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CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1932'
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number 20
CITY SCHOOLS NOW PRESENTING
INTERESTING CLOSING PROGRAM
Hi^h School Graduating: Exercises Tomorrow Evening With Ad
dress By Dr. McGlothlin of Greenville. Class Program and One-
Act Operetta To Be Given. Baccalaiireate Sermon Heard Sun
day Night By Large Congregation. ^
SOME SIDE-UGHTS ON GOLD
should be abandoned and
foreign balances gradually called
home. The other continenial central
Thirty-seven graduates will receive
coveted sheepskins at the annual Clin
ton high school commencement exer
cises to be held Friday evening* at
(Written for The Chronicle by Caleb reserves
Johnson through Autocaste**
'Service).
There hasn’t been a time since 18bG j banks adopted a similar policy. For
when there was so much talk about I obvious reasons, a substantial part of
gold and silver and their use as money j these foreign reserves had been lodg-
as there is in these days. We hear aied or invested in the United .'“ftsYtes.
justification by faith. ‘By gra^ arj^*T®«t deal of talk in congress and out- Their recall involved ec^uivalent ship-
ye saved through faith; and that not j sidVr^Lil^^ut gold reserves, and es- !ment of gold by the Federal Reserve,
of yourselyes; it is the gift of God; {lat^y about the withdrawal j which had always held itself ready to
not of ^wSrks lest any man shoujd i the United States to Eu- respond to such legitimate demands.
8:30 o’clock in the Florida Street
school auditorium. ' been begun in the heart, Paul then
IM W. J. McGlothlin, president of I a^^n^o’^’shes these Philippian Chris
deliver the literary address, after
which diplomas will be presented to
tha graduating class. Follow’ing is the
' program for the closing exercises.
Processional, “Largo,” Hardel.
■ Invocation—Rev. V. McK. Marlowe.
Salutatory—Hugh Holman.
Song, “Welcome, Sweet Spring
time,” Rubinstein.
Introduction of speaker—Rev. Ed
ward I.(Ong. J
Address before graduating class —
.Dr. W. J. McGlothlin.
CONFESSES TO
HUGE HOAX
John Hughes Curtis, Norfolk
Negrotiator, Makes Complete
Atlmission of Faking Scheme
In 'Lindbergh Baby Case.
Hopewell, .\. J., May 17. —An as-*
tounding confession by John Hughes
Curtis revealing his entire particina-
boast.’ But this work of grace having I rope-I Tbe reduction since September, in to- of°"the Lind*l^^r^^hs ^to bT
- In onei week lately $37,000,000 of tal “gold-e.xchange reserves” report-1 thriving city is filled with boost- ^ nr. a J'u- i
X ....o- KoW w’as shipped out of New York and ed by the European central banks, has ; boosters who so outnumber the) vel()i)mpnt<» tnnio-Kt ^
salva-1'^^ck to Euroi>e. But the alarmists who already ranged from one-half to , their knocking does not ^ j. excitement reci it t d
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DID YOU
KNOW?.
THAT—A town has no place fori*
the knocker; a knocker is hardly a!
man without a country, but his coun-i
try, his town, or his community hasj
little use for him.
There are all kinds of knockers—
as many as there are kinds of people.
V„r,nan iinivpr<»iLv UrP^^nvillp will ' ' ' • - . ^ . .
rioHvpr thp litpra^’v addrpss ’ after I I three-fourths of the aggregate sum •
The gift of salvation is of grace
through faith, but the good work hav
ing been begun jyou must now* take
the initiative, look to your own re
sources, rely more largely on self to
complete the good work.
