when tla- names of .'^am H. Thompson and Frank h'.vans. newly apiMiinted member.^, aie presented to the s4-nati‘ for confirmation. There is one other boai'd va‘an y * existing. (lovernor .Miller of .\lal*aina, vesti-rday winal S<‘cretary Hyd«* of the agriculture dejiartinent, asking his support in the appoint merit ot a “re.l1 .Southern Inadi'r’’ to that m- eancy. Legion And G. A. R. Are Hit By Report -ii.stcnl with Rood work. Another Shipment of Sterling Silver Just Received ('arneeie Foundation President Raps Soldier OrRani/ations On Pensi( n and Bonus Activities., ing your vitality? Purify your en- week. tire system by taking a thorough course of Calotabs,—once or twice a week for several weeks—and see how Nature rewards you with health. Calotabs purify the blood by acti vating the liver, kidneys, stomach and bowels. Trial package, 10 cts. Fami- V package, 35 cts. All dealers. (Adv.) Mr., few Clinton Realty and Insurance^ B. H. BOYD, Agent Representing Several of the Country's Oldest and Strongest Insurance Companies. Office: Second Floor National Bank Building—RiMim No. 6 Telephone No. 6 Residence Phone 107 Mr. and Mrs. Ma.son Rowland, and Mrs. .Sloan Rowdaml sjient a (lays last week in Walhalla. Miss Eug(*nia Brazil sjient the pa.st week in ('olumhia. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Turner, Mrs. J. H. Turner and children attended the .Newberry college reunion at Little .Mountain Friday. Mr. and Mrs. W I Mrs. Lee Thomas and Miss H<‘Ien Th.mas visited relatives in Forest City, N. ('., during the past week. Misses Nellie and E<lna Hamm siH'nt the past wei*k with their sister, Mrs. Walter Wright in .Spartanburg, Miss Doris .Abrams spent last week in Lyman. Mr. and .Mrs. Gradv Gokb'n vi.-‘’*<d DOCIC MORE FIRST AID A small boy isn’t worth a cent that doesn’t try to eliriib the shade tree in J. Thomas, Mr. and the rear lawn once in a while. Natural ly he may fall in his effort to get somewhere that he doesn’t belong. H" may tumble from his trieyele in an uri usual spurt (if sjieed. He cuts his scalp; it bleeds something fierce; hi runs to mamma howling for first aid. Don’t fear fracture of the skull from a trifling injury. Don’t fear bleeding to death. Wash the vvoum: PAINS QUIT COMING .Mr. and Mrs. P'. Chrystell in (’halta nooga. Term., last week. Mr. and .Mrs. J. (I. Franklin and childien visited relatives in .Sj:artaii- hurg la.^t week. .Vliss Millie ('ole is visiting her aunt Mrs. Tom Dunnaway, in Colurnbbi j Mrs. R. L. League and daugbte •. Mary, of Greenville, spent several [days last week with Mr. anad .Mrs. P B. Mitchell. ''When I waa a gM, I suf fered periodically with ter rible pains in my back and sides. Often I would bend almost double with the ln« tense pain. This would last for hours and I could get no relief. .“Z tried almost eforj- thing that was reoomr mended to me, bat found nothing that would help until I began taking CarduL My mother thought it would be good for me, eo eho got a bottle of Cardul and started mo taking . tt. I soon tmprovod. Tbm had spoils quit eomiag: I was sooo la nonnal health.” -4Cfa J«w«l Banta Tszaa with clean soa{) and warm water, 111 ing clean things always. Dm’t po r periixide in a scalo wound a’ any ju’- riod. .After washing as above, pa nt the Wound with tincture of iodine; 1! smarts a little, but apiily. it freely. Dust freely with talcum p- wiier a'ld apjily a loosi* band-ige. Keep t!i:' wound dry until recovery. For a “crop” rtf chigger.^, gel at ’em early as possible, before they hav, Mr. and Mrs. .1. J. Clark, Sarah aer* bored in deeply, h’ir.stta scniblnri 4: Dorothy, spent a few days last v.cek with good soap and water; dry, and in Virginia. apply the bug-i-cide, whatever you Mr. and .Mrs. J. L. Delafiy returned have. I u.se a mixture of carbolic at id, Sunday from a two weeks vacation one dram, spirits camphor, one ounce, spent in Lowell, Mass. mentho’l twenty grains, and r ise- Miss Margaret Warren returneJ water, enough to make four ounces. Saturday after spending a few days This can be daubed over the lesion.s at WrightsviHe Beach. N. C. freely, allowing it to dry without w p- Miss Hazel Home and Richard ing off. Horne of Clyde, N. C., are spending Sunburn is not to Ik.* sneez(*d at- it the week with Mr. and Mrs. J. D. has been accompanied by big doses of -Odell. the ultra-violet ray—-a blessing in dis- Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Dendy have re- guise. The oxide of z.inc, a dram to turned from a visit to Mrs. Dendy’s the ounce of rose-water ointment, will former home in Savannah, Ga. soothe the imflamed skin in ^me. Keep Mr. and Mrs, P. B, Mitchell spent out of the fierce sunlight until well, the past wee-end in Greenville. For a child’s “busted toe,” bruised. .Nt‘w Yiirk, .Aug. Ki. A report which ranged from an analysis of the' coll«*ge senior as little wisi'r than the fre.slimaii, to a deminciation of the |M‘n.sion [xtlii ies of (he Aiiii-rican [.i*-| gion and the G. .A, K. was issued to-' day tiy the ('arnevie fonmlHtion for | the advari cmerit id t{*aching. 1 Henry .S. Pritchett, president of the foundation, in his section of the re port. (lei»arte(l from an analysis of the organization’s 2.') years of activity to (iiscu.'':s "patriotism, |>ensions and |K)li- tics.’’ He latielled as "nolitical colonels’’ those members of the G. .A. R. and American Ix-gion who worked for pen sions and bonus legislation, and said an ex-service man who accepted a bo nus or a pension, unlcs.s hi.s health or eariung cower liad lieen afecteil, has abandoteil his position as a p.itriot.’’ In disciisnioti of college students, the ri‘p()rt said the "ravages of forget ting” cause the senior to lose, (‘ven before re eiviiig h:s shee|)skin. much of the knowledge he has a •qiiired. These conclusions, made public to day, were based on answers to an ex amination jjiven by the foundation to 1 (),()(»(( sliiiierits in Penn.ylvania col leges. rile graduate was pictured in the findings as a person who had reached the {leak of his knowledge in many subjects in his freshman year and had added few if any words in his vi.cahu- lary while in college. "The college senior recognizes only (’ll out o*" KM) words in familiar use by educated persons,” the report .said. “The effect of college on the word supply of the ordinary student ap- {ears to be almost negligible and in some cases positively injurious.” GREENWOOD STEAM LAUNDRY “Jiisl (Joed Work—Thal’.s All” A Jr it* Hohq, Local ARent Rhone 181 Lowe.sl price.s within seven teen years. Now is the time to fill in those lonR-wished-for pieces. 41^, Won’t you visit our store and see our .splendid assortment. It will he a pleasure to show you. iraflim FRONTIS Jewelry Store Clinton. S. C. EVERYTHING IN SCHOOL SUPPLIES Book Fillers in tubes and bottles Scratch J'ahlets Lead Pencils School BaRs Book Straps Comhination Fountain Pen and Pencil Sets .■)() Sheet Note Water (’olors Paste and (JIue Wax (’rayons Composition Hooks (luick-dryinR Fountain Pen Ink Pencil Sharpeners IliRh School Dictionaries Stafford’s Ink Blackboard Frasers (Jonstruclion Shed Books Pencil Boxes, complete With every tablet purchase, we Ri\e one lead uencil with eraser. PC each, or oBc dozen 1 for 5c, 2 for 5c, 5c each 25c, 50c, 75c and .SI.00 5c and lOc oc 5c 5c 5c, 10c SLOO 5c and 10c and 10c and 10c 10c, 2.5c 15c 5 c 98c bottle and 5c 25c 10c to \ou free. 10c 50c GALLOWAY-McMILLIAN BOOK STORE : Legion Head Denies Charges Portland, Oregon, Aug. 17.— Ralph T. O’.Neill, national commander of the American iK'gion, today branded as “erroneous and unfair” a statement attributed to Dr. Henry Smith Pritch ett, president-emeritus of the Carne gie Foundation for the Advancement irf Teaching, criticising the American Legion for its “intended raid on the Mr, and Mrs. A. D. Barron went to torn and bleeding, soak the foot in treasury of the United States.” Savannah, Ga., last week. Mr. Barron water with a teaflf>oonful of car’oolic “'phe American Legion never has in has returned but Mrs. Barron remain- acid—or formalin—to the pint. Make past, and in my opinion, never ed for a longer visit with her mother, the memlber clean. Then aoply soft future, ask anything that — dressing of carbolized or borated vas- or that will place an unjust NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS eline and wrap comfortably. fmancial burden on the country,” j MEETING And, 0, green apples! Colic. A big o’Neill said. ‘ The annual meeting of the stock-'dose of milk of magnesia quick. NVno objective of the jholders of the Citizens Building and would object to fifteen drops of pare- ^^on had been to get disability Loan Association of Clinton, S. C., goric for the pain ? compensation but that it never had 'will be held in the office of B. H. " ask^ a nension for able-bodied men. M0U At Att Drug Mfr—. ■.ml CARDUl « * Helps Womtw to Health Boyd, Sec. and Treas., on September ON FEDERAL JUKI Referring to the adjusted compensa- 3rd, 1931, at three o’clock, P. M., fos; tion bill passed by the last congress, the purpose of electing directors and For the fall session of United States O’.Neill said the bill was indorsed by for the purpose of passing on the pro- court, to be held in Rock Hill, begin- Legion only after it had been ity oi^e hundred dollars per .■’hare, ul- juror. C. R. Bobo of Gray Court, R. B. gaid, timate value one million dollars, and Childress of Laurens, and E. F. Cog- their I Take Tbadford*e BUde-Draogh; far OonetlpatSeii. IndifMtluo. and BlUoiieneee. isht Ml. posed increase of capital stock to ten ning Sept. 8th, Brooks Davenport of passed by congress. thousand shares, par value at matur- Laurens, has Tieen drawn as a grand “The only thing this hill does,” 'no i.s to allow veterans to borrow their own money at a rate of to transact suth other business as gins of the New Prospect section, are profitable to the government. may come before the meeting. petit jurors for the first week, and — ' ' B. H. BOYD, Sec. and Treas. Carlos Boyd, L. C. Barksdale and Carl IF IT IS A MAGAZINE OR NEWS- A. V. MARTIN, President. Davis, all of Laurens, are slated for PAPER "^HAT YOU NEED, SEE— interest « 8-27-4tc. I the second week. 1 JAMES W. CALDWELL,- New Fall Hats Light in weight and new in shape and color. All the New Shades. $g.OO DILLARD “The One-Price Store” fiyj M ii*! 11 i'l a 'll i M iiiili' ni y 1