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} } INTON CHRONH LE. CLINTON, a a THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1932 M- 'I" Leaders,Call to For Harmony Democrats Urge Parly Unity Ir | Piesidenitial C^paign. Inter-i " est Picklhg Up.’ Washin(rton, Ftb. 13. — foJ harmony wont up frem national Dom-'' erratic leaders here today, and the j 3i^32 presidential campaig’n pothered i raiunentum in new moves thradfrhod; the nation.- - The leaders of the new “aggress-1 ixe” drive for nomination of Governor | Roosevek of New York—now out in front—put forward- the harmony slo-' g:an after a new round of conferences : " on Capitol hill. ' The “harmony” call is apparen.l., the answer of the Roosevelt clan to^ ' the plea of Jouett Shouse, right hand man of Chairman Ra?kob of the na-1 Jional ccminiitce, for uninstructed del-1 (jrationa to the national convention. | .lames k. P'arley, counselor of U^KKSievelt and cha>man of the New* '^frk state Democratic committee, io ned Homer S. Cummings of Cqnnec- j t'><ut,,.in pressing the Ro<>.sevelt drive, at the capital. . [ l)t wn in Louisiana, however, the j sUiU^ central cf>mm‘ittee decided to n :xl an uninstru.ted delegation to the I >»moci atic convention. Governor! Sterling of Texas, declared for Speak-j ♦ r Garner for the nomination. Governor .Murray of Oklahoma, fil-1 ♦ d at the la^t minute in North Dakota in opposition to Governor Roo.'evelt He deteimined also to go into Ro<i»e- V.R territory' in G<*orgia, Oregon and South Dakota. The Republican presidential cam paign, mean\\’ine, was marking time. With the Hoover drive picking up in- (Kirsemerits from various state central .committees. The president and Sema- .lohnson of ('ajifornia, let^ the last da\ for filing in North Dakota go by. ,l(ihnson lemarked todajt: “I am not <’'i'.cussing politics at present.” He ha.s I ot definitely eliminated himself as a candidate. POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS M'^.VSHINGTON BORN FEBRUARY IJ, AND NOT ON 22ND; BIBLE SHOWS. Although February 11 i.s officially i the anniversary of the bii;th of George | tVashirgton, his birthday will not be j I observed until Febru-ary 22, the datejdidate for Magistrate of Hunter . et aside'for honorir.g the memory of j Township at Clinton, subject to the the great American. | result of the Democratic primary. Evidences of this chronological fact' \V. ROY PITTS'. • ' s g’ven in a Bible two icenturies old FOR MAGICTRATE I hereby announce myself as a can- which lests in a gla.*3 ca.se in the relic room at Mount Vernon. The Bible i.’ opened at a which bear.s the fol- ’ow'ing inscription: • “.A.ugustkie Washington and Mary Ball was rnarried the fith of March, 1730. “Gc'-rge WashlogtoTi. s^.n of j .Augustine and Mary, his wife. ' va.s horn the 11th day of Febru- I ary, 1732, about 10 in the morn ing ard was baptized the 5:h of I April.” I Immediately beneath thi.s in*crip- .... Ition i., pa-sted a typewrittea slip of I hereby announce myself as, a can- •iidaie for Magistrate of Hunter Township at Clinton, subject to the result \>f the Democratic ’prtmaiw. J. D. JEANES. I hereby announce myself as a can didate for Magistrate of Hunti^r Township at Clinton, subject to the re.sult of the Democratic primary. R. J. COPELAND. I hereby announce myself as a can didate ^for Magistrate of Hunter paper which .explaiivs why WarhinK- ^ I ton's birthday is now observed on B. K. rCLLER ; February 22. j “Tt appears that in 1752, 20 years j after Washintrton was born and while I the American colonies were still un- I hereby announce myself as a can didate for Magistrate of Hunter Township at Clinton, subject to the der Britoh rule, the Brilith parlia-''o'*'''' J. C. CANNON. All America is celebrating the two hundredth anniversary oi Gtorft Washmgton's birth this month. Above is shown the new national Masonic naemoTial named in his honor; ms birthpla^ which was recently re stored; his tomb, built according to plans laid down in his will, and Gflbert Stuart’s