“I see in this a striking parallel for
you young, ladies and' gentlemen of
m inaicacion mat rne inree-iourtns oi tne aggregate sum j i,..-.r *u
is losing its value,.at which they stood last autumn, and The world likes boosters. Some- lu /»*„ j *°u
is going off the gold, the reduction has presumably been suptr-enthusiastic, ■ i _ ' . i ^
Curope is scared to! largest with those which had been ca rather, over-enthusiastic is the better <• . ^ .• tv, ^
.. ...... wnrri D,,t ti,„„ „i .1 I lacis ()i his extorts, came these sal-
! American dollar
that our Country
standard, that Europe
death and is getting its gold out of ried in .\merica. word. But they are always enthusias- noint«-
This is the plain and simple story 1home town or the cause
this coui>try as fast as possible, don’t
know exactly what they are talking
about.
of the large gold shipments from New* "which they arc interested, and they
York since last September, and also
This matter of international gold |Of last week’s gold exports. There is
the graduating class of the Clinton reserves is really a very simple thing.
once it is explained. The Federal Re
serve bank and other banks, and the
nothing occult about the process and.
since the recall of these balances was
part of a redetermined policy, it can
Song, “Night in June, Offenbach- challenged the Philippians
^llss- ... to work out their own salvation, so
Valedictory-*-\Villis Mae Wilson. ^ those who have bestowed this free gift
Pre.sentation of diplomas
Harvey Witherspoon.
( lasis Roll " 'that has been begun in you. Hereto-
The li.st of this year s senior class, | have relied much on parents,
including nineteen girls an<l eighteen | teachers and fr^e in.struction, but ^
boys, follows; , ^ j from this tinie henceforth, no matter | held in America, ai^d its currency in
Girls; Rena Abrams, Nailnie ^oe j enter college, university, | its foreign trade uses.
are never to be found hanging around
somewhere knocking this and knock
ing that. No, a booster is not built
that way.
We must have these booster.s; they
art/ just as necessary to the successful
enterprise as daylight is to the earth.
Knockers are found everywhe’*e just
the same as the boosters, but, let us
all be thankful for it, the boosters are
always far aiway in the lead: Visuall.v
Adair, Catherine Blakely, Elizabeth
Blakely, Marguerite. Boland, Kather
ine Davis, Mary Howze Dillard, Fran
ces Jones, Ida Jones, Caroline Mar
tin, Copie Mct'rary, Agnes .Milling,
Ruth Nabors, Zona Norris, Jeanette
Pitts, Mary Emma Speake, WMllis
.May W'il.son, V’ivian W’oiwlruff, lone
Von Hollen.
Boys: Keith Adair, James Addison,
Drummond Bailey, William Bobo,
Marion Boyd, Hugh Buford, R. H.
(.'obb, Tom Cooper, William Dobbins,
Maxwell Ferguson, James Hart, Hugh
Holman, Ralph Kelly, Dillard Milam,
Millard Muiphy, William Bailey Ow
ens, Sloan Tivdd, David W’ord.
' Class Day Exercises
* On Friday morning at 8:45 in the
lilgh school auditorium, the graduat-
ing class will present its ^nnual class
day exercises as follows: ,
Hymn—audience.
Scripture reading — .Mary Emma
.Song, “VVeKome Sweet Spi ingtTlnie”
-—class.
— vVAiki me — t.'upie
dent of the elass of ’32.
Hi.'torv of the cl.aSs S’f ’12 William
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Bailey Owens.
Class poem - Elizabeth BLikely.
.Song, “Night iri June”- class.
Prophecy of the '*lass of ’32-^—James
.Addison.
Class will—Mary Howze Dillard.
Song—class.
Song, “Alma • .Mater” — audience
(standing).
high school this evening. Your par
ents, your instructors, your county
and state have as a free gift begun United States treasury, hold two kinds i certainly not be constructed as ‘ flight
a good woi*k in your minds and hearts. <>f gold. That is, they are the same the dollar. Wh.Hlever alaim or
kind of gold but some of it is in the niistru.st accompanied he movement
form of uncoined bars Which have was caused by the action of England,
been deposited with the F'ederal Re-1 As concerns the-Federal Reserve, it is
Supt. J-iupon ,vop arc challenging you this serve hank of the United States by i to he observed, first, that eonsiderah- , , , ,u r i ■ .u
evening W coniplete the good work the cahtral banks of many foreign j’.V the greater part of these European j rear,
countries for the purpose of nr.intain-1 hank balances has notv teen rein, ned j h ® ^ ^ i'^tthlr bur^vT then i "'“•''P"" ‘"f '1'"' “'><»
ing a credit in America and .so main-lto Europe; second, that the-amoun^ i logtiner, oui tven inen . ..
taining the value of their securities i temaining i? no more than the Fed<>ralh^®X fad to make a crowd as ad uje.
