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fJ.- %. ft • • THE CHRONICLE | I StriTcs To Be a Clean News- • 5 naper. Complete, Neway, • L and Reliable. • A A (HUntnn OIhrontrb If Yon DonH Read THE CHRONICLE Yon Don’t Get The News. VOLUME XXXI i CLINTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23,1931 NUMBER 51 Pringle Copland Claimed By Death Popular Business Man Passes After Four Days Illness. Fun eral Wednesday Afternoon. --- --- CHRISTMAS IS AN ARMISTICE By ROY L. SMITH Member, Riwanis Club of Minneapolis, Minnesota / George Pringle Copeland, well- known and popular Clintonian, and member of one of the city's widely connected and beloved families, passed away early Tuesday morning at Dr. Hays' hospital. Mr. Copeland was tak en ill Friday and underwent an oper ation for appendicitis. r.omplications developing later soon revealed that he was a very sick man with little hope held out for^his recovery. .A.« the news of his death spread over the city yes terday it came as a great shock, bringing forth expressions of regret on all aides. The funeral service will be held at the grave this afternoon (Wednesday) at four o’clock, with interment follow ing in the family burial ground in the 'w ^ ^ '»w w Christmas is an armistice! For three hundred and sixty-four days we have been worrying, fight ing, working, competing, struggling, rushing, grabbing, .scolding. Our nerves are on edge, our brain is in a whirl, our soul is in an agony of dis couragement because of the depres sion. Then comes Christmas! It may seem strange, but the banks are all closed. Overdrawn accounts can wait. The stock market is quiet. No ticker tape, no bedlam, no sui cides. The courts are all adjourned. No one is suing, no one is trying to recover damages, no one is starting trouble. The sforfs and markets are all closed. No one is trying to make money. The board of directors is not meet ing, the agitators are not haranguing Presbyterian cemetery. Active pall-, - - , bearers will be: Horace Payne. J. street-oar motormen and telephone girls, for the most part, art* working o^ half-time, there are no “extrA*.” Jacobs, Jr., J. J. C-ornwell, Joe H. Phinney, Willis and Paul Clayton of Central^ — Mr. Copland was norn on Pel^ru- ary II, Itii*?, a.son of Mr. and Mrs. (Jeorge A. Copeland of this city. For his entire life he had been associated with his father in the(r farming inter ests, and a few years ago following the death of Jas. R. Copeland, ho be came half owner of the well known local firm of G. A. C-opeland & Son. He-waa aisAdratf nwTier 1n the Young- Cc.peland Poster Advertising service covering a number of counties in this section, and was the active manager of this coircem. He was also the larg est cotton buyer on the local market and was highly esteemed by the farm ers of this community, always giving them the highest market price fot their product. Mr. Copeland was a member of the Presbyterian church and a graduate cf Presbyterian college. During the World war he was enlisted in the navy with headquarters at Charlrt- ton. / Mr. Copeland was one of the city’s most successful and promising young business men. He was a man of sound judgment, conservative always, and a hard worker. A man 6f the highest integrity, honored by all who knew him, he was worthy of thn high trust that was put in him hnd filled every place with characteristic efficiency . , ... and loyalty. He was 34, and would William have passed his 3r>th birthday next (»^hs MeAdoo said today on his re- turn from a visit to New York and iPOSWiainn. iwih inii ifsa .airTiJifc of the world For one brief day we stop in our mad race for power and give our selves a chance to enjoy the great simplicities of life. The politician spends his day at home, the general manager takes dinner w’ith his family and the corporation president imper- aanaiiis a prancing horse witb a shouting grandson upon his back. For one brief day children come into their own. The whole household moves away from its usual adult- centered life and puts “a little child in their midst.”