fanooua portrait of the First I hereby announce myself as a can didate' for Magistrate of Hunter Town&hip at Clinton, subject to the result of the Democratic primary. Fxd. P. LITTLE. ■•i i*» A Glimpse of Washington’s Human Side Student Body Snyder (Written for The Chronicle by Calebfa large and prosperous farm. Geo )rw Johnson Through Autocaster j Washington, at twenty-one h.nd reacn- ment made a change in the calendar and eliminated 11 days from Septem- ! ber of that year. This almc.st forgotten change was nece.ssary because the Julan calendar, till in u-se in England and her domin ions, was inaccurate and failed to measure the true length of the year. In its more than 17 centuries of ex- i«emd it had fallen behind II days. | Township at Clinton, subject Ca hol.c conntrtes 194 years pre-1 ,o»ult of the Dembnatic primary, viously, nad made the nece.ssary cor-' p p r, pfirfuT ree’tion in obedience to a Papal bull of | ’ ’ ‘ (Gregory XIII, which ordered the elim-[ I hereby announce my.self as a can- [inatiori of 10 dates, the amount of the didate for Magi.strate of Hunter I hereby anneunre myself as a can didate for Magistrate of Hunter Service). J id his full height of six feet three and, ?on»e time, not hmg ago,intimates wrote, “had Wefford President Portrays the' accumulated up”to 1582. “Bard tf .Ivon" .\s .Manv-Sid alteration the calendar re I Spent looking up a lot of facts about George ' large.'^t hands ever seen on a hu- Washingtun whi<-h are not set doAii m ! being.” His complexion was fair, all the .s<-hool book^Sj^I got a n‘*vi’ im-1 burned brick-red by sun and pre.<.''!()n cf the Father of His C lunls-y "’ird; hi.s ha:r was fair with a .slight afte/ vi.siting Mount Vemtjn, ^hcre redili.'sh t nge. ,, , X, - 11 bt* lived Irom hfs youth until his I Thtoe i.sn’t much in the books about y. nators llarr.son nf .Mwslssipp., and | „f Alexandria, Washington’s life between the eml of ed Genius In Interesting Talk Here On Mondav. Town.«hip at Clinton, .subject to the result of the Derhocratic primary. JAMES Lr BROWNING. The dosson of life, a.« portrayed in the grea^sf intellectual genius ceived the name Gregorian. Religious differences weie so strong in those j days that Protestant countries would, ® hereby announce myself as a can not accept the .change and long con-' ^*^^^** for MagLstrate of Hunter tinued to u.-'e the Julian reckoning. j Township at Clinton, subject to the When this prejudice had been over-1 ^■<’»ult of the Denrocratic primary. »J ee, issued the plea.s for ” today after confer- world i has ever seen—Shakespeare H ill of Teniie.* .jiai'ty ‘‘harniony er.eo.s today with Cummings., Harrison H worker for Alfred E. Smith in 1928. He has not declared so far. He i-. regarded as friendly lo the Roose- t campaign. ainniings and Hull had a luncheon < • iferenee today w th ten senators f.-. ni ,the South ami Wed. inclu ling H )i;n‘-on of .\rkans^is. the vie'*-pi .si- de itial minin'.e with Smith in 11)28. R -hinson, tijo, is .«aying nothing ah lut <£ i<ii<lacies now. hai ey was busy (Air in the house M (1 the New York congressional del- ♦ gation. .A.’^kiHl if the state delegation \ *111(1 Ih* fo*" RfMiw'veit, he replied: “iNew York will l>e all right when the tone comes.” '' He predict^ the' nomination of Rwtj.sevelt on the first ballot. , Both Harrison and Hull ivferpeil to wheie h(‘ vva i 1 .ri ha-niess for' the French and Indian war and the jvery tactfully brought to the col- fifteen years. [htginirng of the Revolution, but^ lege - tudent.s at. a special chapel ser- The ideas that mon of us have of about thoseTifteen years ^between the I Monday,* Feb. 8, by Dr. Henrv Wa'*'' ng*')n a.’S a boy come fr-'m the:^"))'^ when he was 27 and 42 1 found! „ . . , ’ ..j ....i Tir.st book ab(jut hrm, written by Par-i records and a good many tradi-' • • .nydei, president of \N offord col-^he neeil of the change and feared son .Mason Weems ju.st after wh:ch irtierested me. dege. Besides being president of the they were being deprived of some- (leaUv