Reserve can return, if deMred, without) K^^’atest booster is he Who
irtconvenience. .As against these much the* knocke** into a booster
leduced foreign bank credits—pi vioah-*!.f'****' tf*® light so that
ly not now exceeding in this country
a few hundred millions—the Federal
1. 'Curtis, in embarking upon the
project which' tortured Col. Charles A.
Lindihergh with a fahse hope until the
very night his first horn was found
(lead, apparently was motivated ^ a
desire to recoup ^’*'Hmdal losses he
had suffered in business. In hi? own
WoT*ds Curtis “became insane on the
subject.”
2. .Vll ol the boats and per ;ons with
whom he claimed to have dealt were
cieatures of his imagination and .so
far as his confession disclo.sed his
hope of monetary reward lay in the
or find your place out in life yon are I Most of the time these gold ex
going to be thrown more largely hack j change balances are left undisturbed.
on your o-A^n resources, you are going I There may he a hundred million or a, „ ^ ^ ,
to be compelled to rely upon self if'thousand million dollars worth of gold i P^‘wer to provide at
in the v.ults of the Federal Reserve)$1,300,0(10,000 gold. It has some-
bank. kept separate from all other ‘'’"'K the repute, in the ejos
fold and “earmarked” for the credit Ir*"'-'' (-uropean market, „f
of some particular rountrv, Teehni.al-' instantaneously and wltn
you succeed to develop to the full the
fine virtue of self-reliance.
“Now there is quite a bit of differ
ence between self-conceit, self-confi-
dence and .self-reliance. Self-conceit is
unwarranted arrogance, self-confi
dence sees the angel in the stone,
self-reliance seizes the , mallet and
chi.«el and carves the angel out. The
self-reliant individual says, ‘No one
can realize my possibilities for me,
but me; no one can be good or bad
for me, but me. 1 am fhe architect of
my own fortune, the arbiter of my
own i^ate.’ The .self-reliant individual
realizes that success and character
can* not be handed to him on a silver
platter; thSt in all the%great things
and great crises of life he will be
thrown back quite largely on his own
resources; that education is hiit
option on whic'h one may realize
grace bestowed that one may capital
ize for success, .All that education
do is to give the needed opportunity
but the individual must be ready
seize it, reign it in and ride to
tory upon it. You have seen men
women with strong bodies, alert when they were in a position to es
minds, high ideals and keen spiritual
discernment who have floundered and
failed utterly, \Vhy*l Simply because
they lacked the stabilizing iiualities
of .«elf-reliance and self-control. The
individual who is not self-refiant is i if later re<juired at home.
both play the game as team-mates ^^* Dchson-PeaccK-k, re-
ever after. *. ' sponsible for encouraging hi.? activity
.A town has no place for the knock-1 fail.ng to prevent ‘this trouHe.’
complete composure an all but over
night requisition for return in gold of
this huge mass of redeposited Euriqi-
ly, that gold doe.? not belong to the
hanking institutions or the tix*a8ury
of the United States at all. This “ear-
marke<l” gold can never be touched!‘'®”“^**** '’‘^*’*
for our own banking purposes. To do j availa le, in a
80 would bo an international „ime. | f”™'>‘isi»
But there may be also hundreds of|f;>'- lurromy, enough gold to moot nil
millions nf dollars of gold which has
er—it matters not whether he knocks' cleig\man, however, from his
the town, its enterprises or its oiti-! home, vigorou.slv denied
zens. The man who coWti^nally knock?
his community and his fellow-citizens
izen.
been merely placed on deposit with
our central hanks, and which under
ordinary hanking practice the Federal
Reserve hank is at liberty to use as
if it were its own, the ex|)ectation be
ing that we will always he ready to
pay this back in gold whenever the
pniinfrv thnf ripnrisit«vil it demands it
the world’s needs. If there wei'e, a
very large part of the present inter
national financial stress would be re
lieved. The movement to restore silver
to its old position as a basis of tnoney
is gaining strength. has much more
substance and enduring valge than i
any of the thrill? to increa.se the vol-: sophomore and freshman classi-.? reld the ca.sc
ume of money by i.ssuing currency on i for the rising senioE junior i U. 'Elimination of ('nrtis’s < Uim
Gut of a single group of mines, Kirk
lilli
a.s the sophomore president.