- Most of the prolilems of society, business and 'government would be quickly .solved if the first question settled was the ••'.rhts of the children. For one brief day wj v'sh our cotk- petitors well. Under tv® spell of Christmas warmth and kindliness we forget our animosities, dismiss our grudges, soften our creeds, expand our sympathies and invite our souls. We discoveY that life’s greatest joys come, not through getting but by giv ing—not through spending but by sharing. And everywhere there is light! From millions of little trees the sparkling ornaments transform som bre surroundings into samples of fairyland. From millions of eyes, dull through trouble and burdens, a new light of happiness shines. Faces that have worn nothing but the .mask of care are now lighted up with smiles of deep joy. If some man from Mars should visit us on Christmas day he would not recognize us as the same people he .saw last week in the working world. We are not the same people. Christ mas has transformed us. It is not the gifts that came to us that made the difference. Few of us are arfy richer on Chrisltnas day than Hoover Credit Plan Scored Michigan Senator Would Perma nently Sidetrack Construction Corporation Idea, bank balqnce can declare. Few of us are more famous, power ful or wiser l>ecaus*e'of Christmas but we are happier. We have not been elected to office, exalted to power nor schooIo<l in scientific formula because of Christmas. For one brief day we laugh and live. We- find the deep satisfaet-hms that generosity, simplicity, faith and love can give. We feel our lives grow in interest and our confidenee in the goodness of the universe deepens as the Christmas spirit takes pos.session »)f us. After three hundred and sixty-four days of eyn’eism, anxiety and bitter ness we eome to Christmas and for one day we really live. But Christmas is only a day. When will we learn to make the armistice a permanent peace? Washington, Dec. 21.-—Plain-spoken James Couzens of Michisran. today put forward a new plan‘for helping the railroads and asked that Presi dent HoQver’s ideas for emergency aid to the 'caTTiers be permanently side tracked. The chief executive has urged both senate and house leaders to hurry through his proposal for a ^500,000,- 000 reconstruction oorporation, point ing out it would allow emergency loans to the haras.sed railroads. The Michigan senator disagreed sharply with this proposal and with characteristic vigor he waiv<*d a copy of the transportation act of 1920 be fore members of a sub-committee of the senate banking committe<‘ as he urged that the law be rwnacted. That statute, which helped the roads out of their post war difficul ties, provi(le<l the loans from the treaRury to the lines on the approval Amazing Unrest Seen By McAdoo Former Treasury Head Says Po litical Revolution Next Year Likely To Take Place. ^ Form Taxpayers . Unit In Laurens iL Ft February. A man of maiyt^elightful and admirable traits, ever\yn5>^our- teous, gentle, loyal and true, he made friends easily, and having made them, kept them. ^ Mr. Copeland is survived by his w'idow, before marriage Miss Fkina Clayton of Ontral, qnd a small son five years of age, George Pringle, Jr., by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George A.' Copeland, and four sisters, Mrs. J. F. Jacobs, Jr., Mrs. Horace Payne, Mrs. J. J. Cornwell and Miss Ellen Copeland, all of this city; and by a wide family connection in this com munity. Work Is Begun At Silk Mill Washington, that he found evidences of an amazing amount of unrest and discontent under the crust.”* He added: “I do not think it is at all unlikely that a political revolution may occur next year, that may sweep both the old parties to one side, because there is a deep feeling among the people that the national conventions of each State League Officials I*reaent To Aid Orjoranization of Coun ty Group. Ix)cal Men Named. New Laurens Industry Exp^ted To Be GoinR At Full Pace In Six Weeks. f ■pf' '4 I I^aurens, Dec. 18.--One section of [the new silk mill at I.aurens was put ; in operation this week, thus opening I an important industrial plant here by the Kattermann-Mitchell company of Passaic. N. J. For the I.aurens unit, machinery is being sent from the home headquarters and is being in stalled as rapidly as received. W. B. Bolling, superintendent of the Lau rens branch, has taken up his duties here, having been transferred from Stanley, N. C. The silk factory here occupies the former braid mill building which was of the major parties are dominated by intiro.sts that are oppo.sed to the Wel fare of the masses, and that it is time for the masses themselves to take the remedy in their own hands by put ting somebody in the White House who will see that they get justice and a fair deal. “I don’t know how widespread this feeling is, but I got evidences of it in quarters where it was least to be ex pected.” / Thj former secretary of the treas ury under President Woodrow Wilson said he did not have much to say About politics on his eastern trip, a.'j he was busy with legal matters, but he heard a lot. . I/Burens, Dec. 31.