The fables which it contained; He was 27 and on his way back to : MethovlLst college of this state Dr j There were riotous demonstra- the I come in England, and parliament, li^rgely through the eloquence of Lord ‘ hesterfield, had been suceesisfully 1 persuaded, there was a great protest from the uneducateil class, not so ■ much from religious prejudice, but* because many could not understand JAMES. H. SEAY. i^The fabl beciime part of the Washington tra-' Mount Vernon when he stopped off in Ij tions against the act in which the 'dition. It, was Parson Weems who told Fredericksburg, w'here he owned a ® lecturer of note, and shouted “Give us back our 11 the famous “cherry triV^story, to hou e hi.s Tather had left him, and of the Sijuth Carolina college presi-1 days!” Many thought that the H i prove that Washington never told a; met the Widow Cu.«tis at a dance. It dent.s. His manner of speaking corn- lie. That tory was prolmbly not true,lseenis to have been a ca.se of love at t.^' r.iJl convention, when Smith lind William G. McA^»o fought it out for n, re than ]0(| ballots. ■‘The l>i morratic party tasted the b/.ter pill of (lefeat in 1924,” said Hairison, “l>ecause of the intense ri- vj.'ry of the Candidate.s for the nomi- iiat'PTi and the dt*ep-si.ated hatred.s en- -g^Tidrred in the intra-party conflict. Ttie party cannot affoixl, and, in my opinion, will Jiot jiermil, a repetition of the political fiasco.” Senator Hull, who is actively en- r.'llc 1 in the RoHOiH*yeR movement, is sued a statement, saying: **This year the Democratic party n:.i.st not return to the eonditioius of 1P24. when on ai'count of grouji an- tagoni.'^.ins, divergent views cla.-'h n Mile red helpless to function. but it was one of the stories which have made most Americans regard him as more like a marble statue than a man of fle.^h and blood like the re.st of u.s. From all 1 have been able to gathj er, George Wa.«hington was what we held his audience here Mor first sighU and they lost no time get-j ^ ting manre^l.. Martha l>andr;dg«‘ Cus-: tis was 2G, 4ad two little children,! 'Snyder took the humble .Strat- John and ‘Martha, and a hundred ford )H‘asant and proved in every way eliminated days would not be deduct- ! •d from their rent. Some even sup- po.sed that they were losing 11 days ^ out of their lives. ' | The British parliament hail in fact j made careful nrovision in the act thou ard dolSirs. A wife’s money be- that he was truly a genius, but also | ^8:iin.st landlords taking unscrupulous lungud tu hdf hasband in ihoae days* ami with thiis capital George M^a.»h- -hat there minm a practical .side to the! ^vantage* of elMnge. TKe recsilt- man. From reading his works a doc-lalterations in the dates of cor of today might call a “regular fel-, irt^ton aas able to join the Fairfaxea tnr « bivi-vilr « and maturities was likewise Ic^ lovy.” He was a natural leader, to In* I U realifitate operations which paid!„_“ ^ ‘ " 8 sure, in everything he went into, but' i-hf’m all handsoimdy. The principal he was'Mot the cold, aloof in^iividual before whom everybody stood in si lent awe, that seme of his liiograph- i*rs have paintixl him. On the contrary, he was very decidedly a good mixer, a jolly companion, good company in any crowd, and a most enthusiastic sports- .-man.^—-.r— r ■ — - And that he wa.S a good bu3irH*ft8 man is |jroved by the fact that he was -Xmericu’s first miMionaire. He was venture jWas the development of the little .settlement of Alexandria into a » ts city. Lord Fairfax had built himself a town house on Prince street; George Washington built one diagonally across the street; which served not only as a town house when .he drove many other occupations might say that Shakespeare was a man of their 'n order to prevent gaily e’Stabli-'hed unfair practices, Hvc*r>’body’.s birthday anniversary profe.-sion, but that was the geniusi wa.s of course, affected. Some contin- in the man. He was but the son of ued to obsen'e the old date. It is said* English pea.'»ant.