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Selections by the high school hand, vacillating, afraid to take a I when Eiurope resumed gold pay-
(lecisive step, afraid of defeat. Thejn^e^^s between 11)25 and H)28, the
) self-reliant individual thinks, acts, proposal was widely adopted.
1 cides for himself, and achieves. If weiy^g result, the central banks of such
I then would work out our own s^lva-j . jjg Holland, Belgium and
j tion we must develop that fine, stabi-1 j^^jj^eriand kept one-fifth to one-
. Di K lizing virtue of self-reliance. We ven-j their reserves abroad while
Edith Thompson—Catherine. Hlake-j.^.g^ to suggest to you some j the Bank of France acquired posses-
i aids in doing this: i sion for its own account of extensive
foreign balances previously e.stal)lish
eleven million dollars, or at the rate'^y Laurange
'of above forty-five million dollars a;»i^<-retary-treaaurer
‘Double CrotiKed
(.A play in one act)
Scene: .A bachelor apartment.
Charaolers:
Joe Thomas—William Do-Vhirs.
Mei 1 reman—James
Mar> Roe—M irgarel Moorhead. ^ “1. By earnestly beginning to be the
Mrs. Thompson — Willis .May >1* j pe, son, and do the things you would
►on. be and do. How does the child learn
William, the butler — Robert Me*! to ^alk and talk? By walking and
Lees
ed ify French citizens. But the (Jenoa
idea was venturesome. It resembled
somewhat our practice of permitting
V , ,,|Wlking. How docs the man learn th; smaller naUonal harks to deposit with, Hi*;;"'-,11 *“7’
Annoiincenients and awarding . f I,hink and to express himself clearl, 7 , institutions three-fifth of
pr.zes
pal.
W. K. Anderson, Jr., Pi”fici-igy thinking and speaking. There i? j stipulated 15 per cent reserve. That
I no university in the world that worked.. Well enough in smooth
The high school commencement sea-1 ^ think and speak un-vi’eather, but often made
son opened last Sunday evening m. j^gg be eainestly begins to think andi^^^^ohle in a storm, and Eurone’s con-
the First Baptist church when the hacr I bimself.
calauieate sermon wa
the Rev. Edward Long
church, 'fhe usual ev
cotic user, arrested on a wife-at a -
donment charge in .New York, to fe
effect that he participated in the 1 i-
naping was subjected to thorough <-
yjjy,. j The elections for thi* rising junior
As long as the w(/ild continues to, class took place Tuesdays afternoon,
use gold as its .sole or chief yardstick | Henry .Storey, of Clewiston, Fla., wa.'^ v”^tigatii»n. (^uestiOning of his w *e
for the measurement of values, prices j elected vice-president; (’hai les Plow-* served to discredit further his nar- a-
of eommodities will always depend up-j , f .Summerton, secretary-trea.sur-i live.
on the visible supply of gold. B.v vi.s-j Hajjtjnjrj, Wyman, class poet, and' <> |),- ('(.ndcn assertt d he had 1
ible supply is meant gold in the form «,; * f; , • ' m nan t
.rf t*tnn, Imrs or bullion hidd m bankj ^v”* * skiptical of the ( uiti.s negotiati ms
vaults. JA is, probable that there isl The rising sophomores decided to.^K**” the outset and reiterated^ cor*..-
more gold buried in India than there elect on^ rpan as secretary and an-.,P<*i '*<'ns with whon .‘;e
• *- ' other as trea.surer. Woodrow Tisdale, aUductor.s.