—A I/aurens coun ty unit of the Farmers and Taxpayers league of the state was organiz<*d here today at a very well attended meeting held in the court house and presided over by W. L. Gray. J. K. Breedin, Pierre Mazyck and Jack I.ane of the state league, were pres ent and assisted in the organization. Mr. Breedin explained the obje<'- tives to be sought by organized ef fort and stres.sed the necessity of re ducing governmental expenses. Dr. W. H. Ihal was elected president of the county unit; J. C. Owings, vice- president; Charles F. Fleming, sec retary-treasurer; Dr. R. E. Sadler of Clinton, state executive committee man; with the following township \^committeemen: Jack H. Davis, Hun- is ier; W. J. ilenry. Jacks; J. Ben Hun ter, Scufflftown; W. C. Cook, Youngs; C. B. Owings, Dials; Richard 0. Sul livan, Sullivan; J. (!. Smith, Water loo; Mason Hill, Cross Hill; M. L. Smith, Laurens. Sion. Earlier in the day. President Hoov er hn<l called the members of the sen- aU* finance and banking committees to the White Hoase to urge again the nj'cessity for (piick pas«ago of the re construction corporation measure, de- s'gneil to provide a rps<*rve of fluid ore4Tt -far He was assured that the hill would receive quick con.sideration after the holiday recess. Whether the Couzens proposals might mean delay on the corporation measure was not immediately appar ent, although there was a suggestion that the 1930 transportation law be written into it. The transportation statute would hate to be reenacted because it in cluded a two-year time limit for fil ing loan applications. Senator Couzens pointed out that $314,000,000 still remains in the re volving fund creaU'd under the 1920 act and that would become available for loans to the railroads. The Michigan senator is a power in railroad legislation through his post as chairman of the senate interstate commerce committee. His suggestion cameras Daniel Wil lard, president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, had said there was ma terial need for the reconstruction measure and ha<i descrilH*d the plight of the carriers. The railway executive said the car riers have “more than a billion dol lars of swurilies coming due in the next three years.” His own company, he said, has $43,- 000,000 worth maturing next year To go into the open market for the money under present conditions, he contended, would involve a “regret table burden on the cost of tran.spor- tation” owing to high intere.-it rates. “It is unnecessary,” .Senator Cou- zens asserted, “to load upon this now board the complicated task of dealing with the railroads when w- already have competent agencies set up to deal with them.” TAKE TWO DAYS Calcote Accepts Call To Newberry Newljerry, Dec. 18.—The Rev. C. A. Calcote, pastor of the First Presbyte rian church of Jacksonville, Ala., has accepted the unanimous call extended him by Aveleigh Presbyterian church The banks of the city will be closed h'riday and Saturday in observance of the ('hristmas holiday season. of Newberry- and it is his desire to owned by a local building organiza- move to Newberry as early as pos tion and was remodeled for the in stallation of the new plant machinery before being sold to the Kattermann- Mitchell company. It is expected that the new enterpriit will be running at full capacity within six weeks. Mrs. Raymond Pitts is, spending the holidays in Sumter with relatives. sible, certainly not later than Febru ary 1. The Rev. Mr. Calcote is a young minister of outstanding ability in his home town and in his presbytery and will make a great addit^n to th? town of ,Newberry. He sucijeeds the Rev. Marshall C. Dendy, who recently re signed to accept work at Gainesville, Ga. Today’s Paper Day Eaurlier THE CHRONICLE, on ac count of Christmas, is being is sued a day earlier this week in order that it may be in the hands of our readers for Christ mas Eve. The change is also made for the benefit of mer chants and business concerns whose advertisements appear i.n today’s issue. Churches Packed For Services Throngs of Clinton p<‘oplo attendeil the Ix-autiful vesper services last Sun- <lay afternoon at five o’clock at the F’irst Presbyterian and North Broad .Street .Methodist churches that mark ed the advent of (’hristmas w(*<*k. Ro^h churches were packed to ov(*r- flowing with lar"e assembled audien ces to hoar the impressive heralding forth nf (Christmas by well trainwl choirs that iierfectly rendered their interpretation.^ The churches were beautifully decorated and approjiri- ately lighted to add to the impress iveness of the services. The program at the First Presbyte rian church was under the direction of Mrs. J. F. Jacobs, Jr., choir direc tor, witft the choir and junior choir taking part in the beautiful vesper service. The special Christmas program at the Methodist church was featured by a white gift service. Miss Sara Knox of Cliffside, N. C., is here for tV.i holidays with her par ents, lAr. t-r d Mrs. t. R. K .ox. V \ u