«, and yet he was still that George W’ashington, hy reason | consideriHi by the world as sts intel-'^^f sentiment, ‘contihued to observe lei'tual leader. It was his amazing'^^ throughout hi.s life, al-! knowledge oV' human nature that! legally recognizing February made him such an outstanding figure up from Mount Vernon, half a dozen ... ..... . , , . . — .i His ability to link his genius witn tne v*i Tv-rr**«.f mile.s away, but as an office from' • , ^ • t I,1N1 uN the richest man in the l'niU*d StaU*.s when he died, and he hail made mo.st of it by his successful ojH'rations in 'freal estate. We celebraU* Washington’s hirth- which to manage his increa-ring busi-1 P**^^'^'*** is astonishing ne s affairs. The Fairfax house stilj ! ^ of most men who stands-, but the Wa.shington house was claim the title of genius, was not one- bun ed years ago and only a tablet sided. marks its site. j Using the great writer’s w’orks as The Washingtons, George and Mar-1 examples. Dr. Snyder brought out I’ROHIBITION BALI,OTS ways in which Shakespeare treated life--life as exemplified by Jay (;n February 22, but in the calen-'tha, took an active part in the social three dar in u.-e when he was born at Poih*’s life oL the little colonial city. Here divergent vlew.s and _the j ^"»cek, V\ estmoreland county, Vir- Gimrge Washington was made a Ma- , > t ■ th ■ h ■»i *• •' t - • • 1 i of individual ambitions, 'll was|gioiH, just two hundred years ago it i .son. and tn the roongs of the old lodge,I ^individuu*^litv 'd^'^ V jalready been mailed from the 1 y, am in ivk uui \. r^ * i ^ distributed through was F'l'bruary 11th. In 17515 England of which he rose to be Master, I saw Those who attended the Cun'inlngs lu'icbeon today, tie.side.s Hull and Roii- ir 'i n, inclu.led Senators Bratton, New Mexico; F'leUher and Trammel, FRor- kia; Stephens, Mi.s.d.i-sijipi; Kendrick, Wyoming; King, Utah; (‘ostigan, ('ol- ai il the Engli.'ih cilonies aJojiU'd the modern calendar, and dropped eleven days out of the month of'Septeinber in that year, so that all anniversaries fell eleven days la.er. F'ew people bctherid to change their birth-dates many relics of his Masonic days, in cluding the actual gavel he once w'ielded. These Washington relies are now installed in the new .Masonic Me- iTwenty million voters throughout the entire United State.s are now be-1 ing polled for their opinions on prohi- j bition hy The Literary D^est, accoixl- ! ng to I)t. W’illiam W’oods, editor-in-! chief of the magazine. j (Minton’s allotment of ballots has i poll's spoke of examples in which the in-j^he local post office terpretation of life in the characters xhe first tabulate J returns .of t’le nationwide balloting will be publi-hed oiado; George, t'rcorgia: .Neely, West [and George Wai-hingitm never V.rginia. ^ In two (luy.s of luncheon conferenc es rumming.s has vi.sited .s<*nato»'iai n-pre-sentalives from ID state.s, in cluding ptincipally the South aial Wen. up n .New England friends of .\1- frid E. .S’mith are getting busy, (gov ernor Fily of .Mui.sachu.setts is prepar ing t<T car ry a campaigirTomie 19‘28 presidential nomiiii*e in both ))Ut after his death sinne wa.s as real as life itself. That was one of i^hakespeare’s arLs, and one of j late in February, it is stated, moriul to Wa.shington, on Shooter’.s i the thing.s that has made his fame' D.stribution of the postcard - bal-^' iites hill, in Alexamlria, where Thomas .lef-1“Character is destiny” said Dr.' ^ • did, [ftn n)n - wante(f-^r put t‘he I ‘fferi which are used in this “atraw' .