was made secretary, and Boh Peiuiii,' Lindbergh, an expecta-t
treasurer. Paul Yearout, of < hica 'V'
a coplession which made it clear truit
is iii all the banks and treasuries of
the world, hut gold so hoarded is of
no value as money, except as its own
-presi-
W. I. .Nexsen and Jack Met'as-
in hanks—and India has no banks, or
very few. These great hoards of In- , ‘ . ■ u . •
dian gold-have been accumulating fori . ' * *
hundreds of years, some of them per- •’tspectively.
aiine<essarv worry and trouble
e *
cessitating her husband’.s frequent a-
MTue was caused by the .Norfolk re-
gotiations.
the churches of the cuy nau daughter mat nas a wormy sire, oui.,25 p,.r cent impairment of the go
withdrawn in honor of thr occasion J ^bat son or daughter thaty^p,,, continental bank res(*rve? de-
and ihe large auditonum^and Minday^ by living inipngjtt,d .^t f.ondon.
^acity whi.h will eventually lu« this
haps fot a thousand years, the secret
handed down from
h generation
the store. If
000 jieople, ev
er Teaches a .stage of social and eco-
n(unic development where it can es
tablish a sound and stable hanking
&rtheL“rng\rTdrtr RZ;i"r* f »-‘hy sire„ Be«er far was nearly I Sra,d;d7,:id ,7 Jf itrhidinr,d;;;.:
in hlack gewns and caps, the gradu-; reflect*h7or up- The French governn.ent; „,unt,si ei.uld and would l.eenme
I
ating class, followed 'by the faculty, .^p ^bg revered name bequeathed to
entered the church in a body and oc- bj^ by his parents,
cupied reserved seats »n the front o., finding a worthy standard
the auditorium. The pastors of the y^,i^bi„ himself. We do not spend too
city were .«eated on the rostrum and
took part in the program, while a
special musical program by the choir
was an added un. enjojable feature of
the seiwice,
Mr. Ixmf Heard
The baccalaureate sermon by Mr.
Long was an unusudlly timelyvand in?
spiring message, filled with helpful
admonition to the young graduates.
He selected as his text, Philippians,
2:12: “Work Out You/ Own Salva
tion/’ or the theme* of ‘^Self-Reliance.”
In addressing the graduating ejass,^
Mr. Long . _ . . ^
made it good, but not without defmite|tbe most nowerful financial arid eco-
warning that carrying “gold-e.\change nation in the world.
much time perhaps in an honest en
deavor to excel those about us but!
we do not, spend enough time in try-'
ing to excel our last best self. The
standard set by another may he too
high for us, it may discourage us, or
it may be too low and thereby be
wholly unworthy of us. Only by an
honest effort each day to exc/cl our
last best effort can we really come t
to out very best. I think Oliver Wen-'
dell Holmes must have had this in'
mind when he wrote that beautiful
little poeni that is familiar to every
high school boy and girl, namely, ‘The
(Continued on page two)
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Every passag^e of Scripture to
rightly understood must be interpret
SERVICE 8UNUAV AT
Rs Jettiil^ ind .utbor would «iem DUNCAN’S CREEK CHURCH
to teach a go#]^! of salvation by „ . ~ ..
works Nothing -ould be wider of the There will be a preaching service
marlt further from tbetruth or more; Sunday morning at 11:30 o’cli^k by
contrary to the inteiti of the author, led by Rev. Mr. Anderson of Green-
invitation is extended
cenioated i^ove many ot^^s it was f fh (ne, public.
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Commencement
Program
PRESBYTERIAN COLLEfiB
Sunday, June 5
11:16 a. m.—^Baccalaureate Ser
mon, at First Presbyterian
Church, Rev. Samuel McP.
Glasgow, P.D., Savdihnah, Ga.
Monday, June 6
4:30 p. m. — Ceremony of jjre-
senting R. ^0. T,,C. commis
sions.
'5:30 p. m.—Senior reception, at
President’s home.
8:00 p. m.—Declamation and or
atorical contest. u
Tuesday, June 7
10:30 a. m. — Graduation exer-
cites, college chapel.
Winner Given In
Frontis Contest
Dillard Offers
For Mayor
l.airy H. Dillard, well known" l.i al
gciit’s fuirr^ng inerchanl, is the iut-
('“t fiitiy in tbe approaching liiay 's
race, his announcement appear: 'Tj
’ elsev.heie in today’s paper.
Commencement exercises of the vii. Dillard has been a resident , f
Mountville high .school begin Sunday,'(f„r the past thirty-one yea.r.s,
.*laj 22, when the baccalaureate "^cr-^ ,|^j| jj.j, which time-he has been pronii-
inon will he preached at eleven o'clock identified with the city’s biisi-
in the Baptist church by, the Rev. F.and civic life. He has a wide c;r-
T. McGill, pastor of the Presbyterian . je of friends who will be pleased to
School Closing
At Mountville
AddreiiiK Before Grad mil es To l^e
Delivered By Br. Klli.s Ful
ler of Atlanta.
chur h.
On Monday evening, May 2‘.i, at
Dillard member gramma- g-ades wil!,,.at.«. with interest.
Dillard, member operetta, a a.
'earn that he is offering for mayor
•iiid will watch the outcome of his
I Howze inciiiuci jjp operetta, “Guldilock’s Ad-
I of tho high si^ol, graduating class ,^0 school auditorium. ,\!l
1 was named as the winner in the clock' , , i .. o ..
4 ^ , ,, J a J I I „ I children from grades one through sev-
1 contest recently conduct hy i„ ,^1,
frontis, well-known 7«1 „,„|it„n,ii„.
at eight-thirty oVlcK’k, the exercises
|,wi!l he completed by the graduating
class. Dr. Elli.s A. Fuller, pastor of
handsi of the clock on display in their
window, stopped at numlier five, giv
ing the lucky young lady a wrist
watch. The contest is conducted an
nually by the Frontis store and al-
Bennett Stands
I For Re-election
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paper contracts. However, polipe said
they had no evidence Curtis received
money from any one.
*3. Curtis held one of his two asio-
zens. The man who coWtlnnally knocks i^ and stoutly main-
his community and his fellow-citizens I ^ acted in good f’*ith
is usually the poi rest excuse for a cit- '^ KKighout.
1 4. -Authorities by telegraph a. aed
I Dt an Dobson-lVacock whether he
j wovilc come here voluntai ilv for qu.’s-
Classes Name . |
I lei-on.mendation as to possible pro^f-
luoL oo E-iCiiaera cum^. statuw.?, both fe.i-
■ ' eial and state, under which act' >a
Osman, Sima and Clark Chusen might be taken against Curtis, were
Heads of Three Upper Cla«8eH I 'by officials. The povii-
Al MeeUniTH IsHhI federal charges aro.se/ from
Al meeungH, l^aHl week. widespread u.se of navy eq- v-
, ..... i ment and personnel as well as coA-.t
At separate meetings of the junior.. j,, ^^e .Norfolk chase ^
Th 03. W. Bennett, for the past four
^ the Fir.st Baptist church of Atlanta, ^rs clerk jft# court of Lauran.s co jn-
j Ga., and former graduate of Mount-!'.'', announces his candidacy for re-
ways arouses the keenest interestfyjijg high school, will deliver the com-'^^’f-'tion in today’s paper. 'This is the
among the uiembers of the graduating i address. Awarding of di-l^'rst county announcemegd to appear
; plomas, medals, and honors will fol-i 'n The Chronicle.
^ ^ how. The candidates for diplomas are) Mr. Bennett is a popular official
VISITORS IN RO('K HILL | Lucille BumS; Edwin Bum? Samuel'and is well knowni throughout every
MrSi^A. P. Little, Mrs. H. D. Henry, (ileland, Sara Coates, Rjbie Cole, BiUi.«ection of the county. He has made an
Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Bailey and Mr. and Crisp, Gordon Dunlap, Walter Dun- excellent officer and his work has
.Mis. J. M. Norwood of I.,auren8, spent lap, Mary Jones, Mary Russell Lynch been marked bv efficiency and abi]:‘c.
Thursday in Rack Hill with the for- Fay Moore, Rachel Simmons, Lilly His frieni^wnll be pleased to iciiow
mer’s and latter’s daughters, Miss El | Mae Watts, and Mary Jean Wine- that he hP'^eking re-election tm hta-
(Cl