-chool-teucher sort of |M*ople, the kind : , . ,,, , . • • . I Snyder, and stated many illustrations jhave been mailed w.deiy precise- the LnitiMi States. Washington insist-j Shakesiieare. throughout the United States already, His Future? Will you handle it as awkwardly? F rom the moment that little fellow hrst opens liis eyes* he looks to you to see that life shall hold .no unnecessary handicaps for him—or for his iiiuiher. Without you—some day might be very awk ward — unless)’ou provide for their future with an >E/ru« Vamily lucofnt Policy mtiy \ —the moifcrnHorm of family protection. we tell you mbout it? S. W. SUMEREL, Agent Jacoba & Co. RuildinK Next To Western Unioa (€TNA-IZE a who arc always trying to set the world right, said that to continue to ed on building the city named for him on the Maryland side of the Potomac. “I own too much land around here. celebrate the lllh as W’ashingtiin’s i and would be criticizeil,” he said. a 4- Haiiip. hire and Ma.ssai’husetts. The F!B’'t w'ilh. it.s big-vote states birthday would be all wrong. He was|- The ancient recard.s and traditions dead b>; then and nobixly el.se cared,! of Alexandria reveal that Washington so it got into the school books as the wa.s’ a “joiner” in every sense of the 22nd. j word. Besides the Masons, he belonged Washington, Clinton Hi Teams Lose Double Bill ! an announcement states. Flach ballot is said to be strictly se cret and requiris no signature and en tails no cblbigation on the part of the voter. Return postage on each vote is paid by the magazine. Different from j other prohibition polls conducted by ard the .Middle West sti’.l remain the Hunter’.s crqek, which was later nam-,the young business men of the town , _ , I literary UiKext.'the b.ll,>'l has' Geoi ge ' to the local fire company, was captain ‘rtiboT Tost a double bill. The boys ^^^jy aucsions* i lost to the Newbe-ry boys, 22-20. The! i‘ iv, vmi futtxxr tu. • 1 I * a a. on. 11 7. i 1. t>o you lavor the continuance of girls lost to the Thornvvell orphanage eighteenth team, 29-15. 'ment’’ The bjiys’ game was close and ex-1 2. ivi'hyou favor Augu.stine New^j father, died when he was eleven, and of the militia coniirany, and one of he went to live with* his half-brother, ,he most popular figiii'es at their »o- Lawrence Washington, at h’S farm on ial events. In the old tavern, where batt’e grounds for the Democratic 1 ed Mmint Vernon, after Admiral Ver- gathered for tedive ix’casions, is the i first half (prohibition) amend- ' i a repeal of the C(>n est. Roo.*evelt workers are active in I’ennsylvania. A decision by Smith leadeis in that .state is awaited. Governor Ritchie has hi.s .Maryland delegation and is gauging the Penn- 8^Jvania situation. • I The M arch 15.. primary in North iJakota is a fdei*-for-4ll on both sides. I i A- lo vr 1. (eighteenth (prohibition) amendment? 01,1. Clinton was leading, 12-10. Newberry ! -- non of the British navy, Lawrence’s tab’e whore he .sat with b’' boon . . . -. gr(*at friend, tksirge went to a little j pan’ins and where tradition ’la.s it, he 1 * rally to win. The high LOIKiE TO .school taught by the local minister often ltd the .ringing of popular dit-l^,^* Thompson of Newberry, wrth' MEET FRIDAY' NK'HT until ho was fiftiH*n, and whon ho was tios. His favorite was an old Flnglish 'points. Cooper of Clinton, was sixteen went to work. Law re net* .(mg' entitled “The Derby Ram.” If; with eight. Camohell I>odee No 44 A V > The girls’ game was not so cloro ‘ Joseph I. F'l ance of’Maryland, and Ja-'land than anybody else in America. Cob S. (toxey, mayor of S^s-silon, 0.,[ 'He hired young George to go out are entered for the Republican race. into the wilderness and survey the There are two slates of delegates, j boundaries of his property. Vor three however. One *ui pledged to Herbert [ years that work took him into the un- Hoover. Tl>e other is uninstructed, j explored country, clear to the Ohio , , ...^ _ . . . . Campbell I>odge No. 44. Wa-^hingten hud married a daughter * there had been such things as Rotary’| girts game was not so <^h>re. ^^,jjj regular meetinir Frida of William F'airfax who, with his and Kiwanis In his day George Wash-!started out with a jy brother, Lord Fairfax, owned more ington certainly would have belonged | but Clinton jrradually ci t j urged to be present in E. A. degree. Visiting hreth- PresanMtbly the latter would go for the winper of'lhe race between France and Coxty should H win. Roosevelt has the backing of the atate central committee in North Da kota. Murray is hU opponent.'' Carl P. Dunifon, chairman of the Republican state central conMnittee of river. He realized that land in the Ohio valley was going to be worth a great* deal as sopn as, roads were operl'T^rt^ lector. He was a great horseman a daughter * there had been such thing's as Rotarv’ and Kiwanis in his day C,eorge Wash-! ^ »»‘>rnweii started out with a strong'^- ^ ington certainly would have belonged | Clinton gradually ci t fkwj to them! 'down. Holland of Clin’ton, and - W'^rk in T * be a vestryman of Christ church bf Thornwell, tied for high score,' wa.s one'of the highest social distinc- with 1‘2 points. ^ tions in Alexandria, and Washington! Ghnton plays in Woodruff Friday held that office for many years. Whenj"*lf*'^ game •it home at Mount*Vernon he attended!^*’® Tuesday night, the little Pohick^church, of which Par son Weems, his first biographer, wa^ ren cordially invited. By order of W. M. V. P. Adair, Secretary. another boy on horseback down what is now King street and won by run- Couldn*t Raise Hand to Head from then on, whenever | and his favorite sport was fox hunt-! ning his horse into the river when the ance, he bought land in hen the W’est. It was be- was the only man in Vir- ing. His . diaries tell much about his j other lad pulled up. care for his hounds and are fillrtl with Inferences to his hunting horses and Kew Mexico* issued a statement here ( he got the chance to lead the colonists tiirodgli the Republican national com-1 against the French in 1755 knew the Ohio country that; adventures afield. Many of the preaent mittee dcj^laring for remimination of Piesidi^it Hoover. ^ ”1 am oonvinved,” he said, “that the ® Republicans of New Mexico Ifrdhgly . ^vor the rsnomination and. re-election PresfdeBt Hoover.” W’hen he was 19 his brother Law- streets of Alexandria run just as they were ori ginally laid out by George Washing- rence became ill and the doctors drt“\ton. The 'Kttle school which he built General Washington’s career from 1774, whenMve was caUed to Cam bridge to advise With the New Eng land" oblonists about an a^ed revolt against England, to his death on De- cenvber 12, 1799, is the part of history with which every school boy i« famil- Nevrltis Paint (Stepped Like Ma|i« 'toy Pail-forking Ru*Na*Ma Por eratsrtea pco- dered him to go to the West Indies, for the children of the poor, and forjiar. But somehow I feel as if I knew Gwrge went with him, and caught j which he left an endowment in his will,! Washington‘better after digging into smallpox in Barbados, which left his; still stands and is still a school, while! the story of his youth and young man- face pitted and scarred for the rest of ! a block of tenements which he built ir hood, especially those fifteen years :R10R to <rHE,CHRONlCLB his life. Lawrence Washington di^,! still occupied. There is a tradition that leaving George heir to Mount Vernon;| Washington* when in his teens, raced when he was in the real estate busi- ne.'S in .Vlexandiia. pi« hsvt ■ o «t a t iftWtMm Uwt VMild qokkly raUnt il>e NronWnf p*lisi of rhoumstim. nturliU P end huBbaio. If fim 3 doM of Ru-No-M« foil to do tbto vary thinc drussia vfll refond aionty. Don’t *©«• hop# put bocauM sll otbor nadicines tsUad. Ra - Mb • Ma £oniaias no optataa or narootlea—abaolutoir hanaloaa. Wby wasU Umo vtth aanhiiw that doosan atop year, pain, if Ru-HckiZ duaa tbat ym kaoW yoa via lat waO. ^ I SAOLRR-OWENS PHARMACY ”|F I got constipate, I would get dizzy and have swimming in my head. I would have very severe "headache. “For- a while I thought I wouldn’t take an3rthing—may be I could wear out the headaches; but I found they were wearing me out. *T found Black- Draught would re- iieve this, so when t have the very first symptoms* I take Black-Draught and now I don't have the headache. **1 am to firm be liever In Bltock- Draught* and after using it 20 .or more years, I am satisfied to contmue-its use.** —P- a. MsKkmou, Ormmgs Park. JTa. ' ^